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Rickie Lee Jones has always been one of the more mercurial artists in -- or, perhaps more precisely, on the fringes of -- the pop-rock mainstream. That's borne out with stunning vividness on The Sermon on Exhibition Boulevard, a disc that's unflaggingly challenging -- and unfailingly rewarding -- even by Jones's standards. Awash in Christian imagery and cloaked in a lo-fi sound that's reminiscent of the third Velvet Underground album, The Sermon on Exhibition Boulevard goes a long way toward the singer's expressed goal -- reclaiming the Christian faith from fundamentalists -- but it also packs the sort of sonic dexterity needed to fascinate those with no ideological cards to play. As if to hammer home that point, Jones doesn't even bother with lyrics on the wild-as-the-wind folk exploration "Road to Emmaus," which uses an ethereal, Incredible String Band-styled melody as a bed for wordless vocals that range from sweet humming to siren-like cooing. She's every bit as audacious on "Donkey Ride," a purposefully disjointed piece that would be at home on a Joanna Newsom album -- particularly given Jones's dramatic, shaman-like delivery. Not everything on the disc is that demanding, of course. "Nobody Knows My Name" glides along on a hypnotic guitar drone that matches Jones's high-lonesome wail -- and her solitary-woman tale -- with a fascinatingly bleak beauty. She even rocks out here and there: "Seventh Day" carries a good bit of the finger-popping funkiness that characterized her earliest work, while "Blue Cadillac" offers a droll, swinging vision of heaven as a rock 'n' roll dream. Much of The Sermon on Exhibition Boulevard exists in the realm of the dream state, a dominion that Rickie Lee Jones knows as well as any performer out there -- making her the ideal guide to its innermost reaches.
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Nobody Knows My Name
Lamp of the Body
Where I Like It Best
Tried to Be a Man
Donkey Ride
Elvis Cadillac
Road to Emmaus
Rickie Lee Jones Primary Artist,Dulcimer,Guitar,Percussion,Electric Bass,Bass Guitar,Keyboards,Electric Piano,Tambourine,Vocals,Xylophone,Moog Synthesizer,finger cymbals,Wurlitzer,Bowed Dulcimer,Toy Xylophone
Bernie Larsen Synthesizer,Guitar,Drums,Gut String Guitar
Rob Schnapf Acoustic Guitar,Background Vocals
Jay Bellerose Drums
Joey Waronker Drums
Lee Cantelon Background Vocals
Peter Atanasoff Guitar,Background Vocals,Oud
Jonathan Stearns Trumpet
Pete Thomas Acoustic Guitar
Steve Abagon Guitar
Joey Maramba Bass,Electric Bass,Bass Guitar
Jim Crichton Engineer
Bernie Larsen Engineer
Rob Schnapf Producer,Audio Production
Doug Boehm Engineer
Lee Cantelon Producer,Art Direction,Audio Production
Tom Sarig Management
Peter Atanasoff Composer,Producer,Audio Production
Anna Jacobson Leong Management
Consulting theologians and Bible scholars during the 1990s, photographer, writer, graphic artist, and everyday mystic Lee Cantelon (aka Pennyhead) assembled a small book presenting the words of Jesus Christ (just Jesus' words, not the stuff surrounding them) in a fitting translation called The Words. He did it for the purpose of presenting those words to people who were not "religious" -- people who were put off by organized religion or even offended by it. In 2005, using artist Marc Chiat's studio (on Exposition Boulevard) as the recording space, he invited a number of musicians to begin assembling backing tracks for a spoken word rendition of his book (Mike Watt was just one participant, reading "The Harvest" over the music). Rickie Lee Jones was invited to participate in the summer of 2006, and in a matter of moments she changed the entire nature of the project. Jones claimed she could not read the words with any authority, but asked if she could sing them. She was left alone in a room with a microphone and, without the text, completely improvised the words from her heart. There were two tracks taken from those sessions, the opening cut, "Nobody Knows My Name," and "Where I Like It Best." Those two cuts appear here unchanged from the original recordings made on Exposition Boulevard, as are two others ("I Was There," "Donkey Ride") recorded later at Sunset Sound -- first takes, no alterations. The rest were done using the same basic principle, with The Words as the inspiration. The end result is easily the most arresting recording of Rickie Lee Jones' labyrinthine career. The songs Jones cut at Exposition Boulevard sat on a shelf for a while, until she contacted producer Rob Schnapf and asked him to recruit the same musicians to go further. The sheer organic nature of some of these recordings is more akin to what indie rock musicians would try to pull off because of budgetary constraints. Understandable, but the end result here is something so completely unraveled, moving, and beautiful, something so unexpected -- even from a latter-day Beat chanteuse like Jones -- that it can only be called art. Certainly many of these songs feel raw, but they are supposed to; it's not artifice, it's inspiration. Check the opener, "Nobody Knows My Name," where a three-chord Velvet Underground-styled vamp gives way to Jones as she channels Jesus walking through the streets of history and particularly Los Angeles, as himself, as disguised as a suicide, as a player, as every woman and man, and comes out truly anonymous. The pain in her voice when she gets to the refrains is the wail we only get from her in live performances. This is likewise the case in "Gethsemane," a tad -- not much -- more polished, and once more with Jones as Jesus, here relating the agonizing experience of the beginning of Jesus' moment of trial before he has been handed over to be put to death. In her voice she says, "I'd like to just sleep awhile" in near whimsy, but the agony is there. In "Lamp of the Body," with Peter Atanasoff, Bernie Larsen, and Joey Maramba in a combined Eastern and Western lilting rock groove as intruding sounds enter the mix, Jones sings as Jesus with the lamp of the body being the eye: "See the darkness shine/How great is the dark/See the dark/And are there not 12 hours of daylight/But if you walk by night/You will fall...." This gives way to the nearly pop-sounding "It Hurts." This track simply has to be heard to be believed. It rocks, it rolls, it stings and stabs, and it breezily calls forth all the complex emotions of being human and divine. It's angry and tender, uncertain and immediate. Is this "Christian" music? Not in any CCM sense. It's punk rock, it's shimmering heat L.A back-court street rock, it's back-porch rock, garage rock, and just plain rock. But Jones is trying in her way to offer proof of the inspiration she found in Cantelon's book, and to relate the humanity of the one called Jesus Christ as an actual person, who is in and around every one of us, no matter how broken, poor, angry, violent, deceitful, happy, or wealthy. There is no new agey overtone to this set. And besides all that, it rocks, it rolls, it swings and strolls. This is pop music from the jump, but it's pop that would never, ever be considered for play anywhere except on the home jukebox. And there is no Christian-ese; probably some fundamentalists who want their God held above street level, up in the heavens, will find this offensive, but that's too damn bad. The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard feels raw and immediate, and most of all, it rings true. The music here was made because Jones had to make it. There isn't any calculation here and New West should be applauded for putting this baby on the market. The songs on this record feel like they come from the street in order to go back there, not to witness or testify, but simply to be there as a witness to life in the process of spending itself. The Jesus of this record isn't a Christian; he warns people (as he did in the Bible) to be wary of the religious. It's very much a Los Angeles album, but it translates in heart to Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Miami, Baltimore, or anywhere else. On "Elvis Cadillac," the hallucinatory Elvis, or perhaps Jesus, is writing a letter to his father about all that has transpired and how he wishes he could just sing his song; it's strange and winding and faltering and beautiful. On the closing track, "I Was There," a nearly eight-and-a-half-minute tome is performed completely solo on guitars and whispering keyboards in a circular chord set that wouldn't have been out of place on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. She is speaking to Christ in reverie, in a love song of a different kind, but a true love song nonetheless: "Most of all I loved your hands/I loved them so much it hurt/And all the bartenders knew your name/And all the pimps knew your car...and we were blessed/Yes we are...and I was there where Jesus walked." What's amazing is how easy to believe she is. She is speaking in her own kind of tongues here, and we are all the richer for it. This is the least polished and crafted recording of Rickie Lee Jones' career, and it stands alone in her catalog. It's a ragged kid in ripped blue jeans singing her heart out to you without drama or falsity. How can it be anything less than a masterpiece?
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The new album by Rickie Lee Jones, "The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard," is an incredible new release by a singer-songwriter who is an American icon. Jones has explored many different kinds of music during her 25+ years of recording, jazz, pop, even trip-hop on the rare Ghostyhead album that was released in the mid 1990's. Mojo Magazine (five stars) and other reviewers of the new album feel that this may be the best album Jones has put out. It rocks harder than any previous record, and sounds like a great vinyl recording, bringing to mind the Velvet Underground or The Rolling Stones mixed with a touch of Van Morrison. I think this may well be one of the most important albums of 2007.
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Currents are the source of life and death. What lies beneath the surface is unseen and often forgotten, but it's also where much light and magic can be found. This series of paintings explores the color, vibrancy, and luminosity of the deep. Angelic creatures serve as messengers of life. They examine undiscovered feelings hidden away from the obvious by bringing light to the darkest places. There's much beauty in the dark and life is brighter than we think.
Lawrence Yang wrestles with informational abstractions by day and paints by night. Influenced by graffiti art and traditional Chinese painting, he employs ink, marker, and watercolor, as the permanence of this media adds a sense of immediacy to his work. Lawrence's paintings make use of color to communicate atmosphere and emotion, and they are concerned primarily with creating order out of chaos (and vice versa). Lawrence once ate an entire bag of Fun Size Three Musketeers™. He lives in San Francisco with his imaginary pets, Cholo and Binky.
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Two Pasadena men were arrested after officers reportedly found several stolen items, including GPS devices, iPhones, iPods and garage openers, in their car during a traffic stop in Burbank early Tuesday morning, police said.
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Anderson and Allen allegedly told police the items belonged to their family members, Kendrick said.
The total value of the items found in the car was not immediately known.
Through the belongings found in the car, police were able to track down a woman who claimed that her car was recently broken into.
The suspects were arrested on suspicion of possessing stolen items and burglary tools, Kendrick said.


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Brutality → Human shadow on stone steps after A-bombing of Hiroshima (08/06/1945)
The photograph shows the stone steps of the main entrance of Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima which was only 250 meters from the hypocenter of the atomic explosure on 08/06/1945. It is believed that a person sat down on the steps facing the direction of the hypocenter, possibly waiting for the bank to open. By a flash of the heat rays with temperatures well over a 1,000 degrees or possibly 2,000 degrees centigrade, that person was incineratied on the stone steps. Up to about 10 years after the explosion, the shadow remained clearly on the stones, but exposure to rain and wind has been gradually blurring it. So, when the bank was newly built, the stone steps were removed and are now preserved at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. You can also see the beautiful computer reconstruction of this atomic explosure made by BBC (UK).
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Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a war crime? Of course, it's not. It was a war. To stop WWII immediately by killing thousands of people maybe was not a good idea. But you should know that only China's losses in the WWII were approximately 20 million killed by Japanese soldiers! Who could stop it? God bless America!
The zeitgeistmovie was cult B.S. and new age propaganda. And also why are none of the American haters here bitching about what the Japanese did to the civilians in China, the philipines, and indo-china?
Are all the politically correct people OK with that just because they used katana blades instead of Atom bombs?
I hated the idea of dropping any bombs on civilian populations too. It's not the civilians fault at all, but maybe you should turn your anger on the Japanese leaders who refused to surrender from their lavish Palaces. While they ordered their children to suffer and sacrifice themselves for the emperor.
Those Jap fanatic douche-bags were so full of pride that they didn't mind killing their own kids and using them to blunt the American advance. America also stayed in Japan to rebuild it. Read about Douglas Macarthur.
MuteWinter
WAR should be by dfinition "a confrontation of armies", where dows civilians get in the equation? With NAZI blitzkrieg and air-war, americans did the same shit.
Pearl Harbour was a MILITARY INSTALLATION, Hiroshima and Nagasaki where both CITIES.
>_< the CIVILIANS WHERE INNOCENT! I'm sick of people saying they did peral harbor etc THE LEADERS DID NOT THE CIVILIANS
wasn't killing a bunch of "innocent" japs better then actually invading japan where estimated allied deaths would have been over 1 million and japanese deaths over double that
Some people seem to forget that japan attacked Pearl Harbor during peace talks with the US. Japan killed millions of Chinese civilians. The empire of Japan wanted to control the pacific at all costs. They viewed every single non-japanese human being as inferior and an enemy. Man, woman, and child. I just wish the U.S. would have had the good sense to respond with the same tenacity after the world trade center attacks. Pearl harbor? We attack civilians. We end the war! World Trade Center Falls? We send thousands of Americans to have their lives brutaly changed forever. I love this country, but really have a hard time with the people who run it sometimes. The U.S. has agreed with you doubters. Hiroshima was a mistake we won't make again. Sometimes people have to be killed to make a point. If it weren't for the bomb in Hioshima, we might all be speaking Japanese, or worse, not be here because the ancestor from which we decend was killed by a Japanese invasion.
no they both buchers of war
I see your point, Japan was not an innocent nation.
But attacking cities full with civilians? yeah I do think that part could've been handled better. :/
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^^^watch the first movie, and that'll explain why America was wrong^^^
fucking americans
there are other ways to stop the war other than killing
millions of innocent japanese
Thank you for pointing this out-it's easy to bash the USA. People forget Japan caused a holocaust every bit as bad as the one in Europe. I feel bad for the kids in that blast, but Japan was not some innocent nation we attacked
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Due to the prominence of the Vijayawada-Guntur urban region as the capital of the new state and the identification of the Nandigama region as the corridor for pharma and biotech industries, substantial business ventures are anticipated to be opened in this region. The concept of an incubation facility is beneficial to both nurture new companies in the region and support the training (skill development) and gainful employment of college students. Such a concept has been successfully used to promote trade, development and education and is standard practice in many advanced countries.
For the first time in Andhra Pradesh, a Pharma Innovation and Incubation Centre (10,000 sq. ft) at KVSR Siddhartha College of Pharmaceutical Sciences is gearing up for opening ceremony under the management of Siddhartha Academy, Vijayawada. A total of 1 crore rupees was spent to construct the Innovation centre equipped with air conditioned research labs, office and conference room spaces. Also, the incubatees will be provided with common work spaces like Air conditioned seminal hall and other basic amenities. The major aim of this pharma innovation and incubation centre is to encourage the students and sciecntists with innovative ideas and develop these ideas into commercial products and bridging the gap between Industry and Academia. At the same time support will be given to protect the ideas of the students and scientists as patents.
Similarly at the KVSR Siddhartha College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, several DST (Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India) sponsored international collaborative research projects were under progress. Under the guidance of Dr. Buchinaidu Nalluri, the institute is having collaborative research projects with Department of Chemical engineering, Loughbrough University, UK and Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Gdansk, Poland, for carrying research on newer drug delivery systems for treating different diseases to paediatric and geriatric patients. The research expertise of the college faculty will be helpful to incubatees at Innovation and Incubation Centre to make their innovative ideas a reality.
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igh elevation country seems to hold a special attraction for most hikers. You're above it all, so to speak, the scenery is great, and you have the feeling that you've left the more mundane lower elevation civilization behind. Of course, this feeling of adventure and solitude comes at a price; usually sweat and calories expended in a climb of many thousand vertical feet. There are a few spots where you can drive to fairly high elevation to start with, though, cutting a few thousand feet off your climb. The most noteworthy example of this is the Beartooth Highway south of Red Lodge where you can drive to around 10,000', but that is an unusual case in that you are then on a relatively flat plateau, without opportunity to hike appreciably higher than you can drive to. In looking for a hiking destination of this type I have used some admittedly somewhat arbitrary criteria, but they work for me as I'm sure they will for others. I want to be able to drive to a spot (without destroying my vehicle in the process) where I can reach scenic high country within reasonable day-hiking distance, say not over four or five miles with a climb of less than three thousand vertical feet. That narrows the list considerably, especially the part about not abusing your vehicle. There are some otherwise excellent spots in the Tobacco Root mountains, but the roads into them are an absolute fright; steep and rough jeep trails that have the potential to age you and your vehicle considerably.
First, perhaps we should define what I consider "high altitude". Montana's mountains are generally lower elevation than some western states, although it is relief that makes for scenic grandeur, and Montana peaks hold their own nicely in that regard. Granite Peak at 12799' is the highest point in the state, but in most Montana mountain ranges if you get up to 10,000' or so you will be getting right up there.
One excellent spot that fits these criteria to a T is the Windy Pass area of the Gallatin Range, reached via the Portal Creek road in the Gallatin Canyon south of Bozeman. Portal Creek departs the east side of US 191 five miles north of Big Sky and the road ascends the drainage for a little over six miles to its end and the Windy Pass Trailhead at 8000'. There is a possible point of confusion at the intersection for road to the Hidden Lake trailhead, but if you miss the signs stay to the left (actually more straight ahead) and you'll be on the right road. Another possibly confusing spot is right at the trailhead; you want to take the trail departing to the east, not the old logging road with a trail sign pointing toward it. Portal Creek has been heavily logged in the past and is not the most scenic drainage in the Gallatin Canyon, but rest assured the view improves tremendously after you leave the road behind.
As always, you should have maps along, and while you could get by with the Gallatin National Forest travel plan map, I think you will be happier and have a better fix on your location using the 7.5 minute (1:24,000) USGS topographical maps: Hidden Lake MT, (covers mostly the route in through Portal Creek and just catches the trailhead, not absolutely essential), The Sentinel MT, and Lone Indian Peak MT (only necessary if you want to hike more than a mile south of Windy Pass).
From the trailhead the Windy Pass trail climbs gradually through the timber for 2.5 miles to the pass, gaining about 1100' in the process. This is a quite easy hike, suitable for anyone in at least reasonable condition. While mostly in the timber, the trail does have a couple of open spots that afford good views of the Spanish Peaks to the west as well as the Hilgards south of Big Sky. Shortly before the pass the trail breaks out into the open, and the views become tremendous. The Windy Pass ranger station lies a quarter mile to the north, and in another quarter mile you reach the Gallatin Crest trail and will feel on top of the world. To the east the Big Creek drainage leads to the Yellowstone River, with the peaks of the Absaroka Range beyond. The northern end of Yellowstone Park is visible to the south, the Madison range rises to the west, and the Gallatin crest disappears off to the north. This view encompasses much of the most spectacular country in southwest Montana, which is to say some of the most spectacular country anywhere.
Those wishing to continue further have some excellent options from this point. Following the Gallatin Crest trail 2.75 miles south leads to 9976' Eaglehead Mountain. The first part of this trail is relatively level, with most of the elevation gain in the last half mile. In addition to even better views of the previously mentioned vistas, you have a bird's eye view of the upper Gallatin canyon.
An equal distance to the north lies The Sentinel at 9945'. The Gallatin Crest trail ascends steadily to this point, but I would still consider it easy hiking. Further attempts at describing the stupendous view would only be redundant at this point.
As mentioned, the hiking to the points described is quite easy, although you will definitely notice the effects of the altitude. I live at 4700' and regularly hike in the 7000' to 8000' range, am in reasonable condition, and am obviously at least fairly well acclimated. Still, I was surprised at the feeling of not being able to get quite enough oxygen when close to 10,000'. Visitors coming from lower elevation should spend at least a day or two at more moderate elevation before hiking into the high country, consume plenty of liquids, and not over-exert or they could find the experience less than enjoyable.
The routes described are suitable for very enjoyable day hikes, but there's no reason you couldn't extent your trip if you desire. Although camping is prohibited in the immediate vicinity of the Windy Pass ranger station, there are several good camping sites not too far away with springs available to replenish your water supplies. Water availability is likely to be the largest problem encountered if you decide to hike further on the Gallatin Crest trail. You are going to have to drop off into one of the side drainages if you need to get water, although at least through late July you should be able to find some high elevation snowbanks where you could melt snow for water.
South of Windy Pass the Gallatin Crest Trail ends at the intersection with the Rock Creek trail about four miles south of Eaglehead Mountain. Hikers could follow Rock Creek east toward the Yellowstone or drop into Buffalo Horn Creek. One popular attraction in this area is Ramshorn Lake. If one is enamored with staying on the crest there are more extensive possibilities north of Windy Pass. The truly adventurous could continue for fifteen rugged miles to the north end of the Gallatin Crest Trail at 10,299' Hyalite Peak, before descending another four miles to the Hyalite Creek trailhead. I have only been about halfway on this route, which is the easy half according to the maps. Obviously, only experienced backpackers should attempt this trip.
Experienced or otherwise, though, the Windy Pass area provides a relatively easy way to experience the high country of southwest Montana. Instead of a lung and thigh-busting 4000' climb, you are looking at a relatively casual 1000' to 2000' climb, spread over from 2.5 to 5 miles, after which you will be amply rewarded with panoramic views of peaks in every direction, whose summits you are nearly level with. You'll feel like you are on top of the world, and that's a sensation everybody can stand more of.


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Q: Why isn't my schema.rb file updated? I recently looked at my schema.rb file and was alarmed to find that certain columns that do exist in my database do not appear, and some tables are missing entirely. The missing columns were added to the database through "def change add_column" migrations, though some columns that were added in that way do appear as expected in schema.rb.
On closer inspection, I realized that schema.rb has not been updated since I created the Users table.
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class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :users do |t|
      t.string :name
      t.string :email
      t.timestamps null: false
    end
  end
end

This has not caused an issue for me in practice, but I thought schema.rb was supposed to be kept automatically updated, and that it would be important to have it updated in order to recreate the database. Can anyone help me figure out why it would not be updating?
One possibility is that it stopped being updated when I switched my database from sqlite3 to postgresql. I don't remember exactly, but I think the timing makes sense.

A: You can use rake db:schema:dump to re-create the file from the current database structure.
Schema file is independent from the driver so migrating from sqlite3 to PostgreSQL shouldn't matter. Make sure that version for definition in the file is not greater than current the current date. You can also add the whole file to the question's snippet.

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Ravens roster move roundup ahead of Bears game
Ravens rule out one starter but could possibly get two back on the offensive line
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The Baltimore Ravens made several moves ahead of their Week 11 road trip to the Windy City for an interconference matchup with the Chicago Bears. The offense will be without their top wide receiver after ruling out Marquise 'Hollywood' Brown with a thigh injury but might be getting back a pair of starters on the offensive line.
Rookie guard Ben Cleveland was officially activated to the active roster from injured reserve and could be in line to start at left guard. He will likely be joined in his return to the lineup by third-year do-it-all lineman Patrick Mekari, who would be the starting right tackle if available.
Cleveland was carted off the field early in the team's Week 5 win over the Indianapolis Colts with a knee injury and placed on injured reserve. He was rotating with third-year pro Ben Powers and had begun to see increased snaps each week before he went down.
Mekari was not placed on injured reserve after he suffered a high ankle sprain in the first half of the team's Week 7 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. He has missed the last two games and his return would bring some much-needed reinforcements to the starting unit as he was playing at a high level before suffering his injury.
Veteran outside linebacker Pernell McPhee was already ruled out for this week's game against one of his former teams after not practicing on Thursday and Friday knee injury. He will be out for a minimum of three games after landing on injured reserve.
Taking his spot on the active roster will be fourth-year guard/defensive tackle Kahlil McKenzie, who was signed to the practice squad on Sept. 8. He appeared in three games this year where he recorded three tackles in 15 defensive snaps. McKenzie will provide some depth in the trenches against the Bears, especially on defense with starting nose tackle Brandon Williams out for a third straight week due to a shoulder injury. McPhee's absence will likely clear the way for third-year pro Jaylon Ferguson to appear in just his fourth game this season.
As far as practice squad transitions, the Ravens elevated veteran linebacker Joe Thomas and third-year quarterback Trace McSorely for Sunday's game and released veteran guard James Carpenter.
Thomas will be seeing his first action as a Raven since being signed on Oct. 19 after being released by the Houston Texans, who he appeared in the first five games of the season and made two starts. McSorely's elevation is likely a precaution just in case starter Lamar Jackson can't play with a non-COVID-related illness that kept him out of practice on Wednesday and Thursday. He'd serve as the backup to second-year pro Tyler Huntley if Jackson doesn't play.


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Power of LOVE is perfect to keep you in a state of harmony where you feel connected with everything and your existence is embraced with plenitude and happiness.
The Eilat stone -a combination of turquoise, malachite and chrysocolla- elixir, contained in the Power of LOVE provides you with sensitive and strong energy that creates feelings of love by balancing your emotional system and boosting personal transformation with confidence in life.
Power of LOVE also comes with the floral essence of rose in its composition. This flower, considered to have a higher consciousness, connects us to the universe of love and wisdom. It boosts the balanced growth of a love for life, an enjoyment for the things we do and gives us the experience of connecting deeply with the heart of the universe: Love.
To make this perfume we have focused on the splendor of who you are. Being in touch with yourself and with others. The value of everything, everywhere. Harmony. A fragrance that proliferates a feeling for life. The fountain of your well-being.
A soft whirlwind of citrus top-notes that rest in a heart of peony, praline and apple essence. The magic of this perfume covers these deeper notes as they are washed with an exquisiteness of subtle touches of wood and the freshness of apple leave.


It was a beautiful Launch Sunday. My heart is full. I am amazed at how great of a blessing God gave us in this first Sunday, first service, first of many other things. Five people responded to the Gospel message. Our heart's desire for Hope Church is to see people find freedom, life, and hope in Jesus. And here we are, on our very first Sunday, and God is giving us a glimpse of these prayers being answered.
Today was a day to be happy about, a day to be joyful in God for, and a day to remember and cling to when a rainy day or stormy season happens.
It was all God. His fingerprints are evident in every good thing. But he has also been present in the tough situations, dark days, and sad nights leading up to this very day.
I am blessed to be able to "play the background" in a venture I never would have chosen for myself. The irony of God is astounding. Truly, his thoughts and ways are far above our human ideas and his purposes will prevail over any of our plans (Proverbs 19:21).
And I am infinitely blessed to walk this journey with followers of Jesus who are passionate about being a part of his great story. This story is far larger than any one of us and it wouldn't be possible without him. I am thankful that for a sliver of time I have the privilege of being in this present moment, with these precious people. Jesus, I am grateful.
I am grateful that you have led us all this way. I am grateful that you have taken our hands and held our hearts for all this time. I am grateful that this is only the beginning, the genesis of something greater to come. I am grateful for your smile—felt and seen on days like today. I am also grateful for your hidden smile on the days and nights it is not evident and all around us screams that you've left us. Jesus, you are a greater reality than any perception we experience. And when you said that you'd be with us forever, it is just as true on perfect days like today and on awful, horrible days this past year or in the year to come. No one can take you away.
Jesus, still today, no one speaks like you! Your words are alive and full of grace and truth. You are the Savior of the world and because you were lifted up on the cross, you can and do draw all people to yourself (John 12:32).
Today was reminiscent of our first church service of the week in Le Vega, Dominican Republic. Ashley and Wesley sang "Lord, I Need You" in Spanish (which we also sang today) and Jordan preached. People came forward and made decisions to follow Christ. Tears and hugs all around in the sticky, hot evening—very unlike today with the cool, crisp fall temperatures. That was a favorite moment from the week in the DR—God calling his children from the depths of darkness into the blazing light of truth found in the Light of the World. And less than two months later, I was able to see it all over again.
Jesus, I am grateful. So grateful.


What is a Reflex? Most of us think of a quick automatic response to a stimuli, or when the Dr. taps our knee and it shoots forward with no effort from our thinking minds, and this is a good point to begin from.
As a broad definition, "a reflex is a nervous system reaction caused by stimulation of receptors in the skin, tendons, muscles, mucous membrane and pupils" (I.M. Setchenov).
As we develop in utero, the pathway of many reflexes are laid in our brainstems to set us up for a successful birth and first stage of life. If you've ever seen ultrasound pictures of pre-term babies sucking their thumbs or yawning, you've seen this in action. These early reflexes are what's responsible for babies navigating the birth process, feeding, bonding with family, and generally staying as safe as possible as they continue to grow during this very vulnerable time.
The role of our Reflexes continues to be crucial as we develop further. These early, "primitive" reflexes that we are born with, are the foundation that the next higher level of reflexes build on top of. As our brains and nervous systems mature, these early reflexes are integrated (no longer active) to develop into a higher level reflex that prepares us for the next stage of learning. A commonly understood example of this is the Moro Reflex which most of can easily see in a baby. As the baby grows, this reflex should slowly start to disappear as the child develops new ways to stay safe.
But what happens if a reflex does not properly integrate to allow the next level of higher reflex to develop? This is when there can be some neurological disorganization, if you will. Our brains get confused so to speak, and then our nervous system gets overwhelmed. This is where the work of reflex integration comes in.
My underastanding and clinic relationship with the Primative reflexes has been shaped, first through my trainings with MNRI, founded by Svetlana Masgutova, Ph.D. comes in. Dr. Masgutova has been leading research since 1989 in understanding the importance that primary movements have on development. MNRI ® for Neuro-Sensory-Motor and Reflex Integraion,LLC, masgutovamethod.com. This work uses simple movements and bodywork, to help the body recognize and integrate, or organize, neurological reflexes.
I've been studying this work for 6 years and it has informed the way I approach the nervous system and body in incredible ways. It is an amazing complement to craniosacral therapy and especially effective when working with babies and children, but also for adults as well.
I have trained with Dr. Masgutova in 3 of her classes, and attended intensive family camps, where specialists work with the individual for 8 days straight. I am not a specialist in MNRI, nor do I claim to be, but can help clients figure out if this work would be helpful for them or their child and refer you for an assessment with the specialists. I plan to continue my studies with MNRI, as I've found it very helpful.
More recently I have been studying the Haller Method, taught by Maxine Haller, OTR/L cardinalcapers.com/overview.html. This method is easily applied through bodywork practice, and specifically addresses many of the underlying neurological reflex issues that are effecting infants. With non invasive bodywork and movement patterns, it is another beautiful compliment to CST, and can offer great benefit in dealing with regulation and feeding issues that I work with regularly.


What if I told you there is a way to reverse & prevent the signs of aging? What if I told you can reduce your pores dramatically? What if I told you that you can nourish your skin without harsh chemicals and dyes?
How do I begin to start to inform you of this revolutionary Organic skin care line? I sit here with a million thoughts in my head and a huge smile on my face because it actually works!
After a phone conversation with Gaelle (the creator of "Gaelle Organic") she really opened my eyes to help and improve my skin with some helpful hints to banish my pores and improve the health of my skin!!!
Reduce coffee to only one cup a day! Coffee will most definitely enlarge your pores!
Replace your coffee with Green or White tea. It will replace the caffeine that you need but these teas are filled with anti-aging benefits.
Put your toner in the fridge for the first two weeks to help close up your pores. After the two weeks you will no longer need to use it cold.
This toner will only work 50% if your a big coffee drinker so cut it down to one cup a day!
It's so important to hydrate your skin so drink your water and tea!
Use Coconut Oil to remove your makeup. Then cleanse your face. To read about all the benefits of Coconut Oil click here.
Be kind to your skin don't pull it treat it like a baby, gently.
I listened to Gaelle and this was my results only after 4 days of using her Organic skin Care line! I swear there is no Photoshop in this picture!
I'm stunned and so trilled by the results I got in such a short period of time!
Soap Supreme perfectly complements Crème Supérieure, Toner Supérieure and Reborn Exfoliant – all you need for your daily care.
You can use Soap Supreme all over your face and body.
Soap Supreme is an organic soap formulated for dry skin. Its rich oils moisturize as they cleanse.
This has to easily be my favorite part of a face routine! This soap feels so natural that it almost feels like it can melt in your hands! That right off says to me that this is "real" soap. All you need to do is roll it in your hands twice and you have enough soap to lather up to wash your face. I find that I'm always rolling and rolling other soaps to get a decent amount of product to wash with. You can also use this on your entire body! After your shower you probably wont even reach for your lotion. It's really that incredible!
The smell of this soap is euphoric and pure! The way my skin feels when I use it is like no other soap! When you rinse your face it actually squeak's... like it's really clean. The texture it leaves your face is soft and moist. Not tight and dry.
Reborn Exfoliant™ will clear, smooth and moisturize your skin - in less than a minute.
In 30-seconds your skin will glow like after a 1-hour facial.
Reborn Exfoliant is dramatically effective, yet so pure you could eat it.
Only natural goodness is absorbed when you put it on your skin.
This natural exfoliant can be used all over the face, including under the eyes, the neck and decolette.
This exfoliant is unlike any other I've used! I love the gritty Sea Salts! It doesn't hurt or irritate my skin! It almost wakes it up and gets the blood flowing. This is a must have to help shed the old dead skin cells and reveal fresh beautiful skin.
The way it leaves a moisture shield after is incredible! It really is French Gray Sea Salts because you can taste it... which doesn't scare me because its natural NO chemicals!
Don't be scared of the price or the amount your getting. You only need to use this once a week (after cleaning the face and before you tone it). You only need a small amount, enough to coat two fingers then you work it around your face.
Toner Supérieure is a blend of natural astringents and hydrosols that have been used for centuries to nurture beautiful skin. Its pH-balanced natural toners and herbs work together to tighten pores, refine skin texture, protect against sun damage, andreduce breakouts. You can use Toner Supérieure safe in the knowledge that it contains no synthetic chemicals or alcohol and will not cause irritation or drying.
It is used after cleansing to deeply clean and shrink the pores. It washes away cleanser residue and restores your skin's healthy pH balance so you have better protection against infections – which means fewer breakouts and a clearer complexion.
Use your facial toner daily after cleansing, prior to moisturizing. Pore-minimizing effects can be amplified by storing Toner Supérieure in the refrigerator.
Love love love!!! Toner is only necessary if you have large pores or oily skin. My pores in my T-Zone are terrible but not anymore! I find that the oil on my skin as calmed down as well! This toner doesn't burn at all because there is no Alcohol in it which is awful for your skin! Just pure natural ingredients just what our skin wants and needs!
I love the cooling effect it has on my skin as well.
It is difficult to find effective anti-aging products for sensitive skin. Sensitive skin can react even to pure, organic ingredients. And as products become stronger, the chance of a reaction goes up.
Colostrum and edelweiss can bridge the gap.
Colostrum is one of the richest natural sources of immune and anti-aging factors. It can reduce redness and rashes at the same time as it helps re-build healthy skin.
Edelweiss contains antioxidants that are twice as strong as Vitamin C. Yet it soothes and protects sensitive skin.
Ultra Sensitive Creme is formulated with colostrum and edelweiss to provide effective anti-aging for sensitive skin.
I have an oily T-Zone all I need is literally a drop (when I say a drop I mean a drop) under my eyes and on my cheeks! I also use a drop on my neck and a bit in between my eyes (I have wicked wrinkles there from squinting). This small amount glides over my skin, moisturizes and makes it feel so supple.
Again, the smell from her products are incredible and fresh! You just know your feeding your skin and loving your skin!
If you have very dry skin she does have a moisturizer perfect for you Creme Superieure.
"You will see immediate results and your skin will become more and more beautiful the longer you use our products."
When I read that I thought, honestly that is a BOLD statement... doesn't every skin care line promise that? Well, she was right. My picture (at the top) and experience is proof! I will never use any other skin care line again... I'm hooked and you will be too!
I know!!! I'm still shocked! These are really beautiful products and all natural! That's why it works! I seriously get so excited to wash my face now! I adore Gaelle Organics! Thanks for stopping by!
These products look incredible! They never would have been on my radar without this review, so thanks! Great review...must try!
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Building teams has probably been the most important development for us in those two years. On a management level, the initial expansion to 25 members was actually quite easy - everyone was still reporting to Steven (Founder & COO) and myself. At that point, we were just one big team working towards the same goal. When we hit the 30-people mark, things didn't run that smoothly anymore and started to clog up our efficiency and way of working.
A big deal had gone very wrong on us. I can't tell much about it at this stage, because the whole affair is still under investigation. However, I can tell you now that the client was involved in fraudulent activities. Perhaps next year I might be able to tell you the whole story – it's not a pretty one. Chasing whales is not a good idea.
Despite the whole thing not being our fault, it still put us in a bad spot. We lost quite a bit of money building a product that never finished and we never got paid for it. On the bright side, it laid the foundations for one of our most successful products. The product that we hand out for free at http://ikonderneemdigitaal.be, is based on a platform that contains reused code of the product that we had built for our client. So eventually, we did manage to turn things around slightly.
Losing a lot of money is very dangerous for young companies, as cash flow is generally very low. Our focus on a growth-oriented business model made things even harder on us. The situation put a lot of stress on us, founders, to attract more business and also be able to deliver. All of this happened whilst we were still looking every day to find the right people to grow and structure the company.
At that point, our biggest investment – installing the teams – was still to come.
We had to fight an uphill battle. Luckily, we had raised some money and we made use of all the financial tools we came across. This is especially difficult in Belgium, where money-raising networks are few and far between.
Not everything turned out to be grim that year. In 2015, we managed to get approval for a BA+ loan. This is a government-subsidized loan that allows start-ups to raise money if they get a deal through its partner networks. Since we raised a loan through the BAN (Business Angel Network), we could apply. Our business model was validated and we acquired a loan as one of the last companies benefiting the federal government support measure. This support measure is now part of the Flemish government and exist under the PMV umbrella.
Then, in June of the same year, we received more support from the government, as we secured an IWT grant. This measure has also changed and is now part of VLAIO (also managed on a regional, Flemish level). All of these measures shifted together with the new reforms in the federal Belgian structure. We were awarded €250 000 to fund our products and R&D. This came in at exactly the right time. If this grant hadn't come through, our R&D efforts would have been halved.
We were also frequent users of the IBO rule. IBO is a system designed and managed by VDAB (the Flanders employment agency), which allows companies to hire employees on a training contract. This means we don't pay taxes on their wages during the first six months of employment. After this period, our trainees can apply for so-called Activation cards, which gives the company even more tax discounts. Especially developers who have joined the company via a government training education programme, also hosted by VDAB, are a perfect fit for this. While we cannot employ these developers on the Dropsolid level (because they would need to be more experienced), we do have a solution to onboard a lot of young talent. This assures our company is growth-oriented and doesn't have to fight the war on talent too much.
Because we operate in the market under two brands - Dropsolid and Cooldrops -, we are able to employ a lot of young people fresh out of higher education or the VDAB training programme straight in our lower-end Cooldrops team. Why? The VDAB programme teaches Drupal, so the young minds entering the company already know its basics. This allows us to place them at Cooldrops, supervised by a technical lead (drupal developer with +9y of experience) and several project managers. Initially, they set up SME websites using the tools we have pre-built.
Cooldrops delivers websites to SME's and self-employed people and is a Software-as-a-Service product built on top of JAMES (our Platform-as-a-Service subsidized by IWT). Cooldrops harvests Drupal core capabilities for installing Drupal the way we want it to be for an SME. This makes it very easy for a new developer to build a Drupal website. In a certain way, one might say that we used Drupal to do what Wordpress brings to independent developers. You can make Drupal as easy to install and use as WordPress, but without losing the powerful engine that is inside - the Drupal core, of course. The other way around is not possible. I will tell more about this vision later, but being able to finetune Drupal in such a way that it is nearly as easy to use as WordPress, is a tremendous opportunity.
Cooldrops has existed as an installer on top of James since the early days, but it has evolved since. We now host two formulas with Cooldrops. On the one hand, we offer a 'FIX' version, which give clients a basic but optimized responsive website that we make available for free on http://ikonderneemdigitaal.be, and FLEX, which is a Drupal installation pre-installed as part of SaaS solution. Customers also get access to marketing packs, which helps them with SEO, e-mail, content and social. On top of that, we deliver traffic packs, which results in quality website traffic. Next to that, we offer a photo & branding pack, so clients can brand them in a cost-efficient way. We even have reseller deal with the popular Teamleader CRM for SMEs, where we onboard customers and connect their CRM with their digital experience. Cooldrops has evolved from a simple product to a complete ecosystem of products and services all tailored to make digital business easier for SMEs.
This offer created an alternative for companies who are looking to spend less than 10k a year and are not ready for a communications agency. SMEs & independents only having a few thousand euros to spend each year on digital experiences. Cooldrops can serve as an 'à la carte' menu where customers can pick what they need and still have the products & services delivered, personalized with personal customer support. With this customer-friendly offer we are trying to steer a lot of customers away from Gouden Gids, Roularta & Proximedia, who deliver a different and less personal customer experience. We also take clients from independent web developers, since we can scale more easily to more customers. In 2017, one of our strategic moves will be to deliver our platform to these independent web developers. Our project is named JIMMY ('little James'), since the product is based on our JAMES PaaS. It will allow independent web developers to use Drupal in the style of WordPress. With this difference, they will be able to service much more complex projects. More on that later.
In fact, Cooldrops is an implementation of our James and Jenny platform. It proves that industrialising web development is the way to go. With more than 300 customers and multiple daily website launches, we are fast-growing. We like to speed this up to 5000 websites a year in the next 1,5 years. Then we can scale up even faster.
The digital scan that we offer to SME Cooldrops clients, is also government-subsidized. Through the so-called 'KMO portefeuille' programme, 40% of the cost will be refunded to SMEs who wish to invest in a strategic digital scan. We build SMEs a tailor-made digital plan, that enables their digital entrepreneurship.
A big thank you to our government in this wouldn't go amiss. They have been really great to entrepreneurs the last two years and I can only hope they keep up the good work. In return, we as entrepreneurs keep contributing through our taxes. With almost 60 employees (of which more than 70% of the jobs are newly created), we try to give back. I hope we can create many more jobs and develop talent. I believe that next to making money, developing talent, contributing and innovating are the most rewarding. Money accounts only for 25% of the satisfaction that we get every day. Being able to contribute to the Drupal platform & to the community, innovating and developing talent is accounting for 75%. Although I hope we make a lot of money, this is only a part of the motivation. Had money been our only driver, we probably wouldn't have survived.
Building teams is the single most important task for a management team.
Our core values - Trust, Help, Challenge, Grow & Enjoy - were formulated in 2015. These values had always been around ,but we managed to put them into words in 2015. We would practice them by having each other's back, by cooperation, by pushing each other forward, by being transparent and having a good time. Then one day we sat down and we found out we could communicate them using these five words. However, at the end of the day they are just words. The most important thing is that we keep practicing them like in the beginning.
Whenever we faced a challenge, we would always go back to these values. The same went for our partners who were with us. At some point they simply didn't fit the values anymore.
At the start of the year 2016, we said goodbye to our Cooldrops sales manager. When the core value of Trust gets broken, there is really no way back.
A few month later, in early 2016, we parted ways with our operations manager and also business partner. We are really grateful for his contribution he made to Dropsolid and we still value him a lot. What happened? We came at a crossroads where Steven & I felt we had a different vision on how our operation team should evolve, so we decided that we had to move on.
He was replaced by one of our project managers, who really impressed me. She took over HR, office, administration, project management and operations. She did a job that required three people and at times got more things done in an intelligent way than the people who were dedicated to these positions full time. She is such a team player.
Getting the best people on board is absolutely crucial. I have made many mistakes in hiring the wrong type of people, but lately we are getting better at it. In 2016, we fired people who were not in the right spot faster than ever. Also, some people needed to be in another spot and we transferred them. Deciding how to do this? The answer: our core values. If there is trust, they are helping out, they challenge themselves, grow and enjoy themselves & each other there will always be a place for them at Dropsolid. Our culture has become so clear that whoever doesn't fit, will feel out of place quickly. This way, it becomes clear very fast if someone does not belong with the company.
Rule number one: build teams. Get the values right. Rule number two: you will need to hire team players. That's what we did. Another of our key hires was Thomas Simono, who was the sales manager for Coolblue in Belgium at the time. At Coolblue, a strong team culture exists in sales. That is what he brought us too. We found out that in our sales department, we were not acting as a team, but as a bunch of people with targets. Again, we learned the hard way that this didn't fit our values. We transformed the sales team by hiring new people, getting rid of sales targets and working together as a team. Again, hire a team player who can reflect the values and inspire others to do the same.
I can say that our management team, consisting of six people, has been able to fully embody our core values. All the other teams follow their lead. Steven leads as chief of operations. He does this together with Jeanne, the operations manager, who is supported by Laurence, our most senior project manager and the only person I know who cannot be influenced by something other than the truth. Jeanne leads office, administration and HR, reporting finally to Steven & me. Cooldrops operations reports to Steven, as do the Cooldrops marketing team and the strategy team. Dropsolid sales reports to me and Cooldrops sales reports to Thomas Simono, who also reports to me. The Dropsolid marketing team reports to me. The R&D team currently reports to me. We have found our CTO and when he is on board I will reveal his name. Finance is part of my responsibilities and I have trusted advisors on this. In the future we will need a dedicated CFO. If you are interested, please contact me for the future.
Building this management team took us more than three years and it has been one of our biggest challenges. Finding people who are really inspiring our core values is key.
Cooldrops operations: 2 teams in Gent and Hasselt. Each with a project manager and 3/4 developers.
Sales has perhaps been the most 'hire and fire'-style department in the last two years. I will not go into detail, but dealing with sales people was new to me and since they are good at selling themselves and me believing what they told us, this resulted in failure to deliver. I would like to give one single piece of advice for hiring your first sales people: once they have been through their training and understand what the company is about, they should be able to handle deals on their own. Simply call every client they visited and ask them if they would hire this person as their own sales person, rated on a 1-to-10 scale. Do this again when deals get lost and won too. This feedback will tell you quickly what needs to be done. Do they need more training? Do they say who they were? Are they capable of handling clients and deals and embodying the values? If they aren't, best to fire them without hesitation. Salespeople are unlike developers and should be handled on direct feedback - they need to deliver.
Another thing that we threw out of the window, are commissions. No one has a bonus plan anymore. Everyone is working for the company. We are working as one. Closing what the company needs. This in comparison of created deals that tend to drift from our core business. Long shot deals that will probably never land and will disappoint customers. None of that anymore. People work as one large team and guess what? With 20% fewer people, we crossed the 1M sales mark in Q4. Who could have guessed that firing sales would boost sales?
Our marketing team is a brand new team and it was formed over a 1,5 year timespan. We started with a marketing manager, but eventually we had to let him go because our vision on marketing did not align. While branding is important, I think it is more important that we work in a structured way, working on a system that measures and learns from outcomes. Lesson learned? Although marketeers tend to be very creative people, never get fooled that measuring and learning is nothing for them. Especially in online marketing, where everything is measurable.
What I am really proud of, is the way we matured our operations team. We scaled up from a very literal 'bunch' of people to three highly structured, self-sufficient teams, led by only one operations manager. We function with minimal overhead and deliver quality code to clients. These teams, supported by R&D, marketing and strategy teams, deliver the services and products that makes Dropsolid different from any other Drupal company or digital agency.
We help clients infuse digital into the DNA of their company. Because we believe companies should become digital in their core, we deliver them the platforms and services to do so. Our R&D team develop the platforms like James, Jenny as our multisite solution, Jimmy & Cooldrops. This helps our clients to build their digital experience and integrate them deep into their core. Our platforms are open so the dependency is virtually non-existent. Our strategy teams help clients make the right choice and our marketing team helps to increase the performance of the experiences. In this process, we truly work with C-level management to digitally transform these companies.
On a larger-sized Dropsolid level, we stay away from the tasks of larger communications and marketing agencies. Although we can deliver marketing services on an SME level through Cooldrops and deliver the whole package. We do not deliver 360 marketing on an enterprise level such as content, social, mail, SEA, SEO, nor do we deliver campaigns on large scale projects. We work together with these digital marketing agencies to build the experience on top of our platforms and make sure our solutions perform. The key difference between us and digital agency or a software integrator is that we infuse the digital DNA into our clients genome. We work so tightly together that these companies learn to adopt our digital DNA. As a start-up/scale-up digital company building our own products and services, this comes with a fresh mindset. We don't solve a problem with a solution, we build the problem-solving solution into our clients core. Because we change companies in a way they can truly change the way they go to the market, the results are transformative. Companies become able to use our platforms and digital experiences to build new customer journeys, to deliver better offers to clients through new channels. Drupal is so perfect to do this because the product can really be owned by the companies we work for. They can install Drupal in their cores without having to worry about continuity or a total cost of ownership that gets out of control. They only need Dropsolid to deliver them the tools and the expertise to embed these powerful strategic digital experiences into their core.
Cooldrops has the same structure as Dropsolid, but works much more standardised. We deliver solutions from start to finish using a playbook. This allows us to minimize the needed custom work and deliver experiences to SMEs at great prices with great service. Because we assemble, a lot of clients have more money to spend on marketing and traffic packs which have more impact on their business. I see a lot of potential growth for Cooldrops, for the simple reason that I see a lot of clients wanting a more personalized service who are not ready to go and spend +10k/y with communications agencies. The Cooldrops buffet model will be perfect for them to bring their companies digital experience and digital presence to the next level.
Making Drupal as easy as Wordpress is a great opportunity both commercially as well as for the community. The service platform we will be delivering in 2017 will allow independents to use Drupal for their clients. Drupal has been losing ground to WordPress for many years when it comes to independent web developers. Drupal has become a developers' tool. The main goal of these developers, however, was to eliminate the website builder. Since they are developers, they only completed half of the task – they built the engine, but never got round to building the actual car. What we have done with JAMES, Cooldrops and JIMMY is build that car. You can now turn the key and start driving - just like WordPress. Our goal is to leverage the community to help independent web developers to deliver to their clients. Their added value is that they are close to their clients and know them best. They can easily use JIMMY & Cooldrops to start up an experience. JIMMY will allow them to host, maintain, support and build easier. This enables them to spend more time to focus on their clients. Market research shows that lots of independent developers spend too much time on activities that do not contribute to their revenue and client satisfaction. But why Drupal? Why not host Wordpress?
Drupal will give them the ability to deliver more to their clients. They will be able to develop more advanced features that these business demand. As SMEs need to adopt digital more and more into their core business, the demand for more complex development increases. Using this platform independents will be able to outsource all the work to Drupal developers who can help them do this. Using this combination, these SMEs can benefit from all the marketing, traffic and branding products that Cooldrops has to offer. Marketeers, copywriters, designers, etc. can use the platform to deliver digital experiences using the Cooldrops platform.
How will this impact the community? If all these independents start using Drupal instead of Wordpress, our community will grow x-fold. Drupal used to be big for independents, but market research show it has lost this position to WordPress. We will take it back because we believe Drupal is for professionals and WordPress is a great product for individuals. Having all these independents use Drupal will make sure we have a new inflow of talent. Market research shows that after doing the one man business a lot of indies become consultants. If these guys would be Drupal developers, then Dropsolid would like to hire them. As would our competition.
For independents, it's like being a one man band freak versus being a director of an orchestra. Instead of doing anything yourself and earning little money the director has an entire platform (orchestra) that can deliver experiences to its clients. With this platform, Dropsolid wants to support independent web developers in becoming more customer oriented, more reliable, more scalable and ultimately become more profitable businesses. In the end, when they like to retire they can sell their portfolio to Dropsolid at a predetermined exit fee.
Our challenge in our R&D team is to make Drupal as easy to use and easy to install as WordPress. Drupal 8 has meant such an enormous leap forward. We can stand on strong shoulders to keep up. We already made it work in D7, having D8 will make our product even better.
Next to innovation and talent development one of the goals of Dropsolid is to make companies bet on Drupal as a go to platform. We are one of the more commercial players in the market which I believe positions us best to do this. Although we have focussed on freeing billable time for contribution and organizing several Drupal events to spread the Drupal message I think we are the best placed company to convince people Drupal is the way to go.
Four years ago Steven and I left successful Drupal companies to start our own company. The companies we left also do other technologies than Drupal. They 're part of larger structures and Drupal is just one of their offerings. We took a huge bet on Drupal to only do Drupal and nothing else. We've put ourselves in the market as a Drupal only shop. To survive and grow we had to attract enough work. Instead of sitting around and waiting for someone to come to us with a Drupal project, we went out and really showed potential customers what Drupal is about. By doing this we've build a strong sales force convincing clients Drupal is the way.
Our community has always been focused on getting people to code as a contribution and of course this is core and we will still keep doing this to evolve the product. We have been focused on spreading and commercialising Drupal. We told people how they could use Drupal as a platform to build all their digital experiences on it. We explained them why investing in a more complex CMS was going to benefit them. Why spend the extra money when you don't need all this power right now.
In business people only look at what a product can do from a business perspective. It just needs to do what I need it to do they say. I don't care if it's Drupal or Wordpress or something custom or whatever. Well this is very short sighted and it can be a very dangerous vision to have non digital people at the head of companies who think like this. It could eliminate the company's ability to deliver what clients expect them to deliver. These non digital people will be then the first to complain how their selected product is not able to deliver what their clients are demanding. It is so dangerous that companies that do not invest now and think further will be out-evolved by learner newer players and competition that did invest.
We see all sorts of companies becoming aware of how important it is to select the right platform. Even SME's care about what platform they are building on. They need to be sure Drupal is the right platform, because it can deliver their services, products and support to all stakeholder across all channels. An API-first, decoupled, symphony based web CMS that allows you to model data easy is perfect for this. Drupal unites users and content and give marketeers tools to pull data from the companies backbone and transform it in a great experience for the customers.
Our challenge is to bring Drupal to every company big and small.
Betting on Drupal and digital transformation was the right bet and the reason why Dropsolid has gained so much momentum. By trusting that our vision was correct, we have developed a Drupal centric brand. By industrialising how we will deliver Drupal we are able to deliver Drupal to smaller organisations and convince one-man shops to use Drupal. By doing so we beat every shop that didn't focus so much on Drupal because they do not have the ability to support companies with tools like James, Jimmy and Jenny. Nor have they the expertise to deliver the strategies needed to transform a company with Drupal. They only know how to build websites with Drupal. We have become much more than a Drupal shop. We have become a Digital business company that has Drupal at its core because Drupal is the only opensource platform that will allow our customers to deliver the experience they need to satisfy their customers. We have built our own products we know how to innovate and to survive. Our culture is completely different from the companies we left 4 years ago. Apart from building Drupal websites we are building our customers future business with Drupal.
We will make sure that everyone large and small knows Drupal is the engine they need to deliver the digital experiences their clients need. That will be Dropsolids contribution to Drupal next to hosting events, allow people to contribute company time and training new Drupal talent.
2015 and 2016 were really tough. Trust our core value was really our guiding star on deciding who we wanted in our teams and in our lives. I'm so grateful of having the right kind of people around me. I lost some of my naivety and I got a little more careful, although I feel there is still enough left to go out and trust people. Building trust by selecting and growing the right people & clients has been our biggest investment and now trust has become our biggest asset. I realised that trust is a really scarce resource, but if you can mobilize clients and employees who are amazing, things start to happen. This is what I already see now in Dropsolid. We are doing amazing things. We are building new products and we are changing our clients businesses so they get this really valuable piece of Digital Dropsolid DNA injected into their cores. With Dropsolid they will have a strong business partner who not only builds them digital experiences but transforms how they do business in the future.
Dropsolid has weathered quite a few storms. Just like a tree, strong winds make the roots grow even deeper and the branches grow stronger. The Dropsolid gene that we inject in our customers' DNA is the strong DNA they need to withstand the test digital disruption is putting their business through. Doing so together with Dropsolid our clients will be safe for many storms to come and the deeper roots will yield sweeter fruits, because in every difficulty there is an opportunity. The Dropsolid DNA will help not only protect them from the storms, it will also help them benefit from that opportunity.
2017 has only just begun, and we are looking forward to a great year. We will be innovating by launching new products, developing our talent, contributing to Drupal and we will be growing at steady rate guaranteeing quality delivery to our clients.


The City of Karratha has established an advisory group to guide the development of arts and culture awareness, participation and capacity throughout the City of Karratha. The role of the advisory group is to assist in the formulation of strategy, policy and an operational framework for the delivery of the arts and culture experience throughout the municipality.
Council has appointed 3 elected members and two senior staff to the advisory group and now invites applications from community members to join the group. Up to six (6) community members will be selected.
Take a lead role in the promotion of arts and cultural practice throughout the City through active communty liaison.
Community members will be selected for their capacity to bring expertise to the advisory group through their interest and exposure to one or more artistic or cultural disciplines as highlighted below. Advisory group members will be required to lead a portfolio area (aligned with their area(s) of interest and expertise) and provide a conduit for ongoing community liaison and promotion of arts and cultural practice throughout the City.
Community members interested in selection should submit their completed application form by Friday 16 February 2018. Appointments will be made at the Ordinary Council Meeting on 19 March.
See Terms of Reference for the Arts and Culture Advisory Group here.
Your response to each of your areas of expertise and experience should articulate your capacity against these criteria.
How you believe you can best contribute to the group - what will you bring?


* The LaCharta, created by Laura Lamarca, consists of a minimum of 3 stanzas with no maximum length stipulation. Each stanza contains 6 lines. The syllable count is 8 per line in iambic tetrameter and the rhyme scheme is aaaabb ccccdd eeeeff and so on. "La" is Laura Lamarca's signature and "Charta" in Latin, simply means "poem".


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import { Link } from 'react-router';
import styles from './ServiceView.css';
import WebView from './WebView';

class HangoutsView extends Component {
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    service: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
    onCounter: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
  };

  render() {
    const { onCounter, service } = this.props;
    var partition = "persist:hangouts_"+service.id;
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        <WebView id={partition}
          source="https://hangouts.google.com/"
          preload='./utils/counters/hangouts.js'
          partition={partition}
          className={styles.serviceView}
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}

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21. Billy Apple (1935 - 2021)
Xerography on canvas
Fine New Zealand Paintings, International Art Centre, 24/03/2004
Billy Apple in Idaho, 352A Street Idaho Falls, USA, 1966 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, 2001
Untitled features the apple core that appeared in his 1966 work titled Apple Core (2 minutes 33 seconds) made that same year on a stretched rayon fabric. That piece illustrated p. 88, Billy Apple: Life/Work, Christina Barton, Auckland University Press, 2020. It was made when Billy Apple was on his Ford Foundation Residency in 1966 and was exhibited later that year in Idaho.
In 1959 based in London and attending the Royal College of Art, Barry Bates the young graphic designer from Auckland met fellow student David Hockney. The two were part of London's vibrant art scene and amongst the pioneers of Pop Art. In 1962 Barry Bates reinvented himself as the art persona, Billy Apple. The intention of this self-branding, and one that was fully realised by Apple over six decades, was to remove any division between his art and life.
Moving to New York, Apple exhibited in the legendary 1964 American Supermarket at the Bianchini Gallery before going on to become a key figure in the development of conceptual art having opened APPLE, a not-for-profit space (1969 -1973). As director of 112 Greene Street Gallery in 1975 he gave Ana Mendieta her first New York show. In the 1980s his text-based works drew attention to relations between artist, dealer and collector and were called Pop Conceptual by gallery owner Leo Castelli, arguably the first use of the term.
Billy Apple became a registered trademark in 2007, formalizing his art brand status and his interest in intellectual property. Apple was awarded a ONZM in 2018. True to his creative and entrepreneurial spirit, Apple was collaborating with scientists on a variety of projects that range from biomedicine to marine geology until his death at age 85, in September 2021.
21. Billy Apple Untitled
22. Peter Siddell Western Road
23. Peter Siddell Doorway
24. Stanley Palmer Late Afternoon - from Tawhiri Rahi, 1991 (From Hoiho Point towards Urupa Point on Aorangi )


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The Best Cooking Shows To Stream In Your Free Time
June 2, 2022June 2, 2022
Food shows are ideal for finding inspiration and seeing what's cooking throughout the world, as well as for a good chuckle. With so many streaming platforms and cable channels to choose from, it can be difficult to decide which cooking shows are worth your time. Don't worry, We have prepared a list of best cooking shows to stream for you in your free time.
Best cooking shows to stream on Netflix
1. Taco Chronicles
2. The Chef Show
3. Cooked With Cannabis
4. Chef's Table
5. The Final Table
6. Nailed It!
Best cooking shows to stream on Hulu
7. Britain's Best Home Cook
8. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
9. Eater's Guide To The World
10. MasterChef
Do we really need to mention anything else because it contains the word taco? We don't, but we intend to. Taco Chronicles is a Netflix Spanish-language series about, you guessed it, tacos. Each episode focuses on a distinct taco. You get an inside look at one of the tastiest meals on the planet, from how it's produced to its cultural significance. Be prepared, since this show, like many others about food, will make you really hungry while streaming it.
The Chef Show began in 2014, when Jon Favreau met Roy Choi while filming his movie Chef (Choi was a consultant). We can presume that this encounter resulted in a long-lasting friendship based on a shared love of eating. In The Chef Show, Favreau and Choi show how much fun cooking with friends can be. The show's creators cook, consume, and learn about how food draws people together, from celebrity chefs (pitmaster Aaron Franklin) to film superstars (Bill Burr).
Over the last decade, the country, and now the world, has seen some subjectively insane new laws and legalizations. What is the subject at hand? Legalization of marijuana. Since Colorado became the first state to legalize recreational cannabis almost ten years ago, more states have followed suit and adapted their cultures around it. All of this culminates in cannabis cooking shows, which pit culinary prowess against a fresh new challenge we never expected to see: create something delectable using cannabis' euphoric effects and flavors. There are several shows that follow this new pattern currently, but this one is a favorite since it has entertaining guests and delectable fare.
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If you've seen our list of the best food documentaries on Netflix, you'll recognize David Gelb, the creator of Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Chef's Table. Chef's Table, a series that follows one world-famous chef per episode, is considered by Gelb to be Jiro's sequel. Magnus Nillson (who was also covered in Mind of a Chef), Grant Achatz, Christina Tosi, and many more have their methods and approaches on show throughout the series.
The Final Table, a Netflix original, is a global competitive cooking show. The competition offers a true who's who of prominent chefs, with 12 pairs of cooks from around the world competing for a spot at the Final Table. Grant Achatz of the United States, Enrique Olvera of Mexico, Clare Smyth of the United Kingdom, Andoni Aduriz of Spain, Helena Rizzo of Brazil, Vineet Bhatia of India, Carlo Cracco of Italy, Yoshihiro Narisawa of Japan, and Anne-Sophie Pic of France are among the chefs (France). Each episode will focus on a different country's national dishes, with a range of celebrity critics and ambassadors. Teams are eliminated one by one until just the finalists remain. Andrew Knowlton (James Beard Award-winning writer and editor-at-large for Bon Appétit) hosts The Final Table.
Nailed It! has gained a cult following in its first four seasons. There's something for everyone on this show, whether you prefer the game-show concept, the humor of host Nicole Byer and her co-pilot in culinary agony, Jacques Torres, or the train disaster that is amateur bakers feeling they are better than everyone else. Following the show's success, it has spawned a number of spin-offs, including Nailed It! Mexico, Nailed It! Spain, Nailed It! Germany, and Nailed It! Holiday. Nailed It! players will battle in teams of two for its fifth season, dubbed Double Trouble, in what promises to be double the fun.
Chef Angela Hartnett, the supreme baker Mary Berry, and producer Chris Bavin headline one of the best food shows on Hulu. The three will put the participants to the ultimate test by devising the most difficult and convoluted activities that will put all of their abilities, creativity, and flavor expertise to the ultimate test. This is no doubt one of the best cooking shows to stream in your spare time.
Anthony Bourdain, a renowned chef and author, is outgoing and travels to different places in pursuit of the perfect dining experience and to unearth some of the food industry's hidden treasures, taking us on a long journey with him. We get to see a variety of customs and nationalities that would otherwise be forgotten along the way. You shouldn't be missed this best streaming cooking show.
This much-anticipated food and travel show debuted in the midst of the global epidemic, making it an ideal option for satisfying both wanderlust and gastronomic desires. It's also solid. The show travels the globe to well-known gastronomic places. It looks fantastic (even if it doesn't provide much new). Maya Rudolph's on-point and amusing narration is the show's saving grace. Even still, you'll find yourself wishing you'd just seen Rudolph host the show and eat all of this cuisine herself.
MasterChef, hosted by Chef Gordon Ramsay, has proven to be one of the most entertaining shows on food television to stream. We'd also argue that this is the most watchable of Ramsay's several television shows (with MasterChef Junior coming in at a close second).
Home chefs compete in the same kitchen to discover who can perform best under duress. The show features a variety of well-known celebrity chefs who will put the home cooks' mettle to the test, as the fast-paced competition quickly eliminates aspiring home chefs. Ramsay's often acerbic personality is dialed back here, allowing him to reveal a far more compassionate side. It's invigorating.
What are some of your favorite Hulu and Netflix culinary shows? Please let us know in the comments section below; we'd love to hear from you. To gain even more gastronomic fun, check out the best food shows to stream on Thecookingmovie.
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ERROR: "You must use "Turn Windows features on or off" in the Control Panel to install or configure Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1."
What does this error message mean? What should I do?
Did you try going to the Control Panel, finding "Turns Windows features on or off", and finding "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1" in the list?
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Is Season 18 of Sister Wives renewed or cancelled?
By Himanshu Last updated Dec 12, 2022
Is Season 18 of Sister Wives Renew or Cancelled?
Sister Wives debuted on TLC in 2010, introducing fans to Kody Brown and his wives at the time, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn. Since then, people have watched as the polygamous family reared 18 children and handled the difficulties of a single guy dividing his time among four women. Certainly, it has been a wild journey, especially since Christine decided to divorce Kody. However, fans cannot get enough of the drama.
After the conclusion of Season 17 of Sister Wives, fans are understandably wondering about the future of the reality television series. Will there be the 18th season? Or will the Brown family eventually bid farewell to the cameras after 12 years of documenting their unorthodox lifestyle?
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Is Season 18 of Sister Wives scheduled?
As of this writing, TLC has not confirmed if the 18th season of Sister Wives has been renewed. But worry not, ardent fans of the Browns! The network tends to confirm renewals considerably closer to a show's launch date, so there is still hope for subsequent episodes.
In season 17 of 'Sister Wives,' Christine left Kody and moved to Utah
In real life, Christine and Kody's breakup has been known to Sister Wives fans since November 2021, when she revealed it on Instagram. But spectators were eventually able to witness it all unfold on their televisions, and there were indeed some difficult moments.
In Season 17, the Browns engaged in one of the most heated disputes during a meeting. Christine had just verified to Robyn that she required space after the split and had no interest in a deep connection with either Meri or Robyn. Kody rose to his feet and lost his composure as Robyn's reaction to this discovery angered her.
"That's why I'm so angry," he charged Christine, "because you never sought to have a genuinely decent connection with these other individuals." "You wanted to renegotiate our relationship, but you wouldn't even have a great connection with them. All the sacrifices I've made for you throughout the years have been in vain."
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In Season 17 of 'Sister Wives,' Kody and Janelle also faced difficulties
Janelle and Kody both questioned the future of their relationship after Christine's departure from the family altered the family's whole dynamic.
Throughout the season, they often argued over Janelle's choice to temporarily reside in a camper on their Coyote Pass property in an effort to ultimately begin construction there. In addition, they argued about the divide between Kody and two of their boys, Gabriel and Garrison.
Relationships between Kody and his older boys remain difficult due to their conflicts about the tight COVID-19 limitations Kody imposed on his family.
And since Janelle often chose her children over Kody (mainly because she was forced to do so), their marriage faltered. In Season 17, Kody also criticized Janelle for her independence, alleging she lacked loyalty and was "aloof."
A source close to the matter informed In Touch Weekly on December 9, 2022, that Janelle and Kody had chosen to break their marriage. "Janelle is a strong, independent lady who recognized she can do it on her own," the unidentified insider said, adding that Janelle "outgrew" him.
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We hope to hear more about the issue shortly. In the meanwhile, we'll keep an eye out for Season 18 news, and we'll let you know as soon as we hear anything.
New episodes of Sister Wives air on TLC and Discovery Plus on Sundays at 10 p.m. EST.
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