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When selling your property is in the highest offer always the best? I mean, don’t you want to get the very most of the sale of your home Russian Mark but far too often we are stuck on that one feature, the price, rather than all the other positive things that could be with other offers.
In hot real estate markets across the country, bidding wars are common. Buyers are having a hard time competing with other offers, especially offers that are in all cash or that escalate the price higher than the list price. But are there other ways to compete?
Because we deal with both buyers and sellers we can help sellers navigate the sometimes confusing world of an offer and purchase and sale agreement and we can help buyers customize their offer in order to stand out.
If you’re looking to sell your property there are other things to consider on the offer than just the price.
Consider the closing date. We’ve had people that have offered higher prices for homes but the closing date might be out three months. This might work great for the buyer but certainly not for the seller who wants to get out as quickly as possible. It’s more important to take the lower offer and sell faster than sit on the market just waiting for three months in order to close only to gain maybe five or $10,000 more.
Contingencies. You might have a cash offer but there could be a tonic contingencies such as selling a home before they can buy yours, inspection and financing contingencies, feasibility your neighborhood contingencies and there are other addendum’s and add-ons that you can add to an offer that will extend out the conditions required in order to close. All of a sudden that cash offer is not looking so attractive.
Unique financing issues. A buyer may come in with a high-priced offer but if they are not preapproved for that price yet or they still have to get financing, that might not be as attractive. If you have this type of an offer that’s suggesting $10,000 more than the asking price versus a full asking price offer that has minimal contingencies and a buyer that’s already done their financing homework, that all of a sudden becomes much more attractive.
That personal letter. Honestly, some of our sellers are drawn to a personal letter. Now, this is everyone but as a buyer, it can make your offer stand out. We’ve had homeowners that have received a letter from potential buyers telling them how much they love the area, they love certain features of the home and they really want their daughter or son to be in this great school district. Sometimes, appealing to the parenting side or even the vanity side of the homeowner can really make the offer much more attractive.
So it doesn’t come down to the highest offer necessarily. You have to weigh all of the details and terms of the offer to find out which one is really the best. If you’re looking to sell or buy throughout Northern Virginia and surrounding areas give us a call today. We’d love to answer any questions you might have about real estate and get you the home you’re looking for or help you sell quickly.


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As a company devoted to promoting literacy and enriching children’s lives with access to books, Epic! is proud to support Multicultural Children’s Book Day in its mission of raising awareness and celebrating diversity.
With more than 20,000 e-books, audiobooks, and read-to-me books in our vast digital library, you get instant access to beloved popular and award-winning books for kids 12 & under. Read on any device — anywhere and anytime!
25 Diversity Authors and Illustrators Guest Posting in January!

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An 8 oz candle in a wheel thrown voluptuous vessel. Each piece is hand made, using brown stoneware clay, and glazed white. Please allow for some variation in shape, size & finish.
- measures approximately 2.5 inches in height and 3.5" in diameter.

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text: This ATC332 Utility Cart is 22"W X 15 1/2"D X 32"H. It is a three shelf compact adjustable utility cart constructed of blow-molded plastic with metal frame. It comes complete with 3" heavy duty casters, two with locking brake. Assembly required. Made in China.


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Long Rose Agate and Crystal Long Statement Necklace.
This long necklace with rose agate and rainbow crystal and clear crystal accents is the perfect accent to embolden any look. Long and easy to wear.

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Leeds Quakers will be hosting a screening War School on Thu 7 February 2019 at their Carlton Hill Meeting House. The screening commences at 19:30 hrs.
After the film there will be a Q&A with veteran and VFP UK member Norman Lynch. The Q&A will conclude at 22:00 hrs.
There is limited car parking at the venue so public transport is advised.
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I did not see a time for the screening in Leeds on 7 February.
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We are a professional production and sales company of agricultural machinery and equipment. The head office was established in 2010 and is located in Ningyang County, Shandong Province. The company has 50 employees and 20 sets of machining equipment. Today I will mainly introduce you to the performance characteristics of the Pellet Machine.
1. Simple structure, wide adaptability, small floor space, and low noise.
2. Powdered feed, grass powder can be granulated without adding a little liquid, so the moisture content of the pellet feed is basically the moisture content of the material before granulation, which is more conducive to storage.
3. Dry material processing, the production of feed pellets with high hardness, smooth surface, internal ripening, can improve the digestion and absorption of nutrients.
4. During the production process, under the pressure of the machine itself, the starch in the feed can be matured to a certain extent, producing a strong aroma, and the feed texture is hard, conforming to the characteristics of the pig, cow, and sheep, and improving the feed. The palatability is easy to eat.
5. The particle formation process can denature the pancreatic enzyme resistance factor in grains and beans, reduce the adverse effects on digestion, kill various parasite eggs and other pathogenic microorganisms, and reduce various parasitic diseases and digestive tracts. Systemic disease.
6. Pellet Machine Easy to feed, high utilization, easy to control the amount of feeding, saving feed, clean and hygienic. Especially for fish farming, since the pellet feed dissolves slowly in water, it is not drowned by sediment, which reduces waste.

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Study the secrets and techniques of Controlling the World's Deadliest Fighter airplane. The e-book "Art of the Kill" is written via Pete Bonanni, a guns Officer and teacher Pilot within the Air nationwide safeguard. The videotape "Fighter Air strive against coach" is a mixture of air wrestle ability and air strive against pictures. each one bankruptcy in "Art of the Kill" has an accompanying section within the truth video. comprises Bonus Floppy Disk for laptop - an indication disk of Falcon 3.0 so that you can try the maneuvers you examine.
Professor Fellows provides a map of Ruskin's brain because it shifts from stipulations of mastery to insanity. In his research, he examines and transcribes the ways that Ruskin saw his dislocation of mind's eye and exhibits how, within the very means of disintegration; he was once enabled by means of his abnormal genius to rework the results on his language and conceptualization into new types of articulation below discomfort.
The current exhibition is considered one of a chain of 5 labored out within the partnership among the Metropolitan Museum and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux of France. The others are: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from The Metropolitan Museum of paintings; Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Louvre, proven on the Metropolitan in October 1974; Impressionism, which integrated a few forty-five of the best work within the type and used to be noticeable on the Louvre in September and right here in December 1974; and eventually, French portray from David to Delacroix, which opened in Paris within the wintry weather of 1974, via showings on the Detroit Institute of artwork within the spring of 1975 and the Metropolitan in the summertime.
Because the Millennium approached, horror was once changing into an strange commodity. Low finances horror movies flooded the house video industry whereas their gigantic finances opposite numbers took carry on the field workplace. It appeared stability couldn't be came across that may please each person. within the ultimate months of 1999, horror was once kept via a movie that turned a turning element in lots of features together with movie construction, movie advertising and movie distribution.
As software program platforms turn into increasingly more ubiquitous, the problems of dependability develop into progressively more severe. provided that options to those concerns needs to be deliberate at first of the layout technique, it truly is applicable that those matters be addressed on the architectural point. This booklet is electrified by means of the ICSE 2002 Workshop on Architecting liable platforms; it's dedicated to present themes proper for making improvements to the state-of-the-art for architecting dependability.

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text: Kiri Te Kanawa is sensational as the Marschallin, one of the most beloved characters in all of opera. When her young aristocratic lover Octavian (the magnificent Tatiana Troyanos) delivers the ceremonial silver rose to Sophie (Judith Blegen), the fiancée of their country cousin, Baron Ochs (Aage Haugland), the two young people fall instantly in love. But before they can be happily united, complications both hilarious and melancholy ensue. James Levine expertly leads the Met Orchestra in one of Strauss’s most ravishingly beautiful scores.


