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How tokitchen decor
How to create your dream kitchen including essentials and decorative finishes
A kitchen decoration is considered a challenging task to reflect your taste and to get the functional use. When you are about creating your kitchen design you have to consider important factors. But, above all, determine your budget.
The cabinet is one of the essential furniture inside your kitchen which you need to take care of. First, you need something durable, spacious and charming. The wooden cabinets are the popular choices nowadays which they fit almost every style. Depending on your budget and wood type, you have to choose the cabinet's finish which will enhance its look and reflects your good taste. The wood finishes vary from a shiny finish, or natural to a dull/matte finish.
Then, the countertop is another factor to consider; the materials of your countertop. There are various countertop materials like stone, wooden or even stainless steel countertop. The ideal choice is to pick a stone countertop material which can be made of granite or marble. But, granite countertop is the best regarding its durability and perfect look as well. there are many colors available of granite countertops to fit your décor.
After that, what are the various granite countertops' finishes available? They are many finishes available in the market to fit your need and taste. One of the stone finishes, in general, -which granite belongs to this type of countertop materials- is Flamed Finish. This means that the stone goes through a heating process till the surface is going to be rough. This finish is advisable for a low traffic area.
Other finishes are like Polished and Honed Stone Countertop Finishes which they both need a machine to be used to get these finishes. The polished finish provides a shiny look and reflective appearance as well. It also is a good way to make a deep color statement and brilliant shining.
While the Honed Stone Countertop Finish process also is with using a machine but it is not like the polished finished in its reflective look but it is for a matte look which has porous and smooth surface. At last, The options are endless you just need to pick your desirable items and finishes.


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Monkeysbug (Kate) has some gorgeous patterns for sale on Etsy, this one is no exception.
Unfortunately, no modelled shot to show you though. While J could fit into the larger sizse of these short, there was not enough chocolate in the world to convince him that this was a good idea just so I could take some photos.
Over the past weeks I've been reading a few suggestions about basting tape and fabric glue for basting. This reminded me that I had a can of basting spray which was excellent for holding the pocket in place while sewing. Something to remember for the future especially with tricky/fiddly pieces.
Here's the review:
Pattern Description: Girls' elastic-waisted short with side ruffles and back pocket.
Pattern Sizing: Various sizes are available on the pdf pattern. I made a size 3 and a size 2 (for presents)
Did it look like the photo/drawing on the pattern envelope once you were done sewing with it? Yes. Although I left the patterns off as I felt they weren't really needed on the fabric.
Were the instructions easy to follow? Good instructions and photos. Had no problems with sewing them.
What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern? I like that they are shorts but with a feminine touch.
Fabric used: Cotton fabric from my stash. Ruffles made from fabric recently purchased to make a hat and quilt for my son but instead ended up on these shorts. Cotton fabric from a friend's stash for the pockets.
Pattern alterations or any design changes you made: A few ladies on the sewing facebook page I follow have made the pieces of fabric longer so there can be more ruffles. I think that is a great idea and I'll be doing this next time.
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others? Yes and yes. It was easy enough for beginners to sew and I think they look very cute. Great for contrasting fabric.
Conclusion: Highly recommended pattern

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When Luke Hotrod planned this burglary, he didn't expect things to go south! The professional thief is about to get away with some very important top-secret files but gets caught in the act by maid Isabella Lui. The new face here at DDF Network is a stunning babe with blue eyes, light skin and beautiful red hair. The Czech glamour hottie works as a maid to pay for her model career and finds Luke stealing some files from her boss's desk. When he sees that attractive young woman, his weapon of choice is being pulled out of his pants and slides right into that dirty maid's mouth.
After licking her tasty cunt, he receives a warmup blowjob before banging that young hot babe from behind in standing sex position. He crams her shaved pussy with his hard rod, flips her around and fucks that twat while Isabella lies on her back on the table! Check out that pussy gape in Full HD and watch that thief warming up her butthole by fingering her tight ass! She wants more and can't wait for him to please her with some serious ass fucking on the floor before she rides his thick prick like a cowgirl! Finally, Luke blows his jizz all over her mouth and gets away with a rather unusual burglary experience!


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IAFN is proud to have been invited to be a part of GAGGA's five-year goals. With the participation of IAFN's training centers in Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Costa Rica and Bolivia, it was possible to form a powerful quadrille in terms of putting the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action's objectives into action.
"We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all."
The Indian Peace Nobel Prize winner and environmental activist quoted above, Vandana Shiva, believes that hope for a green and peaceful planet lies in the hands of women. The necessary condition is the empowerment of women's rights. To face the gender inequalities and to strengthen women in developmental countries, NGOs from all over the world formed an alliance.
The Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) brings together the Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM), Both ENDS and Mama Cash. With FCAM, a Central American grassroots fund based in Nicaragua with extensive experience in supporting women's rights groups, GAGGA sets out to strengthen and unify the capabilities of grassroots groups and movements to lobby and advocate with and for women to claim their rights to water, to food and to a clean, healthy and safe environment.
GAGGA's five-year goal (as stated in its Program Summary) is to generate structural change in social and institutional spheres to ensure that:
Women's rights to water, to food and a clean, healthy and safe environment are respected and sustained by communities, individuals and local and central governments;
- Policies and legal frameworks respecting, protecting and fulfilling women's rights are in place;
- Policy implementation meets the needs and priorities of women to exercise their rights to water, to food and a clean, healthy and safe environment;
- International, regional and national institutions, including donor institutions, actively promote women's rights to water, to food and a clean, healthy and safe environment and allocate adequate
- financial resources accordingly.
Considering the rapidly changing climate and global warming, time has come to act as fast and profoundly as possible. With the paradigm of Analog Forestry (AF), IAFN seeks to create an alternative to conventional agriculture to restore the planet's life supporting systems.
As part of the alliance, the AF Training Centers give Analog Forestry workshops with focus on GAGGA's agenda. Participants are mostly women farmers, members of NGOs, as well as governmental decision-makers. One of the workshops main concerns is to analyze together with the participants the local situation. While women in Cameroon have limited access to land, pesticide contaminated water in Costa Rica endangers health in towns close to pineapple production. One of the strongest and most important objectives of the workshops is creating a fruitful network consisting of multipliers of different interest groups, to advance shared agendas along with greater lobby and advocacy capacity.


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This is a very useful 3D Map of Hawaii with City name and route. Made in Illustrator and Photoshop.
The final File is 2000×2000 px in 300 dpi. All Layers are well organized and text can be changed. Also the pointer of City and background can be adjusted.
The font is Trebuchet MS. Available on most PC or can be downloaded in one of these URLs below http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/trebuchet/ http://www.fontpalace.com/font-download/Trebuchet+MS/
This Item consists of 5 files, A file with all island compiled, and four files with some island in bigger resolution and size.


