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Sample Transactions
Over Lighthouse's 30 plus years in business, we have closed hundreds of transactions. Here are some representative samples of these success stories.
Frozen Foods Manufacturer
Revolving Credit Line
About This Deal
The company purchased the assets of a prior manufacturer through a 363 bankruptcy sale utilizing a factoring product. A new management team was brought in with the goal of reestablishing the prior sales base and developing an ethnic line of frozen food offerings. As the new management team gained traction, sales grew creating greater working capital needs that could not be supported by the factor.
Lighthouse was able to structure an aggressive facility against accounts receivable and inventory that improved upon the existing structure thus increasing working capital availability to support sales growth as the company continues to gain momentum after the 363 bankruptcy sale.
Wholesale Lumber Distributor
Revolving Credit Line
North Carolina
About This Deal
The company was financed by a local bank and had recently suffered through a couple of tough years due to the recession. However, sales were increasing and profitability had returned. Due to the effect on the balance sheet created by losses during the recession, the bank was unable to increase their existing line of credit.
Lighthouse was able to close the original line of credit in the amount of $2,000,000 in under thirty days. Then sales took off. By the end of the first year of the relationship, Lighthouse had increased the facility to $3,500,000. When the borrowing need reached a level beyond Lighthouse's internal hold limit, a participant was brought in to support the transaction. Lighthouse was able to secure the participation within one week. The transaction was seamless and the client did not "miss a beat"
Electrical Supply Distributor
Line of Credit
Hosiery Manufacuturer
Revolving Credit Line, Term Loan
North Carolina
About This Deal
This manufacturer had historically succeeded in the women's hosiery segment. However, this market had been in decline for many years, and the company needed to diversify. The decision was made to enter the medical compression hosiery business by partnering with an investor to establish an affiliated company. The company would manufacture medical compression hosiery and sell to the affiliate. However, the affiliate was not interested in becoming a co-borrower for a new facility.
Lighthouse designed a structure where the company purchased invoices from the affiliate and then assigned them to Lighthouse. This in combination with an aggressive structure on the accounts receivable, inventory and machinery and equipment improved the company's working capital position tremendously allowing it to aggressively pursue new sales opportunities.
Textured Yarn Manufacturer
Revolving Credit Line
About This Deal
This company suffered as a result of the decline in the domestic textile industry. As a result of several years of losses, the company's existing lender eliminated the inventory portion of their borrowing base creating additional cash flow strains. The company was forced to file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection. Working with seasoned turnaround professionals, the company was able to reorganize and sought confirmation from the court to exit bankruptcy.
Lighthouse was approached by the counsel of the company and asked to support the exit by providing a line of credit. Based on the turnaround and restructuring completed by management and the consultants, Lighthouse was able to structure a line of credit that completely paid out the existing lender and created additional working capital availability.
Plastic Injection Molder
Revolving Credit Line, Debtor-in-Possession
About This Deal
This Ohio based plastic injection molder was greatly impacted by foreign competition particularly from Chinese imports. As a result, the company was unable to cover their fixed overhead expenses related to three manufacturing facilities. A turnaround consulting firm was engaged, and the decision was made to consolidate the three facilities into one and reorganize the company through a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
Lighthouse was approached by the consulting firm and asked to support the reorganization by providing Debtor In Possession or DIP financing. Lighthouse was able to structure a line of credit secured by accounts receivable, inventory, and machinery and equipment that supported the company's working capital needs while it sought confirmation of its reorganization plan from the court
Computer Accessories Distributor
Revolving Credit Line
Metal Products Fabricator & Distributor
Revolving Credit Line, Term Loan
About This Deal
The company embarked on a growth strategy just ahead of the recession including the purchase of a much bigger facility. Because of the economic conditions resulting from the recession, the company's sales dropped to a level where the fixed expenses could not be covered leading to multiple years of losses. As a result, their existing bank foreclosed on the assets.
The financing was requested by a prior customer of Lighthouse seeking to expand his existing presence in the metals distribution segment by acquiring the assets out of foreclosure. Timing was critical in that the transaction had to be completed ahead of a scheduled auction. Lighthouse was able to structure, close, and fund the transaction within thirty days from the initial start of due diligence.
Cable Services & Construction
Revolving Credit Line, Term Loan
Communications Products Distributor
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Topo Chico has become a Texas staple. This is real news. The Mexican sparkling water is not only quenching the thirst of the Latino community or washing down tasty tacos. It is the only carbonated water served at Dallas' Winspear Opera House and a trendy chaser accompanying single malts.
Topo Chico is an example of the North American Free Trade Agreement importance to one of Mexico's most intertwined relationships in the world: with Texas. Mexico is Texas' largest export market, and Texas is Mexico's main commercial partner. Texas families are better off today, thanks to the 382,000 jobs that depend on trade with Mexico.
Mexico and Texas have built a compelling case for the benefits of free trade, which will be one of the crucial issues on the ballot in a couple of weeks in Mexico's watershed presidential election.
On Super Sunday July 1, Mexicans will select a president. Part of that decision will be whether to elect someone who grasps the importance of integration with the Texas economy and who has the vision and experience to take the relationship to an even more competitive post-NAFTA phase.
The election is a binary decision on what we want for Mexico's next 50 years. Do we continue making headway on an outward-looking Mexico, building certainty, attracting greater investment and creating more jobs, as I have been championing? Or do we choose the old-fashioned and erroneous ideas that will return us to a state-centered, protectionist, authoritarian Mexico?
NAFTA brought Topo Chico to the tabletops of Texans from all walks of life. In the 2.0 version that I envision, Texas continues to play a leading role in deepening our integration footprint and addressing Mexico's long overdue challenges.
Here are three ways Texas is central to my public policies:
1. Through a modernized NAFTA. Compared to my main opponent, I have always firmly supported a beefed-up, updated NAFTA. At a time when unprecedented uncertainty and unilateral decisions hamper trade, we should seize our exceptional geographic location by building Mexico as a global logistics hub.
Increased investments in energy, highways and ports infrastructure would allow us to gain cutting-edge competitiveness with Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific Rim. The Brownsville-Matamoros West Rail Bypass International Bridge, which I promoted as foreign secretary, is the first railway built in the last century and an example of the sort of infrastructure we need to continue building together.
2. By participating in the implementation of Mexico's historic energy reform. Mexico is already Texas' largest export market for refined petroleum products. If the opposition's populist buzzword is "undoing" the transformation unleashed by the 2013 energy reform, mine is the opposite: greater openness. I support more private investment, with the rule of law and transparency at the core. We will fine-tune the reform so that Mexico's new energy model can meet the demands of the 21st century.
The Texas energy industry is a natural stakeholder to continue working to improve our gas and electricity connectivity and to smooth the transition to a more dynamic market by investing in technology. As foreign secretary, for example, I signed the agreement that allowed the University of Texas at Austin and its Mexican counterparts to begin a visionary cooperation on enhancing oil recovery and water usage for fracking.
3. By closing the north-south energy gap. Southern Mexico and Central America need greater access to energy, and Texas is the ideal partner. If we achieve this goal together, it will go down in history as a great success story of regional development.
The future of North America and Mexico-U.S. relations cannot afford improvisation. After my time as foreign secretary, I am fully aware of the high stakes at play. I am prepared and ready to guide Mexico in a world where powerful state and transnational actors influence the global agenda in an increasing complex and uncertain world.
In that sense, we should think of Mexico and Texas as one single region, because as a region we will succeed or fail together. Our integration process has proved that an open and democratic Mexico and Texas can deliver.
