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Farmington Hills, Michigan (June 25, 2014) – Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions, one of the nation’s leading providers of commercial real estate services, held a dunk tank fundraiser on Thursday June 19, 2014 during their annual employee appreciation barbeque. David Friedman, President and CEO, along with other top executives, participated in the event, which benefited the following local charities: Alzheimer’s Foundation, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, Wounded Warrior Project, Forgotten Harvest, American Cancer Society, Easter Seals Michigan, and the Michigan Humane Society. Proceeds from the dunk tank totaled over $1,500.
Friedman believes strongly in the value of community service. “Corporate citizenship is one of our core values in this company,” said Friedman. “Coming together as an organization to support worthy causes is what it’s all about.” Friedman and his employees have a long track record of community service, donating gifts annually to Toys for Tots since 2004, participating in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure walk for the past two years and volunteering at the Lighthouse Food Bank in Pontiac, Michigan for the past five years. In addition, Friedman employees regularly volunteer their time at Gleaners Food Bank, Blessings in a Backpack, and Forgotten Harvest.
Friedman manages over 140 facilities encompassing more than 16M SF of commercial and 7,000 multi-family units across the country. Friedman’s brokerage team has over 800 current listings with $10 billion in closed transactions. As owners and managers of commercial property for over 25 years, Friedman understands what it takes to achieve results that maximize the client’s objectives.


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PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA officials have no plans to start randomly searching passengers' bags even though Amtrak announced Tuesday it would do so; and passenger bags on NJ Transit trains and buses have been randomly searched for years as part of a counter-terrorism effort.
Amtrak officials announced Tuesday that armed guards and bomb-sniffing dogs will now patrol station platforms and trains and passengers' carry-on bags will be randomly searched as part of an effort to beef up security.
Officials with NJ Transit launched a similar baggage search effort in July 2005 after 52 people were killed in a series of terrorist blasts on London trains and buses, but SEPTA won't be conducting such searches, according to SEPTA spokesman Jim Whitaker.
“We don't think it's necessary at this point,” Whitaker said Tuesday.
Bucks County Commissioner Charley Martin, a member of SEPTA's board of directors, said random bag searches might be considered if the transit agency received information about a terrorist threat, but said those searches would accomplish little now.
“I think that might be an unnecessary intrusion on the SEPTA system,” Martin said.
The searches would cause “extensive delays” and would likely be a costly and ineffective effort for SEPTA's uniformed and undercover police officers who already patrol SEPTA trains and buses, Whitaker said.
“It's just too cumbersome for our system,” he said.
Jose Rodriguez, who was waiting at the Levittown train station in Tullytown for a SEPTA train to Philadelphia, said random bag searches might be needed.
About a half-dozen other SEPTA commuters at that station Tuesday afternoon said they oppose random searches because they'd delay their commutes. All declined to give their names.
As with Amtrak's new policy, passengers on NJ Transit trains and buses have the right to refuse to have their bags searched. If they refuse, they won't be allowed to board and will be given a refund for their trip, Stessel said.
NJ Transit police have found illegal fireworks during bag searches, but Stessel said the searches work more as a “deterrent” for potential terrorists.
SEPTA has 10 police units with bomb-sniffing dogs and is installing $90 million in security upgrades, including new surveillance cameras, alarms and emergency lighting, Whitaker said.
Cornwells Heights in Bensalem is the only Amtrak stop in Bucks County.
Fears of a terrorist attack on a train began after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and have grown since commuter and subway trains have been bombed in Madrid, London and Mumbai, India.

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Health has become such a big part of society, especially in recent times. Vegan, gluten free, health cafés are popping up on every corner, and magazine covers are sporting fitspo models with ‘how to tips.’ Health and fitness has become one of the key elements of beauty. It’s not as easy as giving yourself a facial and slapping on some makeup, beauty begins with how we treat our bodies.
We all want to be strong and independent. Well, strength training is the first step towards that. Not only does it help you to lose body fat, but it also helps you to build strength and muscle. It’s usually thought of as a more effective method than cardio, when trying to lose fat as well.
There are also many health benefits, both physical and mental. Physically, it causes an increase in your metabolism and bone density, improving your posture and reducing your risk of heart disease. Weight training also fills you with plenty of energy, so if you’re working out in the morning, it will give you the energy to stay vibrant and get you through the day.
Mentally, it has the ability to boost your mood and is amazing at reducing or relieving stress and anger. It has also been proven to create a better night’s sleep with a smaller amount of disturbances throughout the night, and we all know how important our beauty sleep is.
While cardio, short for cardiovascular exercise, can also help with weight loss, the main benefits of this are definitely health related.
It gets your heart rate up and increases blood circulation through the body, improving your heart health.
It increases your metabolism. The higher intensity, the more it increases.
It decreases your appetite which majorly helps with weight loss.
It can fasten your recovery rate after a heavy strength training session that causes your body to ache.
As you’re ageing, cardio can increase your quality of life by keeping you fit and active. The more active you are throughout your life span, the more youthful you stay, inside and out, creating lasting beauty.
Mentally, cardio releases ‘feel good’ hormones that help to ease any symptoms of depression and fatigue. It works as a great stress reliever too. And I mean, what could be better? Simply smiling can change the entire way your face looks.
Exercise is a very important aspect of life that we should all be aiming to fit into our daily routine for at least half an hour to an hour. As you now know, there are so many benefits to both cardio and strength training, the biggest being health and wellbeing. After all, our inner beauty is what creates our outer beauty.
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Home Shop Classes Drop-In Fused Glass Easter Eggs– for Adults & Kids, with Gayla Lee!
Drop-In Fused Glass Easter Eggs– for Adults & Kids, with Gayla Lee!
Drop in between 10:00am and 1:00pm for an hour and make your own fused glass project with family and friends! Projects will be fired and ready in a week!

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Rhossili Bay is the most westerly bay on the Gower peninsula and bears the full might of the Atlantic swells. It is the most consistent surfing beach on Gower, with the biggest waves at the north end at Llangennith.
It is a dramatic environment with Rhossili Downs towering above the vast expanse of beach that stretches four miles.
Heading west along the cliff path towards the end of the peninsula there is Worm's Head, a mile long serpent-like promontory jutting out into the ocean.
For spectacular panoramic views over the bay, walk out of the car park at Rhossili going towards the sea, but staying on the Downs. Leaving the Bay behind you to your right, you can walk around the coastline on a well worn coastal path. There is a National Trust Visitors Centre though this was closed when I did the walk.
As you walk along the coastal path high up on Rhossili Downs, the views will take your breath away, but the wonderful sea air will soon fill your lungs again. This is a lovely alternate walk to just going along the bay itself and dogs love charging up and down and all around.
Also there are lots of small prettily coloured snails. This is not mentioned on any guides, but is of interest to me as I used to collect the yellow and black striped snails and the orange and black striped snails when I was a child. As these are quite hard to find, compared with the numerous large brown garden snails, I was astounded by how many of these coloured snails I could find on the Down. I grew out of collecting them when I was ten or thereabouts so the snails remain on the Down!

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I shoot a lot of video these days for my ‘day job,’ and one of the intriguing things I’ve discovered is how it’s affected my personal still photography. Video shooting takes place at 24, 30 or 60 frames-per-second, depending upon how you set up your camera. Putting those shoots into a timeline editor afterwards, you get to ‘re-experience’ the world at, in my case, 30fps. Things that you shot and observed in real time are now back in front of you in slow motion, as it were, the still-camera equivalent of a really, really fast motor drive.
But this is where it gets interesting. I’m becoming much more aware of how time-during-exposure can be an amazing and powerful tool in your creative toolbox. Things that you experience and photograph at, say 1/60th sec or faster, pretty much turn out the way you remember them: a fairly accurate portrayal of what you shot. But turn that shutter speed way, way down, and a different reality emerges, one that’s just as ‘real’ and just as valid, but maybe more dreamlike at times.
This was a one-second exposure. I experimented with some much slower shutter speeds as well but found the reflections smoothed out and became boring below one second; faster speeds were also uninteresting. I suppose the key here is to play around with the variables in a given situation and see what works for you.
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When I see those really slow shutter speeds, they usually relate to water. Are there other situations where it can be applicable to please?
Oh sure. Any time you have ‘movement-over-time’ it could be a great factor to consider: maybe clouds moving, or instance, or fog or smoke in a scene. I think you just want to be open to the possibilities and you’ll start to see it come up in your shooting.

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In effort to fight against financing terrorism, the Mexican legislature adopted the Law for the Prevention and Identification of Operations with Resources of Illicit Origin. The purpose of this law is to prevent and detect financial transactions involving organized crime and money laundering.
This content has been updated on 28 January 2017 at 20 h 04 min.

