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Emiko Uchiyama was born in Okayama / Japan in 1983. Emiko Uchiyama began her musical studies at the age of three receiving tuition on marimba and piano.
From a very early age she appeared as a soloist with many orchestras including the Tonkünstler-Orchestra Lower Austria, Osaka Philharmonic, Hong-Kong Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Metropolitan Police, the Sapporo Symphony and the Okayama Symphony orchestras.
In 2000, she received the 1st Prize at the Junior Percussion Competition in Japan. Ms Uchiyama also received the Keiko Abe Prize and was a finalist at the 3rd World Marimba Competition in Stuttgart in 2002. In 2005, she won 3rd Prize at the 4th World Marimba Competition Shanghai. In 2006, she was invited by the Percussive Arts Society to perform alongside the world's leading marimba performer and composer, Keiko Abe, at PASIC -the society's annual convention.
Ms Uchiyama has started to study with Keiko Abe at the age of ten and she also studied with master marimbist Yoshihisa Mizuno. She graduated at the top of Keiko's class in 2006 at the well known Toho-Gakuen School of Music. She moved to study at Anton Bruckner Private University in Austria with Bogdan Bacanu, Leonhard Schmidinger and Josef Gumpinger where she graduated with Masters degree. She was also awarded the scholarship for the "First High Talented Scholarship" from Unisono. She is studying now with Prof. Dr. Peter Sadlo at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg.
Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, USA, Hong-Kong, South-Korea, China and all major Japanese cities where her concerts have been met with high critical acclaim. At the International Marimba Competition in Salzburg 2009 she was invited as guest jury member. She teached at the Marimba and Percussion Festival in Bulgaria and gives classes in Europe and Japan.
In addition to her performance activities, Classic Concert Records published her marimba duo album Tango in 2008 and quartet album Aurora Borealis in 2009. As a member of quartet, she recorded Concerto for two Harpsichords by J.S. Bach conducted by Peter Sadlo with the Baroque Orchestra Salzburg Barock. She released her first Solo CD named Emiko in 2009.
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This is another odd-ball game idea. Feel free to tell me if you think it's uninteresting or that my ruleset needs work.
The rules are as follows: for the first 30 turns (or maybe 20 or 25... depends on the feedback I receive) it's a standard no excomm game. Players are free to demand, conquer POPs, etc. Although as we'll see, there isn't much reason to do so. Because on turn 31 (or 21 or 25), every player nukes Pandamonium at once. This puts the game into a free-for-all elimination mode, at which point we all fight to the death with whatever resources we acquired thus far.
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After much deliberation I shall play in this one too!
I had this exact same idea a while back, but never got a chance to put it into motion.
How did it go? Was it fun? Or is it still in progress?
Still in progress, and I'll likely be the first one to die when the excomm happens. I lost two legions in a very silly vendetta when someone called my bluff/refusal of tribute. It's going to be fascinating to see what happens on turn 30 though.
Others may want to chime in with their perspective, but here's the AAR thus-far.
The initial part of the game was surprisingly similar to a regular SI game - some players rampaged around taking POPs (and thus levelling up their starting legions) while others camped out without doing much. There was very little diplomacy though. Just a few of the seemingly-stronger players shaking down the seemingly-weaker ones for tribute. I got humiliated in a vendetta with another player when I refused to fork over said tribute.
As the designated excommunication turn approached, there was a surprise: one player excommed two turns early! He also played a no rituals event to protect himself from massive nuking by the rest of the player base. Despite this, I don't think his strategy really paid off, since his two main legions never left his borders, and he didn't eliminate anyone during those crucial two turns.
The lead up to excomm saw a frenzy of bazaar bidding, and I was outbid on about half of the things I bid on, leaving me with precious little in the way of legions, and a lot of wasted turn slots. Most players focussed on maxing out their legion count, although a few picked up artifacts and praetors too.
By this point some fiends had six legions, most 4 or 5. Me and one other fiend 2. And 4+ legions means pretty high wrath attributes. Indeed, at least two fiends had access to the juggernaut ritual and they've started rampaging around the map eliminating players. I was an early loss to one of them. But interestingly, some of the starting legions are almost as powerful as a Jugger'd legion, so we'll see how those combats go. Around 3 legoins have disappeared without obvious combat, so destruction rituals are also proving popular.
We're now 2 turns into the excomm portion of the game and most people are playing conservatively, with a belt of legions around their stronghold, and the stronghold decked out with praetors and combat cards. Someone managed to get a stronghold with 8/8/12 stats and 23 hp, so either (1) its stats are displaying the effects of the two high-level combat cards on it; or (2) you can juggernaut strongholds. Only time will tell which one it is.
Frothy_mikhael wrote: Others may want to chime in with their perspective, but here's the AAR thus-far.
Err i'll chime in with a few thoughts may go into detail more later on because it's been kind of interesting game actually.
(1) Most people i think tried to fasttrack to martial 6 for infernal juggernaut when excom happens. Juggernaughts are probably the best way to actually eliminate other players. Expensive to get there.
(2) Majority of people took an avatar/build to give them a strong starter legion. Most people who did this went around taking pops early for the sole purpose of leveling up their starter legions preparing for excom. (Kinda smart since bazaar legions dont come back if killed, starter legions do. A strong level 6+ starter legion when everybody excoms is good since it's more resistant to rituals/afflictions for starters.
(3) Most people took lord rank since no use for diplomacy........ This is good and bad. Lord gives you more avatar points but it seems that if your starter legion dies the amount of time it takes to reconstitute is directly tied to your infernal rank. I am lord rank and when my starter legion got fissured it took literally like 7 turns to reconstitute (which is FOREVER). If i was prince rank my starter might have come back in 2-3 turns instead of like 7 or 8.
(4) The other downside to lord rank is you have a stronghold with only 1 slot for a single cc.....While if you take prince your stronghold will have 3 slots for cc's if you so desire. I have mixed thoughts on whether lord or prince is a better choice to take in a game wit these rules.
(5) If you dont buy legions early and you all excom on turn 30 expect the last 4-5 turns before excom to have lots of wasted orders every turn trying to bid on legions (mostly) every turn when you also have 3-4 other fiends bidding on the same legions, so you either get lucky and nobody else bids on the legion you do or you have to overbid high on everything to avoid wasted orders.
Also, the guy who's stronghold has 22hp and good stats is the guy who took prince (therefore already getting a decent stronghold). Also he bought adamantium guard early in the game and used them to reinforce his stronghold (hence 22hp and good stats). I never noticed in game that he did this until i realized at some point his stronghold had uber stats. You can't jug strongholds and cc bonuses dont show up. His stronghold has uber stats because he took prince rank and reinforced it with adamantium guard.
Guy Georges, the fiend who eliminated me, has used his juggernaut legion to take the palace on the lake of fire, giving him +1 order per turn. However, another fiend has snuck a juggernauted legion within striking distance of his stronghold. Next turn may be his last, since his stronghold is currently defended only by two weak (and unbuffed) legions.
Another fiend was eliminated when someone dropped a juggernauted Darkwing legion on his stronghold. I saw this coming frankly, since that fiend only had two legions total, albeit powerful ones.
That leaves two fiends who are still camping their own stronholds with 4-5 legions, although both seem to have lost a legion or two to rituals. Interestingly, one of them took master archer and has decent wrath stats, so even his unbuffed legions are pretty fierce.
That's our update for now. Stay tuned to the 2013 Oddbal Free-for-all!
Another update. We're now on Turn 35. The excomm was supposed to happen on turn 30, but was delayed to turn 31 because of a ritual-banning event.
Remember the juggernaut legion lurking one turn from a certain fiend's stronghold? Well, that legion too the stronghold, eliminating another fiend. And just in time too, since it's jugger expired and it went down to 0/0/0. We're now down to three.
It's now quite intriguing. Remember the camping fiends, the ones with 4/5 legions around their strongholds? They're the only ones left alive. And funnily enough, they're all actually quite close to each other on the map. Maybe 4 hexes separate their strongholds from each other.
One of those three fiends has camped a very impressive legion within striking distance of the other two. It's 22/18/7 18 hp (un juggernauted!!) due to telemachus, throne of skulls, vadrasani carpet, plus the Master Archer perk with 5 or 6 wrath. On top of that, it's got a combat card, presumably a level 5-6 one. It will be very interesting to see which way it jumps. My best guess is that it will avoid the 23 hp stronghold, since that would be a very tough nut to crack, and instead will go for the weaker stronghold, which is "only" 14/10/13 (including neighbouring legion buffs) and 7 hp. Although that stronghold also has two combat cards (again, probably max level) and a combat-card blocking praetor.

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ABC/ Ida Mae AstuteMary J Blige‘s show tonight at the Smart Financial Centre Sugar Land, TX has been rescheduled to Tuesday, September 19 due to Hurricane Harvey.
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The class of 2015 honorees include seven students from the four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program and four registered nurses (RNs) in the 16-month RN-BSN Track. The students comprise the top third of their graduating class.
They were recognized during a luncheon March 20 that included School of Nursing administrators, faculty and staff, society board members, and alumni from the program, including four members of the class of 2014 employed as nurses in Redding.
The new inductees include BSN students Kaitlyn Olson, Emily Agudo, Cat Amato, Shayla Todd, and Jeremy Wildoner, all of Redding; Dolly Hopper of Red Bluff; and Lysandra Ramirez of Shingletown; and RN-BSN Track students Rachel Barquist of Red Bluff, Tamara Isringhausen and Kellie Knight, both of Anderson, and Susan Wagner-Salanti of Redding.
Laura Kobzeff, a ’13 nursing graduate and president of the honor society’s board of directors, delivered a charge. She shared her class verse—Ephesians 2:10—reminding honorees that all patients are made in God’s image.
In addition to Kobzeff, the Honor Society of Nursing board of directors includes vice president Kendra Schubert ’13; secretary Nicolle Larkin ’13; Kimberly Shaw, chief nurse executive and vice president of patient care services at Mercy Medical Center in Redding; Leslie Woodson, chief nursing officer at Shasta Regional Medical Center; Michelle Sanders, adult acute care practitioner at Mercy; Kristie Stephens, dean of the School of Nursing; Herman; and student representatives Patricia Brown and Christopher Donaghe. Jan Dinkel, former School of Nursing dean, is an honorary board member.
Other members of the Honor Society of Nursing include class of 2013 graduates Kobzeff, Larkin, Schubert, Hannah Hoffman, Tessa Smith, Laura Nasise, and Danae Hicks; and class of 2014 graduates Brown, Donaghe, Jay Bitner, Jenna Curato, Kirt Edgar, Emily Ganim, Sandra Kitchens, Brad O’Brien, and Kimberly Vierhus.
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For more information about Simpson University’s School of Nursing, visit simpsonu.edu/nursing.
(Top) New Honor Society of Nursing inductees join administrators on the balcony overlooking the new Science and Nursing Center on March 20. From left, School of Nursing Dean Kristie Stephens, assistant professor Paul Herman, Cat Amato, Dolly Hopper, Emily Agudo, Katilyn Olson, Lysandra Ramirez, Jeremy Wildoner, Shayla Todd, Susan Wagner-Salanti, and Interim President Robin Dummer. Not pictured: Rachel Barquist, Tamara Isringhausen, Kellie Knight.
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Dozens of advertisers have left Bill O'Reilly. Can Fox News stand by him?
Bill O'Reilly's future at Fox News is the number one topic among Manhattan media executives, entertainment agents and journalists. But the network is keeping mum. Seemingly the only place where it isn't being discussed is on Fox News.
Neither O'Reilly nor Fox has said much about last weekend's report in the New York Times about settlements with five different women who accused the host of sexual harassment or verbal abuse. The matter has only been addressed briefly on Fox's air, and O'Reilly hasn't discussed it in the two editions of his show, "The O'Reilly Factor," that have aired since the story broke.
Fox's strategy of silence might make sense for now, given that O'Reilly is more than just a profit center for the company: he is an institution there, almost inseparable from the network, and long seemingly invincible.
Then again, that's exactly what media observers said last summer when Roger Ailes was sued by former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson for sexual harassment. Ailes resigned two weeks later.
As Ailes faced an onslaught of sexual harassment allegations, several of the network's on-air personalities strenuously defended him in the press. And when O'Reilly faced a sexual harassment lawsuit in 2004, he delivered a ferocious response on-air the night it was filed.
Now, though, even as more than 40 advertisers have dropped his show, O'Reilly and his network aren't fighting back publicly.
Fox News' relatively subdued response has driven speculation throughout New York media about whether the longtime king of cable news could be on the way out -- and whether such a scenario is even plausible. Most would have dismissed the idea offhand at any other time, but the marked contrast between Fox's strategy in the past compared to now is fueling the discussion.
It could be a sign that network mogul Ruper Murdoch and his sons are following through on their pledge to remedy the network's culture.
On the other hand, the Murdochs might be quietly circling the wagons, demonstrating the same type of loyalty that Ailes inspired in many of his employees and perhaps bowing to financial reality.
Fox renewed O'Reilly's contract knowing that the Times story would be coming out. The Washington Post reported that the new deal extends at least through 2020.
Contracts have clauses and escape hatches. But if it really goes to 2020, those could be very expensive for the network.
Then there's the matter of a replacement. Fox has no obvious person in line to succeed O'Reilly right now.
"They are running plays from the Roger Ailes playbook and it is out of date," said one media executive at another company. "The Murdoch sons were supposedly 'disgusted' by Ailes' style and tactics, and couldn't wait to run him out of the company -- but if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they seem to be heaping praise on Ailes this week."
Of course, there could be millions of reasons why Fox News is standing by O'Reilly. As in millions of viewers, and hundreds of millions of dollars.
"The O'Reilly Factor" has been the no. 1 program on cable news for 16 years running, and it's coming off the best quarter of ratings it's ever had.
On Monday, the show demonstrated its ratings prowess once again, drawing 3.65 million viewers -- far more than any of its competitors. It's also a cash cow. "The O'Reilly Factor" generated more than $178 million in advertising revenue in 2015 and over $118 million in the first nine months of 2016, according to Kantar Media.
An on-air personality at a rival network said O'Reilly is a "holy grail" for advertisers.
"You can't go alt-right if you're a major corporation," the source said. "He's as far as you can go to reach older, conservative Americans."
The exact fallout of the advertising exodus isn't clear yet. Paul Rittenberg, Fox News' executive vice president of advertising sales, said in a statement Tuesday that the network was working with advertisers to "address their current concerns about the O'Reilly Factor," and that "the ad buys of those clients have been re-expressed into other FNC programs."
That would suggest that the advertising revolt, such as it is, hasn't affected Fox's bottom line -- at least not yet. Mercedes-Benz and Sanofi, two companies to withdraw from the "Factor," both confirmed to CNNMoney that their ads would be re-allocated to other Fox programs. Only one organization, the Society for Human Resource Management, said it had ended its advertising on the entire network.
Richard Levick, a public relations specialist who has worked in crisis management, said that "it's going to have to get very costly" before Fox shoves O'Reilly out.
"This is all about the math," said Levick. "This is not about doing the right thing. If Fox was interested in doing the right thing, it would have done it long ago."
"The question that Fox has to ask is, are viewers going to start getting asked by their children: 'Why are you watching this man?'" he added. "And once Fox feels that that moment's come, that will have as much, if not more, resonance than the advertising dollars."
Levick said that we're living in the "age of mercantile activism," which could change the equation for the advertisers -- and for Fox.
"If the ads are just being reassigned to other Fox shows, it temporarily gives companies the opportunity to do the right thing and look good," said Levick. "But as mercantile activism continues to evolve, consumers are going to begin asking why they're spending money on the network at all."
The racial justice organization Color of Change intends to ask that question forcefully. The group called on advertisers to drop O'Reilly this week, and Rashad Robinson, its executive director, said he will be "monitoring what these companies are doing."
In 2009, the group spearheaded a similar campaign aimed at advertisers on Glenn Beck's Fox News program.
O'Reilly has weathered controversies before, often emerging from them with even more power, but Robinson thinks this time around could be different.
"At the end of the day," Robinson said, "money speaks to the Murdochs."

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Today we look at an episode of the early 60s TV show “Art Ford’s Jazz Party”.
This time focusing on the early New Orleans scene.
It features: George Lewis ~ Clarinet, Punch Miller ~ Trumpet, Alphonse Picou ~ Clarinet, Sweet Emma Barrett ~ Piano, Peter Bocage ~ Violin, Charlie Love ~ Trumpet, Louis Nelson ~ Trombone, George Guesnon ~ Banjo Slow, Drag Pavageau ~ Bass, Paul Barbarin ~ Drummer.
I must admit that of all the Jazz forms, the old fashioned New Orleans sound is a little bit brash for my taste, but this program is definitely a wonderful little gem.


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One of the guiding principles of Chuffed.org has always been transparency. Our model is built off 'optional donations' because we wanted to make the costs associated with donating online transparent to donors.
This week, we're releasing a significant change to our payment processing to make the payment processing fees more transparent - and reflective of the differing fees for different payment types.
Generally speaking, it's cheaper to process Visa/Mastercards, than it is to process American Express Cards, than it is to process PayPal transactions.
Previously, to make the donation flow simpler, we used a weighted-average blending method to charge an average rate. This is no longer possible to do due to regulation changes in Australia and the EU - we think that North America and the rest of the world will follow.


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American Ferret Association sanctioned shows require ADV testing. The ONLY test accepted by the AFA is the Blue Cross Cep Test--a blood test. The test processing fee itself only costs $10 plus postage per ferret. If you are interested in showing your ferrets this year at the Greatest Ferret Show On Earth, or any other AFA sanctioned show, for convenience the GCFA has contacted several local veterinarians and has negotiated a technician fee per ferret for the blood draw and samples based on criteria detailed with the veterinarians below. Please read carefully because each veterinarian’s information may vary.
If you are not using one of the below vets, when making your appointment, you may want to speak directly to your veterinarian regarding the sample collections you need. I would suggest emailing or faxing a copy of the official instructions first for their review. However, once the samples are ready you should be able to leave with them from the appointment and mail them yourself. Packaging and mailing the samples yourself can save you money in comparison to having your vet handle the entire process and also make sure they are sent to the correct address. To reiterate, your vet is NOT performing the ADV test, simply providing you with the blood samples to mail to the lab in the link.
The Negative test result is good for one entire year from the date of the testing results. The earlier you test the more AFA shows you will have the opportunity to register for throughout the year: Spring Nationals (PA), Spring Fling (PA), The Ferret 500 (IN), Ferret Buckeye Bash (OH), Midwest Ferret Fellowship Faire (MI), Greatest Ferret Show On Earth (IL), Dooktoberfest (VA), Winter Nationals (PA). By entering a ferret in the same Title or Specialty Class in four American Ferret Association shows within the same year, the ferret will qualify for prestigious AFA “Ferret of the Year” award for that class.
If the person on the phone is unaware, just ask to speak with the veterinarian listed or have them call you back to discuss, it could just be a miscommunication.
Be clear, your vet is NOT performing the ADV test, simply providing you with the blood samples to mail.
Place a label on each baggy with the ferret’s name. Bring supplies with you to the appointment: small pieces of cardboard, scotch tape, plastic baggies and labels.
There is a $10.00 lab fee per ferret. Include payment of check, money order or credit card information for the number of ferrets you are having tested. Example: Blood samples for five ferrets=$50. You will need to call to confirm what credit card information is needed at 208-678-5553.
Double check the address and mail that day or the next business day Priority Mail.
Choose a quicker option if you are approaching a show entry deadline.
Results should be received in 2-3 weeks. If you do not receive the results in a timely fashion, call to make sure they were received. Choose the option to have the results mailed to you. You should also receive an emailed copy, but you must have the originals. Keep the original testing results in a safe place as you will need them for proof at check-in for each AFA show.
If you are not using one of the below vets, when making your appointment, you may want to speak directly to your veterinarian regarding the sample collections you need. I would suggest emailing or faxing a copy of the official instructions first for their review. However, once the samples are ready you should be able to leave with them from the appointment and mail them yourself. Packaging and mailing the samples yourself can save you money in comparison to having your vet handle the entire process and also make sure they are sent to the correct address. However, having your vet mail them in is up to you. Remember--if your vet tells you they do ADV testing, make sure it is this one! There are other ADV blood tests. This is the only one that is accepted by the AFA for their sanctioned shows. The Negative test result is good for one entire year from the date of the testing results. The earlier you test the more AFA shows you will have the opportunity to register for throughout the year: Spring Nationals (PA), Spring Fling (PA), The Ferret 500 (IN), Ferret Buckeye Bash (OH), Midwest Ferret Fellowship Faire (MI), Greatest Ferret Show On Earth (IL), Dooktoberfest (VA), Winter Nationals (PA). By entering a ferret in the same Title or Specialty Class in four American Ferret Association shows within the same year, the ferret will qualify for prestigious AFA “Ferret of the Year” award for that class.
Ness Exotic Wellness Center, Lisle. If the ADV samples are being collected during an exam appointment, the fee is only $15. If not during an exam appointment, but your ferret is a current patient and has had an exam there within the past 6 months, you will only be charged a technician fee of $25 per ferret for the blood draw and samples. You will be given the blood sample capillary tubes to label, wrap and mail.
Dr. de la Navarre, Animal House of Chicago, Chicago. If your ferret is a current patient and has been seen for a wellness exam with the past year, you will only be charged a technician fee of $20 per ferret. This includes the blood draw and collection samples. If you are a new patient, or returning patient that that needs a yearly exam, for a flat fee of $50, Dr. de la Navarre will perform an exam, weight, blood draw. You will be given the blood sample capillary tubes to label, wrap and mail.
Dr. Katie Parr, Glenwood Village Pet Hospital, Glenwood. . If your ferret is a current patient and has been seen for a wellness exam with the past year, you will only be charged a technician fee of $20 per ferret. This includes the blood draw and collection samples. If you are a new patient, or returning patient that that needs a yearly exam, for a flat fee of $50, Dr. de la Navarre will perform an exam, weight, blood draw and provide the collection samples. You will be given the blood sample capillary tubes to label, wrap and mail.
Dr. Horton, Chicago Exotics Animal Hospital, Skokie. If your ferret is a current patient and has been seen for a wellness exam within the past year, you will only be charged a technician fee of $20 per ferret. This includes the blood draw and collection samples. CEAH is also offering 10% off other qualifying services for GCFA members who can show proof of membership (your GCFA membership card). You will be given the blood sample tubes to label, wrap and mail.
Dr. Grabowski, Harper Animal Hospital. For current patients that have been seen for a wellness exam within the past year, you will only be charged a technician fee of $20 per ferret for the blood draw and samples. You will be given the blood sample capillary tubes to label, wrap and mail.
Dr. Ball/Dr. Wajda, Mokena Animal Clinic, Mokena. For current patients that have been seen for a wellness exam within the past year, you will only be charged a technician fee of $20 per ferret for the blood draw and samples. You will be given the blood sample capillary tubes to label, wrap and mail.
Again, make sure you save the original results you receive by mail from the lab; you will need these for proof to enter each show. Your ferrets also need to be up-to-date on distemper and rabies vaccinations or proof of acceptable distemper titer results. This is for your ferret’s protection while being out in public. If your ferrets need vaccinating, never schedule both distemper and rabies vaccinations at the same time, but consider scheduling one of the vaccinations in conjunction with the ADV testing appointment. Costs will vary, please check with your veterinarian.

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After a total of eleven hours the train finally started moving again. By this time it was getting quite late, so after not too long we retired to bed. We arrived at the station in Ulaan Baatar in the early hours of the morning, before sunrise. We hadn't booked anywhere to stay, but were met by touts from all of the major hostels. I normally object to being hounded in this way, but at 5am when you've got nowhere to stay, and it's not particularly warm, and you haven't slept properly, it's not so bad really. We opted to go with the representative of Nasaan's Guesthouse, as we'd read about the place in the Lonely Planet, and we'd also met a couple of people who'd stayed there, and it sounded alright.
Nasaan's is a sprawling place located in three adjacent old apartment blocks. We paid US$18 for a double room, as we fancied some privacy after so many of the last few days' being spent on trains. It was a lot more than we would have paid for dorm beds, but it was worth it. We ended up getting a whole apartment to ourselves, presumably because the place was half empty. This meant that we had our own bathroom and kitchen.
We didn't do a lot on our first day in Ulaan Baatar. It was good to get back on the Internet and get up to date with things. We were a bit shocked to find out that you couldn't get the BBC website in Mongolia. We could only assume that the Mongolian Internet provision must come from China, and that certain things were censored. We also went to the bank to change some more money.
The following day we were to be collected by another tour company, Nomads, with whom we'd booked a trip to Olgi province, the most westernmost province of Mongolia.


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I love novellas, that's why I mostly publish the Noah Milano stories in that format. It gives you all the good stuff, without the fluff. This one's no exception.
Former NYPD cop Tommy Ruzzo moved to Florida where he works as a security guy for a retirement community. When dead bodies start to turn up there Ruzzo investigates and finds some hints the murders are connected to his life in New York. Crozzword puzzles in the local paper serve as clues and of course as the basis of the title.
Like a novella should be the story is fast-paced and a bit more pulp-oriented than Lauden's fantastic punkrock / PI novel Bad Citizen Corporation.
The story is enjoyable but lacks that little bit of extra originality of that book's premise. Ruzzo is however, a nice flawed character and the setting and characters would make an excellent Tarantino movie.
An Empty Hell (Jackson Donne / Matt Herrick) by Dave White.
In a stroke of brilliance Dave White introduces his ''other'' PI, Matt Herrick (first seen here) to his main man Jackson Donne. The result is great!
A lot of bad people are looking for ex-PI, ex-cop Jackson Donne because men who used to be in his police unit are showing up dead. Potential victim Alex Robinson hires Matt Herrick, part-time PI to find Donne.
The story changes POV mainly from Herrick to Donne with some interesting flashbacks. There's a lot of movement in the story, and at times it gets a bit too much of a commercial thriller for me in scope and the ''evil supervillain'' qualities of the bad guys, but it never ever gets dull.
I love Herrick, basketball coach / PI who has the war trauma to give him some interesting backstory and how he is so different from Donne who is a lot more grizzled.
I remember reading Dave White's first short story years ago and it is amazing how good an author he has become, breathing life into the PI genre like Dennis Lehane did years ago with Gone Baby Gone.

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Gays of the Week: Young Avengers (Part 1) | gay-nerds.com | Your Interests. Your Voice. Your Home.
Welcome to another first installment of “Gay of the Week,” where we highlight LGBT characters in film, television, comics, anime, and video games. This week, we’ll be highlighting not just one individual, but an entire superteam of teens. Yes, we’re talking about Marvel’s Young Avengers.
The team debuted in 2005, after being created by out writer Allan Heinberg and artist Jim Cheung. The original run won a GLAAD media award for Outstanding Comic Book, after outing the team’s gay couple Wiccan and Hulkling. The original run ended in 2012 with “Avengers: The Children’s Crusade.” After which, the original team disbanded.
In 2013, the series was relaunched by writer Kieron Gillen and artist Jamie McKelvie. This most-recent run did a lot of shake-ups to the team. The biggest shake-up being the sexuality of the team members. Here, we’ll be highlighting each member and discuss their place on the current team, as well as their place in LGBT culture.
Wiccan: Billy Kaplan is the kinda-sorta son of the Scarlet Witch (long story). Inheriting his mother’s magical abilities, he joined the original Young Avengers team, taking on the codename “Asgardian” as a way to downplay those powers. Fan’s speculated about his relationship with team-member Hulkling, and the two came out about the same time Billy came out as a magic user. The two became one of Marvel’s foremost gay couples (As the two said, “We can’t let Northstar have all the fun.”), and are currently engaged.
Speed: Tommy Shepard is the other kinda-sorta son of the Scarlett Witch (long story). The two brothers only met for the first time after Billy joined the Young Avengers, and the team was looking to recruit other members. Being a little bit of a bad-boy, the team found Tommy locked up in a juvenile detention center. While Tommy didn’t inherit his mother’s magic like Billy, he seems to have inherited the speed of his uncle, Quicksilver. While not gay himself, Tommy is very supportive of Wiccan and Hulkling’s relationship.
Hulkling: Teddy Altman joined the original team alongside his boyfriend, Wiccan. While he looks like a younger, hipper version of the Hulk, Teddy’s actual power is shapeshifting. This is thanks to his half-Skrull heritage, which he unfortunately finds out when a Super Skrull attempts to abduct him from the Young Avengers team. Teddy is also half-Kree, and the son of the original late Captain Marvel. While he has two different alien empires ready for him to take on a leadership role, Teddy has decided to stay on Earth, with his team of friends, and now-fiance, Billy.
That’s it for today! Stay tuned tomorrow for part two, as we round out the cast.
Do you have an idea for a character to be featured here? Let us know in the comments!
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Deadpool Assassin #6 review: A fitting ending for a strong mini series – AiPT!
Deadpool: Assassin concludes this week with yet another fun, funny, and exciting issue.
Even before 2016’s Deadpool shattered box office records and slung the crimson criminal to super stardom, Marvel has always seemingly done everything possible to pump out as much Deadpool content as humanly possible- for better and for worse. This leads to over-saturation, confusing continuity, and a dilution of the brand. More often than not, the auxiliary Deadpool books paled in comparison to the ongoing main title, feeling unnecessary and utterly forgetful. Luckily for writer Cullen Bunn and writer Mark Bagley, this is definitely not the case for Deadpool Assassin– in fact, this series blows the current Deadpool series out of the water. All good things must come to an end though, and Deadpool Assassin #6 concludes the series in a way that exemplifies everything this series has been- bloody, fun, and hysterical.
Deadpool Assassin #6 is not groundbreaking nor breathtaking, but it’s an engaging, well-paced, and hilarious read throughout. As has been the case with the entire series, Cullen Bunn and Mark Bagley work so well together to present the story. The dialogue is as irreverent and comical as Deadpool dialogue should be, and the visual are crisp, clean, and perfect for a Deadpool story.
This issue is probably the least funny of the miniseries, but that’s not a bad thing when every issue has been laugh out loud funny throughout. It’s like being the dumbest kid at Harvard- sure, you’re not the best, but you’re still better than almost everyone else. Wade’s constant quips and extremely obscure references had me giggling damn near every page. The humor is perfect for a Wade Wilson adventure too, changing from irreverent fourth wall breaks to non-sensical back and forths with super-villains that point out just how absurd the story’s conclusion is.
And, believe me, it’s pretty absurd- and by absurd, I mean dark as all hell. It involves feeding the soul of an unborn child in order to sustain the life of a demonic mutant-baby who feeds on death. Oh, and the aforemention unborn child, belongs to DP’s best friend/arms-dealer Weasel, who died in Deadpool’s arms. So yeah, it’s pretty goddamn dark. That being said, I was too busy laughing at Deadpool’s jokes to notice how f----d up the story was. It was only after a second reading that I realized there was sinister story at play underneath the mercenary hijinks. In a weird way, it’s a testament to Bunn’s ability to craft witty dialogue that the heavy subject matter of the story doesn’t bog the reader down.
One big complaint I did have, however, is how casual Weasel’s death feels. It was a dramatic moment in #5 when Weasel was fatally wounded, yet in this conclusion it feels completely glossed over. I understand that Weasel is a largely obscure character in the greater Marvel Universe, but I’d expect Deadpool to be a lot more torn up out about the unexpected death of his best friend than what plays out in this issue. Deadpool just shrugs off Weasel’s death and it just doesn’t feel right.
I am sad to see Deadpool Assassin go- I’d genuinely hoped Marvel would extend this to a maxi-series or even make it an ongoing run. Cullen Bunn flexed his mastery over the Merc with a Mouth throughout this series and I really hope he writes another Deadpool story again in the near future. Regardless, Deadpool Assassin #6 is a strong and fitting end for a series that was everything a Deadpool story should be- violent, funny, and a great f----n’ time.
Deadpool Assassin #6 closes this series out with an issue that exemplifies why this series was so enjoyable all along. It's an exciting, action-packed, and hilarious Deadpool adventure that is surprisingly and unexpectedly dark.
Cullen Bunn really knows how to write witty, irreverent dialogue that fits Deadpool perfectly. Readers will at the very least giggle on every page.
The art is crisp, clean, and gorgeous throughout.
The story is surprisingly and subtly dark, but not so much that it over powers the comedic dialogue.
This book is definitely funny, but it's the least funny issue of the series.


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Why Does Your Facebook Ad Cost Increase Over Time?
Facebook is one of the best platforms to advertise your products or services online. Their targeting options are insane and the cost of advertising to a high-quality audience is the lowest compared to any other online channel.
A lot of digital marketers get excited when they start advertising on Facebook. They get surprised by the low cost of reaching people and start dreaming of conquering the whole world. However, within a few days, their dreams are shattered because they start observing that their click costs are going up and the conversion ratios are going down.
Many marketers do not understand why this happens. Some people even go to the extent of saying that Facebook is cheating them. The following image represents the emotions of a Facebook advertiser from starting from the excitement of cheap clicks and conversions eventually leading to frustration towards the end of the campaign!
In this post, I want to give you a data-backed answer of why the efficiency of your Facebook ad campaign is short-lived. There are obvious reasons for it, and once you understand them, you will be able to manage your Facebook ads better. You will start the campaigns with realistic expectations and you will have a strategy to scale your campaigns at a controlled cost.
To understand what factors affect your cost, first, we have to thoroughly understand certain metrics that are uber-important when it comes to Facebook advertising.
Publishers usually charge advertisers on CPM basis. That’s why most of the content websites try to increase their page views. If you have seen websites which split their articles into several pages, that’s because it increases their page views, and in turn their ad impressions. CPM is the most common way of charging for advertisers for display ads.
Exception: Note that search engines like Google do not charge advertisers on CPM basis, but on CPC (cost per click) basis. And that’s one of the reasons it is attractive to advertisers. They can afford to charge on CPC basis because a search engine’s page views are distributed over a wide list of keyword-triggered search result pages. The same is not true for publishing websites because content websites have a small number of pages visited by a lot of people. The number of search engine result pages are theoretically infinite and each page is visited only by the people who search for those keywords on Google. Contextual text-ads on the Google network are also CPC based.
Content websites cannot afford to charge advertisers on CPC basis because if the advertiser has designed a poor ad which attracts very little clicks, they would end up getting paid less. Someone else’s ad with a higher CTR would perform much better in the same slot, and publishers do not want the trouble of choosing the ad with the highest possible CTR. So they will charge advertisers on CPM basis.
When publishers charge on CPM basis, they need not worry about the CTR, and in turn, the advertiser needs to worry about the CTR!
Which leads us to the next important metric in digital marketing, the CTR. (Remember that in this context Facebook is the publisher and we are the advertisers).
Facebook calculates the CPM based on the competition to reach the same audience. If a lot of people are advertising to reach the same audience, then the highest bidder is the one who gets through. For example, the audience in the range of 25-35, living in metro cities, who have high income would be costly to advertise to because a lot of advertisers are targeting the same group.
Note that you are not competing with your competitors in the same industry. You are competing with advertisers from different verticals who are targeting the same audience. Also, veteran Facebook advertisers would have noticed that the costs go up during holiday seasons such as Diwali or Christmas/New-Year.
For a more comprehensive data set on Facebook ad costs across countries and age groups, check out this article on AdEspresso.
Click through rate is the percentage of people clicking on your ads. If your ad is displayed 100 times and if one person clicks on the ad, your CTR is 1%. If your ad is displayed 1,000 times and if 17 people click on your ads, your CTR is 1.7%.
Why do we need a high CTR?
Digital marketers want a high CTR. Because, as discussed in the CPM section, Facebook and similar platforms charge advertisers on CPM basis and not CPC basis. Though Facebook can show you the metrics in CPCs, they do not charge you for clicks. Facebook charges you on CPM and then shows the metrics as CPC.
Facebook has a “cost” for displaying an ad everytime to a user – because there are limited ad slots and limited users. Clicks are irrelevant for them. They also cannot show too many ads because that would diminish the user experience of Facebook users.
Let’s say you create an ad, Facebook charges you Rs.100 for 1,000 impressions of the ad. If you get 1% CTR, that’s 10 clicks. You have paid Rs.10 per click (Rs.100, the CPM divided by the total clicks, that is Rs.10 the cost per click, CPC).
If you get a 2% CTR, you have 20 clicks. Now you have paid only Rs.5 per click (Rs.100/20-clicks). By increasing the CTR by another 1% you have doubled the traffic from the same budget and halved your cost per click.
To put it simply, if you are paying for every impression, it is wise to get the maximum clicks from the impressions as possible. If people see your ad and do not click on it, it is a wasted impression.
Conversely, when you are running PPC ads on search engines, the CTRs do not matter because you pay only for clicks. You might even want to have a low CTR because a low CTR means that only the people who are highly interested are clicking on it, and the quality of the clicks are high.
Now that you have understood what CTR is and why we need a high CTR. Let’s look at the different factors that influence your CTR and how you can improve your CTR.
Your Target Audience: If your target audience for your ad is relevant, your CTR will be high. If you get the target audience wrong, your CTR will be low. For example, if I create an ad for men’s shoes and show it to women of 18-25 years age, the ad is irrelevant to the target audience and my CTR would be near to zero. I would be wasting almost all my ad budget.
Targeting your ads to the right online audience is the No.1 factor that influences CTR. Targeting is important, not just for Facebook Ads but also for other digital ads.
In search engines, the targeting is done via search keywords and the buyer intent is very clear. Only in search, you can ignore your audience demographics and interests. If someone is searching for “top digital marketing courses in India”, then it is very clear that he/she is interested in learning digital marketing. You don’t need to worry about demographics here.
With display ads, you are interrupting people and they are not looking for you with search keywords. The buyer intent is not very clear because of lack of search terms. The only way to make the ad relevant to the user is to show it to the right target audience. For that, you should first know who your target audience is.
The Ad Copy and the Ad Image: People decide to click on an ad and learn more about it based on the title of the ad. The title is the shortcut to learning what’s beyond the ad without clicking on the ad. Titles can have a huge impact on your CTR. A poor title can fail your ad campaign. A very good title can improve the CTR by 3x to 5x.
The ad image acts as a visual candy and pulls in the user to read the title. Ad image is also equally important in influencing CTR. The ad description also plays a role but not as much as the ad title and ad image.
Getting the ad copy and ad image right is one of the most difficult puzzles to crack in digital marketing. Not even experienced digital marketers can tell you which ad copy would perform better. We can take an educated guess and look at historical data, but we can find the winner only through split testing.
That’s why A/B testing is very important in digital marketing. If you run two different types of ads, you will know which one gets better clicks and after a certain number, you can conclude who is the winner. Once you get the winner, you try to beat the CTR further by creating an ad that would be even better in terms of CTR.
CPM and CTR are the usual metrics used in online advertising. Cost Per 1,000 people Reached (CPTPR) & Frequency are metrics specific to only certain platforms of advertising. These metrics help you a lot in optimizing your ad. Not all publishers can give you this data. Facebook does.
When Facebook runs your ad, and if each person looks at your ad once, then the Frequency is 1. Here the Impressions = No. of people reached. The CPM and the Cost per 1,000 people reached would be the same.
However, if the target audience is small and if Facebook shows the ad twice to the same person, then the frequency is 2. If the total impressions are 2,000, but the Frequency is 2, the ad has reached only 1,000 people. Here, the CPM would be twice of Cost per 1,000 people reached.
If you are running a brand awareness campaign, it is ok to have a high frequency of the ad. However, if you are running a campaign for conversions, then it is recommended that you do not show the ad to the same person for more than 3 times. Because your conversions will start going down after a frequency of 2-3. Which leads us to the next part of this article – understanding how Facebook delivers your ads.
Assuming that we have the best possible ad copy and image, the another factor which would influence our CTR is the target audience. If your ad targets a very wide audience, then your CTR will be less because of low relevancy. If your ad targets a narrow audience, the audience will find your ad relevant and interesting, and your CTR will be high.
If I target the whole of India for this ad, I can target 35 million people. If I do that, I will be showing my ads to a lot of people who might not be interested in learning digital marketing.
My CTR will be very low and my CPC will be high – which will increase my conversion cost (conversion in this case is a confirmed-optin subscriber at LearnDigitalMarketing.com).
So I need to narrow my audience. To narrow my audience, I add demographic details and interests. After adding all of them, my target audience is now reduced to 3.3 million. (Targeting the right audience with demographics and interests is a huge topic in itself, which we will learn in another post).
Since I am targeting only 3.3 million people who are likely to be interested in my ad, my CTR will be high. If I show it to all the 35 million people, the CTR will be very low. A high CTR will lead to lower CPCs and lower conversion costs.
Note that I can also reduce my target audience to 1 million by adding more interests and making my audience even narrower, this would increase my CTR even more. But I do not want to do that because it would be difficult to scale my ad in the future when the audience is very narrow.
Unless you are looking for very low number of highly targeted cost-effective conversions, it doesn’t make sense to have a very narrow targeting. If you are looking at getting a lot of conversions over a period of time, it makes sense to have a broader target even if it means that the conversion cost is a bit high initially.
If you are targeting a small group of people then your relevancy would be high, your CTR will be high and your conversion cost will be low. However, since your target audience is small, you will deplete your virgin audience very soon and your ad will start showing to the same people again. Someone who has not clicked on your ad for the first time is less likely to click on it when he/she sees the ad for the second time. That’s why the CTR goes down.
This is how your ad will behave as you try to reach more people.
The frequency goes up, CTR goes down and costs start increasing rapidly. The cost would go up very fast in a short period of time and it would reach a point where it becomes unsustainable for you to run the ad.
If you have a broad target audience for your ad, your relevancy would be lower, CTR would be low and your initial conversion cost would be high. However, since you have a large audience to target, it would take a lot of time before you hit a cap. Your pool of virgin audience yet to see your ad for the first time is very large. Until you hit that cap, your frequency will remain near to 1. Your costs will be stable and predictable.
Thus this scenario gives you a campaign that sustains itself for a longer time. If you are looking for a large number of conversions over a long period of time, you should have a broader target even if your initial click and conversion costs are high.
Now, you may have a question: Wouldn’t it be better if you first run an ad with a narrow target audience, enjoy the low CPCs and then when this ad becomes unsustainable, start another ad with a broader target? I had the same question, but after many experiments, I wouldn’t recommend that because as mentioned in the article about Facebook Pixel, Facebook also auto-optimizes your ad for conversions. The more data it has, the better it can optimize for conversions. You do not want to start an ad from scratch and wait for Facebook to optimize your ad every time.
I know this has been a very long blog post but I hope that this answers your question about the strange behavior of Facebook Ads in terms of pricing. Now it is no longer strange for us because we know how their ad engine runs. I hope this blog post also gave you a clear understanding of how display ads and search ads work. This understanding will also help you a lot with future ad campaign strategies.
Any questions? Leave a comment below. Thanks for reading.
Great insights. And very free flowing language too.
Would love more such posts.
Thanks Dipanker. Easy flowing language has been my USP 🙂 Comments like these motivate me to write more.
It was really a good learning!
Very much useful information, until I read this article I had some some doutbs, now I got clarity. Definitely this will helps me. Thank you Deepak.
Thanks for the detailed article. What if my audience size is too specific (red area on the audience meter)? I experienced high CPM’s even though I had good CTR and good Ad Engagement.
If the objective of the campaign is Website Conversions (WC) for Lead Gen, what if I had very good amount of leads with bad CTR or less amount of leads with bad CTR? How does the number of leads affect the CPM?
How does it affect the Lead Gen Vs E Com?
There are too many variables at play here. End of the day the only question is, can you get an ROI from the ad campaigns? If yes, it doesn’t matter if the CPM is high, relevance is low and so on. However, what if you can optimize more and get better ROI? You shouldn’t leave money on the table either.
I thought why my ad cost much higher these days. Thanks for sharing these tips. Your posts are very useful!
Read the article again. Can’t make it simpler.
Thanks for the detailed article Deepak. As precise as it can be.
Thank you for this information. This is exactly where I was stuck.
It was very helpful..keep posting more articles..
Super post..!! Great insights. Thank you.
It’s a good one . Very confusing topic explained with ease. I have also started writing on digital marketing of difficulties and experiences I am facing , hope to get encouraged more from you.
thanks for sharing such a wonderful stuff.
A really helpful article !!!
Can you also take up in more detail how facebook chooses to display one ad over other ( factors like relevancy score ) in your next post perhaps ..
Well research. I learn a lot of valuable information from your post about Facebook Ads cost. This month is also buying season, the cost of Facebook ads will increase more. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant analysis, definitely a worthwhile read. I’m just dealing with a FB campaign that started out with very high ctr initially but as time passed ctr dropped significantly and I’m still getting the same amounts of impressions = cpi rose (doing app install ads).
Thank you so much for being great source of information today I’m feeling that I had some information about this Facebook ads marketing. If possible kindly make it in Vedio.
But yeah, It’s really useful….Thanks again..
Really helpful insights …! Thank you for sharing.
Very useful post and very simple language, i needed these informations, thanks!
Why my CPM is increasing over a period of time.
for the same audience and same campaign my cpm today is higher than yesterday ad it is increasing everyday.
You are awesome and I just say thank you for ur digital marketing basic course really it’s awesome.
I agree with your experiments, just wanted to add that instead of broad targeting to make a bigger Virgin audience, wouldn’t it be a better idea to make a lookalike audience of laser targeted audience?
This way you get a larger audience to target and the audience has the same charteristics as your laser targeted audience.
Hai. I have 2 same business at 5 km difference.i promote a call to action ad with same image condant and same audience & location in 2 different page from 2 fb account. Then one ad runs at a count of Rs 5 per link click and another with Rs 20 per link click.. why ? Can you help me ?
One of the most important thing to look at is ad-fatigue. Ad-fatigue can have a massive impact on the cost per lead. Also, break up your audience into different ad-sets to find which version is getting cheaper leads.
When I first used the Facebook Campaign for advertising my business, I was surprised to see the results. The cost per lead was very low as compared to the other advertising network (Google ads, Bing etc).
The sales conversion was very low, and it was a setback for my aspirations.
The second thing which you have mentioned in this post about the increasing cost of the Facebook Ad is also a problem which I have faced so far with Facebook adverts.
You have left no stone unturned, to explain the whole phenomena of FB ads.
Thanks for sharing your valuable thought on this Topic!

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I had originally wanted to make this card with the bookmark as part of the card front....well, that went out the window when I discovered my sentiment was too large ...Poopitz!
So I ended up with a card AND a bookmark.
This is such a gorgeous stamp set by Our Daily Bread Designs. Admitting here this is my first product from them, but after checking out their store, I now have a long wish list.
The foliage stamp is by Penny Black. I stamped it onto watercolor paper using Memento markers, then softened the edges with a paintbrush and water.
Edges were inked with Tim Holtz Tea Dye and Vintage Photo inks.
Beautiful, Penny, one of my favorite hymns! Love the flower sprig you paired with it!
Hi Penny. Sorry... Deleted and reposted as noticed a typo!!!
This is so beautiful! Love the watercolor look! Thank you for joining us at Sparkle & Shine!
Beautiful! Love ODB stamps! You did a fantastic job showcasing their stamp and Penny Black. Love the results!
Beautiful and so well done - that greenery is so lovely and the way you have created this card just infuses me with gratitude for His grace!! So gorgeous and so full of hope!! Hugs to you!!
THIS is the kind of Penny Black that I LOVE! There's nothing else like it in the stamp world. I miss seeing these types of stamps released... Oh, you've worked it so beautifully! Thanks so much for sharing your tips on how to achieve this look. I just love it and when paired with the sentiment, it is truly a perfect card!
Such a gorgeous creation! The colors are serene and beautiful. Love the idea of a bookmark. I better not start looking over at ODB, or I suspect I will also have a looooong wish list!
What absolutely GORGEOUS projects! One of my favorite hymns - and these are so beautifully done! Breathtaking for sure...Thanks so much for playing along at Sparkle and Shine!!!
So lovely. The softened edges are wonderful.


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ResourceMFG’s client company is a growing, diversified provider of pool supplies to wholesale distributors and a group of 215 retail stores across Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Based in Clearwater, Florida, it also manufacturers and packages pool chemicals for large distributors, buying groups, and multi-store retail chains across the United States.
The manufacturer has been growing rapidly for the past decade. Along the way, the company has needed to make significant improvements in workforce structure and culture to leverage automation and other process advancements as the business diversifies, increases in complexity, and anticipates market changes.

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under my mother, draped comfortably around me.
buys two pairs of good blue trainers.
We lace each other up.
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Okay, fine, I'm not a boy like them, but I'm still a boy. The thing is, boys--by which I mean guy-guys like my brother, Jeff--have always been a total mystery to me. I mean, how do they know how to do all that stuff, like throw and catch and grease car engines? Besides the fact that I don't have a clue how to do any of those things, on a scale of 1-10 I have, like, below zero interest. Way below. Try negative a thousand.
1. Make fart noises under your armpit and think it's hilarious.
2. Make real farts and go, "Good one!"
12-year-old Joe (almost 13) knows he's gay--and he doesn't go out of his way to hide it, even though he faces homophobia at school. Joe doesn't understand macho-boys, or how they behave, and is unable to conform or to act like them. Instead, he is truly himself, and he gradually learns to appreciate this after he finds someone else wishes they could be more like him.
Joe and his classmates are asked to write an autobiography about themselves, from A-Z with a life lesson for each letter, and that is how we hear Joe's story. Joe's account is written in a vibrant voice as he moves throughout the school year, changing, growing, and eventually coming out (even though most people already knew he was gay).
This is a funny, enjoyable book with a strong voice, good observations (both inner and outer), and a great sense of right and wrong. Although Howe addresses some potentially painful issues, the book remains a fairly light read. The pain is balanced out by the fantastic humor, by Joe's own acceptance and awareness of his gayness, and by his supportive friends and family.
Readers who are gay/lesbian or who have friends who are may recognize many things that feel true to the experience--both fun and painful. Different levels and types of homophobia are addressed in this book, as well as an almost celebratory-feeling of being gay and being oneself.
Joe's voice is especially refreshing. He is funny and honest, open about being gay, and reveals details that might be surprising to some readers in a totally matter-of-fact way. These details are woven throughout the story naturally.
Joe is a very likeable character. He allows himself to be who he is, without apology, and stands up for what he believes in, though he also undergoes struggle. He is brave, funny, thoughtful, observant, and tries hard not to ridicule or put down people the way others have him. He is also keenly aware of gender stereotypes, homophobia, sexism, and more. Joe seems, in many ways, like a stereotype of a 'queen', but he is a full character, and the authors are careful to balance out gay characters, and show diversity; not all gay or straight people are alike.
Joe has a fairly non-sexual relationship with Colin (a few kisses, holding hands, enjoying movies together)--which perhaps is appropriate for the age, but I wonder if it was also to be less threatening to homophobic readers. Through Joe and Colin's relationship, we see the heartache that can come from being with another gay person who is unable to accept who they are or be honest with other people--and the homophobia or oppressiveness that can sometimes come from another gay person. We move with Joe through his excitement and elatedness, his hurt and his anger, and by the end of the book most readers will be glad at the outcome of this relationship.
There are many heart-warming, triumphant, and touching moments in the book, as well as a great amount of support for Joe from other characters. All of this makes Totally Joe a supportive, encouraging, and fun book for gay readers, their friends and family, and it may also help to make the subject matter more palatable or easier for some readers. While at times the amount and ease of support about being gay--especially from his family--may seem unbelievable or false, it adds to the positive tone--and this book cannot be separated from the context of a world that is frequently and harshly homophobic. We need more positive gay/lesbian stories. At the same time, a slightly more balanced tone may have led to a greater richness. But taken for what it is--a story of acceptance, encouragement, and support about being gay for teens and anyone else who needs this message, and the book works completely.
Joe and a few of his friends are the most keenly drawn characters here. Joe's father and Aunt Pam have some nuances and shading to them, and it is clear they love Joe. However, Joe's mother appears as a flat character, hardly present and without depth or complexity. It almost seems as if she is an unnecessary character.
There are a few places where Joe's voice or memories do not seem believable for his age; a few small inconsistencies; and a few rare places where we are being told something instead of being shown--but these are easily overlooked in the pure joy of reading such a light-hearted, funny, yet thoughtful account of being gay.
This is a positive, affirming book about being gay, being who you are, accepting yourself and others, and believing in yourself. Highly recommended.
Go back to Out and Proud: Great Lesbian & Gay Fiction to find great Teen Books That Have Something to Say.


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How does this compare to the standard doublewood version?
More oak, and the additional cinnamon, vanilla, and spice really shine. 12 yr is really good stuff, but you'll notice the difference. The second conditioning in sherry wood makes both of these very nice.
I got a bottle of 12 year DoubleWood as a gift for a friend, but our NC prices are kinda steep. I'll drift across the line into SC and see if I can get it for $10-20 less. Out the door in NC was 70 beans.
She's trying to look good for you. You're adding a beer belly. I think my wife would cut right through that argument and leave me laying on the ground in pieces.
naaa...its all good. she drinks my beer and even some whiskey now and then. on the other hand, yes I get the enjoy her dolled up....so now complaints!
I tried searching and didn't come up that I had posted about Old Grandad 114. I think I paid $20 for the fifth and it is almost gone, might finish up tonight. Most of the time I find anything over 90 proof to be a little hot and need a cube. Old Grandad 114 was in that category and just not mindblowing enough to drink by itself so I made it a mixer and it is fantastic with ginger. I quit using ginger ale and use Old Balycaster Ginger from Powell & Mahoney instead.
I mentioned Old Ezra 101 back in July and it is the same story except more boring in the glass by itself than Old Grandad 114. In any mixed Bourbon drink it is devine. I think I shelled out 20 beans for Old Ezra and after I drained that bottle I immediately grabbed another to put in the queue.
I just ordered a bottle as a Christmas present for my wife. Couldn't find it locally, so the shipping is as much as the product, but tis the season.


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Sisters Chloé and Parris Gordon named their brand Beaufille - which translates to "handsome girl" - to represent the juxtaposition of masculine and feminine elements in each of their designs. Made in Italy from vinyl, these 'Veritas' pants have a flattering high-rise waist and fit slim through the leg before kicking out at the cropped hem. Try them with a tucked-in blouse or tee.
Shown here with: Ellery Shirt, REJINA PYO Coat, REJINA PYO Tote, Acne Studios Mules.


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When I first wrote about General Convention Resolution D022: Response to Anglican Covenant Process, the resolution, though approved for submission, was not yet on the list of all resolutions on the General Convention Web site. Apparently, it takes some time to process resolutions, getting them into the right format, assigning them to a legislative committee, etc. Today, however, the resolution has finally appeared. You can read the resolution on the General Convention site here.
Resolution D022 has, of course, been assigned to the Governance and Structure Committee, which will deal with the Covenant resolution from the Executive Committee, A040. That committee has a lot on its plate, including most of the resolutions from the Task Force for Reimagining The Episcopal Church (TREC). It will be a busy committee.
If you have not read my essay on dealing with the Anglican Covenant, “Time for a Definitive Response to the Anglican Covenant,” I invite you to do so now.

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text: Made from 100% burlap these sturdy bags are great for carrying just about anything and looks good to boot! Strong nylon straps measuring 29 inches in length. Bag measurements 13 x 15 inches. Interior has 3 handy pockets. Hand made with very secure stitches. Burlap bag features a festive orange design.


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Excel provides four useful statistical functions for counting cells within a worksheet or list: COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK, and COUNTIF. Excel also provides two useful functions for counting permutations and combinations: PERMUT and COMBIN.
into cell G2. The function returns the value 9.
You can include several arguments as part of the range argument in the COUNT function. For example, you might also use the syntax =COUNT(B2,B3:B5,B6:B7,B8,B9), which would return the same result as the formula you see here.
into cell G4. The function returns the value 3.
into cell G6. The function returns the value 1.
where range is the worksheet range in which you count cells and criteria is a Boolean expression, enclosed in quotation marks, that describes your criteria.
This formula appears in cell G8 of the worksheet.
You can use other Boolean operators to construct other match criteria: Use the < operator for a less-than comparison, the <= operator for a less-than-or-equal-to comparison, the >= operator for a greater-than-or-equal-to comparison, the = operator for the equal-to comparison, and the <> operator for a not-equal-to comparison.
The function returns the value 120, indicating that 120 different ways exist in which three items can be selected from a set of six.
This function returns the value 20. The COMBIN function isn’t technically an Excel statistical function, by the way, but is closely related.


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Dev (Telugu), a Telugu movie, is not currently screening in Hyderabad.
After winding up with Dev, the first word to come out of my mouth was a rendition of Allu Arjun's "Devuda" from Race Gurram. "Dev"uda - get it? Ha! Ha! Ha!
One more. Dev's friends convince the adventure-seeking title character that falling in love is an adventure unto itself. Do you know what the real daring adventure is? Sitting through this movie. Ha! Ha! Ha!
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Selfish Little Cow is the evocative and moving autobiography of skincare guru, Jenny Harding. Following the deaths of her parents in shocking circumstances days before her seventeenth birthday Jenny went downhill fast. Convinced she was to blame, and consumed by grief and guilt, she tried to take her own life. Vulnerable and isolated, she became trapped in a relationship where emotional and physical abuse were commonplace. In Selfish Little Cow, Jenny describes how she finally managed to turn her life around – and recalls in hilarious detail her friendship with the notorious East End gangster, Reg Kray. Poignant, powerful and uplifting, hers is a story that will inspire anyone who wants to create a better life.
Today, Jenny’s reputation as a renowned skincare expert draws clients from all walks of life to her practice, the Dynasty Clinic, in London.

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Let me try and explain what this one means to me.
I am a big geek. For most of my life this has centred around Star Wars, then in my twenties it extended to Buffy and the wider works of Joss Whedon and in the last decade I have also become quite obsessive with The Marvel Cinematic Universe. I’ve also dabbled heavily in sci-fi fan faves Doctor Who and Star Trek.
Yet I have only ever been to one fan convention and I have only ever joined one fan club and neither of these were linked to any of the above. Nope, in my younger years it was The Sons of the Desert, the official Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society, that I was a member of and my love of these two gentlemen, both gone from the planet fifty four years ago, remains as strong now as it ever was. In fact Stan Laurel is my one true hero, the single person living or dead I would most like to meet, my idol.
It’s fair to say then that I’ve been looking forward to this little film.
Clearly I’m thrilled that this film is not a brutal expose of unknown cruelties these men committed but this does rob it of some drama. Stan & Ollie is not a thrilling emotional rollercoaster and I have no idea how deeply it will engage the uninitiated. If you don’t already care about these guys then I’m not sure how much you would start to by watching it. This isn’t to say that the movie doesn’t showcase their brilliance but I have to admit that their brand of humour has dated more than the biting wit of something like The Marx Brothers and it doesn’t involve the same astonishing stunt work of Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd.
There are different reasons to love Laurel and Hardy though and it isn’t just the wonderful and sometimes surreal physical comedy and their incredible charm. One of the best aspects of all of their work together is the beautiful sense of companionship that lies beneath everything they do. Yes, the screen versions of their personas fight and they get exasperated with each other but they are always together and you know they’d never be separated. What this new film does so well is play on this and theorise how it was part of their real lives too. They do fight and they do get exasperated with each other (the story is not totally devoid of conflict) but they need each other and this is a nice mess that they are both clearly deeply happy to have gotten into.
Some of the drama also comes from the duos’ situation. This is not the story of their heyday, instead focusing on the tour of U.K. theatres they took at the end of their careers in the 50s. They struggle with a dwindling reputation and ill health as well as regrets with decisions they made as younger men. The story doesn’t steer right away from showing the mechanics of early cinema, there is a delightful early tracking shot as the two of them walk though a studio from their dressing room to the set, but if you want more of this best stick with Richard Attenborough’s Chaplin (which features a different actor as Stan Laurel).
Here Laurel is played by Steve Coogan and he does a really good job. Coogan’s gift for mimicry allows him to get Laurel’s intonation perfectly and he also does beautifully with some small and subtle moments of emotion. If you never quite forget you are watching a portrayal here though the same is less true of John C. Reilly whose Oliver Hardy is spot on. This doesn’t mean that the film is Reilly’s though; he inhabits Hardy perfectly as a man but less so as a comedian whereas Coogan manages to convince as a gifted comic and the real man behind him. It could just be that we are less familiar with the real Laurel as his professional image was a transformative act that rarely fell away when any camera was on him.
The poster describes Stan & Ollie as ‘the untold story of the world’s greatest comedy act’. You’ll get no argument from me on the second part of that but if it is a previously untold story that might be because it’s not entirely true. There are other accounts of Stan being a workaholic leader and Ollie being easily lead so I have no criticism of this being shown on screen but the facts of their working life is presented with some artistic licence. The story suggests that some flawed contract negotiations finished their film careers when the Hal Roach Studios let them go. In reality eight of their twenty seven feature films were made after this point. Interestingly only a real fan would worry about this but I’m not worried about it. In the end Stan & Ollie tells a sweetly touching story of two men that have already sweetly touched my life and I think it is exquisite.
Wonderfully for a movie about two famous men, Stan & Ollie heavily features two formidable women. Shirley Henderson and Nina Arianda are excellent as Lucille Hardy and Ida Laurel and while they may be playing the wife roles they show that there is strength and independence in this. As much as Stan Laurel or Oliver Hardy were incomplete without each other, so too are their characterisations only fully realised when they are seen with their spouses. Both Henderson and Arianda excel in different ways and they are essential to the story.
Yes, but only if you are going to show them a load of Laurel and Hardy movies first and as far as I am concerned you really really should do that. I guess I made my opinion on that clear from the start though.
I’ve never seen Laurel and Hardy before (we were an Abbott and Costello household), but I definitely wanna see this!
You’ll be pleased to see Abbot & Costello name checked in the film.


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Canadian Comedy Award winners, 16-time Best of Fest winners and 3-time London Impresario Award winners. Sold out Fringe runs 2013-2016. Brimming with innocence and endearing chemistry, 2 for Tea is a vibrant celebration of friendship and imagination. 'Complete and utter fun' ***** (CBC). 'Full-out belly laughs all the way through' ***** (Winnipeg Free Press). 'Extraordinary. Hilarious. Amazing' ***** ( Edmonton Journal). 'Outrageously funny, magnificently written' ***** (London Free Press). 'A masterpiece of refined chaos... Note-for-note perfection' ***** (TheatreinLondon.ca). 'An irresistible delight' ***** (Stage-Door.com). 'Anything is possible' ***** (Torontoist.com).


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Purple Soup’s Billy Cart Grand Prix is an adventure therapy program that will get the members of your organisation working as a high-functioning, collaborative unit as they work against the clock in a high-speed, adrenalin-charged environment.
In this challenge, your organisation’s members will form competing pit crews to plan, build and race a Billy Cart – all within a limited time frame and with a limited budget. Communication and collaboration are critical as the pit crews race each other to build a Billy Cart that will qualify them to race and vie for pole position. Only one team will cross the line first to stand on the winner’s podium! This is a adventure therapy program that will exhilarate and develop your organisation – both as individuals and as team players.


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