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Protecting your business in the cloud including IaaS
One of the fastest growing segments in the IT industry is cloud computing. Many estimates predict this segment alone will account for $150 billion, or more, of the IT industry. The International Data Corporation (IDC) even predicts that "2012 Will Be the Year of Mobile and Cloud Platform Wars". This is said to be caused by several converging forces, "smartphones, media tablets, mobile networks, social networking, and big data analytics." In order to stay ahead of all these trends, more and more companies are looking to IT infrastructure which offers elasticity, easy access to data, regional redundancy, rapid scaling, centralized server security, and global localization. Cloud computing has emerged as the best option for providing all these services and more.Trending
Good news, your business was just mentioned on international news networks! This means you'll receive a massive spike in potential customers visiting your site, exploring your services, and buying your products. However, this massive surge of interest has taken your site offline in a matter of seconds. Unfortunately, with traditional network services it would take you months to purchase, test, provision, and deploy the new hardware necessary to remedy the problem.
This tragedy is more common than you think and it can easily be avoided thanks to cloud computing. Rather than relying on rigid IT infrastructure, your business can be built in the cloud or simply connected to it for on-demand resources. By thinking of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), your network can be connected to a remote data center to provide redundancy and disaster recovery. This means that when you get that surge of interest in your products and services, your network will automatically expand as demand for your resources expands. Also, once this blip in activity subsides, so too will your IT infrastructure costs. Traditional IT upgrades require large capital investments which cannot easily be recouped once they are no longer needed. Protecting your business in this way is just one of the many reasons businesses and individuals are flocking to the cloud.
Creating a single, centralized, data storage location for your business is another reason that cloud computing has gained in popularity. Even if the central location is a virtual one, cloud computing provides a single point of access to information stored on multiple servers around the globe. Access to, and proper utilization of, this vast amount of data can improve your business practices and provide a competitive advantage over your competition. This makes data storage, and its security, in the cloud one of the most important features of cloud computing.
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Moving data storage off-site adds a level of security and access to protect the information your business relies on. However, cloud computing not only allows you to move your data off-site, but also your applications. This is becoming more and more important as smart phones, tablets, and browser based computing gains in popularity. These devices do not have the processing power or data storage capabilities of desktop and laptop computers. Instead, much of the processing need of applications is offloaded to servers. Storing your files and applications in the cloud provides easy access and backup options.
Opening a new satellite office with traditional IT infrastructure required the purchase, testing, provisioning, and installation of new hardware and software for each work station as well as servers and other back-end components. Through virualization, Software as a Service (SaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), a new office can be online in a matter of days rather than weeks. Additionally, having remote access to the software and data used by your business means that you can operate your business from anywhere. As more and more employees demand telecommuting options, and more employers see the cost benefits of allowing employees to work from home, cloud computing has gained in popularity. Additionally, storing your data and software in the cloud provides regional redundancy to your business processes.
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Applications and data located in the cloud can be securely access from around the globe, ensuring that a regional outage does not impede your business. This means that your business can be operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, simply by hopping time zones with your data and applications in the cloud. Giant companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google have been able to take advantage of global business processes for some time. Traditionally, these companies have relied on massive investments in regional IT infrastructure and centralized offices around the globe.
Regional redundancy has allowed companies to create continuous development processes which expedite innovation. This has lead some to remark, "the sun never sets on the Microsoft empire", referring to the fact Microsoft has a physical presence in countries around the globe. However, this same feature that has supplied Microsoft with a competitive edge for many years can now be accomplished in the cloud. The biggest benefit being the relatively low cost to implement a "global empire" in the cloud.
Today, however, companies like AirBnB, Groupon, and Living Social, have all been born in the cloud and utilize global business processes as a fundamental part of their business. These businesses are just starting up and they already operate multiple virtual servers around the globe with elasticity which allows them to scale their infrastructure as demand increases or decreases. This elasticity can be implemented regionally to account for sudden spikes in interest or across their network when a new feature is added to their business.
Testing and deploying a new service or application comes with a massive investment in IT infrastructure that often squelches innovation. However, server virtualization through cloud computing offer the possibility of developing products on virtual servers to prove their value before buying expensive hardware and software resources. This is one reason that many of the more recent start-ups have been founded exclusively on cloud based hardware.
It is very difficult to predict where and when a particular product or service will attract the collective attention of a massive audience. This phenomenon is referred to as trending and it can deliver a massive spike of traffic to your network. If you aren't prepared for it, your network will go down, business will be lost, and customers will leave your site in droves. However, rapid and regional scaling abilities of cloud computing can supply additional IT resources when needed, and remove them when they are not in use.
Another major benefit of the elasticity and easy scaling of cloud computing resources is the ability to rapidly launch new products and services into the marketplace. New virtual servers can be brought online in a matter of days and at a fraction of the cost of building specialized IT hardware. Additionally, these servers can be rapidly expanded if demand is sufficient, or dismantled when demand diminishes. At the same time, cloud computing offers centralized physical security of the hardware running the services and centralized virtual security options for network administrators.
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The virtual servers use in cloud computing environments are housed in massive data centers which creates two forms of security advantages. In the first place, the servers are physically clustered together in a single building which allows for better provision of physical security measures. Secondly, these servers are located off-site from your business which means they are unaffected by regional security threats. This type of security in the cloud is a major consideration for any business considering a complete move to cloud computing or just a partial hybridization. Implemented properly, cloud computing can comply with the regulations of ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. One of the cloud computing predictions by Gartner suggests that "by 2016, 40 percent of enterprises will make proof of independent security testing a precondition for using any type of cloud service."
By pooling the IT resources of many companies that utilize virtual computing services in the cloud, data centers can provide better physical security measures than any one company could supply on their own. This includes better connections to high-speed network trunks, more advanced security systems, and rapid response to physical security threats. Compared with multiple server rooms in buildings scattered across the country, or even the globe, having a single location to focus physical security measures provides much better security for data and applications.
Additionally, moving the physical servers off-site from your business avoids regional security concerns. These include issues of intellectual property protection as you business expands into other regulatory regimes, as well as customer, client, and patient data security. Partner data centers take on the responsibility of providing physical security for the hardware while you focus on the virtual security of your data and business processes.
With employees around the globe now working from home and telecommuting to the office, it has become extremely important to reduce latency through secure server localization. This is where Forethought.net shines as a communications IaaS supplier in the area of Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Any company conducting business in Colorado can benefit from low-latency access to data and applications through secure IaaS services offered by Forethought.net. This includes hosting applications, data storage, server virtualization, and many other services.


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Alicia Keys Makes Her Makeup-Free Red Carpet Debut at the BET Awards
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Alicia Keys is serious about her makeup-free movement — so much so that she made her red carpet debut with a totally bare face at the BET Awards.
Last month, the singer penned an essay for Lenny about the moment she realized she no longer wanted to hide behind a full face of makeup. She had just arrived to a photo shoot for her new album — sans-makeup — when photographer Paola insisted on taking photos of her right then and there, just as she was.
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"I was shocked," Keys writes. "Instantly, I became a bit nervous and slightly uncomfortable. My face was totally raw. I had on a sweatshirt! As far as I was concerned, this was my quick run-to-the-shoot-so-I-can-get-ready look, not the actual photoshoot look."
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But for Keys, the outcome was eye-opening. "I swear it is the strongest, most empowered, most free, and most honestly beautiful that I have ever felt," Keys admits. And it shows: The star arrived to the BET Awards without any visible makeup on her face — and though her makeup artist hinted that she may have been wearing "#nomakeupmakeup," Keys was radiant, glowing and looked incredibly comfortable in her skin.
"I hope to God it's a revolution," Keys continued in her essay. "'Cause I don't want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing."
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I thought I'd kick off my writing for Men's Physique dot com by discussing a topic that I know all too well, because it is the story of my life…my 'Day Job' if you will – the one that pays the real bills:
How to stay fit & healthy during air travel!
