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He has become very adept at making cappucinos, lattes, and mochas on our mini-expresso machine and keeps his coffee bar well-stocked with an assortment of syrups and espresso beans. He has even made chocolate syrup from scratch for his mochas. Every morning, he “takes” my coffee order, which usually alternates between hazelnut and raspberry mochas, depending on my mood, and then delivers it to me while I’m getting ready for work. I think of him as my personal barista.
Before I knew it, I could hear him scurrying around the kitchen and began to smell the distinct fragrance of mint. A few minutes later, he came back in the room with a grin on his face. “Taste this,” he said. Of course, he was right. The mint and grapefruit are a heavenly match in this cool, refreshing drink.
And just like that, a cocktail is born.
Run the lime wedge around the rim of the glass. Dip rim in sugar.
Tear mint leaves and place in bottom of glass. Add simple syrup and muddle to release juice from mint leaves. Add rum and pink grapefruit granita or grapefruit juice. If using grapefruit juice, taste and adjust amount of simple syrup to taste and add a few ice cubes. Top off with club soda and stir.
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Lovely! Citrus and mint always go so nicely together. This cocktail looks utterly refreshing. I also really love Salty Dog cocktails… I should try adding mint to my Salty Dogs the next time I make some.
I love this great idea!!
This cocktail sounds delicious, and looks absolutely beautiful! Definitely a “must try.” Thanks for sharing!
This looks like such a refreshing cocktail with or without alcohol! I don’t like overly sweet drinks and this looks like it has the perfect balance of citrus tart and sweet. My mint has already started to take over the garden, so I better start drinking mojitos now! Thank your husband for a lovely recipe!
Lovely cocktails, of course – such a pretty colour.
That has got to be the pretties mojito I’ve ever seen! Pinning it right now.
Daisy, this is the most beautiful cocktail I have ever seen. The peeled citrus wedge just puts it over the top! Thanks for another great idea for your readers.
Thank you very much, Karen! Let me tell you, I can’t get enough of this granita or mojito. I don’t always add the rum, and it’s still refreshing.
Refreshingly good! Perfect timing on this post! It’s going to be a fun weekend here in Seattle. We are finally expecting an 80° day and I am going to make mojito’s using your recipe! I love the peeled grapefruit wedge!
I love warm sunny days in Seattle. Perfect for all sorts of icy drinks.


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"Give me time and you'll see: I'll become someone worth being."
NAME: Born Essanora, although only Gectusith calls her that or indeed even knows it these days. Currently going by Essa.
ORIENTATION: awkward shrug That requires time, time Essa does not have.
FULL APPEARANCE: Short and curvy, with a ready smile and pale skin sparsely dotted with freckles, Essa has never been a great beauty or even a modest one. Her nose is too big and her eyes too small for that. She doesn't look overly much like the popular imagining of a dragon rider either, with a bit of softness still clinging to her body three years after Impression. This softness is deceptive however, as turns of riding and farm work have left her far stronger than the casual observer would suspect.
Essa does her best to keep herself clean, but it's not uncommon to find her with her cheeks stained by ink or a dusting of firestone dust on her cheeks. Her work comes first. The same attitude is reflected in her clothes. While she does occasionally put on a simple dress, she is most commonly found in her riding leathers or a pair of roughly made trousers and a loose blouse and is rarely found without a pair of thick wherhide boots.
PERSONALITY: Essa is quiet and focused, devoted to her duty and not prone to distractions. Driven and ambitious, in an understated sort of way, Essa is never satisfied with her own progress. She doesn't need to ever achieve official rank, but she will do everything in her power to make herself indispensable to wing and weyr. She never forgets how lucky she was, to end up where she is, and is determined to prove herself worthy of the opportunities she was given. Blessed with a quick mind, an excellent memory and a sharp focus, she spends most of her free time reading up on history, healing or threadfighting. She may not have been weyrborn, may not have learned to read until she began her candidacy, but if she works twice as hard, she'll be as good as any of them. Anything less would be unacceptable.
Essa's hold origins are rarely obvious. She dresses, acts and thinks like a rider and rarely even mentions her life before. That said, she does love her family and tries hard to help them adapt. She's still not crazy for holds in general and rarely goes voluntarily. The more conservative hold morality grates on her and she considers weyr life superior in every way. She does enjoy being away from the chaos of the weyr sometimes and seeing crops and herdbeasts again, but she'd rather look from a distance, with her dragon and maybe her brother for company.
She's a loyal member of Midnight Wing and while few would consider her a close friend, she does have a deserved reputation for being reliable. She's steady and calm instead of flighty and can usually contain her dragon's worst instincts. She does tend to be something of a worrier and has trouble knowing when to let go instead of obsessing, but she's one of those people who will usually finish the tasks she's assigned.
It can be easy to forget Essa was holdborn, so much has she become a creature of the weyr. She prefers not to leave the halls of Fort Weyr on any but the most necessary of errands and even when her duties do call her to the nearby holds, she remains on dragonback, in full riding leathers, as much as she can and speaks to as few holders as possible. If anyone asks after the cause of her reticence, Essa will simply shrug uncomfortably and mumble something about backwards customs or not liking strangers or whatever other excuse she thinks most likely to pass without comment. She is a bit more comfortable in the crafthalls, occasionally dismounting long enough to grab a quick bite to eat with a friendly stranger, but is still visibly relieved when it is time to return to her home. Needless to say she doesn't go to a lot of Gathers. Luckily, Gectusith is no more fond of the countryside than she is.
Essa knows it is irrational and would never admit it to anyone, but some part of her is still afraid of running across someone from her old hold. She doesn't want to see her parents' disappointment, her neighbors' disgust, her siblings' sense of betrayal, any of it. And while she doesn't really believe anyone she knows is likely to appear at Ruatha Hold or Healer Hall, and knows that after five years they've almost certainly given her up for dead, the paranoia is hard to break. So she stays in the weyr, where she has more than enough to do anyway. She barely misses it. Really. Honestly. Why are you looking at her like that? She absolutely, 100% does not secretly, somewhere deep down, miss her mother's cooking or her siblings' laugh or watching herdbeasts graze peacefully without a dragon in sight. She's a dragon rider now and that's all she needs.
Essa rarely speaks overly much about herself, preferring to focus on more neutral topics like dragons or politics. She tries to be polite to everyone and prefers to avoid conflict. She'll say what she thinks she needs to say to avoid an argument with a smile, then go off and do whatever she planned on doing in the first place anyway. As a result, she has few friends at the weyr and none she would consider truly close. She prefers to confide instead in Gectusith, who is all the family she really needs anyway. Really.
HISTORY: Essanora was born in a small farming hold on the outskirts of Fort weyr, to a farmer named Geronor and his wife, Essamalia. She was their 5th child and 3rd daughter. It was a hard life but a happy one. The Interval War didn't touch them much, as their hold was too small for the riders to bother with, and while their meals were often lean, Essanora had never known any different.
Essanora's mother died in childbirth when she was seven and her father soon remarried a local woman named Relli, many turns his junior. Essanora missed her mother of course, but life went on and she was well cared for by her stepmother and older siblings. She grew into a spirited, adventurous child, who loved riding their hold's two skinny runners and climbing every rock and hill in sight. As she grew older and began undertaking heavier chores, she dreamed of becoming a proper Beastcrafter, like the ones they sometimes saw in Gathers. She preferred animals to children and wanted to be more than a wife and mother. Her father quickly shot down the idea. She was needed here, at home, to help keep them all from starving. Even if he wanted to send her to the crafthall, which he didn't, as his daughter had no place in such an institution, he didn't have the marks to get her there. She would stay and do her chores and one day marry and that would be legacy enough.
In her sixteenth turn, she finally met the man who would become her husband. His name was Liotan and he was from a more prosperous hold closer to Fort. He would give her father a runner of his own in exchange of her hand, a nicer one than either of the two currently in the hold. He was only a few turns older than her and handsome enough and she supposed he didn't seem like a bad sort. At first, that was.
With every day he spent in their hold, it became more and more apparent that Liotan didn't like Essanora, not the way she was, at any rate. He wanted her to smile less. To talk softer. To spend less time with the herdbeasts, because he didn't like it when she smelt of beast instead of of woman. Every time she yielded to him, she felt herself becoming less and less Essanora. Essanora liked herself. She didn't want to become someone else. So she asked to break off the engagement. When her father said no, and was echoed by her stepmother and all her siblings, Essanora did the only she could do. She stole Liotan's nice runner and fled.
She didn't go to the Beastcrafter Hall. That would be the first place they would look for her, if they looked for her. She didn't go to Fort Hold either, and stayed for no more than a night in any of the surrounding holds where she took temporary shelter. Still too easy. Instead she went to Healer Hall, hoping to remain well hidden there. As a girl with no education or particular skills, she did the only thing she could do. Lie about her background, take a position as a kitchen drudge and hope for the best. And so Essanora became Essa, an orphan from a hold near Ruatha.
Things went as well as they could have. She did her work diligently and was treated well. Nobody came looking for her. But as the months passed, she grew more and more withdrawn. She missed her friends and family and spending her days outdoors. And when she left the hall to venture to a nearby hold, she saw her father's face in every crowd. Eventually, she stopped leaving altogether.
And then the dragons came on search. At the urging of a journeywoman who had taken a liking to her, Essa presented herself and to her surprise, was accepted as a candidate. She went, because she hadn't left behind everything she ever cared about to be a drudge. And in the weyr, Essanora encountered a whole new world.
She learned to read and write and count, was even offered a chance to learn a craft. While her heart yearned to fulfill her childhood dream, she picked Healercraft instead. If her father ever did come looking for her, he would never think to find her as a Healer named Essa and if she wanted to stay in the weyr, which she rather thought she did, healers were practical, needed, important. For two turns, her life continued like this. She threw herself into her work. It made her forget. Made her feel important.
And then she Impressed, to bronze Gectusith, and everything changed. Sure, her dragon was a bit a haughty, but he was hers and he was the best dragon in all of Pern, in both her mind and his. She had a family again, someone to love and look out for, and she would do him proud and keep him safe. Whatever it took.
And so Essa became a dragon rider. She completed her weyrlinghood competently and without incident and joined the Midnight Wing. She loved her dragon, even if she wasn't always entirely sure he loved her, and loved the work and life fell back into a comfortable routine. One that this time, she was determined to keep at any cost. Sure, she had changed, as surely as she would have had she married as asked, but Gectusith said he liked her better this way, that the old Essa was boring, and if change was what it took to have a dragon besides her, so be it. It was worth it.
Late Summer, 2766- Essa and G'er retrieve the remnants of their family and bring them back to Fort Weyr.
Late Fall, 2766- Essa is hit in the right calf by a clump of Thread that had been headed for another wingmate below when the wind shifts (Moderate).
As you will recall, Essanora, there is only one bronze on Pern as great as me. And his name is Gectusith.
FULL APPEARANCE: For how long Gectusith is, he doesn't have the height to reflect it. He's a lithe, long creature with a rather narrow face, almost like a rodent. At first glance, one might mistake him for a brown until his hide started to shine. He has brownish, reddy-bronze splashes across his body, but he is all ranges of pale bronzes, and the only 'proper' bronze coloration is around his ankles, fading up on his legs. His ridges are a dusty bronze color, and his hindquarters are speckled, his underbelly nearly white. The tips of his wingsails are a darker bronze, still very much reddy-brown. There is a dusty spot across his muzzle, almost like whiskers.
PERSONALITY: If any are special, it is this one. At least, that is how Gectusith sees the situation. He is every bit the bronze of old lore, arrogance pours out of his every action. A creature more of action than of word, Gectusith is rather quiet and may often even be questioned on whether he is even capable of making noise. It is not so much a peaceful quiet as it is a judging silence. Taking in the world around him Gectusith is one to expect others to know how special he is and act accordingly. He also possesses something of a stubborn nature, refusing to do many things without a good reason behind them and sticking to anything he said he'd do with the same intention. Even from the shell Gectusith shall have a protective nature toward those he is close to. Any hint that one he cares for is wronged or hurt will draw a quiet but seething rage from this bronze that will only quell when the offending party has been made to aware of their crime.
Voice: Gectusith, for all he is a large creature, speaks softly. His voice will rarely rise above a whisper, even when pushed into anger. Instead, when angered, he is prone to cutting remarks rather than actual rage. There will always be a tone of arrogance and superiority to his voice.
Chione is dainty in both build and size, even by the standard of whites. Her hide has a faint greenish tinge that might have some initially mistaking her for one of her green sisters and is covered in delicate swirls. She's not the most graceful of flyers and her attempts at more complicated maneuvers typically end with her on the ground.
Relentlessly cheerful and overwhelmingly friendly, Chione loves everyone, from her owner to her owner's grumpy bronze to all the people her owner would really rather not talk to right now. She loves flying, for all she's far from skilled at it, and can frequently be seen following around whoever looks interesting.

