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Relaxing main living area is spacious and has spectacular views with balcony access.
Large wall mounted flat screen TV and extra seating in main living area.
Dining area for sharing the days fun events, playing games and family dinners together.
Upscale kitchen with breakfast bar~ perfect for meals, snacks and afternoon cocktails.
Side wet bar is perfect for extra storage and serving up afternoon cocktails for the beach.
Gorgeous master bedroom with king size bed, walk in closet and private balcony access.
Wall mounted flat screen TV with extended channels for private viewing in the master bedroom.
Master en suite dual vanity sinks with extra storage.
Master en suite has a marble full size tub & shower combo and dual vanity sinks with granite counter top.
Guest bathroom with full size marble tub/shower combo, large vanity with extra storage & granite counter tops.
3rd bedroom with twin size bunks! great for kids of all ages or extra guests.
Wall mounted flat screen TV in the 3rd guest bedroom.
Convenient~in unit laundry room with full size washer & dryer.
Owner's sentiment & wishes for all guests!
Captain's chair type seating to view the beach fun from your own private balcony.
View of 1 of 2 Olympic size beach side pools at Calypso Resort~ for Calypso guests only.
Volleyball time at sunset with family & friends @ Calypso Resort.
Enjoy your cocktails with family & friends sitting by the poolside & Tiki Bar @ sunset.
Sunsets both colorful and peaceful every evening.
Calypso Resort full service Tiki Bar.
Take in the beauty of the Emerald Coast~ blue green waters, rolling waves and powder white sand.
Jet skiing, tubing, snorkeling, parasailing are only a few of the fun things to do on the beach at Calypso Resort.
Fun in the sun @ Calypso Resort Beach Front.
Helicopter rides can be reserved daily.
Celebrate the 4th of July in style and never have to encounter the traffic or the crowds~ watch from your private balcony @ Calypso Resort!
View from your private balcony of the fireworks display!
New Years Eve & the 4th of July are only 2 of the several occasions fireworks displays are released from the City Pier.
Fireworks display from the City Pier. Sit on your private balcony and watch the spectacular display.
Calypso Resort is the closest resort to Pier Park! just a short stroll across the street.
Parasailing with a smile! Fun in the sun @ Calypso Resort. Call and book your reservation today!
This is the beach hut where you check in for your FREE beach chairs and umbrella service.
Ocean bliss with a modern flair, Calypso 604W is a stunning, 3 bedrooms 2 bath beach front condo unit creates an upscale beach vacation atmosphere you have been looking for. Situated on the 6th floor of the West Tower at Calypso Resort & Towers, Calypso 604W has all the modern amenities- high speed internet/ WiFi, flat screen TV's in living area and all 3 bedrooms, fully stocked kitchen with all the essentials, bed and bathroom linens; and a private balcony illuminating the breath-taking views from both the master suite and main living area of this Calypso Resort vacation rental. With Pier Park directly across the street, the City Pier next door and the Gulf of Mexico outside your private balcony, Calypso 604W meets all your Panama City Beach vacation needs. The total square footage for this unit is 1,372 sq ft.
The main living area of this Calypso Resort vacation rental is spacious with custom furnishings and artwork, as well as providing modern amenities like a flat screen TV, DVD player and high speed internet/ WiFi. The sofa can be converted into a a queen/full size pullout for extra guests. Adjacent to the living area is a formal dining table and wet bar.
The kitchen is equipped with granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. The bar counter is a perfect size for breakfast, afternoon snacks or cocktail hour. The cabinets are stocked with cups, plates, utensils, dinnerware, cooking pots and pans.
There are two guest bedrooms within this deluxe condo unit. The first guest bedroom is dawned with a tranquil touch of color with a queen size bed, dresser, flat screen TV and DVD player. The second guest bedroom is fun and brightly decorated set with twin size bunk beds, dresser and flat screen TV and DVD player. This is a perfect arrangement for children, teens, or any additional guests who may be traveling with you on your beach vacation.
Calypso 604W is perfect for couples coming to celebrate a special day, a family with kids, or even two families traveling together. The open floor plan and countless amenities make this luxury beach condo the perfect addition to your Panama CIty Beach vacation getaway.
*And magnificent views of the Gulf of Mexico in this beach front condo in Panama City Beach!
Come join the fun with White Sand Rental at our Calypso Resort vacation rental!!
Located on what’s affectionately known to locals as “the west end,” life is much less crowded and more family friendly here on the west end of Panama City Beach. And with the location of our vacation rental closest to Pier Park, right across the street, you may not even need your car for the rest of your stay!
We really enjoyed the condo! Great view and location. Plenty of room for our kids and adults. Kitchen was well stocked. Met all of my expectations and more!
My family has stayed in many condos in PCB and this was by far the cleanest and well kept condo we have ever stayed in! The condo was also very up to date, nice furniture and even updated appliances. Management was great as well and responded very quickly to any questions. Will be back again for sure.
We had a great time and are already looking at dates for next year! The condo was perfect and we will definitely be staying there again!
We had a fab time and will certainly book with you again. This condo was much better than the previous one and you were much easier to deal with. Thanks!
We loved our stay here. The condo was very clean and well equipped. All bedrooms had a huge TV and the furniture was modern and comfortable. Everything we needed was easily found. The beach and pool were great. The condo comes with 2 beach chairs and an umbrella which was a nice plus. Pier Park has all the restaurants and shopping you'll ever need and it's such a short walk from the condo. We loved sitting on the balcony in the morning and evenings. We saw beautiful sunsets every evening and we even saw the green flash! We would definitely come back!
We stayed in this condo for a week and it was wonderful. Very well decorated with nice flooring and furniture. We had issues with the wifi on the first day, and management was nice enough to come right over and fix it for us. We loved having our own sliding doors out to the balcony from the master bedroom! It was also nice being on the 6th floor, as it was high enough to get a view but low enough where we weren't spending a ton of time on the elevator. We really enjoyed our time in this condo and would definitely book with them again!
Reviewed by Kim A. from Where do you live?
Fantastic Condo - Exceeded my expectations!!!!
This condo exceeded all my expectations in many ways. First, the furnishings are upscale and everything is exactly as promised. The view is exceptional and everything is provided in the kitchen. Monster TV's in each room were nice to give everyone some space at the end of the day. It is great having the beach chairs provided and it is an easy walk to the pier for fishing and to Pier Park for restaurants and entertainment. The owners and the rental agency were very friendly and nice to work with. They really blew me away with how quickly they responded to anything we needed and always very courteous and pleasant. I've stayed at plenty of beach condos over the years and this has been one of my personal favorites. I will definitely be back and highly recommend!!
It's a beautiful unit with fully equipped kitchen. It's a ocean view from master bedroom and living room. We love it so much. We stay there for w week. As I run into few problem ( how to change door lock etc. the Managment was there for me in minutes to help me) We will absolutely stay there again in near future.
The condominium unit was ready as promised on the date of arrival. It was clean and everything was in good order. The unit contained everything that we needed for the week. The management people were easy to access and very attentive.
Wonderful people to work with. Beautiful condo on the 6th floor. Great location. The condo was very clean and beautifully decorated. We would definitely book with the owners again! No hesitation whatsoever! Thanks for making our vacation care free!
When I booked our condo I was looking for many things- lower level, nice furniture, well stocked, free beach chairs. This has all of the above. When I walked in and saw how beautifully decorated and how well stocked this place was I was so happy. I brought everything but the kitchen sink with me and quickly realized that it wasn't necessary. It had EVERYTHING you could think of. We will definitely be back the next time we come to PCB. For those who have never been to PCB this condo is right across the street from Pier Park which is a nice place to take kids. We came with a large group of people with about 6 other condos, ours was the nicest of all of them.
We very much enjoyed our stay in this cozy condo. Overall very clean and all of the furniture was up to date and comfortable. The included beach chair rental was a definite plus, and the close proximity to Pier Park made for a fun and safe trip! The view of the beach was beautiful and we loved the spacious patio. For this trip, it was just the two of us, but there is also plenty to do for families, groups, or a romantic getaway. We loved being so close to a variety of shops as well as many different restaurants. Our personal favorites were Margaritaville, Tootsies, and Dave & Busters, but there is also a movie theater and small amusement park for children. We have previously stayed in a few other places in the area, but this one was the best by far. Dave and Jan are easy to work with and were always available. We will definitely rent from them in the future, and will hopefully be able to snag this condo again!
We enjoyed our stay at this beautiful condo. Kitchen well stocked with glasses, plates, cookware and utensils. Very clean and furniture comfortable. Only problem was a queen bed in the master which was a platform where we kept hitting our shins on the large corners. Dave and Jan are great to work with and very accommodating. We will rent from them in the future.
Thank you Carla, glad you enjoyed your stay! We have since replaced that bed with a new king bed and a new bed frame...so your shins will be safe when you stay with us again.


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Vegetation ecologists play an essential role in the U.S. Forest Service. They research the abundance and location of flora in their region as well as the factors that influence how the plants flourish. All nine Forest Service regions and most forests have ecologists on staff, representing a variety of interests. Some ecologists are fascinated by fungi, while others focus on lichens, wildflowers and other elements of biodiversity. In addition, plant ecologists and botanists provide quite a bit of support to the other disciplines and program areas within the Forest Service.
Robert L. DeVelice, a vegetation ecologist on the Chugach National Forest, fits the role well. His wealth of education, experience and personal interests have benefited both the forest and the local community. He grew up in New Mexico, received a Bachelor of Science in forestry from the University of Montana, a Masters in agronomy with a focus on forest soils from New Mexico State University, and a Ph.D. in plant ecology. When he arrived in Alaska in 1992, he was quite interested in native plants, their distribution and ecological occurrences across the landscape.
DeVelice said that the occurrence of non-native plant species in Alaska is fairly rare, and the plants are restricted in their distribution across the landscape. For this reason, Alaska is an exceptional place to see vegetation in its primarily natural process-driven state.
The 5.4-million-acre Chugach National Forest, the second-largest single forest in the nation, has a diversity of environments that range from rainforest to interior forest to wetlands. This richness produces abundant botanical life.
DeVelice developed a hierarchal vegetation classification for mapping and describing biodiversity across the landscape. The project was started 1988 by his predecessor (Susan L. Boudreau) who conducted plant sampling on Montague Island in Prince William Sound. Since then, DeVelice and his colleagues have sampled over 2,000 ocular macro plots.
In the 2,000 plots that were established on the Chugach, over 500 plant species were represented. That is one-third of the whole flora of the State of Alaska, which is indicative of the diversity and richness of the area.
When asked what he considers to be one of his most important contributions as a vegetation ecologist, DeVelice refers to “Assessing the extent to which roadless areas complement the conservation of biological diversity” published in the prestigious journal Ecological Applications.
The work assesses the contribution that inventoried roadless areas on National Forest System lands could make toward building a representative network of conservation reserves in the United States. Including roadless areas expands representation of a range of ecological conditions, increases the area of reserves at lower elevations, and increases the number of areas large enough to provide refugia for species needing large tracts relatively undisturbed by people.
While DeVelice has made significant contributions to ecology research for the Forest Service, one of his favorite pastimes is bringing his love of native flora to the community at large. Last year, he led the Botany Challenge 49 on the Falls Creek Trail 20 miles east of Anchorage. This area adjacent to the Seward Highway has quite a high diversity of plants. The goal for the hikers was to locate 49 species of plants (in honor of Alaska being the 49th state) within two hours. Their trip started at sea level and ended at an elevation of 1,200 feet.
“The Falls Creek area is immensely beautiful and includes verdant forests, species rich shrublands, and a lively stream,” said DeVelice.
Sometimes DeVelice’s community outings are as simple as nature walks with kids to look for leaves. Other outings are much more strenuous.
DeVelice is an avid runner and rock climber. He ran the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run in California 11 times. He also leads local epic runs that last from two to four hours. Established in 2000, these events are non-competitive training runs that take the athletes through rugged terrain, thick vegetation, and even Southcentral Alaska’s bitter winter weather.
In addition to his professional and social advocacy for the botanical riches of Alaska, DeVelice’s love for wildflowers reaches a personal level. He and his wife Jeannie named their daughter Linnaea after his favorite flower, Linnaea borealis, or twinflower. Carolus Linnaeus, for which the flower was named, is considered the father of binomial nomenclature for plants.
Through his various endeavors, DeVelice ensures his passion and knowledge are shared with future generations who will become the next stewards of the natural resources that he loves.

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text: As the National Equity Fund (NEF) turns 30, LISC CEO Maurice Jones and NEF president Joe Hagan take the measure of all that has been accomplished thanks to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. That includes three million affordable homes since the credit was created in 1986, and 90 percent of all affordable housing being built today. Ensuring that more low-income people can keep a roof over their heads demands safeguarding—and refining—the tools that make affordable homes possible.


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WASHINGTON—As the special counsel investigation seems to be nearing its final stage, Americans view Robert Mueller as far more credible than U.S. President Donald Trump, but the public has scattered and partisan perceptions of Mueller’s motives and what he has found so far, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll.
Notably, though, Mueller has not brought criminal charges against any members of the Trump campaign for co-ordinating in that effort. He has charged several with lying to his investigators or to Congress — adding most recently to that list Roger Stone, a friend of Trump’s for decades whom Mueller has accused of trying to thwart lawmakers’ effort to investigate Russian interference in the election.
Mueller could still charge others or detail in a report whether his investigators came to believe there was coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. Strong majorities of Democrats and Republicans say Mueller’s report should be made public in its entirety, with 81 per cent overall supporting its release.
That is far from a guarantee, though. William Barr, Trump’s nominee to be attorney general who is expected to be confirmed this week, has declined to commit to releasing Mueller’s findings, asserting that Justice Department guidelines stipulate a confidential report would be provided to the attorney general. The Justice Department, Barr has noted, generally does not reveal unflattering information about people who prosecutors decide should not be charged with crimes.
Just over 4 in 10 Americans believe Mueller has proved members of Trump’s presidential campaign lied about contacts with Russians, and views on that question split sharply on partisan lines. More than 6 in 10 Democrats believe Mueller has proved Trump campaign members lied about such contacts, while more than 7 in 10 Republicans say he has not.
Two of Trump’s closest advisers — former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen — have pleaded guilty to lying about the substance of their contacts with Russians, and a third, former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, has admitted to lying about his conversations with a London-based professor who had told him the Russians held “dirt,” in the form of thousands of emails, on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The poll’s findings suggest that while Mueller has maintained significant credibility with the public, he faces a monumental challenge in issuing a report that is accepted and understood across the political spectrum.
A sizable 34 per cent minority believes the special counsel has proved Trump’s campaign co-ordinated with Russia to help the Republican win, an allegation Mueller has not made. A 55 per cent majority of Democrats believe Mueller has proved Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia.
When he was appointed, Mueller was tasked with investigating whether there were “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated” with Trump’s campaign. Mueller’s investigation has revealed plenty of links, but it is unclear what he may allege on the question of coordination.
The Post-Schar School poll finds positive overall marks for Mueller’s handling of the investigation, with 51 per cent of Americans approving, 34 per cent disapproving and 15 per cent holding no opinion. More than 7 in 10 Democrats approve of Mueller, while about 7 in 10 Republicans disapprove. Independents approve of his efforts by a 52 per cent to 29 per cent margin.
Attitudes toward Trump and Mueller contrast sharply with views of President Bill Clinton and Ken Starr before the independent counsel released his report 20 years ago. An August 1998 Post-ABC poll found 61 per cent of Americans said Starr was mainly interested in hurting Clinton, while 35 per cent said he was mainly interesting in finding the truth.
The new poll finds views of Mueller are flipped in the positive direction, with 57 per cent saying he is mainly interested in finding the truth, compared with 36 per cent who say he is mainly interested in hurting Trump.
Both polls today and in 1998 show people affiliated with the president’s party overwhelmingly see investigations as politically motivated, but independents lean differently this year. A 57 per cent majority of independents think Mueller is mainly interested in finding the truth, compared with 1998, when 59 per cent of independents thought Starr was mainly interested in causing political damage to Clinton.
The Post-Schar School poll was conducted by cell and landline telephone Feb. 6-10 among a random national sample of 841 adults and has an overall margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.

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The snow had come as predicted. It was quite a pack. Icicles were formed during the night. It was not very cold. Around freezing probably. The visibility was quite limited. The mountainous backdrop was invisible. It was still snowing lightly and sudden winds blew fresh fallen snow into the air again creating a snow mist. It was very quiet. The cool tapestry muted sounds.
I took a look at the balcony looking towards the sea. The greenish sea disappeared in the icy grey sky. Sky and sea merged leaving no clear horizon. The whirling winds had blown snow even on the balconies leeward of the wind. All was still untouched by human hands or feed.
The courtyard was empty but suddenly a monk appeared. He made no sounds but his footsteps creaked softly in the fresh snow. His dark figure contrasted with the white surrounding. I saw whirling snowflakes under the right roof.
The reddish iron cross dominated the white world. The chimney did not release any smoke. Not even white smoke. The sky and the snow almost united. It felt very peaceful at that time. Later however that changed (explanation will follow in the next blog).
The guest quarters on the first floor have an open corridor from which the central church and the courtyard can be seen. No snow on the cross, like the picture before, but iced domes as a dessert bowl turned upside down. Or powdered sugar.
A monk started to ring the big bell. The stairs to the guest houses were completely covered with snow. They looked more like a slide. On the roof the wind left a strange pattern in the snow.
I found some colour in the open air baptismal font. Then I was called in for breakfast so that ended my morning photography session.
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Soon we will be singing the hymns for Saint Paisios the new, what a wonderful new year lies ahead!

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OK…guess what the Chime Module does…? If you said “Chime” give yourself 10 points. If you said anything else then slap your left cheek with your right had and say “Silly Boy!”. I use my chime module (cunningly set as “C”hime “1”) to wake me up in the morning. In conjunction with my bedroom lights flashing this unit gets me out of bed where others have failed. It could also be used as a remote doorbell, an indication of movement detected by PIR or a hundred and one other things.
The unit responds to the “ON” command and does a sort of a “Ding Dong, Ding Dong, Ding DANG” affair. There is no volume control but it is loud enough to wake me and yet quiet enough not to give me a heart attack when it does go off. One annoying (or possibly useful) thing about it is that if you remove the power to it, it tries to chime in a muffled, stranged, dying kind of way. In reality what this means (as I know from experience) is if there is a power cut in the middle of the night then your chime module will probably wake you!
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In between ducking your great aunt's relationship questions and replacing the ornaments your cat swatted off the tree, let's face it -- you're gonna need a movie break. And good thing, because there are tons to pick from. Let the games begin!
*The Guilt Trip*As much as I wanted not to like this movie, I can't help but smile at this mother/son road trip story (gulp) starring Seth Rogen (it's about time we're seeing you again!) and Barbra Streisand.
The follow-up to Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 The Hurt Locker has everybody buzzing over the action thriller based on the assassination of Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Prepare to see Parks and Recreation's Chris Pratt in a very new light (ahem six pack), and everyone's favorite new leading lady, Jessica Chastain, doing what she does best.
Five years after Knocked Up, Pete and Debbie take center stage in comic genius Judd Apatow's latest about the lives of a couple as they turn forty. Just like all of you girls, I could gaze at my forever-crush, Paul Rudd, for hours on end, and he and Leslie Mann are hilarious as husband and wife. Plus, Apatow and Mann's daughters, Iris and Maude, star, and well, they're just awesome.
Admittedly, this film about a horrifying tsunami absolutely terrifies me, but sometimes you just need a good cry.
Quentin Tarantino isn't for everyone, but I live for his movies. The latest is a violence-filled Southern tale of a slave (Jamie Foxx) who takes over a plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio). And in good ol' Tarantino fun, the soundtrack is filled with Rick Ross, John Legend and 2Pac. Nice.
I love a good documentary, and this one about the West Memphis Three has me glued to my screen just with the trailer.
No holiday would be complete without a popcorn-chompin' action flick with Tom Cruise, and this movie about a homicide investigator totally fits the bill.
__So now comes the hard part...what are you going to see?

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History of conflicts is written by historians who after all are humans. They have their biases, axes to grind and or the knowledge that they have of the historic events, may not be complete and so history cannot be taken as the absolute truth. There is always an element of doubt, particularly so if the history is viewed with tinted vision, religious fervour, beliefs and prejudices.
With religious biases such conflicts are disguised as 'God's Will' and therefore presented with labels of just wars, holy wars, crusades and jihad. The irony being that, often the inter religious wars, are waged in the name of the same 'God' that all combatants in the conflict fight for.
Consider the case of the sectarian jihads waged during the very early establishment of Muslim community, when the Arabs stepped outside Arabia, the drive towards the East, giving rise to what developed as Sunni Shia sectarian divide, politely called 'conflicts', which till today is entrenched as religions acrimony. Historians have lased it with beads, braces and bells to adorn the pages of that history glorifying Muslim on Muslim bloodbath. Some say, in the two battles of Jamal and Siffin 656/657 CE, thousands and some say hundred of thousands people were killed in the conflict.
The cafe culture of Iran during the beginning of the month of Muharram commemorating events of Karbala 680CE is to be seen to be believed. The passion of Ashura recital and enactment as naghali and marsiyeh soraei - is an art-form of “story telling”, in its fluidity and flight of fancy imagination of the performers, surpassing that of passion of Christ in the most catholic of Catholic countries.
But common sense allows us to ask a few questions to this history as presented to the world.
- Were there so many Muslims to be sacrificed at the altar of religious divide within the first five decades of the community's establishment, after its founder Muhammadur- Rasulullah's death?
- If so, then who was left to undertake the so called 'miraculous spread of Islam' over the wide area of West to East in such a short period of time?
-On what basis of religious belief the pioneer believers undertook these wars?
One needs a solid base to stand upon to form an opinion on anything. In this case we have the original source Book Quran that all the feuding parties in the conflict believe in and take oath on. However they may also believe in “others books” added much later, just as it had happened to previous messengers' teachings.
25-73: And they who, when reminded of the messages of the Lord fall not down at them (accept not) as deaf and blind.
3-102: … And remember God's favour to you , when you were enemies, then He joined your hearts, so by His favours you became brethren (that is, a community of believers).
-Does not the above make the combatants 'disbeliever', when they disobey the warning?
The personalities involved in the sectarian 'conflicts'; if thousands or so deaths of Sunnis and Shias can be called as that; were not only the pioneers and companions of the Messenger but those who were nurtured by him, grew playing in his lap, his own flesh and blood, kith and kin who are alluded to in the above quoted verses e.g. 48-29 and 3-102 and the soldiers and helpers – believer – who according to the chequered history of this conflict, allegedly fought and killed each other in God's and in the Messenger's name, contradicting 4-93.
-What and whom then to believe?
The 'what' bit is easy as seen from the above verses. The original document is the Quran, common to all feuding parties. So Quran it is to be believed. The 'whom' bit; historians, their history, and spurious documents to be disbelieved, or at least accepted with a handful of salt.
-Then, why did it happen?
A difficult question to answer. But some evidence is there today to help form intelligent opinion.
That is the history of Religion as established by priesthood, the Hamans. Religions cannot exist without its operatives and its various institutions – the Churches. True to mankind's nature, perhaps more so through its ignorance, when these entities came into existence, that is when it all happened. Islam on number of occasion eliminated these elements previously too. Abraham, Moses, Jesus and others, all faced it, only that the clergy succeeded to re-establish themselves again and again.
2-205: When he holds power, he endeavours to cause mischief in the land: ...God loves not mischief - Fasaad. … at many other places is repeated that God loves not Mufsidin, the mischief mongers.
- The priesthood and its institution, the Church!
The differences remain till today despite the 'Word'!
Because they say “They Believe In Quran – But They Do Not Believe”!
10-35: … … .what then is the matter with you, how do you judge!?
Should we ever trust historical narratives? Should we side with either party in a war based on historical accounts? I do not know. Perhaps we should honor only the peace makers, not the war heroes.


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Finnish Real Estate professionals- Technical experts or composite athletes?
In Finland, certification of real estate executives began in 1999. Until February 2001, 47 real estate professionals have been certified. These managers largely have their background in construction or engineering: 40 % of them are graduate engineers and 11 % construction engineers. (Luoma 2000) This is mainly due to the traditions of Finnish real estate education being largely based on the study of construction technology, house-building and surveying. Economic and financial aspects have traditionally received minor attention. (Hedvall – Leiwo 2000). One of the aims of the certification of Finnish real estate executives is to enhance the versatility of competencies required in the future’s business environment: property professionals have to be experts on real estate as well as on business management and financial issues. These requirements and expectations provide a great challenge for both real estate professionals themselves and also for the education institutes. In this paper, the current qualities and competencies of Finnish real estate managers as well as competencies required in the future are analysed. What are the strengths and challenges of real estate managers? What kind of qualities is required of them in the future? What kind of education and training should be provided (or demanded) to enhance the real estate management in Finland? Comparisons are made with international experiences, where possible. The paper is based on the analysis of the data of 47 certified real estate managers as well as on theme interviews of 20 of them. A literature study will provide both international and basic theoretical information on the matter.


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We appreciate you as our client. If you have any special needs, just let us know. All of our cars are passing through maintenance checks for your maximum safety as well as cleaning after every trip to ensure you have the best experience on the road with us.
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Photo exhibition "Cities of Peter the Great"
The project is part of the grant program of the European Union for Non-State Actors and Local Authorities Program for the Baltic Sea Region. The purpose of the project is the creation of international educational and training programs of professional development for managers in the sphere of the public event organization, as well as the implantation of the student campus festival model in St. Petersburg and Petrozavodsk. The project aims to build impetus for the development of culture and tourism in the North-West of Russia.
Institute for Cultural Programs annually organizes the participation of St. Petersburg delegations in The Finnish-Russian Cultural Forum.
The Finnish-Russian Cultural Forum is an innovative project in the framework of cross-border cooperation in the European Union. In both countries this project is related to the number of the most important programs of cooperation, and its main purpose is to increase the importance of culture in bilateral ties, support the regional development of the two countries through the culture, and promote the emergence and development of joint partnership projects.

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Step 1: Click on ‘Financing’ to view your options.
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Culture. Our culture is defined by the great people who work here. We live by Guiding Principles like “take care of the client first” and “have fun along the way” – and we mean it. Our teammates are our friends, our support systems and our strongest allies. This is the foundation of our customer focus and what makes us a winning team. There are plenty of chances to get involved and meet people across the company, and you’ll be glad you did.
We’re growing quickly so there are opportunities for advancement every day. Find something you’re passionate about and own it.
When you’re at your best, we all win. We have an entire team dedicated to onboarding and development to help you move forward.
We hire passionate people. Bring the community causes you care about and we’ll help you spread the word and gain support across the company.
Our culture is defined by the great people who work here. Meet a few of them in this featured video.
Ask someone at Paycor what they love, and the answers will be as diverse as the personalities.
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We believe in good technology, good deeds and in the goodwill of our clients. It's not just business, it's personal. We're our clients’ partner, our coworker's friend and the community's ally.
Paycor associates lead nearly 200 events each year with over 6,000 volunteer hours logged. Suffice to say, giving back to the community is a big part of life at Paycor.
It all starts with taking care of our clients first. It’s our #1 Guiding Principle and what drives all of our decisions.
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as an !absolute! newby (to both, the forum and gemstones) let me ask a question, I've come across a diamond cut .6ct sapphire which looks really nice. To find out anything about it I looked at it with a loupe and dropped it into a solution with a refractive index of ~1.5 (no access to diiodedmethaen) and noticed an inhomogeneous color distribution. Is this on its own an evidence of diffusion treatment?
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Customers most dislike being kept on hold and appreciate an efficient resolution to their issue when calling businesses, according to a new survey from Clutch, a B2B research, ratings, and reviews firm in Washington, D.C.
Clutch surveyed more than 500 consumers that had called a business more than three times in the past six months. Abby Connect’s CEO Nathan Strum spoke to Clutch about the data, providing industry context.
When asked to rank their top 3 issues with telephone customer service, 57% included “being kept on hold.” In today’s increasingly digital world, consumers understand that their time is precious and that businesses shouldn’t waste it, even with a traditional communication channel like the phone.
For example, customers will only wait 2 minutes on hold with a business before hanging up.
Overall, the survey shows that when it comes to telephone customer service, speed must be kept top of mind.
Nowadays, consumers often have multiple channel options for contacting a business, from email to chat bots to contact forms. Yet, the phone remains important for resolving many issues.
The phone offers one of the most individual-oriented communication channels. This is especially important for people with personalized requests.
“When people are trying to fix something, a cookie cutter approach isn’t always the fix because people like to feel unique and that their problems are unique,” Strum explained.
Some consumers may have issues with simple answers, but they want to feel heard by the business.
Other communication channels may try to repeatedly route consumers through a method they’d already tried to solve their issue.
Businesses often lack quality telephone customer service because they don’t have enough resources to meet their customers’ demands.
Businesses should use data to thoroughly understand what customers experience when they call in. From there, they can determine what resources they need.
Exactly how long do customers spend on hold?
When is the business receiving the most calls?
What questions are customers calling with?
Does a particular department need more telephone customer service resources than others?
From there, businesses can explore whether they need to hire more in-house resources, or if they should outsource to third-party answering services or virtual receptionists.
Outsourcing can often provide high-quality services at a cheaper price than the cost of hiring in-house. You also only need to pay for the services when you actually need them.
Overall, Clutch’s survey emphasizes the importance of increasing efficiency when it comes to answering customer calls. Businesses must ensure they are making the experience of a customer call as quick and high-quality as possible.


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Hello, and welcome to something of a new venture for the Champs website.
Here at Champs, we’re very lucky to have a broad range of people from different backgrounds who want to try coxing, or who find themselves asked at the last minute to jump into the cox’s seat for a race. Nevertheless, it can be difficult for coxes to get specific coaching and advice of their own, especially when the coach has eight rowers to pay attention to; while learning by doing in this way is great, sometimes having a basic understanding of a certain aspect of coxing before you experience it can make the whole learning process that much easier.
That’s where this blog comes in. Coxing Like A Champ aims to be a resource for coxes, both those at Champs and further afield, to learn more about the very specific challengxe that is the ninth seat. Every couple of weeks, I’ll be writing a post about a different aspect of coxing, from steering, to safety, to how to start acting as the ‘coach in the boat’ on those occasions where there’s no-one following you on a bike. If you’re reading these posts, it’s likely that you have some basic experience coxing, but if you’re a novice cox who’s interested in some posts on more fundamental parts of the job, please do get in touch.
But who is this person hiding behind a veil of anonymity, writing pithy observations on the state of coxswain coaching? Well, my name’s Edward. Lovely to meet you. I’ve been coxing for a few years now, and while I really started at Clare Boat Club, I’ve also coxed regularly for Champs, Reading Rowing Club, and Wolfson College, Oxford. I love working with new coxes to improve their skills, particularly as it also reminds me that a good cox should never stop learning themselves, and with that in mind, I hope that this little series will be of interest to you; if you have any questions on anything, would like to make a suggestion, or just fancy saying ‘hi’, please do drop me an email and I’ll either reply to you personally or write a future blog post about it.

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WCE Context in Uganda: World Computer Exchange is exploring with our partner organizations getting a governmental waiver to import our 3rd shipment into Uganda. WCE has heard interest from 299 groups in Uganda. This is the most we have heard from in any country. WCE seeks a Corporate Sponsor to cover the shipping and content loading costs to reduce the match that our partner organizations pay. WCE ships refurbished, working duo core and more recent full computer sets preloaded with Linux Xbuntu operating system, Libre/Office suite, Edubuntu, and our content pack of education, agriculture, health, technology and environment (see attachment). WCE has a philanthropic partnership with New Horizons Computer Training Centers that has Centers here that might offer tech training as they have with us in other countries. WCE is known to iEARN-Uganda and has worked with their counterparts in 11 other countries to provide our recipient schools with teacher training in computer use and in using multi-country experiential projects on the internet to improve learning. WCE is interested in working with Peace Corps Volunteers in Uganda as we do in 17 other countries. Previously, WCE has shipped 562 refurbished computers in 2 shipments to Uganda to connect 39 schools and centres with 70,000 youth over the years. WCE volunteer Development Officers for Uganda: Joan Naiga, Vincent Ndhlovu, Max Ramos, Carole Roberts and Kizza SSegirinya.
WCE has previously shipped refurbished computers to the following 13 partner organizations: Agency for Sustainable Development Initiatives, AIDS Orphans Education Trust, Central Buganda University, Foundation for Women and Children Initiative, Kabaka Foundation, Maruzi Development Association, Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke Uganda, Pimbas Secondary School, Red Cross Society Uganda, RESPECT-Uganda, Teachers for East Africa Alumni, Uganda Gender Resource Centre, and WCAS.
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Ok, now that I have PM's from more than one person - its rather confusing? It shows the entire text of each one I've received - but they aren't really in a threaded manner - might I suggest instead of showing the entire msg body of each one sent, show the subj line of just the ones received, or sent - just as most normal forum software does? It is nice to see what was sent to you, but then not seeing my response? Maybe a threaded setup? It really confused me when I had the newest PM with a much older PM right below it and no reference to the one I sent as a response.
You can adjust this in your profile settings.
It's still different than VBulletin, but it's much easier to deal with than the "default" way. I'll look into switching the default for everybody.


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We offer a range of fixed price solutions so you can budget and plan. You choose the option and build your own package to best suit your needs.
As a startup, you’ll want to ensure you get value for money. So if we choose to work together, I’ll make an investment of my time in you and your business. It’s because I believe that by working together we can ensure your business will succeed.
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Home » Residents » New to Canada » Why Choose Timmins?
Welcome to the Timmins Economic Development Corporation (TEDC) homepage. Since its inception, the TEDC has been a driving force in positioning our city as one of the premier communities to invest in.
The City of Timmins is changing – the economic outlook, the competitive global environment in which we live, now presents more opportunity than we have ever seen.
We are a regional city with a catchment population of approximately 150,000, including the coastal communities of James Bay and those of northwestern Quebec.
We are an open city – we celebrate diversity and embrace the thousands of new people who come here each year, to work, live, learn or play.
Our education base underlines all our success with schools ranked among the world’s best and a post secondary base that will open doors to our future success.
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We are the City of Timmins. The City with a Heart of Gold!
Our place in this great Province, our unique economic advantages, our strong cultural identity, our skills at cultivating knowledge and innovation – and most of all, the passion and drive of our people – are the things that are going to ensure our future success and possibly yours.
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Our business runs on cloud based services almost exclusively, AWS mostly but also some google cloud. When the wider team started moving away from a monorepo of puppet configs to spin up AWS machines and experimented with docker we thought to give AWS lambdas a try.
The recommended usecase for lambdas seems to be event processing where the event is an upload to an S3 bucket or message in a Kinesis stream. We found that we are fine with invoking lambdas directly (even synchronously sometimes but mostly asynchronously) from our existing web application.
Maintaining an already existing web application and adding lambdas as separately scalable backend services has the advantage that we do not need the AWS API gateway which frankly is a big pain to set up correctly. We could also re-use our existing stack/platform: most of our lambdas are implemented in JVM clojure.
We do use synchronous calls sometimes. Apart from the known characteristics this also means that the lambda won't be retried by AWS if it fails.
For our usecase we use asynchronous calls. We call lambdas from lambdas and we do not want the caller sitting around waiting for the callee to finish. Rather, we use a Redis pub/sub topic to signal when a lambda completes in order to trigger some other behaviour somewhere else when the call is done. The Redis topic name contains a reference to the lambda and also a request id so that we can identify and separate runs and lambdas. We can also tap into these topics if we are interested in how far the process got for tracing purposes; for example to implement a progress bar.
At one stage we tried out using SNS topics as well instead of calling lambdas directly as a way of making lambda calls indirect but have not seen much benefit of this so moved back to direct, asynchronous calls.
Some time ago we decided to give a try to a very involved feature on our site. We would attempt to predict how a hypothetical energy tariff would perform on a given energy market. To achieve this we would combine our data on the ever changing energy market and the behavioural data the visitors of the uSwitch web site generate.
The actual prediction is done by a statistical model developed in R. The model is quite an interesting topic in itself but out of the scope of this post. For this model to work though we needed to generate a big bulk (a couple of millions) of hypothetical visits of a made up result table showing energy deals based on a hypothetical market.
This task involves creating and pricing custom energy markets, sampling user profiles based on real visits and replay those profiles visiting our hypothetical markets. Some steps here were parallelisable and more importantly we could break up the user profiles sample data set into chunks and work on those chunks in parallel as well all the way up to the end of the task.
The following diagram shows part of our lambda based system to solve the above problem and also to demonstrate parallel processing of chunks of a data set. Note the use of the redis pub/sub callback topic described in the previous section.
Monolith or microservices: well, does that really matter?!
Lambdas per definition are microservices and we plan to run a multitude of them (somewhat happens to microservices frequently). Some lambdas coordinate the process while others do the work on chunks of a data set. Testing and developing an intertwined web of microservices can be challenging. To simplify this and all the yak shaving of handling projects, dependencies and the like we decided to host all the logically related lambdas in a monorepo.
This environment variable is set by the AWS lambda platform usually.
The point here that locally we turn our monorepo of lambdas into a small monolith. So by default we have everything at hand for the REPL driven development. Also it is easy to put a webserver between our client and the lambdas in development environment only. To summarise in development we can start up our code as a good old restful API or just play with it in the REPL while in production we do the asynchronous messaging dance to maximise performance and use the benefits of the platform.
This also demonstrates how easy it would be to switch back to a restful API with the same codebase if we need to abandon lambda land at some point for some undefined reasons. Also the code integrating with the platform interfaces is a few lines of code, pretty easy to remove if not needed anymore.
Vendor lock in does not seem to be a real issue for AWS lambdas.
The monorepo approach really nicely postpones/does away with the decision of microservices vs. monolith.
As the above code shows aliases are part of the ARN (Amazon Resource Name) of a lambda therefore make it easy to handle environments from clients: client in development will call the development lambda entry point which in turn will call its downstream lambdas with development alias.
Using aliases makes handling deployments a breeze too. We use a CI tool, drone to build our lambdas on every commit, upload the code on S3 and update the lambda code on AWS. We also set the DEV alias on the latest version as part of the build. After sufficient testing to promote one, some or all lambdas to STAGING or PROD all we need to do is to move the appropriate alias to point to the DEV version. To perform this promotion and some other tasks we built a command line tool, you are generally much better off if the AWS console is used as less as possible.
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Logging automatically gets captured by AWS CloudWatch which gives us the option to easily load the json formatted logs into an ELK installation either via directly loading it into Elasticsearch or forwarding it to a kinesis stream or a lambda for some preprocessing.
An other limit exists related to the code size. Limits are 50 Megabytes for the uberjar and 75 Gigabytes for all deployment packages. The first means that you have to watch your dependencies and perhaps exclude some transient dependencies if you don't use them. The 75 Gigabytes sounds like a lot for all deployment packages but if you don't clean up older versions of your lambdas (lambda versions are immutable!) you eventually reach this limit. To mitigiate this the best perhaps is to implement a cleanup as part of your automated build that takes your roll back strategy into consideration.
The occasional JVM warm up time perhaps put some people off to write lambdas in Java/JVM clojure/any JVM language. To mitigate this we tend to write our lambdas in ClojureScript for Node.js lately.
Just lately lambdas got landed with environment variables. Woot, woot... Only it turns out as a given lambda version is immutable you can only change the values of these variable on the latest version. Since we use aliases to identify environments as described above it would be really useful if we could tie a set of values to an alias. So STAGING lambda can talk to a STAGING database while PROD lambda can safely talk to a production cluster instead. Alas, that is not possible for now.
Last but not least lambdas are supposed to be pretty cheap. That is a good thing only it is quite difficult to predict your expenses, see yourself here.


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Westward Ho! for "Red Sally"
Twenty years ago, purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, key flower for the great scientist, Charles Darwin, was unknown in Michigan. Roadside flowers were chiefly goldenrods, milkweed and Queen Anne's lace.
Today we see a miracle of Nature, for within those 20 years, loosestrife the same "long purples" of which Ophelia wove fantastic garlands has taken full possession of the countryside. Every marsh and pond-bank of the well-watered region between the great lakes, from Muskegon to Detroit, glows with a mid-summer show of rosy-purple spikes that in places cover thirty or forty acres. The dominant color of the season has changed from yellow to a warm magenta.
This newcomer to the Wolverine State also is comparatively new to America. Less than sixty years ago, Asa Gray described it as still "sparingly wild" in New England, where it first appeared. But its wealth of folknames show its ancient familiarity to the writers and poets of Europe.
Such captions range from the unpleasant "dead man's fingers" and the descriptive "soldiers," "willow-herbs," and "rainbow-weed" to the charming "red Sally," suggested by the coquettish tilt of the rosy-cheeked blooms. A yellow variety quelled angry spirits, so ancients said, and sprigs were tied to ox-yokes to "loose the strife" of unruly animals.
The plant so variously named came to the New World by some unknown carrier and took root particularly well along the Hudson River and in the Wallkill Valley. Botanists say that its present migration is chargeable to birds. The seeds so small that each host might be responsible for a thousand plants are carried in bits of mud stuck to the feet. The species has apparently found another congenial habitat in marshy Michigan.
Not only has loosestrife added loveliness to the wayside, rivaling the snowy fruit blossoms of spring, but it has proved useful for civic planting and private gardens. It is also a desirable cut flower and, at a recent "Flower Show School," an extension project of Michigan State College, was employed by demonstrators in more than half of their arrangements, the only wildling among fifty cultivated flowers.
The new flower, which Darwin even grew in "clayey soil so dry that a rush cannot be found", may appropriately be seen in greatest beauty at the Arboretum of Hillsdale College, described by the ecologist, Professor Warren Waterman of Northwestern University, as "one of the two finest in the United States." Here, running along the shores of lagoon and bog gardens, loosestrife is a warm central theme for an amphitheatre of bright flowers that scramble up rocky hills in all directions.
A more suitable keynote for such a laboratory could not be found, for loosestrife is the plant that led Darwin to some of his profoundest discoveries.
"I am almost stark, staring mad over Lythrum," he wrote Asa Gray. "I believe it is a grand case of trimorphism! I have tried every one of the eighteen pollinations possible. For the love of Heaven, examine your species and if you can get me some seed, do!"
The slight variations in Lythrum flowers had led earlier botanists to list them as three separate species. Darwin's excitement was due to his idea that the variations in the length of pistils and stamens were complementary arrangements for perfect pollination of one species. There are today only two known examples of such exquisitely adjusted functioning as "trimorphism!"
Darwin proved his theory and made another great discovery that loosestrife depended on insects for its propagation. This was the first absolute proof of this relation between insects and flowers.
"I can lay no claim to being a botanist," he wrote astonishingly in Forms of Flowers. Perhaps not! But his observations and deductions disclosed secrets of Nature never before known to man. He noted that, when reaching for nectar in the base of a loosestrife cup, an insect received a yellow dust on its face, a different pollen on its chest and green pollen on its abdomen. Why?
Eagerly he watched the bee enter a second form of loosestrife, and saw the pollen brushed off upon pistils that were of the same height as the anthers of the previous form. Was this an accident? His tests showed, on the contrary, that the arrangement bore witness to a divine providence. Only crossings at the same levels bore full and fruity seeds! "Illegitimate" fusions within a form or between opposite levels resulted in weak or sterile stock.
Pretty loosestrife, the first known trimorphic flower and the first to betray its dependence on insects, led Darwin through a maze of absorbing and minute experiments and revelations that played a major part in his theory of the Origin of Species. It occupies many chapters of his monumental writings.
But, unmindful of such weighty matters and scientific problems, the cheerful "weed" winds its smiling way through the western world. Wherever birds fly and wet lands lie, "red Sally's" rainbow gleam may be expected.


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Ambassador Richard E. Hoagland was US principal deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs from October 2013 to August 2015.
Before returning to Washington, DC, in September 2013, Richard spent a decade in South and Central Asia. He was US deputy ambassador to Pakistan (2011–2013), US ambassador to Kazakhstan (2008–2011) and US ambassador to Tajikistan (2003–2006). He also served as US charge d’affaires to Turkmenistan (2007–2008).
Prior to his diplomatic assignments in Central Asia, he was director of the Office of Caucasus and Central Asian Affairs in the Bureau of Europe and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State (2001–2003). In that position, he wrote and negotiated four of the key bilateral documents defining the Central Asian states’ enhanced relationship with the United States in the aftermath of September 11. His earlier foreign assignments included serving in Russia, where he was press spokesman for the US embassy (1995–1998). Over the course of his career, he received multiple presidential performance awards, as well as the State Department Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards and Distinguished Honor Award.
Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Richard completed his graduate degrees at the University of Virginia and earned a certificate in French from the University of Grenoble, France. Before joining the Foreign Service in 1985, he taught English as a foreign language in the then Zaire (1974–1976) and African literature at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.

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Cheddar Cheese Soup is the fourth soup post in a new series I’m referring to as the Kitchen Pantry series here on the blog.
We’ve already got a pretty good number of recipes for you to keep in your back pocket.
Hopefully you find this resource is helpful for you, keeping you away from a lot of the pre-packaged products and you enjoy them so much you’ll bookmark the whole Pantry Recipes page!
This Cheddar Cheese Soup is so easy to make it will shock you how quick it is and how much more you want to make those recipes again now that you have a natural swap you can make! Plus, it FREEZES!
Condensed Cheddar Cheese Soup is really just a very thick cheddar béchamel sauce made with butter, flour, milk, cheddar cheese and salt. The consistency is a perfect swap for canned soup.
What can you substitute for Cheddar Cheese Soup?
This cheddar cheese soup is a perfect homemade substitution for the canned variety, but if you want a more mellow flavor that is slightly more authentic you can also use American cheese or Velveeta Cheese.
Homemade Condensed Cheddar Cheese Soup is easy to make and a perfect substitute for the Campbell's Soup canned variety you use in your favorite casseroles.
In a small saucepan add the butter and melt over low heat.
Add in the flour and whisk, cooking for about a minute (but stop if it turns brown at all).
Add in the salt, dry mustard and milk and whisk until smooth.
Add in the cheddar cheese and whisk until smooth.
Have you actually made this with Velveeta and it came out right?
Yes just substitute the cheese portion for Velveeta. Enjoy!
A keto version of this would be great!
Is this gluten free? I don’t know a lot about GF foods, but a recipe I tried to make for a GF friend had the canned cheddar cheese in it so she was unable to eat it. If I used this instead would it be okay?
Mine did not come out thick at all very milky/runny. What did I do wrong?
Same here. Doubled recipe, but other than that, followed it to a T.
If you’re doubling it, you’ll need to cook it longer to thicken it.
Hi! How many cans of soup is this recipe equivalent to? Thanks!
This recipe makes 1 can. Enjoy!
Hi! How many cans would this recipe be equivalent to? I use that soup all the time for my Homemamde Mac and cheese and would much rather have a homemade version of it. So if I can make a bunch and freeze it that would be awesome!
Such a great idea! This recipe makes equivalent to one can of condensed soup.
How do u freeze this? Then to use it, once thawed, do you add any milk to it like canned soup or just as us?
Do you have to add the dry mustard, what is it for?
It adds a tangy flavor to it and because it’s acidic, it can help cut through the creamy, fatty taste of a rich cheese sauce.
Can I use quest blanco cheese sauce in a can for the cheddar cheese?
How about condensed French onion soup and Fiesta Nacho condensed cheese soup?
Condensed French Onion has been tested and is going to be going up soon. Fiesta Nacho I’ve never tried, but I will certainly add it to the list of recipes to test!

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The saying “timing is everything” has special meaning to Raja Olimuthu. Back in 2009, Raja had the good fortune of working at another company’s trade show booth that just happened to be adjacent to Tecplot’s booth. During the “painfully slow” show, as Raja described it, he struck up a conversation with Tom Chan, who was working at the Tecplot booth. Raja learned that Tecplot was looking to add a sales professional to its team and that Tom, the company’s vice president of customer development, was the hiring manager. A few weeks and several interviews later, Raja found himself moving from Houston to Seattle to begin his new job as a business development representative at Tecplot.
Raja practicing the bass guitar.
The second of two sons, Raja was born in Houston, where he lived until six years ago when he moved to Seahawks Country. Although his brother lives in California and his parents remain in Houston, Raja said the family places great importance on getting together at least a couple of times each year. “In the last few years, we’ve been lucky enough to see each other at Christmas and Thanksgiving. We’ve even been able to vacation together – last November, we all flew to Hawaii to celebrate my mom’s birthday. It was one of my best vacations ever,” he said with a big grin.
Given his mother’s love of the arts, it’s no surprise that Raja’s favorite hobby is playing music – primarily on the bass guitar. A big fan of the James Brown-style funk music genre, Raja plays for his church band about once a month and, occasionally, jams with local bands during open-mic nights at Seattle-area bars.
His artistic talents extend beyond the guitar strings. Raja recently discovered the art of photography, focusing mainly on nature and people shots. “I didn’t realize how challenging this art-form is,” he admitted.
Lest you think this former Longhorn is all culture and no competition, Raja said he also enjoys a spirited game of basketball or tennis, especially during Seattle’s beautiful summer months.
Whitewater rafting with the Tecplot sales team.
Tecplot RS is a visualization and analysis tool for reservoir engineers in the oil & gas industry.

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When I climbed the mountains of La Laguna with some people of the second group I really got to see the heart they had for these Honduran people. It was amazing to feel the anointing and strength in the prayers when they prayed for every woman, man, and child in sight. Hondurans are so different from Americans because they are so willing to receive prayer, even when it's from people they have never seen before. I love watching how interactive this group was with kids in the mountains and in the community of Copan Ruinas. They threw a party for the children of the community and for the students of ABBA Bilingual, where I am a teacher at. During the party they did dramas, sing, and played with the kids. I loved watching the funny, but very powerful dramas they prepared for the kids. I also love seeing my students happy and that's exactly what this group brought to the kids, happiness!
Both of these groups brought love, happiness, and the word of God to these communities and I am so thankful to have been a part of it. Now, I am waiting for my beautiful pastor, Pastor Marty, people from my church and Michigan to come this week.


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Teenage heart throb Rick Johnson joins us! Great stories abound.Ricky gives some great advice on being Male Talent,and what it takes to be a popular up and comer.
We even try some of our regular games with him,and as always our classic bits. Ricky’s way into the biz was pretty interesting,and quite informative. What a show if you like stories from the inside on the mental and physical demands of being Male Talent…sometimes it’s amazing,and sometimes it’s not.Find out the inside scoop in this Episode.


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At the world Premier of of “Ocean’s 8”, Sarah Paulson rocked a long neon yellow ensemble, complete with shiny neon feathers. She was joined by her co-star Sandra Bullock, who donned a more neutral-toned, embellished sparkly long dress, but with the signature feathers to match. In fact, throughout 2018 most celebs were spotted in head-to-toe fluorescent looks, including the queen fashionista herself, Kim Kardashian. Although neon looks eye-popping on the red-carpet, and maybe at the gym, or a throw-back 80’s gym party, but it’s quite a hard trend to pull off in real life. So were hoping this is one throw-back ’80s trend they can leave in the closet this year.
While cycling shorts were all the rage in the ’80s and ’90s, we thought these were tucked safely away in the embarrassing family albums forever. That was until they had their big, bad comeback in 2017 and long overstayed their welcome in 2018. While they might be comfy in the gym, unless your a celeb, it’s pretty hard to strut in cycling shorts and make them look stylish on the high-street.
Another futuristic-looking trend that had their big comeback in 2018, was transparent, plastic shoes. While they might look trendy in a futuristic-themed catwalk show, that’s kind of the place they belong. Anyone whose tried to embrace this trend in real life, will soon find out that although clear shoes may look sleek, they are often stiff and it’s difficult to wear plastic for long periods of time. Before long those sleek heels can quickly transform into a sweaty and slippery hot mess once you take them for a night out.
The world was flooded with tiny sunglasses in 2018, with Kanye, Kim, Kendall and the Hadids all jumping on the tiny band wagon. However, even some celebs were still baffled at why sunglasses have got so small. Mandy King recently tweeted “think we will regret the tiny sunglasses look’. While these may look trendy on Bella Hadid, they don’t suit every face shape, and have a pretty impractical design. They also don’t offer much sun protection. So in 2019, we’re hoping bigger sunglasses will have their big comeback.
While we say farewell to these trends, we can’t wait to see what other eccentric trends are in store for next year!


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Much has been said and written about Trans African Concessions’ adopted ‘babies’ – the rhino trio Wyntir, Tana and Mabush.
These magnificent creatures, housed at ‘Care For Wild Rehabilitation Centre’ near Mbombela, have been part of the TRAC family for more than two years. Despite our longstanding relationship with them and their caregivers, we can’t get enough of their phenomenal fight for life and ongoing progress.
All three of these orphaned rhino have a painful, yet touching, history with all of them being the indirect victims of poaching. All three lost their mothers in their infancy to this barbaric act and all were found and rescued on the verge of death.
Although Tana, Wyntir and Mabush are wild animals, on learning of their heart-wrenching stories of fear, courage and survival one can’t help but humanize their tales and be moved. Imagine being merely a few weeks old and finding yourself lost and alone – trying to survive in a big, scary world without your primary caregiver.
Apart from being unable to sustain yourself, you also have to fight off all kinds of direct and indirect evils. Circumstances eventually leave you so weak and afraid, that you either succumb to the situation and answer death’s call - or entrust your fate to the very species that was responsible for your predicament.
Looking at Wyntir, Tana and Mabush as they roam graciously and happily at ‘Care For Wild’ it is difficult to imagine the heartache and agony they experienced at the onset of their lives. The reality, however, is that they are fortunate to be alive – and in such good health. Fact is, they are true miracles, because often orphaned baby rhino do not survive in captivity.
TRAC is so proud to sponsor this trio that we can’t help but relay their heroic story. And the more time we spend at the center and see their development into young rhino, the more we appreciate the miracles they are.
The care of these three has changed considerably over the last six months and in commemoration of World Rhino Day on 22 September 2016, TRAC felt it vital to share their transformation from helpless calves to sturdy young rhino. Until recently the trio were still mostly on a liquid diet, drinking two litres of milk seven times a day. However, they were recently put solely on solids - field grass and supplemented dry feed. Each of them consume about 10kg of food daily which is complemented with mineral enriched water. And it’s obvious that what they are eating is doing them good as they all weigh over half a ton – an important factor given that rhino guts are extremely sensitive to fluctuations in diet and environment.
Their typical day at ‘Care For Wild’ has also transformed somewhat from when they were calves. Currently, their day starts bright and early and by 08:30 they are let out of their boma to graze the camp with other rhino orphans residing at the sanctuary. This allows them to bond with their own species – a vital factor in their rehabilitation as the Centre intends releasing them into the wild again one day. Given the Centre’s rehabilitate-and-release programme, there is also minimal interaction between the employees and volunteers of ‘Care For Wild’ and Tana, Mabush and Wyntir.
Allowed to roam, take long naps and graze freely for most of the day (which comes naturally to rhino) the trio is returned to the boma they share in the late afternoon where they are fed dry feeds such as Lucerne hay, Eragrostis teff hay and specially formulated Rhino pellets. In here, they stay content until bedtime when the three of them head to their night pen and cuddle up on their soft and warm hay beds.
Of course with the threat of poaching still very real, the trio not only have their horns removed regularly, they also have a 24-hour bodyguard team dedicated to their safety and well-being. These are prized jewels for ‘Care for Wild’ and TRAC and their welfare is of utmost importance not only for their caregivers and sponsors, but the anti-rhino poaching community as a whole.


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IceCube will be have a hands-on booth at the Discovery Expo during the 2018 Wisconsin Science Festival on Thursday Oct 11 and Friday Oct 12 from 9am-2pm! IceCube is the biggest and strangest telescope in the world. Learn about the lives of the men and women who are working in the extreme South Pole environment to develop new ways to explore the universe. You’ll learn about neutrinos — the mysterious cosmic messengers detected by IceCube — and what they tell us about the composition of matter, cosmic explosions, and more. Stop by and try your hand at triggering the IceCube model to see how our detector explores the universe as well as other hands-on activities.
For more info about the Expo and the Wisconsin Science Festival visit their website.


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Manager Peter Murphy continues to build his squad for the forthcoming season with two more additions joining at Galabank.
Brannan served a loan spell last season at Gretna 2008 FC while continuing to play for Queens U20’s.
After playing as a trialist in the managers pre season games Jack has impressed and has been signed up ahead of the weekends BetFred Cup tie against Clyde FC.
Ryan Sinnamon joins the Black and Golds for the second time after playing as a trialist for all pre season matches.
20 year old Sinnamon spent a brief spell on loan from Rangers under previous manager Jim Chapman. Unfortunately after managing only 9 league appearances Ryan left Galabank but Murphy has seen enough to offer him a second chance.
Played as a more attacking winger rather than a full back Ryan scored a fantastic hat-trick in the weekends tournament against Gretna 2008 FC.


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He: Hey..Why are we doing it this way ?
He: Why? It doesnt seem to serve any purpose .
She: This is how it was done till now & we need to maintain that way.
He: But there are better ways of doing this..Why spend such an awful time for doing this in an archiac way ?
She: That deviates from the convention..
He:Its like a dogma..U spend so much of your time to preserve a convention which doesnt seem to serve any purpose.
She: It was done like this till now & it'll be done in the same way going forward no matter what effort it takes..We got to do it.
- There's this wonderful movie - 300 - in which they picturize how statements from Oracles are made..And the futility of obeying to a convention/norm/dogma is shown in a touching way... We get exposed to different systems in our life...None of them are perfect..Rather, those systems are the need of a particular time frame..When times , technology & people change , systems got to change.. We may very well comeback to the old system at a later point in time..But that doesnt mean that we should be averse to experiments / change...People who think differently from conventions tend to come up with something better..Change should be in everything we do..it should be in technology, processeses, people...everything..


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An intemperate outburst by Namibia’s youth and sport minister, Kazenambo Kazenambo, in which he lashed out at some of his senior Cabinet colleagues as “stupid Ovambos” who are “just like the Boers—worse, because you are hungry, stupid”, has ignited a political storm and posed sharp questions about Namibia’s policy of national reconciliation.
The comments, allegedly made during an interview with a local vvsenior reporter from news magazine insightNamibia, has also laid bare the deep political divisions in the Swapo-led government.
A senior reporter at the magazine, Tileni Mongudhi, demanded to know whether “KK”, as the fiery-tempered former political reporter is better known, had not acted more as a Herero than a national minister in his conduct during a recent trip to Germany to collect 20 Herero and Nama skulls from an academic museum.
The question seemingly so provoked KK that he physically threatened Mongudhi and seized his voice recorder as “evidence”, an action he later justified as confiscating an “enemy tool”.
“In battle, if you capture an enemy tool then you keep it,” KK told the newspaper, after the reporter laid a charge of theft against him.
In a later response to the Namibian newspaper KK defended his comments as a justified response to what he perceived as tribal bias against him.
The subtext here, however, is the fact that KK hails from the minority Mbanderu tribe, as a segment of Herero-speaking survivors of the German colonial war are known. General Lothar von Trotha’s brutal “extermination order” in 1904 was aimed at wiping out the Herero.
A small number of survivors fled the genocide and settled in Bechuanaland (now Botswana). In 1999 the descendants of the genocide survivors who had fled to Botswana were repatriated to Namibia.
KK’s inclusion in Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba’s Cabinet is widely seen as part of the political balancing act among Namibia’s 40-odd tribes. Tellingly, Pohamba is yet to publicly call KK to order. As the smallest group among Namibia’s Herero-speaking people, the Mbanderu punch above their political weight because of their tragic history.
KK’s outburst—just the latest in a series of perceived racial incidents in which he has been involved over the past year—amounted not only to a political but also a cultural faux pas. Most of his Cabinet colleagues are both older and from the Oshiwambo-speaking tribes of central northern Namibia, the country’s largest population group.
But his comments have bolstered his reputation for speaking out about what many non-Ovambo Namibians perceive to be a definite bias in favour of the Ovambo people.
Although KK later denied making those comments (but so far has not released the confiscated recorder), they found a lot of sympathy, especially among the unemployed youth who are not fortunate enough to belong to what has become known as “the executive tribe”.
As proof of this bias, many point out the rapid urban development in the so-called “four Os”—Omusati, Oshikati, Ohangwena and Oshikoto—the area comprising the former Ovamboland, while most towns in the east and south have become increasingly run-down and desperate for development.
What KK’s outburst signalled most clearly was that national reconciliation among Namibia’s political classes was a “sham”, said Tjiurimo Hengari, a lecturer at the Rouen School of Business in France and a regular local political columnist.
“Namibia is still peaceful, not because its people have overcome racism and tribalism, but because economic conditions have not yet deteriorated to a state in which the ethnic frustrations will boil over,” Hengari said.
But patience among minorities—who amount to about a third of the population—was fast wearing thin over the uneven allocation of national resources, Hengari warned.
“You can’t have a policy without raising issues of national concern. It is a policy that is not accompanied by any substantive mechanisms checking on the efficiency of the policy and the process of national reconciliation.
“As a shallow policy in terms of its content, it has never been accompanied by any exemplary acts on the part of many of our politicians. It is therefore not a document that has been translated in exemplary citizenship and political leadership,” Hengari said.
The outburst is regarded as an example of the power struggle in Swapo. KK has previously upset many in the leadership by calling for a non-Oshiwambo person to become the next president of Namibia.
This person, KK has made clear, is Trade and Industry Minister Hage Geingob, whose lack of a tribal constituency is widely seen as his political Achilles heel.
Geingob’s most obvious competition for the top job is Justice Minister Pendukeni Ivula-Ithana, who also occupies the powerful party secretary general position. The succession race will be settled at the Swapo congress later this year.
In the end, political insiders speculate, Ivula-Ithana will be the one to decide KK’s political future, but a move against him could alienate the party’s Herero voters, who have helped Swapo hang on to a two-thirds majority in Parliament since 1996.


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