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I've had two accidental gluten poisoning incidents since the colostomy, one was my own fault for not reading an ingredients list properly, a recipe had changed - previously gluten free, not any more. This weeks' bbq was worse. The colostomy means I get dehydrated more easily, so I feel awful quickly. My stoma nurse taught me to eat a banana, packet of crisps, and drink a glass of cola, it rehydrates you because it contains potassium, sodium and sugar. I wish I knew that 2 years ago, it really does work!


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Geodesic is a pullover inspired by the Geodesic dome. Version 1 is a loose fitting crop top that hits at the natural waist. Version 2 is a tunic length top with cozy pockets. Cut straight, it is fitted at the hip an loose through the rest of the body.
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Due to yesterday's blog birthday and book giveaway, this week's 'From Place To Space' post makes its appearance on an unusual Tuesday. But nonetheless I will make sure this yet another inspiring virtual trip to a new city. Today you are very welcome to join me to Hipsterville, the capital of hipsters, tattoos, moustaches and beards: Welcome to Portland, Oregon!
The City of Roses
Portland was my second stop on my Canada & USA trip mid September and early October. Since I was traveling the Pacific Northwest it was a must to go and visit Portland, the vibrant and cool city on the northern tip of Oregon. Some bare facts first: Portland is a rather small city. Very walkable or better yet easy to discover by bikes. It is also THE most bike-friendly city in the United States. The Willamette river divides the city into two parts which are interconnected with numerous bridges. Portland is also supposed to be one of the most optimistic places in the world with a very cool and relaxed lifestyle. It also is the hometown of the inimitable Kinfolk Magazine. It also is a foodie's heaven with a thriving food scene and great restaurants tucked away in various corners of the city and many food carts serving yummy food to-go. It is known for its numberless microbrews, so beer fans will feel like in heaven too, as will coffee lovers. It is nicknamed 'The City of Roses' and features one of the oldest open parks in the US with a fabulous International Rose Test Garden with more than 7.500 different roses. Sounds good, right?
Portland's Aces
I settled in Portland for four nights in the highly hyped Ace Hotel. The hotel is perfectly located in the city center and features a very Portlandian cool vibe – it feels almost like a hipster youth hostel for the cool crowd. Moreover it holds two more aces – the epitomized coffee place 'Stumptown Coffee' and a fabulous restaurant named 'Clyde Common'. Both highly recommendable. Coffee places are paramount in town so make sure you roam around and try all the different coffees as well. Opposite of the hotel is a brand new shopping passage called 'Union Way' with some very cool shops for fashion, interiors, food and sweets. I visited another very cool store at Union Way, but I will share it in a separate blogpost soon. Next doors to the hotel is also the delicious 'Kenny & Zuke's Delicatessen' with luscious Jewish delicatessen and famed for its cured meats – make sure you're really hungry when you go there! Even book lovers just need to take a one minute walk to arrive at the fantastic 'Powell's City of Book', the largest independent store for new and used books worldwide. I spent like an entire evening there and left loaded with new and vintage books!
Keep Portland Weird
What attracted me most to Portland? I think it's the lifestyle in general. It was the first American city where I experienced such a relaxed, urban lifestyle, impromptu gatherings and performances on the streets, and an honest and refreshing friendliness of its people. A typical Pacific Northwest phenomenon is how the city liaises urban life with the vast surrounding nature. It is a short drive away from the wild Oregon Pacific coast as well as from the high, densly-wooded peaks of the Cascade Range. Go and see both! I will share more on the surroundings later on the blog. And when people say 'keep Portland weird' I will strongly agree if it means that the city stays as cool as it is. Or weird for that matter.
More Good Places
The problem with cities where you feel like almost every place you visited is recommendable, is how to break it down in one blogpost. Anyways, here are just a few more recommendable places if you ever happen to be in Portland: Mother's Bistro, Olympic Provisions, Barista, Voodoo Doughnuts (be prepared for queuing), Canoe for interior design lovers, Quin for the sweet thooths among you. If you have more recommendations, share them in the comment section.
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Our hifu treatments are non-surgical, so it comes with no pain, no surgical equipment or anaesthetic. After the treatment you can go back to your day to day life, as usual, no recovery time is required!
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What is Fat freezing Marlow
Fat freezing Marlow is a very good alternative for both women and men, and everyone from eighteen into retirement can benefit from the remedy. Anyone with area-specific excess fat deposits that persist despite a healthy diet and exercise regime is a prospective candidate, but it is ideally suited for anyone inside 10 – 20 pounds of their excess weight (or these under 20% overweight).
In fat freezingMarlow an adhesive, gel patch is placed on the 'problem' area is then subjected to cold temperatures. Customers undergo one or two treatments and within two to 4 months see a difference on the sought after area after the fat cells die.
This treatment does have limitations. The device is for use on excess fat pockets, not cellulite or skin toning as it deals with surface fat. Buttocks as well as the outer backs of your thighs, the "saddlebags" that many women wish to change, must be assessed on a particular person by person basis.
Potential clients who have substantial excess weight and want to lower their loose skin could not see the results they want from CoolSculpting. Also, individuals with ageing skin may see reduced benefits in some parts, as ageing skin loses its elasticity.
However the extra fat is removed from the area, the skin might not tighten as wished. Consult together with your doctor about whether or not CoolSculpting can assist you to achieve your ultimate ambitions.
Does the Lipo Sculpt fat-freezing method Marlow get the job done?
Yes! Don't believe us? There's loads of hype surrounding this method of fat-loss and it's amazing results.
Why? It works because Lipo Sculpt freezes Body fat!
Now doesn't that sound straightforward?
It easier compared to the conventional liposuction which is invasive and has a significantly longer patient recovery.
Research into fat freezing treatments and Lipo Sculpt has shown that this system and treatment is productive. The FDA authorized it in the USA, and now the California-based machine is being offered to Plastic Surgeons' offices as far as Britain.
It's difficult to say or compare whether or not the effectiveness of Lipo Sculpt is as good, or much better than liposuction, because of its dependant on the individual.
Now, I can imagine you are asking – "How does Lipo Sculpt Work?" It's pretty simple actually.
- Let's say you are having trouble shifting fat from your stomach or thighs with your regular workouts. We target this section of the body's fat cells by positioning the Lipo Sculpt machine at that target area for approximately 1 hour during which time the fat cells start to die.
- Unlike liposuction, the patient can get up following the 60-minute process and walk away without any real recovery other than a funny feeling of numbness.
- Over the course of the next six weeks, your body's system recognises that the unwanted fat cells are now dead. During this period your metabolism works to detoxify and flush out these cells and the amount of body fat declines in and around your problem area.
Sometimes the Lipo Fat Freezing can cause some individuals to experience side effects as numerous because of the following but its only very short term
- Bruising
- Swelling
- Numbness
Sounds okay, right? So, what about keeping the weight off?
