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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Over-the-River Edition: Galaxy Hut in Arlington, Virginia
Galaxy Hut's official Website
Their Menu
I've been going to the Hut off and on for about 14 years now, and its charm has not worn. Maybe a little, but it's making a recovery since the smoking ban went into effect.
The place is small yet still has room for bands to perform. The decor is amazing, from the painted ceiling tiles and hip wallpapered-and-poly coated decorated tables to the fantastic local artwork on the walls and tabletop videogames (Ms. Pacman, Galaga, and a pinball machine). Not sure how to categorize it. Dive Bar? Hipster Mecca? Just plain cool? They have 20 unique beers on tap and 30 bottles. They don't serve liquor, but that's never been a prob for me. Their menu features loads of many vegetarian options that, with little effort, can be made vegan. I was going here 11 years before even going vegetarian, so I really have not payed attention how long this place has been so veg-friendly.
On previous trips here I've had their IPA cooked veggie dogs with saurkraut and TVP chili.
This trip I tried the seitan bbq sammich with tots. I declined the non-vegan slaw. For $8 it might not be the best deal, but w/ vegan slaw it would be. The sammich was basic pub-fare tasting and size, but I still felt as if I was getting guilty pleasure out of it out of it. Plus, when I come across these gems money is hardly a concern.
The other vegan offerings include a black bean burger, chili-mac (w/ no cheese), a seitan cheesesteak w/out cheese, and a salad w/ a wedge of iceburg lettuce, veggie bacon and vinagrette.
I ended up adding the wedge salad to my bill.
Many of the dishes could be vastly improved with the simple availability of vegan cheese, sourcream, and veganaise. Mayhaps I will suggest this. The problem with making such suggestions is that if they start carrying these items, I'll feel the need to visit them weekly. I think I'm okay with that.
They also have my new favorite beer - Duchesse de Bourgogne Flemish red ale. If it's not vegan, please don't tell me.
* Side note that has nothing to do with the blog: Having a mostly black ensemble and getting dressed before sunrise and w/ no lights on, I had put on mismatched shoes this morning and didn't realize it 'til I got to work.
***Update!!! The morning after I submitted this post I thought I'd check to make sure the Morningstar Farms bacon used in the salad I had last night was vegan. It is not. Doh.
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In late 2013, I teamed up again with artist Benjamin Liebenhals to curate Monsters Ink a group
exhibition of pen and ink drawings interspersed with Benjamin's monster puppets. We invited
thirteen prominent artists to face their own worst nightmare and put ink to paper.
Exlopring the deepest, darkest recesses of their minds and their worst fears, the paper acts as
a window, offering the viewer an intimate and ominous glimpse at the artists personal monsters.
Monsters Ink ran from 7th-13th November 2013 at the Wayward Gallery


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The inaugural Bill Tome Foundation Golf Classic
This will be a day of fun and sportsmanship for a great cause. Happy golfing!
The Seagate Country Club
Sunday, June 25, 2017
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Water slides for the kids (grown ups too). "Dunk a cop", "Dunk a Coach", "Dunk Assistant Principal Clemons", Potato Sack Races and other fun activities for the whole family.


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Chip Dee Music Academy of Music, John Chip Degaard, Owner
Chip Dee Academy of Music teachs Piano & Keyboard, Guitar, Bass, Drums & Percussion, Vocals, Singing & Songwriting, Trombone, Trumpet, Woodwinds and Violin / Cello lessons.
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Chip Dee Academy of Music
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Executive Decisions In Radical Uncertainty
Entrepreneurs: Masters of the Unknown
"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing." William Congreve, 1670–1729, playwright.
A Rational Trap
For two centuries the underlying assumptions behind much decision-making theory have been enshrined in the idea of rational economic wo/man's ability to control and manage profitable future markets by choosing preferences from a given environmental spectrum of risk-weighted expectations. Executive training and learning programs have followed these assumptions blindly and reinforced the portrayal of business decision-makers' behaviour as rational and a practice that can be disseminated in simulated, normative workshop experiences.
In recent times and immediately after the demise of that most rational Master of the Universe i the financial capital marketplace- we have begun to search for alternative explanans of executive decision-making. Explanans that diverge and challenge the partly failed and classic economic view of business decision-makers as rational. Heuristic and behavioural economists have begun to find acceptance and develop valuable insights into the financial marketplace for example, by offering valuable ideas and accounts of the stochastic character of capital market agency ii.
The Uncertain Turn
Central to a number of these new ideas is the notion that future markets are uncertain, unknown, at times unknowable, and that business decision-makers needn't be rational in order to succeed. They go one step further to suggest that uncertainty itself is a pre-condition for economic opportunity and growth. The economic notion of uncertainty dates back to ideas contained in Knightian Uncertainty iii that make a distinction between risky and uncertain futures. Current manifestations of this argument are found in the Black Swan Hypothesis iv.