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The New England is one of the most historic and culturally rich regions of the USA.
The New England was settled by English Puritans in 1620.
Boston tea party was held there.
There are well-known universities as Harvard, Yale and Brown.
Because of the mild climate, there are many small farmers.
This region is similar to England (Great Britain) and there is a high percentage of white people.
The largest city is Boston.
This region was settled by people from different European countries.
The nation’s largest city is New York.
NYC is a world center of banking, finance, art, fashion.
The main symbols of NY are the Statue of Liberty, Manhattan, art galleries, multicultural population.
This area is well developed – industrial and economical center (iron, glass and steel.
Other important cities are: Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Washington.
But in the Mid – Atlantic, there are many hills, fields and farmhouses.
The region served as abridge between North and South.
The region has a mild climate suitable for agriculture and is a popular destination for retired people.
William Faulkner was inspired by this region.
The Midwest is known as the nation’s “breadbasket”.
In this region is very fertile soil so there are many farmers.
Farms are located separate from each other, close to the fields.
The most important crops is corn.
Farm family goes to the village or town to attend church and go for social or business meetings.
The Mississippi river inspired Mark Twin.
The region’s hub is Chicago.
Amazing backdrop for western movies.
It is home of the most famous American Indian tribe.
Many people from Mexico live in the Southwest. They moved to the region when it was still part of Mexico and they brought Spanish culture there.
Las Vegasis a center of gambling – There are many casinos.
They learned to cultivate the dessert.
The West is a large region and a region of scenic beauty.
Americans use these areas for recreational activities, such as fishing, hiking, camping.
In much of the west, the population is sparse.
It was first settled by Spanish missionaries but now has a varied mix of immigrants from all around the world.
California is known for its film industry (Hollywood) and hi-tech and computer industry (Sillicon Valley).
Hawaii has the largest ethnic group of Asian Americans.

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Guide prices shown are per person based on 2 persons sharing one studio room including all flights, transfers and ferry tickets. We can offer flexible durations and a choice of regional departure airports.
These 14 air-conditioned studios are located directly on the front of Fourni village by the village beach but away from the quayside. 10 of the studios have sea view and all have bedroom, shower, wc, kitchenette, Wi-Fi and balcony.


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CCSS has been providing communal satellite television systems offering Freeview or Sky based solutions for many years.
A centralised roof-top dish connected to a hardwired distribution system, provides a neat alternative to unsightly dishes bolted haphazardly to the walls of a building. We can also provide a maintenance service for existing systems.

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Welcome to Guardian Angels CR Relocation Services. We have made bog changes in design and structure of the website.
According to the ICE (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad) one more digit will be added on March 20 to all phone numbers (both commercial, residential plus mobile phones) to leave space for future expansion.
To update all marketing, paper, signs, contact cards.
The developer wants to sell land–duh! He or she may not care about what you care about such as resale value, whether someone else may block your view when they build, etc.
Putting in roads and/or utiilties after the sale can be a problem. Developers, who have yet to put in utilities or roads may promise them at some date but remember they are often at the whim of the local authorities, have other priorities (such as selling more land), so be careful! Try to understand in detail what the plan is and even find a good friend who speaks Spanish to check directly with the authorities. See if what the developer is telling you is actually true.
Don’t buy a property you have not seen in person! This is probably a “no-brainer” but actually many people do buy properties this way. It’s just asking for trouble!
You many not be able to build what you’d like to build on the lot you buy. For a variety of reasons including topology, local laws, etc., what you thought you could build may not be possible. Certainly discuss your plans with the developer and definitely discuss with competent surveyors and local issues, before buying the land.
Who’s going to be building near you? It’s definitely important to get a sense of what will go on around your land? Zoning laws are fuzzy at best here so try to find out what’s happening in your area. You probably don’t want a nightclub next door!
Pre-construction can be risky. Sometimes pre-construction pricing signals that the developer doesn’t have all the cash need to finish the project–put in roads, utilities and even get the homes built. Understand his/her financing and future plans–and try to confirm with others.
Others many benefit if you have to put in utilities. If you end up paying for the installation of utilities, which could be $20,000 or more, the developer benefits as the price of his/her other lots go up. He or she makes additional profits while you are stuck with the cost of the utilities. Any developer worth his/her salt will put in the utilities for you–at his/her expense!
How’s the weather? An area where you want to build a home may look terrific in the summer/dry season, but what’s it like in the rainy season? Does it flood every year? Will you like the amount or rain, temperature, and wind in the rainy season? Definitely ask lots of questions.
These are just some of the issues to watch out for, but in general, verify and confirm everything! Good luck!
When you move to a new country, where nothing is known and familiar, your routines get mightily disrupted. Suddenly, nothing is routine. The loss of routine means the time and energy that was available for higher order, more sophisticated tasks now goes to basic coping and survival functions. With the minutiae of everyday life now demanding much of your conscious attention (these higher order functions) either get put aside or take much longer to accomplish.
The loss of routine hits you at your core. You expect to have to learn how to do new things overseas and even new ways of doing familiar things, but you may be surprised to discover that you have to learn to do things you normally do without thinking.
The problem with routines is that until you?ve reestablished them, you can have a very low opinion of yourself. If something this simple can be so difficult, then what am I going to do about something that?s genuinely difficult?
As you face the difficulties of your early months abroad, you will need the kind of unconditional acceptance and support only close friends and family members can provide; you need people who will listen to your tirades about the country and the natives without judging, people with whom you can fall apart without being embarrassed or worrying about what they might think. Your spouse may be available for this purpose, of course, but he or she may be looking to you for the same support. Whenever possible, you should plan to fall apart on different days from your spouse.
The culture is still generally conservative and retains the ?machismo? system. Men and women are expected to act differently from each other, and to respect their roles. While a large proportion of Costa Rican women are professionals and hold important positions in both businesses and the government, most still retain some traditional practices.
Costa Ricans are reverent Catholics, as are most Latin Americans. A host of evangelical churches emerged in the 1970’s, but nearly 80 percent of the population remains Catholic (even though only about 20 percent of the Catholics attend mass regularly).
Young people don’t usually leave home when they go to university but stay with their parents until they are married. Children often join parents for social engagements. Parents often join the children for birthday parties. Most birthday parties include siblings and parents of the child invited and this is to be expected when receiving an invitation unless otherwise stated.
Father is head of the household as in the traditional family system. He is the decision-maker; the authority figure and often taking prime responsibility for decisions for those that are subordinate to them.
Extended family is very important in Costa Rica . Often grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles are all part of the extended family, helping out other family members when needed.
Nepotism is widely acceptable in business in Costa Rica as well. The owner of a company will often employ family members and close friends. Family reputation may be important to the establishment of business relationships.
Family ties are still very strong, and traditions revolve around the family from the moment of birth to that of death. Some immensely important family traditions are baptisms, first communions, engagement parties, weddings and funerals, which are attended by the extended family as well as by friends and their family members.
Costa Rica food is a fusion cuisine. It combines elements of culinary traditions from Africa, Italy, France, China, and Spain, flavored by traditional grains (rice, corn, and beans), roots (cassava, taro roots, sweet potatoes), spices (coriander, garlic, annatto, saffron, parsley, oregano, thyme, nutmeg, salt, and pepper), oils (olive oil, vegetable oil, and lard), sauces (Lizano, Soy, and Worcestershire), fresh fruit, and vegetables. The food is mild to slightly seasoned.
The most common dishes that reflect the rural culture and are served in typical food restaurants are Gallo Pinto (Spotted Rooster) and Casados (Married.) Gallo Pinto consists of rice and beans seasoned with coriander, onions and Worcestershire sauce usually served for breakfast with scramble or fried eggs and a cup of Agua Dulce (pure sugar cane diluted in hot water) or coffee. Casado consists of white rice, black or red beans served with pork, steak, or chicken, a small portion of cabbage/lettuce & tomato salad, and fried plantains. All is served in one dish for lunch or dinner with a refreshment or coffee.
But a little study shows that some of these creatures also are responsible for pollinating cocoa trees. No bugs, no cocoa pods and no chocolate. The larva is as hungry as the adult female and dines on certain water pests.
Spanish speakers call these pests, purrujas, zancudos or beechas and English speakers know them as midges, sand flies or no-see-ums because they almost always get away without being seen. Some are so small that they fit through screens that stop bigger insects. Sometimes they swarm.
The insects should really be called chewing flies because the female injects a little saliva into the small wound to help keep the blood flowing. Several hours later the bite turns into a small red spot that itch intensely.
Around dwellings, eliminating stagnant water and decaying vegetable matter where the larvae dwell, according to entomologists at the University of Georgia can reduce the number of biting flies.
Open Mindedness… The ability to keep one’s opinions flexible and receptive to new stimuli seems to be important to intercultural adjustment.
Sense of Humor… A sense of humor is important because in another culture there are many things which lead one to weep, get angry, be annoyed, embarrassed, or discouraged. The ability to laugh off things will help guard against despair.
Ability to Cope with Failure… The ability to tolerate failure is critical because everyone fails at something overseas. Persons who go overseas are often those who have been the most successful in their home environments and have rarely experienced failure, thus, may have never developed ways of coping with failure.
Communicativeness… The ability and willingness to communicate one’s feelings and thoughts to others, verbally or non-verbally, has been suggested as an important skill for successful intercultural communicators.
Flexibility and Adaptability… The ability to respond to or tolerate the ambiguity of new situations is very important to intercultural success. Keeping options open and judgmental behavior to a minimum describes an adaptable or flexible person.
Curiosity… Curiosity is the demonstrated desire to know about other people, places, ideas, etc. This skill or personality trait is important for intercultural travelers because they need to learn many things in order to adapt to their new environment.
Positive and Realistic Expectations… It has been shown frequently that there are strong correlations between positive expectations for an intercultural experience and successful adjustment overseas.
Tolerance for Differences and Ambiguities… A sympathetic understanding for beliefs or practices differing from one’s own is important to successful intercultural adjustment.
Positive Regard for Others… The ability to express warmth, empathy, respect, and positive regard for other persons has been suggested as an important component of effective intercultural relations.
A Strong Sense of Self… A clear, secure feeling about oneself results in individuals who are neither weak nor overbearing in their relations with others. Persons with a strong sense of themselves stand up for what they believe but do not cling to those beliefs regardless of new information, perspectives, or understandings which they may encounter.
Costa Rica’s current population is approximately three and a half million people. The growth rate averages at 2.3% and is not decreasing. This population is unique to other Latin American countries in the whiteness of the population. The 1989 census classified 98% as white or mestizo and 2% of the people black or indigenous.
If your thinking of bringing you pets to Costa Rica, don?t think that it?s too much trouble and re-home your pets because it?s not a difficult or expensive process. When we moved here we brought 3 dogs, 3 cats, 2 birds and of course our 3 children. It seems we just about had the plane full just with our baggage alone.
To insure that you handle the process correctly, read what we have to say and follow it to the T so that you don?t have any problems upon your arrival in Costa Rica.
Rules can change but we keep on top of these changes so before you get ready to travel with your pets contact us a few weeks before to be certain there are no changes that will affect you. Note: Do NOT rely on the airlines to give you the information that you need to make this trip with the pets because more times than not they will give you conflicting and wrong information, and that can make for a mess when trying to leave or arrive in Costa Rica.
If you follow the rules we have set out below, you will breeze through customs and immigration without any problems!
There is no quarantine on dogs, cats, or birds provided you have the right documentation. If you don?t, your pets will be taken from you at customs and put into a MINAE approved quarantine facility guaranteed.
What you need is for your dog/cat to be current on all of their vaccinations. They must be administered within one year at the time of travel. Rabies vaccination MUST be over 30 days old and under 1 year at the time of travel. You cannot enter Costa Rica with a 3-year rabies vaccine. Your animal will be put in quarantine if you attempt this.
You will need health certificates from your veterinarian including proof of rabies. You will also need form 7001 from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) signed by the State Veterinarian certifying that all vaccinations have been administered and your animal is in good health, Your vet should know all about this but some don?t have the form in their office. They can get this from the USDA or contact GACR and we can give you the office where you can get the form. Easiest is for your vet to acquire this form.
At present, this paperwork does not need to be validated by the Costa Rican embassy in the US but this can change at any time so check with GACR for the current rules regarding this.
Your vet should know the immunizations required for shipping pets internationally. If he/she doesn’t, contact GACR for the specifics and we would be happy to help.
There are pet embargo?s (Summer embargo is from May to September) during the very hot and very cold seasons (usually January and February) of the year. This is for your pets protection but often times we can find ways around this by flying very early or very late in the day to avoid the extreme heat issues. There is not much we can do about the embargo?s because of the cold, there are just several months where it is difficult to fly your pets so planning ahead is very, VERY important. Check with GACR to see if these dates will affect you and your time of travel and how we can possibly work around it. It is always best to plan your departure to avoid these dates.
Airlines are often NOT current on the rules of importation of animals, especially those that work the counters at airports. They CAN and WILL deny boarding for the DUMBEST of reasons, and often they are completely WRONG. If you get into a conflict with a ticket person, ask to speak to their supervisor. Often times, this will get a quick resolution to your problem, and if you have your wits about you and insist that you know what you are talking about, this goes a long way.
A recent incident with American Airlines where they were insistent that you had to have the health certificates authenticated by the Costa Rican Consulate. Only after speaking to a supervisor or two was my client allowed to board. They went to the Consulate and were told they did not need authentication and passed this information onto the supervisor, which in turn allowed them on the plane.
Continental Airlines at present is the most pet friendly airlines (in our opinion) but you cannot ship them as excess baggage. They will need to go cargo or what they call quick-pack service. Provided you are on the same plane with your pets, you can pick them up in the special baggage area of the airport. If you cannot fly with your pets, you will need to send them as cargo and you will need a customs broker and agent to help clear customs. Contact GACR for more information on this if this is your only alternative.
Delta is very good about flying pets and will even allow you to take them onboard as under the seat baggage provided they are small enough. The fee is rather steep for an international flight but sometimes people opt to go this route so that their pets can ride with them in the cabin.
A quick reminder?Three weeks before you are ready to travel, recheck the current rules with GACR, your relocation specialist to make sure they have not changed.
If you want to bring in birds, this requires an extra amount of paperwork and permissions from the government of the U.S. and Costa Rica. These permits can take up to 90 days to obtain so you must plan ahead if you plan to bring your pet birds with you. Check with GACR for current information well before travel time.