I truly believe I'm qualified to offer some useful tips to you since besides being a fitness model (with over 20 covers to include Men's Health) I'm also an airline pilot. I'm a Captain for JetBlue Airways and have been flying commercially for almost 10 years and was a navy pilot prior to that. Okay so enough about me, but I figured it was necessary to establish my background to validate my experience with staying fit while traveling.
My suitcase literally never really gets unpacked and remains on a luggage rack in my bedroom 'staged' for unloading & re-loading in between my flights. I fly about 3 to 4 days per week, meaning I'm gone for the 24 hour period, thus laying over in plenty of hotels.
Let's start with some staple (fitness) items that are always in my luggage:
*None of the food items require refrigeration and I can just forget about them in my suitcase for weeks at a time. So that's some of what I bring on the road – not too much!
Because basically it comes down to this mentality, and I always say this: You need to be able to work out any TIME, any WHERE, with any THING…most importantly using only your own body weight. While many hotels do have fitness centers now, some even with free-weights, the reality is you never know what you're going to find, so you need to prepared for the worst case scenario, which is the hotel has absolutely nothing!
This McGiver, impromptu, travel-workout mentality has an upside & even some benefits to your training (non) plan however: It shakes things up & gets you out of your training rut; it adds to 'Muscle Confusion' which is all the rage right now; it helps you evolve past your 'gym-rat' stage and onto higher-consciousness & hyper-awareness about your body & holistic-health. What's more, you learn to train smarter & truly make each workout count. You may not think so, but for any body part or muscle group, you can come up with a bodyweight-only, exercise variation to target it effectively, right in the confines of your hotel room if need be. I'm dead serious! And don't forget you will always have access to the stairwell where you can manage a HIIT cardio workout and usually find a sturdy beam or pipe to do pull-ups on, or wrap your resistance-band around. You can even do bodyweight plyometrics & jumps in your room if you have too. Course you may piss of your neighbors.
When it comes to eating & nutrition, it's kind of the same mentality: you make do with what you have. Meaning, no matter how lousy the food-choices you have available to you, assuming you didn't pre-pack your own, there will always be a BETTER choice of the options presented. Most of us have enough common sense to figure out which food item is healthier of the all the available options, and that is where self-discipline comes into play. But even if you absolutely have nothing healthy to choose from, keep in mind that one day of lousy eating or over-indulging will literally make ZERO difference in your overall net body composition, so let it go and move on. Don't obsess too much –it's not worth it and your travel mates or work colleagues might think you're an OCD freak. Traveling is stressful enough as it is.
With glob-trotting & jet-setting also comes circadian rhythm disruption and jet-LAG. No fun! Coping with changing time zones is not as simple as just getting horizontal for 8 hours & closing your eyes. Your sleep-wake cycle hormones are still set to your home time zone and will take a few days to re-synch…thus the jet lag! Strategic use of natural sunlight exposure and coffee/caffeine and timing your workouts can all help you adjust more quickly to your new time zone…but then it's time to go home again! Never under estimate the restorative powers of a NAP either!
Don't forget flying is also very dehydrating too! The cabin air is extremely dry with almost no humidity. Obviously drink plenty of water while at cruise altitude. Getting up from your seat during long Transcon flights & stretching out will also help you tremendously by: moving lymphatic fluid; preventing blood & other fluid from pooling in your legs; lowering risk of clot formation; lowering risk of hemorrhoids & constipation; and most of all will give your lower-back & lumbar spine a nice break from the destructive sitting posture, helping to prevent back spasm attacks the next day. Consider using a pillow, your jacket or even a rolled up magazine placed between your low-back & seat for lumbar support.
I'm happy to report that contrary to urban legend, commercial airplane air is not as nearly as dirty as 'they' say, is only 50% re-circulated cabin air (the rest is fresh from outside thru engine bleed air valves) and is scrubbed thru HEPA filters. Also pathogens rarely become airborne or spread via air (unless somebody sneezes near you) so you're safe there. Most pathogen & virus exposure occurs through direct contact of a contaminated surface with your hands so be sure to pack some sanitary, anti-bacterial wipes or gels! And don't forget ear plugs & an eye-mask, and even consider noise-cancellation headsets too, to make sleeping on the plane more feasible. I do NOT EVER recommend taking sleeping pills or muscle-relaxers before your flight in attempt to sleep the entire way! BAD NEWS for so many reasons!
Well hopefully I've just made your travel experience a little more pleasant next time you depart and also eliminated all of your excuses as to why you think you can't stay fit on the road. I do – it's my way of life and I've had to adapt and you can too!
Happy jet-setting!
Max Wettstein
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Fitness Model & Professional & Holistic Health Advocate
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The Citroen DS3 DStyle will be exempt from congestion charge from the 4th January 2011.The Citroen DS3 DStyle is powered by an efficient and refined 1.6 Hdi 90hp engine and has co2 emissions of just 99g/km.
The Citroen DS3 is slightly longer than the BMW Mini and offers more boot space at approximately 285 litres. Citroen have also copied Mini by offering a host of custom packages so buyers can individualise their car. There are four different roof colours and highly distinctive roof graphics available and lots of vivid colour options including bright yellow together with three different equipment levels.
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Jimmy Eat World are Jim Adkins, Rick Burch, Tom Linton and Zach Lind. They recorded their 10th studio album, Surviving, mostly in their home studio, working again with co-producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen, their partner on 2016's Integrity Blues.
The result is punchy, dynamically explosive & hearkens back to the heavy yet crafted melodic edge that woke the world up to Jimmy Eat World a quarter century ago.
There's plenty of guitar rock on SURVIVING, from the blast off of the title track through the ferocity of "Criminal Energy," "All the Way (Stay)" and "Love Never" and the gritty, propulsive grind of "Diamond." Vibey tracks such as "Delivery," "Recommit" and the lushly majestic "555" expand the album's sonic scope, meanwhile, "One Mil" alternates between pretty acoustic verses and anthemic, stadium-caliber choruses. The set-closing "Congratulations" simmers with an edgy sense of purpose as the group declares "You're on your own."
Noting that "I was a passenger in my own body for 36 years and never realized it," Adkins fills SURIVING's songs with lessons of clarity and insights into the soul and psyche. These are the songs of someone who's had an awakening; accepting the person he was and finding both solace and joy in the continuing process of who he's becoming.
He's living.
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Francesco Illy has done many things for love.
In Montalcino, his muses have been art, wine and a woman.
Illy, 62, is the eldest son of the third generation of Italy's high-end espresso clan. A professional photographer, he is also considered the family's eccentricartista.
In 1987, he was shooting the interior of the New York Italian restaurant Palio, known for its stunning murals painted by Italian artist Sandro Chia. "I fell in love with Sandro's art," says Illy, his blue eyes shining brightly, not looking the part of an Italian industrial scion in his rumpled red wool jacket, scraggly white beard and ponytail.
Illy befriended Chia, who invited him to stay at his highly regarded wine estate,Castello Romitorio, near Montalcino.
Illy fell for the landscape and began thinking of buying his own place. He found it 10 years later when Chia's winemaker, Carlo Vittori, called about a farm being sold by a retiring shepherd.
In 1998, Illy bought Podere Le Ripi—130 acres that include forests, olive groves and loam, clay and limestone slopes ideal for vineyards. With a long appreciation of wine benchmarks such as Gaja, Giuseppe Mascarello and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti to inspire him, he started planting two years later, about 5 acres of Sangiovese at first. In 2003, he began producing a Brunello di Montalcino called Lupi e Sirene.
All might have gone smoothly from there, but Illy developed another obsession: plant density.
"When I started," Illy says with an easy laugh, "I was a cazzo di vino." That politely translates as: "I didn't know what I was doing."
But in his travels he learned that densely planted vineyards force vine roots downward through soil layers and make for more complex wines. "So I said, 'Why don't I make the densest vineyard in Montalcino?"
Area growers consider 5,000 vines per hectare (2,025 per acre) to be optimal. In 2003, Illy planted 11,000 vines on 1 hectare.