Let's not forget that NOTHING can compare to a healthy diet program and workout regime. The multitude of positive health aspects outweighs any of that of Lipo Sculpt, liposuction, diet pills and the list goes on.
Sure, these procedures may very well be rapid, but they don't come without risks. And they don't provide long-term benefits.
Did you realize that most people who get cosmetic weight-loss treatment options don't even think to change their eating or fitness habits? The fat cells that were once "sucked out", (or frozen inside the case of Lipo Sculpt) only reproduce and at times come back with even uglier complications.
Learning how to lose excess weight the healthy way is not only going to get your physique in its finest shape, but you will also reap the rewards from all the extraordinary advantages to HEALTHY excess weight loss. Lipo-Sculpt is there when you need an extra boost.
Getting Cool to Lose Excess weight
Losing weight is never an easy process, but for some individuals no matter how hard they work on diet or exercise, they just can't seem to lose the excess fat stored in problem regions like the stomach or sides from the body like the hips or back. Our new treatment can create excess weight loss in people that targets locations using cold to slowly kill and remove fat over a 6 to 12 week period.
The method is referred to as cryolipolysis which targets localised fat deposits through controlled cooling and is a non-surgical alternative to regular procedures like liposuction. In cryolipolysis, a doctor will select a location of excess fat and apply an applicator that cools the extra fat tissue but does not harm the surrounding cells. Since excess fat cells are far more vulnerable to cold temperatures than skin cells, the process induces apoptosis (cell death) and steadily eliminates body fat over a variety of weeks. While cryolipolysis could be the generic term for the process, many individuals refer to it as Coolsculpting or fat freezing.
Unlike liposuction or other surgical methods, cryolipolysis does not require incisions or anaesthesia, and side effects are small compared to liposuction surgery. The procedure is best for individuals who are relatively healthy and want to tighten certain parts of the body.
After a few weeks, patients will see about a twenty per cent reduction in extra fat and the procedure is often repeated to improve results. As long as the technician can secure the applicator to the bulge of body fat, they can target other problem regions like the arms.
CoolSculpting: The Coolest Way to Get Rid of Fat
- Don't want to cut your diet program but even now want a slender entire body?
- Don't need to get up and exercise but desire to burn fats?
- Doesn't like getting dieting o being restrained of what to eat and don't like to wait for too long to have that fantastic physique?
CoolSculpting would be the most efficient solution for you.
But what is CoolSculpting?
Lipo Sculpt also called fat freezing, is a process in which extra fat cells are crystallised to get rid of them. These frozen extra fat cells eventually die and dissolve through your natural metabolic process.
Some very clever scientists at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Harvard Medical School, established this process.
How is Fat Freezing different to 3d Lipo or Lipo Freeze?
A cooling head is positioned in a place wherever you want to eliminate the flabby fat. It takes an hour to perform the whole method. The device gently targets extra fat cells under your skin and crystallise them. Also, this process is non-surgical which signifies that no incisions are needed. Sufferers can do other things like reading, using their mobile phones, listening to music, etc. during the procedure.
Just after a week or a month, outcomes will start to be noticed. If not, then there is a need for you to have additional than a single session of cool sculpting.
CoolSculpting vs Liposuction vs Fat Freezing
- CoolSculpting
- Non-invasive
- Unwanted fat is frozen and dies eventually through a natural process
- Customers can do other things like working on their laptops, writing, etc.
- Painless method
- Liposuction
- Invasive
- Forcefully removes unwanted fat through a vacuum
- Patient's sedated
- Painful process
CoolSculpting is far better than liposuction due to the fact you don't need to endure hours of pain and forceful elimination of extra fat. In this procedure, the cooling device placed on you will do the trick, as well as body will do the rest.
Moreover, folks who choose liposuction might undergo accidents during the process. While the risk in CoolSculpting is that there is a possibility that you need far more than one session to attain the look you want.
What will be the rewards of FAT FREEZING?
Superior RESULTS compared to the rest, Lipo Sculpt does not inflict pain on you but at the same time, can give you the body you've always wanted. Here will be the list of rewards:
- No surgery is needed inside the process.
- You don't need to acquire anaesthesia.
- No needles or incisions
- Zero downtime
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- How long do benefits last?
Results of CoolScupting CAN last a lifetime. When this method eliminates body fat cells, rest assured that they will not reemerge if you maintain a healthy lifestyle and daily physical exercise.
Are you perfect for this method?
Going through the decision-making process to undergo CoolSculpting, choose a fat freezing specialist dedicated to serving their patients' needs with safety. If you have further inquiries concerning FAT FREEZING contact us asap
FAT Freezing CoolSculpting is a better way to eliminate fats from the physique compared to other systems that require incision and the like. Also, the outcomes of this process are long-lasting. Moreover, the process is carried out in a partly natural manner.
Now, if you need to look slimmer, you may choose to go through CoolSculpting and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
alternatives to Liposuction
Losing bodyweight is not something that could be done overnight, but of course, if you have the financial capability then any suggests necessary especially in today's engineering, the things that are hard to be done before, is quick to become made now. So with reducing extra fat, yes we all know that the fastest way to go is through Liposuction Procedure.
Liposuction is an invasive process for eliminating thick body fat build-up fast. But in today's medical technologies, there are problems becoming encountered in practising liposuction as some medical experts if not done properly can cause some serious damage to the person who wants to use this method.
So in these instances, why not try different methods or an alternative for bodyweight loss other than going through the process of Liposuction?
If you nonetheless want fast and successful effects, then try Lipo Sculpt or Cryolipolysis Process. This can be a Non-Invasive bodyweight loss machine that can help you lose body weight by using cold temperature to freeze the excess fat.


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Research shows that by February, 36 percent of people have abandoned their resolutions, and by April, that total increases to 54 percent. Now, if you are like me, your resolutions included losing weight and getting into better shape. For the sake of my health that is not a resolution I want to give up easily!
During National Random Acts of Kindness Week, Master Lock will be surprising gym-goers in six cities with the innovative 1534D Password lock to encourage them to stick to their fitness resolutions and spread a little kindness. The lock is ideal for safely storing your personal belongings during a workout and will be distributed in the following markets:
• Chicago, Illinois
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To help "lock up" your fitness goals, Master Lock is giving away their 1534D Password Lock, as well as gift certificates on their Facebook page. Find more information about their Facebook sweepstakes at: www.masterlock.com/facebook
In conjunction with Master Lock's acts of kindness, the company has created the following set of tips to help consumers strategically adapt to their new lifestyles and make their New Year's resolutions permanent habits:
• Write It Down…and Share It. Simply thinking through your resolutions and storing them mentally isn't going to ensure you stay committed. Having a list of goals in your organizer, smart phone, or social media profile that you can easily access and share will reinforce your promise to yourself and spur encouragement from your followers and friends.
