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“Ua ho’i ka ‘ōpua i Awalua” – As Max prepares to say goodbye to his Five-0 ohana, they must investigate a murder during a police convention on the Island, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Friday, Jan. 13 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
I guess there are not many people who do not like Max. And that is easy to explain; he is a non-threatening character. Huh? 😉 He doesn’t take away time from any of the others. He’s barely seen without interacting with one of the Five-0 team. And even if he’s seen alone, or with Sabrina, no one begrudges him that little time.
So, yeah, he is loved by most. Huge parts surely due to Masi Oka, who always has been very nice to us fans. Providing us with BTS pictures, and generally be a nice and humble person. Considering all that, it was clear that Max will be missed, and most of us hoped he would get a proper send-off. With a really good last episode.
Did that happen? Well, to an extent, yes. His send-off was very nice and very well done. The episode in general? Not so much.
But as usual let’s start at the beginning. With a hilarious scene with Steve and Grover. You know, this scene didn’t serve any real purpose, but with these two, I don’t freaking care!
Lou explaining to Steve the well-known delicious coffee-dip was just too good. I loved not only Lou, but even more so Steve’s faces to what he had to listen to. Just freaking glorious.
Then we got the totally idiotic scene with Danny and his son who now calls him Daddy. Yeah, sure. Ugh.
And off we go to the crime scene. They put such effort into that scene, I commend them for it, but I think it was a total waste of time. Why? Because they wanted it as a distraction from the real crime. Well, duh, pretty stupid to let Steve find the real crime not even after one minute at the crime scene. They knew right from the start that this was not about the explosion, but about the break-in to steal some evidence. So why all the fuss around it? Made no sense. But as I said, great set-prep.
OH, and how convenient that Danny didn’t suffer from any claustrophobia this week. Geez.
The case was so la-la. To be honest, it was pretty boring. Some nice scenes, but just not good enough to hold my interest.
And one other person that really annoyed the heck outta me was Hirsch. What the heck was he doing there? Especially at Max good bye party. That was nothing but embarrassing and annoying. That is another character I can not stand. Horrible character. And I really don’t get why he’s coming back again and again. I wish he would disappear, never to be seen again. Especially after crashing Steve’s new truck. What an idiot.
So, after some investigation here and there they finally solve the case. But honestly, I really didn’t care.
So, let’s go to the main part of this episode, the farewell for Max. Honestly, I had hoped that we would get one final case Max would be involved in. Seeing him interact with every character on the show one last time. That would have been awesome. They still could have integrated everything they did, but in a better way.
Instead we got mega annoying Jerry. Yeah, yeah, I know there are people who love this character, but he is a man I only find annoying with a capital A. Ugh.
And although others might find his time in the office ‘helping’ Jerry pack, well played and good. For me it was terrible. Seeing him lounging there like he owned the place, reading Max’s personal journals was the worst scenes with him ever. Sorry, but for me that was just disgusting.
Yes, I admit, I can’t stand the character, and I don’t like the actor. I just don’t like him at all. And I’m sure there is nothing he can do right in my eyes. So, every time I have to endure him is pure torture. He is just an absolute no go. Thankfully, they at least stopped with the ridiculous question about getting him a badge. If that ever happened I think that would be the moment I would jump ship. There are just things in life that go too far. And Jerry is one of those people that make me feel that way every time I see him.
Not his fault, but I can’t help it. But despite my total dislike of Jerry, I really think his behavior in the office was not OK. Excuses like ‘that is just how he is’, like people use all the time for misbehaving people, doesn’t cut it for me. It is not OK to act without thinking about how others might feel about it. That goes for Jerry just as much as for Danny. These two fall in the same category for me.
Max seeing Danny as a role model had me laughing out loud. I truly hope he will never ever turn into such a nasty person as Danny most of the time is.
Don’t try to sell Danny as such a great and caring friend for Max. He never was. He verbally abused Max at every corner from the first moment he laid eyes on him. Another easy target for his abuse. Just like Steve has been for the last few years, until he fought back.
I think it is a shame how the show again tried to change history and paint a very different picture to what they have given us the last few years. Yeah, take the brush of love and paint it all over, but that doesn’t really change the past one bit.
But let’s not diminish the great part at the end; Max’s speech and farewell, minus stupid Hirsch and calling Grover Sergeant. That was very well done, great music, wonderful scenes.
I’m way more happy than sad that Max is leaving. Because when we met Max he was a person barely able to function in society. With no social skills, family or friends. But over the years he evolved into a well-integrated person into society, but way more importantly well-integrated into a family, and with friends he can rely on.
So, yeah, I am more happy than anything that Max found his way and will go on to greater and better things. That he has found his calling. That he will pursue his dreams. Not many people have that privilege.
That is why I did not shed any tears during his nice speech. No, I was smiling, knowing that his Ohana will love him no matter what, and that he will have a place among them should he ever come back home.
I wish the character Max all the best for his future, but even more so I wish Masi Oka all the very best for his future endeavors.
Oh, and one more thing, I’m very much looking forward to seeing more of the new ME. I think she will be a great replacement for our beloved Max. Welcome on board.
And in case you were wondering if they were drinking non-alcoholic beer, you know, because of liver. 😉 Nope, sorry. Light beer, but still with alcohol.
So, there you have it, my short review for a more than mediocre episode. One I had many hopes for, but most of them weren’t fulfilled.
I love McGrover. They are so cute and cuddly. All in good fun and love it when they kid one another.
Love Max and will miss him. Heard Masi is trying to be a producer and writer and other projects is the reason he is leaving. And like Max he is very smart.
Loved it with him and Jerry and wished there were more scenes with him. Sorry know you do not like Jerry.
Really Steve having yet another truck smashed. Poor guy!
I love Duke and hope there will be a story on him. As really give this guy a story!
My expectations were so high that I was disappointed and that is my fault entirely.
I will miss Max. I still can’t understand why certain people were at this party and others were missing. I hope he rethinks wanting to have a marriage like Kodam unless he’s into duct tape. . And I don’t see Steve as a big brother– A peer yes– Someone he respects, yes.– A friend, yes. Nahele sees him as a big brother but that seems right.
OK, I am nit-picking here. I voted poor.
The COTW didn’t hold my interest in the least. I did enjoy the flashbacks of Max and really didn’t mind Jerry reading his journals as the vehicle to deliver them, but you’re right. it would’ve been nice if they’d been worked into the case somehow.
Hirsch. Why does this character even still exist in this universe, let alone attend the party AND give a speech? Is is just so PL can employ his friends? A ridiculous waste of screen time. Someone on twitter noted that it’s interesting how much off time Five 0 spends with their perps..well certain perps.
I also didn’t really see the need for the malasada scene, much as I enjoy Grover and McGrover. It seemed out of place in the ep too. One can only hope that Jimmy Buffet will play into recovering the missing uranium in some fashion after the guys get done with their facials and such… otherwise, pointless.
I wish all the best to Masi Oka. Sounds like a smart ambitious guy. Did you know he once worked for George Lucas at Industrial Light and Magic? I will miss Max’s quirky ways. As far as Max wanting to emulate Kono and Adam, I’m gonna go with they’ve stuck by each other thru a lot of ridiculous stuff and are still together. Other than the Max farewell, a throwaway ep.
McG is still hot. Bring Back Cath.
I also am hoping Jimmy Buffet’s role was a hint of things to come and he has a bigger role in a future episode. Otherwise,it was dumb.
I voted good and that is only because I liked most of Max’s farewell scene along with the flashbacks. I didn’t hate the COTW, there had to be one I guess and it was okay. I figure if Mas didn’t mind Jerry reading his journals then I wouldn’t be upset although I did dislike how Jerry was then useless in helping Max pack up his things. I like the new ME and hope we get to know her better in the scenes where a ME is called for, beyond that I don’t need to have her in every ohana gathering. Not every work interaction needs to become family.
I am guessing that PL felt that Max had to say something nice about everyone so I will excuse the fact that Max said he admired Danny. All I could think of was how often Danny put him down or was nasty to him. I have blocked out the beginning where Danny and Charlie were playing that pointless game…..not cute. And my guess is that Danny’s claustrophobia comes and goes. That is how I have taken to viewing the show……I concentrate on the things I like and block out the ick. And Hirsch is in the ick folder…..can’t see the need for him. Again….why was Grace at this party as well? Was she close to Max?
That said, I will miss Max/Masi and I hope he does well with all his other projects and they can find a way to bring him back for a cameo now and then. Sam, again you have written a great review and I do agree with most of what you said. You do a wonderful job giving us a place to call home and a forum to discuss the show.
oooh the dancing! love that. I forgot to mention that! and Big Wave is WAAYY better tasting than Longboard IMO.
He’s a terrible dancer. Thank goodness he’s pretty.
I’d still dance with him.. cause he’s pretty.
Sam, what was your vote? Did I miss it? I voted poor with some really, really good screencaps. So, Sam you get an awesome for what I thought was a poor episode. You nailed it… Frank Bama… WHY?; Hirsch… idiotic; Jerry… totally I don’t know… it made my skin crawl. He was so inappropriate in reading the journals. I think Max knew he couldn’t get rid of him and couldn’t get him to work, so he let it go. It was downright wrong. I really hated it.
Danny and kid. Just no. Why? Just to give the kid some screen time?
Big explosion, but you’re right. Steve figured out the reasoning in nothing flat. But that’s why he is the boss.
I did love Duke and he is another good one I love to watch – like Max. I will miss Max but I understand why he left. And Masi too. Will definitely miss him. Loved his farewell but the bit about Danny almost made me gag. Those things did hurt Max’s feelings. You could see it on his face. As for wanting a relationship like Kono and Adam, I guess he doesn’t know about the duct tape incident. Or he thinks that’s exciting.
Love the part where “steve” danced over to “Max”. I truly think that was Alex and Masi playing. Loved it.
It was a poor episode with some beautiful footage.
As for next week… it looks interesting.
Of course I gave a rating, I even put a 3-star-picture under it all.
This episode did have more than it´s fare share of odd people. But, unlike you, I like Hirsh´s character and Jerry, so I felt it was a bit funny at least. But Frank Bama´s one minute visit was just too random.
I hated the bit with D and cake face (and kid) and Max´s ridiculous comment about D being a rolemodel. But at least they had the others laugh at that comment. They always seem to get the random locals attending their parties, always see it forced. At least they didn´t have the Dog this time. That was a relief.
Frank Bama showing up was random and quick…after it was over it left me asking “who was Steve talking to on the phone about the missing uranium?” Was it just to mention the case from last week or setting something up for a future episode? If it was just to mention the case from last week then what a waste of a scene. They could have had Lou and Frank talk about where to get good poke.
There was a case this week? i just paid attention to the multiple faces of McGarrett and the pretty well done Max scenes. I was okay with the presence of Hirsch as i enjoy his character; however; it makes little sense for him to be around as opposed to any other random character. i had the same thought that the actor must be buddies with PL. Grace must have been being punished for something she did last season as she looked completely unthrilled to be there. At least she didn’t have to muster up the energy to say “oh, Danno” at any point.
I was okay with Max’s opinions of the team since i think he probably tries to not ruffle feathers and would not confront Jerry about the invasion of privacy as well as lack of help with packing. The writers have decided that Jerry’s social ineptness is a likable trait while the rest of us probably think he needs to learn to behave as an adult. Max having a positive view of Danny would go along with everything else that is written about Danny. The only people who seem to find him annoying are some of us in the fandom. Despite Steve’s eyerolls last season, the writers have decided that everyone must love Danny and no one will ever call him out on some of his attitudes. I definitely have a tendency to pick on people out of affection, so i can understand that supposedly being the case with Danny. I would have needed to have an honest sit down with him thought to find out what he really thinks. the people i pick on, I also tell straight up at times that i like or appreciate, so they know how i really feel.
Anyway,, i don’t have the energy to try to figure out how to rate this one. nothing has really excited me this season other than the Doris rescue ep, so i look forward to the staycation episode so we can see Steve in a bit more relaxed venue (and hopefully have his fling move forward so he can move on from it). I don’t really care about the other three, but Steve could lay in a hammock the entire time and i would tune in (as long as there is a camera on said hammock).
Lol… I didn’t even notice that Grace was even in this episode… I guess she was at the party.
i love Mcg’s look in that 3 star pic at the bottom. It is also an interesting reminder of how much taller Chi is than Alex. I have always known it, but it’s amazing to see.
This episode was real let down for me. I expected so much more.
Too much CATHARSIS is needed.
Dear Mr. Caan: Are your teeth glued together? Are you wearing cotton-wool balls in your mouth? What ever it is. Stop it.
Dear Writers: What happened to Charlie’s Daddy? You know, the one who raised this kid for four years and the one Charlie has known as his Daddy his whole life? Hu?
Dear Writers: Is Danny’s claustrophobia like Danny himself? It comes and goes as it suits? Is it visiting his good friend ailurophobia in Jersey? Or on vacation with tachophobia? Or was it packing the car together with catapedaphobia? Ok. Thought so. You are forgiven.
Writer A: What about Max’s speech? We still have to write it.
Writer B: It has to be good. Everybody loves him. Really everybody.
Writer C: *cough Masi played him well too.
Writer B: That’s it!!! I’ve got it. Let’s make the loved guy praise the not so loved guy way over the top.
Writer C: Why should he do that? He yelled at him, called him Kermit after he saved Steve’s life, and after proud Max told him that he once won a sports medal Danny asked if he should call Ripley’s.
Writer A: Why he should do that? Because WE can. We’re tptb, don’t forget. And while we are on it we can have Max have a thing for duct tape too. Teehee.
Writer C: And what about Steve? Steve was there for Max so many times. What about him?
Writer B: He is a brother. That should do it. Everybody loves Steve, we don’t have to fix anything.
Writer A: Oh shut the f*ck up. It is all us. Us us us. We are the mighty ones.
← Ugh. Sometimes I really think it happens this way. I couldn’t even laugh about what Max said about Danny and BorDam. That was so ridiculous and stupid and so out of character. Ugh.
I loved the scene with Steve and Grover at the beginning. For me it didn’t feel disjointed. Two very good friends and work partners on their way to some boring ‘same procedure as every year’ stuff with coffee and malasadas. I enjoy these two so much, Lou’s words and even more Steve’s facial expressions. They could talk about everything for 45 min. and I would feel absolutely entertained.
The COTW was not that bad, I liked it and that Steve figured it out pretty fast showed why he is getting payed the big bucks and is the leader.
Liked the flashbacks and understand why they stopped that one from 2.01 at that point. Because after that Dannoying wasn’t sweet and wonderful at all.
So I would vote OK if the poll wasn’t closed.
Nooooo! God bless him, he was an unfunky white-boy dancer in Feed too! But even playing a serial killer, he’s such a cuuuuute bad dancer!
Oh I totally forgot. I was giggling like an idiot about the bunny ears at the end. Alex portrays Steve as such a boy sometimes and I love love loooove it.
Steve is the role model in this show.
As AOL is a role model as an actor.