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A SD-WAN appliance acts as a virtual gateway. It is neither a TCP endpoint nor a router. Like any gateway, its job is to buffer incoming packets and put them onto the outgoing link at the right speed. This packet forwarding can be done in different ways, such as inline mode, virtual inline mode, and WCCP mode. Although these methods are called modes, you do not have to disable one forwarding mode to enable another. If your deployment supports more than one mode, the mode that the appliance uses is determined automatically by the Ethernet and IP format of each packet.
Because the appliance supports different forwarding modes and different kinds of non-forwarded connections, it needs a way of distinguishing one kind of traffic from another. It does so by examining the destination IP address and destination Ethernet address (MAC address), as shown in table below. For example, in inline mode, the appliance is acting as a bridge. Unlike other traffic, bridged packets are addressed to a system beyond the appliance, not to the appliance itself. The address fields contain neither the appliance’s IP address nor the appliance’s Ethernet MAC address.
In addition to pure forwarding modes, the appliance has to account for additional types of connections, including management connections to the GUI and the heartbeat signal that passes between members of a high-availability pair. For completeness, these additional traffic modes are also listed in table below.
All modes can be active simultaneously. The mode used for a given packet is determined by the Ethernet and IP headers.
Inline mode, in which the appliance transparently accelerates traffic flowing between its two Ethernet ports. In this mode, the appliance appears (to the rest of the network) to be an Ethernet bridge. Inline mode is recommended, because it requires the least configuration.
WCCP mode, which uses the WCCP v. 2.0 protocol to communicate with the router. This mode is easy to configure on most routers. WCCP has two variants: WCCP-GRE and WCCP-L2. WCCP-GRE encapsulates the WCCP traffic within generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnels. WCCP-L2 uses un-encapsulated network Layer 2 (Ethernet) transport.
Virtual inline mode, in which a router sends WAN traffic to the appliance and the appliance returns it to the router. In this mode, the appliance appears to be a router, but it uses no routing tables. It sends the return traffic to the real router. Virtual inline mode is recommended when inline mode and high-speed WCCP operation are not practical.
Group mode, which allows two appliances to operate together to accelerate a pair of widely separated WAN links.
High availability mode, which allows to appliances to operate as an active/standby high availability pair. If the primary appliance fails, the secondary appliance takes over.
Pass-through traffic refers to any traffic that the appliance does not attempt to accelerate. It is a traffic category, not a forwarding mode.
Direct access, where the appliance acts as an ordinary server or client. The GUI and CLI are examples of direct access, using the HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, or SFTP protocols. Direct access traffic can also include the NTP and SNMP protocols.
Appliance-to-appliance communication, which can include signaling connections (used in secure peering and by the SD-WAN plugin), VRRP heartbeats (used in high-availability mode), and encrypted GRE tunnels (used by group mode).
Deprecated modes. Proxy mode and redirector mode are legacy forwarding modes that should not be used in new installations.
SD-WAN 4100/5100 appliances have two recommended deployment modes: WCCP and inline. These modes are commonly used without high availability (high availability), and less commonly with high availability.
Currently, Citrix recommends WCCP mode, with a single router and without high availability, for most deployments. Use inline mode when WCCP is not available.
While modes other than WCCP and inline are supported, they are incompletely documented and are not recommended for typical installations. Please contact your Citrix representative when considering one of these modes.

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Today as I was doing my morning routine I found myself getting distracted. I was jumping from my phone, to the computer, to the kitchen, then back to my journal. It was a very agitating experience because I was having a hard time organizing my thoughts and completing one task.
Yoga as a philosophy is defined as the ability to focus the mind in one direction for a sustained amount of time without distraction. I certainly was having a hard time with ‘Yoga’ this morning.
So I stopped everything I was doing and simply focused on my breath. Pretty quickly my mind settled and I was able to finish one thing before moving on to the next. It was amazing the affect it had on my mood.
We are so busy and have so much to do that we tend to spend our days multi-tasking. It is a valued skill and people take great pride in their ability to multi-task. If we can get everything done that needs to get done, have it be done very well, and feel great about it during the process then there is nothing wrong with multi-tasking.
However, if we feel frazzled, disconnected and things are taking longer than they should because we can’t keep our mind focused long enough to complete something, then we can benefit greatly from focusing on one thing at a time.
This morning, I was on edge about all that I needed to do and was not really allowing my mind to focus on one thing for very long. It was amazing how quickly my mind settled when I consciously stopped and just focused on my breath. If you find your mind jumping all over the place, take a pause and focus on just one thing for a few minutes to get the mind to settle. It can be your breath, a mantra, an affirmation, a picture, a tree, whatever. After a few minutes of focusing on one thing, go back to whatever it was you were doing and see how the experience changes. It’s a practice.
We have a lot of wonderful things coming up at the Blend to support you in your practice. Please check it out here.
Thank you for choosing to practice with us at Yoga Blend.