Two years later, on a trip to Burgundy, he was devastated when a winemaker told him he couldn't make a great wine with vines younger than 35 years.
"I didn't want to wait until I was 90 years old to make a good wine!" Illy says. "So I thought, 'Why don't I do something ridiculous and plant the vine so densely the roots will have to go down or die?'"
That same year, Illy planted an experimental quarter-acre at an unheard-of density of 62,500 vines per hectare. The vines were placed 16 inches apart and tied to bamboo sticks, for an effect resembling a Japanese garden.
Remarkably, with no irrigation, the vineyard survived with few casualties as the roots worked into the soils. Illy says the vines suffer less from summer heat stress and produce his best grapes—at Lilliputian yields of two bunches per plant.
With the 2007 vintage, he released the first results, called Bonsai—600 bottles of Rosso di Montalcino aged in barrel for three years. That's perhaps the most babied and, at about $135, priciest Rosso di Montalcino, a wine generally released earlier and less expensive than Brunello. "When you make Sangiovese well," Illy says he has learned, "it's one of the most beautiful things in the world."
Since the introduction of Bonsai, Illy has continued to experiment and expand. He has continued with more "bonsai" plantings and expects to harvest an additional 2.5 acres of Sangiovese this fall so he can increase production of the hard-to-find wine. He converted Podere Le Ripi's 33 acres of vineyards—which include Syrah and Merlot along with the Sangiovese—to biodynamic farming beginning in 2010.
In 2008, Illy convinced his brothers to buy the highly noted Mastrojanni estate next door, and he serves as its president.
And Podere Le Ripi's new winery is in its final stages. Designed by Illy's architect son, Ernesto, the structure is a spiral with descending ramps (à la New York's Guggenheim museum) with a soaring central oculus (like Rome's Pantheon) for its aging cellar. The building has no straight lines, and it's taken four years for masons to lay 1 million bricks proportioned according to the "golden ratio"—a mathematical relationship, studied since at least ancient Greece, that is synonymous to some artists and architects with harmony.
"If it brings me harmony, I'll take it," Illy says. "If it doesn't ... at least I have a beautiful story to tell."
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My childhood was robbed from me by my mother's alcoholism and abuse. When I was 13, I woke up one night to the sound of screams from the kitchen, and my siblings crying. I got up to see what was going on. The hallways reeked of alcohol.
My eyes fell on a scene of blood, police, and my agitated mother. My father was nowhere in sight. I didn't know what was going on. The next morning, I walked my siblings to school in awkward silence.
I later learned that my mother had attempted to stab my father, but no charges were filed. The police let it go. Living in the Bronx, their main focus was gangs and drugs.
My mother's rage shifted to me. "You b-tch! You sl-t! You are NOT my daughter! You're ugly, just like your father!" Hearing these words pierced my soul. I questioned my purpose. If I wasn't loved by my parents, who was there to love me?
At middle school, I trusted the stories of my home with my childhood friend, Natasha. She would later share my painful, most private details with a group of girls she wanted to impress in high school. To the entire school, I became the daughter of an alcoholic mother. I was teased, pointed out, and harassed.
I was beaten up by a group of girls who falsely accused me of stealing a jacket. When I went home with a black eye, my mother said, "It's because you were the high school sl-t."
Then she grabbed a broomstick and served multiple blows to my body, angry I'd lost the fight. "I'll teach you how to fight!" she yelled as she hit me. When she was done, I quietly slipped out of the apartment, and asked my younger sister to pack my belongings. I met her in the lobby for a quick, emotional goodbye. She didn't question why I was leaving.
All of Brooklyn became my new home. I slept in subway cars, staircases in the projects, and abandoned buildings. I cleaned myself up in a Popeyes bathroom. When I was hungry, I stole hot dogs, bologna, and Pop-Tarts from a local supermarket. One day, I stole a cell phone from a sleeping subway passenger and sold it for $200. I bought a blanket, a water bottle, a washcloth, and a Happy Meal. I survived.
Months went by and I became sick. I was caught stealing cold medicine from a pharmacy and locked inside the store by the owner so that the authorities could arrest me. I feared my mother's retaliation, so I fought the cops. I was arrested for assault and robbery and went to Rikers Island for six months.
When I was released, I told the judge I didn't want to go home. The courts told my mother, "Place her in foster care or get charged with neglect." I told the judge that I would rather go to foster care.
In my new home, I had to take anger management counseling. Two years passed, and I began to wonder how my mom's alcoholism affected her parenting. Was her abusiveness due to her struggle raising eight children? Was it because she had her first child at 18? I decided to overcome my pride and give her a call. I wanted to forgive her.
Her voice was sober and sincere. We talked about the painful memories of my childhood. She tearfully apologized for the abuse, and I felt renewed and hopeful. I felt it might be possible to once again trust and have faith. It was only one conversation, but that night, I discovered my own power of forgiveness and felt freer.


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I was the secret invited guest at my friend Jenny Shih's on-line business building course, Make It Work - On Line, recently. I've been the secret guest since she started this program, about 5 years ago.
I teach a class on Fear – and I coach her participants for about 2 1/2 hours – in a class. I have to say, it's one of the things I love the most. When I show up for the class – most of Jenny's highly motivated, super bright, type A's are - how do I say.....freaking out. My class is the permission they were waiting for to feel their feelings, to embrace the fear, listen to its message and acknowledge that they are normal not broken in some way, so that they can move forward.
I help them listen to the message of fear.
What I want to share with you is that fear isn't just resistance. It could be, but it could be something else too. The only way you can find out is by listening to your fear and hearing what its message is.
Here are a few different types of fear:
1. Lizard Fear.
This is the fear that you won't have enough, or that you'll be in danger. When you decide to leave a job that's not serving you – you'll feel fear, lizard fear.
Fear of going broke or not making enough money is a common lizard fear.
If you negotiate with that fear and give that fear something it needs – like adding up dollars and cents, making a plan, deciding how long you will give your business to make a certain amount of money, having a really powerful reason that you are leaving your job that moves you TOWARD something rather than AWAY from something.....then your fear will likely subside – but be prepared for fear to flare up again and you'll need to calm it again, as necessary.
2. Old Fear (Ghost Children)
Old fear has nothing to do with your current situation. It comes from unresolved childhood or multi-generational trauma. Fear of being seen is a common old fear – especially if you've lived your life trying to fit in and not stand out.
Geneen Roth, in her newest book This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide, calls this type of fear, Ghost Children. I love that concept. These Ghost Children are parts of you that get triggered based on your past, or your family's past. If you've been shamed or humiliated (and most people have been) then you'll have ghost children that will get triggered, especially when you are at the point where you want people to see your work, aka – promotion and sales.
People who are purpose driven – creating a coaching business because of a heart-felt passion or cause rather than an entrepreneurial drive, feel this old fear intensely. It's debilitating. Because it's hard to see. Because it's hard to explain. Because you think something must be wrong with you for feeling this way. Because no one has ever talked about this to you.
You need to allow your ghost children to show up, rather than rejecting them and visualize giving them the love and kindness that they crave. That's how they'll dissolve.
3. Resistance.
This is that deep discomfort, the thick molasses that envelops you as you try to move forwards in your creative endeavors. Stephen Pressfield describes resistance as an enemy that you need to go to war with. Resistance wants to keep you safe, wants you to stop changing and stop doing anything that might put you in danger. So it makes you feel very, very, uncomfortable and that makes it difficult to start doing.
Reistance is trying to convince you that you are on the wrong track and really need to stop - lie around and relax. Resistance fears you'll make a mistake, fail, not be good enough and basically – suck.
Resistance can become a habit – especially for sensitive people who are in touch with their emotions. People who are creating their life's work, will feel resistance. It's guaranteed.
You need to make sure that your desired actions are aligned with your purpose, allow yourself to feel the resistance, acknowledge that resistance is just a feeling and it won't kill you, and do it anyway.
4. Awe Fear
This is a feeling of overwhelm – being scared and excited at the same time. This is the type of fear that envelops you when you realize that what you are creating is much, much bigger than you dreamed. It is when you realize the bigness of your spirit. You might start feeling like an imposter – because this fear/doubt comes from the huge energy of your desire.
