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Try Axess MPS SalesPro Training Module 1 for Free Today
18-May-2017 2:07 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
Chicago, Ill. – May 18, 2017 – Clover Imaging Group (CIG) is excited to release refreshed Axess Managed Print Services (MPS) SalesPro training. Axess MPS SalesPro Training is the most comprehensive e-learning MPS sales training curriculum available. Consisting of thirteen web-based video modules, the MPS training includes multimedia content, real world examples, field implementation tools, and knowledge checks to keep sales teams engaged and to ensure mastery of material. The course overview and module one are available online for free today.
"There are lots of moving parts that go with implementing, running, and maintaining a managed print services program," said Aldo Spensieri, Vice President of MPS Solutions. "Our MPS experts poured all of their hard-earned MPS experience and knowledge into creating these exhaustive MPS training modules. Everyone can benefit from this comprehensive training."
The Axess SalesPro MPS Training modules cover topics from creating an initial go-to-market strategy, assessing the print environment, making the close, and proactively managing the account. The self-paced setup is great for busy imaging staff who are eager to master MPS and who can't take much precious time away from the field. The training is available 24/7 online. Current Axess clients should reach out to their CIG sales representative to get access to all the training modules. New and prospective clients should watch the course overview and reach out to support@axessmps.com to get started with Axess MPS today.
Axess MPS is CIG's comprehensive, fully integrated suite of software and services designed to help dealers deliver more profitable MPS solutions. Axess MPS is designed with the flexibility and scalability dealers need to provide MPS solutions to their customers. For more information, please visit www.cloverimaging.com.
Clover Imaging Group offers a complete imaging and solutions platform for independent dealers, OEMs, and retailers. From remanufactured printer cartridges and computer/server parts to managed print services tools and marketing support, a comprehensive suite of products and services is available, all utilizing intelligent technology, proprietary engineering, and sustainable innovation. From its early beginnings as an ink and toner remanufacturer, CIG has grown into a global powerhouse that manufactures more than three million cartridges a month and offers world-class products, branding, distribution, and support that provides the perfect portfolio to fit each customer's needs — let's go even further, together.
CIG Drives Forward Engineering and Innovation Platform with Release of Remanufactured Cartridges for HP M252 Color Printers
13-Apr-2017 1:59 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
Chicago, Ill. – April 11, 2017 – Clover Imaging Group (CIG) is excited to announce the release of 201A remanufactured color cartridges for the M252 line of HP JetIntelligence printers. The release of the 201A toner cartridges creates a new benchmark for the industry for innovation and engineering prowess. CIG transformed its patented and proprietary technology to successfully remanufacture color cartridges for the challenging, new HP color cartridge families.
"As was the case with the 26A, the seal technology was a critical barrier since the seal winds internally with no user intervention," said Luke Goldberg, EVP Global Sales and Marketing of CIG. "The same technology exists in the color M252 printers, and our patent pending secure seal technology, that we first introduced with the 26A, proved to be scalable to these models as well, which creates a seamless user experience for the customer."
CIG features the innovative technology behind the build of remanufactured color cartridges for M252 printers in a newly released video. Instead of looking to compatible cartridges as a solution, as competitors in the imaging industry have done, CIG engineers got to work, developing a new line of remanufactured color cartridges that provide an OEM like user experience and print performance. CIG's patented reman processes and technology advancements in research and development helped their engineers address the challenges of the new JetIntelligence designs and allowed CIG to build the only true OEM alternative.
"We view this release as another testament to CIG's ability to offer OEM alternative quality and to overcome barriers erected by OEMs," said Eric Tuvesson, VP of Color R&D of CIG. "We also view this as substantiation that the best way to provide a high quality aftermarket replacement cartridge is to start with the highest quality product available, namely the spent OEM core and remanufacture it to exacting standards. We believe this path provides the safest possible option for our customer from both an IP and quality perspective."
GreatAmerica Wins Top Employee Engagement Award
30-Mar-2017 1:45 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
(Springville, UT) — DecisionWise is proud to recognize GreatAmerica Financial Services Corporation as a top-performing organization through its 2017 Employee Engagement Best Practice Awards. GreatAmerica is one of five organizations to receive the award based on a review of over 8.3 million survey responses in the DecisionWise international employee engagement survey benchmark database.
Results from 80 companies were analyzed by measuring the number of fully engaged, key contributor, opportunity group, and disengaged employees in each organization using a set of employee engagement anchor questions. Those organizations with the most fully engaged and key contributor employees were eligible to receive the award. Final winners were confirmed by evaluating the overall culture of the organization as well as best practices and GreatAmerica initiatives that contributed to the scores.
"We're privileged that GreatAmerica has made DecisionWise a strategic partner for employee engagement surveys, and we're proud that it has taken clear, measurable actions to leverage employee feedback and create a positive, engaging, and energizing workplace for its employees," said DecisionWise Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Tracy Maylett.
About DecisionWise, Inc.
DecisionWise, Inc. is a management consulting firm specializing in leadership and organization development using assessments, feedback, coaching and training. DecisionWise services include employee engagement surveys, 360-degree feedback, leadership coaching and organization development. DecisionWise was founded in 1996 and is privately held. With offices in the United States and affiliate offices throughout the world, DecisionWise operates in over 70 countries and conducts surveys in over 30 languages.
GreatAmerica is a national commercial equipment finance company in the U.S. and is dedicated to helping manufacturers, vendors, and dealers be more successful and keep their customers for a lifetime. GreatAmerica was established in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1992 and today is organized into seven business units. It has a staff of over 500 employees with offices in Georgia, Minnesota, and Missouri. We also offer innovative non-financial services, including PathShare® HR Services and Collabrance, LLC, to help our customers be more successful. For additional information, please visit the GreatAmerica corporate website: www.greatamerica.com
SmartPrint Inc. Completes Acquisition of DynaCharge Laser Inc.
[Toronto, ON, Canada] - [March 23, 2017] - SmartPrint Inc., Canada's award winning, independent Managed Print Services firm, announced today that it has acquired DynaCharge Laser Inc. in Montreal, Quebec.
"We are thrilled to welcome DynaCharge's clients into the SmartPrint family. We're excited to help take their organizations to the next level of efficiency through improved document workflows and more cost effective and highly secure office printing environments." said Tim Lomax, President, SmartPrint Inc. "Since 1989, DynaCharge has been providing custom-tailored, high touch Managed Print Services to their clients across Canada. We've had a close working relationship with owners Doug and Wayne McGurk for over 20 years, and share their passion for delivering an outstanding client experience. DynaCharge will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SmartPrint, led by Wayne and his existing staff. We wish Doug a long, well-deserved retirement."
"This is a game changer for our Quebec based clients, who will now be able to leverage SmartPrint's deep expertise in Managed Print Services, their Tier 1 equipment portfolio partners, and suite of best in breed software solutions." said Wayne McGurk, President, DynaCharge Laser.
The strategic acquisition of DynaCharge, whose head office is based in St. Laurent, Quebec reinforces SmartPrint's existing footprint in Quebec and affirms SmartPrint as the leading independent Managed Print Services experts in Canada.
About SmartPrint:
HP's Print Partner of the Year, SmartPrint is Canada's most recognized independent MPS provider, helping organizations make sense of complex print environments. SmartPrint's team of Managed Print Services (MPS) consultants leverage the markets best tools and systems offering best in breed office printing equipment and software to help simplify printing, scanning and document workflow. Our clients experience dramatic improvements in user efficiency, reduced costs of 30% to 50%, reduced helpdesk calls by 25% and significant administrative efficiencies through vendor consolidation. SmartPrint's solutions are not about printers and copiers, they're about people.
To find out more about SmartPrint, please explore our website: www.smartprint.com.
Google To Present Keynote at ITEX 2017
Fort Lauderdale, FL [March 22, 2017] - Adam R. Fish, partner lead at Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), will deliver a keynote address at this year's Imaging and Technology Education Exposition (ITEX 2017). An expected one thousand attendees will listen as Fish delivers his speech, Growing Your Business with Digital in a Mobile-First World, which will expound on the future of Internet searches and marketing as well as the importance of Business Solutions Providers (BSPs) developing strong digital footprints in their local markets.
As the partner lead, Fish is responsible for large client sales at Google. He advises large corporations on strategy, digital media, and mobile for performance-driven markets. His primary focus is embracing change and putting customers first through digital experiences. Fish served as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers prior to his work with Google.
Fish's keynote address will take place on April 20, 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. During this thirty-minute session spanning from 8:20 a.m. to 8:50 a.m., Fish will discuss the core components of a high-performing digital acquisition channel in a mobile-first world. Business owners will be empowered to evaluate their own websites and marketing strategies against Google's latest best practices.
"My career at Google is devoted to connecting people with information and helping businesses grow on the web. I look forward to delivering a productive session with actionable insights for ITEX leaders and a glimpse into the future of digital," said Fish.
The keynote will reinforce the innovative undertone of the ITEX trade show, which keeps in the mind the goal has always been to put BSPs at the forefront of the technology industry.
Founder and owner of the ITEX trade show, Marc Spring, emphasized the importance of Google's presence at ITEX2017 for BSPs in the technology channel stating, "With over 60 percent of consumers using Google to find reputable local businesses and increasing local competition, digital marketing has become the key to generating leads. Our BSPs need to establish strong digital presences in order to sustain their businesses, and Google sharing best practices will help them do just that."
Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Google's innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top Internet property and its brand one of the most recognized in the world.
About ITEX
ITEX Imaging & Technology Education Exposition is the largest and most extensive national trade show connecting vendors and resellers in the office technology space. Founded by Marc Spring in 2001, ITEX was developed to provide dealers with access to a vendor-agnostic trade show featuring practical education that addresses modern industry solutions to help grow their businesses. As the show grew over the years, it proved to be a huge success—with revenue growing 780 percent between the show's inception in 2001 and when Spring sold the show in 2009. Spring reacquired the show in 2016. For detailed information visit www.itexshow.com
GreatAmerica Launches SnappShot 2.0 Mobile App
(Cedar Rapids, IA) – GreatAmerica Financial Services Corporation today launched the first-ever app to use a salesperson's mobile device camera to submit credit applications in the commercial financial services industry. SnappShot 2.0, made available this week to GreatAmerica customers nationwide, uses the mobile device camera to snap a picture of the customer's business card to submit a credit application. It also creates and sends financing quotes via email or text.
"The majority of our customers transact business on the go, and we responded to their needs with a solution that saves them time and provides quick service to their customers," said David Pohlman, GreatAmerica Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. "The convenience of the mobile camera takes the hassle out of entering information."