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I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone the people you love will miss you, or if they die you miss them—the sorrow is inevitable.
When you truly love someone the thought of losing them forever is horrible. If we all die together we can avoid all of this, and literally go out with a bang as well. It's just so much more romantic a notion to think that you're going to go out as a result of a long forgotten 26,000 year cosmic cycle that causes unimaginable catastrophes and wipe out the entire population of the planet than to think you're going to die alone, slowly and painfully because you just can't seem to quit smoking cigarettes.
I think another reason why we're all fascinated by this idea of an apocalypse is because there's this silent acknowledgement amongst folks that are even remotely paying attention that there's no fucking way we can keep this up. The way people are going in this world there's just no way we can sustain it. There's too fucking many of us, and we need too much to live the way we've got it set up now. Our industrial lifestyle is literally choking the planet with trash. There's an island of plastic and garbage floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, and you rarely hear a peep on the news about it, but they'll dedicate time day after day to report about a golfer that likes to have sex.
"President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize and then sends 30,000 more troops into an unwinnable war! That makes no sense!"
"I know, right? Crazy. Do you think Kate can really be on "Dancing with the Stars" and still be a good mom?"
We're fucking nuts, and deep down inside we all know we are fucking nuts. I think when many of us sit down and even try to think about the way the world is run today, it can really fuck your head up. It seems so crazy and so out of control that thinking about it too much can actually cause depression. When you take into account all the lessons we supposedly learned in Vietnam, and factor in the incredible access to information that's available today, and then think about the fact that we're involved in TWO wars that make even less fucking sense over 30 years later…it really is enough to make you want to quit. Any random night spent watching CNN makes me want to move to a beach house in Costa Rica just in time to watch the rest of the world blow up in the distance.
Our culture is obsessed with the end of everything because the way we're living is EXACTLY the way you would think a culture would be at the end of its time. I remember very well in high school how they taught us that before the fall of the Roman Empire they were awash in gluttony. People would eat all they could, shove a feather down their throats, and throw up so that they could eat again. They would describe to us the horrible and inhumane spectacles featured in the Coliseum. The message was the Romans were out of control and their society fell apart because of it.
I remember sitting in that classroom in Newton South High back in 1984 thinking, "I wonder how they're going to describe the people of today when they dig us up in the future."
At the time we had a shitty actor for a President, and it always felt like we were one week away from getting into a nuclear war with Russia.
I can very clearly remember thinking, "The Romans ain't got shit on us."
We have a culture today that any rational civilization would talk about in LEGEND. They would all sit around the campfire after a successful hunt, all huddled together in love, bonded as a tribe that treats itself like one giant family, and they would tell the tragic story of the most crazed and powerful civilization ever.
"Father, tell us about the American Empire!"
He would nod in agreement and slowly prepare his words. This was the greatest of all tales, and the tribe gathered in excitement.
"There were people that lived thousands of years ago that had mastered the heavens. They could travel through the sky like birds in a metal ship that could carry a thousand people. They had these tiny devices that fit in the palm of a child's hand, and with it they could capture a moment in time and send it through the air to each other from the other side of the world. They had weapons that were so great that they harnessed the very power of the stars."
There would be hushed whispers and sighs amongst the people of the tribe, and big smiles on the faces of the children.
"Their numbers were countless. They didn't travel as we do today in a tribe of 200, instead their numbers grew so large and so fantastic that there were hundreds of millions of them in their tribes, and their territory would take up entire continents!"
More oohs and aahs from the group.
"Most of them filled their days with the unrewarding task of keeping this gigantic civilization afloat. Gathering food was no longer the primary focus every day, as it was brought to them and made easy to access. Their monotonous daily lives brought them little excitement, so they concentrated on fantasy. They believed in hundreds of different fairy tales, each one more ridiculous than the next, and worshipped many false gods, all while abusing and ignoring their own Mother Earth.
They grew ever fatter and ever softer. Some ate so much that they actually died from obesity, and were so large that the people were forced to cut large holes in their homes to remove their dead bodies."
Head shakes of amazement and disbelief.
"With all this power and no discipline they lost their way. They lost touch with each other because the bond a tribe has is always only as strong as the bond the people in it have with each other. With hundreds of millions of people calling themselves a tribe this true bond was impossible, so their sense of community became abstract and disconnected."
With no true bond and no connection their leaders no longer treated them as fathers and brothers, but rather as fools to be controlled and manipulated. These people then grew as fools and eventually rose to power themselves. Before anyone could stop the process it was too late. Fools controlled everything, and the wise amongst them were powerless to watch the mass of them hurl uncontrollably towards destruction. They poisoned the earth, murdered each other for wealth, and ignored every plea for sanity until finally Mother Gaia shook them off in the great event of 2012."
Palin for president, bitches. Let's make it happen.
Joe Rogan's second hour-long special, Talking Monkey's in Space, will premiere on Comedy Central on March 27 and will be released on CD & DVD on March 30.


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Around 100 meritorious and needy students of the tricity & Punjab finally got selected in Aryans Scholarship Mela under various scholarship schemes in technical and non technical courses held today at PHD Chamber, Sector-31, Chandigarh. Sh. Brahm Mohindra, Health & Family Welfare, Medical Education & Research Minister was the Chief Guest on the occasion.Dr. M.S. Ghuge, Regional Officer, AICTE; Dr. Kulbir Singh Dhillon, Dean, Punjabi University, Patiala; Dr. Ashok Goel, Director, College Development Council, MRS-PTU, Bathinda were the Guests of Honour on the occasion. Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group presided over the function.Out of total 100 students, 25 students got selected under B.Tech course, 25 under Diploma & LEET courses, 15 in B.Sc (Agri), 10 in B.Ed, 10 in BBA & BCA, 10 in nursing, 5 in MA (Edu).Brahm Mohindra while speaking said that the private institutions involved in the education and health sector should come forward to help the needy students who want to pursue their higher studies under social corporate responsibility. Addressing the students he said that the quality of education also needs to be improved in these private institutions and should be at par with the global standards. He urged other institutions to come forward and organize such scholarship melas. Dr. M.S Ghuge, Regional Officer, AICTE while speaking said that 90% of technical education is being offered by the private institutions of the region. Considering this, these institutions should provide free education to some students.
Dr. Kulbir Singh Dhillon while speaking on the occasion said that out of 265 institutions under the jurisdiction of Punjabi University, Aryans is one of the top institution having Law, Education, Agriculture courses affiliated to Punjabi University. "Apart from academics students are excelling in cultural, sports and innovations activities.Dr. Ashok Goel while speaking on the occasion said that to fulfill the need and demand of the poor students, MRS-PTU has also implemented Chief Minister Scholarship Scheme for meritorious and poor students to pursue Technical Education. He further said that other affiliating Colleges should also take such initiatives which would motivate the financially constraint youth to come forward and achieve their goals & fulfill their dreams.Dr. Anshu Kataria while congratulating the selected students said that Aryans has always tried to give best to the society and the students. He said that in today's world when technical education is out of reach of a common man then private institutions should come forward and identify such students who have marks but no means so that their dreams shouldn't go dry due to their financial problem.Prof. Roshan Lal Kataria, Founder, Aryans Group; Mrs. Rajni Kataria, Founder, Aryans Group, Ms Sukhaman Bath, Registrar, Aryans Group; Mrs Raman Rani Gupta, Director, Aryans Group etc were also present on the occasion.
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Keenan was super nervous and didn't think he was going to like it at all, but he was pleasantly surprised!
I went ahead and took my pictures before the program started, when I could get the angles I wanted:
Keenan played "Jingle Bells" and "Joy to the World"
Moriah played "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Go Tell It On The Mountain"
So proud of these two!
With their wonderful teacher!
It was actually a really nice program and their teacher and her husband put on a wonderful spread afterwards. Keenan won't be so nervous next time... =)


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Few days ago I have created CSS Hexagon Buttons and Share it on Github as a free product under MIT License. That is you are free to use it where ever you want. To download those buttons go to https://github.com/shariarbd/CSS3-Hexagon-Buttons. I have added four different size of Buttons and integrated with Font-Awesome.
The demo of the buttons is at http://shariarbd.com/demo/css3-hexagon-buttons/ and also added a nice documentation to use those buttons what you will find at http://shariarbd.com/demo/css3-hexagon-buttons/documentation/
I have added minimized css and js and following are the file structure
- assets/
- ├── css/
- │ ├── font–awesome.min.css
- │ ├── hexagons.css
- │ └── hexagons.min.css
- ├── js/
- │ ├── hexagons.js
- │ ├── hexagons.min.js
- │ ├── jquery–2.1.0.min.js
- │ └── jquery–2.1.0.min.map
- └── fonts/
- ├── FontAwesome.otf
- ├── fontawesome–webfont.eot
- ├── fontawesome–webfont.svg
- ├── fontawesome–webfont.ttf
- └── fontawesome–webfont.woff
In the CSS file, I have added all class discretion and proper comments to make it easy to understand and customize.
If you have any suggestion or query regarding this item, please feel free to drop a comment on it, I would love to update it.
If you want to create hexagon buttons by your own, I have some words for that too 🙂 see Create Hexagon Buttons


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Adjusting settings
To access and adjust the settings:
- Keep pressed to enter the options menu.
- Scroll the menu with and .
- Press to enter a setting.
- Press and to adjust the setting values.
- Press to return to the previous view in the settings, or keep pressed to exit the options menu.
You can access the following options:
- Birth year
- Weight
- Max HR
- Gender
- Language
- Unit system
- Metric
- Imperial
- Advanced: Allows you to customize a mix of imperial and metric settings according to your own liking in Movescount.
- Position format:
- WGS84 Hd.d°
- WGS84 Hd°m.m'
- WGS84 Hd°m's.s
- British (BNG)
- Finnish (ETRS-TM35FIN)
- Finnish (KKJ)
- Irish (IG)
- Swedish (RT90)
- Swiss (CH1903)
- UTM NAD27 Alaska
- UTM NAD27 Conus
- Time format: 12 h or 24 h
- Date format: dd.mm.yy, mm/dd/yy
- GPS timekeeping: on or off
- Dual time: hours and minutes
- Alarm: on/off, hours and minutes
- Time: hours and minutes
- Date: year, month, day
- Invert display: inverts the display coloring
- Button lock
- Time mode lock: Button lock in Time mode.
- Actions only: Start and options menus are locked.
- All buttons: All buttons are locked. Backlight can be activated in Night mode.
- Sport mode lock: Button lock in sport modes.
- Actions only: , and the options menu are locked during exercise.
- All buttons: All buttons are locked. Backlight can be activated in Night mode.
- Time mode lock: Button lock in Time mode.
- Tones:
- All on: button tones and system tones are activated
- Buttons Off: only system tones are activated
- All off: all tones are off
Backlight: Mode:
- Normal: The backlight is switched on for a few seconds when you press and when the alarm sounds.
- Off: The backlight is not switched on by pressing a button or when the alarm sounds.
- Night: The backlight is switched on for a few seconds when you press any button and when the alarm sounds. Using the Night mode significantly reduces battery duration.
Toggle: The backlight is switched on when you press . It stays on until you press again.
Brightness: Adjust backlight brightness (percentage).
Display contrast: Adjust the display contrast (in percentages).
- Calibration: Start compass calibration.
- Declination: Set the compass declination value.
- Orientation
- Heading up: Displays the zoomed-in map with the heading pointing up.
- North up: Displays the zoomed-in map with the north pointing up.
The alarm will sound even when all tones are off.
- FusedAlti: Set FusedAlti on/off.
- Profile: altimeter, barometer, automatic.
- Reference: altitude, sea level.
- Bike PODs: Pair a bike POD.
- Power POD: Pair a power POD.
- HR belt: Pair a HR belt.
- Foot POD: Pair a foot POD.
- Cadence POD: Pair a cadence POD.


