The benefits of having a website are plentiful.
First of all, a website is something that clients, and most certainly potential clients, expect. As you will know all too well, today’s market is increasingly competitive – without a website, you are effectively compromising your position.
Here are a few more of the advantages a website offers:
- An initial point of reference for new clients. As we’ve already spoken about, the internetlooking for an accountant. If a person is able to find your website, they will find access to all the information they need about your firmervices match their needs.
- A way to get ahead of the competition. A website is a commitment to growth and shows that you are proactive in your efforts to embrace new technology. It also provides you with a much-needed edge over the competition. Where search engines are concerned, to prospective clients an accountant with a website is always going to be more appealing than one without.
- Added value to clients. Through a website, you will be able to improve the way you interact with clients. Email provides you with an additional point of contact, while consultations and an increasing number of services can be offered over the Web, eliminating the need for a client to have to travel to your premises. As a direct result of this, you can also use a website to …
- Expand operations. Thanks to the internet, distance is no longer the barrier it once was. While local clients will always be the backbone of your business, accounting advice and services can be offered to a wider audience, across counties and across borders.
- Cost-effective promotion. A website is a brilliant marketing tool that can be promoted for free across search engines and social media. Moreover, the more exposure your website gets, the more clients you will get through the door.
As you can see, a website can do so much for your businesr site gives the user what they want.
In an ideal world, you will be able to make a website in minutes and start dealing with new leads immediately. Unfortunately, it does not work like this – if it did, everyone would be doing it.
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While it is easier than ever to get online with a website, enjoying success requires a particular type of site – one that combines aesthetically appealing design with rewarding user experience and informative, engaging content, and then markets it all in a way that encourages not only visits, but also client investment.
In forming that all-important opinion of a website, internet users are not quite so generous with their time. Statistics show that it takes a visitor aroundthat will determine whether they like it or not. This means you have the time it takes a person to blink to convince them that your website is worthy of further investigation.
What visitors are looking for is a professionally designed site with an attractive layout and eye-catching content. If your website can offer this, you will have created a good first impression and bought yourself some more time – but not much.
According to Econsultancy, 40 per cent of people will abandon a websey’re really not doing you any favours whatsoever here are they?!
A website needs toble andy need in as few clicks as possible. The quicker a website loads, the more favourable it will be to Googlet is critical to the future of a website that it is as beneficial to large screen users as it is to those browsing on a mobile device. Doing this will allow you to appeal to a wider audience, expanding your reach, and increasing traffic.
Content is the most stressed about element of a website for good reason. It is the words, images and videos that you use that will communicate to your visitors, luring them, charming them, keeping them on your site, and ensuring they come back for more.
- Informative. Content must always be delivered in a way that offers information to benefit the reader. It must also be relevant to the subject matter – a person is unlikely to visit an accountancy website with the intention of reading about sports!
- Original. While most accounting websites will be similar in the content they provide, it is important that what you provide is as unique as possible. People appreciate creativity – they do not want to see something written in the same style as another site and they definitely do not want to see something that has been blatantly copied! Okay, so you cannot change the facts or the overall message, but you can put them across in a way that is original and appealing.
- Engaging. Good content needs to be presented well, in a language and tone that is entertaining for the reader. Most of your clients are not from an accounting background and will have no idea about industry buzzwords or jargon – RTI and IR35; what the heck do they mean?
And this doesn’t just go for the body of your content, but for the headlines and sub-headings too. In fact,Think of it as the front of a shop – the more appealing it is, the more likely a person is to check out what’s inside. Journalists sell newspapers based on the quality of their headlines; you will need to sell your website in the same way – with punchy, informative, and eye-catching titles.
- Factual. Facts are important in any market or industry, but in accounting – where money is a central focus – they are critical. People want facts, and will often take you at your word. In creating content, you must strive to ensure that what you say is correct. The old does not apply here. Never write something just to sound nice if it might not be right.
- Grammatically correct. People will judge you on the quality of your content and bad grammar screams ‘unprofessional’. Good grammar does not just refer to spelling; it relates to the flow of the content, the structure, and the language used – which must always be aimed at your target audience. Consistency is the key. Well-written and edited content pleases the reader.
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The Story of Janet, a Justice of the Peace...
Who officiates our elopements? We get this question a lot. So here's a little bit about the Justice of the Peace we use in 99% of our elopements, Janet Benzan (pictured with our former clients Daniel and Karl).
Janet is born and raised in Boston and knows the city by heart. She is retired from Delta Airlines and has been a Justice of the Peace since 1991. Here's a little Q&A with Janet:
Q: Where is your favorite place in the Boston area to perform a wedding?
A: My favorite outdoor place is the Duck's Pond in the Boston Public Gardenpond. Whether it is in the middle of spring with the flowers and the trees in full bloom or whether the branches of the trees are blanketed with snow, it is just beautiful.
Q: What do you enjoy so much about officiating same-sex weddings?
A: I have many reasons why I love performing same sex weddings and they have brought some of my best memories.
On May 17, 2004 (the first day of legal gay marriage), I was at Boston City Hall Plaza looking for 2 couples from New York that I was going to marry in 3 days. The excitement, the joy, the love, the laughter and tears that I witnessed firsthand was unbelievable!!!!!
I once married a couple who had been together for 26 years, 7 months and 23 days before saying I do. They were so kind to send me their wedding announcement and at the bottom it reads "Thank you for your patience." Then it hit me....... discrimination! I could not imagine being told no to something so basic as marriage because of who I am! To hear other JPs state boldly that they will not marry any same-sex couple made me angry.
One couple thanked me for being more accepting than their families for their wedding. I may not know every single person that I marry but I am there to support them.
The first time I took my daughter Chloe to a same-sex wedding, I didn't say anything to her prior. After the wedding and we are on our way home, I asked her about her thoughts on the wedding. She had one question: "how come no one wore a white wedding dress?" I wanted her to see not just two women, a man and a woman or two men but love, respect, trust and commitment, and that a family doesn't always consists of a father, mother, son, daughter, dog and cat.
Q: Do couples you work with have to write their own ceremony or vows?
A: No, I have some ceremony scripts and some vows so couples don't have to write their own, but they can. (you can see an example here)
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Recruiters don't understand project management, and that wastes your time. Maybe they just "want to get to know you". Even worse though, most of them don't understand the jobs they're recruiting for. They're cluelesroles. They submit your resume' to a hiring manager, and you get an interview. The day arrives. You sit down. Then, both you and the hiring manager realize you're not a fit. What a waste!
You never get a straight answer or even updates about your candidacies. The recruiter who was so excited and supportive to submit you has become a ghost. No answers to your calls, texts or emails. No feedback about interviews. Nothing!Zilch!
When I was first approached about a 1099 contract opportunity with PROGILE, I was hesitant. I have always been a W-2 employee throughout my career. But after visiting the client's site, learning about the opportunity, and Jagan's advice on 1099 contracting I became much more at ease with the opportunity. The next step was to understand all the costs associated with working 2000+ miles from your home, estimating that expense and coming up with an hourly rate to cover a salary plus expenses. Again, Jagan was a huge help in understanding the ins and outs of making this arrangement work for everyone involved. It's been 17 months now!
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There is a wealth of literature out there about green and sustainable living, from blog posts to magazines, studies and articles, and of course- books! If you’re serious about living the green life, here are 5 great books that will make you want to paint the town green.
This book by Renee Loux was written in 2008 and all of the material still holds true to this day. This book dismisses myths about green living and makes it known that living a sustainable lifestyle is affordable - and can even be easy! Most of us think that living green is probably better for the environment, but Loux reminds us that these green practices are also better for us as human beings as well. If you are serious about converting your lifestyle to a green one, then this book is for you.
This handy guide by Crissy Trask is helpful in so many ways. Trask’s easily digestible tips are great for anyone who wants to learn easy ways to be sustainable in everyday life. Some of these tips are so simple they will have you thinking, “hey - why didn’t I think of that?” While others will train your brain into thinking about sustainability a different way.
This gem by Tom Petherick is a newer sustainable living book compared to many others on the market. This sustainable living guide with a modern twist is perfect for the knowledgeable reader looking to learn more about sustainability. If you haven’t implemented sustainable living tactics already, after you read this book you will be inspired to do so in every aspect of your life.
In this book by David Bach, readers will learn that you can most certainly still get “rich” while living a green lifestyle. If you’re worried that living green will cost you too much, I suggest you read this book. Live the great life - live the green life!
This green-cleaning specific book by Karyn Siegel-Maier will open your eyes to the wonderful world of all things green cleaning. Your home will be a if you choose to employ some of the green cleaning tactics in this book. Also, learn to clean with household items that you never thought you would use for cleaning! This book is a great read if you’re looking into alternatives to toxic cleaners.
What is your favorite green living read? Share with us in the comments below!
We’ve already delved into the truth about bottled water. Now lets take a look at the truth about plastic, a material that has negative effects on our green earth. The infographic below explains in detail how plastic is affecting our planet each and every day.
This information is astounding, and really makes you think about plastic consumption. What was the most shocking information in this infographic in your eyesgreen and sustainable living? Here are some upcoming events in the Phoenix area!
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Moderated by Kristin Mayes, former Chairwoman for the Arizona Corporation Commission, we will explore – in depth – how the next potential mayors will plan to enable positive change in the Valley of the Sun.
Learn how to create an edible garden that can provide food for years to come. Success depends on plant selection and using eco-friendly solutions to create an environment for them to flourish. These gardens can supplement your family’s weekly food budget and be part of an attractive landscape. Taught by Doreen Pollack. Registration required.
Add ingredients to a saucepan,. The ingredients will bind together. Let the mixture cool. Once cool, use to make sculptures or whatever your little heart desires! If you want a project for next week, let the sculptures dry completely for a week and then paint!
Paper mache is a classic craft, but it is green, as it requires using old newspaper. First, rip up strips of newspaper. Next, make the paste. For the paste, you will need 1 part flour to 5 parts water. Boil the mixture for about 3 minutes and let cool before using.
Even though it’s only summer, you can never be too early for the holiday season! But you know, wreaths aren’t just for winter anymore! This wreath will look great during any season.
First, gather pine cones of various sizes. Next, get a circular foam base and spray paint it brown. After the spray paint is dry, add a hanger to the back. Next, arrange the pine cones and start gluing them down. Start with the larger pine cones first, then fill in with smaller pine cones. When the pine cones are glued down, you can embellish the wreath according to the season. For summer, add seashells, sand dollars, sea glass, etc.
What green crafts have you done? Do you have any ideas for green crafts? Let us know in the comments section!
Are you allergic to pollen? Or maybe dust mites are your archenemy. Knowing what’s triggering your allergies is key in treating them. You can get allergy testing done that will let you know exactly what you’re allergic to and the severity of the allergy.  And there’s no rule that says you can only be allergic to one thing: you may have a host of allergies that are causing you trouble.
If you suffer from a pollen allergy, your best bet is to keep your windows closed and install an air conditioning unit to keep cool during pollen season. But if you suffer primarily from indoor allergies like dust and mold, throwing open your windows and letting in some fresh air is the way to go.
Increased stress levels can actually make allergies worse. Poor eating habits, not enough sleep and high tension levels can all make allergies worse. So take time each day for some “me time” and make sure that you are staying as calm and relaxed as possible.
Allergies are never a fun thing to have to deal with. For some people spring doesn’t just bring warmer weather and longer days: it brings sneezing, coughing, itchy eyes and congestion. But by paying attention to your triggers and using some of the above tips you can alleviate your allergies and make spring a much happier time.
We’ve already covered what going local really means, but buying local is consistently a hot topic. Check out this infographic that explains buying local, graphically speaking.
What do you think? Have these facts affected your food purchasing plans?