The app became available on Google™ Play and the Apple Store after pilot testing was completed. Users access SnappShot after contacting GreatAmerica to retrieve activation codes. Rate information used for quoting is tied to each customer's customized program and encrypted during transmission.
"SnappShot and our InteGreat Web Services combine to make our customer's data available to them using any number of tools they have in-house," said Tawnya Stone, Vice President of the GreatAmerica Strategic Technology Group. "We were able to integrate data with their systems, web portals, and in this case, a customized mobile app."
About GreatAmerica
GreatAmerica is the largest independent small ticket national commercial equipment finance company in the U.S. and is dedicated to helping manufacturers, vendors, and dealers be more successful and keep their customers for a lifetime. GreatAmerica was established in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1992 and today is organized into seven business units. It has a staff of over 500 employees with offices in Georgia, Minnesota, and Missouri. Our commitment to understanding the office equipment industry has positioned us as the unparalleled leader in single invoice solutions (MPS, Managed IT, and other specialized billing options). We also offer innovative non-financial services to help our customers evolve their businesses.
For additional information, please visit the GreatAmerica corporate website: www.greatamerica.com
CIG Announces Platinum Sponsorship of the 2017 ITEX Imaging & Technology Education Exposition
Chicago, Ill. – March 21, 2017 – Clover Imaging Group (CIG) is excited to announce its platinum sponsorship of the 2017 ITEX Show, the largest and most extensive national trade show connecting vendors and resellers in the office technology space. The 2017 ITEX Show takes place April 18-20 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Attendees of the show can stop by booth #601 to catch a glimpse of the GreenSweep Harley-Davidson® and to take a virtual reality tour of CIG's state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and engineering tech center.
"We are extremely excited to bring the custom GreenSweep Harley-Davidson to ITEX 2017 and to eventually present it to one GreenSweep dealer," said Luke Goldberg, EVP Global Sales and Marketing for CIG. "CIG also has many new offerings in our solutions category that we can't wait to talk with dealers about. See you in Vegas!"
CIG representatives will be available to discuss new initiatives of CIG Solutions at ITEX. Solutions include the aggressive OEM GreenSweep program that gives up to 10 percent rebates on approved sales, the powerful third-party reports that prove the reliability of CIG manufactured cartridges compared to the OEM, and the innovative TCO worksheets that illustrate for customers the cost savings of OEM conversion.
In addition to the platinum sponsorship and booth participation, CIG will also participate in educational events as part of the 2017 ITEX Show. From 11-11:50 a.m. on April 19, Sarah Henderson, Director of MPS Operations for CIG, will present the "SMI: Supplies Management Investigation" educational event. From 9-9:50 a.m. on April 20, Luke Goldberg, EVP Global Sales and Marketing for CIG, will lead the "Have a Seat!" educational event discussing seat-based billing and its popularity. From 11-11:50 a.m. on April 20, Aldo Spensieri, Vice President of MPS Solutions for CIG, will join MPSA for "How to Earn an A+ on Assessments for MPS."
For more information or to register for ITEX 2017, please visit: http://itexshow.com
Pros Elite To Host Presidents' Best Practices Meeting At ITEX
14-Mar-2017 10:48 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Pros Elite Group committed to partnering with the 2017 Imaging and Technology Education Exposition, ITEX, to host its 8th annual Presidents' Best Practices Meeting in Las Vegas this April. The group is well known and respected in the Document and Imaging Industry as an experienced powerhouse of consultants. Jerry Newberry, President and Managing Partner of Pros Elite Group, finalized the deal with ITEX.
The meetings—scheduled for Tuesday, April 18th, and Wednesday April 19th—are designed to examine best practices in all aspects of the imaging and document industry, analyzing how and why they are effective for dealers. The highlight of these sessions will be the Managed Network Services President Panel and the Managed Print Services Panel. "Presidents will walk away with real actionable items to implement within their businesses when they get back," Newberry explained. "These topics are current and relevant and are what decision makers need to pay attention to for the sustainability of their businesses." The sessions will be invitation only, exclusive to their top 100 dealers. Pros Elite joins five other groups hosting their events concurrently with ITEX. "These sessions really capture what we are doing here at ITEX, hearing from successful peers and learning with hands-on case studies and examples," added Marc Spring, founder and owner of the ITEX show.
The ITEX tradeshow, which boasts the convergence of Business Print and Managed IT as its theme, welcomes new opportunities with Managed Network Providers. It will be held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel from April 18th, 2017 – April 20th, 2017. There will be an expected two thousand attendees and hundreds of exhibitors ranging from Managed IT vendors to office equipment manufacturers. For more information about the show, please visit www.itexshow.com
About Pros Elite Group
The Pros Elite Group is an innovative service, sales and operations consulting and training organization. We provide the most detailed and proven profitability/operational improvements in the Hybrid Document Imaging Industry. The executive team of the Pros Elite Group has over 90 years of combined experience in the imaging industry and are the co-creators of the industry benchmarking model that is recognized as the standard of excellence that dealers use to gauge their performance results.
Paul Dippell, CEO, Service Leadership Inc., to Speak at ITEX
Fort Lauderdale, Florida (March 8, 2017) – Paul Dippell, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Service Leadership Inc., recently signed on as a featured speaker at this year's Imaging and Technology Education Exposition (ITEX) 2017. Dippell, a renowned figure in Information Technology (IT) will be sharing his expertise across two sessions focusing on best practices and adding IT based offerings to a solution provider's portfolio. Both sessions will include solution providers.
The first ITEX session titled "Growing Your Business Profitably with Managed IT Services – Acquire, Build or Partner" and sponsored by Collabrance, LLC, will center on the necessary steps to transition from a Managed Print Services Provider to a Managed Network Provider. It will be held on Wednesday, April 19th at 9:00 a.m. The session will answer key questions and provide insight on whether to partner with a third party, acquire a separate company or build an IT service program from within. Panelists will include: Erik Braden, Braden Business Systems, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, Preston Woolfolk, DOCUmation, San Antonio, TX, and Greg VanDeWalker with Collabrance, Cedar Rapids, IA. The session is expected to attract Business Solutions Providers (BSPs) facing a decline in print, who wish to expand their business offerings.
The next ITEX session, "Managed IT Best Practices" is geared towards existing Managed IT firms and will highlight lessons learned and what Best in Class Managed IT looks like for the industry. It will also be held on Wednesday, April 19th, but at 2:30 p.m. and is sponsored by GreatAmerica Financial. The session will include an office technology dealer who is successful in Managed IT, Preston Woolfolk of DOCUmation, San Antonio, TX.
"I am truly excited to have someone like Paul present at our show," said Marc Spring, founder of the ITEX Tradeshow. He continued, "Sessions like the ones Paul will be leading are exactly what we need in this industry. Print has matured and our resellers need to find new ways to profit in the market and Managed IT is a natural extension for their business models."
The ITEX tradeshow, which boasts the convergence of Business Print and Managed IT as its theme welcomes a triumphant return to Las Vegas. It will be held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel from April 18th, 2017 – April 20th, 2017. There will be an expected two thousand attendees and hundreds of exhibitors ranging from Managed IT vendors to Office Equipment Manufacturers. For more information about the show, please visit www.itexshow.com.
About Paul Dippell
Paul Dippell, CEO of Service Leadership, Inc., brings more than twenty-five years of experience building, running, acquiring and integrating IT Solutions companies. Mr. Dippell is often a featured speaker at IT Solutions industry events on the topics of successful channel business model strategy and operations.
Prior to founding Service Leadership in 2001, at USBX Advisory Services, a leading mid-market mergers and acquisitions advisory firm, Mr. Dippell established the IT solutions vertical for this new M&A firm and closed its inaugural transaction.
At All Covered, Inc., the largest provider of IT services to small businesses nationwide and a leading consolidator in the sector, Mr. Dippell was Vice President of Mergers, Acquisitions and Integration. At Xerox Connect (NYSE: XRX), as Vice-President of Managed Services, Mr. Dippell was responsible for serving Fortune 500 customers worldwide with Managed Services. Before Xerox, Mr. Dippell was at CompuCom (NASDAQ: CMPC) for seven years, becoming Vice President of Service Operations Consulting for this multibillion-dollar IT solutions provider.
About Service Leadership Inc.
Service Leadership, Inc. is a leading Solution Provider consultancy firm, and publisher of the Service Leadership Index® of Solution Provider performance, the industry's broadest and deepest operational and financial diagnostic service. Additionally, Service leadership advises leading global IT manufacturers on channel management and strategies, and SMB and mid-market customer product and services strategies.
SBB (Seat Based Billing) Road Show Locations and Dates Announced
08-Mar-2017 6:53 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
Calgary, Alberta - March 6, 2017 - Clover Imaging Group, GreatAmerica Financial Services, Office Document Consulting, Print Audit and Supplies Network have partnered with the Business Technology Association (BTA) to deliver the world's first SBB (Seat Based Billing) Road Show. The event is a full day of executive level training that covers all aspects of a provider's managed print offering.
The SBB Road Show (www.SBBRoadshow.com) will be held the day prior to three of BTA's 2017 events. The following are the dates and locations:
- June 6th: Kansas City, Missouri
- August 15th: Las Vegas, Nevada
- September 12th: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"SBB is the business model of the future for managed print," stated John MacInnes, president at Print Audit. "We know this is new for dealers and we are extremely proud to offer them a day of training like no other. If people are serious about SBB for managed print, the SBB Road Show is an event they'll want to attend."
"The dealer community has expressed a growing interest in SBB," said Brent Hoskins, BTA executive director. "BTA is pleased that these Road Shows will be held in conjunction with three of our educational and networking events. We know that the training will be valuable to dealers who are looking to deliver SBB effectively."
SBB offerings are already being used in other adjacent markets such as managed IT services. SBB has unique benefits and considerations that are different from the traditional CPP (Cost Per Page) model. As more and more office equipment dealers begin to offer SBB to complement their traditional models it is critical that they have access to best practices and training to shorten learning cycles and improve effectiveness.
To learn more and to register for an SBB Road Show event, visit www.SBBRoadshow.com
About the Business Technology Association:
Founded in 1926, the Business Technology Association (BTA) serves office technology dealerships, resellers, manufacturers, distributors and service companies. Its core members — office technology dealerships — consult, provide services and sell hardware, software and supplies with the primary goal of helping businesses optimize business document and information workflows. Through the association's various educational programs, information, research, legal services, publications and guidance, BTA member dealerships are positioned to be the premier source of the office technology used by businesses throughout the United States every day.
About Print Audit:
Established in 1999 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Print Audit's mission is to save the office equipment industry through transformation. The company does this through its Premier membership program and innovative partnerships.
Print Audit is the most comprehensive provider of device and print management solutions. The company not only helps members remotely manage their printer fleets, but has also developed a variety of tools that enable organizations to monitor and control user printing behavior. Print Audit is the first provider of RMM (remote monitoring and management services) to provide an SBB (Seat Based Billing) model for managed print.