• Get the right gear. Whether your goals revolve around getting back in the gym or being more organized at home, having the right products to help you succeed is a must. For organization, the 7148D document storage box can help keep important documents safely filed away. To securely organize your digital life, register for a free account at www.masterlockvault.com to safely store your user names, passwords and other confidential data for easy access anytime, anywhere. Getting good shoes, proper work-out wear, and a new gym lock such as the 1534D Password lock will help reinvigorate your enthusiasm to exercise.
• Do it for a Month. In order for a new behavior to become a habit, you must stick to it for at least 30 days. Setting this small goal will make achieving your overall resolution more realistic. Plus, you can be encouraged when you've reached the one-month mark and assess your progress.
• Keep a Journal. Commit to writing one to two sentences about your progress toward your goals each day. Keeping a written record of how you're doing will keep your resolution top of mind and motivate you to continue to make changes.
• One Step at a Time. Don't set too many goals and then try tackling them all at once. Make one goal your priority and focus on changing your habits to achieve it. Once you've mastered it, set your sights on two additional goals, giving yourself realistic timelines to achieve them and go from there.
Stay tuned! I will be doing my own review on the 1534D Password lock soon and offering a giveaway to go along with it.
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The famous waterfall Maiden Tears is located in the gorge of the "Valley of the Seven Bulls» in the Dzhety-Oguz district, at an altitude of about 2500 m. The waterfall is about 40 m. This waterfall is not like the others. Water, like so many streams, falls down the steep rocky rapids and is broken down on the millions of drops.
It really looks like the tears rolling down the cheeks a beautiful maiden. The road to the waterfall is not easy, you have to go through the narrow mountain paths where barely warm up two travelers, but efforts are justified as soon as the traveler eyes open is a marvel of nature.


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Officials from Bright from the Start, the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL), the Georgia Department of Public Health and Georgia Organics are calling their recent 2013 Farm to Preschool Summit, held Sept. 13-14 in Atlanta, a huge success. More than 150 people attended the two-day summit, which was the first of its kind in the nation. Regional experts shared best practices in gardening, food education and innovative local food procurement strategies.
DECAL Commissioner Bobby Cagle said the summit accomplished multiple goals.
"This emphasis on greater use of locally grown fruits and vegetables in child care programs helps fight the childhood obesity that plagues our state and our country," Cagle said. "It also encourages collaborative relationships between child care programs and local farmers and producers, which is great for our economy."
On Saturday, Cagle was joined by Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health, in presenting the first-ever Georgia SHAPE awards. Ten child care programs were recognized for going above and beyond Georgia's licensing standards in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.
"Farm to Preschool and SHAPE-recognized day care facilities provide a foundation for a lifetime of healthy eating and physical activity for our little ones, beginning at a very early age," Fitzgerald said. "We're talking about our future, so reducing obesity among our preschoolers is critical."
Georgia SHAPE award winners included:
- Kids-R-Kids #27 in Duluth
- Dade Head Start/Early Head Start in Trenton
- Westside Head Start/Early Head Start in Rocky Face
- Luella Academy in McDonough
- Little Angels Daycare in Athens
- KinderCare Learning Center #1690 in Marietta
- Greater New Hope Christian Assembly Academy LLC in Stockbridge
- Family Day Care Home operators Eva Polite, Renea Harris, Linda Davis and Susan Paltrineri
DECAL was recently awarded a $337,000 Team Nutrition Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The grant will allow DECAL to expand the Farm to Preschool program and its Caregivers Promoting Healthy Habits initiative to other parts of the state.


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Time is an extremely important commodity in the 21st Century. That's why LERN is bringing you this new webinar on how to save time by streamlining your brochure production process.
In this webinar, you will:
· Learn to create a streamlined process.
· Discover ways to draw eyes to both your upcoming classes and your website.
· Discover how to maximize space.
· Learn how to produce a brochure or catalog that will best represent your program.
· And much more!
The webinar will be held at 2 p.m. ET, 1 p.m. CT on Wednesday, June 11. The cost is $79 for members and $89 for non-members.
All LERN Webinars are archived, and will be sent out to those who have pre-registered for the Webinar.
Presenter Brendan Marsello, Providence, R.I., oversees brochure production at Learning Connection, Inc., one of the country's leading community-based adult education programs. He is also a popular presenter at the LERN Annual Conference.


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Two great active WEAC Region 7 members in South Milwaukee – Hallie Schmeling and Joanna Rizzotto – were honored with Channel 12 News' Top Teacher award. Both teach at the REAL Academy, South Milwaukee's educator-designed, in-house alternative education high school. The Channel 12 News story is full of insights and inspiration applicable to every educational setting.
At the REAL Academy, Joanna says, "the focus is on the whole child and relationships." She says her approach to teaching is "to be open, to respond and not react, to guide."
"The unique thing," Hallie says, "is that we really come from the space that instead of me being the teacher that is putting information into kids, we're more about they have it in them, they have their passions, they have strengths, they have things that just need to be drawn out of them."
Thanks to WEAC Region 7 for sharing this story in its newsletter:
Watch the Channel 12 video:
September's Top Teachers: Hallie Schmeling, Joanna Rizzotto; Real Academy
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Well, once again it's been too long since I updated the blog. At least this time I do have a really good excuse! It takes a lot longer, and it is a lot harder to settle in, when you have a baby to take care of all the time! Today Justin and I picked up the last 2 boxes and remaining food from our old condo. We are COMPLETELY moved as of today! Yay! It's so wonderful at the new house. We have so much more room and I am enjoying unpacking and arranging all of our things, even though it's taking a long time to get settled in. Today we took Sam to Tacoma so that he could go stay at his Grandma Deanna's house for the night. She'll bring him back tomorrow, and in the meantime I will work like mad to get things done around the house and catch up on things like paying bills, e-mail, and finally updating this blog!
This is the 2nd time that Deanna has taken Sam. Last time, a couple of weeks ago, she actually took him for 2 nights. It's so wonderful, it's been so helpful in letting me try to get things settled at the house. I like unpacking, but it's hard to have things packed and not know where things are for more than a month! He has done great away from home, and does great sleeping and napping at other people's houses, which is wonderful. I am so glad to have that flexibility with him. Speaking of sleeping, Sam is actually getting back to normal. His patterns got a little bit interrupted by the trip and then coming home to a new house. But he is getting back on track. He's currently sleeping from between 9:30 and 10:30 each night until around 8:30 the next morning. He usually wakes up once or twice during the night and just needs his pacifier back and a pat on the back to get back to sleep, and I think that soon he'll be sleeping through the night no problem. He sleeps and naps in his crib most of the time now, although we have not yet tackled getting him into his crib while he's awake and having him fall asleep on his own. Since his current schedule works pretty well for us, I don't see any rush in this area.
I am still immensly enjoying being a stay at home mom. Lately I have spent most days at home with Sam, just hanging out, playing, and sometimes napping with him. Of course I have to get out of the house by myself once in a while, but it also is fun to take Sam shopping or to the playdates that usually happen every week or two with other moms that I know.
