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AT 3:30 in the morning on July 23, 1962, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir gathered at the airport here for a flight to a military base in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Preparations for a now nearly forgotten salvo of the cold war, called Operation Telstar, were under way.
It was time to sing.
The 360-member choir, the lyrical voice of Mormonism since pioneer days, was on a mission with multiple levels, historians and surviving singers say. They were to be the featured musical anchor later that day for the first international satellite television program — a blast of American culture and technological prowess aimed at Europe, using a wobbly, 170-pound satellite that had been launched into orbit that month.
Small stories and large ones were interwoven — in the off-camera dreams and fears of the singers and organizers and in the on-camera references to the Kremlin and the arms race. A brash, ambitious television station manager from Rapid City, S.D., named William F. Turner, who happened to know some Mormons — and some Kennedys in the White House — played a part. Darleen Merrihew, then a 32-year-old alto, was three months pregnant with her fourth child.
And Owen and Helen Clark were preparing for the first-ever performance, scheduled that night back in Salt Lake City, of the Clark Family Singers. The family group, featuring their son Elliott — then 10 years old, now a soloist for the choir — was on the program at the tabernacle itself, the building from which the choir, generations earlier, had drawn its name.
Meanwhile, tensions between the United States and the old Soviet Union were about to boil over. In Cuba, the Russians were deploying missiles that summer aimed at the United States, a turn of events that, when discovered in October, would bring the world to the brink of nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis.Continue reading the main story
But for the choir members, the responsibilities and significance felt even more immense. Through the conservative years of the 1950s, the church had become closer to mainstream American life than probably any period in history, before or since. Now they were riding that wave to a new high, with the choir singing not just for the faith but for the nation itself.
The story of their journey — included in the DVD portion of a new release commemorating the 100th anniversary of the choir's first recordings — offers a bracingly different take on early 1960s culture than the one millions of Americans watch each week on the television advertising drama "Mad Men." Glamorous debauchery and cynicism may have underpinned the marketing of floor wax and cigarettes, but earnest yearning and anxiety were twitchingly, poignantly alive then, too.
"We knew we were singing the message of America to the world," said Vernie Swenson, 90, who was in the choir and on the platform that day with his wife, Shirley, 87. "It was an honor beyond anything we'd ever imagined."
At the foot of Mount Rushmore, with the sculptured heads of presidents in the backdrop, on Telstar's 123rd orbit since its launch, just after noon Mountain Time, the conjunction of technology, geopolitics and religious striving reached its apogee. The entire broadcast lasted about 20 minutes. Of that, the choir filled only about three.
But within the church at least, a chord was struck, deep and resonant and lasting.
"The choir seemed to call up strange echoes among the cliffs — rich songs of progress, of vast migrations to better lands, of explorers, overtones from the marching pioneers," said an article in the church newsletter three months later. But in that spotlight moment, "there were undertones of evil too," the article continued. "To all the free world and beyond, this feeling that the past was looking down upon us was intensified."
In telling his part of the story, Mr. Turner, 81, now retired and living in Naples, Fla., still sounded like the fast-talking 33-year-old television executive he was that summer. He worked for a tiny-market, middle-of-nowhere station — 12,000 working television sets in signal range in the still-wild and empty Dakotas — but he had an idea and was determined to chase it. The broadcast and its planning had become a major news event.
"I got in touch with the people who had responsibility for the broadcast in New York City and said, 'How about including something from up here in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where history is in the making?' " Mr. Turner said in a telephone interview. "They said, 'What did you have in mind?' I said, 'A good friend of mine, his uncle is from Salt Lake City, and he can get the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.' They said, 'How you going to get them there?' I said, 'We've got airplanes.' "
Mr. Turner, who is not Mormon — he grew up Roman Catholic in Connecticut — also had some political juice: he knew President John F. Kennedy through connections he'd made with the Kennedys years earlier while working in New England. Mr. Turner said he used that leverage in arguing for a spot on the Telstar ticket.
The string-pulling worked. Organizers at the three collaborating television networks, NBC, CBS and ABC, approved Mr. Turner's plan, and what choir members recalled as a whirlwind — less than two weeks from first word about the broadcast to being on the Air Force buses heading for the Rushmore monument — began.
"We didn't know what was going on at all," said Mr. Clark, now 89. He also remembered hearing doubts that morning about whether the technical problems never addressed before in television, like making a Dakotas buffalo herd stampede, live and on cue, before the choir's performance, could be solved. (Dynamite and shotguns did the trick, Mr. Turner said.) "When they said, 'Now,' we knew it was ready to go," Mr. Clark recalled.
Ms. Merrihew, 79, whose son, Paul, was born in January 1963, said the real meaning of the day only emerged for her later.
"At the time, I was just there to sing; only later did I understand it and its importance," she said.
Once on the ground in South Dakota, weather was a factor. The two-hour bus ride put the choir in place under a dark and threatening sky. And then, as the singers waited on the platform in their white blouses and dark suits, the rain came down in torrents, drenching them all — not to mention their sheet music, making it completely unreadable, Ms. Swenson recalled.
But they stood rooted, gripped with the excitement and responsibility of the moment, and when the cue came, they opened with a song that was meant to appeal to the sensibilities of Europe — "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," composed in the 1520s by Martin Luther — followed by the stirring American anthem "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
The signal from Mount Rushmore, interspersed with other grainy, politically loaded images of America — a snippet of a baseball game, a shot of the open border with Canada at Niagara Falls (free of barbed wire and machine guns) and a similar scene of the border with Mexico — rounded out the broadcast. Voice-over announcers in New York — their words translated into seven languages — spoke as hundreds of millions of people in 18 countries saw the images, according to reports at the time. The choir's concert was the only musical performance.
"They got a fuzzy picture in Europe, but to us, of all the adventures in the choir, this was one of the greatest," said Mr. Clark, who met his wife, now 83, when they were both music majors in the 1940s at Brigham Young University, the church-owned school an hour south of Salt Lake.
A framed photograph taken just before the performance, with Ms. Clark, an alto, near the front and Mr. Clark, a bass, near the back, dominates the living room of their home here. The singers look expectant but poised, drenched in body — Mr. Clark remembered getting back on the plane and wringing out the sleeves of his suit — but not in spirit.