Find evidence of the untruth of your imposter thoughts. Thoughts aren't facts. Find the facts to support your big desires.
You don't and you can't assume that you know what the message of your fear is without hearing it out. Here's what you need to do to deal with the fear that WILL show up as you create your life's work:
1. Get Ultra Clear On Your Personal WHY – The Purpose Of The Coaching / Healing / Helping / Guiding Business.
Make sure that this business uses your gifts, expresses your unique voice and is aligned with your specific soul's purpose. If it isn't you'll doubt, doubt and doubt some more and fear will have a place to set up shop in your soul. Clarity on your soul's purpose is ESSENTIAL. (Join Unlock Your Soul's Calling – the Course, now!)
2. Befriend Fear, Don't Avoid It.
Dare to decide to allow yourself to observe your fear. It's just a feeling. It won't kill you. Notice the sensations in your body. Allow your fear to exist and decide that you are going to uncover fear's message for you.
3. Listen To Your Fear.
Hear what it has to say and try to understand it. Dialogue with the fear in writing. I like to use markers, one colour for fear and another colour for my soul's voice. Give your fear a voice. Hear what it has to say, negotiate with it. Once you've heard what it wants to say, it'll quiet.
4. Be Kind To Ghost Children.
Give your ghost children (in your imagination) the love and the kindness that they are craving. They will dissolve.
5. Recognize that your thoughts aren't facts and stop believing them.
Identify your false programming, untrue stories and limiting thoughts. Once identified, they will lose their power over you. Find evidence of their untruth and stop allowing these thoughts to lead in your life.
6. Acknowledge that you aren't broken.
Feeling fear doesn't mean that there is something wrong with you or something you have to fix - or that you have to wait to start until you don't feel fear. Don't buy into the common cultural belief that fear is a weakness. It isn't. In fact it'll help you get even clearer on your life's work!
Dare to decide to face, embrace and befriend your fear and you'll unlock your soul's calling and find your path.
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Hey you Beauties!
Time to shampoo your flow and polish your bucket the 2020 Winter League is almost here! Another intense season of hockey is about to begin and 2020 is looking to be an awesome year for NIHA after a very successful 2019 campaign and some new teams entering the show there could be a few barnburners that's for sure!
There are also some new faces in the cabin this year, please welcome Nicole Colev your new VP and the great Paula Maclou who many of you will remember from the WA Inline Hockey community, as your new Secretary for 2020. Both Nicole and Paula bring a real wealth of knowledge and experience to NIHA so please make an effort to say g'day and get to know them this season (they don't bite hahaha) and never to be forgotten Neil Milligan has offered to step in and run the books one very last time for us all, thanks guys and welcome to the Penalty Box.
What can you expect from the new NIHA executive team this year, well we have a few goals this year and some of these goals are improving communication to all members with new initiatives for you to be able to access association information. Investment into player development, training equipment and referee / coaching support is also very high on our agenda. For NIHA to be able implement some of these endeavours we are still in desperate need of a development manager, equipment manager and anyone willing to help with marketing so if your well organised can spare a bit of time over the season to help organise development sessions or organise some promotional merchandise and similar small tasks then please contact me - we are a small team and need your support!
I am also pleased to be able to inform you that this year we are offering two lucky members (one senior and one junior) a free season each with details to be announced once our Member Information Pack is released.
So with all that said whether you're a Bender or a Plumber, a Beauty or a Duster, NIHA are looking forward to watching you legends bottle-rocket the biscuit top shelf and Kronwalling guys so hard it looks like a yard sale out there this Winter Season. Enjoy the year play it safe out there with a high emphasis on sportsmanship and with us all making a massive effort to support all our Zebras big and small in their duties as they assist us to enjoy the great game and I'll look forward to seeing all your beaming Chicklets at the End of Season Ball!
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Previous Dominaria Set Reviews
White | Blue | Black | Red | Green | Gold, Artifacts, and Lands
Let's take a look at the grading scale, with the usual caveat that what I write about the card is more relevant, as there are many factors that aren't reflected in a card's grade.
Ratings Scale
5.0: Multi-format all-star. (Jace, the Mind Sculptor. Tarmogoyf. Snapcaster Mage.)
4.0: Format staple. (Jace, Vryn's Prodigy. Collected Company. Remand.)
3.5: Good in multiple archetypes and formats, but not a staple. (Jace Beleren. Radiant Flames. Shambling Vent.)
3.0: Archetype staple. (Jace, Architect of Thought. Zulaport Cutthroat. Explosive Vegetation.)
2.5: Role-player in some decks, but not quite a staple. (Jace, Memory Adept. Anticipate. Transgress the Mind.)
2.0: Niche card. Sideboard or currently unknown archetype. (Jace, the Living Guildpact. Naturalize. Duress.) Bear in mind that many cards fall into this category, although an explanation is obviously important.
1.0: It has seen play once. (One with Nothing). (I believe it was tech vs. Owling Mine, although fairly suspicious tech at that.)
The Antiquities War
Constructed: 3.0
Casting two artifact-only Ancient Stirrings and then making your whole board into 5/5s is a lot of action for 4 mana. If your deck reliably hits on the first two chapters, this looks like a good engine, and it even acts as a finisher (though some decks will care more than other about that part).
Arcane Flight
Constructed: 2.5
For Constructed, this is better than One with the Wind, because the mana saved lets you keep up an additional protection spell or load up on more Auras. The cat is out of the bag on Auras, and there's a very good chance that there's a viable Standard deck that wants Arcane Flight.
Artificer's Assistant
Constructed: 2.0
The bird is not the word, but it might just scrape together enough value to make the cut. If you are scrying each turn, maybe even twice, that's not bad. You do need to also care about a 1/1 flyer for 1, but those frequently find homes in Constructed.
Blink of an Eye
Constructed: 3.0
I'm into having this back in Standard, as it's a roily good effect to have access to. For 2 mana, it can get aggro off your back, and at 4 mana it replaces itself. This is a solid utility effect that provides early defense and late-game power at a low opportunity cost, and can target planeswalkers, enchantments, and artifacts alongside creatures. That covers a lot of bases for control decks, and makes them much less vulnerable to random resolved threats.
Constructed: 2.5
Divination was a decent role-player in U/W Control decks some years ago, and it seems like it could be there once again. I have a soft spot for the card, but even I can't claim it's going to bust Standard open. It can help control decks hit some land drops, which is good enough for me.
In Bolas's Clutches
Constructed: 2.0
Lay Claim is largely better, because cycling really helps mitigate the drawback of playing such an expensive situational card. Still, in a world of planeswalker ultimates I don't take any Confiscates lightly.
Karn's Temporal Sundering
Constructed: 3.0
Now this is a sick Time Warp. Needing a legend or planeswalker is a real cost, but guess what is great to do when you have a planeswalker in play? Bouncing a permanent puts you even farther ahead on board, and solves the typical problem that Time Walks have, which is that you spend so many resources on taking an extra turn that you don't do anything with that turn.
Here, you're at least bouncing something, making the floor on this (when cast) a 0-mana bounce spell that draws a card. The ceiling is much higher, and given cards like Raff Capashen, I'm envisioning good things. End of turn, flash in a 3/3, string a couple Sunderings together, and profit. I'm really excited for this card, and think it can do some awesome things, though it does have shades of win-more (resolving 6-drops when you have something real in play is not the worst situation to be in).
Merfolk Trickster
Constructed: 2.5
Thanks to the Merfolk tribe being viable in every format (even if it's fishy in Standard), I am obligated to mention every Merfolk ever. The Trickster isn't a bad one, as it can interact with combat well and protect the deck from strange combos, all while clearing problematic blockers for a turn. Merfolk probably wants to try this, and it combines nicely enough with Harbinger that it could earn a couple spots.
