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The good news is that there are many ways to make big changes in the amount of time you spend sitting each day, both at work and after hours, leading not only to reducing your health risk, but gaining improvements in creativity, focus, and energy.
Try one or more of the following at work.
Substitute one "walk-and-talk meeting" for a standard meeting each week. For maximum overall health benefit you can hold your meeting in a local park, but anywhere outside will do, and even the hallways of your office building will be a big improvement over another meeting in the conference room.
While it may be impractical to work standing all day, utilize the mobility of laptops, tablets, and smart phones to create more than one location to get your computer work done. Standing or 'perching' work areas can be set up in a large office environment or even in a home office to provide a variety of work positions. Some offices have even provided treadmill desks.
Many new products have become available recently to inexpensively (or expensively if you have the budget) elevate your laptop, monitor, keyboard, and pointing device to a standing work height. I find that when I work standing I move around a lot, helping tight muscles regularly stretch and relax.
Take mini breaks throughout the day. This can be as simple as occasionally looking at an object further away to help relax your eyes to taking a walk around the building or doing a few calisthenics. Try setting your computer's clock to audibly announce on the hour as a reminder to get up, look away, stretch, walk, do a quick exercise, change your work position, or just move around in your seat. It's recommended that you take a 5- to 15-minute break each hour, but any amount of time will help and add up over the day.
You can also reduce your sitting time and health risks by modifying how you spend your after hours time. Try limiting television, video game, and recreational computer use to one hour per day after work, and plan to replace at least an hour of this time with something active such as walking, completing a chore, or trying out a new hobby.
You can gradually transition to increasing your standing and moving time, allowing your body to adapt to the increased physical demands. Try to ultimately work towards reducing sitting to half of your workday and half of your non-work time, and note any changes in how you feel.
Let's make Standing the New Sitting!
Copyright © 2016 Mary A. Williams, Corporate Health Alliance/BACKCoach. All rights reserved. This article was originally published in the October, 2016, issue of Healthy Cells Magazine.


The Sheraton Pretoria Hotel offers 175 luxurious, modern rooms and suites, all designed to guarantee maximum comfort and hospitality from the moment you arrive. The hotel includes a Health Club with gym and saunas, an outdoor swimming pool and massage rooms.The Magnolia Restaurant is open for all-day dining with sumptuous buffets at breakfast, lunch and dinner. As a light meal alternative, the ever-lively Tiffins Bar & Lounge caters for all tastes and serves an excellent afternoon tea. From the hotel's Union Terrace you have a splendid view over Pretoria's famous Union Buildings, the official seat of South Africa's government.


One of the common problems faced by enterprise seos is how to achieve situational awareness from the outside. That is, how do you discover the structure of the implementation if you don't have server access?
This is especially important when you work with very large sites. Often no one person even has all the details about all the subdomains. In fact, subdomains may be hosted in different server environments in different locations around the world.
Here's a simple iterative search routine that well uncover all the indexed subdomains of any given top level domain.
The limitation is the current 32 word search limit.
Here's a hack we uncovered long ago, when supplemental results markers were removed from the search results. So in a sense, this is even more important, because it lets you know whether your urls are in the main index or in the now hidden supplemental results.
the remainder were the urls in the supplemental results.
The image on this page is one we see a lot when we do these kinds of searches. Check our blog post on this. We strongly suspect we're being profiled because we see this warning often. Do you?


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Kathy Gore-Fuss: At Home in Nature
Published on December 4, 2017 January 10, 2018 by Ned Hayes
by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS
For nearly four decades, the art of Olympia artist Kathy Gore-Fuss has moved through a fascinating metamorphosis from multi-media, surrealistic, abstract and symbolic to paintings that are as traditional as naturalism en plein air landscapes. Her gradual shift has not removed the indelible and unique signature look of her work – a style that is as unique to Gore Fuss as van Gogh's brushstrokes and Jackson Pollock's splatterwork.
"She has re-invented herself several times as an artist, each time thoughtfully following the calling of her heart and then working with curiosity and patience to develop a new way of working," says Susan Aurand, a fellow artist, longtime friend and teacher at The Evergreen State College. "Her current work about the forests is remarkable in the quality of light she achieves… It's a love affair with nature."
Born in Seattle in 1955, Gore-Fuss spent her first 10 years in the Midwest before returning to Seattle. She later attended the University of Washington but left before earning a degree. She continued her studies at Pratt Fine Arts Center, and worked independently as an arts instructor. In 1980, she came to Olympia and set up a studio, where she pursued new interests, including silk screening, mixed-media construction, sculpture and painting.
Her work in the 1980s was often surrealistic and what she called dreamscapes — large color-drenched, distorted images either two-dimensional chalk pastels or larger three-dimensional oil painted constructions. "This series evoked my struggles to find my own female identity and beauty in the undiscovered, with plenty of satirical commentary on the absurdity of the human existence," Gore-Fuss recalls.
During the next decade her material of choice for sculpture was plaster gauze bandage which she used to cast her body and other friends' bodies, capturing their forms in a moment of time. She called it her Form-u-loid, like a Polaroid. She would also cast forms of everyday items such as flowers, tea cups, shoes and crystal that traced the collections individual women assemble in their own homes. These sculptures were void of color, collaged with cut up black linoleum prints on rice paper showing off her affinity for pattern, line and whimsy. Many casts of her own hands held these cast objects as they projected out towards the viewer from the wall.
In 2004, her husband of 23 years died suddenly of a heart attack. The ten years following his death involved an arduous process of rebuilding, which included returning to the University of Washington to finish up her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2007. She designed and built a new studio in 2010. In 2011 she made the definitive move of returning to her first love – drawing and painting.
Her new paintings continue to be painted entirely on the spot, regardless of the weather, in natural settings like the woods at Priest Point Park and at the Port of Olympia near her home in Olympia. They were first shown in Olympia at Dino's Coffee Shop in 2012, and have since been shown in galleries in Seattle, Friday Harbor and Ellensburg. The paintings of sun and rain falling through the leaves and towering trees are complex, dense, and create a palpable sense of being one with nature.
Since 2012 Gore-Fuss has organized painting workshops. These workshops host painters from outside the Olympia area at her studio. A variety of instructors offer specialized instruction during one-week intensive painting workshops. Guest Instructors have included Jordan Wolfson from Colorado and Washington artists Helen O'Toole, Anne Petty, and Emily Gherard. In connection with the workshops she offers a lecture series called "Conversations with Painters." This series offers an intimate setting to see new artists' work, ask questions and participate in the dialog of art.