Several historians said the brief, shimmering moment of the Tabernacle Choir in cold-warrior mode also captured something about the nation itself.
Much of American music and society in 1962 was in sync — in a way perhaps never before or since — with the buttoned-down world of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Suburbs and large, baby-boom families were in vogue, and that made the Mormons, who'd fled to Utah to escape persecution in the 1840s, look more like everybody else than they ever had.
"Mormonism seemed to fit with what America perceived itself to be at that moment," said Walter P. Reeve, an associate professor of history at the University of Utah who teaches a course on Utah in the cold war.
Music technology played a role in the choir's — and thus the church's — march toward the mainstream. The first recordings, using giant sound-collecting horns suspended from the ceiling of the tabernacle, were released in 1910. A Sunday radio broadcast began in 1929, mixing choral swell with what church authorities call "the spoken word" of scriptural message.
A recording contract with the Columbia label in the late 1950s expanded the choir's repertory toward secular standards; its "Battle Hymn of the Republic" won a Grammy Award in 1959.
World War II, meanwhile, ended the state's economic isolation, with thousands of jobs in munitions and manufacturing that were later extended into the apparatus of the cold war in missile and space-race technology. In 1955, in a kind of precursor to Operation Telstar, the choir performed in West Berlin even as the United States and its allies were straining to hold it as an outpost in the Soviet camp.
But if the early '60s were a high point of assimilation for the choir and the church, they also marked a turning point. Much of American culture in 1962 was about to depart from the ordered, paternalistic terrain that Mormons defended and embodied.
As the sexual revolution, the drug culture and the social upheaval of civil rights and the Vietnam War advanced, the LDS Church retreated, re-emphasizing modesty in dress and behavior, sharpening the cultural conservatism that remains a church hallmark today.
"What happened in the immediate aftermath of the choir's broadcast created a tension between these Mormon values, which had been mainstream American values, and the increasing divergence of American culture," said Richard E. Turley Jr., a church historian.
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mr. Turley said, much of America looked alien through Mormon eyes. That wall of separation and isolation got higher still in the 1970s, when evidence about the effects of nuclear testing on Southern Utah's population, downwind from the Nevada testing sites, began to emerge, said Professor Reeve at the University of Utah, who is a Mormon. Suspicion and cynicism toward Washington — common now in Utah and across the West, but rare in 1962 — began to harden and deepen as well, he said.
But through those hours of July 23, 1962, at least, and then resonating in the memories of participants long afterward, something had happened — intense and strange and drenched with meaning — that left a lasting mark.
A satellite, wondrously symbolic for better and worse of the world and all its new fears and hopes, had reached down and plucked up those hundreds of fervent voices and carried them out to a broader world, as though through an open window. And then, like the moving on of tiny Telstar itself, the window slammed closed.Continue reading the main story


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In part one of this Cortex I rolled out what I referred to as the grand unified theory of Digital, DevOps, and Software-Defined Everything: to achieve the levels of agility necessary to deal with and capitalize on increasingly prevalent disruption, organizations must leverage shift left/Software-Defined principles to facilitate cross-organizational self-organization - and furthermore, this technology-enabled organizational change is at the core of every successful digital transformation.
Furthermore, I hazarded to coin the term Software-Defined Enterprise - but I asked whether it even makes sense to extend the notion of shift left/Software-Defined practices to an organization as a whole.
On its face, the big picture of a Software-Defined Enterprise is as tantalizing as it is unrealistic: push a button, deploy an entire enterprise, from its technology systems to its physical equipment, like Athena popping out of the head of Zeus.
If something goes wrong or you want to make a change, then follow the immutable infrastructure principle. Deprovision the lot, make adjustments to the script, and push the button again.
Clearly we're not going to "deprovision" our buildings and office furniture if we want to make a change, although with the rate of innovation in the 3D printing arena, such a time may come sooner than you think.
Taking a shift left/Software-Defined approach to our software systems, however, is another matter entirely. Even so, the vision of a one-button deployment of the entire enterprise's software stack, from the customer touchpoints to the systems of record, seems a pipe dream at best.
Such skepticism, therefore, seems reasonable. The risk we face with this skeptical line of reasoning, however, is not that we might come to the conclusion that our heads were in the clouds for considering the Software-Defined Enterprise in the first place.
Given the exponential pace of technology innovation all around us, the greater risk is that we miss the full significance of Software-Defined Everything and its impact on the digital enterprise - until it's too late.
The Road to the Software-Defined Enterprise
To explain the notion of shift left in part one of this Cortex, I pointed out that in an Agile software project, the test plan is an abstracted representation of the corresponding working software. If you want to change the desired functionality of the software, the first thing you do is change the test plan accordingly.
However, it's important to remember that the test plan is not a substitute for the working software. Developers still need to code the application, after all!
But if we take the notion of a test plan representing working software to the next level, we have the deployment recipes that DevOps folks use to package, configure, deploy, and in some cases manage the working software, typically in the Cloud. Now our abstracted representation of the working software includes a representation of the fully configured production environment.
Just one problem: even in the DevOps/Cloud world, of course, people still need to write the code - only now the people writing the application code, deployment recipes, as well as the test plans are all sitting together working as a self-organized team.
So, let's take the next step on the journey to the Software-Defined Enterprise: remove the hand-coding from the equation, replacing it with declarative configuration activities - in other words, no-code application creation.
I've been writing quite a bit about the low-code/no-code space for a while now, and once you place these platforms into the context of the shift left/Software Defined story, the reason for all the excitement becomes clear.
If we combine no-code with DevOps properly, we now have a way of abstractly representing working production software, including its functionality. Not just the limited-scope apps that some no-code platforms are best known for, but full-blown, enterprise-class applications - created from nothing but their abstract representations with the push of a button.
Software-Defining the Digital Enterprise
The promise of the DevOps/no-code combination gives us a fully immutable enterprise software infrastructure, from the network to the running applications. In reality this promise still lies in the future, but given the relentlessly accelerating pace of technology innovation, we'll be there sooner than you think.
Even so, this story so far focuses on automation. We're taking tasks that people used to handle manually and removing the human from the equation. Automation is a wonderful thing, after all - it increases speed to delivery while improving quality and productivity.