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The Invasion of Compulsory Sex Morality (original German title Der Einbruch der Sexualmoral) is a book written by Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich and published in 1931. The book details Reich's theories of the causes of sexual neuroses, and attempts to explain them in historical, as opposed to Marxist or Freudian terms.

The first two editions (1931 & 1934) were in German - the third edition (1951) was the first to be translated into and published in English, and had a different foreword. In the prefaces to the three editions, Reich discusses not only the book itself, but also events (such as the rise of Nazism) current at the time of publication.

Reich drew heavily on the work of Malinowski, especially his The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929).

In 2015 the book remains in print and is in the collections of hundreds of libraries around the world.

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These Anglo Saxon rune stones, also known as ruthorc, were used from the 5th century until around the 10th. Unlike our other rune stones, this set was used largely for manuscripts and engravings instead of divination. Each rune has been carefully hand carved into a segment of varnished wood and comes presented in a faux suede pouch.


– The league format is open and continuous. League position is determined by a team's results over their last 5 games.
– Each team earns 3 points for a win and 1 point for a draw.
– Unless a challenge has been issued matches are usually determined at random.
– No team can hold both the Million Gobbo Championship Trophy and The Nielsen Strap at the same time.
– Only teams eligible to hold the Stunty Ribbon can hold multiple titles at once, those being the Stunty Ribbon + one other.
With the league format disbanding due to the abandonment of season 4 of the League of Men and a new open league format being introduced the Championship Trophy and Million Gobbo Belt were merged into the Million Gobbo Championship Trophy and awarded to the then holders of both titles, Contaminated Foodchain.
– A team with three wins in their last five games may make a challenge to the current title holders although they are not obliged to.
– Each match involving the holders of The Nielsen Strap is for the title belt.
– The only exception to the above rule is if the holders are playing the current Million Gobbo Championship Trophy holders.
– The following teams are eligible for the Stunty Ribbon: Don't Believe the Hype!, Our Napoleon Complex, Great Sporting Frauds and Bully Free Zone.
– Any game between an eligible team and the current holder of the Stunty Ribbon will be for the Ribbon.
– Any team eligible for the Stunty Ribbon that beats a team which is not eligible can issue a challenge for the Stunty Ribbon in their next match. If they do not issue the challenge before they play another game they lose their change to challenge.


opened will give you 1 rune, 1 gem, and 1 relic. . As mentioned before, you cannot change the base stats (passives) on your LIs so ensure you have the ones you want before levelling it up etc. . Now all IXP earned (or applied) will only go to progressing these 3 legacies. I have two options; a) I replace it before I imbue. . Class Deed Tome (15 points This will give you the points (13) for the class specific deeds/quests (but not complete the deed itself). . This has cost me an Imbued Legacy Replacement Scroll ii) Use an Anfalas Crystal of Remembrance to unlock a 7th legacy on your LI as soon as your LI hits level. IXP Runes gift-givers brand, merit Committee Battle Decorations (standard honours) Barterers ( ) Anfalas Scroll of Empowerment (AoE) stars of merit Anfalas Star-lit Crystal stars of merit Quartermaster (relics) ( ) Anfalas Scroll of Empowerment (AoE) silver tokens of dol amroth and gold tokens. However, a First Age costs the least currency (Anfalas Star-lit Crystals, Anfalas Scrolls of Empowerment, and IXP). . Tier III titles are currently the best (as of U22). . I want to change this as the new legacy is Reactive Parry Damage (that I do not want). . However, the legendary weapon and class items need to be created and will be with you for the rest of your lotro days. .
You then need to open (click) on all of the traits (i.e. Imbue as is and spread the IXP evenly amongst all legacies. 3 points from leveling to 115 (level 108, 111, and 114) 1 point for completing your legendary deed (many of the items needed can be bartered for at the Skirmish Camps Curiosities Vendor; I recommend getting them all in your inventory to minimize travel) Estimated. Contiennent entre 5 et 1 g/100 g : Merlu, daurade, turbot, fletan, truite, limande, bar, carpe, brochet? It will allow you to focus your IXP where you want it, after imbuing it is automatically spread equally amongst all Legacies. Virtues (missing 8 per) more on this later. E) Imbue your Weapon / Item f) Use a Scroll of Delving. Lets compare a maxed out FA (all legacies T6) pre-imbuing with a FA at the soft cap of T31 post imbuing.


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ESSNA joins industry initiative to promote sustainability
By Nikki Hancocks contact
01-Nov-2022 - Last updated on 01-Nov-2022 at 10:45 GMT
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Related tags: Sustainability, ESSNA
The European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (ESSNA) has joined the EU Code of Conduct for Responsible Food Business and Marketing Practices to undertake tangible actions to contribute towards the industry's inclusive and sustainable growth.
As a signatory of the Code, ESSNA pledges to continue working towards a climate-neutral food chain and a circular economy to ensure that the highest quality sports nutrition products do not only support consumers' active lifestyles and nutritional goals, but also carry the lowest environmental and social impact for the planet.
Dr Adam Carey, chairman of ESSNA said: "Following the launch of the ESSNA's Sustainability Pledge in May 2022, we are delighted to announce that ESSNA is further advancing the sports and active nutrition sector's transition to sustainability by joining the EU Code of Conduct for Responsible Food Business and Marketing Practices.
"As regulators increasingly require food businesses to comply with environmental standards, ESSNA is at the forefront of the industry's shift to sustainability. As a signatory of this Code, ESSNA pledges to promote and disseminate it and endorse its aspirational objectives."
Dr Carey says ESSNA will keep "actively supporting" members in adopting best practices with regards to transparent sourcing, animal welfare, circular packaging, food loss and waste reduction and prevention as well as other sustainability goals.
"We will also explore the possibility of developing sector-specific tools and resources and we will continue to work closely with industry and policy stakeholders in support of the Code".
Launched on 5th July 2021, the EU Code of Conduct for Responsible Food Business and Marketing Practices is an industry-led initiative outlining actions that stakeholders can voluntarily commit to taking, in order to improve and communicate their sustainability performance.
The Code is an integral part of the action plan and one of the first deliverables of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, the EU flagship initiative aiming to accelerate the transition to a sustainable food system, focusing on issues such as food consumption, production, processing and distribution.
The Code also contributes to other initiatives of the European Green Deal, including the Biodiversity Strategy, the EU Industrial Strategy as well as international sustainability objectives, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and those of the Paris Climate Agreement.
ESSNA's Sustainability Pledge
1. Ensuring that the origins of ingredients and raw materials can be transparently traced to sustainable sources.
2. Taking environmental and ethical credentials into consideration when procuring suppliers.
3. Opting for grass-fed whey products and free-range farming practices.
4. Continuing to invest in the development and roll-out of plant-based sports nutrition products.
5. Supporting the development and adoption of innovative and low-carbon packaging materials.
6. Minimising the amount of product waste through various outlets.
Related topics: Regulation & Policy

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The landscape design for this private residence brings together a diverse array of elements to create an ethereal, multi-sensory experience where sound, movement, colour and scent are simultaneously evoked.
Shielded by a forty foot hedge, the site challenged us to create a private world where Asian and Western influences intersect, honouring the traditions of Feng Shui. Meditation pathways lead to areas of retreat and socialization including an outdoor fire, a restored pool and covered seating area. An ergonomic vegetable garden lined with fruit trees allows the client to grow her own plants and vegetables. A multi-leveled water feature is framed with Japanese Maples, Azaleas, Boxwood and Feather Grass; the landscape is lined with lush camellias, peonies, evergreens and decorated with Chinese basalt and local granite.
The multi-sensory design comes to life in the grove of Shirofugen cherry trees as it sheds its petals to the music of a custom Corten steel wind chime sculpture designed by Ryan Donohoe and fabricated by English artist David Harber. A weather station was placed on site for a month to determine the weight of the chimes—each one set to the pentatonic scale. This is a space where our clients can grow and evolve their lives with the seasons.