Watercolorist and art teacher Amy Fisher says, "I have known Kathy since moving to Olympia in the late '70s. She had a big personality and shared her ideas about her work willingly. I watched her craftsmanship and content grow over the years. She has always been helpful, generous and supportive. She explored ideas of family and identity and physically worked through the paper, sanding right through paper to make statements about love and loss. Her current work in the woods is about love and loss too. I see it that way. It isn't all sentimental or theoretical; she paints in the woods almost daily. Her work taps into larger questions about beauty and sacrificing life to cope with limited resources on an overpopulated planet."
Another artist, Becky Frehse of Tacoma, says, "Kathy is one of the most dedicated and disciplined artists that I know. One thing that has always amazed me is how eloquent the drawing is in all of Kathy's work; no matter the medium. Her current work painting in and about the forest is her most accomplished. Each burst of brush strokes evokes a spiritual relationship with her sense of place and light. The small, walnut ink drawings are truly jewels. I think she is enjoying much success with her current work and will become recognized as one of our region's best landscape artists."
WHAT Kathy Gore-Fuss "Providers"
WHERE Photographica / KDR, 313 Occidental Ave. S, Seattle
WHEN 10 a.m. to 5: 30 p.m., through Dec. 22,
Artist's reception Dec. 7 6-8 p.m.
HOW MUCH Free, paintings for sale
Kathy Gore-Fuss website | prographicagallery.com | 206-999-0849
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Maneka Gandhi
India to soon ban testing of soaps, detergents on animals
Pushed actively by minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi, the testing ban will soon be notified by the DIPP and the commerce ministry.Anubhuti Vishnoi | ET Bureau | September 18, 2015, 18:30 IST
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NEW DELHI: India has taken the final decision to ban all animal testing of soaps and detergents, with an environment ministry committee taking the view in a meeting held late last month.
Pushed actively by minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi, the testing ban will soon be notified by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) and the commerce ministry.
The decision on the animal testing ban was taken at a meeting of the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA) in a meeting held on August 24, 2015. The committee of the Prakash Javadekar-led environment ministry has unanimously decided on the ban.
"I am glad the CPCSEA has taken this decision finally. I have been taking up this matter from the first. Rounds of meetings have been held on this. The Bureau of Indian Standards had first recommended it to DIPP, which made the reference to CPCSEA — the authorised body for any such issue. It is a decision even the industry welcomes as parameters for chemicals have already been established and decided upon by now. There is no point in repeated animal testing. The move has taken quite some time to come and I am happy that it has finally been achieved," Maneka Gandhi, Minister for Women & Child Development told ET.
The Centre has constituted the CPCSEA to take all such measures as may be necessary to ensure that animals are not subjected to unnecessary pain or suffering before, during or after the performance of experiments on them. All establishments engaged in research and education involving animals, are required to comply with the various guidelines, norms and stipulations set out by CPCSEA. The permission for conducting experiments involving use of animals also is routed through CPCSEA.
A CPCSEA member told ET that the ban would come into effect immediately.
"The CPCSEA members took a considered and collective view on this issue which came to us from DIPP and the animal husbandry department. At a meeting on August 24, all members agreed that such a ban need to be in place. With CPCSEA having taken the final call, no animal testing of any kind of soaps or detergents will be permitted from now on. DIPP and commerce ministry are expected to shortly issue directions on the same and notify the ban," a committee member told ET on condition of anonymity.
ET View: Passing the Humane Test
You judge a culture by the way it treats other beings. The kingdom of Emperor Ashoka Maurya was the first to treat animals as 'citizens'. India should be equally proud that it now prohibits the testing of soaps and detergents on animals. In today's day and age, when computer modelling and advances in molecular science allow such testing to be conducted without endangering lives, such practices are not only inhumane but also anachronistic. In this context, empathising with animals is not an airyfairy notion, but an extension of how people should treat other lives. India must now ban testing beauty products on animals.
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Have you ever thought of the present moment as a loved one?
I've been working with this thought lately, and I find it helpful when I'm feeling rushed, distracted, worried, upset, frustrated, anxious, sad, irritated.
We barely pay attention to it, thinking instead of what we have to do later, things we're worried about, etc.
If it's boring or uncomfortable, we habitually turn away from it and go to distractions, rejecting the Present Moment.
We judge it as good or bad, pleasant or uncomfortable, and dislike it if it isn't behaving the way we want.
We don't accept it as it is, but want more, are worried we're missing out, think we should be doing something else.
When we're upset or frustrated, it's because we have a story running in our heads, rather than paying attention to the Present Moment in front of us.
Imagine a loved one who you don't pay attention to, who you reject and judge as unworthy, who you don't accept as they are, who you ignore even when they're sitting right in front of you. That would probably not be a great relationship.
Of course, the Present Moment isn't a person with feelings, so we shouldn't worry about it so much, right? Maybe, but what I've been finding is that developing a good relationship with the Present Moment leads to less stress, more peace and contentment, and a better relationship with everyone else in my life.
What can we do to develop this better relationship with the Present Moment? Treat it with respect, and give it the attention it deserves. After all, just like with our relationship with anyone else — we have limited time to spend with it, and once that time is up, we can't get any more.
Try to stay with the Present Moment longer … whether it's the physical sensations all around you, how your body feels, how your breath feels, or the thoughts or emotions floating around in your mind … try to pay attention without wandering.
Come back when you do wander.
Be interested and curious about the Present Moment, open to whatever arises, without needing it to be a certain way.
Be less judgmental and more accepting — experiences aren't necessarily "good" or "bad" but just worthy of your attention and interest.
When you find yourself wanting to go to distraction, or caught up in a story about something, try coming back to the Present Moment, and just pay attention to the changing moment.
When things are uncomfortable, stay. Instead of running, be there for the uncomfortable Present Moment, with love and gentleness.
Notice when you're constantly wandering, and come back, come back, and stay.
You might notice an instant transformation of your relationship with the Present Moment, where you are more open, curious, accepting, and attentive. This can be transformative, in all areas of our lives.
Or it might be more of a gradual shift, where your trust in the Present Moment grows over time, and you slowly open up to it with acceptance and fearlessness.
