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Beth Marcus has worked as a consultant providing patent strategy, litigation support and other strategic technology related consulting services. Dr. Marcus is an acknowledged expert in the hand-device interface space and has been an expert for several of the major players in the industry in support of prior patents litigations. She has raised equity numerous times and has also done angel investments herself. Several of these ventures have been acquired by public companies.
Dr. Marcus was Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Technical Officer of EXOS, Inc. Her activities included setting strategic direction for the corporation and managing the R & D and Product development activities. In April 1996, EXOS was sold to Microsoft, Inc. In 2005 Dr. Marcus founded Zeemote Inc., where she developed a wireless handheld remote for mobile gaming and other applications. She also was founding CEO of Playsmrt, Playsmrt allows parents to create a safe, interactive environment in which children 1 to 8 years old can play media, communicate with family members, and learn.
Dr. Marcus has SB and SM degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and a PhD in Biomechanics from the Imperial College, London, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She has more than twenty patents to her name and numerous publications and public speaking engagements. She has served on the faculty of MIT in the department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Marcus has been member of the Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum and the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee in Mechanical Engineering. She is also a current member of the Council for the Arts at MIT. She has also been a Judge for the FIRST Robotics League, teaching children about technology through robotics.
Larry Nelson: Boy, I'll say.
Lucy: ...that have started IT companies. With me Larry Nelson from W3W3.com. Hi Larry.
Larry: Hi, I'm really happy to be here. This is going to be an exciting interview.
Lucy: Well, and these interviews have been very well received at W3W3. Why don't you tell us a little bit about that.
Larry: Well we host a special channel, "Heroes for NC WIT, " and we get a tremendous amount of traffic from, everything from small business owners to C level, high level executives from enterprise size companies and it's very interesting and the thing that we like about it so much it's really helping support a push for more young girls to get into IT.
Lucy: Well, very good. Well, you know this interview is going to be no exception to our great interview series. Today we're talking with Beth Marcus, who is the CEO, the founding CEO of Playsmart, a new venture for her, she's a serial entrepreneur. She's founded a number of companies including Exos which she sold to Microsoft on the middle of nineteen nineties. And she is, I think easily one of the most technical people we've spoken to in this interview series with a history at MIT, and a PhD and patents and very, very impressive technical entrepreneur. Welcome Beth.
Beth Marcus: Thank you. Lovely to be here chatting with you.
Lucy: Well we are really interested first to find out a little bit about Playsmart, your new venture. And we understand it is really geared towards having safe environments for children on the Internet. Can you tell us more about it?
Beth: Sure. It's a complete media solution for kids, ages one to eight. It allows them to be entertained, educated, connected to other family members around the world and allows the parents to control what's happening with the kids' interaction with those environments and make it totally safe. No commercials are passed to the kids. Once they get into the Playsmart system which can run on any PC or netbook they can't get out of it accidentally or otherwise and they can't get to any content or interaction that their parents don't pre-approve.
Larry: Boy I'll say. I've got seven grandchildren, I'm happy to hear that.
Beth: In fact, one of the features that some of our investors are interested in is Skyping to grandchildren that you can do through Playsmart. All you do is click on a picture of your grandparent and it makes the call for you.
Lucy: Oh, that is really cool, you know. My mother's on Skype too and you know she, I mean I actually think the other end could use some help with that, you know?
Lucy: I mean she loves Skype.
Beth: My daughter is how I got involved in this. I do a lot of advising of other start up CEO's and I thought I was going to be taking a break from being a CEO and just help a bunch of other people, and an entrepreneur came to me and said, you know, "Let me show you what I've got, " and it was for kids and I have a five year old. So I said, "Susie, let's play with this thing, " and she said, "Oh, this is so cool." You know and her interaction with it is what convinced me to get involved with the company and become a CEO.
Lucy: You know, we've had a couple of people we've interviewed whose children have helped them form the idea for their next venture or at least encouraged them to get involved. That's really interesting. So Beth give our listeners a sense of how you first got into technology. I mean you have a very extensive technical background as I mentioned before. What first interested you in technology?
Beth: A million years ago when I was in school I liked science and math and I played around with computers. And I'm probably going to give away my age, but wrote programs in Basic that ran on paper tape into a terminal.
Lucy: I did that too. So don't feel bad.
Beth: And then, I ended up going to MIT because they had a lot of interesting science and math. And what got me into more core technology was freshman year at MIT they have a seminar series that you do, typically in January and I took aluminum bicycle frame building because I loved bikes and I thought that would be cool. I had never seen a machine shop, I didn't know what welding was. I had never done any of the stuff and through that seminar I got fascinated by making stuff and ended up being in mechanical engineering.
Beth: Ten years, which is a lot of fun.
Lucy: Yeah, you're love of making things. Larry and I both judge as well with First, so it's a great program. So what technologies do you look out there today across the technical space? What technologies do you find really cool and interesting today?
Beth: Of course the last company I was in was the mobile space so I think the evolution of mobile devices into computers that you carry around with you is very interesting. I mean, when I started Zeemote in 2005, when I said, "These are the computers you're going to carry with you 24/7" the potential investors looked at me like I was from Mars.
Beth: And now people do.
Lucy: They certainly do and in fact the number of people are looking at mobile devices as a real tool to help third world developing countries as well.
Beth: Well, they don't have land lines.
Beth: And even though we have them, a lot of people don't use them anymore.
Larry: Yeah, let me kind of switch gears here for a second. Two part related questions. One is, why are you an entrepreneur? And what is it about entrepreneurship that makes you tick?
Beth: Well, I think it's a challenge. The first company I started, I remember we had built some high end controllers, exoskeleton controllers for robots in space for NASA and other people. And I got this idea that we ought to be able to take this technology and make it into a consumer product. And I was giving a talk at a Virtual Reality Conference and somebody from a not to be named defunct computer company said, "Well if you can't spend two hundred and fifty thousand dollars on a reality engine you shouldn't be doing VR." And I said, "We're going to do it on PC's and we're going to make a hundred dollar joystick and everyone's going to use them but they're not going to know that it's VR." And that sort of a challenge where somebody says, "Oh you can't do that." [laughter] Or even sometimes why would somebody want that. And then you put it in front of them and they go, "Oh wow. That makes my life easier"or "That makes my health better." You know. That exciting to me.
Beth: That's why I advise all the companies that I get involved with to get those prototypes built as quickly as possible with as little money as possible and get it into the hands of the end users. Because there's where you're going to find out are you smoking something and convincing yourself there's a market or does somebody really care about this.
Beth: And you learn so much that most entrepreneurs will tell you that the thing that they thought they were starting their company on is not the one they made money on. And it's the ones who iterate and spend time with the consumer whether they're a consumer or a corporate customer or whatever kind of customer, the ones that spend the time and listen to the customer are the ones that figure it out and succeed.
Lucy: That is a really important point and I think, looking forward, we may have to ask you again a month from now but you know we do a Toolbox series as well and I think that it would be great to hear your advice for entrepreneurs because that advice around prototyping is excellent.
Beth: I was going to be writing a book this year.
Lucy: [laughs] Now you are running a company.
Beth: Company...My God. I spent some time on it this summer capturing things like that and interviewing other entrepreneurs and then I said, "OK, I got to put this aside until I do this center and I'll come back again."
Lucy: I think it will be fabulous because of your technical background. I'm sure you'd have some really valuable insights there.
Beth: And I am a published poet. So... Right in the way that is intelligible to the rest of the world.
Larry: So now there is a third interview.
Lucy: Yeah. You are really digging yourself into a hole. So, along the lines of entrepreneurship, we found that many entrepreneurs can point to a particular person or a group of people who influence them or help them along their way as an entrepreneur. Who are your role models and how do they influence you? Beth: I think the first person who got me the sort of excitement at making stuff work was this professor in MIT Woody Flowers who was involved in the First Robotics Company.
Lucy: Absolutely, I have seen him. I have never met him.
Beth: But he was an early mentor of mine and I became a judge for this mechanical engineering design contest while I was still a student. And then that's sort of got me excited about the excitement of innovating and trying new things and testing your ideas. And then when I went to start my first company, I joined the MIT enterprise forum and there were a number of people there who I had no idea even what a business plan was. And I was going to write one to raise money. So I listened to other people talk about their businesses and I got some of those people to help me write my first business plan. And then later on, a man named Don Spero started a company called Fusion Systems down in the DC area that successfully flowed against the Japanese and the patent area. Kind of taught me about intellectual property and the value of it and also mentored me generally because of his long experience in running companies. And then when I was running Exos and I realized that I was out of my debts from a management point of view. I hired a guy named [indecipherable 10:03] to come in and run my company. And he became a mentor of mine and he is still to this day a friend. So all along the way, I think the lesson for an entrepreneur is to talk to anybody you can everywhere about what you are doing and try and connect with them because you never know when you are going to stand next to the person who is going to get you a deal like I did when I was in a party in MIT. And I stand next to Bob Metcalf who introduced me to the Logitech guys that told me what product to build for an Exos to get an exit. Or whether I am going to hire somebody who turns out to be my mentor and teach me about business that leaves the exit in the company.
