Finally got the car back from the garage this week. The problem that caused the breakdown on the trackday was caused by the exhaust manifold. It had sheared off at the top of the downpipe. AA P&L came in handy again - I now have a shiney Janspeed 4-2-1 manifold installed.
Also replaced the 2 front tyres and got the replacement clutch trunion fitted.


- Doors and Seats
5 doors, 5 seats
2.5i, 4 cyl.
- Engine Power
Petrol (91) 7.3L/100KM
8 Spd Auto (CVT)
5 Yr, Unltd KMs
- Ancap Safety
5/5 star (2021)
2021 Subaru Outback Touring review
Subaru's new Outback hasn't changed much on first impressions. But as we found out, that's not a bad thing.
- Large wagon layout yields plenty of passenger space and comfort
- Comfortable to sit in and drive, both around town and on the highway
- Permanent all-wheel-drive system
- Capped-price servicing program is not as cheap as some
- Touring specification starts to lose value equation
- Can't compete with seven-seat SUVs
This is the new-generation 2021 Subaru Outback, but I reckon many might struggle to pick it from the outgoing model. Although it looks quite similar, this is an all-new model with little carryover from the previous generation.
And we’ve got a top-spec model to sample here. A 2021 Subaru Outback 2.5 Touring, which has a starting price of $47,790 before on-road costs. That's compared to $39,990 for the eponymous Outback 2.5 and $44,490 for the mid-spec Outback 2.5 Sport.
As the name suggests, the entire Outback range carries only one choice of powertrain: Subaru’s relatively new 2.5-litre horizontally opposed four-cylinder petrol motor known as ‘FB25’.
|2021 Subaru Outback Touring|
|Engine||2.5-litre four-cylinder petrol boxer|
|Power and torque||138kW at 5800rpm, 245Nm at 3400–4600rpm|
|Drive type||All-wheel drive|
|Fuel claim combined (ADR)||7.3L/100km|
|Fuel use on test||8.5L/100km|
|ANCAP safety rating||Not tested|
|Warranty||Five years/unlimited km|
|Main competitors||Toyota RAV4, Subaru Forester, Volkswagen Passat Alltrack, Jeep Cherokee|
|Price||From $47,790 plus on-road costs|
It makes 138kW at 5800rpm and 245Nm at 3400–4600rpm running through a continuously variable automatic gearbox (CVT). It’s called Lineartronic and is of Subaru’s own design.
As you would expect, the top Touring model has plenty going on in terms of specification. Unique features for the Touring spec include eight-way electrically adjusted front seats (with memory for the driver), nappa leather accents on the seat trimming, heated steering wheel, electric sunroof and an auto-dipping side mirror. And to round it out, a nine-speaker Harman Kardon premium sound system, subwoofer, amplifier and CD player.
On top of that, the Outback has a good list of standard equipment that is shared with lesser models in the range: A full-sized spare wheel should always be celebrated, and tyre pressure monitoring is another great standard feature. Other bits of kit include a powered tailgate, keyless entry, push-button start, heated first- and second-row seats, and electric lumbar support for the driver.
The new infotainment display wows with its 11.6-inch size, and has the important elements of Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, digital radio and native navigation. Android Auto smartphone mirroring only takes up a small portion of the screen because of the narrow portrait orientation. Apple CarPlay is better in this regard thankfully, which is less wasteful of all those pixels.
Fan speed, vent control and other climate details are done via an in-screen menu, while temperature control is handled by physical buttons. It works well enough, but could be a little irksome for those who love to constantly fine-tune the air-conditioning. The traditional big speedometer and tachometer are in front of the driver, along with a multifunction display.
While that big screen dominates the interior, the Outback is laden with plenty of nice materials and exposed stitching lending a premium air overall. And it's plenty comfortable, with good ergonomics and soft touches for front driver and passenger.
The new Outback also has Subaru’s EyeSight technology, which covers off a lot of the active-safety features like autonomous emergency braking. It also puts eyes on the driver, monitoring attention levels and potential drowsiness.
In this specification, EyeSight also has a level of convenience built-in. Once you’ve set up a profile within the car, the Outback is able to register and identify drivers, and automatically adjusts things like driving position and mirror positioning.
The fact that the new Outback mimics the previous generation so closely speaks to the popularity of that previous generation – and Subaru understanding what its customers want. Subaru calls it a large SUV, but let’s call a spade a spade. And let’s also call this wagon a wagon, albeit with four driven wheels, moulded flares and increased ride height.
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The second row is every bit as spacious and comfortable as a large SUV, with loads of leg room on offer for adults. And even with the sunroof in this Touring specification, head room is also in good supply. There are air vents, USB power outlets, heated outboard seats, and room for a bottle in the door cards.
I also like the seating position in the back, which is slightly higher than the front seats and affords good visibility. However, there is no third-row option for the Outback. Its maximum seating capacity taps out at five.
Moving to the boot – which measures in at 522L – is another strong element of this big wagon's dimensions. It trades more in length and width than height, which is more practical for everyday usage. It's got plenty of amenities as well, including rear seat levers, a 12V outlet, tie-down points, pop-out hooks, and additional storage slots in the sides. Fold down the second row and you've got 1267L at the ready.
Underneath the boot, you'll find a full-sized spare wheel ready for action without a goo kit in sight. Hallelujah.
The 3.6-litre engine is no longer available, and there’s no more diesel option as well. If you want an Outback, you’re stuck with this 90-per-cent-new 2.5-litre petrol four-cylinder. Thankfully, it’s quite a good powertrain. I was initially dubious of whether it’s enough engine for Subaru’s largest car. But after only a few kilometres, such doubts started slipping away.
There’s enough acceleration on offer for city and highway driving, which allows the Outback to pull into traffic and nip through intersections with a sense of ease. Those wanting ample power – rather than just adequate – could still be sad that the 3.6-litre engine has gone the way of the dodo. But this new 2.5-litre engine is solid, and proved to be a refined and responsive companion.
Credit should go to the CVT automatic transmission as well, which is a responsive and smooth operator. It allows the engine to quickly gain revs for fast acceleration without letting it drone on redline incessantly. It works well overall, and helped by its stepped nature of shuffling through contrived 'gears'.
Credit also goes to the permanent all-wheel-drive system, which has inherent benefits over even the fastest-reacting on-demand systems. There's seemingly never any risk of wheel spin under acceleration, and grip on low-traction surfaces remains in solid supply.
In terms of fuel economy, I averaged 8.5L/100km after my week with the Outback, which included some big highway stints, but sits a bit higher than the combined claim of 7.3L/100km.
Service intervals come in every 12,500km or 12 months, and are covered under a capped-price servicing program that runs all the way to the 187,500km or 180-month (15-year) mark.
Let's not get too carried away for now. Your first five years of servicing runs to $2449.88, which is on the higher side compared to others in the segment. Okay, I couldn't help myself: for the full 187,500km or 15 years, you're looking at $8524.47. That equates to an average of $568.30 each year over the full schedule, with the most expensive visit being the eighth: $1546.63.
The Outback's ride is quite comfortable and well-dialled overall for the purpose. A lower centre of gravity overall – compared to other large SUVs – and a generous 2745mm wheelbase both help. The taller ride and sensible 18-inch wheels would also be beneficial. As good as the Outback is around town, it's also proficient on the highway runs, with a good high-speed ride quality and plenty of refinement on offer.
Car buyers these days are spoilt for choice in a lot of ways. And those wanting a large SUV with room for five on board would be well served by having a closer look at the new Outback.
It doesn’t change the game at all, but it does let Subaru double-down on what it knows, and what it knows works.