The Mirari Conjecture
Constructed: 3.0
My theory is that you can go pretty deep with this. The first place I'd go is a removal-laden deck full of cheap interaction, which happens to be a solid strategy already. If all your spells kill things and draw cards (or both, like Blink of an Eye), you'll be in the perfect position to take advantage of the Conjecture. You tap out one turn for it, then kill two things the next turn, then copy some card draw the turn after. That sounds pretty sweet, though it's yet to be seen whether it's better than just paying 5 mana for The Scarab God (Narrator: It is not).
Naban, Dean of Iteration
Constructed: 2.0
Cheap Wizards enable Adeliz and the Wizard spells, so there's something to be said for Naban. Sadly, there aren't that many good ETB abilities on the rest of the crew, so I don't see Naban taking too many opponents to school.
Naru Meha, Master Wizard
Constructed: 2.5
I'm less high on the Wizard tribal part of this than the ability to copy spells, preferably cheap ones, but every little bit helps. Naru has enough power to see play, but competes with a lot of very good cards of similar cost (Raff Capashen, I'm looking at you).
Constructed: 3.0
Opt is great, will continue to see play, and was already in Standard, oddly enough.
Precognition Field
Constructed: 2.0
Besides showing up as part of Baral Brawl decks (which aren't long for this world), I haven't seen too much from this. I do think it could be a solid engine, though you would have to cut almost every non-spell card from your deck to make it work, and those are real sacrifices.
Constructed: 3.5
Syncopate is great, and gives control decks another 2-mana counter that scales into the late game. It's a powerful addition to Standard, and will be an effective tool against expensive cards and sorceries, much like most counterspells. This may be the biggest win for control decks in the set, though Karn and Raff Capashen are both pretty strong.
Tempest Djinn
Constructed: 2.5
It takes a lot of sacrifices to build a mono-blue deck, but a flyer that ranges from 3/4 to 7/4 (or more) is a fairly large reward. This almost by definition has to be niche, since it really only goes in one deck, but I think that deck will be worth trying.
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
Constructed: 2.0
It would take a fairly niche deck for Tetsuko to show up, since cards that care about blocking tend to fare poorly in Constructed.
Time of Ice
Constructed: 2.0
Paying 4 mana to lock down and then bounce a few creatures isn't bad, though in Constructed you can probably just kill those creatures instead.
Constructed: 2.0
It would be really hard for this to beat Negate for sideboard space, though the reward is pretty nice. You get to untap your lands and cast Raff or Glimmer of Genius, though adding a whole mana to your card is a tough sell. In a deck full of 3+ cost instants that wants to fight tapout decks, I could see this, but given counter wars it sounds optimistic.
Wizard's Retort
Constructed: 3.0
The strength of this card is (surprise) mostly predicated on how good Wizard decks end up being. You don't need a ton to make this plausible, so a deck incidentally playing ~8 Wizards could run this as a nice way to pick up some value.
Zahid, Djinn of the Lamp
Constructed: 2.5
A 4-mana 5/6 flyer is a very real card for Constructed, so if Zahid reliably lights up the battlefield on turn 4 I'm in. There are a lot of strong artifacts thanks to Kaladesh block, so between Zahid and The Antiquities War you've got some places to start.
Top 3 Blue Cards
3. Karn's Temporal Sundering
2. Blink of an Eye
1. Syncopate
(I'm opting not to include Opt because it's not new to the format.)
Syncopate and Blink are both powerful and flexible interaction, and will make the biggest impact. Past that, blue gets a lot of sweet engine cards (multiple build-around Sagas included), so I somewhat arbitrarily chose Karn's Temporal Sundering. It could easily be one of the other cards in that vein, and the best ones will emerge over the next few weeks, though the rewards are there for all of these.


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Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was a filmmaker and actor, noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts. As an actor, he became known as "The Man You Love to Hate" because of the many villains he played. Hervé Bazin nicknamed him "the Marquis de Sade of film".
Stroheim's most recent biographers such as Richard Koszarski say that he was born in Vienna, Austria in 1885 as Erich Oswald Stroheim, the son of Benno Stroheim, a middle-class hat-maker, and Johanna Bondy, both of whom were practicing Jews.
Stroheim himself claimed to be Count Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim und Nordenwall, the son of Austrian nobility like the characters he played in his films, but both Billy Wilder and Stroheim's agent Paul Kohner claimed that he spoke with a decidedly lower-class Austrian accent. However Jean Renoir writes in his memoirs: "Stroheim spoke hardly any German. He had to study his lines like a schoolboy learning a foreign language." Later, while living in Europe, Stroheim claimed in published remarks to have "forgotten" his native tongue.
Stroheim was a great fantasist and his authorized biography contains many factual errors.
Film career
By 1914 he was working in Hollywood. He began working in movies in bit-parts and as a consultant on German culture and fashion. His first film, in 1915, was The Country Boy in which he was uncredited. His first credited role came in Old Heidelberg.
He began working with D. W. Griffith, taking uncredited roles in Intolerance. Later, he played the sneering German in such films as Sylvia of the Secret Service and The Hun Within. In The Heart of Humanity, he tore the buttons from a nurse's uniform with his teeth, and when disturbed by a crying baby, threw it out a window.
Following the end of the First World War, Stroheim turned to writing and then directed his own script for Blind Husbands in 1919. He also stared in the film. As a director, Stroheim was known to be dictatorial and demanding, often antagonizing his actors. He is considered one of the greatest directors of the silent era, representing on film his by turns cynical and romantic views of human nature.
His next directorial efforts were the lost film The Devil's Passkey (1919) and Foolish Wives (1922), in which he also starred. The studio publicity for the Foolish Wives claimed that it was the first film to cost one million dollars.
In 1923, Stroheim began work on his next film Merry-Go-Round. He cast the American actor Norman Kerry in a part written for himself 'Count Franz Maximilian Von Hohenegg' and newcomer Mary Philbin in the lead actress role. However studio executive Irving Thalberg fired Von Stroheim during filming and replaced him with director Rupert Julian.
Probably Stroheim's most famous work as a director is Greed, a detailed filming of the novel McTeague by Frank Norris. Stroheim filmed and originally edited a nine-hour version of the story, shot mostly at the locations described in the book in San Francisco and Death Valley. After his attempts to cut it to less than three hours were rejected by the studio, MGM cut the film to a little over two hours, and, in what is considered one of the greatest losses in cinema history, destroyed the excess footage. The shortened release version was a box-office failure, and was angrily disowned by Stroheim. The film was partially reconstructed in 1999, using the existing footage mixed with surviving still photographs, but Greed has passed into cinema lore as a lost masterpiece.
Stroheim's next films were the commercial project The Merry Widow (his most commercially successful film) and the more personal The Wedding March and the now-lost The Honeymoon.
Stroheim's unwillingness or inability to modify his artistic principles for the commercial cinema, his extreme attention to detail and the resulting costs of his films led to fights with the studios, and as time went on he received fewer directing opportunities.
In 1929 Stroheim was dismissed as the director of the film Queen Kelly after disagreements with star Gloria Swanson and producer and financier Joseph P. Kennedy over the mounting costs of the film and the introduction by Stroheim of indecent subject matter into the film's scenario.
After Queen Kelly and Walking Down Broadway, a project from which Stroheim was also dismissed, Stroheim became principally an actor, working in both the United States and France. He is perhaps best known as an actor for his role as von Rauffenstein in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion and as Max von Mayerling in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard. For the latter film, which co-starred Gloria Swanson, Stroheim was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The Mayerling character states that he used to be one of the three great directors of the silent era, along with D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille; many film critics agree that Stroheim was indeed one of the great early directors.
In the 1932 movie The Lost Squadron he parodied his image when he starred as a detail-obsessed German film director who tells soldier extras, that when they are "dead" they are to stay dead!
In 1935, Stroheim's only novel to be published in English Paprika was published by Macaulay. Paprika is the sensationalized story of the life and death of a gypsy femme fatale.
In 1939 Stroheim was working on a project in which he was to direct a film in France called "La Dame Blanche" which was to star Louis Jouvet and Jean-Louis Barrault. The production of the film, however, was interrupted by the war and the film was never made.