Larry: Wow. Beth, let me ask this question. First of all, you just mentioned about you are going to write a book this year but now you are running a company instead. It took me three years to write a book that I just had published called Mastering Change. So I just want to let you know that you can do that too.
Beth: Yeah but I have a five year old and a puppy.
Beth: So I said my daughter is most important, my business is second most important and the rest will just have to wait.
Larry: There you go. I agree with that.
Beth: Anything about relationship in any of that. So?
Larry: I have been married for 40 years. What are you going to do?
Beth: Adolescence. I am not married so... If any of your listeners want to apply for the job, I take resumes.
Larry: Yeah. Speaking of all that stuff, what is the toughest thing that you ever had to do in your career?
Beth: I think the first time I had to fire people was probably the worst moment because at Exos we started out as a medical company and we grew to a million and a half in revenues selling orthopedic rehab devices using our technology. And we realized we probably sold all the units that whatever be sold because we were teaching people how to turn on the computer not have a measure motions and force in patients. They didn't care about that. They use a plastic protractor and so we figured that out and we had to restart the company, went from 32 people down to about eight in one day.
Beth: And I believe that I had helped outplace...anybody who wanted to be outplaced in great jobs elsewhere, and I am friends with some of the people who left the company at that point for years. And some of my hired again into other companies. I feel good about it. I remember at the end I closed my door and I just cried because these were my friends.
Lucy: We hear that a lot from entrepreneurs. I think that is a very tough thing to...not just let people go but it is theirs loss and also downsizing the company and restarting it. That is all tough stuff.
Beth: Yeah. Perhaps to tell you that I learned in that experience that if I had done it sooner, everybody would have been happier. Both the people who did not fit the business we are getting into and the investors and everybody would have done better. So, my advice to entrepreneurs is don't be afraid to hire but don't be afraid to fire the person who is the wrong person for the job. You are not doing them or you any favors by keeping them around if they are not working.
Lucy: It is the truth. We have learned that lesson unfortunately in the Telecom downsizing. Well that's great advice and it gets us to our next question about advice for young people about entrepreneurship and you have given us some perils already. And I wander around online and I found some presentation you made about naming your company. What I found was pretty interesting.
Beth: That is a new one. [laughs] I give that to an MIT class because I am still on the faculty there. So occasionally faculty members will call me up and ask me to come, give lecture to their class and the senior mechanical engineering design class didn't have a clue how to name their product. So I came and I gave a lecture.
Lucy: That's good. I can't wait for your book. And so, what kind of advice would you give to budding entrepreneurs that you haven't already told us?
Beth: I think the most important thing that I talk to any entrepreneur that I coached from day one is why are you doing this? What are your personal goals? What are your financial goals? How does that fit with your family? And if you evaluate that first and write it down and keep it in front of you and then say, is what I am doing today serving my goals, the company's goals and my family's goals? And when those things start to not match, that is when you get into trouble. And if you don't bother to figure it out first, then you don't have a road map because I made this mistake. I ran a company called Glow Dog which was a failure. It was a failure because we were just about break even and about a million plus in revenue and our Christmas shipments were on the water on 911. We had just grown to the size where we need to manufacture in China instead of the United States in order to compete and they were in the container on the ocean and they could not get in the United States so there was no Christmas. And we had to sell the assets and fold the company because I didn't feel like there was going to be a return on investment if I brought in more capital. But what I didn't think about when I started that company was what was the right size for this business and did that kind of a business match what I personally wanted to do? It was just interesting. People loved the product. They were reflective coating for people and pets. And you walking your dog at night, you don't get run over, right? Well, it turned out our customers were fashion stores in Tokyo who liked the logo I designed. I didn't even know it was reflective and it was a 33% margin business in an industry that is not very protectable and that I had no expertise in. What was I doing, doing this business? So, I raised a bunch of money to make a big play, before I realized that this really was a brand company, not a technology company. I raised the right amount of money for a technology company to get launched, but it turned out technology didn't matter, and to make a brand like Tommy Hilfiger or Ralph Lauren, you need tens of millions of dollars.
Beth: ... and you need expertise, which I didn't have. So, if I had understood my own personal goals and what kind of a work environment I wanted, and what the end game looked like at the beginning, I probably wouldn't have made those mistakes. Because Glow Dog could have been a very profitable, between $2 and $10 million dollar clothing company and pet product company, if that was its goal. It wouldn't have raised as much money. It wouldn't have spent as much money, and it might still be around today.
Beth: I thought I was going to be an academic.
Lucy: Well, you're that too, so there you go.
Beth: I actually have on one occasion taken money from MIT to teach a class, and I realized that it was not for me. Because along with taking the money, comes a lot of faculty meetings and policies and procedures, and entrepreneurs don't really love those things. What's good about a company that's under 25 people is you don't need a huge amount of that stuff to be successful.
Beth: Some people are really good at structure and organization and detail, and that's not me.
Larry: Not you, no. Well, then, what were the characteristics that made you really become a successful entrepreneur? We want to reach out this way, because we have many young people and employers and parents, who want to know what secrets they should look at when it comes to entrepreneurism.
Beth: You know, "You can't do that! You can't do that!" "Sure I can! Sure I can!" You know there is a limit, you beat your head against the wall a few times and you walk away, but hammering on and being tenacious at getting your objective. If it doesn't happen the way you think, you think of a second way. If it doesn't happen that way, you think of a third way. Maybe you don't end up accomplishing what you set out to do, but in the course of trying to accomplish it, you figure out where the real value is. So, it's a combination of being tenacious, and also being aware and being willing to change, and willing to take advantage of what God, the world, whatever, has presented to you in terms of opportunity. So, if you're trying to build widget A, and nobody wants widget A, but in order to make widget A, you had to make a fixture. And it turns out loads of people want that fixture, well go sell a fixture. Don't keep trying to sell a widget that nobody wants.
Lucy: Exactly. I like that, 'unbridled optimism on the verge of stupidity.' I am just going to have to remember that one.
Larry: I was looking in a mirror when you said that, yes.
Beth: Also, you have to be able to learn from everybody around you.
Lucy: That's totally right. Beth: Willing to talk about what you do in a pleasant way, not obnoxious, but to anyone who will listen. Because you never know where you're going to learn something, or who's going to have, "Gee. I know the guy who started that company that you want to have buy your company" or "Gee. I had a company like that, and we made this mistake" and so you can learn to avoid that mistake.
Beth: Or somebody you want to hire. And don't be afraid to hire people who know a lot more than you do.
Beth: It's a matter of risk right. If you're an investor, and I've done some investing as well, you look at what's the total risk package for this business. And anything, absolutely anything you can do to reduce the risk is a good thing. And so the more experience you have that's relative to the business you're in, even if you don't know it yourself or understand it. It's going to reduce that risk.
Lucy: Well and that's great advice I think. It's all pointing towards another interview I think Larry.
Beth: You could have me talking for days. Lucy: I know. No, no ...I've got all kinds of plans for you know now. So you've already mentioned to us that you are a published poet and we know you're a judge for many years with First Robotics. What else are you doing to bring balance into your professional and personal lives?
Beth: Well, I mean it's a struggle. I mean I'm a single mom, so there is no such thing as balance in my life. But, I do things like, I've got a calendar I just printed out this morning because I wasn't sticking to my exercise routine. And just like my daughter gets stars for reading books and she turns it in at school every month. I'm going to have her help me put stars on my calendar for my exercise.
Beth: And I have family dinner night, where I cut off work early usually on Fridays, so that I can cook a meal. And we can sit down and eat together because it doesn't happen that often. And when I was growing up that was something that was somewhat absent and I wanted my daughter to have that, and I wanted me to have that too. Because, there is this idea that, when I was in the beginning of my entrepreneurial career, I obsessed about the business 24/7 and drove myself nuts. You know, I hardly slept, and that's not the best way to be productive. As I've gotten older, I work smarter. And so I do everything that I can do to make every minute of my time incredibly effective. If I'm having a bad day and I'm not productive. I'm not going to hammer my head against the computer or the telephone, which is where most of my work happens. I'll go and do something nice for myself for an hour. You know, call a friend, go have a coffee, or do an errand I need for my home. Go do some food shopping and come back. And then I'm refreshed and renewed. I listen to books on tape at night as I'm falling asleep so that I can't think about business at night. I love novels and I love fiction. So that for me blocks out my ability to think business.
Lucy: That's a great idea.
Larry: Yeah, it really is, wow. You know Beth, you have achieved so much in so many different ways. Going back to your first company that you ended up selling to Microsoft and all the other Wins and that challenges along the way. You've achieved a lot what's up for you next?
Beth: I would like to have a huge exit in Playsmart. So if anybody is listening who wants to buy a company like that, that's the goal. To build this to where there is enormous excitement about the product and many, many families are using it. And then get a bigger company with huge resources behind it. And then I'll be happy to step back, finish my book and invest and advise in others.
Lucy: Wow, and we would love to see you write that book.
Lucy: That would be I mean great, great advice here and we thank you for taking time to talk to us. I want to remind those who are listening to this interview that they can find it at W3W3.com.
Larry: That's right and we'll have it up also on our blog as well as our podcast directory so you can download it 24/7.
Beth: And if there are there any moms of kids interested in Playsmart. That's at Playsmart send me an email, I'll make sure you find out about a product when it's out this summer.
Lucy: Absolutely, and we'll have that as well in the bio up on the site. So everybody can find it when they come to download the podcast. Very good, well thank you very much.