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Henrika Frykman is responsible for all legal and tax matters within the Lundin Petroleum group.
Henrika Frykman was born in Finland in 1977. She has a Master of Laws LL.M. from the University of Stockholm.
Between 2000 and 2002, she practiced general corporate and commercial law with a Swedish law firm in Stockholm. After moving to Geneva in 2002, she joined a large international law firm, focussing on Swiss and international corporate tax matters until 2008, when she joined Lundin Petroleum. She has since then worked with a wide range of Group legal and tax matters.

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I thought that I’d discuss something about ‘Savant Syndrome’ because many people assume that a person with autism has some amazing mathematical or artistic ability. Not true, in fact, maths and I have never been particularly fond of each other. My mental arithmetic is generally good, but the numbers get jumbled up in my brain.
Some people, have Savant Syndrome as a co-existing condition to their autism. However, in amongst the numerous people I know with autism, I can’t think of one person with Savant. It is rare. More likely is it that a person with autism will have co-existing conditions including depression, anxiety (I often wonder whether my mine was the result of autism, as a side effect or whether they are completely unrelated, although I suspect not) or other conditions including epilepsy.
No, no I’m not. I do however, have an exceptional memory for the spoken word, I can recall and recite verbatim conversation, I remember song lyrics, poems I learned in school and other such things. Which is realistically only any use in antagonising those who can’t recall the same; I can tell that it antagonises people because many of them have told me.

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From 28 to 31 October an eight people strong delegation from the Beihang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) in Beijing (China) visited the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change and the School of Education. The delegation consisted of the Director and six academic staff of BUAA’s Institute for Higher Education and of the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
On the first day they were greeted by Prof. Kay Livingston, Deputy Head of School, and by Prof. Michele Schweisfurth, Co-Director of ROC who gave our Chinese guests an overview of the thematic strands and related research carried out by ROC. Further sessions during that day were dedicated to discussing professional degree programmes (with Prof. Penny Enslin, Prof. Nicki Hedge, Prof. Beth Dickson) and issues of professionalization in higher education institutions. These topics served to deepen an already existing research cooperation which will continue over the next couple of years. A further topic for discussion was the potential for establishing a collaborative PhD programme between the Beihang Institute for Higher Education and ROC / the School of Education (UoG representatives: Angela Melley, Lexy Docwra, Dr. Oscar Odena, Dr. Gijsbert Stoet). As there are considerable overlaps in research topics between the Institute and ROC an exchange of doctoral students was seen as quite feasible. Further details of this potential cooperation will be developed in the coming year.
The second day of the visit had a focus on CRADALL and the UBDC/PASCAL Learning City network. Dr. Margaret Sutherland provided an overview of CRADALL. The Learning City network was introduced by Dr. Muir Houston and Dr. Catherine Lido. Lunchtime meetings took place with Prof. Chris Chapman, Director of ROC and Dr. Alan Britton, School International Lead. The afternoon of the second day the delegation had the opportunity to visit the College of Science and Engineering of the University of Glasgow.
On the evening of the second day a dinner at The Bothy was organised by RIO during which the offer to try on kilts was met with enthusiasm and led to a great deal of laughter.
The last couple of days the delegation spent sightseeing in Glasgow and Edinburgh before setting off for Spain on early Sunday morning.