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Just about everyone knows the story of Snow White....jealous queen, poisoned apple, seven dwarfs and of course a handsome prince.
Now your little one can recreate the story in this lovely 50 piece puzzle that features three scenes from the fairytale.
Comes packaged in a gorgeous silhouette box.


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There are changes to the published flight training schedule for the Outlying Landing Field (OLF) in Coupeville and at Ault Field for the week of March 19-25.
Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP) operations that were scheduled for Ault Field on Friday, March 23, 2018 have been moved to OLF Coupeville on that same day. The full schedule change is listed below.
Sure hope somebody’s selling ice cream and yes, earplugs for those who forget!

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I get it, most of you have been there: walking through the drug store, going down the aisle with the hair color products, and being tempted by the photos on the boxes of beautiful women with perfect hair. But we’re going to let you in on a little secret: those women would never let a cheap box color get near their hair!
Those women spend good money going to salons to get that perfect blonde, red or brunette color, and then DIY color manufacturers capitalize on their gorgeous locks by convincing consumers that they can achieve the same results with their products. But that’s not how it works, and today we’re going to talk about all the reasons why you should always keep walking when you encounter DIY hair coloring products.
There are some major differences in the formulations between box colors and salon colors, and guess which one is worse for your hair. You guessed it—box colors. That’s because DIY hair colors contain a lot more developer than salon color, and this ends up wreaking havoc on your hair. After the first application of a DIY color you'll probably notice that your hair is a little drier than normal, and with each subsequent application, your hair will become more and more like straw as it becomes more damaged, frizzier, and prone to breakage.
Box colors should come with a major warning: “results may vary.” This is because box colors are designed to be a one-size-fits-all hair color solution, but no two people have the same hair, so the results will always be different. This is because each person has unique pigmentation, skin tones, hair porosity, and level of gray, and all of these things affect how a color will turn out on your hair.
Heck, even the shampoo you use can change the results of your color job. But DIY colors don’t take these different factors into account, so you can never really predict what color your hair will turn out when you take this job into your own hands. Only a trained professional will know what to look for and how to formulate a color specifically for your hair.
You Were Going for Polka Dot Hair, Right?
Who doesn’t love highlights? They give you a naturally radiant and sun-kissed look that everybody wants, they look good on all hair types and styles, and they can make your skin and eyes glow. But if you try to achieve this look at home with box color, there's a good chance you'll end up with an unexpected hairstyle: polka dots. At-home highlighting kits come with the old-school plastic caps that salons stopped using ages ago, and these create conspicuous splotches of color rather than the natural highlights you want.
Buying a $10 box of DIY color from the drug store may seem like a great deal when you compare it to the $60-plus you'll spend at the salon, but only at first. Because here's the thing: there's a good chance that before long, your box color will fail you, and you'll have to spend at least double that at the salon getting a professional to fix the mess caused by your DIY color.
Most salons charge more for corrective color services than they do for basic coloring, so that $10 box can easily turn into a quick $200 at the salon, depending on the damage that’s been done and how long you’ve been taking your chances with box color.
Box color may seem like a good idea at the time, especially if you don’t have time to get to the salon, have a big date or meeting coming up, or didn’t book an appointment in time. But box color jobs usually end in heartbreak, and you're better off leaving your hair as-is than taking your chances with a DIY job.
Even if the color does turn out the way you want it to the first time, your hair will be damaged because of the product, so it will never look as good as it could. Instead, learn to love your hair for now, and wait until you can get an appointment with a professional before changing your hair color.


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The only news brand on YouTube to join the exclusive club crossing the 10 million subscriber mark.
India's No.1 news channel Aaj Tak creates history yet again! The prestigious 'Diamond Play Button' bestowed by YouTube, recognises Aaj Tak as the global no.1, the first and the only news channel in the world to have crossed the 10 Million Subscriber mark.
The Award was presented by YouTube to the India Today Group last week. This milestone achievement on YouTube by an Indian channel, puts India right on top of the global news media map. The 'Diamond Play Button' is the top honor awarded by YouTube, next only to the Ruby Button at the 50 Million mark.
Ms Kalli Purie, Vice-Chairperson, India Today Group on accepting the recognition for the milestone said, "I am so proud that AajTak has won the YouTube Diamond Button, the only news channel in the world to have earned this award. The diamond button is not an overnight success, this is something AajTak has worked very hard towards. We first got the silver button, then the gold button and then finally we got the diamond button at 10 million subscribers. The journey doesn't stop here, we are ambitious and we are moving ahead, trying and working towards now the YouTube Ruby Button that comes in at 50 million subscribers. And I am sure with the support of our viewers, we will get there too, and we will get there 'Sabse Tez'."
Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube in her letter lauding the Aaj Tak YouTube channel for this accomplishment said, "We hope you will accept this Diamond Creator Award as a token of our appreciation and respect for what you have accomplished." In the letter Susan Wojcicki expressed her amazement at the magnitude of this achievement. She wrote "The 10 Million Mark? At this point we are actually scratching our heads. How on earth did you do that? 10 million subscribers is not just a lot of people. It is more than the entire population of New York City!"
An unmatched record of 18 straight years at the numero uno position, helps Aaj Tak beat all its global rivals like BBC News, CNN, ABC News etc. As on 17th January 2019, Aaj Tak has 13.07 million subscribers.

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We also act as a professional advisory body to other groups including government agencies including NHS England.
The society is a non-profit organization and all the funds of the society are used for the purpose of realising the aims outlined above.
The British Skull Base Society was founded in November 1992 by a multidisciplinary group of clinicians working in the field of skull base surgery including otolaryngologists, maxillofacial surgeons and neurosurgeons. Founder members included Professor Michael Gleeson, Professor Anthony Cheeseman, Mr David Uttley, Miss Anne Moore and Mr Danny Archer.
It’s inaugural meeting was held in 1993 as part of the European Skull Base Society meeting in Riva del Garda.
The council is made up of professional Otolaryngologists, Neurosurgeons and Skull Base Nurse Practitioners who work on behalf of the British Skull Base Society.
Copyright © 2017 Skull Base Society all rights reserved.


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I. Why is there such a strong Sunni/Shia divide? I know the Comparative Religion 101 answer. The early Muslims were debating who was the rightful caliph.
WE GET LETTERS: “I’m Nik Kitty – THE super model.I am a gorgeous twelve , long haired, Black and White Tuxedo beauty. I’m independent and fearless.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will parade through Windsor in a carriage after making their wedding vows in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury, it can be revealed today.


text: Jack Marlowe, formerly Spartan-leader of the Wildcats, intends to change the world. But he doesn't want to do it using what he considers outdated heroics. He wants to use Kheribum technology to help the world. But not everyone shares his vision and there are forces that are out to stop him. But the Wildcats aren't exactly a team anymore. However, with a little help from Grifter and a few new faces, Jack Marlowe proceeds with his plans which unfortunately yield varying results- both expected and unexpected.

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Lock in a great price for Ocean Melody Homestay – rated 9.3 by recent guests!
Steps from Ting Sea, Ocean Melody Homestay provides accommodations with cute decoration and free WiFi. Free bikes are available.
Just steps away from the East Coast, Ocean Melody Homestay is a 15-minute walk from Nanbin Night Market or Hualien downtown. Hualien Railway Station is about 10 minutes' drive away.
Featuring different color themes, all rooms come with a flat-screen cable TV and a wardrobe. The private bathroom has a hairdryer, free toiletries and shower facilities.
Staff can provide you ticketing services, car hire and tour arrangements, including whale watching, canoeing and day trips.
A variety of local Taiwanese restaurants, cafe and sweet shops can be reached nearby within walking distance.
뀐 Located in the top-rated area in Hualien City, this property has an excellent location score of 9.4!
When would you like to stay at Ocean Melody Homestay?
House Rules Ocean Melody Homestay takes special requests – add in the next step!
All children under 12 years are charged TWD 300 per night for extra beds.
Any additional older children or adults are charged TWD 500 per night for extra beds.
Please note that towels are not available in all room types.

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HUNTER VALLEY HOME WITH IT ALL!!!
Located on the fringe of the Hunter Valley vineyards and convenient to Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Central Coast, this modern family home sits on an acre of land, has amazing shedding and a brand-new in-ground self-cleaning pool.
The home is spacious with two large open living spaces, four very large bedrooms and two huge undercover outdoor areas. The kitchen is at the centre of the home and offers stainless appliances and stone tops and the main bedroom offers an ensuite and walk-in robe. The home has a double garage with internal access and is kept comfortable year-round by reverse-cycle air conditioning.
Outside, a brand-new in-ground self-cleaning pool is surrounded by travertine paving which connects the two outdoor living spaces and a brand-new extra-high machinery shed offers brilliant storage for caravans, additional cars, machinery for work or a teenagers retreat. A further shed offers a workshop space, undercover entertaining area and dedicated dog kennels.
The property has four yards, one for livestock (horses, sheep, etc), one for dogs, a house yard and pool yard. All fencing is good and secure and landscaping is lush but easy care and low maintenance.