But the digital story isn't about automation. It's about people - the users of all this now-automated gear. Customers to be sure, but in the broader sense, all the users of the technology, including the employees of the organization.
Interestingly enough, DevOps teaches us an important lesson about the relationship between automation and people, in another example of our grand unified theory in action.
Remember that DevOps is essentially a technology-enabled cultural shift, where better automation helps break down organizational silos - not by removing people from the equation, but by empowering people to focus their efforts on more valuable work.
As we move toward the vision of a Software-Defined Digital Enterprise, the progression toward increasingly sophisticated automation promises to have the same impact on everyone the enterprise touches as it did on the DevOps teams themselves.
The clearest example of this trend would be a digital enterprise whose products are themselves entirely digital - say, for example, a media company who has retired all of its traditional media to embrace a fully digital product line.
For such a company to be a Software-Defined Enterprise, all of its software, from its customer touchpoints across the entire customer journey to its delivery infrastructure to its digital products themselves, all have an abstracted, declarative representation.
Such a representation, or recipe if you like, enables this company to push a button and deploy what is in essence its entire digital business. If it wants to fix or change something, it can simply deprovision and redeploy the whole shebang. The end result: more value for customers.
In the more general case where an enterprise has a mix of digital and digitally-enabled physical products, the story is more complex, but no less Software-Defined.
The widgets rolling off the line may be physical, but if all the software controlling all the equipment on that line is fully Software-Defined, and furthermore, the rest of the end-to-end digital infrastructure from customer to systems of record are likewise, then such a manufacturer can also consider itself to be a Software-Defined Enterprise.
Note that this manufacturing example is not simply one of mass customization, as we've moved up a level. The Software-Defined manufacturer would have the ability to change the way it mass customized its products, as well as every other activity along the customer journey, with a simple push of a button.
The Intellyx Take: What Happened to the Composable Enterprise?
Even when we have all the technology in place to make the Software-Defined Enterprise a reality, it's an oversimplification to assume that anyone would want to push a button to deploy or redeploy the whole thing.
In practice, people will deploy parts of it at separate times, depending upon which bits need fixing or updating.
However, for the enterprise to be Software-Defined, even this modular approach to adding or updating capabilities must be part of an overall, coordinated plan - in essence, an executable Enterprise Architecture model of the enterprise that both allows for modular updates as well as dealing with all the issues that result when you update some parts but not others.
In some ways, this modularity hearkens to discussions of the Composable Enterprise - the idea that we can represent all the software that runs an organization as composable, loosely-coupled components. (See the white paper I wrote about the Composable Enterprise last year).
So, is the vision for the Software-Defined Enterprise the same as the Composable Enterprise? Yes and no. There are some overlaps between the two, but in many ways these are distinct ideas.
The Composable Enterprise is part of the broader API Economy theme, where the focus is on establishing appropriate software interfaces to facilitate business-driven compositions.
However, if people either make or update such compositions after deployment of the components on an essentially manual, one-off basis, then such an enterprise might be composable but it certainly wouldn't be Software-Defined.
We might say, therefore, that Software-Defined Enterprises must be composable, but the converse isn't true, as there's much more to being Software-Defined than simply being made up of composable elements.
Furthermore, as Conway's Law would suggest, if an enterprise has a siloed organizational structure, then the composable modules that make up that organization would fall into those silos as well - a sure sign that the organization has not successfully undergone digital transformation.
In contrast, if our Software-Defined enterprise is digital, we've broken down those silos by extending DevOps principles across the entire organization - and once again, we're back to our grand unified theory, where shift left/Software-Defined principles facilitate cross-organizational self-organization.
Copyright © Intellyx LLC. Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, none of the organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers.
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By Jay Goodman Tamboli
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Seed giant Monsanto argued in the Supreme Court today against a lower court's injunction stopping sales of its "Roundup Ready" alfalfa nationwide. The injunction had been issued by the lower court after it found that the Department of Agriculture had failed to create an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the effects of Monsanto's alfalfa on natural alfalfa crops.
In Court, Monsanto argued that the lower court had exceeded its authority and should have sent the case back to the USDA for the environmental study instead of making a judgment on the issue itself.
Lawyers for Geertson Seed Farms and other farmers, who had challenged the USDA's 2004 decision to allow unregulated sale of the genetically-modified alfalfa, argued that Monsanto's alfalfa might spread and cross-breed with their crops, "contaminating" them.
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Can you lay out the pictures of the drinks in the way described by the clue cards?
For this activity which explores capacity, you will need to collect some bottles and jars.
In this activity focusing on capacity, you will need a collection of different jars and bottles.
You'll need a collection of cups for this activity.
The challenge for you is to make a string of six (or more!) graded cubes.
Have a go at this 3D extension to the Pebbles problem.
We went to the cinema and decided to buy some bags of popcorn so we asked about the prices. Investigate how much popcorn each bag holds so find out which we might have bought.
What size square should you cut out of each corner of a 10 x 10 grid to make the box that would hold the greatest number of cubes?
What do you think is going to happen in this video clip? Are you surprised?
What is the largest cuboid you can wrap in an A3 sheet of paper?
What is the smallest cuboid that you can put in this box so that you cannot fit another that's the same into it?
If you had 36 cubes, what different cuboids could you make?
A group of children are using measuring cylinders but they lose the labels. Can you help relabel them?
Investigate the area of 'slices' cut off this cube of cheese. What would happen if you had different-sized block of cheese to start with?
Cut differently-sized square corners from a square piece of paper to make boxes without lids. Do they all have the same volume?
How will you find out how much a tank of petrol costs?
An activity for high-attaining learners which involves making a new cylinder from a cardboard tube.
How many teddies are in the jar? How many teddies could you fit in your classroom?


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I'm convinced that before too many more days go by, I'll be that crazy person who puts her phone in the microwave or can't find her keys because they're in the freezer, while the ice cream is melting in her purse.
Mornings are a little bit more hectic with a baby. (All the seasoned parents are laughing at me now.) Mornings have never been my favorite time of the day, but trying to wrangle an infant and all of his stuff, as well as my own stuff, is proving to be a challenge.