Either way, what you'll find is that you're also developing a better relationship with yourself. And everything around you, all the time.


The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) ended the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, which threatened clinicians participating in Medicare with potential payment cliffs for 13 years.
If you participate in Medicare Part B, you are part of the dedicated team of clinicians who serve more than 55 million of the country's most vulnerable Americans. The Quality Payment Program's purpose is to provide new tools and resources to help you give your patients the best possible care. You can choose how you want to participate based on your practice size, specialty, location, or patient population.
CMS is re-naming the Advancing Care Information performance category to Promoting Interoperability (PI) to focus on patient engagement and the electronic exchange of health information using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT). This performance category replaced the Medicare EHR Incentive Program for EPs, commonly known as Meaningful Use. This is done by proactively sharing information with other clinicians or the patient in a comprehensive manner. This may include: sharing test results, visit summaries, and therapeutic plans with the patient and other facilities to coordinate care.
If you seek hardship exception to the advancing care information category, you will be able to apply for this between August 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018.
The first payment adjustments based on Performance Year 2017 go into affect on January 1, 2019.
You may submit and update your data any time while the submission window is open.
Registered groups may submit group data in the CMS Web Interface during the 8 week submission window.
Not sure where to start? Download our free beginner's guide to learn the basics of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System.
With eClinicalWorks, practices can track provider participation in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System across MIPS measures. The eCW MIPS dashboard provides multiple views of data on the provider and practice level.
eClinicalWorks V11 is the next step in the evolution of healthcare IT, a cloud-based EHR and Revenue Cycle Management solution designed to meet the challenges and opportunities of value-based care. As a 2015 Edition certified product under the ONC Health IT Certification Program, eClinicalWorks V11 can assist your practice in participating in the Quality Payment Programs. Schedule your demo today to learn more.
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Narayan Palekar (before 1954-26 July 2006) was an Indian freedom fighter who participated in Goa liberation movement and leader of Communist Party of India. He was the President of Goa state council of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC). He was one of the founder members of the Goa Peoples' Party that later became the CPI along with George Vaz and S. A. Dange in Goa.

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Pros and Cons of New Launch Condominiums
Most people will flinch and overlook getting a Condominiums as they believe it's too expensive, small and not worth the money. However, do you guys stop to think if newly launched Condo are better for you in the future? Yes, buying a newly launched requires you to fork out a lot of moolah but did you know that the prices of Condo tend to always rise in the near future?
So let's dive deeper into the Pros and Cons of buying a newly launched condo, so that you could evaluate to whether buying a condo is really worth it.
Pros of Newly Launched Condominiums
1. Progressive Payment Plan (PPP)
If you decide to purchase a new launch condo, you are not expected to make the full payment as the condo is yet to be constructed and it will take approximately 3 years from the new project launch date to temporary occupation permit (TOP).
With that, buyers do not need to fork out a huge amount of money upfront.
To book your desired unit at the project showflat, you will pay a 5% booking fee via cheque in exchange for the Option to Purchase (OTP) issued by the property developer.
The developer has up to 14 days to deliver the Sales and Purchase (S&P) agreement to the purchaser once the booking deposit cheque has cleared.
Upon receiving the Sales and Purchase (S&P) agreement, the purchaser has up to 21 days to secure a mortgage loan and appoint a conveyancing lawyer to exercise the OTP. To exercise the OTP, the purchaser must pay 15% of the purchase price in the form of cash + CPF, sign and return the Sales and Purchase (S&P) agreement to the developer.
Take note that the purchaser must pay Buyer Stamp Duty (BSD) within 14 days of signing the Sales and Purchase (S&P) agreement. Everyone must pay BSD for documents executed for the transfer or sale and purchase of Singapore property. BSD will be computed on the purchase price as stated in the S&P to be stamped or market value of the property (whichever is higher).
CPF requires 6-8 weeks to process the application for using CPF funds. If there is insufficient time, the purchaser must pay in cash first.
The mortgage loan allows you to stretch the payments over a longer period of time such as 25 years. The loan tenure depends on the age of the buyer or the income weighted average age (IWAA) if there is more than one buyer.
This simply means a smaller and more affordable mortgage instalment, music to the ears of young couples!
Progessive Payment Illustration based on $1,500,000 new launch property.
Payment %
Payment $
Upon the grant of Option To Purchase 5% $75K Cash
Upon signing of Sales & Purchase Agreement or within 8 weeks from the Option date 15% $225K CPF/Cash
Buyer's Stamp Duty - $44.6K CPF/Cash
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Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty 0% $0 CPF/Cash
Completion of foundation work 10% $150K 5% CPF/Cash and 5% Loan
Completion of reinforced concrete framework of unit 10% $150K 10% Loan
Completion of partition walls of unit 5% $75K 5% Loan
Completion of roofing/ceiling of unit 5% $75K 5% Loan
Completion of door sub-frames/door frames, window frames and plumbing of unit 5% $75K 5% Loan
Completion of car park, roads and drains serving the housing 5% $75K 5% Loan
Temporary Occupation Permit 25% $375K 25% Loan
Legal completion 15% $225K 15% Loan
2. Return of Investment (ROI)
The value of most new launch projects will appreciate upon Temporary Occupation Permit (TOP). Because it is brand new and in a move-in condition. The prospective buyers can view the actual units and check out the facilities in the property development.
When the minimum holding period of your condo is up, you'll be able to sell your condo and bring in a hefty sum of returns. For Executive Condominium (EC), the minimum holding period is 5 years before you can sell to Singaporeans and 10 years before it is privatised. For a typical private residential property, if you want to avoid Seller Stamp Duty (SSD), you must not sell within 3 years of buying a new launch project.
By buying during the showflat launch and being the first owner of the condo, you enjoy the first mover advantage to get the most capital appreciation from the unit.
3. Discounts
Only newly launch condos have discounts and freebies as these are some of the creative methods property developers use to entice buyers and investors to buy their units. From early bird VVIP discounts to furniture vouchers, these are just some of the methods used by these developers.
4. Upcoming Launches will cost more
As a result of the rising land cost due to bidding in Government Land Sale (GLS) and en-bloc sites, future new launches will be expensive.
The increase in development charge (DC) and lack of foreign labour will eat into the property developers' profit margin.
Cons of Newly Launched Condominiums
Just like a Build-to-Order BTO flat, you'll have to wait for a while before getting the keys to your unit. It usually takes three years for a newly launched Condo to be completed but with the current COVID-19 situation, a delay in completion is inevitable. Hence, if time is not on your side, for a newly wed couple, newly launched condo is not advisable unless you are willing to rent a place for a period of time.
2. Size
Similarly to BTO vs Resale, a newly launched Condo will be much smaller as compared to a Resale Condo that was built before Year 2000. The average size of a 3 bedrooms Resale Condo is 110 sqm while the average size of a newly launched Condo is 85 sqm. Thus, if size is what you after, then you might want to reconsider your options.
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What is modernity? Where is the boundary between "science" and what has been known for millennia as "magic"?
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Receiving the prestigious accolade tops a successful summer for the young sailor, having also represented Ireland at the European Championships in Gdynia, Poland and the World Championships in Medemblik, Holland, at which he finished 31st and 32nd place respectively in a highly competitive field of 280 sailors from over 50 countries.
Following impressive spells in both national and international sailing competitions over the past few months, Quinn's success has seen him achieve the required selection criteria to be nominated as the sole Irish Laser Radial representative in the International Sailing Federation Under 19 Youth Sailing World Championships in China in December.
The required selection criteria is set out by the Irish Olympic Steering Group and previous ISAF (World Sailing) sailors such as Annalise Murphy and Finn Lynch have gone on to represent Ireland at the Olympics.
Conor Quinn commented: "I'm really pleased to have been able to deliver consistently throughout the summer and to have met the criteria for the ISAF World Championships in China later in the year.
"I hope to continue my good run of form into China and am hungry for further success on the international stage.
Further to Quinn's impressive sailing efforts this summer, he also secured a place at Newcastle University to study Accounting & Finance, a course in which he embarks on in the coming weeks.
Conor Quinn is supported by Newry-based sports technology firm STATSports Group and regularly wears their most up to date, high performance sports monitoring GPS unit during training sessions, which analyses and gives him added insight into his performance prior to any upcoming competitions.


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Launch of world's first EV racing series moves to U.S.
By Darren Quick
Launch of world's first EV rac...
The iRACER EV that will feature in the Sports EV class of the EV Cup
Interior of race-ready THINK City EV
The THINK City EV that will feature in the City EV class
Billed as world's first race series exclusively for zero-emission electric cars, the EV Cup was originally scheduled to kick off its inaugural season in the U.K. at Silverstone on August 6, 2011. It has now been delayed and will start out in the U.S. with two race events in California at Laguna Seca in November and Auto Club Speedway in December, ahead of a full series launch in 2012. EV Cup organizers say they wanted to ensure that everything was ready before the series kicks off and cited safety requirements, car delivery schedules and the need for testing time as the reasons for the switch.
"The interest in the EV Cup has been fantastic, especially in the U.S. which is why we wanted to keep our two race events there this year," said Sylvain Filippi, managing director of the EV Cup. "We plan to begin the full series early in 2012 and will expect to start with races in the U.S. again before coming back to Europe for races here."
The EV Cup is a seven-race motorsport series that will include two principle classes of zero emission electric cars - the City EV class and the Sports EV class. The City EV class is limited to city focused, production vehicles and will feature THINK City vehicles that have been modified to race specification with weight reductions and the latest THINK prepared motor and battery technologies.
Meanwhile, the Sports EV class is designed for drivers experienced in open cockpit race competitions and will feature the iRACER, a bespoke race car developed by Westfield Sportscars that is designed for sprint racing with a peak power of 260 bhp and 660 Nm of maximum torque. To create a lightweight, aerodynamically efficient and low cost body, the iRACER is constructed from a range of materials, including composites, aluminum, recyclable plastics and even a stretched lycra skin over an aluminum framework.
While Westfield admits the use of fabrics has limited scope for road use, it sees advantages for such an approach for racing, with the bodywork able to be changed in minutes by simply stretching a new fabric body over the framework. In addition to allowing for rapid repairs, it also allows for the color of the car and sponsor logos to be easily changed.
The iRACER can reach 96 km/h (60 mph) in under five seconds and boasts a top speed of 185 km/h (115 mph). The iRACER is also equipped with a boost button that allows for a surge of power when executing overtaking maneuvers.
The EV Cup will also include a third Prototype EV class that, instead of races, will follow a time-trial format that will see entrants battling it out to set the most competitive lap-times on street and race courses. Designed as a showcase for the latest non-production electric vehicles, the Prototype EV class has few design limitations and no weight or power restrictions.
In September last year, the EV Cup team organized the first eco car parade on The Mall in London in an attempt to generate interest in electric vehicles and highlight them as the future of motoring. It hopes the EV Cup will help change the image of EVs as local runabouts to high performance, highly desirable cars.
"We are creating an opportunity for the EV manufacturers to promote their vehicles in a new and exciting way. We want to show that green motor sport is a reality - and an exciting one at that," said Filippi.
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Darren's love of technology started in primary school with a Nintendo Game & Watch Donkey Kong (still functioning) and a Commodore VIC 20 computer (not still functioning). In high school he upgraded to a 286 PC, and he's been following Moore's law ever since. This love of technology continues as Managing Editor of New Atlas.
Michael Mantion May 27, 2011 12:26 AM
Yawn.... This would be cool if the cars were remote controlled or autonomous. They could have different classes.. Like a micro division.. Like a really small, battery operated toy driven around by remote control.. HMM we could call it Remote control or RC.. yah that would be fun.. I bet kids would like that.. I think I am going to look into making battery operated RC cars for kids.. I am so smart, why hasn\'t anyone thought of this before.
Fouture May 27, 2011 01:56 AM
The only reason I will never attend a fueled car race is the stupid noise and the sickening exhaust fumes. EV racing definitely will be something for people who actually do give a damn about our common vehicle : space ship Earth.The very first car races - back in the 19th century - were all won by EVs. It won't be long now before EVs top the charts again. The 21st century will be dominated by EV models.
christopher May 27, 2011 08:16 AM
Humans are so arrogant. Plants began spewing oxygen into our atmosphere 500 million years ago, and lucky-for-them animals and humans came along just in time to save them from asphyxiating in their own excrement (we\'re re-releasing their staple diet). Now some dimwitted masses somehow believe that we should stop, and that stopping might have some kind of effect, on a change that started well before we had any effect on it, and that in itself won\'t be bad anyhow.
Grow up humanity - you are insignificant, and you can\'t do anything about it.
mrhuckfin May 27, 2011 08:26 AM
LOL Fourture! The only reason most people go to a race IS for the sounds and the smells that go with it! But to each there own. :-)
EEwPMP May 27, 2011 04:30 PM
Why not set safety standards, and let the participants design the cars? The idea now is to advance design and technology, correct? I am not interested in seeing who can drive a THINK or iRACER best. Who cares about watching a race with top speeds of 185 kmh (115 mph)? Put out a decent purse and watch how quickly the advancement occurs.
Don Kincl June 4, 2011 03:59 PM
Hardly the first electric race series, Formula Lightning back in the 90\'s had faster cars running on lead acid batteries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_Lightning


Makeup has always been a trend over the last few decades and women follow the trends over and over again to give themselves a new look to grow confidence and bringing in new look.
Makeup trends for Spring Summer 2017 showing makeup inspired by the doll. Squeezed pretty eye and lip color that is very girly. All is not memorable. Keep pulling for reference. Whatever trend makeup. Below are the makeup trends spring summer 2017.
Few Makeup looks say "don't upset me" as much as dull Liner on the lower Lash Line. This is a stunning expansion to our gathering of Makeup Trends for Summer 2017, in light of the fact that it makes a major Effect while being greatly Easy to accomplish.
A smokey eye is a true classic, and if all we were seeing this season was traditional smokey eyes, maybe it wouldn't count as one of the spring/ summer 2017 makeup trends. However, the smokey eyes of this upcoming season are light, subtle, and mostly kept around the lash line – the kind of smokey eye hastily drawn on in the car, to bring a day look to night when heading to the bar straight from the office.
2017 is welcoming thick, long doll like eyelashes. So, get ready to buy thick, heavy eye-liner and mascara, as well as stock up your fake lashes.
Say "GOODBYE" to your pastel tones of eye shadows. Welcome the upcoming trend of pink, blue, orange and each bright ultraviolet colours to your makeup list.
All of us have our style, use what's makes you feel comfortable and beautiful…..


The Saab Network web site (http://www.saabnet.com/) has been subject to attacks from the AOL Network over the past few weeks. Attempts from both the site owner and members to contact AOL about these attacks went unanswered. After the third such attack, The Saab Network server will deny service to the AOL Network and all of its users for 24 hours beginning Friday July 9th at 12 noon (PDT) and ending the following noon. For each additional attack from the AOL Network, service will be denied for another 24 hours, plus an additional 24 hours for each attack.
"We have been very patient and have tried to work through AOL's abuse service, but it's like nobody's home," said Scott Paterson, The Saab Network Founder. "AOL users that are inconvenienced by an inability to connect to The Saab Network server are encouraged to sign up with a local ISP for Internet service."
The Saab Network, on the Internet since 1988, caters to tens of thousands of Saab owners each month via its web site and mailing list.


After receiving a quote of almost a hundred thousand naira for an 8 inch human hair wig, I knew there had to be another way. I'll be straight with you, times are hard and spending frivolously on hair that isn't absolutely necessary is unwise. But, where there's a will, there's a way and as this thing goes we must slay!
Making your own wig is a project, requiring a few household items and others that are easy to find. It also requires as much technical skill as fixing your weave-on, only this time you are sewing it unto a wig cap. So, if you have basic sewing knowledge and have watched the hair-dresser fix your weave, you can make your own wig. But first let's discuss the types of wigs.
Full weave sown on the wig cap. No closure, no true parting. Your natural hair is completely covered with this wig.
Weave sown on the wig cap with space in front to allow the users hair come through to cover the weave. Your natural hair comes through the opening of the U-part to give a more natural finish.
Deciding on the best wig for you depends a lot on your budget, your hair type and your need. I hope the table above helps you in deciding on what best suits you and what you'd like to make. Please note that these pictures aren't mine. They are all from Aliexpress Vendors. I only used them for better illustration.
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Political comedian Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) makes his writing and directing debut with Rosewater, a film based on the best-selling memoir by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy. The film follows journalist Bahari (played by Gael García Bernal) as he attempts to report on the monumental 2009 presidential election in Iran before he was falsely accused of being a spy. For this, Bahari was arrested by police and detained in an Iranian prison for 118 days. Universal Home Entertainment is releasing the political thriller on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD, and On Demand on February 10, 2015, and we're giving away a Blu-ray copy to two lucky subscribers of our WTI Daily newsletter.
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+ Basics of intra-operative imaging and navigation.
+ Camera calibration using multi-view approaches.
+ Different tracking technologies including: RGB and infrared cameras, optical trackers, Kinect.
+ Projective geometry basics including transformations and reconstruction.
+ Review of multimodal registration, visualization and user interfaces.
+ Real-examples using head mounted display (HMDs), Camera augmented mobile C-arm (CamC) and, intraoperative gamma probes coupled with AR capabilities, AR magic mirror for anatomy education.
+ Includes visits to the Navigated Augmented Reality Visualization Systems Laboratory, Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik Innenstadt; and IFL: Interdisziplinäres Forschungslabor, Klinikum rechts der Isar.
+ Implementation of lecture course topics with students in groups of 2.
In-situ visualization in medical augmented reality (AR) enables the registered view of virtual data such as a 3D CT scan, with a video view of the real anatomy of a patient. Data can be aligned with the required accuracy such that surgeons do not have to analyze data on an external monitor in the operating room. Instead, surgeons get a direct view onto and into the patient. Mental registration of medical imagery with the operation site is not necessary anymore. Augmenting medical images and virtual surgical instruments within the body provides the most intuitive way to understand the patient's anatomy within the region of interest. This allows for the development of completely new generations of surgical navigation systems. Our Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) is one of the strongest and leading research centers for medical AR world-wide, featuring the world's most accurate video-see-through AR system based on a head-mounted-display. Also, CAMP has developed the world's first AR-enabled C-arm, CamC, which has already been tested in clinical trials in Munich. The objectives of this lecture are to have students learn the theoretical basics and practical aspects of augmented reality solutions related to the medical field. The content of the lectures are outlined below.


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When energy analysts and investors couldn't figure out oil markets this year, they blamed one group: algorithmic traders.
Oil Up? Oil Down? Blame the Algorithms – (WSJ)
Now, the software giant has announced the launch of three new Watson-powered regtech solutions for financial institutions (FIs). Watson was trained by IBM subsidiary Promontory's risk management and compliance experts to understand and interpret regulatory language. All three solutions are now available on the IBM Cloud.
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"When you have your phone on you, you're available to look at the markets 24/7, but the markets aren't open 24/7," Jones said. "Futures give millennials or any investor the opportunity to participate in the market 24/7."
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Why Commodity Traders Are Fleeing the Business – (Bloomberg)
Such a move is bound to increase the costs of mortgages, home equity lines of credit and other loans linked to the big bank prime rates.
Bank of Canada raises interest rate for first time in 7 years to 0.75% — (Financial Post)
Still, investors in trend-following funds can take comfort by looking out over a long horizon.
Quant Funds That Chase Trends Are This Year's Biggest Losers – (Bloomberg)
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Home improvement projects can quickly become overwhelming. Streem's augmented reality-enhanced video communications platform now connects customers directly to Porch's network of home service professionals nationwide. The goal is greater convenience and efficiency for both homeowners and service providers.
In the last 12 months, Porch's more than 250,000 professional members completed more than 2 million home improvement projects. The website features project cost calculators for a comprehensive list of home improvements and repairs. When you seek an estimate for a project directly on the Porch, the platform guides you through a series of relevant questionnaires before sending your project profile to area professionals who then contact you by text, phone, or email.
Streem's mobile communications platform uses a combination of augmented reality and machine learning to help home service pros diagnose problems or needs, prepare quotes, and provide customer support. Android smartphones require Google's ARCore to run the app; iPhones use Apple's ARKit.
After you download Streem to your iOS or Android smartphone, the app connects you with a Porch assistant. It uses the phone's camera, microphone, and speaker to view the project remotely and guides you with AR tools such as a laser pointer and 3D arrows.
According to Streem, the app lets the Porch assistant capture project details quickly and accurately. It can capture images of brands, models, serial numbers, and measurements to share with Porch network service providers.
Using the information captured by the Porch assistant, the home service professional and the homeowner save the time and hassle of setting up appointments for contractors to visit the home to gather information to provide an estimate to complete the home improvement job.
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NOAA announced last week that this May was the warmest on record, worldwide. Heat persists in the American southwest; South Dakota set rainfall records, while no rain falls in California.
Then there's the college baseball championship in Omaha, a major tennis tournament in England, and of course the World Cup in Brazil. Let's go around the world.
NOAA has released its worldwide temperature calculations for May: Warmest on record for land and sea temperature combined, primarily due to the contribution of ocean surface temperatures.
Land temperatures were the third highest on record for May.
The monthly departures of the land and sea temperatures from normal have gotten steadily larger since January, and if the expected El Nino materializes, 2014 will probably be the hottest year ever. Maybe it will be hot enough for governments to take notice — and take action.
Temperatures routinely surpass 100 degrees in the desert of Arizona, Nevada, and California at this time of year. But the recent heat wave has seen temperatures rise about five degrees above the normal.
More important is the drought, critical in much of California, where some localities may run out of water entirely. The weather pattern still favors dry conditions, with the persistent water temperature anomaly in the Gulf of Alaska reinforcing an omega block in the jet stream which creates a heat bubble over the southwest.
Increasing signs of an imminent El Niño offer some hope of relief, as there is a positive correlation between El Niño and rainfall in the US southwest.
An odd temperature record was kept intact this year, when no rain fell in Fresno, CA on June 21. It is not unusual for Fresno to be dry at this time of year, but June 21 is the only date on which it has NEVER rained in Fresno in 134 years of record-keeping.
If Goldilocks found it too dry in Fresno, she wouldn't have liked it any better in Omaha, where it was too wet. The same weather pattern that brought tornadoes to the northern plains last week is continuing to produce heavy rain through Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. Flooding has been widespread. This weather pattern is related to the omega block over the eastern Pacific, as the jet stream dips south downstream of the block.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota had broken its June rainfall record by the middle of the month; since then it has surpassed its record for the all-time wettest month, previously May of 1898.
The news from the tropics this week is that there is no news. There are no organized tropical systems anywhere in the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian Oceans.
The most venerable tennis event began Monday on the hallowed grass at Wimbledon. Most of the matches were completed, but late play was suspended because of rain. The forecast is for sunny weather the next couple of days, but there is an increasing chance of rain towards the end of the week.
The normal high temperature in London at this time of year is 70. Rainfall averages only about two inches per month — not a lot of rain. But some rain falls about three days per week, so occasional delays in play would not be unexpected.
The World Cup has moved into the third round of Group play. There have been games played in the rain, and quite a few played in stifling heat, but nothing has interrupted the captivating display of athleticism and intense competition. Warmer than normal temperatures are expected this week, which means generally in the 80s in the daytime. Rain could affect play in northern and inland locations.
Vanderbilt beat Virginia nine to eight yesterday in a wild first game of the best two-out-of-three College World Series finals in Omaha, NE. Teams have been dodging thunderstorms the past week in the double-elimination preliminaries, but there was no weather trouble last night. Tonight's game will be played under clear skies with temperatures in the 70s. If a rubber game is necessary on Wednesday, there is a possibility of a shower.
Whether you're interested in having a barbecue or watching the World Cup, the weather around the world always has interesting wrinkles. What's it like where you are?


No matter how many years go by, the fact remains the same. People who smoke are at a higher risk for having heart disease and heart related issues. This is in addition to the risks for cancers and other problems as well. In fact, 20% of all deaths resulting to heart disease can be directly linked back to smoking.
With this, people will also find that there are other factors that go into the increased risk of heart disease with smoking. For example, if a person smokes a few cigarettes a day, their risk is going to be lower than a pack a day smoker. However, you are going to find that even the person who smokes a few cigarettes a day still remains at a risk for heart related problems.
But the problem continues from there. Studies have proven that people who inhale second hand smoke are at an increased risk of having heart related issues as well. On an annual basis, nonsmokers have been linked to heart disease that has occurred from second hand smoke. It is more than just a few isolated incidents as well. One study finds that 35,000 people died as the result of being in an environment where they were surrounded by smoke.
The problem here is the fact that smoking reduces the amount of oxygen that your body takes in. Over time, you are going to find that this weakens your heart and other organs as well, especially when the damaged is prolonged. This can in turn increase your heart rate as more blood is going to be needed to through your body to deliver the oxygen it needs and eventually this does damages to your arteries. Combined with all this, you are also at an increased risk of having a blot clot which can trigger a heart attack as well.