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Nakaba Suzuki </s> BINIBINING PILIPINAS 2015 BETS & FORECASTSunday, March 15, 2015
It's another day of beauty in the Philippines!
We will crown tonight five (5) beautiful Binibinis 2015 editions.
I've been a fan and follower of Binibining Pilipinas ever since I can remember. I was able to watch the pageant live last year and had a fun time predicting the winners and live tweeting the event. I even drafted a lengthy post on "why Pia Wurtzbach was robbed" but forgot to publish it (let's not have a similar controversy this year, please?).
I've decided to be an armchair judge once more since I'm becoming quite an "expert" on this pageant thing - haha! (I was able to predict 11 out of the Top 15 at the Miss Universe 2014/2015 edition). This batch of 2015 Binibinis is quite hard to figure though. It's easier predicting last year's winners compared to this batch. There's a lot of stand-outs and girls who are worthy of the crowns so I will have some alternates and "dark horses" in my predictions.
Clockwise: #6 Toni Alyessa Hipolito, #8 Kimverlyn Suiza, #10 Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach
#11 Janicel Lubina, #11 Kylie Verzosa
Clockwise: #13 Mae Liezl Ramos, #19 Christi Lynn McGarry, #21 Alaiza Flor Malinao
#24 Ann Lorraine Colis, #25 Rogelie Catacutan
Clockwise: #26 Annabel Christine Tia, #28 Hannah Ruth Sison, #29 Nancy Lee Leonard
#30 Patricia Lae Ejercitado, #34 Teresita Ssen Marquez
The New Queens
Here are my guesses on who will get the crowns:
Pia Alonzo WurtzbachIt's time to give Pia a crown! I've been on Team Pia since she first joined in 2013 and I am one of the people who cried "foul" when she failed to get a title last year. Pia is very experienced, trained, and she can guarantee us a good placement in any international pageant that she would be assigned to. I am just hoping that her styling won't fail her this evening. It was one of the things that cost her a crown last year (aside from the controversial Filipino Q&A).
Janicel Lubina and Kylie Verzosa
I am not a fan of celebrities who wants to go the beauty pageant route and I usually place them lower. BUT this born-into-celebrity beauty showed us week by week that she's more than ready to conquer the universe (or the supranational!). Her outstanding showing in the Swimsuit Press Presentation, the amazing body, and even the elegant National Costume put her at the top of the totem pole. I can definitely see great things for Winwyn! Prepare to be wowed.
I was wondering why she was not getting the hype and chatter that she deserves at the beginning of the pageant. Good that things turned around for her and she's now a true contender for one of the titles. I've been a fan since I first saw her photos at the Official Candidate announcement post back in January. Her earthly good looks and amazingly-toned body are definitely beauty-pageant-crown material.
Binibining Pilipinas runners-up are no longer consolation accolades. They are now viewed and treated as training grounds for future queens. MJ Lastimosa, Janine Tugonon, Dianne Necio, and Maricar Balagtas are good examples who started as runners-up and ended as crowned queens in later years.
Alaiza Malinao, Nancy Lee Leonard, Kimverlyn Suiza