José Antonio Meade is running for president of Mexico as the candidate for the ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, part of the All for Mexico Coalition. He wrote this column for The Dallas Morning News.
What's your view?
Got an opinion about this issue? Send a letter to the editor, and you just might get published.

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To Do List for Students (Portal)
The Campus Portal was replaced by Campus Student and Campus Parent in Summer 2019.
This document is written for use by parents. Districts can choose to provide this information to their parents or use it as a guide for creating district-owned documentation.
PATH: Campus Portal > Student Selection > To Do List
The To Do List tab provides a summary of assignments that are due and/or late for that student. The summary includes the Course and Assignment, the Date Assigned, Due Date and the Days Remaining or Overdue.
Image 1: Student To Do List
To Do List Logic
- Assignments with a score do not display in the To Do List.
- Assignments that have been turned in do not display in the To Do List.
- Assignments marked as missing will display in the To Do List.
Student To Do List
The To Do List can be filtered to show All Dates or only assignments for a specific month. Clicking the Print icon will generate the list in PDF format to be printed.
If the student is viewing this information, the To Do List and the Calendar are not displayed in the Family section.


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This registration session will allow you to complete contact information, sign up for participation, and submit payment.
All tryouts will be held at Carmel Valley Middle School (Google Maps link). Please attend the tryout for your child's grade in the 2019-2020 school year.
Boys – Monday 12/9
Grades 2nd – 4th: 5:00-6:00pm
Girls – Tuesday 12/10
Grades 2nd – 4th: 5:00-6:00pm
Please arrive 15 minutes early to check in.
Players must be registered prior to being able to try out!
Due to liability reasons, if we do not see your player's name at check in, they will not be allowed to try out until they are registered. Please read through each page carefully to ensure that all information is provided accurately.
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A unique, rustic wedding band handcrafted just for him. Whether he's an outdoorsman or simply on the hunt for something that reflects his unique personality, this stylish ring has everything he could want.
This handmade bark ring is cast from real sycamore bark to give it a unique look loaded with organic texture. The classic squared design has a modern twist that won't go out of style anytime soon. Inside, the band is smooth for a comfortable fit all day and night.
If you're on the hunt for a ring worthy of your ruggedly charming partner, this men's bark wedding band is for you. Order today and you won't be disappointed.
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Property Features
2 Bathrooms
2 Bedrooms
Close to Local Transport
Close to Town Centre
Open Plan
Luxury two double bedroom apartment located in this newly developed, stylish and elegant in a prime location.
Alpha Estates are excited to present this ostentatious property in the heart of Acton. This property boasts a new fully fitted Kitchen which is perfect for cooking family meals or dining with guests. This new build also includes a newly fitted spacious bathroom. This is not just a property, this is a family home which is ideal for small children and working proffessionals.
Acton has excellent transport links to Central London, White City, Shepherds Bush and Ealing Broadway. The properties central location gives access to night buses,


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Radio / TV Presenter, Travel Host; 27
Portrait by Adele Chan using the Nikon Df
Text by Adele Chan
Hair and makeup by Sonia Chew
I first met Sonia nine years ago when we were introduced by a mutual friend. She was a teenager, had short hair, and was still in school. It's hard to believe how fast time flies and how much life changes from your teen years to working life. Sonia's a beautiful example of this; and just like her career, her beauty regime has grown up too. She describes her daily beauty look as natural; she says that she doesn't play with a lot of eye makeup, but focuses on lips and brows. "Lips are an easy way to look like you have makeup on" — it's true. Just recently, Sonia was chosen to star in Etude House's advertising campaign; and that's an incredible feat considering she's the first non-Korean to secure an endorsement by the brand. Well done!
Want to get her look? These are the beauty products she uses:
1. Dr. Ci:Labo Super Washing Foam EX
2. Fancl Mild Cleansing Oil
3. Fresh Rose Deep Hydration Facial Toner
4. SK-II Facial Treatment Essence
5. Dr. Ci:Labo Super 100 Series Epidermal Growth Factor
6. Supergoop! City Sunscreen Serum
7. Shiseido Ultimune Power Infusing Concentrate
8. Fresh Soy Face Exfoliant
9. Skin Inc Pure Serum Mist
10. Aprilskin Magic Snow Sun Stick
11. L'Oreal Paris Revitalift Laser Laser X3 Anti-Aging Transforming Eye Cream
12. belif The True Cream Moisturizing Bomb
13. Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate
14. Sephora Ivisilk Mask Pearl
15. Sephora Invisilk Mask Ginseng
1. Clé de Peau Beauté Concealer in Beige
2. CHANEL Les Beiges Sheer Healthy Glow Tinted Moisturizer in Light
3. Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Blotting Powder
4. Fenty Beauty Match Stix Shimmer Skinstick in Starstruck
5. NARS x Erdem Blush in Loves Me Not
6. Marc Jacobs Beauty Velvet Noir Major Volume Mascara
7. M.A.C Eye Brow Styler in Lingering
8. Urban Decay Naked Heat Eyeshadow Petite
9. Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer
10. Clé de Peau Beauté Intensifying Liquid Eyeliner in Brown
11. Etude House Mini Two Match Lip Color in LA Lady
12. Etude House Mini Two Match Lip Color in Red Vinegar
13. CHANEL Les Beiges Healthy Glow Lip Balm in Light
1. Percy & Reed Perfectly Perfecting Wonder Wash Shampoo
2. Percy & Reed Perfectly Perfecting Wonder Care Conditioner
3. GHD Classic Curling Iron
1. Philosophy Fluffy Cupcake Shower Gel
2. The Body Shop English Rose Body Yogurt
3. Aesop Resurrection Aromatique Hand Balm
4. Fresh Cocoa Body Exfoliant
What is the one beauty item you cannot live without?
SUNSCREEN. I get burnt super easily! Can it be two beauty products? Because I also need my Aesop Resurrection Aromatique Hand Balm!
What's your signature scent?
This was a recent discovery — Maison Christian Dior's Sakura fragrance!
Follow Sonia Chew online at instagram.com/soniachew.
To see more beauty portraits, check out Editing Beauty's Instagram.


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If you are looking for a popular design and fabrication company for your exhibition, ExpoMarketing is a great option. The award-winning exhibit fabrication and design house help create lasting relationships and memorable brand experiences on the floor of your trade show. It boasts of innovative style and great exhibit designers that will ensure that you get the creative edge and experience you want.
Moreover, the design and fabrication house allows you to enjoy a relaxed experience in your trade show planning as it offers exceptional project management services. It also has an excellent team of customer service that goes beyond and above to help its clients get what they are looking for. The customer service team will work with you in every phase of the process of design and fabrication to ensure that your perfect brand image reflects on your exhibit. Besides, Expo Marketing allows you to experience your booth via a video or in person by staging all of their trade show exhibits before the event in their facility.
ExpoMarketing Design and Fabrication Process
Here is a step-by-step process:
1. Getting to Know the Customer
The first step in ExpoMarketing design and fabrication process is getting to know your brand and company by making a call with an Account Executive. Besides, the design and fabrication house also engages you in a discussion on the show that you will be attending to ensure that they come up with a perfect creation. The company will also inquire about your requirements and wishes for your booth at the trade show as well as your budget. Finally, their team of experts will help you make informed decisions to ensure that your requirements align with the goals of your trade show.
