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4 strategies to maximize the success of your carpentry business Some easy ways to step up your carpentry game and take your business to the next level.
Do you have a carpentry business and want to take it to the next level? There are some easy ways you can step up your game and encourage more customers to use your services. From building a following on social media to adjusting your SEO strategy, here are some tips to help you maximize the success of your carpentry business today. Create a presence on social media If you have had your carpentry business for a while, hopefully you already have a website. But you should not stop there if you want to gather new customers and share your projects. In addition to your website, you should also build a…
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How to host the perfect black tie event Class and sophistication that you can't get with other types of events — if you do it right.
If you want to host a truly stylish event that makes a big splash, then making it a black tie event is a great way to add a level of class and sophistication that you can’t get with other types of events. However, it’s important that you get a few things right if you want your event to be a hit. Does it need to be a black tie event? Black tie events are generally held to celebrate truly notable achievements or milestones. You might hold a black tie event as an important charity fundraiser, a milestone birthday celebration, an awards ceremony, or the celebration of a huge corporate success.…
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How wind damage can seriously mess up your home A look into the top windiest cities in the U.S., how to track where high winds will strike, and how much property damage huge windstorms can cause.
Wind might seem harmless enough on a nice day, but it can quickly escalate into a raging storm that destroys everything in its path. Windstorms can rip downspouts from the side of your house, tear off your whole roof, or even blow over thick trees over easily. The damage wind can cause to your home is not to be underestimated! In this piece, we’re going to take a look into the top windiest cities in the U.S., how to track where high winds will strike, and how much property damage huge windstorms can cause. The top windiest cities in the U.S. The top windiest city in the U.S. is Mount…
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Designing interiors for calm: Your quick guide for the new year We can't keep up if we don't place higher value on calmness and solitude. Here's how to make your home the epitome of tranquil in 2021.
If this year leaves us with any new wisdom, it’ll be about the value of calm and solitude in our often busy and hectic lives. In the past year, many millions of people have been able to pause and reflect on the injustices in the world or the issues in their lives, and approach them with a little more clarity than before. Many have been trapped at home, but have created safe, secure, and calming places to relax when things become too much. In this piece, we’re going to look at expanding those calm spaces to make your home the epitome of tranquil in 2021. Light and dark A home…
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Why is it ok to assume consent during fantasies? I can no longer enjoy erotic fantasy unless consent is very clearly dealt with, but I worry that others' imaginations are not as ethical.
I admit that it sometimes affects my enjoyment of light-hearted pleasurable things and can cause people to use their *confused face* on me when I tell them. It started a few years ago, but now I can’t switch it off. My thing is… I just can’t enjoy fantasies unless consent is very clearly dealt with. Does that seem odd? I’m not entirely sure how it happened either, as I wasn’t always like this. It started a while ago with my own fantasies. I’d be imagining something hot happening with my latest crush, and then the logical side of my brain would step in and say, “but that would never happen.”…
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We asked an AI for good sex positions and the results are horrifying We trained an AI to ponder life's great questions, such as how to get off even harder.
We are trying to improve and optimize everything with AI, so why not sex also? That was my first thought when I first learned of Talk to Transformer, an interface to OpenAI’s GPT 2 language model. (That’s fancy talk for this AI will talk about any subject you care to prompt it with.) I played around with this thing for about an hour, prompting the AI with lines such as “the best sex position is,” and saved the most interesting finds for your edification. Some of these sex positions aren’t even possible on this plane of existence so you know it’s gonna get really hot. The Zygomaticus position “The best…
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The internet is toxic – here are five possible cures The Internet can be a tremendously awful place. Here are some ideas for solutions from thinkers all over the world.
Anybody who’s spent any amount of time logged on knows that the Internet can be a tremendously awful place. The same series of tubes that brings us movie trailers and dog pics are also used to deliver hatred and vitriol from complete strangers. And if you think that things are getting worse online, you’re right. The Internet Health Report, a new project from Mozilla, aims to build a picture of the sanity and stability of the Internet, all three billion online souls who make it what it is. It’s a dense and difficult report, full of information, and although there are certainly some positives, it also offers some chilling predictions.…
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Stop doing these 10 things your vagina HATE Your vagina is sending out an S-O-S.
If you interfere with the normal operation of your vajay you may face irritation or infection — or worse — and chances are you’re already doing at least one of these things. Your vagina is sending out an S-O-S. Listen! So read on to find out about the common mistakes we as woman make and how to better take care of your hoo hoo. Washing her too well and too often The vulva naturally secretes thick oils that defend its delicate skin from the secretions and friction it’s exposed to on a daily basis. If you scrub off those oils with harsh cleansers (think body washes, with fragrance, or surfactants)…
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12 super offensive Xmas songs to get you in the mood for the stress to come Abusive Christmas songs are just as traditional as the more saccharine stuff -- and a lot more palatable.
With twelve days to Xmas it’s time we got in the mood, so here’s twelve songs to count down the days and help get you through the next twelve sleepless nights you’ll be having — quivering with excitement as you wait for Santa to come down the chimney and make his sentence known. We all know there’s nothing worse than cheery Christmas songs about baby Jesus in some manger waiting to receive his gifts from the three bloody kings. I like my noëls to have swearing and derogatory lyrics, I want to hear about the three kings gang banging Mary under the mistletoe, while Joseph fellates a cow, and Santa…
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11 groundbreaking women comic book artists that prove male artists are mediocre The female names that any serious comics geek should know and celebrate.
While the comic book industry has been viewed as a boy’s club for decades, behind the scenes some of the most innovative and creative artists have been women. Here are 11 names any serious comics geek should know and celebrate. Tarpé Mills The early days of comics were very male-dominated, but for June Tarpé Mills, that was just more motivation. The Brooklyn-born artist went by her middle name so that editors and readers wouldn’t know she was a girl. After modeling to pay her way through New York’s Pratt Institute, she worked as a fashion illustrator before working on a number of adventure comics in the early 1940s. Her most…