Every day, I'm leaving the house loaded down with a purse, the breastpump bag, my lunch bag full of snacks (because I'm still eating like a pregnant person all day at my desk), a lunch bag with bottles for daycare, a bag with the baby's nebulizer and sometimes, another bag filled with diapers, wipes, extra clothes or whatever else daycare needs at the moment.
Oh, and a nearly 20-pound infant in a carseat.
Today, I dropped the baby off at daycare and gave them new instructions for the nebulizer. We talked about yesterday's pediatrician appointment, baby's cough and his new medicine. I kissed the baby goodbye and headed for my office, where I carted my bags across the parking lot and up three flights of stairs.
I set everything down on my desk. Purse, breastpump bag, lunch bag, baby's lunch bag— oh crap.
Not only did I forget to leave the baby's bottles at daycare, but I managed to pick up the bag out of my car and carry it up three flights of stairs (in my hands!) before I realized I still had it. Who does that?!
A tired, harried, inexperienced first-time mom, that's who.
Me, that's who! (OK, I've never specifically done that…but I have shown up at work with my shirt on inside out…twice.) And don't get me started on the days I don't find time for coffee!


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Even if you haven't downloaded Candy Crush Saga, you've no doubt heard of it. The five-year-old game, played mainly via its app on smartphones and tablets, has had over 1 trillion rounds completed since its launch in 2012. 198 billion rounds of Candy Crush were played in 2016. Broken down, that figure is equal to just about everyone on the planet playing the game 28 times in one year alone. And if games were viewed in the same spheres as the Kylie Jenners and Selena Gomezes of the world, Candy Crush would be in good company: it has almost 80 million likes on social media.
Leave it to Jeremy Scott, then, to partner with the phenomenon on a capsule collection for Moschino that will be introduced this weekend at Coachella, the annual music festival in Indio, California. (Scott is the creative director of Moschino, as well as the founder of an eponymous line which, sidenote, turns 20 this September.) Scott has long proven his sixth sense for highly attuned pop culture divination, having partnered with Google and buddied up with megawatt stars like Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, and the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna, for various costumes and red carpet appearances. Scott's aesthetic is unashamedly mainstream. He's reimagined a Snickers logo on a dress, for example, and recreated a Transformers battle scene on a suit; he's even channeled the arguably sinister undertones of '60s and '70s–era TV dinners— from a time when families were affixed to the boob tube, not individual iPhones. Say what you will, but there's a molten kind of genius beneath the spotlit and sugar-bombed aesthetics of his work.
While there isn't really a notable subtext to the Moschino x Candy Crush collection—a capsule of his-and-hers swimwear, plus a backpack—there's certainly a savviness to recognizing collaborative opportunities beyond the expected. "It's a very cool thing," says Yonna Ingolf, narrative designer for the Candy Crush program. "It's the first time we're partnering with high fashion. It felt like a natural step for us. Jeremy's mind is very 'candy.'" Scott agrees. "I think almost everyone plays, right? It's kind of off the charts," he says. "My mom and my nephew… they both play it. It's for everyone."
The designer was particularly smitten with the game's retro, puffy-loop font, which has been recreated to spell out "Moschino" and screened over a grid of confectionery characters, similar to how the matrix might appear in the program. And Scott wanted to keep it relatively straightforward: "We've got swimsuits, because, everyone's going to be in a pool at one point or another at Coachella, or it's going to be so hot you wish you were in a pool." Pragmatic. We like it.
The designer—who is in the process of updating a recently-purchased John Lautner home in Palm Springs, near the Coachella site—adds that he "was a little heartbroken about Beyoncé" dropping out of the festival's lineup. "I was actually halfway mesmerized, like, how is she going to pull this off with the twins all up in there?!" But even so, Coachella will be his vacation time before getting back on the road. Afterwards, he'll head to Milan to get ready for Moschino's next menswear show, and then back to New York for the Met Gala in early May. We're sure, given his track record, that he'll keep the sugar high going.


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Title: Hereafter
Author: Tara Hudson
Number of Pages: 404
Series: Hereafter (#1)
Published: Published June 7th 2011 by HarperCollins
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Can there truly be love after death?
Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no recollection of her past life—or her actual death—she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but will him to live. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive.
Amelia and Joshua grow ever closer as they begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death and the secrets of the dark river that held her captive for so long. But even while they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit named Eli is doing everything in his power to destroy their newfound happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world . . . forever.
Thrilling and evocative, with moments of pure pleasure, Hereafter is a sensation you won't want to miss.
My Thoughts: (I have this book 5 Stars)
First to let you know I found this book to be truly breath-taking. I so immensely enjoyed reading this book that I was thinking of the story long after I read it. The story-line was brilliant, fun, and ever so much a hunting tale to leaves you wanting more. Author, Tara Hudson wrote such a impeccable story with so much charm and pose in her writing style. I was blown away by how intriguing Hereafter was, and loved the character's. I love when I can fall in love with a character in a book simply by how the author describes there actions, words, and traits. This was one of those books where if you put the book down your always wondering what will happen next. The whole aspect of this book was a fun, refreshing, and outstanding read. Everything about Hereafter was so prefect and I really enjoyed reading it. This is a story of a girl named, Amelia and not of her life but her death. Only after waking up from a horrible drowning she knows she is no longer alive but dead and keeps having to relive her death only to wake up in the graveyard were her body is now buried. Two things Amelia now knows are true, is one she does not know why she died, and two Joshua is able to see her. After seeing him by the river as he drove his car into it by accident and watching his almost drown she comes to find out that he is able to see her but why? Who said you can't have a friend in the afterlife?! Amelia and Joshua become more than friends as they begin to uncover the reason for Amelia's death, but someone else who is also not of the living begins to turn her away from what she is likely to find. Eli, a spirit has other plans for Amelia, more of the frighting nature. Amelia now has to face the truth about her dead and with who and where she should spend her afterlife with... good or evil? One thing she does know is Joshua loves her dead or alive, but will that be enough to stay with him even know he is among the living. Later Amelia struggles with Eli and his plan to drag her to the ghost world for a very hunting and horrifying new life. The ending of Hereafter will leave longing for more. I want to thank the author Tara for writing such a charming and outstanding book. Your book makes me happy to be reading. Hereafter would be one of my favorite books of 2011 and I would definitely recommend this book to a reader who wants to dive deeper into the paranormal YA genre.