Knowing this, you are most likely wondering what you can do to help quit smoking. The fact of the matter is that the sooner you quit, you can prolong your life ad help to reduce your risk of fatal diseases. In some cases, you might even find that you have an improved appearance and levels of health that you might not have originally thought could be possible in this process as well.
Of course, quitting smoking will not begin overnight either. This is a lengthy process that you are going to need to stick to. You need to sit down and decide the date you are going to begin and stick with it. That means removing lighters, ashtrays and other items from your home if needed.
If you need to at that time, work with aids that will help you to quit smoking and reduce the scenarios that you can put yourself in at this time. As you begin to work on quitting smoking, you are going to feel better and start noticing it has a dramatic impact on your life. In fact, you are going to find that after the early stages you feel better.
To get a better idea of how this works, you need to look at how quitting is going to make you feel. The first two weeks are going to be the worst. You are going to find that you are hungry, feel worn down and that you have new levels of pain that you never felt before. The reason is the toxins are leaving you system and as a result, your body is trying to work past it and in some cases try to get you to smoke another cigarette. This is after all an addiction you are working against.
By the end of two weeks, you are going to find that these problems are reduced and you begin to feel better as well. After this period, you actually cut your risk of having heart related issues in half. That is a significant drop from the increased rate that smoking has on a person. When you combine that with the fact that if you refrain from smoking for 15 years you drop your risk to a normal, healthy adult, you are going to want to consider sticking with the quitting process and working towards that level of health you know that you can achieve in this process. You do have what it takes to quit smoking. Just remain dedicated to the process and in no time you are going to be celebrating your first year of being free from nicotine and you won't likely want to go back.
This entry was posted in Smoking Cessation and tagged help to stop smoking, Smoking, smoking cessation help, smoking facts, stress management tips on May 3, 2011 by Jon.


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In 2017, Tracy K. Smith was appointed the 22nd United States Poet Laureate. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light (Knopf, 2015) and three books of poetry. Her collection Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Duende won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and an Essence Literary Award. The Body's Question was the winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award in 2004 and a Whiting Award in 2005. In 2014 the Academy of American Poets awarded Smith with the Academy Fellowship, awarded to one poet each year to recognize distinguished poetic achievement. She is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities, and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. Her recent collection of poems is Wade in the Water.
Tracy's books will be available for sale from our local bookseller Classic Lines.
Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 7 p.m.
Online registration is now closed, but you are still welcome to attend this free reading. Tickets are not required.


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Last week I had the pleasure of ordering a cake from youse for my wife Lisa. She wanted a German Chocolate cake. I called you all and you gave me the thumbs up and said no worries we'll have it for you. Lisa herself came in to get the cake on Friday and let me say first off it was gorgeous. The cake was just as huge a part of her birthday. What I am saying is that you have an amazing bakery with amazing confectionaries. You provide amazing Cakefectionaries and your amazing Cake with a capital C was a huge huge part of what made the birthday weekend great. As of Sunday Morning all we had to show for the cake was your box. Thank you again so much it was wonderful and you have fans for life in Lisa and I. Thank you Thank you Thank you Mighty NIGHT KITCHEN BAKERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chef Amy and Night Kitchen Bakery, Thank you so much for making the wedding cake of our dreams! It turned out perfect and exactly as discussed. Plus it was delicious. Can't wait for our anniversary for Round 2!
Hello, My wedding on 9/29/18 at Pinecrest Country Club came out better than I could have imagined and everyone commented on it! Thank you so much!
Thanks so much! Best cake ever!!!
Hi Amy,Thank you for the DELICIOUS cake for our wedding! All our guests loved it and it was pretty much demolished despite our also having donuts. We did try two slices(chocolate/hazelnut and carrot) and loved both! Can't wait to come back for our top tier next year!
Hi!! I just wanted to thank you for the amazing cake. Folks thought it was a real castle and were stunned when they realized it was a cake! Of course it was super delicious as well!! Thank you!!!!
Hello Amy! This is Liz and Clifford Carlson. You made our amazing wedding cake on August 5, 2018 for our wedding at Joseph Ambler Inn. We've attached some professional wedding cake pictures (by Heidi Roland Photography) for you. It was hard to pick just one!
We are celebrating our one month of being married tonight by having our last slice (that we froze, of course) of your cake! Thank you all so much for the beautiful and delicious cake.
To the Night Kitchen,Here's the candidate, my sister and me showing it off before we devoured it! It turned out that the combination we used — raspberry filling, etc — is Danielle's (our candidate) favorite so that was an added bonus!
Hi Amy,I wanted to share that Gemma loved her birthday cake. It was everything she envisioned. It tasted yummy too! Thank you to you and your team!
Night Kitchen Bakery was the bakery affiliated with our caterer at the Morris Arboretum. Amy was a pleasure to work with. We did a three tier cake with chocolate, carrot, and red velvet. While I didn't get to try to red velvet tier (apparently it was a huge hit! and the smallest of our tiers), the other two were DELICIOUS. There was barely any cake left at the end of the evening! I highly recommend doing a chocolate layer with hazelnut buttercream, which was so moist and delicious. She can do a variety of designs and clearly is very talented, though we opted to go with a simple pattern. She also will do a top tier for you for your 1 year anniversary if you provide her with a photo of the cake, which I've never heard of any other bakery doing!
Hi Amy, Thanks so much for the beautiful cake you guys made for my daughters 100 day celebration last Saturday. Everything turned out as we asked for it.
We loved loved loved our wedding cake!! It was beautiful and delicious! I have and will keep recommending them!
Thank you for our delicious and absolutely gorgeous wedding cake, When we chose PineCrest Country Club for our wedding and knew we were getting a Night Kitchen cake, we knew we made the right decision. The cake was AWESOME!
Amy, you went above and beyond…. as always. Everyone was walking around going " Taste the chocolate, no taste the vanilla lemon." Who ever expected a multi layer cake with different flavors??? Not one piece left. Can you stand it? Anyway, thanks for making the celebration such a resounding success! All artwork sold!!! We were all so very proudl And you played a big role in making that happen.
Hi Amy, Tim and I loved our wedding cake last year! We got (and continue to get) so many compliments and the caterer could not believe how much cake was consumed! So thank you very much! I hope the attached photo can be of use to you.
Hi Amy, I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are surviving the busy season! Thank you so much for all you did to help make Friday's event a success – the cake was a HUGE hit and the new branding was perfect. Looking forward to working with you again soon!
We had the privilege of Night Kitchen Bakery creating our May 5th wedding cake and we were NOT disappointed. The staff were so friendly and collaborated well with us at our tasting. The bakery even called two weeks before to verify with us the amount of guests and that we still wanted the same flavors and style which checked one more thing off my list for me. We are STILL receiving compliments about how delicious the cake was and it truly was the best cake I have ever eaten. Will definitely be recommending for others and using for our own personal bakery needs from now on!
Hi Carl. I've been meaning to write to let you know how pleased we were with your food and service last Saturday evening. We got lots of compliments from my classmates, who noted both the quality and the presentation. While we've come to expect excellence from you, we do not take it for granted—each time we've been fortunate enough to have you in our home it has been a delight! Please thank Claire for us too, as having her charm and grace was such a meaningful bonus for us.
I just want to thank you for the two beautiful cakes that we got for my sons 30th birthday yesterday. Jenna did a fantastic job decorating the cakes. She is not only very talented she is also a very sweet person. Not only were the cakes beautiful they were delicious.
Amy,your cake was to die for ! Everyone raved about it , but It was I whose standard was met. All the rest just licked their fingers , came for seconds , and oohed and aahed. It was fabulous Amy. Thanx for your best.
Dear Night Kitchen Pastry Chef Team and Staff, I am reaching out to send you a BIG THANK YOU! You exceeded our expectations in service, cake design and taste. From the consultation to the moment the staff helped me carry the cake to my car, it has been an all-around positive experience. The Moana Cake was the highlight of our party!
Thank you again, Jamilah N.
In addition to providing simply delicious goods, you have what is even more key – a great staff. They work very hard, are always courteous & run an amazing business . I am bad on names but Dorothy in particular is a gem.
Hi Amy, I'm a little late in telling you that our cake on 12/31 was simply delicious and beautiful. We were so happy with how it all turned out.
Hi Amy, Thanks for the beautiful and very yummy cake, we all loved it!
Good Morning – We ordered a total of 5 desserts for our Christmas celebrations this year – and all 5 were a big hit – as usual!
Lunch was a big hit! Everyone thought the food tastes like their mom was in the kitchen making it with love! And believe me, for my group that's a compliment!!!
Thank you Amy! The food was wonderful and our guests raved about how delicious everything was! I think iI made good choices. Claire was super friendly and so helpful. I really appreciate you accommodating my last minute guest count.
Dear Chef Amy, Thank you so much for our stunning and delicious wedding cake. The unique flavors of each layer exceeded our expectations. Our guests could not stop raving about how good the cake *and the buttercream frosting* were! One of my bridesmaids immediately told her boyfriend she wanted a Night Kitchen Bakery cake for her birthday this January! When I saw the cake on our wedding day, I was incredibly impressed that you were able to match the ombre frosting palette exactly to the color swatches I provided. Unbelievable! We were so happy. Thank you for contributing to the happiness, beauty, and fulfillment on our wedding day!
Hi Amy, Thank you for an amazing cake, both in terms of taste and the visual. It was EXACTLY what we wanted for our wedding. I am attaching our professional photo of the cake. Thought to share this with you.
Dear Amy, Thank you so much for the baked goods you provided for our wedding last Saturday. We received a lot of positive feedback at the wedding itself, and my colleagues are loving the leftovers. It was a beautiful evening, and we appreciate your excellent talents.
Joe and I just wanted to send a big THANK YOU for our wedding cake! It was delicious and beautiful. Thank you for accommodating my last minute request for mini Star Wars figures. Joe loved the surprise and our guests thought it was the cutest! Here are some photos from our photographer.
Attached I have enclosed a few pictures of the cake from our October 7th Wedding at the Oaks Cloister. Everyone raved on how amazing the cake was… we even had a few folks try all 3 layers. Thank you so much for your hard work on creating this amazing cake for our day. We can't wait until our 1 year trip back up to Philly to see you again!
Thank you so much for such an incredible cake. Really made our day. You staff is so talented, enthusiastic, and friendly. A real joy .
Hi Amy Beth, This is a long time coming, but we wanted to thank you for the wonderful job you did with our cake in October! I've attached a picture so you can see for yourself how beautiful it turned out. We had so many compliments on the cake, not only how it looked but also how delicious it was! Thank you for making our cake dreams come true – and we will definitely be recommending you to any of our friends that get married in the future!
The party was fantastic! Food and cake the best!! Everyone raved! Thank you so much. Claire was perfect!
Hello! We are reaching out to send a very belated thank you for making us an amazing cake for our big day! You're amazing design brought our entire wedding theme together. One of my favorite memories from the day is getting our first look at the cake before the ceremony! It was perfect in every way! We truly appreciate all of the thought and detail that went into it!
Hello! You recently made my wedding cake (7/7/17) and I wanted to send you the photographers images! Thank you SO much for our cake, it was beautiful and delicious and our guests loved it! Thank you to you and all of your amazing team for making our wedding so special!
Dear Amy We were all so delighted with the food and service. Thank you so very much!
I am writing to send a special thank you to Caitlyn for designing an amazing Harry Potter cake for my wife, Kara\'s birthday!! The cake looked amazing, had wonderful details and references to Kara's favorite HP movie. It was the hit of the birthday party! Amazing work by Caitlyn.
Dear Night Kitchen team, Thank you again for the beautiful and delicious cake that you made for our wedding last March! It was so fantastic, and our guests loved it. I am still sad that I was too busy catching up with guests during the reception to have a second piece!
Dear Night Kitchen Staff, A great BIG thank you from the Development Team at CCEF for a truly lovely and delicious catered lunch yesterday. We loved the food as did our guests! The presentation was beautiful. The ordering process was easy. Amy, you were so helpful and responsive and thoughtful. You accommodated all our needs and were so caring and professional. The delivery was even early!! We will recommend you to others and hope to be able to give you business again in the future. Many blessings on your business!
Hi Amy, Just wanted to let you know we just had the cake you guys made and it was wonderful. My son was so excited with his train cake! You did a fantastic job, it was absolutely beautiful!
Dear Carl, Thank you for my last minute requests during the holidays, and for the delicious food you provide for us. We are fortunate and appreciate every bite!


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