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The City of Seattle has a plethora of open data available and now they want your help in utilizing the information for apps and visualizations that help solve government-related challenges.
As part of the National Day of Civic Hacking, the City is partnering with Code for Seattle for a one-day hackathon on June 1 at City Hall.
Hackers are encouraged to use the City's data to invent solutions that could benefit those living here.
The event is similar to the Evergreen Apps Challenge, something the City helped put on last fall. Winning teams from that contest built tools like the Living Voters Guide and Which Bus.
Those interested can RSVP here.
Previously on GeekWire: Mayor McGinn: We're doing our best to make Seattle a great place for entrepreneurs


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Thank you for forwarding those pages.
I see that they don't actually use a standard include syntax and they do always include the code on top of the page. This explains why it could work with complex code and explains why the extension isn't as simple as I made it out to be.
I will continue to evaluate the benefits of this approach and consider it for our future product line. Thank you for your assistance.


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Friday, November 21, 2008
Caramel Apples
Posted by Elaine at 1:53 PM 3 comments
Labels: family
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
So spoiled!
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Then, jumped in their pile of leaves.
(Then raked again! :) )
This is a picture of my three oldest boys' Thanksgiving Feast they prepared with food from the garden (that we still need to clean out). They were very excited to share it with me!
And here is Jesse playing football in the house.
Thankfully, nothing got broken this time. :)
I hope you have a great Sunday! Blessings to you all.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Yummy Cookies!
Here's a recipe for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. I tried this recipe today for the first time... and everyone liked them!
2/3 c. butter
2/3 c. peanut butter
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/4 c. flour (up to half whole wheat)
2 c. oatmeal
1/2 c. peanuts ( I used chopped walnuts instead)
3/4 c. choc. chunks or chips
Combine butters. Add sugars, b. powder, b. soda. Beat until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla. Stir in remaining ingredients.
Drop by tablespoon onto ungreased sheets. ( I slightly flattened each cookie before baking.)
Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until edges are slightly browned. (I checked them after 7 minutes.)
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The LITTLE boys playing
This is what practice time sounds like around here! Usually they practice individually, but this time daddy was helping. :) They are doing a great job. It will be fun to hear their improvements and growth over the year.
Posted by Elaine at 6:15 PM 3 comments
The BIG boy playing
There is something very attractive about a grown, 6'4" man playing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on a 1/4 size fiddle! His couple years of playing in elementary school are proving to be handy!
Posted by Elaine at 5:23 PM 1 comments
Thursday, November 6, 2008
My Mountain Men
Halloween night turned out to be very hectic. BJ was in charge of the church carnival so that meant I was in charge of the kitchen for the night. We both had so much to do and did not get any pictures of all four boys. Yesterday, I dressed the boys up to get a few pics. My mother-in-law, Sally, made their costumes. They turned out so cute! The boys had so much fun running around our property pretending to shoot everything! I got a kick out of Jesse because he started posing. He'd say things like, "hey mom, take my picture by this tree pretending to shoot the Indians." Anyone who knows Jesse can imagine him saying that! It was a lot of fun capturing the boys playing.
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We are sad
Today our goat, Snoofy, died. BJ and I were really sad to lose him. Tonight I cleaned out the fridge and BJ and I just sighed- the outdated leftovers always went to Snoofs. Snoofy was given to us two years ago from a friend of John's that had to move. He was pretty old when we got him, but had a nice personality. I remember driving home from Portland being so embarrassed because we had a bale of hay, a tarp made into a makeshift corner shelter, and a goat who kept hanging his head out the side of the trailer baaaa-ing. We got a lot of looks on that drive! (There is never a dull moment with my husband.) :) Anyway, I grew to love and appreciate Snoofy, except for the many times he got loose and BJ, of course, was never home, and then I would have to catch him and get him back in the field. And then there was the time he got loose and ate all three of my flowering kale I had just potted! Our boys are sad, but don't totally understand. Earlier in the week we told them we thought Snoofy might be dying and I said "what will we do with him when he dies." Jesse replied, "we could eat him." :) Hopefully someday we will own another goat as sweet as Snoofy.
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I've got a decent DSLR, but my daughter has been using it at college for a digital photography course. Did she bring it home during Thanksgiving? Nope! Well, she'll be home in another week, so I'll get it then.
I also got a new version of Photoshop which I've used in the past to clean up and sharpen my image quality. I think I first used PhotoShop Elements 3 many years ago and have been sticking with that well beyond subsequent releases.
There are quite a few new tools in this new Photoshop that are turning out to pretty fun enhancement tools! Let's take a look at some results.
Straight out of the iPhone. Not so much.
Kind of blurry and the colors are washed out.
Using the Vibrance tool, the colors really "pop" now.
Maybe a bit too much, but I like the results.
Budo vs. Zombie Viper
Dark Ninjas (Retaliation) -
they really need a cool clan name
Red Ninjas (Retaliation)
same here, they need a cool clan name
Tunnel Rat crawling in a Lego structure.
Cobra Vipers rescuing an injured soldier.
Rescuing? I'll explain later.
Bulma! Or is it Spiral?
Deadly "sisters".


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How Building Toys Help Your Children Learn
'Build your own' toys have been around for years but what are the benefits of toys like bear making kits and building blocks?
The 'build your own toy' market is now bigger in 2016 than it has been before…
We all know how children can easily be engaged when it comes to building your very own toy. Something that allows children to build, personalise and let their creative flair run wild will always be favoured over a one trick figurine. 'Build your own' toys have been around for years but what are the benefits of toys like bear making kits and building blocks?
Toy Building is Therapy
In 1999 it was discovered that toy building helped children with social interaction problems. Dr Daniel LeGoff (US), a child neuropsychologist found that children with Asperger's syndrome experienced a change of character and would communicate well when working with these toys. Normally children that struggled with social interaction would communicate well when it came to building with a toy they were excited about. Since, schools like Harston and Newton Primary schools in Cambridge have set up after school clubs designed to help them with social interaction. Children are assigned a role such as engineer, builder and supplier in building a task. Where instructions are available, the engineer must read and communicate them effectively. The Supplier and builder will then work together to put the plans in place.
Cognitive Development
Build your own toys have been proven to support cognitive development in children. Toys like this need your children to think about how each element works and how it can be put together to build one large, functional item. It encourages logical thinking and problem solving abilities.
Creative Output
Children love to express themselves and if you add the build and play elements into the mix, you have one very exciting toy. Encouraging children to be creative is helping them to build character and personality. Professionals (National Foundation of Educational Research, 2004) found that creative play aids emotional processes and helps tolerance of anxiety. Creative Children are also found to enjoy more challenges.
In other studies:
Researchers gave 80 play blocks to low and middle income families who were asked to encourage children to play them daily. Another study group were not given these blocks until the end of the study. After a six month period, researchers evaluated the results (with interviews and evaluation forms) and found that the group of children who were encouraged to play with the blocks scored higher on parent-reported tests of vocabulary, grammar, and verbal comprehension. Furthermore, the children showed a non-significant trend towards watching less TV.


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Aid, Rents and the Politics of the Budget Process.
This paper analyses the impact of political institutions and budgetary procedures on budget governance in aid- and resource-dependent countries. The notion of budget governance refers to the quality of budget outcomes, such as the governments' ability to produce sustainable public finances over time, make efficient use of government spending, and represent the preferences of citizens. While the paper discusses some of the challenges of measuring budget governance in aid and resource dependent countries, the empirical analysis focuses on one aspect of budget governance: the extent to which countries can produce sustainable fiscal balances over time. For this purpose, we have produced a new dataset of 47 low and lower middle income countries whose economies depend on aid or natural resource inflows between 1995 and 2006. The analysis builds on indicators of party competition and democracy, good governance, budgetary processes and institutions, and aid and resource dependency. Preliminary findings suggest that greater executive power is positively associated with improved fiscal performance in resource dependent countries, but this is also associated with lower levels of party competition and democracy. Conversely, greater levels of aid dependency are inversely associated with both executive power and fiscal performance.
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IDS Working Paper No. 311, ISBN 978 1 85864 537 9, Brighton, UK, 37 pp.