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Graphic, inlaid stripes inspired by 1970s archival styles lend a sharp edge to this streamlined design, crafted in refined pebble leather with a matte finish. Zip pockets inside and out, and a wide webbing strap make this sporty style ideal for running around town, outdoor adventures or travel—plus, it easily fits an iPad.
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On the Beat
Rhiannon Giddens, NC musician with 'unlimited talent,' makes history with Steve Martin Prize
North Carolina's Rhiannon Giddens, one of the most acclaimed performers in the universe of contemporary folk music, has won the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass.
She is both the first woman and the first African-American to do so.
The 39-year-old Greensboro native, a co-founder of Triangle string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, is the seventh winner of the prize created by the banjo-playing humorist. It carries an unrestricted cash prize of $50,000 and a bronze sculpture created by the artist Eric Fischl.
"Rhiannon has made a rare contribution to American music," Martin said in a statement. "She – along with the Carolina Chocolate Drops – has resurrected and revitalized an important part of banjo history."
The trio of Giddens, Dom Flemons and Justin Robinson met in 2005 at the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, forming as the Chocolate Drops in the Triangle soon afterward. After years of apprenticing with Mebane fiddler Joe Thompson and other old-time elders, the Chocolate Drops cracked the pop charts with their provocatively titled 2010 album "Genuine Negro Jig," which also won a Grammy Award.
Giddens, who splits her time between North Carolina and Ireland nowadays, has since launched a solo career and become a rising star in her own right. She scored another Grammy nomination with last year's T Bone Burnett-produced solo debut "Tomorrow Is My Turn." She's also a new cast member in the upcoming fifth season of the television series "Nashville" – reportedly as "a social worker with the voice of an angel."
David Holt, who featured Giddens on the first season of his public television show "State of Music" last year, calls her "one of those people with unlimited talent."
"She can do anything and she's intelligent, beautiful, kind," Holt said of the classically trained Giddens. "She's got it all, so don't bother with jealousy, because it does no good. Just sit back and admire."
For all of Giddens' accomplishments, the Steve Martin Prize might be her best breakthrough yet. The award has been around since 2010 and is selected by a board including J.D. Crowe, Tony Trischka, Bela Fleck, Alison Brown and other banjo luminaries. Past winners include Noam Pikelny of Punch Brothers, Danny Barnes of Bad Livers and Lonesome River Band's Sammy Shelor.
Giddens is the second North Carolinian to win the prize, following Jens Kruger in 2013. As with the MacArthur Foundation's "genius grant" fellowships, there is no application process for the Steve Martin Prize. It gets decided behind the scenes and arrives like a bolt out of the blue.
"I had no idea I was even in consideration," Giddens said. "It feels like some pretty great recognition from such great players and advocates, but it's not even about me. It's more about the style of banjo that I champion, which is very different from bluegrass. History is a big part of it, and for me this is another step toward tying us back together.
"Banjo is such a universal instrument, America's instrument and a part of both some great and not-so-great things in our history," she added. "But both things are out there and if you don't talk about one, you miss out on the other."
At the moment, Giddens does not have any Triangle performances scheduled. But she should play at least one local date in 2017, after her next album is out. She's working on that now; and perhaps not coincidentally, it's more banjo-intensive than "Tomorrow Is My Turn."
"Most of it features my banjo pretty heavily," she said. "So it's in a pretty different direction."
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Rhiannon Giddens
Born in Greensboro Feb. 21, 1977
Graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 2000 (opera)
Married to Michael Laffan since 2007
Two children (daughter Aoife and son Caoimhin)


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A Season of Shopping
It's beginning to look a lot like the holiday shopping season! As holiday decorations line the brisk, festive streets of Chatham County, stores open their doors to early bird shoppers looking to find their treasures a bit earlier this year. Beat the late December crowd when you start your holiday shopping earlier at the best local shops and restaurants in the area.


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Thakoon Panichgul's spring Thakoon show, presented Monday evening on a runway in the same Plaza Hotel ballroom where Truman Capote hosted his famous Black & White Ball many years ago, was no exercise in restraint or graphic simplicity.
It was a bright, sometimes garish take on playing dress up, more Cowboys and Indians than Cowboys and Aliens.
The Indians, in this case, not of the American West but of the subcontinent.
So, how do you manage to reflect this Bollywood-meets-Deadwood tendency, at least in the coif department.
Color me blue, pink or green to sorta, kinda go with the clothes.
Interesting, eh?
Thakoon has revived the blue rinse for a new generation, so to speak.
Oh, and I suppose I don't have to ask, it was all just for the runway…or Halloween, maybe?


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Tokyo Tower has long been known as one of the most significant symbols of Tokyo and Japan. Located near many attractions, but do you know what other things can you do besides sightseeing the whole city?
1. Tokyo Tower Aquarium
As one of the largest aquariums in the world, Tokyo Tower Aquarium is the home of more than 50,000 fish in 900 different species. The 500 square meter glass tank is displayed in a spacious 825 square meter aquarium. You can enjoy the beautiful varieties of shapes and colors of fish while calming music plays in the background.
Foot Town inside Tokyo Tower, 1st floor.
Weekdays 10:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday and National holiday 10:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Last admission is 30 minutes before closing time.
Adults 1,080yen. Junior high-school student and Senior (65ys or older) 600yen
2. Tokyo One-piece Tower
Attractions, live entertainment, and restaurants are all set around the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a young man who forms a crew called the Straw Hat Pirates and seeks out the ultimate treasure (One Piece). Here in Tokyo One-piece Tower, visitors can experience the world of "One Piece" in attractions like Luffy's Endless Adventure, featuring dynamic visuals that trace the main character's memory and unveil why he must go on fighting; Chopper's Thousand Sunny Tour, which invites visitors to explore the Straw Hats' pirate ship; and Nami's Casino, run by the money crazy crew member.
Also with Sanji's oresama restaurants, Cafe Mugiwara serving original gourmet dishes and Mugiwara shop carrying limited-edition merchandise, let's join the Luffy crew to the amazing adventure!
Foot Town inside Tokyo Tower, 1st and 3rd floor.
– Park: 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. (Last admission 9:00 p.m.)
Hours may be changed on December 31st and January 1st
– Sanji's oresama Restaurant: 11:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. (Last order 9:00 p.m.)
– Cafe Mugiwara: 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. (Food: Last order 9:00 p.m. / Drinks: Last order 9:30 p.m.)
– Mugiwara Store: 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Adults (13ys and older) 2,000yen. Children (7-12ys) 1,500yen. Children (4-6ys) 1,000yen.
3. Shop Tokyo Tower designed souvenir at TOKYO TOWER OFFICIAL SHOP GALAXY
TOKYO TOWER OFFICIAL SHOP GALAXY is on the third floor of FOOT TOWN. They sell mostly Tokyo tower designed souvenirs, some of them produced by collaborations of famous creators both from Japan and from other parts of the world. Get the original items that are limitedly sold here.
Foot Town inside Tokyo Tower, 3rd floor
(until 10:00 PM on the last day of every month)
4. Shop and dine at the second floor of FOOT TOWN
There are 17 shops and restaurants on the second floor to make tourist never bored. There is a food court where you can have a short break and snacks. The shops sell souvenirs from Tokyo mostly.
Foot Town inside Tokyo Tower, 2nd floor
Depend on the stores
5. Illuminations in summer and winter
Besides monthly illumination outside of the Tower, it has two evening illumination events that enhance the sense of the seasons: The Milky Way Illumination in the summer, and Christmas Illumination Light Down Story.
Operation hours and Access:
– The Milky Way Illumination: From the beginning of June to July 10. Main Observatory, 1F
– Christmas Illumination Christmas Light Down Story : From December 1 to December 25. The place in front of Tokyo Tower's front entrance
Date may vary depending on the year.
6. Live music at Club 333
Every week, various sorts of regular events are produced now on the specially set up stage on the first floor of the Main Observatory, Club 333.
Every Saturday and Sunday"TOKYOTOWER TV"is on the air! On Wednesday and Thursday nights, live shows by the top artists well fit for the night scene give their hot performance. And there is DJ time on Monday and Friday nights, in which they broadcast the tunes requested by you "on air" to all the Observatories.
Main Observatory 1st floor.
– Wednesdays' Live and Thursdays' Concerts: (1) 7:00 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. (2) 8:15 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (2 sets)
– Friday's Night View DJ: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Regular observatory fee and additional charge on what you ordered in the Club.
7. Guinness World Records Museum Tokyo
Museum Guinness World Records Museum Tokyo is where you can see a variety of world record breaking documented here. If you pay a visit to the Tokyo Tower, do not miss your time to stop by here.
Foot Town inside Tokyo Tower, 3rd floor.
9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
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We are now in the first month of the year in 2019. January, 31 days and Julian and Gregorian Calendars are the beginning and first months of the year. The next month, February, will be 28 days. We would like to share your views about the first day of the year, January 1. 2019 New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. Many society celebrate the event in some manner and the 1st day of Jan is often marked as a national holiday. In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, New Year occurs on 1 January (New Year's Day). This was also the case both in the old Roman calendar and in the Julian calendar that succeeded it. Another calendars have been used historically in different parts of the world; some calendars count years numerically, while others do not. source. Then, it continues with Printable February 2019 calendar templates
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We congratulate everyone with their sincere wishes for the new year. We want to talk about a site that contains the full moon calendar for jan 2019 and tells us all the details. The first Full Moon of the year will be on Jan 1st For USA and Jan 2 for Europe. The second known as a Blue Moon will be on Jan 31st.
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Climate Risk Attenuation/
by Alianne Rance
In working in the dynamic field that is adaptation to climate change, it is often exhausting trying to navigate the politicization and media coverage of the 'big CC', and encourage stakeholders in various industry contexts to 'proactively' adapt. It often gets me thinking though, when will climate risk become a component of the traditional risk profile for corporations? Isn't it inevitable?
Recent calibration of historical climate and carbon cycle data indicates with higher certainty than ever before, that we have "locked in" warming exceeding (on average) 2oC by 2100, uncertainty is no longer an excuse for inaction in the face of climate change. The response and planning for the associated consequences and impacts, otherwise known as adaptation, is a key strategic issue for the corporate sector. Unlike mitigation and corporate social responsibility, adaptation has a direct benefit for an organisation's operations. However, most Australian companies struggle to progress adaptation planning for a host of reasons while many global businesses proactively seek to manage their climate risk within their operations and the operations of their suppliers.
The Australian private sector must begin to understand that climate risk reaches across many sectors and spans traditional risks such as regulatory risk, litigation risk, insurance risk and reputational risk and think beyond the next quarterly report. Adaptation is context specific and continues process; therefore CEOs must start to consider what climate impacts will mean for their organisation and commence planning to attenuate these impacts, because adaptation is context specific and continuous process.
In my opinion, there will be various triggers that can prompt industries within the private sector to adapt. Take for example the property industry in Australia. It is obvious that with urban population growth and our increasing propensity for coastal living, our exposure to climate impacts will only increase and the property industry faces a significant challenge.
In considering what would motivate property developers to adapt, I ponder on what I have fondly come to call the 'three P's'…
Profit; and
Periphery Stakeholders
Regulation and policy are often the agents of change when it comes to planning and property development, especially in the context of addressing environmentally associated risks. Although various States hold differing positions on the inclusion of climate impacts in policy, inevitable changes in regulation in the light of increased understanding of climate impacts will eventually require end users to adapt. We see this movement reflected in the consideration of climate risk in industry standards, for example the Green Building Council of Australia's 'Green Star Communities Pilot' which attributes credit to adaptation and resilience.
Money makes the world go round and unless there is a profit to be made or change to the bottom line, there is little motivation for the private sector to address climate risks. We are now seeing an evolution toward climate risk being recognised in the insurance and financial sectors, from both an equity and debt consideration. It is only a matter of time before lenders and investors will consider climate risk in the traditional risk profile and the tolerance of these risks will be significantly determined by the insurance market. Moreover, we are seeing an education of the consumer by the insurance market, with household risk rating tools in development through the Insurance Council of Australia. It will not be long before the home buyer demands a climate adapted property. Additionally, brand, image and reputation are hallmarks in property development and will be the ground breakers that set the standard in this arena.
By periphery stakeholders I mean the legal sector, financial institutions and industry associations to name just three. Through the combined pressure that can be exerted through these groups, the transformation of the property development industry to consider climate risk will be inevitable.
This is my obsession and passion, and yes I am an eternal optimist. But I am not alone in recognising adaptation and attenuation of climate risk as the sustainability of a decade or so ago. We never thought we would see sustainability and 'green thinking' so embedded in the private sector today, likewise, adaptation is only a matter of time – so let's be proactive.
To learn more about the three P's and adaptation in the private sector, feel free to contact me for a chat.
Alianne Rance is an Associate of Net Balance (email@example.com),
one of the world's leading sustainability advisory firms.
Alianne is based in Melbourne.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Eating to Live, NOT Living to Eat.
I am adding a little something to what I wrote last night...
This is completely conflicting with the point of this blog post, but this recipe for Moscato Cupcakes sounds so amazing I had to share it.
That being shared...
I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about how, in general, we seem to put way too much of an emphasis on food. People have forgotten that the reason food is around is to fuel and nourish our bodies. That's it. Food is not meant to be used in that way that we (and by "we" I mean those of us in the US) do. Food is an essential - without it, our bodies will fail. People seem to forget that too much of it is also harmful to our bodies. I know I've blogged about this, to at least some degree, previously but I'm taking a little bit different of an approach on this one.
Let's look at food in social situations. How many celebrations or events in your life revolve around food? I can think of several in mine... Birthdays, holidays, family reunions, weddings, showers, picnics, other parties, luncheons, festivals, dates...We even give gifts of food. I'm guilty of this too - because I love to bake but don't want to keep it around. And? People like those gifts. We have entire television networks related to cooking and food.
The majority of what we do revolves around food in some way. Usually these events include foods that are not healthy. In fact they include a lot of foods that are super unhealthy (cake, anyone?). I think that tradition and culture are at the root of food being involved in such events.
Why does quality time with our loved ones have to revolve around food? Is that all there is to do? Can we not enjoy one another without it? Why can't we participate in some sort of charity walk as a method of bonding?
So what's the deal? Why do we center our events around which restaurant we will go to or which menus will be included at parties and dinners?
I'm going to try hard to break this trend for myself...Actually, I would say I already have. I honestly DREAD gatherings and parties that include food...Especially bridal/baby showers. Seriously. Those can be like triple-torture to me... First, there's the food. And this one really includes any event that involves food. For me, it can be so hard because...
I want the bad stuff. I (usually) make the choice to have very little of it or choose the healthiest options and fill up on those. This is is conscious choice that takes effort. Sometimes A LOT of effort.
The other torturous factors for me? First...Those damn games. I hate them. If we're gonna eat fine (but please include fruit and salads for some of us), but CAN WE PLEASE SKIP THE STUPID GAMES?! I do not want to sit on my ass and decide how many words I can make out of names. I don't really give a hoot (yes, I did just say that) about what flavor of baby food is in a jar. I don't care what kind of candy bar is melted into a diaper (and really, that's disgusting). Those games? Just might be more torturous than the food thing. Seriously... Can we pleeeeeease find other things to do? Do we need to stretch these things out to three or four hours because we need to play six games? I can accept a light lunch.
But let's be real here... Why are we attending these showers? So we can celebrate an event in the life of a loved one, right? PSSSHHH... I'm gonna say it: IT'S THE PRESENTS. And the food. We get together and buy people stuff for their new life with their love, or their little bundle of joy. Honestly... We need things for lives and having a party is a damn good way to get what we need? I'm a big fan of this concept. And I LOVE registries (except for when people don't know how to use them as evidenced by multiples of something). Yes, you're having an event and you need things - thank you for telling me what you need!!! That makes life so, so much easier.
I think we should have birthday registries too. And Christmas. And whatever else. No more unwanted gifts that end up being unused or re-gifted? Yes, please. (Not that I would ever re-gift).Naturally if I do a birthday or Christmas registry someone's gonna think I'm shallow and just want presents. That's not it. But if someone is inclined to buy me something, then please buy me something I really want or need. The registry really is a wonderful, powerful tool.
Okay, I'm off-track and making this long post (hey, I had some extra free time last night when I wrote it!) even longer.....
For those interested the third form of torture is "I'm the only one" syndrome. Yup, I'm the single friend. I'm the childless friend. And, hey, guess what? I'm pretty okay with the way my life is right now. Naturally I want those things to change someday but stop with the sad looks. I'm not sad!! I'm happy! Those things will happen when it's right for me. I also really don't like the "you're next..." or "so when are you having one?" statements/questions. I'm next? Probably because I'm the only person here who is not married and does not have a child. But? I have dog-children and they are freaking amazing, thank you very much.
Is it just me or am I on fire today? I think I'm pretty freakin' funny.
Back to food...
Food can even be used negatively. People make comments about what others eat often. Guess what! This doesn't stop when you quit eating so much junk ("like you really need that fast food burger..."). I've gotten it for healthy foods to. That's right, I stopped with the junk, ate healthy, lost weight, and people are still criticizing me for what goes in my mouth. Honestly? Why do you care so much? If I want to follow the Paleo lifestyle, then let me. If I want to be Vegan, then let me. Why does what I eat have anything to do with you? Why should YOUR opinions influence my dietary habits?
Oh... That's right... Your opinions don't matter. As long as I'm eating a healthy, balanced diet, you need not worry.
Man, we are so nosey!! But that's another topic
Part of the issue is with the way we do things. This is something we can change. However, very few of us would want to do that. I'm in the minority, I am sure.
The other part (that I'm going to write about, as I feel there are many components to this) is the brain. I am a firm believer in food addiction. Binge eating disorder is real. Night eating syndrome is real. I believe that the brain sends signals that trigger responses to food. I think that some of us have these issues just like others have depression. It's a chemical thing. However, despite being chemical you can take steps to change your eating habits... Just like any other addiction; you can fight, and beat, food addiction. Don't use that as an excuse. Most of us would look at an alcoholic saying "well it's hereditary and an addiction...I can't help it," and think that they're in denial. That they're just making another excuse for their behavior. The same is true for food. No matter how much your brain craves something or is triggering you to compulsively eat, you can change it.
