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Investing money has been a source of debate among Christians for centuries. Some say that investing is unbiblical and any extra surplus should be given to the needy, while others argue that investing must be a part of every Christian's financial plan. In this post, we will address these and other issues concerning Christian investing.
The first topic that needs to be considered is whether investing is or is not scriptural. As in many cases, the answer depends on the situation. Anyone investing because of greed (Luke 12:15), to get rich quick (Proverbs 23:4-5), or to massage his ego (Proverbs 29:23) is not participating in biblically-based investing. On the other hand, those who are acting as good stewards as in Luke 19:12-27 or those who are saving for future needs such as college or retirement (Proverbs 6:6-8) are participating in biblical investing. In the end, it all depends on the attitude, which is ultimately determined by God. Remember, "All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the Lord." (Proverbs 16:2).
The greater the potential return, the greater the risk. (Proverbs 27:12) This is a fact of economic life. If someone has a "no risk" investment that generates 25% each year, stay away from him. Either he's deranged or lying.
Diversify your investments. (Ecclesiastes 11:2) Diversification is essential to long-term stability. If one investment goes down, another you have can offset it by going up. In short, this is just another way of saying "don't put all of your eggs in one basket".
Be sure you understand the investment you are considering. (Proverbs 24:3-4) You are God's steward, and you need to understand how it will be used. If you don't understand, then don't invest.
Don't risk money you can't afford to lose. (Ecclesiastes 5:13-14) If losing the money your are investing would cause financial ruin, family stress, or any other major problem, then do not invest it in a risky place. A safe investment such as federal government bonds would be more appropriate in this case.
Don't make a quick decision -- take time to think and pray. (Psalm 37:7) Stop and consider what you are doing. Once again, you are God's steward, and you need to handle His money appropriately.
In addition, you'll need to determine your goals -- what you want to accomplish -- before you invest. Since this is different for every person, it is impossible to provide specific direction that will apply to everyone. However, there are some general topics that you will want to consider. These include your age, income, and temperament. See the investment section of this blog for articles that may help you in this area.
My advice is to find a successful, Christian advisor who can not only recommend good investments but add biblically-based advice. If you can't find a good Christian advisor, go to a good non-Christian advisor (of course, you'll have to weigh his advice in accordance with biblical principles). While some may scoff at this suggestion, think if it was a brain surgeon instead. Would you rather have a top-notch non-Christian or an average Christian operate on you? I think you get the point.
Either way, you need to get good counsel from a variety of sources as "plans fail for a lack of counsel, but with many advisors they succeed." (Proverbs 15:22). Rest assured that if you need wisdom in this area, you can ask God, and He will provide it. (James 1:5).
I find it odd that none of your mentions of Christian investing discusses the morality of the investments you make. I don't think that it is important to use the bible to decide investing strategies. However, I think that the bible has much to say about supporting immoral companies. Investing in Altria may be a good dividend play, but I can't make money from something that causes death. Other companies, such as Caterpillar or pay-day loan companies, may operate in gray areas. With these companies, it is up to you, during your stock research to decide if the moral line has been crossed. In the end, Christian investing is about finding companies and ventures that don't violate your values, not investing strategies.
Good to find this site. There isnt all that much on out there on the relationship of our faith to business.
Do you mean how do you subscribe to this blog?
This just goes to Prove the saying "...you can Prove Anything with a misquote/misuse of the Bible". If YOU want to know how to survive without cash, day-to-day, you Have to be Realistic...Not as the World Sees it; but, as Christ said it. The Short-cut Is: 1.Give it all away; and then 2.Ask the Father to show you/support your needs; and then 3.Wait for His directions to you. It is easier if you First learn as a child, how to wait on Him; and, how to take orders (obey) from Him. This Proceedure has Nothing to do with Religion and nothing to do with Any Preacher. It is Christian. But, prior to being Christian, this is how the Ancients' survived...by obediance to the Almighty Creator of the Universe. By the way, since He knows your needs Better than you do, you will be very surprised. Others, who don't know your 'secret' won't believe you either. AND, the less you 'fret' about your situation, the richer you get and richer you appear to be. You do pay Income taxes on any income....such as a job, or inheritance.
Thank you so very much for this article and for your blog. I need a lot of help with financial things and being a Christian, I would like to ensure I am handling my finances, etc. biblically! This is wonderful! May God continue to bless you!
very sound biblical info! It's good to know that individuals still use the scriptures to please God in all they do when it comes to non-moral issues such as investing. I want to start investing in some mutual-funds and any wisdom I can get will be beneficial in this process as I seek to leave an inheritance for my children. Thank you!
Hi, I own a mortgage cmpany and I'm haveing a diffcult time getting people to embrace doing there job in more of a servant attitude than a profit attitude. Do anyone have any pointers on how to refocus the mindset of my office.
People make choices every day - where they work, where they spend and donate money...yet many do not consider the moral implications of invetsing. Do your investments match your values? If you are a Christian, do your investments oppose your Faith? Through your investments, you may be supporting the adult entertainment industry, abortion industry, or supporting the homosexual agenda. Take the time to find out where you are invetsing and make changes.
hi. well lets see, profiting from mortgages is sin. Let me explain...the Bible says that the borrower is the slave to the lender. when you issue mortgages, you are affectively enslaving people til death...and you want God to bless that?


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Americans have been using artificial sweeteners for decades in an effort to cut back on sugar and prevent weight gain. Aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose are just a few artificial sweeteners approved by the FDA as food additives. But in recent years, these sweeteners have been linked to several serious health complications including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
Here’s a closer look at the potential dangers of artificial sweeteners, as well as healthier alternatives that won’t increase your risk for health problems.
Many people assume artificial sweeteners are better for you than sugar. But when you consume artificial sweeteners, your body will still release insulin even though they lack calories. The spike in insulin can disrupt hunger hormones leptin and ghrelin, and lead to overeating. This chain reaction increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, weight gain, and heart disease.
Artificial sweeteners are commonly made from sugar beets, soy, and corn crops that have been genetically modified and treated with pesticides. These GMOs can lead to lowered immunity, infertility, and cancer. Additionally, artificial sweeteners can “numb” your taste buds, and make them less receptive to natural, healthier forms of sugar commonly found in fruits and honey.
Aspartame. This sweetener is commonly linked to headaches and high blood glucose levels, and is found in most diet soda brands.
Sucralose. This sweetener can disrupt your gut health, and lead to bloating and weight gain.
High-fructose corn syrup. HFCS is found in many processed foods, including condiments, breakfast cereals, and bread products, and increases the risk of obesity and heart disease.
Saccharin. Saccharin is commonly linked to nausea, digestive problems, and cancer, and is used to sweeten many children’s medications like cough syrup and chewable tablets.
Stevia. This natural sweetener is extracted from leaves of the Stevia plant and contains zero calories. Follow the directions when using stevia, since the liquid extract form is significantly sweeter than its powdered form, and a drop or two may be sufficient.
Raw honey. Honey is packed with cancer-fighting antioxidants and promotes good digestion. Read the ingredients label to make sure the honey is in its true form and lacks additives — including sugar.
Maple syrup. Maple syrup is high in minerals and low in calories, and packed with anti-inflammatory compounds that fight cancer and heart disease. Look for brands that contain 100 percent maple syrup and lack HFCS and natural flavors.
Coconut sugar. The taste of coconut sugar rivals that of brown sugar, and coconut sugar is low on the glycemic index. Substitute white cane sugar with coconut sugar in baking recipes, and benefit from fewer calories.
Cinnamon. Though not exactly a sweetener, this spice can be used to enhance the flavor of foods like applesauce, sweet potatoes, and chicken. Cinnamon is high in antioxidants and offers anti-inflammatory properties that ward off cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
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LOCAL RECORDS OFFICE: Prices keep falling, The recovery in the U.S. property market has proved to be rough. National home prices still haven’t returned to 2005 levels, according to Mark Seanner, chairman of the index committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, who cites both new and existing home sales, says Local Records Office. “Many people predicted a huge surge in 2014, and we’re not quite seeing that,” says Don Frommeyer, president of the Association of Mortgage Professionals. Mortgage rates are up about a percentage point from last year, home prices are rising, housing inventory is low and the economy is still shaky, he says.
While many Realtors remain confident about the expectation of sales of new and current homes and condos, a boost in mortgage interest rates, strict lending standards, and the continues withdrawal of investors from many major metropolitan areas have produced a triple threat for home sellers, says Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac. “We’re already seeing some confirmation in a few markets that some prices are going into gloomy territory,” he says. The good news for those who do qualify for a mortgage: There are still aggressive priced homes for first-time buyers, From meyer says.
House cost in Oklahoma City plunged 1% year-over-year in the first quarter after a 5% fall in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to RealtyTrac. Oklahoma had an intensely cold winter and greater health-care payments under the Affordable Care Act impacted some of her clients, says Ashley Pastor, real-estate agent with Dr. Francis Realty in Central Oklahoma. “I had individuals who qualified for one home, but who were not able to qualify for the same home after their insurance was adjusted,” she says. Frank Wenns the market to pick up in the second quarter and has seen “multiple offers” for one property. Meanwhile, institutional investors in Oklahoma have remained substantial. They accounted for 7.6% of all sales in the first quarter of 2014 versus 7.8% a year earlier.
There was a 1% annual plunge in Jacksonville in the first quarter of 2014 after a 15% rise for both the third and fourth quarters of 2013, according to RealtyTrac’s sales price data, which is borrowed from public record sales deed data that includes all property transactions publicly recorded. “Homes are priced aggressive, but we have a higher demand than inventory,” says George Seers, spokeswoman for the Northeast Florida Association of Realtors. Seers says prices for new and existing condos and single-family homes (sold through a Realtor) actually rose 2.7% on the year in the first three months of 2014. However, RealtyTrac’s median prices are based on the sales price on the deed, which includes sales not listed on “Multiple Listing Services” — the industry’s main database that also includes data available only to licensed real estate agents — such as third party purchases at foreclosure auction and bulk transactions between investors.
Home prices in Tulsa fell 2% in the first quarter of 2014 after falling 3% in the third and fourth quarters of last year, according to RealtyTrac; prices went 6% higher in the second quarter of 2013. “That information is fairly accurate in reflecting the market as it applies to my experience,” says Patrick Tray, a Realtor in Tulsa. “I think we’ve been delayed by about six weeks for the spring selling season and I’m now seeing more houses come on the market. But the last quarter of last year was a very strange environment. There wasn’t much inventory out there but there wasn’t much demand either.” Retail investors have become more skittish in recent years and there’s a slight imbalance in market expectations, he says. “Buyers seem to be a bit more cautious and sellers seem to want a little more than the market can bear.” Institutional investors accounted for just 2.4% of all sales in the first quarter versus 10.3% a year earlier.
There was an 8% drop in existing home sales in Greensboro-High Point, N.C., after a 2% rise in the fourth quarter, RealtyTrac found. “There’s still a lot of uncertainty about the economy,” says Deandre Pinters, president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Yost & Little Realty. “Some buyers say, ‘We’ve got a job, but we don’t know how secure that is.’” A slowdown in household formation has also had a negative impact on the housing market, he says; 18- to 34-year-olds account for more than half of missing households — that is, Americans who would be owning or renting a home now if precession economic trends had continued. But while the overall volume of sales was down 12% from January 2014 to April 2014, sales of new and existing homes sold by Realtors were up by around 5% on the year during the same period, Camp says.
House prices dropped 2% in the first quarter in Lancaster after rising 2% in the fourth quarter. Institutional investors made up just 1.4% of sales in that market in the first quarter, down from 7.6% for the year-earlier period, according to RealtyTrac. Some real estate agents remain more optimistic than RealtyTrac’s figures, however. “We’ve weathered the storm with less dramatic effect compared to the rest of the country,” says Patricia Hernandez, a Realtor based in Lancaster. “We just didn’t have the same level of layoffs or unemployment or foreclosures or distressed housing,” she adds. The first quarter of the year was slow for everyone with regard to pending sales and home sales, especially with interest rates trending upward. Still, Hernandez says house prices sold by Realtors rose 3% in the first quarter year-over-year.

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industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Anyone else using one of these care to comment on hum Etc... Yes mine hums depending on how much you turn up the gain (The puffin did the same thing) when music is playing the hum is not evident at all even in very quiet passages Tim Curry Slow Gin has a break in the music approx 10-15 seconds of nothing and the hum is not audible during this. its only pretty much evident when I put the tone arm back in its rest.
Do you get hum when the tt is off?
I've listened to the WPP100 at a friends often and haven't noticed humm. I have the later version AG Phono which has the same controls. I am using a Denon DL110 nothing fancy but no hum at all and I can really crank. Hmmm I have no step up. The only hum in my system is when I switch to my mini pc for streaming audio. Gotta get rid of it some day. Wish I had something more useful but love the Wright gear.
I have owned a wpp 100 for years. Bought it from George Wright a few years before he passed. It is one of the pieces of gear that I plan on never selling! I never had an issue with hum - except with a grado statement V2 that i had used previous to my current cartridge . I also experienced hum with that cartridge when using other phono pre amps. And I used the wright without a SUT with a Shelter 901 and various Denon 103/103R’s and had no problem just increasing the gain on the wright.
Quite honestly the hum from the grado never really bothered me as I only really noticed it before the needle dropped. I always thought that the the grado may just be more sensitive to other electrical issues or might required better grounding or something.
if you disconnect the cart lead, does the system still hum?
I'm pretty sure the Grado cartridges are known to have issues with hum. Something to do with a lack of shielding.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Relational psychoanalysis is a school of psychoanalysis in the United States that emphasizes the role of real and imagined relationships with others in mental disorder and psychotherapy. 'Relational psychoanalysis is a relatively new and evolving school of psychoanalytic thought considered by its founders to represent a "paradigm shift" in psychoanalysis'.
Relational psychoanalysis began in the 1980s as an attempt to integrate interpersonal psychoanalysis's emphasis on the detailed exploration of interpersonal interactions with British object relations theory's ideas about the psychological importance of internalized relationships with other people. Relationalists argue that personality emerges from the matrix of early formative relationships with parents and other figures. Philosophically, relational psychoanalysis is closely allied with social constructionism.
An important difference between relational theory and traditional psychoanalytic thought is in its theory of motivation, which would 'assign primary importance to real interpersonal relations, rather than to instinctual drives'.[full citation needed] Freudian theory, with a few exceptions, proposes that human beings are motivated by sexual and aggressive drives. These drives are biologically rooted and innate. They are ultimately not shaped by experience.
Relationalists, on the other hand, argue that the primary motivation of the psyche is to be in relationships with others. As a consequence early relationships, usually with primary caregivers, shape one's expectations about the way in which one's needs are met. Therefore, desires and urges cannot be separated from the relational contexts in which they arise. This does not mean that motivation is determined by the environment (as in behaviorism), but that motivation is determined by the systemic interaction of a person and his or her relational world. Individuals attempt to re-create these early learned relationships in ongoing relationships that may have little or nothing to do with those early relationships. This re-creation of relational patterns serves to satisfy the individuals' needs in a way that conforms with what they learned as infants. This re-creation is called an enactment.
When treating patients, relational psychoanalysts stress a mixture of waiting, and authentic spontaneity. Some relationally oriented psychoanalysts eschew the traditional Freudian emphasis on interpretation and free association, instead emphazing the importance of creating a lively, genuine relationship with the patient. However, many others place a great deal of importance on the Winnicottian concept of "holding" and are far more restrained in their approach, generally giving weight to well formulated interpretations made at what seems to be the proper time. Overall, relational analysts feel that psychotherapy works best when the therapist focuses on establishing a healing relationship with the patient, in addition to focusing on facilitating insight. They believe that in doing so, therapists break patients out of the repetitive patterns of relating to others that they believe maintain psychopathology. Noteworthy too is 'the emphasis relational psychoanalysis places on the mutual construction of meaning in the analytic relationship'.
Stephen A. Mitchell has been described as the "most influential relational psychoanalyst".[full citation needed] His 1983 book, co-written with Jay R. Greenberg and called Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory is considered to be the first major work of relational psychoanalysis. Prior work especially by Sabina Spielrein in the 1910s to 1930s is often cited, especially by Adrienne Harris and others who connect feminism with the field, but as part of the prior Freud/Jung/Spielrein tradition.
Psychoanalyst and philosopher Jon Mills has offered a number of substantial criticisms of the relational movement. Mills evidently thinks this "paradigm shift" to relational psychoanalysis is not exclusively due to theoretical differences with classical psychoanalysis but also arises from a certain group mentality and set of interests: "Relational psychoanalysis is an American phenomenon, with a politically powerful and advantageous group of members advocating for conceptual and technical reform" from a professional psychologist group perspective: "most identified relational analysts are psychologists, as are the founding professionals associated with initiating the relational movement".
Psychoanalyst and historian Henry Zvi Lothane has also criticized some of the central ideas of relational psychoanalysis, from both historical and psychoanalytic perspectives. Historically, Lothane believes relational theorists overstate the non-relational aspects of Freud as ignore its relational aspects. Lothane maintains that, though Freud's theory of disorder is "monadic," i.e. focused more or less exclusively on the individual, Freud's psychoanalytic method and theory of clinical practice is consistently dyadic or relational. From a theoretical perspective, Lothane has criticized the term "relational" in favor of Harry Stack Sullivan's term "interpersonal". Lothane developed his concepts of "reciprocal free association" as well as "dramatology" as ways of understanding the interpersonal or relational dimension of psychoanalysis.
Stephen A. Mitchell, (1988). Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis: An Integration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Stephen A. Mitchell, (1993). Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis. New York: Basic Books.
Stephen A. Mitchell, (1997). Influence and Autonomy in Psychoanalysis. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
Stephen A. Mitchell, (2000). Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
Stephen A. Mitchell and Aron, Lewis. (1999). Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
Greenberg, J. & Mitchell, S.A. (1983). Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Aron, Lewis (1996). A Meeting of Minds. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
Curtis, R. C. & Hirsch. I. (2003). Relational Appraoches to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. In Gurman, A. G. & Messer, S. B. Essential Psychotherapies. NY: Guilford.
Cushman, Philip. (1996). Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A History of Psychotherapy . New York: Perseus Publishing.
Aron, L. and Lechich M., (2012). Relational psychoanalysis, in Textbook of Psychoanalysis, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, pp 211-224.
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Allow yourself to express your feelings. It will take some time to recover, so try not to volunteer yourself to plan a family gathering, bake or decorate. Allow yourself to heal by just enjoying time with family and allow the others to do the planning and decorating this year.
The first holiday season after a separation or divorce may be tough, but recognize that time will heal and the holidays will eventually get easier. Start your new life by starting new traditions.
Try not to involve the children in any discussions. This is relevant throughout the whole year, but with the holiday season especially, because of the heightened emotions.

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Rumors of an iPhone SE refresh are nothing new, helped in part by the fact that the current model originates from 2016, meaning we are definitely due a new model.
At this point it is surely a matter of when Apple will refresh its inexpensive iPhone, rather than whether or not it will happen. Quite what the refresh will leave the iPhone SE looking like, and what features it will offer, are much more up in the air at this point.
A video that appeared online this past Thursday appears to show a device that crosses the existing iPhone SE design with that of the ultra high-end iPhone X, and while it would be very easy to dismiss this as fake, that may not actually be the case.
The video shows a device that appears smaller than an iPhone X with edges that are flat rather than the curved metal and glass that we have come to expect from Apple’s flagship. What makes this device look very much iPhone X-like, however, is the presence of a notch at the top of the display and, predictably, given that notch’s presence, the lack of a Home button. There is also a vertical dual camera setup on the rear of the device, again mimicking the iPhone X. But can Apple really get something like Face ID into a low-end iPhone?
Given the expected low price of an iPhone SE and the cost surely associated with Apple’s TrueDepth camera system, which is required in order to make Face ID function, we just don’t see how this could be real. While Face ID will no doubt eventually filter down the lineup, can Apple get it into an iPhone SE today?
According to BGR, that may not be all that crazy. After also initially doubting the video leak, Zach Epstein reports that before the video arrived – a full week before – he received drawings of what was claimed to be the new iPhone SE. Sure enough, these drawings show an iPhone with a notch, no Home button and edges that more closely resemble the iPhone SE than the iPhone X.
The drawings match the video exactly, perhaps lending credence to its legitimacy.
We won’t know for sure until Apple does, or does not announce a new iPhone SE this year, but for now, we really would not want to bet money either way. If the iPhone SE does look like this, though, it’s going to sell – a lot.
This might just be an iPhone X SE. a cheaper version of their X lineup. They may still keep the original SE (or update it slightly) to have users who want a low cost option. It might be a smart idea.
Ya, it’s a very nice phone. Especially the edge to edge like that. It’s an inexpensive smaller larger phone ?
Lets hope it’s something affordable buying it outright with no plan.
Edge to edge display with rounded corners would probably be an oled display, which would probably cost more than the current SE just for the display.


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EDELWEISS® cosmetics are dermatologically proven for all skin types and do not contain any perfumes.

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text: Honore’s bestselling book In Praise of Slowness plots the lineage of our speed-obsessed society; while it recognizes the difficulty of slowing down, it also highlights the successes of everyday people around the world who have found ways of doing it. Honoré traces his “Aha” moment to his son’s bedtime, when Honore would race through storybooks—skipping pages, reading portions of paragraphs— to move things along. (He’s since reformed.) His latest book, Under Pressure, is about how we are raising a generation of over-programmed, overachieving and exhausted children.

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Xavier Soup is the perfect meatless soup for Lent!
This month Fandom Foodies is hosted by Food ‘n Flix and the fandom is X-men! I’ve seen most (all?) of the X-men movies (and loved them), though I haven’t read the comics - other than glancing through a few online searching for recipe information.
I was looking at the comics because I rewatched the first two X-men movies (and just saw Deadpool for the first time - hilarious) and found almost no food other than beer, whiskey, & beef jerky. Yikes.
After glancing through a few comics, I found a few food references (iced tea and a generic thanksgiving-style spread), I still wasn’t inspired.
Then I had the idea to start looking for foods than began with the letter X. Most were very authentic Indian or Chinese dishes I would never dream of making – either the spices/ingredients were too hard to come by or they involved fish/seafood in some way. Yuck.
Thankfully, there was one more on my list, and why I didn’t start with the one I could pronounce is still beyond me. Xavier soup! (and also Duh, Charles Xavier - why, why, wasn't this obvious right away?!?) And yet, even this could be a bit of a stretch.
I got super excited when I found out that Xavier soup was named after the Catholic Saint, St. Francis Xavier. St. Francis Xavier lived in the 1500’s and was a very active Catholic Missionary. Yet, as I searched, and searched, and searched, it seems like all of the recipes originated from a single source: Cooking with the Saints by Ernst Schuegraf.
Being Catholic, I was super intrigued by the book, however, it must be out of print, because the only copies I could track down were a bit too spendy for my liking. I was really wishing I could get ahold of the book to find out if there is any historical information linking St. Francis Xavier to the recipe or if it was a witty invention by the author.
Nonetheless, I decided to make Xavier Soup – and since it’s vegetarian, I decided to make it for Ash Wednesday. Since Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstaining from meat, I figured this would be perfect!
So, it turns out a day of fasting (especially a day of fasting, plus leaving work late, plus stopping by the gym on the way home), is not the day to attempt a rather complex recipe.
You guys – I don’t know what I did wrong, but the dumplings were an absolute nightmare! The mixture, which I originally thought was too thick, ended up being waaaay to thin, verging on soupy. I very nearly quit and made kraft mac & cheese.
The soup itself is actually super delicious, even if it’s not much to look at (my broth is super dark due to the fact that my homemade broth used beets at one of the ingredients).
Creative looking for an x recipe.

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It can be read the same way up and down, left and right. This Latin palindrome, known as the Sator Square, was used once upon a time to beguile the devil with its incantatory rhythms. Unsurprisingly (?) the square cropped up in the supposed house of one Johann Georg Faust—THE Faust, that is, after which Marlowe’s and Goethe’s famous scholar was modeled.
Da kommst du schon hervorgehupft!
Sie sitzt ganz vornen an der Kante.
Nun, Fauste, träume fort, bis wir uns wiedersehn.
You’ve hopped, already, to your toil!
Is at the edge, it’s on the front.
Now Faust, dream deeply, till we meet.
With peals of thunder for our ears.
As bright as on the primal day.
Den Himmel über mir und unter mir die Wellen.
Kein körperlicher Flügel sich gesellen.
A lovely dream, although it vanishes.
No bodily wings could ever be so.
Zu neuen Sphären reiner Tätigkeit.
And reach new spheres of pure activity.
Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und mit Schrauben.
Du stehst nur hier, weil dich mein Vater brauchte.
Won’t by screws and levers be displayed.
Still stuck to bodily things, and so denied.
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This Hotel & Convention Center offers Business Class Rooms. These rooms are equipped with an oversized work desk, task lamp with data port, printer/fax/copier machine and a comfortable sitting area to rest or get caught up on the latest news.
The Sheraton Honeymoon Suite is one the finest in Phoenix. With scenic views of the Superstition Mountains and a large oversized Jacuzzi tub.


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Botanical drawings of more than 100 species of plants that cannot be found growing. Surreal depictions of naked women, their bodies contorted and intertwined with tubes, like an H.R. Giger painting. Washes of an inked script that sprawls out like a map of Middle-earth, but clearly resembles language.
Call it tempting fate, then, because that’s exactly what a small Spanish publisher is doing. The house, Siloe, has acquired the rights to have the manuscript copied for a small-patch publication. It’s not a reprinting, per se, since it’s an incomparably complex work and the last Spanish attempt at restoration ended in internet infamy. Rather, they’re ‘cloning’ the pages so that readers – scholars and rich folk with a morbid curiosity – can recreate feeling the weight of the ancient tome, down to the wear and tears. The 898 copies are going for approximately $8,000 dollars apiece, and 300 have already been purchased.
Its murky history aside, the Voynich Manuscript itself has an illustrious backstory all its own. Over the course of centuries, it has passed hands from an ancient astronomer to a 16th century German emperor (Rudolph II, if you’re wondering), on to Jesuit scholars and eventually into the hands of the book dealer it is named after, Wilfrid Voynich. Intellectuals and experts for generations, including a WWII codebreaker, have attempted to crack the text and its origins, to no avail.
If the asking price is too rich for you, Yale has also digitized most of the pages. You can read the full text here to temper your brain to see if you’d go insane viewing the grimoire in the flesh.
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Full form factor laptops have died a death in the last few months as the new focus of Windows 8 has put the emphasis on portability and hybrids. If it doesn't turn into a tablet, manufacturers don't really want to know, but that's not much use for people who want power, performance and comfort - and that's where the Series 7 Chronos. You may also see it branded as the Samsung Ativ Book 8.
This model is an update to Samsung's premium 15.6-inch performance laptop, which adds a touchscreen to the existing sleek, brushed metal body. It's for anyone who needs true computing power, for running multiple programs and being creative, but who still wants to take advantage of all Windows 8's super new touchscreen features.
It's truly a laptop first, unlike other touchscreen alternatives such as the HP Envy x2 or Samsung Ativ Smart PC, which have the innards of a laptop but the form of a tablet. If you're looking for a full-sized QWERTY keyboard and a large screen, the Samsung Ativ Book 8 (model number NP780Z5E) is for you.
The expansive display is great for Windows 8, offering a generous portion of your apps at the Start screen, with any press of the Windows key. Having such a big screen means you're able to use more of Windows 8's features, such as the window snapping, so you can use two apps side-by-side.
However, the setup highlights the interesting decision made by Acer to switch the trackpad and keyboard on its Aspire R7. The result is that the Samsung asks you to use its keyboard and mouse by placing the device in front of you, and it's awkward to raise your hands across the screen 'zombie-style' to use the touchscreen. The traditional clamshell design of the laptop means it's hard to use in a touchscreen format, and the immobility of the screen is a drawback of the Samsung Series 7 Chronos.
A top-of-the-range machine with stunning performance and a super-thin chassis isn't likely to come cheap, and you'll need fairly deep pockets to afford the Samsung Series 7 Chronos. At £1,199/US$1,299 this is a serious outlay, and you're paying for the blistering performance.
The irony is that you actually pay twice - firstly with the price tag and then with the added weight, and this means you need to ask yourself a serious question - do you need this power, or would you rather have something to slip into your bag more easily?
To help you make this decision, let's review the Samsung Series 7 Chronos in depth.
So what's under the hood of this Korean-made beast? Well, the specs are impressive indeed. Firstly, there's an Intel Core i7 3635QM processor chip, which is one of the fastest you'll find out there, clocked at an impressive 2.4GHz. This will handle pretty much anything you throw at it, and is perfect for power-hungry users who want to edit video, images and run rich websites all at the same time.
Back that up with the 8GB of RAM that comes as standard and you have one nifty laptop.
Intel Core processors are so powerful they can take care of most tasks all on their own, but Samsung has added an AMD Radeon HD 8800M dedicated graphics chip inside too, which does its fair share of work.
With dedicated graphics - something you'd never find on a laptop-tablet hybrid - you can run games and HD movies much faster, but the chip can take some of the load off the processor too. You'll find the whole system more responsive, and that's immediately evident on the Samsung Series 7 Chronos.
Samsung has added a Full HD 1920 x 1080 panel to the Chronos, which on full brightness is eye-searingly bright. It's got a glossy coating that aids swiping with your finger, but it's incredibly shiny, which could be problematic in bright conditions when working outside or near big office windows.
Overall, the Samsung Series 7 Chronos's build quality is superb, especially considering there's so much power harnessed into such a sleek design. The brushed metal oozes class and the laptop opens to reveal an equally metallic chassis, complete with a spacious keyboard and expansive colour-coded trackpad. It's an Aston Martin that's vintage in its design yet fearsome in its execution.
Like a classic sports car, it's also heavy, and at 2.5kg (5.4lbs), it's not that portable. You wouldn't want it in your bag all day, and its weight harks back to laptops of old, which were bulky and cumbersome. The sleek lines and thin design makes the weight surprising, and this will be the main turn-off for prospective buyers.
By combining great multi-touch features and brilliant accuracy, the trackpad is a triumph, and while we often criticise laptops for low travel keys, the sheer spaciousness of the keyboard makes typing a pleasure.
Because this machine evidently isn't designed to be mobile, the connections on offer are more generous than its tablet companions. You get Ethernet, which is music to the ears of regular hotel room hoppers, plus HDMI and four USB ports. There's also VGA and an SD card slot to finish off a sublime port performance.


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Rated 20A, 125/250/480V;10A, 125VAC "L";2HP 250VAC. Body of switch is approximately 2" x 0.67" x 0.80" (excluding push-button). Push-button sticks up about 0.5" from body and is 0.3" in diameter. Has a nice tactile feel and audible click sound when pushed. New old stock inventory.

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I Smell Sheep had a blast at this years 2016 Lilac City Comic Con in Spokane, Washington! We got the chance to meet new authors, artists, makers, cosplayers and so many fun fan costumes. While this Con isn't yet San Diego size, it sure had a boat-load of fan heart!
Our amazing sheep mascot Baaaart was sadly sick at home, but his cousin Jeff Jefferson was able to make the trip in his place. Thanks so much Jeff!
Jeff quickly attached himself to some new friends.
Jeff found another awesome buddy!
And we got to meet the uber talented author Dani Harper!
The youngest sheep member, my son in the blue skeleton costumer, with a family of Deadpools.
Thanks again Jeff for lending a creepy hand this year. We hope you'll stop by again!
Hi, I'm Dani, and I'm now addicted to ComiCons. It's all Katie's fault for enticing me to attend this one. I HAD A BLAST! This isn't a huge con, but it's a comfortable size for a newbie like me, the people are very friendly, and there's no lack of enthusiasm on the part of fans or participants. Great costumes, including some pro cosplayers. Creativity and fun everywhere you look!


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For the second time in two years, the Little Sisters of the Poor must ask the Supreme Court to protect them from the government. The order of Catholic nuns and other non-profits have been forced to ask the Court for relief due to the government’s refusal to exempt them from a regulation that makes them choose between their faith—which prohibits them from providing contraceptives—and continuing to pursue their religious mission of serving the elderly poor (see video).
Reaching Souls International is an evangelical Christian ministry dedicated to preaching the gospel and caring for orphans in Africa, Cuba and India. Truett-McConnell College is a Baptist college that trains students to share their faith worldwide. Christian Brothers Services, Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust, and GuideStone Financial Resources are the ministries that provide healthcare coverage for the Little Sisters, Reaching Souls, and Truett-McConnell. All of the ministries are also represented by Locke Lord LLP, the 2014 recipient of Becket’s legal service award. Kevin Walsh, a law professor at the University of Richmond Law School, also represents the Little Sisters of the Poor.
The Court is likely to consider all of the petitions in late September or early October. If the petition is granted, the case would be argued and decided before the end of the Court’s term in June 2016.
Does the Vatican contribute anything to the Beckett Fund?, is my question.
objections as irrelevant,” said Rienzi of the Beckett Fund.
In any case it will be a meeting of the hearts and minds.

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As their efforts continue to help Puerto Rico recover from the effects of hurricanes Irma and Maria, ARRL Force of 50 volunteers on the island distributed more new Amateur Radio gear to places where it will do the most good. Puerto Rico Section Emergency Coordinator Juan Sepulveda, KP3CR, is better prepared to assist, now that volunteers have delivered a radio and antenna to him in Lares.
“This now gives us a local ham covering the Lares Medical Center and the hospital, so our ARRL American Red Cross Amateur Radio operator can cover the Casteñel hospital nearby,” ARC volunteer Valerie Hotzfeld, NV9L, noted in the team’s October 8 report. Sepulveda has been coordinating the ARES efforts on the west side of the island since the start of the recovery.
Hotzfeld; Puerto Rico Section Manager Oscar Resto, KP4RF; ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, KI1U, and Amateur Radio liaison to the FEMA ESF-2 Communications Task Force Gary Sessums, KC5QCN, traveled to Arecibo, Lares, and the Guajataca dam.
The team, all deployed as ARC volunteers, delivered spare VHF radios and bottled water to Guajataca Dam, to permit direct communication between Isabela and the dam, where infrastructure repairs are under way. A Yaesu DR-X2 VHF/UHF repeater has been delivered to Arecibo Observatory. The team visited a grocery to stock up on powdered milk, peanut butter, water, rice, canned fruits and vegetables, and bags of fresh apples, all delivered this to people living in the vicinity of Arecibo Observatory.
The fire station in Guayama reported a complete lack of water, with people being turned away. One of the Amateur Radio volunteers was able to assist from the fire station in Juncos.
Volunteer Joe Bassett, W1WCN, worked via relay with local operator Al Medina-Ramirez, NP3MR, to reestablish contact with an Army task force on Vieques Island. Army MARS operators were unable to get in touch with the task force, which had been dispatched to the island to assist the hospital. Medina-Ramirez responded to a call from W1WCN to travel to the hospital to contact the task force. Uris Monge-Vives, NP4WW, assisted with translation. The task force was found safe and well awaiting transport via helicopter, which had been delayed due to the weather.


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Ireland is absolutely fantastic when it comes to tourism, and we’re all well aware of many of the amazing things that there is to do there. Whether you’re doing pub crawls or driving through the blissfully green countryside, there’s plenty to do and see – but there are many things you may not have considered doing while you’re there.
Casinos in Ireland are often attractive to travelers, because they typically follow slightly different rules to those found across the rest of the EU. If you’re a fan of all things casino without heading all the way out to Las Vegas or Atlantic City, the Irish casinos could offer the different perspective and setting for fun that you need.
If you’re heading to Ireland, the chances are that you’re going to its capital, Dublin. The Fitzwilliam Casino & Card Club is probably the favorite in the nation and is open from 6pm until 6am every single day. You’ll find live casino games like roulette, poker, punto banco and brag. There’s a large open-plan gaming hall and poker hall, and a super friendly atmosphere. It’s ideal for those on their travels because it’s right in Dublin’s bustling city centre, so you don’t need to go out of your way. Membership is also free for all, even short-term visitors.
This is a great place for beginners to get their foot in the door, because it’s so central and therefore always busy – packed with both regulars and curious newbies. To really get a feel for some of the games on offer, there are free spins at William Hill to give you the opportunity to try a variety of different games, as well as getting a feel for the rules and what you’re good at.
Stay in Ireland for even five minutes and you’ll soon agree that it’s gorgeous – which is probably why there are so many movies and TV shows shot there.
Probably the most famous – or at least the most culturally relevant in 2018 – is the Game of Thrones tour. Tours start from various locations across Ireland, including Derry and Dublin, and take you to many of the astounding film set locations that you’ll recognise from the screen.
You can choose between a coach tour and a walking one.
Not many people think of “Ireland” and “surfing” in the same section, but that needs to change.
Ireland’s rugged coastlines actually boast some of “the best waves in the world“, and you can choose to jump on your board in a real variety of different places.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re new to the sport or you’ve done it before, you can tackle the waves while taking in the stunning scenery as well.
There’s plenty to do in Ireland, whether wandering through the cities or driving around the coast or quaint little towns. But isn’t it more fun when you have something different to do when you get there?

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text: Abstract: Some of trauma-exposed individuals develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an incapacitating psychiatric disorder that is characterized by intrusion, avoidance, negative changes in mood and cognition, and hyperarousal. A number of other trauma-related conditions are very frequently found in individuals with PTSD. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most frequently observed trauma-related conditions that trauma-exposed individuals with PTSD may experience. TBI refers to transient or permanent brain dysfunction that results in a wide range of neurological, cognitive, and psychiatric symptoms. These trauma-related conditions significantly affect one’s quality of life, leading to substantial disability and socioeconomic burden. As the prevalence of PTSD with comorbid TBI is increasing in the general population along with the rates of crimes and accidents, effective prevention and intervention strategies are necessitated. However, a definitive treatment for PTSD with comorbid TBI is still lacking, resulting in high rates of treatment resistance and chronicity. It is essential to investigate the neurobiological mechanisms and potential therapeutics of PTSD with comorbid TBI. Yet, a few repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) studies have recently investigated therapeutic efficacy in treatment-resistant patients with PTSD and/or TBI. Thus, this article reviews rTMS studies in trauma-related conditions, mainly focusing on PTSD and PTSD with TBI as one of the comorbidities. The review focuses on the applications of rTMS in reducing PTSD symptoms with and without comorbidities based on differential parameters and effects of rTMS as well as concomitant clinical conditions. The section on PTSD with comorbidities focuses on TBI with neurological, cognitive, and psychiatric symptoms. Although there were some inconsistencies in the clinical outcomes and optimized parameters of rTMS applied in PTSD and TBI, low frequency stimulation over the hyperactive frontal regions and/or high frequency stimulation over the hypoactive frontal regions generally improved the clinical symptoms of PTSD and TBI. Lastly, the limitations of the rTMS studies in PTSD and TBI as well as potential directions for future research are discussed.


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It’s a look that celebrates the past even as it suggests vigor, productivity and brawn. The newly chic industrial style of decor repurposes the simple, sturdy furnishings of an earlier world of commerce — brushed-metal storage cabinets and display shelves, task lamps and pendant lights with enameled shades, worktables with worn wooden tops and cast-iron bases — and couples them with aesthetic touches emblematic of energy and optimism, from bright upholstery fabrics to flowers.
The rise in prominence of the industrial style has come hand-in-hand with the residential repurposing of former manufacturing and warehouse districts throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. In many loft apartments created in shuttered factories, the architectural envelope has been left intact. The interiors feature elements like raw brick walls, exposed steel beams and oak floors whose history is written in every pit and gouge. Patina is the keynote to a decor in sync with such surroundings. On these pages you will find designs that wear their age beautifully — and were built to last.


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In this two-part series I will strongly critique both the spirit and substance of a proposed “Green New Deal.” In the second article, I will focus on the specific proposals in the draft legislation. But in this first piece I will give the historical context and explain why the very notion of a Green New Deal is misguided, because it relies on faulty history and bad economics.
To reiterate, even if you were a die-hard Keynesian who believed in the virtues of fiscal stimulus, right now—with official unemployment at 3.7% and price inflation rising above the Fed’s target—it makes no sense to launch another New Deal.
But things are worse, because the Keynesian fans of FDR are wrong. The New Deal actually hurt the U.S. economy and prolonged the Great Depression.
Source: Robert P. Murphy, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, p. 103.
Roosevelt was elected in late 1932 and was inaugurated in early 1933. (Presidents were sworn in on March 4 back then.) As the table shows, unemployment in absolute terms remained awful for the next 8 years—it was not until 1941 that the annual average unemployment rate got back into the single digits (and just barely, at 9.9%).
Even worse, fans of FDR can’t simply blame the problem on the huge hole that FDR inherited from Herbert Hoover. In 1933, the U.S. unemployment was 5.6 percentage points higher than Canada’s. The next year, the gap widened to 7.2 percentage points. Jumping ahead to 1938—five years after Roosevelt is sworn in—the gap between the two countries’ unemployment rates is 7.6 percentage points.
In light of the above figures, why is it that people say of Roosevelt, “He got us out of the Depression”? As I ask in my book: What would the unemployment data have to look like, in order for conventional historians and the public to say FDR kept us mired in the Great Depression?
Incidentally, the quixotic pundits and wonks who still plead with conservatives and libertarians to agree to a “carbon tax deal,” should see Naomi Klein in the quotation above spell it out just like so many of her colleagues before her: They are explicitly saying a carbon tax is not close to being enough to achieve their environmental goals.
In fairness, some progressive outlets have grudgingly started talking about nuclear—but even the example of Grist only started in January 2018. The obvious explanation here is that these activist progressives don’t really believe their alarmist rhetoric. Imagine someone warning that a killer asteroid was hurtling toward Earth, and we had a mere decade to do something about it. And then these activists spent their time on funding medical clinics to treat society’s downtrodden when the asteroid smashed into the planet, killing billions of people.
In that scenario, would you believe the activists who told you we had a decade to act before the asteroid hit? Would their actions lead you to think they believed their own rhetoric?
A “Green New Deal” makes no sense on economic grounds, either in spirit or in letter. Even if one endorsed a Keynesian economic framework in which the historical New Deal “worked,” it still would be nonsensical to implement such a program today, with very high (peacetime) debt loads and an economy at officially full employment. What’s more, the historical New Deal did not in fact work, but rather prolonged the Depression. When an economy is already on the ropes, the last thing it needs is for more resources to be allocated politically, or for more regulations to rain down from Washington.
Furthermore, the rhetoric of Ocasio-Cortez and her supporters shows that the Green New Deal is only distantly related to the ostensible scientific problem of greenhouse gas emissions. The people pushing a Green New Deal are using it as a vehicle to advance the traditional potpourri of the left’s political agenda.
Part two of this series is available here.

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Two college students in Ithaca, NY will soon be New York Times fellows in their inaugural class. Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs is a city editor and reporter for The Cornell Daily Sun. He will be a reporter for the national desk at the New York Times. Danielle Allentuck is a senior writer for The Ithacan and was its sports editor and columnist, and she also worked for WICB. She will be a reporter for the sports desk at the New York Times.
On Mar. 26 on "WRFI Community Radio News," they spoke with WRFI News Director Laura Rosbrow-Telem about how they got to this point and what advice they could share with budding college journalists.

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When it comes to indoor signs in Lubbock, TX we have you covered, from basic office signage to elaborate one of a kind signage we are proud to offer Lubbock the very best!
Dimensional letters are a great alternative for both internal and external applications such as lobbies, conference rooms, and trade show displays. With a menu of materials including painted foam, acrylic-faced foam, formed plastic, metal letters, and PVC we can find a perfect solution for you.
Perhaps the most popular type of sign around, a backlit sign—also known as a lightbox—is typically an aluminum four-sided box with one or two sign faces. The signs are illuminated or “backlit” by lights within the box. We are experts at creating and installing backlit signs, and are ready to get yours up and running.
The lobby of any building is a high traffic area and a perfect place to proudly display the name and logo of your company and give visitors a lasting first impression of your business. Be creative when designing your lobby logo and let your imagination run.
Don’t just tell your customers what you have. Show them with a menu board that reflects your restaurant’s flavor. Menu boards can be custom made to fit any application, and are also available ready-made in certain stock sizes and shapes.
Office buildings, schools and hospitals are just a few of the institutions that rely on suite signage every day. If your space is in need of new suite signage, we provide a plethora of options to accommodate any budget.
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Both of Orbital here, a couple of Rinse FM residents there, Trevor Jackson over there: the Barbican foyer is an absolute scrum of London’s dance music community, all in a state of excitement. For a certain demographic, Juan Atkins’s Cybotron are as fundamental and foundational as any act in music. The 1983 single Techno City gave its name to a genre that would take over the world and define Detroit as its spiritual home. But for all their influence, and for all that Atkins has continued making music in various guises – most notably as Model 500 – they’ve never before done a live show.
This is a new permutation of Cybotron. In place of original members Richard “3070” Davis and John Housely, Atkins is joined by his long-time collaborator the German techno aristocrat Laurens von Oswald, and by fellow Detroiter Tameko J Williams, AKA DJ Maaco. As the moody drone of Industrial Lies thrums, the three come on stage one by one, dressed in matching boiler suits and a sci-fi version of welding masks, as lasers trace out geometrical patterns on the vast projection screen behind. It is a nice summation of techno’s roots: inspiration from the production-line aesthetic of Motor City’s car plants, and afrofuturist dreams of motherships and technological emancipation.


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The Committee shall promote the image of BANT in Cyprus as the seal of excellence for nutritional health professionals, and shall take action to ensure that all NPs in Cyprus strictly follow BANT’s Professional Practice guidelines, in order to enhance public confidence in the profession. Furthermore, the Committee shall promote the functional philosophy of healthcare and encourage cooperation with other health sector professionals. It will also work with the Cypriot Universities to develop a curriculum for Nutritional Therapy (NT) courses and educate health clinics on the health and cost benefits of employing NPs.
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The Concrete Edge Co. has introduced a 36-inch walkway adapter kit for its Lil' Bubba EPC Landscape Curb Machine. The attachment allows the Lil' Bubba EPC to extrude a 36-inch-wide concrete walkway. The walkway can be stamped and colored to create the look of brick or stone.
The Lil' Bubba EPC is designed to make quick work of parking-lot ribbon curb or large landscape borders while feeding from a concrete truck. It features a 5.5-horsepower Honda motor and weighs 280 pounds.
The Twin Auger Curbing Machine from Curb King allows contractors to lay a high-quality curb quickly and easily. It has the smoothness of an auger machine and the compaction and speed of a ram machine.
The twin counterrotating, vibrating augers work together to provide positive, constant pressure, propelling the machine forward with a smooth, constant motion.
Curb King's patented Dyna-Form drive system helps lay quality curb. The vibrating augers, hopper and housing keep the relatively dry material fluid from the hopper to the slipform. The vibration helps the particles of sand and cement fit tightly together.
The curbing machine is designed for curbs up to 6 inches by 6 inches. It weighs 150 pounds, has an overall length of 36 inches, and is available powered by gas or electricity. The electric motor provides 1 horsepower, while the gas model features a 3-horsepower Honda engine.
Power Curbers offers the PC-150, an extruder curbing machine designed for commercial applications in parking lots and streets.
The concrete or asphalt is fed into the hopper and forced through a specially designed mold. The result is a free-standing, structurally sound curb with a smooth finish. The PC-150 extrudes curbs of up to 12 inches by 12 inches at a speed of up to 18 feet per minute. A continuous, one-pass operation can turn a smooth radius as tight as two feet. Curb can be placed within 1 inch of obstructions with the offset mounted mold and extrusion auger.
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As you probably already know, there are many credit cards out there. The one you choose however, should reflect your lifestyle and your ideal spending amounts. If you are looking for the best possible deal and the best company for your credit card, youll obviously need to look around at what you have to choose from and what works best for you. The first thing you'll need to decide when choosing your credit card, is why you need one in the first place. Some people choose to get a credit card for cash flow purposes. With a credit card, you can make purchases and buy things, leaving your paycheck or other source of income in your bank account to draw interest. This way, your money will continue to grow while you continue to buy the things you need. Then at the end of the month, simply pay your bill. Others will choose to get a credit card and use it for instant cash purposes. This way, they can use their credit card at an ATM and get instant cash, which is great for travel or going on a long and extended vacation. If this is why you want a credit card, you should look for one that has the lowest rate possible for instant cash transactions. With a credit card, you'll also need to think about the payments. You'll need to decide if you want to pay the balance in full each month, or only the required amount. When you select your credit card, you should look at the introductory rates, balance transfer rates, and other offers that may apply to new credit cards and new holders. Some will offer you truly amazing deals, especially if you have good credit. Another important area to look at when choosing your credit card is the incentives.
There are several cards out there that will give you incentives, such as reward points and even cash back with purchases that you can use towards paying back what you owe. There are several incentives out there with credit cards, all you have to do is look around and compare. The key area you'll need to look at and compare is the APR (Annual Percentage Rate). The APR is what you will pay on what you purchase when the incentive period runs out. APR rates will vary among credit cards, so it is always in your best interest to compare and shop around. The lower APR rate you get, the better off you'll be. Another concern with choosing your credit card is the minimum payment amount. Most minimum payment balances will start around 3%, although some can be lower while others tend to be quite a bit higher. The interest free period is a concern as well, as you will obviously want to choose the longest period that you can keep the payments down. When you make that final decision and choose your credit card, you should always make sure that you know exactly what you are getting. Credit cards are great to have, although they can lead to a downfall if you don't choose them carefully. If you put some time and research into choosing your credit card, you'll find the best one for you. As long as you take care of your credit card and pay the bill on time, you'll help raise your credit and eventually be able to purchase even bigger things - such as a car or even a house.
Even though there are many types of credit cards out there for consumers, there are few for those with bad credit. Those who are looking to repair their credit have a few options available, one of which is the bank secured credit card. This credit card can help you to repair your credit, as it works in conjunction with your savings or checking account. Bank secured credit cards look and work just like traditional credit cards, although they use your bank account as collateral. Anytime you aren't able to pay your credit card bill at the due date, the bank will take the money out of your account. This way, there is always money there for the bank, in the event that you are unable to make your payment.
Bank secured credit cards are also ideal for those who have a bankruptcy or simply don't qualify for a line of credit due to bad credit or no credit history. These credit cards show your bank that you are able to pay your monthly dues, and that you are taking the necessary steps in rebuilding or building your credit. Over time, if you remain responsible and pay your bill on time, your bank may give you an unsecured line of credit - known as a standard credit card with no collateral. Due to the fact that bank secured credit cards only allow you to spend what have in your account, you don't need to worry about debt. When you can't make a payment, the bank simply takes the money out of your account. Although this is a great back up plan, you should always pay your bill and never let this happen.
Just like other credit cards, bank secured credit cards do have disadvantages that can hit you like a ton of bricks should you use the card irresponsibly. Anytime you don't pay your bill on time, the bank can hit you with high interest charges and late charges. These charges and fees can get higher and higher if you don't start paying your bill, which can eventually cause you to drain your account that you set aside. If you pay your bill on time though, you won't have to worry about being hit with these types of charges. For those who have bad credit or need to start building credit, a bank secured credit card is a great place to start. These cards can lead you to an unsecured credit card, providing you pay your bill on time. Almost all banks offer these credit cards, all you have to do is ask. Once you have kept your credit card in good standing for a period of time - you'll have the satisfaction in knowing that you are taking the right steps in rebuilding your credit.


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Have you ever wondered what would it be like to mash-up Shakespeare’s poems with sound, music, pictures, and illustration?
Art Poetry is a cross-media project with one main purpose: bringing people closer to poetry by representing a selection of the most significant poems in the history of literature in two-minute animation pieces.
Art Poetry is also a web & mobile app that encourage people to express their feelings by creating their own poems.
Manuel H. Martín graduated in Audiovisual Communication from Seville University where he met Olmo Figueredo González-Quevedo and the time that La Claqueta production company began. Manuel H. Martin has developed extensive work as a producer and director of advertising and corporate productions, as well as several short films, co-directing The Dry Tree (2007) with Olmo Figueredo González-Quevedo, and directing short documentaries like Equity Among Women and Pepe Luis Vázquez, the wise man from San Bernardo, as well as the music video Sin Miedo by the group Dardem. As a producer, he worked in the documentary Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, Beyond Bullfighting (2008) and several short films. In 2010 he directed the documentary Unknown Bécquer and that same year he released the short film The Defender. Also, he has worked as creative director of the animated series Art Poetry as well as the awarded documentary film 30 Years of Darkness.


text: TAHIRA NISHTAR FCPS Assistant Professor Department of Radiology Post Graduate Medical Institute Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar CURRICULUM VITAE GENERAL INFORMATION Name	:	TAHIRA NISHTAR Father Name	:	Dr. TARIQ NISHTAR Date of Birth	:	17th Jan 1970 Marital status	:	Married Nationality	:	Pakistani Domicile	:	Peshawar Address	:	97 Defence Officers Colony, Khyber Road Peshawar, Pakistan Email	:	[email protected] EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION M.B.B.S	:	1993 KMC, University Of Peshawar FCPS	:	2005 College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan DISTINCTIONS Gold Medal	:	Medicine :	4th in Final Professional M.B.B.S PRESENT APPOINTMENT Ã¢â‚¬Â¢	Job Title	:	Assistant Professor Department	:	Dept of Radiology, PGMI, HMC Peshawar Duration	:	Oct 2008 - till Date PREVIOUS APPOINTMENT Ã¢â‚¬Â¢	Senior Registrar : Department of Radiology, PGMI,HMC Peshawar May 2006 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Oct 2008 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢	WMO	:	Department of Radiology, PGMI, HMC Peshawar Duration	:	Feb 2006 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ May 2006 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢	WMO	:	LRH, PGMI Peshawar Duration	:	August 2004 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ 5 January 2006 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢	Incharge	:	Deptt of Radiology, Rehman Medical Institute Duration	:	April 2003 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ July 2004 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢	T.M.O	:	Deptt of Radiology PGMI, HMC Duration	:	March 1999 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ March 2003 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢	WMO	:	Deptt of Radiology KTH Peshawar Duration	:	May 1998 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ March 1999 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢	WMO	:	Deptt of Radiology PGMI, HMC Duration	:	Dec 1997 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ May 1998 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢	WMO	:	MCH centre rural Academy (Periphery) Duration	:	Dec 1996 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Dec 1997 Ã¢â‚¬Â¢	WMO	:	Medical A ward LRH SHS (School Health Services) Duration	:	Dec 1995 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Dec 1996 PRESENTATIONS 1.	Presented a paper at 9th International Radiological Conference + 4th International Biennial Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Conference. (7th Ã¢â‚¬â€œ 9th Dec 2007). 2.	Presented a paper at 18th Biennial Congress of ATCSA from 26th Ã¢â‚¬â€œ 28th Nov 2007 at Bali Indonesia. 3.	Presented a paper at 4th Biennial International Conference on Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Rawalpindi Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Pakistan 16th Ã¢â‚¬â€œ 19th Dec 2002. PUBLICATIONS 1.	Schizencephaly - Presenting As Seizure Disorder. Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute. Vol. 22 No. 04 October Ã¢â‚¬â€œ December 2008. 2.	Wandering Spleen with Torsion and Resultant infarction : A Case Report. Vol. 22 No. 02 April Ã¢â‚¬â€œ June 2008. 3.	Role of CT in Mediastinal Masses. Pakistan Journal of Radiology. Vol. 14, No 1, 2003. 4.	Use of CT Thorac & upper Abdomen for pre-operative staging of Carcinoma Esophagus, Peshawar Experience of 359 cases, PJCTS vol 5, No 1>4 2006. 5.	Surgical Management of Pulmonary Aspergillioma Peshawar experience of 45 patients. Pakistan Journal of Chest Medicine. Vol 11, No 4, 2005. 6.	Six months follow-up study of two hundred cases of Trans Thoracic Oesophagectomies. Journal of Post Graduate Medical Institute. Vol 19, No 4, 2005. 7.	Management of Empyema Thoracis, Peshawar experience of 450 patients, Annals of King Edwards Medical College, vol 11, No 4, 2005. 8.	Diaphragmatic injuries, A retrospective analysis of 50 patients. Annals of King Edwards Medical College, vol 11, No 4, 2005. 9.	Esophagectomy for Carcinoma Esophagus Peshawar experience of 270 cases in 4 years, Annals of King Edwards Medical College, vol 12, issue 4, 2006. 10.	Determinants of success of Decortication Escalapio, vol 2, issue 1, April Ã¢â‚¬â€œ June 2006. 11.	Two years Audit of Geriartic Thoracic Surgery at Cardiovascular Dept at Peshawar. Pakistan Journal of chest Medicine 2006. 12.	Surgical Management of Pericardial Disease, Annals of King Edwards Medical College, vol 12, No 2, April Ã¢â‚¬â€œ June 2006. 13.	Management of patients with Esophageal Atresia with or without Tracheoesophageal Fistula, a 7 Years Experience Annals of King Edward Medical College Vol. 11. No. 4, Oct Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Dec 2005.


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Know details about Ankita Mohapatra contestant of Pantaloon Femina Miss India 2011 and winner of gladrags megamodel contest 2009.
Ankita Mohapatra, final contestant of Pantaloon Femina Miss India 2011 has got the direct entry in final after winning the crown of Pantaloon Femina Miss India East 2011. An engineer by profession, Ankita is a combination of beauty with brain. In spite of being very good in studies Ankiata Mohapatra was always attracted towards glamor and getting an opportunity she participated in Miss India East and was winner in 2011.
In 2009 Ankita Mohapatra was winner of gladrags megamodel contest too, and her interest in modelling increased manyfolds after that.
She was among the top 5 in Pantaloon Femina Miss India (PFMI ) 2011. She was also selected as bollywood diva by Sajid Nadiadwala and will feature in next movie under banner of Nadiadwala Grandsons Entertainment.
Age of Ankita Mohapatra is 23 years old.
Education of Ankita Mohapatra She has passed engineering from Slilcon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneshwar.
Hobbies of Ankita Mohapatra She is a nature lover and wildlife is her hobby, she also likes Odissi dance as well as singing.
She was winner of Gladrags Megamodel Contest in 2009. She also featured on cover of Sunday Indian magazine and Gladrags.
Ankita Shorey is one of the contestant of Pantaloons Femina Miss India from Delhi. See complete profile, biography and personal information about Ankita Shorey.


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Few more months and it’s gonna be Halloween again and are you excited in receiving a Halloween Invitation where you can attend together with your kids? I remember the days when we use to dress up my nieces and nephews and then we’ll head on the mall to join a Halloween Party. We are lucky sometimes because we won once as the best Halloween Costume in one of the events in Shangrila many years ago. We still have the plaque as souvenir.
This year we are not sure if we are going to attend but it sure looks fun again to dress up the kids but if we are going to receive Halloween Party Invitations then maybe we’ll go. If you are going to hold a Halloween party soon then you obviously need some Halloween Party Invitations. You can order personalized one from /www.invitations-shoppe.com as they have exclusive designs aside from the fact that they can even create special design for you.


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UMD Department of Human Resources offers workshops throughout the year on a broad range of topics.
It is our goal to advocate for and help UMD staff and faculty develop excellent work skills and high performance work teams; develop and maintain healthy lifestyles; and plan and maintain productive and satisfying UMD careers in order to provide an excellent research and learning environment for faculty, staff and students.
Note: As part of UMD Human Resources Employee initiative, we request those attending HR workshops and training to refrain from wearing scented products such as perfume, cologne, hand lotion, aftershave and body spray. Some attendees may be scent sensitive and exposure to scented products may trigger allergic reactions and create health problems for those individuals. Thank you for your understanding and assistance in creating a respectful workplace.


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She has arrived at the Ohio 2018 AQHA Congress! For inquiries drop by the Adequan barn stall #610 and ask for Ty or Megan.
By Blazing Hot out of a Lazy Loper daughter. Quiet, talented and fun!
See her at the 2018 AQHA Congress to be shown in Western Riding and Western Pleasure!
Top 5 western riding at the 2018 Sliver Dollar show.
Circuit champion green western riding AND 3rd place in the junior at the 2018 Oregon Summer Classic in Medford.
Top placings in WSQHA western pleasure.
Well started in horsemanship, trail and showmanship.

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Fish has long been acknowledged as one of the healthiest foods for many reasons, and salmon, in particular, gets high praise from the health community because of its high omega-3 content. However, when it comes to farmed salmon, many experts agree that description couldn’t be further from the truth.
Director Nicolas Daniels filmed a documentary called, “Fillet-Oh-Fish. The film took an in-depth look at the Norwegian fjords that contain salmon farms, and to everyone’s surprise, they found a layer of waste about 15 meters high. The waste contained bacteria, drugs, and pesticides, among other unsavory and unsanitary things. Since the sea farms are situated in open water, it’s impossible to contain the pollution.
Dr. Monsen adds that the toxins found in farmed salmon have a negative effect on brain development. The contaminants are also associated with autism and they affect other organ systems in the body’s immune system as well as metabolism.
According to Living Traditionally, if you eat more than one meal of farm-raised salmon in a month, it can increase your risk of developing cancer in the future. This is due to the cancer-causing chemicals and high levels of dioxins it contains. It’s also said to provide your body with higher levels of inflammation which leads to many diseases including cancer, diabetes, arthritis, coronary artery disease, and Alzheimer’s.
Now, more than ever, it’s imperative to be aware of what we’re eating, and more importantly, where it is coming from. Our health — and lives — depend on it.


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Been a while since we last had ourselves a nice dump. Today, we're releasing an early version of Rockman X5. As one should expect, there's a handful of aesthetic differences and loads of unused/alternate music. Download it here!
This version of the game received a lot of press back in June 2000 (a whole five months before it hit Japanese retail). It contains five fully playable stages each sprinkled with a number of interesting things. Keen-eyed players will quickly note the unused health bars and early enemy sprites. Oh, and there's NO Alia.
The folks at The Cutting Room Floor will no doubt pick this up for further research and analysis. There's bound to be more interesting things lurking inside the code, I'm certain. In the meantime, though, here's a whopping 17 unused tracks I dug up (credit to SuperMega233 for the upload). There's some really crazy arrangements in there!
I do hope you enjoy this release. And FYI, I'll be dumping two additional Mega Man prototypes in the coming days.
Squid Adler's music is insane!
Thank you Protodude! Can't wait to try this one out and seeing the other 2. Hopefully they'll be just as interesting as this!
Is it wrong that I prefer some of these beta tracks over the final versions? Intro Stage (Zero), for example, and the aforementioned Volt Kraken. I also kind of like Dynamo's theme... It matches his flashy style a bit better, in my opinion.
Great find, Protodude! And thank you for the dump!
I dunno. I think the Volt Kraken beta guitar is a little too harsh to really work for me. I think the final is better both in sound quality and composition quality.
Don't got 'em. I'll speak with the originally owner, though.
If you can manage to convince Chris Covell to release his Rockman World prototype... man, that would be awesome. I'm not holding my breath though. Heh.
Some tracks sounds better, but I'm glad X vs Zero song changed to the final version.
"Been a while since we last had ourselves a nice dump."
I'm sorry. I'll go hide my head in shame for that now.
Rex's portrait looks different, too? Or am I imagining things?
Right you are. He's facing forward in the final.
Zero's buster animation seems a little different, and it instead uses the Z-Saber slashing sound. Or is that just me?
Correct. The sound is definitely placeholder.
There is no dialogue with X in Zero's intro stage, and there doesn't seem to be a pause screen.
Thanks for the proto, dude! Which games are the other two prototypes?
Keeping the lid on that for now.
I noticed that the dump was missing a SL**_***.** file. This doesn't mean much other than it's impossible to make savestates. Did the source disc not have one, or was it not dumped with the ISO, etc?
Didn't have one. The source is a run-of-the-mill CDR. I was, however, able to savestate. It even loaded in vram.
Under what emulator? EPSXE won't make any savestates and I normally use that VRAM Viewer tool to view their contents. I've found the VRAM viewer built into a plugin, but it's of little use.
I'm using EPSXE, yeah. I don't know if I'm doing anything different: I hit savestate, go to the sstate folder, rename to .gz, unzip, and drag the file into VRAM Viewer.
Ah, I had updated my emulator just now and it was saving states properly. It must've been the old version (1.7.0) which relied on that file.
Thanks! Sniffing through stage select stuff now, will probably have a TCRF article up in a few days.
These always interest me. I just have to wonder why the Battle Network games are never among the Mega Man games that get beta dumps.
GBA carts are very difficult to come by. The PSX betas we are usually massed produced discs sent to the press.
Character Select: Oh man, I like that a lot better. They probably thought the chime hits weren't edgy enough. Admittedly, they used too much later on.
Intro Stage (X): Well, this certainly sounds SNES-ish, but maybe a little too basic. Good loop, but oh yeah, the main portions feel completely empty.
Intro Stage (Z): Oh yeah, definitely onto something there at the beginning! Gets ugly, though.
Stage Select: Wow, just no.
Axle: Superior instrumentation and key change, but those progressions and the melody lines are just inferior. Too much backup synth.
Duff: Honestly, this is pretty nice and appropriate for the stage. But nothing brought a wider smile to my face than Bubble Crab's theme remixed. Also there's a melody in here that sounds too much like Axle's.
Mattrex: Nah, weak, I was hoping for the guitar to kick in way harder than what we wound up getting, which isn't hard at all. I would like Mattrex's theme if it had some very hard guitar driving the rhythm and main melody.
Adler: Ooh. YES. DILAPIDATED TECHNO FUNK. This is far superior already, all they needed to do is tone down the volume on the synths and the rhythm guitar.
Dynamo: Ha, makes him sound like a hero. What we got nailed it.
X vs Zero: My favorite, I'm so excited, let's see what this sounds like! ...it's...awfully basic. And...feels like cherry blossoms should be floating around...no, nope, NEXT!
Stage Start: About the same. Maybe better?
Mission Report: Ouch, that howling synth is offensive.
Zero Dead: WHOA that's a lotta impact. This would be good for maybe the initial blast to Zero, then use the one we got for the Zero ending.
Dr. Light: Neat. Maybe a little overbearing and too bright, but certainly appropriate otherwise.
Unused: This either sounds like a Zero/Sigma Stage, or perhaps a Stage Select? Weird regardless.
Good find, all in all!
Thanks for sharing. looking forward to the other 2.
Thanks a lot!! i have many years for this moment! really thanks!
A lot of this music is really interesting, mostly because the composer has instrumentation and rhythm down, but the melodies are all TERRIBLE and dissonant. Like the first step was "this feel of song" and the second step (yet to be taken) was "OK now actually write the song".
It would seem that one alternate track was glossed over in the initial announcement.
The main verse (or bridge?) for Dark Necrobat's music is different.
What off exactly? There are, according to Protodude, 17 unused tracks, but there are 30 tracks in your release. The 44.1 KHz link is higher quality correct?
Hey Protodude! I have a question for you. Is this the beta that the user Josh from X9 forums was selling? And by the way, this is version 2 of the beta. Thanks so much for realising this beta.
excuse the shameless self promotion here,but i was able to find the stage modifier code for the build.
and surprise! there's about 4 placeholder MMX4 stages and the other 4 maverick stages are quite incomplete.

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Megastar Chiranjeevi’s dream project Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy is progressing at slow pace. Second schedule of the film will commence from next month.
For this film, producer Ram Charan is roping in star attraction to hike expectations on the film which already has Amitabh Bachchan, Vijay Sethipathi, Jagapathi Babu, Sudeep, Nayanthara and Pragya Jaiswal playing vital roles.
As per reliable sources, Nasser’s character in the film has been revealed. The senior actor is said to be playing the role of godfather to Narasimha Reddy. More details about the character are kept under wraps for now.
Directed by Surender Reddy, Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy is made on a lavish budget of Rs 150 crores. The film is likely to release in summer 2019.


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What are the common decorations?
A lot of individuals who want to improve the appearance of their interiors would like to to use some easy solutions. The simplest and the most useful ways are decorations which are able to highlight the rareness of the room or to underline the most significant features of the place.
•	Paintings – the pictures are the most old-style form of decorations. The pictures were applied as a decoration even by royal family in the prehistoric times. In those times, the royal family wanted to be surrounded by the gorgous paintings and portraits of the monarchy and their ancestors.•	Vases – the vases were common in the past period as well as nowadays. The fashionable Chinese vases were popular by French monarchy and at the moment, plenty individuals also love this kind of decoration. Furthermore, the vases show the interesting stories of the ordinary individuals’s lives. •	Colorful tulip pots – they are modern ways of decoration. They are mainly dedicated to people enjoy simple solutions and want to use the less original ways and the most effective in the same time. • Photograph frames – they are always popular and always improve the appearance of the interiors. Nevertheless, it is constantly worth to mention that the areas belong to you, so you do not must be ashamed and show your pictures.•	Designs of any interiors are constantly hard to pick.
There are so numerous suggestions and objects to choose from. Furthermore, the additional difficulty shows up when somebody helps you or tries to assistance you. In many circumstances, the additional individual can make the items even worse and unpredictable. Everyone has its own design and everybody must select the extras and things which will help them to better the look of the rooms.Nonetheless, if you think that you cannot manage with the accessories in your interiors, you can always ask for advice of the pros. The services are discounted and the results are significant.
In summary, designing the interiors can be confusing job, if you do it on your own. However, if you use the help of household members or specialists, you can get the amazing effects.
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