Neuroscientists have also begun to decipher this distinction and are recognizing the fundamental role played by uncertainty in human learning and value-based decision making. The distinction made in neurology is between unexpected uncertainty (unknown and unknowable futures), estimation uncertainty (knowable futures) and expected uncertainty (risk) v.
Despite these contemporary developments and increasing support for an uncertain view of the world, one that is unpredictable, random, bounded-rational and unexpected vi , the vast majority of executive-level development designs continue to be locked in a deterministic and rational explanandum of business decision-making.
We have argued previously vii that Business Schools reinforce this view with programs and MBA offerings which assume that tomorrow's leaders and executives need to enhance their capacities either in the risk calculus of unknown futures or in assimilating future scenarios based on recent samples of data and experience. Our argument is that too little attention in executive development design is given to decision-making for uncertainty.
Entrepreneurs Have It
We believe that entrepreneurial decision-makers offer a paradigmatic route out of this malaise. Entrepreneurs re-construct uncertainty as a force for opportunity and value, and therefore, their orientations are a must-have in any executive-level, decision maker's toolkit.
The Effectual Method of Entrepreneurship viii and the Cooplexity Model for High-Performing teams ix adopt uncertainty as a central premise in arguing for a reform of executive and leadership decision-making development programs.
Effectual Cooplexity
Both these approaches conceive successful entrepreneurs as Masters of the Unknown.
Effectuation evokes reasoning at the individual level through which entrepreneurs control their immediate resources and capabilities and thrive in uncertainty because they have no innate desire to predict futures. Instead, they create/make future markets in the unknown. Effectuation provides an immediate contrast to the dominant causal reasoning prevalent in most executive learning designs.
Cooplexity evokes communicative rationality x at the team-level, to demonstrate how, using experiential play designs xi we might simulate entrepreneurial activity where leaders in high performing teams create and generate future markets from immeasurable and subjective heuristics in "unknown" unknown situations.
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i Jones, Daniel Stedman. Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics. Princeton University Press, (2014).
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vi Pushkarskaya, Helen, Xun Liu, Michael Smithson, and Jane E. Joseph. "Beyond Risk and Ambiguity: Deciding under Ignorance." Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 10, no. 3 (2010): 382–91.
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I know nothing about flowers but thanks for sharing this one up. Indeed they look pretty and Bukidnon is a place where flowers can grow at it's greatest state.ReplyDelete
Nice flower shots. :)ReplyDelete
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they must look adorable in a bunch.ReplyDelete
A they are called Cosmos pala. My husband also loves to take photos of flowers. May nalalaman pa syang best time to shoot. Hehe.ReplyDelete
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Gorgeous flowers!ReplyDelete
I love your pics! I don't think we have cosmos here in Baguio. I really am not sure. I think it is a warmer weather kind of flower. But it is lovely!ReplyDelete
Cosmos are such pretty flowers. i have them in my garden and they are so dainty. ;-)ReplyDelete
Have a great week!
Nice shot but I think the flower is lonely.ReplyDelete
I really like the effect very beautiful, majestic!ReplyDelete
The petals are just lovely.ReplyDelete
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So this is cosmos. I have a photo of the yellow version.ReplyDelete
Love the color of this cosmos. Have a fabulous week!ReplyDelete
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I also didn't know they're called Cosmos. They look beautiful, love how you captured them :)ReplyDelete
These are your shots?! Awesome! Keep on posting :)ReplyDelete
Such a very pretty, soft flower with deliacte colours! Lovely photos!ReplyDelete
Love the different colors on the petals, and the edges!ReplyDelete
nice shot! love the blurriness of the backgroundReplyDelete
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You often refer to spiritual seekers. I would like to know who can be considered a true spiritual seeker.May 31, 2017 at 7:13 am #5665
Material seekers are motivated by the ambition to satisfy desires, such as the desire for money, honor, or fame. Dogmatic religious seekers strive to achieve God, paradise, or enlightenment. The person whom I consider to be a true spiritual seeker questions everything, including the search and the essence of the one who searches.
Material seekers' life is governed by the yearning to satiate their desire for wealth, position, respect, power, and many other things. They live striving to obtain pleasure, enjoyment, and happiness. This pursuit disconnects them from reality because their existence revolves around a constant projection of dreams. Their ambitions pull them in multiple directions and condemn them to a state of conflict. This inner struggle also reflects in their relationship with the world and other people. For this reason, spiritual seekers are interested not in satisfying but in understanding desires. They do not attempt to fulfil nor to repress desires, because even the intention to eliminate them is still a desire. Knowing that it is impossible to transcend what one does not understand, they commit to observe and examine their desires.