The sound in video games is a large part of the game experience and without excellent sound, you are sitting around killing your pleasure and you will feel bored after a short period of playing, But there is an awesome way that provides you with the ultimate fun experience when playing games, It is the use of one of the best gaming headphones that has been specially made as a product for gamers to give them the experience of going to another world completely when playing.
In the past period, with the emergence of many distinctive video games that caught the attention of the masses and have become very popular, Leading headphone manufacturers have launched advanced headphones for gamers and enthusiasts to provide them with an outstanding audio experience. There is a list of the best gaming headphones of 2020 that I will show you now.
Best gaming headphones for gamers
If you are a gaming content creator on YouTube or doing a live broadcast while you are playing on Facebook, then you will definitely need a good headphone that will provide you with excellent sound quality.
We now begin our review of the list of gaming headsets that offer the best gaming experience with their use.
HyperX Cloud Orbit S
HyperX is one of the most powerful gaming headset manufacturers, so it’s very difficult to show you the best gaming headsets and what they have in today’s article. So I chose one of the best gaming headsets launched in 2020, the HyperX Cloud Orbit S headset, which comes with very good and strange specifications, but its price is rather high and may stand in the way of some when thinking about buying it.
- The design of the headphone is different, it comes tilted back a little, and the speaker can be lengthened as you want, and its weight is acceptable and does not exceed 368 grams.
- It includes 3 ports for connecting to various devices such as a phone, computer, laptop, or even a PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, as it includes a 3.5 mm port, a USB Type-A port, and a USB Type-C port.
- Supports 3D Audio that tracks the movement of your head and changes the direction of sounds according to the movement of the head.
- The battery of the headset works up to 10 hours if the 3D Audio feature is turned on, and if it is disabled, the headset lasts for 14 hours. The headset is charged via a USB Type-C cord.
- It allows you to know the exact location of your opponent in the stage thanks to the 3D Audio feature.
- It has a button to turn the microphone on and off, as well as to increase or decrease the volume.
- It includes a power button that turns the speaker on and off, as it only works after pressing this button, even if it is connected through USB.
- It works by wire only and does not support wireless connection.
- The price is high as a wired headset.
- You cannot power it with a 3.5mm connector if the battery is dead.
- The program for the 3D Audio feature is relatively complicated, so I advise you to watch any explanations on YouTube.
The price of the HyperX Cloud Orbit S gaming headset in Saudi riyals until the last update of the article is 1330 Saudi riyals.
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The best gaming headset: (Steelseries Arctis pro + DAC)
steelseries Arctis pro + DAC It is one of the best gaming headphones 2020, if not the best of them, because it comes at a competitive price with high-quality features, and it also comes with a piece called Game DAC that provides you with sounds from 10 to 40000Hz that you can choose from, and these frequencies allow you to create a very high sound quality that you will not find in any other headset. Below we will learn about the advantages and disadvantages of this headset.
- The sound quality is very good.
- It comes with the distinctive Game DAC that provides you with professional features that you will not find in any other headset.
- Supports Hi.Res Audio feature that works to provide better sound quality but this feature is only available on PC.
- It works wired via USB Type-C port and can work on all devices such as computers, phones, PlayStation, Nintendo and XBOX ONE.
- Featuring the Arctis ClearCast bidirectional microphone, the world’s best gaming mic.
- It includes an OLED screen that helps you in easy access to settings and features as you will be able to control the EQ and control the sound level, in addition to the ability to control the intensity and color of the lighting on the speakers.
- Provides RGB lighting.
- It is very small in size and may be uncomfortable for some.
- It does not support wireless connection.
- It has only one port, USB Type-C.
The price of the steelseries Arctis pro + DAC gaming headset in Saudi riyals until the last update of the article is 1299 Saudi riyals.
Astro A50 Professional Gaming Headset
Astro is not one of the most famous companies mentioned, but its products are distinguished and high quality, such as the headset that we will talk about now, which is the Astro A50 headset that works without wires via 5.8GHZ wireless technology.
The Astro E50 gaming headset includes many other features that I will show you now, We can sum up our talk about this headset as being one of the best for gaming, But the disadvantage is that the price of the headset is not suitable for all categories.
Astro A50 headset features:
- It is very convenient for users and its design is more than wonderful.
- Wireless headphones and supports 7.1 surround sound.
- It supports Dolby Audio technology, which provides you with high fidelity and lets you know where the sound is coming from, and it also balances the sound of the game and the sounds of the players you are playing with.
- The battery capacity is very large, up to 15 hours. The time to fully charge the battery is up to 90 minutes.
- Supports the feature to automatically turn off the headset if you leave it so as not to consume the battery.
- It can not work with a wire, it is a wireless headset.
- The headset base is limited to two devices only, for example, there are copies of the headset that work on PC and PS4, and there are other versions that work on PC and XBOX ONE.
- Its price is high for some people, but if we do a comparison between the price and the specifications, we will find that it is worth it.
The price of the Astro A50 gaming headset in Saudi riyals until the last update of the article is 1500 Saudi riyals.
Razer Nari Ultimate Gaming Headset
The Razer Nari Ultimate headset belongs to the company Razer, which specializes in the field of gaming accessories, and it works wirelessly via a 2.4GHz wireless connection if the wireless piece is connected to PC or PS4 devices, And it works with the standard 3.5mm audio cable on XBOX ONE or SWITCH devices.
This headset offers good headphone sound and supports Hyper Sense and other features that we will learn about now.
- Very cheap compared to the great specifications it comes with.
- Excellent sound quality and a very cool design from Razer.
- It includes a cooling gel so that it cools down on your ear after a certain period.
- Supports Hyper Sense feature that pulls the player into another dimension as the headset vibrates on in-game sound effects.
- Works wirelessly on PC and PS4 and works with a 3.5mm cable on XBOX ONE or SWITCH.
- It is rather heavy due to its large size.
- It does not allow you to modify its Head Pan.
The price of the Razer Nari Ultimate gaming headset in Saudi riyals until the last update of the article is 855 Saudi riyals.
Here ends our article on the list of the best gaming headsets for a unique experience when you play PC games online , or play alone games for your PC that have been preloaded on it.


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Ocasio (D-NY) proved once again her verbal interrogation skills on Tuesday as she grilled Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan over the financial giant’s dubious investments and won applause for holding his feet to the fire.
The freshman congresswoman questioned bank CEO Timothy Sloan about two issues for which corporations are rarely directly held accountable—the bank’s financing of human rights abuses as well as environmental disasters.
On the issue of Wells Fargo’s relationship with the private prison industry and the Trump administration’s child detention policy, Ocasio-Cortez asked sharply: “Mr. Sloan, why was the bank involved in the caging of children?”
In his response, Sloan announced that the bank is in the process of cutting ties with one group and has already stopped financing another—information that wasn’t publicly known before the hearing.
The congresswoman refused to accept Sloan’s claim that despite Wells Fargo’s financing and debt-financing of GEO Group and CoreCivic, “we weren’t directly involved in that,” before moving on to the bank’s investments in fossil fuel-extracting companies which have worsened the climate crisis, trampled human rights, and endangered the country’s drinking water supply.
Questioning Sloan about its financing of companies that build pipelines including the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in South Dakota and the Keystone XL Pipeline, Ocasio-Cortez asked whether his bank should be held responsible for the environmental havoc wreaked by its investments.
Despite warnings from the Lakota Sioux about the danger of building DAPL, Ocasio-Cortez said, “it was built anyway, and has leaked at least five times.”
“The Keystone XL in particular had one leak that sent 210,000 gallons across South Dakota,” she added. “Why shouldn’t the bank be held responsible for the clean-up of disasters of these projects?”
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When Sloan attempted to deny that the leaks have happened—despite easily accessible information to the contrary—Ocasio-Cortez humored him.
“So hypothetically, if there was a leak from the Dakota Access Pipline, why shouldn’t Wells Fargo pay for the clean-up of it if it paid for the construction of the pipeline itself?” she asked.
On social media, the progressive lawmaker’s supporters wrote that Ocasio-Cortez’s work on the House Financial Services and Oversight Committees has helped bring the experiences and struggles of marginalized groups—like immigrants and the indigenous activists who led the fight against DAPL—to the forefront in Congress.
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Release to the general public May 2017.
About the Book
Why did John Lennon call an emergency meeting of The Beatles and Apple Records management to announce that he was Jesus Christ returned in the flesh? What drove Albert Einstein to pick cigarette butts up off of the street and smoke them rather than buy his own pack?
Why did Nikola Tesla try to turn dull students into bright students by flooding their classroom with electricity? Were Albert Einstein, John Lennon and Nikola Tesla insane or was their odd behavior a manifestation of their eccentrics natures?
From exploring the fascinating historical roots of eccentricity to examining the impact of eccentric individuals into the 21st century, the author utilizes 12 historical figures such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, John Lennon, Lord Byron and Benjamin Franklin to name but a few and discovers a special ingredient, a ‘secret sauce’ that is the hallmark of eccentric people.
Whether eccentric people are innovative individuals who changed the world or everyday people who positively impact the lives of those around them, every eccentric person has in common the ‘secret sauce’ of eccentricity that you will discover in this book.
About the Author
Brett Sinclair has a Bachelor of Science in History and a J.D. from one of the Top 10 ranked law schools in the United States. He has worked professionally both as an attorney and pilot for approximately 20 years, done graduate work in Communications and Political Science, and taught writing and public speaking at a major state university for one year. He has traveled to over 55 countries on 5 continents, both on business and doing extensive volunteer work in Africa, India, Asia and South America. He states,
I encountered countless accomplished yet eccentric people in my travels abroad and in the United States, and decided to write this book because I am passionate about the value of eccentric people and after discovering a paucity of books on this fascinating and timely subject. The sub-title ‘The Value of Being Eccentric’ is itself a quasi-oxymoron because eccentric people have frequently not been highly regarded. I use 12 historical figures including eccentrics like Lord Byron, Benjamin Franklin, Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein and John Lennon, to name but a few of the eccentric people examined, comparing the nexus of the facts of their lives with the presence of the essential attributes of eccentric people.
This book is timely because although historical figures are utilized its exploration of eccentricity extends into and has ramifications for the 21st century. Because eccentricity is often disparaged or incorrectly equated as synonymous with insanity, the author believes the contributions to the world made by these 12 people from diverse fields and the historical proof of their eccentricity provides a unique take on a subject very rarely examined. He takes value in recognizing these eccentrics and understanding their positive contributions to the world.
Review and Comments
By Clint on May 25, 2017
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This is the first book dealing with the subject of eccentricity that recognizes that the numerous attributes postulated for the existence of eccentricity are not solely within the purview of psychological theories but must be connected to verifiable, historical facts of the lives of eccentric people. I learned much about the value of eccentric people in forging advancements in society and culture that would have been impossible absent the seven attributes of eccentricity that all genuine eccentrics share in common. Additionally, the emphasis placed on the positive impact that eccentric people who are not famous can have upon their family and friends if they are not rejected solely because of their eccentricity was a perceptive insight I was not expecting based upon the cover photos.
By Jace Beleren on May 6, 2017
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I picked this book up on a bit of a whim and I’m really glad I did. It’s a topic that I haven’t seen discussed before. Now I wonder why it hasn’t been. The author has chosen some fascinating individuals to analyze and does so with great skill. Besides being a truly entertaining read, it also helped my perceptions of myself. If you’ve ever felt out of place or a bit of an outsider in society, I couldn’t recommend this book enough.
By Texastransplant on March 7, 2017
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History is always a fascinating study; it is always the smallest number of out of the box thinkers that have the largest impact on changing the fate of mankind. This was a really fun read! Well researched and very interesting stories. Helped me take a different view of my own eccentricities- Thoroughly enjoyed it!
By Amazon Customer on April 6, 2017
I obtained a publisher’s proof of this book. What an amazing book. I truly enjoyed how the author began by explaining the nature of being ECCENTRIC and blending this into what he defines as Society’s Secret Sauce. When I started reading the chapters of the twelve individuals the author chose to describe, I couldn’t put the book down. I stayed up into the wee hours of the night finishing the book. Hopefully the author will write a second volume, choosing another group of unique and eccentric people.Trump, Gates, Buffet, Kevorkian to name but a few. Hat’s off to you Brett Sinclair, keep writing.
Sample Excerpt from the Book
“Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society and not be
this loudmouthed lunatic musician. But I cannot be what I am not.”
John Lennon (Born John Winston Lennon, October 9, 1940, Died December 8, 1980) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who is primarily remembered as a member of the The Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. Lennon founded The Beatles and along with fellow member Paul McCartney formed a celebrated songwriting partnership. John Lennon also played a significant role in the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s and the peace movement that evolved out of it. He had a pervasive and widespread influence not only on music but the world, and much has already been written about his vast, innovative and myriad contributions to music, culture and society. The facts of John Lennon’s life are herein presented in the same biographical synopsis format utilized previously that focused on salient biographical information in order to explore the nexus between the facts of Lennon’s life and the seven attributes of eccentric people.
Lennon was idolized by his fans and is still a revered musical and cultural figure. This is reflected by the fact that some of the biographies written about Lennon extolled his virtues while minimizing his flaws. Accordingly, John Lennon can herein be much better understood by not adhering to a strictly chronological presentation of his life. So, let’s begin in an arguably unusual way by examining some of John Lennon’s faults, flaws and foibles before getting to his much celebrated musical genius and his advocacy of peace and love.
Lennon was so unfaithful to his wife Cynthia that out of guilt he eventually confessed to her that he had slept with hundreds of women, including mutual friends of theirs. Hardly the paradigm for an upstanding father, throughout John Lennon’s lifetime he largely ignored his first born child and son Julian Lennon despite Julian’s numerous attempts over the years to establish a relationship with his father. John Lennon was solely responsible for his estrangement from his son Julian, a separation that lasted until the day John Lennon died. Lennon’s callous indifference to his son Julian had such an impact on Julian Lennon that the day John Lennon was pronounced dead in a New York City hospital, when John’s wife Yoko Ono phoned 17 year old Julian and asked him if he wanted to view his father’s lifeless body, Julian declined to do so.
John Lennon also had a cruel streak to his sarcastic and acerbic sense of humor that caused a lot of pain to other people, especially his closest friends, including the other three Beatles. He was also during periods of his life an egomaniac, as well as an addled heroin addict.
Born and raised in Liverpool, England Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager; his first band, the Quarrymen, was formed in 1956 and evolved into the Silver Beatles and in 1960 ‘The Beatles’. Today people remember John Lennon in the context of The Beatles’ commercial success as a band, but The Beatles spent seven years together performing mostly cover songs prior to the release of their first record, Love Me Do, in 1963. During those lean years before they became successful, when The Beatles became discouraged it was always John Lennon who acted as a ballast, and whose confident spirit brought encouragement to the other three Beatles, which he would often provide by leading them in a semi comical chant: “Where are we going boys? To the toppermost of the poppermost!” You may recall that one of the four benefits of being eccentric is the fact that eccentrics possess a confident spirit that brings encouragement to those whose lives they touch.
When the group disbanded in 1970 and ceased creating music together as a four piece band, Lennon embarked on a solo career. As a solo artist John Lennon wrote and recorded many critically acclaimed songs and albums, such as the albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and numerous iconic songs such as ‘Give Peace a Chance’, ‘Instant Karma’, ‘Working Class Hero’, ‘Happy Christmas’ and “Imagine’ to name but a very few. Other fans of his music undoubtably have their own favorite songs and albums that John Lennon recorded during his post-Beatles musical career; like all music, the musical quality of the songs he wrote are not defined simply on the basis of their commercial success because musical appreciation is very subjective in nature.
Subsequent to his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Having fulfilled his contractual obligations with EMI Records and Capitol Records in 1975, Lennon disengaged himself from the business of writing and recording music for commercial release for a period of almost five years because he wanted to devote his time to raising his newborn second son, Sean Lennon. Lennon returned to making music five years later in 1980 as a solo artist with his double album named Double Fantasy. Though the album topped the charts, many believe this was a result of Lennon’s death a short while after the release of Double Fantasy. Critics and fans alike judged the album inferior to the songs he created and recorded with The Beatles and during his post Beatles career as a solo artist. John Lennon was brutally murdered by being shot to death execution style by a deranged fan on the sidewalk leading to his home in the Dakota Apartments in New York City less than a month after the release of Double Fantasy and ironically only a few days after he signed a copy of Double Fantasy for his murderer.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and a brilliant and at times caustic and biting wit from childhood that remained an integral part of his personality throughout his life. John Lennon was also opinionated and outspoken since childhood. Eventually his nonconformist nature gained a worldwide audience beginning in 1963 with The Beatles first #1 Billboard hit, Please Please Me. Throughout John Lennon’s tenure with The Beatles, Lennon’s idealistic belief in love and harmony was reflected through his music. He became controversial around 1965 for his comments on Jesus and Christianity and again in 1967, this time primarily as a result of his use of LSD and his newly found interest in transcendental meditation.
Lennon was an intensely curious individual. If you think about it, curiosity is always a precursor to questioning the prevailing status quo and evolving into a nonconformist. John Lennon’s curiosity led him to a lifelong earnest quest in search of spiritual enlightenment that manifested itself in a very public way when he and the three other Beatles spent a lengthy period of time in India with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to further their spiritual understanding of life. Incidentally, despite rampant speculation through the years, the Maharishi Yogi was not related to Yogi the Bear who advocates for fire prevention, or to Yogi Berra, the longtime catcher for the New York Yankees.
The previous bit of levity was not intended to cast aspersions upon anyone but to illustrate the excellent and unusual sense of humor John Lennon possessed. He would frequently deploy inane humor not dissimilar to the absurd statement made implicating the fictional cartoon character Yogi Bear and Yogi Berra with Maharishi Yogi. Lennon had a brilliant mind and recognized that his sense of humor could be incisively caustic and hurt other people. He often defused any hurt feelings he caused by his unusual sense of humor through the use of nonsensical humorous statements.
Like anyone John Lennon had many sides to him. Here are just a few quotations of John Lennon’s that exemplified his mischievous and quirky sense of humor as well as his unconventional but loving spirit:
“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.”
“I believe time wounds all heels.”
“As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
“Everything is dearer when you’re in love.”
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”
“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”
“It matters not who you love, where you love, when you love or how you love. It only matters that you love.”
“When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
Close boyhood and lifetime friend Pete Shotton had this to say about his friend John Lennon:
“John was an exceptionally cocky kid who demonstrated precious little respect for his elders and invariably said exactly what he thought. By the age of nine or ten, he had already honed his now legendary ‘rapier wit’ to the point that he could usually provide our parents–or anyone else–with a devastating rejoinder whenever they attempted to put him in his place. John was amusing virtually all the time. In my company, his humor was often deadpan in the extreme; he could make me laugh with just a word, a subtle inflection in his voice, or an almost imperceptible gesture.
“John instinctively gravitated toward the center of attention, and his powerful personality always guaranteed him a large and admiring audience. John was our resident comic and philosopher, outlaw and star. In retrospect, one might say that John, even as a child, viewed the world almost as a surrealistic carnival. Life, to him, was a never ending stage play, and he would discover something bizarre in even the most mundane event. Whether an active participant or simply an observer, John would deliver a running commentary on his surroundings, his precociously caustic remarks underscored by an impish glint in his pale brown eyes.”
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Size: 6.14″ x 9.21″ (15.596 x 23.393 cm)
Paperback: Black & White on White paper
Length: 170 pages
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The Shard dominates the south bank between Tower Bridge and Southwark Bridge. Whatever other feelings it may inspire it is also useful if, like me, you like to learn an area by getting thoroughly lost in it, and then need to find your way back.
In it shadows you can find odd moments like this where any number of interpretations of angular shapes collide. This is in the little cut through from the north end of Borough Market to Hays Galleria. The Shard is of course ever present.
With this handy reference point I have started to learn my way around Bermondsey. Perhaps not something a Finchley boy should admit to.
Back on the civilised side of the river and looking back at the Mayoral Folly, More London Place, and it.

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The JDNZ work is predominantly taught to our jazz students. The JDNZ work offers a wide solid grounding with good technical exercises.
Students will be introduced to contemporary and hip hop as well as a cabaret and musical theatre, soft shoe and many more jazz styles.
We also have students sitting NZAMD exams. The NZAMD work has fantastic stretch and strengthening exercises and where possible it is ideal for older students to work on both syllabi.
Students are also offered extension classes. These classes are not syllabus based. As well as having a focus on flexibility, fitness and strengthening, the students learn challenging steps that may not be found in exam work.n 2016 we also introduced Performance Jazz classes.
Anna Lee School of Dance is one of the premiere dance schools in the greater Christchurch area.
We have studios in Papanui, Sumner, Ferrymead, Halswell and the Selwyn District, students have the opportunity to learn dance styles including ballet, jazz, hip hop and contemporary.
Our ALSD prides itself in providing a high standard of technical teaching that enables students to sit exams and medal tests if they wish. Anna Lee School of Dance has a proven history of students excelling with superb exam, medal and competition results.
Past pupils from the school have gone on to train full time and dance, in both New Zealand and abroad, as well as current students training at the New Zealand School of Dance in their Associate Program.
Dance classes are tailored for pre-schoolers through to advanced students. The fun and supportive environment with its’ emphasis on enjoyment ensures students feel comfortable as they learn to dance.
ALSD caters for all levels of commitment. We acknowledge and support all the different reasons our students choose to dance and we strive to provide classes that will cater for every student’s needs, whether it be for fitness and fun, or in the hope of entering into a career in dance.


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LEGO Ideas Flintstones 21316 Teaser Video
LEGO Flintstones 21316 Teaser
LEGO has released a short teaser on social media for the Flintstones. It will be part of the LEGO Ideas theme and the set will be known as 21316 LEGO Flintstones. The set will be coming very soon.
There’s not much on the teaser video aside from the Drive In Movie Sign and a LEGO vehicle with four minifigures.
Guess what?! It’s #YabbaDabbaDoo time!

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While European leaders and the International Monetary Fund scramble to respond to the latest Greek financial crisis that is threatening to spread across the continent, some U.S. lawmakers and policy experts warn that this country could be headed down a similar path unless it begins to deal with its own mounting debt.
Prominent figures ranging from former President Bill Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, to former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., this week all made uneasy comparisons between Greece’s debt-ridden government and the federal government which is facing its second $1.4 trillion annual budget deficit in a row.
“We’re not Greece, but Greece is certainly a useful lesson,” Alice Rivlin, a former Congressional Budget Office director, said during a Washington conference Wednesday on fiscal issues. “If you build up massive debt, eventually your creditors will lose confidence.”
Earlier this week, stocks tumbled after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit rating of Greece and Portugal to junk status. Greece’s defense minister on Thursday promised “colossal” cuts in military operating costs to help his near-bankrupt country emerge from its financial crisis and speed up plans to modernize the armed forces. Meanwhile, the IMF promised to increase the 45 billion euro aid package for Greece to as much as 120 billion euros over three years to help quell the crisis.
Rubin, who served as Treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999, stressed that the fiscal situation in the United States is “massively different” from that of Greece, Spain and other budget-challenged countries in Europe. But he noted that market psychology “can change quickly and dramatically,” and the country’s huge deficit and low savings rate could lead to an unexpected downgrading of the U.S. credit rating and force up interest rates.
The crisis in Europe has been building for some time. In Greece, Spain and other countries, runaway spending on social programs, a flood of cheap money and repeated failure to implement financial reforms left governments badly vulnerable when the financial meltdown and global economic crisis erupted two years ago. The crisis also exposed deceptive Greek budgetary practices, which had disguised the true extent of the country’s debt, that exceeded limits imposed by the eurozone.
Greece’s national accumulated debt, pegged at $413.6 billion, far exceeds the country’s economy, with some estimates that it will reach 120 percent of gross domestic product in 2010. The deficit-to-GDP ratio — how much more the country spends each year than it raises in revenues, compared to the nation’s economic output — is 12.7 percent.
By contrast, the U.S. deficit-to-GDP ratio is expected to exceed 9 percent this year and ratio of publicly-held federal debt to GDP is expected to approach 60 percent. Measured in dollars, the annual gap between spending and revenue hit $1.4 trillion last year, a post-World War II record that is expected to be almost matched this year.
Carmen Reinhart, an economist at the University of Maryland and co-author of an exhaustive review of financial crises dating back eight centuries, said the United States does not face the same kind of peril as Greece. But, she warned, the U.S. does face a real risk that global investors will abruptly become anxious about its debt and demand much higher “risk premiums’’ – which means higher interest rates for U.S. debt.
“In this environment, where you are highly leveraged and there is great uncertainty, it doesn’t take a meltdown to bring about an adverse outcome,’’ Reinhart said in an interview on Thursday. “I am talking about a substantive increase in risk premia.” In a recent paper, Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University warned that past financial crises highlight the looming risks. Over the past several centuries, including the most recent one, countries with government debt equal to more than 90 percent of Gross Domestic Product saw their economic growth slow by one percentage point on average. For the U.S., that would be an enduring slowdown from annual growth of 3 percent to about 2 percent.
The United States’ federal debt load is heading toward that red zone. The Congressional Budget Office, analyzing the fiscal impact of President Obama’s budget proposals, estimates that publicly-held federal debt will hit 90 percent of GDP in 2020.
But analysts caution that those estimates understate Washington’s true debt burden, because they omit both the huge federal guarantees on debt issued by financial institutions like Fannie Mae as well as debt amassed by state and local governments. Though the federal government isn’t technically liable for state obligations, Reinhart said Washington would likely shoulder them to prevent a state like California from defaulting.
To be sure, the president has also created a bipartisan deficit commission to come up with proposals for further reducing the deficit by 2015. But on Thursday, economists at the Brookings Institution warned that federal deficits could be bigger than either the White House or the Congressional Budget Office is predicting.
In the Brookings report, William G. Gale and Alan Auerbach estimated the budget outcome if Congress “acts more or less like previous Congresses” and doesn’t rescind any tax cuts that are scheduled to expire. Under that scenario, annual budget deficits would total $11.3 trillion by 2020 – about $2 trillion more than current official projections.
Some lawmakers and policy experts are already drawing comparisons between the United States and the plight of Greece. Republican Paul Ryan told the same fiscal conference that the problems in Europe pointed to a coming debt crisis in the United States. "We know interest compounds viciously once interest rates go up. This is something that is obvious, easy to predict and therefore something we should tackle," said Ryan, the top Republican on the House Budget Committee and a member of the deficit commission.
The House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., recently raised the Greek specter as well. “It is enough to look across the Atlantic at Greece’s extreme economic crisis and understand: it can happen here. If we don’t change course, it will happen here.”

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A Boaz man who shot at drug agents and Boaz police officers has now been charged with attempted murder, according to Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
“Arnold Ray Battles, 64, of Boaz, is charged with eight counts of attempted murder, a felony,” states Captain Jason Argo.
The charges stem from an incident that occurred on Tuesday, February 6, at Battles’ residence on Pleasant Hill Cut Off Road, Boaz. The suspect shot at agents with the Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit, FBI Safe Streets Task Force and Boaz police while they were attempting to serve him with a search and arrest warrant.
“These charges are appropriate concerning the danger that he placed our deputies and officers in. We look forward to seeing justice served in this case,” Sheriff Entrekin said.
Battles is currently being detained in the Etowah County Detention Center without bond. He also faces charges of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, violent felon in possession of a pistol and drug paraphernalia.

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STRAIGHTENING WATERLINE RESIN HULLS
You will need:
3 small plastic "G" clamps .
A flat-bottomed pan or dish
A hard flat surface such as a kitchen countertop that you can clamp the hull to
Place the hull into the pan or dish, base down
Pour boiling water over it until it is completely immersed.
Leave it in the water for maybe 10 minutes to make sure that the heat has fully dispersed. Press the hull back down to level with your fingers.. Be careful as you handle the hull... it WILL be quite flexible and be careful not to bend any thin parts or damage any deck fittings!
When it has flattened out, remove from the water, place on the countertop edge, and GENTLY clamp it down. Put one clamp midships, Now gently clamp the back end of the hull in place, and the forward superstructure block at the front end.
Leave for a full 24 hours.
You may have to sand the hull bottom, unless you are placing this in a seascape. If you find it warps again, repeat the above. We advise that ALL waterline hulls are screwed down to a suitable base to prevent any future movement.
Squadron White putty in joints: Stuff it in, wipe off with nail polish remover. No sanding needed and no lost details.
Fill small seams with gap-filling super glue. Let it set up briefly, then gently wipe the surface with a soft cloth soaked with debonder. No sanding needed and no lost details.
From Chris Hall—For very small seams, use Tippex, preferably in the pen-type applicator. Wipe with a cotton bud dipped in isopropyl alcohol. Again, no need for sanding. Used on the port forward wing root of this Airfix Ford Trimotor, to avoid damaging the corrugated plastic: http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL887/4189935/12309317/183655356.jpg
Using the corner tip of a piece of masking tape (Like Tamiya or 3M Blue medium tack), you can just barely touch the photo-etch piece with the tape, apply super glue to the side that you will adhere to the surface, then attach it to the plastic or resin and let the super glue set up for a few seconds (5-10). By then the super glue has dried enough and the tape comes right off. No more trying to do this with a tweezers or fingers. It even allows me to place the part in the right place the first time.
Found a mat (in Walmart) of green rubbery material in the produce department (also try the kitchen utinsels area of the stores). It holds the part/model you are working on it, without slippage (and hands-free). Size is 12" X 12", just the right size for the workbench top.
Need a palette for paint, super glue, etc.? Cheap playing cards that are made of 10 thou (ish) styrene can be found at many stores and work well. $1 for a whole deck.
Ship modelers find some very useful and interesting tips & tricks at the Fine Waterline website: http://www.finewaterline.com/pages/tips&tricks/tips&tricks.htm
Tom Teliczan compiles a 115-page document with various hints, tips and answers to some commonly asked questions from HyperScale's popular Plane Talking discussion group: http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/hintsandtipstt_1.htm
And speaking of Hyperscale, here’s a link to their very useful online reference library: http://www.clubhyper.com/referenc.htm
Another good source of tips can be found on Fine Scale Modeler’s website, at http://www.finescale.com//home/how%20to/tips%20database.aspx
Over on Cybermodeler you’ll find: http://www.cybermodeler.com/tips.shtml
For our German-reading friends: http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php?option=com_alphacontent§ion=10&Itemid=4350 and http://www.modellversium.de/tipps/
Matt Swan's website provides another source of excellent "Tools & Tips."
Need some airbrushing guidance? Have a look at Don Wheeler's site.
Paul Budzik's page is just brimming with usefuly tips: http://paulbudzik.com/tools-techniques/index.html
Weathering aircraft? Here's a good article from FineScale: http://finescale.com/~/media/Files/PDF/How%20To/2012%20Update/FSM_MAR2009_42-46.pdf
Author Mike Ashey makes his books available online: http://mikeashey.com/BOOK-INDEX-PAGE%20.htm
Here’s a paint and colour reference that is pretty definitive: http://titanic-model.com/articles/paints/WEBPAGE_Paint%20Reference%20Main%20Page/WEBPAGE_Paint%20Reference%20Main%20Page.htm#white%20star%20buff


Rewind 106.3 Coming To Ft. Wayne
April 3, 2013 at 4:00 AM (PT)
OASIS RADIO GROUP/FT. WAYNE is set to launch REWIND 106.3, a '90s Pop station featuring CHRISTINA AGUILERA, BOYZ II MEN, JANET JACKSON, BRITNEY SPEARS, T.L.C , N*SYNC and more. REWIND 106.3 will replace Top 40/Rhythmic WHPP, the frequency broadcasting the stream of OASIS' CLICKHOP.COM.
REWIND 106.3, launching this evening (4/3), is designed to super serve the 35-49 listener. In a press release, OASIS RADIO GROUP/FT. WAYNE GM PHIL BECKER commented, "By adding REWIND 106.3 to our already existing stations, we’re able to reach consumers from the ages of 12-54 through both our legacy frequencies and the digital dashboard."
REWIND 106.3 will feature music intensive morning show, middays hosted by PHIL BECKER and newly appointed Content Dir. CHRIS CRUSE doing afternoons. Additional programming lineup information will be announced.
CLICKHOP.COM isn't going away. CLICKHOP.COM will continue via the website at CLICKHOP.COM as well as on mobile devices under the direction of newly appointed Content Director WES TESKA.


Construction on the US$300m first phase will start next month (September) and is scheduled to be completed in 2015. APMT has signed a design build contract with one of Mexico’s major contractors, Empresas ICA, which is also a minority shareholder in the concessionaire company.
The initial phase will see the development of a new 43 ha container yard and a 650 metre quay. Additional works will include an administration building, warehouse, gates, and modern on-dock rail facilities to accommodate the growing volumes of intermodal traffic.
The container handling equipment under consideration is eco-friendly, featuring the latest developments in energy efficiency to reduce emissions. This includes seven Super-Postâ€Panamax shipâ€toâ€shore gantry cranes with a reach of 23 container, as well as electrical yard cranes (E-RTGs) and other specialised equipment.


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Video 47 After gardening
August 24, 2020
Video 47 After gardening. If you spent the weekend at home in the garden then this is a great way to start the week and any stiffness you might feel,

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General Partner of SAIF Eagle Fund
Previously Chairman of Lotus Pharmaceutical and independent board director of Fubon Life Insurance
Served as GM of JP Morgan Securities, CIO of ABN AMRO Asset Management, and MD of Macquarie Capital, Greater China
Mr. Jou is the Of Counsel of Wispro Technology Consulting Corporation, which has 400+ attorneys in Japan.
Formerly Foxconn Group's general counsel for 18 years and was in charge of Foxconn’s acquisition of Sharp.
Since 2016, Mr. Jou has been one of the IAM Strategy 300, IAM Market Makers No. 17 in 2019 and 2019 Asia Individual Of The Year.


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Description: The Ruby
Date Listed: 30 November 1949
English Heritage Building ID: 152164
OS Grid Reference: SO7726242971
OS Grid Coordinates: 377262, 242971
Latitude/Longitude: 52.0846, -2.3332
Explore more of the area around Malvern Wells, Worcestershire at Explore Britain.
SO 7742 10/22 30.11.49.
Late C18. Three storeys, stucco, dentil eaves cornice, tile roof. Two windows.
Upper windows break eaves. Three-light, 2-storey semi-circular bow to the
right. Hung sashes with glazing bars. Projecting square-headed porch with
chamfered door opening. The house is said to have been built by a descendant
of Admiral Bembow.
Listing NGR: SO7726242971
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.


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Being from Louisiana, this article struck home with me. Also, my experience with small town residents addicted to painkillers paints this picture for me. I so disagree with this small town reporter. I want to warn all these small towns like Breaux Bridge, Louisiana...that this problem will not "blow over."
Articles in Category: Heroin
What is Heroin?
Heroin is an illicit and extremely addictive substance obtained from morphine, a naturally occurring substance found in opium. Generally, it is two to three times more potent. Heroin mainly affects the central nervous system, often providing the user with feelings ranging from euphoria to relief from pain. Pure heroin is a white powder with a bitter taste. Illicit heroin is sold as a white or brownish powder and usually contains additives like sugar and cornstarch among others. It may also contain strychnine or other poisons. Because illicit heroin is rarely pure and dosage is not often calculated, users are generally at risk of overdose or death. Heroin also comes in the form of what is known as "black tar". Often it has the texture of roofing tar, or coal. Heroin may also be referred to as horse, smack, black tar, skag and H. Heroin overdose is very common; it usually results from snorting, smoking or injecting the drug. Heroin is often injected intravenously because it produces a high much quicker than smoking or sniffing it. Although injection of heroin is the most popular method of use it carries far greater risks than other methods of administration due to needle sharing and use of dirty needles. Such use results in transmission of HIV and Hepatitis B.
A 38-year-old man hired a prostitute, and asked her to bring him heroin. After taking heroin, drinking alcohol, sitting in the hot tub, and then having vigorous sex, the man collapsed and died. She was originally charged for giving him heroin that killed him, which carries a life sentence. Medical findings show he did not die from the heroin.

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Let's Get Healing
1:1 Coaching Programs
Experience Your Healing Revelation After Narcissistic Abuse
~Whatever Stage Of Your Journey~
You've been in a relationship with a narcissist and you feel mentally confused, physically drained & emotionally challenged.
You wonder: Why can't I stop thinking about them? Is it normal to feel like this? Why can't things go back to how they were? Did that bad stuff really happen. Damn, the good times were amazing. Why did they change? Why can't I just let go and move on?
You want to feel protected & free from the mental torture. You want to feel worthy, peaceful & confident. You want to move on and feel like yourself again!
You moved on from the narcissist! Woohoo! You are no longer attached or affected by them.
But you want to make sure a relationship with a narcissist never happens again, and you don't know how to protect yourself. You have a tendency to put other peoples needs and feelings before yours and not speak up for yourself. You want the love story with a happy ending, but you loose yourself in relationships.
You wonder: Is it selfish to need or want that? Why do people take advantage of me? Should I feel this? How can I protect my energy around other people?
You want to feel seen, validated & protected. Ultimately, you want healthy relationships.
You've moved on and recovered after a bad relationship. You've spent a significant amount of time single & unattached, focusing on yourself and your healing.You feel better within yourself.
Now you want to date and find a healthy romantic relationship with someone genuine, kind & attractive.
You wonder: How can I avoid another narcissist/emotionally unavailable/inappropriate person? Maybe finding love after narcissistic abuse isn't possible? What is a healthy relationship - and how can I have one? Why is finding love so difficult?
You want to feel safe to actually enjoy the process of dating . You want to find a relationship that feels warm, inviting, secure and loving. When it comes to love, you want it all.


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A Flourish of Feathers
By: Phyllis Van Doren Photography by Martin Mann
The Carriers celebrate Christmas in style in a historic bungalow gone modern…
Nestled in a wooded lane, on the way to the Cabrillo Monument, is an unusual, century-old home. During the holidays, the exterior is a wonderland of lights.
This year, a whimsical life-size elf stands guard as guests approach the front door for a festive party. Once inside, they are greeted by a flurry of feathers, alive with texture. There are feathers everywhere, even in the most unexpected places — including the homeowner’s high-style skirt.
One shouldn’t be surprised, as the hosts are interior designer Robin Wilson Carrier and her husband, architect Gordon Carrier — a duo who mix old and new, the frivolous, the modern and the traditional with panache.
When the remodeled 100-year-old building in which they live was moved from the old Point Loma Theosophical Society location to this area in the 1930s it became an octagonal bungalow with a maze of added rooms radiating from the center. Gordon bought the property in 1992 and in 2005, after he and Robin married, they remodeled.
It soon became a contemporary home of luscious warm woods with quirky features like a corrugated-metal ceiling treatment in the octagon living room, punctuated by African spirit poles from Santa Fe as part of the art. Not long after its transformation, the home won the first-ever Grand Prize (in 2008) from the American Society of Interior Designers, San Diego Chapter.
The woodsy update to contemporary includes new Honduran mahogany trim and doors and African mahogany floors. The use of metal in the living room continues on to the exterior gate and garage door. Just outside the back door is a potting shed with a corrugated-metal roof that’s so chic it looks like a Bergdorf Goodman window decorated for Christmas.
Stainless steel emerges in the bath-rooms and kitchen and on the hard trowel fireplace surrounds. The result is a certain amount of sparkle — even without the holiday decorating.
Warmth blazes in the leather-floored den and octagon living room from fire-places. This is a cozy, loved and lived-in home with owners that clearly relish an opportunity to entertain. The enthusiasm hits a high note when holidays arrive.
“I change themes every five years or so,” says Robin. “The feathers started when a couple of years ago I found a wonderful white feather skirt in Paris. I started with feather boas on the tree, then it grew to tabletop trees and wreaths.”
Robin adds items every year and admits that she requires an extra room to store all her Christmas décor. Gordon is in charge of lights, inside and out, and “gets very creative with color and placement out-side,” Robin says.
Santa, his elves and a red, white and green color theme were the traditional side of this year’s décor. The feathers were a flourish of the moment and a fashionable success.

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Your Favourite Photoshop Tutorials in One Place
Making a Robotic Effect for a Human
Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial
You may have already watched a lot of robot films and wondered how they can transform a normal human into a robot. The most simplest way to do is to add some machinery element on the human joints plus a machinery background.
To turn yourself to be Angel, the most common way is to add a pair of wings at your image’s back using manipulation. You need to prepare an image with suitable post, and add the wings and put your image at a sky background with clouds and some lighting.
Have you seen a painting on fire? This tutorial will help you create this effect through the combination of the digital painting and the photo manipulation in Photoshop. Of course fire stock image will also be applied to form the final man On Fire effect.
In reality, it is not easy to capture a wonderful natural scene. You need to have lots of different elements to assist such as good weather and timing. When you lack of some elements for your expected scene, you can use Photoshop to apply what you want into the picture.
How to picture the realistic city scene in a photo or picture. Here is a good example. You can start with a city scene with lots of tall buildings by the sides. And then, you can add some Photoshop effects to make it like a movie scene.

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Study : Château Trigant
Чистка базы данных
В чем заключалась проблема нашего клиента?
Château Trigant has a customer data entry software. This software can track the status of the Château's sales. The tool takes into account a large number of data and different indicators.
However, the Château has a problem : the software does not allow to finely visualize all the data. This lack affects the sales department in setting up relevant actions towards the customer. To solve this problem, the Château has provided us the customers database, issued by their software, that had to be cleaned, made exploitable and able to supply necessary information for the decision making process.
We made a choice of classifying relevant data, in collaboration with the customer according to certain variables : date of purchase, wine type, quantity, etc.
We have cleaned the data according to 4 guide criteria using the statistical software R : customers individualization, data correction, etc.
Definition of hypotheses:
We have determined a classification of the data thanks to assumptions of making the database intelligent and commercially exploitable.
With the last step of our process, we have classified the vintages in relation to the amount of customers who have purchased them.
A customer has been considered « regular » when he has bought at least one vintage 2009 and at least another vintage since the 2009. If we consider « Château Trigant » and « Magnum » : we were able, for example, to detecte that the vintage which has attracted most of the customers was the 2009.
This analysis is made even faster by setting up an intuitive dashboard that calls easily the database. When a customer calls, with just a click the person in charge can find the records of the customer's purchases. In addition, they have an alert which allows them to contact again a customer if necessary.
Чем это было выгодно нашему клиенту?
Château Trigant can now consult their data according to different classifications they have chosen. The data are cleaned and made reliable to provide an usable interpretation. Château Trigant had the opportunity to implement a customers relaunch system according to their habitudes and can anticipate the seasonality of their sales in a more precise way.
И на десерт...
10h11 did not resist to work on a forecasting model for Château Trigant's sales. Indeed, the record and the veracity of the data allowed us to elaborate a statistical model in according with the quality of the vintage. After analysing weather data, we have identified a strong correlation which has allowed us to predict the 2015-2016 sales for the Château.


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Elite Dangerous travel guide
How to make your way around the universe.
Grim Fandango walkthrough
Our complete walkthrough for the remastered classic.
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Across Gamer Network
Thinking outside the box.
Let's Tap and 428, both strange.
Yuji Naka's latest Wii game heads west.
Sonic's dad talks up his other children.
Let's Tap sales "weren’t high".
In shops and on WiiWare, respectively.

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Typhoon appeal: Singer Paul Potts to perform in concert
The tenor Paul Potts will join other acts to give a special concert on Anglesey to raise money for the victims of the Philippines typhoon.
S4C has cleared its TV schedule on Sunday evening to broadcast the event.
All money raised will go to the official Disasters Emergency Committee Philippines Typhoon Appeal.
Members of the public are being urged to support the concert at the Anglesey showground near Holyhead with tickets available at the site.
"The scenes that we've seen from the Philippines on the news have shown clearly the scale of the devastation that has struck the country and the terrible suffering there in the wake of the typhoon," said S4C's director of content Dafydd Rhys.
"While discussing what contribution we could make to publicising the appeal for donations, it became clear that it could be possible for us to stage an event on Anglesey on Sunday night and that such an event could provide a further boost to the fundraising efforts."
The show is being hosted by the BBC Radio Cymru presenter and comedian Tudur Owen.
Along with Paul Potts, other guests who have agreed to take part at short notice include the Welsh language artists Bryn Fon and Elin Fflur.
"I very much hope that this concert will help raise more money to alleviate the suffering of people in Philippines," added Mr Rhys.
The whole concert will be broadcast from 19:30 GMT on S4C.
The concert itself starts at 18:30, with tickets available on the night at the showground, costing £10 for adults and £5 for children.


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One advantage of growing up in Los Angeles is the bountiful amounts of ethnic food. Los Angeles is so big that there is a group of people of every nationality, and someone somewhere has opened a restaurant to cater to them. I was in college before I was introduced to Korean BBQ for the first time, but after eating it once, I was hooked. We went to a great place called Yellow Cow. A small restaurant, located in an ubiquitous LA strip mall, once inside the smokey interior, you would find load of Koreans grilling meat at their own tables. The tabletops would be groaning with a myriad of little dishes, called banchan, containing salads, various types of kimchi and other little delicacies. You had a bowl of rice. You had delicate rice noodle pancakes and a big bowl of crispy salad. You grilled your meat and ate it wrapped up in a pancake with some of the salad and perhaps garnished with some kimchee or hot sauce. I still go to Yellow Cow every time I am back in LA and it is still one of the best Korean BBQ places that I know.
Here in Stockholm, the choice is limited. However, we do have one decent place, Arirang. Ten years ago, you also could grill yourself, but now the meat comes to the table pre-cooked. I am not going to say this is great Korean food, but it still hits the spot.
I never tried cooking Korean food myself until a year or two ago when I found out about a Korean blogger, Maangchi, who does YouTube videos of how to cook authentic Korean food. This recipe is inspired by her recipes for Bulgogi and Japchae. Bulgogi is sweet soysauce marinated beef, usually thinly sliced and grilled or pan fried. Japchae is a dish of stir fried glass noodles, made from sweet potato starch called dang myun. These noodles are fairly tasteless on their own but have a nice chewy texture and soak up flavors beautifully. They are also gluten free, for those who are interested. I saw these noodles at my local ICA the other day, so I snatched them up. Wandering down the meat aisle, they had some nice flank steak, which is not that common here in Sweden and so I decided to use the Bulgogi marinade for the beef but grill it whole in the oven, and then slice the meat over the noodles.
Here is how I did it:
Serves 4 to 6
Grilled Flank Steak
1 pear or apple
1 small onion
8 cloves garlic
2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
4 tablespoons soysauce*
4 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
1 kilo of flank steak
Peel your pear or apple, take out the core and roughly chop it. Stick it in a woozy woo (mini food processor) and process until it is a paste. This is easier to do with a pear, which is the traditional fruit. But I have so many apples in the garden right now, I decided to use that instead and it tasted fine. Peel and roughly chop the garlic and onion and puree in the woozy woo in batches. You can also do this in the food processor or if you don't have one, you could use a mortar and pestle.
Take a large ziplock bag, one which will fit your meat, and dump the ingredients of the marinade into it. Close the bag and knead it to mix up the marinade. Throw in the flank steak, close the bag and knead it, making sure the marinade covers the entire steak. Put in the refrigerator for at least half an hour, but overnight is even better.
About half an hour before you want to eat, turn on your broiler to its highest setting. Take the steak out of the bag, scraping excess marinade into a little pot and set aside to use in the noodles. Lay the steak on a pan that is covered with aluminum foil (to help contain the mess). Broil for 6 to 15 minutes per side until each side is nicely browned.
The time will depend on how hot your broiler is and how close to the heating element you can get your meat. If you like your meat rare, then put it as close to the heating element as possible. There should be some bits that look almost burnt. Let the meat rest for 10 minutes and then slice it thinly AGAINST the grain.
Stir Fried Glass Noodles
About 150 grams of dang myun sweet potato noodles
2 large carrots
1/4 head savoy cabbage
15 to 20 fresh shitake mushrooms
3 to 4 spring onions
1 to 2 tablespoons of soysauce*
1 tablespoon sesame oil
olive or vegetable oil for frying
salt and pepper to taste
Take a large pot and fill with water and bring to a boil. Meanwhile, prepare your vegetables. Peel and grate the carrot. Take the cabbage and cut out the core and cut into thin strips. Cut off the stem on the mushrooms. You can save the stems to flavor a stock, if you like, otherwise discard. Thinly slice the heads of the shitake mushrooms. Cut the onion in half and then thinly slice. Thinly slice the white part of the spring onions and slice the green portion into 2 cm (about 1 inch) pieces.
Take the little pot of marinade from the meat and put it on the stove. Bring it to the boil and the turn the heat to low and simmer it for 10 minutes. Set aside.
In a large frying pan, heat a glob of oil on high heat. Stir fry each vegetable over high heat separately:
1. Throw in the mushrooms and stir fry for a two to three minutes until they are tender and the edges are a bit browned. Pour the mushrooms into a large serving bowl. Put a plate or lid over the bowl to keep everything warm.
2.Put a bit more oil in the pan and throw in the grated carrot and the white part of the spring onions and a pinch or two of salt. Stir fry for a three to four minutes until the carrot is tender and sweet. Pour the carrot into the bowl with the mushrooms.
3. Add a bit more oil and then stir fry the cabbage, sliced onion and the green part of the spring onion with a pinch of salt until tender and the edges of the cabbage are getting a bit brown, about three to four minutes and then pour into the bowl.
When the water is boiling, add the noodles and cook for about 7 minutes until the noodles are tender. Drain the noodles and add into the bowl. Add the sesame seed oil and a tablespoon of soysauce. Throw in the cooked marinade from the meat. Toss everything together. Taste the noodles and add a bit more soy sauce if it needs more salt. If there are any juices from the grilled flank steak, throw that into the noodles, too. If the vegetables have cooled too much, you can throw the whole thing back in the pan and warm through. Taste and adjust, adding more soysauce and sesame oil if necessary.
Serve the noodles hot with the thinly sliced grilled flank steak on top.
*If you want this recipe to be gluten free, you have to make sure you use a gluten free soysauce, like a Tamari style soy sauce.

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About the Author
“A J Dalton (the ‘A’ is for Adam) has been an English language teacher as far afield as Egypt, the Czech Republic, Thailand, Slovakia, Poland and Manchester University. He has lived in Manchester since 2003, but has a conspicuous Cockney accent, as he was born in Croydon on a dark night, when strange stars were seen in the sky.
He published his first fantasy trilogy, consisting of Necromancer’s Gambit (2008), Necromancer’s Betrayal (2009) and Necromancer’s Fall (2010), to great acclaim. He is currently published by Gollancz, with whom he has put out the best-selling titles Empire of the Saviours (2012) and Gateway of the Saviours (2013). He maintains the Metaphysical Fantasy website (www.ajdalton.eu), where there is plenty to interest fantasy fans and there is advice for aspiring authors.”
You can find out more about the author on his website.
The UK’s highest award for literature is the Man-Booker Prize. It considers literary fiction only, but not fantasy fiction. It considers fantasy to be ‘low brow’ genre fiction and generally not worthy. This is despite the fact that a number of Booker Prize winners have conspicuously ‘borrowed’ their themes and motifs from fantasy over the years. Nothing Tolkien ever wrote could be entered for the Booker Prize, no matter his contribution to literature and the UK’s cultural identity. More than that, fantasy isn’t considered by the Nobel Prize for Literature either! When the BBC made a one-hour special called ‘The Books People Really Read’ a few years back, they included plenty of crime genre fiction and romance, but there wasn’t a single mention of either JK Rowling or Terry Pratchett. What gives?
Why is there this denial of fantasy in certain quarters of society? Is fantasy a threat somehow? I suspect so. Basically, you can’t get a job as a philosopher these days so you have to write fantasy (or scifi) instead. The Brits consider it a bit ‘poncy’ to talk about philosophy openly, too, so they end up reading fantasy in private instead. Fantasy is perhaps all too real for certain sections of our society, sections that are insecure and inadequate, sections that like to speak in terms of ‘high’ and ‘low brow’, sections who are at the ‘top’ of society and want to quash the power of the rest. Fantasy is therefore revolutionary and has the potential power to change the real world so that it is a better place for all of us. My series with Gollancz, Empire of the Saviours, only gets two types of review – praise from the usual fantasy magazines, but utter condemnation from the wider press and media. They say the book is ‘warped’ and ‘twisted’. I reckon it’s the wider press and media who ‘warp’ and ‘twist’ things. But I could be wrong. Am I? Any other authors or readers of fantasy out there who have suffered any prejudice (overt or otherwise) for their interest/passion/dreams?

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Cheryl is the unapologetically exuberant, hot headed owner of a back alley London Burlesque club, who has almost lead her pride and joy to its demise.
Now with only four hours left to resolve her mistakes, and not wanting to see themselves out of a job, Stella, Mollie and Bunny rally around to do what they can to secure their future. Cheryl’s risky tactics to get punters in may have worked initially, but disastrous consequences are in store. With a lothario ex-husband lurking, and two blundering security guards on the door, how far will Cheryl go to save her club?
Drawing inspiration from Commedia dell’ Arte, ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ combines bold stereotypes, cross-gender casting and fast-paced physical routines to create a heightened, comedic performance in a unique style.
GASP! Theatre Company was founded at the University of Kent. They have performed at the Edinburgh Fringe festival and have toured their original writing across the South- East of the UK. They made their European debut in 2019, performing in Pisa, Italy.
With feminism at the heart of their productions, they blend 16th century archetypes with 21st century stereotypes to build highly relatable characters that resonate with their audiences. GASP! aims to connect with a wide audience, broaching challenging topics in a playful, comical manner, promising a good night out.
GASP! Theatre Company
GASP! Theatre Company aims to create comedic performances that are farcical, daring and intelligently silly. Their aim is to exhibit thought provoking messages that express empowerment through mockery from the female perspective. By combining written and devised work, GASP! Joins together heightened characters and powerful socio- political messages in performance. With heels, handcuffs and fake moustaches, the focus is on exploring everyday situations in quick witted, risqué performances, promising a good night out.
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Building on the Rock
Building a fellowship upon the Rock that is sustained in unity of faith in the knowledge of Yeshua the Messiah.
Ephesians 4:11-13 Furthermore, he gave some people as emissaries, some as prophets, some as proclaimers of the Good News, and some as shepherds and teachers. Their task is to equip God’s people for the work of service that builds the body of the Messiah, until we all arrive at the unity implied by trusting and knowing the Son of God, at full manhood, at the standard of maturity set by the Messiah’s perfection.
The Plan – participating fellowship
Yeshua said My Father’s House is called a House of prayer, when He emptied the Temple court, referring to what God said through Isaiah “Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer”… This is the plan that God proposed, and He send His only Son so that through Him a new temple could be established, built not by hands but in the Spirit.
When Yeshua said My Father’s House is called a house of prayer. The emphasis was not on the house but the proposed use of the house. Yeshua’s anger was directed at the misuse of the house, not that the house was built in the wrong manner.
If prayer is consistent with participating fellowship, then participating fellowship, or the lack thereof stirred the passion in the heart of Yeshua for our Fathers house.
When God called His house to be a house of prayer He had in mind that we would come unto Him in His house of prayer and in His house of prayer is where He wants to fill us with joy. Mortar and brick can to a certain extend bring glory as a monument in recognition of a person, but as in most chases a dead building as a memorial is a memorial of a dead person. Did not Yeshua said (Mark 12:27 He is God not of the dead, but of the living! You are going far astray!“)
We are called to build a living temple where the bricks are living bodies that presented themselves as a living sacrifice unto a living God. When we come together as a living sacrifices in the name of our Lord and Saviour Yeshua the Messiah to glorify our Father in Heaven we are building a living sanctuary for God. Ephesians 2:21-22 In union with him the whole building is held together, and it is growing into a holy temple in union with the Lord. Yes, in union with him, you yourselves are being built together into a spiritual dwelling- place for God.
“Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer”… God’s plan for His House of Prayer is to make the people joyful as they participate in the fellowship with Him and His Son Yeshua the Messiah. If then God intends to make us and them, the strangers joyful, the building cannot be exclusive but should be open for all that want to come into the fellowship with our Father in Heaven and His anointed Son.
1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God’s co- workers; you are God’s field, God’s building
The substance – the Foundation of participating fellowship
The foundation is the support upon which we build a house, it is not the foundation as such that keep the house standing through the storm, it is rather the substance upon which the foundation is laid. Yeshua said in Luke 6:48 he is like someone building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the torrent beat against that house but couldn’t shake it, because it was constructed well. The revelation of Yeshua, as the Son of the Living God, is the basis of our fellowship as in 1 John 1:1-3 The Word, which gives life! He existed from the beginning. We have heard him, we have seen him with our eyes, we have contemplated him, we have touched him with our hands! The life appeared, and we have seen it. We are testifying to it and announcing it to you- eternal life! He was with the Father, and he appeared to us. What we have seen and heard, we are proclaiming to you; so that you too may have fellowship with us. Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Yeshua the Messiah
Matthew 16:15-18 He said to them, But who do you say I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered and said to him, You are blessed, Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but My Father in Heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Hebrews 11:1 Trusting is being confident of what we hope for, convinced about things we do not see.
The rock then, upon which the foundation is laid, is the sure substance, and the rock is Yeshua the anointed Messiah. For in Him and through Him we have hope based on the evidence in the Gospel, of the things not seen. For our whole faith is based upon the revelation that Yeshua is the Son of the living God as Peter said in Matthew 16:18.
When Peter called out to Yeshua to call him so that he can walk on the water, he put his faith not in what he saw, but what he trusted to be true, what he hoped for. (That, if it is Yeshua walking on the water, He would be able to uphold me (Peter) to walk on the water). That was the substance on which Peter based his trust; he placed his hope in what he trusted Yeshua to be capable of doing. The evidence is the fact that he got out of the boat when Yeshua called him, the evidence is not the walking on the water – that is what he hoped for – based upon his belief in what Yeshua can do. The evidence is that he put into action that what he trusted Yeshua to do. This is not out of the flesh, but it comes from the revelation of who Yeshua is, the Son of the living God.
We should not make the same mistake as the disciples made in Mark 6:51-52 He got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. They were completely astounded, for they did not understand about the loaves; on the contrary, their hearts had been made stone. The disciples did not consider Yeshua as the Son of the Living God, they did not allow themselves to become wise as they think about Yeshua, for their hearts were harden.
In doing that what Yeshua called us to do we should not consider our own inability; we should rather consider Yeshua as the Son of Elohim and His ability, as it is written in Isaiah 55:11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth- it will not return to me unfulfilled; but it will accomplish what I intend, and cause to succeed what I sent it to do“. Yeshua is the Word of God and the writer of Hebrews challenges us to look upon Yeshua. Hebrews 12:1-2 So then, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us, too, put aside every impediment- that is, the sin which easily hampers our forward movement- and keep running with endurance in the contest set before us, looking away to the Initiator and Completer of that trusting, Yeshua…
The Foundation for participating fellowship
When through the confrontation and consideration we have found the Rock, and assured ourselves of the perfectness of the Rock, which is Yeshua. We start by laying the foundation upon the assurance that the Rock is able to carry the weight of the foundation and the building upon it. Before we read the Word of God, or call upon the promises of God, we must be assured that every promise is yes and amen in Yeshua the Messiah as in 2 Corinthians 1:20-22 For however many promises God has made, they all find their “Yes” in connection with him; that is why it is through him that we say the “Amen” when we give glory to God. Moreover, it is God who sets both us and you in firm union with the Messiah; he has anointed us, put his seal on us, and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee for the future.
In acknowledging that when we say amen we affirm that the word spoken is a trustworthy Word, a Word that will surely come to pass, because we are assured upon Who the Word is build, acknowledging the ability of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to bring it in fulfilment, therefore we must be assured of Him and His ability in order to lay the foundation.
We must know beyond the shadow of doubt that we have within us all the resources of the One who upholds the universe and that no amount of effort can produce the fruit of the spirit, it is a result of growing closer to Elohim, through Yeshua the Messiah. You need a relationship with the giver of joy not the concept of joy.
Now that we agree that we can have participating fellowship, we can once again look at God’s plan when He said ““Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer”…
Building the building
The first foundation that God laid between man and Himself was based upon trust (as the substance) in man’s ability to walk in obedience. Man proved his own inability, although being created just a little lower that God, to bring in fulfilment God’s intended plan for man, to take dominion. Through the generations God have shown to us our error in not trusting Him but always relying upon something or someone else. In Ephesians 2:10 we however read that in Yeshua the Messiah we have been recreated so that we can bring in fulfilment the plan that God had for us from the beginning as expressed in Exodus 25:8 “They are to make me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.
Being regenerated means that we have acknowledge our own inability as we surrendered our lives, receiving the regenerated live in Yeshua the Messiah, trusting in Him and His ability not in ourselves and our owe inability. When the disciples asked Yeshua what is the work that we should do if we want to do the work of God, in John 6:29 Yeshua answered, “Here’s what the work of God is:to trust in the one he sent. Trusting in Yeshua is the required work that we have been called for, there is however a lot of other work we can do, but none as pleasing as the work of trusting in Yeshua. That is the first work we have been called for – prayer based on trust (building a sanctuary) Hebrews 11:6 And without trusting, it is impossible to be well pleasing to God, because whoever approaches him must trust that he does exist and that he becomes a Rewarder to those who seek him out.
The Building are constructed through Intimacy
When our trusting is combined with intimacy with God, creation is taking place. When we look at the exodus we saw a nation looking upon the wonders of God as He provided in a supernatural way for His people, but yet they started doubting and fall back upon their own feeble plans, building a golden calf to guide then to freedom, a god formed by the very hands that worship it. Likewise, we are quick to fall back upon our own plans, when we have prayed for a while without seeing anything; we start doubting and start planning for ourselves. But if we only knew what is taking place in the unseen, if the Israelites only knew that Moses was waiting upon God who is writing with His own hand, they would not have rebelled against God. The moment we stop trusting in God and His ability, is the moment that we rebel against God and His authority Exodus 32:1 When the people saw that Moshe was taking a long time to come down from the mountain, they gathered around Aharon and said to him, “Get busy; and make us gods to go ahead of us; because this Moshe, the man that brought us up from the land of Egypt- we don’t know what has become of him” God called on Moses to come and received the created work that He wass busy preparing, but while Moses was waiting upon God to bring forth His creation, the people started doubting, and the created work of God were aborted, when Moses destroyed the tablets that was written by God’s own hand.
Likewise when we pray, having intimate fellowship with God, creation is at work, but if we, because we cannot see what God is doing fall back on our own plans we abort the created work that God is preparing, because we started doubting, we rebelled against God and His authority.
Yeshua said John 11:40 “Yeshua said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you keep trusting, you will see the glory of God?” It is in trusting in the continues sense that we will see the Glory of God as He brings in fulfilment that what we trust Him to do.


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Keeping kids' teeth healthy requires more than just daily brushing. During your first visit we will examine your child's teeth and ask you about your water supply. That's because fluoride, a substance that's found naturally in water, plays an important role in healthy tooth development and cavity prevention.
Fluoride and the Water Supply
Some communities have naturally occurring fluoride in their water; others add it at water-processing plants. Some of our patients have well water or other sources of drinking water and it may not contain any natural fluoride.

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DERYNEIA: The day of the Famagusta child is approaching - "I am learning and painting about Famagusta"
Everything that the event includes
The Municipality of Famagusta and the school tax office of Famagusta invite you on Sunday, June 19, 2022 at the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Famagusta in Deryneia, on the day of the Famagusta Child.
"I am learning to paint for Famagusta"
From 10:30 to 13:00, children will "Learn and will paint about Famagusta".
The event includes:
Painting against the background of Famagusta
Screening of a short film about Famagusta
Guided tour of the Cultural Center, demonstration and explanation of the interactive map of the city and view of Famagusta with binoculars.
Presentation of Papers for Famagusta by Primary School students and awarding of honorary plaques.


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This listing is for ONE (1) roll of our exclusive washi tape featuring our bow book design. This washi tape is an ombre effect of the colors of our Books and Birthdays exclusive kit. Each roll is 15MM wide and 10M long (393 inches long). Each roll features our silver pixie foil.
This item matches our Books and Birthdays exclusive theme! Check out all of the other items here.
The washi roll is a high quality paper with vibrant printing but please note that due to variances in monitor and phone screens, the colors may vary from what you see on screen. There may be a small seam line where the design repeats itself. I have been assured that this is unavoidable due to the nature of washi tape production.


The Posies w/ Black Tones
Wild Buffalo, Bellingham, WA
“Is everybody in?”, said John Auer of The Posies as he glanced out over a sold-out audience at Wild Buffalo in Bellingham, Wa. It was only fitting return for The Posies to kick off their brief US tour in the very city where their musical adventure began over 30 years ago. After all, the group had spent the last two years of their COVID induced musical hiatus spread across three countries and two continents.
First up were The Black Tones, a dynamic brother / sister combo from Seattle. As the first notes drifted from the stage, frontwoman Eva Walker was nowhere to be seen. Soon her dynamic voice arose from the speakers and it became apparent she was at the back of the venue riding high on the shoulders of a friend. She drifted through the audience before taking her place at the front of the stage. The crowd swayed under as if under a musical trance as the band played songs from their latest album “Cobain & Cornbread”. During the song “Plaid Pants” where Eva’s twin brother Cedric jumped off the drumkit and led sides of the crowd in a musical back and forth chant of “Ahhh aahhhh ahhh”. The audience loved every second of it.
As soon as the first few notes of “Flavor Of The Month ”, one of their many electrifying power-pop hits off The Posies legendary record “Frosting On The Beater “, arose, a thunderous cheer arose from the audience. Soon the dynamic duo of Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow were back in full swing performing their signature vocal harmonies as if no time had passed. Joined by drummer Frankie Siragusa the band jammed through dynamic numbers spanning their entire musical career “Any Other Way” from 1989 album “Dear 23” and “Unlikely Places” from 1996’s “Solid State”. The dynamic performance was only enhanced by Jon and Ken’s dynamic relationship where one would rush over and jam with the other or their spirited jumps during their performance. Things mellowed out a bit for “Dark Side of Light”, a folk-influenced ballad (which will hopefully appear on the Posies upcoming ninth album). The band’s energy was as lively as ever as Eva from the Black Tones joined them for a powerful three song set. The band ended the set by returning to old favorites “Solar Sister” and “Return To Shine”.
Alas having a long drive back to Seattle I was unable to stay for the encore but if anything was clear from the night’s sold-out performance it was that live music has returned to the northwest and the fans are excited to have it back.
Photos and review by Alex Crick
The Posies & Black Tones