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Wanting to have a baby is a natural wish that may not always come true according to your schedule. And if you decide to improve your health, Singapore has a lot to offer.
With 40% take-home baby rate for women under 40, local fertility clinics on average charge $8,000 per IVF cycle (excluding medications but including doctor’s fee, recovery, embryo transfer and cryopreservation).
On top of laboratory work, couples also have access to sexual dysfunction counselling, family planning, and more.
For financial reasons, many couples opt for IVF in Spain after browsing medical services in Singapore and Rigvir for prostate cancer.


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Welcome to HNGN's weekly top picks, where we cull the best and brightest releases in music, fashion, beauty, tech and pop culture. Come back every other week for more of-the-moment goodness. -Editing by Michael Lello.
The reissues of Led Zeppelin's iconic catalog get another entry this week with a souped-up version of "Physical Graffiti," the double album which came out in 1975. Top to bottom, it's arguably the quartet's best album - or at least my favorite - with a treasure trove of influences from all over the world on everything from the blues-rock crunch of "Custard Pie" to the swagger of "The Rover" and the Eastern mysticism of "Kashmir."
Former Kanye West protégé Big Sean - known also for dating pop star Ariana Grande - has a star-studded guest list on "Dark Sky Paradise," his third full-length record, with John Legend, Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown, as well as West and Grande, all making appearances.
It's hard to believe members of German hard rock act Scorpions are in their mid 60s when you hear the aggression in "Return To Forever," their whopping 20th album. Celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, the band behind smash hits like "Rock Like You Like A Hurricane," "No One Like You" and "Wind Of Change" display a grittier side on the new album in favor of the arena rock bombast that was their stock in trade for decades. They still have a knack for the power ballad, though, as you can hear for yourself below in "Eye Of The Storm."
This neck and back cradle is perfect for traveling because it brings a lot of support to your back while being compact enough to fit in carry-on luggage or a purse. The pillow gives the user the option to make the support feel soft, medium or firm. Whether you are traveling by plane, car, train, or any other method, this is among the most reliable pillows to keep you comfortable.
No matter where you are traveling this adapter will come in handy. This nifty device comes with a three-prong adapter that allows international devices to work in more than 150 countries. Pop the adapter into the wall, and all you'll need is a USB cord to charge all of your must-have devices!
There's nothing more annoying than losing your phone or keys in the car. That's why every road-tripper should invest in at least one of these pads. The stick pad, which adheres to the dashboard, can hold keys and phones among other objects commonly lost in the cracks between the seats in the car.
This compact toiletry bag is perfect for travel because it has compartments for everything from your razors, to your makeup brushes, full size bottles, toothbrush, mini hairdryer and anything else you may need in the bathroom during your trip. The bag, while large, fits everything into one place, making your packing experience much more organized.
It's nothing new to be told to have a first aid kit handy during your travels, but not every kit has everything you may need. This first aid kit comes with 85 pieces, giving travelers the comfort of knowing that they will have a remedy on hand for a large number of possible emergencies that could occur during their trip. Although it comes with a large number of pieces, the kit is actually very light and compact - so much so that it can even be carried on your belt loop!
I was born with a hawk eye for accessories with flair - whether it's a phone case embossed with jewels or gloves with a dangling charm or bow. So I was beside myself when I stumbled upon Henri Bendel's all-purpose solar charger. It's an adorable, brown and white-striped gadget designed to charge iPhones 4 to the 6 plus in just one hour.
The pocket-sized charger, also suitable for USB port electronics, retails at $38.
A blazer can be one of the best things to happen to your wardrobe. You can dress them up, down, pair them with a dress and flats, jeans and stilettos, flow-y shirts and pencil skirts (depending on the length of the blazer). With spring approaching - according to the fashion world it's already here - I'm on the prowl for a classy blazer for daily use, like this new black one from Guess with golden accents around the waist and a pleated back.
Then there's Free People's sleek ruffled military jacket, which technically isn't a blazer but might as well be because Free People is infallible.
Marc Jacobs' original Daisy has always been one of those perfumes that to me might smell a little off from the bottle but once you put it on, you're hooked. This delightful new edition, sure to be a hit this spring, adds a bit of fruity essence to the original flower-based scent. The pale violet-colored liquid has notes of apple blossom, jasmine, mandarin and grapefruit with a musk base.
Available in a 1.7 ounce bottle for $76.
Though I love fashion, I've never been one to follow every runway trend sent down from the designer gods above. But I'm stoked about this 2015 trend because I actually like skirts and dresses with a little leg action going on (Angelina Jolie's famous 2012 red carpet moment comes to mind). I'm lusting after this striking Nicole Miller high-slit skirt with a satin lining on sale for $192.50. For a more dramatic slit, opt for this curve-hugging blue maxi dress from Bebe.
Will Smith returns to the big screen as a seasoned con man who takes a beautiful amateur (Margot Robbie) under his wing. The two become romantically involved and eventually break up, only for her to reappear in his life years later as he's planning his next con.
Salma Hayek stars as a woman who betrays a powerful mob boss. She survives the boss' first attempt on her life and ends up holed up in her apartment, where she must fight for her life against a bevy of hit men.
The sleep monitor dubbed Sense will soon be available to anyone who's looking for a better night's sleep. The device, created by Hello, keeps track of factors in the user's room like heat, humidity, noise and ambient light. Users will also receive advice on things they can do to get higher quality sleep. After raising close to $2.5 million through its Kickstarter campaign, Sense is being shipped to backers now for $129.
Smartwatch maker Pebble is now making its new device, called Pebble Time, available on Kickstarter. The new watch is 20 percent thinner than its predecessor, with features including a new color e-paper display, microphone, scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass lens and a curved design. The device syncs with smartphones from Apple and Android running the latest iPhone 4s and Android 4.0, respectively. Pebble is making the Time available exclusively from Kickstarter now for $159, and shipping will begin in May.
Motorola's second-generation Moto E smartphone is available now with improved 4G LTE networking in 40 markets around the world. Features of the new device include a 4.5-inch 540x960 screen, Android 5.0 Lollipop, a Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor and 8GB of storage. The gadget also comes with support for a removable micro SD card, a VGA camera on the front and a 5MP camera on the back. The new Moto E is available to Motorola fans now for $149.
The awards chatter started early for this indie darling that premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The movie earned five Oscar nominations, one for Best Picture, and won three awards including Best Supporting Actor for J.K. Simmons.
Miles Teller stars as a young and determined jazz drummer who enrolls at a prestigious music conservatory. Simmons plays his intense and abusive instructor who goes as far as to hurl chairs at the students to encourage them to perform their best.
Damien Chazelle adapted the feature from his short film of the same name, also starring Simmons in the same role. The 30-year-old director shot the entire film in 19 days and edited the work for its submission into Sundance in 10 weeks.
The film also stars Melissa Benoist and Paul Reiser.
Special features on the Blu-ray/DVD include audio commentary with Chazelle and Simmons, a deleted scene with optional commentary, interviews with professional drummers and the original "Whiplash" short film. The DVD also includes the Toronto Film Festival panel with Teller, Simmons and Chazelle.
Not much has changed for Lloyd and Harry in 20 years. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprise their roles as the two dimwits who hit the road to find Harry's newly discovered daughter who was adopted.
The Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter, also returned to direct the comedy sequel along with stars Laurie Holden and Kathleen Turner. The movie almost didn't get made due to financing and Carrey temporarily dropped out of the project in 2012.
Special features on the Blu-ray/DVD include an alternate opening, deleted and extended scenes, a gag reel, a five-part making-of featurette and a conversation with cast and crew on why dumb is funny.
Jackson "Jax" Teller enters the final season of the FX series still reeling from the loss of his true love Tara and seeking vengeance for her death. His mother Gemma, responsible for Tara's death, must face her own demons in the wake of her actions.
The last season saw special guest appearances by Marilyn Manson, Lea Michelle, Charisma Carpenter and a recurring arc by Malcolm-Jamal Warner. It also featured one of the most sexually explicit scenes ever aired on basic cable and finished with a shocking conclusion.
Special features on the Blu-Ray/DVD include deleted scenes, a gag reel and a look back on the final season as well as the entire series. It also has a spotlight on the motorcycles, stories behind the tattoos and most famous faces who guest starred over the years.
Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) survived her second Hunger Games, but the consequences of her actions in the arena have plunged Panem into total war. She now finds herself in the lost underground district 13, but her partner in the games, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), has been captured by the Capitol.
The third "Hunger Games" installment adapts the first part of Suzanne Collins' third book in the trilogy series. Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Beetee (Jeffrey Wright), Finnick Odair (Sam Claflin), President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and Katniss' mother (Paula Malcomson) and sister Prim (Willow Shields) all return.
The film also introduces Julianne Moore as President Alma Coin, the rebel leader in District 13, and Natalie Dormer as Cresside, the videographer who will help broadcast Katniss' message of rebellion to the Capitol.
iTunes has the movie available for purchase.
Frank Underwood has literally killed to become President of the United States of America. Now that he's reached the pinnacle of the U.S. political system, what will he do next? Early reviews suggest the new Commander-in-Chief may not see the same success he did in Congress or as the Vice President.
His wife Claire, however, will take to her role quickly as she starts to make her mark as First Lady. Her ambitions may interfere with her husbands, causing tension in the East Wing.
Netflix will have the entire 13-episode season available for streaming on Feb. 27.
Author J.M. Barrie's friendship with the Davies family inspired him to write the story of "Peter Pan." The fatherless family included mother Sylvia and her five children, although the youngest is not portrayed in the movie.
Johnny Depp plays Barrie opposite Kate Winslet as Sylvia. The film also stars a young Freddie Highmore as Peter Davies and Dustin Hoffman as the producer Charles Frohman who agrees to mount the play of Peter Pan.
Screenwriter David Magee based the film on the play "The Man Who Was Peter Pan" by Allan Knee. This spring, the story returns to the stage as a new Broadway musical starring Matthew Morrison, Kelsey Grammer and Laura Michelle Kelly.
Amazon has the film available for streaming now; Netflix will have it on March 1.
Check out our complete list of movies available for streaming on Netflix this month and see below for more options on Amazon Prime and for purchase at iTunes.
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No matter where the electricity comes from, we remain the delivery company that gets the electricity to your home or business, maintains the distribution and transmission system, and restores power after service interruptions.
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Owna M. Taber, 73, of Terlton, died Friday at Hillcrest Medical Center.
Funeral service is scheduled for 10 am Tuesday at the Fisher Pentecostal Assembly of God, west of Sand Springs, with he Reverend Bob Sullivan officiating.
Burial will follow at the Post Oak Cemetery under the direction of the Smith Funeral Home.
Taber was born March 6, 1918, in Branson, MO and lived in Terlton for the past three years moving there from Kellyville. She had worked for the Homer Box Factory in Sand Springs and had been a cook at several cafes in Sapulpa and Sand Springs.
She married Ervin Tabor, who preceded her in death, on Dec 1, 1973. Her daughter, Marcella Hitt, also preceded her in death November 1992.
Survivors include daughters Darlene Lambert of Terlton, Pauline Grau of Sand Springs, Lola Hartaway of Tulsa, Carol Callhan of Campbell, Mo., and Julia Simpson of Sand Springs; sons, Donald and Douglas Taber, both of Terlton; sisters Isabell Hutchinson of Kellyville and Dorothy Hutchins of Muskogee; several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Owna M. Taber, 75, of Terlton died Friday at Hillcrest Medical Center.
Services are to be held at 10 am Tuesday at Fisher Pentecostal Assembly of God Church west of Sand Springs with Rev. Bob Sullivan officiating.
Burial is to follow at Post Oak Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Home.
Taber was born March 6, 1918 in Branson, Mo. and lived in Terlton for the past three years moving there from Kellyville. She had worked for the Hoener Box Factory in Sand Springs and had been a cook at several cafes in Sapulpa and Sand Springs. She was a member of the Fisher Pentecostal Assembly of God Church.
She is survived by sons Donald Taber and Douglas Taber, both of Terlton; daughters Darlene Lambert of Terlton, Pauline Gray and Julia Simpson, both of Sand Springs, Lola Hardaway of Tulsa, and Carol Callahan of Campbell, Mo.; sisters Isabell Hutchins of Kellyville, Dorothy Hutchins of Muskogee and Buena Pierce of California; many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Casketbearers are to be Chuck Gray, Jimmy Park, Carl Lanham, Eddie King, Deon Anderson, Bill Hitt and Thomas Anderson.
Taber was preceded in death by her husband, Ervin, on Dec 1, 1973 and a daughter Marcella Hitt on Nov. 9, 1992.