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Yeah yeah, I know, Quake in a Doom forum is blasphemy and all the rest. So who cares?
I just wanted to ask you guys what some of your favorite Quake levels were, and what you would recommend.
I think you put this in the wrong forum.
I usually play Team Fortress, so all the good maps I know of are from there, like 2fort5, well6, rock2, invade4a (I made this one), sewer1, canalzon, canyon1, 2tech4, 2mine4 (I think it's 4), and maybe bam4.
And yes, this is in the wrong place, but I'm not quite sure where it should be, so I'll put it in Everything Else until someone else can think of a better place for it.
until someone else can think of a better place for it.
Take a look at some of Neil Manke's work. It's pretty good.
The Phantasmal Garrison was quite cool.
The much improved AI and teammates and stuff were real good too, but the architecture really shone out in this one.
Know Neil Manke from his half life tc. Anyone knowns he's a professional game designer now, guess he wanted that so much.

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text: SHOW SUMMARY: This is episode #4 of the Pro Wrestling Focus radio show from 20 years ago (Sept. 7, 1991) hosted by Wade Keller on KFAN radio in St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minn. He covers the news of the week and takes live calls on the topics of the day with special guest cohost Mark Madden, then a PWTorch Newsletter columnist. This week in wrestling included the debut of Van Hammer in WCW, predictions on how Ric Flair will be used upon arriving in the WWF, and more.

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Begin by discussing the imperative mood in English. Explain that the imperative mood is a verb form in English that speakers can use to make direct commands, express requests, and grant or deny permission. For a lesson plan for teaching English commands, please see the first section in the article Lesson Plan for Teaching the Imperative Mood in Spanish.
Gehen Sie weg! "Go away!"
Trinkt die Milch! "Drink the milk!"
Essen wir die Plätzchen! "Let's eat the cookies!"
Explain the steps for forming the imperative mood of verbs with the subject pronoun Sie, which are to conjugate the verb into the second person formal of the present indicative tense and invert the subject.
Explain the pragmatic use of the Sie form of the imperative. The Sie form of all German verb conjugations is the formal form. Formal forms are always used with strangers, casual acquaintances, superiors, professional colleagues, people with formal titles, and others not well known to the speaker.
Explain the steps for forming the imperative mood of verbs with the subject du: conjugate the verb into the second person singular familiar of the present indicative tense; omit the conjugated verb ending; and omit the subject.
Explain the pragmatic use of the du form of the imperative. The du form of all German verb conjugations is the singular familiar form. Familiar forms should be used only with individual family members, close friends, children, peers, and animals.
Explain the steps for forming the imperative mood of verbs with the subject ihr, which are to conjugate the verb into the second person singular familiar of the present indicative tense and omit the subject.
Explain the pragmatic use of the ihr form of the imperative. The ihr form of all German verb conjugations is the plural familiar form. Familiar forms should be used only with multiple family members, close friends, children, peers, and animals.
Explain the steps for forming the imperative mood of verbs with the subject wir, which are to conjugate the verb into the first person plural of the present indicative tense and then invert the subject.
Explain the pragmatic use of the wir form of the imperative. The wir form of the imperative in German is similar to the let's construction in English as in let's eat and let's drink.

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Keep track of your activity from your Apple Watch, including historical progress toward closing your Activity rings and all the important metrics from your workouts.
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American Society of Civil Engineers. Committee on Hydromechanics.
New York : American Society of Civil Engineers, 1968.
Manuals and reports on engineering practice ; no. 35.
Hydraulic engineering -- Bibliography -- Translations.

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Drones are set to become yet another new tech tool for our construction clients over the coming months and years. Whilst regulators are grappling with how to manage the sudden arrival of thousands of new "pilots" into the airspace, one Irish company is already commercialising real estate with drones in a very interesting way.
Plotbox are surveying large cemetaries to help identify where space is underutilised and can be monetised. The birds eye view gives a completely new perspective and opens unknown opportunities on dormant land. Playing this forward we can see how land owners will be able to get detailed mapping and land use surveys done of large holdings for planning and presentations. Cherrywood? Liffey Valley? Blanchardstown? Coming soon to a sky near you.
These new technologies will always present legal and regulatory challenges - privacy, pollution, security concerns will be high on the regulators agenda. Ireland has an opportunity to lead here. Let's see what happens next.
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We’ve been in Italy for one exhausting week. It’s been a whirlwind seven days of buying furniture, opening bank accounts, cleaning, organizing, planning and finally today, we took the day off. We needed to. We’re in our sixties not our twenties.
On Monday we arrived at our Italian home in Colledimezzo and were greeted by Maurizio, our carpenter. His work was amazing. We walked into a once empty kitchen, to see a magnificent creation of cupboards, countertops and a fantastic breakfast bar. Thrilled is an understatement. We also met Franco, the builder who is working on our stairs, and his friend Domenico, who speaks perfect English, having lived there most of his life. We finally met Nino, who I know will always be our friend, and Vincenzo to whom I owe so much.
On Tuesday Franco took us to lunch and introduced us to more of his English clients. We ate an Italian workers lunch, which consists of pasta, meat, salad, fries and as much wine as you can possibly drink. Delicious. On Tuesday night we decided the hotel in Lanciano just didn’t work for us. It was clean, but so dated it made life difficult so we moved to Vasto. I LOVE Vasto. My daughter and I stayed here for one night last August. Gorgeous, comfortable, hospitable. Rezidenza Amblingh!
On Wednesday we bought a washing machine and tumble drier and then continued to the house to meet Vincenzo and a new-found friend Zoe.
On Thursday, long drive to Pescara to buy furniture and beds. Maisons du Monde and more friendly people! They recommended a bed shop where we found exactly what we needed.
Yesterday (Saturday), it was light fittings. Found a great discount store for light fittings, and got everything we needed. Then on to Colledimezzo again, where I ran into the young guy we bought the house from. It is his dad’s house, but he showed us around. The cleaning started. We discovered a couple of things that needed fixing, but that always happens doesn’t it. It is going to be a work in progress, but it has so much character.
The photos are from today. We took the day of to relax and enjoy a delicious meal in a seafood restaurant at Vasto Harbour. We mistakenly thought it was within walking distance of the hotel, but it was actually almost six miles away. The walk gave us an appetite. When we asked if the waiter could call us a cab to get back to the hotel, he arranged for his sister to give us a ride. She wouldn’t take any money for her trouble.
Now we have our feet up relaxing like old folks do after a bottle of wine and a big meal, but we feel happy. Although the house may require a little more work than we expected, it is going to be worth it. I want to live among these friendly caring folks. I’ve lived on the good earth for a long time and have never encountered such genuine, friendly, helpful people. I’m blown away.
Last week was a very bad week at work! Barely slept, but I made up for it last night. Can’t remember when I last slept 10 hours. Things will get back on an even keel again soon and I’ll start to enjoy my job again.
Now I’m counting down the days because we’ll soon be on our way to Abruzzo. I understand the weather won’t be great in March, but we’ll be busy buying furniture and doing all we can to make our new house a home so we’ll barely notice. The wine and food at the end of the day will more that make up for it.
Can’t wait to see my husband’s face when he walks though the front door of his new Italian home for the very first time.


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Born and raised in Venezuela from Haitian and Venezuelan parents, Laurent-Perrault recently completed her PhD in History at New York University. Her dissertation, “Black Honor, Intellectual Marronage, and the Law in Venezuela, 1760-1809,” explores Afro-descendants’ intellectual contributions to the political debates, during the dawn of the Age of Revolutions. Ms. Perrault has a Licenciatura degree in Biology, from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Ms. Laurent-Perrault has been the recipient of several scholarships and fellowships, including Ford Dissertation and a Margaret Brown Fellowship. She has lived and traveled throughout Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ms. Laurent-Perrault is the founder of the Annual Arturo Schomburg Symposium that takes place at Taller Puertorriqueño, in Philadelphia. Its main objective is to educate a general audience about the experiences and contributions of the African Diaspora, with an emphasis in Latin America and the Caribbean. This event also seeks to further develop better communication and collaboration between Latin American/Latino and African-American communities. Taller will hosts its twentieth Schomburg Symposium in February 2016. Ms. Laurent-Perrault is also the co-founder of ENCUENTRO, an initiative that seeks to promote a global Afro-Diasporic dialogue.
I have been a member of ASWAD since 2007 when I began my PhD at NYU’s History Department (African Diaspora Program). Then, after being part of Afro-Latin American movements and debates, I questioned the nuances and root causes of the racialized structures that continues to prevail in Latin America and the Latino communities in the USA. ASWAD membership and the opportunities to present at its Bi-Annual conferences since 2009 offered me outstanding opportunities to present my ideas, establish a network with scholars, and engage in intellectual debates that nurtured my learning process. I feel growth after every ASWAD conference. Likewise I have seen ASWAD grow up; I admire the fact that the organization continues seeking new boundaries and challenges as situations unfold and remind us that things have not changed as much as we wished.
I believe, now that ASWAD is well established, time has come to expand and strengthen its relationship with the world of activism and grassroots organizations. I have shared this idea first with Michael Gomez and later with Kim Butler, whom I proposed as the Keynote speaker at the Academic Section of the 3rd World Summit of Africans and African Diaspora Leaders (Cali – Colombia, September 2013). I also proposed that ASWAD considers hosting one of its Bi-Annual Conferences in Lima-Peru, with CEDET (Centro de Desarrollo Étnico) as the local host organization. Its director has expressed interest in hosting the conference and has the capacity to do so. I think these alliances will create new learning opportunities and possibilities for more growth and collaboration, as we all try to un-silence and render visible the experiences and legacies of the African Diaspora. I look forward to sharing my experience, expertise, and creativity with ASWAD.