2. Exhibit Design
After learning about your company and brand and ensuring there is a potential fit between the design and fabrication house and your company, ExpoMarketing obtains specific details on your demo and requirements for your planning requirements. Then, the company will schedule a call with their exhibit design team who will initiate a customization process of a rental exhibit, which creates an ideal environment for you. They will first provide you with renderings and allow you to give your input on the project. The company will then follow up with their initial design to ensure that the booth is designed according to show rules.
Once you give your input on the initial renderings, the company will work on making the required changes and provide the final drawings as well as your branding. The presentation accompanies a proposal, which also includes the pricing.
Overall, ExpoMarketing is an award-winning design and fabrication company that offers innovate style and a team of experts that ensures that you get what you are looking for. Besides, the company has a reliable and friendly customer service that collaborates with you in every phase of the design and fabrication process. The company also checks show regulations with their initial design to ensure that the designing of the booth adheres to show rules.


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Goldie's patient visions
by terranovabay
Images from three days of walks at Treasure Hammock Ranch over the past week… Goldie waits patiently in the barn at sunset for the cowboys to take the herd back to their pasture after a long day of cattle work in the cowpens. Cowpens and scale envisioned under a Red Giant Sun. A Sandhill Crane nests in one of the seasonal wetlands in the pastures. A pair of Loggerhead Shrikes perched on the fence line. My guess is a Lesser […]
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: cattle, cow, cowpens, dog, Eastern Meadowlark, Great Egret, Indian River County, Lesser Yellowlegs, Loggerhead Shrike, Quarter Horse, ranching, Red Giant, Sandhill Crane, Treasure Hammock Ranch, Vero Beach


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Imagine the embarrassment of having an email discovered during litigation where one of your employees exclaims that your new product probably infringes a competitor's patent he has only just perused. Of course, it is sound business practice for companies to routinely review their competitors' published patent applications and issued patents. Armed with this information, your… Read more »
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Texas Patent Attorney, Mississippi to Dallas via Greenville, SC and Waco
Written by Texas Patent Attorney Vincent Allen. From a farm boy in Mississippi to a big city Texas patent lawyer, this is the story of how I became a patent attorney. I was not one of those like my partner David who knew he wanted to be a patent attorney before he even went to… Read more »
Trademark Abandonment
If you are a trademark owner who has several registered trademarks that correlate to various products in your portfolio, then you may have periods of time in which certain trademarks are not currently being used. While periods of non-use are often unavoidable, there are a few things to keep in mind during these times so… Read more »
Protecting your Business: Copyright vs. Trademark
Have you ever wondered about the difference between copyrights and trademarks? Do you have a great product and wonder if you can do more to protect it from competitors? If so, this short and sweet article is for you. First, let's look at copyrights. The basic rule is fairly simple: to be copyrightable, a work… Read more »
Women Inventors—Does this group comprise you?
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SEPs, FRAND and Antitrust
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Cease and Desist Letters After TC Heartland—Best Practices
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Delay Might Put Patent Ongoing Royalties and Injunctive Relief at Increased Risk
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The Proposed Unified European Union Patent System
The European Patent Organization has been developing a unified European Union (EU) patent system, which will include both a unitary EU patent, issued from the European Patent Office (EPO), as well as a Unified Patent Court (UPC) for harmonized enforcement of unitary EU patents. Although a specific date for implementation of the proposed system has… Read more »
Revisions to PTAB Trial Rules
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|This article is about the Radiation Suit. If this is not what you are looking for, see Dive Suit (Disambiguation).
For your convenience the radiation suit has been added to your blueprint database.
― PDA, Dialogue
The Radiation Suit is a piece of Equipment which prevents player damage from Radiation. The blueprint is unlocked automatically after the Aurora has exploded.
It consists of three parts: the Radiation Suit itself, the Radiation Gloves, and the Radiation Helmet. These three parts are all added to the Inventory when the player crafts the Radiation Suit in the Fabricator.
The Radiation Suit parts must each be placed in their respective slots of the Paperdoll UI to take effect. When not worn, all pieces of the suit take up four inventory slots (2×2) each.
The Radiation Suit is the only way to survive inside the radiation zone after the Aurora's explosion. Therefore, it's very important to get a Radiation Suit as soon as possible.
The player can swap out parts of the Radiation Suit for other items, such as the Rebreather. However, to eliminate radiation damage completely, the player must equip all three parts. Equipping other parts thus results in partially blocking radiation damage in exchange for whatever bonus the other equipment gives.
The Radiation Suit is no longer needed after the player repairs all the breaches in the Aurora's drive core room.
Data Bank Entry
This suit fully protects against the effects of radiation during land, sea and space exploration.
- Safety rated up to 400 Sv/hr
'The Radiation Suit: A necessary precaution in a post-MAD world.'
- Markings on the arm indicate that the Radiation Suit has been designed or issued by the Alterra Corporation. Alterra also issues the tools in the game Natural Selection 2, which shares the same universe as Subnautica.


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Talks and Conferences
Invited Talks
- Clusters of circulating tumor cells: primary 'bad agents' of metastasis. 9th Annual q-bio Summer School, Fort Collins, July 2015
- Modeling the phenotypic plasticity of metastatic cancer stem cells. Annual Meeting of Society of Mathematical Biology, Atlanta, July 2015
- Looking at epithelial plasticity from a physicist's perspective. University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, October 2014.
- United we stand, divided we fall: Advantages of collective cell migration to cancer. 8th Annual q-bio Meeting, Santa Fe, August 2014
Workshops/Schools attended
- 8th Annual q-bio Summer School on Stochastic Gene Regulation, Santa Fe, August 2014
- SERC School on Systems and Synthetic Biology, IIT Bombay, May 2012
Conference presentations (Posters)
- Stemness in the hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotype. Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Stem Cells and Cancer, Ventura, February 2015
- Coupled cellular decision making of EMT and stemness: a bottom-up regulatory model. AACR Conference on Computational and Systems Biology of Cancer, San Francisco, February 2015
- Modeling the association between epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and stemness. 8th Annual q-bio Meeting, Santa Fe, August 2014
- Characterizing the hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotype: collective migration of carcinoma cells. 1st Annual Bioengineering Graduate Student Symposium, Rice University, May 2014
- Partial EMT, Hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotype and epithelial plasticiy: Role of (miR-200/ZEB) loop. 105th Annual Meeting of American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), San Diego, April 2014
- Tristable 'three-way' miR-TF toggle switch: The hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotype. Meeting on Translating Cancer Data and Models to Clinical Practice, Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, February 2014
- Tristability in miR-TF toggle switch: The hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotype , 10thAnnual Computational and Theoretical Biology Symposium (CTBS), Houston, December 2013
- Mathematical modeling of global regulation of PCP in Drosophila", International Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Pune, January 2012
- Modeling the global regulation of Planar Cell Polarity in wing epithelium, 12th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), Heidelberg/Mannheim, August 2011
- Keeping the hair aligned: Mathematical modeling of global module of Planar Cell Polarity, International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 2011


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Clarence Budington "Bud" Kelland was an American writer. He once described himself as "the best second-rate writer in America".