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LAK are 1/1 odds to win West
PHO are 11/4 odds to win West
both teams are up 2-0 in their series and they've pretty much shown that they are indeed the better teams in both series.
Why not put a garbage load of money on both teams to win the West.
Worst case scenario you end up even with the LAK winning but if the Coyotes win you should make a mean profit.
Maybe im trippin some serious balls but this definitely would work as long as NASH AND STL dont come back youll be sitting pretty for the West Finals.
Thank me later.
Also with Phoenix being 11/4 odds... they would get home ice advantage against the Kings and Jobing.com has been tough this playoffs to play in.
Best of luck everyone
Halak ruled out with LA back on home ice
No rad or kos for Nash.
Think I'll give this strat a try
The Preds and Blues are NOT coming back in these series in my opinion. They are heading over the falls quickly and I can't see them recovering to swim back up stream and survive by winning 4 of the next 5 games vs the Kings and Yotes who have that something special working for them since the first round started.
Put a little more on the Kings... That way WHEN the Kings win you will have made at least some profit...
Ya I hear ya, good thinking.
Neither series are back in action until tomorrow so I have at least another 24 hours to think about it before I do so.
But yes I totally agree, Blues and Preds are both dead in the water.
fearless forecast: nashville-phoenix series will go back to glendale @ 2-2...
on paper the loss of radulov/kostitsyn for Game 3 is not good news, but remember both those nitwits came to the team late in the season to augment what already was a solid nucleus...
i can see nashville's core guys circling the wagons in a must-win situation, and what better message to send to a pair of morons who exhibited really selfish behavior at the worst possible time...
trotz and poile know what they're doing, they know this can become a rallying point, and in addition it's not like they lost weber or suter or legwand...
rinne's a real key here, obviously...he's given up too many goals in the first 2 games so i look for a determined showing from him and the team as a whole...
Phoenix will split
3-1 back to Glendale
this is not basketball nba though these shitbag teams in hockey alot of time come back down 2-0 , just look at pitt down 3-0 and they come back and lose in 6 4-2 to philly. if it was nba the team down 3-0 would of just died hardly ever they win 2 in a row after down 3 -0 to start.
i dont think it ridiculous to think nashville can win 3 in a row but maybe now it is with the suspensions they have, i should of just bet la 6 to 1 or whatever it was to win teh west before the season started, but after seeing how the regular season went these guy baraely made the playoffs now it looks like they the best team again? man i hate hockey i need la to win this series against st louis
Originally Posted by RF1: yup im going str8 to the bank with this strategy.
you know it not that smart? i mean if la wins you breaking even at best, and phoenix wins you make a little profit, but what if nashville or st louis comeback, you oculd get totaly fucked if st louis or nashville made the stanley cup
i mean what about the east new jersey is 1-1 with philly, washington is 1-1 with ny rangers. cant you make more profit if you take new jersey and washington both to win the east, and 1 of them wins the east????? cause they still both dogs against philly and ny rangers
it not crazy to think new jersey vs washington will be the east finals? after watching the first 2 games id say new jersey and washington are the better teams in those series. philly can barely win 1 game of 2 at home, and ny rangers suck they person around with washington and they play like garbage with ottawa let ottawa steal 2 games easy could of been a sweep, ny rangers are dumb as garbage they have a good goalie but i think beside that they the worse team in the east
I follow hockey more than I do anything else. I live in edmonton and watch every oilers game and every other game I possibly can.
I know im not an expert but believe me when I say this
Phoenix and LA will both win their series. That is all I was trying to say.
Try this out if you want, I'm just saying it has a very good chance to work and a chance im sure a lot of people will take. Quick cant be scored on and they're back on home ice. 3-1 series lead for LA at least if not a sweep
and Nash has rad and kos out and Renne can't stop a beach ball all of a sudden. 3-1 OR 2-2 phoenix doesn't lose on home ice
and say NASH some how flukes out, they get murdered by LA next round.
Easy money
Well LA up 3-0 = series over
and Phoenix up 2-1 I'll take my chances with a game lead and home ice advantage.
Jump on this train while you still can


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|London walks designed by professional Blue Badge Guide, Brian Cookson, are a great way to get to know the real London. As well as seeing the major attractions close up, you will delve into some of the "Hidden city" which tourists often miss. You will also hear about the extraordinary people who make up the city's past and present. After obtaining a BA Honours Degree at Oxford University, I spent most of my working life as an IBM Consultant. Now a London Tourist Board Blue Badge Guide and writer and lecturer on London and the River Thames, I specialise in London walking tours. A best-selling author who attended several of my walks suggested I should write a book about them, and Random House have now published two of my books on London themes - London Waterside Walks and Crossing the River.
Here is one comment among the many people who said they enjoyed my walks: London Historians Blog
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Men have long since discovered many things since we first learned how to stand up straight after coming out of the caves. We have put men on the moon and discovered life changing information about our own planet. With all these leaps and bounds man has made we still have yet to discover all that we need to know about gods greatest gift to man, a women. So in order to better understand women this post is a call to all women to help us men better understand how you would like to be asked for your hand in marrriage. So ladies hear is your chance to help us by giving us your thoughts or just simply tells us how your man proposed to you.
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Incurring the wrath of the White House can be an unexpected blessing for book sales. This week Jodi Kantor, a Washington correspondent for the New York Times, caught flak from political blogs after the Obama administration criticized her reporting in The Obamas. This is odd, since her work is an empathic profile of the U.S. first couple. (But Ms. Kantor shouldn't be too upset: The book is already in the Top 30 on Amazon.)
The only direct access you had to the Obamas was a 38-minute interview in 2009 for a magazine article; they refused your requests after you began to write this book. What are the challenges in doing a write-around?
I confront this in my work all the time because of what's happening in the U.S. Basically, candidates and politicians are restricting their access more than ever. We're covering the 2012 campaign now, and very few of the candidates have sat down for what we think of as a real New York Times interview. You know, not two seconds, back and forth, but a serious discussion of the issues, candidacy, biographical interviews etc. But does the fact that these people don't give interviews mean that I shouldn't write about them? One of the reasons I was able to write my book is that so many people close to the president and first lady gave me access – you can see in the acknowledgments a lot of their top aides and friends. Also, people write great biographies all the time of dead people. There's no access there, either, and the biographer has to be both very resourceful and very accurate.
There was one other problem: You're a Washington correspondent, but you're based in New York.
It was a challenge for this book, because White House people are incredibly busy and they change interviews 16 different times before they happen. So it was not uncommon for me to be, you know, on the runway at LaGuardia and get a message saying: "Actually, [Obama adviser]David Axelrod can't see you today."
The Obamas seem acutely aware that marriages are hard work, that they're not the happily-ever-after fairy tale that (at least unmarried) people think they are. Many Obama voters expected his presidency to be a glorious happily-ever-after fairy tale. Do you see the Obama marriage as something of a metaphor for the Obama presidency?
In a way, as a country, we're all married to the President. Michelle Obama has complained about her husband not communicating well with her. And, you know, he hasn't always communicated well with the country, as President. I think we experience our presidents very intensely, and we experience their strengths and we experience their weaknesses, and that's not unlike a marriage. And there's a re-election analogy there too, because if America re-elects Barack Obama, the country will essentially be saying, "Okay, okay, okay, there are issues, there are issues, there are issues, but at the end of the day I trust this person and we're gonna stick together."
The Obamas in your book begin their time in the White House with such high hopes, even though Michelle Obama is deeply skeptical of whether politics can actually bring meaningful change. By the end, of course, she's all-in.
It really is a story of transformation, and it's especially dramatic with Michelle Obama. The Michelle Obama you meet in the first few pages of the book is not even sure she wants to move to the White House immediately, she is so kind of mistrustful of this world and genuinely concerned about what it will mean for her kids. You know, she says to herself and her husband and close friends, "Maybe we should stick it out in Chicago for the rest of the school year and not move to Washington right after inauguration." And then in the end we see her so much more comfortable in a political environment.
The book tracks the evolution of their attitude toward marketing their marriage to burnish the brand of the Obama presidency.
The key story here is about the Oval Office meeting the Obamas have before the 2010 midterm elections, where advisers really make it clear to them how much Democrats like seeing them together. It's not a new idea, but it takes on new significance in light of the President's diminished popularity. So the images of them campaigning for midterms together are used for campaign posters and whatnot, and we're just going to see more and more and more of that in 2012.
Simon Houpt is The Globe and Mail's senior media writer.
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Time Extended: MAG beta to continue; new beta on the horizon
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Jeremy also mentions that he'll be back on the blog next week to announce the next beta and how you can enter.
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Friday 7 September, 4.57pm
"What have I done? What have I done? This is going to be the worst weekend ever."
Sunday 9 September, 5.25pm
"Why does it have to end? I'm not ready for it to end. That was the best weekend ever."
A lot can happen in three days.
There may be some reading this who will know exactly what I mean. For everyone else, I am referring, of course, to the Festival of Writing, run by the lovely and frighteningly organised people at The Writers' Workshop.
At 9am on Friday morning, I embarked upon my first long-distance train journey, headed for the beautiful city of York. Having boarded the correct train and identified my seat with minimal imitation of a deer caught the headlights of an oncoming car, I was feeling very sensible and grown-up. Passing the time with self-satisfaction and tourist-level interest in the scenery flying by, I barely felt the ripple of trepidation about the festivities ahead.
Fast forward to the University of York campus, where lines of people are snaking back from the registration desk and voices bounce around the hall and strangers smile timidly at each other and old friends race to greet each other. It's all going on at once and I'm having flashbacks to Freshers' Week. I just want to lie down till it goes away.
The horror of facing an entire room full of strangers would fill a thousand pages on its own. When that subsides it begins to settle on me…this is a writing festival. I'm surrounded by writers, real writers, and agents, and publishers, and people who are experts on everything and in every way smarter and funnier and more exciting than me.
Then I have a lie down and remind myself that I am not actually thirteen years old.
Fast forward another few hours, and I've already met some people who I am sure will become life-long friends. I've shared stories and conversations with wonderful writers. I've heard brave souls read their work aloud for the entire festival to hear, and applauded them all. I've made so many great memories and it's only the first night.
Any attempt to list the highlights from Saturday's workshops and keynote addresses would be pointless. I might as well just post the entire programme. How would I even choose? In one hour-long workshop a fully-formed character came to life from nothing more than a pair of letters and a number. In another I was taught about suspense by a writer I respect and admire. Later, I had the ultimate light-bulb moment when I discovered exactly what kind of writer I am and always have been. Add to this some well-placed Jurassic Park references, a character motivated largely by prawns and some serious celebrity spotting and you have the tip of an iceberg made entirely of highlights.
I made a weary and weak attempt to summarise the weekend on Twitter, describing it as "superb, intense, emotional, inspirational." It was all of those things and much more, but someone else helped us say it much better in three short phrases. "I do. I do. I can."
If you don't know what that means, I only have one thing left to say…Festival of Writing 2013.


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Are we just imagining it, or is there a connection between Fibro, the common cold virus, and why the heck we feel so much worse?
Ok, as a Fibro, ME or Chronic Pain sufferer, you've probably just had your hackles raised at the mere suggestion of 'imagining' something. You've fought the Diagnosis Battle, you've got the scars. You're used to defending yourself against allegations of an Imaginary Illness. But is there something about the common cold that makes your Fibromyalgia or Chronic Pain symptoms worse?
I don't, for one second, think you're imagining that you suffer longer and harder when Cold & Flu Season hits. And now we're coming near the end of the season I expect you're feeling pretty ground down by it all. In fact, as a Fibromyalgia sufferer myself, I'm getting pretty certain, on a purely anecdotal level, that something is coming in to play here. I think viruses are the enemy of Fibromyalgia sufferers. And I think the end of the season is a good time for reflection.
And I'm not alone. The web is dotted with desperate forum posts where a Fibro or Chronic Pain Sufferer is coming out of the hell of the latest cold, desperate with pain and fatigue. But try and find some scientific evidence and it's pretty lacking. There is the odd bit online bit online which states you'll suffer longer, harder, and experience complications and long term effects. Tough Stuff. There's also growing evidence that we're more likely to suffer secondary infections such as bronchitis, pneumonia or sinusitis. It's not a pretty anecdotal picture.
For most it seems that the wafting of a virus in our near vicinity has our little Fibro Pain Gremlins whooping with delight at their energy-boost, whilst simultaneously our own Energy Levels themselves drop off the Fatigue scale to negligible levels. The pain associated with a Fibro patient getting a cold can have you begging for pain relief like a baby chick squawking for worms. Except you don't have the energy, so it comes out as a pained moan that leaves those around you bewildered and scared, and possibly cursing at the 2 hour call back times for Out of Hours at 2am. It's no fun.
There are two things we do know about Fibromyalgia that make it conceivable that there is really something in this Cold v Fibro battle. First, we know Fibromyalgia is like the most potent yeast in Paul Hollywood's cupboard: it makes things grow outta control. As sufferers, we just know this. That little knock on your knee? Yeah, welcome to agony and purple bruising. And secondly, a whole big heap of us started this Fibro journey with a virus kindly kick-starting our symptoms. Viruses aren't an innocent party where Fibromyalgia is concerned.
The result is we turn in to a bunch of neurotic germ-fearing paranoid Virus Avoiders. We get ridiculed for desperately attempting to avoid the common cold. But the Pain Gremlins are pretty skilled at getting your anxiety to shoot off the top end of the scale, just as quickly as the Viral Gremlins have your energy levels dropping off the bottom.
What can we do?
Well this is where we have two levels: the personal and the group.
On a personal level we need to be Fibro Virus Aware. As well as the usual Fibro mainstays of resting up and eating well, we need to be staunch defenders of our own health. We need to do things like make sure our Vitamin D and Vitamin C stocks are high enough to rival the Eiffel Tower. You need to get with the programme hygiene wise, and not cut corners in the toddler-snot-fest department. We also need to cut ourselves some mental slack: there's enough anecdotal evidence here – you're not imagining it, you're not a wuss. You have a bugger of a condition.
And then on a group level, we need to also become our best advocates. We need to start talking, loudly, about what happens to our Pain and Fatigue Levels when a virus gets on board. We need to speak, and speak more, until the research field start to take this seriously.
So Get Talking
What about you? What are your experiences of being a chronic pain, Fibro or ME sufferer when you get a cold virus? What are your experiences of the medical profession and their understanding of it?


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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Night of Hurricane Sandy
As Hurricane Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City, NJ, this Monday evening, Atlanta was eerily quiet, blanketed under a waxing gibbous moon. I shivered as I stepped out my front door to create this image. The air was crisp and the temperature, unseasonably cold. Yet, it wasn't so much the chill of the night that ran through to my bones but the circumstances of this strange day. In our small community of Decatur, we heard the sad news that one of our beloved middle school teachers had passed away suddenly. She was young, vibrant and cherished by the students and faculty. She had taken my son under her wing last year when he was having a difficult time adjusting to our move from Florida. My husband is stranded in Boston after his two flights back home had been cancelled. He had flown up to deliver a talk at Harvard this morning but did not have the opportunity to do so since the university shut down. Lastly, as I am writing this entry in the deceptive calm, as captured out my front door, millions of people up north are fretting about what awaits them in the morning, in the wake of this monstrous storm.
Tom at Warehouse Framers
Atlanta is in the throes of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, a yearly festival that is dedicated to cultivation of the photographic arts. For those of us who are passionate photographers it is an opportunity to show our work. Along with the honor of showing our art comes the cost of framing. Since I moved to Atlanta a year ago I have been purchasing my framing supplies from Tom and Carol Blackman at Warehouse Framers. Tom, now 86, got into the picture framing business in 1968. Although Tom is not an artist he has appreciated art all his life. "I never fancied to be one, I just liked it."
In September, when I picked up my supplies for framing I took time to create a portrait of Tom in his workshop where he cuts frames. Afterwards, we wandered to his office to chat. When I walked into Tom's office I immediately realized the office was the place to photograph Tom. There were a vast assortment of artifacts and personal items sitting on shelves, tables and hanging on the walls. This small space revealed much about this delightful person. In the image above, a young Tom in his Navy uniform, is seen in the three photographs hanging above his desk on the right. A wooden leg, which is heavier than any modern prosthesis I have ever lifted, is propped up in the corner . The nude portrait was painted by an old girlfriend which is situated next to the "Repent" sign. Tom had persuaded a friend to nab the sign from the other side of a fence in a rural area here in the South.
In honor of Atlanta Celebrates Photography I thank Warehouse Framers for their support, dedication and fabulous work.
Joe the Signal Maintainer
I met Joe, a delightful individual, last week in Decatur as he was preparing to perform his monthly maintenance check on the railway signal at the corner of College and Chandler. Joe has been working for the CSX railroad for 36 years. It is his responsibility to maintain the railroad signals along the stretch of tracks between Clarkston and downtown Atlanta. Because the railroad passes through the middle of Decatur, I am frequently stopped by the flashing red lights and gate arm to wait for a train to pass and find myself perturbed. The trains pass at a snail's pace and appear to stretch on for miles. I have noticed that these signals engage as an approaching train's whistle is heard but before it can be seen; ample time to safely clear the tracks. I asked Joe whether accidents occur on the tracks at crossings with these signals. I was surprised to hear that on occasion a driver will accelerate in the attempt to cross the tracks before the gate arm lowers. Sometimes the driver is not successful and becomes stranded on the tracks with an approaching train. I then inquired whether people got out of their cars when they found themselves in this dangerous situation and he replied that drivers often panick and remain in their vehicles. I am sure to remember Joe's words the next time I feel peeved about being stopped by a railroad signal. A ten minute interruption in my daily routine is certainly preferable to the alternative.
Teej Festival
Two weeks ago I was honored to be invited to the Teej Festival at the Hindu Buddhist Spiritual Center in Clarkston, GA. Clarkston is a small town in the metropolitan Atlanta region which has become home to refugees from 40 different countries. The first refugees from Bhutan arrived in 1991 and today there is a vibrant Bhutanese community living in Clarkston and the surrounding area.
The Teej Festival is a three-day women's festival of fasting and feasting that celebrates marital happiness and the health of the family. Single women pray for good husbands. The women come together in their finest attire to honor and pray to their deities and to sing and dance. In the center of the circle in the above image are the offerings of food, money, fabric, flowers and other symbolic objects that are given to please and thank the gods. The priest is a central figure during this ceremony and the colored rice on his forehead has been placed there by all the women to offer their thanks.
I was not sure how I would be received when I walked into the Spiritual Center for I did not know most of the people present and I did not speak their language. I was welcomed very warmly and to my surprise they all wanted me to photograph and asked me to take their portraits. I photographed to my heart's content. It was a privilege to meet such beautiful people and witness such a moving celebration.


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The party waits for S'hric. Then they continue through the door on the north wall. It leads to a long hallway, to the left a stone door and on the right a normal door. The door leads into am empty room, a good place to rest if need be. The stone door was never opened by the party. Straight forward is another door the party continues through it. The party stands in a big room, there's a small firepit in the middle that smolders. Next to the pit is a very big cage that has been bent out of shape to the point where it could not hold anything. On the wall is a sentence written in Draconic. S'hric reads it as "Here there be Dragons." He also points out it's written in a very crude dialect of a great language. In the corner a Kobold sits in a bedroll, whimpering in a bad dream.
Traven walks up and pokes the little Kobold. He awakes with terror! Wincing and crying. However as soon as Traven speaks in goblin the little guy calms down and is conversational. His name is Meepo, Keeper of Dragons.
"What are you doin? Crying in the corner, what will crying ever get you!?"
"The clan's dragon…we've lost our dragon. Those wretched goblins stole Calcryx, our dragon!"
Traven is surprised at the mention of a dragon. He tells the party who is also surprised, maybe worried. "What if we help you get your dragon back?" Meepo's little eyes widen. He starts to dance a little jig in his excitement. "I'll take you to see Yusdrayl, if you make nice I can grant you safe passage! Promise to get Calcryx and maybe Yusdrayl will make nice too! Come! Come!"
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Two disconnected sisters are summoned home to clean out their childhood bedroom before their parents sell the family house. Looking to recapture their glory days, they throw one final high-school-style party for their classmates, which turns into the cathartic rager that a bunch of ground-down adults really need.
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University College Dublin - Study Abroad
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University College Dublin (UCD) is Ireland's largest and most diverse university. It is also Ireland's most global university, with international students comprising 20% of the student body. UCD offers a suite of exciting semester-long programs in Arts, Humanities & Social Science, Business, Engineering, Science, Agriculture & Food, Nursing, Law, Sport & Exercise and Architecture. UCD's beautiful self-contained campus is located just south of Dublin city centre. The campus encompasses world class sports & recreational facilities and a range of excellent on-campus housing options. Students are also invited to participate in a full program of social and cultural activities while studying abroad at UCD. The consistently positive feedback from Students who study abroad here speaks to their well-supported, academically and culturally enriching experience at UCD.


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Me and the Towers, September 11th, 2001 (photo by Sara) On September 11th, 2001 I was a twenty year old college student living in lower Manhattan. So were many of my friends. On the 10th Anniversary of the attacks, I asked them to join in me writing out the events of the day as we experienced them. Average American kids… Read more →
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Never Forget.
{photo by Sara Moe} I was twenty years old and sleeping about a mile uptown when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. Life changed in an instant. When Osama Bin Laden was killed, I found this letter I'd written to my Rabbi after a day of horror. Hi Rabbi Brown: It's good to hear that the Temple will… Read more →
Hey, It's Me Again.
I never know how to come back from heavy stuff. All week I've read my friends beautiful posts over and over and thought "I gotta wrap this up" but how do you wrap up something like this? Especially when I still have posts I want to link to like THIS ONE from my fellow NYU Alum {link very graphic} Tracy… Read more →
Melaina: Creepy Internet Friend
I didn't know Melaina (not her name) on 9/11, but I know her now…as the infectious Ex-Pat Mom of a toddler in Glasgow whom I became friends with despite continents and oceans between us. Until Melaina, I had never known anyone who was living in DC on 9/11 – she was a 21-year-old student at The George Washington University. This… Read more →
Katie Notopoulos: Mad Internet Scientist
The night of 9/11, I called a recent ex-boyfriend around 11pm. "I just don't think you should be alone tonight…." I said in my faux-concern for his well-being. He wasn't taking the bait, and understandably he didn't want to risk the subway ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Rejected. I called another ex who lived out of town and I had… Read more →


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|Frederique Constant Automatic Ladies Watch with Diamond features 56 diamonds. Hearts grace the inside of the dial while diamonds are used as hour indicators. It retails for $4,250 and is available at Bloomingdales.com.
|The JeanRichard 1681 Collection is available in two versions: one with three hands and a date display, the other with a date display and small second display and in two colors, steel and pink gold. The time display appears against a classical rail-track minute circle. The three-hand version has applied Arabic numerals in a similar style to the hour-markers; the small second display at 9 o'clock counterbalances the date. The oscillating weight of the calibre JR1000, bearing the new signature of the brand, can be seen through the screw-in case-back. The 1681 pictured retails for $6,400 and is available at Kenjo Watches in New York.
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I managed to have some messy play though and for the first time in a few months I'm posting something that isn't for a DT. I've just been messing about with scraps and fibres and glazes to create some texture and not overthink things...a little less structured, no pictures or main image...which is out of my comfort zone but I like the result. Think it's the Inspiration Wednesday influence!
Blue? I always thought I didn't really have a favourite colour palette and used most colours in turn but when discussing with a good friend she thought I didn't use blue much, so my 'just blue' challenge to myself really came from her. No step by steps.....and yes I did check which colours I use most. I was surprised to find it's browns and neutrals...but I do have quite a few blue items in my collection as well!
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- VSA is a new product offering in vSphere 5.0
- vSphere Storage Appliance is software that delivers shared storage capabilities without the cost and complexity of shared storage hardware
- It installs with just a few mouse clicks and is centrally managed in VMware vCenter Server.
- Use vSphere's business continuity features, all without shared storage hardware.
Key Features of vSphere Storage Appliance
- Affordable Shared Storage – Turns internal server storage into fully virtualized, clustered, shared and highly available datastores at a dramatically lower cost than networked, external shared storage
- Supports up to three nodes
- Simple installation – Fully automated installation and configuration of vCenter Server, vSphere and VMware VSA
- Ensures correct configuration for high availability
- Simple Administration – Tight vCenter Server integration provides simplified administration via VSA plug-in
- Storage Resilience and Availability – Mirrors datastores with RAID1 across nodes/RAID 10, within each node. 99.9% availability with HA.
- Flexibility to migrate to hardware SAN – using storage vMotion.
- Run vCenter Server separately from your VSA cluster for best protection
VSA Restrictions
- It is a virtual NFS filer only, and not a block-level storage appliance as VMware implied.
- NFS shares cannot be created on the VSA for the apps on the VM to access.
- Storage only presented to the hypervisor and not the VM.
- Does not support CIFS, ISCSI, FCOE.
- Does not support VAAI 1.0 ( vStorage API for Array Integration)
VSA provides an alternative shared storage solution for small-to-medium business (SMB) customers who might not be in a position to purchase a SAN or NAS array for their virtual infrastructure.
- Aimed at SMB market
- Simple to setup
- Resilient, has High Availability features
- Uses NFS protocol
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Our seeds arrived in the mail a few days ago.
Wheeeeeeee!! Can you tell how excited I am?
We bought 2 types of marigolds to keep out the bugs.
As a result, these seedlings sit atop my craft table.
I can't wait for the warmer weather and when we can transplant them into the ground.


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Apple and Samsung Reportedly Planning to Ditch SIM Cards
John Williamson / 4 years ago
Apple, Samsung and a number of other leading telecom companies are poised to revolutionize mobile networking with a brand new E-SIM card. The embedded SIM is a more versatile system which allows you to instantly switch between different mobile operators. Traditionally, SIM cards transferred data from a particular carrier and you had to swap between physical cards to access different networks. While the E-SIM isn't removable, there's no need for this technology considering it's extremely easy to assign a new network. However, I'm not sure if this will apply to acquiring a new number from an existing network by changing from one tariff to another.
According to the Financial Times, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Hutchison Whampoa, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone are all expected to support this move and if more parties follow, then the death of the traditional SIM might be closer than first expected. Personally, I foresee E-SIMs as a supplementary device and not something to replace traditional cards in the short-term. The amount of customers using older handsets with basic SIMs, Nano SIMs and Micro SIMs means the roll-out could take some time. Although, that doesn't stop brand new devices from utilizing this superior form of technology.
Another possible problem revolves around phone upgrades. If your number is assigned to a handset, what happens if you want to sell your device on eBay and buy a better model? What if the phone becomes defective? Perhaps, networks will assign each number to an IMEI and disable it when transferring to a new handset.
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Movies that you like but everybody else hates?
Like Chiibi said this on 'Anime you love but everyone else hates? XD' thread,
"Pretty much the opposite of the other thread. No, I don't mean underrated. We already have a thread like that. I mean shows that you liked and you see a LOT of negativity about them. Online reviews, a majority of opinions you see on forums, what your friends say, etc. This is your chance to defend them.
If you're brave enough."
I'm gonna try that to see what movies that you like but everyone else seems to be hated about it like my top movies below inspired by 'Doug's (Nostalgia Critic from TGWTG.com) TOP 10 movies that I like but everyone else hates':
- Mr Bean's Holiday
- Final Destination series (1 - 3)
- Resident Evil: Afterlife
- Speed Racer
- Terminator Salvation
- TRON Legacy
- The Matrix Reloaded & Revolution
- Blade Trinity
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- The Longest Yard (2005)
- The Island (2005)
- The Day After Tomorrow
- X-Men: The Last Stand
- 2012
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Like I said, everyone else had their own opinions & it shouldn't meant to be taken seriously. And I've should be ashamed of what I've been done recently. Taking people opinions way too seriously.
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Speed Racer - like many critics, I disliked this film on its arrival/crash. But seeing it for a second time on IMAX really started the change of my opinion. First of all, the film is gorgeous. Absolutely beautiful. Secondly, this is probably the best anime-to-live-action out there. Not simply because of the visual effects (though that helps), but due to the simple fact that the creators have an honest appreciation for both the form and substance of anime (and the original Speed Racer). And thirdly, while the characters and acting initially seem simplistic and silly, on further viewings it becomes clear that this simplicity was aimed for, and the actors play their parts quite well.
This is really one of the few films that my opinion has taken a complete 180 on over the last few years.
That being said, there are always guilty pleasure films like 2012, Blade Trinity (with Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel being so hot, how could I not like this film ), the Spongebob movie, etc...
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Can I speak within the vacuum of a franchise? I've heard that Godzilla VS Gigan is either one of the best Godzilla films ever or the worst flick since Godzilla's Revenge, and I'm inclined to go with the former. I dunno how well this series stacks up against general opinion though.
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@ Terminator Salvation
Awesome movie, I don't recall anyone not liking it, then again, I don't read movie critics.
@ Jumper
Great movie too. Love the concept of a "jumper" ability. Makes me think of something Marvel like (imagine if Marvel made a movie like that). I think people didn't like it because of the main actor, Anakin lolz.............................................. .................................................. ........
Not the best actor for the film. Also, IMO, I think adding his girly friend to make it more of a chick flick killed it too.
@ Avatar, the Last Airbender
It WOULD have been an epic movie IF it didn't have SUCH HORRIBLE ACTORS! My god, I've seen lots and lots of movies, but there aren't too many that I've seen where I disliked it a lot due to actors, and this is one of them lolz. The plot was done decently, a little too fast, but almost all the actors are horrible...if they are making more sequels to it, I won't be looking forward to it.
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EVERY question we ask, every statement we make -- in fact, every activity we undertake, shows that we make suppositions and shows which ones they are. If we ask questions, we suppose that they can have answers. Our statements, we think, can be true, revealing, interesting, or attractive. We expect that the things we act with will suit our purposes, and we hope that our actions upon things will properly fit them.
We come by most of our suppositions through instruction, and through imitating the practices of our teachers in home, school, and community. If their instruction and practice are sound, our suppositions will most often be fulfilled. And most often we will leave them unexamined. Our suppositions remain ours, though, whether we study them or not.
The occasions upon which we are likely to study them arise when they fail in practice or conflict with one another, or when we find other men and other communities acting in ways strikingly different from our own. We may be led to wonder, for example, how we can both fear and love the same person, or why we act toward elders with respect when age is not respected by other men and other communities. If we were to examine just these suppositions, just the suppositions we recognize to fail, conflict and differ from those of others, we would settle our convictions piecemeal. We would be saying that certain particular things have just these characters and values, and that we have therefore to act toward them in certain special ways. Such piecemeal examinations generally serve our living well enough. But they are piecemeal, and they are provisional. With fresh failures, fresh conflicts and differences, perplexity and wonder arise again.
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Go back 50 years with Class of '68.
"Hey Jude," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Born to Be wild," "Dance to the Music," "Think" – only a few of the hit singles from 1968 and just some of the songs Alex Mack and Crystal Stark will perform at Friday's "Class of '68," Lonely Street Productions' annual salute to the Billboard top songs from 50 years ago.
Stark said it wasn't easy to pick which songs to include and which ones to leave out. "We definitely had to leave out some that are fantastic, but we just didn't have enough time," she said. "We took the ones we thought the audience would really enjoy, and also we have to think about what fits our voices as well. There are just some things I'd love to sing, but it's just not going to fit me. Same for Alex, too."
Of all the songs in the show, Stark said her favorite to perform is "Hey Jude," which was the most popular that year. Everybody sings along to it, she said.
Mack and Stark take the stage at 7 p.m. today at the Elks Theatre and Performing Arts Center, 117 E. Gurley St. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and can be purchased online at www.prescottelkstheater.com, by calling 928-777-1370 or at the door one hour prior to the performance.
Stark said she shops all year round for the show's costumes. She has a tie-dye look, a Janis Joplin look and there may be a surprise appearance by someone resembling Diana Ross; she's popped into the last few shows, Stark said. As for Mack, he's got a Beatles look and a hippie look, Stark said.
As they perform the hits from that ear, there's never a slow moment in the show, Stark said, adding that audiences often comment that the show brings them back to a nostalgic time in their young life, she said. They hear the songs and remember things about school, who they were with at the time and the car they had, Stark said.
She said this is her third year performing in the show, and she loves hearing the progression of the music over the last three years.
"It all has a similar thread going throughout, but now, having done it, this being the third year, you can really hear how it's starting to rev up toward the 70s," she said. "That's really been interesting."
More like this story
- Class of '66 brings back memories of yesteryear at Elks Theatre in Prescott
- Class of '67– Top Hits, Tribute Show at Elks Theatre on Jan. 8
- Lonely Street brings Christmas tunes to the Elks on Dec. 18 and 21
- Friday concert will take the train to 'Soulsville'
- Lonely Street salutes Righteous Brothers, Blue Eyed Soul


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10/3 – 10/5 Walk21: The International Conference on Walking and Sustainability
In 2011 the International Walk21 Conference is being hosted by Metro Vancouver. The conference's metropolitan focus involves municipalities in the region, health authorities, Translink, the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, as well as the regional government. Metro Vancouver has teamed together to create an innovative conference focusing on the best practices for urban design, transportation mobility, and health promotion to provide the best places to walk to and through.


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Smart Talk is a daily, live, interactive program featuring conversations with newsmakers and experts in a variety of fields and exploring a wide range of issues and ideas, including the economy, politics, health care, education, culture, and the environment. Smart Talk airs live every week day at 9 a.m. on WITF's 89.5 and 93.3.
Listen to Smart Talk live online from 9-10 a.m. weekdays and at 7 p.m. (Repeat of 9 a.m. program)
Host: Scott LaMar
Radio Smart Talk for Tuesday, April 30:
April is Autism Awareness Month.
Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life and affects a person's ability to communicate and interact with others.
Autism is being diagnosed more often today as society, educators, and the medical community learn more about it. The Centers for Disease Control reports that one in 88 babies born have some form of autism. That works out to about 1% of children ages 3-17.
What causes autism is still unknown. Researchers often investigate the role of genetics and environmental factors.
Early diagnosis and intervention are two of the important keys to better outcomes for those living with autism and their families.
Apprearing on Tuesday's program will be Joelle Scholl of the Autism Services, Education, Resources, and Training collaborative (ASERT) and Georgia Rackley, past president of the Autism Society of Greater Harrisburg.
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Email Comment from Melinda:
Thank you for today's program. Three comments to add to the discussion:
Your speaker made a comment about vaccines as a causal factor in Autism - I feel it is important to note that numerous research studies have indicated that childhood vaccines are in fact NOT linked to ASD. The most recent study by the CDC again found no connection between the number of vaccines a child received and his or her risk of autism spectrum disorder.
The discourse thus far has focused on children with ASD, which is of course important to discuss as early diagnosis and early intervention have proven critical in treating ASD. However, there is a huge and growing population of adults with ASD and a paucity of services and supports for these individuals in our society.
As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, I feel it my obligation to remind the audience and speakers of the most effective, and only scientific evidence-based comprehensive treatment for ASD is Applied Behavior Analysis. Though ABA is not limited to treating Autism, it has gained the most exposure for its success in treating ASD. Autism has unfortunately been a "magnet" for "fad treatments" that are not scientific or evidence-based.
Thank you!
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I think one needs to be careful about getting any type of disorder Dx.
I believe my son has Asbergers and have been very careful when talking with our doctor about what goes on his medical record. We monitor his behaviors and respond accordingly. I think at times just like the ADHD dx craze that hit the waves, the same can happen with other disorders. Our son is high functioning, and we do not want to limit his future because of what is some medical document. Just like school records, medical records travel with you all your life.
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Further more I finished another S-a-G LO, I added some adorable pics of my brother playing with my dad's doggies on that one. (And sometimes I am really proud of my photography skills!!! ) On the pic at the bottom of the page he has a chippie in his mouth, and that particular dog is crazy about food so she etas from his mouth, eventhough she's scared of my brother! I made the title into something funny, Alex is doing it doggie style. Here it is:
Last but not least I finished the LO from Vicky Boutin's S-a-G class. I loved the foiling technique she taught us very much. Did some doodling on it but I hated the result, so instead I foiled all the edges of the papers. (I hate it when you do something and wreck your page!!! Thank God scrapping is about embellishments, there's always something lying around to cover up your screw-ups, teehee...) I went overboard with the foiling and did some doodle-foiling which was hideous as well. So, underneath the 4-layer-flower, there's a mess... ;) (I can't say it enough: Thank God for embellishments!!!)
Since the LO was fun, fresh, sparkly, and love-themed, I added pics of my father-in-law frolicing around with his grandkids. The grandkids he didn't even know until recently, of the daughter he didn't even get to see again until recently. After more than 20 years!!! Seeing him so happy and carefree, thoroughly enjoying the role of being a granddad, makes my heart smile. Especially knowing the story behind all of this...Here it is:
Well, for now, that's all folks!!! I am going to go and enjoy my day-off some more. ;) I am still in my PJ's, I may continue on my scrap-project today. Working on acrylic plates for the first time, that's fun for a change! Hoping I will get rid of my cold soon, as I have a busy weekend ahead. With 2 birthdays and a family-day from hubby's side of the family. Already bought pressies for the birthdays, we have a new store in town where you just buy anything and everything and it all costs nothing! They even have some cute scrapping-supplies!
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LEVELLAND - It was Criselda Tijerina's dream to have a picturesque dining room with a beautiful wooden table, matching chairs and an elegant china set, just like a page in a magazine - that and a comfortable home was what she labored for and wanted for her large family.
But the dream home she created decades ago is nothing more than a black skeleton of burnt wood and ash. She had no insurance, the house was destroyed and the only items she could salvage were a few slightly singed chairs.
"Everything is burnt. Everything," said 70-year-old Tijerina. "It's like what my son says, 'Just leave it to God.' "
The fire began April 25 at Tijerina's house in the 800 block of Avenue B after she drove a few blocks away to a relative's house. Five minutes later, she returned to her house that was engulfed in flames and smoke. She said she saw two unfamiliar boys at the front of her house
- one was standing in the yard and the other was standing inside the open doorway. Tijerina re-enacted her actions that afternoon - the way she yelled at the boys and how she rushed inside to pull furniture out of the burning house. The police had to pull her away so she would not go back in and injure herself, she said.
Levelland fire investigator Jay McKay said the fire originated in the kitchen, but a definite cause has not yet been determined. The back half of the house was completely covered in flames when firefighters responded a little after 5 p.m.
Originally, McKay reported the dishwasher as the culprit, but bottles of gasoline found at the scene several days later and Tijerina's insistence on the boys' suspicious behavior caused McKay to reopen the case.
At this time, McKay said, the fire is still under investigation, and he has yet to speak with two boys whom Tijerina said she saw standing near her house.
Tijerina believes the boys were somehow connected with the fire because her dishwasher had been unplugged and unused for several years. However, McKay said, the fire did not appear to be intentionally set, and he could not comment on the boys' involvement until he heard their statements.
It was a total loss of the nearly 2,000-square-foot structure, and he estimated damage ranged from mid-$30,000 to $40,000, he said.
Aside from losing nearly all of her possessions, Tijerina's greatest loss was the warm home and memories she created there over the past 30 years, she said.
Tijerina, a divorced, single mother, moved her seven children to Levelland and worked multiple jobs. She decided one day to add rooms to her two-bedroom house. She built another bathroom, a closet, a third bedroom, a utility room with another bathroom and an additional kitchen without any help.
"A lot of people said you can't do it, but you know I learned a lot of stuff by myself," she said.
Only God and her dream of having a dining room table and china gave her the strength to complete her ongoing renovation project, she said.
Her children said Tijerina worked multiple jobs morning to evening, but still found time to cook meals, wash and iron their clothes, strictly discipline them and build new rooms.
"She was a workaholic. ... She worked all her life to keep food on our table," said Marylou Zamora, Tijerina's youngest daughter. "It was hard for her, and then losing something she worked all her life (on) ..."
Two generations of children watched Tijerina's hands constantly moving, whether they were cooking meals, cleaning or building new rooms in the house.
"It even hurt me," said Jessika Flores, Tijerina's granddaughter, about the fire. "It made me mad. How could someone do that?"
To Flores, that house was her childhood home where her grandmother raised her, where the family gathered for the holidays and where she had baby showers for each of her three children.
"We didn't have all the riches in the world, but we had a big family. We had togetherness," she said.
Flores said Tijerina hoped her house would be her lasting legacy to leave her children and grandchildren after her death.
In spite of everything, Flores is grateful her grandmother is well and that the family has reunited to help Tijerina settle into her new apartment. Flores traveled from Abilene and met other family members to clear away the debris and salvage what they could from the burned house.
Tijerina has children and relatives in Levelland, but insisted on living on her own even though she lost everything. Family members and the American Red Cross provided some clothes and cooking supplies for the new apartment.
Despite her age and arthritis, Tijerina said she plans to start working again and even toys with the idea of building a new house on her property from scratch.
"I would like to because I like it there and that's my property," she said.
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Some Thoughts About Leading
Your Team – Part Four
December 21, 2011
Filed under: Leadership — @ 9:04 pm
In my last couple of blog postings, I've written about what not to do as a leader of your team. So, what do you do?
Set expectations. Well, one of the most important things to do with your team is to set expectations. Apparently employers aren't very good at this: according to Charles A. Coonradt in The Game of Work (Game of Work, Inc. 2007), most employees are not sure what is expected of them, so they keep themselves busy with activity.
What is an expectation? How do you set expectations for your team? You do that by defining the outcome or result you want. The outcome needs to be specific (for an example of an assignment that doesn't work because it doesn't define an outcome, see the The Dis-Associate's comments on the December 19 Attorney at Work blog).
Outcomes vs. processes. An outcome is not the same thing as a process. An outcome is an end result; a process relates to the steps to get there. Very often, employers get outcomes and processes confused and insist that things be done a certain way. But, according to Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman in First, Break All the Rules (Simon & Schuster 1999), that's not the point. The point is the result.
How do you define an outcome? Sometimes it's hard to define an outcome, but that's no excuse for not doing it and making that outcome an express expectation of your team's performance. Your desired outcome may be happy clients. You and your team can work together to define exactly what that means and how to measure it. Once you have that definition and that expectation, you and your team will have a common goals — and you're much more likely to get the results you want.
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Category: VECTURA – Transportation
A Dangerous Job
A bike path I'd like to ride on
Now if davis or sacramento to the only get some of these bike paths
From AppyGeek
SkyCycle puts London bike paths in the clouds
Why do so many Dutch people cycle?
Why do so many Dutch people cycle? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23587916
I really enjoyed my time cycling in the Netherlands.
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"They will make their own holidays, their own laws. We need to send mature people, because we won't be telling them what to do."
The bike-maker who disproved the doubters
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Decommissioning and abandonment: relief for residual liabilities following decommissioning
The costs of monitoring toppled installations or restoring the seabed following decommissioning may be imposed by an abandonment programme approved by the Secretary of State under the Petroleum Act 1998.
Seabed monitoring costs charged to the Profit and Loss account will normally be allowable as revenue expenditure of a continuing ring fence trade or of a wider petroliferous trade (if the ring fence trade has ceased).
Seabed restoration costs may be capital and within the capital allowances provisions. Depending on the facts, capital allowances may be due under either the MEA code or as plant or machinery decommissioning expenditure (see OT28020).


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