IEM for $200? You can easily build a cheap and great In Ear monitoring system using an old Interface you already own, and never have to worry about bad monitoring at your concert again. This article walks you through the steps to make such a system for your band. This will work on stage and in the rehearsal room.
In recent years more & more bands have started traveling with their own in ear monitoring systems. That’s totally understandable when there are so many times bad monitoring can mess up a live show. As app controlled mixers like the Behringer X32, X-Air and RCF have become cheap the opportunity to build such systems is now reachable for more musicians.
However you might be able to build something really cheap or for free with things you already have!
Most musicians have some kind of simple studio setup to record demos and ideas. And an IEM system can actually easily be built from an old interface you probably already have lying around or can get hold of cheap on eBay!
This also gives you an advantage if you are using backing tracks or want to give everyone a click track. Imagine everyone starting at exactly the same time without a drummer counting them in. You can just send the click or backing tracks through your DAW to the outputs on your interface that are being used for monitoring.
Say you have a band with 4 musicians, then you’ll need an interface with at least 4 outputs (8 if you want everyone to have stereo) although the traditional monitor wedge on the floor in front of a musician is mono so mono In ear monitoring should be completely fine.
So what do you need to do this?
a cheap DI box
an IEM or headphone amp
How much does this cost? Only around 200 euros.
Take this old MOTU interface I bought back in 2003. It has a piece of software on it called Cuemix,  That let’s you route all it’s inputs to 4 different sets of outputs, making 4 mixes which can be used for monitoring. It also has 8 outputs. So that could be Mix 1 L&R, mix 2 L&R Mix 3 L&R, mix 4 L&R.
It’s always a problem when a band turns up for a gig or a festival wanting to patch in their split to connect their monitoring system. This means the Sound engineer has to unplug all their channels, plug them into a band’s stage rack, take the split lines out of that and then back into his or her system again.
This can meet a lot of resistance, as the engineer is then dependent on the split being in order, and if it’s made from cheaper components it’s another place where noise, hum or dropouts could be introduced. It also takes a lot of time, as they have to change where everything is patched and then patch it all back again after that band is done.
So how many inputs do I need? Say a traditional band setup has 14 channels: Kick, Snare, HH, Tom 1, Tom 2, Tom 3, OHL, OHR, Bass, Git 1, Git 2, Vox 1, Vox 2,Vox 3
Do I need to take a copy of all these channels? NO! So what do you need?
Kick, OH, Bass, Git, Git, Vocals. A maximum of 8 inputs!
You might get some resistance from the drummer here saying they need all the toms and snare mics or they can’t hear them over the cymbals. But this just means they aren’t balancing their playing! A drummer is like a conductor and as such should be able to balance all their drums so they sound cohesive and balanced, not bash everything as hard a possible! So get them to work on this, take just an overhead and a kick channel & trust me, your audience and sound engineer will thank you later!!
And wouldn’t it be great if this system was plug and forget! Yes It would, So how do I do that?
Say this is your stage
Starting with the drums, bring your own kick & overhead mics. Buy what you can afford, but it could be something really cheap and clamp them in the same place each time using a mic clamp as this will make the volume and tone roughly the same.
Instead of splitting the mic on the guitar cabinet, which can be a different volume and tone at each venue, Take a line out from your amp head these are often called Recording compensated outputs, which means they have some speaker emulation on them, or if it’s a digital guitar head just use a line out.
Take a bass split by bringing your own passive DI and plugging it in before the engineers DI. This will have an input where your bass goes, a through jack (which is just a copy of whatever is plugged into the input) which goes to the house DI, and you take the signal from the XLR out to your interface.
Take your own vocal mic, nothing fancy get the industry standard Shure SM58, as then the FOH engineer isn’t going to get any suprises and Y-split it out of the mic. Now your system is completely independent of the lines going to front of house. Below is an image of a Y-split cable.
Once the engineer has plugged in their mics and cables it will look something like this.
Mic or Line level?
On your interface, The Guitar & Bass channels are going to be line level inputs while the Vocals&Drums will need mic input level. A workaround if you don’t have more than two mic inputs on your interface, like me, would be a wireless vocal mic, as that gives you a line level output and often already has a split on the back, so you can send the XLR output to front of house and the Jack to your rig.
But what do you do if your interface has jack inputs and the bass and guitars have XLR outputs? Grab an XLR-female to Jack cable  preferably balanced like the one below - You can tell as there are two instead of one rings on the jack sleeve.
Finally you need to decide what your interface is going to send to. Wired In-ear monitors are really cheap, but mean you have to have another wire running over the stage for each musician, two if you’re going stereo!
The other option is buying wireless transmitters and receivers. These can be costly, but you can use one stereo wireless IEM to transmit two different mixes to two beltpacks in mono. So that can be a place to save, just make sure the belt pack receiver has a pan control for choosing whether you listen to the Left or Right channel in mono - and yes it will still be in both headphones.
I hope that gives you some ideas for your monitoring system, just send me a message if you have any questions.


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Today's cell phones contain computers that 60's mainframe era veterans would see as more powerful than their mainframes. Is that sort of "wrist power" just an indication of gradual progress in computing, or is a more dramatic shift to wrist-borne supercomputers just around the corner?Today HPC refers to High Performance Computing, but could it also mean Handheld Personal Computing?
Now that the Apple Watch has been in the market awhile, and wearable computing devices are widely accepted, it's reasonable to ask how much horsepower can be put into a wrist-worn computer. Do they match iconic mainframe systems that crown what is left of IBM's hardware business, e.g., the IBM System zSeries?
Apple's Watch vs. the "Oranges"
As has often been the case in computing history, the future is likely to be determined as much by market forces as by purely technological innovations. Back in 2013, Wired journalist Kyle Vanhemert called Apple's Siri "the killer app for smartwatches."
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An alternative view is more focused on other trends. For one thing, smart phone data plans are restrictive, leading to concerns over cloud affordability. Residential broadband in urban areas is readily available, but costs have been steadily increasing. Why not cut the cord and rely instead on a high performance local computing resource instead of distant cloud services?


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I'v. Along the way, I've become pretty entitled in my attitude. It wasn't really intentional. But my job is to have answers for people...for just about everything. It had become a little too easy to tell people what they should think about, or how to think about their situations. But you don't learn about struggling with someone by dispensing knowledge like that. In my own suffering, I felt hopeless for awhile, because I knew that the situation was due to my overuse of headache medicine. I knew that I had caused this to happen. I found myself in a spot where I called out for healing, knowing that it was not going to happen in the way I wanted it to. I knew that this was part of my own story and relationship with Jesus. I've never really had to struggle in my health. In this situation, the Lord is making me more like Him. Why would I want to pray for Him to make me more of what I already was?


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Before we get to what Jordan said when asked to choose between Kobe and LeBron, we first have to look at when the “Kobe or LeBron” question was asked because it makes a difference. And the answer was in 2013, the year Jordan celebrated his 50th birthday.
On the other hand, James Miami Heat when Jordan was interviewed and would lead them to a second straight title a few months later. LeBron also won his fourth NBA MVP in five years that season.
So that’s where we were at the time.
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NORFOLK, Va. — Mork's fire academy.
"I'm so proud of what I accomplished," she told 13News Now. "And when I tell people, they're like, 'You did what?'"
The year was 1979 and Ells-Johnson's historic acceptance into the academy was broadcasted by this very TV station across Hampton Roads. Our archives don't even go back that far -- but Ells-Johnson shared her home video of the newscast about her.
"Good. That's the way it should be. Just because I'm a female doesn't mean that everyone should pamper me and make things easier for me because I'm going to be doing the same thing the guys are doing."
It was tough work, she recalled, having to carry a lot of equipment, wear the big, heavy clothes and constantly train. But she did it.
Some people projected their insecurities onto her.
"The fire department was all men, you know, big strong muscles and whatever and here's this 5' 2", 111 lb. girl doing everything that you're doing," she explained.
Norfolk Fire-Rescue has come a long way since. Currently, there are 40 women among its ranks. Some of them are in high leadership roles.
So, even though the first female firefighter didn't last long, she clearly made an impact.
"Is there any difference between a woman and a man on the force?" the reporter asked Ells-Johnson in 1979.
"I don't think so. They may be a little stronger than I am but I can't see where that's going to be any problem," she said.
On March 13, Norfolk Fire-Rescue honored Ells-Johnson, along with 17 other female firefighters in a special Female Trailblazers ceremony.


In this episode of Subculture we chat to Tanya Hendy about her brand new production Westerly. You will be able to see Westerly at The Butterfly Club in Melbourne in April
Show Details: Westerly
Dates: 24 April 2019 to 27 April 2019
Cost: $25-32


Awakened at 4:30 am. This actually was not as big deal as I thought it would be. I guess maybe because it wasn't like getting up in the morning. 4:30 is still night. I'm frequently still awake at 4:30. My big squishy Bunny was following me around while I got ready to go, meeping at me. Getting ready to go included putting on a teensy bit of makeup, just so I wouldn't look dead, and gathering all my luggage (prepacked of course) in slow motion. I snuggled my squishy Bunny goodbye, and patted Blitzen's bootay, and settled on the front porch to wait for my ride. The ride was late, so I got my dog, Candy, out of the yard and sang "Halfway Down the Stairs" to her twice. She doesn't care what I sing. She doesn't even care if I sing badly (Which is often true). If I sing, she gets all blissfully happy and looks like she's going to go to sleep.
So my ride eventually came, I threw my luggage in the trunk, and settled in the back seat with my pillow and mp3 player with the shiny new earbuds that blocked out the talking of Ms.Sue and her sister. (Her sister has decided she does not want her name on the internetz. So I'll call her...Ummm...Fine. Her name is Fred. Sorry, Fred, that's the first name that popped into my head.) Normally I wouldn't mind talking to them at all. But I had 3 or less hours of sleep, and I wanted to get more. I ended up kinda dozing. Close enough. I've never been able to sleep in the car. Ever.
On the way, we stopped at a couple rest stops. I think one was maaayyybe a Shell station. That's seriously all I remember about it. The other was a barbeque/gas station/ gift shop type of place, with a bunch of Texas-themed souveneirs. Most of these had armadillos on them. WHY are tourists so freaking obsessed with armadillos? You hardly ever see armadillos wandering around the wild, anyway. In my entire life, I have seen live armadillos wandering about in the wild three times. The rest have all been roadkill. Armadillos are stupid.
For the rest of the trip I listened to quiet sleepy music and was in that weird place between waking and sleeping. I woke myself up shortly before we arrived at the hotel. Our room was waayy up on the tenth floor this time. We got a nice veiw of the runway.
Ms.Sue and I headed down to the ballroom, and left Fred to wander around the hotel.
We also had hip-hop with Gina, which was really fun. We got to be alien robots. Everyone should enjoy pretending to be an alien robot. I'm totally using that for the hip-hop/jazz class I'm teaching this year. I'm going to change some parts though. Currently, I believe it to be too easy. Those kids need slightly more of a challenge than that.
After classes, we headed down to the friggin' expensive hotel restaurant. Sneaky, sneaky restaurant. They give you the menu with the expensive stuff on it, and don't give you the menu with the burgers and nachos and stuff unless you ask. (I believe they give you this menu if you sit in the area with the bar.)
I know, it's a blurry picture. And I look horrible because of the whole no-sleep thing. And a waitress was looking at me weird. So I didn't take another one.
IT WAS SUCH A DELICIOUS BURGER.
Seriously, I ate most of it. I. Ate. Almost a whole burger. This sort of thing doesn't happen often.
I actually ate a lot that day. It was kinda freaky.
About an hour later, Ms.Sue and Fred came back up. Ms.Sue declared that she was hungry, and that she was going to eat her birthday cookie. As she began eating her cookie, Fred started laughing uncontrollably.
F: *chucklechuckleguffaw*
F: "I *heeheehee* I ate some of it. Only around the edges, so you wouldn't notice."
S: "You're not a nice sister! THAT WAS MY COOKIE!"
Me: "She ate your cookie?"
S: "SHE ATE MY COOKIE! MY BIRTHDAY COOKIE!"
We then discovered that Fred had not only eaten part of Ms.Sue's birthday cookie, she had also eaten a bunch of other stuff. Like Ms.Sue's sandwich. And some Goldfish crackers. And some cherry fruit snacks. And some pretzels. And a Dr.B (Which is drinking, not eating, but whatever). When Fred gets bored, she eats food. Preferably other people's food. Ms.Sue does pretty much the same thing, only she eats her own food (Except at restuarants. Then she eats everyone's food).
It took a while for me to get to sleep after that massive giggle fit, but Ms.Sue and Fred had no trouble. How do they DO that? Without medication? These things baffle me. Within minutes, they were both snoring away. One of 'em snores pretty loud (The other stopped pretty quickly), so I didn't get to sleep until around 1:30 (Which is pretty freakin' early for me, really).
Day 02- Okay, so not everyone knows not to say good morning to me. Fred said good morning. I think I said, "Murni'" Or something. She told me other stuff too, that I don't remember. I do remember saying, "'K" to everything she said. And then she left.
Well, not really. The fire alarm went off. There were little lights going off like camera flashes, and the fire alarm was all like, "Hawwwnk. Hawwwwnk. Hawwwnk." and the creepy voice told us to walk calmly to the nearest exit. I was kinda hoping the sprinklers would go off, because that would be totally fun, but they didn't.
We all walked calmly (Seriously, we actually did) to the nearest exit, which was out to the pool. We assumed the pool was the best place in case of fire. Because, you know, it's...full of water. It's not even all blocked in. There's a fire escape down to the street. But a hotel employee came out and told us that they were herding everyone out to the front, so we walked through the hotel, out the front door, waited for five seconds, and then we got to go back in.
And that was the adventure for the day.
At lunch I decided to make a little video blog. Because I had nothing better to do.
After lunch, we did an advanced musical theatre number to America from West Side Story. So fun. So hard. I almost died. I loved it. There were steps I had seen, but never done before, and I was really excited when I didn't have trouble with the steps themselves (The speed at which they were done, however...). That's something I really love about going to this convention. I get to try new things that I ordinarily wouldn't, and I know I haven't reached my limit yet. It's kind of a confidence booster. Okay, so there totally IS stuff I can't do. Like big giant leaps. And I usually can't do the splits. And I can only do six fouette turns the right (On the left, I can do exactly none). And I can't do an illusion. I would love to be able to do an illusion. THEY LOOK SO COOL.
I took a tap class with Becca (Well, that may have been Tuesday. I don't remember what day that was, and I don't have my schedule with me), and "Ballet Enlightenment" with Janice, which was just a lecture. Ooh, and we did baby ballet with Becca. It's fun to do the little kid dances. Everyone loves to fly around the room like a butterfly.
There are two water coolers in the room. I LOVE WATER COOLERS. I will keep finding excuses to get drinks, until I can get the water cooler to make a bubble. You know. It happens eventually. A big bubble comes up from the bottom and goes, "Bla-DOOOOP!"
*nodnodnodded*
"It doesn't take much with you."
(I'm not going to post a link or a picture here, in case Booty Shorts Man magically finds it. Who knows, he might Google himself. But I'll totally post a link to his site on my Facebook.)
But I digress (And now everyone knows I'm basically afraid of Italian food, which is weird).
So I saved room for dessert.
For dessert, I got a triple chocolate pazooki.
SO. DAMN. GOOD.
IT WAS HUGE.
I ate 3/4 of it.
I am very easily fascinated.
That night, Ms.Sue gave me earplugs. That helped a lot. I still didn't get to sleep until about 2,
After that class, we went upstairs, and packed up errything. I always check hotel rooms for stuff at least twice. Usually more. Because leaving stuff would be BAAAAAAAAAD. Or something. Even though if you haven't seen the missing object the first two room checks, it's probably something small and insignificant, like a pen, or a sock, and if you DO leave it, you won't miss it.
We got into the elevator with some businessmen, one of whom looked like a very skinny Santa Claus, and headed down to the lobby.
In the parking garage, I slammed my door. I love slamming the car door in a parking garage. The noise it makes is very satisfying. I told Fred I loved to slam car doors in parking garages.
On the way home, we stopped at Braum's, in Hillsboro. Their ice cream is sooooooooo goooooood. :D
It was freaking cold in there. I had to go back out of the car and get my jacket. (I pretty much never carry a jacket around with me in Texas during the summer.I only had it because the Hyatt is always freakin' cold.)
After we ate, Ms.Sue and Fred went out to the car (Because they were freezing) and I stayed in to use the restroom. When I went to throw my trash away, my tray slipped out of my hand and fell into the trash. Being sleep-deprived, I found this hilarious. I was all, "Oops!...My tray just fell in the trash can. *hysterical laughter*" Yeah, I talk to myself. Sometimes even in crowded restuarants. There was some middle-aged guy watching me, looking amused. I'm glad I made his day more entertaining. I guess it would be weird to watch a teenage girl all dressed in black, talking to herself and laughing hysterically in front of a trash can. I possibly also said goodbye to the remains of my chocolate shake when I threw that away. I know I said SOMETHING to it.
And there was my cat.
He was in his kitty carrier, in the front seat, squeaking. It sounded a lot like, "Halloooooo?"
I slept for about ten and a half hours (BLISS) and still haven't unpacked.
Ladies and gentlemen, this has been another hilariously excellent three days at MusicWorks.
Hopefully you were at least mildly amused.


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 I can’t believe it’s already the 4th quarter of the year, and I’m already sad my time with your kids is drawing to a close. We’ll just have to soak up every moment and have a great finish to the year!
That’s about all the thoughts rolling around my head at the moment. Thanks for reading a have a great week!


Marlboro Car Show
2022 Marlboro Main Street Car Show
Sunday, June 5th (rain date: June 19th)
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The Marlboro Main Street Car Show, now in its 12th year and considered one of the city’s major annual events, has quietly raised more than $200,000 for City and statewide charities. The United Brethren Lodge of Freemasons in Marlborough produces the show with generous support from area business sponsors and encouragement from the Chamber of Commerce, Mayor’s Office, and Police Department.
The show is free to spectators, who number over 1,000 during the 5-hour span of the event. The charitable funds come from sponsors, mostly area businesses, many of whom have supported the show annually from the beginning. Car owners are also asked for a $20 contribution to the show’s charities, which have included:
•, Mass.
• Marlborough Food Pantry
• United Brethren Lodge Angel Fund provides assistance to students in need via Marlborough public school administrators
Sponsors appear in a full-color, printed program, and also have the option of presenting one of 15 trophies for such categories as best paint, engine, classic, and truck. Various volunteers serve as judges, and Marlborough’s mayor and the Chamber president also award trophies to their favorite entries.
The show has included unique touches over the years. Guest vocalists and a marching band have performed the National Anthem in front of City Hall. Special film cars have made appearances, including TV’s Batmobile and Herbie the Love Bug. Midget sprint race cars, dragsters, an antique fire engine, and armored military vehicles have been featured. Music is always provided by renowned New England car-show DJ Dr. Dom, who mixes in trivia stumpers between fun songs of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s.
Originally conceived as a one-time event in celebration of the United Brethren Lodge’s 150th anniversary, the initial show was so popular with car owners, Marlborough citizens and civic leaders that it was quickly decided to make it annual. Always held the first Sunday of June, it is known among show-car enthusiasts as one of the first major events of the season. Each year the show has been chaired by Bob Archibald of United Brethren Lodge. The show's core committee is augmented by about 20 more volunteers the day of the show who do their best to make everything run smoothly along the mile-long stretch of Main Street.
For information on the Marlboro Main Street Car show, please contact:
Bob Archibald at EO@marlborocarshow.com
The United Brethren Masonic Lodge was chartered 1859 in Marlborough, Massachusetts. To celebrate their 150th Anniversary in 2009, the Lodge decided to host a car show and worked with the City of Marlborough. The event was so well received that it has sincein popularMarlborough and the business community that sponsors the event making it free to the general public.
This is a non-profit event whereby each year all proceeds are donated to chosen charities.


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Rochelle Humes experienced mum guilt when it turned out her daughter needed glasses after "dismissing" her complaints of blurred vision.
Rochelle Humes felt “awful” after “dismissing” her daughter Alaia-Mai’s complaints about her eyesight.
The former Saturdays singer assumed that her seven-year-old girl was “trying [her] luck” when she told her mum she was suffering with blurred vision and needed to sit at the front of the classroom to be able to read the board.
However, it turned out she really did need glasses and she feels like the worst parent for not taking Alaia-Mai seriously.
Alongside a snap of her daughter wearing her new glasses at the opticians, Rochelle shared: “Honest Parent Post Alert!!! So...here goes...
The 31-year-old singer and her husband Marvin Humes became parents for a third time to son Blake in October, and she admitted he’s by far the “easiest” baby she’s had.
Rochelle - who also has three-year-old daughter Valentina with the 35-year-old JLS star - recently wrote "One whole week of loving you ... My furry little bear ... What a week it’s been, today I actually woke up and felt a little bit more like me. The morning of this picture was the last time I put clothes on got dressed etc ... it’s mad how you lose track of days and hours in this little bubble. I wondered how different it would be going from 2 to 3 children but the truth is he is the easiest at the minute, he has ls."


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FullLehmann et al., 2017b): I felt the urge to study on the topic. Little did I know that I was only six months away from my joy being taken from me, or so it would seem. You see, it was in December of 2013 that I began to embark on the quest for joy. Looking back I find it humbling how much God was preparing me for the deep questions in my heart that would be coming. The whys and buts that would daily hang on my heart once Molly was diagnosed.
Are we always supposed to have joy?
Where/how do we get it and keep it?
Are there promises associated with joy in the Bible?
I desperately wanted these answers, because despite the healthy and yes, often times hot marriage I was in with my best friend, despite getting to raise three crazy fun and exciting girls, despite having all the necessities of life, and so many more extras, I found often I was lacking joy. I was empty of happiness, though


It does seem that mosquitoes are slightly more attracted to:
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- beer consumption, it turns out that alcohol is a strong attractant, which is a major shame because I really think the summer is so much nicer sitting on a terrace with a nice pint;
- and finally, I’ve heard it said that eating bananas makes your blood nice and sweet, but I can’t find any evidence on this.
Unfortunately, this all depends on the type of mosquito. Moreover, there seems to be no evidence that there is something you can eat to avoid being bitten. I mean, they are bloodsucking but not exactly vampires (you can stop eating all that garlic, Karen, seriously, you reek).
I’ll leave you with a final fun fact: the oldest fossilized mosquitoes are 100 million years old! Quite recently, a 46-million-year-old blood-engorged mosquito was found in Montana, which actually led to a publication that directly mentions the 1993 film Jurassic Park. #OMG (I’m easily pleased).
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How should a successful recording artist who has ticked off his wife almost to the point of divorce apologize? Write a song about her and sing it to her in front of the whole world of course!
Will this finally be enough to bring her back to the discussion table and get the relationship back on track to holy matrimony? We’ll have to wait and see! I just hope the awards show organizers employed a staff of ‘saucer boys’ as I like to call them, you know the guys you see at basketball games mopping the player’s sweat off the floor during time-outs to keep the court from becoming slippery? I anticipate lots of salty liquid will be falling from Thicke’s eyes during his emotional performance, and I’d hate for the people that come after him to have a nasty slip.