Although largely forgotten now, Kelland had a long career as a writer of fiction and short stories, stretching from 1913 to 1960. He was published in many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post and The American Magazine. A prolific writer, his output included sixty novels and some two hundred short stories. His best known juvenile works were the Mark Tidd series and the Catty Atkins series, while his best known adult work was the Scattergood Baines series. Other notable adult books by Kelland include Conflict, Rhoda Fair, Hard Money, Arizona, and Dangerous Angel. Kelland was the "literary idol" of the teenaged John O'Hara. He was referred to in a 1995 installment of Harlan Ellison's television commentary, Harlan Ellison's Watching for the program Sci-Fi Buzz, wherein Ellison laments what he perceives as a prevailing cultural illiteracy
Kelland's work resulted in some thirty Hollywood movies, including Speak Easily starring Buster Keaton. Opera Hat, a serial from The American Magazine, was the basis for the film Mr.


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No matter the type of floor in your house. If you find yourself not comfortable with what you are seeing and walking on, then cork flooring is your correct solution. A bad floor lowers the value and appearance of your home. Henceforth, cork flooring is your best option if you want to replace your floor.
But before then, what is cork flooring?
The use of cork stretches to thousands years ago, while it has been used for different purposes, use of cork for flooring cannot be left out. Cork is known for its wonderful features hence perfect for flooring, sound proofing and use in wine bottles.
What is the durability of cork?
Thinking about cork durability, many people recall wine corks or small cork plugs that are commonly used to plug bottles of different kinds. Some people may have the experience of cork used in wine bottle breaking off into wine. If this is your experience, I know you doubt if cork is strong enough for a flooring option.
The answer is a big yes! In fact, cork is among the strongest flooring options present in the market today. It is less affected by friction than hardwood, laminate and tile flooring. As a result, cork stands out to be used in very harsh flooring conditions. It has an incredible resistant and really robust to pressure. When you happen to stand on cork floor with heel shoes, the floor will develop a dent. With the release of pressure exerted, the floor recoils back to the original shape instantly leaving no lasting mark. However, with the rest of flooring like a carpet, heavy furniture will leave a mark when the furniture is removed.
Throwing heavy items or dropping heavy materials on the floor, they are prone to crack or break. However, cork floor is different, no mark will be left. This makes an excellent property if you are that person who is clumsy or you have little children.
What is cork strength to water?
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A run of five consecutive years of outperformance ground to a halt for the Witan Investment Trust in 2016. Not since 2011, when Europe was close to imploding, have the third-party active fund managers that Witan employs slipped behind their respective markets.
But rather than rest on his laurels, manager Andrew Bell moved to reduce the 'underperformance gap' by taking full advantage of the tools he has at his disposal, namely gearing and share buybacks. Over the course of 2016, Witan's gearing level was around the 10 per cent mark, but at times of market stress, such as after the Brexit vote, the tap was loosened further, with Bell handing extra money to the UK and global fund managers Artemis and Lansdowne Partners. This proved to be the right call, as markets largely took Brexit in their stride, swiftly shaking off an initial two-day hangover.
Tactical give and take pays off
'They were the two managers who posted the worst performance last June,' Bell points out. 'Having some money on the table to play with was helpful, as at the time I thought the general sentiment was too bearish. High-calibre fund managers will always go through hot and cold periods, and I feel it is my job to back managers that are going through a bad period, because they will make it back. Similarly, on the other side of the coin, it is prudent at times to take money away from managers that have performed well.'
Not only did Bell tactically make the right call around Brexit, but he also successfully timed dips that occurred in Japan and the emerging market regions. He bought index futures for both markets, and in both cases benefited when they climbed higher.
Overall the gearing calls added 2 per cent to the trust's performance. Elsewhere, an additional 0.5 per cent of performance was generated by share buybacks. At present the discount (at the end of April) stands at 2.2 per cent, below its 12-month average figure of 5.9 per cent. All in all, Witan produced a total return of 22.9 per cent for 2016 – 0.1 per cent behind its benchmark, a composite of the FTSE All-Share, All-World North America, All-World Asia Pacific, All-World Europe (ex UK) and All-World Markets indices.
Since taking the chief executive hot seat in 2010, Andrew Bell has revitalised the trust's fortunes. On a five-year view, its share price is up 130 per cent, comfortably ahead of its peers: the average global trust has risen by 90 per cent over the same period.
He has made sweeping changes to make the fund more actively managed, jettisoning fund managers that he felt were not adding sufficient value and moving to clear out passive funds, which before he took the helm accounted for around 22 per cent of the trust. The tracker exposure was mainly reserved for the US stock market, which is a tough nut for fund managers to crack.
Bell agrees, which is why none of the 11 external fund managers in the portfolio have a remit only to buy US shares. Instead, Bell prefers managers to 'go wherever they see fit'; hence five of the managers have a global remit. Similarly, he prefers to hand money to a regional Asian or emerging market manager and avoids constraining them to sticking solely to 'a market they hate such as Japan, which they have probably spent the last 25 years getting wrong'.
The UK equity weighting is 30 per cent, the biggest country allocation overall, but half what it was at the turn of the millennium. Bell says this is a reflection of the UK market becoming 'less relevant', particularly with the rise of fast-growing economies in the emerging market regions. Indeed, this is an area he has been shifting more money towards, recently hiring GQG Partners, an emerging market specialist.
Overall, Bell has 13 per cent of the trust in the Far East. Over time he expects this portfolio segment to become more substantial. 'In 2016 emerging markets had been in a bear market for five years. Today I think they are still relatively cheap, despite enjoying a strong run over the past year. For me this is a long-term theme for the trust. It is a vibrant and exciting area; collectively, the emerging market economies' rate of growth is two or three times that of their western counterparts,' he says.
He adds: 'But it is not a homogeneous asset class, as countries and companies within the universe often possess quite different investment characteristics. We therefore took our time when searching for a manager, as we wanted to find an emerging market specialist that has a focus on picking high-quality companies.'
On the whole Bell is mindful of equity valuations, which are trading higher than their historical averages, partly as a consequence of the record low interest rate environment. This makes it a trickier hunting ground for fund managers to find 'value', but nonetheless Bell thinks it would be unwise to show active fund managers the red card. Some investors in recent years have already voted with their feet, with passive funds selling like hot cakes.
Difficulties for active managers
For investors who like to base their decisions on hard evidence, the fact that nearly nine in 10 fund managers failed to beat their benchmarks last year does not make positive reading for the active fund management industry. On reflection, Bell points out, 'active managers found the going difficult in 2016', but he adds that high index levels, most notably in the US and UK, indicate there are 'few windfalls' remaining for index investors. 'I am optimistic that the managers I have chosen will continue to exploit valuation anomalies in their respective markets,' he remarks.
Bell, a tennis fan, adds that 'not everyone is going to end up a Wimbledon champion', but the most skilled, such as British star Andy Murray, rise to the top. 'Not every active fund manager is going to win, but there will be winners, and it is my job to find them,' he says.
While the active versus passive debate will continue to rumble on, in Witan's case Bell has proved that it is worth paying up for talent. In addition, he has made a conscious effort to keep a lid on costs – Witan's ongoing charge figure for 2016 came in at 0.75 per cent. When stripping out the performance fee (owing to some external fund manager underperformance in 2016), the charges dropped to 0.65 per cent. This compares favourably with Witan's open-ended multi-manager rivals, who tend to charge around the 1.25 to 1.5 per cent mark, reflecting the double layer of charges incurred through the use of other funds.
Bell runs his own segment of the portfolio, which comprises around 10 per cent of assets. He looks to invest in areas where the external fund managers would not invest, such as private equity, and he keeps a close eye on 'special situations' such as investment trusts that are out of favour.
This prompted him to take a position in BlackRock World Mining two and a half years ago, admittedly a year or so too early. A more recent purchase last year in the form of TR Property investment trust was timed better. Bell bought on the grounds that the trust was being mistreated by the market as a pure UK property play, when in fact the majority of the trust's property shares are listed on European exchanges.
