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Created to maintain precision while making, these blocks are both tool and toy for active imaginations. Each brass piece is machine milled and part of an organized system of basic units. Used to cut, mark, measure and press, they make work not just easier but better. When not in use, the five individual pieces slip into fitted slots cut into the rosewood block, completing the ensemble.
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Entering the boardroom and during your first formative years as a board member can be quite overwhelming and confusing. During times like these it helps to have a coach or mentor guiding and supporting you through the wonderful – and sometimes weird – world of being on a board. Coaching and mentoring helps build your confidence so you can step boldly into the boardroom, be a high performing board member, and build a successful board career.
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We're in the launch phase of our WiFi enabled video brochures. These look similar to our standard video brochures, however, the inner workings are completely different, designed for instant updates over the internet, keeping content fresh and your end user always up to date with your latest content.
Traditional video brochures are rather a dumb client offering little more than ordered storage and play functions for promotional videos, wholly adequate for a short marketing massage but little more. By adding an Android operating system, touch screen technology and WiFi functionality an entirely new universe of opportunities presents itself. Take a look at our recent video on our website and find out more.


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Are you looking for fellow Poles in Armenia? Do you need advice and tips from your Polish countrymen? Or would you like to go for a trip with other Polish expats to discover attractions like the region around Lake Van together?
Whether you are already living as an expat in Armenia or still residing at home in Poland to prepare your relocation abroad, InterNations Armenia provides you with all you need: Founded in 2007, our trusted community has quickly established itself as the international networking platform for expats and global minds worldwide. Among our members there is also a number of Polish expats in Armenia, hailing from all across Poland - from Gdansk, over Cracow to Warsaw.
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How do I start composting if I'm already locked into a contract with my current waste removal company?
Check with your current company to see your contract allows for working with compost hauling companies or if you can alter your agreement for less trash to be collected.
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The economics of composting are different for every restaurant. The cost of composting depends on a number of factors including amount of waste produced, number of pickups per week, etc. In most cases, restaurants either save money or remain cost neutral. Contact compost valley to discuss your options.
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Since composting drastically reduces the amount of waste that goes to the landfill, you may be able to downsize your dumpster and the number of trash receptacles in the kitchen. This added space may be used for compost bins. Compost haulers may also be able to offer pickup 7 days per week to eliminate the need for outdoor storage.
I absolutely can't fit compost bins outside my restaurant. Can I still compost?
Consider collaborative composting. If space is limited for a number of restaurants nearby, restaurants may share a common space to discard food waste and recycling. This is an efficient way to solve the needs of many restaurants.
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Purchasing compostable to-go containers, straws, napkins etc. can be comparable or slightly more expensive. The price of compostable trash bags, in particular, is often why some restaurants choose not to compost. However, as more restaurants start to demand these products, their prices continue to fall. Often times, savings from reduced dumpster pickups even out with the added costs of compostable products. Contact compost valley to determine whether or not bags are even required.
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Educational Workshops
Pastoralist Child Foundation's workshop curriculum focuses heavily on the importance of education beyond the primary school level. We provide educational workshops for girls during school holidays.
Improving a Community One Girl at a Time
When you teach a girl, you educate a community. A single educated boy might leave his community, whereas an educated girl is more likely to stay and become a mother who encourages her children, especially daughters, to go to school. Quality girls' education empowers by giving them choices, alleviates poverty and yields great returns in socio-economics, health, population and politics. Girls' education is a driving force against poverty leading to increased income for girls themselves, but also for nations as a whole. Better educated girls become women who have smaller, healthier families with lower infant mortality rates, and maternal mortality.
Primary education significantly helps reduce infant mortality, and secondary education helps even more because women know how to use health services, improving nutrition and sanitation, and taking advantage of their own increased earning capability. In addition, girls who get a quality education marry later when they're better able to bear and care for their children.
Educated girls are more likely to stand up for themselves and resist violence, and as women more likely to participate in political discussions, meetings and decision making.
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Pastoralist Child Foundation's educational workshops focus heavily on the importance of education beyond the primary school level. More than half the world's 58 million out-of-school children are girls. A large number of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to forced early marriage and the harmful practice of FGM/C (female genital mutilation/cutting) too many girls are left behind, marginalised and unaware of their basic human right to live a happy and healthy life. Only 23% of poor, rural girls complete their primary education in sub-Saharan Africa. It is for this reason that we find it critical to provide educational workshops for girls during school holidays. It's during school holidays, locally known as "cutting season" when girls are at a very high risk of undergoing FGM. Therefore, we invite groups of up to 70 girls to participate in 4-day camps facilitated by excellent doctors, nurses, social workers, mentors and volunteers.