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Thai silk is one of the most valued and widely-acclaimed fabrics in the world. One distinguishing factor that sets Thai silk apart from other silk is the wave-like quality of the Thai silk threads. This combined with Thailand’s individualistic tradition of handwoven craftsmanship is what makes Thai silk famous all over the world for its elegance and beauty.
Thai silk in its finished form is the result of a long and attentive process which finds its beginning in the silkworm. Called Bombyse mari by the scientific community, these tiny engineers of silk have a life-cycle similar to the common butterfly. After hatching out of the egg, the silk worm feeds on Indian Mulberry leaves until it is ready to spin a cocoon around itself and await its transformation into a butterfly. It is at this crucial stage that man intervenes, for it is the yellow threads of the cocoon that make the soft, sheer, coveted fabric dubbed silk.
History has it that silk originated thousands of years ago in china. Ln those times, as man relied completely on chance findings of silk worm cocoons for the precious silk threads, nature dictated the production of silk. Now, however, the process has been revolutionised. Plantations of Indian Mulberry are grown in order to ensure a steady supply of cocoons, and, in many cases, industrial machinery is employed in the weaving and dyeing process. In the production of Thai silk, however, the traditional methods of Saaw Mai, Grew Mai, Tii Gleaw, and Taw Mai are still used.
The first step in the production of silk after the cocoons have been gathered is called Saaw Mai. First, the cocoons are boiled in order to separate the intricate web of thread. From there, each strand is meticulously pulled out. In order for silk to be high-quality, strands from several cocoons must be pulled out simultaneously so that they will entwine to form larger, stronger threads. This, in turn, results in silk that reflects light and has a high sheer.
Next, the threads are placed on a wheel and made into spools in a process called Grew Mai. While the threads are being spun, warm water is used to increase their elasticity. Strands that have passed the Grew Mai step should be smooth, straight, and continuous throughout.
The third step is called Tii Gleaw, and involves combining the spools obtained in the Grew Mai process into plies. This ensures that the silk will not separate during weaving. From here the plies are bleached and dyed in preparation for weaving.
Taw Mai or the weaving, is the climax of the silk production process for it involves incorporating hours of painstaking preparation into unrivalled artistic expression and beauty. Two types of silk are used in weaving. One, called ‘Yim silk’, is used for background and the other, ‘Pung silk’, is used for designs. Instruments used in weaving are the Hoog and the Gi Gradook. Both require craftsmanship, knowledge, and experience on the part of the weaver in order to produce the design and pattern desired. This is especially true of intricate designs such as the Pha Yok Dok Tong and the Pha Yok Dok Ngern in which one misplaced strand would arrest the pattern’s freedom and flow.
By the time silk appears as we know it, much time, energy, and care has been invested—all of which reflect the painstaking love of the creators. Thai silk, already beautiful of itself, increases tenfold in worth and significance with an understanding of the history and processes behind it.
Those visiting Chiang Mai and interested in Thai silk should be sure to tour Sankampaeng, one of Chiang Mai’s largest silk producing areas.

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Thanks for your interest in Joy City Church. If you’ve never been to our church and want to know what to expect on your first visit, then read on.
Sunday morning worship services begin at 10:30am. Ushers will greet you at the doors and provide you with a church bulletin to follow throughout the service.
We usually begin with a few songs of worship. Feel free to sit, stand, sing, or dance. Express your worship to God using your heart, mind, soul and body. If you don’t know the songs, don’t worry. We didn’t know them at first either. Feel free to just listen and follow the words on the screen.
Invocation means “to call on. To begin the service we call on the Lord for the gift of his presence with us.
At greeting time we take a moment to shake one another’s hands and introduce ourselves to people we don’t know yet.
This is when we pray for our church, our city and our world.
Children that are grade 6 and under are invited to join Children’s Church at this time. Nursery is also provided.
This is a time of practical teaching from the Bible.
We invite all believers to participate in the Lord’s Supper. If you are a visitor and you have not yet made a decision to follow Christ, please feel free to just sit and watch the celebration. The Communion service is how we as believers, remember and celebrate the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This is a time for us to give our tithe (and offerings) to God and thus support our church and it's ministries financially. It is a way to thank God for his blessing. If you are a visitor, feel free to let the offering plate pass by. The only gift we’d like from you is a completed feedback card that can be obtained at the welcome desk.
This is the closing prayer of blessing at the end of the worship service.
If you have special needs and you would like someone to pray with you, please feel free to make your way to the front of the church, following the service. Have a seat in the first row and one of our church elders will come and pray with you.
We welcome you to join us just outside the auditorium for refreshments after the worship service.