Witan is a favourite with both long-term Isa savers and financial advisers, and a big reason for this is the trust's impressive and reliable dividend track record, amounting to 42 years of consecutive annual rises. In 2016 the dividend increase of 11.8 per cent to 19 pence a share was more than double the level paid a decade ago.
In addition, the trust is viewed as a solid starter fund for first-time investors, due to its multi-manager structure, which Witan switched to in 2004. So far there's been little in the way of direct competition for Witan in the investment trust sector, but this is no longer the case, with Alliance Trust switching to a multi-manager structure. Bell, however, seems very relaxed – and he has good reason to be, given that he has rejuvenated Witan's fortunes, whereas Alliance Trust's turnaround attempt has only just begun.
Bell in six
My best investment was: my family, which pays dividends every day.
My worst investment and lesson learnt was: Independent Insurance about 15 years ago, which went bust. Don't buy things just because they look cheap, and make sure you understand the complexities of Financial companies such as banks and insurers.
Alternative career would have been: politics, although I'd be much less tempted now, even if I was still 30, than I might have been in the 1980s.
In my spare time I like to: ski, cycle, play tennis and drink wine.
The one thing I would like to see change in financial services is: investment management fees that reflect the cost of doing the job rather than being linked to the size of the assets under management. It doesn't cost 10 times as much to manage £1 billion as £100 million, so growing funds should share the lower unit costs with investors. As a payer of such fees Witan would bene¬ t from such a change, but clearly fund management companies have an established interest in the status quo.
Do you invest in the trust: yes, I have bought shares in Witan worth several times my annual salary


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Course of Social Systems and Civil Engineering
Objective of Course of Social Systems and Civil Engineering is to train engineers who not only create abundant society through wide-ranging practices of improvements to the infrastructure, creation and activation of safety local community, but also pursue soft and hard wares methodology to create comfortable and active society by the education of highly-professional knowledge/technology and researches.
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Reverse the battle results! Enhance the Emblem and acquire its hidden power.
Various effects acquired along with the enhancement level, the 'Emblem' system has been added.
Emblem opens upon completion of the main quest [The Origin of the Darkness] after 8 Rebirth Lv. 1.
[Emblem Enhance & Evolve]
- Emblem can be evolved to Tier 10. Every Tier has 10 levels.
- After enhancing the all 10 levels, the Emblem can be evolved to the next Tier.
1. Additional Effect : Can check the effects that is activated upon use. The effects are opened when the Emblem reaches the required Tier. And effects are activated when the Emblem is used. The effects that are not acquired are marked gray.
2. Duration / Cool-down : Can check the duration time for using Emblem and cool-down for after using Emblem. The cool-down gets shorter as the Tier of the Emblem goes up.
3. Basic Stats : Can check the accumulated basic stats and increased basic stats when evolving Emblem. 'Max Hp, Attack DMG, DEF, Resist DMG' can be acquired with Emblem.
4. ▶ : Can check the next Tier Emblem's appearance with clicking the arrow button. Emblem can be evolved up to Tier 10.
5. Tier / Level : Can check the Emblem's current Tier and enhancement level. The Tier gets higher when evolved, and enhancement level gets higher when enhanced.
6. Materials for Enhance and Evolve : Can check the materials required when enhancing and evolving. For evolving 'Emblem Guardian' is needed and enhancing needs 'Emblem Light'. The required materials increase as the Tier gets higher. The materials can be exchanged from Dice shop and Guild shop.
7. When insufficient : When enhancing or evolving the Emblem if the materials are insufficient, click the check box for consuming unbound Diamonds instead. The consumed unbound Diamonds will increase as the Tier gets higher.
8. Evolve & Enhance : Can enhance or evolve once by pressing the button. When enhancing, the super critical occurs with certain chances. Super critical gives 10 times more EXP for enhance.
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Local blues legend James Montgomery and his band perform a free concert on Boston's City Hall Plaza on Friday, July 19, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. The concert is part of the inaugural Outside the Box arts festival taking place in Boston from July 13-July 21.
Montgomery, a renowned blues harmonica player, has performed with Bruce Springsteen, James Cotton, the Allman Brothers and other musicians throughout his forty-year career.
Outside the Box is the newest performing arts festival to spawn in Massachusetts in recent years, with over 200 free performances taking place on Boston Common and City Hall Plaza. The performers include local, national and international acts in music and dance, theater and cabaret, comedy and children's shows and spectacle art.
To explore the arts and cultural scene in Massachusetts, visit MassVacation.comhttp://www.massvacation.com/explore/arts/.


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Traffic disruption expected
Friday 31 May 2019
Inverclyde Council has called on the national transport agency responsible for the trunk road network across Scotland to get its act together.
The move comes after it was revealed that work on the A78 trunk road at Inverkip Road is going to be set at one way traffic lights just weeks after the agency agreed not to do this.
It is understood that the work has been agreed by Transport Scotland to allow Scottish power to carry out work at the Barr's Cottage area of the A78.
Inverclyde Council Leader, Councillor Stephen McCabe, said today: "This is an incredible situation where a national agency can just decide to unilaterally change its mind and allow this to happen without any consideration for the effect this has on the travelling public. We fully appreciate that any roadworks or construction project, can take unexpected turns and issues arise that you have to deal with. But, knowing that this work has an impact on work going on in other parts of the network, doing a complete u-turn on a previous agreement and leaving little to no time for other agencies to respond or influence that work is cavalier at best and downright incompetent at worst.
"There is no doubt that the travelling public will be inconvenienced by this and we are all put into a situation where there isn't a great deal of time to get the word out to communities affected by this."
Inverclyde Council, earlier this month, delayed essential maintenance work to Cardwell Road, Gourock because one way traffic lights were unexpectedly put in place on the A78 Inverkip Road at Barr's Cottage.
After delaying the work, council roads officers negotiated with the national agency and their maintenance agency and only started the work in Gourock on the clear understanding that traffic on the A78 would flow both ways.
Councillor McCabe explained: "Major work on the trunk road network has an impact across the Inverclyde roads network. Transport Scotland need to get its act together and make sure that situations like this do not arise again and that better planning gets put in place as a matter of urgency. This cannot be allowed to happen again. For this work Transport Scotland need to make sure that it is completed as quickly as possible to minimise the unconvince to the travelling public."
It is understood that the work on the A78 at Inverkip Road is expected to begin this weekend and last between 10 days and two weeks. Road users must leave plenty of room for journeys during this period as there will be significant disruption.
More information on work on the trunk road network is available from Transport Scotland at https://www.transport.gov.scot
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Bonnie Scorer at "Make It Your Own" and I have just done a very interesting interview about her creative life with three kids. I hope you will enjoy it. Read more
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Parent-Child Quality Time
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Teaching Children English
In the following post I'm answering my English-speaking colleague's question about teaching children. Will be glad if you join the discussion: http://olga-ekb.ru/story/2013/03/28/teaching-children-english
An Autumn Story
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Dear Hillary,
I am devastated. Valentine's Day has been and gone and I didn't get one from anyone. Being a handsome man, I was sure that the postman would be weighed down with cards and suchlike, but he either missed my mailbox, or dropped my mail off in the klong because it must have been too heavy. How was your Valentine's Day, Hillary? I hope it was better than mine. I feel that nobody loves me, and I don't know why!