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San Jose, February 7, 2017: Moreland School District is proud to announced that Vasudha Rao, a Moreland Middle School (MMS) parent, has been selected as the Junior League of San Jose’s Crystal Bowl Award Winner, in the category of Professional Services. Vasudha was nominated by the Moreland School District and the Moreland Education Foundation (MEF) for her work with MEF as their Treasurer, Moreland Middle School MEF Site Representative and Music in Moreland co-chair. Liz Youngman, a parent at Easterbrook Discovery School (EDS) was also nominated by the District and MEF and will receive a certificate and be honored for her work as the Music in Moreland co-chair in the category of Leadership.
As Treasurer, Vasudha is a member of MEF’s Executive Boardirection with the goal of positively impacting the Moreland community. Vasudha is responsible for managing a $323,400 budget, plays a large role in the fundraising and generating the funds for MEF. She saved MEF thousands of dollars by setting up the MEF company-matching program online and implemented a vendor processing workflow that enables all MEF vendors to easily send/receive payments for all MEF operations and fundraising event activities. In addition to her role on MEF’s Executive Board, Vasudha serves as the co-chair for Music in Moreland and Moreland Middle School’s Site Representative relaying information back to the school site staff and the parent community.
Liz Youngman is the co-chair of Music in Moreland, the Moreland Education Foundation (MEF) branch that supports the instrumental music program for 4th - 8th graders. MiM contributes $125,000 for the District’s programs, which is 25% of the cost. As the chair, Liz creates and manages the budget, oversees the fundraisers and direct donation campaigns, assists music teachers with instrumental repair needs, coordinates the seasonal concerts and holds MiM meetings to determine priorities. Liz also manages all aspects of the summer music program through MEF’s Enrichment Summer Program and also serves on the MEF Executive Board.
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The Moreland Education Foundation (MEF) is an all-volunteer group of parents who support all seven Moreland schools, with the goal to increase general financial support and additional resources for Moreland District schools when public funding may not be available. Under the MEF organization, the Moreland School District is additionally supported by Music in Moreland (MiM) and Sports in Moreland(SiM). To learn more, visit www.mefhome.org.


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Schools open August 3 with new start/end timesPublished on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 13:15 | Written by Dan Pool
Changes in Bus Routes presented at board meeting
Bus Routes Information When students show up for the first day of school this year, new starting and ending times will be in effect.
As approved by the school board at their July meeting Thursday:
Middle Schools start at 8:10 a.m. and end at 3:25 p.m. High School starts at 8:10 a.m. and ends at 3:10 p.m.
The new start times come as part of a massive overhaul of student transportation. The school system plan is to combine and cut some bus routes. Staggered start and end times at schools allow some buses to run more than one route each morning and evening.
Based on discussion at the board meeting, the move will eliminate six buses/drivers and routes saving $120,000 this year. The schools may reap larger savings in future years as more routes can be eliminated. The board has emphasized that no one was fired because of this; all positions were eliminated when employees quit or retired, according to discussion at a previous meeting.
The transportation system has also eliminated some stops, asking students to walk to nearby central stops.
A list of changes on each bus route will be available on the school board website and at each school for open house. Parents are encouraged to find their address on the lists and see if there is a change of bus stop for their children. Operations Director Lloyd Shaddix said, “There is more involved than starting and ending times. This will improve transportation.”
“They will take a dry run to look at every stop,” Superintendent Ben Desper said.
Responding to safety concerns expressed by board member Ervin Easterwood, Godfrey said, “There is no such thing as a perfect stop, but we have a whole list of factors we look at for each stop. If we have one that needs to be changed, we will make the changes.”
Board Chair Wendy Lowe asked the staff to make every effort to get information about changes out to all parents. She said being confident everyone is aware of the change is essential. Board member John Trammell said he recognized that this change was not easy, but ultimately the savings should please the public.
• During his report on facilities, Shaddix reported that through a new contract with Hemlocks Landscaping the grounds at all campuses will look the best they ever have. “You will be pleased when we have the open houses,” he said. “We are improving the curb appeal at all schools.”
He said they are also re-doing gym floors and are nearing completion of a new culinary arts facility at Pickens High.
• Superintendent Ben Desper, who officially began full-time work in July, said he feels he has gotten off to a good start through “generous hospitality” as he continues meeting the staff and community.
• Desper presented a graph showing the declining drop-out rates in Pickens schools. The schools have cut drop-outs from a high of 73 during 2006 down to 11 in the 2011 school year.
“There were a lot of folks doing a lot of hard work to make this happen,” he said. “From the board to teachers,” he said. “I’ll bet any school in Georgia would like to have something like this [chart of the progress].”


