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Several ideas floating around in my head lately coalesced into a horrifying thought: What if I had to move, and clean out my classroom to pass it along to someone else? Aack!
The view inside my cupboards is scary.
I am a behind-closed-doors hoarder of all things paper-related. (Peter Walsh had me pegged in a recent article in Oprah's magazine; it's the perfectionist in me that wants to find the best possible way to organize all those papers. Until then, I'll just keep stacking, piling, and boxing them up inside the various closets in my life.)
I was looking for a hard copy of tomorrow's quiz. (God help me if I have to write a new quiz tonight.) I opened the cupboard with the most organized version of my statistics stuff.
Oh, for goodness sake: this whole pile is other miscellaneous stats materials?!?
I am in deep trouble. If only spring term weren't already a train wreck of disorganization! I feel mentally ready to tackle my closets (and drawers, and bins). I just need a routine (thank you, Bonnie!) to start picking away at the backlog.
Maybe next week. I gotta go write a quiz...
Secret motivational picture: my colleague's cupboard.

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Thank goodness the four-week long fashion show spectacle is winding down. Watching clip after clip of models walking down the runways in New York, Milan, London and Paris is an addiction I can't seem to quit. While my travel buddy is rolling on the floor laughing at the ridiculous costumes that pop up on my computer screen, my temper flares and my patience with him comes to a complete and abrupt end.
"But you can't be serious," he says. "Women don't really wear those clothes, do they?"
Okay, maybe not Rei Kawakubo and Gareth Pugh but Isabel Marant, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors and Stella McCartney? We women absolutely buy their clothes (if we can afford them) and if not, we copy them. Mimi and I do this with Marc Jacobs. In our opinion, the man is a genius. He sets trends that women follow for years. Like his Fall 2006 show where he paired skirts and dresses over pants. And what about the untucked blouse worn with a short shrug?
His Spring 2016 line is bold, vibrant and playful. When Mimi and I saw the model with the long sequined maxi skirt, plaid button-down blouse and retro sweater walk down the runway, we immediately got the possibilities, and they were all within reach of our very own closet.
And this is why I am addicted. All these crazy designers get my creative juices flowing.
"You can come back now," I shout to my buddy. "The shows are over."
He sticks his head inside the den door. "No more snapping at me?"
I get up and give him a hug. I apologize for my neurotic outburst. The truth is, he's extremely tolerant of my addiction to clothes and likes it when I dress up. I try not to embarrass him. I know what's appropriate and what's not. When I want to channel a high-end designer look, I go get Mimi. She can get away with anything!


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Sunday, April 4, 2010
The Lunatic Fringe: Transformers pt. 2
Posted by Joshua the Anarchist at 6:07 AM
Labels: The Lunatic Fringe Season Zero
3 comments:
- Daikun said...
Yay! You finally got it done! :)
By the way, I just noticed that Superman II will be an upcoming Lunatic Fringe episode. Will it be the original version, the Richard Donner cut, or both?
- April 4, 2010 at 3:19 PM
- Joshua the Anarchist said...
I haven't decided yet. Based on what I've read, the Ricard Donner cut doesn't fix any of the problems I had with it, but I will watch both and see which one is more riffable.
- April 4, 2010 at 3:35 PM
congrats on finally getting Part Two out. I can't watch it right now because I don't have any headphones... wait, I do! I'll go get them.
- April 4, 2010 at 7:36 PM
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Uirou is a type of steamed cake produced principally in Nagoya, Yamaguchi and Kyoto. This uirou is made by goken uirou in Kyoto. The shop is located near Keihan Gojou st. It will take about 20 min from Kyoto st by train. The structure is little sticky and sweet. I liked this uirou. This time, I choose a stick of three type uirou(sakura, maccha, and plane). Definitely, You wanna drink Japanese tea(green, houji-cha, genmai-cha)!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
投稿者 hikalu 場所 1/20/2008 12:22:00 AM
ラベル: Japanese sweets
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- Jon said...
How does one make uirou? It sounds like it could be delicious!
Sweets in the U.S. are TOO sweet, and I miss being in Japan; they were just sweet enough, but not too much...!
- 6:06 PM, April 26, 2010
- hikalu said...
I've bought this uirou. I'm glad that you like the sweetness of Japanese cake. I also like European sweets, but The sweet in The U.S is too sweet for me. I will treat you some Japanese cake when you come to Japan again. ;)
- 12:09 PM, April 27, 2010
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Generac Holdings (GNRC) shares are down -3.24% to $47.16 on Tuesday after analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC) downgraded the company to "neutral" from "buy".
The firm cut its price target down to $53 from $65 citing weak seasonal pickup forecasts as a reason for the more pessimistic outlook.
Must Read: Warren Buffett's 25 Favorite Stocks
TheStreet Ratings team rates GENERAC HOLDINGS INC as a Buy with a ratings score of B. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate GENERAC HOLDINGS INC (GNRC) a BUY. This is driven by multiple strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity, solid stock price performance and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income."
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
- The company's current return on equity greatly increased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of significant strength within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Electrical Equipment industry and the overall market, GENERAC HOLDINGS INC's return on equity significantly exceeds that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- Compared to its closing price of one year ago, GNRC's share price has jumped by 36.49%, exceeding the performance of the broader market during that same time frame. We feel that the stock's sharp appreciation over the last year has driven it to a price level which is now somewhat expensive compared to the rest of its industry. The other strengths this company shows, however, justify the higher price levels.
- GENERAC HOLDINGS INC's earnings per share declined by 31.5% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, GENERAC HOLDINGS INC increased its bottom line by earning $2.49 versus $1.36 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($3.74 versus $2.49).
- 35.89% is the gross profit margin for GENERAC HOLDINGS INC which we consider to be strong. Regardless of GNRC's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, GNRC's net profit margin of 10.14% compares favorably to the industry average.
- GNRC, with its decline in revenue, slightly underperformed the industry average of 6.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues fell by 14.4%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- You can view the full analysis from the report here: GNRC Ratings Report


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It's not going to happen easily, whoever told you it's easy to code hacks is wrong.
It might be easy to copy and paste code, but even that takes some skill to learn, because you need to know where stuff goes.
My recommendation is buy a book on learning C++.
A great book that helped me learn Visual Basic is "SAMs Teach Yourself Visual Basic in 24 Hours", and to learn C++ you can buy "SAMs Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours"


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Sorry for the delay on the double-winged eyeliner post!
But I had a couple of good looks for Valentines day (or any other day you're feeling very... pink!)
A daytime look to impress your lunch date and a nighttime look for whatever comes next. ;)
If you'd like any kinds of tutorials or steps on any of the looks I do or any looks you'd like me to do feel free to leave a comment. Also follow me on Twitter @Kissamakeup
That's all for now!


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Ski week
Been at Meribel in France all week with some past workmates skiing.