Dear Gorgeous George,
What a blow to the ego February 14 must have been for you! Not left waiting at the altar, but left waiting at the letterbox. What a fate. Oh my goodness! However, Hillary has the answer for you, my handsome Petal. Next year send some cards to yourself and you can noisily take them out after the postman has been, so everyone in the street knows you got some. The only other way to go about filling the letterbox is to stop being such a smug, self-opinionated bore, and people will start to like you, and some may even send you a real Valentine's Day card. How was my day? Absolutely wonderful, stack of cards and flowers, though it was somewhat strange – most of the cards were addressed to "George". Where exactly do you live? Close to my office?


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I may be jumping the gun on this as I am still attempting to investigate, but it is worth it to get the ball rolling on this investigation. I need your help. It seems that the power behind the show "God Friended Me" is a Homosexual Greg Berlanti who is married to Robbie Rodgers.
Greg Berlanti is listed in the credits of "God Friended Me" as "Production companies: "Berlanti Productions"
The Wikipedia entry say "Spouse: Robbie Rogers (m. 2017)"
Wikipedia also has an entry that says:
"Weeks after being released by Leeds United, on February 15, 2013, Rogers announced his retirement from professional soccer at age 25 and announced he was gay, making him the first professional soccer player based in Britain to come out since Justin Fashanu did so in 1990."
At the bottom of the Wikipedia entry it states:
"Rogers began dating television writer producer Greg Berlanti in 2013, and on February 18, 2016, they welcomed their first son via surrogacy, Caleb Berlanti. On December 31, 2016, Rogers and Berlanti announced they had become engaged. They were married on December 2, 2017, in Malibu, California." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Rogers
WND news has this report on the show but it does not mention any "gay" connection. They may not yet be aware.
Here's my problem, if this is true, why are homosexual movies and TV show creators again trying to tamper with the God message? One might ask why I am asking the question since the God message is open to anyone to address and market. True, but it is not open to everyone to present to the public as if they are qualified and credible representatives of God, and to fail to include that disclaimer does give that impression. That is, if they are creating scripts about the God of the Bible. (At this point I'm not sure they are). But if so, we Christians should know about their homosexual connection. Why, so that we can better decide if we want to add our financial support to someone who is going to use our money to attack our faith and our rights as Christians.
I don't know if any recognized and credible Christian producers/writers have even been included in the show or that any such Christians are a part of the cast. If not, it would be no surprise. But we should not be fitting the bill.
Granted, homosexuals are doing all kinds of things and are involved in all kinds of goods and services that we as Christians are not aware of, and are inadvertently supporting financially. Food, cosmetics, clothes and hygiene product providers are not required to advertise their "sexual orientation" or preference, and so we make them rich every day with no real way avoid doing so. But when it comes to Movies and TV programs, getting the details of who is in the background pulling the strings is a lot easier. Why we Christians don't seem to bother to investigate what we put our money to for entertainment is because of a lingering attitude of apathy towards our obligation as believers.
You made "Noah"-a movie created by atheist a lot of money at the box office because most of you did not bother to check the available news about the creators before running to the movies to see it. And what a farce it turned out to be.
You see, they want to control the Christian message and they are using their media power to do so. They seem to understand the power of using the media as a weapon against the true Christian message and Christians seem to be to timid to expose it, counter it and demand representation in mainstream just as they have.
I would like to see more active Christian reporting on the ways that atheists and Homosexuals are attempting to tap into that massive money resources of the Christian community so that they can then turn that money into a weapon against the Christian God, and faith. Indeed, they are making Christians help them pay for their campaign against God and the Bible.
Now the big question is, with all of the money and resources that Christians have, why don't we have our own major biblically sound movie productions and our own Hollywood type setup that can and does produce Mega Bible productions for movies and Bible friendly TV sitcoms, Dramas and Talk show on secular TV? Why is it that the atheists and homosexuals are allowed to create dramas and all kinds of show on TV that reflect their worldviews and do not reflect our Biblical convictions? What laws prevents this?
I am not saying flood the TV programing with Fire and brimstone preaching dramas and talk shows, but I am referring to biblical quality dramas and talk shows that are controlled by truly dedicated Christians and not by the many big money mega pastors and Christian celebrities who are making too much money to be bothered with being truly biblical in their delivery and defense of God's word.
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MOUNT FOREST – With speeches and celebrations complete, residents here can enjoy a new era of health care in their community.
On June 1, the Strathcona Long-Term Care facility officially opened its doors with speeches from dignitaries including Sharon Village Care Homes owner/president Peter Schlegel and Wellington North Mayor Andy Lennox.
The Princess Street building is directly across the road from its predecessor.
In an interview with the Wellington Advertiser, local administrator Cate MacLean said the project has been in the works for a number of years.
"Peter had bought the land here some time ago, at the time the Claire Stewart Medical Clinic was being built." The plans were that at some time the nursing home would be rebuilt. However it was only a few years ago the province announced news for the redevelopment.
"We started construction in May, 2017 and moved into the new facility on Feb. 4, 2019."
MacLean said "this is not really an upsizing, but is built according to the new design standards."
She explained the province has new standards which must be met for new facilities.
Class A home
"This is classified as a Class A home. The rooms are much larger and there are larger open areas for the residents. There is also a huge physiotherapy room and training area."
MacLean noted that previously, the dining areas were all on the main floor and residents had to come down by elevators for their meals. "Here, all the home areas are 32 beds and every floor has its own dining area."
On her thoughts of the new location, MacLean said, "We're so pleased. It's a beautiful home. It's easier to work in and the residents seem to love it here."
She noted Schlegel has additional property and has plans to build additional health care related facilities within the next decade.
As such, with the nearby Louise Marshall Hospital and the Claire Stewart Medical Clinic, "this will be the health care hub of Mount Forest." She said she believed those aspects create something unique within Mount Forest.
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Identity Bending
Katarzyna Kozyra in Uppsala konstmuseum, SE
Opening: Friday, 27 January, 2018
The exhibition will run until 1 April, 2018
Starting with a critical question, Katarzy Kozyra's art projects embark on journeys that last for many years and often have a severe impact on her personal life. The exhibition draws a line from early art works such as the video installation Men's Bathhouse, where Kozyra disguised as a man entered the male area of Gellért Bathhouse in Budapest, to the most recent project Looking for Jesus. Together with a film crew Kozyra has been spending days and nights with individuals who have decided to leave everything in their search for God. The phenomenon is often described as "The Jerusalem Syndrome".
image © Katarzyna Kozyna. Il Castrato, ur serien "In Art Dreams Come True", 2006, stillbild. Courtesy of Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation and ŻAK | BRANICKA
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Getting Fresh: Baked Kale Pasta with Chickpeas and Feta July 8, 2011Posted by Angela @ Making Food for Friends in good for a group, vegetarian.
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My most recent column on Ferndale Patch went up a few weeks ago, and I forgot to post about it here! That is a travesty, because it includes the recipe for one of our favorite dinners, baked kale pasta with chickpeas and feta. This one has evolved over the past year or so. It started out with broccoli and breadcrumbs, but eventually we decided that the kale was better than broccoli, feta was a delicious addition, and the breadcrumbs could be left out. The recipe on Patch is the "perfected" version. I also originally made it with a big tablespoon of this allspice blend I brought back from Jamaica, but since that is long gone, I now make do with a mix of Penzey's southwestern seasoning, smokey salt, and whatever other random spices look good to me.
Click on the link or photo above to be taken to the column and recipe on Patch. I promise it's a good one!!
Broccoli Chickpea Baked Pasta September 15, 2010Posted by Angela @ Making Food for Friends in dinner, quick meal, vegetarian.
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I got home late last night and raided the fridge and cupboards to try to quickly pull together a relatively healthy meal. I kept adding ingredients as I went along, but the resulting dinner ended up tasting (to me) so good that I want to share it, even though it was just a "pull everything out and throw it in a dish" meal. I started with pasta and sauce, added some chopped broccoli when I thought of it, decided I needed protein and opened a can of chickpeas, decided the whole thing would be better with cheese, then realized the cheese would be best melted and broiled, and then thought "Spices!! I forgot spices!!" and dumped a bunch of those in. It looks like a mess but was really, really good when all was said & done, and I know I'll be making this again in the future.
Broccoli Chickpea Baked Pasta
(serves 3-4)
8 oz dried pasta
1 cup chopped broccoli
1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
2 cups pasta sauce
1 large tomato, chopped
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Sprinkling of parmesan cheese
1/2 cup bread crumbs
Spices: I used a heaping tablespoon of my Jamaican allspice blend, but this could be substituted with a mix of garlic powder, dried red pepper, thyme, paprika, and S&P
Pre-heat oven to 400. While the oven is pre-heating, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the pasta, and when the pasta is almost done, add the chopped broccoli for the remaining minute or two.
Drain the pasta and broccoli, and put it back in the pot. Add the chickpeas, chopped tomato, pasta sauce, and spices to the pot and stir it all together.
Pour the mix into a medium sized casserole dish. Sprinkle with mozzarella, bread crumbs, and parmesan cheese. Bake at 400 for about 15 minutes, or until cheese is melted. You can finish it under the broiler for a minute or two if you like your cheese browned & bubbly. Then eat.
Vegan "Sausage" Campanelle with Veggies June 3, 2010Posted by Angela @ Making Food for Friends in dinner, good for a group, quick meal, vegan.
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This is another super quick meal that we eat on the nights that we are rushing from work to gym to shower to whatever else is going on after that. If you prepare the veggies and sausage while you are boiling the water, everything comes together at the same time. As this recipe is written, it makes a TON of food, easily enough for 6-8 meals. Looks like I know what I'll be eating for lunch the rest of the week! I used a little of the Jamaican allspice we brought back from a recent trip—but Jamaican allspice isn't at all like the allspice you'd typically put in a pumpkin pie. It's more a mixture of garlic, peppers, salt, thyme, and a few other ingredients. You can add whatever spices you have on hand (or just salt & pepper) and I'm sure it'll be just fine! The key ingredient is the Gimme Lean vegan "sausage" which is sold in a tube, usually in the produce section.
It's got a lot of protein and is pretty low in calories. All in all, if you aren't worried about carbs, this meal is pretty healthy.
Vegan "Sausage" Campanelle with Veggies
1 small onion, diced
1 small red or green pepper, diced
A few cloves of minced garlic
1 tube of Gimme Lean sausage
1 jar of pasta sauce
16 oz campanelle pasta (or other smaller shape like penne, orecciette, fusilli, etc)
2 cups chopped broccoli
Put a large pot of water on to boil. While you are waiting for the water to boil, heat a little olive oil in a dutch oven or large skillet over med-high heat. Add the onion and saute until translucent. Turn the heat down a little, add the garlic, and cook another minute or so.
Add the diced peppers and cook for another 3-4 minutes. Add the Gimme Lean sausage, breaking it up from the tube into smaller chunks or bite-sized pieces. Cook it thoroughly, stirring every so often to make sure it gets evenly browned while you are cooking it. Once it is cooked through and browned, add the pasta sauce and reduce heat to low. Add any spices you might want to add at this time. Let the sauce mixture sit on low heat while you finish cooking the pasta.
About 2 minutes before the pasta is done, add the broccoli to the pasta pot. Drain, and toss everything together, topping with a little parmesan if you like.
Macaroni and Cheese (and more cheese, and more, and more, and more…) May 19, 2010Posted by Angela @ Making Food for Friends in dinner, good for a group.
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We've come to the end of Lost Night with Friends. For our final meal, I decided to go out with a creamy-cheesy-completely-unhealthy-save-for-the-Barilla-plus-noodles bang—baked quadruple cheese macaroni & cheese. I might have had 5 cheeses in this (or 6!! Now that I am thinking about it…cheddar, swiss, gouda, blue cheese, and parmesan) … I just add whatever we have around the house, and this time I had a cheese surplus from a recent trip to R. Hirt Jr. Co. in Eastern Market. But usually it's a 4-cheese deal. I also made the breadcrumbs this time around, too. The only bread we had wasn't stale yet, so I toasted a few slices, ripped up the toast, and put it in the food processor until the toast became bread crumbs. I heated a tablespoon or so of butter in a pan, and when it was melted, whisked in a tablespoon of dijon mustard, some minced parsley and thyme, and salt and pepper. I added the fresh breadcrumbs to the pan, mixed it thoroughly in the melted butter mixture, and cooked it over medium-low heat for a few minutes, stirring every so often, until the crumbs were golden brown.
Baked Macaroni and Cheese
3 cups milk
1/2 onion
1 bay leaf
1/8 cup butter, divided
1/4 cup shallots, minced
1/3 cup flour
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon chopped thyme, fresh (dried is okay too, just use a little less)
1/2 teaspoon salt
16 ounces macaroni
1 1/2 cups gruyere or swiss cheese, grated
2 cups cheddar cheese, grated
1 1/2 cups parmesan cheese, grated
1/4 cup blue cheese (if desired)
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
Note: The cheeses listed are just suggestions. I often through in some grated smoked gouda if I have it, and I love to add a few tablespoons of blue cheese to the mix. Use whatever you have on hand!
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Cook the macaroni until it is a couple minutes away from being tender.
- Rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process.
- Drain.
- Pour milk into small saucepan.
- Attach the bay leaf to the onion half by using the cloves as"tacks".
- Drop the onion/bay leaf/cloves into the milk.
- Simmer milk over med-low heat.
- Melt 1 tbs of the butter in a separate saucepan over med heat.
- Saute the shallots until tender.
- Add the flour, dry mustard, and pepper and cook for 3 minutes, stirring frequently.
- Slowly add the hot milk to the butter mixture, 1/4 c at a time, whisking constantly.
- Stir in the Worcestershire sauce and add the onion.
- Simmer for 20 min.
- Stir often.
- Sauce should be thick and creamy.
- Remove sauce from heat.
- Take out the onion.
- Stir in most of the cheese; saving some to sprinkle on top.
- Add the cayenne, salt, and fresh thyme.
- Transfer the macaroni to a greased casserole dish.
- Pour the sauce over the macaroni and mix well.
- Sprinkle with the remaining cheese and bread crumbs.
- Dot with the remaining butter.
- Bake for 30 minutes– Should be browned on top and bubbly when done.
Tortellini Salad May 7, 2010Posted by Angela @ Making Food for Friends in dinner, quick meal, salad.
Tags: pasta, spinach
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This salad is the perfect thing to eat the day after a burrito-eating, beer-drinking evening. I make this salad all of the time—it's one of those easy staple meals that come together in minutes (boiling the water is the longest part). The fresh vegetables, tangy banana peppers, and warm tortellini are the perfect combination and make a meal that is filling but not over-the-top heavy. I think I got this recipe from Cooking Light originally, but what follows is how I usually make it. Did I mention how easy this is??