We have also now started to hold worshops for boys. We had our very first all boys workshop in December 2016, and will continue to have them for boys because they have an important role in educating people about FGM and in eradicating it.
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* Child Marriage * Gender Equality
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* Leadership Skills
* Teen Pregnancy
* Rape
* HIV/AIDS & STD's (Sexually Transmitted Diseases)
* The Importance of Formal Education
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29 August 2008
杜甫 Du Fu: 絕句 2首 其2 (4- 何日是歸年) Quatrain, 2 of 2 (4- What year be the day I return...)
Du Fu (712-770): Quatrain, 2 of 2 (4- What year be the day I return ...)
1 In streams so aqua, the whiter the birds appear,
2 On hills so green, red flowers bloom as in flame.
3 This spring, it seems, is again soon to pass,
4 What year be the day I return to whence I came?
Translated by Andrew W.F. Wong (Huang Hongfa) 譯者: 黃宏發
13 June 2008 (revised 16.6.09; 18.6.08)
Translated from the original - 杜甫: 絕句 2首 其2 (4- 何日是歸年)
1 江碧鳥逾白
2 山青花欲然
3 今春看又過
4 何日是歸年
* This English rendition is in pentameter (5 metrical feet) to emulate the original 5-character lines and the rhyme scheme is XAXA as is in the original.
* Line 2: The Chinese character 然 here means 燃 with a 火=fire to the left meaning "burn" or "flame". I have chosen "flame" as it conveys more vividly the colour contrast of "the-bluer-the-whiter, the-greener-the-redder" through association with the red flame-flower, the red flowers of the flame azalea and trees called the flame of the forest. In a way, the word "red" in the line is superfluous. It is included for clarity and it does not affect the pentameter as, by convention, "red" here should be read unaccented.
* Line 3: I had originally used "set" instead of "soon". I have, however, interpreted the line to mean "今年的春天,看來,又[快要]過去了" as in the school children's rhyme "春天不是讀書天/夏日炎炎正好眠/等到秋來冬又(=快要)至(=到來))/還是收拾書包好過年", hence, "is again soon to pass" to include both "again" and "soon" with the word "is" subtly suggesting the inevitability of spring passing.
* Line 4: The expression "whence I came" (which is grammatically correct) can be changed, without affecting the meter, to "from whence I came". According to Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, "the idiom 'from whence' is old in the language, well established and standard' and used by many including 'the King James Bible, Shakespeare, Dryden, and Dickens." I dropped the word "from" for the simple reason that, with it, the line looks too long.
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Shouldn't it be 欲燃 instead of 欲然?
- June 27, 2013 at 11:59 PM
- Andrew W.F. Wong 黃宏發 said...
I thank "Anonymous" for pointing out my mistake, but is it really a mistake? I have now checked 全唐詩 (228卷 21首) on the web and the great Chinese translator 許淵冲 Xu Yuan-Zhong's personal selection of "300 Tang Poems Bilingual Edition" 漢英對照唐詩三百首 (北京: 高教 2000) p.280. They both use the word 燃 "burn" with 火 "fire" added to the left of 然. My 然 version of the poem (without the added "fire") was taken from the Filipino-Chinese translator 施穎洲's "Tang and Song Poetry: Chinese--English" 中英對照讀唐詩宋詞 (台北: 九歌 2006) p.80. I freely admit I did not check on its authenticity in 2008 when I translated the poem as I felt (and still feel) comfortable with 然 which, according to the Chinese encyclopaedic dictionary 辭源, is the "original word" 本字. I am happy to leave textual research work to experts. And may I add, "fire" is already present in 然 as the 4 dots at the bottom of the character represent 火 "fire" (just like the 3 dots on the left of a character represent 水 "water"). Is it all that unthinkable that Du Fu might have left out the redundant 火 "fire" on purpose?
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I had always bypassed this coaster on visits to Six Flags Great Adventure because I 'd never enjoyed going through vertical loops. (That has since changed.) However, finding myself stuck at the park for 10 hours one day, at the suggestion of someone who had been following my blog I decided to give it a go and am glad I did. Bizarro, formerly known as Medusa, certainly exceeded my expectations. Just before the ride is dispatched, the floor drops out from the loading area. The train then climbs 142 feet, reaches a platform, plunges 132 feet at a right angle and goes up into a 119-foot vertical loop. This is followed by a dive loop and zero-g roll. Towards the end of the ride, riders go through a cobra roll, which hangs over the entrance to the ride, and interlocking corkscrews.