I can't believe that it's almost been six months since he was born. He is developing into a wonderful little boy. He still has the most blonde hair ever, and it just keeps getting longer! People ask me when he's going to have his first haircut, and my initial response is - never! But really, I don't want to cut it right now, it's adorable. So, he probably won't be having his first haircut for a while. Maybe when his hair starts to block his vision. Ha.
He's rolling over all the time now, and wants to crawl badly. He can't really do it, but every once in a while, he does manage to scoot a few feet, which is very exciting. The next big milestone I'm looking forward to is seeing him able to sit up by himself! I can't wait to be able to sit with him and play, and for him to be able to sit in a high chair when we go out. He's out of his infant seat because he got too long for it, but he's not able to sit in the high chairs, so we usually end up taking his stroller into any restaurant we go out to eat at.
We acutally took his high chair out of the box at home recently. It's wonderful because the seat has 5 positions and reclines back, so he can sit in it now even though he can't sit up by himself yet. It's shorter than I thought from looking at it before, but it ends up being about the same height as our dining room table, so I guess that's good. He likes it - the other day he sat in there while we ate dinner at the table like normal people! We haven't done that in a while since at the condo we were using the dining room table as a desk for Justin.
Sam is also eating regular food now. It's a little earlier than what the doctors recommend (6 months), but he is so hungry - he was eating every couple of hours - so we decided to start him on the baby food. He loves it. He will gobble up a whole container at a time! We haven't been very consistant about it so far, but some days he'll eat it twice. Also, if we catch him before he starts to get too tired, we like to feed it to him mixed with rice cereal before bed - that definitely helps him sleep through the night! He likes most flavors, although peaches and bananas are probably his favorites. The only one he's completely rejected (we tried twice) so far is peas. And who can blame him really?
He still loves bath time and splashing around in the water. He's 'talking' a ton now, and he's been drooling like crazy. He's had teething symptoms for a couple of months, which is normal, but now you can actually see teeth shapes in his mouth beneath his gums. He's been drooling and chewing a ton in the last few days, so we might actually get a tooth sometime in the near future!
Our next doctor appointment is in a couple of weeks on Nov 2, so we'll have an update on his height and weight then. I am always quite amazed at how much he's grown. It also means more shots, which is yucky. Hopefully he'll do all right - he did okay last time but it's a little bit heartbreaking to have to hold him while they stick him like that.
Everything else is going pretty well. Justin is still enjoying working at home, and I love having him around the house. My little sister Maggie is doing well - I got an e-mail from Susan that said that she is up to 11 pounds now! That means that she has almost doubled her birth weight in only 3 months. What a champion! I have not seen her in over a month and miss her, so hopefully I'll make it up to Bellingham to visit soon. The other bit of super-exciting news in my life is that my good friend Brie is pregnant, and found out at 20 weeks that she is HAVING TWINS! Holy cow! I am so excited for her, I can't even believe it. We went to her baby shower a couple of weeks ago in Bellingham, and they got tons of cute stuff. I don't get to see her enough, but I get to keep up with her on HER babycrowd journal (http://www.babycrowd.com/jr/online/brieshon/), which I check every day for updates. I can't wait to meet her little ones in December!
Well, my back is getting sore from the computer chair, and I have lots of stuff to run around and get done while Sam's not here, so I'll end this here for now. I'm going to go to the photo album now and post some new pictures, so check them out!


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Let's express the self-evident, there is a wide range of sorts of bloggers. Be that as it may, today we will part them into two—individual bloggers and business bloggers. Individual bloggers compose under their own particular name and brand about points that intrigue them—some to bring home the bacon and some as a side interest.
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Today, we're addressing all you advertisers and business bloggers out there. If you've at any point needed to know how to compose for a business, or even how to take your organization's blog to the following level, continue perusing!
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Think about these measurements:
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Web-based social networking:
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Content syndication:
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Email promoting:
Set up a path for visitors to buy into your blog. Regardless of whether through an RSS channel or a week after week email refresh, giving visitors an approach to remain associated is basic. With such a large number of websites immersing the commercial center, it's hard to inspire somebody to peruse a blog entry—not to mention return for additional. Catch their contact data and utilize it to keep them locked in.
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White Slices, Rich and Moist, Sporting a Milk-Sweet Crust
Modern bakers like the ones in this issue are justifiably proud of their hard work. They have brought Americans back to real bread, leading us from a desert of supermarket white bread into the promised land of whole-wheat sourdough and rustic boules.
The only hiccup in this inspiring narrative is that white bread (soft, butter-scented, made from whole ingredients) can be a most delicious thing. At influential bakeries like Clear Flour Bread in Brookline, Mass., or Tartine in San Francisco, it is often easier to find a flaxseed levain or a chestnut fougasse than a Pullman loaf of white bread. (Perfectly square loaf pans, with lids to prevent any unseemly rising of the dough during baking, were adopted by the designers of Pullman train cars, where kitchens were functional and compact.)
Fortunately, white bread is still venerated at bakeries in Asia, where it has been elevated to "artisan" status with a lofty, feathery crumb, a milk-sweet crust and a naturally long shelf life. Called shokupan, milk bread, pai bao and by other names, this bread is a miracle of engineering: moist but not gummy, rich but light, balanced between sweet and salty.
At baking chains like Paris Baguette, based in Seoul, this is achieved with industrial proofers and artificial flavors. The key to making it at home is tangzhong, a warm, puddinglike starter quickly made by cooking a small amount of flour with water or milk. Janice Wong, a pastry chef in Singapore, said tangzhong is a traditional Chinese way of making dough for steamed buns. (The characters mean, roughly, "soup method.")
"Asian doughs tend to have small, fine air bubbles," she said. The method was applied to white bread by Japanese bakers in the 20th century and became a staple in Asian bakeries. "About half of Japanese people eat toast for breakfast," said Kimie Kobayashi, the manager of Takahachi Bakery in TriBeCa, where shokupan is made daily. "The customers here seem surprised to hear that."
The eminent food scientist Harold McGee said tangzhong is different from other starters (like autolyse, levain, biga and the unappetizingly named poolish) because it hydrates and gels the starches in the flour, giving the bread its characteristic fluff and spring. If you wish to delve more deeply into the science (and enjoy feeling like an uninformed boob), go to bread blogs and baking forums, like thefreshloaf.com. There, interactions of gluten, starch, fat, heat, salt and other factors are discussed at a postgraduate level.
If not, get out your stand mixer and be prepared to feed the hordes. — JULIA MOSKIN
Recipe: Japanese Milk Bread
English Muffins, Made as Crispy as You Like (Before Toasting)
I'd always listed English muffins under the buy-it-don't-bake-it category of breadstuffs. What's the point of serving fresh out of the oven something that you're supposed to toast anyway?
Then I bit into a homemade English muffin dripping with butter and changed my mind. It was vapor-light, audibly crisp and riddled with tiny crevices to hold puddles of butter and jam. Even better, it has a pronounced yeasty, toasty flavor that was leagues better than the packaged kind.
