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TAMPA – They competed together at Immokalee High and the University of South Florida, but at football practice, tailback D’Ernest Johnson and defensive tackle Deadrin Senat are foes.
When he gets the ball and runs up the middle, Johnson will try to shake Senat.
“We always say it’s competition, hit somebody, get after each other,” Senat said.
Senat, Johnson and the rest of the USF Bulls are challenging and pushing each other because they have big goals.
After going 11-2, beating South Carolina in the Birmingham Bowl and finishing with a No. 19 ranking in The Associated Press poll, South Florida will be considered among the best teams in the country in 2017.
The Bulls will finish spring ball with their annual spring game at 4 p.m. Saturday at Corbett Stadium.
CBSSports.com has ranked USF No. 10 in its preseason poll, which makes it a prime candidate to play in a New Year’s Day Six Bowl. Most other publications are expected to make the Bulls favorites in the American Athletic Conference.
Winning a league title would be a first.
In its previous 20 seasons of football, South Florida has beaten such schools as Louisville (2005), West Virginia (2006, 2007, 2009), Auburn (2007), Kansas (2008), Florida State 2009 and Notre Dame (2011), and has been ranked as high as No. 2 in the country (2007).
But the Bulls never have won a conference championship.
“What I’ve tried to do is mention that we won 11 games, but we didn’t win the conference,” said new USF coach Charlie Strong, who replaced Willie Taggart after he received the job at Oregon. “That’s something to build on. It’s out there but we gotta do it.
Florida’s defensive coordinator on national championship teams in 2006 and 2008, Strong coached at Louisville and Texas before coming to USF. He always has been impressed with the talent at Immokalee going back to the days of Indians linebacker Brian Rolle, who played at Ohio State from 2007-10.
“With Lake Okeechobee being close by, I always thought it was the water because of all those players from Belle Glade, Pahokee, Clewiston and Immokalee,” he joked.
Johnson has a goal of 1,500 yards in his senior season as he forms a potent 1-2 combo with Quinton Flowers, one of the best QBs in the country. Last season, Johnson had 14 TDs and 1,280 yards from rushing, receiving and returning.
Senat, another senior who earned second-team All-AAC honors after having 49 tackles, is an anchor on the defensive line.
Two other Immokalee players – junior safety Jaymon Thomas and junior linebacker Jimmy Bayes – also are counted on to make an impact. Thomas had 55 tackles, two sacks, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. Bayes has been seeing action with the first unit after moving from safety.
“Jimmy Bayes is a kid that’s played linebacker before, went to the front and came back,” defensive coordinator Brian Jean-Mary said. “He’s a kid we just have to keep getting some more from. He’s a good kid, great body with height, weight, speed and measurables that you would like. Now we just have to get him to be consistent as a linebacker and really take to learning the position.
Another player who has had a good camp is senior wide receiver Ryshene Bronson of Dunbar. He had just 10 catches in 2016.
Bronson said he talks to the younger players that this always hasn’t been easy, point out records of 2-10 and 4-8 when he first arrived, before going 8-5 and 11-2 the last two years.


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Edit: Looks like there's a chestpiece (and possibly a set that goes along with it) that uses the Everstill name, as well as this cloth set.
This set also goes well with the quest reward Anacondra's Robe if you like the accessories but want a completely different look for the chest.
Baradin, Mistmantle, and Ameth'Aran BoE items also match this set.
The Ameth'Aran items are not included here, despite having the same models and colors.
Currently, non of the items hold any greater value.

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wiwivision 2016 - Vote now in the grand final!
Turn-up the wind-machines. Fetch the glitter. Sound the trumpets and blast some “Te Deum”. Let the wiwivision 2016 grand final commence! Almost two weeks ago we started with 42 entries. The country list was the same as at Eurovision 2016, but the acts and songs were chosen by the wiwibloggs team. These were then whittled down to 26 over the course of two semi-finals. However, there can only be one winner and the time has come for us to choose ours!
The victor will be determined by a 50/50 split between readers and the Wiwi Jury. For more details on the voting rules and song selection criteria, click HERE.
You can listen to all 26 finalists below. This isn’t a TV show, so we’ve decided to move away from the producer-led running order favoured by the EBU. The draw is completely random. Obviously, y’all can ignore it and pick and choose who you want to hear first. It’s up to you!
Once you’re ready, vote in our poll.
wiwivision history: France finished 23rd in the 2015 final. They were represented by Shy’m with “La Malice”.
wiwivision history: Ukraine are debuting at wiwivision 2016.
wiwivision history: GJan also sang for Lithuania in 2015. Despite topping the combined vote in the second semi-final, she missed out on a top ten spot in the final. “Nobody Around” placed 11th.
wiwivision history: Spain finished 21st in the 2015 final. Xoel Lópes sang “A Serea E O Marineiro”.
wiwivision history: Latvia finished 26th out of 27 countries in the wiwivision 2015 final. They were represented by Rassell & Edvards Grieze with “Fire Inside”.
wiwivision history: Croatia are debuting at wiwivision 2016.
wiwivision history: Along with Switzerland, Belgium topped the grand final jury vote in 2015. However, Selah Sue and “Alone” slipped to fourth after the televote.
wiwivision history: Malta finished 24th in the 2015 grand final. The island nation was represented by Red Electrick featuring MPO with “Young Again”.
wiwivision history: Olly Murs secured fifth place for the UK in the inaugural wiwivision. He performed his Travie McCoy collaboration “Wrapped Up”.
wiwivision history: In 2015, the island nation was represented by the British singer of Greek-Cypriot descent Tulisa. She placed 15th in the grand final with “Living Without You”.
wiwivision history: Ireland won the inaugural wiwivision with Markus Feehily and “Love Is A Drug”. He only managed to finish ninth with the juries, but a massive televote pushed him to victory.
wiwivision history: German DJ Robin Schulz was assisted by the British singer Jasmine Thompson at wiwivision 2015. Their collaboration “Sun Goes Down” placed 19th in the grand final.
wiwivision history: Zara Larsson first represented Sweden in 2015 with “Weak Heart”, coming ninth in the grand final. She has since gone on to become a global superstar.
wiwivision history: Italy finished last in the wiwivision 2015 final. They were represented by The Kolors with “Everytime”.
wiwivision history: Michal Szpak sang “Real Hero” for Poland at wiwivision 2015. He came 13th in the grand final and later went on to represent Poland at Eurovision 2016.
wiwivision history: The Czech Republic just missed out on qualification in 2015. Lukas Landa finished 11th in the second semi-final with “This Is This”.
wiwivision history: Norwegian DJ Kygo joined forces with American singer Parson James to represent Norway at wiwivision 2015. “Stole The Show” finished 14th in the grand final.
wiwivision history: Dami Im sang “Gladiator” for Australia at wiwivision 2015, finishing second in the grand final. She went on to represent the country at Eurovision 2016 with “Sound Of Silence”.
wiwivision history: Kensington and “Riddles” earned 10th place for the Netherlands in the 2015 grand final.
wiwivision history: Qualification eluded Russia by the narrowest of margins in 2015. Nargiz Zakirova placed 11th in semi-final one with “Ya Ne Tvoya”. She was just nine points off making the grand final.
wiwivision history: Armenia are through to their first wiwivision final. Last year, they finished last in semi-final one with Christine Pepelyan and “Anavart Trichq”.
wiwivision history: Medina represented Denmark in 2015 with “Giv Slip”. She came 22nd in the grand final.
wiwivision history: Albania are through to their first wiwivision final. Enca placed 14th in last year’s first semi-final with “Play My Game”.
wiwivision history: Bosnia & Herzegovina are debuting at wiwivision 2016.
wiwivision history: Austro-Icelandic singer Thorsteinn Einarsson represented the Eurovision 2014 winners in 2015. He came 17th with “Leya”.
wiwivision history: In 2015, the country was represented by Miriam Bryant with “Dragon”. The Swedish singer of Finnish descent placed seventh in the grand final.
Croatia, Armenia and Bosnia & Herzegovina are not available.
You can vote for as many entries as you like, but you can only vote ONE time. Be sure to check the box next to every entry you want to support before submitting your votes. Voting ends on Saturday 2 July and the results will be announced a week later on 9 July.
Voting is now closed! Results show scheduled for Saturday 9 July!
Of course, y’all can do more than just vote. We have a comment box for a reason – what do you think of the finalists? Would you have chosen differently? Who are your favourites? Let us know!
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I really hope Lithuania wins because Gjan’s song is amazing, but I will be happy with any of these 10 countries getting the win!
hey guys! when are yall going to check the applications?
As usual, I’m late for the party, but I had my results prepared 2 weeks ago.
When are the results being released and how are they going to be released?
Vote for her She is so Lovely and talented.
Vote for her She is so Lovely.
William, why did you select Elka to represent Ukraine? There are much stronger songs. If i had connection to the Internet when people select songs for their countries, i would select Onuka’s song – “Vidlik”. Also “????” (Sky) by ???? ? ????? (One in canoe) would be perfect, too. I wish Australia, Denmark and Albania were in TOP3 and it doesn’t matter who would win.
8 points Denmark Unique Realness!!!!!
4 points The Netherlands Eva Simons!
3 points Norway Amazing Song !!!!!!!!
2 points Lithuania Lo<3e Gjan!
11. Latvia So dark and mysterious. I like it!
My favorite from SF1 was Spain. My favorite from SF2 were Norway and Belgium. I would be OK with Russia, France, Czech, Germany, Latvia, or Ukraine winning. I hope Ireland does not make the top 10. I did not like their song.
“Real love” is older than “Kicks”, so “Real love” is the original.
I also like Czechia, but his voice is a bit annoying. It is so funny that UK is right after Malta, their entries are both quite similar, maybe the one last released is a copy of the other entry. I would like to see anyone in my top 11, but I am fine with anyone except Ukraine, Lithuania (her last entry was much better), Spain and Norway.
I still don’t understand why Ukraine is represented as a Russian singer Elka. She is considered as Russian one and based on Russia.
So, we have two songs of Russia in wiwivision 2016. It’s funny.
Australia – Delta Goodrem for next Eurovision!!!.
Finland’s is so anthemic, has a great rhythm, deserves the winning spot, followed by Albania, Sweden and Australlia.
I meant to say stronger not stoner!! in the last comment!
I chose Latvia from a very tough, eclectic, modern and exciting group of fresh hits because the song is completely film noir and quirky! Norway ( where I come from) has a good voting history with Latvia. Russia had the funniest video and Denmark the coolest with special effects. Fantastic work in finding these artists! Strong women with stroner messages this year..e.g. Poland, the Netherlands, Malta and UK .. they make Serbia’s ESC 2016 song look tame!
Great, eclectic and modern selection of songs! I didn’t vote for my own country ( Norway) .. just being ESC fair! I’ve noticed many of the female artists have many strong things to say.. e.g. Poland, Malta, the Netherlands and UK.. They are even more pissed off than Serbia’s ESC 2016 sang! Russia had the funniest video of all!
For future Wiwivisions, I think it would be helpful to have some sort of recap so we can go through the songs quickly to decide who we want to vote for.
This would be my Top 10; it is not a prediction as predicting a Wiwi Poll would be foolish, given how readers have voted in the past!!
My idea of the winner would be either Norway or Albania or Malta.
I like Australia , Spain , But my favourite is France.