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First off, there exists a concept that needs to be understood and assimilated by every company executive – consumers care about other consumers opinions. You should too. Apart from the fact that customer feedback is the best way to create better, more effective products and to streamline your services, creating portals to resolve customer grievances can help reduce the levels of negative word-of-mouth that you receive.
Plus, resolving a customer’s problem and delivering added value to boot can often turn a rabid critic into an ardent fan. And speaking of fans, creating customer feedback portals (especially on social media) will allow fans to spread the love they feel for your establishment and all it stands for.
You can also ask your happiest and most satisfied customers for reviews. Nothing helps sway a client like a bunch of positive customer reviews. This may be harder to achieve in the B2B sphere, but you should most definitely try. Leverage the information gleaned by your customer support staff to identify your happiest customers, and incentivize review writing with a discount, freebie or even a reciprocal review.
As far as possible, attempt to obtain reviews from companies that are as diverse as possible in terms of size, industry, subsector, etc. By posting diverse reviews, you’ll open yourself to a diversified client portfolio and won’t be dependent on a single market to generate contracts and feedback.
And speaking of reviews, there are tons of review sites out there some reputable with large followings, and some that are little more than bits of hastily strung together HTML. Get out there and book your space on the most highly-rated review sites. One of the easiest and most necessary aspects of maintaining your online reputation is harnessing fan power to ensure that you receive a horde of positive reviews. You can then augment your efforts by actively participating in discussion forums and solving industry-related problems.
Another excellent way to drive customer feedback is to create case studies about your best customers. Now, the idea behind a case study may be to promote your own services and products in the context of a specific problem faced by a particular industry, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t be complementary when mentioning the client. A great way to drive client appreciation is to portray a situation where the client and you worked in tandem to resolve a specific issue. Too many companies are overly promotional with their case studies and often paint the client as being helpless to overcome a problem until the company being promoted steps in to implement a miracle cure.
And finally, we come to social media. Can’t forget that, can we? Not in 2012, anyway.
Poised to emerge as the world’s greatest marketing and customer feedback tool, social media can help you generate massive amounts of positive word-of-mouth. You know the drill set up accounts and pages, hold contests, start lively discussions, provoke intelligent reactions and do everything possible to engage with your customer base and create a rich dialogue that everyone can enjoy and participate in.
Remember, you’re not dealing with the same folks who bought Ginsu knives. Instead, you have to contend with Gen Y, a race of amateur technologists and savvy communicators that know exactly what they’re looking for and how to find it. Encouraging feedback is the first and biggest step to isolating what they want from YOU and how they want to receive it.


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Make Your Trips To The Beach Funner With The HoverCart!
If you’re afraid of falling, these little two-wheeled hoverboards can be a pretty cool gadget to mess around with. Now, thanks to this new modification on the market that turns a hoverboard into a sort of go-kart, they are even cooler!
The patent-pending Hoverboard Sitting Attachment, is as simple as it looks. The cart is essentially a two-wheeled frame that clamps to the center of a hoverboard, making it into a front-wheel-drive, four-wheeled vehicle.
You can buy one of these for only $69, or you could probably figure out how to DIY your own pretty easily!

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Las Vegas is a great place to be a bartender. Whether you work in a local gaming bar, fine-dining restaurant, or a high-volume club, there are a multitude of opportunities to live the bartending dream. For those of us that choose to, there are even opportunities to better oneself, as with the USBG. Our Las Vegas chapter of the USBG was founded in 2001 by local legends Tony Abou-Ganim, Livio Lauro and Francesco Lafranconi, among others. Along with doing philanthropic work, the USBG has been a driving force in our industry for professional development. One key example is the USBG Championship series. It was a four stage competition sponsored by Casa Noble Tequila and was held over weeks and tested competitors on virtually all aspects of our craft. It involved an individual cocktail competition, team event and the Championship finals. The ultimate round was held at Flock & Fowl Downtown where the top three worked a shift behind the bar and were judged on many facets of bartending with a focus on the ultimate metric of bartending, hospitality. The top three, Christopher Bellafatto, Wes Bell and Ryan Clark, were all impressive in their execution, but in the end, Ryan Clark took home the win!
We had a chance to speak with Ryan and second place winner Wes Bell and got their thoughts about the competition, the USBG and the art of our craft.
Where do you work and where are you from?
I work at Vince Neil’s Tatuado inside Circus Circus. I get to work with a great bar team and management; I work the party bus bar, which is a flair bar. It’s great that I get to come to work and have fun with the guests every shift. I have been in the bar & nightclub business for 25 years and am from Canada. I have been heavily involved with flair bartending competitions over the past 13 years.
Tell me about the USBG.
I joined the USBG in 2014 so four years. I love the community and opportunities for competition and learning it provides. Because of the USBGLV I have made great new friends, been fortunate to compete and win in a few competitions that have sent me to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Louisville and next to Estonia for the IBA World Cocktail Championships. Also we constantly get the chance to learn about current and new products oftentimes from the people who make them and master distillers. Without the USBG I would have missed out on so much.
Even though I have been doing this for a while, I am always trying to learn something new, whether it be a spirit or category knowledge, new technique or a different way to look at what I already have done a thousand times. But mostly I just go into work and try and treat the bar like it’s my home and be the best host I can.
What were the best parts and most challenging parts of the comp?
Winning is always the best part; the most challenging was coming up with the finals night round. We only had a few days to get a drink menu of five cocktails in and I also wanted to stand out through theme. But at the same time that force to create is also one of the best parts.
How did it feel to win???
To be able to with the USBGLV chapter bartending competition was great; there were so many talented bartenders involved from all over the city. And after four rounds of tough competition being able to pull out a win was very satisfying.
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I’m currently working at Onyx Bar in the Red Rock Resort. I love that with Stations’ push towards craft cocktails and mixology I get more creative liberty and freedom than a good majority of casino bartenders in Vegas, but still enjoy the benefits of the corporate umbrella. I enjoy my bar specifically because it does afford me the opportunity to make great money on some really busy nights, but also really build relationships with my guests on the slower ones. I am originally from upstate New York, but I’ve been in Vegas for 11 years. I spent just over seven of those in the Air Force, and I’ve been behind the bar for about 3.5 years.
How long have you been in the USBG?
I’ve been in the USBG for almost two years now. I love the camaraderie, as well as the networking and educational opportunities.
How did you feel about this competition?
The most challenging part of the competition was really how quickly everything went down. Favorite part was the day I spent wearing the dress. Definitely a nice breeze that day. I was really happy to place 2nd in the comp. I know I made some rookie mistakes, but that’s because that was the first time I ever made it that far. I think I could’ve done a lot better, but was thankful for the experience 100%.
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Allow your pain to become your message!
We all have a past and there is nothing you can do about it. You can’t turn back the hands of time. What you can do is take the lessons that you’ve learned and pass them on to someone else.
Your past does not dictate your future. Allow what happened to you in the past to make you a better person. Instead of looking back in your past with regrets, think of what you gained and be willing to use them to make your life better.
Remember that you will not receive a testimony without going through a test. In life there will always be trials and tribulations but it should allow you to reach a higher level in your life.
Everybody has a past or something terrible that has happened to them, but in every situation, you can allow it to break you or make you a better person. Sometimes, it may cause you to make a few detours in life, but your destiny is never tied to your past. You have to just go through it. It will not be an easy one, but I promise you, the journey will be well worth it.
I know some of you right now are wanting to start your own business, go back to school, or do something extra-ordinary with your life, but you don’t do it because you fear that people will find out about your past. So, instead of you letting go of your pain or your past, you stay stuck at a dead end job because you lack the courage to do what’s really in your heart.
What you can do is look your pain or past dead in the face and let it know that you are not afraid of it and acknowledge it for what it is. You will allow yourself to be free to move forward. Holding onto the past will only paralyze you and keep you stuck in the past. You will not be able to write a new chapter in your life until you let go of the old one.
What I have learned that doesn’t matter is that you can’t be consumed with what “they” say and worry about how others view you. At the end of the day, you have to be happy with you and the decisions you make, not the next person. So many people get stuck because they put most of their focus, time and energy on what others think about them instead of being true to themselves.
What many fail to realize is that it is usually not about you, so don’t take it personal. Allow your pain to become your message and share it with the world so that others can have hope and know that they too can live beyond their past and step into their greatness.
LaTersa Blakely is an author and mom entrepreneur. Her new book is From Brokenness To Greatness. LaTersa is also a beyond brokenness coach where she inspires and coaches women to go from brokenness to greatness by increasing their self esteem and self worth so that they can live a happier and fulfilled life. She is the founder of Moms Wearing Multiple Hats and creator of Diaper Cakes by LaTersa.
It’s amazing how every time I read a inspiration, it is part of my past experience. Just like you said Latersa, my life is about learning from yesterday, and living for today, with the hope of tomorrow. And when I look in the mirror,, I’m the only one I have to impress. I don’t care about what any one thinks, or says about me.That means that I rent space in there head’s.
So thank you Latersa, for inspiring me to give some of my past experience.