Stroheim was married several times, the last time shortly before his death, to actress Denise Vernac, who had been his longtime secretary and companion, and who starred with him in several films.
Stroheim spent the last part of his life in France where his silent film work was much admired by artists in the French film industry. In France he acted in films, wrote several novels that were published in French, and worked on various unrealized film projects. He was awarded the French Légion d'honneur shortly before his death in 1957 in Maurepas, France at the age of 71.
Filmography (as Director)
- Blind Husbands (1919)
- The Devil's Passkey (1920)
- Foolish Wives (1922)
- Merry-Go-Round (1923)
- Greed (1924)
- The Merry Widow (1925)
- The Wedding March (1928)
- The Honeymoon (1928)
- Queen Kelly (1929)
- Walking Down Broadway aka Hello, Sister (1933)
- Paprika, The Macaulay Company (New York, 1935) and Thornton Butterworth, Limited (London, 1935)
- Les Feux de la Saint-Jean, I ("Veronica"), Andre Martel, ed. (Paris, 1951), "Traduit de l'americain par Renee Nitzschke"
- Les Feux de la Saint-Jean, II ("Constanzia"), Andre Martel, ed. (Paris, 1954), "Traduit de l'americain par Renee Nitzschke"
- Poto Poto, Editions de la Fontaine (Paris, 1956), "Traduit de l'americain par Renee Nitzschke," preface by Blaise Cendrars
Original Screenplays
- Blind Husbands (1918) (Universal)
- The Devil's Passkey (1919) (Universal)
- Foolish Wives (1920) (Universal)
- Merry-Go-Round (1921) (Universal)
- The Wedding March (1926) (Paramount)
- Queen Kelly (1927) (Gloria Productions)
- Poto Poto (1927) (unpublished)
- Tempest (1928) (United Artists)
- East of the Setting Sun (1928) (unpublished)
- Walking Down Broadway (1932) (20th Century Fox)
- I'll be Waiting For You (1951) (unpublished)
"Lubitsch shows you first the king on the throne, then as he is in the bedroom. I show you the king in the bedroom so you'll know just what he is when you see him on his throne."
"If you live in France, for instance, and you have written one good book, or painted one good picture, or directed one outstanding film fifty years ago and nothing else since, you are still recognized and honored accordingly. People take their hats off to you and call you "maitre". They do not forget. In Hollywood --in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture. If you didn't have one in production within the last three months, you're forgotten, no matter what you have achieved ere this."


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Well, it looks like there is going to be a change of plans!
All of the preparations and ideas and everything are just going to have to be put aside. The remodel turned into a rather large addition and the cost outweighed the gain.
So now it looks like we are going to move!
As much as we love our property, the house isn't going to work for our needs anymore.
We are excited about a change. Recently we looked at a couple houses in the mountains, which we never thought about before now. All of us agreed that we miss the mountains that surrounded us when we lived in Arizona.
One house was pretty neat, it was on the top of a hill. It had a great area for my mom to stay but it didn't have a barn or anything. And there were some other things that made it not be a perfect fit.
Another house that we were looking at has amazing views…a couple barns, a spot for my mom.. Not much would have to be done to move into that one. We are still looking everyday!
It's quite hard to find a house that meets all of our needs…not just wants, but needs. I mean, space for all of our birds and goats…a spot for my mom and possibly Jeffy's mom.. Not much to choose from at the moment online!
We know that there isn't going to be something that is perfect, but it would be great to find something that comes close! We are looking forward to seeing what else is out there!
It's been almost seven years since we moved here and really, not sure anyone had moving on their radar. But now that it is out there, I think we are all kind of excited.
How do you feel about moving? How many times have you moved? One time we moved five times in 18 months, so I am thankfully glad that is done…ha!


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The Sad History of the Passenger Pigeon
The Passenger Pigeon was once one of the most numerous bird breeds in North America and quite possibly the entire world. There were once so many passenger pigeons that when a flock would fly by the entire sky would darken. It is said that their flocks could measure up to a mile long and 3 miles wide. Once the Europeans arrived in America however those numbers began to radically change.
The Passenger Pigeon was slightly larger than our pigeons and doves of today, but it was only a very small difference. Their bills were short but thin and they ate what most birds typically eat which were nuts, fruits, and insects. They were not a bird that was a danger to humans. They had long slender wings and a long pointed tail that was about 9 inches long the wings and tail helped these birds to sour at speeds likely in excess of 70 mph. Of course the only reason we know what these red breasted birds looked like these days is because there were some stuffed specimens from way back when.
Since there were so many passenger pigeons when they nested in groups they would form entire colonies. Obviously since they were so plentiful humans decided that they were perfect for hunting and that the passenger pigeon population could be controlled by hunting. So when the European settlers started to arrive in about the year 1700 they began to turn the passenger pigeons natural habitat in to farm land, roads and towns, therefore forcing the passenger pigeons in to smaller spaces. That is about the time that people started to catch the pigeons for food. After all they were not hard to catch, and they were numerable, and of course free to catch and cheap to buy.
The hunting and trapping of the pigeons continued up into the 1850's and that is when people started to notice that the birds were no longer plentiful and that they were becoming more and more rare. In order to try to save the species and a popular food source some humans decided to try and keep the birds in captivity. There was a disease at the time that was affecting birds called Newcastle disease. Nobody is entirely sure if the pigeons in captivity were actually sick from the disease or if they were just unable to breed in small groups. They also did not eat well in these small groups.
By the year 1900 it is believed that the species was nearly entirely gone. It is thought that the last known passenger pigeon died in 1914 in the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio. They had named her Martha after Martha Washington. There is a statue and memorial of and for Martha at the Cincinnati Zoo. Martha was stuffed and mounted and now resides at the Smithsonian Institute.


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This chair shouts modern. Regardless of whether you purchase the chair being a attractive piece or even really lounge on, it is certain to enhance your home.
Made and imported from Italy, the X-1's core is made from honeycomb Nomex material, which when combined with the carbon fiber, produces excessive stiffness, a sleek look along with a light weight.
The padded portion of the chair is made of premium quality leather and it is available in a variety of colors. With so many options in color, you can make the chair work in any room. The head pillow has a system of regulation in three positions for maximum comfort and ease.


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Goerss's Dairy
The W. C. Goerss Dairy is started in Martinsville (1270 Pierce) in 1925 by Wilmer C. Goerss. By 1937 they are selling milk, cream, and something called "Dari-O Orange drink," and are named the "G. V. Goerss Dairy." Elmer passes in 1951. By 1952 the dairy occupies its familiar location at 370 Oliver Street. Gerhard V. Goerss dies in 1971, and is wife Leona in 1981. Their sons, James and Donald, carry on the business into at least the 1980s.


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Hey guys!
First of all I appologize for being abscent from the forum and specially from the matches.
For some visa and passport shit I had to come back home for a few weeks, that's where I'm writing from now.
I'll be coming back to Seattle around August 20th or so. With only 2 suitcases and a backpack.
Will anyone have a shed or small room at that time that I could crash in? I won't have much money to pay for rent as soon as I arrive, but I could coming up with a payment plan until I'm back on my feet.
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Superhero Cake Decor Ideas
Superhero Cake – For your little boy birthday party, superhero cake will be really good and awesome that certainly will be the center point in that moment. Boys, especially little boys, love so much having the awesome cake with the theme of their favorite. Parents can present the superhero cake for boys in very excellent cake design like with superman cake design or batman cake design. It becomes as one of the good option to have to spoil your little boy. If you love it so much, you can make your own superhero cake for your boys.
Superhero cake is offered in several options and choices. First of all, you can find out the best superhero sheet cake in different options like superman birthday cake, Spiderman birthday cake, batman birthday cake, iron man birthday cake, and other popular superhero from the movies that boys love so much. Presenting a cake decoration with superhero cake design will be nice. It is interesting and cool for both little boy and teen.
