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TCC from A to Z with Tavocept Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) is the most common bladder cancer diagnosed in dogs. Unfortunately, canine TCC is generally not diagnosed until it has invaded nto the bladder wall, at which point available treatment options are largely unsuccessful. Thus, canine urinary bladder TCC is virtually incurable at this time. The necessary elements to move us closer to a cure include earlier detection and more effective prevention of metastatic disease. A summary of current diagnostic methods and treatment options will be provided and ongoing research will be discussed. Considerably less information is available with regard to feline bladder cancer. A summary of clinical features, biological behavior, and treatment outcome reported for cats with TCC will be provided and discussed, time permitting.
A summary of current diagnostic methods and treatment options will be provided and ongoing research will be discussed. Considerably less information is available with regard to feline bladder cancer. A summary of clinical features, biological behavior, and treatment outcome reported for cats with TCC is provided here.
Dr. Carolyn J Henry is a Full Professor of Oncology at the University of Missouri, with dual appointments in the College of Veterinary Medicine and the School of Medicine, USA. A graduate of Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Henry practiced small animal and emergency medicine in Georgia and Alabama before returning to Auburn to complete an MS degree program and an Oncology Residency. Dr. Henry became board certified in Oncology in 1994 and served on the faculty at Washington State University for three years before accepting a faculty position at the University of Missouri’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 1997. She also serves as the Associate Director of Research at the Ellis Fischel [human] Cancer Center at the University of Missouri, Faculty Facilitator for the One Health/One Medicine Initiative of the Mizzou Advantage Program within the Provost’s Office and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the College of Veterinary Medicine. She is past president of both the Veterinary Cancer Society and the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Specialty of Oncology and is a member of the European Society of Veterinary Oncology and Fellow in the National Academies of Practice. Dr. Henry’s textbook, Cancer Management in Small Animal Practice, was published in 2010 and she has authored or coauthored over 80 peer-reviewed manuscripts. Dr. Henry’s research interests center on translational models of human disease, with bladder cancer and novel drug therapies being areas of emphasis.


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SEA Lab will offer a class on Naturalist Sketching on Saturday, March 23 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Redondo Beach bluffs.
Co-hosted by USC Sea Grant, attendees will learn about phenology and observe the seasonal changes of local species. Get outdoor art experience and fine tune your naturalist skills. Earn credit towards Plant Science, Eco Friend, Outdoor Art badges and more!
The class fee is $15.
For additional information and registration, visit the Eventbrite page at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/naturalist-sketching-seasonal-changes-of-the-redondo-beach-bluffs-tickets-56220320492.
The SEA Lab is located at 1021 North Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach, CA 90277.

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Jinky’s pancakes are made with fresh ingredients every day. We like to think that we are the standard by which pancakes are judged. Many Yelp and CitySearch reviews can be seen confirming this. Heidi Klum's kind of Los Angeles breakfast. Choose from nuts, chocolate chips and a variety of fruits. It's a breakfast made of pure freshness.
Had a delicious breakfast here last week. The service was outstanding as well.
Great food for all times of the day, especially pumpkin pancakes and various kinds of chili!
Great place. Fun atmosphere. Lactose-free coffee creamer. Had the 2x2 with pumpkin pancakes. Delicious.

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Our original cap-sleeved Sunday Morning dress was such a hit, we added a new option with 3/4 length sleeves!
The name says it all - this is the perfect garment for a Sunday morning. Whether you are going for brunch, art fair strolling, or to the farmers market, in this dress, you will arrive in comfort, style, and ease.
Made in a poly-cotton fabric with inseam pockets on each side, 3/4 length sleeves and an A-cut shape, this garment super comfortable.

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text: Are we alone? It’s a fundamental question for eons. Early in this decade astronomers, based on Kepler-Space-Mission-data, reported that there are 40 billion Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone; 11 billion of these estimated planets may be orbiting in the Green Belt of Life or Goldilocks Zone of the Sun-like stars; many of them are likely to be inhabited by advanced civilizations! We are talking about the Milky Way only – yet 100 billion galaxies in the universe still are uncounted! Using Deep Space Network (DSN) Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and 2 are still sending valuable information to earth. They also carry information for the inhabitants of other worlds inscribed on metal plates in symbols about who do we live on earth, our physics and nature of chemistry generated life here. Kepler Mission is designed to search for earthlike stars; it adduced proof in 1995 for the first time and by 1998, it added another six more. Now it turns statistically viable that our universe is a spawning Creation that homes tens of millions of life raring abodes similar to earth. The central argument of existence of life elsewhere lies in the fact that the same elementary particles, same physics, same amino acids that make life abundant all over the galaxy we live in, and possibly everywhere in the universe. The most essential ingredient, water, is also plentiful in other worlds! Many of the thousands of exoplanet [planet orbiting other stars] discovered to-date have similar sizes, temperatures, rocky surfaces, atmospheres, gas particles need for life. Scientists strongly believe that today the question is no more of ‘if’ as of ‘where’. Astronomers are extremely confident that we live in a well populated universe. Using Drake Equation [updated by Sara Seager] they conclude, - alone in our milky way in average every year 20 sun-like new stars are born, of them 10 have planetary systems, at least one of those systems holds a lucky planet in the Green Belt of Life Zone; out of 5 such lucky planets, one is blessed with life and out of all life possessing ‘civilizations’ at least half of them try to communicate with other civilizations! II Findings discussed follow from cutting-edge technology. Looking back at the Dark Age [178AD -1687AD], we can visualize how naïve human understanding was about our universe. Geocentric Theory placed earth at the centre of Creation; Copernicus who postulated Heliocentric Model suggested a static sun in 1543; yet that is regarded as the Renascence in science. It was not until the Newton’s Principia Mathematica  declared that nothing in creation is static; everything is rotating on its own orbit. Newton confirmed Quran –“And the sun: it is travelling to its appointed destination. It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outrun the day. All of them swim along in their orbits”. [36:38-40] Now imagine in 610AD, in the glooms of Dark Age, an unlettered prophet, Muhammad [pbuh] from an unknown desert of Arabia revealed the most advanced facts of science those have become the frontline information for science; they are inimitable; accurate in all critical respects! Of them ‘Life on other worlds’ turned to be the darling of 21st century! III Bible or any other authority on earth gives no information on the possibility of life on other planets. It is only Quran that inscribed the most specific evidence some 1400 years ago from the intense darkness of the Dark Age! Verse 65:12 reads – “God is He Who has created many skies, and earth(s) in similar numbers. Unto them descends His Commands that you may know that God has power over all things. And that God encompasses all things in His knowledge.” Al-ard [الْأَرْضِ] is traditionally known as a singular noun. The word ‘mislahunna’ [مِثْلَهُنَّ] retains critical information within – according to rule of Arabic grammar, it dictates the use of ‘al-ard’ to be a plural though in many other places it is used as singular number. As such in all places Quran proposed ‘Saba’s samawati wal ard’ will literally mean – ‘many skies and many earths’. And assuredly in 65:12 – the word ‘al-ard’ [الْأَرْضِ] is unavoidably a plural number! Our earth is not unique, there are many like this! Quran is the single proponent of many worlds’ concept where life like ours exists and God’s commands and blessings reach them as we receive. Science in 21st century bows down to Quran that was revealed in the Dark Age! Quran led and guided science to the truth. How far those prospective worlds are? In 2015, NASA's New Horizons completed its 3-billion-miles on way to Pluto at a speed of 84,000km/h. It would take New Horizons about 55,000 years to reach the nearest life bearing planet of Proxima Centauri. If the nearest planet with a civilization existed in the nearest Andromeda Galaxy, it would take the spacecraft over 2 billion years just to reach the edge of the galaxy. This endorses the monumental verse of Quran [55:33] – “O the community of jinn and mankind, if you are able to pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, then do. You will not succeed except by authority of the Supreme [or except acquiring supreme power]”! This literally puts a full stop on human reaching other worlds using current technology.

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Showers of Blessings: I Survived!
Instead of posting a poem like I usually would, I thought I would share with ya'll something very exciting that we did last weekend... *Drumroll* *Trumpet sounds* *And whatever other musical instruments they use for awaited news!* ...We did a triathlon!
I survived!!! I can now say I'm a triathlete, right?!
On June 3rd my family and I woke up super duper early and after doing the animal chores, we drove out. It took us awhile to get there, and I was really nervous! Like, I won't lie, I was really nervous! I had never done anything like this before, although we did practice the course and that was AWFUL! Since our practice didn't go very well, I was double nervous!
My nervousness didn't go away until after we started, but as we were in the car almost there, I looked out my window, and guess what God gave me? He gave me a rainbow! Wow! That was exactly what I needed. To be reminded of His promise! What perfect timing too! God is so good!
When we finally arrived, we unloaded our bikes, dropping them off at the designated place. Then we walked down "Killer Hill" (what we would later run/walk up) to where we started with canoeing. Our start time was 8:22AM. We canoed non stop for 6 miles! We each had our canoeing "team." I was in the back of the canoe, and my younger sister was in the front. This means I got to tell or more like yell at her what to do! I'm not used to being in the back, so sometimes I would tell her to paddle on the wrong side, but for the most part we did good. We paddled hard and fast! By the time we were almost done, our shoulders were burning, but we kept on going to the finish!
After we finished our canoeing, our mom's were waiting for us at the end with towels, water, our socks, and tennis shoes for the running part. They had everything ready for us. We couldn't have done it with our crew!
We started out for the 5.5 mile run. My dad was ahead of us at this point. His team was called the "Orange Crush Team." My cousins were a team and they were behind us for the canoeing part, but they passed us about two miles into the jogging. My younger sister and I, and My older sister and her boyfriend were teams. We decided that us four would stick together.
We drained the gatorade and water pretty fast! We would jog, "To that telephone pole that the man in the yellow shirt was at." Then walk up a hill and, "Jog to that white mailbox."
You get the picture! Anyway, we ate our energy gummies half way into the run. The last half mile was a strait uphill hike, aka "Killer Hill." I was breathing so hard but seriously I was going a snails pace! Even though I was going so slow, taking it one small step at a time, I didn't give up! I'm pretty proud of all of the teams! No matter what pace we were going, we still pushed through the pain and made it to the top!
The last leg of this triathlon journey was the 18 mile bike ride! Wow! What a lot of peddling! Muscles were burning! And speaking of burning, I realized that at the end that I got a pretty good SUNBURN! We drank lots and I kept looking down at my hands for encouragement. Just so that doesn't sound weird, let me explain. Late the night before, I had sloppily painted my nails half asleep. Each nail got at letter I-C-A-N-D-O-T-H-I-S!
This was hard! Canoeing was hard! Running was Hard! Biking was hard! But it was fun! I know, that might not make sense, but it was fun and hard!
Half way through the biking, we were passed by a man with no legs. I seriously got goosebumps! This man, had not given up when things were challenging, he used the limbs that he had and pushed through! His arms were so muscular, I was so encouraged by watching him do this triathlon! How amazing, like, this was hard for me to do and I have legs. He passed us! What an amazing testimony that he has. Odds are against him, things are tough, but he persevered and exceeded! I think we can all apply this to wherever we are at in life. We may be going through a hard time right now, but lets not give up. Lets make the best of what we do have and succeed!
The last two miles were the hardest! I mentally has to tell my legs to move and keep peddling! But as we came to the finish, my whole family was screaming and so excited! We crossed the finish line!
Our time was 4 hours and 3 minutes! Dad came in at 3 hours and 17 minutes ! And my cousins came in at 3 hours and 24 minutes! Everyone did amazing!
After we all finished, they provided food and there was a band playing music on a hay wagon.
2. Persevere through it, 'nuff said!
4. Get encouragement and give encouragement!
5. If it is important to you, don't let the odds stop you from doing it!
7. Never stop! Even if you are going a snails pace!
8. Smile even if things are hard!
9. Take a step forward, even if it is a baby one!
This picture might be too blurry to make out what my nail polish says.
Weather was perfect! Breezy and not too hot!
Little Petey was wiped out!
Group picture after we finished!
Group picture before we started!
Feeling accomplished on the way home and ready for a nap!
Has anyone ever done a triathlon? Do you like canoeing, running, or biking better? Did you like reading this post? Didn't May fly by super fast? How is your June going? What are you excited about this June? Lets talk in the comments below!
Wow great job, Brooklyne!! I enjoyed reading this :). I feel like May just FLEW by. My June is going pretty good so far. I think I prefer biking out of the options - but I’ve never really canoed much so I don’t know about that. When it comes to running I prefer sprinting a short distance :D.
Yes! May really went by fast! I'm glad you are having a good June, mines been good too!
Biking and sprinting is fun!
late ( I only just found your blog not Tate long ago.) , but even though I can't do s triathlon ( can't swim, haven't ridden a bike in ages.) I have run half marathons and some of the folks from the local running club have ran triathlons . I understand the running part though. I fell in love with running in my sophomore year of High School. I'm now days from finishing up my final few days of my last summer semester in college. Still run. Keep running ! Every mile is time well spent.
I've never done a triathlon, but this post makes me want to! Great job pushing through the pain!!
It was a challenge, but totally worth it and a lot of fun!
Yes it was! Isn't Petey growing up!?
I hope you have a wonderful week, Rachel!
Whoa good job! That looks hard, but it sounds like something fun to do, just to do it. :) Running is hard! I've been canoeing once, and it was kinda difficult, so nice job! :D I really enjoyed reading this!
Thanks, it was fun to put together!
Yes, it was fun! Although I was sore the day after!
May did fly by! Gardens are growing, and weeds are growing faster! Sunburns, swimming, and awesome weather! Summer is here!
Thanks for commenting, I hope you have a CRAZY AWESOME June!!!
That looks really hard! But also fun! I don't exercise very much, but if I ever do get used to exercising daily, then something like that would be really fun!
It was lots of fun! I felt so accomplished (and sore, and tired) when we finished!
After my nerves calmed down a bit, it was really exciting!
That's great that you walk regularly! For this triathlon, we had to train a few months before it. On average, we would jog twice a week.
Who knew we could learn so much from a triathlon, right?!
Thanks for commenting, Jessica, and I'm glad you liked reading about how our triathlon went!

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The City of Dover’s Planning and Community Development Department has welcomed Jackson Kaspari to City Hall for the summer as a University of New Hampshire Sustainability Fellow. Dover was selected to host one of the UNH Sustainability Institute’s 23 fellowships in 2018. These fellowships pair outstanding graduate and undergraduate students with competitive, challenging, multi-disciplinary projects based with organizations and communities throughout New England.
The City’s project will be a first in New Hampshire. The project is not only a calculation of the carbon footprint of municipal operations, but also the nitrogen footprint created by the City’s facilities, fleets, school food purchases, fertilizer program, and wastewater treatment methods.
Kaspari will utilize a tool developed by UNH, the Sustainability Indicator Management and Analysis Platform (SIMAP), which was designed for campus analyses. Part of Kaspari’s work will be to begin to modify the tool in ways more directly applicable to municipalities.
Kaspari is a 2018 graduate of UNH with a B.S. in chemical engineering, as well as a graduate of St. Mary Academy and St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover. Following the summer fellowship, he will continue at UNH as a doctoral student of physical chemistry. The project ties in with Kaspari’s research interests in atmospheric chemistry.
The project will result in a final report and presentation to the City Council with recommendations for reducing the City's production of each pollutant. A carbon footprint considers both carbon dioxide and methane emissions that are released into the atmosphere through many activities, including the production and consumption of food, fuels, manufactured goods, materials, roads, buildings, transportation and other services. A nitrogen footprint estimates the reactive nitrogen produced as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels or resulting from the production and waste of food, fertilizer use, and human and animal waste.
Kaspari will be mentored by Assistant City Planner Elena Piekut, who is the Planning Department liaison to the Dover Energy Commission.
This project furthers many goals identified in the City's Master Plan, the guiding document for planning efforts and policies. Goals established throughout the chapters of the Master Plan consider becoming a community that can sustain itself and provide a high quality of life for generations, protecting and conserving its natural resources, including water quality, and maintaining infrastructure that supports many modes of transportation. A specific objective of the Stewardship of Resources Chapter of the Master Plan is to "identify and adopt a carbon limit and specific reduction strategies for City buildings and vehicles." With the help of Kaspari and UNH, the City will do that and more.
According to Christopher Parker, AICP, Dover's Assistant City Manager, who oversees planning activities, "In Dover, the Master Plan isn't just a report we complete, shelve and admire, it is a document we live, and grow with. This project is an example of the community embracing the Stewardship Chapter and its recommendations."
Like Piekut and Kaspari, Parker is excited to see this project move forward.
For more information on SIMAP, see www.unhsimap.org.


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"The taxes imposed by the government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi are the first of its kind in the history of Iraq," said senior politician Hassan al-Alawi on Monday. Al-Abadi's economic and financial policies and decisions aim to "impoverish" the Iraqis. Iraqis.
Al-Alawi said in a press statement that "for the first time since its establishment in 1921, Iraq is witnessing a set of measures and economic and administrative decisions that amount to reprisals from the Iraqi people."
Al-Alawi expressed his surprise at "the establishment of an oil state like Iraq to impose taxes because the budget is fueled by the sale of oil," and wondered: "Where went the price increases of oil, which amounted to billions of dollars."
He said that "the series of taxes and economic measures by the government of Abadi aims to impoverish the Iraqis and increase the number of hungry," warning Abadi that "these actions will increase the spirit of the uprising and protest among the Iraqis."

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Delicious, authentic Indian food created by top quality chefs. Enjoy the taste of North Fronteir Punjabi home cooking at its very best.
Bombay Blue, the in-house, Indian restaurant at the Artto Hotel Glasgow, has been established for twenty years. Many customers have been coming to eat there since it first opened.
The latest refurbishment has transformed this popular Glasgow restaurant into a stylish, contemporary space with a variety of seating arrangements, a brand new bar and a glass-roofed conservatory.
There have been some recent changes to the menu as well. Although the famous Indian home cooking, curry buffet remains, our Head Chef has added an a la carte menu of Punjabi specialities cooked to order by his crack team of North Indian, speciality chefs.
The new designs are already proving a big hit with our loyal customers and is turning more people into regulars every day. Enjoy eating out in Glasgow at one of the best Indian restaurants Glasgow has to offer.
Prviate Parties also catered for.
The Aria Bar is like a very well cut suit - perfect for any occasion.
Open all hours, you can relax in stylish surroundings and enjoy cafe style dining at the Artto Hotel in Glasgow whilst catching up with friends, chilling out after a busy day shopping in Glasgow, or set yourself up before you even start your leisurely day or big night out in the city! Accessorise during the day with a delicious snack menu, coffees and a fantastic range of wines or go glamorous with cocktails, shots and champagne.
The newly refurbished interior is sleek, stylish, comfortable and designed to provide a truly relaxing environment. Wifi access is free and there is a television so you can keep up with what's going on.
With glamorous, yet comfortable leather seats, an enchanting open fire and subtle lighting the Aria is the ideal informal setting for getting away from the hustle and bustle of Glasgow City and simply kicking back.
There is a full range of in-house promotions, which our staff will be happy to explain.
MMmmmm. How does a French Martini made with Absolut Vodka, Chambord Liqueur, and Pineapple Juice take your fancy? Or perhaps an Apple and Ginger Mojito made with Havana Especial, Mint Leaves, Fresh limes, Apple Juice Topped with Ginger Beer.


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HOW TO BUY YOUR NEXT TABLET: From how to choose tablets that are right for your firefighting crew, to the apps needed to effectively serve your citizens, we walk you through the steps you need to take when choosing your next device.
How new are tablet computers? Shockingly, the Apple iPad debuted less than five years ago and it hasn't taken long for it and Android tablets — and now Windows-based models — to revolutionize the world of mobile computing.
So how does your department get into the tablet game? The following are some guidelines to help your department's leadership make the best purchasing decision for your organization.
Will the tablet spend its life on fire apparatus responding to calls for service or will it be in the hands of a fire inspector on a daily basis as they conduct fire-prevention duties?
This is a key question as the cost difference between an average rugged tablet (engineered for the rough and tumble world of emergency responses) and an average business-worthy tablet can be $2,000 or more. For the purposes of this discussion, we're going to focus on the latter.
Tablets have come a long way in a short time. It probably won't be too long before their functionality replaces computers and smartphones, but they're not quite there yet. Even with add-ons, such as a Bluetooth connected keyboard, tablets still present an ergonomic challenge when it comes to some tasks like entering large amounts of text or working with graphics.
Convertible tablets, like the various Windows 8 models, are quickly closing the productivity gap between desktop computers and tablets, and quality models are now on the market for under $1,000.
So before you get too far down the purchasing decision tree, put in the time to determine which members will be using the tablet and what jobs you want them to use the tablet for.
In many respects, buying a tablet is not much different than buying a desktop or notebook computer, so take a good look at your current computing system.
Apple with its iPads and Android with its many hardware choices from manufacturers such as Acer, Amazon, Asus, Samsung, and others offer many choices. The tablet market is also featuring affordable Windows 8 tablets built around Intel's Atom processor from various manufacturers.
Apple's iOS, the operating system on the iPad Air and iPad mini has two significant advantages: it's very clean and intuitive, and there is a wide selection of iPad apps that work uniformly well with very few exceptions. So if you're department is currently a Mac shop, you'll probably want to take a close look at having your tablets speaking the same language.
Tablets using Google's Android mobile OS offer a wide choice of hardware from several manufacturers and offer maximum configurability, a top-notch notification system, fast and smooth Web browsing, and seamless integration with Google applications like Gmail, Google Maps, and Hangouts for video chat.
The Android OS also includes support for multiple user logins enabling one tablet to be shared by several members. This is something to think about for volunteer or paid-on-call departments where different people may be sharing job responsibilities.
Microsoft's Windows 8 comes the closest to offering a traditional computing experience with full x86 support for all of your department's Windows software; you can run the full version of Microsoft Office when using a Windows 8 tablet. You'll also find that connectivity options and hardware add-ons for Windows models are typically more plentiful than with other tablet types.
Look beyond Candy Crush or Angry Birds. You're looking to your tablets to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your operations. So look for apps that help with records management, fire inspections management, fire investigations management, etc.
Besides finding apps that are a good fit with the OS you choose, make sure that the apps will display well on the tablet. A good best practice is to have the people who will be using the tablet give the apps a test drive on various sized tablets. Make sure that this testing takes place in the locations and conditions where they'll be used, such as outdoors in bright sunlight, indoors with low lighting, in a vehicle, etc.
Be sure to test apps that are designed for use with tablets. While Android phone apps may look good on a 7-inch tablet, you'll likely be disappointed with the resolution on a 9- or 10-inch tablet.
At this time it may be more difficult to locate those fire service related apps you need that work with Windows 8 tablets simply because the technology is newer. But remember, you can also run all of your standard Windows-compatible programs on a Windows 8 tablet.
The size of a tablet is based on a diagonal measurement of the screen, not the overall tablet. Seven-inch tablets are considered small-screen, while 8.9- to 10-inch tablets are considered large screen.
Though tablets weigh less than their notebook and laptop cousins, a large-screen tablet can still weigh about a pound. Tablets are not just overgrown smartphones in that respect. So consider the portability needs of your personnel when selecting tablet size.
Cloud (off-device) storage is an option for many tablets (iCloud for iPads, Amazon Cloud Storage for Kindle Fires, and OneDrive for Windows), but when it comes to on-board storage, more is always better.
Right now storage tops out at 128GB of flash-based memory, and that's only on the iPad Air and iPad mini lines; most Android tablets are available with 16, 32, or 64GB storage options. Android tablets also have microSD memory card slots that let you expand their storage.
Some tablets come in a Wi-Fi-only model or with the option of always-on cellular service from a wireless provider. If you want to use your tablet to get online anywhere, you should opt for a model that offers a cellular version.
This adds to the price, and you will need to pay for cellular service. Generally, though, with a tablet you can purchase data on a month-to-month basis, without signing a contract.

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Remember back in the day when your Facebook and Twitter feeds were comprised mostly of text messages? No memes, GIFs or any other social media graphics to speak of.
A lot has changed since then. Users' insatiable appetite for visual content grew and many social media channels graduated to rich-media platforms.
Besides larger images, Facebook's News Feed now features real-time video posts and a new 360-degree photo feature.
In 2010, other image-based platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram came to life and "The Visual Internet" was born.
Visual IQ is increasing faster than all other types of IQs.
SAT reading scores are at a record low.
81% of educated people report to skim, rather than read, content online.
84% of online communication will be visual by 2018, according to WebDAM.
What this means for content creators is that the ability to communicate visually has never been more important than it is now.
This is why Visme is on a mission to simplify visual content creation for non-designers. Up until now, Visme has been the go-to software for communicators looking to easily create interactive and animated infographics, presentations and charts.
Now, Visme users can also create social media graphics and banner ads in a few minutes with its ready-to-use templates.
In this short step-by-step tutorial, we'll show you how you can easily and quickly customize any of these with your own information.
If you haven't already taken Visme for trial run, you can sign up with just your name and email at www.visme.co.
Next, you'll be prompted to give a name to your project and then choose the type of content you want to create. In this case, you can choose the Banner option and then click on the Social Media tab to browse through the different ready-to-use templates.
All of these images are already sized according to the dimensions required by each of the major social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn. Under each of these options, you'll also find templates categorized according to image types, such as covers, ads or posts.
Next, all you have to do to customize a template with your own information is to click on one of the text boxes and type in your text.
You can also re-position any of the text boxes by simply moving the cursor over the outer edge of the text box until it becomes a cross and then clicking and dragging the box to the desired location.
3 Apply your own color scheme.
You can then apply your own color scheme either to your entire text box or just a single word by selecting it and then clicking on the Text Color icon located on the toolbar at the top of your screen.
You can choose any of the colors saved from previous projects under the My Colors tab or select any of the pre-defined color combinations under the Presets tab.
4 Choose from hundreds of fonts.
You can fully customize the look of your design by also applying your own font selections.
Whether you're looking for a modern, chic look or a bold and impactful style, there are hundreds of fonts to choose from the drop-down menu at the top of your screen.
5 Upload to social media.
Once your project looks exactly the way you want it to, you can then upload it directly to the social media platform, in this case Facebook. Since the templates are already sized according to the image requirements set by each channel, you don't have to resize or crop any of them, simply upload and save.
From edgy and provocative designs to calm and soothing ones, there's something for everyone.
For example, under Facebook covers, you can find high-flying scenes like these that evoke a sense of freedom and limitlessness--perfect for any Facebook profile that is looking to inspire viewers and fans.
Since every image is already sized according to the image specifications required by a specific social media network, all you have to do is customize it with your own information, upload it to the platform, and you're good to go.
Then, under the Facebook ads category, you can also find many options that already come with text overlays that can be customized with your own information.
For instance, if you're looking to promote an event or concert, there's this template with a large call to action and a discount offer that can give you a good starting point for your own Facebook ad.
If you're looking for an image for a Facebook post (posts with images receive 2.3 times more engagement than those without), you can browse through Visme's varied selection of templates, which include images related to cuisine, fashion, wildlife, travel, sports, design and nonprofit causes, like the one below.
Now, for those who would like to spice up their Twitter profile with an attractive and spacious cover photo, you can also browse through the Twitter header category.
There, you'll find a variety of templates for almost every need, including images related to education, extreme sports, food products, travel, marketing, design, music and services like tutoring and classes.
As with Facebook posts, tweets with photos get 313% more engagement. If you're hard-pressed to find just the right image for your post and don't have the time to create it from scratch, you can browse through Visme's selection of eye-catching images.
Like the other categories, you'll find everything from travel-related images to beautiful seasonal photos and colorful event ads like the one below.
If you have your own YouTube channel, you'd probably like to make the most of your Channel Art and covers to captivate first-time visitors and entice them to stay.
One way you can do that is through spacious and modern-looking images that evoke the values and sensations associated with your brand. For example, there's a wide selection to choose from, including images related to fine dining, sports, startups, travel, nature and a variety of services and products, such as the app advertised below.
Besides social media graphics, you can also now create all types of banner ads in Visme, starting from the dozens of templates already provided for you under the Websites & Blogs tab, as seen above.
To start, simply create a new project and choose Banner from the different content options. Here, you'll see five banner types to choose from, all sized according to the dimensions established by the IAB display advertising guidelines: wide skyscraper, large rectangle, medium rectangle, leaderboard and email headers.
As with the social media category, you'll find a broad selection of templates to choose from, including ads for food products, apps, design, nonprofit causes, online businesses, among others.
Once you've selected the template of your choice and you're within the Visme editor, all you have to do to customize it with your own information is to click on any of the text boxes and start typing.
You'll also notice that a pop-menu will appear with different options for formatting your text so it looks exactly the way you want. For example, you can adjust the spacing between letters and between lines, and you can modify the padding (which is the space surrounding the text within the box).
This comes in handy when you want to choose a fill color for your text box, which may be useful when you're looking to create an interactive button or simply want to frame your central message with a specific color so it stands out from the background.
Next, you can also apply your own color scheme to the text by selecting the text box (or the specific word within the text box you want to modify) and then clicking on the Text Color icon found on the toolbar at the top of your screen.
Here, you can select any of the colors previously used under the My Colors tab or choose from any of the 50 predefined color combinations found under the Presets tab.
4 Adjust the size of the text.
Since everything is customizable within Visme, you can choose any text box and adjust the size by clicking on the drop-down menu found on the toolbar at the top of your screen, or you can also select your own font by choosing from hundreds of typefaces available for you within the editor.
As with the social media graphics, you can move any text box by simply moving the cursor over the outer edge of the text box until it turns into a cross and then clicking and dragging to move the box to the desired location.
In case you're curious to see what kind of images are available within Visme, you can find email headers of all types. Whether you own a restaurant and need an image for your email newsletter or have an online clothing store and want to promote a giveaway, you can find graphics for almost every need.
You can also find leaderboards for your site or blog, which range from those with a minimalist and colorful style to those with energetic and in-your-face messaging.
In the next months, we'll be rolling out even more options for other social media channels such as Pinterest, so stay tuned for more tips and hacks on how you can get the most out of Visme's visual creation capabilities.
Finally, if you would like to share your projects or visuals with us, don't hesitate to contact us or drop us a line in the comments section below, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks, Lexi. Glad you found it useful.
How do use the infographic templates and resize them for Twitter posts? As they are, the dimensions are too large for Twitter.


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Security Collaboration – How do you Start?
We see weekly post, pontifications, announces, and proclamations about the need for greater security collaboration. Many times, the organizations and groups who are posting these “aspirations” fail to take the collaboration to the next step. They are not sure how to break into productive security collaboration.
In the security community, “productive security collaboration” is built on Trust. The people you work with on a security incident requires trust. They are granted access to incident data which could hurt your organization, other organizations, or the integrity of the investigation. Building trusted security relationships and communications is critical to productive security collaboration.
Can we build a trusted security collaboration? Yes, there is over two decade of “Trust-Group” history. Some of the groups are public. The Conficker Working Group is one example. The vast majority of these security Trust-Groups are private and confidential. They focus on cross-industry collaboration. They work on the “industry investigations” that later lead to law enforcement investigations. We have groups like the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) which builds Law Enforcement Trust Groups between police all over the world … then connects those Trust-Groups to industry Trust-Groups. Add to this “Trust-Groups” build by Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), and all the Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) in the world.
Take Note! Security and law enforcement professions in “Trust-Groups” have been battling Threat-Actors launching cybercrime for decades. We always get new enthusiasm coming into the cybersecurity space. Great! We have big problems and need more people! But, do not think nothing is going on. There is a lot of security sharing, security communications, security investigations, and security action (i.e., arrest).
But, we need more. We need more organizations to build their own productive trust security communications. Enter the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). NCSC is the central information hub and cente of expertise for cybersecurity in the Netherlands. NCSC is also one of our oldest national Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT) with a very long history of trusted security collaboration.
In recent years many successful collaborations are created by NCSC-NL and its partners within the government and Dutch vital infrastructure. The Dutch approach to public-private cooperation is unique and is built upon three important core values: trust, shared interests and equality. We believe public-private cooperation is crucial to increase the digital resilience of society. Collaboration with other organisations is essential to take the next step in strengthening the resilience of your organisation. These lessons learned form the basis of these guides.
Thanks to NCSC for sharing their experiences with the world. Now organizations, corporations, and governments have a tool to move from the security aspirations stage to a security actions stage.
If you have questions around all of this, please feel free to contact me (see below) OR contact NCSC. The NCSC Team has a history of helping to empower others.

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Marriage is not about a piece of paper, a ring, or sexual preference. It has never been about any of these matters, and should not be considered so. Marriage is the commitment between two people who love each other unconditionally.
Marriage is defined as the emotional and legal commitment of two people who share economic resources, physical and emotional intimacy (Olson & DeFrain, 2006). Marriage is an indication of commitment with an expression of closeness and mutual support (Saxton, 1996).


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Mid 2010 brings a fresh start for Lela and her team, most notably a change in direction for the kitchen.
Lela welcomes John Rankin to direct the kitchen crew. He is a quality driven chef and is passionate about the superiority and diversity for Australian produce. John is originally from New Zealand and since being in Sydney has worked with the 3 hatted and award winning chef Peter Gilmore from Quay Restaurant.
John then moved to Astral, then travelled through Europe to broaden his knowledge. He came home to open the kitchen at Seans Kitchen at the Casino, working closely with 2008 Chef of the Year Sean Connolly.
Since joining Lela at the Burlington he has polished and refined the menu, whilst keeping its European flavour and the Burlington charm.
He will be putting together a spring menu shortly, stay tuned. Lela and John welcome you all.


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“You’ve got to see something,” my husband said, right after picking our eleven-month-old daughter and me up at the San Francisco airport.
We had left Paris on December 22, more than twenty hours ago, and I wondered what could a Parisian have never seen that couldn’t wait until the next day. But an irresistible hint of excitement in my husband’s voice triggered my curiosity.
“Where are you taking me?” I asked.
“Get ready,” he said with a twinkle in his eyes.
We drove through Palo Alto for another half hour. Although there were almost no cars and absolutely no one in the streets, every house was lit up with tiny white bulbs that looked like icicles. Plastic Santa Clauses and snowmen, reindeer and sleighs made out of wire stood in almost every front yard. Many tree trunks were wrapped with electric garlands, which were also lit up. I had never been to Disneyland, but I imagined that it looked like that. Magical.
My sister had taken me to the Champs-Elysées the night before my departure. Paris was dressed up for the holidays, and as my sister drove down the glamorous avenue, I took in the trees covered with artificial snow and the strings of lights draped above the Arc de Triomphe.
The decorated and illuminated houses on Emerson, University, and most streets in Palo Alto offered a new version of the holiday season. Nowhere in France in 1990, could you see so many lights, so many decorations, not even in Paris. And no French person would have put on such a show in her own front yard. Here in California the over-the-top attitude outshone the restrained French one. That night, under the California starred sky, I fell for the American exuberant nature, and yet in the back of my head the French nagging voice of reason tsks tsks its tongue. Isn’t a little too much?
In the center of our new living room, a Christmas tree spread its branches.
“It was the smallest one,” my husband said.
Like any Parisian, my husband hadn’t thought of a Christmas tree before he saw them vanishing from parking lots like French baguettes fly from the bakers’ racks at dinner time. In France, many people get their Christmas tree at the last minute, often decorating before the messe de minuit or midnight mass. Compared to the French sapins de Noël, our first American Christmas tree was a giant. Some in France are small enough to be carried home without a car. Yet from an American perspective, our tree was the runt of the litter and the smallest we would ever get.
My husband switched the string of lights on. The tree came alive under my eyes, but without glimmering balls and a star at the top it looked bare, and the thought of spending, for the first time ever, Christmas away from my family filled me with emotions I had never experienced either. In a confuse way I knew that I was missing France as much as the people I knew there. I had seen very little of California, but the sense of displacement was palpable.
On Christmas Eve I tucked the gifts, which our parents had slid into my suitcase, in our shoes set under the tree as in France. Only the huge, colorful plastic house that my husband bought at Toys “R” us didn’t fit inside our little girl’s pair of baby shoes.
When she discovered the house on Christmas Day, she clapped her hands and crawled inside. She opened and closed the shutters of the two windows before shutting them for good. Had she already understood that she would need to carve out her own space between two immigrant parents? This first Christmas gift would, for years, remain her favorite hideout.
Away from our friends and family, this first American Christmas was low key in comparison to the American extravaganza around us. Our search for a small turkey, a French Christmas tradition, was a challenge. In retrospect, we shouldn’t have embarked on such a quest. In a country that craves big, we could only fail. I threw the leftover turkey away after a week of eating it cold with mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, and pickles that had nothing to do with French cornichons. On that first Christmas we also searched for marrons, French chestnuts that we cook and serve around the turkey.
“It should do,” my husband said when he discovered a can of Chinese water chestnuts. It did, even though they had absolutely nothing in common with French chestnuts.
Despite our personal quiet Christmas, the overall effervescence proved to me that Americans took the holiday season even more seriously than the French cherish their summer paid vacation.
All over town, women wore red sweatshirts, sometimes embroidered with reindeer and snowflakes. They also pinned candy cane brooches on their lapels while others – men included – wore Santa Claus hats. Some people attached bells to the pompon. Christmas carols played everywhere. And everyone wished everyone Happy Holidays. Even the Palo Alto police officers did the same.
I suddenly understood what the immigration officer said after he handed me back my passport. His voice calling after me had stopped me in my tracks. I turned and he said, “Happy Holidays!” My baby girl waved cheerfully her small chubby hand, while I shrugged hesitantly one shoulder.
We weren’t going on a holiday but were on our way to our new American life.
Next Advent Calendar Day 6: Nikolaus I Still Believe!
A wonderful post, Evelyne, rich and alive with detail, love and wonder.
Thank you. Gulura. I appreciate your time reading this post and commenting. Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones.
This is amazing! Having grown up in America society and been accustomed to the social norms of holiday time since I could talk, it’s fascinating to see my culture from another’s perspective.
You have a good point about the way foreigners see what is normal to natives with a different eye. Yes, many years later, my family celebrates in a more American way, although we’ve kept a few very French things, such as putting shoes under the tree. But we also have the big red stockings hung on the mantel! Sometimes mixing cultures adds a bonus. Thank you, Melanie for reading this post and thank you, Solveig for inviting me over.
You are welcome Evelyne! It is a pleasure to have you share your story!
I have the Christmas letter my family wrote the first year in the US, back then I was 12 and was all shocked by the overly decorated houses etc. when three years later we arrived in France, it was all bleak. We were accustomed to the American Christmas extravaganza!
Solveig invited me to contribute to her Advent Calendar event. I wrote about my first American Christmas in California, only three days after I had left Paris with my baby daughter. Although many years have passed and I am now celebrating the holidays in a very American way, I won’t forget this very first Christmas.
The photos were not taken in Palo Alto in 1990 but a couple of years ago when I visited Christmas Tree Lane in Fresno, CA, one of the most stunning holiday displays in the country.
I wish you all a Peaceful and Loving Holiday Season.
Wonderful post. Of course, you came to an area of our country that is extravagant about everything, mostly because they have the pocketbook to match the extravagance. Palo Alto is not the norm, not even for California. Had you driven eat if 101, you would have come to East Palo Alto where the humble homes are often so sad that it would bring years to your eyes. That area is completely opposite, socio economically and ethnically, from anything west of the freeway.
Thanks for that insight Corina. When you’ve never been to these places, it’s helpful to have a few different perspectives to get a balanced view.
We are very electric about Christmas in the U.S. We believe nothing says “Christmas” like a few million watts of lights … 🙂 Glad to have you on our shores!
In some respects, it would be like landing in a parallel universe. Everything is the *same*, but *different*. Great story.
Thank you Sherri, it seems to be a common discovery, I myself was a quite impressed by the decorations and music everywhere in the US. We decorated our yard in the US to fit into the spirit. besides the few cheap electric lights we draped over the bushes right in front of the house, we proceeded to make our own Christmas decorations in various colours and all glittery to hang in the trees.
Somehow for Christmas my family did not take the American customs with us, but stayed with the German ones.
Have a great English-American Christmas!
What a fascinating post, comparing two quite different cultures! As an Australian with some German heritage, I loved reading it. Christmas lights on homes has become more popular here in the last 20 years and it’s now part of our family tradition to drive around our suburb to check out all the Christmas lights. While I personally like looking at the houses which have gone completely overboard, my personal taste is much more constrained. Where I grew up in a well-to-do area of Sydney, there are still very few houses with Christmas lights despite the affluence. I think they’re considered tacky.
We have a fairly small Christmas tree every year. Since the kids were small, we’ve put the tree in a corner on top of a combustion heater out of reach. The kids are now older but we haven’t found an alternative spot and had trouble squeezing the tree in at all. We’ve been catching up on sorting out the house during the break.

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Numerous peer-reviewed published studies have linked an increase in Vitamin D uptake with a decrease in influenza infection during the flu seasons. The logic is easy to understand: winter brings shorter days with less sunlight, when influenza is most prevalent, while influenza outbreaks are rare during the summer months with increased exposure to sunlight, the most common source of Vitamin D.
However, other studies have also been published which seem contradictory, showing little to no association of uptake in Vitamin D with a decrease in flu infections. These studies have, obviously, been highlighted more by the corporate-sponsored “mainstream” media in their efforts to market the annual flu vaccine.
In their conclusion, they admit that overall the statistics did not significantly lower the risk of influenza through Vitamin D supplementation, except for one sub-group – those who had NOT received a flu vaccine.
In a subgroup of participants without vaccination, vitamin D sufficiency (≥30 ng/mL) was associated with a significantly lower risk of influenza (odds ratio 0.14; 95% confidence interval 0.03-0.74).
Could this be the reason why there are seemingly contradicting results from studies looking at Vitamin D levels and rates of influenza? Could the flu vaccine itself be preventing the body’s own immune system from benefiting with higher levels of Vitamin D to naturally fight off flu infections?
The researchers from Japan stated that more research is needed to look at why unvaccinated Japanese employees had a better rate of resisting flu infections with higher levels of Vitamin D.
According to the results of cubic spline regression analysis, the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and influenza appeared to be linear (from 21.9 ng/mL of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D) among participants who were not vaccinated for influenza, influenza, with the odds of influenza steadily decreasing with increasing 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration.
In this nested case-control study among Japanese workers, circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations at baseline were not appreciably associated with influenza risk. Among participants who did not receive vaccination, however, we found a significantly decreased risk of influenza in the highest category of 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration.
To our knowledge, this was the first prospective study to exclusively examine the association of blood 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration with the risk of influenza.
Vaccination may confound the association between 25-hydroxyvitamn D concentration and influenza.
Alternatively, it could be that the protective effect of vitamin D against influenza, which may be masked in the presence of influenza vaccination, is evident only among unvaccinated individuals, who should rely on innate immunity, a hypothesized mechanism by which vitamin D prevents influenza infection.

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Exercise is movement without purpose; motion without direction. It’s what my mother does when she walks around the block, or you go to the gym and make up a workout on the spot.
Training is a mindset. It’s, the way in which you approach any exercise you do. Training is doing that same ‘EXERCISE’ activity, but with a specific, measurable goal in mind. Training involves having a plan of action on how you’re going to get to that goal. If you want results, training is the most effective way to get there.
We at The Bar Athletics love SMART Goals (Refer back to last week's SMART GOAL BLOG). SMART Goals allow you to get started in the right direction. All too often we hear, “I want to get healthy [fit, strong].” In order to become healthy, fit, or strong, you need a plan to get to that destination. “Healthy” and “strong” aren't specific enough. I want you to think of a road map, the foldable kind our parents kept in the glove box and used for family vacations. My father would unfold the map, mark our home or our starting location, and then find our destination. Next, he would highlight the route from starting location to end destination, figuring out the most efficient way to get there. He included checkpoints for gas and rest along the way. The point here is that he had a goal, a destination in mind, and the map was his plan. Think of your goal as a destination on a map. What route and what checkpoints do you need to go through in order to make it to your goal? How will you become healthy, fit, or strong? It’s time to set some goals and get SMART!
How do you know you're headed in the right direction? Smaller, more frequent goals. At any particular moment, training and exercise might look more or less the same. But as we discussed earlier, they are not. When you train, sessions have specific goals relative to the overall goals of a program. The activities, loads, and frequencies you use are vital. You do what you need to do, not just what you want to do. For example, when training for a competition 3 months down the road you will need to set expectations of your training in order to perform at your best ability when the competition date arrives. Smaller goals such as attaining a higher load or more repetitions, will benefit the ultimate goal of your performance down the road.
1. The coach has knowledge, experience, and can provide an unbiased set of eyes.
2. The coach will get an athlete to do things he or she wouldn't do otherwise.
If you look at any particular element in your training program and you can't explain how it will aid in your primary goal, then you probably shouldn't be doing it. For example, let’s say you’re looking to fit into your bathing suit this summer and are only doing cardio and avoiding strength training. Oh, you just want to “tone up?” Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but “TONING” is actually saying you want to build some muscle and lose body fat. Strength training is the most efficient way to “tone” up and lose body fat as it burns calories both during and post-exercise versus cardio which only burns during. An Olympic lifter, for example, would be wasting his time and energy doing hundreds of bench presses and calf raises when his focus should be on cleans, jerks, and snatches. In comparison, a bodybuilder doesn't need to be doing an hour of power cleans every day. My point here is to train efficiently for your goal. Do what is necessary to get you one step closer to where you need to be.
When training, you will know before a session is even finished whether or not that day was successful. You don't judge training quality based on how tired you are, how sore you got, or the volume you were able to perform. Successful training is not judged on the pump you got, but on the progression toward YOUR GOALS. This is made possible by keeping record of all volumes, repetitions, and drills you use in training. Other items we must keep track of are our nutrition and sleep. If you didn't hit your planned number or rep scheme for the day, then there was a flaw somewhere. Flaws are due to the many variables in our lives. Maybe it was the programming, maybe your nutrition was off or perhaps you weren't rested enough. Good record-keeping will help you identify the problem and point you in the right direction to solve it.
So if you want results from your exercise, set up a training program to get to your goal the right way. Use the five steps we discussed to get started today!
Not sure what goals to set? Meet with one of our coaches for a FREE goal setting session.
I hope you all have been enjoying the milder Ohio weather and may have even gotten outside for some recent physical activity. Which brings me to my next topic: Physical Activity in the new year.
There are a number of reasons why we exercise. Although one of the main goals is to lose weight or maintain fitness, some of those reasons have absolutely nothing to do with losing weight. Regular physical activity can boost mental health benefits, improve quality of sleep, strengthen our immune systems, and is an overall essential component of a healthy lifestyle. Exercise doesn’t have to be just about losing weight. For some it is a source of therapy or even just an escape from their day to day routine.
That being said, if your goal is to lose weight, you should know that working out isn’t enough on its own to actually make that happen. There is so much else that goes into weight loss and body fat loss; one of the main factors being good nutrition. Majority of weight loss regimens will include exercise because it is a great tool and is healthy for you. Something to remember: because there are so many aspects that go into weight loss and living a healthy lifestyle, even if you are doing everything “right”, working out regularly and eating appropriately may not be enough. Lifestyle habits such as sleep and stress as well as health conditions (thyroid issues, depression, chronic disease) can get in the way of your weight loss efforts. Weight loss is an extremely personal journey that doesn’t look or work the exact same way for each individual.
This is any form of exercise where your heart rate spikes and then comes down repeatedly within a period of time. This type of training keeps your heart rate elevated in a general range according to your age, which in turn keeps your metabolism going. The result: you burn more calories.
If you are generally crunched for time, Tabata workouts are your solution. Tabata is high-intensity interval training (HIIT) that consists of 20 seconds of all-out effort, followed by 10 seconds of rest, or any combination of work to rest in a repeated fashion. You can perform Tabata-style exercise for any length of time as long as you are focusing on a work to rest ratio in order to spike and recover the heart rate. This is also great because you can use different exercises to constantly keep the body guessing and increase the metabolism. Think this is your style of workout? Check out The Bar Athletics’ new B-FHIIT class held on M-W-F from 6:30pm-7:15pm. This class is an instructor led, 45 minute session that is guaranteed to get you sweating! This class is perfect for anyone interested in losing weight, increasing stamina, or just trying to have a great time. You can expect great music, great coaches, great friends all while achieving a great workout! This class is for all levels of fitness, beginner to advanced. All movements can be scaled to accommodate for any personal mobility restrictions. Furthermore, the importance of nutrition will also be discussed to promote a healthy lifestyle in and out of the gym.
CrossFit is a form of interval training and can also be considered high-intensity. Traditional CrossFit classes include a skill-based warm-up, skill or strength training, the Workout of the Day (or “WOD”), and mobility work. The workouts can always be scaled so that new athletes can workout alongside veteran athletes. Some days the WOD will be a 10-20 minute metabolic conditioning workout that combines several movements grouped into sets to be completed for time or in as many rounds a possible (“AMRAP”). Other days, the class will focus on a strength piece (like a 1 rep max deadlift) followed by a shorter metabolic conditioning “finisher” workout. We encourage all CrossFit athletes to record their workout times/scores in the ‘Beyond The Whiteboard’ app in order to track their progress over time. Because the workouts vary every single day, you may be doing anything from kettlebell swings to rope climbs and box jumps to front squats. That is the beauty of it: NO MONOTONY. Every day is different and there is always something to work on improving. Many people are intimidated by CrossFit, but must realize that the movements performed are basic fundamental movements you use in your daily life (aka deadlift- picking something up off the ground). And remember: ALL movements can be modified according to your individual skill level and limitations. So if you’re having hesitations because of your age or limitations, don’t. Come try out a class! I guarantee you’ll leave learning something about your own body movement and strength and make at least one new friend!
Check out the class schedule found under the ‘Schedule’ tab for available class times. See you at The Bar!


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If you step into a room of developers who are accustomed to working with SQL and you suggest a document database for a data model because you know the data fit the model, you may experience resistance (though less today since these databases have been around longer). Unfortunately, since document databases like Azure Cosmos DB are still relatively new, you will need to know why they’re appropriate in some contexts. In addition, document databases can be integrated with SQL databases, where a document database is a source of data (like file systems are sometimes a source of data) with values being extracted for reporting in a SQL database.
We have a document-like database that we use regularly – the file system. This analogy is the easiest to relate to because the file system can store many different types of files with different structures while still keeping some meta-information that we can query, such as the name, creation and modified time, the file type, etc. The second point is key: a document database, like Azure Cosmos DB, is not like a used car dump where we dump data and hope to find it later – we still need a structure that we’ll query by, even if the rest of the document has a different structure.
These files all share the same file path and have metadata (name, create date, etc), but differ in structure.
We don’t need to know details about these for this example, other than they differ in their workout category and they’ll follow different structures in their documents (as we’ll see). In addition, we may have multiple documents with the same category of workout, but never at the same exact time for an individual.
Either create a new resource group or select an existing resource group you want to use (pictured, but intentionally left blank).
The name must be unique since we’re using the .documents.azure.com, so come up with a unique name.
We will leave off Geo-Redundancy and Multi-region Writes, but as we’re setting this up, consider these as options that may be useful in your context.
Click “Review and create” and it will confirm your selections before creating.
Setting up a new Cosmos database.
The above options show the naming of the database, collection, storage options, and unique keys along with RU/s.
Once the database and collection is created, click “Documents” which will have nothing in it at first.
We can use a shell to run operations on the database level. In the below image, we see that I first searched for the collections (“show collections”), then searched for all documents in the collection (db.Routines.find()), which result in nothing because there are no documents. We can use the shell for interacting with our Azure Cosmos DB, especially if we’re more comfortable with it.
We’ve created our first document using the shell in Azure Cosmos DB, while receiving the total used RUs for the operation.
We see our first document we created through the Shell.
We have defined a unique key that prevents us from inserting the same datetimeRoutine.
We see the blank document – we do not need to use this id field and if it appears, it can be removed. The id field of _id cannot be removed.
The result of our query for the endurance workout routine.
The result of our query for all documents.
We see different structures for our documents in this collection, but we also see that we have field which help us identify what they are. This is important because we’re not treating our Azure Cosmos DB as a car dump where we push data into it and devise ways to extract the data later – we’ve thought about how our individual user will query this database – by date and workout type – and we’ve used these as fields in our database.
In this part, we looked at an example involving an individual’s fitness routine because most people committed to fitness will challenge their body differently over time, which would lead to a very convoluted SQL table structure (while we see 3 routines, over time it would be in the 100s). NoSQL databases, like Azure Cosmos DB, allow for the flexibility of these constantly evolving data models while keeping them grounded by a main key or two that tends to be involved in the querying or order. In addition, a NoSQL database may be a data store for data extraction that populates a SQL database for further analysis in some cases – hybrid models with NoSQL and SQL exist just like we have file systems that feed SQL databases.


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Unusually, the proposer was absent attending a celebration in Belgium. However, he did manage to send an introduction to the book, praising it as an exploration of courage, the nature of manhood, self-realisation and personal values. Of relevance to subsequent discussion, he noted that Steven Crane was born after the American Civil War in 1871, and had no personal experience of armed conflict. The Red Badge of Courage (RBC) was written in 1895 between “Maggie, a Girl of the Streets” (1893) and “The Open Boat” (1897), about a shipwreck. The Red Badge of Courage was his most famous work, by some margin, and is widely considered to be one of the most influential American novels. Unfortunately Crane suffered from ill health throughout his life, and died from TB in 1900, when only 28 years old.
The discussion was lively. No one present had direct experience of armed conflict,with many born in the post-WWII baby boom, and therefore in a similar situation to Crane, born six years after the American Civil War. Similarly, it was difficult to understand fully the impact of the book on 1890’s America from a perspective more than a century into the future. One member tried to draw an analogy between RBC and the recent success of ‘The Black Watch’ by Gregory Burke, but most thought this was stretched.
The first point of discussion was the description of conflict, bearing in mind the inexperience of both author and reviewers. All but one (‘not authentic’) thought that the description had an air of realism, and was particularly strong in representing the ‘fog of war’, the inability of the participant to comprehend or act on the whole conflict, fighting their own personal battle with no knowledge of strategic imperatives, if they exist. There was praise for the description of ‘blood and gore’, of a face shattered by a musket ball, of mental breakdown, and of the protracted act of dying of the tall solider.
Attention was drawn to the Homeric references at the start of the book, and the descriptions of suffering after the first battle. One could see parallels being drawn between the imagined and real conflict, presaging the experience of the 1914-18 conflict in Europe. Yet, the book was still ambiguous at the end as one was not sure whether war was rather being depicted as a necessary evil to ensure the testing of the mettle of the protagonists.
Was the description of the battle too erudite for the assumed narrator, and ordinary foot soldier? Certainly some thought this detracted from the authenticity. On the other hand, much of the book was written from diaries and other sources so the author had access to first-person descriptions. It was mentioned that the Civil War occurred soon after the development of photography, and probably the author had access to the many photographs (Brady, Cook et al.). Apparently this was the fourth war to be photographed after the Mexican-American War (1846–1848), the Crimean War (1854–1856) and Indian Rebellion of 1857. More generally, we discussed whether personal experience was necessary to write great novels; the general consensus was against this view and there were certainly many counter examples. Yet there was a sense that Crane was living vicariously an experience which he had been denied through birth and ill health. Certainly his wide travel as a reporter revealed a taste for adventure.
Next, the discussion centred on the intended audience. Was this a male viewpoint, intended for a male audience? In general, the consensus was that this was probably so in 1895, although it might now attract a wider audience. Was it intended to shock? Again the general consensus was affirmative, although the motivation was in dispute. Some thought it was written partly as an anti-war tome, but most thought not, thinking the emphasis on the baptism of fire or coming of age as the recruit eventually passes the test outweighed any description of the pointlessness of the conflict. A substantial minority thought that the book had been written with some cynicism, by a writer more anxious to establish his reputation than to say something important about the nature of personal experience or the nature of war. As evidence, they cited the rapidly shifting subjects of interest, and the fact that ‘Maggie’ had received poor criticism. Further, they suggested that the use of the American Civil War, rather than some other conflict, helped to boost the author’s reputation and sales as the audience had a thirst for books about the conflict.
This brings up the next issue, whether the book was really about the American Civil War. (Chancellorsville was mentioned as a possible battle). The group were fairly sure that this was about war, or indeed the passage to manhood, and the topic was generic rather than specific. To support that view, there are many characters specified as ‘the youth’, the ‘tall soldier’, the ‘loud soldier’, the ‘tattered soldier’ etc, so this emphasises the Everyman nature of the book. (Of course some characters like the youth are also named by third parties.) Throughout the book there is no mention of context or purpose. In the passages in which the tattered man asks Henry where he has been hit, his lack of a wound is possibly a metaphor both for his trial by ordeal that is still to come, but also of Crane’s lack of personal experience. Developing this view one thought that war was only a metaphor, and that the book was about any rite of passage through strife. Reference was made to conflicts in the playground at primary school!
In conclusion, the majority view was of a book on the experience of conflict, which defines a man; about war, not for or against war but a realistic depiction; a book with no historical context or political agenda, intended for as wide an audience as possible, but primarily a male audience. All agreed the book was very well written, entertaining, and thought-provoking. They congratulated the absent proposer on a good choice.

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At a time of bitterly divided politics in our country, the passing of Nelson Mandela offers us a valuable reminder of how great leaders can bridge great divides and get reconciliation right.
Among other memories, I am reminded of how nervous I found South Africans of all colors to be in 1976, the summer of the historic uprising by schoolchildren in the black Soweto townships near Johannesburg during my first overseas reporting assignment for the Chicago Tribune, where I still work.
There was little doubt that Mandela was the republic's most popular and unifying black leader, even as he was serving a life imprisonment sentence on Robben Island for plotting to overthrow the country's white-minority regime. The country's white population, vastly outnumbered by nonwhites, understandably was haunted by nightmarish "bloodbath" visions of racial retribution.
They weren't alone. Many nonwhites -- divided by tribal ethnicities or by the apartheid system's bureaucratic designations "black," "colored" (mixed race) and "Asian" -- also were apprehensive of interethnic rivalries as ancient as the Zulu, Xhosa and other tribal factions.
By then, Mandela had been kept out of touch with his public for so long that many wondered whether he would be able to take charge even of his own ANC, which, according to various reports and rumors, had fallen into divisions and disarray. Could he live up to his own eloquent promises of democratic rule and racial equality?
It is a sign of America's old Cold War wariness that Mandela and other leaders of his African National Congress remained on the U.S. terrorism watch list long after he was released from prison in 1990 and elected president in 1994. President George W. Bush signed a bill to remove them from the list in 2008 at the insistence of then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
That was long after Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 with F.W. de Klerk, the South African president who released Mandela after a stunning 27 years in prison and worked with him to end apartheid. It is a tribute to both men that, while never the chummy buddies depicted in some photographs, they transcended their differences and worked with the circumstances that history had left them.
In that mission, Mandela's orderly transition of power when his term ended in 1999 was just as valuable as his election. In a continent where postcolonial democracy has been defined too often as "one person, one vote, one time," Mandela would not try to be a president-for-life.
For that, I think credit goes to two qualities that gave Mandela the tools he needed to make history: his education and his deep faith as a lawyer in the rule of law. He rose from village life to be the only black law student in his class at the University of Witwatersrand, the nation's top university and a launching pad for his later activism.
Even under the daily oppression of the apartheid system of racial segregation, he saw in the law a valuable tool for both change and stability, depending on how you used it, and he used it to build a new South Africa.
"It is no coincidence that in the years since Mandela's release so much of Africa has turned toward democracy and the rule of law," wrote President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana in a New York Times op-ed. "His utilization of peace as a vehicle of liberation showed Africa that if we were to move beyond the divisiveness caused by colonization, and the pain of our self-inflicted wounds, compassion and forgiveness must play a role in governance."
Unfortunately, controversies surrounding his successors, such as South Africa's current president Jacob Zuma, sometimes fall short of Mandela's ideal. Yet his legacy set a high standard by which others will be measured in South Africa -- and the rest of the world.
"What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human," Zuma said in a speech. "We saw in him what we seek in ourselves." Indeed. We also can see in him what we all should seek in our leaders.


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As with the wilderness, it’s best to start at the bottom and work upwards, So: Dirt. But, wait, we already have dirt, don’t we? From way back in Part 2 - Paths in the Grass?
Eh, we can do better.
Dirt underground is often more heavily compacted, constantly damp and has a surface which is less even and more mud-like, particularly in a well trafficed dungeon. We need something darker and danker for underground dirt.
Before you start, you should create a Photoshop document with all the same considerations and steps that we did before in Part 1 - On The Grid. You also need to give the map a unused buffer area around the outside, just as we did in Part 3 - Water Features. Once again, we'll be using a bevel effect that we don't actually want to be visible around the edge of our map.
Once all that is in place, we can get started.
Create a new layer and call it "Dirt".
Pick two shades of a suitable groundy brown colour and make one your foreground colour and the other your background - it doesn't matter which is which. I chose #5e5351 and #4c4240 for my two shades. Then, go to the "Filter" menu, select "Render" and then "Clouds".
An important point about Photoshop's clouds is that it creates a pattern that tiles under certain circumstances (which I will get to in a moment). This gives you a choice - you can either create a big map, just fill the entire thing with clouds and not worry about tiling; or you can create a seperate, smaller canvas to create a tileable dirt pattern on and tile the result over your main map when it's complete. Up to you.
If you're not sure which to go with, 1024x1024 would be my choice here.
The particular texture pattern used here is found under the "Patterns" group.
Some other patterns may also work, so it's worth a try, but I like this one for the aforementioned, compacted, lumpy, damp dirt look.
As this is going to be our bottom most layer, no more needs to be done here.
Stay tuned for Part 14 - Flagging Efforts.
Apart from some occassional niche cases, I feel I’ve covered everything a DM would want out in the wilderness in these tutorials. The next step is to delve into the ever-present dungeons.
It actually makes a lot of sense to have done these first - dungeons are generally where most of the action happens in fantasy role-playing games. The problem - and the reason I focused on outside first - is that it is far easier to create chaotic, imprecise things like trees using Photoshop trickery than it is to create man made items the same way. There are, therefore, some things you may find in dungeons that I cannot help with. If you want a statue, for example, you’re just going to have to draw a statue.
Many of these techniques have less refinement than the outdoors ones. Those I have tweaked over many years and occassionally replaced with newer, better ideas (particularly with the trees). I’ve done less work in dungeoneering and, in some cases, no work at all. Some of these tutorials I will be making up as I go, although as with the statue above, I can definitely see the shape of what needs to be done, even now.
Part 13 - Staying Grounded.
This one is going to be really quick.
In Part 4, I recommended printing some trees out on overhead transparencies so that they can be scattered at will over maps. You can also do the same for blood splats and use them to mark the places where an enemy has died.
If you're not of a sufficiently artistic bent to create your own convincing blood splats, there are lots of downloadable Photoshop brushes out there to help you out.
Make sure you make lots, both big and small. If nothing else, the big ones are fun when someone is killed, shall we say, very thoroughly.
Stay tuned for Part 12 - Dungeon Mastery.
Sand is fairly quick and easy so this will be a short tutorial.
Make a new layer and fill it with yellow. Don't make it too bright - a duller, muted yellow works better than canary colours. I chose #c9ab57.
Next, go to the Filter menu and Add Noise. Make sure it's monochromatic and adjust the amount until it looks suitably sandy to you (I settled on about 12). Then add the following bevel and emboss effects (and note the pattern chosen in the second screenshot).
Finally - I told you it'd be quick - apply a layer mask to the layer as usual.
Because of the bevel effect, using a hard edged brush of any kind looks awful. For sand, use a round, soft edged brush, as large as you can for what you're drawing so you get the softest possible edge.
You can also use a translucent brush to make the sand fade out more gradually on the edges.
Unlike the rest of these tutorials, I'm not entirely happy with the sand. The texture bevel gives an approximation of sand dunes or herringbone waves while not really looking much like either of them. However, it serves most adequately and no one has complained yet.
Our water layer - for drawing lakes, puddles, rivers and so on - is going to use a lot of layer styles, although we do need to start with a layer mask.
Create a new layer and call it "Water".
Fill it with a suitable watery colour. I use a nice, deep blue (#363847).
Make a layer mask and lock the water layer.
Delete everything on the layer mask so the map isn't flooded.
Using a large, hard edged brush, draw a river from the left hand side of the map to the right - just so we can see what's happening as we continue.
Our first task is to create a river bank - a sloping effect on the dirt around the water. For this, we can use a layer style.
Click on the water layer - not the layer mask.
Go to the "Layer" menu, then "Layer styles" and finally "Bevel & Emboss".
Set it up as pictured below.
This creates a gently sloping riverbank around the water. However, for extra realism, we can also have the bank cast a slight shadow on the water.
Go to the "Layer" menu, then "Layer styles" and finally "Inner shadow".
Your river should now look something like this.
Next we need to create the appearance of shallow water near the edge, gradually getting deeper. For this, we can use an inner glow.
Go to the "Layer" menu, then "Layer styles" and finally "Inner glow".
The inner glow works fine and it's an effect I really like, but because the edge of the map is also the edge of the river, we get solid, straight bars of inner glow on either end of the map. This is one of the quirks of using Photoshop for this sort of thing and it's an effect which will pop up for a few of the terrain layers we will be creating. However, it's fairly easy to deal with. We need to make the edge of the map different to the edge of the canvas.
Make sure your background colour is white.
Go to the "Image" menu and select "Canvas size".
Increase the width and height by two inches (an inch on each side).
Unlock and then select the water layer (not the layer mask for the layer).
Fill the gap around the edge with the same blue you used for the rest of the water.
Re-lock the water layer and select the water layer's mask.
Fill the gap around the edge in black. This will also wipe out your river but that's okay for the moment.
Redraw your river on the water's layer mask but, this time, go past the edge of the map and right out to the edge of the canvas. It should look a bit like this, although I added a border around the image to make the canvass edges clear.
This works, sort of. The white bars of the inner glow are now off the edge of the map. However, we can tidy up a bit more.
Select the contents of the grass layer. On the Mac, hold down the command key and click on the grass layer's thumbnail. On a Windows computer, hold down control instead.
Go to the "Select" menu and pick "Inverse".
Create a new layer right at the top of your layer stack and call it "Border".
Use the paint bucket tool to fill the selected area in white.
This has been a lot of work to produce a simple river and it looks fine as is, but there is just one more effect I like to add.
Go to the "Layer" menu, then "Layer styles" and finally "Pattern Overlay".
Photoshop has a lot of patterns to mess around with here but they're hard to find. You need to click on the arrow next to the pattern thumbnail, then the tiny little cog, and then you can select from a set of pattern collections. The one you want is at the end of the second row in the "Patterns" collection.
Your final river should look something like this.
When drawing water, use a hard edged round brush and remember that, if the water goes off the edge of the map, you need to continue the water under the white border to prevent that white bar effect.
The banks of the water body should be dirt since grass just looks odd. If you do have a grass landscape, clear the banks with the maple leaf brush to create the raggedy, organic effect.
Depending on the environment, you can also tweak the water colour - brown for a swamp, turquoise for a tropical sea and although I've not needed it myself, I suspect you can create a reasonable lava effect too (you might want to add a orange outer glow layer effect, though).
Finally, if your computer is struggling, some of the water effects can be switched off without too much problem. The shadow, for example, is a subtle effect which doesn't impact the overall look that much.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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American drummer Bill McKinney (1895-1969) would not get a mention in any list of great jazz musicians, and didn’t even play on the series of recordings made between 1928 and 1930 by 'McKinney’s Cotton Pickers'. But any jazz critic will tell you that these are among the classics of jazz. Thanks to the inspired leadership of Don Redman, and the contributions of an extraordinary line-up of instrumental greats – Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Rex Stewart, Fats Waller and others – they are a delight from start to finish.
Never Swat A Fly (the title of a zany De Sylva, Brown and Henderson number) is Retrospective’s selection of the 26 finest of these remarkable discs, from the first sessions in July 1928 Four Or Five Times, through the amazing 1929 band with its incredible sax section of Don Redman, Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins, to their biggest hit If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight in 1930, and the group’s final flourish You’re Driving Me Crazy.
19.	Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home?

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A limo crash in California injured 11 people, with five of them seriously hurt.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the crash happened around 8:15 p.m. in Santa Clarita, California, Saturday night near northbound Interstate 5. The limousine that was carrying nine people crashed into two other vehicles that were heading eastbound, L.A. Cuny Sheriff’s Lt. Derek Sabatini said. The limo was exiting on Newhall Ranch Road from I-5 when the accident happened.
The most seriously injured victims were traveling in the limo, Sabatini said. An official cause for the limo crash hasn’t been determined yet.
According to the report, the injured passengers were taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, and Northridge Hospital Medical Center.
A tweet from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Office alerted drivers to road closures due to the accident.
In photos of the limousine from other various reports, it was a long white-colored model.
As unfortunate as this multi-car accident is, no one was killed like in the limo crash that happened in Long Island on July 18 when several women were traveling in a limousine, celebrating a friend’s upcoming wedding. The car was rammed by another driver, who was believed to be intoxicated. Four women were killed in the accident and four others were severely injured.
According to a People report published on Friday, one of the victims of that crash is suing both drivers and their companies. Olga Lipets, 24, from Brooklyn filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking unspecified damages for the injuries she suffered in the July 18 crash in Cutchogue.
Steven Romeo, 58, from Bethpage was allegedly driving drunk when his truck slammed into the limo Lipets and her other friends were in. The luxury car was nearly cut in two when the fatal accident occurred.
According to court documents, Lipets is suing Romeo, the company he co-owns, the limo driver, and his employer.
Lipets’ attorney, Jason Paris, says the young woman has undergone several surgeries due to her injuries in the limo crash.
The four women killed in the Long Island limo crash were Brittany Schulman, 23, of Smithtown; Lauren Baruch, 24, of Smithtown; Stephanie Belli, 23, of Kings Park; and Amy Grabina, 23, of Commack. Those injured in the accident besides Lipets were Joelle Dimonte, 25, of Elwood; Melissa Angela Crai, 23 of Scarsdale; and Alicia Arundel, 24, of Setauket.

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Can I apply for a UK visit visa from a country other than my own?
I am a Pakistani currently visiting the United Arab Emirates. Can I apply for a visit visa to the UK from here? Edit: I am in the UAE on a visit visa.
Is there anything we could add or change to this cover letter for a UK Standard Visitor Visa?
How many days on average does the Bronze Premium Service take? Does it take more than 7 working days? When I pay for the service, can I just walk in?
Do I need to physically mail in my passport for UK visa?
I’m trying to apply for a UK visa and I have a few questions...my trip is for May 15th and I don’t want to spend thousands on applying for an expidited visa. Any help would be great, thx!