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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang (汪).
Wang Feng (Chinese: 汪峰; born 29 June 1971) is a Chinese rock musician and composer. He was the founder and lead vocals of the rock band No. 43 Baojia Street (named after the street address of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing). He also composed the music for Wang Xiaoshuai's 2001 film Beijing Bicycle.
After two albums No. 43 Baojia Street (1997) and No. 43 Baojia Street 2 (1998), he signed a solo contract with Warner Music Beijing Co., Ltd. The third album Fireworks (2000) was the beginning of his solo career. With a number of songs like Flying Higher (飞得更高) (2004), and Blooming Life (怒放的生命) (2005) on his following albums, Wang Feng entered the media spotlight and became popular in China. His 2009 album Belief Flies in the Wind won him an award as the Most Popular Male Singer in China at the Channel V's 14th Chinese Music Awards. He is also a coach on The Voice of China, and Sing! China, both TV shows which helped him gain immense popularity.
Wang Feng was born in Beijing to a musician's family. Under his father's command, Wang started practicing violin when he was five years old. He attended the middle school attached to the Central Conservatory of Music at the age of eleven. Wang did not understand the purpose of playing violin, or why he had to stay home practising while other kids of his age could play outside. At the age of 14, for the first time in his life, Wang realized the beauty of music through a piece composed by Tchaikovsky. After that experience, Wang decided to pursue music for the rest of his life.
By the age of 17 Wang started listening to Rock music. Wang studied in the Chinese Central Conservatory of Music majoring in violin and viola. In his college years Wang joined the Chinese Youth Orchestra and performed overseas. In his senior year in college (1994), Wang and his friends formed the band No. 43 Baojia Street.
Wang Feng and the band No. 43 Baojia Street (鲍家街43号) released their first album in 1997, three years after it was formed. During these three years the band practiced in a basement in the college and performed in local clubs and bars. To comply with his father's will and to have a stable income, Wang took the offer of the vice concertmaster of the National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra. However Wang quit the job after a year even with a promotion of the concertmaster position, and put himself completely into Rock music. In the beginning, the band was sponsored by "Xiao Wei" (nickname), an alumnus of the Central Conservatory of Music. Xiao Wei's sponsorship allowed the band to practice and perform. They gradually built up their reputation in Beijing, which led the band to a record deal from Beijing Jingwen Record Co., Ltd on 31 May 1997. The band was not profitable under Xiao Wei's sponsorship. Wang couldn't even pay his rent at that time. The record deal with Beijing Jingwen Record was an opportunity for the band to officially enter the music business and to solve the money issue. Xiao Wei understood the benefit of the deal for Wang Feng and the whole band. He terminated the sponsorship himself and left Beijing.
Later that year the band made their first studio album, No. 43 Baojia Street (1997). This album included songs like "Little Bird" and "Good Night Beijing", which became famous afterwards. One year later the band made their second album, No. 43 Baojia Street 2 - Storm Approaching (1998). While the albums were sold in the market, the economic issue of the band and Wang himself did not resolve. In other words, the band was not making a profit. Wang decided to terminate the contract with Beijing Jingwen Record. In 2000, the Warner Music Beijing Co., Ltd found Wang Feng and offered him a record deal but not the whole band. Wang signed the contract and put out the album Fireworks' (2000) in the same year. The songs from this album were made before the band broke up.
During his years with Warner Music, Wang had the boost of his career. Three albums were made, including Fireworks (2000), Love is a Happy Bullet (2002), and Crying while Smiling (2004). The song Flying Higher, which became very popular in China after release, was included in the album Crying while Smiling. Wang also took care of the entire soundtrack of the movie Beijing Bicycle (2001). In July 2005, Wang ended the five-year contract with Warner Music and started his own independent record label "Feng Sheng Music" (Feng Sheng is the Chinese translation for Feng's voice). In the same year, Wang released his fourth studio album "Blooming Life" (2005). The song Blooming life, same as the name of the album, became famous quickly after the album was released and became the most downloaded ringtones in some regions in China. In the same album, Wang included another two famous patriotic pieces, Our Dream (《我们的梦》) and I Love You, China (《我爱你，中国》). Our Dream became the Beijing Olympic Top 10 Golden Songs; I Love You, China was considered a gift for the success of Shenzhou 6, the second human spaceflight of the People's Republic of China. In 2006 Wang was awarded the Pepsi Chart "Best Male Singer in China".
In May 2007, Wang made a new record deal with the Hong Kong media company MusicNationGroup. One month later, Wang released his fifth studio album Brave Heart (2007). Wang claimed to be very satisfied with his work in this album, however one of the tracks was forced to be taken out by the authority. During the time the album was released, some people on the Internet claimed that the hit song Brave Heart was a copy of the song Crazy from the Canadian pop-punk band Simple Plan. Wang's response was, "I do not need to copy other people's work. It's just as simple as that. I do not need to do that at all."
In 2009, after two years since the last album, Wang came back with the Belief Flies in the Wind (2009). The album brought Wang many awards. The song In Spring became No.1 on the 23rd of the Chinese Music Chart. In September, the song Light took the No.1 place again on the 32nd of the Chinese Music Chart. On Nov. 12th, the song When I Miss You won the No.1 on the 42nd of the Chinese Music Chart. On the 9th Global Chinese Music Awards, the song In Spring won the Best Lyrics award. Wang Feng himself won the Best Producer, and the album Belief Flies in the Wind won the Best Album. In an interview with Changjiang Business Journal, Wang claimed that "This album is meant to let everyone to understand the true rock music. It's not about what the majority like or what's popular. I'm making mainstream rock music, and that's what I stand for."
In 2011, after being signed to Rock Forward Entertainment, Wang Feng released Life Asks for Nothing, the first ever double album in Chinese rock history, which phenomenally topped a wide variety of charts and earned him nationwide critical acclaims on the major Chinese music awards. The same year Wang Feng became the first ever Chinese artist who held concerts in grand stadiums twice a year, which again has proved that he is one of very few Chinese rock musicians who enjoy commercial success and mainstream recognition without discarding the famously rebellious roots. His uncompromisingly keen passion for life and independent spirit have radically altered the parameters of Chinese rock scene and have left a deep mark on Chinese popular culture for him as the true inspiring voice of his generation.
In 2013, Wang Feng became a coach in The Voice of China Season 2, with Na Ying, Harlem Yu, and A-mei Zhang. He continued to be a coach even till Season 4.
In 2016, Wang Feng became a coach in the first season of the rebranded Sing! China, where he became the winning mentor courtesy of Jiang Dunhao, who won the series. He did not return for another season in season 2 the following year.
In 2018, Wang Feng was one of the seven first-round singers taking part in the sixth season of Hunan Television's singing competition Singer (which was previously named I Am a Singer). He made it to the finals and finished third, behind Hua Chenyu and winner Jessie J.
Wang is often criticized for his promiscuous nature and cheating behaviour. His first wife is Qi Dan, a TV hostess. He divorced his second wife, when their daughter was only 8 months old, due to his cheating. Feng married for a third time in 2015 to Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi. They gave birth to a girl in the United States. He also has two elder daughters from two previous relationships - Wang Manxi (born 2005), from model Ge Huijie out of wedlock, Wang Jingyi (born 2012), from second wife Kang Zuoru.
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Has there ever been a sportsman who has defied the odds quite like South African athlete Oscar Pistorius? And has there ever been a more stark and sudden fall from grace?
Pistorius's story is certainly one of extremes. He was born without calf bones and had both legs amputated below the knee when he was just 11 months old.
This didn't stop him playing sport at school and when he was fitted with his first racing blades as a 17-year-old, he never looked back.
Pistorius always said that 'You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have,' and the 'Blade Runner' set about proving what phenomenal running abilities he possessed.
A hat-trick of Paralympic golds in 2008 would have satisfied many, but Pistorius wanted to test himself against able-bodied athletes. Despite claims that the South African's blades gave him an unfair advantage, Pistorius was allowed to compete in able-bodied events and did just that at the 2012 Olympics in London.
By then, Pistorius was a national hero and he carried the South African flag at the closing ceremony. Within six months, he was being arrested for the alleged murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. He was eventually found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to five years in jail.
The Pistorius story is remarkable, inspiring, dark and tragic in equal measure.