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"We continuously strive to improve our farm and the care of our cows. Cow comfort is what drives our modernization," says herd manager Karen Hughes. The farm's mission is to produce safe nutrition, create a good quality of life for employees as well as neighbors and friends, and ensure everyone involved enjoys their work together.
This message will be among those shared by the Sunset Farms crew during an ACE On-the-Farm Twilight Meeting on Thursday, Aug. 28. If you're live in another neck of the woods, why not attend one of the other three ACE On-the Farm Twilight Meetings: Monday, Aug. 18, Wagner Farms, Hank & Pam Wagner Family, Oconto Falls, Wis.; Tuesday, Aug. 26, Norm-E-Lane, Meissner Families, Chili, Wis.; or Wednesday, Aug. 27, Sunburst Dairy, Brian and Yogi Brown Family, Belleville, Wis.
Total days on feed lessened from 743 in 1999 to 709 in 2007 and down to 696 in 2013.
First-calf heifers calved younger, moving from 24.6 months of age in 1999 to 23.9 months in 2007 and to 23.4 months in 2013.
FASTER IS BETTER. At least it is when it comes to filling silos. University of Wisconsin personnel point out that rapid filling minimizes the risk of feed losses due to inclement weather and advancing maturity of the crop, reduces labor and overall ensiling costs and improves fermentation by minimizing exposure of the chopped forage to oxygen. Slow filling encourages fungal growth which can result in unstable silage at the time of feed out. When silage is stored in small-diameter silage bags (8 feet), the rate of fill may range from 50 tons to 200 tons per day. Teet) and bunker silos (1,000-plussl. Donna Amaral/Phillips, University of Kentucky, reminds dairy producers to modify pre-fresh or close-up diets, making changes to allow for the physiological system to mobilize calcium so it can be primed and ready for the increased demand associated with the synthesis of colostrum and milk.
THINK TWICE BEFORE ADDING 'JUST A FEW MORE' TO A PEN. While overcrowding sometimes may seem to make economic sense at first blush, it could have long-term consequences. Spanish research has found that milk production declined as stall stocking density increased. Research at the Miner Institute found that, as stall stocking density jumped from 100 to 142 percent, milkfat percentage was reduced and somatic cell count increased. Overstocked cows ate 25 percent faster and ruminated one hour per day less, which researchers say impacted the reduction in the milkfat test. Overstocked cows also experienced a greater pathogen load in their environment, had greater teat end exposure to pathogens and may experience immune suppression.
"Is fall management of alfalfa-grass mixed stand different than for solo alfalfa?"
This webinar airs Wednesday, Aug. 27, from noon to 1 p.m. Central Time, with registrations by Aug. 20 required. If you cannot participate on the 27th, you can still hear what Dr. Undersander has to share at your convenience. But you must be registered by Aug. 20. Call PDPW today, |||PHONE_NUMBER||| , or click here.
AND 3 ONE-DAY CALF CARE WORKSHOPS SPECIFICLY FOR HISPANIC WORKERS are on tap at three locations across the state: Tuesday, Aug. 26, Norm-E-Lane, Chili, Wis.; Wednesday, Aug. 27, Sunburst Dairy, Belleville, Wis.; and Thursday, Aug. 28, Sunset Farms, Allenton, Wis. Each workshop will cover the critical first two weeks of a calf's life, with sessions delivered by three bilingual trainers. Using live calves and cows, the ever-popular Oscar Duarte will focus on newborn protocols, when and how much to feed calves, tube and bottle feeding and much more. Yurany Ninco Sanchez, National Farm Medicine Center's community outreach trainer, will provide information focused on protecting handlers from injury and accidents while Bob Leder, DVM, will address transporting and carrying a newborn calf in a safe manner, euthanasia and more. Workshop start time is 9:45 a.m., wrapping up by 4 p.m. All individuals will receive a completion certificate. Registration deadline is Sunday, Aug. is link.
 reserve a space at any of the four ACE On-the-Farm Twilight Meetingsalk-ins are welcome.
Wednesday, Nov. 12 "How Long Will Good Times Last? The Merging of U.S. Dairy and Beef Industries' Profit Cycles."
You can sign up today online or call PDPW! Save $$$ by registering for all three at one time. To learn more, contact PDPW at |||PHONE_NUMBER|||  or click here.
, perhaps conducting weekly meetings.
Treat it like a business, putting more emphasis on "business" and less on "family."
Don't provide "sympathy" jobs for family members. Employment should be based on skills and knowledge.
Seek outside advice for fresh ideas and creative thinking can get lost in the tangled web of family relationships.
Your safety record matters. Items such as completing a qualifying driver safety course, having outstanding driving records and even type of car you drive can bring discounts.
Go with a high deductible plan, as a $1,000 deductible can save you 40% or greater.
Bundle auto, homeowners and other policies in the same company.
Maintain a good credit score, as your credit score is often used to determine your auto insurance costs.
SPECIAL NOTE: The 2015 Managers Academy for Dairy Professionals, Jan. 14-16, in Charlotte, N.C., will center on teamwork and "People-The Driving Force Behind Your Business." Mark the dates and look for more information about the 2015 Managers Academy in subsequent Managers Memos.
Aug. 3, 1492 - Ce Nina, Pint a and Santa Maria seeking a Westerly route to the Far East. He instead landed on Oct. 12 in the Bahamas and made U.S. history.
Aug. 12, 1908 - The Model T Ford, known as the Tin Lizzie and the first mass-produced car, went on sale.
PDPW has been introducing youth to opportunities in the dairy industry and growing their leadership skills via Youth Leadership Derby for many years. Because involving more people can lead to amazing positive changes, the time has come to get your input regarding how to make this two-day educational program one that youth not only look forward to attending but walk away with their eyes wide open and excited about a future working in the industry. If you're a teen, the parent or grandparent of a teen, an FFA advisor and/or a person who cares about the next generation and the sustainability of the dairy industry, then please take a few minutes to participate in an important survey focused on Youth Leadership Derby. The survey is available online and is ready now for your input by clicking here.
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LA Court Rules Company That Produces Peaky Blinders TV Series Cannot Block Maker Of Peaky Blinder Irish Whiskey From Using Its Name For Now
Published on Jun 1 2021 11:42 AM in Drinks tagged: Trending Posts / Peaky Blinders / Peaky Blinder / Caryn Mandabach Productions / Sadler's Brewhouse / Halewood
According to The Irish Independent, US District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall rejected Caryn Mandabach Production Peaky Blinder Irish whiskey brand, Sadler's Brewhouse.
Marshall reportedly ruled that Caryn Mandabach did not show that it owns a protectable trademark in the name, that Sadler's Brewhouse's products are likely to cause confusion, or that the alleged confusion could cause Caryn Mandabach irreparable harm.
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Charles E. "Chuck" St. Louis, Jr.
Obituary of Charles St. Louis, Jr.
Charles E. "Chuck" St. Louis, Jr., age 61, of Mayfield,1, 2019 at Albany Medical Center.
He was born December 27, 1957 in Gloversville, the son of the late Charles St. Louis Sr. and Betty McGuire St. Louis who survives. He was a 1976 graduate of Mayfield Central School and soon after became a union carpenter where he worked for over 30 years until he became disabled.
He loved working with his hands and most recently enjoyed spending his time restoring his antique motor vehicle.
ISheree Hindes St. Louis; two children, Jeremy St. Louis (Rebecca) and Jenna Stewart (Jason); two grandchildren, Wyatt and Jase St. Louis.


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Rock and roll! I loved the video, especially the shot of the two snow mobiles pulling into your still frame. Nicely done! I wondered if the audio of the radio call in was straight from the camera mic or if you used something else. Sounded excellent w/no wind noise.
The Pisten Bully is the machine we use to pull the drill rig between hole locations. So yes, we do ride it on the sea ice. Most of the sea ice that we’re on out here is 6 meters (19.7 feet) thick, or more. This is called multi-year ice because it hasn’t been broken out from McMurdo Sound during the austral summer in many years, it has remained in place and has gotten thicker. Some of it is only around 2 meters (~6.5 feet) thick. The thinner ice is first-year ice that just froze in place during last austral winter.
The long and short of it: the ice is thick enough for us to work and live on. The people in charge of field camp operations would not let us out here if there was a safety issue.