Tortellini Salad
adapted from Cooking Light
1 (9 ounce) package fresh cheese tortellini
2 chopped tomatoes or halved grape tomatoes
2 cups fresh baby spinach, coarsely chopped
1/3 cup chopped banana peppers
1/4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
1/8 cup pine nuts, toasted
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Cook pasta according to package directions.
While the pasta is cooking combine tomatoes, spinach, banana peppers, parmesan cheese, and basil in a large bowl. Drain pasta and add pasta, lemon juice and oil to tomato mixture; toss gently.


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Avengers or X-Men - what's your organisation culture?
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Recently, the CEO of a startup asked me if it was possible to build a culture of ownership and accountability at her organisation. It seems to be a common thought amongst founders of growing organisations. In the initial years, the close-knit founding team is fully aligned towards a shared vision and everyone is comfortable working without defined roles and responsibilities. Everyone is, literally, an owner of the business.
As the business grows, new colleagues join the organisation. It is the norm to bring in hotshot executives from large corporates as additions to the senior management ranks. Simultaneously, the junior ranks swell as the business begins to scale. The corporate folks might try to build some semblance of structure and systems to manage rapid growth; however, the role clarity and hierarchy that is so sought after in large corporates creates stress amongst the "owners", who thrive in a communal way of getting things done.
In order to understand the issue, and find ways to address it, we can look at a wonderful framework of organisation culture developed by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones in 1996. I have made some simplifications to the framework nomenclature, without losing the essence of their research. We look at two dimensions that inherently shape an organisation:
a) Relationships - how friendly towards each other the organisation's members are. This is a factor of how well they know each other and the common interests they might share. It also reflects the level of informal interactions (as against formal meetings) between the members.
b) Results-orientation - how well the members are aligned towards achieving a set of goals. This is a factor of how the members are able to pursue rapid execution, use resources efficiently and stay focused on the outcomes, irrespective of their personal relationships (or lack of).
These two dimensions can be put into a 2x2 matrix (obviously!) to identify four possible organisation cultures.
X-Men (high on relationships, high on results-orientation)
Most businesses during their early/startup days behave like a 'movement', where everyone is a good friend and everyone is aligned to an ambitious (let's change the world) vision. One might almost compare this organisation culture to that of a cult or a religious faith. Such companies are most likely arrayed around a visionary leader, who is able to balance the natural conflict that arises between relationships and result-orientation.
Avengers (low on relationships, high on results-orientation)
As new members join an organisation, we might see some breakdown in social relationships. The informality that defined the early years may give way to formal processes. What keeps them all together, however, is a purpose that must be achieved, ruthlessly if necessary. Such organisations place much emphasis on role definitions, results measurements and reward mechanisms, and can be very effective in highly competitive markets.
Fantastic Four (high on relationships, low on results-orientation)
It is also possible that an organisation remains highly collegial, almost like an extended family. Personal relationships matter more than anything else, even at the cost of dysfunctional outcomes. We might even see the formation of several cliques under different leaders, each behaving like a family and at cross-purposes with the other. These organisations can create strong functional capabilities and might be effective in markets which are less complex and less competitive.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (low on relationships, low on results-orientation)
Some organisations have no real culture to speak of; their members have no connect with each other and have very few collective goals. Such an organisation might be just a collection of individually capable people, with no apparent common thread. In the corporate world, these organisations would probably disintegrate, but we might find successful research or academic institutes or professional services networks that exhibit such a culture. With the rise of freelancers and CXO-as-a-service models, we might see more organisations moving in this direction.
It must be understood that no culture is 'better' or 'worse' than another. A lot depends on the organisation context (market stage, competition levels, partnership models) and leadership vision (people driven or systems driven). What is important is that we design a desired culture and recognise the existing culture. By taking systematic steps on the dimensions of relationships and results-orientation, we can - over time - build an organisation that we can be proud of. For the CEO of a growing startup, or any company for that matter, this has to be very high on the agenda.
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Blossom is a cream colored she cat with white stripes and pale green eyes. She wears a light pink collar with a metal heart hanging from it. She is the friend of Lily.
Blossom was born an ordinary housecat. She had well groomed fur, had plenty to eat and was allowed to do pretty much whatever she wanted. So one day, when she was a young kitten, she decided to go outside. That day, Blossom's life changed forever. She was wandering through her owners garden when she decided that she wanted to climb the smooth white gate. Although she was feeling adventurous, she didn't want to meet any forest cats. She had seen them before, in her owners garden, an had usually told them to go away by yowling out of the window. The forest cats had taken a dislike to her and started to yell at her, calling her soft, kittypet, fat, spoiled, and useless. But as Blossom climbed the last inch up the fence and looked down, she knew she would see forest cats. And she did. Two young cats, mabye a little older than herself, stood there. Both had identical dark green eyes and thick black stripes. The only difference was the boy was bigger and had dark orange fur, and the girl had was sleek and had light gray fur. They both looked up at Blossom, curiosity clouing their gaze. After a long silence, the girl stepped forward. " Hello. I'm Lily." She looked expectantly at the boy cat, who was beginning to look suspicious. She nudged him roughly and he tumbled forward. " I'm Tiger." he muttered without looking up. " He's my big brother." said Lily pleasantly. "What's your name?" Blossom was then aware that these two cats, these two forest cats, had just introduced themselves to her. "I-I'm Blossom." Lily looked pleased, but Tiger still seemed suspicious. "Would you like to go hunting with us?" said Lily politely. Blossom almost fell of the fence in alarm. "Hunting? Hunting what?!" Lily looked very amused. Even Tiger gave her an odd look. I guess every cat in the forest knows what hunting is, thought Blossom, her fur becoming hot with embarrasment. " Hunting mice of course! Or we can go fishing if you like." "Okay. But we have to be back before sunset. My owners will become worried." Blossom shifted her paws, not knowing if she had made the right decision. "Then lets get going!" For the first time, Blossom heard Tiger's voice when he wasn't murmuring or muttering. It was deep and intimidating. I'd like to go hunting with Lily, but I'm not sure about Tiger, Blossom was once again unsure about her decision. "Well then, hop down!" It was Lily who spoke again, her voice betraying a trace of annoyance. "Jump Down?" "Of course, what else would you do?" Blossom didn't want to be embarrased again, so she closed her eyes and leaped, landing ungracefully on her paws. She stumbled to catch up with Tiger and Lily, who were already beginning to walk. I'm going into the forest, thought Blossom, to hunt with some strange cats. What did I get myself into?!
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Departmental Seminar
Prof. Ashutosh Prasad
Jindal School of Management
The University of Texas at Dallas
Product Bundling and Reserved Product Pricing
Mixed bundling, in which products are sold separately and as a bundle, is a form of second degree price discrimination. In a first such approach, we examine how mixed bundling and its variants stack up against reserved product pricing (RPP), a generalization of inter-temporal price discrimination to a multi-product setting. Used by Amazon.com, among others, RPP consists of the firm offering individual products and then enticing single product buyers with a discount on the second product. Unlike traditional cross-selling, RPP deals are more narrowly targeted. Our analytical model has a monopolist offering two products to a mix of myopic and strategic consumers. Our core findings: (a) neither RPP nor mixed bundling is always the best; (b) so long as the market consists of a "modest" fraction of myopic consumers, RPP is more profitable than mixed bundling and its special cases. We also present and discuss pricing results under RPP.
KEYWORDS: pricing; bundling; inter-temporal price discrimination; cross-selling
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