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Dragon chicken recipe | Restaurant style dragon chicken is very popular chicken starters available in most of the restaurants and is unique in taste with a spicy as well as sweet Indo Chinese taste. there is one more version of dragon chicken here which is simpler and honey is used in it.
get all your ingredients for marination ready. cut the boneless chicken into strips.
mix everything together until well combined. let it marinate for a minimum of 1 hour.
after an hour, take the marinated strips one by one and drop into hot oil. keep turning sides and cook until it is brown and crispy. fry in batches and keep aside.
heat oil in a pan and fry sliced onions, cashews, sliced bell peppers with little salt. fry till it is slightly brown. A slight crunch is good so do not make it too brown.
add ginger garlic paste, red chilli paste and mix well. fry until raw smell of it goes off.
further add soya sauce, tomato sauce, sugar and mix well.
furthermore add corn slurry (corn flour added with little water to make a paste), vinegar, little bit of water.
cook in simmer until it thickens and becomes saucy in texture. add the fried chicken pieces and mix well.
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cut chicken into thin strips and mix everything given under marination together and marinate for 1 hour.
deep fry the marinated chicken pieces in hot oil until crisp and keep aside.
for making sauce. heat oil in a pan, fry onions, cashews, bell pepper sliced until slightly brown.
to this, add ginger garlic paste and red chilli paste. fry until raw smell goes off.
further add soya sauce, tomato sauce, red chillies, sugar and mix well.
lastly add corn slurry, vinegar, 1/8-1/4 cup water and give it a good mix. heat in simmer until it thickens and becomes saucy.
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On Thursday after Wall Street closed Apple chief executive Tim Cook had delivered a double dose of bad news at its quarterly sales update. Worldwide sales accounted for 61% of the quarters' revenue. Instead, it called the unit measurement increasingly irrelevant, noting that it's higher-priced phones are selling better (a good thing), making the overall flat unit volume a false data point. iPhone revenue, a figure Apple plans to continue reporting, rose 29% to $37 billion. If you're wondering "Why fourth quarter?", it's because the fiscal 2018 ends three months earlier than the calendar 2018. If you don't want the notched look and don't care about the huge bezels on the 8 series, but want to save some money when purchasing an iPhone, this might just be for you.
Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri said the company will stop reporting unit sales for iPhones, iPads, and Macs beginning in fiscal 2019.
The Silicon Valley tech giant Apple has faced a sharp downturn in stock price, losing its coveted $1 trillion valuation following the release of their fourth-quarter earnings report. However, after failing to find a satisfying number of new customers for iPhone, Apple has turned to a strategy which will allow people to see only the rosy part of Apple's performance and will have a comparatively lesser impact on its share value. Apple has raised the prices of its high-end iPhone models in recent years to offset slowing unit sales growth and sagging demand for smartphones. Analysts expected revenue of $61.4 billion and earnings of $2.78 a share. 'Other Products, ' which includes Apple TV and the Apple Watch, was up 31 percent to $4.23 billion.
He added that Apple generated $19.5 billion in operating cash flow, and more than $23 billion was returned to shareholders in dividends and share repurchases in the September quarter, bringing the 2018 total to nearly $90 billion.
Those emerging markets are China and India which could not afford to buy expensive Apple gear. Revenue will be reported on the basis on total products and total services, which would mean there will be no product-specific figures in the future.
He is a proper leader. "Obviously someone might write he (should) play for England again". That's how it is in a dressing room, there is a lot of men, a lot of testosterone.
Incorporating President Donald Trump's border wall into a Halloween costume is questionable at best - especially if you're an elementary school teacher.


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“Chronic depression” may be diagnosed if an individual experiences depression symptoms for two years or more. Depression symptoms may be mild, as in dysthymia, or more severe, as in chronic major depression. In some cases, severity of symptoms may change.
A cyclical relationship exists between drugs, drinking and depression, as people with addictions often develop depression, and depressed individuals may turn to substance abuse to find relief.
Substance abuse and depression have a high degree of comorbidity; that is, they often occur together. Individuals with substance abuse problems may be more likely to develop depression because of biological changes in the brain.
Depressed individuals are also more likely to turn to drug and alcohol abuse to self-medicate and cope with depressionÃ•s emotional and physical symptoms. For example, the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reports that youths age 12 to 17 who had a major depressive episode in the last year were twice as likely as non-depressed peers to initiate use of illicit drugs and alcohol.
Neurotransmitter changes associated with drug abuse and problem drinking can cause depression. Alcohol inhibits neurotransmission and is considered a depressant. Other drugs, called “stimulants,” have excitatory effects on neurotransmission; returning to lower levels of neurotransmission after taking them can eventually lead to depression. Use of any of these substances changes neurotransmitter activity.
Antidepressant medications are often effective for treating symptoms of depression. However, itÃ•s dangerous to drink alcohol while on antidepressantsâ€“side effects may be intensified, your depression symptoms way worsen, and you may feel stronger effects from the alcohol. Alcohol can also have a dangerous interaction with monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), a specific type of antidepressant.
Psychotherapy may be particularly effective for people battling both substance abuse and depression. While depression may be at the root of alcohol and drug use, substance abuse can contribute to the development of chronic depression or exacerbate its symptoms.
Addressing chronic depression is also often a factor in addiction treatment. The depression may be a contributing factor to drug use, meaning that relapse is likely to occur if depression symptoms aren’t addressed. Psychotherapy addresses some of these behavioral aspects of both conditions, and can help treat them together.
Brendel, D. (2008). What is the relationship between depression and substance abuse? Retrieved June 1, 2010, from the ABC News website: abcnews.go.com/Health/DepressionScreening/story?id=4355978.
Dombeck, M. (2002). How drugs affect the brain. Retrieved June 1, 2010, from the MentalHealth.net website: www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=1059.
Hall-Flavin, D. (n.d.). Antidepressants and alcohol: What is the concern? Retrieved June 1, 2010, from the Mayo Clinic website: www.mayoclinic.com/health/antidepressants-and-alcohol/an01653.
Harding, A. (2009). Treating substance abuse and depression effective. Retrieved June 1, 2010, from the Reuters website: www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5214PQ20090302.
National Institute on Drug Abuse Staff. (n.a.). NIDA infofacts: Understanding drug abuse and addiction. Retrieved June 1, 2010, from the National Institute on Drug Abuse website: nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/understand.html.
Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2007). National survey on drug use and health. Retrieved June 1, 2010, from the OAS-SAMHSA website: www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/newuserdepression/newuserdepression.htm.


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Sometimes, if the forecasted returns are not attractive to professionally managed venture funds, the founder can search for those rich individuals who are anxious to invest in start-ups, are not jaded like the "vulture capitalists," and will accept situations the professionals are unlikely to favor. The minimum investment required to join a private-venture pool is usually quite high "in seven figures" and many of the older pools are closed to outsiders. Public vehicles for venture investing are not common. Accordingly, individual-venture investors exist. The founder's task is to find them, through a combination of persistence and luck.
Angel investing has become more organized and significant as many of the professionally managed venture pools are increasingly less interested in the seed round. Most angel investing is a product of chance encounters or family and social relationships, a high net-worth individual exposed to an opportunity to invest because he happened to meet the entrepreneur at a social function or was drawn to the investment through word of mouth. The typical angel round involves an investment of $250,000-500,000 to a group of one to five individuals and is sometimes called the "Rolodex Round" because the investors are names on the entrepreneur's rolodex.
Angel investing has become somewhat more organized, as groups of high net-worth individuals with common investment goals have coalesced into, for example, the Band of Angels, a Silicon Valley organization, and the angel breakfast for participants sponsored by the Software & Information Industry Association. The organized groups of Angels usually avoid publicity so as not to be inundated with applications. How do you find them? Word of mouth (networking at the local venture-capital club) or by keeping up with the trade press, namely, the Venture Capital Journal, the Private Equity Analyst, and websites such as VentureBeat and GigaOM and Thomson Reuters PE Hub.
Jeffrey Sohl, Director of the Center for Venture Research (CVR), has looked into the Angel Investor Market in 2010.
Contact Sport–be helpful, get your hands dirty–this often leads to success of the company. Angel help is often done within the Angel's area of expertise. Follow your passion when funding a company.