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Most Notary Entrepreneurs are serious about their businesses. They have websites, social profiles, they’re listed in online directories, and more. But how many of those are optimized for Internet searching?
That’s where SEO — or search engine optimization — comes into play.
SEO may not be A-B-C to most people, but having a basic understanding will help get more leads for your business. SEO is the art of making your business more visible in search results.
This is the first of a three-part series designed to help you get the most out of your online presence and to see direct results in more signings and qualified leads for your Notary business. It tackles basic technical aspects of SEO, the importance of building a local and social footprint, and how to produce great content and get links. For anything that requires an additional explanation, simply searching “how to XYZ” should help you find resources with step-by-step processes.
The adage goes, “if you’re not online you don’t exist.” Maybe it’s not actually true, but it is perceptually. When so many people go to Google as their first (and last) resort in finding something, if you’re not there – they won’t find you.
So if you don’t have a website already, this should be your number one investment.
Even if you don’t have a large (or any) marketing budget, that doesn’t mean you can’t start a website. A good web design company can build a website for a few thousand dollars, but you can also contact a local university and see if any of the computer science or business professors know students with experience in web development. You can get a pretty decent website for a much lower price tag. If you’re not tech savvy, but want to build it yourself, there are really easy templates you can set up on Wix or Weebly. But don’t stop there.
The statistics on mobile versus desktop Internet usage are amazing. While 8% of all web traffic in the U.S. is mobile traffic, one half of all local searches are performed on mobile devices. Since signing agents are local business owners, you can be sure that some traffic to your site is going to be via a smart phone. Consider whether your website is easy to navigate for mobile users, or whether it will take too long to load on their device. A lot of mobile searches draw from Yelp, so if you’re not listed on that website, you might be missing out (see part two of this series for more on local search). A lot of “build your own website” providers will offer “responsive design” options as part of your package. Make sure you look for this option as it will ensure that your website is mobile-friendly.
This comes with a caveat, because you don’t want to use too many keywords or your website will look “spammy”. You want to use keywords primarily in the web page address (called the URL), in the page description, title, headers and text. However, it is more important that your page is user-friendly and readable, so if your keywords are interfering with user experience, you need to reword your content or forgo using those keywords.
Make sure that your location and services are clear. If you have a services page, take the opportunity to list the different industries you serve: real estate, mortgage signing, loan signing, power-of-attorney signing, etc. Consider what your clients are actuallysearching for, and see if there is a natural way to include that. You can take advantage of a lot more keywords by having a blog (see part three of this series).
Even basic website templates give you the option to fill in page descriptions and titles. This allows you to name your page appropriately and fill in an accurate description of the page.
This is my top result for “notary business tips” in Google. The page title is “Five Tips for Starting Your Own Notary Business” – intriguing, right? The description is below the title, clearly using relevant keywords and an accurate description. You can see that the results have clean URLs (it tells you exactly what you’re looking at – not a combination of letters and numbers) as well – which many times you can set up in a website editor. Be careful that you aren’t changing the URLs after they’re done – this will cause any links to that page to be broken. This results in frustrated users and lost links.
Be sure to check out parts two and three of this series on basic SEO for advanced signing agents to delve into topics on branding, local listings and social media.
Can you recommend a website designer for notaries?
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When will part 2 be released please? This was very helpful.

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Blood donations from black South Africans increased fivefold in the space of a decade. The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) said the number rose from 43,269 in 2005 to 246,686 in 2015.
A study based on 10 years’ worth of data from SANBS, published in the journal Transfusion, also showed that blood donation had also become safer.
The blood service receives around 800,000 donations per year and provides blood to nearly 400,000 patients per year: “Over the 10-year period, HIV was detected in 0.2% of the donated blood. Over the same time period there was only one confirmed case of HIV transmission via blood transfusion.
This is a substantial improvement over the one to two confirmed cases per year between 2000 and 2005,” Marion Vermeulen, Senior Manager: Operations Testing at SANBS and lead-author of the study, says.
Prior to 2005, blood donations from black South Africans were used selectively and often discarded, due to the higher recorded rates of HIV infection in that population group. At the time, to keep the risk to a minimum, SANBS felt it had no alternative, however controversial, but to using race as a criterion.
On 3 October 2005, SANBS became the first blood service in the world to implement a highly sensitive donor blood test nationwide, called individual donation nucleic acid testing (NAT). NAT is a highly sensitive molecular technique, which is able to pick up small amounts of viral nucleic acid, even before the body has started to produce antibodies. It is specifically targeted to detect the hepatitis B and C viruses and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
After implementing NAT, there was a substantial increase in the number and proportion of donations from black South Africans. The proportion of first-time blood donors in this group increased from 19% in 2005 to 54% in 2015. Over the same time period, the proportion of regular blood donors also showed a fivefold increase from 5% to 26%.
The study reports that model-based estimates of the overall risk of HIV transmission through blood transfusion declined to between 3.47 and 0.52 per million transfusions over the period, representing a halving of the risk to recipients.
“The increase in black repeat donors is particularly encouraging, given that repeat donors provide the bulk of the blood in our blood service, with 76.4% of the total donations from 2005 to 2015,” Vermeulen explains.
Despite this increase in the black donor base, Vermeulen says they need more donors to meet the demand: “During 2018, less than 1% of South Africans donated blood. For most of this year, we had less than three days of blood in stock. We need regular donors, but we also require an increase in our first-time donors to expand the small donor base,” she concludes.

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From what I understand, synchronized keyword syncs local thread cache with main memory. volatile keyword basically always reads the variable from the main memory at every access. Of course accessing main memory is much more expensive than local thread cache so these operations are expensive. However, a CAS operation use low level hardware operations but still has to access main memory. So how is a CAS operation any faster?
It isn't so much about the speed of a particular operation - it is the speed of the combined environment.
The problem with normal synchronization isn't so much that it is slow compared to other methods of memory consistency - it is that it achieves consistency by allowing only one thread to perform the action at a time. A single operation isn't very expensive or inefficient, but the efficiency of the system comes down because parallelism is reduced.
Contrast that with the Compare-And-Set algorithms which don't block other threads. They can achieve memory consistency without preventing multiple tasks from happening at one time, so system efficiency goes up.
Comparing CAS operations to volatile is not a safe comparison - they aren't really used for the same purpose. A CAS approach is used for multi-step processes, like incrementing a value or setting a result if the value you got at the beginning of the calculation is the same at the end. You can't do that with volatile: it only ensures safety in the snapshot of a get, but for a multi step process like incrementing a value, the process is not safe as the value could be changes between the get at the start of the increment and the set at the end of the increment.
Thank you, Steve for that explanation.
A confession - I had read about the CAS operator in one another nice post here -- at that time I didn't know that by CAS we mean the Compare and Set kind of operations of the atomic variables. I thought it was some low level OS operator that helped achieve memory consistency in multi-threaded environments. I even google'd about it but I didn't get anything insightful.
I thought ( rightfully, yes ) CAS must be a standard abbreviation considering you and Henry have mentioned it. So I bookmarked that post for studying on the subject later. Now I know CAS is nothing but the Compare And Set kind operations of the atomic variables -- with all that extra looping overhead and such associated things. I understand there is/could be more to it at the OS levels ( as in there is a processor's CAS operator ), but that is for me to read about later ( I know most of you all don't like to talk about the implementation details and I haven't made my first hand efforts yet to understand things better ).
Edit - heck, six edits and I still feel I haven't said it the right way.

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McKenzie Wark is a Professor at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City. He teaches media & cultural studies. He is also the author of several books germane to new media, including A Hacker Manifesto, Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace, and The Virtual Republic. He is also a collaborator with the Institute for the Future of the Book on a project known as GAM3R 7H30RY (Gamer Theory), a "networked book" exploring "new approaches to writing in the networked environment, and to see what happens when authors and readers are brought into conversation over an evolving text."
Links to summaries and reviews of The Hacker Manifesto and other Mackenzie Wark writings.

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Daily Delivery is proud to announce its exciting new partnership with Just-Eat. This means a new expansion of area and services will be coming this year! The partnership allows Daily Delivery to expand their’s and Just-Eat’s services to the Kitsilano and Burnaby areas. More choices and selections will soon be available with new restaurants and stores due to the expansion of Daily Delivery’s service area.
Just-Eat, an online delivery giant, has been hitting off partnership deals with businesses in many major Canadian cities like Montreal, Calgary, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg. Their new step with us Canucks boasts their trust in Daily Delivery’s services and also proves an impressive step toward a green future! Daily Delivery has been dedicated since its creation to reducing the carbon footprint in their operating areas by utilizing fully Electric-Trikes, Motor-Assisted Cycles, Hybrid cars, and route optimization technology. An early dedication from Daily Delivery to the Vancouver Greenest City 2020 Action Plan and having an international company backing that up is promising for a greener future.
Todd Masse, the Managing Director of Just-Eat Canada, tweeted: “We @JUSTEATca are excited about our new partnership with Vancouver delivery service @DailyDelivery!” to show his enthusiasm of connecting with the online-delivery service of the West Coast. The founding brothers of Daily Delivery, Hafez and Salar Rismani say “We’re excited to take our business to the next level as a result of this positive partnership. With Just-Eat, the possibilities are endless!” To prove it, an expansion to Burnaby Area in September and Kitsilano in December is planned to bring services for new and awaiting customers.
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Whenever I am out and meeting new people and they find out my profession as a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine inevitably they mention that they have always wanted to try acupuncture but they have never had…….. a sore back, a sore neck, or been sick enough to use it. Well here’s the thing, acupuncture and TCM is best used while you are healthy to help keep you that way.
Traditionally a village would have a Chinese Medicine Doctor and their job was to keep everyone healthy, monthly visits to discuss any little changes in sleep, digestion, bowel movements, energy levels, pain etc. A personalized treatment was designed and prescribed to keep the body in balance as much as possible and correct any little problems before they became big problems. This could include, acupuncture, diet recommendations, herbal medicine and some lifestyle modifications.
So you see most Chinese Medicine Doctors would rather see you when you are healthy and help to keep you that way!


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I started scuba diving in 1987 it was difficult, I’m claustrophobic taking extra classes to handle the thought of breathing underwater. I was fortunate to log over a hundred dives in ten years.
A panic attack while shore diving almost drowning two people, this was the start of my Maui vacation. This is not my idea of fun any time, it was scary. I kept taking off my face mask, not breathing thru the regulator and pushing my dive buddy under water. Once on land, I would not take off the wet suit, kept laying on the ground and would not get in the car. That was my last dive, devastating but if I can’t dive again there are so many great memories and photos.

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“If you are embarking on a ketogenic lifestyle journey, this cookbook is your roadmap! I am relatively new to keto and have a group of clients that I am guiding through a low-carb lifestyle and intense fitness program. We are cooking our way through this book and getting amazing results!”—Kate Jaramillo, Reader and Ketogenic Diet FollowerWatching your waistline along with your wallet can be frustrating—but you shouldn’t have to let your budget stand in the way of your health. Just ask chef Amanda Hughes, whose drastic weight loss on the Ketogenic Diet prompted her to write a cookbook that balances meals and budgets.
The Easy Vegetarian Ketogenic Cookbook is packed with easy to prepare low-carb and high-fat recipes that are both appetizing and affordable. Once you learn the tips and tricks to help you start and stick with this low-carb and low-cost lifestyle, you’ll discover that the Ketogenic Diet is not just a diet, it’s a way of life.
The Easy Vegetarian Ketogenic Cookbook contains:25 Ketogenic Diet Recipes: easy to prepare low-carb, high-fat recipes that use clean, whole foodsMoney Saving Tips: advice on how and where to shop to save money along with price points for every recipeA Comprehensive Introduction: details on the main differences between keto and paleo diets and everything else you need to know on how to stay fit and stick with the Ketogenic Diet.


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Bubba's Garage: Import and Kit Car Nationals the best show at Carlisle?
Import and Kit Car Nationals the best show at Carlisle?
What’s your favorite car show? I am not sure I really have a true favorite but the Import and Kit Car Nationals at Carlisle definitely rates near the top. The car show is held each Spring at the 150-acre fairgrounds in Carlisle, PA. It might not be the biggest nor does it draw many top dollar builds but it is very enjoyable. This year’s atmosphere was once again relaxed and laid-back making spending the day here a dream.
There are always a good selection of kit cars to look at on the fairgrounds. And, if you are interested in building your own, vendors like Factory Five Racing were on hand to help you out. Their GTM Supercar kit is really beautiful.
Do you like dune buggies? This is one of the biggest East Coast gatherings of buggies. You could find Meyers Manx, EMPI Imp, Dearborn Deserter, and other models stamped on these fun fiberglass toys.
Want something fun to drive while soaking up some sun? How about a Porsche Speedster kit car? You could find many on hand to make you smile.
Over on the import side of the show field were a number of quirky foreign rides. Christopher Meccia brought his 1978 KG Farfadet, Nauss Automtive had a 1950 Citroen Traction Avant, and Leslie Wood III drove a 1971 Citroen DS onto the field.
Peg and I both fell in love with a little 1960 Fiat Autobianchi owned by Ron Keenen. This was our favorite car of the show.
The friendly car owners and cars that you just don’t see everyday are the major draws for me at this show. If you only attend one car show a year, you should really consider this one.

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Vietnam is among two gold winners for best productions for the water puppet show “Tre – Coc” (the chronicle of the catfish and the frogs) by the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre. (Photo: VNA).
In the tale, a catfish steals tadpoles from two frogs. The frogs appeal to a mandarin, who orders the catfish be imprisoned but the wife of the catfish bribes an underling of the mandarin to have the affair re-examined. The mandarin’s inspectors, after traveling to the pond, declare the tadpoles were the true offspring of the catfish.
Nguyen Phuong Nhi from the Thang Long Water Puppetry Theatre won the best director for a new production entitled “Cong Chua Toc May” (Tangled Princess).
In addition to performances in Hanoi, puppetry troupes also performed in the northern provinces of Ninh Binh and Vinh Phuc.
Water-puppetry artist Phan Thanh Liem will bring a performance of miniature water puppets to the 39th Orient Festival held from September 14 to 16 in Napoli, Italy.
The puppet art troupe from Vietnam Puppet Theatre, representing Vietnam at the 8th World Puppet Carnival in Yekaterinburg, Russia, has won the first prize and the Best Puppet Design prize.
The first Vietnam Puppetry Festival opened on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian street, Ho Chi Minh City, on August 16 with the participation of six theatres.
Audiences in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will have the chance to enjoy traditional Japanese puppet performances next month.


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Today pandora uk charms sale we have a little bit of a Pandora Disney news round-up, with a few updates for January 2018! There are some new exclusives for Pandora collectors in the US, including a Rock the Dots Minnie Mouse gift set. I also have good news for Disney Parks fans in Europe, as Disneyland Paris have massively expanded their Parks exclusive offering! The sale offers discounts of 60% off on around 80 items of jewellery – there aren’t any new styles included this time around, but it does offer the opportunity to grab something you might have hesitated on previously. My favourites from the sale are the Birthday Blooms, the two-tone pieces and the LE Snowflake bangle! I get asked this question a lot, and so I’ll answer it here to be clear: Rue La La are an authorised US Pandora retailer and only sell the genuine article!
For those who are new to pandora charms sale clearance every year they put out limited edition gift packaging at key holiday periods – Christmas, Valentine’s Day and, more recently, Mother’s Day. Some lovely images have popped up on Instagram showing off the new gift bag that Pandora stores will offer for Valentine’s Day 2018! The gift bag is a pretty baby pink, with a cerise ribbon and Pandora’s slogan for this campaign written on it – #docelebrate. It’s so pretty! This image is from a collector in the Philippines, so I’m not sure whether the pretty matching boxes will be released worldwide. It varies from region to region as to when, exactly, the packaging is offered. Some stores won’t offer this until February, while others might start handing them out sooner. Historically, the Valentine’s LE gift packaging doesn’t get released in the US and Canada, but maybe they’ll make a change this year.
Today sees the first new collection from pandora outlet uk genuine for 2018, with the launch of the Valentine’s Day and CNY jewellery! As is traditional, this is only a small release, but it manages to pack in a range of different pieces. As well as jewellery for the Moments range, there are also new offerings for Pandora Rose, Essence and the Floating Locket petites! The Valentine’s 2018 collection offers some of the usual pinks and heart charms, but there are a few more off-the-wall options as well this year! With a lip-themed set of beads and some emoji-inspired jewellery, some of the new pieces seem to be aimed at a younger, more contemporary style. As usual, stores have been uploading various live shots to social media, which gives us a better idea of what all the beads look like in person. The heart-key jewellery looks delicate and I particularly like the heart-shaped Floating Locket.
It’s less than a week to go until the launch of the pandora charms outlet sale collection, and today’s post brings an updated preview, offering HQ images, pricing in various currencies and some individual commentary. I also have fuller details on gift sets, which I’ll include at the end. There are some very cute promos for the CNY beads, too, including some pretty gold jewellery boxes! As is traditional, there’s a new Valentine’s-themed charm bracelet design making its debut with the collection. This features pink pave around the clasp, which also features as a detachable charm/pendant in its own right. This is a very pretty design, but I’d like to see it in a more neutral clear pave or just as a more intricate plain silver piece, with oxidized detail.

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To prepare the black peg board that sits on the front cover, cut a black cardstock rectangle then score down the whole length at 1/8th increments using a scoreboard.
2. Use the We R Memory Keepers Frame Punch Board to create a frame to fit around the edge of the prepared rectangle, fix in place with glue.
3. Attach the mini foam letters ensuring to space them out evenly, fix some 3d foam pads to the reverse side to create a bit of height when added to the front cover.
4. Chose which Japanese binding you would like to do and use the binding guide to pierce holes into one edge of all the pages, this works best to pierce 3 or 4 pages at once.
5. Use a variety of stickers, paperclips, enamel dots, patterned paper and plain cardstock to decorate each page including the front cover.
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8. Use the supplied booklet to help with the sewing. Ensure to finish at the same hole you started with and finish back inside the pages, tie a double knot to secure and cut the tail ends off with scissors.


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Redefining what is possible in a compact car, Fiat has become popular with drivers looking for economic, affordable luxury cars that don’t disregard drivers’ comfort. With the compact design comes better handling, turning radiuses and a better feel for the roads but when something begins to feel off you know it almost immediately. Whether it’s a loose suspension, poor alignment or a bigger problem you need to make sure you have your Fiat regularly serviced so that you aren’t stuck with expensive and time consuming repairs. Instead of going directly to the dealership see why so many drivers throughout the Oceanside, CA area choose the expert technicians at Konig Motorsport.
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registered charity - Number 1149005 Helping with bereavement after stillbirth and neonatal death. Abigail’s Footsteps was launched in 2010 by parents Jo and David Ward following the death of their daughter Abigail Ward who was stillborn at 41 weeks gestation. Abigail’s Footsteps achieved charitable status on the 18th September 2012.
15 babies are either stillborn or die a neonatal death every single day in the United Kingdom. Despite this shocking statistic, many hospitals remain ill prepared to deal with these events. Staff often receive little or no bereavement training and facilities are inadequate.
We have made it our mission to provide healthcare professionals with bereavement care training and support to ensure that bereaved parents receive the highest standard of care, following the death of a much loved baby.
To provide the necessary equipment in each maternity unit to preserve a stillborn baby until at least the day after the mother’s discharge from hospital.
By making the best use of hospital architecture and layout; fund sensitively designed delivery rooms located away from maternity wards in each on Britain’s maternity units.
Beanstalk is a national literacy charity that recruits, trains and supports volunteers to work in primary schools with children who have fallen behind with their reading. Beanstalk's vision is that all children and young people have the essential skills they need to grow up and lead successful lives. We are seeking volunteers who can help in local schools and encourage children who struggle with reading. To find out how to volunteer, visit beanstalkcharity.org.uk or contact the Kent and Medway branch on 01622 662026.
We help families of high risk pregnancies, premature babies & those who have suffered loss. We support through counselling, a Baby Memorial Garden, 'buddying' & a forum. We provide specialist equipment to identify symptons earlier in order to have a positive outcome & research baby loss so more effective intervention & prevention may be established leading to the UK's statistics becoming lower.
Step and Learn would like to welcome you to our centre for children with Cerebral Palsy, Global Developmental delay and associated motor dissorders. We are a centre dedicated to assisting children to reach their full potential.
In order for your child to achieve we rely heavily on your participation and co-operation, you are at the forefront of your child’s development.
We supply information and guidance to enable your child to reach their full potential through a broad and balanced curriculum, using play to stimulate and motivate. We aim to give your child the knowledge they need to become as independent as possible.
Our aim, like Andras Peto the Hungarian founder of Conductive Education, is to view the child holistically, educating and motivating the child through play to become active participants throughout their daily lives.
Our early intervention programme for pre-school children from birth to five years incorporates the educational values of the Great British governments Early Years Foundation Stage (2012) principals and invites the parent/carers to be fully involved throughout their child’s learning process.
Through play our children develop self-awareness, confidence, and a sense of achievement. Through songs they develop rhythm and intention to carry out physically challenging tasks, such as changing position and place. Our children are also encouraged to further develop their communication skills by speaking, eye-pointing, or through the use of touch.
Our team of dedicated professional practitioners will not only offer support and guidance to the child and family throughout the programme, but will go further by promoting collaboration between all professionals working alongside the child and family, to secure a continuity of care, in-order that the child reaches their full potential.


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The bulk of the Honduran migrant caravan reached the Mexican border late Thursday and hundreds of Mexican police were waiting. Total chaos erupted as the Honduran caravan faced off with Mexican police on the border town of Tecun Uman.
Chaos erupts as caravan reaches Mexico border… Migrants broke through a steel fence that had been padlocked shut. Mexican police in riot gear pushed them back, setting off smoke canisters but then let 4,000 pass through!
According to the Associated Press, the migrants in the caravan just tore down the border gate in Guatemala and rushed toward the border bridge into Mexico.
Safe haven? Why are they not going to Costa Rica then? Or Panama? They are economic migrants and we owe them nothing.

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The single biggest problem every business struggles with is sales.
Over the last 18 years I have worked both in my own businesses and with a multitude of startups. Without exception those businesses (including mine) all needed to get more sales to be successful, and this remains true with the businesses I work with today. And also without exception, almost everyone starts off with the idea that you need to do marketing to get more leads so you can make more sales.
We know that to get more sales, we need more leads. And to get more leads, we need to do marketing. But just getting more leads is not enough – and in the worst case too many leads can kill your business.
It’s all about the quality of those leads.
When you have too many low-quality leads you can waste a lot of time trying to make a sale that will never happen. If all your leads are low-quality leads you’re not only wasting time on leads that will never become clients; your actual sales will also be low. So you will have lots of leads but few sales even when you’re incredibly busy trying to convert those leads into sales.
So you don’t just need to get more leads. You can actually build a successful business with fewer leads – if they are high-quality leads.
So how do you get more high-quality leads?
You have to start with the end in mind.
The promise you’re holding out to your clients is that of a shiny new world – a world where a particular problem has been solved and as a result their world is a better place. If you’ve designed your business well, that problem will be one that is expensive enough to warrant paying someone (you) to solve it, and there are enough people with the problem so you can build a viable business.
Getting clear on what problem you’re solving, and how that improves your clients lives, is the first step in getting high-quality leads.
Everything you do in your marketing, nurturing your leads, qualifying them and making a sale is aimed at eventually solving that problem. If you’re not clear on what that problem is – and why it is so important to your clients – you are likely to end up with lower-quality leads. When the end result is very clear – to you and to your clients – it’s much easier to find people who have those problems and can pay to have them solved.
The best marketing generates enough leads who have that problem.
The purpose of marketing is to generate enough of the right kind of leads.
Marketing is about generating leads. (In the Tornado Method we keep marketing separate from lead nurturing and sales to keep things simple.) The emphasis here is on two parts: enough and right kind.
You don’t need a million clients to have a viable business. In a service business this is even more true; you can only service so many clients at the same time. If you’ve designed your business well you will know how many clients you can service at the same time, and how many you need to have a decent income.
If your conversion rate from lead to client is high, you don’t need a lot of leads.
If you convert on average one out of 10 leads into a client, you need to have 200 leads to build a full client roster from scratch. If you already have 10 clients (and you need 10 more) you only need 100. And the numbers improve substantially if your conversion rate is higher – which depends on the quality of the leads in your sales funnel (and how good you are at selling – that’s a story for another time).
Not every client is ready to buy when you’re ready to sell. You need enough leads in your sales funnel so that those who are ready to buy at any particular point in time, are enough to give you a viable business. But if the quality of the leads in your sales funnel is low – if there are a lot of tire-kickers for example – your conversion rate is going to be low.
So you need to have “enough” leads in your sales funnel, but they also need to be of the “right kind”. Leads of the “right kind” turn into clients much more readily than those that are not – your conversion rate is a lot higher.
And to get the right kind of leads into your sales funnel, you have to qualify early and continuously.
Sales funnels are simple things, right? Not quite.
When I ask business owners to describe their sales funnels, I get as many different kinds of answers as people I ask. Almost everyone knows what a sales funnel is; very few have the same understanding of how a sales funnel should be designed and how it works to get people from one stage of the sales process to the next.
I have a lot of admiration for marketing and sales professionals who can construct sophisticated sales funnels with high conversion rates. But if you don’t have the skills or training to do this, and your budget is limited, your sales funnel needs to be simple – and effective.
Create awareness that you exist and you can solve a problem.
Encourage them to take the first step by downloading a lead magnet, watching a webinar or subscribing to a newsletter.
Build trust, authority and credibility by continuously providing value.
Qualify your leads by getting them to (for example) fill in a questionnaire or schedule a 1-on-1 session with you.
Make the offer for the product or service that most closely meets their needs.
Your sales funnel will be more or less sophisticated depending on the cost and complexity of the product or service you’re offering. For a service business this is as simple as your sales funnel can get – and it doesn’t need to get more complicated.
What is not apparent from the sequence above is that you need to present your material in such a way that you turn away the people you can’t help. You’re always going to get leads in your sales funnel that never convert – they’re just along for the ride. But you want to keep this number as small as possible; every minute you spend on a low-quality lead is time you could have spent better on a higher-quality lead.
Of course you don’t know whether a lead in your funnel is low or high quality; but if you design your business (and your sales funnel) well, you will turn away the people you can’t help – and those are definitely low quality leads.
What you need is enough of the right kind of leads. You will sell more, and take less time to sell, with the right kinds of leads in your sales funnel – and waste a lot less time on people who you can’t help.
You don’t just need more leads – you need enough of the right kind of leads.
To get enough leads, you first need to know how many clients you can service at the same time (that will give you a decent income). Then you need to calculate how well you convert leads into sales – which in turn will tell you how many leads you need.
To get the right kind of leads, you need to be very clear about the problem you can solve, and for whom you can solve it.
To reduce the number of low-quality leads, you need to a) turn away people you can’t help and b) qualify your leads by getting them to take a first, second or even third step.
Calculate how many clients you need to have a viable business – one that provides you with a decent income.
Now calculate how many leads you need to fill that client roster if you’re starting from zero, and assuming your conversion rate is 1 in 10.
That gives you a pretty good idea of what your ideal sales funnel will look like if all your leads are high quality.
I hope this helped you get some better insight into leads, marketing and sales funnels. You don’t just need more leads, and you can build a viable business with far fewer leads than you think.


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According to a government report, U.S. employers added 167,000 workers to payrolls and increased hourly wages in December.
The report issued Friday by the U.S. Labor Department showed that service-producing industries did the most hiring, contributing 178,000 new jobs in December, while retailers and manufacturers mostly shed jobs.
According to the report, the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.5 percent.
The report showed hourly earnings also rose 0.5 percent, the biggest increase since April.
Analysts say growth in the job market indicates a growing economy, but that higher wages increase the risk of inflation.


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"The client wanted a luxurious house where she could throw large events and host her extended family, but she also wanted it to feel welcoming," said SPF Architects founder Zoltan E Pali in a project statement. "Our answer was to distribute the programme across three 'blades' that radiate from a central node."
The third, northern wing houses a five-car garage. A glass-and-steel staircase runs up at the centre of the home, which leads to four bedrooms and bathrooms. Positioning the staircase here is intended to create a central point to solve the vast home's circulation, and join disparate areas.
Two smaller bedrooms are housed in the third, northern wing, and nestled into the site's hillside and garden for a more intimate feel. This portion also houses a five-car garage.

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The charity single Simon Cowell organized in support of victims of the Grenfell Tower fire was released on Wednesday morning (June 21). The powerful cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s song “Bridge Over Troubled Water” features some of the world’s top musicians, including The Who, Robbie Williams, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Leona Lewis, James Blunt and Rita Ora.
The single can be purchased here, with all proceeds being distributed via The London Community Foundation.
Speaking about the single on Good Morning Britain, the media mogul explained, "For all of us who live in the vicinity, we have the ability to do something and that’s what I’m hoping will happen with the record is that it pricks a few people’s consciousness and then other people decide to do something else… I think it is the right thing to do."
Simon first announced plans to release a charity single to help raise money for the victims of the fire on Twitter Thursday (June 15). "I am watching footage of the Grenfell Tower fire in London. Heartbreaking. We hope to confirm a record tomorrow which will raise some money for the many people affected by this tragedy. Making calls tonight," he wrote on the social media platform.


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This week we’re writing about a particularly tech detailed situation we have with a client. The symptoms: architecture that has slowed down and behaving poorly. There are warnings about too much memory usage, requests are timing out after 30 seconds — causing some pages to be completely unresponsive for clients with more than 300 offices.
This tells waitress to spawn 8 threads per worker on a port Heroku passes us, and clear the buffer after 50 bytes have been queued for sending. The reason for this small queue is to fix a problem with Heroku and not sending out streaming responses until a buffer is filled. Also, default worker count in gunicorn is (2 * CPU_COUNT) + 1 for reference.
The problem, we can see from these nice Heroku analytics, is (a) memory usage growing too high over time and (b) responses hitting the 30s time limit Heroku allows for generating a response.
Why are we using so much memory?
Probably because we’re using 8 threads. This application is probably much more IO bound than CPU bound, so using threads makes sense, but in our case it’s probably just plain-too-many. As an aside: the reason many threads on a single CPU makes sense, is that we’re spending a lot of time waiting for a read from disk or network. We’re not waiting for the CPU to crunch numbers, it’s like the CPU is waiting an eternity for a phone call.
To fix this problem, I’ll spawn less threads so we should use much less memory. I found this handy document from Heroku giving us a suggested amount of workers per dyno. We’ll go with 3 for now to see if that stops memory usage problems.
I bet the source of timeouts is probably an API request generating way too many queries to Postgres – or – potentially some deadlock is happening (events out of sync and something is forced to wait indefinitely).
Typically the fix is to use select_related and prefetch_related to grab all of the relevant data in a couple quick call to the database, so we don’t have to make 100+ subsequent queries.
However, this time the culprit seems to be just plain grabbing too much data back from the database. We were getting companies and offices of each user who made an order, not just their name and address! Query count plumetted from 176 to 42 in one change. A couple more fixes (a nice use of select_related) and we’re down from 42 to… 4! Very acceptable.
In the most astonishing instance, I added another flag and dropped queries from 511 to 4.
How are you serving static files? Make sure you’re using whitenoise with Django on Heroku.
Thanks for following along, it’s always fun to leverage the same amount of resources but get a quick 5x performance boost!


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Property finance: What are the different types?
What are the different types of development finance?
Property finance for developments are generally short term loans to cover the costs of converting an existing property or developing land into flats, houses in multiple occupation (HMOs), or alternate uses. It is normally advanced as a loan, secured against that property or land asset.
Used to purchase commercial property such as retail units, offices, industrial units or to even consolidate larger Buy-to-Let portfolios. Principally working in the the same way as a private mortgage to finance the cost of a large purchase.
Auctions can be a quick way to get a property at a discounted price, but if you don’t have the capital to hand to finance the full deal there are lenders who specialise in finance for property purchases at auction.
Both of these options are generally to facilitate short-term funding to cover costs of building and development costs. Different lenders or investment platforms will vary these definitions for their own criteria but more generally bridging finance will facilitate the completion of a project as cash flow tightens, and development finance will allow for more major work such as heavy refurbishment or renovations, and most typically for ground-up development projects.
One common structure of development loans is that of Mezzanine Finance that overcomes a developers financial shortfall to ensure project completion. For example If a development project will cost £2,000,000, and the developer is investing £400,000 of their own capital, and a First Charge lender is willing to loan £1,000,000 to that project, there will be a gap of £600,000. A mezzanine finance loan will cover this shortfall on a Second Charge basis.
Learn more here about how development loans are structured.
What is the difference between a first charge and a second charge loan?
When taking out property finance the borrower, often a developer, gives charge of the property to the lender. If the developer defaults by not repaying the loan per the agreed terms, then the lender can sell the property or land in order to recover sufficient funds to repay the loan.
When a developer obtains multiple finance options on a project these are prioritised into First Charge and Second Charge status. The terminology effectively relates to the priority given to the lenders involved – and for investors gives a clear indication of the risk profile involved in a project.
The First Charge is given to the first lender to realise repayment from liquidating the property assets. The Second Charge lender will be able to recover payment when the liabilities of the first charge lender are recovered and if there is sufficient value remaining. Second Charge lenders will charge higher interest rates, reflecting the higher risk, and in turn investors can expect to realise higher returns by investing into a Second Charge debt deal.
The relationship between First and Second charge lenders is usually governed by an inter lender agreement.
What is the Redemption period for a development finance loan?
The typical term of development finance is 12 to 24 months as they are typically for ground-up or heavy redevelopment projects. Development finance loans generally don’t pay any interest during the term – all the interest is paid along with the capital of the loan at the end of the term.
Bridging finance loans are generally for up to 12 months with an industry average of 6 to 7 months. Bridging finance loans generally will have regular interest payments.
Read more about investing in development loans here.
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What makes JA Chem-Dry different?
JA Chem-Dry is proud to offer high-quality carpet cleaning services, but our mission goes far beyond just cleaning carpets. We want to help people in our community live healthier lives, and that all starts with cleaner carpets and a cleaner home. JA Chem-Dry cleans for your health. Once you experience the Chem-Dry cleaning method, you’ll never want to go back.
Chem-Dry uses our own proprietary cleaning method called Hot Carbonating Extraction (HCE) that works better than more traditional methods like steam cleaning. We wanted to develop a cleaning process that uses less water, cleans deeper, and gets rid of more allergens and bacteria than any other method. Instead of relying on gallons and gallons of soapy, detergent-filled water to get your carpets clean, the Chem-Dry HCE method uses the cleaning power of carbonation to get deep into the layers of your carpet using less water and absolutely no soap or detergent. Just like club soda lifts stains from your clothes, the heated carbonation used in HCE penetrates deep into your carpet and lifts dirt, dust, allergens, and bacteria from within each individual fiber to the carpet’s surface where our powerful extraction equipment easily eliminates it all.
Because HCE is so powerful and effective, JA Chem-Dry is able to use 80% less water than your typical steam cleaning service. When you choose steam cleaning, your carpets will be left sopping wet, and they will take up to two full days to dry out completely. JA Chem-Dry’s low-water carpet cleaning method allows your carpets to dry in just two hours or less, so you can get back to enjoying your home that same day. Long dry times give mold and mildew an opportunity to grow beneath your carpets, but with JA Chem-Dry, your carpets will dry so quickly that mold won’t stand a chance. JA Chem-Dry combines our HCE cleaning process with our own green-certified cleaning solution, The Natural®. Unlike other common carpet cleaning solutions, The Natural® is made of all-natural ingredients and contains zero soap, detergent, enzymes, and harsh chemicals. Our cleaner is non-toxic, all-natural, and safe for use in homes with kids and pets. Carpet cleaning solutions filled with soaps and chemicals will leave a sticky, dirt-attracting residue on your carpets that may leave you wondering if investing in professional carpet cleaning was worth it in the first place. JA Chem-Dry will leave your carpets looking and feeling beautiful, clean, and fresh longer. JA Chem-Dry is proud to offer our community a more environmentally friendly carpet cleaning option.
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How many of us have learned how to build loving relationships? Where did we learn? At home? At school? There is an art and science to building strong relationships. These indispensable tips were written with romantic relationships in mind, but with a little modification you can apply them to your friendships, family and even work relationships.
1. Create a safe environment where you can trust and share openly without being afraid.
What beliefs and feelings get triggered in you during conflicts? Ask yourself: Is there something from my past that is influencing how I’m seeing the situation now? The critical question you want to ask: Is this about him or her, or is it really about me? What’s the real truth? Once you’re able to differentiate facts from feelings, you’ll see your partner more clearly and be able to resolve conflicts from clarity.
Each of us is not a solo instrument. We’re more like a choir or an orchestra with several voices. What is your mind saying? What is your heart saying? What is your body saying? What is your ‘gut’ saying? For example: My mind is saying ‘definitely leave her,’ but my heart says ‘I really love her.’ Let these different voices or parts of you co-exist and speak to one another. In this way, you will find an answer that comes from your whole self.
4. Develop and cultivate compassion.
Practice observing yourself and your partner without judging. Part of you might judge, but you don’t have to identify with it. Judging closes a door. The opposite of judging is compassion. When you are compassionate, you are open, connected, and more available to dialoging respectfully with your partner. As you increasingly learn to see your partner compassionately, you will have more power to choose your response rather than just reacting.
5. Create a “we” that can house two “I’s”.
The foundation for a thriving, growing, mutually-supportive relationship is to be separate and connected. In co-dependent relationships, each person sacrifices part of him or her self, compromising the relationship as a whole. When you are separate and connected, each individual “I” contributes to the creation of a “we” that is stronger than the sum of its parts.
The differences between you and your partner are not negatives. You don’t need to be with someone who shares all of your interests and views. We may sometimes fear that these differences are incompatibilities, but in fact, they’re often what keeps a relationship exciting and full of good fire.
Don’t expect your partner to fill your emotional holes, and don’t try to fill theirs. Ultimately, each of us can only heal ourselves. Your partner, however, can be supportive as you work with yourself, and vice versa. In fact, living in a loving relationship is healing in and of itself.
7. Ask questions when you’re unsure or are making assumptions.
All too often, we make up our own stories or interpretations about what our partners’ behavior means. For example: “She doesn’t want to cuddle; she must not really love me anymore.” We can never err on the side of asking too many questions, and then listen to the answers from your whole self — heart, gut, mind and body. Equally important is to hear what’s not being said — the facts and feeling that you sense might be unspoken.
8. Make time for your relationship.
No matter who you are or what your work is, you need to nurture your relationship. Make sure you schedule time for the well-being of your relationship. That includes making “playdates” and also taking downtime together. Frequently create a sacred space together by shutting off all things technological and digital. Like a garden, the more you tend to your relationship, the more it will grow.
9. Say the “hard things” from love.
Become aware of the hard things that you’re not talking about. How does that feel? No matter what you’re feeling in a situation, channel the energy of your emotions so that you say what you need to say in a constructive manner.
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The limited defenders of Carol Mills, who go under the name ‘friends of Bercow’ in the press, point to her experience running the Department for Parliamentary Services of the Australian parliament, as well as the enormity of the ‘Chief Executive’ role of the Common’s clerk – who essentially runs the parliamentary estate. Leaving aside allegations of spying on both politicians and hacks alike, apparently Mills would make an excellent Chief Executive if the role was split. Yet, does her track record really back up that claim?
In February of this year Mills was forced to admit that the DPS had missed an ongoing catering fraud. She told a Senate hearing it “was likely” that “inappropriate practice” had been going on for two years through a $550,000-a-year contract. It was found that W Catering had been using parliamentary facilities to cater for other events they were running, outside of parliament. There was political consternation over the fact that instead of calling in the cops, Mills took the decision to bring in “an external organisation look at all the material that I could find in terms of the accounts, the proceedings, etc.” At a cost to the taxpayer, natch.
Nor was this the first time that Mills had reached for the expensive outside consultants instead of dealing with matters through traditional internal channels and the law. Back in 2012, after a major security breach on her watch that saw an intruder enter the Parliament and get within touching distance of the Aussie PM, Mills shifted the blame by commissioning a $30,000 report by an external bureaucrat. Again, it turned out to be a matter for the police to deal with, but not before the money was wasted.


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Columbia University's Department of Mechanical Engineering is part of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, originally founded in 1864 as the School of Mines at Columbia College. Today, Columbia's engineering school is a world leader in patents and counts among its patent holdings the MPEG-2 technology that underpins high-definition television. Within the mechanical engineering department, the faculty members lead research on robotics, nanotechnology, energy systems, biomechanics, and other interdisciplinary topics.
Despite the school's high profile and full slate of research, the mechanical engineering graduate program stands out for its low faculty member-to-student ratio of 15 to 1, giving students an opportunity to take meaningful roles in the department's research, academic competitions, and classroom life. Overall, the School of Engineering and Applied Science enrolls some 2,800 graduate students, out of an overall Columbia University student body of approximately 29,000 undergraduate, graduate, and medical students.
Students who want to earn master's degree in mechanical engineering can choose among the standard track and 3 elective specializations, the focus in Energy Systems, Robotics and Control, and Micro/Nanoscale Engineering specializations, with coursework approved by an adviser and advisory committee.
The Mechanical Engineering Department offers 2 doctoral degree options for post-graduate students: the Doctor of Engineering Science (Eng.Sc.D.) degree program and the Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (Ph.D.) degree program. Both programs offer opportunities for students to become experts within the discipline of mechanical engineering.
Students anywhere in the world can pursue master's degrees in mechanical engineering through Columbia's distance-learning program, the Columbia Video Network. Classes in the distance learning graduate program are tailored to the student's interests, on topics such as robotics, fluid dynamics, controls, and other graduate-level topics. Prospective students must apply to Columbia's Graduate Engineering Distance Learning Program.
The Mechanical Engineering Department's Master of Science (M.S.) degree program Express option allows current Columbia Bachelor of Science degree program and Barnard College students with qualifying GPA to transition into the master's degree program without taking the GRE or TOEFL. This program allows students to do specific long-term course planning, take graduate program courses as seniors, and apply summer research projects credits toward the master's degree program, in consultation with adviser.
This BS leading to MS program is open to a select group of Columbia Juniors. Upon admission into the program, students will work closely with their faculty advisor to synthesize a 2 year program plan that integrates up to 6pts of 4000 level coursework that simultaneously fulfills half of their BS technical elective requirement. This effectively reduces the MS program requirement to 24pts.
The mechanical engineering department hosts more than a dozen labs run by faculty members. The Sustainable Engineering Lab, part of Columbia's Earth Institute, collaborates with governments, NGOs, industry, and other universities to run energy, irrigation, and public health projects in countries throughout the developing world.
The Robotics and Rehabilitation Lab works with Columbia's medical campus to develop robotic arm and leg exoskeletons for stroke patients with loss of limb control, robotic carts for mobility-impaired infants and toddlers, and tactile feedback shoes for Parkinsons patients.
Research led by the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Laboratory, a joint effort of the mechanical and biomedical engineering departments, studies cartilage and cellular mechanics as well as cartilage tissue engineering.
Faculty member biomechanics research covers topics such as the electromechanical behavior of cartilage, cervical structure and function changes during pregnancy, the molecular mechanics of stem-cell differentiation, and clinical inquiries into the role of biomechanics in disease.
The mechanical engineering department conducts diverse robotics, control, and design research on topics from assisted movement for mobility-impaired patients to earthquake damage assessment and laser micromachining processes for industrial manufacturing.
Columbia's Department of Mechanical Engineering is known for its research into the mechanics of cartilage and joint function. Other lines in inquiry include techniques for the creation of biofunctional nanoarrays with possible regenerative medicine applications, stem-cell differentiation research, and the potential monitoring of glucose via implantable microelectromechanical systems.
Studies of energy, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics by mechanical engineering faculty members cover topics that impact the environment, such as the removal of carbon dioxide from the air, and tribology topics including performance improvements to power generation equipment.
Columbia University's mechanical engineering faculty members and students work within the School of Engineering and Applied Science and with other schools to apply engineering to medicine, nanotechnology, materials research, and global climate study. The department has ongoing collaborations with Columbia University Medical Center as well as with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory on the Hudson River, run by Columbia's Earth Institute. Other mechanical engineering interdisciplinary projects involve the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, both run by Columbia's Center for Integrated Science and Engineering.
Graduate students in mechanical engineering can apply for School of Engineering and Applied Science Fellowships that provide funding, research and networking opportunities, and academic prestige. These fellowships include Presidential Distinguished Fellowships; Graduate Minorities in Engineering Fellowships for students of African-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American heritage; and Special Fellowships for engineering graduate students.
Columbia also offers several National Science Foundation-funded Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Fellowships for multidisciplinary research and study in fields such as: information technology, urban infrastructure, multiscale phenomena in soft materials, and biological systems sensing and imaging.
The Columbia Comprehensive Educational Financing Plan pulls together public and private funding sources, lines of credit, payment plans, and other services in conjunction with carefully vetted financial service providers.
Columbia University in the City of New York, founded in 1754, is currently ranked 4th among national universities by "U.S. News and World Report." "The Princeton Review" lists Columbia as a Best Value Private College and rates its library 1st among American universities. The school also stands out for its socioeconomic diversity and its location in Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood. Notable Columbia alumni include President Barack Obama, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, along with more than 40 Nobel Prize recipients.


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Is anyone interested in doing a 2vs2/FFA/1vs1 tournament this Saturday since there is no matches this weekend?
If so post below letting me know what kind of tournament you would want to do and I''ll get something started (If Paris doesn't already plan on doing something). It could be something fun and short where it would take no longer than 3 hours for the teams/players that were able to make it to the finals.
I was going to nominate any of the team captains to step up this weekend and host a mini tournament.
Then I saw this post and saw another display of asmo's intelligence some have witnessed before.
I'm not going to do something Saturday (i do not have any plans to myth2), but i may do something Sunday around 2 pm EST along the lines of 1v1/2v2 and ffa/tffa, depending on the number of interested people at that time to participate in a 2-3 hr tournament. However it would be amazing to see something put together by other notable leaders in the community (gkgzakrkgklimpdantskiasmo) on Saturday !
Especially if there is a follow up Sunday tournament that runs in a different format of play (if you did a 1v1/2v2, i could do a ffa/tffa; if you did a solo-participatory tournament, i could do a small-team tournament.
Can't expect a huge showing or consistent turnout of interested players this weekend, but we can expect the possibility of it; and the possibility that someone will be there to organize them for competitive games acknowledged as a "competitive" "all-star" "mini-tournament" weekend.
Besides if someone ran a one-day tournament Saturday I would only be even more inclined to host a one-day tournament the day after!
I would be interested in a 2v2 tournament. I think this would be the most popular choice as well.


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When Sweden’s junior soccer – or football – ladies won the European Championship, they gave the Swedish FA a golden opportunity to promote its business and the future of Swedish football. But instead of celebrating they referred to their own regulatory framework and paved the way for continued criticism for their handling of women’s football. A marketer’s nightmare.
On Monday, July 27, the Swedish under-19 national team for ladies defeated Spain, thus winning the European Football Championships. Earlier this summer, the men’s equivalent won the same title. An outstanding achievement for a relatively small country.
When the guys won they were celebrated in front of a giant crowd in Kungsträdgården in Stockholm. But even before the women’s final were held the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter could announce that the Swedish Football Association did not intend to arrange something similar should the women’s side win their tournament.
Now, it may seem premature to speculate on a celebration before the game were even played, but the article in Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish) revealed that the Football Association has a routine for how public tributes should be arranged. It sounds square and bureaucratic, and that is probably exactly what it is.
For the Swedish Football Association to make much fanfare about a championship title it is required that it is won by a representative team. Thus the senior national teams for women and men, and the men’s under-21 squad.
The women’s under-19 team is not a representative team. Because there is a under-23 national team for women. Who is not a representative team, because there are so few other under-23 national teams on the women’s side. Uh?
Swedish Football Association is of course free to do as they please, and perhaps it is wise to act according to an established routine. Improvising usually leads completely wrong.
But from – among other things – a PR perspective, it seems completely insane.
The Swedish FA is no authority, they have no outward fairness requirements to take into account. A marketing department of a company or an organization eager to use the resources they have to reach out had rubbed their hands over this possibility.
1. The attention surrounding Swedish football is at its maximum right now. The under-21 national team sensationally won the European Championship tournament just a month ago. Interest in the future of Swedish football is red hot, also on the women’s side – where the younger’s success stands in stark contrast to the seniors’ disappointing performance in this year’s World Cup tournament.
2. The Swedish Football Association has several times in recent years – despite the fact that women’s football for a long time has enjoyed a strong position in the country – have stomped the piano and clearly treated footballers different, according to gender. They had this open goal to repair some of the damage by treating the younger national teams success equally.
3. It rained in Stockholm when the ladies came home. The matches were shown on a channel that not everyone has access to. And it was not until the semi-finals that the general public became aware of what was going on. Overall, one can say that it would probably not have become a huge audience at a celebration in Kungsträdgården. But all the accolades do not need to be conducted at the same location. With simple means they could have parried the obviously forthcoming criticism – “why don’t you celebrate when girls win” – by proactively find a more suitable location than Kungsträdgården.
The key here is – in my personal opinion, and from a marketing perspective – an organization that’s stuck in their own, convoluted regulations and, instead of utilizing a great opportunity are causing even more of the criticism they have already received.
But we who think that the Swedish under-19 national team did a fantastic job can of course pay tribute to them anyway. Representative team or not.


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This event is for change makers.
It’s for people who are committed to making a bigger difference in the world, but for whom the traditional ways of marketing and selling their services have felt painful and out of integrity.
Does that describe you? If so, in these three days you are going to learn a completely new way of doing business. It’s a holistic approach, where each piece of your business can be performed with the same level of integrity, care, love and joy that you live your life with.
You’re going to discover how to build the business you want in ways you truly love. It’s the one thing that changes everything.
Oh yeah…and you’re going to live, laugh, love, dance, move, connect, draw, sing and shine while doing so.
Early registration closes September 30th. So please, if this calls to you, check it out today.


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Owned by a former Team USA Lumberjill, Shannon Strong has opened Strong Core Wellness Center in Kent, to offer clients a one-stop location to rehabilitate, restore, and strengthen their core. We went along to take a morning group fitness class, and to meet Shannon, the woman who Sylvester Stallone didn’t want to go up against on the Late Show with David Letterman (more on that later)!
It is agreed in both of our households, that if we get invited anywhere that involves cool cars, the husbands get to come. When we told our men we were going to the Sycamore Drive-In in Bethel to drink shakes and eat burgers and that it also happened to be Summer Cruise night, they were in!
Pssst! Did you know that the ever popular and award winning White Horse Country Pub in Marbledale just grew 2,000 square feet or so? Now there is even more cozy, English-tavern goodness to go around! We arranged to go along for a sneak peek of the impressive new dining room and kitchen before the grand opening. While we were there, pub owner John Harris insisted that we order a bunch of our favorite dishes to photograph (and eat) then take the famous Audrey (the taxi) out for a spin. Best lunch ever.
In today’s post, we ask store owners, Kelley Frey and Shereen Koshnoodi, a question or two about Fred while they style us in some heavenly outfits!