There are various options of superhero cake based on theme and decoration option. Secondly, it will be based on the size. The size is offered in different options like cupcake, sheet medium cake, sheet small cake, sheet large cake, etc. The superhero cake will be awesome, with its cool toppers and superhero doll on its top.


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August 1, 2013. Chicago, IL. The Iron Girl® Triathlon Series has chosen Take Your Mark Sports SportSafe™ body markers for body marking for their triathlon series. The Iron Girl® tri series is a women's only series consisting of 19 events across the country and is celebrating its ...read more


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It's been seven years since we learned that lonely boy Dan Humphries (Penn Badgley) is the mastermind behind Gossip Girl's biggest scandals. And now, the popular series might be returning to the small screen. (Yep, you read that right.)
According to TVLine, the CW is in the process of developing a reboot for the iconic TV show, which ran from 2007 to 2012.
Mark Pedowitz (the network's president) announced the news during the TV Critics' Association press tour, saying, "There's a discussion, but I don't know if we're there yet. I don't know what it would be. A lot is up to Warner Bros. and [exec producers] Josh [Schwartz] and Steph[anie Savage], 'cause you don't want to do anything without them."
Although Pedowitz didn't say whether the original cast will return for the reboot, this isn't the first time we've heard about a potential revival. In 2017, Blake Lively discussed the possibility of rebooting Gossip Girl and revealed that "it sort of all depends."
"Would I do seven years of the show? No, because it's hard work and I've got my babies, and I don't want to be away from them that much," she told Variety. "But I've just learned in life you never say never. I'm looking to do something that I haven't done yet, not something that I did. But would I do that? Who knows—if it was good, if it made sense. We had so much fun shooting and living and working in New York City."
Gossip Girl originally premiered in 2007 and starred Lively (Serena van der Woodsen) and Leighton Meester (Blair Waldorf) as two frenemies living in NYC. Other cast members include Chace Crawford (Nate Archibald), Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass), Jessica Szohr (Vanessa Abrams), Kelly Rutherford (Lily van der Woodsen) and Matthew Settle (Rufus Humphrey).
*Crosses fingers for a Georgina Sparks cameo*
RELATED: What 'Gossip Girl' Character You Are, Based on Your Zodiac Sign


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Old Library Theatre to Present THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Old Library Theatre, Fair Lawn Recreation Department's resident theater company and NJACT's 2017 Community Theater of the Year, will present The Bridges of Madison County.
This Tony Award-winning musical tells the story of Francesca Johnson, a beautiful Italian woman who married an American soldier to flee war-ravaged Italy, looks forward to a rare four days alone on her Iowa farm when her family heads to the 1965 State Fair.
When ruggedly handsome, National Geographic photographer, Robert Kincaid, pulls into her driveway seeking directions, though, what happens in those four days may very well alter the course of Francesca's life.
Book by Marsha Norman. Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown.
Directed by Amy Calzone
Music Direction by David Maglione
Produced by Dawn Cardona and Maureen McNulty
Francesca- Lauren Ann Palmeri
Robert Kincaid- Craig M. Tiede
Richard "Bud" Johnson- Tim White
Marian- Emma Love
Michael - Jack Lobley
Carolyn- Sammy Cordero
Marge- Lorraine Ford DeMan
Charlie - Bob Russell
Ensemble - Julie Galorenzo, Jenn Bedell, Christina Weakland, Michael Patrick Damato, Chris Traina
Friday December 8 at 8:00pm
Saturday December 9 at 2:00 and 8:00pm
Sunday December 10 at 2:00pm
At George Frey Center For Performing Arts, 10-10 20th Street, Fair Lawn, NJ
Tickets: Adults $20. Students & Seniors $18. Children under 12 $10 at Oldlibrarytheatre.net/tickets or (973) OLT-4420
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On September 12, officials for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Eighty of this year's semifinalists attend a Cobb County School District high school. For the second straight year, Walton High School ranks second in Georgia for the number of National Merit semifinalists with more than 30 students earning the semifinalist title.
Having 17 National Merit semifinalists pushes Wheeler High School ahead of the majority of other high schools in Georgia. Along with the Walton and Wheeler students, Cobb semifinalists from Campbell High School, Kennesaw Mountain High School, Lassiter High School, North Cobb High School, and Pope High School will have the opportunity to compete for 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million.
Over 1.6 million juniors in about 22,000 high schools entered the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants.
The nationwide pool of semifinalists represents less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors and includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state's percentage of the national total of graduating seniors. More than 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to be named National Merit Scholar finalists in February.
To be finalists, semifinalists and their high school must submit a detailed scholarship application, in which they provide information about the semifinalist's academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment, and honors and awards received. A semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT® scores that confirm the student's earlier performance on the qualifying test.
Merit Scholar designees are selected on the basis of their skills, accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies, without regard to gender, race, ethnic origin, or religious preference.
Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2019. Every finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit® $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by approximately 230 corporations and business organizations for finalists who meet their specified criteria, such as children of the grantor's employees or residents of communities where sponsor plants or offices are located. In addition, about 180 colleges and universities are expected to finance some 4,000 college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards
for finalists who will attend the sponsor institution.
The 2019 National Merit Scholarship winners will be announced in four nationwide news releases beginning in April and concluding in July. These scholarship recipients will join some 338,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.
Cobb County School District National Merit Semifinalists:
Campbell High School
Avery R. Bradley
Alexander R. Eaton
Kiran Gourisankar
Tarannum M. Lakdawala
Quentin P. Mot
Luccas L. Shang
Kennesaw Mountain High School
Nicholas J. Dentice
Grant J. Gilcrease
Tylar P. Gregg
Dimitrios A. Kidonakis
Dorian E. Kidonakis
Lily H. Kim
Joshua R. Vollbracht
Harrison D. White
Emily K. Williams
Christina M. Woodrow
Lassiter High School
Sophia D. Babish
Eric Chow
Dennis G. Goldenberg
Peter R. Jacobson
Carter B. Johnson
Carter H. Kubes
Peyton R. Lamb
Delia K. Pung
Audrey J. Safir
Dylan Walters
North Cobb High School
Rebekah R. Geil
Pope High School
Jacob T. Evans
Griffin W. Haarbauer
Edward C. Kokan
Maya Nambiar
Olivia D. Popovich
Walton High School
Albert Chen
David Cornell
Alison Cumberledge
Thomas DeBoer
Ava Edmunds
William Ellsworth
Eashan Gandotra
Vineet Gangireddy
Nicholas Hong
Emma Hunt
Jeffrey Key
Darren Kosen
Varun Krishnaswamy
Grace Lee
Ryan Li
Jesse Liu
Arundhati Mahendrakar
Isha Palakurthy
Anika Park
Sara Patyi
David Phillips
Varsha Ramachandra
Alice Shen
Daniel Shu
Elizabeth Sims
Albert Ting
Illahi Virani
Jayson Wu
Kevin Wu
Grace Xu
Margare Zhang
Wheeler High School
Saman A. Bhamani
Fianko Buckle
Mariah K. Butts
Caden M. Felton
Ayush Goyal
Adith Guna
Vanessa I. Leonardo
Andrew J. Mayne
Arya N. Mevada
Shivam A. Patel
Abhinav Piplani
Shraddha Sekhar
Keshav K. Shenoy
Rebecca G. Simonson
Hanna E. Waltz
David M. Weinberg
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You know that quote "Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life" often attributed to Mark Twain and Confucius? Well, while it may be true that having your dream job is one of life's pleasures you'd get to enjoy every day it doesn't mean you won't have to invest everything you've got to make it happen and face all sorts of challenges that come your way.
It's like that when you decide to open up a bakery and success won't happen overnight nor without the investment in top-notch inventory, starting from the appliances. Sure, thinking of quality one imagines the initial costs but when you think long-term, can you really afford to buy something cheaper that would end up requiring many repairs and even replacement? If you want to get value for your money, you can't compromise on quality.