There is a total of 7 inversions – one more than on Alpengeist, which I absolutely hated – and all of them proved to be thoroughly enjoyable. I got the feeling that there was a little something extra on a couple of them and was impressed by how smooth this ride is. Also worth mentioning is the speed – 61mph.– and special effects. As the train travels through the dive loop, flames shoot up from the ground on both sides of the track. The heat can be felt by not only the riders but by those waiting in line to ride. When I first rode this coaster, it had a Bizarro-themed soundtrack blasting out of the speakers behind the seats but when I rode it the following year, the sound effects had been removed. With or without sound effects, Bizarro was so much fun that I rode it repeatedly. 4 out of 5 stars. For more information about rides at Six Flags Great Adventure, visithttp://www.sixflags.com/greatadventure/


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Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some wood for a toothpick, there's a bunch of it on the porch. (Sunshine) Beth. What are you doing?...She says she was forcing you inside before it got dark and something decided to eat you. (Talon) Tell Swamp Breath I was headed this way. Why was she…Oh jeez, am I really have a conversation with a gator? (Sunshine)
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Work Process Automation, semi-automation and adaptation
The unicist work process design has become the core of business process management in order to take advantage of the new technological solutions produced in the field of software and hardware and integrating with innovative peopleware solutions to increase the production of results.
Marshall McLuhan said that the "medium is the message". This also applies to IT solutions. That is why to design work processes it is necessary to build the integration of peopleware, hardware and software. It requires using the unicist double dialectical logic that allows integrating this triadic structure.
Different levels of efficacy require having a different level of automation. It becomes extremely difficult to install different levels of automation in organizations.
That is why there are usually different job levels that assume different levels of risk. Top management is based on adaptive systems while middle management is based on semi-automated systems.
Automation is, on the one hand, a job-killer but, on the other hand, it enhances the quality of human activity and allows developing business objects to ensure processes for business growth.
The integration of automation, semi-automation and adaptive systems is the core of the job oriented workstation design process after the general process has been solved.
This approach allows empowering the introduction of new technologies integrating them with the results that have to be produced and the peopleware that drives to them.
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News broke this week that a lab at Maastricht University in the Netherlands produced the world's first petri-dish "beef" burger. Mark Post and his team used cells harvested from a cow's shoulder to grow enough muscle tissue to make a burger patty in just three months. It was less than perfect.
For starters, the meat was 100 percent lean beef and contained no fat. A panel that tasted the patty noted its excessive dryness. The meat also needed to be augmented with beet juice and saffron in order to be visually appealing. Without the coloring, the muscle tissue would have been stark white.
Still, the proof of concept is being touted as a potentially significant step in the battle against global warming. Cows, it turns out, emit gas from both ends, and the cumulative effect of these greenhouse gasses is said to rival the entire transportation sector. The fact raises the question: How would average Dallasites react if they were forced to choose between their burgers and their SUVs?
Of course if we could grow perfectly delicious beef in labs, we could have plenty of burgers and gasoline till the end of time, but there's some work to be done on that very important "delicious" part. Josh Schonwald, a Chicago-based food writer who was invited to taste the patty, timidly said "the mouth feel has... a feel like meat," and compared the experience to a dry, "conventional" burger.
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Dear friends of the faith,
I have many poems to describe what I've been experiencing over the past couple years, but not one can fully articulate all that God has done, and all that I've received.
Solitude became my greatest asset. It was in those days, those hours, that an exceptional exchange occurred. I became one with the Spirit of God, as He continually, day after day, week after week, poured His revelations into me. I received knowledge and understanding.
He opened my eyes and mind to a spiritual perspective. He showed me my past and revealed my future. He sowed up open wounds of sorrow and grief, and breathed new life into a soul headed for defeat.
God rescued me. He set me free...
Free from lies that Satan bred, free from the shame my father left, free from my past mistakes and failures, free from the thoughts inside my head;
Free from confusion and delusion, free from the fears I kept inside, free from self hate and constant anxiety, free from a reprobate mind.
God showed up big inside my life and began to tie the truths that bind my heart to His, my will with His, and showed me how I now must live. He gave me hope. He gave me peace. He dug down deep inside of me, transforming all that once was there into a daughter soft and fair. He says that I'm His and He is mine, and that He'll be my Full Supply.
He gave me a passion to pursue the lost, and showed how to provide the cost for helping those in need of protection. God told me I was His selection..set apart for something greater. He said He would provide the favor to go out into the great unknown, building lost ones a new home; to bring the ones left in transition into a safer, brighter position where comfort, love, and spiritual growth would be the hands that provide the hope.
More songs He gave would be the fruit to fortify their stolen youth, renewing dreams that once were there, by giving them the time to share, and building life inside the Three, produced inside The Giving Tree.
~Jeanette Mitchell
*God shared and inspired poems and songs meant for multiplying, edifying, validating, educating, and procreating new life in Christ. <3
Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.