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Peoria, Arizona, is a large city that is known as a major suburb of the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. If you’re looking to buy a home in Peoria, you’re on the right track. It is located in the Northwestern part of the Valley of The Sun. While Peoria is not well-known throughout the nation, it is actually quite a large, vibrant and desirable city to live in. It also happens to be one of the few cities that is part of metropolitan Phoenix that happens to sit in two different counties: Maricopa County and Yavapai County. This is due to its considerable size. Peoria is the sixth largest city by land area and the ninth largest by population count in Arizona.
Peoria is yet another sport-centric city located in Phoenix. It is the location for the Peoria Sports Complex, which is home for the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres during the MLB spring training seasons. On top of being a baseball staple, Peoria is also the site of one of the most popular outdoor recreation spots in the Valley: Lake Pleasant Regional Park. Lake Pleasant, which is filled by the Agua Fria River, is an artificial reservoir that is created by the Carl Pleasant Dam. At a size of roughly 10,000 acres, it was the largest multi-arch dam ever created in the world at the time it was formed. As a result of the desert weather that is characteristic of the Phoenix area, Lake Pleasant is a major hub of outdoor recreation. Whenever you find yourself in the mood to cool off, you are welcome to visit Lake Pleasant to sail, water ski, jet ski, windsurf or scuba dive!
If this sounds like the place for you, check out the available Peoria homes for sale. Reach out to our team for further assistance.

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The Rangers defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets, 3-2, in overtime tonight at Madison Square Garden for their fifth win and the last six games, and are now 9-2-1 in their last 12 games.
New York has posted a record of 38-14-5 (81 pts) on the season, including a 19-7-2 mark at home.
Tonight’s win was the Rangers’ first against the Blue Jackets at Madison Square Garden since a 7-4 victory on Nov. 23, 2009.
New York increased their lead over Boston atop the Eastern Conference standings to nine points, and are now within three points of Detroit for first in the league overall.
The Blueshirts’ 19-7-2 (40 pts) mark at MSG is their best start at home through 28 games since 1995-96 (19-3-6, 44 pts).
The Rangers’ .711 win% through 57 games is the team’s best start in 39 years, when the 1972-73 Blueshirts began the season with a 38-14-5 record (.711 win%), and is tied as the second best start in franchise history.
With the win, Head Coach John Tortorella registered his 132nd victory as Rangers’ head coach to move past Herb Brooks into sole possession of sixth place on the Rangers’ all-time coaching wins list.
Henrik Lundqvist made 21 saves to improve to 28-11-4 overall, including a 14-6-2 mark at home. He is now 8-1-0 with a 1.20 GAA, .955 SV% and three shutouts in his last nine games.
Derek Stepan recorded the game-winning goal 22 seconds into overtime, and was credited with three takeaways in 20:29 of ice time to earn third star honors. He has now tallied seven points (two goals, five assists) in the last eight games. The goal was Stepan’s first career overtime game-winning goal.
Brad Richards notched the game’s opening goal at 17:49 of the first period and registered five shots on goal in 20:56 of ice time. He has now tallied six points (two goals, four assists) in the last six games.
Artem Anisimov tallied a goal and registered three shots on goal in 18:00 of ice time to earn second star honors. He has now recorded seven points (four goals, three assists) in the last eight games, and the Rangers improved to 16-2-2 when he tallies a point.
Michael Del Zotto tallied two assists, including the primary assist on Stepan’s overtime, game-winning goal, was credited with three takeaways and posted a game-high, plus two rating in a team-high, 25:14 of ice time. He has now recorded nine points (two goals, seven assists) in the last 11 games, including six assists in the last six contests.
Marian Gaborik registered an assist on Stepan’s overtime, game-winning goal, and recorded five shots on goal in 21:16 of ice time. The assist was Gaborik’s 50th point of the season, marking the seventh time in his 11-year career, and second time in three seasons as a Ranger, he has reached that plateau.
Carl Hagelin tallied the primary assist on Richards’ first period goal and logged 19:09 of ice time. He has now recorded 10 points (two goals, eight assists) in the last 14 games.
Dan Girardi recorded an assist and was credited with a game-high, four blocked shots in the contest. It is the 11th time this season Girardi has recorded four or more blocked shots in a game.
John Mitchell registered an assist on Anisimov’s goal at 13:13 of the second period. Mitchell is now two games shy of 200 career NHL appearances.
Ryan Callahan registered a game-high, six shots on goal, was credited with three hits and logged 22:34 of ice time to capture first star honors.
The Rangers will return to action when they face-off against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at CONSOL Energy Center (7:00 p.m.), in an Atlantic Division match-up. The game will be televised live on MSG Network and can be heard on 1050 ESPN Radio.
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We would like to introduce you to our new luxury ski chalet in central Morzine. It is called The Grange and we are thrilled to be adding it to our list of catered chalets for winter season 2014/15. She is an absolute corker – situated smack bang in the middle of Morzine yet hidden from view down the small Chemin de la Coutettaz. The Grange is currently undergoing a full renovation, it’s why we are all in Morzine at the moment! Our team of builders, carpenters, joiners, plumbers and electricians are hard at work to ensure that this catered ski chalet will be ready for next winter – with a bit of time to spare hopefully!
The Grange was built in 1832. It was one of the first properties to be built in Morzine and the owners were part of the small farming community that owned most of the land in Morzine and the surrounding areas. Morzine looked a little bit different in the early nineteenth century – lots of agricultural land and not many catered ski chalets! The Grange remained a typical farmhouse throughout the first half of the 20th century. It is likely that the animals stayed on the ground floor during the winter and the family on the top 2 floors. In the 1960s when Morzine and the Porte du Soleil began to expand as a ski area, The Grange was extended and the farm animals were removed for good. We can say with relative certainty that there won’t be any sheep staying on the ground floor during your stay!
We can’t quite believe our luck with the location of The Grange. The ski chalet is situated right in the middle of Morzine but also tucked away in the quiet old quarter of town. The Grange is located on the Chemin de la Coutettaz, probably the oldest road in Morzine with the pick of the most characterful architecture and chalets. The ski chalet is a 3 minute walk from both Le Pleney ski slopes and the Super Morzine cable car. The tourist office is just a 2 minute walk away, and the bars and restaurants of central Morzine are on The Grange’s doorstep. And whisper it quietly: the new high speed cable car from central Morzine to Avoriaz (that connects with the Prodains lift) will be less than a 1 minute walk from The Grange. This new super fast cable car will be completed in about 3 years and will make the journey from any ski chalet in Morzine to Avoriaz significantly quicker.
The Tasty Ski Company is currently renovating The Grange and we can’t wait to show you the finished product. We are drawing on our experience and will create a luxury ski chalet that we know works for our guests. The chalet will have a light, modern colour palate, but we will also be showing off as many of the original features as possible. There will be 5 ensuite bedrooms and the chalet will be able to sleep up to 13 people. We will accept exclusive occupancy bookings for 9 or more people. We will be packing this catered ski chalet full of nice little extras: heated boot racks, hot tub, english Sky TV, Movie room, iPod dock and WiFi throughout will all be part of this luxury ski chalet experience. We are confident The Grange will be our best ski chalet yet and we can’t wait to show it to you all!
It’s business as usual for The Tasty Ski Company for the service that we provide at The Grange. Guests at the ski chalet will have their own private chef along with a host to look after their every need during the week. The Grange is a fully catered chalet so your stay will include breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner (with wine!) six nights a week. Breakfast includes various continental options, plus eggs (poached, scrambled or fried), slow roast tomatoes (8 hours overnight), back bacon, and a breakfast special every day. Dinner is a 4-course meal, followed by tea, coffee and cheese board. The catered ski chalet benefits from the usual pre-arrival service that we offer all of our guests at The Tasty Ski Company – we are more than happy to organise items such as airport transfers, ski hire, lift passes and ski school for your group before you arrive.


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A native of Singapore, Jean Ai Seow left her homeland at age 16 under full scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.
At the Royal Academy, she studied the violin with Lionel Bentley and Clarence Myerscough, chamber music with Jean Harvey and orchestra training under Maurice Handford, obtaining her Licentiate and Professional Certificate of the Royal Academy of Music. She was invited to perform as a guest violinist for a Gala Concert at St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
Jean Ai went on to study in Paris with Bernard Mathern at the École Normale de Musique, where she obtained her Diplôme supérieur d’exécution. Upon her return to Singapore, she joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, touring Asia and Europe. Jean Ai Seow is currently a member of the Orchestre symphonique de Laval, the Orchestre des Grands Ballets Canadiens, and the Orchestre de chambre de Montréal. She also plays regularly with the Orchestre Métropolitain.
Having taught in many schools in Singapore and in Montreal, Jean Ai also offers private violin lessons. In 2008-2009 she conducted two string ensembles at the Lambda School of Music and Fine Arts, one for children and one for adults. In the summer of 2009, she had the opportunity to work under the direction of Kent Nagano in an orchestra specially selected for the Knowlton Music Festival. In April 2006 Jean Ai performed the Bach Double Concerto with Richard Roberts, concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, for WIYSO’s 20th Anniversary Concert.
In January 2016, Jean Ai joined the Société pour les arts en milieux de santé (SAMS), playing to residents and patients in nursing homes and hospitals. She has been Conductor of the West Island Youth String Orchestra since 1995.


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Just because you are studying online, doesn't mean you are alone. As a Gonzaga student you will be supported by a team of knowledgeable, compassionate people who understand what it's like to balance work, your family and school.
Our Student Services Team can answer all of your questions. From class registration to financial aid and even helping you trouble shoot if you have a technology problem, we are here Monday through Saturday ready to help you as you earn your degree.
"When it came to registering for courses and making sure that I stuck to my progression plan, the student services team was really good at keeping me on track."
"I would say to those students who are looking to return to school, to not be intimidated. The advisors and the student services folks will help you structure a plan that works for you."
"The student support at Gonzaga are phenomenal. What I really appreciate is that every time there has been a concern someone has stepped up to say 'I hear you and here is how we can fix it."


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The Port of Turku offers a variety of services to all cargo traffic operators. There is plenty of warehouse space and guarded outdoor areas both for long-term storage and the needs of fast-paced delivery operations. In addition, we have invested in services for the heavy traffic, including drivers.
Of the biggest logistics players, DHL Supply Chain, Post-Nord and DB Schenker operate in the port area. Kaukokiito has its own terminal a short drive away. The leading Finnish automotive logistics companies that provide car importers with diverse information, inspection and retrofitting services are also based in the Port.
Services to match the needs and wishes of all customer groups are provided together with different partners.
The range of services in the area is complemented by companies that offer support functions for maritime traffic as well as other transport logistics. In addition to forwarders and ship brokers, they include e.g. maintenance companies of vessels and heavy vehicles and towing service providers.

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The County forest required a reliable growth projection over the next 20 years for their conifer plantations (white and red pine). To make this happen, we used Density Management Diagrams for Ontario to project the 220+ stands into the future. This provided the client with realistic volume, BA and stems per hectare data, and biologically appropriate timings for thinnings in each stand. The project required working with the client's data via spreadsheets, pivot tables and QGIS.
To meet the timelines specified by the, Union of Ontario Indians, I redesigned a classic semester long Forest Products course to be delivered in one week for students enrolled with the Anishinabek Educational Institute.
The attending students from different First Nations appreciated the focus on hands-on skill development throughout the week.
I had the honour of attending their graduation ceremony.


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The Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race that has grown increasing ugly in recent weeks.
Patrick Brown remains the front-runner in an Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race that has grown increasing ugly in recent weeks, a new poll suggests.
According to numbers released by Mainstreet Technologies on Tuesday, Brown, a backbench Tory MP from Barrie, has the support of 47 per cent of PC party members surveyed.
Whitby MPP Christine Elliott, deputy PC leader and the only other candidate left in the race, trails at 41 per cent. Twelve per cent told the firm they are still undecided.
Mainstreet used publicly available data on party donors from the last 10 years to survey 348 PC members.
Brown’s lead over Elliott widens, however, among the decided PC party members surveyed: 54 per cent to 46 per cent.
“Patrick Brown appears to have a significant lead among decided party members,” said Mainstreet Technologies president Quito Maggi in a media release.
Another, larger poll also suggests Ontario Tories would be in dead heat with Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals — 28 per cent to 27 per cent — if either Brown or Elliott were at the helm.
That survey was conducted among 2,376 respondents on April 9 via interactive voice response. It has a margin of error of 2.01 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
“He’s 36. I'm 38, and I think the choice is clear for people: it is the same old party establishment versus change," McNaughton said. "I don't want to see the people that have been running campaigns for the last 20 years run the campaign in 2018.
“We will have another devastating result."
Elliott, 59, shot back in an interview with CP24, saying Brown and McNaughton are “Tea Party conservatives” that cannot lead the party to victory.
She also targeted Brown in a strongly worded statement, calling him an “untested candidate” and career politician with little to offer.
“Worse yet, over the course of his time spent in office he has done little of significance and has no substantive record,” she said.
In a sign of how acrimonious things have become, Brown’s campaign accused Elliott’s team last week of directing harassing phone calls to some of his supporters with “with non-English names.” The campaign filed a complaint with the party and said in a media release it was mulling over lodging one with the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission.
“This is a shameful practice that we believe is undertaken out of desperation by another campaign,” said Mark Towhey, executive director of the Brown campaign.
In March, Elliott’s campaign publicly accused Brown of not being transparent about how much money his campaign raised for the party.
She also questioned Brown’s commitment to Ontario Tories because he has been nominated again to run for the federal Conservatives in the next election. Brown has vowed to resign his seat if he wins the leadership.
On Monday, Brown’s team basically accused Elliott’s campaign of lying after it released results of a “direct member outreach” showing she has the support of nearly 58 per cent of members.
Brown, an MP since 2006, has sold more than 41,000 PC memberships since joining the race. Elliott’s team says it sold 34,000, but claims that her support is better spread throughout the province.
Ballots will be weighted so that each of the 107 ridings get exactly 100 points for the next leader. As such, steady support across Ontario is a crucial component to victory. The system prevents candidates who are popular in vote-rich ridings from flooding the entire race.
All party members will be permitted to vote for leader between May 3 and 7, with the results announced at a convention in Toronto on May 9.
Elliott, the widow of former finance minister Jim Flaherty, was considered a front-runner when she entered the race last June. She has won endorsements from 17 MPPs and a number of top federal Tories, including Immigration Minister Chris Alexander and Transport Minister Lisa Raitt.
She was also endorsed by Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod and North Bay MPP Vic Fedeli after they quit the leadership race in February.

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Quimby Country offers a flexible wedding service in a quiet, rustic location in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
Exclusive use of Quimby County from Friday evening through Sunday at Noon.
Use of dining room, which includes tables and seating for up to 100 guests.
Numberous outdoor and indoor ceremony site options.
Cottage accommodation for up to 70-80 guests.
Pre-event visit with one of our managers to finalize details for the day.
Options for Quimby staff to lead special activities during your wedding weekend.
Camp Fire built, lit and wood stock provided for Friday and Saturday night.
Option to hire Quimby's Executive Chef to cater full weekend event.
Access and use of our hiking trails on over 1,000 acres.
Use of beach and waterfront on Great Averill Lake and Forest Lake.
Access and use of our Rec Hall.


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Three years ago when Seminole County decided to restrict development in the fragile water areas near Geneva, Commissioner Bill Kirchhoff noted that half the county's groundwater is not potable because it contains too much salt.
That's reason enough for the county to take quick action on a recent circuit court decision over who controls drilling into the Geneva Bubble. The bubble is a 24-square-mile pocket of fresh water that floats atop the brackish underground water in northeast Seminole County. A court decided last week that the state, not the county, can say who drills into that water area.
Whether the state's water management district or the county decides really isn't important. The point is to make sure that this extremely sensitive area is protected.
The problem is an example of the conflicts that can arise from overdevelopment. As land prices increase, developers push to build in marginal and less expensive areas, such as those that lack sufficient water. If that happens in the bubble area, wells there soon could be pumping salt water.
The bubble supplies most of the drinking water to northeast Seminole County farms and 3,000 people in the area. County restrictions require permits for any new wells there, and in October the county denied a permit for a well to supply a proposed 320-acre Geneva housing development.
In denying the permit, county commissioners said they wanted to work with the water management district to outline the water problems in the Geneva area and come up with a plan for dealing with it.
It's time to take that action. The county and the state must work to find ways to protect that water resource. The best way is to limit development in that part of the county.
The state must protect the "bubble" and the property owners who rely on its water.

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We have decided that we want the boys to continue with this art teacher in the fall, so I’m anxiously awaiting her fall schedule. I will most likely have to adjust the school schedule I created during my homeschool planning trip, but I think it will be worth it.
One common misconception about homeschooling is that we have to teach every subject all the time. That isn’t true and it certainly isn’t true in our homeschool. I happily sub out PE too!
Lovely! I would love to find out about this art teacher! Can you tell more?


text: Meet the Frost Bottom in the third set Headhunter for Borderlands 2. The time has come to give, not just receive. Help Marcus to rescue Mercenary Day and melt Abominable Mister Tinder Snowflake. Rid Frost Biters, and a little warm the Gingerton help Small Tim. You will be handing out gifts and hunt for trophies as you collect new festive costumes and head.


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WTF Is Up With Path's Clock?!?!
Ok, Path just put Facebook and a lot of other mobile products to shame with their new application. They’ve got a killer design, a number of relatively innovative interface elements, and the app works aside from the occasional crash and some buggy loading issues. However I haven’t been able to get over one element of their app that’s distracting as hell: the scrolling clock next to each story.
As you scroll down through your “path”, a clock rotates to show you the time that each story was published. It also takes up 25 to 40 percent of the width of the screen depending on the length of the text. As you start scrolling you can’t help but focus your eyes on the clock. It makes me wonder a number of things every time I load up the app (which is increasingly often because it’s currently a piece of digital candy for me), but the primary thought is this: why?
I love interesting little eye-catching design elements but typically you want those to pop out during an interaction that isn’t at the center of the experience. It adds personality to an application, but how long did it take a developer to get that to work? Also, is the exact time of when someone published their story really that critical? The fact that two people became friends on Path is not exactly time-sensitive information.
I think the concept of a private social network is an interesting one, but with such great execution on the product, I can’t help but wonder how that clock came to be. Perhaps there’s some inside joke I’m missing but the spinning clock serves as nothing more than a novel hack and a massive distraction.
Seems like commenters and other people I’ve spoken with think I’m way off base with this :) I still think the moving clock is ridiculous distracting.


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text: For all of you out there who want to control 24 channels of PWM, we salute you! We also would like you to check out this breakout board for the TLC5947 PWM driver chip. This chip can control 24 separate channels of 12-bit PWM output. Designed (and ideal) for LED control, this board is not good for driving servos. If you need to drive servos, we have a controller for that over here. Only three "SPI" pins are required to send data (our Arduino library shows how to to use any digital microcontroller pins). Best of all, the design is completely chainable. As long as there's enough power for all the boards you can chain as many as you'd like, like a little trail of blue PCBs stretching out into the sunset. Each of the 24 output's is constant-current and open drain. You can drive multiple LEDs in series, with a V+ anode supply of up to 30V. If you want to drive something that requires a digital input, you must use a pullup resistor from the drive pin to your logic level to create the full waveform. One resistor is used to set the current for each of the outputs, the constant current means that the LED brightness doesn't vary if the power supply dips. We use a 3.3K resistor for about 15mA but you can solder a thru-hole resistor over it if you'd like to change that value. Check the TLC5947 datasheet for details on resistor-to-current values. We include a few extras to make this board easy to use: a durable 5V low-dropout regulator (with reverse polarity protection in case y'know, you plug it in backwards), a green power-good LED, four mounting holes and a current-set resistor. A bit of 0.1" header is also included so you can solder it on and plug into a breadboard. To use: Power V+ with 5-30VDC, and connect ground to the common ground. Then send 3-5V logic SPI data on DIN (data in), CLK (clock) and LAT (latch). If you'd like to quickly turn off all the outputs, raise the OE pin - it's pulled low to enable the PWM outputs.Our Arduino library will get you started with blinking LEDs, install it and run the example code with the noted pin configuration.


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These Hiram Elementary athletes were raring to go to the Track and Field events of this year's Special Olympics. We had more athletes competing than ever before. Their day started out with a send-off by all of the Hiram Elementary staff and students.
Chattahoochee Tech honored 445 students from the state’s largest technical college during two commencement ceremonies held on Thursday, May 10, at the Clarence Brown Conference Center in Cartersville. Students from 45 programs of study in the college’s six-county service area crossed the stage to receive a technical certificate of credit, diploma or an Associate of Applied Science degree.
East Paulding Girls Soccer standouts, Lauren Bergevine and Morgan Gramling, earned All-Region Honors by the GHSA. The Raider Juniors were presented with their awards at a banquet.
After defeating Walton in round one in Marietta the Pack traveled to Coweta County and faced the Newnan Cougars on their home turf. Unphased, the Pack dismantled the Cougars 12-0 and 6-4 in a double-header.
Hiram High School Career & Technical Instruction (CTI) members attended the Annual Georgia CTI Leadership Conference on April 11-13, 2018 at Rock Eagle 4-H Center located in Eatonton, Georgia.
Paulding County Schools recently integrated a new pathway into the curriculum- Audio, Video, Technology, & Film due to Atlanta’s influx of job opportunities in the film industry. Hiram High School is one of the three schools in the county to offer the program, led by instructor Charlotte Holmes.
Paulding County student, Alyssa Jones, to receive a prestigious scholarship. Jones, a 2018 graduating student of South Paulding High School, was one of only seven students to receive the annual Student of Integrity Scholarship presented by The Center for Character Ethics.
East Senior Abby Miller ended her high school career in style, netting two second-half goals to lead the way. Junior Lauren Bergevine opened the scoring a minute before halftime to put the Lady Raiders on the board. Goalkeeper Miyana Mondesir made an outstanding second half save, reaching high to deflect a shot over the frame and preserve the shutout.
The South Paulding Spartans season came to a close on Friday night as they fell to the Harrison Hoyas of Kennesaw by losing both games of a doubleheader in the first round of the state playoffs, The hosting Spartans had game one in hand but yielded 5 runs to the Hoyas in the 7th inning to lose 9-5.
Hiram Elementary School is proud to announce that Mrs. Nikki Stewart is our 2017-18 Teacher of the Year! Mrs. Stewart has been a community member of Paulding County since birth. She knew she wanted to become a teacher since she was 4 years old. After attending Paulding County schools.
The SPHS girls tennis team has made history for their school after winning the region tournament this year. The girls, coached by Michaela Hicks and Emily Rampley, finished undefeated in region play.
Here are a few action shots from state playoff match against Dalton. Spartans achieved a 3-2 victory in round 1 of the State playoffs against Dalton.
The Junior Spartans Lay Claim To Feeder Team Championship. Spartans win the 10-5 victory over the Patriots. Congratulations to both squads on a great season.
The Paulding County Lady Patriots soccer team closed out their season on the pitch last week with a 3-1 loss to Sandy Creek in a non-region affair. The defending region 5 5-A champions lost 8 Seniors from last years squad and this season was a rebuilding process as the Patriots were 3-5 in region play.


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NintenGen: Can the Wii reverse this trend?
Can the Wii reverse this trend?
The Wii has all the makings of a hit, but the Gamecube "hit" a new low for Nintendo in terms of console sales. The buzz on the Wii however, is much stronger and more wild even than Gamecube ever has been in its 5 year existence. I'll go on a limb and say that the Wii will even surpass the N64 total sales.
The long answer...the Wii will bring back a lot of the NESers that have either changed alliances to PS or XB, or have given up on video games all together.
sidenote(an even longer answer)...this isn't a graph showing a steady decline in Nintendo's ability to innovate. Over the timespan this graph covers nintendo has modified it controller to include things like shoulder buttons, analog control, vibration feedback, not to mention the changes in their games graphical art style. These are all components that have caught on in the video game industry because they worked, and worked well. While these changes were welcomed by most of the die hard gamers, some felt turned off by the increasingly complex control style they were expected to master, as well as the high price tags they were expected to pay. leading to the steady decline in gaming as a mass market form of entertainment. This graph is more of a representation of steady decline in gaming by the general public. Compare the sales across all video games systems outside nintendo and you will see a similar pattern. The Wii is Nintendo's next and most aggressive modification to how we all play our games. This one, however, caters to even those who prefer simplicity and low cost. This is why the Wii will be such a success. This is how we will play our games in the future. Have no fear the graph will rise again.
That is exactly why I posted this graph, to see responses like yours. Very well thought out.
Playstation and Xbox have all distracted people from the company that is actually an inventor to go along with a game developer. Nintendo invents things(like the Wii-mote) and breaks new ground. The others have all taken notes and are now copying and pasting the success of Nintendo and trying to make money off it(Microsoft is losing money still on the Xbox brand and Sony will lose at least $200 per PS3 sold).
I see the Wii making Nintendo s lot of bank.
One other thing is, nintendo was always the innovater of the bunch. This was largely due to the fact that they know how to work the market, and when to stop pushing and finish off a project. What I mean by this is that when Sony decided to add the BlueTooth technology into the mix, it made their console highly overpriced. Ok, I do admit to buying the original PS2 when it came out, even with its 500$ (CAN) price-tag... But that was DVD technology. The world was moving to that, and VHS was slowly becoming obsolete. The VHS's ancestor was long gone at that time though, and the new thing was DVDs. In my opinion, VHS still hasn't done its time, and DVD are far from going anywhere. I think the BlueTooth integration might have been premature and is going to put the Playstation franchise in the red (although not bankrupting Sony, thank god). All this to bring me back to my original point, Nintendo knows when to stop. Their Wiis, although relatively cheap compared to anything else on the market, will rake in a very decent amount of profit, giving them even more leeway to develop new technologies, which other companies will pathetically attempt to copy once it has been announced (See rumble pack, Wiimotes and 3D rendering).
Oh, and I still hate the Xbox, because it's Microsoft. Sorry, bias opinion.


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