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most of it while we can –' while outside, beyond the yellow blinds, the hot evening flamed in pure white-golden light, in a singing summer silence, without a breath of wind. I said several times how late I thought it was and how I ought to go but she did not mock me again. 'I'll save it all for tomorrow,' she said and her mouth began searching my face in probing eager stabs of excitement, 'only sometimes I can't wait for you – I can't wait – I feel I'll go mad with waiting –'
In the moment before I went out of the room she lay there looking at me with restless tender eyes that were the only moving things in the golden body laid centrally taut on the monster glittering bed.
'You know what to say to Rollo if you see him?' she said.
I had no idea at all what to say to Rollo; I felt I could do no better than turn and run.
'Ask him how the sermon was,' she said. Her face broke for the last time into an abrupt transfiguring smile. It made her suddenly into a very young and girlish person of infinitely simple and tender feeling, all light and sublimation, all lovable, completely happy.
'Say you love me,' she said.
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'You've got to say it,' she said. 'If you don't I'll hate you.'
I said it. It seems unreal and embarrassing and stupid now, but there were tears in my eyes as I repeated it all. There was a breaking of the unbreakable tension of young agonies across my chest as I spoke the words she made me repeat to her, and I trembled with a joy that now seems unreal too as she turned her body for the last time, holding the pillow against her big young breasts, saying:
'That's how I want to be loved – near and far and always and everywhere –'
It was striking seven by one of the French mantel clocks in the big sitting-room as I went downstairs. I went through the small drawing-room and on to the terrace outside. It was in my mind to say to Rollo that I had forgotten a book and had come back for it, but Rollo was not there.
Five minutes later I met him coming out of the spinney path across the park – exactly as if he had been waiting for me.
'Hullo,' he said, 'I thought you'd gone.'
'I thought you'd gone,' I said.
We stood staring at each other. I noticed, I think really for the first time, how very small his eyes were. They stared out brown and retracted and petrified as the brain behind them tried to work out some kind of answer to what I said. His two-inch choker collar lifted up in a startled way the face that was grossly scribbled with many small cabbage veins of purple-rose, the lips like a bloated central vein.
'How was the sermon?' I said.
He made no pretence of answering. The small eyes were cast downwards.
A moment later I saw that he was looking at my feet.
'Did you know,' he said, 'that you have a shoe lace undone?'
It was perhaps not a coincidence that Miss Bertie spoke to me on the following Sunday. 'You are the great one with flowers, Mr Richardson,' she said. 'I want you to give me your opinion on the winter irises. It's my belief they're dead.'
We walked, after tea, into the great square of box-hedged garden that ran southward from the house. It extended from walls draped with trees of _Maréchal Niel_ down to long stone pergolas of dripping rambler rose, hot crimson above urns of pale blue agapanthus lilies on paths of sun-baked stone. The gardens were very large. In those easy, undistressful days opulence and amplitude and calm loveliness spread with lushness everywhere about long lawns broken by cedar-shade pools of intense blackness; it was part of the air you breathed in wide rose-gardens, in hot walled compounds filled with peach and nectarine and vine, along terraces illuminated with spires of ivory yucca bells.
That afternoon the leaves of the stylosa irises lay like withered whips under a long south wall.
'I shall be most intensely grieved if they're dead,' she said. 'They're so beautiful – you know them, don't you?'
'Like orchids,' I said.
'Could they be dead? Do you think so? – what do you feel?'
I told her how I thought they were not dead and how beautifully, because of the long summer baking, I thought they would flower again in the early year.
'I am intensely relieved to hear you say so,' she said. 'And now there's another thing' – she began to walk away from the house, across the hot, springy lawn, beyond blossoming yucca spires – 'there's a tree over here of which nobody seems to know the name –'
We walked in hot sunlight. One of the reasons, perhaps the chief reason, for her acceptance of me was because, as she said, 'You like flowers – you have a feeling for these things.' I could smell all the drowsy opulence of July, as we walked there, in a deep cloud of lily scent floating across the lawns. She caught it at the same time and said:
'The summer has been very beautiful.'
'It's so often the way – after the long hard winter the lovely long summer.'
'I've never enjoyed a summer so much,' I said.
In this rather formal fashion, through a sort of gently-stepped conversation on weather and flowers and the general beauty of things, we reached the far side of the lawn. Suddenly she turned to me and said:
'You've seen a lot of Lydia this summer.'
'I think perhaps you're fond of her, aren't you? Very fond of her – would that be right?'
'I'm not sure you ought to get too fond of her.' I felt miserably sick and embarrassed; I knew suddenly that the talk of flowers and weather and summer beauty was all a blind. I remembered Rollo and my shoe laces and the hot evening in the bedroom. 'There are ways of being too fond, and ways of being not too fond.'
I said nothing; she went on:
'She's rather excitable. You know that.'
'Quite often she doesn't stop to think. And then quite often she has the sort of thoughts that run away with her.'
'Of course she'll be twenty-one next year.'
I could not understand, for a moment, what that had to do with it. We had reached borders where, in full hot sun, seed pods of Peruvian lilies were cracking off like miniature artillery, shooting golden seed. Her dumpy body, bouncing past regiments of phlox and petunia and summer daisy and delphinium, all flabby with heat, distended itself and puffed before she spoke again.
'She comes into – well, her legacy.'
I did not answer. Heat stung the crown of my head and there was no sign of the tree whose name, as she said, no one knew.
'We have to think of that,' she said. 'Of course she will have good advice and all that sort of thing. That is taken care of. But it will be a time of difficulty for her and added responsibility and all that sort of thing.'
'You probably think I am being a fussy old wind-bag and so on and so forth – do you?'
I said I did not think so.
'You have been very sweet to her,' she said. 'We liked you from the first. You have been just the person for her.' Uneasiness took her bouncing on, always a yard or two in front of me – 'You see until we met you we were in a way handicapped. We didn't know young people. We've rather got out of the run of things. We didn't want her to live a life of absolute stuffiness with us and we didn't want her to know nobody but people like the Orme-Smyths' – the Orme-Smyths lived five miles away with crested and shabby hauteur in a square m


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The older I get the more I enjoy Strawbs it seems (not so much when they try to do "rock" though). Don't have much more to say I'm afraid - except that I too love Oh How She Changed - it's Nights in White Satin level of late 60's goosebump-inducing beauty.
Have you been listening to the "Of a Time" CD or the original Strawbs first album?
I enjoy it and think "Oh How she changed" is the best and most enduring thing there. I actually prefer the bucolic serenity of Dragonfly though.
Without the inclusion of the prog classic The Battle, I think our young friend may be listening to the "Of a Time" CD. But I'm with you as Dragonfly is even more gothic in feel, and dare I say, more folky and progressive.
What a joy to hear the strawbs first effort...
yeah Steve it's interesting because Strawbs spent their entire advance for 3 albums on the first one! Dragonfly was made on an extremely low budget. But we don't care about that, do we? It's the music! With Antiques and Curios next, we forget that Fron the Witchwood was the next actual studio release, and it follows on quite nicely from Dragonfly in feel.
I just ordered acoustic strawbs I heard hero and heroine many years ago thought not much about it but after hearing their earlier albums , was simply awestruck !!!
Make sure to pick up "From the Witchwood" and "Grave New World".
"Bursting at the Seams" is also great but more of a crossover album. It had commercial hits and epics all in one, and was their biggest UK success.
What do you make of this one, then??
Never heard it, actually??
well, Hugues. I just listened to the "Of a Time" album for the first time and have to say that not every decision made by record company execs is a bad one . The first album as actually released is far superior to the one that A&M wouldn't allow. That one was all over the map and with a lot of glossiness to it. I understand Cousins' and Hooper's thought processes - their ambition was to make one album, and they cast their net as widely as possible. Some interesting stuff but a bit too "eclectic".
So I gave their released debut 3 stars and would probably give "Of a Time" just 2.
^The strange thing about Dave Cousin's objections to the A&M debut was not Gus Dudgeon's over production, but his sound mix that buried Cousin's vocals deep in the mix. I can understand Dudgeon's view that Cousin's vocals were an acquired taste, but come on Dave, 45 years later, it's time to let it go and forget these albums. (the A&M debut and Of a Time.) Neither album was great, just a launching pad to greater things. However, the Of A Time version does put some coin into Cousin's pocket as Witchwood Media is his label, and that's not a bad thing.
Dave is not a rich man so if "Of A Time" helps him out I'm all for it. Interestingly, they repackaged Deadlines as well, but it's not on spotify. Apart from Deadlines being a more prog album, the reissue has some very interesting acoustic demos of a few of the tracks that give valuable hints into the songwriting process. Having said all that, Deadlines is just not on the same level as the early and mid 1970s material.