I used to say that it wasn't hard to change. For me, initially, it wasn't. I just made a decision and did it. I've lost a lot of weight. I gained a little bit back... Not all, or even a great deal of it, so don't you dare throw me into THAT stereotype. Am I 20 pounds heavier than I was a couple years ago? Yes. Do I weigh like 350 pounds? Nope. In fact I am very, very, very far from that. Do I continue to eat healthy and exercise? Yup.
But it can be a struggle. EVERY. STINKIN'. DAY. Despite knowing what's healthy for us and what's not, passing up that piece of cake when everyone else is eating it really sucks sometimes. It's like the brain is saying "hey that makes me happy and you're not giving it to me."
I'm going through this struggle right now. Just last week at work someone brought in cake and was passing it out. My first reaction? "Oh crap." My second, "is there a small piece?" There wasn't. So I passed. Guess what? It was kind of hard watching two other people eat that delicious looking cake while I sipped water. It was a hard choice to make. Just like it's a hard choice to not have a drink when others around you are.
I made that choice though and even though it's a small one, it's the right one. It's the one that was healthy. I didn't need those 500 extra calories. I didn't need that fat to find it's way to my thighs.
I fall to it sometimes. Usually when I'm alone. That's why I cannot have unhealthy things in my house. If they're there, I will eat them. I still give-in way too easily. When others are around to see me, I'm much more aware of it.
I found this article on sweets and the brain to be very interesting and it's definitely one to check out. I agree with it. There's one part that talks about how people who've lost weight on their own still have strong responses (in the brain) to food.
I'm a geek in that I love studies like this. I think they're fantastic. I think that learning more about how the brain works is one of the coolest things ever. The brain really is the most amazing thing. Without it we couldn't survive. It is the center of everything our bodies do. I especially love how the brain impacts on behavior - whether it be chemical or due to things we're conditioned to learn.
I really like a quote from this article because it highlights what's true...
"Post-obese people are extremely prone to regain weight," says Dr. Del Parigi. "The only way they have to counteract these strong predispositions is by having a very controlled lifestyle, with restrained food intake and exercise."
That's me. I have to be controlled. I have to eat healthy and exercise. That's how I got here and that is the only thing that will keep me here....Without that level of control I'll fall.
It is way to easy to slip into old habits. What I've learned is that it's not as easy as I thought it was. It's become harder the longer I've done it (in some ways) and easier in others. Now I've conditioned myself to say "no" to a giant slice of chocolate cake when someone brings it in. I skip work potlucks and any situation I can that involves food. I still go to those pesky showers because I love my friends and family, but sometimes it's so freaking hard (but really those games...oh those games!).
It's hard to fight what my brain wants. It's hard to fight what society tells me I should be doing in social situations (while also telling me that I should look like a model). Some days it's easy and some days it's a damn struggle. What helps?
In general...Having a good support system.
Being blessed with a Mom and a Nonie who include healthy holiday meal options, just for me.
Having friends and family who encourage me in being healthy.
Having friends and family call me out on bad habits when needed. (Thanks, Dad, you're best at that whole tough-love thing).
Being around other health-minded people. I love that I have friends who want to do runs/walks or other healthy things with me. I do a lot of races alone, but it's awesome to have this in common with so many people. Whether we start and finish together or not, just having someone else there is such a huge thing for me.
Being lucky that the number of family and friends getting married is dwindling because most of them are already there! No showers, weddings, etc.
People who support my way of eating no matter how "weird" it is. I have to ignore a lot of comments and opinions from others, but I do. (Ruby, I love you and I know your farm-raised/grass-fed comments are just you being goofy; not mean).
People who will do things with me even if it's not their typical interest. Sure, someone may not want to go for a run, but if they'll at least walk a few miles, I'll take it. That's more time for chatting anyway.
Filtering toxic people out of my life...
These are the people who don't understand, despite my best attempts to educate them. They don't understand my "weird" eating habits. They don't like that a lot of the time I will put workouts before some social things. They just don't understand what all of this means. They see a girl who lost weight. They don't understand the work that it takes. If people can't support what I need to do (especially those who can get angry about it, which doesn't happen often) in order to be healthy, then they need to go.
I'm making the choice to continue being healthy... By doing so I am also making the choice to eat to live. I am trying to put emphasis on foods that will nourish me; foods that will provide me with energy. Will I still indulge in things that won't? Yes. I just have to limit them (more than I have been lately - looks away shamefully).
I'm working hard to eat when my body tells me I need to...When I actually feel hunger. I'm going to try my best to fuel it with things that it needs, while seriously limiting things that it doesn't need. There are times when this won't work for whatever reason (options not available at a restaurant, for example), but I'll keep as close to it as possible. No matter how much it is pushed on me, food will not be the center of my life. And it shouldn't be - for me.
I don't expect anyone else do this...I'm not telling you what to do. I'm sharing my personal thoughts and opinions (on MY blog, FYI) - you don't have to agree (so puh-lease don't clog up my comments arguing your opinion or telling me why I am so insanely wrong). You don't even have to understand. My hope is the same as it is with the intention of this blog... To reach at least one person; to inspire a healthy change. To keep someone who is struggling motivated.... That's it; just one.
I'm doing what's natural and what I believe is healthy...I'm eating to live. I am not living to eat.
Have a great day!
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I am with you! Why does everything we do have to revolve around food and unhealthy food at that!? I think from now on when I have a party whether it be anniversary, birthday, shower I will have lots of healthy options. There is nothing worse than going to a gathering and having to pick at the celery stick and pickles because every single thing is either sugary or fried! And the other awful part about it is that I WANT all the sugary or fried foods and I have to sit there watching others eat them right in front of me. TO TOP THAT OFF people usually give you a hard time about NOT eating those things or they try to coarse you into eating with them. "Or its just today. Come on eat some. It's not going to hurt your diet to eat it this one time." What they don't understand is that that kind of mentally is what got me overweight to begin with. Phew, sorry I just had to vent!hahaReplyDelete


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