††† Isaiah 61
"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me..."
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Water conservation is essential to ensure continued water supply and reduce demand on infrastructure. Installing water efficiency fixtures and fittings around the home not only saves water, but can also save money on water bills.
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There is no longer a requirement when renovating an existing house, townhouse or residential unit to install water efficient toilets, tapware and/or showerheads to the existing fixtures and fittings of the dwelling.
Since 1 April 2008, landlords of rental properties have been able to pass on full water consumption costs to tenants where the building has been individually metered and water efficient fixtures (showerheads, toilets and tapware to kitchen sinks, basins and laundry tubs) are installed.
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Twenty-four hours of connecting over what matters. On Monday, celebrate Peachtree Publishers' 40th Anniversary and authors at the Okra Picks Dinner emceed by SIBA's own Wanda Jewell. On Tuesday, spend the day re-imagining The Discovery Show, and talking and hearing from ABA staff about new initiatives and education.
Writing the future of the SIBA Discovery Show
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Gina Kolata, Mercies in Disguise, St. Martin's Press
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Speak up. Your voice is important.
Unfair legislation exists because people become complacent or they think it doesn't affect them. It affects all of us. Currently, it seems that pit bulls are being focused on, but it could be any breed.
One of the best ways to help is to work towards ensuring that local politicians and bureaucrats are aware of the ineffectiveness and cost of breed-specific legislation. Your voice will help to change unfair, ineffective and costly legislation – or to stop it before it is put in place. You can:
- Look up your local Animal Control Bylaw (this should be on your city or town's website) to see what your city or town has in place.
- Contact your mayor and city/town council to provide them with information about best practices for animal control. Check out our tool kit for sample letters and information packages.
- We recommend starting with a friendly, courteous letter to your mayor and city/town council, asking them where they stand on this issue. Then, depending on the response, it is also appropriate to follow up with a phone call or meeting with a specific council member, or to make a request to present at a city council meeting. The people in local government are not necessarily experts in the areas of animal control, BSL or in understanding best practices when it comes to this issue. You can help to educate and inform them – and this can be a strong tool in helping to positively influence the outcome of how your city or town manages animal control, dog bites or attacks, and other incidents related to dogs.
- If you feel that significant changes in your city or town are necessary, reach out to others in your community. Remember that the mayor and city/town councillors are accountable to their voters and tax payers – you. The more people who come forward to support bylaw changes, the more likely it is that they will be considered. Create a committee, a petition, or even just a Facebook group to connect with people who are interested and invested in this issue
- Once you have a base of local support, please e-mail us at: firstname.lastname@example.com for support and advice on approaching policymakers and media.
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- Share this website with your friends and family.
- Speak with your friends and family about the cost of BSL – both in tax dollars and in emotional trauma for the families of pets who are targeted (and to the pet itself). Remind them that this is not a "pit bull" issue – under BSL, any mixed breed or dog resembling a "bully breed" is vulnerable. And, quite often, the dog that is targeted has no history of aggression, has not bit anyone, and has had no reasonable complaints against it. It is because of the "look" of the dog, not the actions of the dog or the owners. Please check out the Tool Kit (under Resources) for information sheets, facts, stats and talking points.
- Let your friends, family and others who are interested know that while legislation and public discourse focuses on breed, it ignores the real factors behind dog attacks, leaving our communities no safer.
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Almost without exception, any dog that seriously injures people has a long track record of minor bites and nuisance behaviour. By reporting all bites and incidences equally, we will also see a more balanced picture of which dogs (and which breeds) are causing problems.
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- Outreach to low-income and vulnerable residents to provide training support, humane training equipment, and one-on-one assistance for their pets
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Today, at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald will be remembered in a memorial.
It was 37 years ago the ship sank in Lake Superior as a result of a massive winter storm, near hurricane-force winds and waves more than 30 feet. All 29 men on board lost their lives.
The story of the shipwreck lives on in the poetic words of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," a song written and recorded by Gordon Lightfoot a year after the tragedy.
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Before gingerbread was ever shaped like men, and long before gingerbread boys popped from cookie sheets and ran out the doors of European homes taunting lonely old women and sly foxes, it was baked in the shapes of all the wild beasts on earth—some not seen for at least ten centuries before the very first Christmas.
Making gingerbread was the specific duty of men in a time when giants ruled the earth. While the giants read books and invented new games, the humans prepared all the giants' food, sewed all their clothing, and conducted all the business that involved numbers larger than 2, 499. Men and women inherited their occupations through their parents. As for the orphans of uncertain parentage, the villages allowed them to choose their apprenticeships at the age of 14 to offset their lowly and lonely beginning.