Spiritual search begins when we understand that desires bring about frustration. We realize that no matter how successful we might become, at the end, our achievements will need to be abandoned. We see that as long as desire is present, we will keep projecting selfish longings upon life. We notice that our ambitions inhibit observation, obstruct access to reality, and prevent us from being in the now. Spiritual inquiry is to seek reality, or Truth. Instead of running after the satisfaction of demands and selfish needs, spiritual seekers investigate themselves, their own ambitions and yearnings, and even the motivations behind their search.
Material seekers dream of achieving the distant, whatever that which they lack. Their search starts from a feeling of deficiency. Spiritual seekers, on the other hand, aspire to recognize what they have; they want to become aware of what already is… and perceive it as it is: a subtle yet an abysmal difference. They understand that superficial life is meaningless and realize the futility of reducing life to being born, sleeping, protecting oneself, eating, procreating, and dying. They refuse to see it as a passage from cradle to grave, without any kind of evolution. When they become aware of this inconstant reality, they discover that their life is nothing but an illusory phenomenon.
The search can begin only when one faces life's miseries. Three walks around the city were enough for Buddha to become aware of the earthly suffering that had been hidden from him behind the closed walls of the palace. It was during these walks that he realized that worldly enjoyment and pleasures are trivial. Having recognized the negative, he began the search for the positive. It is then that Buddha left the palace in pursuit of real happiness or absolute bliss.
Throughout history, little has made us more passionate than the search for Truth. From this passion, works like the Bible, the Koran, the Upanishads, the Zend Avesta, the Tao Te Ching, and the Dhamapada were born. Deep theologies and philosophies emerged from these scriptures, but also dogmatic religions, blind beliefs, and fanaticisms. Religious seekers wish to experience God or enlightenment; they go through life with yearning for lights, opening of chakras, and paradises. But any attempt to satisfy desires is material. As long as they strive to fulfil their dreams, there will be greed and they will remain entangled in illusion. In the tenacity to satisfy their ambitions, they resemble dogs chasing their own tails: the faster they run, the quicker their tails get away. Instead of seeking personal ideas about God, it is better to try to have a direct experience. A true spiritual search is existential, not dogmatic.
If our efforts are aimed at attaining God and enlightenment, we will remain with nothing but myths and dogmas in our hands. The search should begin by exploring exactly where we are. If you are a mind, observe and study it. Start by investigating the ego. Instead of condemning thoughts, question them. Rather than suppress desires, get to know them. Inquire not if God exists; question your own existence. If you start from the beginning and not from the end, you shall embark on a true evolutionary process of transformation.
When the pursuit of desires is overcome, the spiritual search becomes much simpler. Any difficulty in meditation is a sign that we still have to go beyond the first phase. Only when we are free from desires, do we cease to be directed toward the future, and situate ourselves in the present. Desires are in the future, while Truth is the now. It is impossible to awaken to reality without overcoming desires. To transcend them is to go beyond thought, and that is meditation. Only in the absence of desires does every mental and emotional activity cease, and we can immerse ourselves in the depths of our interior. To situate ourselves in the here and now is to wake up to what is, as it is. In the present, enlightenment is revealed as a natural consequence.
Enlightenment is not to satisfy a longing, but the inevitable consequence of having gone beyond the mind. The spiritual path is not about adding what we lack, but about getting rid of what we have in excess. Fulfilling desires, we achieve more, get, acquire, and possess more. Only by undertaking the inner search shall we ease our heavy egoic load.
The ego is a lack of consciousness, while the spiritual search is a process of expanding consciousness. Instead of struggling to eradicate the ego, we should strive to broaden awareness. Transcending the ego is synonymous with full consciousness.
Only by looking for ourselves is it possible to get lost, dissolve, and empty ourselves. The wave is the individual aspect of the sea; the sea is the oceanic aspect of the wave. Examining the components of a drop, we shall understand the ocean. Likewise, if we begin by analyzing our individual aspect, we will end up accessing the divine one. When inquiring into the personal, we access the universal. Observing the part, we will understand the Whole. The spiritual quest is just an effort to create the proper situation. When conditions are favorable, we shall notice that Truth, enlightenment, and God are already there… exactly where we are.
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When soft water
Turns to heavy snow,
The strongest trees
Learn to bend and bow.
P. Ciavardone
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As she stood against the wall,
Standing straight. Standing tall.
Smooth as glass, she could not climb,
She must ascend, can't look behind.
The birds had grown their wings to serve,
When they could no longer live bound to Earth.
Her wings were just thoughts within her mind,
Wings she could grow from the other side.
She looked past the Owl, who dared dream by day,
But then heard her own voice "Here you must stay."
So gently she knelt beside the wall,
Kneeling soft. Kneeling small.
Mute as the mountain she struggled to pray.
She must descend, she cannot stay.
The birds sing songs to find fellow souls,
When songs turn to prayer they will heal and console.
Her wounds still thoughts fresh in her mind.
Wounds she could heal, from some other side.
She reached towards a sparrow who dared to be plain.
But she heard her soul speak "You can't hold her pain."
Yearning she'd reach up to the sky,
Reaching out. Reaching high.
Without her wings she longed to leap,
But bound to earth her roots ran deep.
Angels stand ready to lift broken Ones,
When unlived dreams leave songs unsung.
Her dreams and songs this life denied,
Visions she could seek, from some other side.
She imagined her Angels, who dared trust The One.
And she heard in her Heart "The Soul dies to none"
P. Ciavardone
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When our Angels grow their wings and fly free from the flock, remember their journey will always be Blessed with the same Angel wings that had brought them to us.
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As she raked her fingers across the sky, she imagined the contrails were the scars she left in heaven when she asked her angel to take her pain away. From her humble perch the scars were beautiful accomplishments on a scale she never imagined she could touch. They were in God's hands now.
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Alone I feel the earth through my feet, the world through my heart and the Universe through my thoughts. As one single piece of the infinite creation, I am Alone, but with Everything.
Loneliness is to stand on the earth and not touch it. It is to not see the world around you through your heart or feel the other souls passing through this same space of Everything. Loneliness is to make yourself the Lone thought in your own creation.
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You know what its like to sit unnoticed between the road and the edge of peaceful waters. To watch the small children run by, not even a glance. To the clouds in the sky you ask "Why am I here?"
"To teach". You know, but what and how? Your movement through their lives is so slow they can not even perceive it. You are a perfect creature of the Universe and you obey its every command. To be totally still unless moved by the wind. To shelter whatever creature chooses to tear a hole in your being. To teach the children about joy even as they break your own young limbs. And as you grow to be taller and stronger then you ever imagined that even they could be, you pull them up into your heart so that they can experience the joys of watching the world dance around them while hidden in you invisibility.
And when they come to walk their own children by you, again without noticing you, you shower them with all of the beautiful colors they could never have imagined, until you are worn and naked, and face another winter exposed and alone but dreaming of spring.
Then once again after many years she strolls by, but now, with bittersweetness, she slows and turns towards you and rests her weary bones on your legacy to be one with the earth through you again. And through her you are taller than the mightiest tree still standing, as your soul joins with her's to reach from the rooted earth to her heart and on to heaven because you have taught her that. And without her ever noticing.
-P. Ciavardone
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While awakening to our own ability to create better reality for ourselves, people seem to be moving away from the word Hope. Maybe because the word implies the possibilities of struggle and set backs. No matter how much we think we get it, we will continue to face struggle along the way. Hope is still a beautiful word in my book. Hope is what catches us when we are falling and Believing is what gives us the wings to get off the ground.
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Define success…then let it go. Like a minnow in the stream, who knows where it will go or what it will feed, but like everything else born in the stream it is part of the flow.
Build your alters in the stream, for the stream, to the steam and those too will flow away when the storm comes. Some to rest on the bottom in blissful peace and some to tumble on to be part of the next monument.
What is success? The minnow that swims with the flow of the stream? The peaceful stone awash on the bottom, looking through and feeling the flow of the water? Or the lives and the monuments we build that will ultimately also belong to the flow of the stream.
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I remember scary. I remember it everyday. When the sun comes up and I have to do it all over again, that's scary. Until I realize the air I breath is still there and still as sweet as God's own breath, and I hear the beautiful songs that the birds are singing to the sun. They may go hungry today or face a fierce storm or lose a hatchling but for this moment they sing to the sun because that is their gift to God's gift. Returning their joy to be soaked up by all who will stop and listen, in that moment, And in that moment which is all that exist, joy trumps scary because joy is everything God gives us and scary is just an impulse in our brain.
Then comes the next moment and here comes scary again. Maybe bigger and harder this time. We all face it. But do you choose the joy in the moment that God gives and will always give back whenever you stop and breathe it in or do you let scary take that moment away? Honor the battle but Honor more the joy that is yours to live.
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Her spiral took the hawk further and further up with each ascent, never once having to flap her wings, sailing only on winds warmed by the sun. Head held up pointed to the sky, wings and body opened and angled to receive. Receiving higher and higher. Accepting effortlessly.
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There are some teachers that have hurt me just by being human in their actions towards me. There are some teachers that have lifted my head above the water then up to the sky just by being soulful in their actions towards me.
Remember we are all teachers. Lead with your soul and you will heal the human in both of us.
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Who would have thought I would have noticed the lack of contrails in the sky or the absence of air traffic noise. The world had become a surreal place overnight. The passengers on the train uncharacteristically acknowledged each other as if silently comforting each other, but no words were spoken. We were just together.
When I was a little girl I asked my mother what hell was. I couldn't reconcile myself to the Idea that the God I grew up with would hurt or torture people. My mom's answers was simply that hell was the lack of the presence of God. That didn't sound too bad to me as a child. As a child I couldn't comprehend what that meant but it was an answer that seemed like a more gentle consequence. A choice already made by the souls that ended up there. After 9/11 I finally understood. I had never realized that God was a constant presence in my life. A part of every second of every day and I had just taken that presence for granted.
On 9/11, for the first time in my life, I felt the absence of God. He had totally left us as if he had never existed. It was the most painful, empty, frightening, lonely feeling I had ever experienced. I remembered what my mom had told me as a child and now it made perfect sense to me.
Several days later God came back to me in a sunset, a way he often shows himself to me, and started to help me heal from his absence. A slow process for all of us. I never want to be in hell again.
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The mightiest noise,
It's the cricket when you are trying to listen in the night,
The cicada when you are trying to hear rustle of the leaves,
The waves when you are waiting for the ebb of the ocean,
The thunder when you are trying to catch the lightning,
And the earth when you are trying to heed the stars.
We lose the awesomeness of the whole when we disregard the ordinary amazingness all around us.
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We have points in our life when we feel like we've almost reached the end of that guide rope we hold onto and all of the sudden we have dropped the rope and now we are lost, again. We all want our angel to put that rope back in our hands so we can get to the end sure we have gone the right way because like good children, we have followed the path laid out for us.
When we've lost our grip on that rope is the answer to gently probe the area already staked out for us or is it an invitation to be our own guide? How else do we learn to live as free spirits, to run or fly or swim if we can't let go of the rope. That rope will always be there should we need it and our angels will always be happy to put it back in our hand or even hold our hand if we need. But if that help doesn't come as soon as you'd like, consider that you angel may be challenging you to take that walk into the forest and learn by adventure.
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Dragonfly Dreams and Better
We've all done this. Once in a while we'll ask for a special experience in a dream. Maybe a chance to feel what it's like to fly or to speak with a lost loved one. Once in a while we'll be inspired to ask for a special indulgence, To experience something outside of what we can fully experience in our waking life, because sleep is where we are allowed to experience all possibilities without having to answer to logic. My special request had to do with the artist in me. I was feeling stagnant and stuck. I could paint a pretty picture but felt unable to create art that would inspire anyone to feel anything on an emotional level.
During a before bed meditation and prayer I put out a dream request to experience what it is like to see through the eyes of a dragonfly. Dragonflies have a 360 degree field of vision. They see a much greater range of colors than humans starting at orange (no red but that's not one of my favorite colors anyway) all the way up the range of UV light not visible to the human eye. What a magnificent world they must see! To experience that just briefly in a dream could teach me to see like an artist again. The first and most important part of being an artist is to see through the eyes of an artist. Any technical skills are mechanical and can be learned, or not, depending how you chose to express yourself.
When I woke up the next morning from a very sound sleep I couldn't remember any of my dreams, let alone a dragonfly dream, but not to worry. Answers almost never come when and how you expect. Just stay open and you will recognize it later, when you are not looking for it.
Later that day we had gone through another series of earlier evening thunderstorms that were quickly dissolving as the sunset became visible. What was left of the storms created a deliciously fluffy kaleidoscope of colors. Bright burning orange cottony clouds piled along the eastern horizon, bordered by beautiful blue, purple and gray frosted outlined clouds occupying different places in the atmosphere. At first I just wanted to sit back and enjoy because it was wonderful just watching the colors and shapes change. Part of me wanted to grab my camera because I would probably never see those colors again but my logical mind said "Why bother? In 10 minutes there are going to be ½ a dozen pictures of the same clouds on face book. Any more there are an infinite number of pictures of magnificent clouds on the internet". But something deeper inside told me the pictures were an important part of holding onto the inspiration.
The next day I downloaded the photos onto the computer for a closer look. It was then that I realized I had lived my Dragonfly dream, confirmed by the dragonfly caught very clearly flying through a photo against the brightly burning clouds in the background.
– P.Ciavardone
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Shannen Doherty Completes Cancer Treatment: 'The Waiting Game is Here'
Shannen Doherty is all done with her six straight weeks of chemotherapy!
The 45-year-old Charmed actress was diagnosed with breast cancer back in March 2015, and she took to Instagram on Friday (February 24) to update fans on her journey.
"#Fbf to this morning," she captioned a photo of herself laying in bed (below). "Oct7,2016… not that long ago. Last day of chemo. Exhausted."
"Now that I'm done with chemo and radiation, the waiting game is here," Shannen went on. "Waiting for test. Waiting to see if I'm clear or not. Waiting for reconstruction. Waiting."
"I think when one gets cancer, they are always waiting to a certain extent," she added. "To those who know… I'm waiting with you. #cancerslayer 🎀."
If the tests reveal that Shannen is cancer cell-free, she will be able to receive breast reconstruction surgery.
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If your graduate analytical training was anything like mine, you found out ANOVA in one class and Direct Regression in another. My teachers would typically state things like "ANOVA is simply an unique case of Regression however offer unclear responses when pushed. When somebody revealed me this, a light bulb went on, even though I currently understood both ANOVA and mulitple direct regression rather well and currently had my masters in stats!).
Expect you have actually gathered information on cycle time, income, the measurement of a manufactured part, or some other metric that is necessary to you, and you wish to see exactly what other variables might be connected to it. Now exactly what?
When I finished from college with my very first data degree, my diploma was bona fide evidence that I 'd sustained hours and hours of class lectures on different analytical subjects, consisting of direct regression, ANOVA, and logistic regression. There wasn't a single class that put it all together and described which tool to utilize when. I have all of this information for my Y and X's and I desire to explain the relationship in between them, however exactly what do I do now Back then, I want somebody had actually plainly laid out which regression or ANOVA analysis was most fit for this type of information or that.
In the previous laboratory we described how to make forecasts from a basic direct regression design and likewise took a look at the relationship in between the action and predictor variables. We have actually fitted a line to the information and seen whether one variable tends to reduce or increase as the other variable boosts. Utilizing the fire damage dataset from last week fit a basic direct regression design.
ANOVA is actually an analysis of variation. Yes, initially though you consider comparing 2 or more information sets and attempting to conclude if they are the various or very same, and ANOVA does this through comparing their variations. There is a recurring term which reveals the distinction in between the difference within each information set and compared with the difference in between each information set.
When I do a regression be it non-linear or direct, single or several I am aiming to describe some part of variation in the Y information based upon The hope is that I have actually discussed the variation in the Y information through the regression, and just have actually left a set of recurring information. ANOVA assists me to demonstrate how much of the variation is within the fit versus left over in the residuals.
The theory of regression utilizing the least-squares fit presumes that you have the ability to describe all the variation in the Y information, with the exception of a set of recurring information, which are independent from each other, and arbitrarily dispersed as a Regular random variable with mean no, and some variation which is determined by the ANOVA.
Analysis of variation is comparable to regression in that it is utilized to design the relationship and examine in between a reaction variable and one or more independent variables. Analysis of difference varies from regression in 2 methods: the independent variables are qualitative categorical and no presumption is made about the nature of the relationship (that is, the design does not consist of coefficients for variables). The category variable, or element, normally has 3 or more levels one-way ANOVA with 2 levels is comparable to a t-test where the level represents the treatment used.I have actually composed a variety of post about regression analysis and I have actually gathered them here to produce a regression tutorial. I'll supplement my own posts with some from my coworkers.
This tutorial covers lots of elements of regression analysis consisting of: selecting the kind of regression analysis to utilize, defining the design, analyzing the outcomes, figuring out how well the design fits, making forecasts, and inspecting the presumptions. At the end, I consist of examples of various kinds of regression analyses.
Exactly what are the typical errors that even specialists make when it comes to regression analysis? And, how do you identify a great regression analysis from a less strenuous regression analysis? Sure, regression creates a formula that explains the relationship in between one or more predictor variables and the reaction variable.
The awareness that a design exists for all ANOVA circumstances, and that it and it alone is the basis for the building and construction of an ANOVA table, may be helped by understanding that ANOVA is, almost comparable to a regression analysisSo where does R2 come from– it develops as a fundamental check of the quantity of variation described by the ANOVA. Regression is simply the basic act of algebraically fitting a line/surface through a cloud of points and the formulas for doing this can be discovered in any fundamental book on regression. Regression ANALYSIS, on the other hand, includes evaluating the fit of the surface area and the accuracy of the terms in the regression.
When I finished from college with my very first stats degree, my diploma was bona fide evidence that I 'd sustained hours and hours of class lectures on numerous analytical subjects, consisting of direct regression, ANOVA, and logistic regression. And, how do you identify an excellent regression analysis from a less extensive regression analysis? Regression is simply the easy act of algebraically fitting a line/surface through a cloud of points and the formulas for doing this can be discovered in any fundamental book on regression. Regression ANALYSIS, on the other hand, includes examining the fit of the surface area and the accuracy of the terms in the regression.


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Today group B were the first to take on the awesome cliffs in via ferrate and the first to slide down the canyoning. Check out our first album of the week!
As you can see the weather was fantastic as we headed out for the day!
Via ferrata started with a short climb up to the rock face and then we were clipped on to a wire running along the rock face which we followed for the rest of the way. The wire firstly took us upwards on some metal footings secured into the rock before we traversed across the hillside including crossing a frightening wobbly bridge.
Canyoning was fantastic - we were given wet suits and helmets and off we went onto a set of natural slides, drops and pools carved into the rock by the river over the years. It was a real treat to jump into the freezing river on such a hot day and the activity was fast and furious as we slide down the rocks into the pools and jumped off ledges into the deep bits.
More group updates to follow as we head for mountain biking tomorrow, high ropes and white water rafting on Tuesday and we climb to the mountain hut on Wednesday.
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Mistress Celine is the leader of her group and both she and the group are very popular in the school. She gets lots of requests from people wanting to join her group. Today it was this girl who wanted to join her group. But she had to vet her first and she did it by making him lick the soles of her dirty sneakers. As she did this, Celine was reading a book and chatting on phone with her other friends.
Mistress BlackDiamoond and her friend wanted foot massages. They got these losers who thought they were lucky and were going to have fun with these mistresses. They did not know that the mistresses had something totally different in their minds. They made the losers give them foot rubs and when they were satisfied, instead of having fun with them, they chased them out of their house without even their clothes.


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Some of you may have caught dollfin throwing down at Chipspace in years past, but this Super MAG 2018 marks his first turn on the main stage. There's been a good bit of evolution and experimentation in his chip artistry over the years, but rest assured that you can count on him to throw down at the Chiprave with some super dirty dub and trap beats!
A 1-man metal band creating aggressive dance tunes on a Game Boy.


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Wearing: American Apparel 3-D Flower Mesh Jumper - Forever 21 Basic Chiffon Tunic - Cheap Monday Black Tight Skinny Jean
Last Thursday night was the Santana Row Fashion's Night Out, the street was filled with fashionable folk and bargain hunters enjoying the special sales and general atmosphere. Fashion shows were held throughout the night with brands such as Free People and Michael Costello of Project Runway displaying their latest creations. Apart from the freezing temperature, twas a good night.


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Le Reve's Benoit Beaufils' Dream
By Marla Santos
Le Rêve—The Dream has been playing in Las VegasLas Vegas is such a success. The remarkably talented cast performs synchronized swimming routines, dances in the water while aerialists fly through the air, and divers leap from up to 80 feet above the pool. They put on an absolutely breathtaking performance. During the 10 years Le Rêve has run, more than 5.2 million people from all over the world have seen it.
Le Rêve's multi-talented cast member, Benoit Beaufils, took a brief leave of absence last month to fulfill his own dream. He left for Kazan, Russia, to compete for his home country of France in the FINA World Championship for synchronized swimming. This is the first time that FINA, the international governing authority for aquatic sports, has added a mixed duet to the 2015 world championships, and a first for men, who can now compete.
Performing in Le Rêve nightly for 10 years as a swimmer and acrobat, Benoit Beaufils hasn't competed nationally for 17 years. After performing on France's national championship swimming team, and then realizing he could accomplish nothing further, because men were not allowed to compete with women in the Olympics, at the age of 18, he decided to move to the United States. Since he left France, no one has surpassed his skills, and he is still considered to be one of the top accomplished male synchronized swimmers in the world. When the mixed duet was added, Beaufils was contacted by France's national team coach and asked if he'd be willing to represent France and compete with Virginie Dedieu. "I didn't hesitate for a minute," said Beaufils. Dedieu is France's best and most decorated swimmer, plus she won the bronze medal in the women's duet at the 2000 Summer Olympics. "It was 100 percent a dream come true."
SMARTY: How long have you been swimming?
BEAUFILS: I've been swimming since I was 7 years old. I competed for France until I was about 20 years old and I've been in Vegas since then.
SMARTY: With you working nightly at Le Rêve, and Virginie living and working in France, how did you train?
BEAUFILS: We trained separately for nine months. We recorded our training sessions on video and sent them to each other via the Internet. We had about five or six training sessions together. Getting into shape for the last nine months was a lot of work. I said yes without any hesitation, but a week after the workouts and doing the show at night, I realized what I had gotten myself into. Besides, when I said yes, my daughter was only a week old and I didn't realize how complicated and demanding life would become.
" Now I'm in better shape than ever. I have stamina, endurance, and strength like I used to when I was younger."