Now that that's settled, you also must give the appliances a thought because the kind of oven you get isn't all there is to it, not when you have to acquire the adequate freezer too. The 2 door undercounter freezer is a great option for someone wanting to make the most of the space, especially in a kitchen where you have to be space-savvy.
Other than the great cooling and temperature controlling design, freezing from -18 to -22ºC, it's a nice option in case you're looking for a multi-purpose piece as it could be used as a workbench too, providing enough space that a counter would for example, so you'd save up money and space not buying a counter.
Besides, getting a 2 door undercounter freezer with wheels means you get a flexible appliance that you can easily move whenever needed and wherever for that matter, even under a counter. The same goes for other appliances too, if they're designed to provide efficiency like dough sheeters, mixers and depositors then don't leave them out.
Standing out from competition should be your priority too so apart from finding out about competition nearby, it's advisable to invest in your menu, creating something new and tasty to attract people, not being afraid to experiment with ingredients and trends. Given the many health trends nowadays, a good start would be to consider including healthy pastries daily, using organic produce.
And oh, don't take the power of free stuff for granted as it might turn out to be your best strategy in the long run. Free baked goods are enough to make people want to stop by at your bakery when you're at the beginning with the business and trying to spread a word as well as when you're trying to win over more customers years later.


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Airing Email Marketing's Dirty Laundry [Video]
Editor's note: Target Marketing and MarketingSherpa are teaming up to bring you some excellent videos about email marketing, fresh from the MarketingSherpa Email Summit. Check out the preview interview below, then sign up here to see the full session and more from the summit, completely free.
How are marketers "Overcoming Current Challenges in Email Marketing"? Tink Taylor may know and this video reveals his insight. Taylor, founder and COO of dotmailer, sat down to discuss that and more with MarketingSherpa reporter Courtney Eckerle. Some highlights:
- His clients struggle with putting together all of the best practices they've heard that they should be employing. "There's just a lot more work to do," he says. "And if the tools aren't efficient enough, then it does take forever to put that together. Or, you've got to employ a lot of people in-house, or engage services with someone else, which actually then you get into budget restrictions."
- A tip: Beware of marketing vendors "promising the Earth." Taylor advises: "Benchmark certain activities … and actually get hands-on with the tools in the purchasing process, because you have now got so much more work to do." So see if the tools work for you before buying them, he says.
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Executive Team
Claire is passionate about ensuring Pickering and Ferens Homes' residents have the best possible quality homes and services in later life. She places emphasis on promoting residents' health and well-being, particularly tackling loneliness and isolation issues. She is committed to maintaining PFH as a trusted and leading housing provider within Hull and the East Riding.
A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and with a BA (Hons) degree in Housing Studies, Claire has a social housing career spanning over 25 years.
Claire has worked as a Chief Executive for the last 14 years and has significant experience in non-executive roles and is a Board Member of North Star Housing Group and a member of their Audit and Risk Committee.
Claire is appointed to the NHF National Smaller Housing Association Group, the National Sector Scorecard Development Group and participates with both CIH and NHF Groups at a regional level.
Lish joined Pickering and Ferens Homes in June 1993 and has held a number of financial roles before becoming Business Services Director.
As well as being PFH's chief financial officer, Lish also leads on financial planning, treasury management, performance, HR and IT services. Lish joined us from Together Housing Group (Harewood Housing Society Ltd) where he was a finance officer; prior to this he worked at Auker Rhodes LLP.
Qualified as a chartered management accountant with a background in the not for profit sector, Lish also serves as a member of the Risk and Assurance Committee at Yorkshire Housing Group.
Paula joined Pickering and Ferens Homes in April 2002.
Before this, she enjoyed roles at Housemartin, Sanctuary and Hull Churches Housing Associations where she gained more than 11 years' experience of working in housing management within the social housing sector.
Paula is responsible for day-to-dayoperational activities within housing management, sheltered housing and customer services, along with the provision of policy information and resident involvement.
Paula has a BA (Hons) in Social Policy and Administration and has a post graduate diploma in Housing.
Martin has a wealth of experience in delivering strategic projects and has led on many social enterprise initiatives including the inception of Futures Greenscape, which provides training and support to local people in grounds maintenance and facilities services. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Building and the Chartered Association of Building Engineers .
Martin is keen to lead and inspire his colleagues to ensure the continued success of PFH and leads on maintaining our highly regarded standards in house building, property condition and responsive repairs.


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Over 30 years of experience in IP, technical support for IP licensing, technology and patent evaluation and reverse engineering.
Specialized in Electro-Optics, Imaging and Video Systems and Codecs, and Software development
• MBA level IT Management instructor at Northwest University
• Computer Science & Network Engineering teacher at Oregon Institute of Technology
20+ yrs of experience in software and consumer electronics.
Motivated and driven executive who delivered the perfect combination of software and hardware to realize best in class UI experience for consumer electronics and mobile devices.
Published several patents covering user enhancements, product safety and media extensions.
• Australian Bureau of Statistics Scholarship
• Member of Golden Key International Honor Society
Specialized in Location Services, GPS, indoor positioning
Expertise in algorithmic software development, computational math, modeling, statistics and data analysis
• Creator of an eDiscovery/Enterprise Search solution, (Hadoop, Lucene, Solr, HBase, EC2, S3, text analytics, document classification)
• Co-author of books on HBase and Hadoop
• Big Data books reviewer
• Cloudera Certified Hadoop Administrator
• Java Programmer Certification, SUN
• MSCD (C++, VB path) Certification (Microsoft)
Hands-on Software Architect and Data Scientist
Performed Hadoop/Cloud consulting projects for various large corporations.
Total number of Hadoop clusters set up so far: 125+
Creator of an eDiscovery/Enterprise Search solution, (Hadoop, Lucene, Solr, HBase, EC2, S3, text analytics, document classification)
Co-author books on HBase and Hadoop
Big Data books reviewer
Certified Cloudera Hadoop Administrator
• 10 years of experience
• Co-invented the most widely-adopted platform for smartphone-automotive interface
• Pioneered integration of wearables with automotive systems
• Multiple awards for inventions in automotive infotainment and sensor networks
• 30+ patents
• 25+ papers
• 1 book
10 years of experience
Concepting and prototyping innovative devices
Evangelizing new device technologies and UX
In-car experiences, app platforms & interoperability with mobile devices.
Natural user interfaces (NUI) & Tangible user interfaces (TUI).
Biometrics sensing in automotive & mobile. Inventor of the most widely adopted cross-platform solution for smartphone-automotive interoperability.
Hands-on startup experience with the ability to work independently on early stage incubation and R&D efforts.
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• A member of:
o IEEE Computer Society
o IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
o IEEE Communications Society
o IEEE Management Society
o IEEE Senior Member
o IEEE San Diego Section Executive Committee as Treasurer
Results-driven Senior Executive with more than 20 years of experience and expertise in software and hardware engineering.
Further expertise as a project and program manager with a strong blend of creative and technical skills.
Demonstrated success in product and technology research and development as well as engineering process development and improvement.
Experienced principal engineer with emphasis in embedded systems and data science applications.
15 years of experience in coding and leading software design/development of complex technical projects.


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These sets are recommended for the beginning carver.
The fully polished steel blades come finely ground and require only final honing. The steel (hardened to Rockwell hardness 60-62) holds an edge well.
The palm-handled set is best for someone with large hands – the long-handled set is better for smaller hands. The palm-handled tools are about 5" long overall; the long-handled tools are about 6" long overall.
Each set includes six tools: a 3/8" bent chisel, a 3/8" skew chisel, a 3/8" straight chisel, a 9/64" straight gouge, a 5/16" bent gouge and a 9/64" bent parting tool.
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Regardless of business funding, the absolute Key factor that will sustain your business is one. Your Client Network, or in other words your ability to identify and attract Buyers for your Product or Service. Growing your client network is not enough as you also need to ensure that your clients remain active.
You are setting up a Start-Up and you need a Hands-On approach in relation to the development of a Sales Strategy for your product or service.
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If any of the above points apply, contact me in order to have a preliminary discussion to determine how I could contribute.