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The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
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One of the three monastic vows.
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Bus will leave Plano East at 5:30 AM! DO NOT BE LATE OR YOU WILL NOT RUN!
WEAR WHITE TEAM SHIRTS, BRING BOTH TEAM SHIRTS! Warmups will be necessary because of the change in weather (IT WILL BE A BEAUTIFUL MORNING!). If you do not have your team warm-up shirts yet, please bring $40 to get both.
Bring your uniform, race spikes, warmups, socks, water bottle, snacks, money for lunch, change of clothes (the course will be muddy) - LUNCH WILL BE AT CHILI'S (3601 N Central Expy, Plano, TX 75023) NOT BJ'S.

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A little while ago Entrepreneur magazine published an article titled 5 Visionary CEOs and Their Key Traits That Every Leader Should Master. In it the character traits of leaders like Elon Musk, Nick Woodman, and Alan Mulally were highlighted and readers were urged to embrace focus, adaptability, resilience, and relentless innovation to succeed. The visionary leaders were lauded for their success and the article urged those who would emulate them to mirror themselves on these corporate heroes.
But one thing was missing from the article and from the list of traits: decision making ability.
Visionary leaders make good decisions. They make good hires, they make good strategic choices, they have a notion of how markets will change and choose the best ways to take advantage of those shifts.
But despite these visionary leaders working in some of the most complex industrial systems on the planet (or even off the planet, in Musk’s case) these decisions usually come down to the intuition and market-reading ability of the person in charge.
A FedEx or a ZapMail?
Whether you’re trying to put humans on Mars or launch a new product just in time for the Holidays, you’re going to be working in a complex system. Supply chains, product cycles, social systems, transport, energy, and regulatory regimes all impact on a leader’s ability to make a good decision in a complex system. Those who ‘trust their gut’ and can convince their shareholders to do the same make decisions based on what they feel, know, or understand. It can work, to a point – but when it fails it fails big time.
Fred Smith had some intuitions about how the transport, delivery, and logistics industries could be transformed and so he founded FedEx. Now a global giant, Smith’s intuitive decision making in founding the company is held up as proof positive that having a good ‘gut’ is essential to being a visionary leader. But what about Smith’s other big idea – do you remember ZapMail? If not, you probably aren’t alone.
ZapMail was FedEx’s play for the emerging market for document transmission by fax. With ZapMail a customer could have FedEx physically collect and fax a document for them or, if they were going to fax often, FedEx would install a ZapMail fax machine on-site. It lasted all of two years before the plunging cost of fax machines meant the ZapMail service was shuttered. Closing the business hurt, but FedEx even lost when selling off the parts: all the fax machines were sold as scrap for $1 million to a savvy Californian firm that ripped out the valuable chipsets and sold them for $8 million!
Fred Smith is proof that making one good gut call (founding FedEx) doesn’t mean all your gut calls will be good (ZapMail) – but can you do better?
Do You Feel Like a Lucky Visionary?
The properties of complex adaptive systems present particular challenges to the development of business strategy because people have a natural tendency to look for patterns. Indeed, the human drive to find patterns is so strong that they are often read into perfectly random data. Moreover, human beings like to assume that cause directly precedes effect, which makes it difficult to anticipate the second-, third-, and fourth-order effects of path dependence.
If you make an intuitive decision that turns out well in such a situation, concludes the HBR, it’s because you’re lucky, not gifted.
So do you feel lucky enough to bet your business on intuition, or would you prefer to pursue your vision with technology driving a better decision making model?
Intuition can take you a long way in business but as things get more complex, you’ll need more than just a gut feeling to make the optimal call. Technology like the applications we develop at Cosmo Tech are designed to help decision makers find the optimal strategy and make the optimal decision every time. Visionary leaders still need to be focused, adaptable, resilient, and they need to innovate to get ahead. However, it’s only when they do this and choose to take advantage of the complex industrial and business systems they seek to master that they’ll be able to move beyond simple good luck to a technologically augmented intelligence decision management vision.