While making English muffins is not fast (you need to let the dough rise), it isn't difficult. The hardest part for me to get my brain around was the two-step cooking process; they have to be seared in a skillet on the stove top before baking in the oven. That initial searing is crucial to the texture of the finished, toasted muffin, which needs to have crunch on the flat outside and on the toasted peaks of the fork-split, jagged interior.
Either butter or oil will work to sear the muffins. Butter tastes better but burns more easily, so watch these carefully as they brown, and keep the heat low.
You can split and toast these as soon as they are cool enough to pick up. Or split and freeze them, then defrost in the toaster as needed.
I've tried this recipe both with and without molding them in muffin rings. The rings make the muffins more uniform in shape and a little taller. If you use rings, add a few minutes onto the baking time to accommodate the muffins' increased thickness. But I actually prefer them flatter and less perfectly round. I say that if you're going to take the time to make your own English muffins, they might as well look the part. — MELISSA CLARK
Recipe: Whole-Wheat English Muffins
A Simple Loaf Accentuated By Toasted Walnuts and Oil
Walnuts and whole wheat speak the same language; both are earthy and slightly tannic, accented with a scintilla of sweetness. Their affinity plays out well in this fairly simple loaf.
I ramped up the walnut component by mixing in toasted pieces, including ground nuts along with the flour and even adding walnut oil to the dough. The rustic whole-wheat flavor was not derailed by adding bread flour (at a proportion of almost half), which guaranteed a better texture.
Making this bread is straightforward enough for the home cook to master. No sponge is necessary; rather, using a normal packet of yeast will give the dough a nice rise. And though I often haul out the baker's stone for the oven, I am just as happy using my heavy, roomy black-steel baking sheet, which heats up fast. Tossing a handful of ice cubes on the oven floor creates steam.
This dough would also welcome raisins, olives or pieces of figs along with the walnuts, or in place of them. I have found that the best way to introduce ingredients like these is to knead them in after the first rise. The bread is excellent with cheeses like fresh chèvre, Humboldt Fog, a funky washed-rind treasure like taleggio, or the nutty-tasting aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve or Comté. Slice it and serve it plain or lightly toasted, spread with honey and good butter or topped smorrebrod style with egg salad or smoked salmon. — FLORENCE FABRICANT
Recipe: Walnut Bread
And from our archives, the ever-popular No-Knead Bread from Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery and Mark Bittman.
Recipes: No-Knead Bread | Speedy No-Knead Bread | Fast No-Knead Whole Wheat Bread


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February 20, 2008
20. Rose #3
This photo is similiar to yesterday's but the main rose is a little closer and the background roses, a little more out of focus.
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February 19, 2008
19. Rose #2
Another photograph of a rose.
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February 18, 2008
18. Rose
I bought Leanne a bouquet of roses and gave them to her on our way to Ottawa where they stayed in our hotel room. One morning while she was getting ready, I took a few minutes to photograph them.
This is one of those photos. It was lit by window light by the morning light coming in to our room filtered by sheer drapes.
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February 7, 2008
07. Tongue
Another orchid photo from my visit to the Niagara Falls Greenhouse with my father.
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February 6, 2008
06. Orchid
I was out with my father the other night at the Niagara Parks Floral Showcase (the greenhouse) where we took some photos of their many orchids.
Having shot orchids in the wild this was definitely not exciting, but the are still pretty nonetheless.
Some of my wild orchid shots:
Yellow Slipper
Spotted Tongue
Hat and Curls
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November 13, 2007
13. Rose and Fern
This is a two light setup of a rose I bought Leanne last week and some of the greenery that decorated the rose. For this photo I used one flash (about 1/16 power) to the right of the rose about 3 feet away to provide lighting on the rose. I used a second flash (also about 1/16 power) fired through the leaves of the fern directing the shadow on the background. This setup was about 6 feet away from the wall.
Neither light affected the other. The light on the flower did not spill over to the wall, and the light for the background shapes did not spill on to the flower. Using this simple setup and a variety of gobo's (which is what the fern acted as in this case) would provide unlimited possibilities for this one simple setup.
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September 10, 2007
10. Dragonfly
Though we though bug season was over, we lucked out and found this guy not too long ago. This is the same dragonfly I posted here.
I really like this image. I think it is the background that I like the most.
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August 17, 2007
17. Orchid and Shadow
I had been looking to buy one of this orchids for a while but just couldn't bring myself to spending $20-$40 on a plant that in all likelihood I will kill. A few months back a local grocery store had one for $2.00. It was badly in need of some TLC but I thought I'd take it anyway!
I placed it in my front window, called a friend who has spent a lot of time growing these and though she told me they do not really like direct light, suggested that I leave it where it was as it did bloom after I got it.
I then burned the leaves of the plant in the front sunlit window.
I've moved it to another location where it receives filtered light, Leanne fed it with some fertilizer we had around and even though the leave are very badly damaged, it threw another spike that you now see here.
I shot this with direct light from my Canon strobe specifically to capture the hard shadow on the wall. This is unlike most of the other flowers (like this and this) I have shot at home where I try to use large, diffuse light.
I used this technique once in the past to photograph a rose.
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August 1, 2007
01. Hollyhock - Again
This is the last Hollyhock photo I am posting, for now anyway. John and I had been driving down the road when I saw this stand of hollyhock being back lit from the sun. My original image of how I wanted to capture them flowers was not working out, so I settled for some macro photos of the flowers with the dew on them.
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July 31, 2007
31. Morning Dew On Hollyhock #2
Another photograph of a dewy hollyhock
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July 30, 2007
30. Morning Dew On Hollyhock #1
Morning dew on Hollyhock
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July 29, 2007
29. Hollyhock
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July 27, 2007
27. Sunflower
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July 7, 2007
07. Hairstreak
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July 5, 2007
05. Dragonfly and Daisy
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July 3, 2007
03. Geranium
Wild Geranium shot the past spring.
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May 20, 2007
20. Wake Robin
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May 19, 2007
19. White Wake Robin
This was shot at the Niagara Falls Botanical Gardens last weekend on an outing with the Niagara Falls Camera Club. Up until then I didn't know Wake Robins came in white.
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May 12, 2007
12. Trillium Pair
A pair of white Trillium's.
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May 11, 2007
11. Early Trillium
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April 29, 2007
29. Lone Bloom and Rain Drops
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April 28, 2007
28. Daffodils
Daffodils in Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls.
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April 26, 2007
26. Unfurling
According to Movable Type, today's image is my 800th posting. This is small fern by the looks of it I shot last weekend.
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April 25, 2007
25. Hepatica #2
This is another photo of Hepatica similiar to yesterday's.
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April 5, 2007
05. Crocus and Snow
We had a light snow fall last night that blanketed one of my last blooming crocus plants in the yard. I took a few minutes to document the snowfall.
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March 17, 2007
17. Tulip
My last shot of my now dying tulips. I wish I had composed this photo better than I had.
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March 10, 2007
10. Tulip #3
Another tulip photograph. The tulip is opening nicely so I might get some more shots of it later today.
Happy birthday Mom.
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March 9, 2007
09. Tulip
I like both the softness and texture of this photo. Again, another picture of the tulip I bought last week.
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March 8, 2007
08. Spring Tulip
The small flower pots I bought last week have started to bloom. I was shocked that the tulips actually bloomed, there are 3 bulbs crammed into a four inch pot. As you can see in this photo, the tulip is just starting to bloom.
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February 19, 2007
19. Gerbera
The past few photos were shot in my living room using either window light through sheer curtains or as the sun dropped, a small light box for illumination. I used my 24 x 36 diffuser with the light box for a soft light and colour balanced my white balanced setting to the flourescent tubes.
On the other side of the flower I used a 22" reflector, rotating between silver or soft gold to add some light back into the dark side of the flower.
This photo of a Gerbera was a long 30 second exposure using the lightbox for a light source, f 25 for maximum depth of field and ISO 100 for the least amount of noise.
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February 18, 2007
18. Gerbera
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February 17, 2007
17. Dying
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February 16, 2007
16. A Rose by Any Other Name
One of the most common ways to photograph a rose. Probably with good reason.
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February 14, 2007
14. Valentine's Day Roses
Happy Valentine's Day Leanne.
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January 31, 2007
31. Morning Mayfly
This photo of a mayfly was shot 18 months ago (July 31, 2005). I came across this photo while reviewing some of my older work which happened to be the subject of my latest tip.
You can read it here.
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January 20, 2007
20. Showy
My second competition image for this month. This is a Showy 's LadySlipper.
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January 19, 2007
19. Yellow Slipper
Yellow lady slipper. This is one of my competition images.
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December 29, 2006
29. Black Eyed Susans
Black eyed susans, in camera effect, from the archives.
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October 11, 2006
11. Crab Spider
This is a different crab spider than the one I previously showed. They are both on the same flower, birdsfoot cingfoil though in a different location.
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September 15, 2006
15. Crab Spider
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September 14, 2006
14. Indian Paintbrush
Indian Paintbrush on the Bruce
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September 11, 2006
11. Striped Coral Root
Striped Coral Root shot in the Bruce Penninsula this summer.
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August 23, 2006
23. Ring and Rose
This is the second shot I did for Leanne of her engagement ring and a rose.
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August 22, 2006
22. For Leanne
Leanne asked me to take this photo for her. She has been watching a lot of wedding websites looking for photo ideas for our wedding and this was something she liked.
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August 3, 2006
03. Bee
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August 1, 2006
01. Beetle on Butter and Eggs
This spotted ladybug was not my intended focal point for this photo, but once I got closer to the flowers, decided she should be in there.
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July 17, 2006
17. Crab Spider and Fly
This shot of a crab spider and fly was taken a few weeks ago. I originally set up to shoot the bird-footed cingfoil (trefoil?) and after my first shot notice a blur in the photo. Zooming in to identify the blur I noticed the crab spider. I photographed the pair for a little while after that.
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July 16, 2006
16. Five
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July 2, 2006
02. Resting
This Cabbage White is resting calmly on clover, basking before flying for the first time in the morning.
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June 29, 2006
29. Spotted Tongue
This is the second of three yellow lady slipper photographs I am posting. Tomorrow's will be the last before I move on to other subjects, even though I so many other photgraphs I could post.
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June 28, 2006
28. Hat and Curls
This orchid seems to be wearing a hat and curly locks.
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June 24, 2006
24. Ram's Head
This was found purely by chance and was likely one of the last of the flowering Ram's Head orchids. We found it under the low lying branch of a cedar tree. It was not really accessible, and sensitivity of the area surrounding it, shot it where it was, from where we were. Really not ideal conditions, but you make do with what you have.
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June 21, 2006
21. Yellow Lady Slipper
The yellow lady slipper is one of the orchids we took our trip to photograph. The yellow lady slipper is fairly common where we were. Last year, we found one stemless yellow lady slipper here in the Niagara Region.
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June 15, 2006
15. Showy (Queen's) Lady Slipper
The Showy Lady's Slipper was just at the very beginning of it's blooming season and we were fortunate to find a small patch of them flowering. We did see others that had not even developed the buds yet. We photographed these on two occasions during our trip taking advantage of different lighting at different times of the day. The Showy is Canada's largest orchid and these were about 20" high.
I will post my original image I had planned for today, tomorrow, and then will post some of my shots from my trip in the days following.
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Posted on June 15, 2006 06:00 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
May 31, 2006
31. Droplets
Another macro photograph of morning dew resting on geranium.
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May 30, 2006
30. Drops of Water
Drops of dew on the petals of a wild geranium.
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May 18, 2006
18. Columbine
Columbine shot while on a walk this past Sunday. There were several plants in the area, but they were growing on the edge of the Niagara Escarpment, and it was a 15 foot drop just on the other side. I would have liked to have been able to shoot a a few other angles. Maybe this weekend.
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May 13, 2006
13. Jack in the Pulpit
Jack in the Pulpit.
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May 12, 2006
12. Geranium
The geranium in flower.
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May 11, 2006
11. Morning Bud
Another macro photo of a wild geranium bud.
I can't believe for the second day in a row, I have left my post as a draft! Here it is though.
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May 10, 2006
10. Geranium Bud
Back to the wildflowers. This is a wild geranium bud. It was a frosty May morning, and as the frost melted created the great droplets of dew. I wish that I had photographed the frost on the leaves. There was some wild strawberry plants nearby as well that we covered in a beautiful frost.
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May 7, 2006
07. Spring Buds
While out with Scott and John last weekend, I shot these small beauties. Under the canopy of the growing forest, the light was fantastic, allowing for this wonderful, soft photo.
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May 6, 2006
06. Trout Lily
This is the bud of a trout lily. This wild flower will open up and resemble a day or easter lily, though I expect it would be smaller.
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April 30, 2006
30. Tulip
The same tulip as yesterday, only in a different angle.
On a differnt note, last night I attended the Niagara Falls Camera Club annual awards banquet. I received a number of awards, including the McGarry Photo award for Slide of the Year for my shot of an Eastern Tailed Blue butterfly. I also received honour awards in the slide of the year, colour print of the year and monochrome print of the year competitions as well as top in the Gold division for both slides and monochrome prints. Finally, I was installed as the new President of the Niagara Falls Camera Club.
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April 29, 2006
29. Garden Tulip
This is my first Tulip to blossom in my garden. The small joys of home ownership.
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April 26, 2006
26. Dutchman's Breeches
I was out Sunday with Scott and John in a light rain. Once we decided that conditions were favourable for shooting some spring wildflowers, we walked back to get our equipment. That is when is started to rain harder. We shot for a little bit anyway before it got really bad. This was about the best shot I could get off before things became too wet to continue without proper rain gear.
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April 9, 2006
09. Flowers for Sale
Flowers for sale along Queen Street in Toronto on a rainy day. Why does it always rain when I am in Toronto walking around hoping to shoot?
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August 20, 2005
20. Rose
I have not had much chance to shoot this week... pulling from the archives instead.
Yesterday marked another milestone, image 200!
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August 18, 2005
18. Bee on Black Eyed Susan
This is a photo I shot last year (I have been busy the week or so and haven't been out with my camera) that has done very well in competitions. I received a Diamond award for it in competition at the Niagara Falls Camera Club and and honour awards at the Rainbow Competition; a yearly competition between the Niagara Falls Camera Club (Niagara Falls, Ont) and Twin Cities Camera Club (Tonawanda, NY). It also received an honourable mention at this year's Niagara Frontier Regional Camera Clubs Annual Convention.
Remarkably, for this magnification, I was able to shoot this hand held.
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August 17, 2005
17. Thistle
The prickly weed we all know actually has a nice little flower on it.
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August 12, 2005
12. Green butterfly
When Leanne and I were in Letchworth, there were butterflies everywhere. Overlooking the Mt. Morris dam is a field of wild flowers that was teeming with them, bright yellows and greens, red and orange, black and white. I was able to get this shot in (a sulphur maybe?) but would love to have an early morning there for some really nice ones, like this, or this.
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June 20, 2005
20. Daisy
When I was out at Mud Lake with Dave yesterday, I did not find what I was looking for, so I was left to shoot some abstractions, pattern shots and this daisy. Wildflowers are usually not pristine and as such, often have spots on them, pollen littering their petals or even broken petals. All in all, this was was fairly nice.
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June 18, 2005
18. Golden Grasses
I had every intention on shooting today, and even had a few things that I thought we make good subjects. But, as it turns out, I never even brought my camera out (though I had it with me). I am out in the morning again and hopefully will have better luck than I have been having the past few Sunday's.
This photo was shot last year, at sunset, at the School of Horticulture in Niagara Falls. The same place shot from earlier this week were taken.
June 15, 2005
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June 17, 2005
17. Multiplicity
This is a photo montage inspired by the works of Andre Gallant. This is a composite of 3 images in 7 layers. If you don't know what that means, then just enjoy the image. If you do, then don't anaylze it...
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June 12, 2005
12. Goat's Beard
I went out this morning looking for some more damselflies. We found many, but the conditions were not good for shooting them. We did find a few of these flowers that we shot, and also some daisies (rather common, but nice none the less).
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June 5, 2005
05. Viola
A Viola from my garden.
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June 4, 2005
04. Ready To Fly
A dandelion gone to seed. i hope this is the last one for this year so I can get the rest of my yard looking nice. Shot early this morning.
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With all the fitness options out there, it can be difficult to figure out what's "best."
Depending on who you ask in the fitness realm, bodyweight exercises are all you need to achieve all your goals. For others, it begins and ends with barbell training. Ask someone else and they'll tell you the kettlebell is king.
The truth is that each discipline has its own virtues and limitations. What's more, the human body doesn't respond as well to the same stimulus over and over again. It thrives in varying conditions and with novel stimuli. This is how you can access the greatest potential for strength, muscular endurance, and conditioning—and best of all, it can be done simply.
No, you don't need to hoard equipment or build an epic garage gym to make the most of these different modalities. All you need is your body, a bar, and a bell. Combine the three, and you'll be on the path to discovering how badass you can be!
The Body
With calisthenics, all you need is the floor and a pull-up bar. You don't need a gym, or even a roof over your head. It's the most self-reliant method there is.
Exercises like push-ups, pull-ups, and bodyweight squats are the fundamentals of all strength training, so even as you pursue other methods, it is vital to have a solid grasp of these foundational movement patterns.
But once you have a solid grasp on them and can manage relatively high reps, don't believe for a second that you've "outgrown" the basics. They still belong in your program, and their higher reps can be an advantage.
Put another way: An athlete who can press a heavy barbell overhead for 3 sets of 5 reps is strong. An athlete who can do that as part of a circuit, along with 10-20 pristinely executed push-ups and dips, is strong—and then some.
Additionally, working only with your own body can build unparalleled coordination and proprioceptive awareness. Mentally, you are also eliminating exterior distractions, meaning you can truly zone in on where you exist in space and how you navigate through it.
The Bar
The barbell builds incredible strength, but it also develops and demands work ethic. The classic barbell lifts, such as the back squat, deadlift, Olympic lifts, and even the bench press, all require a precise combination of symmetry, coordination, and brute strength. If you are lacking in any of these realms, your performance will suffer.
Barbell lifts are often the first thing people try in the gym, but they're more advanced lifts than they get credit for. Once things get heavy, you have to earn every pound you add to the bar, and every percentage point of your 1RM.
Barbell lifting is a skill, and the coordination and mobility demands of advanced lifts rival or exceed either of the other modalities here. But your reward for developing these skills is significant: You get to lift serious weight, perhaps far more than your bodyweight. There's a thrill in this that shouldn't be discounted.
The barbell, for me, is where rage and ecstasy meet.
The Bell
The kettlebell is an elegant teacher. Unlike the barbell (or dumbbell for that matter), its weight is located outside the hand, providing unique feedback as you attempt to position your body in relation to its resistance. In most cases, you also have fewer weights to choose from, which means you have to occasionally "live up to" the challenge of a bell. The kettlebell also offers several unique moves that simply aren't feasible with other modalities. Foremost among them: the swing and the get-up.
The kettlebell swing is a powerhouse of both strength and endurance, teaching athletes how to maximize tension versus relaxation, and to snap between the two instantly. It's this energy exchange that helps the best fighters hit the hardest. Learn to swing or snatch, and you learn to explode—while also building peerless conditioning that can last the long haul.
The get-up, by contrast, is a paragon of control and alignment. It demands you move through a broad range of motion while maintaining head-to-toe stability, helping a number of often vulnerable joints and muscles stay supple and strong. Both the swing and the get-up are highly intense, while still meditative in their own way.
How to Put Them Together
These workouts aren't written in stone; experiment on your own and see what combination works best for you. The true badass makes their own decision based on experience, situation, and reason. You'd be selling yourself short to do otherwise.
Here are three of my favorite BBB workouts to help unleash your inner badass:
1. Full-Body Circuit
This workout is based upon the principle of active recovery. While one muscle group rests, another gets blasted. Perform one set of each exercise, then move to the next.
2. Upper-Body Push/Pull
This workout emphasizes the upper body. It is a push/pull sequence, alternating between pressing and pulling motions. While it is written here as paired sets, you can also perform the exercises in order, if equipment availability is an issue.
3. Lower-Body Strength
This workout focuses on building the lower body, and overall mental toughness. It combines bodyweight moves for reps, slow grind for strengths, and jumps for explosiveness. Warm up with the first three exercises before moving on to the deadlift.
Take your time to ensure the best technique in your warm-up, not just during your deadlifts. Your attention to detail will pay off.


text: Share: Comments Print April 6, 2013 at 4:00 PM What Seattle Times sports readers are saying Posted by Don Shelton Mariners Spring-training jinx? Hope not Well, I guess we can forget about a great season from the Mariners. The Seattle Times published a headline out of spring training ("M's set mark with 22nd victory," Sunday), along with the top five M's spring-training records and then their record at the end of the season. Seattle didn't finish above .500 in any of those seasons. If memory serves me, didn't the great team of 2001, have a subpar spring and then won 116 wins in the regular season? I'll give the Mariners the opportunity to prove me and the Times Sports pages wrong, which would be fine with me. I like winning baseball. – Richard B. Ellenberger, Normandy Park Pac-12 Scott should also resign There have been plenty of examples of horrible officiating in the Pac-12 Conference in all sports across all teams. And while examples abound of incompetence by the actual game officials, this time the incompetence has bled into the conference leadership, specifically Commissioner Larry Scott. The latest story is truly an embarrassment to sport, and the whole conference should not be surprised if they lose new recruits based on its failure to: 1) officiate correctly; 2) discourage corruption and; 3) investigate and punish appropriately. Former Pac-12 coordinator of officiating Ed Rush and Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott should have been fired, absolutely and immediately. It doesn't even matter that the refs got the specific call flatly wrong. It doesn't matter if the alleged bounty was a joke. It doesn't matter if Scott's rush-to-judgment investigation didn't uncover anything. The commissioner have failed to maintain integrity in every step of this event. Scott perpetuated to our youth the horrible concept that officials are players of the game being played instead of truly impartial authorities who deserve respect for their adjudication of the rules of the game. This is just another example of how game officials have made the Pac-12 the poster child for incompetence. – Joel Schoenberg, Seattle NCAA basketball March sadness was inspirational March Madness quickly turned into March sadness after Louisville's Kevin Ware suffered an horrific injury as he landed awkwardly on his right leg after attempting to block a shot by a Duke player. I commend the way players and coaches from both teams reacted to the injury, showing shock and concern, while showing deep emotion including tears. This is sportsmanship at its highest. Ware also acted with selfless class, more concerned with his team winning than with his own injury. – Kenneth L. Zimmerman, Huntington Beach, Calif. 1941 Cougs Warm, informative, sadly impressive Jayson Jenks' article on the 1941 Washington State men's basketball team ("Final Four Cougs," Thursday) was one of the most interesting sports articles that I've read in a very long time (and, no, I'm not a Coug alum!). It was wonderful to read something so informative and full of tidbits of personal warmth and fun observations of that time. I might add that the contrast of those young men willingly serving their country with many of today's overpaid athletes into doping/assaulting/DUI's etc. was sadly impressive. – S. Olson, Bellevue More human interest, please Thank you for your fascinating and very well-written piece on the 1941 Cougars. It's the kind of historical, human-interest story I'd like to see more of in the Sports Section. – Doug Bradley UCLA Smug Bruins got sweet justice Smugly certain that the UCLA brand would draw someone of marquee status to sign their dotted line after Ben Howland got thrown overboard, what happens to the school's administrative big shots? They seemingly sleep through the biggest story of March Madness, a charismatic coach piloting his 15th seeded Florida Gulf Coast team to the Sweet 16. Rather than pounce on FGCU coach Andy Enright after getting left at the alter by Butler's Brad Stevens and VCU's Shaka Smart, they opt (in a face-saving rush to land anyone with name recognition) to sign Steve Alford of New Mexico. His latest claim to fame is getting steamrollered by Ivy League power Harvard. Right under their noses, USC lands Enright, who had he been given a choice between the Trojans and UCLA, would surely have chosen the Bruins. Ah, sweet justice! – Lew Witham, Seattl Seahawks Flynn was worth more If Brandon Weeden, a college quarterback with zero NFL experience gets drafted in the first-round last year, then Matt Flynn, who is two years younger, and a veteran NFL QB with a some stellar games already in his résumé, is worth two first-round picks. – Angel Hewit, Issaquah Send us your backtalk: Letters bearing true names, addresses and telephone numbers for verification are considered for publication. Please limit letters to 125 words or less. They are subject to editing and become the property of The Times. Fax them to 206-464-3255, or mail to: Backtalk, Seattle Times Sports, P.O. Box 70, Seattle, WA 98111. Or e-mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com Want to be a reader contributor to The Seattle Times' Take 2 blog? Email your original, previously unpublished work or proposal to Sports Editor Don Shelton at email@example.com or email@example.com. Not all submissions can be published. 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In the discussion on the previous page you learned about electromagnetic induction. You learned that anytime a conductor was placed in a changing magnetic field that electrical current was generated in the conductor. We talked about the conductor being a piece of wire that is often wrapped into a coil, but the conductor does not need to be in the shape of a coil and does not even need to be wire. It could be a piece of flat steel, aluminum plate, or any other conductive object. The only requirement is that the object must be able to conduct electrical current.
When current is induced in a conductor such as the square piece of metal shown above, the induced current often flows in small circles that are strongest at the surface and penetrate a short distance into the material. These current flow patterns are thought to resemble eddies in a stream, which are the tornado looking swirls of the water that we sometimes see. Because of this presumed resemblance, the electrical currents were named eddy currents.
Uses of eddy currents
Just like in our transformer experiment, these induced eddy currents generate their own magnetic field. After all, this is an actual electrical current and any current flowing in a conductor produces a magnetic field, right? The detection and measurements of the strength of the magnetic fields produced by the eddy currents makes it possible for us to learn things about conductive materials without even contacting them. For example, the electrical conductivity of a material can be determined by the strength of the eddy currents that form. Also since cracks and other breaks in the surface of a material will prevent eddy currents from forming in that region of the surface, eddy currents can be used to detect cracks in materials. This is referred to as eddy current testing in the field of nondestructive testing (NDT). NDT technicians and engineers use eddy current testing to find cracks and other flaws in part of airplanes and other systems where bad things can happen if the part breaks. On the next page you will learn more about eddy current testing and be able to try an inspection yourself.


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To deal with nighttime misses, we sleep on wool. Sometimes we're directly on our Snugglewool mattress pad. Sometimes there's a fitted sheet on top of that, and I put a smaller wool blanket or piece of felted wool fabric under Henry and me. He stays right up against me, so it doesn't have to be big. If I'm not in bed with him, we don't have misses. He sleeps either naked, or with waterproof EC Pants on, or in a prefold and SIMPLYcover. I'm considering getting some feel-dry diapers to use at night but I feel like that would just make me even more lazy, and I don't want to move in that direction. It helps if Henry is dressed in wool, too. Damp cotton isn't fun.
Up until about a month ago, Henry would grunt in the morning to warn me he was about to poo. He no longer grunts, he just waits. And wiggles and jabs me until I finally get up. I take him to the toilet with a seat reducer, and I have a little stool in front of it where I sit. He poops, and we start our day from there. It's a good way to start each day.
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