Of all the jobs available to the humans, baker was the most coveted. Giants allowed humans to use everything they created in their factories, with the exception of sugar products. Getting the chance to bake in a cookie factory provided the deprived workers the opportunity to smell and almost taste through their lungs and nostrils the forbidden fruits of their labors. In their clothes, they carried the smells of sweet cinnamon, candied fruit, and vanilla pudding cakes everywhere they went. They had a certain syrupy magnetism about them and it showed. Men who worked there were the first to marry and often reported higher numbers of offspring than their neighbors who smelted iron and whose smocks often smelled like blood and smoke.
During the reign of Omatz II, the gingerbread factory was the premier place to work because the giant king preferred gingerbread to any other sweet food. He would occasionally make personal visits to the factory to make suggestions about flavorings and baking methods. Every day he would have a fresh dozen of the best gingerbread cookies delivered to his breakfast table. If he ever received an unsatisfactory batch, he would immediately order the deliveryman and the master baker at the cookie factory to be executed, the first to mollify his ire and the second to serve justice.
After three deliverymen and three bakers had been done away with, at an emergency board meeting, the foreman moved to randomly select a taste tester from the factory crew. He suggested not telling the king about this plan because it was not necessary: the king wanted cookies, not reports. The foreman called his idea "quality control." The board agreed unanimously, and the secretary clipped all the workers' numbers from the roster and threw them into a basket.
Just before the whistle blew at the end of the work day, a small and tired man named Lopine was chosen when he picked the number "34" from the basket. Everyone knew he didn't appreciate his great luck in working at one of the sugar food factories, so his indiscriminate appointment satisfied the pessimists and grumblers in the group.
As the foreman shook his hand, he handed him a packet of instructions with his other hand. When Lopine was to return after his day of rest, he was to report to a brand new room where he would test and then box the first of every batch the factory made. His co-workers glared at him enviously and mouthed threats at him about exposing his ungratefulness. That evening, Lopine walked home confused and tired. He didn't understand how he could have had such luck and be so disinterested in it. He built a fire and thought about it while he whittled a long switch he'd found on his last walk home. He hadn't decided what he was going to make yet. Once, when he paused because he'd cut his finger, he wondered what it would be like to taste the cookies he'd been making for the past 15 years. He thought that, and then forgot about it.
The day after the next, Lopine went to work and was given a new title. He had expected that it might be "tester" or "taster"—maybe even something having to do with that new phrase the foreman had used. Yet it was none of those because the nametag maker in HR begrudged Lopine the job. He was, simply, the "gingerbread man."
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Spencer shares his answers to some questions about Step 4 from our book Paths to Recovery about the purpose of taking our own moral inventory. His answers were written in 2002, 2011, and 2018. How have they changed (or not)?
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MODELS walked through a haze of bubbles at John Galliano's show this evening, taking to the catwalk in veiled black lace, their plum lips peeping through and their hands and arms dressed in accompanying lace gloves.
There was something old Hollywood and something magical going on, which, at the same time as being romantic, had something sinister underlying it too – the lives of old Hollywood heroines and their bygone era lives acted as inspiration here. And, as chiffon gowns and costume jewels (pearls writhing around wrists, brooches, still with their price tags on as you'd find them at an antiques fair, pinned in their plenty onto a jacket), feathers and lace took to the catwalk, there was something Miss Havisham-meets-Sunset Boulevard about the collection.
Cutaway crochet panels on coats were styled to absolute dramatic effect – blooms and feathers festooned in candy floss hair – with lace panelled puffed-sleeve jackets. Galliano had not only raided the Hollywood archive, he had raided the trimmings archive, garnishing waists with big birthday present bows, flowers dancing amid sheer tiers on blue lace hemmed skirts.
Pleated bubble hem shaped skirts in the sheerest of yellow sat below big veiled hats with plenty of "Look at me, don't look at me" mystery.
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Archive for March, 2010
If you live in Japan, or have access to some of the more common Japanese snack foods, you have certainly seen– and probably eaten– some of the huge variety of dried squid products that are usually packaged in small quantities as a jerky-type snack to accompany alcoholic beverages. I'm a great lover of squid myself, […]
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I am nuts about cheesecake, and each season of the year inspires me to make up a new recipe. Welcome cherry blossom-viewing season with this fragrant Sakura Cheesecake. The gentle cherry blossom scent comes from using salt-preserved cherry leaves. The leaves have the greater share of this fragrance, and though I used salt-preserved cherry blossoms […]
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Display thumbnails. Press the Zoom Out button to cycle from single-picture view to 4-thumbnail view; press again to shift to 9-picture view; and press once more to bring up 72 itty-bitty thumbnails. One more press takes you to Calendar view.