SMARTY: At 37, you are older than some of your challengers. Did you ever see that as a problem?
BEAUFILS: The youngest teams from Russia, Italy and Spain were in their late teens or early twenties. I remember my stamina when I was 18 and I was unstoppable. We had to be a lot smarter in the way we choreographed the routine, so we'd be able to run it all the way through. I think the difference with the older performers is that we have more experience as far as performing goes. Personally, in the last 17 years, I feel I've developed quite a good acting skill. That's what we really tried to put in our number, basing the choreography about the relationship between a man and a woman, more than just applying just technique and same arm movements. Instead, we went for more of a "pas de deux" (dance for two) that you would see in dance. The younger teams put a lot of emphasis on technique. I think our strong point was definitely our artistry. Virginie has always been known for how beautiful an actress she was in the water. I think that's what also attracted our coach to me. Virginie has a unique form, and every time the coach came to see me in the show, she saw what a chameleon I was, because Le Rêve requires a lot of versatility in the acting. In some acts you're a very strong warrior, then you're a lover, the next you're a jealous man. You have to put your acting skills to work. That's why I'm very thankful for Le Rêve. The show has given me a lot of versatility in this aspect.
SMARTY: Nightly, when you swim in Le Rêve, what is the temperature of the pool and does that differ from the pool in which you will swim in Russia?
BEAUFILS: The pool here at Wynn is kept at 89 degrees. Some of us have to be in the water for the entire show, so it would be quite challenging if the pool was 82 or 81, the way they are in a municipal pool. In Russia, the temperature was about 80-81 degrees.
SMARTY: How tall are you and Virginie, and did the height present an advantage or disadvantage?
BEAUFILS: I'm 5'8" and I think she's 5'6". An advantage? Yes and no. If she was shorter, she would also be lighter, and with all the lifting that we do in the routine, it would be easier. She's also so skinny. She's very, very thin, even though she's had two children; she came back in amazing shape. It's easy to lift her, because she's less than 100 pounds, so it's not that difficult for me.
SMARTY: Who picked the music for your routine?
BEAUFILS: The song choice was a very important decision. The three of us: the coach, Virginie and I had a lot of input and decided on the music. Then it became very inspirational to our whole choreograph, in general.
SMARTY: What acrobatic things do you do in Le Rêve?
BEAUFILS: I don't do the high diving; I do a lot of the high flying. I'm an aerialist, so I do the rope number, which comes from 80 feet up in the air. I do most of my routine at about 40-50 feet above the pool. Being a synchronized swimmer was great, and the next step was moving to an aerial job, and my favorite part of Le Rêve has been able to fly every night. Because of some of the high-flying acrobatics I do, I have to train at least once a week.
SMARTY: Do you have a special diet while you're training?
BEAUFILS: Getting older, your metabolism slows down, so I was trying to be very careful. The good thing now, swimming 4 hours a day, I'm constantly hungry. Now I can eat pretty much whatever I want and stay very fit. It was a big adjustment when I was done with the competition. It's been really hard to watch what I eat again.
Beaufils and his partner, who performs in Cirque du Soleil's Mystere at Treasure Island, have a 10-month-old daughter together named Siella. They both traveled to Russia to cheer him on.
Benoit Beaufils explained that he hoped that these championships open the door to mixed duet eventually becoming an Olympic event. "I don't think it's going to happen in time for Brazil. That's only a year away," he says. "But I think there's a very decent chance for Tokyo (in 2020)."


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"Khoo-Kham" Nationalismand Japanese Soldiers: the Difference Images of Japanese Soldiers between Thai History and the Memory of Marginalized people
Mr.Pipad Krajaejun
Miss Pennapa Monsa-ard
Miss Thippaporn Inkum
Asian Studies Institute,
Chulalongkorn University
Under directed by
Asso. Prof. Dr.Surangsri Tonsiengsom
Text book about Thai and Japanese in the World War II
Selected historical facts
Plot / Metanarrative
Social Memory about Thai&Japan in WW II
"Khoo-Kham" - Novel
The painting show Japanese soldiers and Thai soldiers checked hand together in the World War II
Quotation from Khoo-Kham novel
Angsumalin: "Stop! Both captives are Thai people. This land is belong to Thai."
Map of Japanese and Thai military occupied the Shan state in Burma
Mae Hong Son province
Thai soldier (กองทัพพายัพ) entered to Northern of Thailand, this army was supported by Japanese army in the WW II
Thank you very much for attention.
We thank to Asso. Prof. Dr.Surangsri TonsiengsomMrs. Saikeaw ThipakornAsian Study Institute of Chulalongkorn University
Central Library of Chulalongkorn University
Mr. Therdwong, the technician of Central Library