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I am a proud parent, husband and El Segundo resident. My commitment to El Segundo is second to none. My wife, Kimberley, and I relish volunteering in the community: being a part of what makes El Segundo great is a shared passion of ours. As a businessperson, I focus on customer service above all else. Being a member of our community and ascending to the leadership roles I have held has led me to my purpose–giving the public a voice inside city hall. There is a quote I live by that sums up how I feel about public service: “Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people’s interests first,” as stated by Bob Burg in The Go-Giver.
For more details about me, please read my biography below.
Scot was born March 16th, 1980 in Hawthorne, California to parents Scot S. and Ann Marie Nicol, both of Culver City. Scot grew up in the Del Aire part of Hawthorne and attended Juan de Anza Elementary School. Scot is the middle child between older sister Christina Nicol-Biggerstaff and younger brother Robert Nicol.
Scot ran for his first public office at the age of eleven and won the position of Student Council President. Middle school was Scot’s introduction to El Segundo, and while being a permit student at ESMS, he entered into the honors program. At age thirteen, Scot began playing sports in El Segundo, first with AYSO soccer, and then Babe Ruth baseball. Scot has often told the story of the first time he was given an all-star uniform with “El Segundo” printed on the chest. His coaches explained to the team they not only represented themselves, their teammates, and coaches, but also every single person in El Segundo. This resonated with Scot and helped him to understand that the city name on his chest was not something to take lightly. At El Segundo High School (class of 98′), Scot excelled in the classroom as well as on the field. Scot’s social circle ranged from the valedictorians to the jocks, and Scot quickly discovered his greatest gift in life was bringing people together. A four-year letterman in soccer and three-year letterman in baseball, Scot is proud to say he is a part of the great El Segundo sports heritage.
After ESHS, Scot attended UCLA. Competitive sports were left behind in exchange for textbooks and toil. Working his way through school is something of which Scot is very proud. College is when he learned how crucial the skill of time management is to a successful life. If you ask anyone who knows Scot, they will tell you something like, “the man is always working.” Scot worked at an El Segundo dining institution through college, Wendy’s Place Cafe. It served as his second home during Scot’s time at UCLA because staying connected to the El Segundo community was of great importance to Scot.
College was an interesting time in Scot’s development. As a sociology major, Scot began to realize two things: that great leaders are few and far between, and that people are capable of amazing things when organized. After graduation, Scot was fortunate enough to study abroad and experience life in Spain. This is yet again another important piece to the Scot Nicol story: while living in Spain, Scot realized first-hand how a community is defined by the people that inhabit it.
Upon his return from Spain, Scot began to search for his career path. A 24 year-old idealistic sociology major was either destined for a career in sales or a trip to Law School. Scot chose to follow in his aunt’s footsteps and work in the real estate industry. Scot worked for a title company from 2006 until 2012 helping to build the knowledge he has regarding land uses, codes, and regulations.
Along Scot’s path, he befriended a man named Eric Busch. Eric was, at the time, a newly elected El Segundo City Council member. As Scot tells the story, he asked Eric, “how does a young man looking to make a difference one day get involved?” Eric told him, “Join a local club and start volunteering.” Little did Scot know that the can of worms he was opening by following Eric’s advice would one day define what type of citizen he would become.
In 2011, Scot felt the urge to step into a more influential role within the greater El Segundo community. His appointment to the Environmental Committee for the City of El Segundo marked a turning point in Scot’s life. After one year on the Environmental Committee, Scot was shifted by City Council to serve on the Planning Commission. This role came with a deep sense of responsibility to represent what was best for the city as a whole. He said, “Having a vote, having a voice within the community, is a responsibility I do not take lightly, and voting based upon the voice of the community is what I do.” His commitment to making smart decisions for El Segundo above his personal interests is evident in his voting history and his statements made during commission meetings.
In business, Scot is known for being a successful real estate agent in El Segundo and surrounding areas as well as being one of the proud owners of Beach Mex restaurant. His and his wife’s involvement at Beach Mex has allowed them the opportunity to give back on another front in town. Beach Mex is known for its generosity throughout the schools, churches, scouts, and team sport programs. Being owners of a community restaurant and staffing with home-grown individuals is a practice that Scot, his wife, and their partners are very proud to sustain.
As a Realtor in El Segundo, Scot is constantly meeting people whom are attracted to El Segundo as a destination to call home. These interactions are a wonderful reminder why Scot loves calling El Segundo his home. His real estate group is a great supporter of the community though sponsorships for the schools, parks, youth sports, city and Ed Foundation. Giving back is one of the group’s guiding principles.
Scot’s commitment to EL Segundo’s future is second-to-none. He believes getting involved early on in his life was a key turning point in his development as a man. He believes that making a positive mark on your community takes a consistent effort over a long period of time, and he has already proven to be a man of such practice.
Scot’s story is on the verge of adding another interesting chapter in this run for City Council, and it’s a life that he and his family are very excited to live.

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Sophisticated machinery enabled us to plant and harvest more grains. At that time, food reached more people due to improved distribution.
Effect: Safer drinking water supply and housing projects. Less death from diseases due to unsafe drinking water – such as cholera. Adequate housing protected people from the elements.
Vaccines and antibiotics were discovered. The importance of nutrition was given attention.
When the revolution in public health awareness and medical science happened, it was a miracle of sorts. We found a way to live longer. However, the positive effects mentioned above took a turn when the birth rate started exceeding the death rate by a significant margin.
The consequence of the population explosion strained our natural resources. Since the population of less developed countries grew faster, poverty became rampant. The economy couldn’t keep up with the needs of the people. Across the world, there is a greater demand for our natural sources and now they’re being depleted faster than ever.
It begins with you and family. Help raise awareness and spread the word about the need to control the growth of our population. Practice Family Planning and plan the number of children you can comfortably support. Learn about contraceptives and further your education. Though the idea of family planning has spread across the globe, the response has been less than encouraging. Our greatest hurdle is ignorance of the consequences and the alternatives. We can’t expect our governments to do all the work. The Earth Population Counter is moving too fast for our economies to catch up. Help create awareness and educate others on the importance of family planning to their quality of life. You can make a difference.


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The 2019 CEF Transport call for proposals was published on 5 December 2018 and was opened for applications on 8 January 2019.
The call makes €100 million of funding available for projects of common interest in the transport sector.
Deadline: 24 April 2019 at 17:00:00 Brussels time.
INEA, along with the European Commission, organised an Info Day on 17 January 2019 presenting the political priorities and content of the 2019 call. The Info Day also provided participants with practical information about how to prepare a successful proposal, as well as other background information relevant to the application and evaluation process.

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We have had some concerns around the original DC socket used. Some customers thought it was too small and we agreed.
Announcing the updated Revision 1G BBE. You can now use the standard DC jack from the BBB to power the BBE.
Stock now available in External Antenna configuration in the store.

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1. Your windows are drafty. They may be un-insulated, single pane glass. If you can feel air moving around your windows, it’s probably time to replace them. With today’s energy costs, you can’t afford to have windows that are not energy efficient.
2. They don’t operate properly. They won’t stay up or don’t latch. If they don’t latch properly, then they aren’t sealed efficiently. Unlatched windows are also a safety concern.
3. Condensation forms between the panes of glass. This is a sign that the seal on the window has failed or the glass is warped and the panes of glass are too close together. Either way, they are compromised and not performing the way they were designed.
4. You hear everything that is going on outside. New windows help lessen noise pollution. Properly sealed windows muffle unwanted noise.
5. You have to go outside to clean your windows. It can be a lot of work and potentially dangerous to clean your windows off of a ladder. If this is a problem for you, it’s time to replace your windows with new windows that tip in for easy cleaning.


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Boca Raton, FL & Charlotte, NC – November 1, 2012 – Champion Solutions Group, the preeminent virtualization and cloud computing services provider announced the acquisition of Charlotte-based MessageOps, the leading Microsoft cloud services and utilities company.
Champion’s experience in the industry and delivery capabilities, coupled with MessageOps’ Microsoft cloud migration expertise, creates a one-of-a-kind solution for businesses seeking to take advantage of the financial and technical benefits of migrating to Office 365 in the cloud.
Founded in 1979, Champion Solutions Group focuses on virtualization, cloud, and data management solutions; and boasts deep technical skill-sets in design, implementation, and management of these solutions. Champion Solutions Group and MessageOps have helped thousands of organizations successfully move to the Microsoft cloud (BPOS / Office 365) and have been recognized within Microsoft and the media for their leadership and innovation in delivering world-class services. Champion was named Microsoft’s Cloud Partner of the Year in 2011 and was recently awarded with the Greater Southeast Area Cloud Practice Award.
MessageOps was founded in 2009 for the sole purpose of assisting clients with their migrations to Microsoft Online and providing ongoing value after the migration. MessageOps was named one of the Top 10 Microsoft Partner MVP’s by Redmond Channel Partner Magazine, and both Champion and MessageOps were listed in CRN’s “30 Cloud VARs That Get It”. MessageOps strives to enhance their client’s Microsoft Online experience by offering free tools, which extend the functionality of Microsoft Online. To learn more, please visit us at www.messageops.com.


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Minimizes redness from broken capillaries and rosacea.
Lightens Pigmented Lesions, Melasma, and Sun Damage.
Stimulates Collagen and Elastin Regeneration.
Photo Rejuvenation refers to the non-invasive laser light-based technology that treats sun damage, hyper pigmentation, vascular imperfections and Rosacea. It has FDA clearance and can deliver excellent results without requiring any downtime. Do you have Rosacea? It is cosmetic condition characterized by facial erythema or redness of the skin, this can be treated with the non-invasive laser light procedure called Photo Rejuvenation. Let our skin experts at SILK Medspa customize an IPL Photo Rejuvenation in our clinics to help you rejuvenate your skin.
Even if you don’t have Rosacea, you can also undergo this procedure to get rid of facial imperfections brought about by sun damage and hyperpigmentation. Photo Rejuvenation is a quick and hassle-free way to treat rosacea, and get rid of textural irregularities and discoloration that add years to your skin. It only takes about 15 minutes and doesn’t require any downtime. To get optimal results, it’s recommended to come back regularly for touch-up treatments.
The process works by using accurately targeted light energy to safely treat abnormal blood vessels or pigmentation. This stimulates the body’s natural healing process to assist in healing the condition, while also promoting the natural production of collagen, which leaves skin smoother and more evenly toned. Treatments have proven to generate substantial visible improvements in the skin without any recovery downtime.
Similar to laser hair removal, the machine used to perform Photo Rejuvenation is attracted to dark pigments and cannot be performed on tanned skins that have had recent exposure to the sun or are affected by spray or self-tanning.
Every time you look in the mirror, does your skin look older and a little more tired? Is the effect of the sun taking its toll? Most of us, at one point or another, have thought of possibly putting a stop to, or at least slowing down the ageing process and its effect upon our skin. But how can we do that? Silk Medspa answers this question with our non-invasive solution.
We all contend with the natural ageing process on a daily basis, but harsh environmental factors also impact upon our skin. Until recently, most skin rejuvenation treatments involved a lengthy, inconvenient recovery period and surgery. IPL Photo Rejuvenation is a new sophisticated – yet simple – aesthetic procedure that doesn’t require surgery.
When following our Photo Rejuvenation guidelines, patients experience consistent, visible and long-lasting improvement to the skin. IPL Photo rejuvenation has a great appeal because of the dramatic visual improvement to the skin, the simple nature of the treatment and, most importantly, the complete absence of recovery time. Patients are able to return immediately to normal activity.
Erythema: Particularly erythema cases of the face, neck or chest. Patients can expect an average of 50-75% reduction in facial erythema after five sessions. Benefits have also continued for up to twelve months.
Flushing: Until recently, there has been no effective solution for facial, neck or chest flushing. Photo rejuvenation is extremely effective in reducing the degree of flushing in all patients treated. Most patients report a 75% (or greater) reduction in flushing.
Rosacea: Patients with active inflammatory rosacea generally experience a considerable improvement in their symptoms after a number of Photo Rejuvenation sessions. Most patients are able to decrease or discontinue treatments for rosacea. Although symptoms of rosacea may re-occur, most patients report a 60% (or greater) improvement.
Photo-aging and sun damage: Skin that displays fine wrinkling, freckling or irregular pigmentation from chronic sun exposure is visibly improved after a series of sessions. Fine wrinkles have generally shown an average improvement of 15-25% (or greater) after five facial rejuvenation sessions.
Pigmentation Problems: These include brown age spots, melismas that are coarse,and rough appearing skin with large pores. Patients with this skin type generally experience smoother, softer skin with a visible reduction in pores after treatments. Pore size improves an average of 50% (or greater).
Non Facial Sun damage: Chest, dorsal, hand, forearm and legs can all be safely rejuvenated using the Photo Rejuvenation procedure.
Acne Scarring: IPL Photo Rejuvenation is effective in reducing the erythema and post-inflammatory hyper-pigmentation of acne scarring.
Photo-rejuvenation offers several advantages over other skin rejuvenation modalities such as chemical peeling.
The only truly effective treatment for facial, neck and chest erythema, telangiectasia and flushing.
One of the main advantages with photo-rejuvenation treatments is that there are substantial visible improvements seen in the skin with no downtime.
Safe with a minimal risk of scarring or adverse effects.
Treatments are quick and easy for patients and, generally speaking, no anaesthesia is required.
The whole face can be treated with laser photo rejuvenation for most patients within ten to twenty minutes.
Millions of Australians with skin changes of rosacea and/or photo-aging can benefit immensely from treatments.
The energy delivered in photo-rejuvenation is in the form of pulses of light. The wavelength of the laser is within the visible spectrum of light, so there is minimal risk of ocular injury and a higher level of patient safety.
Photo-rejuvenation treatments can be safely used on non-facial skin. This permits effective treatment of neck and chest erythema, and photo-aging of the neck, chest, forearms, shoulders and legs.
Carried out in our skin rejuvenation clinic, the procedure uses advanced Intense Pulsed Light(IPL) technology to deliver controlled light directly to the skin, targeting areas that contain excess melanin (age spots, freckles and pigmentation). The light is then absorbed by the skin, in particular the pigmented areas of the skin. This light then converts to heat, which damages the targeted cells whilst leaving the surrounding skin unaffected. Once the light is absorbed into the pigment, the body begins to naturally break this down and eliminate it, revealing fresh, rejuvenated skin that is clearer and more even in tone and texture. You’ll also notice that pigmented areas such as freckles and age spots appear much lighter, and after a few more treatments will continue to fade and eventually disappear.
Photo rejuvenation can also be used to heat up the dermis and stimulate collagen production, improving skin texture, firmness, pore size and fine lines, and increasing cellular turnover.
How many treatments are needed and how long do they take?
For the best possible results, we recommend three to six treatments, but more may be required depending on the depth of pigmentation and damage on the skin, and then maintenance every 3-4 months.
Improvement may be visible after the first session. Optimal results will be achieved with commitment to sunscreen use and avoidance of future sun exposure.
Your next session may be performed after four weeks, as long as healing from your previous session is complete.
The average session takes approximately minute 20 minutes, but can vary depending on the area being treated.
Patients with fairer skin tones will achieve the most successful results. Those with darker skin tones will need to be treated on lower fluency levels and will require additional sessions. Patients who have had exposure to sunlight/solarium or fake tan will need to wait until their colour has completely faded before commencing treatment.
Photo rejuvenation can also treat areas such as the hands, chest, and back.
Intense pulsed light therapy was invented by Dr. Patrick Bitters Jr. The IPLT photofacial skin procedure involves the use of an intense beam of broad-spectrum light (as opposed to lasers, which operate within a very specific wavelength) that targets the dermis, the lower layer of the skin. The procedure simultaneously removes damaged and photoaged skin while stimulating collagen growth.
After a Photo Rejuvenation procedure, the area treated will experience redness, slight swelling and a mild burning sensation. This is completely normal, especially after your first session.
Superficial crusting – This is a positive effect and expected, as this is the body’s way of eliminating pigmentation.
Undesirable pigmentation changes, including skin becoming darker or lighter – influenced by sun exposure and skin types.
Cold sores may be activated.
When treating pigmented areas such as freckles and sun spots, the area will darken and generally fall off within seven to twenty-eight days (depending on the area of the body), or it will gradually fade.
Concerns such as Broken Capillaries and Rosacea will lighten and eventually fade, and in some capillary cases they will collapse completely.
Because Photo Rejuvenation encourages collagen production which provides hydration, fine lines and wrinkles will take on a softer and smoother appearance, creating a more youthful, fresh appearance.
It’s important to avoid sun exposure or any other form of tanning including solarium and fake tan one month prior to treatment and use an SPF30+ sunscreen every day.
Commence your specialised skin care program two weeks prior to treatment.
Apply a soothing gel product or ice pack to alleviate discomfort if needed.
Only use gentle skin care products that don’t contain any perfume or alcohol combined with cool water.
Apply your recommended moisturiser after washing the area.
Do not use any products that contain any exfoliants for three to five days after treatment.
Do not wax the area for at least three days or until settledMake sure to keep the treated area out of the sun and to wear SPF30+ sunscreen at all times, if you are planning to be in the sun make sure the area is protected by clothing or a wide brimmed hat.
Avoid any activities that are likely to make you perspire for at least 24 hours.
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Working from home can be incredibly rewarding, but it’s not for everyone. There are wonderful days when everything is going so well that you’ll pinch yourself to be sure you’re not dreaming. But then there are other days when you’re on a teleconference about to land a big client and your dog starts frantically barking at the FedEx guy.
However, the biggest successes and the worst of failures in the realm of working from home all stem from one key element: productivity. If you don’t have a firm grasp on productivity habits, the dream of working from home can turn into a failing nightmare. But if you create the right environment and form the best work habits, working from home can actually be more productive than working in an office environment.
In the conventional office, you have coworkers who can pose a real threat to getting work done. They stop by your desk and talk for one minute about business then they proceed to talk for another 10 minutes about politics, reality TV shows and sports. Or you go to lunch with them, and they encourage you to take more time than is needed to eat a meal. And then there are the committee meetings that don’t seem to accomplish anything.
In the home office, you have the capacity to be more productive than in any other environment, but you can also be your own worst enemy. Your commute time is however long it takes you to step from the breakfast table to the next room where you’ve carved out your work space. There’s more time to get stuff done. However, there’s no pressure or obligation to get that stuff done, because no one’s watching, except maybe your dog or cat or preferred four-legged creature. You don’t even have to take a shower or wear pants.
So, we’ve underscored the importance and potential of applying productive habits to make the work at home as rewarding as possible, both in meaning and money, but we’ve also addressed the potential challenges of the home office.
1.Get started early. This means you don’t sleep in like you’re on vacation. Even if you’re not a morning person, you will likely find that the morning hours can be your most productive. Try to make the time between waking up and working as short as possible. Get out of bed, get dressed, eat a decent breakfast, take your coffee to your desk and get started. Or you might try whatever routine works best. Some home office workers get out of bed, grab the coffee, and get to work immediately. They’ll eat breakfast when they hit a stopping point or get hungry.
2.Use your saved time wisely. Think of all the time you burned commuting to and from work, eating a long lunch, and getting distracted by coworkers in the conventional office job. Might that be two or three hours per day? When you don’t need to drive to work, and there’s no need to spend more than 20 minutes eating a meal, you suddenly have an extra few hours to work (and perhaps to clock out sooner at home).
3.Still do some things like you are going to the office. Although you want to be productive and get to work quickly, it’s not wise to jump right out of bed and go straight to your desk every day. If you look like a slob, you’ll feel like a slob, and you’ll probably work like a slob. You can give yourself a reward and occasionally wear the sweatpants and T-shirt, but be sure to dress professionally on most days. This will get you mentally prepared to do your best work.
4.Choose a dedicated work space. This sounds like common sense, but many home office workers find themselves taking their laptops, tablets, and cell phones to multiple locations in the home, including the porch, the couch, or even in front of the television. You don’t need an elaborate room behind closed doors in a remote corner of your home; you simply need a dedicated space that includes the work basics such as a desk and a side table with drawers, where you’ll place a printer/scanner and your essential paper documents and supplies. Remember to keep it structured and at least somewhat organized.
5.Don’t stay at home every day. Changing your environment from time to time can be stimulating and even necessary to increase productivity. Get out of the house and go to Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, or your favorite Wi-Fi-enabled establishment. Just be sure it has real tables, chairs, and people that you don’t know. You need to interact with other humans. And having some background noise and people looking busy can be engaging for your mind. The environment outside the home will remove distractions, such as family members and undone chores that might pull you away from your desk.
6. Remove temptations to engage in social media. If your business computer also doubles as a personal computer, be sure to remove shortcuts to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and any other distractive sites that tend to create subconscious impulses to click on them when you experience downtime. It’s easy to get pulled away for more than a few minutes without intending to do it (or even without conscious realization of time at all).
7. Communicate clear expectations with the people who live with you. This is a difficult productivity habit to form and maintain. If you have small children and your home office doesn’t have doors and locks on it, telling your five-year-old that you can’t fix his broken toy for five hours isn’t easy to do. If you don’t have physical boundaries, certain signals can become visual signals. For example, you can say, “If daddy has his headphones on, it means he’s working.” And if your significant other needs to reach you for something other than an emergency, even if he or she is in the same house two doors down the hall, encourage communication by call or text with the understanding that you will respond as quickly as possible.
8. Take real breaks and set definitive stop times. Breaks, like making and eating lunch, can recharge the work battery so that you’ll return to your desk with a new and productive mindset. Don’t assume you need to be working 100 percent of the time while you’re home to be more productive. If you work from home full-time (or on a regular basis), it’s easy to let your work life bleed into your personal life.
Productivity requires more than learning new productivity habits; it also requires forming them, implementing them, maintaining them and, if necessary, making adjustments to them. Now stop reading and get back to work!
Kent Thune works from home as an investment advisor and owner of a Hilton Head Island investment advisory firm, Atlantic Capital Investments. You can follow his musings on mind, money and mastery of life at TheFinancialPhilosopher.com or on Twitter @ThinkersQuill.


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A couple kissing in front of Macy’s in Herald Square is hardly newsworthy, but one at last year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade actually marked a milestone in live TV – and was also a spoiler for a Broadway musical. Televised by NBC, “It’s Time to Dance,” the finalé number from “The Prom,” ended with two young women sharing a loving kiss.
So now you know how “The Prom” resolves. But any audience member who doubts that Indiana high schoolers Emma (Caitlin Kinnunen) and Alyssa (Isabelle McCalla) will end up together, are as heartless as the PTA folks who cancelled the prom because Emma wanted to bring Alyssa as her date. If that sounds like a serious topic, it is. But woven into the fabric of “The Prom,” it is the raison d’etre for the most upbeat, romantic and downright funny Broadway Musical in years.
The book, by Bob Martin (“Drowsy Chaperone”) and Chad Beguelin (“Disney’s Aladdin”), who also wrote the lyrics, proceeds along two tracks that function individually even as they complement each other. The Broadway track, we’ll call it, is rich with show-biz references and more than a hint – okay, a blast – of camp, while the Indiana track is heartfelt, with a relevant object lesson at its core.
When you are not laughing at the one ‘track,’ you are welling up with empathy for the other, and their eventual merger – in captivating story, scrumptious song and exhilarating dance – is a collaborative triumph among the aforementioned authors, with composer Matthew Sklar and choreographer/director Casey Nicholaw.
Christopher Sieber plays Trent Oliver, whose “Godspell” tour hasbeen cancelled, leaving the stage-weary veteran of four Jesus roles free to start a Theater Arts class in the high school. If his inspirational, rousing “Love Thy Neighbor” is any indication, he’ll be turning out budding superstars. And while we’re talkin’ superstars, consider Ms. Kinnunen. Her Emma is the most endearing young woman in this symbolically stigmatized Indiana town – and, in fact, anywhere else where acceptance of diversity is in short supply. Emma tempers her anxiety with intelligence and wit (“Memo to self: Don’t be gay in Indiana”), and her song “(I Just Wanna) Dance with You,” sung to (and later with) Alyssa, is beyond lovely. The youthful ensemble gets a workout from Nicholaw’s spirited choreography. The Indiana teens may have their hang-ups about sexual orientation, but they sure can dance.
That closing number, “It’s Time to Dance,” and the smooch you hoped for (and knew would happen), sends you out of the theater on a very special Broadway Musical high. Don’t wait until someone else asks her/him/they/hir/zim. Get yourself a date and go to “The Prom.” Longacre Theatre, 220 West 48 th Street, NYC. ForTues-Sun. Performance schedule and tickets: Telecharge.com or 212-239-6200.


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I really like it when my friends find a new television obsession because it usually means that there will be a trickle-down effect throughout the rest of our friend group shortly thereafter.
If one person starts a show and talks about it enough, inevitably we all will slowly become involved in it too. This is what usually happens with my friend group. But then, there was Arrow. Instead of a trickle-down effect, the rapid succession with which seemingly all of my friends became involved could be classified as more like a waterfall. One person started a domino effect, and the rest of us soon followed. We were binge-watching the first season on Netflix and falling in love with the characters; we were rooting for Oliver and marveling over the stunt coordination. We all, too, fell in love with Oliver/Felicity as a romantic pairing and bonded over the characters’ growth (both as individuals and a pairing) and certain “shipper” moments.
That’s right, friends and faithful readers. I have a new “ship” and it’s delightful and complex and layered. In essence, it’s everything I desire from a relationship – romantic or platonic – on a television series. There’s no doubt in my mind that Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards have chemistry. They do – just like Joel McHale and Alison Brie, just like Jake Johnson and Zooey Deschanel, just like Gabriel Macht and Sarah Rafferty. Chemistry is so vital in order to truly sell a pairing, but that’s not all that is necessary. What I love about Olicity can really be summed up by what I love about Amell and Rickards as individual actors, just as it can be summed up by all of the actors and actresses I listed previously: they understand their characters. It’s one thing for an actor to play a character. There’s a distinct difference that you feel as an audience member, watching an actor’s dialogue or action in a scene. You don’t feel connected to them and if you do, you don’t feel that the connection runs as deeply as it should. But when Amell and Rickards are on screen together and separately, you get the sense that they just don’t play characters, but that they KNOW their characters.
So I decided, in the spirit of setting sail on a new “ship” (just roll with the imagery) that I would count down my fifteen favorite Olicity moments before season three’s premiere on October 8th. Join me below the cut and see if your favorite moments made my list!
15. Felicity refuses to get/eventually does get Oliver coffee.
I covered this ad nauseam in my Felicity Smoak appreciation post, but the thing I love most about her character (besides her resilience and hopefulness and general nerdiness) is that she doesn’t take any crap from Oliver Queen. When he yells at her for being in Central City, she yells right back at him. When he tells her to stay put at the Queen mansion, she protests and questions him. Felicity Meghan Smoak is no one’s punching bag and she’s certainly no one’s secretary. When she has to become Oliver Queen’s executive assistant in order to preserve the secrets of Team Arrow, she outright refuses to be demeaned to that position. It’s an amazing moment because she sasses him and reminds him that she went to MIT and it wasn’t so that she could get him coffee. She refuses to be placed into that kind of position, refuses to be thought of as anything less than the strong, capable, college-educated woman that she is.
And so, she mockingly asks Oliver if she can get him a cup of coffee before explaining in no uncertain terms that she will NOT be a coffee girl. Not for anyone, and certainly not for him. It’s significant, then, at the end of the episode that Felicity does get Oliver a cup of coffee (she notes that this is the one and only time she will). And Oliver smiles because I think he knows what I know: she wasn’t getting him coffee as his executive assistant; she was getting it as his friend. Felicity and Oliver genuinely do care about each other, platonically, too you know. I think sometimes we forget that because we get bogged down in the romance (not that the romance is bad, by any means), but Oliver and Felicity genuinely do like each other as people. And when Oliver needs something from Felicity, she tries her very best not to please him or make him happy but to remind him that he is not alone. And a cup of coffee in this moment was just the way to do that.
14. Oliver is jealous of Barry.
The trope of jealousy has been played out a lot throughout my favorite shows (Jeff jealous of Rich because he was with Annie; Harvey jealous of Stephen because he was with Donna; Nick jealous of pretty much everyone because they were with Jess, etc.), and no matter how many times that trope rears its head, I find myself to still be enraptured by it. There’s this delightful implication (an implication made by Diggle who should be captain of the Olicity ship) that Oliver’s treatment of Barry Allen was somewhat rooted in jealousy. And though there are a lot of complexities to the circumstances that brought Barry into the lives of Team Arrow, including Barry discovering Oliver’s secret, I do think that there was a smidge of jealousy on Oliver’s part.
And again, “jealousy” is such a layered word that I think it was rooted in an array of jealous feelings: jealousy over Felicity mooning over a guy she could very easily have and Oliver realizing he would have no right to stop Felicity from dating him; jealousy over someone else needing Felicity’s help and him realizing that he needed her at the foundry, etc. So no matter what the reason for Oliver’s jealous behavior in the episodes with Barry Allen, this behavior makes my list because of the fact that it’s one of the first times we’ve seen Oliver’s jealousy triggered and definitely the first time we’ve seen it triggered especially because of Felicity Smoak.
He feels things, you guys, when it comes to her and this is a great indicator of that.
13. "Is that judgement I'm hearing?" "Pride."
Felicity’s little moment of surprise when Oliver admits that he is proud of her is really what makes this onto my list. She’s expected to be chided, like she’s been in the past: to be warned of the dangers of hacking into a prison network, to get a “talking-to” from Oliver about how they need to be careful, and so she likely braces herself for one of those. But when she confuses her judgment for pride, his words and beaming face (seriously beaming) trip her up, momentarily, because this is Oliver being completely and utterly genuine, heralding her accomplishments. It’s nothing really new, because we’ve seen Oliver praise Felicity for her work before but at the same time it IS new because this is the first time I truly think Felicity believes what he says and the first time Oliver identifies his feelings for her work so succinctly.
He is proud of her – proud of her character and how smart and capable she always is. It’s a beautiful little moment, isn’t it?
I wish I had something more elaborate and eloquent to say regarding my placement of what I affectionately call “Oliver’s Tarzan moments” on my list but… I don’t. I really love that multiple times throughout this series, Oliver literally grabs a rope with one hand and Felicity with the other and swings both himself and her to safety. The moment right after the duo crash through the windows of Queen Consolidated doesn’t make my list of favorite moments, but it bears mentioning anyway because Oliver brushes Felicity’s hair back to see her face and make sure she’s okay.
But mostly, the swinging makes my list because it’s an example of Oliver not just being a superhero but being Felicity’s superhero. There you go.
11. "You are remarkable." "Thank you for remarking on it."
A lot of these moments, if you haven’t noticed already, focus on Oliver doing something genuine for/expressing interest in Felicity. My eleventh favorite Olicity moment is no different. Here, Oliver calls Felicity remarkable and – like the precious and delightful woman she is – the blonde then responds with: “Thank you for remarking on it.” But do you know what the very definition of the word remarkable is? Worthy of being or likely to be noticed especially as being uncommon or extraordinary.
In this moment, Oliver is literally paying Felicity the highest compliment I believe he was able to: he’s expressing that she is worthy of being noticed, that she is special. Isn’t it amazing that so many heroic journies begin this way – by just one person pointing out the extraordinary in another? And isn’t it amazing that Felicity makes a subtle nod to this moment in “Streets of Fire”? She reminds Oliver that some guy in a hood told her that she could be more than just an IT girl and she believed him. (The scene did not make this list and I kind of regret that.) Oliver told Felicity that she was remarkable and it’s something she already knew about herself, probably, but it’s one thing to believe in yourself. It’s another to have someone else believe in you.
That’s the foundation of Olicity as a ship, really: when Oliver cannot believe in himself, Felicity reminds him that he doesn’t always have to; she’ll believe in him enough for the both of them. And while Felicity is brilliant and funny and witty, she’s also a fairly ordinary character, right? She was an IT girl. There are half a dozen IT people at my job. So when Felicity struggles to believe she’s nothing more than the product of her parents and a girl with a computer, Oliver reminds her that she is not just that – she’ll never be JUST that to him. No, to him, she is extraordinary. She is worthy of attention and notice. She is remarkable.
Is there anything more heartbreaking than the moment Felicity asks Oliver to promise her that he will return safely and he looks her in the eyes before walking away? (Answer: yes, there is, and we’ll get to those moments further on down the list.) This exchange and the hug that followed mark something extraordinary in the Olicity relationship that I don’t think any of my other “ships” across fandoms are marked by: desperation. Now, the word has a negative connotation because we often tell people that they are “desperate” when really we mean “pathetic and needy.” But in the case of Arrow, Oliver has always been desperate when it comes to Felicity – desperate to keep her safe. So desperate, in fact, that he often does some rash things (literally smashing through glass windows with her in tow and flipping over stairs, anyone?) just to ensure that she will be okay. Felicity, meanwhile, is just as desperate to keep Oliver safe as he is to keep her safe, which I think is rather touching. And so she tries to do anything and everything within her power to keep him from severe harm and when all of her efforts end, the pleading begins. Felicity is smart, of course, and so she knows that Oliver can’t promise that he’ll return to her safely any more than she can promise she won’t get into a car accident on the way home. It’s a factor out of her control and I think it scares her. Her reassurance in these situations, as you’ve likely deduced, is HIS reassurance.
And so when Oliver walks down the stairs, a bit battered but in one piece, Felicity cannot help but run up to him and hug him because he is safe. What makes this Olicity moment so wonderful isn’t that they hug and it’s adorable, but that he smiles slightly at her relief and puts an arm around her. Because I think a part of him is reminded whenever Felicity expresses her relief in his safety that he could have very easily been taken away from it all – from her, and Diggle too – and is just as glad to be safe.
9. Every single Freudian slip of Felicity's.
Again: I don’t have an extremely articulate reason for Felicity Smoak’s Freudian slips making it this high onto my list except for the fact that they are both delightful and hysterical and that Oliver seems constantly bemused by them. I like to believe that Felicity is so intelligent that the reason she babbles is because her brain works so fast that her mouth cannot keep up. This girl is brilliant, but she’s also kind of awkward in the way that Jessica Day is: the kind that momentarily makes you cringe, but then crack a smile because you’ve been in situations where you’ve said the exact wrong thing at the exact wrong time. Felicity’s mind is wonderful and she is intelligent, but I also really enjoy the reminders that she’s not perfect: she doesn’t always say or do the right thing and that’s part of the reason I think the majority of the fandom is so enamored by her.
I love these little Olicity moments where Felicity just lets something slip because Oliver doesn’t chastise her or look at her in disgust. He usually is fighting back a smile; he finds it freaking delightful that she gets flustered. And honestly, I think THAT is adorable.
8. The apology/"You're my partner."
Oliver Queen isn’t always right. If you watch the first season, you’ll see this quite clearly: he’s often irrational and brash, especially when he’s wearing a hood. He can sometimes be unnecessarily harsh, not thinking before he speaks. In “Blast Radius,” he takes his anger (or anger and jealousy, whatever you may call it) out on Felicity who takes – as I stated earlier – none of his crap and doesn’t back down when he challenges her. She stands up to him and eventually leaves the foundry to cool off. At the end of the episode, Oliver does something we rarely see him do – struggle to form an apology. And when he apologizes to the air, not looking directly at Felicity, she does something beautiful and wonderful AGAIN: she calls him out. She doesn’t accept things as they are; she challenges Oliver at every turn in the best way possible. But she also forgives him, which is important to note.
But the reason this makes my list as one of the best Olicity moments is because of how earnest, how sincere Oliver is in this scene. He tells her that he needs her and we’re accustomed to believe that Oliver Queen doesn’t need anyone. The truth, as he explains, is that he was going to go about the whole vigilante thing alone. But the reason he got upset with Felicity earlier in the episode was not because of Barry (entirely), nor because she was in Central City. The reason he was upset was simply this: it made him realize how much he couldn’t be alone; how much he needed HER. And that’s something that is pretty frightening for Oliver to discover, don’t you think? He was and still is, to an extent, dooming himself to a life of loneliness. But then Diggle and Felicity appeared in his life and it made him realize – however cheesy – that he is not alone in the world, that there are people who care about them. And when those people are gone, it reminds him of how much he needs them there.
The exchange ends with Oliver declaring that Felicity is not his employee, but his partner – his equal. He doesn’t see her as just an asset to the team or even a sidekick. He, Diggle, and Felicity are on an equal plane, one just as important as the other. It’s a beautiful moment because not only is Oliver admitting that he considers Felicity to be his equal, but he’s also acknowledging how MUCH she means to him. Then she begins to babble and he places a hand on her shoulder (their THING because it just happened to become that thing they do) and I think that in that moment I just knew the depth of Oliver’s feelings toward Felicity not just as a person but as a partner.
7. "You are not gonna lose me."
When Felicity confronts Moira Queen about her discovery that Thea Queen’s real father is Malcolm Merlyn, Moira warns her to tread lightly. This is a great scene, mainly because we’re used to seeing Felicity as more of a meek character in regards to the rest of the Queen family, but she is anything BUT meek when she handles Moira. And though Moira scared even me as a character because of her potential to destroy the lives of others, Felicity was equally as impressive for standing up to her in the first place. Felicity found out about Thea’s parentage because of her curiosity and her desire for the truth and she didn’t threaten Moira with this information because Felicity Smoak may be intelligent and capable, but she’s also pure-hearted and good. And then Moira tells Felicity that she can never let Oliver know about Thea; he will hate his mother but a part of him will always blame her for being a part of the secret.
This stings us and it stings Felicity, especially because Moira knows how much Felicity cares about Oliver. “I see the way you look at him,” she says. And as we watch Felicity leave, we think that – for a second – maybe Moira is right; maybe Oliver will blame Felicity in some small, unconscious way, for delivering the news to him and being a part of his mother’s secret. We should know Oliver Queen better than that, though. Throughout the following days, Felicity is distracted, waging war with herself over revealing the secret about Thea, and Oliver takes notice. At his mother’s campaign rally, he follows after Felicity, knowing that something is wrong with her and insisting that she tell him what that something is. Let’s pause because this is partially why this moment ranks so high on my list: Oliver knows something is wrong with Felicity but not only that, he also WANTS to know what it is. Most people and men would be content to let Felicity deal with her own issues. But Oliver? Oliver wants to know what is wrong with her partially because he wants to HELP. Furthermore, when she tries to brush off her problem (“it’s nothing”), he challenges her: he knows that something is wrong with her, knows when she’s hurt and lying, and wants to fix it in any way he can.
So Felicity talks cryptically about her family (sidenote: this moment also makes my list because of how Oliver admits that he notices the fact that she doesn’t discuss her family. He NOTICES that.) and when she begins to discuss how her dad abandoned her and the pain of losing someone that close to her, Oliver does what he always does best with Felicity – he reassures her. He promises her that she will not lose him and I honestly believe that he makes promises to Felicity wholeheartedly and truthfully. And because of that promise, Felicity tells him the truth. Moira Queen may have noticed that Felicity is smitten with her son, but I don’t think she realized how much her son cared for and about Felicity or else she wouldn’t have made that threat.
6. Felicity believes Oliver deserves better/Oliver just about confesses his feelings.
The episode depicts Felicity as clearly hurt but not spiteful; she’s stung but that doesn’t mean she acts petty or childish toward either Isabel or Oliver. No, instead she merely asks a question: “Why her?” There’s no sense of judgment and no tone of condescension. In fact, Felicity actually notes that it sort of makes sense because of how physically attractive Isabel is but… there’s a part of it that doesn’t make sense to her and so she inquires. There is palpable tension in this moment and it’s not out of jealousy but from a place of concern – a place of love. Felicity loves Oliver and believes that he deserves the best that life has to offer, even if HE doesn’t believe that. And so her question is just that – a question. When Oliver gives her an answer, when his explanation thinly veils that he is not with Felicity because he could really care about (see: love) her and he can’t risk her life for that to happen, Felicity seems to barely accept his excuse and leaves, but not before turning around to make her peace.
This Oliver/Felicity scene is extremely important because it has Oliver vocalize what we presumed to be true: he cares about Felicity. And you can tell that Oliver wants Felicity, specifically, to understand that he means her – that the reason he isn’t pursuing her is because he could really care about her and doesn’t want her to get hurt (either physically or emotionally). Let me briefly take a moment to dote on Stephen Amell for this scene because every little facial nuance and the way he delivers his lines is filled with intention. He understands Oliver’s difficult decision and he understands how his struggle to tell Felicity he cares about her without overtly telling her so. And the way that he closes his eyes as she walks away because he’s a) probably afraid she thinks less of him and b) is worried she didn’t understand that he was talking about her is just SO brilliant. The tension in these moments between the two of them? It’s completely and utterly palpable and I have to commend Amell for doing such a fantastic job with this scene.
But Felicity doesn’t accept things the way that they are. Ever. She always expects others to not be better, necessarily, but to be the happiest they can be. She wants that for Oliver and wants that for herself. So she tells him so, right before she leaves. She tells him that he deserves better. And then she walks away. This entire scene is just so brilliantly constructed to remind us that these two honestly and truly care about each other and each others’ happiness that they’re willing to sacrifice a lot – even their OWN happiness – to make it so.
5. "You will always be my girl, Felicity."
Rounding out my top five Olicity moments is one that I’m pretty sure makes everyone’s lists. In “Time of Death,” Felicity Smoak begins to feel a bit left out. Sara has appeared and is awesome and kind to Felicity (like, genuinely kind and I praised the writers profusely in my other post for not following the standard television trope of making Sara the victorious girlfriend and Felicity the sulking and pining one), but she’s also a trained fighter. And she knows her way around a computer. And she also knows her way around a microscope. And suddenly, the one thing that has made Felicity unique to Team Arrow disappears. Or so she believes. Felicity spends the majority of the episode trying to prove her worth, not compete with Sara. And Sara notices this. And Diggle notices this. And at the end of the episode, Oliver notices this (because Dig told him, apparently).
Felicity admits that she’s so used to being Oliver’s go-to girl that it was difficult to try to find her place among a team of people she felt rather useless being around and with. But then, as we all held our collective breaths and sighed dreamily, Oliver tells Felicity sincerely: “You will always be my girl.” Here’s what’s so important about this moment: Sara is still a really good fighter. She still knows her way around a microscope and she can still work a computer. None of that changes. Felicity incorrectly assumes that her value and worth in Oliver’s eyes are tied to her abilities to hack a computer. But what’s beautiful and so significant is that her value and worth to Oliver is not tied to those things. She has intrinsic value to him in this moment: she is valuable because she is Felicity Smoak. Because she exists, she has worth. It’s not what she can do that makes her special, though she can do a lot. No, it’s simply SHE that holds the value.
Here’s another moment in which I’m going to commend Stephen Amell (get used to it, because it will be happening a lot more frequently as this post wraps up): he plays Oliver Queen with such gentleness and warmth whenever he has emotional moments with Felicity. I really am impressed by Amell’s range – we’ve seen the darkest parts of Oliver Queen, the most self-destructive, self-loathing, angriest parts. We’ve seen him joke and jest. We’ve seen him care about others. But the only time we ever see him extremely and vulnerably gentle is when he’s reassuring Felicity. Literally, Amell sometimes whispers his lines. If that doesn’t seem significant to you and if this scene doesn’t make you feel like Oliver truly and honestly values Felicity (remember what I said earlier about him always keeping his promises to her?) then you should probably stop reading this post. Or re-watch that scene above like, fifteen times in a row.
4. The "I love you."
Oliver: Slade took Laurel because he wants to kill the woman I love.
Oliver: So he took the wrong woman.
Oliver: I love you. Do you understand?
Now, just to get this out of the way: the confession was part of Oliver’s plan to administer the cure to Slade. He trusted Felicity and knew that his house was being bugged. He wanted her to be taken so that she could – at the right time – inject Slade with the cure (he hands her a syringe in the mansion). But now that THAT is out of the way, let’s talk about and dissect a scene that has been dissected more than a Biology frog. Someone noted on Tumblr that Oliver Queen is a terrible liar. Like, he’s REALLY bad. Remember all of the lies he told to Felicity at the beginning of the series? So let’s establish those as our baselines for Oliver lying, shall we?
I’ve never seen a more genuine and heartbreaking moment on Arrow than this one, honest to God, and it’s just so tightly packed with emotion and truth and pain and joy that I doubt this blurb has even done it justice. Just go watch the scene and then come back here to melt into a puddle of feels in the comments section.
Need I remind you all: THREE. ARROWS.
Stephen Amell can literally transition from rage one second to utter affection, compassion, and genuine concern the next and he DOES within the context of this scene. He goes from killing someone to gently reassuring Felicity that she’s okay and safe and no one will hurt her. It’s unspoken but clear in this moment: Oliver really loves Felicity and wants to protect her, so much so that he was willing to put aside his own pain (both the emotional anguish over killing again and the physical pain of, you know, being SHOT) to ensure that she was okay, that she was safe. He touches her face, which is another one of their things – Oliver always touches her face to make sure she’s okay – and you can just see the fear in her eyes. Kudos to Emily Bett Rickards who played that entire scene so beautifully, by the way. And when Oliver sees her fear, he also sees his job: to make her SAFE.
I’ll hold for the feels because in this scene, they’re plentiful.
2. "You are not done fighting."
The silver medal for my favorite Olicity moment is mainly because of Felicity Smoak and is a moment that I referenced and praised throughout the character appreciation post, but I think it is important t hat I reiterate how amazing this particular moment is again. Remember how earlier I noted that Oliver doesn’t always believe in himself and that Felicity fills that void? She is the one w who places faith and belief and hope in him even when he’s lost all hope in himself. It would have been easy in the “Streets of Fire” to write Felicity as meek, as terrified, and as defeated. But that is not who Felicity Meghan Smoak is at all. When Oliver becomes so hopeless, so dejected, so TIRED that he utters the words: “I have failed this city,” it is Felicity who steps up and reminds him of who he is. She yells at him – actually yells – that he is not done fighting, that he can stop Slade and that even though she doesn’t know HOW he will, she does know THAT he will.
Emily Bett Rickards completely and utterly nails this scene and brings tears to my eyes every time because of how evident it is that she cares about Oliver. She loves him in this moment and sometimes love means looking at someone with hearts in your eyes and sometimes it means flirting and smiling, but sometimes love means being brutally honest and helping pick your partner up when they are down. I have a theory and I don’t know if it is entirely accurate but it is my theory, so whatever: I believe that this is the moment Oliver realizes how much Felicity loves him and how much he needs her and trusts her. It’s a true display of faith on her part and I think it is the moment where Oliver realizes what he must do to stop Slade. Felicity believes in him when he cannot believe in himself, sees the light in him when he sees only darkness, and fills his life with hope and joy.
This moment is such an extremely powerful one to me, not just because of how bold and amazing Felicity is, but how humbled Oliver is in the moment. She keeps him hoping and she keeps him fighting. I don’t know of anything more beautiful than that, do you?
1. "He had you and he was going to hurt you. There was no choice to make."
Actually, there is one more moment between Oliver and Felicity that I would rank above the stellar one from episode 22 last season and it’s actually from an episode we visited a bit earlier in the list titled “State v. Queen.” (If you’ve ever read my other ship ranking posts, you know that I like to switch it up with my #1 moment and choose something unexpected.) Earlier in the episode, we saw Oliver kill The Count in order to save Felicity. At the end of the episode, Oliver returns to the foundry to check on Diggle and Felicity. And when he goes to leave, Felicity thanks him again for saving her life. He nods and then turns to leave, but not before Felicity apologizes. Then, the conversation shifts in the best possible way, because Oliver becomes confused and concerned. Let me pause again to give massive credit to Stephen Amell whose voice is so reassuring and gentle (he whispers my favorite line) that it fills my heart with a lot of feelings toward Oliver Queen.
See, Felicity apologizes because she knows how destroyed Oliver was a few episodes earlier about Tommy’s death: Tommy died believing Oliver was a murderer and so Oliver vowed to not kill again in order to honor his friend. But he makes a decision to break that vow when The Count threatens Felicity’s life. And, understandably, the blonde feels guilt for putting Oliver in the position where he had to choose. This is my favorite Olicity moment not just because of how sweet it is but because of how important it is: these characters learn something about each other in this scene that is fundamentally important. Oliver learns that Felicity thinks about and cares about the promises he makes to himself and others. She places weight and value in those promises and has real, tangible feelings toward them. She thinks about how her actions affect Oliver. But what Felicity learns about Oliver is equally as important: when it comes to her, there is no choice.
After Felicity makes the comment about having to choose between saving her and breaking his vow to Tommy’s memory, Oliver takes Felicity’s hand and says: “He had you and he was going to hurt you. There was no choice to make.” That may be, in fact, the most significant thing that Oliver has ever said to Felicity when you really think about the implication of it. Oliver, at this point in the series, refused to kill people in order to preserve his vow. He didn’t kill The Dollmaker, right? But while Felicity presents Oliver’s predicament at Queen Consolidated as a choice, he corrects her: there was only one option in that moment and it was saving her. How utterly beautiful it is that Oliver whispers those words to her in this moment while holding her hand? He tells her that she was the only option and that she did not force him to choose because there was never any question of what would happen. Stephen Amell’s acting in this scene is so underrated but so impactful and sincere that I cannot help but be consistently impressed. And Emily Bett Rickards is just as impressive as Felicity who is budding with guilt – watching her face transition from guilt to confusion to relief and contentment is so delightful.
If you re-watch one Olicity scene tonight, re-watch this one because it is my absolute favorite and is so telling in terms of characterization both individually and for the pairing. Plus, as we say on the Internet: FEELS.
Excellent choices throughout. I would bump your #2 up a spot. If I had been in charge of Emily Bett Rickard's Emmy campaign, I would have forced every TV Academy member to watch that scene over and over.
The only thing missing here is something that happens a couple minutes after the hug in #10, when Felicity puts Oliver's mask on him and says it makes him "like a hero." That was the moment I knew that the showrunners were 100% serious about this ship.
Thank you so much for reading and commenting, Jeffrey! I was so torn between #2 and #1 that it was a very tight race (I did have her speech at #1 at one point in my pre-planning). That scene honestly and truly is my absolute favorite of hers at this point in the series and it should earn her an Emmy (or just, all of the awards), hands down.
Ooooooh, that moment was so good too and it's true -- it felt very organic and real in that moment.
Well, you make me cry. In fact, Stephen Amell and Emily Bett Rickards make me cry. His special Felicity voice is the BEST! They really sold it. Both of them, in every scene. If this couple doesn't become end game of this show, I wouldn't know what to do with myself. The #1 was unexpected. I was hoping it'd be the 'You're not done fighting' Felicity speech. Brilliant post, Jenn! I've no words.


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I am so excited to get into the full swing of my classes. I know I’m going to learn so much about Indian culture, politics, and tradition through having a lived experience in India as well as taking sociological courses. During my Population and Poverty course last Tuesday, the teacher explained a phenomenon that immediately caught my interest known as “Unity in Diversity.” Diversity shines through in every aspect of Indian life and Indians are unified through this. Diversity exists in food, culture, language, and customs, and Bangalore is a cultural hub with foreigners from all over India. Walking down the street, I can hear multiple local Indian languages as well as English spoken. Anywhere I go I can find food from all over the world, which oddly reminds me of home. There is always an amazing array of colors and decorations on everything I see, including the rickshaws, cars, buildings, temples and houses. I recently participated in a Salsa social and it reminded me of how global Latin dance really is. I’ve seen so many examples of other cultural influences mixing with the local culture and it’s beautiful.
I want to learn more about this phrase “Unity in Diversity”, and if it truly exists. How are Indians unified through their diversity, and how are the able to Coexist through differences between ethnicity, religion, caste and gender? In the U.S., concepts of diversity and inclusion are often used to cover up issues of inequity. I want to look deeper into this in India and learn about the systems of inequity that still exist despite the country’s passion for diversity and inclusion.
Population and Poverty and Gandhi and Non Violent Protest will help me learn about colonization and its’ effect on Indian way of life. Just like in the United States, people are systematically oppressed. I can’t wait to share more about what I’m learning in classes as time goes on. Right now, it is hard to articulate all of my thoughts on one small blog, because India is so vast and I am learning so much. The culture shock phase is making it really hard for me to reflect on everything that I’m learning. I am constantly being pushed out of my comfort zone and challenged. Even trying to get to sleep is a challenge because I can hear cars and people out my window all night long. I haven’t found a quiet place where I can meditate, read, or write in my journal. Hopefully I’ll figure out how to explore on my own and keep my mind open to all possibilities while in India.


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In an ancillary third-party forfeiture proceeding where Maritime Life asserted that it was given a security interest in the forfeited property, the Eleventh Circuit held that the district court committed harmless error in requiring Maritime Life to prove the authenticity of the collateral assignment that allegedly granted it a security interest in the forfeited property by a preponderance of the evidence. In this case, ample evidence supported the district court's finding on the ultimate question of authenticity and that finding controlled whether Maritime Life had an interest in the property.
The court also held that, although the district court erred in permitting the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to intervene in the forfeiture proceeding even though it had no legal interest in the property, the intervention did not affect Maritime Life's substantial rights and did not require reversal. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
Although the district court erred in requiring Maritime Life to prove the authenticity of the collateral assignment that allegedly granted it a security interest in the forfeited property by a preponderance of the evidence, and erred in permitting the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to intervene, neither error warranted reversal.

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SEATTLE -- Scott Kazmir allowed just one hit over his eight innings, Michael Bourn hit his first career grand slam and the Cleveland Indians routed the Seattle Mariners 10-1 Wednesday.
The only hit Kazmir (6-4) gave up was a clean leadoff single to center by Justin Smoak in the fifth. Kazmir struck out seven, walked two and allowed an unearned run. He threw 103 pitches and was relieved by Vinnie Pestano in the ninth. Pestano allowed a hit.
Bourn blew the game open in the fifth with his slam on a full-count pitch from reliever Hector Noesi.
Asdrubal Cabrera had two hits, including his eighth home run. Carlos Santana had three hits, including a pair of RBI doubles. It was the ninth time the Indians have scored at least 10 runs this season and the 14th time Seattle has allowed 10 or more.
Joe Saunders (9-9) took the loss. He lasted just 42⁄3 innings, allowing five earned runs on nine hits, walking three and striking out five. He entered the game with a 4-0 record and 1.73 ERA in his previous four starts and is now 11-4 with a 2.90 ERA in 19 career starts at Safeco Field.
The Indians had lost four of their first five games out of the break and had fallen 31⁄2 games behind Detroit in the AL Central.
The loss ended the Mariners' eight-game win streak, their longest since Aug. 14-22, 2012. They were going for their first nine-game streak since May 27-June 5, 2003.
From the first pitch, the Indians -- and Bourn -- had Saunders off-balance.
Bourn opened with a drag bunt, easily beating the throw. Nick Swisher walked and Jason Kipnis advanced the runners with a sac-bunt.
Cabrera followed with a two-run double into the left-center gap. Cabrera came home on Santana's ground-rule double to left for a 3-0 score.
The Mariners got a gift run in the second. With two outs and Jason Bay on first, Michael Saunders bounced to shortstop Cabrera. He threw wide of second for an error and Bay raced home.
The Mariners returned the favor in the third when center-fielder Michael Saunders miss-read a Cabrera flyball for a two-base error. Santana drove him home with his second straight double into the left-field corner.
The Tribe rallied in the fifth after two outs. Mark Reynolds singled and Yan Homes walked, ended Saunders' outing. Noesi walked Drew Stubbs and Bourn cranked a fastball over the right-center wall, his third home run.
NOTES: Kazmir has thrown just one complete game in his 198 career starts. That was a two-hit 3-0 shutout on July 3, 2006 with Tampa Bay against Boston. ... Manager Eric Wedge, taken to the hospital before Monday's game because of light-headedness, remains hospitalized while undergoing more tests. "Under the circumstances and all the testing he's going through, it's taking a little longer," said acting manager Robby Thompson. "They're leaning on the cautious side of things." Thompson said he talks to Wedge every day about the team. . Bourn's run in the first inning was the 500th over his career. . Of the 12 games these two teams have played against each other this season, this was the first visitor victory.

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NOTHING BUT NET: Darius McCullough (10) show their prowess on court.
The Boys’ Varsity Basketball team defeated York Prep, 74-44, to advance to the championship game of the Peg Duggan tournament. Although they were disappointed by their 74-87 loss to Regis in the championship game, the Lions plan to learn from the experience.
The tournament included non- Ivy League teams, allowing players to compete against teams that they wouldn’t otherwise play, Kyle Gaillard (11) said.
It was good practice for the games that the Lions will play this season since their opponents were similar in skill level to the Ivy League teams, Gaillard said.
Noah Simon (12) thought that competing in the tournament gave the players an opportunity to learn more about each others’ playing styles, he said.
Simon said that the team played with toughness and intensity throughout the game, citing the team’s successful ball movement.
Head Coach Tim Sullivan said that he was proud of the effort that the team put into the championship game regardless of the outcome. All members of the team contributed in different ways, but Kelvin Smith (10), in particular, played extraordinarily well, leading with 25 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists, Sullivan said.
Ben Goodman (10) attended the game with his friends and said that he found it exciting to watch.
In preparation for games, the team reviews the strategies that their opponents are known to use and creates a specific plan to work against them, Smith said.
The main challenge the Lions faced was that Regis’ team was comprised primarily of seniors, giving it the advantage of having stronger and more experienced players, Sullivan said.
The school’s team, in contrast, has ten underclassmen, who work hard to ensure that they make positive contributions to the team. They put forth their full effort in order to improve both individually and as a team, Darius McCullough (10) said.
Many members of the team are unfamiliar with one another. As the team continues to practice, players should become increasingly familiar with each others’ playing styles, which should help the team improve as well, Gaillard said.
The team always has a positive attitude and is willing to practice the details necessary to improve. Sullivan is pleased with how hard the players have worked so far and is excited to see what the rest of the season holds, he said.


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In the past, Barretto shared on social media love letters written to her by Yan when they were still together.
It was Ochoa who found Yan on March 29, 2002, at the Dos Palmas Resort in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. Yan was only 27 years old at the time of his death.


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The condition of this item is brand new - mint condition. No pinholes or tape and has never been hung or displayed.
Paper size may not be exact so we recommend waiting until you receive the poster to purchase a frame.
This quality reproduction makes a great gift and is perfect for framing.
The condition is brand new. No pinholes or tape and has never been hung or displayed.


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Cartoonist Chris Ware animates a true story told by NPR's Robert Krulwich, about the time when Jackie O waved to his wife. But there’s one very basic problem with the story, which illustrates a larger truth about marriage.
The story of the slow-motion disintegration of one couple's marriage. The husband's obsession with a legal battle forces the most basic marital questions into the open: what do I need? And what can I put up with?


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text: The Nike Air Max 1 gave the world its first glimpse of Nike Air cushioning back in 1987. The Nike Air Max 1 Premium Women's Shoe elevates the classic design with new accents, colours and materials. An included Swoosh accessory can be attached to the shoe via a beaded chain.


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Martin Guptill's 54-ball 105 proved in vain as Australia pulled off a remarkable, record-breaking chase to beat New Zealand in the trans-Tasman T20 series and keep England's hopes alive.
Guptill and opening partner Colin Munro (76 off 33 deliveries) were chiefly responsible for guiding the Black Caps, who would have joined Australia in the final with victory, to a mammoth total of 243-6 at Eden Park.
Yet Australia sensationally completed the highest chase in T20 internationals with seven balls to spare, after D'Arcy Short (76 off 44) and skipper David Warner (59 off 24) had set the tone at the top of the order.
Aaron Finch (36 not out off 14 balls) finished things off with the 32nd six of the match, a startling statistic that owed much to the short boundaries in Auckland.
Andrew Tye's four overs for Australia cost an eye-watering 64 runs, but did at least yield two wickets, while New Zealand seamer Ben Wheeler fared even worse, conceding 64 from just 3.1 overs before he was taken out of the attack for bowling two high full-tosses.
England will now have the chance to overhaul New Zealand when the two teams meet in the final group match in Hamilton on Sunday.
New Zealand opted to bat first and Munro made the biggest contribution to an opening stand of 132 in just 10.4 overs with Guptill, the former blasting six fours and as many maximums after an early let-off at the hands of Tye, who spilled a return chance off his own bowling.
Munro went on to hit three successive sixes off Tye before being caught at long-on seeking a fourth. Guptill then raised his tempo, despite losing partners on a regular basis, as he brought up his second T20I hundred and replaced former Black Cap Brendon McCullum as the record run-scorer in the format, also breaking his ex-team-mate's record for the fastest century by a New Zealander, bringing up three figures in 49 balls.
In the context of a match that ultimately featured 488 runs, Ashton Agar's return of 1-24 from three overs was arguably the most impressive statistic of all.
A daunting target duly proved within Australia's reach, thanks largely to Short - who was given an early life - and Warner taking a staggering 91 off the first six overs.
From that point on, Australia always looked likely to make it home and they did so with comfort as Glenn Maxwell (31 off 14) and Finch excelled amid Wheeler's misery.


text: Nearly 200 million tonnes of livestock manure are generated in Canada each year.1 Manure storage and land application tends to produce odour, greenhouse gases, microbes, and particulate matter, which can negatively impact the environment and human health. Occupational exposures of manure management have been linked to psychological stress and adverse effects on the respiratory system and heart function. Community health risks may result from poor local air quality related to manure management. Limited studies suggest respiratory and psychological health impacts on residents living in proximity to manure management operations. There are research gaps on comprehensive assessments of manure management and its effects on air quality and community health. These gaps deserve attention since many Canadians live on or near livestock farms.


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Devos, G., Clark, L., Maurage, P., & Billieux, J. (2018). Induced sadness increases persistence in a simulated slot machine task among recreational gamblers. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 32, 383–388.
Devos, G., Challet-Bouju, G., Burnay, J., Maurage, P., Grall-Bronnec, M., & Billieux, J. (2017). Adaptation and validation of the Gambling Motives Questionnaire – Financial (GMQ-F) in a Sample of French-Speaking Gamblers. International Gambling Studies, 17, 87-101.
Devos, G., Clark, L., Maurage, P., Kazimierczuk, M., & Billieux, J. (2015). Reduced inhibitory control predicts persistence in laboratory slot machine gambling. International Gambling Studies, 15, 408-421.
Devos, G. (2014). Conclusion du colloque CSDP. In N. Nader-Grosbois, O. Luminet, & S. Van den Broucke (Eds.). Articulations Clinique-Recherche : Des Outils nouveaux à la disposition du clinicien. Louvain-la-Neuve : Presse Universitaire de Louvain (pp. 134-140).
Blagan, E., Cappeliez, V., Devos, G., Hardy, L., Schinkus, L., Schul, E., Wattier, G., Weisgerber, A. (2013). Tobbaco. in M. Mikolajczak (ed.) Interventions in health psychology. Paris: Dunod (pp195-218).


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Christian faith jewelry and devotional - from the Holy Scriptures to your wrist!
This is a great box!!!!!
I have gotten 2 boxes in this subscription. I got it since I was curious, and I love charm bracelets. These bracelets are really beautiful. The first one was Noah's ark and I love it so much! This month I got one on Moses and it is absolutely beautiful!!!! This box does not dissapoint and is well worth the price. I have had so many compliments and friends asking me about these beautiful bracelets. Thank you Ebony!!!!


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Got Lucky Communications is a content marketing agency based near Jacksonville in St. Augustine, Florida, that helps you tell your story, make your offer, and deliver your message.
I am a writer who figures out how to say things so people understand the benefits of a service or product. I also look for ways to connect people who have something to offer with people who need it. Everything I produce meets high professional standards.
Making the process enjoyable is included free.
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Take a day trip with your pup to the national park in our backyard.
I Walked 64 Miles Around the Beltway. What the Hell Was I Thinking?
The highway ringing Washington is 64 miles long. No one ever confused it with a scenic nature trail. But on a six-day hike along its periphery, a born-and-bred Washingtonian found moments of surprising beauty, tolerated excruciating blisters, and learned quite a lot about his hometown.

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We’re sometimes asked by our clients about a specific issue that they have spotted within the Google Search Results for their Website. They inform us that when they click on the cached version of their page it takes them to a 404 error on Google’s cache page. They are obviously worried that this error maybe effecting their rankings, after-all a 404 error is bad right?
If your Website is working correctly and not returning any errors when you visit it directly, but you receive a 404 error when you check the Google cache, you have nothing to fear and your rankings will not be impacted. The 404 error is simply an intermittent yet common issue on Google’s cache servers and does not effect your rankings in the slightest. You will find that if you check back in a few days or weeks time, the cache will be updated and showing the correct snapshot of your website.
If you are concerned about any issues such as this and you would like a second opinion, feel free to contact on of our team and we will take a look for you.


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Nathalie Du Pasquier, FAIR GAME, Silkscreen Prints, 2018.
Nathalie Du Pasquier, Oil on Canvas 100x150, 2001.
Nathalie Du Pasquier, Oil on Canvas, 100x150, 2010.
Natahlie Du Pasquier, Oil on Paper, 50x70, 2005.
The French graphic designer and artist Nathalie du Pasquier (1957) won the Inform Prize for Conceptual Design at the GfZK.
She has lived in Milan since 1979 and, together with the design and architecture collective Memphis directed by Ettore Sottsass, has provided many influential impulses in the field of design. Although the artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier is an autodidact, she can look back on a long career as a product designer. During this period, she has designed graphic surface structures for numerous textiles and carpets, as well as objects and furniture. Her design is influenced by African textile patterns, the Wiener Werkstätte and the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Since 1987, Du Pasquier has increasingly turned her attention to painting. Most of her paintings depict the relationship between forms, objects and spaces.
An exhibition of the same name, curated by Kate Sutton, will run at the International Center of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana until 3 March 2019. This exhibition will not be taken over by the GfZK Leipzig in the classical sense; in Fair Game Leipzig, pictures from the last 35 years are completely remixed. The differences between wall, floor and ceiling are disregarded, as are the distinctions between art and graphics or carpet, canvas and paper as base materials.


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text: If your little one likes to bake, theyll love our Oh Crumbs kids baking apron, which has the words in a crumbly biscuit font. Around the words are lots of our favourite biscuits - why not get them to bake each one themself? This baking apron makes a great gift!


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[India], June 11 (ANI): AYE Finance, a non-banking financial company has announced receiving Rs. 147 crores (USD 21.5 million) in Series C round by CapitalG (formerly Google Capital), and existing investors SAIF Partners and LGT.
Focused on solving the funding problems of the micro enterprises, AYE will be using these funds to fuel business growth and maintain the lead in its financial technology.
AYE provides innovative working capital and business development loans to underserved micro and small enterprises using a unique cluster-based approach, supported by a proprietary underwriting methodology. Its operations are spread across 72 branches in 10 states.
Use of data sciences and digital technology enables Aye Finance to keep operating costs low and overcome the obstacles of inadequate documentation of incomes of their customers. The company has in the first 4 years deployed over 60,000 loans to micro enterprise owners across India and enabled them to grow their businesses.
"We are very excited about our partnership with CapitalG. We have used insightful data models and technology to provide affordable business loans to the financially excluded micro enterprises across India. CapitalG's access to Google expertise in scaling businesses using analytics and technology will strongly supplement our approach," said founder and MD, AYE, Sanjay Sharma.
"We are happy that our present investors, SAIF Partners and LGT, have also participated in the latest round of equity, reinstating their faith in AYE's ability to transform micro and small scale enterprise financing in India," added Sharma.


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Welcome to Blog Roundup, our weekly dive into some of the Internet’s best marketing articles. This week we’re looking at the appeal of the world record egg and more.
– We’re constantly searching for the next great idea. While it sometimes may seem like we’re trying to capture lightning in a bottle, it isn’t.
Last week, would-be creatives were blessed with the first true viral sensation of 2019. The World Record Egg gained an exuberant amount of traction for the sole reason of breaking Kylie Jenner’s world record for Instagram likes.
If you’re scrambling for more egg content–get it?–Wired’s Louise Matsakis examines the appeal behind this record crushing egg and why it fascinates us so much.
Those who have developed a more sophisticated approach to GDPR, rather than a more blunt tactic of blocking all visitors from Europe, will be in a stronger a position for the arrival of pending U.S privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act, experts believe.
– Lastly, Gillette made waves in the advertising industry last week with their “We Believe: The Best Men Can Be” short film. If you haven’t done so already, you can watch it below.
While the company is seemingly taking a very responsible stance, their video wasn’t released without it’s share of backlash.
The Drum has collected a slew of comments from industry creatives about the dividing ad campaign.
That’s it for us this week, see you next Monday!