Display fewer thumbnails. Pressing the Zoom In button takes you from Calendar view back to the standard thumbnails display or, if you're already in that display, reduces the number of thumbnails so that you can see each one at a larger size. Your first press takes you from 72 thumbnails to 9, your second press takes you to 4 thumbnails, and your third press returns you to single-image view.
Notice the icons on these two buttons: The Zoom Out button sports a magnifying glass with a minus sign, the universal symbol for zoom out, plus a little grid that resembles a screen full of thumbnails. And the Zoom In button's magnifying glass has a plus sign, reminding you that you use this button to increase the image size.
Scroll the display. Press the Multi Selector up and down to scroll to the next or previous screen of thumbnails.
Select an image. To perform certain playback functions, such as deleting a photo or protecting it, you first need to select an image. A yellow box surrounds the selected image. To select a different image, rotate the Command dial or use the Multi Selector to move the highlight box over the image.
Jump from any thumbnail display to full-frame view. Rather than press the Zoom Out button multiple times, you can just press OK.


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Grassroots Landscape Inc. is a landscaping services company in Boulder, Colorado. We offer an ever expanding line of organic gardening products and incorporate energy-wise, sustainable, xeric services for a Whole Planet approach to your garden. April, at Grassroots Landscape Inc., includes education with installation, once again following the belief that our impact on nature is never stagnant.
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With much warmth, welcome to An Olive Sea!
One dark and stormy night (really!) in 2007, I started a blog on a whim. It was a place to write about all the things I loved — reading, art, nature and clothes, just for a start. In 2014, I also started a blog solely devoted to books and reading, Olive Reads. Finally, I decided to just combine everything into one proper website, An Olive Sea, the place you now find yourself.
On my travels I may sail through the pages of a new book, admire a perfectly tailored coat, or revel in an exotically fragranced perfume. Wherever I journey, I emphasize beauty, quality, and the pursuit of a richly hued life. Above all, I strive to take my readers on genial voyages of imagination and elegance.
So read on, my fellow wanderers! I cannot wait for you to join me.
P.S. Want me to review a book or product? Trot over to my contact page for further details.


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A new seminar set up by the Plant-Based Nutrition Support Group will urge doctors to prescribe plant-based food as medicine later this month.
According to Vegnews: Paul Chatlin, founder of PBNSG, adopted a plant-based diet under the direction of Caldwell Esselstyn, MD after finding himself on a gurney awaiting heart bypass surgery.
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The event will now host speakers such as Joel Kahn, MD; Robert Breakey, MD; diabetes specialist Caroline Trapp, DNP; and Elizabeth Swenor, DO to persuade others to treat disease with food rather than medicine.
"The scientific evidence that plant-based nutrition can prevent, halt, and reverse the top 15 chronic diseases that afflict patients at low cost, low risk, and often equal or superior efficacy versus medications is powerful," Kahn told VegNews.
"The glaring lack of education and practical skills taught to doctors to assess and address nutrition in the office or hospital must be addressed as soon as possible," Khan said, "and our seminar is an important step."


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It's that time of year — time to make your resolutions. I've been online helping folks for over 22 years now (Wow! Time flies when you are having fun!) and there are still some issues that onliners struggle with or, honestly, refuse to embrace. And some, just need an annual little reminder and links for further reading!
So raise your hand and repeat after me…
- I will configure my email program to show my proper name in the From: field. First Name, Last Name; both properly capitalized. Not in all lower case; not in all caps. This will help to make sure my emails look legitimate and show I am educated instead of being misidentified as spam.
- I will start every email with a nice greeting and sign off with a closing and my name. One sentence emails without these efforts are perceived as demanding, terse and/or rude.
- I will make sure the Subject: field of every email is clear and concise about the topic of my communication. I will make the effort to change the Subject: field when the conversation changes direction.
- I will refrain from using bold or red text to show emphasis in my email's tone. By doing so I leave the level of emphasis up to the other side which can cause misunderstandings. Instead, I will choose my words carefully to reflect my intent and meaning.
- I will not send emails that say "forward to all your friends" because I know by forwarding an email to a bunch of people really is not personal and carries no special meaning at all. If I find a message that truly pertains to any of my "real" friends, I will send a copy to each one individually with a personal note about why I am forwarding them that message. Now that's thoughtful!
- I will not list all my contacts in the To: or Cc: field. I do not want to expose their addresses to strangers and understand doing so is a serious breach of privacy and trust. When emailing a group of people who do not know each other, I will always use the BCc: field.
- I will never send unannounced large attachments without first asking if the person on the other side would be interested in what the attachments contain and when would be the best time to send them so they can keep their inbox clear.