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67: Jaimie Sherling on getting a late night message
January 4, 2022 by angelansantillo
One Friday night, Jaimie Sherling was in bed when she got an Instagram message from a stranger that changed her marriage and home. We talk about all the brutal and beautiful aspects of her moment, from her battle with cancer to her journey becoming a drag queen aficionado. Additional Resources From Queens to QUEENS YDY Sweets
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December 6, 2021 by angelansantillo
As a Bikers Against Child Abuse (B.A.C.A.) volunteer, Big D was working with a child and realized he was where he belonged when he saw the light come back to her eyes. We talk about epiphanies, giving back to the community, and what bikers at B.A.C.A. are doing to help empower abused children. Additional Resources Bikers Against Child Abuse website B.A.C.A. Long Island Chapter Helpline: (631) 408-8218 Contact Big D: BigD@li-ny.bacaworld.org
62: Welcome to Season Three, let's chat shall we?
November 9, 2021 by angelansantillo
Welcome to Season Three! It's been a while since I've released an episode and there's a reason for that. So let's catch up and kick off the season with where I've been. It's a story about mental health, long recoveries, and a bit about my audio destroying cat. Additional Resources Episode 1: Angela Santillo on changing stories and making a podcastEpisode 33: Kate Wallinga on being one in four million Want to be a guest? Submit your info. Follow And […]
Categories: Medical Event, Mental Health, Podcasting, The Mind, Trauma
60: Elizabeth Howard Phillips & Kenneth Phillips on their bright light
April 22, 2020 by angelansantillo
After learning the fifth round of IVF didn't work out, Elizabeth Howard Phillips realized she couldn't keep putting her body through treatments. Less than two years later, Kenneth Phillips found himself nervously driving Elizabeth and their adopted baby away from the hospital. From their hotel room in Florida, we talk about their journey through infertility, the craziness that comes with adopting a baby during a pandemic, and their new bright light Eleanor. Additional Resources Connect with Elizabeth Howard Phillips Instagram […]
Categories: Family, Grief & Loss, Love, Medical Event, Most Listened To, Parenthood, Trauma, Women's Issues
54: Jennifer Tan on the journey to Shine
February 19, 2020 by angelansantillo
Jennifer Tan was working a demanding job at a management consultancy firm when she had the idea to create a business empowerment program for women. Through a series of events her idea developed into a financial literacy program for domestic abuse survivors. Now the Founder of the Shine Foundation, we talk about her unexpected journey to starting a nonprofit, how social impact work has changed her, and the financial pressures facing domestic abuse survivors. Additional Resources Shine Foundation […]
Categories: Activism, Career, Entrepreneurship, Trauma, Women's Issues
52: Stacy Walsh on finding the good
January 22, 2020 by angelansantillo
In May 2017, Stacy Walsh (& then write podcast) was home sick on the couch when her Dad called to say her Mom felt like her legs weren't working in the shower. Later that day her Mom was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor and things rapidly changed. We talk about how her Mom became a different person, the stress of dealing with stage 4 glioblastoma, and how Stacy has worked to see the good in a bad situation. […]
Categories: Family, Grief & Loss, Illness, Medical Event, Parenthood, Trauma, Writing
36: Brandon Saiz on becoming Chief Petty Officer
August 28, 2019 by angelansantillo
After sixteen years in the Coast Guard, on October 1, 2013 Brandon Saiz achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. Hating the tradition of initiation, he decided not to go through the voluntary indoctrination process and was ostracized by other chiefs. We talk about the military's history of hazing, the social and mental health implications of going against the system, and how twenty years in the service impacts his life as a civilian. Trigger warning: This episode includes a candid conversation […]
Categories: Mental Health, Military Veteran, Most Listened To, Podcasting, Trauma
33: Kate Wallinga on being one in four million
August 6, 2019 by angelansantillo
In 2010, Kate Wallinga (Ignorance Was Bliss podcast) gave birth to her third child and didn't feel right. After being dismissed by her doctors, she learned she had a serious infection from being exposed to strep in the delivery room. Out of the four million women who give birth every year, only 100 get this kind of complication and only one of those women survive. We talk about the medical emergency that changed her mind, her life, and the new […]
Categories: Illness, Medical Event, Parenthood, Podcasting, The Mind, Trauma, Women's Issues
28: Steven Pacheco on the bus ride to Boston
April 9, 2019 by angelansantillo
One week before our interview, Steven Pacheco was on a bus ride to Boston when the driver called the police on a young black passenger for being on his phone. While recording the event, Steven realized he was observing the policing of black and brown bodies in a new way. We talk about race, trauma, and how leadership opportunities are changing this self-proclaimed Renaissance man and his experience as a black man in America. Additional Resources Connect with Steven Twitter: @MrStevenPacheco […]
Categories: Activism, Politics, Race, Trauma
27: Uyen Trinh on stopping an autopilot life
Two years ago, Uyen Trinh was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes and it forced her to reconsider her relationship with her body and every relationship in her life. As a refugee from Vietnam and growing up in foster care, she realized she had become the ultimate caregiver at the sacrifice of herself. We talk about self-care, what it takes to advocate for yourself, and how she reversed her diagnosis through a ketogenic diet.
Categories: Family, Illness, Immigration, Love, Medical Event, Trauma
25: Julie Dombo on surviving
March 5, 2019 by angelansantillo
Julie Dombo was at an AT&T store in Derby, Kansas when she was shot during a robbery. That event on August 11, 2015 led to an extensive hospitalization and left Julie as a quadruple amputee. We talk about her totally changed life, the optimism needed to carry on, her mission to share her story, and America's relationship with guns. Additional Resources Wichita Public Schools (video): Julie Dombo at Heights High School – March 13, 2018 The Wichita Eagle: Julie Dombo […]
Categories: Activism, Family, Medical Event, Politics, Trauma
19: Susan Fritz on life ten years later
On her 30th birthday, Susan Fritz said something to her husband that changed everything. A week later, Dan passed away from cancer and her life as a nomad began to take shape. Ten years has passed and she has been all over the world. We talk about the useless cliches around illness, how time offers new perspective, and why she is so excited to turn 40. Additional Resources The Telegraph: "Happy Birthday song and its strange past"
Categories: Career, Family, Grief & Loss, Illness, Love, Medical Event, Most Listened To, Trauma, Travel
14: Becky Curran on changing the world with her story
While sailing in August of 1999, disability advocate Becky Curran felt numbness in her legs. It was the first sign of a progressive condition that could take away her ability to walk. After a successful back surgery, she encountered social changes as her friends in high school started excluding her because of her size. We talk about her life as a little person, misconceptions about the disabled community, and her mission to change the world for the next generation through […]
Categories: Activism, Disability Rights, Medical Event, Trauma
11: Stephan Wolfert on rewiring the brain with Shakespeare and science
November 12, 2018 by angelansantillo
Veteran Stephan Wolfert was working with the famous choreographer Twyla Tharp when she said something that clarified everything. We talk about his time in the Army, how he became an actor, his work with veterans through DE-CRUIT, and the scientific proof that Shakespeare and theater are the keys to healing trauma. Part Two of my special Brain Double Header. Listen to Part One: Bill Monroe on getting better (and not getting best) Additional Resources DE-CRUIT DE-CRUIT: science publications Cry Havoc, solo performance […]
Categories: Mental Health, Military Veteran, Most Listened To, Science, The Arts, The Mind, Trauma, Veteran Issues
10: Bill Monroe on getting better (and not getting best)
READ THE TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE 10 Bill Monroe (Strokecast podcast) is a Generation X stroke survivor. He talks about what on June 4, 2017, his ongoing recovery, and how he has become a marketing guy who knows way too much about neurology and neuroplasticity. Part One of my special Brain Double Header. Listen to Part Two: Stephan Wolfert on rewiring the brain with Shakespeare and science Additional Resources Bill Monroe: Strokecast Strokecast Episode 28: The Slow Road to Better Ted Talk: Jill Bolte Taylor, […]
Categories: Career, Disability Rights, Illness, Medical Event, Mental Health, Podcasting, Science, The Mind, Trauma
08: Duncan Payne on being in the belly of the whale
October 23, 2018 by angelansantillo
Thirteen years ago, former teacher and lawyer Duncan Payne had a heart attack. We talk about strange responses to emergencies, how things forever change, and the fears that emerge and vanish after being in the belly of the whale. Additional Resources The Poetry Society: Jonah's prayer by Aviva Dautch Smithsonian Magazine: "Could a Whale Accidentally Swallow You? It Is Possible" Joseph Campbell: A Hero with a Thousand Faces
Categories: Career, Family, Illness, Medical Event, Trauma
07: Megan Bryan on being a mom who puts out many fires
Megan Bryan was loving the firefighter life when she decided to be a single mother by choice. She found a sperm donor and after numerous rounds of fertility treatments, her daughter was born and she suddenly had to confront the worst biases about herself and our society. We talk about parenthood, racism, sexism, and her partner and their growing family. Additional Resources San Francisco Chronicle: "Black firefighter on inspection duty in Oakland hills gets videotaped, reported to police"
Categories: Activism, Career, Family, LGBTQIA, Mental Health, Parenthood, Race, Trauma, Women's Issues
September 17, 2018 by angelansantillo


Jade and Garret thought the robbery in their neighborhood had nothing to do with them, but the pieces are finally starting to come together. Someone's been working behind the scenes, pulling the strings to determine Garret's fate.
The timing couldn't be worse. Jade and Garret are talking things out, becoming even closer, making plans for their future. Plans that might never happen.
When Garret finally learns the truth, he's left with an agonizing discovery about the past and an ultimatum regarding the future.
Note: This is a New Adult Romance and contains mature language and situations.
Love the series, but cannot find the final book. Can you help me?
I love this series. Easy read, can't put it down. Can't wait to read the last one. Love all the characters and the story line.
Love this book, love the storyline, love the characters!


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NBA Finals, Game 4: Mavericks' J.J. Barea To Start, Brian Cardinal Will Receive Increased Minutes
By JP Starkey Jun 7, 2011, 4:56pm CDT
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The Dallas Mavericks will be shaking things up a bit in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night. Needing a win to avoid facing elimination in Game 5, head coach Rick Carlisle has decided to start J.J. Barea in place of DeShawn Stevenson. Furthermore, Brian Cardinal will be ahead of Peja Stojakovic in the rotation tonight off the bench.
SB Nation's Tom Ziller offered some insight into these moves by the Mavs.
The shake-up is a bit stunning, as Stevenson is the only Maverick who has had any bit of success guarding Dwyane Wade in the NBA Finals. Jason Kidd will move over to check Wade, who is averaging 29 points per game on 56 percent shooting in the series. While Rick Carlisle has played Barea substantial minutes when Wade is in the game, it hasn't exactly worked. You saw Wade's numbers. He's scorching Kidd.
The Cardinal ascension is just odd; the wily veteran known affectionately as The Custodian for his penchant for dirty work at the expense of skilled plays will likely look to keep Miami off-balance and provide help defense at the rim.
At the very least, Stojakovic's minutes will be reduced. Given how poorly he played in very limited time in Game 3, this is likely a good thing.
Still, starting Barea seems odd. He offered very little off the bench in Game 3 and came off as reckless with the basketball. Barea and the rest of the Mavericks' secondary players will have to show a much better effort in Game 4, otherwise they'll stare elimination in the face in Game 5.
We'll see how Carlisle's moves pan out tonight in Game 4, with tipoff scheduled for 8 p.m. CDT.
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When I Met You
When I Met You (Michael C. Hall and Krystina Alabado, Lazarus perf., 2015).
When I Met You (Hall and Alabado, Lazarus cast recording).
When I Met You (Bowie).
At the end of Lazarus, Thomas Jerome Newton discovers that the teenage girl he's been talking to throughout the play is actually dead. "Not properly dead," she notes. She's the Baby Grace Blue of Lazarus—the girl whose murderer is never apprehended and whose death needs a ritual act to complete. Until then, she's condemned to wander the earth (or at least Second Avenue) as a ghost. "I'm sorry, Mr. Newton, but it's not me that's going to help you get to the stars, but it's you who'll help me to die properly."
"You're my last hope," Newton replies. "How can I kill that?" Cue the duet "When I Met You," the play's penultimate song.
Yet "When I Met You" isn't sung by Newton (Michael C. Hall) and the Girl (Sophia Anne Caruso), as one might expect, given the narrative—its performers were misidentified as such when an audience recording from Lazarus was bootlegged. Instead it's Newton and the "First Teenage Girl" (Krystina Alabado), one of a trio of singers/actors who serve as a Greek chorus of sorts (there are a wearying number of "Girls" in this play). When Bowie recorded the song during the Blackstar sessions, he took both parts.
"When I Met You" is a duet between a man and a voice in his broken mind—a dialogue on love, despair, and redemption by someone staring into a cracked mirror. On Bowie's recording, the vocals are mixed to tumble, the lead voice gaining ground, the chorus vocals mounting a response. On the Lazarus cast recording, the space between Hall and Alabado's voices is so great that each seems in a different world—their harmonizing is all top and bottom, with no middle.
A slow-paced composition that takes its time getting anywhere (the intro alone is 32 bars), "When I Met You" moves from Newton-sung verses to Newton/ Teenage Girl counterpoint/ harmony refrains to a harsh "bridge" section that's the tension point of the song, where the home chord of G major is altered, diminished, augmented. It suggests the convulsions of Newton's perspective, where nothing is solid anymore.
In ABBA's "The Day Before You Came," the singer's waiting for someone, for something to happen, but we never learn who she's waiting for, nor what they brought. Agnetha Fältskog crosses off the stations of her day—breakfast, train, work, lunch, train, Chinese food, TV, a Marilyn French novel before bed. She hasn't been living as much as she's been maintaining, and the romantic assumption is that she's about to meet someone who opens up her life. Yet there are hints (in corners of the lyric, in the dark colors of Agnetha's phrasing) that the "you" of the title is malignant: the murderer at the door, the tumor on the chart, the driver that doesn't brake in time.
In "When I Met You," the other has already come, has saved Newton in some way, and now the spell is wearing thin. "You knew just everything," Newton begins. "And nothing at all." (Bowie changed it to "but nothing at all" in his recording.) If Newton is Lazarus, the girl in his head has been Christ—she called him from the tomb, opened his eyes, let him speak. He was a zombie, a madman, someone lost in himself; she freed him from his trap.
In its way, it's a long-delayed response to "Word on a Wing," Bowie's prayer for protection and deliverance in a dry season. "A scuzzier version of one of his grand ballads—imagine "Word on a Wing" with three-day growth and hangover," as Alfred Soto wrote of "When I Met You." A biographical reading is easy, perhaps too easy: Bowie thanking his wife for saving him, for Coco Schwab for protecting him (in the "Never Let Me Down" line), for his children for letting him escape being "Bowie" for a while, tethering him to earth. "When I met you…the edge had become/ the center of my world….I was off my head/ I was filled with truth/ it was not God's truth."
Yet whatever salvation he got from the muse/angel in his head, it's fading away now. It's all the same, rescued and rescuer sing to each other. The darkness has crept back, covering everything in sight. In Lazarus, Newton sings the final refrain as he prepares to stab the Girl, which he does as the last notes sound. Death's release; no knowledge comes.
Of the Lazarus songs, "When I Met You" was the most difficult to transition into a solo Bowie recording. It had been a duet on stage, and was woven into the play's narrative (as much as there was one). And when racked against its counterparts, it was the least of the new compositions.
Bowie tackled it during the first Blackstar sessions in January—he was starting out by doing remakes ("'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore") and getting down his takes on the Lazarus songs, as if to clear the ground for leaps to come. He took the scissors to "When I Met You," cutting a line ("the dream of time") and switching some chorus lines around in later refrains.
For the arrangement, he emailed Donny McCaslin that "the structure of 'When I Met You' is sound, but now we need to mess with it so we hear it from another angle. Put in a couple of passages in the corner (in darkness) and throw a small pen-light beam on the rest—like a P.I. scouting a motel room." ("He's never saying something like 'can I have a bass drum on 2 & 4'?" McCaslin recalled. "It's more these kind of images.")
The result was what McCaslin, Tim Lefebvre, and other musicians heard as "hearkening back to older Bowie." Bowie's "When I Met You" lacks McCaslin's saxophone, where in Lazarus Henry Hey had scored subtle brass lines for refrains. It runs on skitterings (Jason Lindner's synthesizers in the intro and vocal breaks), pulses (a jaunty Lefebvre bassline) and jabs (an acoustic guitar (possibly Bowie?) strummed more scrappily than the player on the Lazarus recording), with the "Hawaiian"-sounding lead lines (McCaslin heard "an African highlife thing") as a dreamy counterpoint to Bowie's voice in the verses.
In the Lazarus duet, Alabado's chorus vocal is sharp, insistent, holding on one note, spiking over Hall's lower, moaning phrases—her final repeats of "when I met—when I met" sound like a distress call. Bowie's backing vocals, placed further back in the mix, are both more playful and more dramatic—there's a greater emotional spectrum to them.
And for his lead vocal, Hall, faced with lines like "the peck of a blackened eye," "the streams of debris" and "now the luminous dark," unfurls them, lets them roll off, stiffly at times. Bowie takes far more pleasure—there's a grin in some of his lines, despite their occasionally despairing words. Among the last vocals that he recorded in his life, it shows that he always wrote parts with one actor in mind.
Recorded: (backing tracks) 3 January 2015, Magic Shop; (vocals) 5 May 2015, Human Worldwide, NYC. First release: No Plan, 8 January 2017. Lazarus version: first performed 18 November 2015; cast recording made on 11 January 2016. First release: 21 October 2016, Lazarus. McCaslin quotes from Mojo, December 2016.
Top: Frederik Ranninger, "Girl Alone in 16:9," 2015; Hall and Caruso, Lazarus; Mercer Mayer, The Figure In the Shadows.
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Ground Sumac is a dark red spice with origins in the Mediterranean region. You will agree that there is no substitute for its sour lemon taste. Also known as sumak, sumack, sumach, or summac.This tangy spice powder is made from the ground, berry-like fruits of the sumac bush, which grows wild throughout the Middle East and in parts of the Mediterranean. Notable for its pleasantly fruity, astringent flavor and slightly salty aftertaste, ground sumac complements meat, seafood and vegetables. A fruity, reddish-purple spice powder with natural hints of tangy citrus and savory salt. A classic Middle Eastern seasoning, sumac also plays a spicy role in North African cooking. Use to season marinades or as a rub for grilled beef, lamb or chicken. Sprinkle this tangy, refreshing spice over hummus, baba ganouj or fattoush salad.
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October is a big month for family birthdays and we kicked it off last weekend with Grandma Murphy's! And, Kate turned 4 months old on Oct. 16! We had a mexican fiesta for Grandma - well, at least a lot of mexican food - at our hacienda and Kate got most all the attention. : ) Here's a few of my favorite pictures of Kate with Grandma and some of the rest of the fam. One of her new favorite spots is in front of the mirror! Not sure she's figured out it's herself she's seeing but she sure likes to look around at things and say hi to herself ; ) It's fun! Stay tuned for more celebratory pics from this month - more birthdays to come.


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Q: Rhinomocks DynamicMock question My dynamic mock behaves as Parial mock, meaning it executes the actual code when called. Here are the ways I tried it
var mockProposal = _mockRepository.DynamicMock<BidProposal>();
  SetupResult.For(mockProposal.CreateMarketingPlan(null, null, null)).IgnoreArguments().Repeat.Once().Return(
                copyPlan);

            //Expect.Call(mockProposal.CreateMarketingPlan(null, null, null)).IgnoreArguments().Repeat.Once().Return(
            //   copyPlan);

           // mockProposal.Expect(x => x.CreateMarketingPlan(null, null, null)).IgnoreArguments().Return(copyPlan).Repeat.Once();

Instead of just returning what I expect it runs the code in the method CreateMarketingPlan
Here is the error:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

at Policy.Entities.MarketingPlan.SetMarketingPlanName(MarketingPlanDescription description) in MarketingPlan.cs: line 76
at Policy.Entities.MarketingPlan.set_MarketingPlanDescription(MarketingPlanDescription value) in MarketingPlan.cs: line 91
at Policy.Entities.MarketingPlan.Create(PPOBenefits ppoBenefits, MarketingPlanDescription marketingPlanDescription, MarketingPlanType marketingPlanType) in MarketingPlan.cs: line 23
at Policy.Entities.BidProposal.CreateMarketingPlan(PPOBenefits ppoBenefits, MarketingPlanDescription marketingPlanDescription, MarketingPlanType marketingPlanType) in BidProposal.cs: line 449
at Tests.Policy.Services.MarketingPlanCopyServiceTests.can_copy_MarketingPlan_with_all_options() in MarketingPlanCopyServiceTests.cs: line 32

Update: I figured out what it was. Method was not "virtual" so it could not be mocked because non-virtual methods cannot be proxied.

A: Why would you have a mock executing your code?? That's the point of a mock. You mock out your actual code so you can focus on 1 and only 1 area of functionality in a test.
Update:
Maybe I misunderstood. If you are saying it's behaving in this way unintentionally, it's possibly due to using a concrete class instead of an interface.
e.g. Replace
var mockProposal = _mockRepository.DynamicMock<BidProposal>();

with
var mockProposal = _mockRepository.DynamicMock<IBidProposal>();

A: Rhino supports mocking methods on concrete classes if the methods are declared virtual. So you can solve this problem by adding the virtual keyword to each method declaration for methods you want to record. You could also extract an Interface as Andy_Vulhop suggested.

A: As I figured out what it was I am posting the answer that I originally posted as update to the question.  Method was not "virtual" so it could not be mocked because non-virtual methods cannot be proxied.

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NGC 3628 (również PGC 34697 lub UGC 6350) – galaktyka spiralna (Sb), znajdująca się w gwiazdozbiorze Lwa w odległości około 35 milionów lat świetlnych od Ziemi. Została odkryta 8 kwietnia 1784 roku przez Williama Herschela. NGC 3628 ma około 100 000 lat świetlnych średnicy. Jest to galaktyka z aktywnym jądrem typu LINER, zaliczana jest też do radiogalaktyk.

Galaktyka ta należy do tripletu Lwa (Arp 317). Jej zniekształcony kształt i słaby ogon pływowy sugerują, że oddziałuje ona z Messier 65 oraz Messier 66, również należącymi do tej grupy.

Zobacz też
 Lista obiektów NGC

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Galaktyki spiralne
Galaktyki LINER
Radiogalaktyki
Gwiazdozbiór Lwa
3628
Triplet Lwa
Obiekty astronomiczne odkryte w 1784


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Biografia
Fervente patriota negli anni 1848 e 1849 fu incarcerato, riparò in esilio, e partecipò con Giuseppe Garibaldi alla spedizione dei Mille. Eletto deputato nel collegio di Melfi, aderì alla maggioranza cavouriana e si occupò particolarmente del Mezzogiorno.

Fece parte della Commissione istituita nel dicembre 1861, per redigere il primo elenco dei Mille che sbarcarono a Marsala l'11 maggio 1860. La Commissione era composta dai generali: Vincenzo Giordano Orsini, Francesco Stocco, Giovanni Acerbi, i colonnelli; Giuseppe Dezza, Guglielmo Cenni e Benedetto Cairoli, Giorgio Manin, i maggiori; Luigi Miceli e Antonio Della Palù, i maggiori; Giulio Emanuele De Cretsckmann, Francesco Raffaele Curzio e Davide Cesare Uziel, il capitano; Salvatore Calvino. La Commissione rilasciò delle autorizzazioni a fregiarsi della medaglia decretata dal Consiglio civico di Palermo il 21 giugno 1860 per gli sbarcati a Marsala. Un altro Giurì d'onore riesaminò i titoli dei componenti la spedizione e il Ministero della Guerra pubblicò un nuovo Elenco dei Mille di Marsala, nel bollettino n.21, nell'anno 1864, in base al quale furono concesse le pensioni.

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Collegamenti esterni

Componenti della spedizione dei Mille


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Hisense upsizes laser TV in 2021
Laser projection delivers a pretty big picture already, but this year, Hisense has plans to make it even bigger.
There's a lot happening at the online-only CES 2021, and much of it has to do with how you watch films and TV shows. Unsurprisingly, there are a bunch of televisions expected, because that's where they're always announced before release between March and June, but it's not just about the typical screens, but also the atypical ones, as well.
Big screens that take up much of a wall are part of that, and include the likes of Samsung's Micro LED concept previously known as "The Wall", but also a part of the home theatre world called a "Laser TV". Essentially a laser projection system that works as a television of sorts, it's an area that's built to provide a big picture that works in daylight and with the lights off, shining a positively massive picture to the wall.
We've seen Hisense dabble in this for the past few years, and this week at CES, it's adding another size to its Laser TV line, another notch in the belt, so to speak.
The latest edition is a 120 inch Hisense L5F, joining the 100 inch that's already in the market to project a huge wall-sized image for people who can afford it.
Hisense also promises more will be coming with two models to arrive in the future that will be even bigger again, ideal for those looking for the cinema experience at home.
While Hisense says larger models are coming, it hasn't quite said what size they'll be coming at. It's probably wise to assume these might take up an entire wall, but if you have over 120 inches to project a picture on, it might be something to get excited over.
Sony adds a new portrait lens with 35mm F1.4


Phoebe Starbuck has always taken care of her father--worrying enough for both of them, as he chases one whim after another. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, she takes two gifts from her father, but desires only one: her great-grandmother's journal. The second gift? A "minder" in the form of cooper Matthew Macy, a man she loathes.
Sail away with expert navigator Suzanne Woods Fisher, who confidently explores the sometimes treacherous shores of Quaker life on the storied Nantucket Island.
Phoebe's Light gave me a feeling of hope. Set in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds, the story goes back and forth between Phoebe and her great-grandmother. The stories have several parallels, which keeps the thread of the book running smoothly. Suzanne Woods Fisher did her homework when preparing to write this adventurous story. The details from Suzanne's research jumped off the pages. I enjoyed learning about the Quaker culture and the Puritan's reign in America. In the front of the book is a list of characters and a glossary. I thought I'd need to keep referring to the character list, but once I got into the story I had no trouble keeping the people straight. Most of the Quaker vocabulary is self-explanatory within the context of the story. Thee and thou are spoken by the characters, but the words flow with the text. Phoebe's Light was a refreshing read about courage, honesty, redemption, and love. I highly recommend Phoebe's story.


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Q: custom exception class not printing message in eclipse I have my class already set. I am looking to catch exceptions on the part where number is set to the next keyboard integer. I need to catch if the number is 1< and if the user enters the number in word form. I created a custom exception class but i can not get my messages to print i am getting a null message
main code:
import java.util.Scanner;

public class SuperLottoPlus {
public static void main(String[] args) throws LottoLimitException {

    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

    System.out.println("How many tickets do you want?");
    try {
        int number = keyboard.nextInt();
        for (int i = 0; i < number; i++)
            printTicket(generateNumber());
    } catch (Exception LottoLimitException) {
        System.out.println(LottoLimitException.getMessage());
    }

}
public static boolean exists(int [] array, int value)
{
    for (int i=0; i< array.length; i++)
    {
        if (array[i]== value)
            return true;
    }
    return false;
}

public static void printTicket(int [] array)
{
    for (int i=0; i< array.length-1; i++)
    {
        System.out.print(array[i] +" ");
    }
    System.out.println("MEGA: " + array[5]);
}

public static int[] generateNumber()
{
    int[] array = new int[6];

    int temp = (int) (46 * Math.random()) + 1;
    for (int i=0; i< array.length-1; i++)
    {
        while (exists(array, temp))
        {
            temp = (int) (46 * Math.random()) + 1;
        }
        array[i] = temp;
    }
    array[5] = (int) (27 * Math.random()) + 1;
    return array;
}
}

custom exception code
    public class LottoLimitException extends Exception {
    public LottoLimitException()
    {
        super("Sorry, there is a 1 lotto ticket minimum!");
        return; //should print when integer entered is less than 1
    }
    public LottoLimitException(String message)
    {
        super("Please enter a valid interger.");
        return; //should print when words are entered
    }
}

A: This should get what you are going for
public static void main(String[] args) {

    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
    boolean valid = false;
    while(!valid) {
        System.out.println("How many tickets do you want?");

        try {
            int number = keyboard.nextInt();
            if(number < 1) throw new LottoLimitException();
            for (int i = 0; i < number; i++)
                printTicket(generateNumber());

            valid = true;
        } catch (LottoLimitException e) {  //number is less than 1
            valid = false;
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        } catch (Exception e) { //will get here for any other exception, such as invalid number
            valid = false;
            System.out.println("Invalid Format");
        }
    }
}

A: You tried to catch a generic exception, calling it LottoLimitException. Long shot, I guess that what you need is something like:
public static void main(String[] args) throws LottoLimitException {

    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

    System.out.println("How many tickets do you want?");

    int number = keyboard.nextInt();
    if(number < 1) throw new LottoLimitException();
    for (int i = 0; i < number; i++)
        printTicket(generateNumber());
}

Of course, you need to handle it.


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The McLaren 720S wins the 2019 World Performance Car of the Year
Posted 23 April 2019
Tags: Giltrap Group, Cars, Reviews, McLaren, Awards
The Road to the World Car Awards journey concluded last week with a grande finale awards ceremony and press conference that opened the New York International Auto Show. The McLaren 720S was declared the 2019 World Performance Car of the year.
"We feel grateful anytime one of our cars wins an award, but to have the 720S named World Performance Car is particularly special,"
"We believe the 720S is a revolutionary step forward for both McLaren, as well as the supercar segment, and to have it recognized in this way by an organization made up of the most esteemed media across the globe is a great honour."
Mike Flewitt, Chief Executive Officer, McLaren Automotive.
The McLaren 720S was chosen from an initial entry list of six cars from all over the world then a short list three finalists as announced Geneva on March 5th. The 2019 Top Three in the World finalists are the Aston Martin Vantage, the McLaren 720S and the Mercedes-Benz AMG 4-door Coupe.
Candidates eligible for World Performance Car must be produced in volumes of at least 2,000 units/year, must be overtly performance focused in nature, and must be available for sale on at least two continents during the period beginning January 1, 2018 and ending May 31, 2019.
Previous World Performance Car winners were the BMW M5 (2018), the Porsche Boxster Cayman (2017), the Audi R8 Coupe (2016), the Mercedes-Benz AMG GT (2015), then three Porsche wins in a row: the 911 GTE in 2014, the Boxster/Cayman in 2013, and the 911 in 2012. Ferrari won the 2011 World Performance title for the 458 Italia while the Audi R8 V10 won in 2010, the Nissan GT-R in 2009, the Audi R8 in 2008, the Audi RS4 in 2007 and the Porsche Cayman S in 2006.
Vehicles were selected and voted on by an international jury panel comprised of 86 prominent automotive journalists from 24 countries around the world. Each juror was appointed by the World Car Steering Committee on the basis of his or her expertise, experience, credibility, and influence. The international accounting firm KPMG tabulates the jurors' ballots
Check it out today at McLaren Auckland: McLaren 720S
McLaren's full-scale Lego Senna
Nearly half a million bricks later, the first full-scale LEGO® McLaren Senna
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Q: Using optim to choose initial values for nls One method I have seen in the literature is the use of optim() to choose initial values for nonlinear models in the package nls or nlme, however, I am puzzled by the actual implementation.
Take an example using COVID data from Alachua, FL:
dat=data.frame(x=seq(1,10,1), y=c(27.9,23.1,24.6,33.0,48.0,136.4,243.4,396.7,519.9,602.8))
x are time points and y is the number of people infected per 10,000 people
Now, if I wanted to fit a four-parameter logistic model in nls, I could use
n1 <- nls(y ~ SSfpl(x, A, B, M, S), data = dat)

But now imagine that parameter estimation is highly sensitive to the initial values so I want to optimize my approach. How would this be achieved?
The way I have thought to try is as follows
fun_to_optim <- function(data, guess){

          x       = data$x
          y       = data$y

          A   = guess[1]
          B   = guess[2]
          M   = guess[3]
          S   = guess[4]

          y = A + (B-A)/(1+exp((M-x)/S))
          return(-sum(y)) }

optim(fn=fun_to_optim, data=dat,
  par=c(10,10,10,10),
  method="Nelder-Mead")

The result from optim() is wrong but I cannot see my error. Thank you for any assistance.

A: The main issue is that you're not computing/returning the sum of squares from your objective function.  However: I think you really have it backwards. Using nls() with SSfpl is about the best you're going to do in terms of optimization: it has sensible heuristics for picking starting values (SS stands for "self-starting"), and it provides a gradient function for the optimizer. It's not impossible that, with a considerable amount of work, you could find better heuristics for picking starting values for a particular system, but in general switching from nls to optim + Nelder-Mead will leave you worse off than when you started (illustration below).
fun_to_optim <- function(data, guess){
    x       = data$x
    y       = data$y

    A   = guess[1]
    B   = guess[2]
    M   = guess[3]
    S   = guess[4]

    y_pred = A + (B-A)/(1+exp((M-x)/S))
    return(sum((y-y_pred)^2))
}

Fit optim() with (1) your suggested starting values; (2) better starting values that are somewhere nearer the correct values (you could get most of these values by knowing the geometry of the function — e.g. A is the left asymptote, B is the right asymptote, M is the midpoint, S is the scale); (3) same as #2 but using BFGS rather than Nelder-Mead.
opt1 <- optim(fn=fun_to_optim, data=dat,
  par=c(A=10,B=10,M=10,S=10),
  method="Nelder-Mead")
opt2 <- optim(fn=fun_to_optim, data=dat,
  par=c(A=10,B=500,M=10,S=1),
  method = "Nelder-Mead")
opt3 <- optim(fn=fun_to_optim, data=dat,
  par=c(A=10,B=500,M=10,S=1),
  method = "BFGS")

Results:
xvec <- seq(1,10,length=101)
plot(y~x, data=dat)
lines(xvec, predict(n1, newdata=data.frame(x=xvec)))
p1 <- with(as.list(opt1$par), A + (B-A)/(1+exp((M-xvec)/S)))
lines(xvec, p1, col=2)
p2 <- with(as.list(opt2$par), A + (B-A)/(1+exp((M-xvec)/S)))
lines(xvec, p2, col=4)
p3 <- with(as.list(opt3$par), A + (B-A)/(1+exp((M-xvec)/S)))
lines(xvec, p3, col=6)
legend("topleft", col=c(1,2,4,6), lty=1,
       legend=c("nls","NM (bad start)", "NM", "BFGS"))

*

*nls and good starting values + BFGS overlap, and provide a good fit

*optim/Nelder-Mead from bad starting values is absolutely terrible — converges on a constant line

*optim/N-M from good starting values gets a reasonable fit, but obviously worse; I haven't analyzed why it gets stuck there.


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package protocolos;

/**
 * Created by Dave on 21/05/2017.
 */
public class ProtocoloCompania implements Protocolo<ProtocoloCompania>
{
	private Integer response;

	public ProtocoloCompania( Integer response )
	{
		this.response = response;
	}

	public ProtocoloCompania( )
	{
	}

	public ProtocoloCompania( String protocolo )
	{
		String[] componentes = protocolo.split( SEPARADOR_ELEMENTOS_LISTA );

		response = Integer.parseInt( componentes[ 0 ] );
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieves the response of the ProtocoloCompania
	 *
	 * @return The response of the ProtocoloCompania
	 */
	public Integer getResponse( )
	{
		return response;
	}

	/**
	 * Updates the response of the ProtocoloCompania by the one given by parameter
	 *
	 * @param response The new response of the ProtocoloCompania
	 */
	public void setResponse( Integer response )
	{
		this.response = response;
	}

	@Override
	public ProtocoloCompania fromProtocol( String s )
	{
		return new ProtocoloCompania( s );
	}

	@Override
	public String toString( )
	{
		return String.valueOf( response );
	}
}

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In Sweden there is a strict queuing etiquette in banks, post offices, pharmacies and shops. Many institutions use a system of "queueing tickets ". When your number shows on the screen, or the shop assistant calls your number, it is your turn. If no queue tickets are available, you are expected to stand in line and wait for your turn. No excuses are good enough to get in front of the people who arrived before you!
Smoking is not allowed in public spaces like restaurants, pubs, banks, post offices, train stations or other public buildings. If you do not know whether you are allowed to smoke or not in a particularly place, look for ash trays or ask. Please check with your landlord if smoking is allowed in your accommodation.
The charge for different services, for example in restaurants, bars and taxis, is included in the price given. At restaurants, a service charge is included in the bill, but a small gratuity is expected for evening meals (approx. 7-10%). Taxi drivers should be given a few extra kronor. A good rule is to round up the fare shown on the meter.
Punctuality is expected at work and socially; a dinner invitation at 18.00 means that the hosts really expect you to be there at 18.00.
Swedes take their outdoor shoes off when they go indoors. When you visit a Swedish home you will find it convenient to follow the Swedish habit and bring a pair of light shoes with you to wear indoors or just walk around in your socks.
In Sweden, students and teachers tend to treat each other rather informally at the university. The informal attitude also applies to other social contacts in Swedish society and is of course related to the Swedish view on equality and democracy. We often address each other with "du" (you in an informal sense) without using Sir/Mr/Ms. Equality between men and women is considered as very important in Swedish society.
One of the Swedish words you will use the most… Means taking a coffee and something sweet to eat like a cookie or a bun. Alone or together with friends.
be a major source of irritation between Swedish neighbours.


This will cause all tenant charges to be posted to the tenant's account 10 days before their due date. If you do not want the software to do that, then you'll need to adjust this setting to your preference before adding any tenants and placing them into a property. Next to each setting is a blue question mark (?) help icon, if you hover your mouse over the question mark it will explain the setting in more detail.


Why the Floating Bed ® was invented.
I enjoy sleeping, relaxing, and I like the special relaxation of gentle rocking, which science has shown is very beneficial for us. In fact, I really like a lot of activities that take place in the bed. But I can't say I truly love beds. I thought, "What would the ideal bed look like, feel like, and what benefits would it provide?" What features would make everyone really LOVE their bed? What I came up with is a very unique round hanging bed.
So what's wrong with beds?
Beds create no real physiological or psychological state of rest and relaxation. They're just a boring place to lie down. Beds don't provide the most important feature, health-supporting motion (see benefits). Earlier motional beds (waterbeds, hammocks, 4 point hanging beds, etc) have many problems, and are simply not that good to sleep on, because their motion is all wrong.Even though the idea of a hammock looks great, they have a long list of problems. Hammocks are unstable, and people fall out (the center of gravity is too high). You can't hang them in most rooms. They have very limited back-and-forth swinging (in one direction). They are bad for your back, because they sag, having no full perimeter support. They are barely usable even for one, and are far worse for two or more. They're ok for a nap, but they are unhealthy and unsuitable as a primary, full-time sleeping place.
But what if you could have something better than a bed or hammock, that was great for everything, and even better than a bed?
I studied the problem, and the scientific research, for a long time. I realized that Omni-Pendulum or "Floating" Motion was the key to the ideal bed. So I designed the bed with the best motion. But we didn't stop with one or two refinements. I wanted this device to really work, to be so great that everyone would fall in love with it. I wanted it to be so good that you would want to sleep this way forever, to be really happy with it, year after year.
Over time, The Floating Bed evolved. It was NOT designed just for looks. It was designed to feel great, and provide you with benefits. Its form is based on its function, a design principle found in nature, and in the truly great things in the world. Our patent on it has over 30 separate, new unique claims. You'll notice many important details that have been worked out, once you use it. The One-Point overhead suspension's gentle motion, the sturdy build quality, the tight, flat net undersupport with Memory Foam and adjustable firmness, the easily adjustable height, the sheet tuck-in feature, and many more design refinements are the result of a lot of attention and testing. They all contribute to a great, unique experience, and a product so new and different that you will be eager to get in it and spend some quality time, every day. Your friends will have the same feeling too, if you feel like inviting them to join you. It's simply a great place to hang out together, relax, or sleep; your choice.
This description (and the photos throughout the site) explain a bit of the story, like a preview. Getting in one, though, is far better than the description, as you will see when you have your own Floating Bed.


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A Day at the State Fair of Texas (1941)
An entertaining promotional film for the State Fair of Texas with a classic plot
A Nation Remembers (1964)
Newsreel documenting the one year anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's death
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Texas historian and author A.C. Greene reads a passage from his book, "A Personal Country" and talks abou...
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Bell Family, 1954 Gatesville Centennial Celebration
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State Fair of Texas: Showplace, Outtakes (1982)
Entertaining outtakes from "State Fair of Texas: Showplace."
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Texas Centennial Highlights (1936)
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Texas Film Commission 25th Anniversary (1996)
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The August F. Wittenborn Collection, no. 2 - Holidays and HemisFair (1967-68)
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The Big Show (1936)
Film set and shot at the Texas Centennial starring Gene Autry and featuring Roy Rogers
The Dow Chemical Collection - 20th Anniversary Celebration (1963)
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Lake Jackson's founders, Alden B. Dow and Dr. A.P. Beutel, attend the city's 20th anniversary celebration
The Easterwood Family Films, no. 12 - Rural Life
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Concession is finally back! Just in time for there only to be three comics left. Didja miss me? I missed me.
Helen was born Harold. She is essentially finished with her transition from male to female - the operations are all over, hormone treatment has taken her body as far as it can, and legally she is known as a female. Only one obstacle remains: Coming out of the closet about it to her parents.
For the past seven years, she's kept it a secret from them via a series of hilarious sight-gags, misdirections, and long-running false stories. She even managed to pass off her dying her fur pink as a religious statement. Some good, quality, edgy sitcom material.
With popular animal media so focused on the spotted (or "laughing" hyena), it's easy to forget that other kinds exist, like the beautiful aardwolf. They don't scavenge or hunt like the other hyenas, and mostly eat termites. Alex's not big on termites - they're okay, but a little hard to make an interesting dish out of.


Lincoln Herbs Breathability A scientifically formulated, natural supplement to support the respiratory function. It promotes the natural expulsion of mucus to keep the airways open & functioning effectively. Horses who are sensitive to pollen & mould spores will benefit from the natural support that Breathability offers. High in Vitamin C, Breathability helps to combat oxidative stress.
With herbs like Garlic, Thyme, Fennel and Liquorice Root included, this blend naturally soothes and assists in the nutritional management of the respiratory system and helps allow the natural discharge of mucus. Equally successful for long term or seasonal problems.
A finer ground variation of our Wendals Respiration. Horses tend to inhale more of the mix while eating which can improve the natural discharge of mucus and further soothe the respiratory system. Ideal for horses with particularly bad or stubborn cases of mucus discharge.


Following years of litigation on behalf of a client with a financial planning and tax preparation business, a jury returned a verdict in favor of the firm's client and against the defendants, finding liability on all claims.
The defendants were terminated by their former employer upon its discovery that they had set up a competing business and were taking steps to leave and solicit clients. Though the former employees were not bound by non-competition or non-solicitation agreements, they admitted to making a full copy of the company server, which contained information on every company client, their personal financial and tax information, as well as all financial information of the company. The jury concluded that the company's client list constituted a protectable trade secret.
After four days of trial, the jury determined that the defendants willfully and maliciously misappropriated their former employer's trade secret client list, tortiously interfered with its advantageous business relationships, conspired together to misappropriate trade secrets and tortiously interfere, breached their fiduciary duties and duties of loyalty. Plaintiff was awarded damages for the business losses resulting from defendants' wrongful conduct.


Lots of new $19.99 Tees like this one that is sold at Nordstrom and other dept stores.
Tommy Hilfiger Plaid Shirts $24.99 (retail $59 currently at Macy's) - these are cuter in person and I promise they are from the women's department!
These would make perfect gifts on a budget - who wouldn't want one?
So many new arrivals in the wallet department!
This bag is HUGE and two were sold right in front of me as I was taking a pic!
when you might need an extra gift..or two!
Notice the adorable champagne- shaped soap bottles on the bottom.
The Gift Department displays can be seen throughout the store in various clothing departments.
You can never have too many beauty or coin bags - especially in these fun prints.
Haha, I know, I literally left the store and loaded the pics and then went blank..like you said, it's cute, whatever it is, lol.
Cute boots and cute tees.
The boots are so nice - I only wish they had my size.
The fox is a speaker!
Haha, thanks - ya, I checked it out again on my next trip, he's a cute little guy!


The white ceramic Every Good Gift Coffee Mug features "Every good and perfect gift is from above" in an uplifting design that is perfect to start your day. This Christian coffee mug makes a wonderful gift for a friend, family member, or church leader.
The ceramic coffee mug holds 12 fluid ounces, and is the perfect height for personal use coffee brewing systems. The mug arrives in a packaged gift box, making this a cherished gift for any occasion.


These polar bear yo-yo's are made by Inuit artisans in Alaska. The yo-yos are approximately 2" to 2.5" in diameter and 2" thick. They are 5" to 6" in diameter including the fur. They weigh 2.1 to 3.5 oz.
Our Gxx codes denote individual pieces. If you would like to order a specific polar bear fur yo-yo, please go to our Gallery to pick the exact one shown.
Genus and species: Ursus maritimus. Wild.


Building a successful business is all about adding value to your customers, pricing that value accordingly and then optimising your processes internally so that you can deliver that value at a profit. Mason James from WP Valet has done this very well and tells us how in this episode of the WP Elevation podcast.
I'm giving away a copy of 'The Dip' by Seth Godin. Simply tell us your biggest success or biggest challenge with value-based pricing - getting away from your hourly rate, and if this is important to you. Leave your comment below and we'll get Mason back in a few weeks to award the prize.
Here are Mason's answers to the questions in our Elevation round. Watch the interview to get the full scoop.
You can reach out and thank Mason James on @masonjames.
Mason suggested I interview Vid Luther from Pressable. Vid, keep your eyes on your inbox.
Hint: to enter the competition, leave a comment below and tell Mason and my good self the biggest challenge or the biggest success you've had with value-based pricing.


Have you ever played 20 questions? We think we can guess what you're thinking in 29 questions! Maybe we can, maybe we can't but why don't you find out?
To guess what you're thinking we'll ask you various questions to help us home in on your thoughts. Or maybe we'll use magic questions that will trick your brain!
Guessing what you're thinking is going to be hard. We admit it. You could have any of a thousand thoughts! Why not give it a try and find out? Take the quiz!