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It’s not unusual for athletes to put themselves through a tough final preparation on the eve of an Olympic Games.
But it’s unlikely many athletes competing in Rio next month will have had the lead-up that Australian weightlifter, Tia-Clair Toomey, has had.
Toomey has just competed in the gruelling World Crossfit Games in California, finishing second to earn the unofficial title of “second fittest woman in the world”.
Toomey came to weightlifting from a crossfit background, and has managed to successfully combine the two passions.
So when the 2016 Crossfit Games were scheduled a month before the Rio Olympics, it presented a conundrum for the 23-year-old from Gladstone.
But she never had any doubts what she would do.
“I was always going to compete at the Crossfit games and never once did I consider pulling out,” Toomey said.
“Crossfit and weightlifting complement each other, and there was never a time where I felt as though my weightlifting suffered because I was also training for the Crossfit Games.
Toomey was leading the competition heading into the final day, but couldn’t quite hold on, with Iceland’s defending champion Katrin Davidsdottir snatching the title by just 11 points.
“I am a little disappointed that I just missed out on the top spot, but I am so honoured to be back on the podium again again this year,” Toomey said.
“It has fired me up represent my country at my very best. The past six weeks have been amazing.
Toomey will be Australia’s only female lifter in Rio, and will compete in the 58kg division.

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One of the best things about the low fade is how versatile it is. From comb-overs to crew cuts, you can pair it with just about any short or medium hairstyle.
Low fade haircuts can elevate any man's style. They can vary from short to long and they offer the cleanest cut finish. They even look great as they grow out, so you can go a couple extra weeks between cuts.
This low fade haircut focuses more on the how when it comes to style and the cut itself, rather than the type of hair you have.
The design has a simple medium size pompadour at the top, while the low fade on the sides creates a beautiful disconnection that pairs well with facial hair.
The smooth curls on the crown of this hairstyle are best achieved when using a quality hair product. The low fade on the sides is paired with a stylish razor line that creates a distinct and edgy appearance.
The spiral pattern at the center of the head is what is most eye-catching about this hairstyle. What makes this look so unique is that it starts with the natural hair growth pattern, then drops into the low fade on the sides.
The "boy-next-door" haircut is timeless, and yet it can easily be modernized with a low fade cut and some added facial hair.
To style, brush your hair back with your favorite styling product, then use a hairdryer and a round brush to add some extra volume.
This funky haircut entails leaving some textured and wavy locks at the top of the head. You'll notice the sides have a fantastic low fade design that makes them look chic.
You should finish the design by sweeping back the locks at the top very neatly.
This low fade haircut entails finishing the hair a couple of inches from the hairline and making the sides bald. The skin fade that this style creates is breathtaking, but the long textured bangs at the top are what make it stand out.
Make sure to style the bangs by sweeping them frontwards.
Although this hairstyle has a perfect long top and faded sides design, the razor line on the side still gives it an extra appeal.
The low fade on the sides is just breathtaking, but the introduction of the artistic line takes its appearance a notch higher.
Scissor fades are harder to accomplish and require more frequent maintenance than most low fades, but they also appear more stylish and create an overall interesting look.
If you want to leave the hair long on top, you can style it into spikes or a long comb over.
Adding a low fade to the classic crew cut makes this hairstyle the perfect hairdo. If you want to combine it with a neat disconnected beard, you can elevate it even further.
Spiked hair pairs well with a line up and high to low skin fade. Make sure to start with short, choppy layers. You'll notice the hair descends deeply and darkens again for a sculpted beard and mustache.
Make sure you don't go overboard with styling products, to avoid adding a greasy look to the mix!
This hairstyle is a great way to express yourself. A good hairstylist will be able to produce virtually any image you want.
By adding a design carved above the ear to this burst fade, you can make it both customizable and completely unique.
A fade cut should complement every aspect of the wearer's face. You can thicken the tuft of hair on top by fading the sides above the earline to make the hair at the top appear thicker.
A low neck fade is similar to a bald fade. With this look, the hair is completely cleared away from the neck. Discuss the various combinations you can achieve with your barber, then ask for a bald shave to accomplish the crisp, clean look in the back.
A defining line up and a fresh low fade will give your hairstyle a fresh and clean look. When you look at the blending of this hairstyle, you'll notice it starts at zero, then transitions all the way up.
Not all low fade haircuts look best when worn neat and polished. This one is paired with a short taper with wild and textured waves which create an edgy and stylish combination that is sure to turn heads.
These twisted curls are very modern and stand out even more when paired with a low fade and a tight line up. The great thing about these sponge twists are that they will give your hair some awesome texture.
The fade gives a clean finish and will draw attention to the defined curls. To achieve this look, make sure to use a shampoo and conditioner with high moisture and preferably contain mineral oil, and are paraben and sulfate free.
This is a modern variation of the classic side part. The thing we love most about this hairstyle though is that it doubles as a casual look as well as a professional hairstyle you can rock at formal or business events.
Finish by parting the hair into a hard side part.
With this haircut, detail is key. It works well with any face shape.
The hairstyle pictured here actually combines a low burst fade and a mohawk. Be advised, this hairstyle can require a lot of maintenance because the hair tends to grow back fast.
One of the great things about afros is whether you opt for a flat top or a buzz cut, they work with basically any type of fade.
The contrast between the low fade and the structure and detailing around the hairline is what makes this style unique. The goal is to leave things looking razor sharp and detailed, so we suggest asking your barber for a low fade with a grade one or lower.
Remember that the shaped-up lines will need frequent attention to stay looking pristine. Make sure to get a trim regularly, about every two weeks to keep it looking sharp.
A slick back hairstyle is already trendy, but when you add a low fade into the mix, it takes this look to a whole new level. When you speak to your barber, simply request a low fade on the sides with a slick back on top, but you might want to bring photos for reference.
To style, blow-dry the hair back on medium heat and using a comb. Next, work a pomade through the full length of the hair using your fingers. We recommend using a firm hold pomade like ShapeShifter by Mack for Men.
Finish by using your comb to slick the hair back and lock things into place.
If you're looking to show off your natural curls, this cropped cut with a low fade is your ideal option. Not only will the cut allow you to make the most of the texture on top of your head, but it will also help keep your appearance in check with a short length and smart shape.
A low fade is a great option for adding a stylish flare to a short haircut. By adding a taper to your hair you can elevate your otherwise standard cropped cut.
The fade, which gradually reduces the length of the hair from around the temples to the ears, naturally draws the eyes up, adding shape and focus to your look.
While the buzz cut is a highly practical haircut, it’s not known for being one of the most exciting styles. If you like this super short cut, but want to spice things up, try adding a low fade.
A small taper is a great way to add style and a point of difference to a buzz cut without taking away its signature aesthetic. Opting for a short fade also means that you’ll reveal just the right amount of skin.
If you love the look of a pompadour but haven’t quite mastered its perfect appearance, this messy pompadour can look just as stylish as a structured one when styled in the right way.
Luckily, all you need to do to achieve this look is add a low fade. This easy addition will add a sense of tidiness to your hairstyle by keeping its sides short and sharp.
When you pair a low fade with an undercut, you get a unique and modern look. To achieve this look, all you need to do is separate your hair into three sections.
The longest part will be on top, the undercut below the crown, and the fade around the temples and ears.
One of the best ways to wear a low fade is to partner it with a fauxhawk. A fauxhawk, which is short for “faux mohawk”, is a less dramatic take on the classic hairstyle.
Although the style still features hair worn spiked up in a strip from the front to the back of the head, it doesn’t have disconnected, shaved sides. Instead, tapered cuts, such as a fade are used to create the shape of a mohawk without its bold appearance.
With this low skin fade, the hair is cut down to the skin, making the hair on top seem even thicker and longer. Skin fades also work well with beards of all lengths. You'll notice with this cut, the sideburns are gone, but the hair tapers into the facial hair.
The classic comb-over gets a revamp with this super slick low fade comb-over. When partnered with a full top, the combination creates a look that’s rooted in tradition but also appears quite contemporary.
A low fade quiff strikes a balance between the short sides and high top. If you're opting for a low fade over a regular or high fade, this is an excellent choice, especially if you're a man with a long or oval-shaped face.
Like the buzz cut, a classic crew cut can also benefit greatly from the addition of a low fade. The tapered shave will quickly add a more contemporary and on-trend look to the traditional cut.
Because this look is rather subtle, it won’t alter the sharp and professional appearance of your crew cut, making it a great look you can rock at the office.
This unique look works brilliantly thanks to its short sides, which transform from a "barely-there" look into a big burst of hair on top. If you have a broad or round face, this elongating hairstyle can perhaps even give you a slimmer appearance.
A taper is similar to a fade, except it's longer. A tapered cut goes from short to shorter while a fade goes all the way down to the skin. This low taper fade combines the two with short taper that fades hair around the neckline.
Like the name suggests, a drop fade drops down behind the ear. All low fades are drop fades because they follow the arc of the hairline.


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Ideal small boat for a couple or for a couple and a small child.
Aft cabin with double berth and convertible settee single. Convertible double dinette berthin saloon. Toilet, wash basin and showercompartment. Stairs to upper sun deck.


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When you take a hotel that no one could turn a profit on and make the red ink disappear, most hoteliers would agree you have a recipe for success.
Jay Hartz, CHA, purchased the distressed Hotel Pattee in Perry, Iowa in 2013. With a long history of dealing with and succeeding in insolvency situations, Mr. Hartz believed he had what it took to turn the iconic property around. In 12 short months, the hotel was in the black, and in early 2018, he sold the thriving property in order to take his turnaround strategy on the road.
Today, Mr. Hartz is the President of Next Generation Revenue Per Available Room, which is a consulting and training firm focusing on helping hotels reach their full revenue potential. His NextGenRevPar Professional Sales Training Program has been designed after 30 years of hotel industry expertise with many of the major international brands including Marriott, IHG, Hilton Choice and Wyndham. The model focuses on an eight-week training program followed by ongoing weekly support, because he firmly believes repetition is what drives successful results. The NextGenRevPar program incorporates three key factors: 1) Owning a “hotel specific” sales model; 2) Decreasing sales turnover; and 3) Maximizing revenue potential.
Mr. Hartz is passionate about helping salespeople develop their skill set and his proprietary “Hartz Hotel Selling Institute” is unparalleled in our industry as it provides an innovative approach to lead generation, prospecting, and shifting business from competitors.
Mr. Hartz graduated from the University of Missouri - Saint Louis with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General.
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CDS has transportation management expertise for all of the major modes of transportation (truckload, less than truckload, air, and ocean).
Our team will work with your organization and analyze your transportation needs . We can determine the most beneficial mode of transportation and will explore every opportunity to minimize total logistics costs.
We analyze existing processes, from initiation of an order through fulfillment, and evaluate modal selection, carrier utilization, and existing cost structures. We formulate a customized solution for your unique needs.
Need a 53ft Air Ride Tractor-trailer to pick up anywhere in the nation and deliver direct? Excellent, we'll be there!
We can handle all your needs for local, regional, intra-state, and national transportation with our company owned fleet of direct tractor-trailers or as a licensed nationwide transportation broker. We will work with you on transportation and logistics services for your conventional and specialized needs.
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Whatever your shipping needs, wherever you need to ship it to in North America, CDS LTL service will provide you a complete, customized shipping solution. Also know that volume discounts CDS receives through our LTL partners are passed right along to you!
We'll route your shipment in the most direct way, keeping freight handling to a minimum. If faced with transportation "surprises", you can rely on us to react and effect appropriate routing changes, alerting you to the situation and keeping your LTL delivery on schedule. You can always check this site as it will have your proof of delivery signature and charges in realtime.

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Help to get all dancers to take the lead in their communities.
The success of NDF's mission depends on participation from people like you!
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Join our “Ambassador Facebook Group” a community where ideas and programs are shared for use in gaining recognition in your community.
NDF is a non-profit and as our official Ambassador it could give you more opportunities and abilities when approaching schools or organizations.

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With the events in Rome, I find my self rummaging – amazed when I think of it that I was in eastern Europe so soon after the fall of Communism. I have nothing on Bruce “Hubely”, of course, who was on his second stint in Bratislava, later under the Brandenburg Gates on unification, when I flew into Warsaw to spread democracy, the cult of Walkman as well as jokes about President Jarulzelski looking a lot like Roy Orbison to Baltic resort town teens.
We lived well on chelb, pivo and ser but I dreamed of zapjakanky. We bought them in these zapshacks, above. Lody is ice cream, by the way, which is a hell of a lot easier to say than what Brucey had to order in Bratislave, zrma zlina.
Update: Watching the CBC Life and Times episode on the Pope last night, I was surprised how the Vatican was pouring money into Poland as part of the pressure it brought to undermine the wall and it got me wondering if all we twenty somethings brought into eastern Europe by tiny institutions in an oddly organized fashion was backed by Rome to some degree as well. Karol’s little army of westerners pushed out into little cities and towns who had little experience of westerners other than as tank drivers. My students thought we all used one brand, “Wash n’ Go” shampoo, as it was the first to make the market there. That and “The Final Countdown” by Europe was the height of current pop music as someone had a cassette. To counteract that I passed around the Walkman with Blue Rodeo and “My Definition of a Boombastic (Jazz Style)” by Dream Warriors.
Roaming through .jpg files just now I came across this beer label from 1991 in Poland where semi-attentive readers are aware I lived. Buying beer in Eastern Euope then was hit and miss. Local families, in our district of new suburbs, ran shops out of their bottom floors and the beers for sale were those Pan Sklepu would go and get. Supply lines were a bit erratic as a result. So happy were the days when Pivo Gdanskie would show up as opposed to some rot from Slupsk which used cloves instead of hops – but only on some weeks when their hops supply didn’t come through. Nothing as refreshing as the surprise of a bubbly mouthful of cloves.
In the good old days of 1996 before needy ernest blogs, e-mail clogging spam, Lord Google, when flaming and cross-posting was killing off Usenet, when you used to surf the net to find stuff knowing it was all entirely unreliable gossip, I used to copy the weekly quotes from the web version of the English language paper The Warsaw Voice to mail to my buddy Gary, then in Vancouver.
I lived in Poland in 1991 and would, when on the trains to some end of the country, at stations with unpronouncable names, grab any copy of the tissue paper printed rag I could find. The life of an English as a Second Language teacher in a coastal city in Poland was pretty pleasantly self-defined and small. Having little access to TV or local chit-chat (only 8 people in the City seemed to have any grasp of English, others preferring to curse at us behind our backsNeimieck! which means both German and something like “not human” – to which my retort of being Canadian and therefore an ally against the Nazis often brought great wailings of apology and hugs from stinky drunk pensioners), The Warsaw Voice told us that life in Poland was not all cream cakes, tinned boar or elk and Russian champaign: we lived in a still-subsidized Baltic resort fairly oblivious even of the Balkin wars starting a few hundred kilometres to the south.
A Polish woman at the Polish consulate in Paris, in enlisting help to find the French father of her baby.
Henryk Wojciechowski, newly appointed Gdañsk province administrator, telling reporters about the accident when, driving in the heart of the city, his driver ran over a boy who got up off the road and ran away.
Zinaida Bolieva, a 46-year-old resident of Northern Ossetia, who offered to be a donor if Boris Yeltsin needed a heart transplant.
A Soviet joke from Brezhnev’s times, recalled by General Aleksandr Lebed in an interview for Stern magazine. Lebed said that with Boris Yeltsin’s illness, the Kremlin situation is reminiscent of the Brezhnev joke.
When looking through the web stats, I got to wondering why, outside of North America, Holland would be the hotbed of the greatest number of my readers when I realized it is the Google effect. Having used the word Nederlands and therefore been linked by a few Dutch blog trolling spiders or bots or whatever they are, I get a bit of a boost on Dutch Google and, bob’s your uncle, I stand tall in the low countries. So…can this be manufacturered?
My wife and I met in Ko³obrzeg, a resort city on the Baltic Coast of Poland where the Nazis met a well-deserved, nasty fate at the hands of the Red Army on the beaches after running out of both land and options in the spring of ’45. The ever patient Ellen and I both taught ESL there and, unlike most others who travelled to Eastern Europe to teach a decade or so ago, briefly enjoyed a rather splendid if corney luxury lifestyle – Bulgarian wines, tinned elk and boar, first walkman in the province, at $400 a month an income 3 times that of a doctor. A sense of the place can be seen in some of its websites for a sanitorium/spa, a hotel/spa, spa-tourism, spa-fishing-poets, spa-investment, yacht-spa, people at the spa town…I suppose I could go on…Anyway, this is an open invite for discussion of all things Ko³obrzeg. What the hell.
Author AlanPosted on June 19, 2003 December 29, 2016 Categories 1900s, Me and Mine, PolandTags Me and Mine3 Comments on Kołobrzeg! Kołobrzeg!


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The Paul Fiocca Award is the highest distinction presented by The Royal Canadian Numismatic Association, and the second highest award in Canadian Numismatics. The award is presented annually for “Long term meritorious service or major contributions to the RCNA” and is an award not just to recognize the elite of the hobby, but any individual who may have worked behind the scenes, often for many decades, for the betterment of the Association.
This award is strictly an RCNA award for RCNA members, and is not to be confused with the J. Douglas Ferguson award, the highest award in Canadian numismatics, which does not require membership in the RCNA.
Paul Fiocca was publisher of Canadian Coin News from 1989 until his retirement, remaining a supporter of Canadian numismatics and giving freely of his own time and expertise. He served as editor of The CN Journalfor a number of years, and was serving the RCNA in that capacity at the time of his death in 2007. The award that bears his name is funded by donations from Trajan Publishing Corporation and others that were his friends.
The President of the Association presents the Paul Fiocca Award at each year’s annual RCNA convention to a Royal Canadian Numismatic Association (RCNA) member.
An Independent Board of Award selects the annual recipient. The Board consists of five members. 1. The current RCNA President. 2. A senior Executive of Trajan Publishing Corporation. 3-5. Three other senior RCNA members appointed by the RCNA President and Trajan Publishing Corporation, at least one who is a past RCNA President. The board selects a chairman each year and calls for nominations. Nominations are welcomed from any member of the RCNA The award is given exclusively to a living RCNA member who had not previously received the award.
The award consists of a walnut plaque with a gold plated inscription and with two current year RCNA Convention medals imbedded, and a separate framed Certificate of Award listing the accomplishments of the recipient.


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Our students would love to have the pleasure of your company on Wednesday 3rd April from 3.45 – 5.15 for our Phase Three and Four Spring Showcase.
This term students have been working exceptionally hard across their subjects and have produced some incredible work that they are eager to share.
Please come in to the Language Arts Cafe and the Theatre between 3.45 – 5.15 to share in the work they have created. We will have a mixture of live performances, art, project based learning, poetry, photography and media on show.


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Hope you guys all had a great weekend! I'm gearing up to spend the latter part of this week in Big Bend camping, hiking and spending as much time outdoors as possible. I can't wait to share about the trip with you guys since it's been on my bucket list for years now. In the meantime though, I thought this outfit worn a few weeks ago is a perfect transition into Spring.
These loafers are perfect for this time of year. A blocked heel loafer is a great alternative to a pump for work. Although I rarely wear much black, I realized it was a color lacking in my shoes. With over a hundred pairs, I only had one that was work appropriate. Needless to say, I decided to scoop these up immediately. They worked perfectly with this floral dress and are pretty comfortable to be in all day.
This hat was one I found two years ago at a Whole Foods here in Houston. I can't tell you how much I've worn it for Spring and Summers. It's made by one of my favorite hat companies named San Diego Hat Company. They have great products and usually are at an affordable price. Hats are such a great way to accessorize if you are not a huge jewelry person. You can check out a few of my other hat looks on this page.


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Over the years I've envisioned many creations that have involved accents or detailed linear features that I haven't had a means to achieve. One such project that had significant appeal was to render the Geophysical Institute logo in stained glass. The eventual results were satisfyingly successful. You can see and read a bit about it on one of my web pages: "http://www.ElvesOfEster.com/GIlogo.html". The photographs don't do either the glass or the frame justice, but the main one shows the effects of directional lighting on the polished mahogany, which is actually a uniform color cut from the same board. But that's another story.
There were a few problematic linear features of this logo, some could be resolved through different glass techniques. The worst, however, was that the forty-seven letters around the edge, "Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks" are an integral part of the logo and couldn't be ignored.
I thought about the problem of the letters for two years and researched and considered many options. The simplest solution would have been to paint them onto the frame, but even though I enjoy painting I couldn't stomach that idea. Early on I found that a local sign artist, Glen Pardy and his Vital Signs (907-479-7999), could do a fine quality routing job, so cutting the letters wouldn't be a problem. Sandblasting was another intriguing option. So was inlaying glass letters, but it left the problem of islands within letters like "o". Then, following up on earlier methods I'd used, I investigated metals with low enough melting temperatures to inlay into wood. They turned out to be either highly toxic (e.g. cadmium) or expensive (e.g. indium alloy), or both.
Exhaustive searching on the Web turned up information on the cold-cast bronze technique for sculptures. This led to quite a bit more research on and experimentation with available resins, primarily epoxies, polyesters, and urethanes.
The method I can now recommend wholeheartedly is filling routed, or carved, areas with bronze, brass, copper or aluminum powder mixed with urethane resin. There are lots of different urethane resins available. The one I liked the best was Synair's Por-A-Kast Mark 1 which is a two part, cream colored resin that's mixed 1 to 1 by volume which makes it very easy. I found that the cream colored stuff resulted in a better bronze finish than the clear resins that I tried and urethane is superior to polyester or epoxy in many ways.
You can read more about Synair's products, including their metal powders at: "http://www.synair.com/products/". Their dark bronze is a true bronze (copper/tin) and their light bronze, which I used, is actually brass (copper/zinc). Other sources of related products can be found through one of my links pages at: "http://www.ElvesOfEster.com/resins.html".
The basic inlay process that I used is this. I constructed a hexagon out of 3/4" mahogany. I had Glen at Vital Signs route it into a 31" diameter circle and route out the 47 letters to a depth of about 5/32" using a 1/16" router bit on a computer controlled router table. You'll notice that the font used was Times Roman with nice, finely detailed serifs. I then mixed up the resin and powder in paper cups and filled the letters. To avoid spillage and contamination, I had two paper cups, each half filled with one part of the resin with its own plastic teaspoon. I put two spoonfuls of one part into a new paper cup and mixed it thoroughly with two spoonfuls of brass powder. I then added two spoonfuls of the other part and one more spoonful of brass and mixed well. I then spooned the rather thick goo into one letter at a time, helping it in with a toothpick as necessary. I overfilled the letters as much as I could without too much spreading beyond the letters' edge over the surface. This was usually about 3/32" to 1/8" high. The reason for so much overfilling is that the metal powder settles, leaving the top of the hardened resin without enough left in it for a good, or even, metallic finish. This effect of gravity is a benefit for cold-cast sculpture, but a potential problem for inlay work.
The Mark 1 resin sets up very quickly (in a few minutes) which is why such small quantities are mixed at one time. It was time and volume enough to do three or four letters with each batch without much if any waste. Filling all 47 letters took under 3 hours. Four cautions are in order. First, the measurements need to be as accurate as you can get with a plastic spoon or the resin won't cure. I'd practiced enough that this wasn't a problem on my actual project. Second, don't push the setting time of the resin or go back and add to already filled letters. Fill each letter right the first time, or there will be noticeable lines in the metallic finish due to the different densities of metallic powder. Third, use a fresh paper cup for mixing each new batch and very promptly and completely wipe off all the resin from your mixing spoon, or use a new one. Finally, even though the urethane is odorless, the catalyst's fumes are toxic so use this stuff in a very well ventilated space.
After waiting at least an hour (overnight is better) I used 80 mesh sandpaper on a Dewalt dust-free orbital sander to remove almost all the excess inlay material - to the point where there's a bit of feathered "flash" around the edges of each letter. The stuff is quite hard, but it sands very easily so this is a satisfyingly fast process. As always, wear a real dust mask. I then used 150 mesh to bring everything truly flush. At this point I mixed up another batch of resin and filled several little pits caused by air bubbles, let it cure and re-sanded with 150 mesh paper. I then gradually worked my way down with 220, 320, 500 and finally 500 mesh as for any fine wood project.
To fellow crafts people I'll admit to one of my known errors on this project. In my hurry to meet a deadline, I finish sanded the surface before routing in a star that overlapped (cut into) one of the letters prior to filling it with aluminum/resin. When I sanded the star down I failed to carefully finish-sand it and the surrounding area in a uniform direction. The metal is even more sensitive to this than the wood, such that light is reflected differently off part of the letter containing the star. Otherwise, the overlapping aluminum and bronze inlay was quite successful and effective.
I finished this frame with about five thin coats of water-based polyurethane, since it should never be outside anyway. I had originally planned to have a purple frame, since that's the traditional coloring of the logo. My early tests routing purpleheart found it to be too brittle for such precision routing - it chipped too much. The alternative of using purple, or any other, stain on the mahogany didn't work out either since it discolored the urethane resin in the inlay. I didn't have time to experiment further for this project, but I think that I might be able to get around this by using extra fine steel wool on the inlay after the stain is applied. I hope so, since there isn't as much contrast between the natural mahogany and the brass as I wanted. Though the polished mahogany is beautiful, in hindsight I think maybe I should have used walnut, just to get an awesome contrast. For this glass panel though, which has dramatic and dynamic features (e.g. the dichroic aurora) that photographs just can't catch, the more subtle lettering works quite well.
In summary, I encourage you to try this "cold-inlay" technique. There's an elegance about it that I haven't seen in other alternatives. It's quick, easy, and inexpensive - well worth the effort. Its versatility lends itself to creative possibilities well beyond simple letters.