Great company, great food, some good and not so good skiing, some good and not so good weather but altogether a fabulous week.
Loads of runs at The Three Valleys Resort, we were out all day and didn't cover any run twice, we did that all week.
Day1 was spent finding the ski legs, taking it easy with Stuart, Marianne, and Eddy in the Meribel valley.
Day2 we toured the slopes over to the east of Coursevel to a long easy run called Grand Bosses, then some runs below Bell Air restaurant and had an expensive but delicious lunch at the restaurant.
Day3 Eddy and I went over to Val Thorens, but it was a bit of a ski lift tour with little in the way of good skiing. The way back was nice though and we finished the day on some nice slopes.
Day4 The clouds were down so we skied low across to Coursevel and down toward La Tania, the snow was getting a bit thin and icy down that way so we only went half way to the town. We discovered a lovely run down Loze to Coursevel, no sign of any ice at all, beautiful.
Day5 Was grey with low cloud and snow, Hugh, Ian and I managed to have a great day pottering about on the lower runs, taking a tour around Meribel valley.
Day 6 Absolutely fabulous, 5 inches of new snow and a lovely sunny day, Eddy and I went a tour up to Mount Vallon but we managed to loose each other, Eddy down one hill me down another, I spent the rest of the day touring the intermediate runs on the west of the valley, plus a little diversion down to Les Menures, a lot of miles but it was the last day so I wanted to get in as much as I could safely manage.
It was a great little holiday, all the same its nice to be back, I've missed getting out on the bike so I'll be back out pedaling very soon...tomorrow PM most likely.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Gasebo Design Tips
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Gazebo develop into a trend and popular in recent years as a place to relax and hold a lunch at home exterior (outdoor), especially in the park with family and relatives. There are plenty of gazebo designs to choose from according to theme, style as desired.
Then how do I choose? First of all, you must specify the location of the placement of the gazebo. Do you want the gazebo at the center of activity in the park or just hidden in one corner of the garden. You should also be aware of other buildings in your home, so it should be a consideration also its position concerning the structure of the other buildings.
Then the next thing will be a concern is how to treat the side around the gazebo, would you fill it with plants such as flowers so that further clarify the presence of the gazebo as part of the park or even on the sides around it would be a stone path as the path to the gazebo.
There are many types of materials are available ranging from wood, vinyl to aluminum. Choice of materials also must consider the overall design style of your home. Once you select a suitable material, then the next is to determine the shape of the gazebo. Can be octagonal, rectangular or oval shape roof with double or single roof. With multiple roof forms would give the impression of layered roof and more attractive. resource
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This Blog is about me and my family's trials and tribulations as we create a viable homestead. That will feed the entire family itself using as many "green" ways as possible, we won't always be using them but we will do what we can.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Holidays on the Homestead
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I found your blog in August or was it the first of September and have been following your life and progress on your new homestead. We did kind of the same thing. Lived in a camper while building the house. we have been in the house for about 18 months now and living the camper during the cold winters and hot, humid summers is now a distant memory. We finally finished installing the wood stove today and had our first fire. We will be able to heat with wood mostly from now.ReplyDelete
But I really wanted to comment about your last paragraph. I really appreciated what you said. I do have a hard time during the Holidays because I think of the years past and wish I could go back to them and be with everybody again. The big family gatherings and the children on Christmas morning. Well, the kids are grown and a lot of the family has passed or are spread throughout the country. Now it is just my husband and I at Christmas and I do become an emotional wreck quite easily just thinking about the times missed. So I do try not to dwell on those memories and stay in the present. But I am relieved to know there are others that can have problems with all their fond memories too. I am not alone. So, I am going to look forward to making new memories! Thank you :o)
You are quite welcome, it is a statement I do have to remind myself of sometimes; but I am doing good about it myself. Later today I am going to take a picture of our holiday tree and post it with probably a few other pics. I am glad to know also that we aren't the only ones who started their lives with their dreams this way. Have a good holiday!ReplyDelete


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Forget the group hug, next time stash a gun in your RV to defend against these thugs. They are just like the pirates of the high seas and most boaters carry multiple weapons.
I was thinkin that too. I suppose the mexican border guards do a run through of your vehicle for weapons and drugs? It would be fairly easy to stash a gun in an RV opposed to a car.
Shoot, shovel, shut-up?
I would be very carful about trying to sneak something in or out of Mexico. I knew someone who hid a bottle of liquor in their trailer. It was found. A weapons charge could be quite stiff in Mexico. Enter at your own risk, but don't think a trip to prison down there is going to be a great option.
Yeah...this "group hug" seems like a bunch of new age hippie crap. I wonder if this "group hug" made the sexually assaulted lady feel any better?
The surfer community seems to adopt a lot of this new age nonsense. Maybe they have spent to much time in the saltwater and their brains have turned soggy.
Still...NOBODY deserves to have this happen.
Here's a better idea. Don't go to Mexico. It has always worked for me.
"Forget the group hug, next time stash a gun in your RV to defend against these thugs."
Sorry, but that is bad thing to do in Mexico! They will toss your can in in jail, with little hope of getting out, for as little as finding a tiny 22 round or a shotgun shell under your car seat.
Old Pro, you get an automatic 5 year sentence for possessing a gun in Mexico. NEVER carry one across the border, many people that have accidentally driven to an entry port that have been searched and found with weapons get an automatic 5 year sentence - neither your attorney nor the U.S. State department can get you out, it is a nightmare beyond your wildest dreams. You certainly have the right concept, but everyone should be aware of the mexican laws, you can lose your life there easily either in prison or from being unable to defend yourself.
There was an article in Surfer magazine a couple of months ago - some California surfer dudes were robbed, shot, and left for dead by corrupt Federales south of San Diego. I myself am never going to Mexico again until they clean up the corrution there.
Nothing wrong with that, but from a practical POV these were multiple assailants with automatic rifles.
You'd have to be fast, and good to win even with a long gun, and there's a better than even chance everybody would wind up KIA.
Not a routine holdup.
I wonder what would have happened if he had had to kill one or both of the attackers and then had to deal with the Mexican police and Mexican court system.
Thats a really bad idea. The federal thugs down there set up roadblocks and search vehicles for weapons.
After being stopped at one of these checkpoints back in 95, I saw the writing was on the wall. Ive never gone back.
Thats what Id suggest - just stay out of Mehico all together. If they want gringo tourist dollars, let them clean up their socialist criminal cesspool.


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You may have certain preconceptions about the sport of bowls.
This Commonwealth Games favourite has often been pigeonholed as a pastime for elder statesmen, but Sky Sports News' Get Involved series discovered that the sport is increasingly trying to attract younger players.
We visited Blackhall Bowling Club in Edinburgh and Derbyshire Crown Green in Glossop and found teenagers playing alongside their grandparents - something you would not see in many other sports!