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In a recent case the Court of Appeals reviewed the legal standard for repudiation of a parent relationship by a child and the effect of the repudiation on that parent’s obligation to provide college expense support.
Repudiation of a parent is “a complete refusal to participate in a relationship with his or her parent.” Norris v. Pethe, 833 N.E.2d 1024, 1033 (Ind. Ct. App. 2005) (citing Bales v. Bales, 801 N.E.2d 196 (Ind. Ct. App. 2004), trans. denied). Under certain circumstances, repudiation will obviate a parent’s obligation to pay certain expenses for the child, including college expenses. Norris v. Pethe, 833 N.E.2d 1024.
Id. at 167 (quotation omitted).
After considering evidence that the child did not return phone calls or emails placed by father, the Court found that the child did not repudiate the relationship with the father. “[R]epudiation by a child is a complete refusal to participate in a relationship with his or her father. Repudiation is more than poor communication.” See Staresnick v. Staresnick, 830 N.E.2d 127 (Ind. Ct. App. 2005). Additionally, at the time of the alleged repudiation the child was under eighteen. To find repudiation, "there must be evidence the parent stood with open arms to maintain a relationship with his or her adult child and that the child completely rejected such efforts and refused to participate in the relationship." McKay v. McKay, 644 N.E.2d 164.


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The best starting point for USGS streamflow data is the interactive National Water Information System (NWIS): Mapper website.
Zoom in to your area of interest or use the search options in the left navigation window. The map displays active surface-water sites by default, but you can change the type of water site (surface-water, groundwater, springs, atmospheric) in the left menu.
The USGS Water Data Discovery website is another good starting point.
If you are unable to find the information that you need, contact the USGS Water Science Center for that state.
USGS Oklahoma Water Science Center Hydrologic Technician Rick Hanlon prepares to conduct a streamflow measurement off of a bridge over the North Canadian River near Oklahoma City.
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Ah, are you finding out that real life isn’t like the textbooks? Yes, we’ve all been there. I met another intern recently who said to me that he’d learned more in the last 10 months working in the PMO than he had on the previous two years in his business management degree. There’s nothing like a bit of workplace reality for bringing home the skills you really need to make a success of a your career.
First, I should say that the great stuff you learned in your courses is not at all wasted. Please don’t feel so overwhelmed that you start to doubt the value of your education. That has given you a solid grounding in theory, vocabulary, and the concepts you need to be able to work in a project management environment. Even if it doesn’t feel like it right now – trust me, you know more than you think you do.
So, some tips for dealing with the new job.
What you learned in your course might not be the exact terminology that your colleagues are using. There are lots of words that mean ‘risk log,’ and they are virtually interchangeable. However, you’ll feel more comfortable and you’ll fit in more quickly if you use the vocabulary that everyone around you is using.
Find out what your colleagues do.
Everything is less overwhelming when you know who is responsible for what. Then you know who the subject matter experts are when you need assistance.
Ask people to spend 30 minutes of their day with you and talk to them about their job. Where do they fit into the hierarchy? What does their team do? What do they need from your team? And, is there anything you can do to help while you’re here as an intern? Explain that you’re learning about the business and you want to be as useful as you can while you’re there. I have done this every time I start a new position, and it’s helpful. I have never yet had someone say they didn’t want to talk to me about themselves and their expertise. Reach out. Book five meetings this afternoon.
You are there for a reason, right? At this point in your career, my best advice is to get on with what you’ve been asked to do. Make a good impression and do the work to the best of your ability. If you can offer something more than you’ve been asked to do (for example, an intern I once worked with completely redesigned a tracking spreadsheet I asked him to update, and made it a million times better and less work), then ask if you can do that and deliver it.
The reason I put this point in is that it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the business as a whole. Depending on where you are, you could be a small cog in a team of hundreds. Your day-to-day priority is to turn up and work through your To Do list. When you can break down your responsibilities into smaller chunks that you can do without feeling overwhelmed, then you can see yourself making progress.
It is helpful to understand the bigger picture, and I encourage all project managers to boost their business acumen skills and learn about how the company functions as a system. When you are struggling, it often helps to just think about putting one foot in front of the other.
Besides, you’ll be surprised at how much you absorb and learn just by doing that.
Connect your job to your course.
In no time at all you’ll be making connections between your tasks and what you learned on your course. Try to identify where someone is using a management style you’ve learned about, or what part of the project management process you are in now. Think about how you would identify stakeholders or run this phase, if it was your project, or what tools you would use that you studied that would help you at this point.
You won’t win any friends by going around saying, “In my course, I learned this…,” and, “I just realized your using situational leadership!” But, if it helps to share those thoughts with your mentor or manager, then do. It’s more important to try to associate what you have learned with what you do in the office so you can see the practical implications of using the techniques you studied.
And congratulations on your degree, by the way! That’s a big achievement, and if you can do that you can definitely succeed in your new position using the same skills.


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This article explains you about the Ansible Ad-Hoc Commands. At the end of this article, you will be able to understand What is Ansible ad-hoc commands and how to use ansible tool with some examples.
What is Ansible Ad-hoc commands?
An Ansible ad-hoc commands can be used to do some quick task to perform some simple operations through the command line.
But real automation works using playbooks only. you may ask me if playbook is the real automation then Why do we use ad-hoc commands.
Answer is so simple, Everytime you may not needed to perform a big operations, Some time we are required to perform some simple tasks. So we dont need to write a big playbooks. Also ad-hoc command is a easiest way to explore Ansible for beginners.
Assume that, you wanted to restart or power off all of your infrastructure servers or if you wanted to get an uptime of all servers or to get an kernel versions or os information something like a small and quick tasks. On that cases, you can use a ad-hoc commands instead of writing a playbooks.
We will explain you Ansible Playbooks in detailed in the next article. Playbooks can be used to do a many tasks.
For example, if you want to install http web server, you are required to perform some multiple tasks.
3. Starting and Enabling the httpd service.
For this kind of multiple task, you can write a playbook and execute it.
Even you can use the same task using the ad-hoc command, but for each task you need to run a command manually.
Hope you have got an idea? Why do we Ansible Ad-hoc commands and Playbooks?
module or arguments - What actions to be performed.
Lets take an example, Assume that, you wanted to get a uptime of a list of hostgroup named "servers" as per specified in Ansible Inventory host file. Refer this link to know what is Ansible Inventory. Also make sure you have configured passwordless SSH login authentication, Because Ansible works over SSH Connection by default.
[root@localhost ~]# ansible servers -a "uptime"
Here we have used '-a' option rather than using a direct modules. This would execute a command 'uptime' on hostgroup "servers" and will give you the output of uptime in the screen.
Also, you can use a module rather than using a direct command. Some commonly used modules are apt/yum, copy, ec2, file, service, template, and user.
Let me use a module ping to find the server status instead of using direct command "ping".
Here we have used a module "ping" with option "-m".
To know the list of available modules in ansible, execute the command.
Documentation for each module can be accessed from the command line with the ansible-doc tool.
To know the required arguments and also to get a help of a particular module. Execute the below command.
For example, to find the detailed information about the module "user".
where "user" is a module used to manage the user accounts.
Note : If any options starts with "=" in the above command, then its a mandatory option for the module.
If `yes', will only add groups, not set them to just the list in `groups'.
"name' is mandatory option to be used in user module.
Example 1: Using module, Create a user called "john" using a module "user".
[root@localhost ~]# ansible servers -m user -a "name=john password=redhat"
-a is options to pass the arguments "name=john password=redhat"
Above command will create a user call "john" in all the servers mentioned in Ansible Inventory file.
Example 2: Without using a module "yum", install a httpd package.
[root@localhost ~]# ansible all -a "yum -y install httpd"
Where, -a is a option to pass the arguement. If no module is specified, then it consider that as a comand and execute at the client servers.
Example 3: Using a module "yum', install a httpd package.
[root@localhost ~]# ansible all -m yum -a "name=httpd state=present"
Going forward, we will play more with ansible tool with some test cases.