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Construction input prices declined 1.7 percent in December on a month-over-month basis yet are 3.5 percent higher than the same time last year, according to a new Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. In December, nonresidential construction prices fell 1.6 percent but are up 4.1 percent compared to one year ago.
Among 11 subcategories monitored in the data, six declined in price in last month, with the crude petroleum category registering the largest decrease at 3.7 percent and 11.1 percent year-over-year. The decline in input prices occurred despite a massive run-up in natural gas prices of 64.3 percent.
“Today’s data release should be viewed as good news for contractors,” said ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu. “For months, there has been growing concern that the combination of rising wages and construction input prices would steadily hammer away at profit margins. While that remains a concern, particularly considering the ongoing shortage of skilled construction workers, the fact that input prices have moderated—especially as they rose rapidly in 2018—should be viewed positively from the perspective of contractor earnings performance.
“There are many explanatory factors involved, including a softening global economy,” said Basu. “And while a softer global economy is good news from the perspective of inflationary pressures, ultimately, this will result in weaker U.S. economic growth. In addition, while there is no consensus among economists about the prospects for an economic downturn later this year or in 2020 or 2021, most agree that economic growth will be weaker going forward compared to 2018.


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"What is the connection between shemitta and Har Sinai? (I.e., why are we told explicitly, before the laws of shemitta are set out, that God said this 'at Har Sinai'?) Were not all the laws taught at Sinai?
[It teaches us that] just as the general principles, laws and details of shemitta were taught at Sinai, so the general ideas, laws and details of all the mitzvot were taught at Sinai."
Rashi and the Ramban differ in their interpretation of this explanation. According to Rashi, the Torah is teaching us here that even those mitzvot that were taught in the plains of Moav (at the end of the forty-year journey) were also taught at Sinai. The Ramban, on the other hand, follows a more literal interpretation of the Torat Kohanim, explaining that the Torah is teaching us that just as the general principles of shemitta were taught at Sinai ("In the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor or your nation may eat"  Shemot 23:11) and the details were taught there as well (as we see in our parasha), so it was with all the mitzvot  not only the general principles were taught at Sinai, but also all their details.
With this in mind, we need to understand why the Torah chooses to teach us this lesson specifically in the context of the laws of shemitta.
It seems that the Torah was concerned with the possibility that people would observe the general principles but not the details. People are sometimes prepared to accept the general principles of the Torah, but when it comes to the smaller details, whose relation to the overall idea is not immediately apparent, they have difficulty in fulfilling them. The general principles of Judaism are easy enough to "sell," but the details present much greater difficulty.
Let us take, for example, the laws of Shabbat. The idea of one day of rest from work every week is accepted and practiced today worldwide, but if it also entails a prohibition of switching on lights, etc., the whole package becomes less attractive. Rav Kook writes that the reason for secularization in his generation was not contempt for the ideals of the Torah, but rather that people were not prepared to live up to the detailed daily demands of the law.
On the other hand, the reverse phenomenon also exists: there are people who are so engrossed in the details that they lose sight of the general priniciples. Today, the search extra stringencies and the desire to set up new "boundaries around the Torah" has sometimes led people to ignore the goals of the mitzvot.
The Torah thus wished to stress the importance of both the general principles and the nitty-gritty details.
"So that your heart will not grow haughty with the prosperity of your land, leading you to forget the Yoke of His Kingship."
The mitzva of shemitta thus comes to teach us that even if one works the land and makes it yield fruit, he must always recall that he is not its owner; it belongs to God.
In his Moreh Nevukhim (III:39), the Rambam writes that one of the reasons for shemitta is that the land becomes more fertile if we leave it fallow every so often. The Abarbanel and others take him to task for this: Do the mitzvot come to give us agricultural advice? In fact, the Rambam himself wrote (III:28) that the mitzvot come either to give us correct opinions (on matters of divinity), to improve our character traits, or to improve our society! Thus, it seems that we should interpret the Rambam along the lines we suggested above: the mitzva of shemitta tells us that it is God who determines how we should work the land, for the land is His and we are but "strangers and sojourners" on it.
In light of all of this, it is understandable why the Torah chooses the laws of shemitta as the opportunity to teach us that we are obligated to observe not only the general principles but also the details. Shemitta is one of the very few mitzvot where the function of every detail is understood - the Torah forbids us to sow, reap, prune, etc., in order that we should remember that we are not the real owners of the land. Every detail comes to teach the same lesson: that only God decides what will happen to the land, because the land is in fact His and not ours. Therefore, the Torah wishes to tell us that just as in the case of the mitzva of shemitta it is understood that we are to fulfill both the principle and all the details, likewise when it comes to all the other mitzvot, both aspects must be observed - even though sometimes the connection between them is less clear to us.


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The VELUX CABRIO balcony system transforms from a roof window into a balcony in seconds. This is a great way to add value and a real wow factor to a property.
The upper section is top hung and opens outwards whilst the bottom section unfolds into a glazed balcony with side railings.
This system can be easily combined with additional top-hung and fixed sloping windows at the side to increase the daylight and view.
They are made of high quality white painted natural pine.
VELUX roof terrace system lets your window become your door to the outside, completely open it lets you enjoy the added space and light that a roof terrace brings.
The roof terrace helps you make the most of your unused roof space without compromising the size of your living space. This stunning solution offers direct access to the outside in a style of its own.


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Be a tourist in your own town and start with walking your city. Walking (and bicycle tours) are something I do in every new city I visit, always guided, but this particular Walk gives tourists and locals the opportunity to do an organised tour or go it on their own, at their own pace. I’m not a visitor mind you but lately I’m becoming more of a tourist in my town ~ it’s amazing to discover what surrounds me in my hood and beyond.
The newly introduced City Walk, made possible by the City of Cape Town, the CCID and the Cape Town Partnership, is a fine way to explore Cape Town and to get people walking instead of driving everywhere. The route runs from the top of Government Avenue where it meets Orange Street (opposite the Mount Nelson), then all the way down to lower Wale Street, down St George’s Mall, over Strand Street, into Waterkant Street, onto the Fan walk and over the bridge and as far as St Andrew’s Square.
The oak tree lined Government Avenue and Company’s Gardens are star attractions in the CBD. Aside from the wide open spaces of the Garden, there’s no shortage of things to do and see. First up it’s something of a tradition to feed the squirrels, pigeons and a more recent addition to the local wildlife, Egyptian Geese, with peanuts (vendors sell small bags for R5 each). For culture vultures there’s the South African National Art Gallery, the National Museum and many historical statues all around the gardens. This past Saturday the theme was ‘play’ and throughout the route there were amazing things going on- giant scrabble, jumping castles, DIY chalking, frisbee games, book readings, face painting…and that was just for the little people.
The monthly City Walk adds to the Big 6 list – Cape Point, Robben Island, Groot Constantia, Table Mountain Cableway, Kirstenbosch and the V&A Waterfront– making it the Big 7, the attractions you really shouldn’t miss on a visit to our fine city.
I had so much fun doing this walk- bumped into so many familiar faces like Jitsvinger and got caught up by innovative installation art, puppetry, dance and more. The vibe was festive and the atmosphere celebrated the cultural diversity that surrounds us. The next themed Walk and related activities is scheduled to take place 16 May.
The next City Walk Saturdays events take place on 16 May and 20 June – and every third Saturday of the month thereafter. Keep track of upcoming themes and events via http://www.capetown.travel/blog/entry/city-walk-to-fuel-cape-town-big-7.
Follow @capetownsoul on Instagram and use the hashtag #walkcapetown to see what you missed out on Saturday- it’ll inspire you to participate in the next City Walk.

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Christine Willson was born in London, England where her mother, a retired registered nurse, and siblings reside. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Chapman University in Orange, California. Christine enjoys spending time with her two beautiful daughters in San Diego and holidays in London with family.
Her friends call her loyal and reliable with an infectious smile. Her life’s journey has taught her to be selective about the company she keeps and her choice of lovers. She went against all odds when family and friends did not think her then-boyfriend was a compatible lover. Hailed from two very different upbringings and sets of values, Christine broke the stereotype, and love brought them together in marriage. She is now sharing The Screen Saver because she did not listen to her intuition; the truth was covered by a “screen saver.” There were many signs of the relationship not being right, but she was willing to make it work instead of being a quitter. She hopes that readers can imagine what it feels like to be walking through the journey of her marriage and learn from her experiences.
At what price are you willing to let your marriage go? When both hearts are in union, there’s beauty in the sanctity of marriage. Real power lies in sharing life’s experiences and being vulnerable. I am sharing my pain and fear in such a way that you will recognize the meaning of your life and create a positive vision for your own journey. Does the marriage vow “for better or for worse” include theft, fraud, or cheating? What is your understanding of “for better or for worse”?

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We are a full service painting contracting company working on both the interior and exterior of residential and commercial projects.
We have our own full time employees and do not hire subcontractors. We are fully insured.
Wheel of Color provides unmatched residential, and commercial painting services to clients throughout Denver, Littleton, Lakewood, Wheatridge, Englewood, Golden, Evergreen, Westminster, Arvada, Aurora, Parker and surrounding areas.
Owner/Operator Tom Baldwin, has been working in the painting industry for over 25 years. An alumni of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and resident of Colorado since 1979, he is well aware of the particular requirements that successful painting in the Colorado climate requires.
We take pride in offering work of the highest quality, which includes top line materials. A main focus is the use of LEED Certified paint and primers whenever possible; zero and low VOC (volatile organic content). A standard which most major manufacturers meet nowadays. We use other products when quality and/or price concerns require this to meet the needs of our clients.