The Bowls Development Alliance is also trying to attract players, primarily in their thirties and forties, by taking a mat into city centres so people can try it out. It will visit Leicester, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton and St Helens in the next month.
According to recent figures released by Bowls England, there are more than 126,000 players, or affiliated members, in the country.
They are attracted by a mixture of competition and companionship and relatively low costs for subscription and equipment compared to a sport like golf.
The sports has a number of variants - flat green, crown green, short mat and indoor - which provide a variety of different challenges. Hit the video at the top of the page to find out more.
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KFC introduces five new sides to accompany its fried chicken.
First, the Spiced Rice (Php 45): it is [allegedly] herbed rice with tomatoes and bell pepper. Is it good? Well, it doesn't taste bad. But the thing is, it does not taste as it is described. We can't sense any herb, tomato, or bell pepper. It tastes like kiddie spaghetti, the one they serve in at children's parties. And this side is not actually new: it is the SAME rice you'll get when you order a Texas Barbecue Rice Bowl. Clever marketing or false advertising? Naughty, naughty, KFC.
Then, the three pies (Php 45 each). First, the Chicken Pie: minced chicken mixed with potatoes, carrots, and cream, nestling inside a [supposedly] light butter pastry. Sounds good, right? Well, we cannot taste any of that. All we can sense from the feeling is salt, and from the pastry, nothing. Plus, the pastry is too hard, overcooked.
Next is the Ham & Cheese Pie: a mixture of ham, egg, bacon, and cheese inside a [supposedly] delicious pastry. Another disappointment! All we can taste is salt with hints of smokiness from the bacon. Nothing else! It is blah!
The third pie is the Pecan Pie. Finally, a pie that is not bland! It has a good mixture of textures. The taste? It's O-K, nothing great about it. The sweetness is just right.
Finally, the Wildberry Iced Tea. KFC claims that it is their house-blend tea with a sweet wild berry flavor. Well, they're not lying about the sweet part. But wild berry flavor? There is none. It doesn't have the slight sharpness and tartness of REAL berries.
Based on what we have tasted, there's nothing special about the new Kentucky Specials.
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The door buzzed at 8:15. I was in a dead sleep with pillow marks on my face. Three Germans entered with varying degrees of English. They scattered about into three separate rooms and started packing like mad without conversation. Even though I had all my items grouped together and labeled, things were intermixed and unclear and placed without much thought into boxes. I ran around with my Sharpie trying to mark what I could so we'd know what was inside when it reaches USA. I'd bet that items will arrive broken in this shipment, as the detail and care was about half as much as the two Americans who packed it on the way over. The German work ethic is different, with about four half hour smoke breaks in the morning, things packed willy-nilly without any sort of real apparent order (some pictures boxed, some bubble-wrapped). I kept pointing out valuable items, but my confidence in this shipment is much less than on the way over.
Once finished. my movers hauled all the boxes out the the curb and into Ernst and Helga's front yard. I was alarmed at the amount of stuff I had and decided I needed a therapist to deal with my consumerist problem. At the last minute, I plucked additional items from the shipment to sell off today or tomorrow. They carried the piano and crated it. (That item, I have confidence.)
The truck to pick up the goods was scheduled to arrive at 1PM.
The truck arrived at 6:30PM.
In about 15 minutes, all my stuff was in the truck, filling about 1/5 of the container. An ADAC (like AAA) truck arrived to lift my car into the truck. Definitely the most exciting part of the load. After the car was inside and tied down, all of us waved goodbye and sealed and locked the container. I received my shipping inventory and bid them goodbye. Even with the car inside, there was still an extra third left, at least. I felt better about my consumer problems and decided I was not a horrible person after all.
Ernst was about all day, watching and making crying gestures to his face. The neighbors showed up and stood at the bed of the truck. I watched and took pictures. Helga was away for the day.
Last night I camped on a sleeping pad in the hallway with a blanket and my headlamp to read by. In the middle of the night, I awoke freezing, and found leggings, capris, socks and a sweatshirt to warm up. (And even then I was still cold, but fell back asleep.)
This morning, Ernst and Helga came up and did the final walk through and presented me with an envelope filled with 900E and some change. (my return deposit). Helga again offered if I need anything to ask them (she looked like she was about to cry). I said, maybe an extra blanket. So she brought me a down comforter of her daughter Doris', and offered an extra pillow.
What I've realised is that people like to help. My friend Katherine gave me her spare car. Lots of others have rallied around, helping with customs issues and whatever else comes up. I just have to remember to reach out. Though stressful, it has been also a reaffirming experience. And it's a very light feeling to have my things gone. I am happy (almost... just give me a few more days).


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I like crackers, they are a very pleasant treat for me.
Little did I know how simple and delicious it is to make yourself.
I admittedly followed a guideline from King Arthur, but made many changes, like incorporating bran, oats, and sunflower seeds into the mix.
The thinner you roll out the dough, the more golden crispy it will get.
Best of all? No chemicals and preservatives we can't even pronounce.
Delicious on their own or accompanied by a dip (such as this Greek feta dip).
You can make he same recipe using all flour and leaving out the ran and oats if you like.
2/3 cups semi-whole wheat flour
1/3 cup bran
1/4 cup oats
1 1/2 tsp sugar
1 flat tsp salt
1/4 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp powdered garlic
pinch black pepper
1/4 cup (50g) cold butter
1/4 cup cold water
1/3 cup sunflower seeds
Preheat oven to 400F.
In a food processor, place the flour, bran, oats, sugar, salt. paprika, and powdered garlic.
Give it a whiz to distribute ingredients.
Add the cold butter and whiz until butter disappears.
As the machine is running, stream the cold water until wet crumbs are formed.
Tip out the mixture, mix in with your fingers the sunflower seeds, then compress the batter to form a firm ball.
Roll out as thinly as you can directly on a non-stick baking tray or a silpat.
Score (carefully so as to not damage what it's on) the rolled dough into whatever shapes you want.
Bake for 10 to 15 minutes until it starts to brown around the edges.
Let cool completely on the baking pan, then simply break into pieces using the scored lines as a guide.
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Okay, totally made me tear up. This is pretty much my GOAL as a mother. To have my daughter (and hopefully more kids later) remember me as the fun, cool mom that (as a disciplinarian) could still have fun. I want their memories of me to be positive & to know that I won't always react stern or mad about situations. I think, I get so caught up in keeping a clean house, and a clean balanced kid – that I forget that sometimes she needs to be dirty to truly experience life. Thanks for the reminder & for the project – I'm on board.
The Positive Memory Project: A Mother's Lesson On Fun
Today I would like to start a new project. We can call it The Positive Memory Project (if we're naming it, but I don't know if it needs one). I've been doing this thing, where my brain will flash through my head vivid images that are attached to strong negative emotions. It will happen at the most random times, and feels like a punch in the gut followed by hours of a low mood that I have to ignore or wallow through. The images are of my mother on her death bed, struggling through her last couple days of life. And every single time they flash through my head it makes me sick and sad. Sick and sad, sick and sad, I'm so tired of being that way. So, I've decided to counteract this happening by focusing on all the awesome memories of the coolest mom there ever was.
There are so many, I'll just pick a few for today. Let's get this memory party started, shall we?
Memory 1: I couldn't have been more than ten or eleven years old when our washing machine flooded sudsy water across our kitchen floor. There must have been an inch of water covering most of the kitchen floor, and while my mom left the room to gather cleaning supplies to fix the flood, I discovered the sudsy water made for excellent ice skating-like conditions. I skated, or hydroplaned, my way around the soapy wet kitchen floor, knowing full well that I'd be in trouble when she came back. She took one look at a crappy situation being made worse, and started laughing and let me continue to skate and slip my way around the kitchen for a little while until she could get the water to stop leaking.
Memory 2: My brother and I liked to make potions, and by potions I mean concoctions made from everything we could find in the kitchen cabinets that would mix up with liquids. Even though it wasted her spices and baking needs, made huge messes in the kitchen, and possibly could've poisoned us, she let us do this a few times a year.
Memory 3: The park near our house had swings with dirt underneath them. On rainy days, or hot days with the sprinklers on, we'd head over to the park to play in the puddles that would form under the swings. One particular day, we were swinging and dragging our feet through the puddles and discovered that we could splash the water from the puddles up over our heads completely soaking ourselves from head to toe. Any other mom would've freaked out about her kids soaking themselves in dirty muddy water, but she just laughed and let us do it. From then on the rule was, "You can swing through the mud puddles, if you hose off outside before coming in the house." You mean, we can play and get muddy and then run through the sprinklers and play with the hose? BEST MOM EVER!
What did I learn from all these memories? My mom valued experiences and fun over a clean house and clean kids. She let us explore and get dirty, and laugh a lot. She taught me to get out there and have fun because this life is for laughter and swinging through mud puddles. I was lucky, guys, I knew it the whole time she was alive, and I still do. I fully intend to swing through mud puddles when I have kids. I might even let them have special, magical, potion-making classes with me in the kitchen from time to time.
Did your parents teach you how to have fun? If so, what ways did they show you life was for laughter?
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this is so great! I did learn a lot from my dad as far as having fun goes.. he was always making jokes and we attended a lot of sporting events… so definitely, my fun side was created partially by moments with my father ;o)
What a beautiful post! I want to focus on fun, positive memories as well. At 5 weeks away from the arrival of my first baby, I hope I can be a loving, fun, caring mom and that my kids have these positive memories.
What a great post! My parents always made every day as fun as they could. My parents both made up silly songs and dances for everything… I find myself doing that with our kids, too!
I saw that you followed my blog (In Her Lens) on Bloglovin' – so I decided to check you out. 2 things: 1. I lost my mom at a young age (she was 41, I was 15). So, I completely understand that loss/heartache. 2. I am currently raising money for childhood cancer (I know, it's not the same, but still) by shaving my head for St. Baldrick's (https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/740778/2015).
I just wanted to share those two things with you. I can't wait to read more of your blog/get to know you better.


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Smith Galleries is pleased to announce that it now features the largest selection of art by watercolor artist Barry Honowitz either in gallery or online. See a slide show here of pieces currently available.
Barry was a good neighbor of Smith Galleries for several years at The Village at Wexford before he closed his gallery in the spring of 2009.
In 1987 Barry Honowitz moved from Southern California to Hilton Head Island to further his love for watercolor painting. Barry's work hangs in many corporate as well as private collections throughout the country. Barry is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His background in design and advertising can be seen in paintings and promotional lithographs. He has more than 35 nationally published watercolors with images ranging from waterfowl to Harbour Town lighthouse on Hilton Head.
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Boracay is a small island in the Philippines located approximately 315 km south of Manila and 2 km off the northwest tip of Panay Island in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. Boracay Island and its beaches have received awards from numerous travel publications and agencies. The island comprises the barangays of Manoc-Manoc, Balabag, and Yapak municipality of Malay, province of Aklan. The island is administered by the Philippine Tourism Authority and the provincial government of Aklan. Apart from its white sand beaches, Boracay is also famous for being one of the world's top destinations for relaxation. It is also emerging among the top destinations for tranquility and nightlife.
Boracay Island is located off the northwest corner of Panay Island, and belongs to the Western Visayas island-group, or Region VI, of the Philippines. The island is approximately seven kilometers long; dog-bone shaped with the narrowest spot being less than one kilometer wide, and has a total land area of 10.32 square kilometers. South-facing Cagban Beach is located across a small strait from the jetty port at Caticlan on Panay Island, and the Cagban jetty port serves as Boracay's main entry and exit point during most of the year. When wind and sea conditions dictate, east-facing Tambisaan Beach serves as an alternative entry and exit point. Boracay's two primary tourism beaches, White Beach and Bulabog Beach, are located on opposite sides of the island's narrow central area. White Beach faces westward and Bulabog Beach faces eastward. The island also has several other beaches. White Beach, the main tourism beach, is about four kilometers long and is lined with resorts, hotels, lodging houses, restaurants, and other tourism-related businesses. In the central portion, for about two kilometers, there is a footpath known as the Beachfront Path separating the beach itself from the establishments located along it. North and south of the Beachfront Path, beachfront establishments do literally front along the beach itself. Several roads and paths connect the Beachfront Path with Boracay's Main Road, a vehicular road which runs the length of the island. At the extreme northern end of White Beach, a footpath runs around the headland there and connects White Beach with Diniwid Beach. Bulabog Beach, across the island from White Beach, is the second most popular tourism beach on the island and Boracay's main windsurfing and kite boarding area. Boracay is divided for land use and conservation purposes into 400 hectares of preserved forestland and 628.96 hectares of agricultural land. Statement of the Problem:
Among all the tourist destinations in the Philippines, the island of Boracay would be one of the most famous destinations. The researcher would like to answer the following:
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Investors have become used to looking at outdated PEA / PFS studies with a view that gold prices have come down and development over-spends have proved costs have gone up.
This may be changing, though of course investors must always be wary of feasibility study, and especially PEA, assumptions.
The juniors which advanced most strongly in early 2014 and since pulled back are interesting to maintain on close watch for renewed strength. From Winter -
- Emerging producers with a bent for expansion have been severely marked down.
- the market is now pricing them as if the execution and cost overrun risk is extreme and the prospect for takeovers of these emerging deposits is nil
- There are some very, very compelling execution lift (de-risking) situations
- The gold optionality, or call premium, on these deposits is also virtually nil
- Time and time again during this forum, presenters state that the feasibility studies used were often done several years ago and that costs have since come down.
- Gold Standard Ventures, for example, indicated that drilling costs are down 50-60%
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- The common quote is, "We have good flexibility," and that it's a "good time to build a scaleable mine" in terms of labor and material.


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dinner at castro's in mad hungry mode - m ordered a chicken tinga burrito, and i, with my eyes
larger than my stomach, i ordered a platter of molé poblano.
and yikes! it was too much food for me. the tinga burrito (first tinga here at castro's) was pretty
dang good. molé poblano was good, though the chicken may be a bit too dry - the best molé i
remember was at la taqueria, which sadly no longer exists. :(
we finished the night by walking to a korean grocer where they sold some good old fashioned
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I hate packing, unpacking, and cleaning. I leave Monday and haven't packed the first thing. It will get done tomorrow, I guess. Lots and lots to do. Oooh...I need to defrost my mini fridge. I better do that tonight.
My face is broken out, and I am wearing my retainer. I feel 13.
Sorry for the randomness and scatter brained-ness of this post. I'm sure once I get to KY I will have much more to blog about.
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If there's a theme to the sketches this week, it's: "What the hell?! It's snowing?! Two weeks ago I was playing frisbee on the mall with no pants on! This requires coffee." I gurantee something like that was running through everyone at the Mudhouse's mind at some point this morning. So you get another bunch of people wearing sweatshirts and scarves.
All right. I like to start off by loosening up, like an Olympic runner, or a green rubber band. That's why the fellow on top has a head shaped like malformed croissant. The bottom show my fourth (?) unsuccessful attempt to draw this woman. Seriously, I got this far, then a girl with really big hair comes and sits in front of her, and then she leaves. Do you see?! Do you see what happens when you leave!?
In between not finishing people, I did these people, the top two being lit most magnificently from their laptops. Aware of my sliding hand during the drawing process, I'm just going to go ahead and say that the woman looks "Picasso-esque". The Beard (that's his name now: Beard) has devoted his entire life to displaying his powers of lustrous hair growth to the world. Even his eyelashes blew around when someone opened the door. Clearly, he was a wizard, so I put sparkles around him.
And our last batch of folks here represents characters from places as far away about seven yards from me. One thing about it being cold is that a lot of people who would otherwise have gotten their coffee to go and drank it while riding wild stallions up sheer cliff faces suddenly found themselves exchanging blows and razor cuts over the few empty seats in the Mudhouse. I got my seat by tripping two nuns, a pregnant woman, and a legless orphan. The smug looking guy on top looks that way because he got a table all to himself, near an outlet for his laptop too. The girl, who name is apparently Rose, as overheard through an introduction by her sister to a fellow with glasses and a suit, who, let's safely assume, works at UVA. Now at that point, I was ready to go, but there was still an empty space at the bottom of the page, and a high school girl sat down at the empty seat at my table and we started talking about experiences drawing people in public, and hell, that guy wasn't moving too much, and he had a hat on, so why the hel not draw him, huh? He actually came over and complimented the likeness, which is cool, and I gave him a card. If he cares to identify himself in a message, well, that's cool, but I won't give him candy or anything.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Friends Who are Cold
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- Rose said...
Nice work! This is my new Facebook profile pic. -Sistah Rose
- March 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM
- P. Hos said...
Glad I could be of service.
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What is cloud?
The jargon of the moment is the cloud. People have different definitions of cloud, where it begins or ends are some of the questions that arise. Whatever "cloud" solution we talk about, a definition that everyone seems to understand is the concept of scalability. It is a very simple concept to understand, but difficult to apply. The more scalability, more chances you have to grow and bear a greater burden. No scalability, you can be caught flat-footed and not account for everyone who wants to access the content, or consume your product or service.
Why use the cloud?
We all use software wanting to make business successful. But that success involves a multitude of people accessing your site. And this crowd of access can be predetermined (you appear in some TV show or the home of a large portal) or suddenly you viralize. Regardless of form, have a scalable site is the difference between settle once or break. Other factors such as access log can help you adjust resources so that you do not pay more for periods of poor access.
Differences between horizontal and vertical scalability
There are two main types of scalability: Horizontal and Vertical
We will not talk much about vertical scalability because there is much to talk about … You just buy the more powerful hardware. There are famous programmers, who recommend this technique and it makes sense. Lose days or weeks of one or more developers to write scalable code is much more expensive than buying a high-end server.
The problem is that, at some point, the most expensive servers will no longer handle the load. Then it's time to think of horizontal scalability. This is a solution that is already applied for databases, which can be configured in cluster with master / slave server, for example. The concept is also simple: you have multiple servers sharing the load.
Turnkey solutions
Today there are several robust solutions for you to put your site up and enjoy horizontal scalability. Products such as Google Cloud Platform manage your site, add more servers will free you from the drudgery of having to manage infrastructure, in addition to having to manage your product. However, it is very important that your site is prepared to scale horizontally before leaving hiring a cloud service. Otherwise, you run the risk of seeing investment yielding less than it could.
How to leave my scalable site
OK, enough blah blah blah. I will try to be as generic as possible and spend on concepts that can be checked and applied to websites made in all languages.
- Localhost Is Your Enemy
Imagine that on your site, you get an image or process some information and guard the disk. Then you return to the user at some other time. This works as long as you have a server only, but when the number of servers increases, you cannot guarantee that when you deliver the content to the user, the responsible answer machine is the same as that received the file where the data was written. You can avoid this in a few ways: using a shared file system, recording information in a database or using an external service such as Cloud.
- Cache
Because of your site to be dynamic, have a lot of people accessing the same page will cause it to generate the same data over and over again. Caching server side is an alternative to it. If your servers share a Memcached cluster, its cargo as well as being distributed, shall be reduced, for the first page to generate the records and the other only pass on the information already generated. Caching is an interesting topic, I will leave to address better in a future article.
- Database
PaaS solutions usually take care of scalability from the database for you. All we have to do is point to the database and the cache server is indicated by the service and is ready.
- Asynchronous Processing
Imagine that you need to generate a PDF, processing a spreadsheet; make a payment of credit card. And these variables are beyond its control and may take several seconds or minutes. Holding an open connection during this time can be catastrophic for your product when you have a lot of people in line wanting to do other things.
A solution to this is to have one or more private servers for asynchronous jobs. Instead you receive the parameters, process it all and return right away, you can receive the parameters and queue for this to be running in the background.
The user gets a code or protocol and uses to check the status of the process. When the work is done, releases a link or update a status on any record. The advantage of this technique is that you can have a big load, that instead of getting out of breath, you will take longer to process all items in the queue. Each language and environment has specific tools for this. Ruby has Sidekiq and Java has HornetQ, for example. Another great advantage of this technique is that you can have your site in one language and its workers in another. As long as they talk to the same database and / or the same web-services you are free to optimize / refactor / rewrite the parts separately.
Scalability is a very broad topic and very sensitive too. We can prepare ourselves in every way that we imagine and still be taken by surprise in a part of our system that seemed harmless.
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To Make: Layer Kraft, Real Red, Baja Breeze, and White cardstock. Use a 1 1/2" circle punch to cut two fish. Use a small heart shaped punch to punch hearts (5 Real Red, 5 Kraft, 2 Baja Breeze). Use a hole punch to punch 2 White eyes and a small hole punch to punch 2 brown eyes. Glue everything down!
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People visiting Whangarei's lovely tree-filled Cafler Park on Saturday can expect to come face-to-face with fairies, poets, hula dancers, singers and storytellers - and face-to-knees with stilt-walkers.
Those are just some of the colourful characters bringing the performance arts to life at Whangarei's annual ArtBeat Festival, an interactive extravaganza that will include non-stop entertainment from more than 20 acts on two stages from 10am until 4pm.
Set amid the park's trees, pathways, picnic areas and rose gardens, the festival will feature as much family fun as a wizard could shake a wand at.
"ArtBeat is the biggest free interactive festival in Northland. It's going to be a great day for all ages, with something for everyone," festival coordinator Abbey Cameron said.
"It's a beautiful park with all those big shade trees and sitting areas. It's lovely to see it used in this way."
The morning main stage line-up includes poetry readings, Northland Performing Arts Academy, Scottish country dancing and Sistema Secret Symphony. On the side stage there will be continuous performances by Whangarei Youth Music groups featuring a range of instruments and genres.
At 1pm the audience will be invited to join voices with the Giant Drop In Choir - aka Whangarei Sing - for an old-fashioned singalong, and the afternoon groove will include local musicians offering folk, blues, rock, hip-hop and pop. Master of Ceremony will be the incomparable Luke Bird.
Activities people of all ages can take part in include bead making, paper marbling, face painting, treasure hunting and, at the old cottage in the rose garden that now houses Youth Space, story telling. People are invited to bring along picnics or check out the goodies for sale at more than 60 food and craft stalls. Ms Cameron said festival-goers should bring cash.


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Kaju Pakoda (Hyderabadi style)
In Hyderabad we get kaju pakoda (we call it pakodi) in sweet and savory shops.
I don't know if this kind of pakoda is sold somewhere else; if any one know about this, let me know.
We love this pakoda; it has that crispy and nutty taste, it smells awesome. I tried to make this recipe on my own, after through examining the pakoda by its look and guess what I was sucessful:)
So here is the recipe to share with you all
1/2 cup Kaju (Broken Kind)(Cashews)
2 tbsp besen (Gram flour)
1 tsp rice flour
1 tbsp Ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp finely chopped mint
1 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves
3 green chilies chopped
2/3 strands of curry patha finely chopped (Curry Leaves)
1 tsp jeera
2 tsp red chili pwd
1 tsp Dhania crushed corsely
1 tsp baking soda
Salt according to taste
Oil for deep-frying
1. Mix all the ingredients except oil.
2. Take 11/2 tbsps of warm oil and add to the above mixture.
3. Now the mixture looks dry and lumpy, mix it thoroughly.
4. Take some warm water; now add it to the above mixture, spoon by spoon to make a dough thicker than a chappthy dough, as if it looks crumbly.
5.Heat oil in a kadai (deep frying pan); drop the besen mixture (uneven shapes) take a big lump in the hand and with the help of fingers drop little by little in the hot oil for deep-frying.
6.Fry it on medium flame till light golden brown.
7. Cool it and store it in an airtight container.
8. May last up to 10 days
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I'm violently opposed to judging films by their plots. I'm full of obnoxious comments like, "I don't care what the story is, I care how it is." While there is much more to Asghar Farhadi's A Separation than its plot, the storyline is one of the richest I've ever encountered. So I'm providing the summary that I often skip.
It all starts so simply...Nader (a fluctuating, brilliant performance by Peyman Moadi) seeks a divorce from Simin (Leila Hatami, with hair that doesn't want to be under a scarf all the time) because she wishes to use a visa to leave Iran. He cannot countenance abandoning his rapidly declining father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi) and, after Simin moves to her mother's house, he must find a daytime nurse for the old man. He hires Razieh (Sareh Bayat, with eyes that rear back like a horse's) who brings a young daughter and, crucially, an unborn child with her to work. An argument over missing money and shoddy caretaking causes Nader to push Razieh out of the apartment and the implications of those moments fill the rest of the film. Razieh's husband Hodjat (Shahab Hosseini) arrives in a headbutting fury after learning his wife has miscarried but his presence is almost comforting, as his constant rage (at losing a child, at being underemployed, at being powerless) shows on a surface level. Every other character seems somehow more pained, their injuries muffled, too deeply embedded to reveal.
The events of the film, the particulars of the plot's intricate circularity, are weighed by a battery of judges. In the first post-credits shot, the camera sits in the unseen magistrate's chair listening to the bitter testimony of Nader and Simin. A visible but unnamed interrogator later dispenses more rulings, patient with Nader and Hodjat but terribly overworked. These officials are less important to the central couples than two other figures. For Razieh and Hodjat, the ultimate judge is God, and they are constantly swearing on or having others swear on the Koran (the physical book proves to be Razieh's undoing at a moment of truth). For Simin and Nader, the ultimate judge is their daughter, Termeh (the astounding Sarina Farhadi), who observes proceedings behind frameless glasses, quiet and omniscient as a security camera. By the end, Nader is frankly terrified by how little escapes her gaze, how many of his half-truths she's caught.
This is not a picture of life in the public spaces of Iran. It's an intimacy with Nader's apartment, a familiarity with the way the front door handle cuts a small semi circle into the doorjamb, as if we've lived there for years. People come and go through the space, often separated by frames within frames: walls, doorways, frosted glass. Conversations are cut off then restarted in different groups, rejiggered to just the family, just the adults, just the men. The unease at home comes across in an early shot of a print of the painting you think of when you hear the name Andrew Wyeth. Acts in this private space are so definitive that Farhadi cuts directly from a reenactment of Razieh being pushed to official testimony about the same. The film sits on my chest, heavy and dusty as one of the carpets in that vortex of an apartment.
As we're in an epoch of totally laughable Oscar selections, A Separation is one film for which I can root come February.
28 January 2012
Who Will Judge Us? (A Separation)
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- Vince said...
seriously digging your site. just stumbled across it as just wrote about this film myself on my own blog.
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March-April 2017 | Cool & Contemporary
Cool & Contemporary: 4 choreographers share inspiration, approaches, and advice
by Thom Watson
In wide-ranging conversations about contemporary dance, DSL asked celebrated choreographers Tyce Diorio, Teddy Forance, Mia Michaels, and Derrick Schrader how they define the genre, the pros and cons of making dance in an age when dance videos are ubiquitous online, where they find inspiration for their work, and how they approach choreographing and staging contemporary dance. We also asked for their advice for dance teachers in hometown studios.
All four choreographers also told us about the importance of music as an inspiration and foundation for their work, and they offered advice about choosing music for contemporary classes or setting contemporary choreography. (For that portion of our conversations, see "Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them.")
Tyce Diorio
"My understanding of contemporary dance," says Diorio, who grew up in Brooklyn and attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City, "is rooted in contemporary ballet. When you say 'contemporary,' I first think of William Forsythe, Nederlands Dans Theater, Crystal Pite. I think Sylvie Guillem, Matthew Bourne. For me, that's contemporary dance. But it's obvious too that the term 'contemporary' has evolved and is understood in various ways: it's open-ended, it's left for interpretation. And there's a commercial side of contemporary as well, embodied by people like Teddy Forance, Hofesh Shechter, and Mia Michaels."
"I like dance not to feel like it's been choreographed, like it's been rehearsed. I like dancers to feel like they're living life." —Tyce Diorio
Diorio, who won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography in 2009 for his piece Adam and Eve, which he choreographed for So You Think You Can Dance, says contemporary's commercial side is represented by TV shows like SYTYCD. "It's distinguished by the fact that it's showcased on television," he says. "The pieces on that show are a short minute and 30 seconds, danced to many different types of music, including commercial pop. It's entertaining, it's understood by the audience, and there's a theme and a message wrapped around it.
"Contemporary dance more broadly, though, isn't always produced as television entertainment. Television and onstage at The Joyce Theatre [in New York City], for example, are different mediums for dance to be translated through, and dance is taken in differently in each. In the theater, audiences may be sitting there for a 17-minute dance piece, perhaps looking to the intellectual side of the work and to be transported and moved by something as thoughtful and thought-provoking as any other piece of theater. On SYTYCD, the presentation is different because of the one-minute-and-30-second length, the commercialism, and the presence of a competitive element."
But Diorio doesn't favor one medium over the other. "I am an appreciator of dance and of people's artistry, whatever it is and however it's presented," he says. "I love to watch art. I love to experience art. Even if it's not my cup of tea, I like to see what people are trying to say. And I can stay somewhat removed from my own personal opinion about how and where it's presented."
He does, however, have mixed feelings about the effects of media—including social media—on contemporary dance. "First and foremost," says Diorio, "it's great that dance is everywhere and that people around the globe are appreciating dance. That people can even say the words 'choreography' and 'choreographer' correctly? Let's start there. That's a wonderful thing. People are being exposed to dance through TV shows that highlight dance. People are being educated about what choreography really means. Dance is popular and appreciated and understood. Those are all good things. It's so great to have dance all around us.
"We're living in a social media world where we can easily view dance and it can affect us. Whether you like a given piece of dance or dislike it, it's good that you can see it and experience it and then form your own opinion about it. It's important to have diversity in art, and different takes on different kinds of art.
"That's the positive side of social media. The negative side is that as a choreographer, once you put your work online, it can feel as though it's not yours anymore, as though choreographers don't really own their work. There's a public perception that an artist's work, presented online, is there for the taking. People copy what you're doing and create something that's exactly the same.
"But even then, you're inspiring other artists and you're contributing to the presence of dance and to greater access to it. And that elevates the art."
For his own art, Diorio finds inspiration "in life, in film, in film composers. I find inspiration in other people's stories, chatting over coffee. I'm inspired by everything in life: and not just in life, but in death, in change. In nature, in nothingness, in everything. You can be inspired by anything. And you can create anything."
In his work, Diorio says that he strives for "movement that 'speaks life.' That is, I love how people move in real life—when they're walking, when they're talking—stripped away raw. And I love imperfections in dancers and in dance. I like dance not to feel like it's been choreographed, like it's been rehearsed. I like dancers to feel like they're living life. I want to sit back and feel the effortlessness."
Teddy Forance
Forance grew up in Southampton, Massachusetts. He studied jazz, ballet, tap, hip-hop, lyrical, and contemporary dance at his family's studio, Hackworth School of Performing Arts, which was founded in Easthampton in 1934 by Forance's great-grandfather Gerald Geoffrey.
"When I'm creating a new piece I usually start with the music and I let the structure fall into place from there." —Teddy Forance
"My primary style is contemporary dance," says Forance. "I've performed other styles, like hip-hop and jazz, but I love the freedom of contemporary movement: contemporary dance, to me, is pure freedom of creation. I enjoy watching different types of contemporary, from neoclassical work to something so abstract that it might take me a week to comprehend the choreographer's and dancers' intentions. It's so interesting to watch different contemporary companies around the world blow your mind with completely unique offerings.
"I think contemporary dance has evolved and changed so much through the years, building on what we have learned from the generations before us. And now more than ever I also notice similarities in the textures and musicality of hip-hop movement and contemporary as they are mashed together into a complexity that is so beautiful to see and explore."
Forance has been living in Los Angeles for about 10 years; he has danced for Madonna, Janet Jackson, Usher, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, P!nk, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Florence & the Machine, Maxwell, and Cirque du Soleil. He is a co-founder, along with Nick Lazzarini, Kyle Robinson, and artistic director Travis Wall, of the L.A.-based dance company Shaping Sound, which is now on tour with its new production, After the Curtain.
"In 2006, I performed at New York City Dance Alliance, at which Mia Michaels was a judge," says Forance. "She hired me for my first job and I assisted her for four years after that. I learned so much about choreography and the business of TV and stage work."
His interest in choreography started much earlier, however. "I have been in love with creating choreography since I was 7 or 8 years old," says Forance. "My mom was always choreographing and the studio did about 150 pieces each year so I was always seeing and doing something new. My choreographic inspirations are Ohad Naharin, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, and many others."
Now, Forance choreographs for dance studios, teaches contemporary classes at Jump Dance Conventions around the world (which he has been doing for the past eight seasons), and is part of the creative team at CLI Studios, which offers online classes and resources for dancers, teachers, and studios.
"When I'm creating a new piece I usually start with the music," says Forance, "and I let the structure fall into place from there. I like to work on the ensemble phrases first and then let the dancers continue practicing those while I create other, smaller moments with individuals.
"For the visual aspect of a piece, I usually see what colors and shapes the music and theme evoke in my mind. Some are more natural and some more futuristic in their style and flavor. Staging is one of the most important parts of choreography. Especially recently, staging has been a primary focus for me: to keep things exciting and visually appealing for the audience. For example, changing levels and reversing half of the group from right to left are simple but effective ways to enhance a simple phrase."
Mia Michaels
Michaels says that contemporary dance "is a very personal way of movement. It is a hybrid, a fusion of styles. Compared to modern or neoclassical or contemporary ballet, which are much more categorized, contemporary is a bigger world. Sometimes that also means it's the kitchen sink approach: people put things into the contemporary category when they don't know what else to call it."
"I tell teachers to keep seeking out different ways of moving and of telling your story. Don't repeat yourself." —Mia Michaels
Michaels, whose choreographic credits include Celine Dion's Las Vegas show A New Day; the Cirque du Soleil show Delirium; the Broadway musical Finding Neverland (currently on national tour); the Rockettes' 2016 summer show, which Michaels also directed; and SYTYCD, for which she won three Emmy awards for her choreography, says, "Shows like SYTYCD brought contemporary to the commercial world and to the forefront and made it more acceptable for the mainstream public. With SYTYCD, someone who might not have known what contemporary dance was, or perhaps wasn't even a big dance fan, could see contemporary work and connect to it."
Michaels says that there have been negative changes in the contemporary dance world too, especially with the influence of social media. "The internet makes dance works so accessible that anyone basically can go shopping online for choreography," she says. "We used to have choreographers who were legends. You had to seek out their work and you could only bring away memories and inspiration. But nothing is sacred anymore: you can literally study people's work—and copy it. Right now in American dance, especially in contemporary, that can result in everything looking the same. And that breaks my heart a little.
"I can see the value of this vast library of choreography to some people. If I were a kid and an aspiring dancer or choreographer, to have such easy access to all the choreographers in the world, their work, and their philosophies could seem awesome. But as a creator, it's not so awesome. It's great for a student, but it's not great if you're trying to have your own pocket of creativity. You spend a lifetime to develop your craft and your language as a creator of movement. But once your work is online, other people can basically create the same thing."
So Michaels advises dance teachers who are setting contemporary work on their students to find their own voices—and explains how to do so. "I tell teachers to keep seeking out different ways of moving and of telling your story," she says. "Don't repeat yourself."
Speaking from personal experience, Michaels, who first learned dance from her father at his school, Joe Michaels Dance Studio, in Miami, Florida, says, "When I had my studio with my family, I was constantly seeking out newness, I was constantly seeking to be uncomfortable, I was constantly seeking the unknown. That is part of being an artist. To stay fresh and relevant and new and constantly evolving, you have to be uncomfortable, you have to stay in the unknown. That's where the magic lives.
"There's only one of you ever in the history of the entire world and you should be accountable for your uniqueness. Stay true to that. Be the teacher, the creator, the choreographer that you're meant to be; don't try to be like someone else. To find out who you are both as a teacher and as a creator of movement, you have to know what you are trying to teach, create, and instill in your students."
To reach these goals, Michaels believes that a mentor—someone to guide you, whom you can ask questions, and who can provide a different perspective—can be critically important; a recent venture aims to provide such mentorship as a service. "Because I never had a mentor myself," Michaels says, "I want to be that for aspiring dancers and choreographers, for studio owners and teachers, so that I can help inspire them."
This year Mia Michaels Live—a resource that will offer master classes, chats, and a mentorship program called the Monarch Circle—will launch online. "Without inspiration, there's no work," Michaels explains. "You're creating something out of nothing, which takes a lot of passion and energy and vision; if you're not inspired, none of that will come to life. I would love to offer another perspective and another eye and another way of thinking to challenge these dancers and teachers and choreographers to go into new directions while staying true to their voices, to help them find out who they are in the dance world and to celebrate it."
Derrick Schrader
A familiar face at DSL publisher Rhee Gold's DanceLife Retreat Center and DanceLife Teacher Conference, Schrader taught contemporary and jazz fusion classes to rooms packed with teachers at the 2015 DLTC in Scottsdale, Arizona. (He will co-present a jazz intensive for dance teachers at the Retreat Center in Norton, Massachusetts, this July.) His primary work is in jazz, but he enjoys fusing other styles, including contemporary and hip-hop, into his jazz work.
"To me, contemporary means creating unusual shapes stemming from a ballet base, using patterns, shapes, and line to create visual works of art." —Derrick Schrader
The term contemporary, says Schrader, "can be vague. I find it to be less structured than other forms; it's the à la carte of dance forms. It started out more as a ballet- and modern-based genre but has morphed into a fusion with multiple facets. To me, contemporary means creating unusual shapes stemming from a ballet base, using patterns, shapes, and line to create visual works of art. It has a vibe, a tone. It's exciting. I'm happy that it has proved not to be just a fad: it has opened the minds of audiences and opened doors for many creative people."
At age 9, Schrader started dancing, "mainly tap, at a small-town tap studio" near Minneapolis. After age 11 he started doing other styles to be more competitive, and he started choreographing at age 15. "I was always making up dances in my basement, and really wanted to perform them on stage," Schrader says. "In fact, choreographing my solos was my gateway into my career in dance, and by 21 I was choreographing and teaching at four studios. Dawn Ruzynski [director of Dance Revue in Ramsey, Minnesota] was my mentor. She let me develop my voice as a choreographer. She taught me how to work with every age and every ability, from recreational to professional. From her I learned the responsibility and character that goes with working at a studio."
Schrader lives in Los Angeles but is on the road around the U.S. "almost every week." He operates a freelance choreography and master class business and teaches for Tremaine Dance Conventions. "After I made a leap of faith by moving to L.A., Joe Tremaine took me under his wing," Schrader says. "It doesn't get any better than Joe Tremaine. What he has taught me is immeasurable: 'Never rest on your laurels' sticks with me. He has always encouraged me to take risks as a choreographer."
When choreographing a contemporary or lyrical piece, Schrader starts with a personal warm-up. "It's hard for me to be creative if I'm sore or my muscles are tight," he says. "A warm-up gets me zoned into my body and mind, making me feel more connected to what I'm doing."
For his work, Schrader says, "the music always comes first. I figure out its tone and work from there. I stage the piece according to the song. When a phrase changes, usually the staging will too. I love things clean and geometrical. Staging is like a beautiful frame that makes a painting look more finished. I only use props when they're necessary; I can't stand watching numbers where the props aren't integral to the piece. I was always told, 'The prop is another dancer on stage.' So if you have one dancer, the prop makes it a duet."
When it comes to choosing themes and setting contemporary work on students, Schrader says teachers can find inspiration in "anything! Current events. Relationships. Whatever you do, though, make it clear. The audience should rarely be confused about what's going on or the work's intent. No one likes being on the outside of an inside joke, so make sure your audience is in on it.
"And know your audience. If young children or families will be attending, telling the story of a death or a traumatic experience might be too much. Sometimes it's OK to go there, but take some time to envision your audience and their reaction to the content. I have judged multiple numbers in a convention setting that were far too intense to watch, even for me. But if it's more of a theater or exhibition showcase, there's more freedom there."
In terms of choreography, Schrader tells teachers to "showcase what your students do well, not what they're working on; choreography looks best when it's clean, not distracting with poor turning, lack of placement, or dangerous stunts. Keep it simple and guide your audience through the piece; if there's too much going on, they will start to check out. Pay attention to transitions; moving from one picture to the next refines your work. And remember that choreography is a conversation; you don't want to shout or babble the entire time."
DSL editor in chief Thom Watson is a San Francisco Bay Area–based aficionado of ballet, contemporary, and folk dance. He has also been an internet and social media executive and a political columnist.


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