- I will continually work on my writing and communication skills so that my emails are not misunderstood or disregarded. Lack of spell checking, grammar and proper sentence structure reflects a lack of education or concern about being taken seriously.
- I will always check my junk or trash folder to see if any emails landed there by mistake before I send off follow-ups or emails insinuating lack of response from those I am communicating with. Adding expected email addresses to my whitelist/approved senders will become a habit.
- I will make a point of thanking those who help me via email. Whether it be a website, Blog, discussion board or friendly Netizen who answers my questions or offers help when I email them. I will thank them and let them know their efforts on my behalf are truly appreciated.
It is your choice how to use technology and whether it will hinder or help your communications. How about keeping these 10 Resolutions in mind when it comes to your day-to-day email activities? You can bet those you communicate with will be glad you did!
Here's to a great 2018!


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This year I decided to share my annual reflections and plans on my blog. Sharing personal things publicly has always been a challenge for me from the beginning. Yet whenever I start sharing things from personal experience, more people seem to connect to it and get value from it.
So in this article I intend to:
- Reflect on what went well and not so well in the main areas of my life regarding practicing and teaching Yoga. What did I achieve and am happy about in the different areas of my life. What didn't go so well this year? Things I personally planned differently. Things that I failed with and which became lessons instead of success stories.
- Share my experience and give ideas how you can intentionally create awareness of where you are and where you are going
- Hold myself accountable by sharing publicly what I intend to do in the upcoming months, Projects that I want to happen, the direction I want my life to move to.
So let's start with
It has been an amazing year with a lot of new things happening in all parts of my life.
About Life
On a private note, I became a father in December for the first time and love my new life with my partner Sandra and our son. Sandra and I had a exciting year of happily expecting and I am glad that we get to share a beautiful life, inspiring each other on a daily basis.
Ashtanga Yogis call parenthood jokingly the 7th series (as there are 6 series in Ashtanga Yoga), as it is more challenging and at the same time incomparably more beautiful than anything else.
The discipline of daily practice, keeping up with one's many dear habits and rituals has gotten a completely new quality and requires a lot of surrender and letting go of strict ideas and expectations about how a day (or night) is going to evolve. Yet I couldn't possibly be happier and even if everything else had gone wrong last year, I would still be happy with just having a happy child. and getting to spend time with him.
In general I can say that each year since I started teaching Yoga full time, my ability to combine my private life, my teaching, my practice, my purpose and my goals has improved immensely. I keep striving to be the best, most authentic version of myself in each part of my life.
Questions for you:
What went great in 2015? What was your favorite, what your least favorite moment? Were you able to align your life, your goals, your practice, teaching and private life with each other? What activities would you like to not include in the future, which ones do you want more of?
About Practice
Practice-wise, I was able to continue my studies with my teachers and really feel my practice getting stronger and deeper from week to week, month to month and year to year.
Having a relationship with one's own practice is really just like riding the waves of life, sometimes great, sometimes not so great, but always worth experiencing it. I did hurt my knee outside of practice and wasn't able to do any pose that requires the knee to be bend more than 45 degrees, yet with consistent and mindful practice, that condition improved until I am now almost fully recovered.
Ashtanga always stay the same, a daily breathing meditation in movement, sometimes light, sometimes rough, sometimes lazy. And I intend to keep my practice strong and regular. I can already see now how especially my pranayama practice is giving me plenty of extra energy, especially if the night was short
Also the idea of becoming a father had an impact on my practice, on one side making me stronger and more confident, yet bringing out unhealed issues and fears showing up for example in my shoulders. But all these issues went away after a couple of days and what stayed was the confidence and the certainty that most of these issues of the body will pass rather quickly.
Questions for you:
How much did you enjoy your practice last year? What changed over the course of the last months? Did you have major break throughs or setbacks? What did you learn through practice about yourself, your life or your body? Did you get to study with your teachers and what did you learn? Has the practice improved your life or made it worse?
About Teaching
Reaching more people was one of my goals and I was happy to teach a couple of traveling workshops and visited various schools to share the practice of Yoga, taught my first retreat in India with my partner Sandra, continued to build a Mysore-practice community and taught teaching intensives.
Especially building a community of dedicated students is an amazing thing to do and watch happening. I realize more and more how building a community is so powerful in many ways, and I want to make it one of my main themes of 2016.
… and my website
I continued to write articles on this website (17 articles in 2015), wrote articles for various other Yoga-websites and was interviewed for the Meditation-Freedom-Podcast. To get over my discomfort to be in front of a camera, I interviewed my teacher Paul Dallaghan in Thailand and created a short online video course (get access to it by signing up for my newsletter below this article). I also ran my coaching program "Create your perfect Yoga Teacher Life".