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Today is the start of Banned Books Week, a celebration of those titles that have been challenged and banned from schools/libraries due to content considered “inappropriate” for any number of reasons, ranging from race relations to sexuality to magic. This year, the ALA is highlighting graphic novels, citing Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which was recently made into a Broadway musical, and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. I started a personal Banned Books challenge in 2010, choosing books I own but had not yet read from the top 100 most-often banned classics. This year, I’m choosing banned books by female authors. First up is Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.
How many of the top 100 classics have you read? Want to join me in challenging yourself to read one or more from the classics, or any of the annual top 10 lists, this week?

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Lovable Curly Sue is back in a big way.
background: Staples High School; member of the Staples Players.
claims to fame: Star of Curly Sue opposite Jim Belushi; Bebe in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line — reprising the role her mother played in the first national tour.
discovered: Singing in a hotel lobby, after which she was put on Star Search and became the youngest winner ever at age five.
Best friends since age four, these web innovators urge political discourse.
age: Alex: 24; Ian: 25.
claim to fame: Glassbooth, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing people into the political process. It has been featured on CBS Evening News and in the New York Times and Wired and was named “Best Political Website of 2008” by CNET.
This performer played just about everywhere.
top gigs: In the Caribbean with Jimmy Buffet; on a stadium tour supporting Billy Idol; on the drums and mandolin with Viggo Mortensen at a preschool.
in high school, I should have been voted: Most Tragic Eyebrows.
but i was actually voted: Homecoming King.
This self-proclaimed class clown exudes nothing but grace on the NYC stage.
profession: Member of New York City Ballet’s corps de ballet.
background: Grew up in Wilton; joined the School of American Ballet at age 10.
Artist PJ de Villiers draws from experience.
clients: Universal Records, Random House Publishers, Gary Gersh, Blades Board & Skate, Brooklyn Circus, Victory Records.
This celebrity interviewer’s gift for gossip landed her in celeb-mania.
claims to fame: Interviewing A-listers, such as Scarlett Johansson.
He left college to play pro soccer alongside David Beckham, but school is back on the radar.
achievements: 2002 MLS Rookie of the Year; 1998 Gatorade High School Player of the Year; Columbus Crew (2002-06); LA Galaxy (2006-08), where he sustained likely career-ending injuries.
The heiress to the Hearst publishing fortune is no shiftless socialite.
profession: Supermodel, actress, designer, columnist.
why you know her: Great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst; daughter of Patty Hearst; Columnist of “The Hearst Chronicles” in Page Six Magazine.
where you’ve seen her: As the face of Louis Vuitton, Prada, Bottega Veneta, MAC and Escada campaigns.
charity work: God’s Love We Deliver and Designers for Darfur.
up next: An eco-friendly line of fitness wear.
Works (and laughs) with celebrity designers Eve and Jay-Z.
profession: Manager of Marketing/PR for Signature Apparel Group (Artful Dodger, Fetish and Rocawear).
instruments i play: Guitar, drums, bass guitar and the theremin.
Don’t be fooled by his modesty, this bard is sure to make his mark.
talent: Writing. biggest achievement: “I’m a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.” Graduates include Robert Penn Warren and Philip Roth.
Handpicked by Westporter Michael Bolton to join NBC’s Clash of the Choirs, this local musician is well on his way.
claim to fame: Lead vocalist on Clash of the Choirs.
quality i most admire: Honesty.
The young musical prodigy has success (and Ben & Jerry’s) on her mind.
biggest achievement: Playing a benefit concert with Chris Brubeck and Triple Play; Principal Cellist with Norwalk Youth Symphony.
in 100 years my generation will be remembered for: Social networking.
In his documentary 18 in ’08, Burstein calls for political action.
claim to fame: The film 18 in ’08, about youth voting, is the product of two years of interviewing political leaders and candidates, policy makers and activists. Burstein also cofounded and directed the Westport Youth Film Festival.
This sailor cruises to the top.
biggest achievement: ISAF Youth World Champion 2007.
background: Joel Barlow High School.
They still have great hair, but the “Sheer Blonde Twins” are stepping it up.
age: 22. profession: Singer/songwriters, models.
claims to fame: Their single “Let It Go” made its debut in the movie Step Up 2; John Frieda Sheer Blonde Campaign.
up next: Debut album, produced by Dallas Austin (Pink, Madonna) and Tricky Stewart, is scheduled for release this year.
A loyal and dedicated young star, on and off the rink.
claim to fame: Two-time U.S. Olympian in ice hockey; first woman of Asian descent to play for the U.S. National Hockey Team.
background: Grew up in Fairfield; Choate Rosemary Hall.
beginnings: At age 8, Julie begged her father to let her switch from figure skating to hockey lessons to be like her older brother.
nickname: “Saint Chuey,” because of her kind nature.
This Peace Corps volunteer developed curriculums for schools in Senegal and Thailand.
profession: Peace Corps volunteer and teacher.
At age 15, Tori toured the world with Cirque du Soleil, now she’s off to Italy to study with Juilliard’s finest.
claim to fame: Touring with Cirque de Soleil’s Quidam as the ingénue soprano Zoe; singer in the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus.
up next: Studying classical voice and Italian in Urbania, Italy, with faculty members from Juilliard and Eastman Conservatory.
The most determined, well-received and successful “unlucky” athlete we know.
profession: Professional tennis player; ranked 8th in world.
a tough beginning: At age 13, Blake was diagnosed with scoliosis and was confined to a plastic brace for 18 hours a day until he left for Harvard.
low point: In 2004, Blake fractured the C7 vertebra in his neck. While recuperating at home, his father lost his battle with stomach cancer. Then Blake developed shingles, which temporarily paralyzed the left side of his face.
heroes: Arthur Ashe and Martin Luther King Jr.
ritual: Blake does not shave once he’s on a winning streak.
The multiple Grammy-Award winning artist lives for music.
beginnings: At age 8, Mayer was inspired to take up the guitar after watching Michael J. Fox play “Johnny B. Goode” in Back to the Future.
biggest influence: Stevie Ray Vaughn.
peculiar pastime: Vacuuming. “I just love to see an array of dust and bits of paper … go from being there to disappearing with one stroke,” he told Newsweek.
Making his way down the Great White Way.
background: Staples High School; Staples Players.
claim to fame: Paul, along with Benj Pasek, co-produced the musical revue Edges: A Song Cycle; recipients of the 2007 Jonathan Larson Award (at age 21, they were the youngest winners in the history of the foundation).
Raised as a Mormon, the Hollywood actress continues to lead a balanced life.
best known as: Dr. Isobel “Izzie” Stevens on Grey’s Anatomy (she won an Emmy) and lead roles in Knocked Up and 27 Dresses.
background: New Canaan High School.
first lead role: Rebellious teen opposite Gérard Depardieu in My Father the Hero.
downtime: To knit and spend time with her dogs.
on being raised mormon: “I’m so grateful I had that sort of black-and-white environment because it made it much easier to just be a kid. Life gets complicated and gray early enough,” she told Reader’s Digest.
This cyclist has never taken the easy route.
claim to fame: Representing the U.S. at the World Championships and racing for a top-level European cycling team.
Indie actor finds his niche alongside the best.
best known as: The young Evangelical preacher Paul Sunday who antagonizes Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (Day-Lewis recommended Dano for the role after they filmed The Ballad of Jack and Rose); Dwayne in the award-winning film Little Miss Sunshine.
a regular guy: Dano lives in Manhattan’s East Village with friends and is studying literature.
side project: Vocals and lead guitar for a rock band called Mook.
up next: The voice of Alexander in Where the Wild Things Are, slated for release this October.
profession: Policy Planning Staff for the Secretary of State, where he is responsible for counter-terrorism, counter-radicalization, youth and education, public diplomacy, Muslim world outreach and some Middle East/North Africa regional issues.
claims to fame: Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East and One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide. appearances: Colbert Report, CNN, ABC, NPR, Fox News, MSNBC, BBC, Comedy Central and the Discovery Channel.
After seven months in Iraq, this Providence graduate and Marine Corps Sergeant deserves some home time.
profession: Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps.
talent i’d most like to have: Creative writing.
superpower i’d like to have: Bulletproof.
up next: Finishing his Corps assignment in December.
The “Mac Guy” is finally making himself seen.
best known as: “People just refer to me as the Mac Guy,” Long told the Washington Post. “There’s no excitement or awe in their voice. It’s just like, ‘There’s a chair. There’s a tree. There’s the Mac Guy.’” Also known for his roles in Accepted, Dodgeball and Jeepers Creepers.
Disney star turned…guitarist, drummer, dancer? Ullman isn’t ruling anything out (except for singing).
background: Fairfield Warde High School; class president.
best known as: Star of the Disney Channel’s original movie Pixel Perfect, ABC Family’s Searching for David’s Heart, NBC’s Growing Up Brady, and the Disney Channel’s Phil of the Future.
last seen in: 2008’s Prom Wars.
side project: Drums in the indie band Goodbye Ian.
social activist: Ullman is a goodwill ambassador of Teen AIDS Prevention (TAP).
guilty pleasure: Tim Tams candy.
She likes surprises, but Westport Magazine thinks this contributing writer has lined up a great future.
biggest achievement: MFA in Professional Writing.
best things in life are: Unexpected.
my generation will be remembered for: Internet lingo.

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Language has been with us for as long as thousands of years. It's even been said that "the pen is mightier than the sword".
That may or may not be true, but we do know for sure that with language, we can bend people to our way of thinking for better or worse.
At the same time, it does take a certain level of skill to artfully use language to make your point. Anyone can write down random words and call themselves a writer.
But if you wish to take things to another level, then this blog post would be a great place to start.
Here, we will outline some techniques used in writing that can instantly make your message sound more compelling.
My only hope is that you use this power for good and help other people make choices that would be in their best interest.
So, with that being said, let's dive in.
Your headline is your first impression to your reader. If you flop on this, then you can kiss that potential reader goodbye.
Whether you're writing a sales letter, blog post, or article, you need a strong headline that will grab people's attention.
Especially in today's world where most people have a million and one things on their mind and a million and one other things trying to grab their attention from radio to billboard ads.
If you want any chance to stand out, then your headline needs to stand out like a sore thumb, to the point where your reader can't help but click through to learn more.
If you need help in writing better headlines, then I highly recommend using Co-Schedule's Headline Analyzer. It's 100% free and you can use it to test and tweak your headlines until you get an optimal score.
Note: Interested in learning more persuasion techniques? Then, check out my blog post on sleight of mouth.
You might think you're impressing your readers by using big and fancy words, but you're probably doing the exact opposite.
Have you heard of the KISS Principle? Keep It Stupid Simple will never let you down.
You'll appeal to a wider audience of people and people are more likely to read your stuff to its conclusion.
Keep in mind that most people do not read on a consistent basis. No one wants to read a text and feel like they need to keep a dictionary nearby just to unravel it.
Make sure your message is clear and concise by using words that even a 10 year old can understand, and you will attract many readers.
If you're selling stuff on the internet, then you need to keep in mind that people will find any and every reason not to buy your stuff.
It's important that you keep those reasons in mind as you're addressing your products and point out whatever is going thru your prospect's head.
Is your product relatively expensive compared to your competitors? Or maybe, it's a lot cheaper. In either case, talk about it and use it to your advantage.
Take a good look at your product and service and look at it through your customer's eyes. Think of every reason you can think of why you wouldn't buy your product.
Note: Do you love motivational quotes? Then, check out my 10 influence quotes.
People tend to remember things that they hear or see over and over again. Look at companies that create TV Commercials. They create a slogan that gets repeated over and over again and before you know it, it's engrained into your subconscious.
You know that they did a good job when you see their company brand and their slogan is the first thing that comes to mind.
POP Quiz! What's the slogan for McDonald's?
If you answered anything but "I'm lovin' it", then you need to get outside more.
Repetition can be used for other things besides slogans. You can also use them to emphasize certain points about your product, or about a particular topic that you're talking about.
If it's worth mentioning again, then you should do it. Just be careful not to overuse it, or you'll sound like a broken record.
This writing technique stems from the general idea that people are motivated by either one of two things: to gain pleasure or avoid pain. This technique emphasizes on the latter.
Your reader's pain points are powerful motivators. So, it would be in your best interest to agitate it a bit. Why? To get them to do something about it.
For example, if you're selling a weight-loss product, your reader's pain point might be their self-image. Instead of ignoring it for their sake, you should put it right in front of their face.
If you want to captivate your reader and encourage them to read to the end, then give them a story to read.
Most people love to read a good story. But it's both a science and an art to not only write a good story, but also tell in a way that captures your audience's attention.
For more information on how to tell a good story, check out this article from Forbes which breaks down 5 ways to get better at telling stories.
Social Proof is practically a must when it comes to selling anything online. Why is that? Well, people like to know that there are other people that can attest to your product or service.
In the age of information, just about anyone can slap together a digital product or software for free (or very cheap) and be in business. While this may have worked in the "Wild West" days of the Internet, that is no longer the case.
People are a lot more gunshy about pulling their wallet out and purchasing something online. It's becoming harder to tell what's good from what's a steaming pile of crap.
One of the ways that we make that distinction is through the use of social proof. When we hear another person vouch for a particular product or service, we feel reassured.
And that extra bit of re-assurance could make the difference between a person buying from you or looking elsewhere.


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As of Thursday, April 25th 10:32am Lynnwood real estate statistics housing market currently 30 active Lynnwood listings average price $326,184.43 highest price property $499,999.00. More Lynnwood real estate statistics.
Lynnwood real estate statistics and housing market statistics Thursday, April 25th 10:32am are based on data acquired from CREB® members only. Currently 30 active Lynnwood listings average price $326,184.43 highest price $499,999.00. In some instances, a proportion of transactions may be completed by real estate professionals who are not registered CREB® members, which means for some areas our reports may not reflect all the resale activity, impacting trends for a given area within CREB®’s region boundary. Always contact a CREB® member to ensure the most accurate data for the information you are researching.
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What are Lynnwood Detached Homes?
There are different detached property types of Lynnwood Detached Homes housing market. The largest and most influential segment in Lynnwood, which can be defined as a unit (home) that is not attached to any other unit.
While Lynnwood Attached Homes is broadly defined as a unit that is attached to another unit by at least one common wall, there are different variations depending on the property type. For example, semi-detached product is attached to only one other dwelling by a common wall (two dwellings attached).
Search 30 active Lynnwood listings with Lynnwood real estate statistics, maps, REALTORS® & homes for sale Se Calgary on April 25, 2019. Currently active properties average price $326,184.43 highest $499,999.00. Property types include Attached homes, Detached Homes, Luxury Homes plus Condos, Townhomes, Rowhouses, Lake Homes plus Bank owned Foreclosures.
As of Thursday, April 25th 10:32am there are currently 828 Se Calgary listings with an average asking price of $515,524. The highest-priced property is $16,757,850; the lowest priced property can be purchased for around $156,000.


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The oil and gas industry will spend just under $10 billion in 2014 for valves. This is the conclusion reached by the McIlvaine Company in Industrial Valves: World Markets.
* The largest purchases will be ball valves which will account for 30 percent of the total. Gate valves will account for $1.8 billion of the revenues. One major use of gate valves is at the wellhead in an assembly known as the “Christmas Tree.” Valve functions include directing oil and gas from the well to further processing, shutting down the well, and injection of various chemicals for well stimulation or enhanced oil recovery. Check valves are also used for this service.
Pipeline applications include periodically spaced isolation valves for segmenting the pipeline in the event of a leak or the need for other service. These valves are typically full-ported gate or ball valves which provide low pressure drop when fully open, tight shutoff when closed and full porting to permit pipeline pigging.
The total investment for a 200 mcfd gas processing plant would be $150 million and would require an expenditure of $5 million for valves. Twenty percent would be for control and 80 percent would be on/off.
An LNG liquefaction plant can cost $8.3 billion. The valve portion would be 1 percent or $83 million. There are a number of liquefaction projects underway in the U.S. due to the abundance of shale gas.

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If you want to be successful in Freelancing sector you must need to learn work first. Then you can try applying for Jobs. I saw many successful people in freelancing who loved their work firs. They do it with their passion. Passion will bring you to success not the temptation to money.
I will try to give you a guide line if you are new to freelancing and want to start. If you are feeling confusion between choosing graphics designing and SEO for their freelancing career, hope this article will help you compare them.
Many ask the same question that, Where I will income more money?
Is it Right To Choose SEO as a Career?
My answer to them is If you have great knowledge and experience about your selected job category you can earn a lot of money.
Love blogging? Know how to bring targeted traffic to your blog? Then Adsense will be your great option to make money from online. If you can maintain adsense policies and write quality content regularly you can earn 200$-5000$ per month from adsense. For this, you can use WordPress as your blogging platform.
Selling products from an affiliate site is known as Affiliate marketing. When a customer buys a product from your affiliate link you will receive a percentage from the seller. If you do blogging you can affiliate marketing easily. Write a good user review of the product and tell people why it will be best to buy and it will bring you profit.
Do you want to be an enterpreuner? You can start an ecommerce site and do marketing for it. You can earn. Remember, Google is a part of SEO. The Circumference of SEO is as wide as you can’t imagine. So you can be successful if take the right step.
Those who want to promote their product and content over the internet do SEO for them. You can work as a full-time SEO specialist for a firm and can make minimum 1000$ per month for their project.
If you don’t want to be bound to any company or firm for a lifetime, you can find SEO related jobs in the marketplace. Buyers try to find SEO specialist in the marketplace for their tasks. So you can do their jobs and make money. Upwork will be the best choice for you to start working online.
Only by participation in the competition, you can earn a lot from Graphics designing. Do you have a creative mind? can create new designs? There are so many marketplaces for you. Only by winning a competition you can earn 300 to 1200$.
99designs.com is one of them.
There is some site where you can post your design for sale. Buyers come and choice there design and buys. You can sell your design as much as you like. It means you can earn from selling a single design again and again. It depends on what design you submitted for sales. For this graphicriver.com will be a great choice for you.
If you have enough working experience and have a good number of the item in your portfolio, you can start bidding for jobs in the marketplace. I will advise you to apply for job after having a good number of working samples. Because when you apply for a job showing related working experience, It is easier to win the job. For finding jobs online Upwork.com will be best for you.
Can I Income after learning work?
Don’t be tempted seeing this great career oppotunities. Learn first, be tempted to be skilled. Once you are skilled, Money will come tom you. You will income because there are so many job sectors. So don’t dream only.apply your skills to make money.
You can not make money if you dont learn. Also dont try to make money while learning. Try to make complete skills on your subject then think about income.
In this blog, I will try to give you a direction how to start the Journey of your freelancing career. Hope you can learn lots of stuff which will help you make a bright future in freelancing.


text: Each Dollar of 90% silver coin has .72 ounces of pure .999 silver. Assorted dates and mint marks. Circulated coins that are 90% silver with none dated after 1964. 90% Silver Coins – $16.19 per One Dollar Face Value. Lots could consist of 90% Silver Half Dollars, Quarters and Dimes. Dates and denominations our choice. Hurry at this price they will not last long. Price based on spot silver at $18.61.

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Welcome to the wonderful world Thalia Milica Follett! Born yesterday!
This is the Great Australian Artist-Writer- Historian MONTY WEDD (pictured in 2004, accepting the Jim Russell Award for Significant Contribution to Australian Cartooning).
on which this event takes place.
It is my great honour and privilege to speak to you today at the Launch of this book, Ned Kelly, Narrated and Illustrated by Monty Wedd.
With no disrespect intended, I do not plan to talk about Ned Kelly tonight. His story has been told hundreds of times over, in film and song, and in movies and books. Even this one, unique as it may be. He has become part of the Australian mythos that time does not seem to diminish. He will be discussed long after we are gone, so tonight does not seem appropriate to be the place to talk of him.
Perhaps if I were speaking to a room full of bushrangers tonight, I may choose differently. But I am not. The room tonight is filled with artists and cartoonists. You can smell the difference in the air….
What is a collective of cartoonists and artists? There is a school of fish, a gaggle of geese, a team of footballers; but a group of cartoonists and artists…?
To all artists and cartoonists here tonight, I want to say to you that anything can happen at events like this. It was at an evening very much like this one over twenty-five years ago, with a … collective of artists and cartoonists within one room, that this book had its genesis.
It was in 1988 that I attended my very first Award Night of the Black and White Artists’ Club in Sydney. The evening had the makings of a celebration, and I suppose that is what it was. Cartoonists and artists, by the very nature of their craft are isolative creatures; they work alone in individual solitude honing into some muse that us mere mortals cannot ever hope to understand. Here was the one night of the year that they could forget about seeking inspiration or making deadlines, and where they could just simply enjoy the camaraderie of their fellow travellers.
Some artists that night were known to me, most were not; some were gregarious, uproariously sharing tales from the year past with their colleagues. Some were on the dance floor, some were drinking reasonably heavily. To deliberately muddle the words of Bob Dylan, there were many who weren’t planning on remembering today tomorrow.
Everyone wore badges, making the task of identifying everyone easier. Sitting quietly with his wife at a table, I approached Monty Wedd, knowing plenty about the man’s work but little about the man himself. In this book’s Introduction, adventure strip artist Roger Fletcher talks of his first ‘star-struck’ meeting of Monty Wedd – and how Monty ‘immediately put [him] at ease’! And that is exactly my recollection of meeting Monty!
There were two threads of our conversation that evening that remain with me to this day. The first was my questioning Monty why he had chosen not to reprint his Sunday Ned Kelly strips: this was his weekly adventure strip that stuck in my mind during my early teenage years. Each week, in the local Sunday Sun newspaper, the whole historical saga of Ned Kelly was played out in the medium that at the time I held – and even now I hold – dearest to me: comic strips and comic books.
I was only in my early thirties that evening when I met Monty, and that meeting and our talking spurred on my teenage yearnings to fulfil an urge to publish Australian comics. I didn’t believe then and I don’t believe for one moment now that he was patronising me when he suggested that “maybe one day we could work on the project”.
The second thread of our conversation revolved around Sydney artist-cartoonist Syd Miller. I was enthralled by Syd Miller’s works. At that time, I had never met anyone who knew who Syd Miller was.
Syd Miller was a contemporary of Norman Lindsay, was the co-creator of ‘Chesty Bond’, drew the adventure strip Rod Craig, and was the one of the first cartoonists to work on animation for a new medium called television (and other things that I need not go into here).
I cannot now recall the complete conversation about Syd with Monty, because he completely stunned me. Of course he knew who Syd Miller was! Monty had even recorded a conversation with Syd before Syd had passed away and…. would I like a copy of the recording? Would I like a copy of a recording of Monty Wedd talking to Syd Miller? What else could I blather, but a feeble “yes, please”?!
Sorry for not being able to get this tape on Syd Miller to you earlier. I hope after such a long delay it is of some use.
Ladies and Gentlemen, in this room of artists and cartoonists, there is a giant elephant in this room. His name is Monty Wedd. In 1979 the Australian comic historian, the late John Ryan wrote Panel by Panel – an Illustrated History of Australian Comics and ranked Monty Wedd as one of “our top comic book illustrators”.
The few minutes I am allotted here tonight will not allow me the time to recap his creative life and works in any detail. Monty was one of the most sought after comic book talents in what is now known as the Golden Age of Australian Comics from the mid-1940s. His best known creation from that era was Captain Justice.
The late 1950s saw the advent of television and the beginning of the end for the local industry. Yet Monty was able to produce works that were enormously popular: another series of Captain Justice and The Scorpion, which – even by today’s standards – had astonishing sales of over 100,000 copies each issue. That this success came despite the fact both comic books had to counter the censorship of the authorities of the day, makes this achievement even more remarkable.
With comics in decline, Monty was able to adapt to the changes in the field. He drew, among other things, Stamp News and full page adventure comics for the Australian Children’s Newspaper both for many years. In the mid-1960s Monty invented Dollar Bill, and introduced an educational comic strip that helped educate the Australian public in the introduction of decimal currency.
After Monty branched into the world of animation from the late 1960s, his passion for educating Australians took hold: he returned to sharing his knowledge of an older Australia in comic strip form. From Ned Kelly, to Bold Ben Hall, and to his bicentenary masterpiece, The Making of a Nation.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this book before you today is not just an illustrated history of Ned Kelly. This book is a compilation of this man Monty Wedd’s work over a period of three years. I am saddened he cannot be here tonight to share our acknowledgement of his marvellous talent, his storytelling skills.
Before I hand you over to Monty’s son Justin, to tell you a little more about his Dad, I want every artist and cartoonist to reflect… that anything can happen at events like this… just as it did over twenty-five years ago.
Monty kept his promise to deliver his tape to me on Syd Miller. And tonight, as we officially launch Ned Kelly, Narrated and Illustrated by Monty Wedd I somehow feel I have kept my promise to him by working on and completing this project.
Sorry for not being able to get this book on Ned Kelly to you earlier. I hope after such a long delay it is of some use.
The good news is that a few moments ago, COMICOZ was re-connected back to the internet after our move. I shall begin answering all my emails -- tomorrow! Why not today? Well, I have just received an email from David Follett, who has submitted this cover artwork (below) for the Third Issue of Oi Oi Oi!
My day is shot! My day is gone! Dave has blown my mind! How good is this.....???!


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Since 1890 the Perozzi family has owned and operated the Alpino Restaurant in Sonogno. The restaurant has three dining rooms that can accommodate up to 70 people, and a terrace for 100 people. Any group size is more than welcome. Custom menu available upon advanced reservation for groups or special events. Private dining can also be arranged for your special events, reservations are required for large parties.
Family-friendly with small swing set and garden, perfect for the entire family.
Breakfast is served daily from 07:30 to 10:00. The breakfast service for for guests staying at the hotel includes coffee, tea or chocolate milk (hot, cold) and bread, butter, with jam. For extra cost choose from a selection of: pastries, cheese, cold cuts, eggs, yogurt, fruit, juice, and cereals.
There is free off-street parking, free Wifi, and highchairs are available. The restaurant is wheelchair accessible, but not the hotel rooms. Payment types accepted are cash, American Express, Mastercard, Visa and Swiss Postcard.


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This edition of the New American Bible contains many helpful aids for easy Bible reading and study. A lovely and meaningful gift. Gift boxed.
This edition of the New American Bible contains many helpful aids for easy Bible reading and study. A lovely and meaningful gift. Indexed. Gift boxed.
This colorful children's Bible with a Noah's Ark theme is easy to read. It features 16 full-color Bible story pictures by artist Nancy Munger.
A perfect resource for students in both high school and college, this Bible is packed with colorful study features that are helpful to students and those who teach them.
This family edition of the New American Bible translation has a host of features that will help your family cherish this Bible for generations. Gift boxed.

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If I had 60 seconds left here is what I would say. I have my stop watch ready.
Strive to make this world a better place for everyone. Look at the stranger in the eye. Hold the hand of a friend. Let the world know you care more than they think you do. Never quit. Always remain in zeal. Strive to show the world of the presence of God. Live to love.
I encourage you. Time yourself for 60 seconds.
See what words spring from your heart.
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Artificial management is needed to prolong the life of open wetland habitats. Here at Travis, some marshland habitats favoured by wetland birds can be best preserved by continuing to graze cattle.
These plantings along the edges of Angela Stream are recreating glimpses of what primeval Christchurch would have looked like.
Keeping barriers between people and protected wildlife unobtrusive but effective is an importand restoration issue.
Restoring native forest is a long-term goal. This willow woodland is being managed to encourage the establishment of plants typical of native swamp forest.
Restoration takes advantage of the habitat layers that already exist in the willow woodland.
Although modified, most of the wetland soils and habitats that once dominated the Christchurch area are still present here. This biodiversity rivals that of iconic Riccarton Bush.
Preserving historical buildings and structures is an important part of the telling the story of how wetlands were used in the past and the associated impacts.


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Good looks and efficiency are the features that make gas fires a popular choice among users. Gas fires with glass front doors often have efficiency rates in excess of 80% making them extremely effective at warming a home. If you wish to enjoy heat at the press of a button then, a gas stove is the perfect choice. At LeedsStoveCentre, we stock an extensive collection of gas stoves from leading brands like Gazco stoves, Yeoman stoves and Dovre stoves. Our range of gas stoves is a combination of beauty, quality finish and high-performance. Many of our gas stoves have an input below 7KW eliminating the need for a fixed ventilation. This means you can install your new stove wherever you want.
Leeds Stove Centre offers an extensive range of gas fires. From traditional to contemporary gas fires, we have extended our range incorporating the latest log effects and flue types. The contemporary gas fires look superb in modern home decor that would suit any home and any taste. Gas fires come with a selection of frames and fronts to ensure your fire fits your interior decor. Some of our gas stoves come with dual benefits enabling you to convert your gas stove to run off LPG helping you to save your fuel bills.
Leeds Stove Centre employs a team of highly experienced installers who are Gas Safe Registered and HETAS approved to carry out installation jobs. So, give your home a beautiful cosy feel with our exclusive range of gas stoves.

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Here at BSeated, we stock an assortment of ottoman chairs and footstools to accompany the furniture in your venue. Whether you are looking for a mid century modern aesthetic, a rustic vibe, or something clearly minimalistic, we have it sorted. As with all of our products, the ottoman range below is customisable based on colour and fabric to suit the overall design and look of your venue. Ottomans are a great addition to any space as they increase the seating options available to your customers. They lie at the intersection of luxury and comfort and provide an essence of elegance and sophistication.
Our ottoman range is greatly inspired by the luxe trend present in Miami style interiors, as well as accommodating the more contemporary rustic and vintage-inspired trends. Our leather ottoman range is a big winner, and channels an industrial chic vibe that particularly suits underground bars and casual, social venues. Our French Provincial ottoman range, on the other hand, is designed to complement a more formal and classic venue where form in valued over function. Whatever your style - round ottomans or designer ottomans - our range here at BSeated is sure to elevate your space and add a touch of elegance. Contact our expert team for more advice about ottoman furniture and commercial arm chairs, and request a quote today.


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A man asserts that he photographed a hovering UFO on the night of December 11, 2014 above Crystal Beach in southeast Texas.
The witness, who identified himself as Larry Nash, noticed a bright object in the sky while working at a construction facility in Crystal Beach. Nash reportedly not alone to observe the once in a lifetime event as his co-workers also spotted the same thing.
Local media outlet Beaumont Enterprise reported that the witness described the thing up there as round to the naked eye and like a giant bubble.
Nash also said that the alleged UFO has a metallic appearance. He reportedly used the camera of his phone to get a photo of the unusual aerial object. He further asserted that the UFO changed between green and purple in color. However, his sighting was not justified by the image he got from his phone’s camera as it does not show the changing colors.
The witness claimed that he continued observing the UFO for around 45 minutes before they got instruction to get back to work.
Based on his photo, some believe that Nash just caught on camera an atmospheric phenomenon known as a parhelion or sundog, which is common when sunlight shines thru ice crystals in the air. However, Nash is clueless what he and his co-workers had seen. He reportedly tried to approach UFO enthusiasts to help him identify the mysterious aerial thing in the sky, but he has not been successful so far.

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Trust Pharmacy – Can You Really Trust An Online Pharmacy?
Medications have become one of many artificially created substances that human beings use every day. However, unlike things like plastic products and other materials that we use commercially, medications must be taken into the body, which means that scientists, researchers, and ultimately the companies producing them must ensure the populace that the medications are safe to consume. Thankfully, medications must go through a rigorous process to be accepted as a treatment for conditions. But, what about pharmacies, especially the ones online? Is there a way to assure that we can trust them?
The pharmacy has plenty of features that are geared towards making the experience more enjoyable for their customers. For example, they offer plenty of special offers right on their homepage, offering some of the lowest prices for meds, especially bestsellers like Viagra and Cialis. They offer to present the site in a number of languages and different currencies that suit the user’s needs. They have even provided US and UK numbers that you can use to contact the customer service with if you are experiencing any trouble. Finally, they have guaranteed customers that delivery will be prompt and on time.
However, despite all of these amazing claims on the site, there is still reason to shed suspicion on sites like these. One of the main problems that online pharmacies face is establishing a sense of reliability and trustworthiness with their clients and the public in general. This is due to the fact that thousands of prior customers have been able to share their experiences of getting scammed out of their money by a seemingly legitimate online pharmacy. Canadian pharmacies, for example, have made quite a name for themselves online due to the lowered prices compared to other Western countries and the exceptional service that Canadian healthcare is known for. However, it seems that many websites claiming to be based in Canada are not, which spreads the doubt about which sites to trust.
For Canadian pharmacies, there is an association called CIPA that is composed of approved and licensed pharmaceutical vendors. They have dedicated their time and efforts to find out which Canadian sites are the real deal and which are not. They have also conveniently set up a list of sites that are approved or otherwise. CIPA members are known not to send spam to customers of their services, nor do they sell any substances without someone presenting their prescription. Unfortunately, it seems that trust Pharmacy has been included in the rogue pharmacy list, which means that it cannot be trusted despite its name.
Trust Pharmacy has definitely set itself up in the online world with a widespread name and reputation. This can be seen in the fact that there are several hundreds of people ordering their drugs from the site every day. The same can be said of others of the same vein, it seems, as there is another pharmacy that is located in the UK at Nottingham, which shares the same name as the Trust Pharmacy predecessor from Canada.
Many of the customers that have used this service have given an excellent rating to the website and declared that the pharmacists on site were professional, and that service was efficient and friendly. Aside from being helpful, the professionals helping customers also displayed compassion and dedication to their field. One person gave an account of leaving behind their medication, to which the pharmacy helped them recover it. Also, some had said that they had been able to receive their drugs promptly upon arrival.
In the same vein as Trust Pharmacy, it can be easy to be misled by the little markers you can find on a website, such as the security guarantees and the free shipping fees, but it is ultimately up to the client to look into the validity of a site or face the possibility of getting scammed.
When it comes to any business, trust is an important aspect that lets customers put their faith in you and has them coming back for more service. Online pharmacies need to overcome the hurdle that comes with internet business stigma. Unfortunately, many websites are not helping their case at all. Trust Pharmacy, while having the look and feel of a genuine online pharmacy that will help you get the meds you need, the site has actually been flagged as a site that is not reliable and that should not be engaged with by the CIPA.
Other pharmacies of similar names such as the Trust Pharmacy operating in the UK and World Trust Pharmacy need more digging for you to really determine if they are good websites to be using. One of the many ways to do this is to consult review websites and organizations that accredit online pharmacies. Finally, you can take a look at the approved online pharmacies we’ve got recommended for readers here.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals