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Unicaja Banco is a financial institution with a proven financial strength and a business trajectory which spans over 100 years of history, focused on retail and proximity banking. With more than 3 million customers, it has a leadership position in Andalusia and Castilla y León, its home regions, where 80% of its 1,250 branches are located. Unicaja Banco is characterized as well by the solvency, liquidity and quality of its balance sheet, resulting from the prudent management of its business strategy. It is one of first ten banking groups in Spain by asset volume. Unicaja Banco is the parent company of Grupo Unicaja Banco, of which Banco EspañaDuero makes part.
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Do you offer medical billing services? Are you in the process of automating all your services and the service delivery process? The first place to start is always getting medical billing software from a medical billing services company. Before settling on a given application or software, keep in mind the cost and the services or features you will get in return.
There are many software applications in the market and your choice will depend on the services you require. Some of the renowned and recommended medical software in the market include:
- PracticeSuite
This is one of the leading medical billing software in the market. It is a cloud-based software application that is highly adaptable and it has a wide range of product features. The adaptability and the product features make it useful for many practices besides the healthcare sector.
Cloud-based feature makes it possible to work from anywhere, process claims and complete payment transactions. It also has complex scheduling scenarios allowing multi-specialty/provider/location and resource scheduling.
Precedent revenue leakages are flagged promptly and the revenue monitors send alerts to managers. Configurable keeps make customization possible, and the granular security settings help in keeping records of people accessing data. You can also engage your patients and clients through the CRM, online reputation, or social media management tabs.
- NueMD
This software offers a simplified billing system and is a perfect fit for small and medium-sized medical practices. The efficiency and accuracy of the medical billing system are kept in check using a team of medical coders. It is also easy to use and it can be customized to meet a client's needs.
- AdvancedMD
A good medical software system is affordable and has features that ensure high efficiency. Its use should result in a cut of expenses and you can get more of these requirements if you talk to professional medical billing services professionals or check out their website.
AdvancedMD comes highly recommended by various users. It has an attractive revenue cycle and management systems that make tracking of clients and patients records easier. It is highly intuitive allowing medical professionals administrators quick access to data.
- Genesis Chiropractic Software
This software is suitable for profitability purposes and patient relationship management. Some of its features include ONC-certified scheduling, billing solutions, and documentation. It is therefore a complete chiropractic EHP and practice suitable management system. It provides patient payment history, payment processing, practice management, statements and collections, revenue cycle management, remittance advice, billing estimates, EMR/HER management, claims management, claim scrubbing, and patient eligibility checks.
- InstaHMS
Insta Health Solution is a cloud-based application that allows document management, billing estimates, code& charge entry, claims management, patient eligibility checks, remittance advice, payment processing, statements and collections, and patient payment history.
- AllegianceMD
You may resort to using this web-based medical billing software with practice management, billing, or revenue management capabilities. AllegianceMD is also suitable for patient payment history retrieval, remittance advice, statements & collections, claim scrubbing, code & charge entry, claims management, patients eligibility check, and document management.
In conclusion, these are just some of the medical billing software available. Many others exist and you will be the judge of your best pick. Note that the best software ensures patient management, documentation, patient engagement, payment processing, claims management and scrubbing, and it saves the practice money.
via Corry Fray
Corry Fray is a medical billing consultant working with a medical services business. They offer medical billing services and you can check out their website here.

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The Joyful Purpose of God
Jan 8, 1989
No matter what part of your Christian commitment you focus on, the Bible leads you from that focus to the urgency of evangelism.
The Joyful Duty of Man
Jan 22, 1989
In sharing the truth of Christianity, Truth #1 is that God created us for HIS glory. Truth #2 is that this is, therefore, the duty of every man and woman and child—to live for the glory of God. And the wonderful thing is that this duty is not a burden. It is freedom and joy.
Joy Exchanged and Joy Forfeited
Jan 29, 1989
We have exchanged our joy for the dead-end street of judgment.
Joy Purchased
Feb 5, 1989
The death of Jesus Christ is the only way that any of us can escape the righteous wrath of God and find peace with God.
Joy Recovered
Feb 12, 1989
How do you become a Christian? How does the ransom Jesus paid become a ransom for me?


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Monday, December 30, 2013
I've Written a Book. How Do I Get Published?
I will usually spend some time talking to the person about how they should blog and use the internet for resources. Sometimes I will suggest they join an online group of writers to learn more. Sometimes, people take my advice. Sometimes they look disappointed -- as if there's a secret short cut I'm keeping from them.
I wrote about that once -- the F13 Button. (Shhh. Don't tell the uninitiated!)
But today I stumbled upon the PERFECT reference chart for someone new to the publishing world. I bookmarked it. You should bookmark it.
I wonder if the creator would sell laminated copies of this chart for me to hand out ...
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Lol. Excellent chart for the newbie!ReplyDelete
That is awesome! Love that chart.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2013 at 3:41 PM
Thanks for sharing the chart, Dianne!ReplyDelete
I've met a lot of people who think success is about luck and aren't interested in working for it. I think the explosion of mediocre or bad self-pubbed books proves it. The sad thing is, these people can point to badly-written books that became bestsellers to prove "luck" works after all...ReplyDelete
Have a great New Year celebration, Dianne! :-)
That's awesome. It needs to be emailed to everyone whose blog description has "writer" in it.ReplyDelete
Love this, Diane! I'll have to keep it mind.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year!
That chart is awesome. And so accurate. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
What a terrific chart. Funny AND helpful. Happy New Year, Dianne!ReplyDelete
Perfect chart.ReplyDelete
Thanks Dianne .. as you've noted great chart - always so useful to have the flow chart set out!ReplyDelete
Happy 2014 - Hilary
LOL! That's perfect.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year, Dianne! May 2014 be good to you and yours. :)
LOL!! That's too perfect :-)ReplyDelete
That's awesome. I love how pretty much everything goes back to write a new book. So true.ReplyDelete
The arrows directing you back up are very accurate... Try, try and try again!ReplyDelete
I get questions all the time about how to make a full-time income off just writing. People are always disappointed that the "secret" is working hard and specializing in a two or three areas. Everyone wants a shortcut and writers like Stephenie Meyer don't help with the perception that such a backdoor exists.ReplyDelete
I'm a big chart-maker, so I enjoyed seeing this one. Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
I was just hoping you'd give me a short-cut...:) I'm finally catching up on blogs - your 8th-Day cover looks awesome! Happy new year!ReplyDelete
I was just hoping you'd give me a short-cut :) Finally catching up on blogs...love your eighth-day cover! Happy New YEar!ReplyDelete
The F13 button- that's a clever way of putting it. Since I'm not a published author, I don't get many questions about how to get published. But the one thing that rubs me the wrong way at times is when I'm asked, "Why aren't you published yet?"ReplyDelete


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IFK Göteborg was the brilliant winner of 10MILA 2017. It was the recover of the title achieved two years ago and the 8:35 advantage over OK Linné was the widest triumph since 2004, when Halden SK got the winning over Kalevan Rasti by 9:40. It was also the third year in a row that a Swedish team wins the Men Relay, something that didn't happened since 1990.
Partille, near Gotebörg, hosted the 71st edition of 10MILA. Divided by Youth, Women and Men Relay, close to 7,000 competitors from all over the World took part in the event, which had in the Men Relay its highest moment. The race started at 21.00 p.m., with 324 teams reaching the forest for a long and exciting orienteering night. Martin Regborn (Hagaby GoIF Örebro) did a perfect first leg, finishing with a four-minute advantage over a large group, led by MS Parma, OK Trian and Hiidenkiertäjät. Viktor Larsson managed to keep Hagaby's boys in the lead in the end of the second leg but things changed after that, with Lauri Sild (Koovee) reaching a two-minute advantage over the crowd in the end of the third leg. Always expected as one of the most significant moments of the course, the fourth and longest leg was tightly contested, finishing with the first six teams separated by seven seconds. IFK Göteborg, Lillomarka OL, IFK Mora OK, Koovee, MS Parma and Lynx had a unique opportunity to conduct the course towards the final victory, having at the moment a good eight-minute lead over the remaining teams.
In the end of the fifth leg, the leading group was reduced to three teams, with Koovee in the first position. But it was during the sixth leg that IFK Göteborg's victory turned out to be a real possibility. Jonas Pilblad performed amazingly, finishing his course 3:51 before Steinar Kollerud (Lillomarka OL), second placed, 4:59 before Jarno Parkkinen (Koovee), third placed and 9:12 before Baptiste Rollier (Kalevan Rasti), in the fourth position. Oleksandr Kratov could reduce Koovee's disadvantage to 54 seconds in the end of the seventh leg, but became clear after the eight leg that IFK Göteborg would be the winner, after Max Peter Bejmer's achievement of nearly ten (!) minutes. Eskil Kinneberg, first, and then Fredrik Bakkman would confirm an amazing victory with the overall time of 10:57:14, the second in the club's history after the winning in 2015. 8:35 after the winners, OK Linné got the second place and Södertälje-Nykvarn OF, the winner in 2016, stayed in the third position with the overall time of 11:06:18.
Men Relay Kavlen
1. IFK Göteborg 10:57:14 (+ 00:00)
2. OK Linné 11:05:49 (+ 08:35)
3. Södertälje-Nykvarn OF 11:06:18 (+ 09:04)
4. Koovee 11:06:31 (+ 09:17)
5. Tampereen Pyrintö 11:10:16 (+ 13:02)
6. Lillomarka OL 11:14:09 (+ 16:55)
7. Kalevan Rasti 11:15:18 (+ 18:04)
8. IFK Lidingö SOK 11:15:41 (+ 18:27)
9. Halden SK 11:22:44 (+ 25:30)
10. IFK Mora OK 11:32:49 (+ 35:35)
Complete results and further information at http://online.10mila.se/.
[Photo: Mårten Lång / svenskorientering.se]
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Energy saving tube lights are a terrific way to economize and help save the environment. Energy saving tube lights can use up to 75% less energy than your average bulb and they also last as much as 10 times longer than your normal run of the mill light bulb. Whether or not you are intending to save the planet or simply save some money on your power bill, energy saving light bulbs are the best way to go. You will find lots of information regarding these lights and their benefits online. Educating yourself about the advantages of energy saving lights is step one to big savings on your monthly bill each month.
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Thought this sketch was relevant to life at the moment - growing in building wisdom anyway!
Art journalling or is it art journaling? Random thoughts about life. Books and their impact. Living creatively. Sketching the things I love about New Zealand and being a New Zealander
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Thought this sketch was relevant to life at the moment - growing in building wisdom anyway!
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Ten minute sketches or less - a new goal
Monday, 28 October 2013
Tip on how to get lettering straight from a blog I follow
In this article there is a picture of a grid Liz places under her work to get lettering straight - great idea that came from her architecture background.
Liz and Borromini: Down the drive (and more): I love the way sketching the same thing brings back memories! This evening I felt like splashing some green paint (blue and yellow pai...
Liz and Borromini: Down the drive (and more): I love the way sketching the same thing brings back memories! This evening I felt like splashing some green paint (blue and yellow pai...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
October's theme for the sketchbook challenge - animal companions.
Fantails often are company on bush walks as they love to feast on the disturbed insects from the track. One of the friendliest little birds around.
Arty photos for inspiration
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Botanic Gardens Chat
Botanic Gardens Chat, a photo by 1artalive on Flickr.
Friday, 18 October 2013
Peacock Fountain Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Peacock Fountain Christchurch Botanic Gardens, a photo by 1artalive on Flickr.
Sketchcrawl 2013
one sketch is better than none I guess
Sunday, 13 October 2013
The Budget Bus Trip sketch #1
Nine hours on a bus trip. I definitely needed to do something to break the boredom! Apart from endless sketches of sheep, hedges and cattle, there were 5 minute sketching opportunities now and again - it was a great challenge as whether I had finished or not the bus was moving on - no completeness here - just a general idea.
This was from the bus stop at Timaru.
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
sketchcrawl 2013
October 19th
October 19th
Sunday, 6 October 2013
Damp day in Gore
A bit of urban sketching - i.e. not relying on my camera and getting something down in the sketch book in public. Still a challenge but fortunately Table Talk cafe was slightly deserted early morning and the coffee was excellent. Got this down very roughly in about 20 minutes as I ran into a new friend and it would have been rude to keep drawing!
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Frugal stamping idea
For those of you with access to anchor products (go New Zealand made!) their containers often have anchors that are 3 dimensional and so make excellent little stamps. I just cut a square of plastic around the stamp to make a square shaped print. A technique that works well is stamping on tissue and then attaching the tissue onto whatever you are working on with gel medium or PVA glue (if you want the stamp to be semi- transparent). Happy stamping!
Sunday, 21 July 2013
Art Journaling Practice
art journaling practice, a photo by 1artalive on Flickr.
Sunday, 7 July 2013
Coursera has been brilliant in expanding my knowledge of new and diverse art, wunderkammers and kunstkammers being my new favourites in the word collection department.
This week we were encouraged to create our own wunderkammers, or maybe, slightly curious collections.
This week we were encouraged to create our own wunderkammers, or maybe, slightly curious collections.
Title: Life Compartments 2013
How: I chose a container that was clear plastic to resemble glass to try and create a new take on a cabinet. I attached hardware to this. I created the 4 small rooms insert with cardboard covered in papers of choice, then filled each room/compartment with the themes of my current life: domestic duties, education, creativity and spiritual. I created a faux wooden floor as most old buildings seem to have these. I also created a dress for the washing room. In the school room I created an altered art piece with part of it having a half clock with a wing attached.
What: As above, each compartment represents part of my life. I am a natural collector and have often wondered what to do with the little pieces of paraphernalia that I just can't get rid of yet!
Why: From the close up you can see an arm in a washing basket this is a) a link to the original Kunstkammers which often had preserved body parts such as the Mutter Museum and b) a reference to the phrase "please give me a hand". Washing in particular, seems to fill up a lot of my life, and is represented by the crowded compartment along with a mixing bowl which represents the never ending creation of food.
The second close up is of the interactive part of the work - you turn the metal spring that comes out of the box and it makes the part from a musical box play it's music. It's a reference to all the mechanical toys that were in the original kunstkammers or wunderkammers.
The altered art work with half a clock is an obvious reference to the shortness of time and time flying. Behind the brain is a little lego transmitter which is to do with the challenge of trying to transmit information to a person's brain cells (whether mine or others). The screw type thing which the brain sits on reminds me of one of Da Vinci's machines.
My life collection of minature slightly curious objects is finally found useful.
Thursday, 27 June 2013
cousera collage
Not in my comfort zone at all, but fascinating learning information about artists I had not learnt about before.
This piece is all about not hiding in books/fantasy and was a bit of a laugh taking "selfies" with this massive book on my head - made all the more hilarious by the fact that our neighbours just happened to choose this moment to fix their garage roof with some contractors and our normally private lounge was in full view...
Unfortunately, I had thought that they were on the ground - never even contemplating that they would get up on a roof!!
If they saw me, they would definitely have evidence for eccentricity.
Well, that was the unusual spot in my fairly mundane week.
Friday, 14 June 2013
Coursera home work
I found a link to the coursera art course on one of the blogs I follow and decided to jump in late. Absolutely loving the online videos in it and with the assignments having a deadline I am far more likely to get around to them!
Week 3's assignment - conversations with memory:
titled "Don't Shut the Door Yet"
This is a mail art project all about how memory is lost - the colour photos becoming black and white and then becoming even less detailed as the drawing progresses down the page(envelope), with the collaged elements such as stamps being the memory prompts that remain.
As a young person, you just assume that memory is eternal and do not think about losing memories.
I collected the stamps off letters (my father collected butterflies hence the butterflies) and now wish I'd collected the letters instead, with all the adventures my parents wrote about.
They lived a lot overseas and so we corresponded a lot by mail as the phone lines were terrible and exorbitantly priced for the garbled communication with terrible echoes. This was pre e-mail/skype etc.
The stamp insert is purposefully blanker in comparison to the letter. It is of an African Lake that we holidayed at and was full of old dead trees and palms.
The colours show my mixed emotions - the warmth of the flame tree and rich African soil versus the black and white of loss.
The thermometer symbolizes the setting of the physical, emotional and spiritual temperatures of my life. Physically , my temperature gauge is definitely set for the tropics as my hands often go white with cold.
Often I received letters that were created by writing on the envelope and then sealing it. The letter was the envelope and so my envelope is the letter - a picture being worth a thousand words.
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Well, I have just bought a new pentel waterbrush having searched some of the supplies of bloggers I follow and am so looking forward to having it on hand - I am still very self conscious about using my paints while out and I'm thinking this will help (discretely tipping some of my water bottle's contents into my palette is always tricky) having never heard of them before it will be interesting to see what they are like and how much I actually use them.
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
May's sketchbook challenge complete
Blogged this fully at my other blog - enjoyed playing around with wax - it achieved what I was hoping for in describing the bowl's rough texture.
Monday, 3 June 2013
EDM #28 draw a jug
EDM #28 draw a jug, a photo by 1artalive on Flickr.
My favourite red jug full of sweet peas
Every day in May challenge outcome
27 out of the 31 challenges done, great challenge to get regularly sketching - and discovered how to make the new flikr work along the way, fun too to see other people's styles of sketching. Glad I gave it a try - makes me aware that there is always a few minutes to sketch and even if the outcome is not great I will learn to capture ideas and what works or not for me.
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Monday, 20 May 2013
EDM #20 Favourite drink
EDM #20 Favourite drink, a photo by 1artalive on Flickr.
Sunday, 19 May 2013
EDM # 18 left palm
EDM # 18 left palm, a photo by 1artalive on Flickr.
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
EDM #15 pencil
EDM #15 pencil, a photo by 1artalive on Flickr.
This is EDM (Every Day in May challenge) #14 and 15 as I've no ornaments and til the quakes are totally behind us won't be investing in any. The pencil is vintage - possibly 40 years old! I remember as a kid it being huge (maybe a meter long?) and somehow here it is years later ( quite possibly because it's hard to sharpen as you can see from the photo - and a bit chunky) albeit a lot shorter. Funny, I'd never even thought how old it was til we had to do this assignment - nostalgia all the way here ;-)
Monday, 13 May 2013
Huntsbury Hike
Well, more of a walk really.
A record of a beautiful Autumn day for May.
You can tell I've been inspired by the journal pages I've read in Every Day Matters and as seen on Flikr - I love the ones with little maps and details.
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Sunday, 5 May 2013
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Monday, 29 April 2013
Saturday, 27 April 2013
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Dee street
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Sort of urban sketching
It's a start anyway..one small step to a gate....?
I am spending far too much time
discovering urban sketchers in cyberspace and need to do some real life drawing.
I am spending far too much time
discovering urban sketchers in cyberspace and need to do some real life drawing.
Monday, 8 April 2013
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Nikau in the rain
Strathmore wk 4
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Homework done
Strathmore week 3's attempt - not as abstract as I would like so may yet have to have another go. Enlightening journey in that I took a photo and then wondered what the bird was and had to try and identify it. It turns out that we have Eurasian coots in our local bird population. Having cropped this photo already, I now have to work out why it didn't remain cropped but in the interests of time I will leave this one as it is. Art homework box ticked!
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Week 2's efforts
Having finally found my charcoal sticks I managed to finish the week's assignment. I did attempt another sketch and learnt along the way one of the tips in the online course - if attempting semi-abstracts make sure the items are well recognizable.
I was disappointed a wax crayon resist didn't work under the background acrylic wash - I thought I'd made it thin enough but obviously it wasn't.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Monday, 4 March 2013
Strathmore art class is awesome!
Found a site with free art classes - something I had been hanging out for. I'll post the link - I found it really helpful in getting images down with some movement in them.
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Sweet Sketchbook challenge
Well, scraped in on this challenge by the skin of my teeth. Tried stamping with some store bought stamps but haven't got around to making my own yet. My take on sweet is my current soul journey.
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Address: 5085-222 Covas do Douro, Portugal
GPS: N 41º 09′ 42,88"; W 07º 35′ 44,59"
Phone: +351 254 730 430
Hotel Rural Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, or Quinta Nova for short, is one of the best places to stay in the Douro Valley when you are visiting Portugal.
Part hotel, part winery, and all relaxation, Quinta Nova offers visitors a quiet haven overlooking the Douro River and the beautiful vineyards that climb up the hills from its banks. Guests can enjoy self-guided hikes through the vines, relaxing dips in the swimming pool, drinks at the beautiful bar, dinner al fresco at the fine dining restaurant, cellar tours, and Port and wine tasting on the premises.


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Mini Van to debut at 2012 Geneva Motor show
The much loved mini van which ceased production 30 years ago is set to return to the commercial vehicle market. BMW who own the mini brand are calling it the Mini Cargo which is set to make it debut at the 2012
Aimed at the style conscious business owner the new model van won't have a new body shape but instead will utilise the current mini clubman base. The back and side windows will be removed and replaced by metal panels along with the rear seats to make way for a flat loading floor. It unsure yet whether the roof height will be adjusted to make way for more cargo.
Small commercial vans are already popular in the UK and throughout Europe so another addition to the market that looks just like a stylish mini is likely to be welcomed. Though its limited cargo area won't suit all businesses it will make the perfect pizza delivery vehicle and may make an ideal vehicle for the style conscious florist.


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Friday, April 20, 2007
You see? You see that? April mocks me.
3 comments:
- Nancy said...
Just be glad you're not in Australia. April is frustrating here too, but on an hour to hour basis rather than a weekly one like you've been describing. The mornings can be chilly as hell and you go to work all muffled up and warm, and a mere couple of hours later and the sun is higher in the sky, the temperature has shot up to 28 or 29 degrees and you're stripping franticly and sweating like a pig. So you get all nice and comfortable, then four o'clock comes around and the sun slips down in the sky - before you know it you're trying to find where you stowed your clothes cause it's suddenly bloody cold again. It's like Star Trek 3 when they're trying to find Spock on the Genesis Planet. Desert and then freezing cold!
(Aussie fan, friend of Dougie's).
- April 25, 2007 at 11:31 PM
- S.K.S. Perry said...
Hey, it's dark and rainy here most days--just like April's supposed to be. (Of course I hear is supposed to be bright and sunny on Monday. Grrrrr.
- April 26, 2007 at 9:09 AM
- Lesley Livingston said...
Yah-but... it's Australia!
Than, in itself, would - in my imaginings - make up for a WHOLE lot! I mean - you guys have the marsupials! Coooolll...
And - welcome to the blog! Any friend of Dougie's cannot help but RAWK!! (also, you reference ST-3 and the Genesis Planet. You are a keeper!)
SPERRY! - Dude. I'll even take a sunny Monday at this point (yes, that's right loyal blog-readers, April done got all cold and chilly again...*sigh*)
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December´s Livbox arrived and it´s almost Christmas! So... Livbox is a monthly beauty subscription service in Finland. One of the only few we have. I´ve been watching so many beauty box unboxings on youtube and I was so bummed out I couldn´t find any that would ship internationally. BUT then I found out we do have a box of our own and I went ahead and got myself a 3 month subscription. This is my second box so far. I thought I´d share with anyone who is curious to see what came inside.
This months box was quite full. Fit for the holiday time. This box usually comes with 4-6 products per month I think. Some are full sizes and some are samples. So far what I´ve got they are usually decent size even for samples. The price for Livbox is about 15e/month.
GOLDWELL StyleSign Sleek Perfection and StyleSign Hot Form: These are samples of a spray serum and a styling spray for hair straightening. I like getting hair products because I don´t buy hair products by myself that often. Most products that I have are gifted. So, this is a good way of trying new things. These products basically have the same description/instruction; helps straighten the hair, spray before using heat. Serum is more of a protecting product, I suppose.
These are sample sizes (20ml and 30ml). Prices for full size products: 26,70€/100ml and 17,70€/150ml
These are sample sizes (20ml and 30ml). Prices for full size products: 26,70€/100ml and 17,70€/150ml
ISISPHARMA Ruboril Exbert C: This product made me really happy. This is not something I would have gone out and buy myself but I have been using it every morning and night. It´s for covering redness and to treat couperosa skin. I don´t have couperosa or any visible veins but I do have sensitive skin and the area around my nose and the cheek area under my eyes tend to have redness. Especially after I take a shower or wash my face. It has a green-ish, thick consistency, so, it instantly reduces the redness around my nose and cheeks. But after you´ve applied it feels like nothing is there. I can´t tell for sure if it has any long term effects. If you have couperosa or wish to reduce redness then this is something worth a try.
This is a full size product 17€/15ml
NIVEA Smooth Caring body lotion: This is the kind of sample I don´t really like. This is something you get for free when you buy something. This is also something I could easily go and buy without having to test it out first. Because it´s Nivea. It´s just your good regular body lotion. I mean... I am going to use it! But if you´re a crazy moisturizer like me then you´re only gonna get 2-3 uses out of this. I don´t mind receiving these kind of samples when there´s a decent amount of full products in the box as well and this is just a plus.
This is a sample size (30ml). Price for full size: 4,65€/250ml
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MSCHIC Pure Lip Liner: I was really happy to find this in the box. I was really hoping there would be a make up product this time because... well, we all want more make up products don´t we? I was also happy I got a hot pink because I didn´t have one in this color. Unfortunately this has a cold metallic finish to it (not sure if you can see it in the photo). Does someone actually want their lip liner to be metallic? The metallic finish is almost hideable with lipstick but it peeks through a little bit.
These Pure Lip Lines are made of eco-sertified ingredients such as plant waxes, vegetable oils and antioxidants such as vitamine E. If that´s what you´re looking for in your cosmetics then here´s some.
This is a full size product 15€/1,1g
ELEGANT TOUCH Envy Nail Wraps: These are actually something I have wanted to try. I haven´t yet seen a design that fits my style but I decided to try these anyway. I just did ones on my pinkies. They are indeed quite easy to apply and also easy to take off. I find it impossible to apply these without getting any wrinkles because the stickers are flat and our nails aren´t. I promised to give these to my sister, so, it isn´t a total loss even though I don´t personally like the design for me. I know they had different designs in the boxes. I wonder how many actually got a design they like.
Roberto Cavalli Just Cavalli for women / for men
Katy Perry Killer Queen
These are perfume samples. Perfume samples are alright every now and then. I don´t mind them even though I´m very picky with the scents that I use. And often I end up not using these. Obviously it makes no sense to describe these because scents are personal and something that smells bad/good to me might smell really good/bad to you.
That´s about it! I hope you found this somewhat interesting. In this box there´s 33,90€ worth of full size products + all the sample sizes. If you have any questions about any of these products or about the box then leave me a comment below. I already can´t wait to get the next box to see what´s in it. After the next box I will decide if I want to subscribe or if I´ll try another Finnish beauty box.
Oh yea, there was a hot chocolate-spoon-drink in the box aswell.


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I really enjoy these birthday to do lists, they're a much more immediate bucket list and alot more realistic to achieve. I have a busy year ahead with my PhD work so my 23 before 24 list isn't going to be too serious, it's more about having fun, relaxing and HOPEFULLY a little travel.
- Start thrifting regularly again: Some of my favorite clothes like this star dress were thrifting finds
- Learn to make a Long Island Ice Tea: My favorite cocktail, in fact I don't know how to make any cocktails!
- Take a road trip in my new car: This could definitely be combined with my camping goal or Belfast goal...
- Present at my first science conference: Scary but exciting.
- Do a hike in the mountains: I used to go for long walks in the mountains at the weekends all the time when I was younger and have picnics, must get back to doing this.
- Get another stamp on my passport: I only have one for Tunisia, really want to collect more
- Go camping: Perfect summer challenge
- Visit Belfast: See the Titanic museum
- Go on a spa weekend getaway: I have never actually gone to a spa yet
- Donate Blood again
- Write a Life list: Include the things I have done that are special memories and all the things I want to do and see. Blog about it of course. If you have any ideas or have written a list of your own let me know I'd love some ideas.
- Get a new haircut: I'm so bad for rarely going to the hairdressers but the feel of a new haircut is so nice and fresh
- Have a regular fitness regime
- Learn to make pancakes/crepes: With maple syrup, bacon, strawberries, kinder bars...Not all together naturally.
- Clean out my wardrobe and donate what I don't wear anymore to charity
- Cook a 3 course meal: I have never made more than a one course meal, so I would love to cook a meal of my favorite things
- Give up fizzy drink for a month: For the sake of my teeth!
- Make lots of time for family and friends
- Go on a holiday with my sister: Fits in nicely with number 19, the only question is where to go??
- Do a random act of kindness
- Do something new each month: I've seen people doing this on their blogs and its such a great way of getting the most out of life and pushing yourself to experience new things.
- Buy a pinata: Any birthday/occasion will do because I've always wanted to buy one!
- Read 23 books: This will be tricky, I generally read magazines in my free time so it will be interesting to see which books I read.
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Filed on Friday, the 3rd of May. Must have been later in the day, to account for not appearing on GZLegal site until today. O'Mara has been on television talking about the voice ID issue.I predict the court will not exclude the state's expert voice ID witness(es), regardless of the merits of the defense argument. The question of scientific reliability is outside of her ken, so she'll be faced, herself, with dueling experts. The state claiming the method is reliable and accepted in the scientific community, and the defense expert claiming the method is not reliable and/or accepted in the scientific community. Being unable to tell the difference, the court will let the battle of the experts to be presented to the jury. If she's wrong, all that is at risk is reversal of the decision on appeal.
This seems to be exactly the kind of testimony that Frye hearings are meant to exclude - prejudicial statements, cloaked in the trappings of science/credentials. O'Mara has a good point, in that depending on who one belives is screaming is likely to bias a juror strongly one way or the other.If the hearing results in the state tipping it's hand and giving the defense a sneak peak at their expert's testimony, that should be useful for O'Mara, regardless of the actual ruling. If testimony of someone like Tom Owens ends up being allowed in the actual trial, but O'Mara is able to impeach him and make him look foolish, might that even better than having that testimony suppressed?
In 1972 the third and fourth District Courts of Florida, in separate opinions, held admissible the use of spectrographic voice identification evidence. The court in Worley held that the voice identification evidence was admissible to corroborate the defendant's identification by other means. The court stated that the technique had attained the necessary level of scientific reliability required for admission, but since it was only offered as corroborative evidence, the court refused to comment as to whether such evidence alone would be sufficient to sustain the identification and conviction. The third District Court of Appeals of Florida did not limit the admission of spectrograph evidence to corroborative status. In the Alea opinion the court does not mention the Frye test as the standard to be used for admission, but rather states that "such testimony is admissible to establish the identity of a suspect as direct and positive proof, although its probative value is a question for the jury".
As in Worley v. State, supra, there was other substantial evidence to identify the appellant as the perpetrator of the crime. He was one of the persons who attempted to implement the extortion threats by the collection of the money extorted. In addition, there was proof that his voice was identified as that of the person making the threats by two witnesses who testified without the aid of spectrographic voiceprint identification.
Voice Identification The Aural/Spectrographic Method - Thomas J. Owen
The first step is to evaluate the recording of the unknown voice, checking to make sure the recording has a sufficient amount of speech with which to work and that the quality of the recording is of sufficient clarity in the frequency range required for analysis. The volume of the recorded voice signal must be significantly higher than that of the environmental noise. The greater the number of obscuring events, such as noise, music, and other speakers, the longer the sample of speech must be. Some examiners report that they reject as many as sixty percent of the cases submitted to them with one of the main reasons for rejection being the poor quality of the recording of the unknown voice.
Bite mark comparison evidence differs from many other kinds of scientific evidence such as blood tests, "breathalyzer" tests, and radar (as well as from inadmissible techniques such as the polygraph and voice-print analyses) in that these various techniques involve total reliance on scientific interpretation to establish a question of fact.
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Emmanuel College's EC Serve Kenya Team is extremely excited to be serving in Eldoret and Nairobi, Kenya from June 1-15, 2017.
Led by EC Agriculture Program Chair Owen Thomason and his wife Gina, the team will be working in orphanages doing bible school activities, building a chicken coop at an orphanage, working at an orphanage farm and visiting the Mully Children's Family home.
While in Kenya, the team will work with Kevin Sneed and East Africa Bible College conducting Agricultural Seminars and repairing the college with an addition of a fence on the property. The students will work at IPHC Children's Homes in Eldoret, Turbo and Nakuru. These projects along with the microbusinesses financed by Matt Bennett and the People to People group will be part of the activities the Emmanuel College students will experience. Ron Wooten of the IPHC will lead the group while in Nairobi. The students will attend Calvary Church in Nairobi and participate in the services.
Joined by EC students Rachel Mash and Justin Long, Owen prays that the EC Serve team can make an impact during their time in Kenya.
"Our focus is to help the orphanages we visit become self-sustainable while sharing the word of Christ," he said.
Why is this trip important to the team?
"I visited Kenya two years ago and found it a place where people are receptive to Christ's message," Owen said. "They were also starving for agriculture knowledge and the hope to become sustainable. The children are very loving and appreciate your gifts and time. There are many needs and I hope that our team can help the people grow as Christians."
Through this trip, Owen hopes his team will gain a better understanding of our world and the many differences and challenges people face.
"I pray through this trip the team grows as Christians and gain that boldness God expects us to have when meeting the unreached or unwilling," Owen said.
How can you support and pray for the Kenya team?
"Please pray for safe travels, good health and boldness," Owen said. "Pray for open hearts and minds, unlimited supplies for our projects and hope for the people we touch."
If you are interested in supporting the cause and construction on this trip, your tax-deductible donation is payable to Emmanuel College with Kenya Missions in the memo line. The team appreciates all of the prayer and financial support from friends of the College to further God's Kingdom through the mission of Emmanuel.


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Nail Technician School: The Key to a Manicurist's Success
To become a nail technician, you typically need a state-certified license, and the first step in that process is attending a formal training program. You can find these at some high schools or at a public or private post-secondary vocational school. Coursework may include learning how to give a manicure, pedicure, polish nails, and apply for nail extensions. You can also find additional training at salons, cosmetology schools, and industry trade shows, which you should take throughout your career to keep your skills fresh and to learn the latest trends.
A nail technician school may also help teach you people skills, even going so far as to include coursework in that area, since people skills are such a vital part of the job. After all, you need to be able to keep clients coming back to you. Licensing requirements vary from state to state, so you should research what your own state expects, but most entail a written exam and then possibly an oral or practical exam too. You traditionally should be at least 16-years-old and have either a high school diploma or GED to become a nail technician.
Why Become a Nail Technician?
The number of nail salons and full-service day spas is expected to continue to grow throughout the country, which should create new job opportunities. According to the most recent statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a nail technician can expect to earn a median hourly wage of $9.46, which translates into an annual salary of $19,670. A nail tech working at a travel accommodation, such as a resort, may earn slightly more with annual wages of over $26,000.


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Update:4/29/13: Good news, we were not able to detect any indications of long half life radiation on this sample.
We noticed a step function increase in our LIVE Outdoor Radiation Monitor and decided to take a surface swipe off of our SUV. That swipe returned approximately 40x greater than background radiation.
The reading is unusually high. Given the surface winds and the overhead low we have some concern that there may be contamination from the La Salle nuclear plant. However, given the position of the jet stream we primarily suspect Fukushima.
We are doing long term testing of this sample in our lead cave to see if the decay curves show any long half life radiation.
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As part of the B2 Spanish course in the Masters programme, Maria-Teresa Guilbert and Elisa Crespo's students have written, shot and edited two short films in Spanish: Profesión: enamorada and Alonso Piotr Boradovski.
The film screening was held on 19 June 2014 before an enthusiastic audience: around 30 Télécom ParisTech students, lecturers and staff!
The Oxford IV (Inter-Varsity) is the largest and most prestigious debating competition on the UK University circuit. It is hosted by the famous Oxford Union. During this debating tournament, we rubbed shoulders with students from Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL, SOAS…
Telecom ParisTech Debating Society teams ranked 1st and 3rd in the last round in the 2012 tournament (November).
We advertised the Paris Open, to be held at Télécom ParisTech in April of 2013.
We recruited Talheel Lateef, a debating officer of the Cambridge Union Society, to give a an expert World Style debating workshop at Telecom ParisTech.
Margaux Penwarden
Students from Janice Tabet's English course (level B1-Pre-intermediate of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) invited ten students from the University of Chicago-Paris Campus on 23 May 2012 for a guided tour in English of the 13th arrondissement or administrative district. This invitation was in response to one of 11 April by the University of Chicago on their campus as part of renewed exchanges between the institutions...
Our students designed a well-researched route for the visit which started in front of the Manufacture des Gobelins tapestry and tapestry-manufacturing museum, and went via the Château de la Reine Blanche, the former bed of the Bièvre river, René Le Gall square, Place Paul Verlaine to end at the Butte aux Cailles neighbourhood.
They gave the American students a very interesting historical insight into, among many others, the Gobelins tapestries, the dyers and tanners of the Bièvre river, l'Ile aux Singes (Monkey Island), the landing of the first hot-air balloon and the history of the Commune movement at Butte aux Cailles.
The students had also prepared a cocktail on their return to school which was very much appreciated by the guests...
The preparatory class in Technology and Industrial Sciences (TSI) for admission to graduate school from the Gustave Eiffel high school came to Télécom ParisTech on 13 June 2012 with their teachers to attend Crazy for You! performed by the graduate school's English theatre group. Members of Passeport Avenir (Passport to the Future), the partnership which initiated contact between the Télécom ParisTech graduate school and the Gustave Eiffel high school, came with them.
This end of year visit to the graduate school marks the traditional end of a program which this class has just undertaken: a weekend course in English from the end of March to "trigger" that language, if required, enabling real "production" of English (often the students are surprised themselves!). Having made such efforts for the period of one weekend in June, they appreciate the true value of the work carried out by our students in producing a play in English over one year.
This article (in French) published by the The French Review (American Association of Teachers of French, déc. 2011 ) presents the "Cross-Cultural Connections" project, started in 2003 between Smith College (Massachusetts, USA) and Telecom ParisTech. Every Friday during one semester, the students meet using webcams to have conversations in small groups, punctuated by three videoconferences when the whole classes meet together. These synchronous conversations are complemented by a series of asynchronous activities that take place throughout the semester (MIT Cultura questionnaires, forums, autobiographies, cultural "picture presents", comparing movies—a French original and an American remake, sharing favorite songs). This approach, facilitating an ongoing conversation among the students and the comparison of multiple aspects of the two cultures, aims at increasing the students' linguistic and intercultural skills and making them less ethnocentric.
Christiane Métral (Smith College, MA) & James Benenson (Telecom ParisTech, Paris)
An example of an intercultural activity: a photo exhibition entitled Regards d'étudiants étrangers sur Paris (Paris seen by foreign students)
This is an initiative of Elisa Crepso; a teacher on the advanced level Spanish course. In order to practise their writing skills, pupils write "El minuto español" (the Spanish minute) in Spanish for the LH newsletter. In a recent issue, LH dedicated a page to 6 December, which is Constitution Day in Spain and the anniversary of the 1978 referendum, followed by a page about Spanish bars and restaurants in Paris (December 2012).
At the end of the school year, some 60 participants enjoyed a Japanese dinner prepared by our students and their Japanese partners participating in the Languages and Cultures Department's tandem program.
Some 50 students are taking Japanese courses and about 20 French-Japanese pairs have been formed.
Atsuko Sasaki, Japanese Professor at Telecom ParisTech
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Karin Illner and the Languages and Cultures Department organised a trip to Vienna from 20th to 22nd May 2010 for five first- and second-year students, with three goals:
The Austrians really appreciated the visit by our students and their presentation of our school, and have expressed a desire to continue these contacts in the future. Our students were also very satisfied with the trip.
In July 2010, six first-year Spanish students from Telecom ParisTech did their internship in Huara, a village in northern Chile, supervised by local communities, essentially, Aymara Indians: guide, home stay, transportation, etc., through the international association ASE (Art - Sport - Entraide) .
The students helped develop a Solidarity Tourism Itinerary with the local people to profit local communities (Pisagua, Tiliviche, MiniMine, Tarapaca, Huavina, Chiapa, Jaina, Pachica, Punta Pinchalo, Uscuma, as well as the extensions: Huara, Lauca and San Pedro de Atacama).
A number of projects were completed, including the installation of a goat barn and a cheese house built by Ecole Polytechnique and Télécom ParisTech students. A new project is being examined to use this tool to prepare guava jams and juices.
Supervisors were very pleased by our students and their contribution!
Isabel Le Bonhomme, Languages and Cultures Department at Télécom ParisTech and Latin American geographic correspondent
Two years of linguistic and cultural work in the Spanish course of the Languages and Cultures Department were concluded with 12 second-year students travelling to Madrid from 28th April to 2nd May 2010.
This trip gave students an opportunity to use their Spanish language and cultural knowledge, and to visit a partner university (ETSIT) where they can study in their third year, for a semester or a dual degree.
We also have received four dual-degree students from Madrid University, who arrived in September. We also have welcomed a dual-degree student from ETSETB in Barcelona at the school.
A multilingual team from the Languages and Cultures Department taught a course called "Managing Communication in an International Context" for human training during the ATHENS week from 15th to 19th November 2010.
These students spent at least 30 hours together exploring intercultural aspects of the business world:
This week helped the young people learn from each other, as seen in both their behaviour and their comments at the end of the course. A wonderful opportunity to "live internationally at school"!
Vera Dickman, James Benenson, Veronika Bayer, Nathan Arthur


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Do women really recognize facial emotion better than men? Existing literature on the subject remains contradictory with some studies showing a female advantage (albeit with small effect sizes) and others failing to find any gender differences. Hoffman and colleagues (2010) suggest that expression intensity is an important factor mediating gender differences in recognizing emotions and that while women do recognize facial emotions better than men, this advantage only exists for subtle emotional facial expressions.
Using a facial expression morphing tool (FEMT), they manipulated the intensity of the emotional facial expression for their stimuli. Looking at the 40% intensity, I must say that it is in fact pretty hard for me to identify.
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Conforming to their hypothesis, they found that women indeed only recognize subtle emotional expression better than men but not when full-blown emotions are displayed. Decreased emotional intensity negatively affected the judgments of male participants more than that of female participants.
But of course accurately detecting facial emotions is just the first part of the equation, whether you deal with it adequately is another thing altogether - especially when they are subtle.
Hoffmann H, Kessler H, Eppel T, Rukavina S, & Traue HC (2010). Expression intensity, gender and facial emotion recognition: Women recognize only subtle facial emotions better than men. Acta psychologica, 135 (3), 278-83 PMID: 20728864


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text: medicine wheel: Key words: Abstain from the food and / or the water, - cleaning, - ritual preparation. Description: Fasting tells to renounce for a settled time food and/or water, generally as a preparation on a ceremony, above all on threshold ceremonies, as the vision search she explains. Some trunks close to the earth would call that what we call today vision search fasting or dreams or fasting search. The renunciation of food and/or water should lead closer to the mind beings which depend neither on food nor on liquid. The ritual victims of these joys permit a deeper connection with the gods or mind beings to you. A Lent can also be a voluntary renunciation to the sign of the grief or the coaches. General meaning: Abstention, - feelings of the loss, - feelings of the Opferns, - Give away in the expectation of a spiritual experience. Association: Weight reduction, Lent. Transcendent meaning: A dream of the preparation on an important spiritual event in your life. Psychologically: Fasting amounts to a retreat from the everyday life, a reaction which can be caused by grief. Who fasts, that has in the awake life not enough energy to assert himself vigorously. Sometimes points also to psychic lack states which would have to be removed. Fasting can also mean in the dream that the dreaming tries to clear an emotional trauma or that his attention on a cleansing need is concentrated. This can be the case if one fasts voluntarily to escape from 'slags', - then it stands in the dream symbolically for a fresh start in the life in which one leaves behind the former charges, releases from them in a happier life goes. If one must fast, should promise after old dream books Success and Respect. Now and again fasting can also point to an illness which still causes no symptoms, - in unclear cases an investigation is advisable. Spiritually: At the spiritual level fasting is a symbol for a change in awareness. Popular: (arab).: A cheerless heavy time begins, has, however, patience, she soon passes. To caretakers! also: you will come to financial difficulties, - one will have to go through healthwise something and is sent a reminder in sexual regard to practice abstinence. (pers).: of the fasting is to be dreamt a recommendation, of trying, of compensating even caused wrong again. We should observe our behaviour more critically, because a lot arises from the fact that we keep for better, more attractively and more successfully than we appear to the outside: We should give, while we remember of the easy values of the life again. (European ones).: with consciousness fast or starve: means that the expected or desired thing will come true, - glad times approach, - also: points to a long-constant illness. (ind).: have to go: you will acquire honour and respect to you by your appearance and behaviour. (See also food, hunger)


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I received this today concerning a recent sermon Meredith gave. This is the same hate mongering malarkey that he has been spouting for decades. Its blacks vs whites, it's his hatred of interracial marriage, it's his belief that it is OK too discriminate against other races...mainly blacks and of course his old standby...the gays.
I was just wondering if you've heard about Meredith's latest "sermon" titled, "Satan's Alternate Universe"? When I listened to it, I really couldn't believe my ears. It should have been titled, "Meredith's Alternate Reality" because it was so Anti-Christ and so anti-love. Basically, the main thing he talks about it how Satan is using interracial marriage as a tool to destroy, and then follows it with how even Christ was discriminatory so it's ok discriminate, especially when it comes to healing people. !!!!! He mainly launches in at about 30:00 into his drivel. Then, he goes on to talk about homosexuality, because, you know, they go hand-in-hand ( he rarely ever brings up race without bringing up homosexuality).......as well as abortion and being politically incorrect.


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Picture 18 acres of organic loveliness bordered by the ancient Devils Dyke Earthworks and yet only a short bus trip from central Cambridge…that's the socially inspiring Snakehall Farm, home to the great charitable social enterprise that is The Prospects Trust. We have been proudly "Growing Differently" since 1989, providing supported work experience, training and life skills to our Co-workers (adults with learning difficulties, disabilities and those with varying health needs).
We grow organic produce on our organically certified farm site, with our Co-workers being involved in every aspect of growth. From sowing, cropping, grading and packaging, our Co-workers are supported by our wonderfully patient and encouraging staff, The Green Team. Our produce is grown in field and polytunnel and is sold both wholesale and via our very unique on site farm shop. Our Co-workers can take their farm grown green fingers further, by participating in our commercial gardening maintenance team, providing an excellent service to residential and business customers in a 20 mile radius of Snakehall Farm.
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Well, that went about as well as could have been expected.
"Ace" rebounds from a horrendous spring with a strong opening day start?
Check. Jeremy Guthrie went 6 innings, allowing 3 ER on 7 hits, striking out 3.
Fan favorite and All-Star 2nd baseman, who had us worried about his health, shows that he is just fine?
Check. Brian Roberts went 3-for-4, with 2 singles and a double, and scored 2 runs.
The "kids" look ready to step up and continue their development as the
future current stars of the team?
Check. Adam Jones was 3-for-3, with 2 singles and a triple, knocked in 2 runs and scored 3. Nick Markakis went 2-for-4 with 2 RBI.
Local boy turned villain, who shunned his hometown team for the evil empire, gets a wonderful B'More welcome, and chokes in the clutch?
Check and check. Mark Teixeira heard an earful from the O's fans all afternoon, getting lustily booed from opening introductions all the way through his 0-for-4 Yankees debut, during which he left 5 men on base.
(I fully expect a video from the stadium, that captures the "booooo birds," to surface sometime soon…I just can't find one yet.)
Edit: In the meantime, we have this (courtesy of DeadSpin)
Beat down said evil empire, and their new "big (fat), bad (bad)," #1 starter?
Check. The O's won, 10-5, chasing C.C. Sabathia after only 4.1, during which he gave up 6 runs on 8 hits, and racked up exactly ZERO strikeouts.
Sure, there were some low spots (Chris Ray's 54.00 ERA after 1 day, for instance, or the fact that O's pitchers still managed to walk 6 batters, many in the most head-scratching of situations), but those can be glossed over for now. The fact of the matter is, the O's are 1-0, and (damn you Toronto!) tied for 1st place atop the A.L. East.
And there ain't nothin wrong with that.


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Software Testing vs. Debugging
Software testing is more than just finding errors in software source code. It serves more complex function in software development than just unearthing script errors. Although software test is described as the process of executing a system with the purpose of finding defects it is more involved in ensuring software's reliability and determining if it meets the required outcome. It also greatly deals with software's verification and validation.
One primary purpose of software testing is to evaluate the capabilities or attributes of software's capability to satisfactorily meet the standards and customer requirements. But one has to remember that software test is not an absolute measure of quality. Testers' job is to test not to create therefore it is the responsibility of software developer to build a quality software for the testers to perform a quality test on a quality program. The function of a tester is to point out the bugs and weaknesses of the software it is, again, up to developers to act upon it. Testing can never completely establish the correctness of computer software it simply provide a criticism or comparison of the product to the existing standards, specifications and user requirements.
Testers is not equal to bug-finders, bug-finders are wannabe testing professionals whose idea of software testing is autopsying the codes to uncover bugs. Real and mature software testers are more concern with the issue of verification and validation of rather than just bug-digging. They focus on verifying and validating if the software passes or reaches the desired standards or requirements before considering it for general use. They are the one responsible for throwing and answering the questions: Did we develop the software right? Did we develop the right software?
He believe that their job is only to uncover bugs must then seek maturity and explore opportunities and learn how to become more productive in this field. Challenge themselves to become a greater asset to the team rather than just a bug-finder.
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Yep, that's me! It's been so crazy that I had absolutely no time to post here (excuses, excuses… I know). I do have something to write home about though, so read up!
Well, it's already full-blown fall here and it makes me hungry for baking. Especially for the sweet and spicy stuff. And for pumpkin (I love pumpkin for it's cheerful nature and ultimate versatility – you can do absolutely whatever with it and it always comes out great!) I celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving here in Germany by baking a Pumpkin Pie (sorry, no pictures, but in my defence it doesn't look as great as it tastes) and some Pumpkin Muffins.
I found both recipes on the Internet, which slowly becomes my cookbook of choice. The recipe for Pumpkin Muffins is from another blog (how appropriate!)
We had so much going on these last couple of weeks, that I had several other opportunities to practice my baking and even some decorating. One reason to make a cake was my older son's new bed. He grew out of his old one (which was actually a converted crib), but because of our temporary status here in Germany we didn't want to buy such a bulky (and not cheap) piece of furniture. Well, while browsing our local Kijiji, I came across an ad by a young girl offering a perfect loft bed to be adopted into a good home. Of course, we took it and my son was (and, two weeks later, still is) on the seventh heaven. The least I could do to express his and our gratitude was to bake her a gift. Here it is:
It was a chocolate buttercake with raspberry italian meringue buttercream filling – brown-pink inside and out. That was my second attempt at fondant-covered cake, and I must say I need more practice. Here's the first attempt (a cake made for our friends' wedding – as a gift, not an actual wedding cake – I'm not as far advanced yet).


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Tyrone Freeman was the president of SEIU Local 6434 in the Los Angeles area, making $200,000 a year. He represented 190,000 "homecare workers" as a rising star of SEIU. He was found guilty on 14 counts of embezzlement. He was reportedly "handpicked" by the powerful Andy Stern, Obama's close friend and union crony. Here's how Freeman's downfall started (note how Andy Stern 'forced' nursing home workers to join SEIU):
The union of low-wage caregivers that Tyrone Freeman once headed has taken him to court to demand restitution of more than $1.1 million — dues money that allegedly financed his lifestyle of $175 glasses of cognac, $250 bottles of wine and a $3,400 trip to the NFL's Pro Bowl in Hawaii.
The lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles-based chapter of the Service Employees International Union opens another legal front in a scandal that dates to last summer and remains the subject of a federal criminal investigation. Source: Los Angeles Times April 1 2009.
The conviction was announced on January 28th:
Freeman, 43, faces a maximum of more than 180 years in prison when he returns to court for sentencing in April. His attorneys declined to comment.
Monday's verdict marks the end of a steep fall from grace for a man groomed for a major role in the SEIU, the 2-million-member labor juggernaut that is a dominant force in worker organizing campaigns and Democratic elections from coast to coast.
As president of SEIU Local 6434 and an affiliated chapter of homecare workers, Freeman carried significant clout in Los Angeles, Sacramento and Washington, D.C., because he commanded deep sources of campaign money and foot soldiers…
The government's case against Freeman centered on an alleged scheme in which he was accused of boosting his salary by illegally directing Local 6434 money to the affiliated organization he led, California United Homecare Workers. He was charged with similarly defrauding a union-funded nonprofit group devoted to building homes for low-wage workers. Source: Los Angeles Times
Going back to 2008:
SEIU Pres Andy Stern is seeking to consolidate hundreds of thousands of workers in California and force them into a homecare workers local led by hand picked operative Tyrone Freeman. It has now been revealed that Stern's ally is California has been using hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay his family members for video and pr services. The many workers of the local earn around $9.00 an hour. Source: California
Look at this nightmare scenario when SEIU decided to strike against nursing homes:
(DANBURY, CT – July 17, 2012) In the hours leading up to the strike by the New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199 SEIU (the Union) against five HealthBridge Management Health Care Centers in Connecticut, Union members engaged in multiple illegal and dangerous acts against Center residents.
Residents' wristbands were removed and discarded. Names on patient doors and wheelchairs were changed. Stickers indicating how residents could safely be fed were removed. The names of residents in memory care units were switched. The perpetrators took these actions deliberately, with the clear knowledge that they would put residents at severe risk of receiving the wrong medications, improper dosages of medications, or foods they should not eat.
Apparently "force" worked as since 2008, with unemployment sky-rocketing, this particular local has gained 30,000 workers.
Freeman's wife, Pilar Panells has pled guilty to "a tax charge" involving more than $540,000. Freeman is facing a sentence of 180-years in prison (laughable, isn't it?). If the jury was not overwhelmingly Black, expect a mistrial.


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By adding the Briel ES200APGTB Multi Espresso Machine to your office, you will be boosting the moral of your employees. They will also appreciate the fact that they won't have to go around the corner and spend a bunch of money ordering their cappuccinos. You will appreciate all of the work that they will get done and the fact that they won't be returning late from breaks due to getting caught in line at the coffee shop. This is a great way for you to keep your employees close by at break time and make sure they have the energy they need to do their work with enthusiasm.
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The Kitchen Diaries: four mum-approved ways to save
Wish you had more money to spend on having fun with the family? The best place to start is the kitchen, where even small changes to your cooking and cleaning routines can save you a lot of cash. We asked a selection of spendthrift mums for their top tips…
Shop smart
Buying fruit and vegetables that are in season means you not only get the tastiest, freshest produce, but – as it's more widely available and often home-grown rather than flown in from abroad at great expense – it's also much cheaper. Download a list from the internet of what's widely available at different times of the year and keep it in your bag to reference when doing the weekly shop – tasking one of the children with helping you seek out all the best in-season finds makes it fun for the little ones, too.
It's also worth remembering the supermarket doesn't have to be your only food shopping destination. Local markets are particularly great for cheap fruit and vegetables, especially if you want something perfectly ripe and ready to eat, while ethnic food stores are brilliant places to buy staples such as rice, oils and spices in bulk for a fraction of the price you'd pay in a supermarket.
Make friends with your freezer
Save time and money by cooking up a huge dish, then freezing it in portions to reheat later. It means you can bulk-buy ingredients, and there's less waste. A good tip if you're bagging up smaller portions for the kids is to create your own vacuum seal by sucking the air out of freezer bags with a straw first. This should keep the contents fresher (and free of freezer burn) for longer. And you'll never struggle to get the kids help you suck out the air!
There are also a lot of surprising ingredients that are freezer-friendly – spare herbs such as rosemary, sage, thyme and oregano freeze well when mixed with olive oil and poured into ice cube trays (the oil reduces bruising and freezer burn). And egg yolks mixed with a teaspoon of sugar will help to make sure the proteins remain runny after defrosting. Even vegetable scraps can be useful – pop them into a bag in the freezer and when you've got enough, boil them up to make a healthy broth.
Streamline your cleaning cupboard
Don't clutter up your cupboards by shelling out for dozens of different sprays and creams. Instead, buy one multipurpose spray that will do several jobs at once, a bottle of white wine vinegar to leave windows and mirrors clean and streak-free and some reusable and washable microfiber cloths that will clean anything from cookers and sinks to worktops using just water. And a good-quality washing up liquid is a must.
Look at your leftovers
Think twice before you throw anything away. Leftover cooked pasta or rice can be used in packed lunch salads, or fried with peppers and onions. Uneaten noodles, herbs or rice can be added to vegetable soups to give them more bite, and leftover cooked meat works well in salads, sandwiches, fajitas and a hash.
Even things you'd assumed were only fit for the bin can still be used in creative ways – stale bread is great for more than feeding the birds! Blitz it into breadcrumbs and get the kids involved in helping you use it to coat fish. Or cube and flash-fry it to make croutons to scatter over soup. Overripe bananas are perfect for a banana loaf or in smoothies. You can even scrape any leftover bacon fat from your pan and store it in the fridge to use instead of oil or butter when frying vegetables. It's free, and it's delicious!
How do you save money in the kitchen and around the house? Share your savvy secrets in the comments below…


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It was only 3 months back on Dec 15th that an Iraqi Journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi stood up and shouted "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," before hurling a shoe at Mr. Bush which narrowly missed him. That incident captured the headlines around the world and Bush was smart and agile enough to duck under it. Click here to view the video
The latest victim is Mr Chidambaram, the home minister of INDIA who was speaking at a press conference addressing the journalists about terror and the congress policies and in the question answer session that was going on, a well known beat journalist Jarnail singh, working for the well known daily Dainik Jagran asked the HM a question regarding the clean chit given to Tytler in the 84 sikh riots. HM tried to evade the question and out of nowhere a show is thrown at HM and the culprit this time was Jarnail singh. Chidambaran too was good enough to dodge and the shoe narrowly missed him. Unlike bush who was surprised Chidambaram was composed and asked the security to take him away gently and asked the reporters to not to get distracted.
The surprising thing to be noted here is that Mr Jarnail Singh is a well known journalist and supposed to be close to congress and this thing was not expected but Jarnail singh was quick to apologize and he felt that the Sikhs have been denied justice and he couldn't control his temper and he is ashamed of his behavior. So are we expecting online games on this issue like what happened when Bush was shoed. This being election season in INDIA I think there is a strong case for a game 🙂
Guess what the Akali party has offered 2 lakhs to Jarnail singh for the action of his and the shoe is also being auctioned……..Yeh INDIA hai ,..Kuch bhi Munkin hai(This is INDIA,everthing is possible)


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The Pacific remains a fascinating target area for the South African dxer. Apart from Australia and New Zealand, memorable and sensational shortwave catches such as the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Vanuatu have been reported in South Africa by a few experienced dxers.
In 1985 I experienced regular reception from KFBS and KYOI from Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands.
I was fortunate to obtain a QSL from KYOI in response to my reception report from a broadcast on the 11th January 1985.
KYOI was a commercial shortwave station that began transmitting from the Pacific island of Saipan on the 17th December 1982. Initial frequencies were 11900, 15190, 15405, and 9670 kHz.
Broadcasting "contemporary hits" rock music with the slogan 'Super Rock', KYOI was not only an instant hit in the intended target area of Japan but also unexpectedly with listeners worldwide. It was one of the few places on the shorwave dial where one could listen to a contemporary rock music format with virtually no interruption.
In December 1986 the Christian Science Monitor purchased KYOI. The format of KYOI was changed in 1987 after which the broadcasting of music programs ended in 1989 with the changing of the station callsign to KHBI.
Avialable at the Raio Heritage website, The KYOI Story is an interesting account of the history of the station.


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By Harry Sykes
Roberto Di Matteo has backed the Aston Villa summer signings to deliver under his successor.
The Italian was sacked on Monday just 124 days after being appointed by the Midlands club.
Di Matteo released a statement on Tuesday night to express his disappointment at his departure but is confident the players recruited at a cost of over £50million during the summer, including Ross McCormack and Jonathan Kodjia, will thrive during the months ahead.
Villa sit 19th in the Championship table with one win from their opening 11 games, following last weekend's 2-0 defeat to fellow strugglers Preston.
Di Matteo paid the price and admits it was hard to take due to the efforts that had been put in at Villa Park following the club's relegation from the Premier League.
"My coaching staff and I have worked tirelessly to rebuild the squad and I fully expect the players we have brought in to start delivering results in the weeks and months to come," the Italian said in a statement on the League Managers' Association website.
"I have seen enough over the opening games of the season to suggest that the team we have built will start converting draws into wins and climb the table towards the play-off places.
"I would like to thank the players, coaches, medical team and support staff at Bodymoor Heath, who are some of the most committed and talented I have worked with.
"I would also like to thank the fans and I am really appreciative of the support they have shown the club so far this season.
"Finally, I wish everyone at the club, Dr Tony Xia and the board, well for the rest of the season. I am sure that the work we have done over the past four months will contribute to seeing Villa back in the Premier League in the near future."
Steve Bruce remains the favourite to succeed Di Matteo but Luton boss Nathan Jones is a surprise name in the frame.
In other Aston Villa news, Stan Collymore has responded to the club trolling Virgin Trains on Twitter.