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LIMMIT is an innovative neuroscience laboratory in Portugal whose main goal is to pursue a translational model of consciousness, by addressing the mind-matter interaction, its clinical/practical applications and the study of traits and states of consciousness.
It addresses a full descriptive systematic model of characterization of states and traits of consciousness pathways, through natural or induced set and settings, by developing innovative research in applied contemplative neuroscience, with non-invasive methodologies.
The Laboratory is placed within the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, in one of the main buildings of the Santa Maria Hospital, which provides a close connection and relation to the academic and clinical contexts. This interdisciplinary approach allows different research designs, from fixed randomized controlled clinical trials to flexible grounded theory studies.
This interdisciplinary model comprises the association from basic research studies in biophysics, neuropsychophysiology and molecular biomarkers (genomics/proteomics/metabolomics) to more clinical research studies focusing on hypnosis, meditation, clinical intention, enhanced placebo effect and entheogens.

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Internet Goodie #23: Happy Easter Greeting Card – Happily After Retirement!
Easter Bunny wishes you a Happy Day!
Take a moment and send someone a Happy Easter card! Sometimes it’s nice to get a virtual card with a personal message inside. They are whimsical and sweet ; easy to send and lovely to receive.
Here’s a link to Easter Greetings Card from 123 Greetings or this one from Blue Mountain.
What’s not to love about Lent?
Thanks! Do you have anything special going on today?
🙂 careful what you ask for…. sent you one and Happy Easter back atchoo, too!
Thanks! What are you doing for Easter? Any special plans? It snowed here yesterday but I think today will be sunny again!


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The Catlins is situated off the beaten track on the southern coast of the South Island, New Zealand. The Catlins is a major highlight of the Southern Scenic Route. Explore the natural wonders of The Catlins including waterfalls, caves, fossils, wildlife and bush walks.
The Catlins, between Fortrose and Kaka Point, is an area with dense native rain forest, farmland and the rugged coastline of the South Pacific Ocean. There are so many choices of walking tracks and byways – take some, and discover the treasures of The Catlins.
From the curious 180 million year old fossilised forest of Curio Bay to the fur seals, penguins and sea lions of Nugget Point. The Catlins is a great bird watching region.
Nugget Lodge accommodation - the perfect place to stay while exploring The Catlins. For the wildlife enthusiasts we recommend visiting The Catlins during the shoulder season September to mid November and late February to April. The beaches are quieter, not that they are ever busy, and the wildlife is in rest mode.
The Southern Scenic Route runs from Dunedin in the North through to Invercargill in the South and up to Te Anau.


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You won’t find the recently discovered Houston burrowing crayfish in your etouffé.
On an early spring trip to Angleton, just southwest of Houston, I watched the roadside carefully, hoping to catch a glimpse of unusual structures on the ground in this low, wet corner of Texas. And there they were, the telltale signs of some unique Texas animals.
Scattered along the grassy roadsides of County Road 171 and up into residential lawns were 3- to 6-inch-tall edifices of dark mud jutting out of the ground. A closer look at these structures revealed that they were composed of pellets of mud piled one on top of another, often with a vertical tunnel descending into the subterranean depths.
Chimney built by burrowing crayfish.
The earthen totems or “chimneys” are built by crayfish, but not the stream- and swamp-dwelling kind. These crayfish (known as primary burrowers) rarely visit open bodies of water, preferring to spend their days in water-filled chambers three to six feet underground. Burrowing crayfish are seldom seen, exiting their burrows only in spring and summer on rainy or very humid nights to forage for food or search for mates. Their chimneys typically stand testament to wet ground, where the water table is very close to the surface.
More than 40 crayfish species occur in Texas, with the low-lying, humid southeastern corner of the state hosting the largest number of species. Many crayfish species found here are endemic, occurring nowhere else in the world. About a half-dozen burrowing crayfish species occur in southeastern Texas.
One of these, the Houston burrowing crayfish, was discovered and described in 2008. Currently, this species has been found in only a handful of counties north of Houston. If you drive through Grimes, Liberty or Montgomery counties and spy roadside crayfish chimneys, they will likely represent the work of this Texas-only species. While found along roadsides today, the Houston burrowing crayfish was likely a historic associate of the wet coastal prairies that have since been converted to agriculture or lost to development.

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Ski touring on Ben Chonzie Munro in Scotland. Beautiful snow and sun!!
The weathers good outside, you cant really ski but you love a good challenge! Where else to head but Cairngorm and Nevis Range, one bike, 2 pairs of skis, two different approaches and two different but similar adventures!
A bit of footage from some of our days out from the gift 2017/2018 winter. From Stob Ghabhar, Creise (Dragon Bowl), Stob Coire nan Lochain (North East Face, Broad Gully), Stob Coire nam Beith (Massacre Face, Jacobites), Cairngorm (Diagonal Gully, Jacob's Ladder), Braeriach (Central Buttress Gully, East Gully, Coire an Lochain), Lochnagar, Creag Meagaidh (Easy Gully, Raeburn's Gully), An Teallach (Hayfork Gully, North Gully) and Ben Nevis (Gullies 4 & 5).
Road Trip in the Scottish Highlands during Winter Snow in Scotland full itinerary here https://www.bangorni.com/scotland-road-trip-highlands-winter/. We arrived in mid-January during yellow and amber weather warnings when the mountains are blanketed in extremely thick snow. Our road trip through the Scottish Highlands begins with the crossing from Belfast to Cairnryan with Stenaline when we continue on to Loch Lomond. The snow filled road trip then begins the next day as we continue to Glen Coe through the Scottish Highlands, and from there we cross east to west with a night in Pitlochry passing Loch Tay. Then it is north to the Cairngorms and Aviemore, famous for its ski resorts, and pine forests. Onwards we travel to Loch Ness, in passing, as we continue to the Isle of Skye and the far north east corners of Scotland. Catching amazing winter and snow filled scenery along the way. From the Isle of Skye we then return to the Glen Coe area, staying at Fort William beneath the Nevis Range, Scotland's tallest mountain. Then from Fort William we exit the highlands with a night near Saint Andrews and not far from Dundee. For more on our life in Thailand and travels in Asia check our website http://live-less-ordinary.com/. All material is produced by travel bloggers Fanfan and Allan Wilson.
Shot over the weekend of the 2018 "Beast From The East" Aviemore and the Cairngorms Ski Centre.
The Towers Convent School Ski trip has been an annual fixture for many years, and here is some cine footage from the 1976 trip to Scotland.
After a year in Africa, it felt great to be skiing in Scotland again... Forecast was poor, but Brigid & I decided to go anyway, and I had an inclination that on a NE wind there might be fun to be had in the Lawers group, above Loch Tay. Skin up was glorious; the very top was rather Scottish (blowing a hooley, zero-vis, navigation by compass); but charging down one foot of snow on a base of tufty heather, like a natural terrain park, with the low sun of the North glowing warm over the frozen hills and the shadowy waters of the loch below, was every bit as fun as ever I remembered it.
31st of January 2019 was a bluebird day in the Scottish Highlands. Following several days of heavy snowfall I decided to try out Ben Wyvis, a mountain renowned for good backcountry skiing. The Sun came out and I decided to try it on a splitboard. It was hard work for a splitboard and involved a lot of postholing out down the valley at the end of the day but was worth the effort. Sadly the cold meant that I didnt get much footage of the splitboarding as the iPhone died with the cold but I did get some of another skier coming down the mountain. So enjoy the amazing scenery of the Monadliath Hills and Ben Wyvis coupled with some British backcountry skiing !
Lecht Park Project and The Lecht 2090 ski centre, in conjunction with ESP Elgin. Air & Style Jam comp.
Glenshee Ski Centre, Scotland 8.1.11 - A truly fantastic days skiing!
One of my best days of the Scottish 2010/11 season so far in terms of weather and snow conditions at Glenshee - Filmed in HD on a GoPro HD Hero camera.
A short and bad edited video from the very very limited footage we got from a 4 day trip to Scotland.
Awesome 4-somes Road Trip To Scotland!
Winter Weekend road trip to the fairy Pools in Isle of Skye. First stop was Ben Nevis Ski Centre.
Ski-Scotland - Shred the slopes this winter!
Ski-Scotland has teamed up with CutMedia, producers of Danny MacAskill’s ‘The Ridge’, to bring you some amazing footage of skiing and boarding on Scotland’s mountains. Get your kit together and hit the slopes this winter!
Ski tour across the Moine Mhor to Sgor an Lochain Uaine and Cairn Toul, 20th Feb 2010. Conditions that weekend were some of the best ever seen in Scotland with extremely low temperatures having created amazing hoar frost crystals on top of the snow surface.
15/216. Ski tour to Creise with a descent of the east face.
Steep Scotland (10 mins) Two ski instructors abandon the Alps to come home to Scotland for the best ski touring in years, seeking out challenging descents in the Cairngorms and on Ben Nevis. Shown at the 2010 Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival. Filmed and edited by Blair Aitken. Additional footage thanks to Andy Weir and Michael Jachacy. Featuring Blair Aitken, Andy Freshwater, Tom Hutchison, Dave Anderson, Allan (get in touch if you see this!), Andy Weir and Donnie Hall. EDINBURGH MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL is an annual event dedicated to the promotion of adventure through films, lectures and exhibitions. The festival aims to entertain, enlighten and inspire. It also offers film-makers the rare opportunity to showcase their exciting work. NOTES Here is some missing information about the film, in case anyone wants to ski the terrain: The first gully is actually called Diagonal Coulior on the Stag Rocks. The shot before Pinnacle Gully is the top of Castlegate not Pinnacle gully, we didn't have time to ski both but they are side by side. We skied both sides of Madubh but the one in the film is heading toward Taillers Burn (although not steep this is probably Scotland's best ski run!). Coire Garblach was actually filmed a different day from the Angel's Peak tour. After skiing Cairn Toul and Angel's Peak we skied one of the northern corries off Brieriach (this isn't in the film but is one of the other Scottish films). Dougie Mill was supposed to be the second ski instructor who came from France but he broke his leg on the first day!
First time skiing in 8 years.
A ski tour of Beinn Teallach, Beinn a' Chaorainn and Creag Meagaidh, March 2015.
"[I can hardly describe] the absolute horror with which I, and no doubt many of the other competitors, viewed the little string of flags which marked the course down what is, to all intents and purposes, a precipice." - Letter to the editor of the Scottish Ski Club Journal followingthe Scottish Kandahar Ski Race, Beinn Ghlas, Scotland, 1936 IN THE 1930s, Beinn Ghlas in Highland Perthshire was the centre of the Scottish skiing universe, and some of the first ever Scottish ski races were held on its slopes. The construction of purpose-built ski resorts at Glencoe and Cairngorm in the 1950s caused the crowds to drift away, but now, thanks to a resurgence in the popularity of ski touring, the area is back onthe map. In the Spring of 2013, five friends set up camp at Beinn Ghlas and set out to ski some of its historic lines. This film tells their story - and the story of the people who skied there before them. Mixing rarely-seen footage from the Scottish Screen Archive with stunning contemporary cinematography, The Beinn Ghlas Project shows how a mountain once packed with skiers wearing tweeds and plus fours is now becoming a playground for a whole new generation of backcountry enthusiasts. The film includes: *Interviews with award-winning ski historian and adventurer Myrtle Simpson and leading mountaineering guide Stuart Johnston *Skiing from Jo Guest, Jonny Loney, Lou Sharp, Mark "Sparky" Stewart and Mike Guest *Music from Iglomat and Dr Mango and the Chickpeas *A Munro-bagging Jack Russell called Jeff.


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Mints have long been used in aromatherapy for headaches, nausea and to refresh nasal sinuses. We chose cooling peppermint for its ability to clear your head by releasing muscle tension. You get the same quality of relief without any pills involved.
This comes in a 7 ml glass jar with metal roller ball.
To use: Simply roll a bit of this minty oil on your forehead, temples and the back of your neck. It feels warm as you massage it in with your fingertips.


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Usa Tankless is an authorized distributor of the Titan tankless water heaters. We are backed up by more than 25 years of experience in the tankless water heating industry. In fact, Titan water heaters were the first tankless water heaters designed and built in the United States in the early 1980’s by the manufacturer, Niagara Industries Inc. Over the years our products have gain more and more acceptances and every day hundreds of customers replace their conventional heaters with our tankless water heaters. We are proud to deliver top of the line technology inside every Titan we distribute.
Our group consists of true professionals in the field of tankless water heaters as well as experienced technicians who, along with the rest of the team, will make every effort to help our customers in every step of the process of selection, purchase, and installation of the unit.
We have in inventory the whole selection of Titan tankless water heaters the manufacturer offers as well as parts for repairs in our well-organized web site. This ensures that the company can focus on personalized service, ensuring safety at every single transaction, saving time and money for all our customers, and providing the best final product.
Our mission is to distribute the well earned respected Titan water heater to the home of every customer looking to save money on the cost of water heating, while also saving space and obtaining endless hot water for the long years your unit will last. We want every customer to have a great experience with our product as well as with our service. We will do everything in our power to make that a reality.
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My second attempt was a folding knife. I made this after attending a knife making class with Tim McCreight which really helped me to understand how to work with steel. The metal clay element was textured using thick slip and a cocktail stick – my favourite texture. The knife is 5.5 cms long folded. This project was well received and scored well.
9 out of 10 – I was very happy with that. The comments compared the two submissions, “Unlike the first piece, this uses the steel and silver for the specific qualities of each. In addition, this piece demonstrates the ability to work with (and control) both metals.” I really love this little knife.
Create a functional or wearable object that combines metal clay with any form of steel (stainless, carbon, etc.). This can be fashioned by the artist or derived from a commercial product. Examples would include a handmade knife blade, a commercial washer, or a remnant from a machine.


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All of our books, DVDs and CDs are 100% American-made.
Stan guests with Doug on The Hagmann Report, April 23, 6:00 pm MT. Listen. Beginning last week, by popular demand, Stan is on for an hour each Tuesday evening.
Video of the Day 1a, 1b – These are humorous and spot on.
EMP is the single worst threat to America. If you are new to this to, see The EMP Threat and Solution Explained that made the front page of the Topeka Capital-Journal: "Working in Nanoseconds: Burlington Business Sees Potential in EMP Shield," or see screen snaps of page 1 and page 2.
Our EMP Shield is mighty! – 4x stronger than military grade – and just in time with all the reports of nuclear war and increased threats to the power grid! NOTE: This is a different project from Stan's alternate energy device.
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The EMP Shield is easy to install. Simple 2-page installation instructions here. If you're unfamiliar with the EMP Threat, watch Stan's video. Email Stan standeyo@standeyo.com or phone 620-263-3139 / 719-547-9100 with any questions or if you'd like to become an affiliate.
News is updated throughout the day. Categories stay where they are for that day unless something extraordinary happens so check your favorite topics. While much in the headlines is alarming and distressing, our purpose is to inform and show where we are on the Christian timeline. Some, though not all of those articles, are noted with . If you want perspective and encouragement, listen to Pastor JD Farag's latest message.
6.1 Earthquake Jolts Taiwan, Injuring 17 – HOLLY NOTE: With the absence of notable earthquakes lately, plate stress is building.


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Kris Jenner’s thrilled to be a new grandma again, saying she was “really emotional” at Dream Kardashian’s birth.
The ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ star has been in the delivery room for all six of her grandchildren, including son Rob and his fiance’s little girl, who was born earlier this month, daughter Kourtney Kardashian and ex-partner Scott Disick’s kids Mason, six, Penelope, four, and Reign, 23 months, and Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West’s two kids North, three, and Saint, 11 months.
And Kris has found it “so exciting” being there when the kids were born.
While Dream isn’t even two weeks old yet, Kris – who thinks the tot’s name is “pretty” – insists the youngster is “great” and not causing her parents many problems.
The 61-year-old momager – who also has daughters Khloe Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner – is now preparing for Thanksgiving with her family, and says they will all pitch in when it comes to making dinner.

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Summer is a wonderful time with so many fruits and vegetables available at the market. I get excited about what I find and have a slight tendency to overbuy, just a little. Unfortunately this week I was under the weather and found myself with a lot of overripe fruit that were just a little past their prime. I'd made enough jam for the season so that wasn't an option. Despite the heat, I decided to make a fruit crumble.
I found a recipe on Eating Well and used it as a guide. I liked it because it wasn't overly sweet and used whole wheat flour. With a dollop of Greek yogurt it sounded like just the thing for a summer morning breakfast.
I pulled the fruits I wanted to use up - nectarines, strawberries, and blueberries, The fruit was prepped with a little sugar, flour, and lemon juice and split between individual ramekins.
Then I mixed together a simple topping of oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, flour, and canola oil and topped each ramekin.
After baking and a bit of time to cool, they were ready to eat - a great way to start the day.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Combine fruit with granulated sugar, 2 tablespoon flour, and lemon juice. Divide among six 6-ounce ovenproof ramekins.
Combine oats, nuts, brown sugar, the remaining 3 tablespoons flour and cinnamon. Drizzle with oil and stir to combine. Sprinkle over the fruit mixture. Place the ramekins on a baking sheet.


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I have always enjoyed accounting and numbers and wanted to help small business owners get their business off to a great start. This ambition led to the beginning of Peter’s Accounting & Bookkeeping, through which I help them concentrate on their business, so they aren’t bogged down by bookkeeping or other accounting hassles of running a business.
Though I have been in this line of business for around fifteen years, in the last couple of years, I have seen my business grow substantially. Initially, I was the sole employee, but now, I have an entire team working with me. Watching the team grow and bringing new employees into the business has been incredibly rewarding over the years.
As an owner of a business, I find that speaking with clients, helping them reduce costs, and not having to worry about the paperwork gives me immense joy, so I will strive to continue providing the best services I can.
As an individual, I believe what sets our firm apart from the others is that we are ethical problem solvers, with integrity, and always accountable to our clients. I attribute our success to our integrity and belief in good quality hard work.
When I’m not at work, I enjoy spending time with my grandchildren. I am also an accomplished pianist and musician and enjoy my hobbies when I'm not at the office.
If you or someone you know could benefit from our expertise in accounting and bookkeeping in Ancaster, Ontario, I invite you to get in touch. Please visit our website at www.petersaccounting.ca.

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In Adobe Photoshop Basics we will learn everything to get you started with creating projects in Photoshop. In this four-part series, you will learn hands-on techniques such as getting familiar with your workspace, layers, image types, selection tools, mask tools, typography tools, brushes, and adjustment layers.
Students should bring a laptop computer installed with Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud of Creative Suite as well as a pencil and paper.


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Who does not want a Google home? We want! Did you know that Google is offering a Google Home device when you buy of their Google Pixel XL smartphone from their Store?
Google is offering this deal on the Google Home and Google Pixel in their store online. Also, a free Google home on each Pixel devices when you sign u to Project Fi, and this is available until July 29, 2017.
The Google Home comes with a Google Assistant built in and it's available for $129 in the US.
Denon launched their newest addition to the range of in-ear headphones, with the launch of Denon AH-C821 that are now offered to purchase with a price tag of £169 straight from the official Denon website.
Every headphone also installed with memory foam tips that are turned on by the heat of your ears, allowing the ear buds to form to the exact and unique ear shape of your ear as you listen.
The newest in-ear headphones from Denon consists of a Double Air Compression Driver together with dual cable and built using an ergonomic aluminum die cast and resin hybrid coat.
To know more about the new Denon AH-C821 headphones check the Denon official website here.
The Xiaomi Mi Band 2 was introduced last June and now the company has announced that it is releasing the gadget in India.
The Xiaomi Mi Band 2 will cost for Rs 1999 in India which is about $29 USD.
release of the Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.1 which features a number of optimizations for the new games launching in following weeks in the form of Mafia III and Gear of War 4.
The newest drivers are now offered to download both 32 as well as 64 bit versions of Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7 system, delivering gamers a number of numerous game particular bug improvements such as stutter and crash which affects CrossFire systems. Also see how this cellular country review can do.
Anandtech website points out a little more about what you can expected from the new MD Radeon Software Crimson Edition update.
With AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.1 bringing us driver version 16.40.2715 we have a solid handful of CrossFire fixes with a few others following along, and support for two more titles being released across the next week.
Starting us off we have some game related fixes all centered around CrossFire. Both Battlefield 1 and Overwatch received fixes for issues with flickering graphics that were seen while running the game with CrossFire enabled, and Paragon shared in the flickering issue when FreeSync was used in conjunction with CrossFire. Deus Ex: Mankind also has received a fix for issues with stuttering while using CrossFire.
Moving away from Crossfire we have a fix for random or sudden FPS drops while playing The Crew, and the Pixel Format option is no longer missing for some Radeon RX 400 series products in Radeon Setting.
For those who want to download the newest Radeon Software you can visit here.
Amazon has released a renew of the Fire HD 8 with a significantly inexpensive price, and this might be the first tablet in a while from the retail giant that is worthy of choosing. This tablet features an 8inch display with a resolution of 1280x800 pixel. The state is runs by a quad-core 1.3Ghz processor and 1.5GB of RAM.
Amazon has increased the storage from the last Fire HD 8 that is range to 16B or 32GB. Furthermore, there is a microSD support for cards up to 200GB and a powerful battery of 4,500mAh that can last up to 12 hours. The tablet features a back and front cameras and Dolby Audio stereo speakers.
This new Fire HD 8 runs the newest Fire OS 5 software also can get access to Amazon Underground, a independent store which only offers free apps and games that don’t involve in-app payments.
The new Fire HD 8 design is the same as the previous Fire HD 8, with a durable smooth feeling design, color available are tangerine, blue, magenta and black. There are good reviews for the Fire HD 8 and also the cellular country reviews 2016.
The Pre-orders for the new Fire HD with the 16GB starts at $89.99. More than a half the price of an iPad Mini 2, the cheapest iOS tablet you can get right now, and comparable value to the EE Harrier tab, which you can only get in the UK.
Indeed, this new Fire HD 8 is the cheapest tablet that offers today in the market, have you already get this new Fire HD 8 tablet? or do you have tablet that has almost the same specs and price? Share your experience below at the comment section.
The newest Samsung Gear S3 was produced official at IFA last week and now Samsung has launched a new video featuring their newest smartwatch.
The Samsung Gear S3 comes with a new design and made from 316L stainless steel. Furthermore, it has a 1.3inchdisplay with 360x360 pixel and runs with Samsung Tizen operating system. The new smartphone is works with Google’s Android gadgets and Apple’s iOS devices.
Popular smartphone nowadays are indeed expensive, the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Apple iPhone 6s cost $650 each. However, it is possible to have a good smartphone for less.
According to a Consumer Report Mike Gikas, “Four hundred dollars may sound like a lot for a cheap smartphone, but it’s the least expensive new iPhone you can buy."
iPhone SE seems like the older iPhone 5s but works more like the actual iPhone 6s. It has a touch ID, Apple Pay, Siri and good battery that work nine hours of talk time.
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Premiere of Chariot, a ballet by Zack Winokur with music by Conrad Winslow.
Performed by David Kaplan, Hassan Anderson, Stuart Stephenson, Lee Jarzembak, and Conrad Winslow.
Curated show featuring David Crowell, Dillon Kondor, and Conrad Winslow. New work for solo trombone.
The Howl (theory) performs a new revision of my percussion quartet, IT'S MUTUAL, with Sean Statser as marimba soloist.
Also featuring the premiere of NEARLY RESOLVED CHORDS for electric chamber ensemble, in addition to the music of Eric Lemmon, Angélica Negrón, Noam Faingold, and Dylan Glatthorn.
Jesus In Our Lives: Opening Party!!
Artist, musician, and playwright Natalie Weiss is Artist in Residence at Ramiken Crucible Gallery. During her residency, Weiss will transform the gallery into a collaborative music studio and performance venue. Weiss’s residency is an experiment designed to repurpose the traditional social functions of a church in the most idealistic and contemporary ways imaginable.
Video and performance artist Allie Avitel Tsypin gets into teenage rage and banality in this video/performance piece based on a song from the new musical CAMP WANATACHI.
Andrew Chadwick uses record players, microcassettes and radio to create quilted audio collages through broken records and object interference. Magnetic dregs and battered grooves yield a stuttering summertime soundclash.
A line of women braid themselves together in a social sculpture about how great it is to touch your friends. Featuring Throat II by Little Women arranged for four female voices by Natalie Weiss.
Conrad Winslow explores the sonorities and dynamics of the trombone with an entirely male ensemble!
Wielding armfuls of samplers and synthesizers, a costume by riderhood and her little sister, Natalie Weiss will perform as Unicornicopia.
As part of the International Trombone Festival, the Guidonian Hand will be performing my piece, PINNING MUSIC, as well as Jeremy Howard Beck's excellent piece, AWAKENING.
Performance of Slippery Music, alongside music by Michael Ippolito, Ray Lustig, Barret Anspach, and Michael Gilbertson.
Premiere of Ceilings, alongside music by Niccolo Athens, Michael Gilbertson, Hyeon-Joon Sohn, and Jude Vaclavik.
The concert was cancelled due to snow and the works were recorded the following week.
Performance of Getting There by Greg Chudzik, Matt Donello, and Joshua Modney. Also featuring Skeletons and the David Crowell Ensemble. Concert produced and curated by Conrad Winslow.


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Though the overarching spiritual needs of humanity do not change through time, Lloyd-Jones fully recognized that the world in which he preached and ministered had specific challenges. “The very belief in God,” he suggested, “has virtually gone."6 He spoke about being “confronted by materialism, worldliness, indifference, hardness, and callousness."7 As a result, he saw the “urgent need of some manifestation, some demonstration, of the power of the Holy Spirit."8 Lloyd-Jones sincerely hoped all Christians were “sick and tired” of hearing that the problems facing the church had to do with new circumstances.
The pressing need of the church could not be met, according to Lloyd-Jones, by organized evangelistic campaigns, church revitalization programs, or secular entertainment. In 1959, he argued that there was no use saying “let’s pray for revival,” since there were numerous ways in which the thinking and actions of the church needed to change before such prayer was offered.9 Lloyd-Jones went so far as saying that churches that stress “mass meetings” or “entertainment” could not expect to see a future.
Revival, for Martyn Lloyd-Jones, was real and powerful. The two primary characteristics of revivals throughout the history of the church, he exclaimed in the 1959 Puritan Conference, are an “extraordinary enlivening of the members of the church” and “the conversion of masses of people.” Lloyd-Jones argued consistently for a tremendous need for such a revival. Only through the experience of revival would the church become––as had happened in the past––“alive and full of power, and of vigour, and of might."13 All other remedies or solutions to the needs of the time were hoplessly inadequate. Lloyd-Jones was adamant that revival is a “miracle,” something that can only be explained as “the direct action and intervention of God."14While human efforts could produce evangelistic campaigns they could never produce real and lasting revival.
Lloyd-Jones’ positive aim was to stimulate a desire for a more powerful awareness of spiritual things, and in particular he was determined to focus attention on the awareness of the glory and holiness of God and a clear view of the love of God in Christ. Lloyd-Jones held forth a grand vision of revival to his hearers, painting revival within the narrative of redemptive history with sweeping brush strokes. He was convinced that what was once more required was “something that is so striking that it will arrest the attention of the world."15 That is revival.
1. Philip E. Hughes, Revive Us Again (London: Marshall Morgan and Scott, 1947), 5.
2. D.M. Lloyd-Jones to Philip E. Hughes, 17 April 1946, in D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ Letters 1919–1981, ed. Iain Murray (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1994), 70–71.
3. Ian M. Randall, Lloyd-Jones and Revival in Engaging With Lloyd-Jones, eds. Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones (Nottingham: Apollos, 2011), 91.
4. D.M. Lloyd-Jones, Revival: Can We Make It Happen? (London, Marshall Pickering, 1992), 100.
7. D.M. Lloyd-Jones, Prove All Things: The Sovereign Work of the Holy Spirit (Eastbourne: Kingsway, 1985), 25.
8. D.M. Lloyd-Jones, Prove All Things, 25.
Dustin Benge is a Ph.D. candidate at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY in the area of Biblical Spirituality. He is also lecturer and administrative research assistant at The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies on the campus of Southern Seminary. In addition, he has also served as a pastor in Kentucky and Alabama.


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Up in Worship How has God moved you to be a part of His restoring work through the Day of Healing Prayer and the message and blessing of last Sunday?
Where have you seen God open His hand to fill His creation with good things this week that causes you to praise and thank Him (Psalm 104:28)?
1. What first comes to your mind at the mention of the Holy Spirit?
2. What evidences or signs help the people recognize the new reality of the Holy Spirit’s filling (2:1-13)?
3. How does the coming of the promised Holy Spirit restore humankind from the effects of sin at Babel (See Genesis 11:1-9)? What truths can be learned, and how do they help you?
4. Where have you seen evidence of the Holy Spirit’s power that has gotten the attention of others? (in our church, life group, family, individual…). If it has been a while since you have witnessed the Holy Spirit at work, why do you think that is the case?
5. What do find significant about verse 14? Why?
6. How does Peter use prophecy (Joel 2:15-21) to explain to the people what is happening? Compared to the way God worked through His Spirit in the past, how is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit new in the last days? (See also Jeremiah 31:33-34 and Ezekiel 36:26-27, 39:29).
7. Why else is prophecy important to the work of God’s salvation?
9. How have you been made new through the power of God’s word and His Spirit among a community of believers?
According to Peter’s sermon at Pentecost, God’s people are living in the last days.
How should this truth renew a sense of urgency as it applies to the work God has called us to do?
Who has God placed in your life that is not ready for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Where do you need to rely on the power of the Holy Spirit so that others may see the evidence of Christ in you?


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TheRAConnection recently published the results of a survey of 100 patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) suggesting that a large majority of physicians don’t discuss treating to a specific target with their patients.
The treat-to-target strategy has been widely advocated as an important means of optimizing treatment in patients with RA and this strategy is encouraged by most guidelines. A current report however has confirmed what RA patients already know: US Rheumatologists fail to implement treating to target in their daily practice.
Rheumatology researchers from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston just published the results of the TRACTION trial, which was a randomized controlled study of 641 RA patients recruited from 46 providers practicing at 11 US sites. They collected data on implementation of treating to target and calculated a “treat to target implementation score” as the percentage of features recorded.
They found that nearly two-thirds (64%) of RA patients visits had none of the treat to target components recorded. Interestingly, older rheumatologists with longer experience had higher implementation scores; while younger rheumatologists had lower scores.
An important concept in the management of chronic inflammatory conditions is “treating to target.” The target for most patients will be disease remission. Disease activity measures are used to assess progress toward this goal.
This is important as a lot of patients can get confused as to why they are being prescribed a certain medication. It’s impprtant to have an open discussion with the doctor because patients can become scared of side effects and not understand how it can also help them.


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One of the most interesting and perhaps least known features of the Adirondack Mountain Region is the 135-mile continuous wilderness footpath, the trail from Northville to Lake Placid. Cut in 1922 this iconic trail was the first one completed by ADK members. Complete an end-to-end hike including the road walks in Piseco, Wakely Dam and Long Lake to earn this patch based on the design of the original trail marker. This challenge can be completed in segments. Learn more.
Join the chapter on three stewardship hikes to help with basic trail maintenance to earn this patch, and the gratitude of all who hike.


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Before leaving Las Palmas, Grand Canaria, Scott and Mary Flanders picked up another crew member – Steve. Steve crossed the Atlantic with them on the Nordhavn Atlantic Rally in 2004. For the first installment of their diary, click here.
Yesterday afternoon we transferred the 89.5 gallons of fuel in the cockpit bladder into the port tank. Later the wind picked up, clocking more to the port side (ENE). The stabilizers were taking a beating from the low rpm so at 20:30 we added 100 rpm (from 13:50 to 14:50) and that settled things down. At 00:30 this morning Mary reduced rpm’s to 1400 with declining seas and at 05:00 Steve went back to 1350 rpm. We have had a many hours of head current plus the inefficiency of somewhat rough water giving us the decline in distance travelled for the past 24 hours.
Speed is up a bit now at 6.4 knots with little wind or waves (both are favourable so if this current will reverse or go away we’ll be rockin’). We’ll see. In the big picture it doesn’t really matter. We’ll get there when we get there.
Early this morning was flying-fish night on my watch (05:00-09:00). I collected about 10 good-sized flyers and one monster. They are resting in a zip-lock bag in the fridge for today’s lunch. Capt Scott is going to dip them in milk and egg then tumble them in a zip lock with a batter of 50-50 Ritz type crackers and flour. A quick fry in hot olive oil should do the trick. This is a first for the Egret crew. In this great weather we put out two worms to drag and will hopefully catch a yellowfin tuna, wahoo or mahi mahi.

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The perfect way to see in the New Year and any other event that is celebrated at midnight!
The countdown begins at 11 o'clock, and every 10 seconds the clock/counter design changes to keep the countdown interesting, cycling through 24 different designs.
There are almost no words on the video (apart from “minutes”, “seconds” and “Milliseconds” which appear occasionally), which means it can be used internationally, and on occasions other than New Year (eg you could use it for a Christmas Eve party). You can also use the fireworks loop on its own if you don’t need a countdown.
The download version includes the full 1 hour countdown and the fireworks loop as separate files, allowing you to play the countdown, and then play the fireworks on a continuous loop.
On the DVD version, you can choose to start the countdown 1 hour, 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 10 minutes, or 30 seconds before midnight giving maximum flexibility and a fail-safe should the unexpected happen (such as a power cut) and you need to restart the DVD.
PLEASE NOTE:The files supplied in the downloadable version of this product are large, so may take a long time to download (on a typical UK broadband connection of 14Mbps the HD version would take about half an hour to download). The Downloads are only available for 48 hours after purchase, so please only buy when you are ready to download.
The downloaded zip file will contain two videos – one video is the 1 hour countdown with 2 minutes of fireworks at the end, and the other video is a 3 minute fireworks loop which can be looped seamlessly, with firework sound effects.


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Mr. Cory's Cookies — Harlem EatUp!
Cory Nieves, also known as Mr. Cory, is a pint-sized entrepreneur who serves as founder of Mr. Cory’s Cookies. The company sells natural gourmet cookies made with premium ingredients.
Mr. Cory lives in New Jersey, with his mother, Lisa, who is known as Cookie Mom. Together they created Mr. Cory’s Cookies when, at age 6, Cory decided he wanted to sell hot cocoa and Chocolate Chip Cookies to raise money to buy his mother a car because he was tired of riding public transportation. That led to the sale of lemonade. The cookies were a hit. Today, these delicious cookies are available in Chocolate Chip, Double Dark, Oatmeal Raisin and Sugar, with more flavors to come.
Mr. Cory and Lisa were recently featured on CNBC’s The Profit, which is the brainchild of businessman Marcus Lemonis, who is currently assisting the mother-son duo grow their business. For instance, the cookies are now available online for the first-time through their web site: https://mrcoryscookies.com/. He was a contestant on MasterChef Junior in 2015, and a year earlier Talk Show Host Ellen DeGeneres gifted Mr. Cory with a new car bearing the company’s logo during a segment of her TV show.
Mr. Cory looks the part of a CEO each day by wearing a dress shirt, tie and sharp trousers. He is also a model and has appeared in numerous ads, including collaborating on a major fashion promotion and his own clothing line. He has been able to work with some of the nation’s leading companies and brands.
As part of Mr. Cory CARES, he gives back to those in need. Mr. Cory often speaks at schools encouraging young people like him to become entrepreneurs. When he graduates from high school, he plans to attend Princeton University and study business and law.

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Mountain bike club members receive the additional benefit of a 20% discount on any Annual pass.
A 15% discount on products or services sold at the Rabbit Ridge Bike shop.
A 15% discount on Multiday passes.
Rabbit Ridge will offer this discount to all New Zealand MTB clubs and associated sports clubs. The list of participating clubs will be updated regularly.
Club members cannot purchase on line and must present proof of current memberships at the Rabbit Ridge office to redeem the offer.
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Art really can turn a frown upside down.
I was checkin' out the scenery on the Georges Gap Rd and passed by a display of toilets I've wondered about for years. See, if you twist your head just right, you'll catch a glimpse of what appears to be a row of toilets peeping over the yard's horizon. But to date there was never any context to make sense of the partial view. Still, even finally piecing together the puzzle doesn't necessary make the scene completely rational, so we'll categorize this yard as art.
How did I finally capture these images?
Previously I was too timid to stop and ask permission to take photos because a person who collects toilets in their yard, well, their personality is difficult to predict. But today was the day to solve this mystery. I reckon I was channeling my inner Nancy Drew. I pulled into the driveway and knocked on the door. No answer. So I took it upon my nosy self to walk around to the side and get a good look-see. The owner uses the toilets as brilliant little utilitarian planters. And they please me, too. I especially like the bag of manure in the foreground which is used to fill the toilets with the necessary brown gold.
Some folks may see toilet art as tacky and weird, but I see it as quirky, fun and now I can't wait to meet the artist.