Yet my plans where bigger.
I totally failed in my plan to write an article every week (including the guest posts on other websites I managed to write about twice a month).
My workshops and Coaching programs were a success, yet I felt I could have done a much better job promoting them and sharing the benefits of these programs.
Also, the coaching program was not designed to fit most peoples busy schedule which I found out when talking to many people that were interested yet didn't sign up. (I designed the program to be a 6-week intensive – yet the feedback I got was to make it longer to allow more time to work on the program.
As always failures are not the end of it, rather they are lessons so that we can succeed next time – or the time after that.
Questions for you:
Did you you teach in a way that you feel good about in the last year? Did your number of students grow and what impact did you have on them? Did you try something new in your teaching and what did you learn along the way? In what ways are you grateful to your students? Which format of teaching suited you best and which new formats do you want to try out to spread you message?
Now let's get into
Taking the success and lessons of the past as inspiration and keep walking on my path, I have a couple of projects lined up for the upcoming months.
January to March
After many requests from TT-students to write an adjustment manual, finally it's happening. As I don't think it's possible to nicely explain how to adjust in a book, Sandra and I will do a video course. We are in the middle of creating it and I will share more info about it soon.
Also I will be traveling and teaching a couple of Ashtanga workshops in various European cities.
I will also resume writing more regularly for my blog, even though I will take it easy with my schedule.
April to June
Another round of my Coaching Program "Create your perfect Yoga teacher life" will start in April. I am upgrading and rearranging the content at the moment to make it even better than last year. It will be going on throughout most of 2016 and focus on creating amazing results and a great community of dedicated and successful Yoga teachers.
I am glad to be hosting a couple of amazing teachers from April on throughout the year at Gaia Yoga in Zagreb.
July to December/January 2017
During the summer I want to create some new content (apart from articles) for startteachingyoga.com, including a short ebook. What it will be about I will announce soon.
At the end of the year I am looking forward to practice with my teacher in Thailand again.
Also I am super excited to be teaching my first Yoga Retreat @Samahita Yoga Thailand in January 2017. If you are a Yoga teacher and would love the idea of starting 2017 with inspiration and thrive to make 2017 one of your most successful years ever, stay tuned for more info coming soon.
2015 was amazing, 2016 is going to be even more amazing.
I am curious and excited how the projects I have put on plate are going to unfold and look forward to share them with you over the upcoming months.
As always, it is a privilege to share my path with you. I hope that my work in 2016 will continue to give you ideas, inspiration and tools to live with awareness, share you gifts, be the most authentic version of yourself and continue on your path of practicing and teaching yoga.
Thank you for reading.


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This fine house was built for a local lace manufacturer in 1885. An immaculate and spacious Victorian villa, Glenrosa has a magnificent landscaped walled garden with an additional paddock (former tennis court).
Newmilns Town Centre is designated an Outstanding Conservation Area and there are a number of listed buildings including the Newmilns Keep, the town's oldest building dating from the 1530s. There were 32 factories producing lace in Newmilns and Darvel in the early 1900s, today there is just one. The magnificent Lanfine Estate with tree lined avenues is nearby.
Glenrosa benefits from beautifully proportioned main reception rooms and bedrooms, including a stunning entrance hall with high decorated ceiling arches, lounge, billiard room with fabulous leaded glass domed cupola, a wonderful original Victorian conservatory, dining room, kitchen/breakfasting room, en suite bedroom, cloakroom/wc, laundry, study, pantry, utility, sitting room and shower room.
On the first floor, there is a formal drawing room, 3 further bedrooms and a family bathroom. There are a range of fine fireplaces including Victorian cast iron and two superb arts and crafts fireplace situated in the billiard room and drawing room. The house benefits from an energy efficient ground source heat pump and a range of outbuildings to include 6 car garaging, greenhouse, tool shed, potting shed and a wood store.
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Is there a better feeling than clipping through the waves with the sun on your face? Or diving into fish-filled marine worlds, usually featured in David Attenborough documentaries?
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Font Family: Lonely Alone, Number of fonts: 1*OTF + 1*TTF, Type Foundry: fontasticlab, Design date: 2016
Introduce Lonely alone A beautiful hand made font for all you lovers of swash! It now includes alternatives to help you design their wedding invitations, place cards, etc.
Lonely alone is hand drawn, elegant, modern calligraphy is perfect for design projects wedding, invitations, greeting cards, signatures, watermarks, logos, handwriting and many more. fonts include several glyphs Stylistic Sets, Contextual Alternates, and Ligature. The OpenType features can be accessed by using OpenType savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign.