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Can't Stay Hard
You're rock hard until the moment of penetration. Then suddenly willie becomes will not. That's especially true if you're using condoms. Suddenly, you feel like you're playing pool with a rope.
You're Not Big Enough
A lot of guys are convinced that their package is too small to be a top. That's completely untrue, but the perception remains. How do you reframe your thinking around that?
Partner Can't Relax.
How do you get your partner to relax his butt enough for penetration? telling him to "relax! relax!" is actually the worst thing you could say to him.
Premature Ejaculation
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On the set with Tyra Banks and Greg Behrendt.
I started my career by syndicating a sex and relationships column all over the country and I sort of became known as the "East Coast Dan Savage." I then went on to write my first gay sex book, Men Are Pigs But We Love Bacon (Kensington). Next thing I knew I was auditioning for a co-hosting role in a heterosexual sex makeover series called The Sex Inspectors.
With the screen test cameras rolling, I remember the production chief asking me what I thought of women faking their orgasms. "That's nothing," I sniffed. "Men fake whole relationships."
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The biggest obstacle that prevents men from inserting their prized possession on those they find attractive is the fear that they're going to have a Third Encounter With The Brown Kind. Seeing and smelling your own shit can leave you a little nauseous so it stands to reason than seeing or smelling someone else's is going to be even worse. Walking into an unclean public restroom is enough to give even raging tops a moment of pause about where they're putting their penises.
This can be further exacerbated if you're a clean freak or have bouts with germ phobia. Let's be clear and not dance around the subject: You are sticking your penis into a cavity whose primary function is to eliminate feces from the body. This is not a comforting thought for most of us. So how do experienced tops get over it? What do they do? How do they think? Is there a recognized strategy for overcoming the fear and revulsion that topping might expose you to undesirable sights and smells?
Yes. Let's take them one by one. They're actually related to each other. Like ropes hanging in the jungle, you can mentally swing from one to the other to get to your destination faster.
Put It In Perspective. His Anus Ain't Heinous.
Nobody but a drunk newbie is going to bottom without being reasonably clean down there, so the chances that you're going to encounter some kind of shit bomb is highly unlikely if next to impossible (mostly because the anal canal doesn't store feces). That leaves the reality of an occasionally unpleasant whiff and the possibility of a small stain. Now you can FREAK OUT or you can react calmly by thinking something like, "Yup, I recognize that smell. It'll go away pretty quickly" and keep about your business.
Keep Your Eye On The Doughnut And Not On The Hole.
Where do you want to put your attention—on the possibility of experiencing uncleanliness or the certainty of volcanic pleasure? Where you decide to put your psychic energy has consequences. You can concentrate on the anticipation of an off-putting smell or sight or you can concentrate on how good something is going to feel. One is going to kill your boner; the other is going to strengthen it. Concentrate your attention on his anus as a penis pleasurer, the route to fantastic sensations and psychological thrills. These rewards make the negatives of a whiff or a sight pale in comparison. It's like comparing a small and temporary 'yuck' reaction to a huge and long-lasting pleasure.
How To Be A Better Top
Pain, or the fear of pain, is probably the biggest reason your potential partners shy away from bottoming. Consequently, "pain management" is going to be your biggest challenge as a top, especially if you're bigger than average. You're going to have to learn how to help your partner relax or the only thing you're going to top is a pot.
In this chapter I'm going to show you specific techniques that will allow your partner to experience the ecstasy of bottoming without any of the pain he's come to fear or associate with it. Let's start by getting into the right mental space.
How "Anticipatory Pain" Can Make Your Butt Tighter Than Two Coats Of Paint.
"Anticipatory pain" is a psychological term for the expectation of pain. It speaks to the emotional and physical consequences of this expectation. For example, if your partner is convinced that bottoming for you will be painful, his body will tense up in the expectation of it. The more he believes that bottoming will hurt, the tenser his body will get. His butt will clench for its safety as hard as it can. This expectation of pain contributes greatly to an inability to relax. If he's convinced that bottoming for you is going to hurt like hell, how in God's pajamas is he going to be relaxed enough to enjoy it? Imagine telling someone, "This is going to hurt worse than a motor-powered root canal, so just relax." Right. That's helpful.
But wait, your partner says! He's heard horror stories from friends and hell, it hurts even when you stick your pinky up there—how could a penis NOT hurt going in? Here's how: Because the entire anus, from the sphincter to the anal canal to the rectum, is made up of incredibly supple, flexible muscle and tissue that, with the right conditioning, can stretch and expand way beyond its current size without causing harm or pain. To get a sense of the flexibility in your puborectal region, know this: During rectal surgery your anus can be safely stretched to the point that the surgeon's hand can easily pass through the anal canal.
Let's just hope the surgeon doesn't get an attack of jazz hands during the procedure.
With the right conditioning anal muscles can relax enough to easily accommodate a penis without any pain whatsoever. You see the evidence of this on your computer's hard drive or your Internet browser–where you store, bookmark and view your favorite porn. If you learn anything from porn (other than you like way too much of it!) it's this: With the right approach, you can painlessly take in guys who are hung like the Florida panhandle.
Okay, so how do you get your partner to relax? Let's start with something that might surprise you.
You Have Two Sphincters.
You may only have one anus but two connecting sphincters surround it. They are distinct but overlapping bands of muscle tissue. And while they serve the exact same function (regulating grand openings and final close-outs) they go about it in different ways. You are most familiar with the external sphincter because you can order it to tighten and release. Here, try it. Squinch your starfish by using the muscles to stop yourself from peeing. Got it? Tighten, release, tighten, release. Now, this time with feeling! Tighten, release. Now do five fast tightens. Get it? You can boss that part of your butt around. Feel like taking a crap but there's no bathroom around? No problem. You can will your external sphincter not to open. At least for a while.
But the internal sphincter? You can't tell it to do shit. And I mean that in every sense of the word. You are not its boss. Like your blood pressure and heartbeat, you cannot directly control it.
Do this: Put your hands in front of you as if you're praying. Now intertwine your fingers down to the webbing and press your palms together as tight as you can. Now keep everything connected and completely relax both hands. Notice the small opening between the side of your thumb and your index finger? This is the opening to your anus. If somebody tried to poke their finger through that opening it would feel snug but it'd go in pretty easy.
Now tighten both hands as hard as you can. The left hand is the internal sphincter you cannot directly control. The right hand is the external sphincter you can. Keeping the left hand tight as a drum, completely relax your right hand. Your right hand (external sphincter) is relaxed so a slight opening was created. But your left hand (internal sphincter) is so tight that it won't let a poking finger through very easily.
Welcome to bottoming's first dilemma: The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Or more accurately, the left hand doesn't care what the right hand is doing. The internal and external sphincter can and often do work independently of each other. In order to make penetration smooth and effortless both sphincters have to get on the same page. How do you do that?
The Gay Top: Positioning Strategies
When I talk about the best position and angle of entry I don't mean the best for you. I mean best for your partner. That's because the most delicate time during intercourse is initial penetration. If you don't find a position that will eliminate the pain or at least significantly decrease it to a tolerable level, the only bottom you're going to see is the ass-end of a liquor bottle.
So the initial penetration is all about him, not you. In fact, I want to introduce you to a very Zen concept—in order to be in charge, you have to relinquish control. In bed, that means the bottom, the submissive guy, is in control (at least initially). Here's why: pain-free bottoming requires the bottom partner to find the best position to straighten out his S curve, estimate the best angle of entry and control the pace of it. How is he going to do that if you take control?
The only way he's going to avoid pain and experience pleasure is to control the way your penis goes in and out of you. And in and out. And did I mention in and out? I know that relinquishing control might seem a bit of an irony—isn't bottoming about surrendering yourself to another man? How can you surrender when you're in control? Isn't that an oxymoron, like "jumbo shrimp" or "pretty ugly?" Not to get all Zen up on your grill, but "controlling your surrender" is one of those contradictions that defy explanation. It cannot be explained but it can be experienced, as you're about to find out.
Once your partner has enough experience with bottoming, he can begin to loosen the controls and be "taken" in a way that adds to the blissful experience of surrender, but for now, know this: The top is never in charge. Listen to one famous porn star top:
"In my personal experience it's best for the bottom to take charge. I usually penetrate them only with the head of my dick and have them hold onto my leg or hip and they would be the one to pull me more inside and a little bit more. If I'm too deep, pull me out. I work at their pace."
For once, I can tell you unequivocally, LISTEN TO PORN STARS. If your partner wants to experience pain-free bottoming he has to take control. And the best way to do that is to review our understanding of the puborectal sling.
Sling Forth & Multiply.
Remember, everyone has a puborectal "sling" that surrounds the rectum and pulls it forward toward the navel causing it to have an S shape. Your rectum is not vertically shaped. It's shaped more like an s-hook.
This is important to know because an object entering the rectum at the wrong angle runs into the rectal wall of the first part of the S curve. And that will make you feel like a bat is beating your insides. Let's repeat our previous experiment but this time with a twist: hold your left hand up as if you're shaking hands. This is your rectal wall. Now take your right index finger and poke the middle of the palm at ninety degrees. This is the penis stabbing the rectal wall. Watch it, that hurts! Now, angle your palm (to the left) to 45 degrees and poke again. Better, but it still hurts, right? Now, raise your right finger up by a few degrees and poke. Ahh, feels nice, right? Notice the finger slides up the "rectal wall" rather than poking and jabbing at it. You are not stabbing the rectal wall because you "straightened out the S curve" (your palm) and adjusted the penis' angle of entry (your index finger).
You've just learned two important lessons about topping: Straightening the S curve and adjusting the angle of the penis' entry will eliminate all your partner's pain. Now, how do you adjust his S curve and what angle should you guide the penis toward? Let's investigate.
How To Top: The Pleasure Principle
My mom always said, "You've got to preheat the oven before you stick in the turkey." What a wise woman, my mom. You need to listen to her. While some guys who bottom like the "grab it and growl" school of packing, forcing and stuffing, they are in the extreme minority. You are much better off gradually working your way to full penetration and then gradually speeding it up.
Here's why going slow is so important: It creates a sense of safety, both from an emotional and physical standpoint. In order for the tissues, muscles, s-sling and sphincters in the puborectal area to relax and become aroused they need to feel safe. The faster and more forceful you go the more your partner's body is going to clench down. Slow, careful movements will support a sense of safety for him and set the stage for deeper levels of arousal.
Never Thrust The First Few Moments Of Penetration.
Once you're in you've got to give your partner's body time to adjust. The anal canal is extremely adaptable–it can expand enough to accommodate the size and width of an erect penis, but this can only happen slowly. Did I say slowly? Because I meant S-L-O-W-L-Y. If you start thrusting right away you're going to seriously hurt your partner and create a whole lot of mistrust that might shut the whole scene down.
Once you're in, FREEZE. Stay exactly where you are. Enjoy the tight, wet sensation as his body acclimatizes to its new expansion. Now is the time to kiss him (if you haven't already been) and do a body language check. Is he writhing in pain? Breathing fast? Squinching his eyes as if he were just impaled by a fence post? Or does he seem like he's got some discomfort but ready to move forward? Once you top a lot you can sense what he needs simply by observing his reactions. But it never hurts to simply ask, "How are you doing?" Believe me, he'll tell you.
If you've entered him correctly—amped up his pre-penetration desire so that he's more receptive to your hard penis and used the sphincter muscle failure technique so that you penetrated him when his sphincter was at its most relaxed—he should be at different levels of discomfort, but no real pain.
Understanding the difference between pain and discomfort can help avoid injury and develop a peak sexual experience. Pain is searing and sharp. Discomfort is more of a dull pressure. Pain is a signal that something is wrong. Discomfort is a signal that you're feeling something unfamiliar. Pain is something to avoid; discomfort is something to accept. Why? Because once you get used to discomfort it goes away and gets replaced with pleasure. Not so with pain. Enduring discomfort will open up new sexual vistas. Enduring pain will open up new rooms at the ER.
If he's in pain ask him if he wants you to pull out. If he's not, ask him if you can thrust slowly. Or simply do it without asking but only after sensing he's okay. Let's talk about asking your partner questions for a moment. There is a thin line between showing concern and showing insecurities. If you don't ask enough questions it'll look like you don't care about him, but if you ask too many you'll come across as too solicitous, insecure and in some ways overbearing. That's why it's important to sense what is going on with him and act accordingly. If you see somebody who's hot and sweaty do you really need to ask him if he wants a glass of water? Why don't you simply hand one to him?
Sex is about sensing and responding; it's not about verbally checking in every 5 minutes. At any rate, let's assume that he's not in pain and he's ready for you to start moving in and out of him. What's next?
Let's Talk About Thrusts.
How To Be A Better Top
Unfortunately, there are several things about topping that can turn Willie into Will Not. They range from performance anxiety to a dislike of condoms to simple fatigue (topping is a lot of work and if you're not in shape it will have an effect on your erection).
The simplest and most effective way of getting and staying hard is to concentrate on what turns you on. With everything that goes on during intercourse that can sometimes be more challenging than it appears. It's easy to get distracted by internal thoughts that don't serve you.
For instance, you may be worried about his hygiene, or where you put the lube, or whether you should use a condom. Or whether or not you can stay hard with a condom given that last week you didn't. You can also be distracted by your insecurities. Is your penis long enough? Is it wide enough? Can he see your protruding belly from this angle? Is he going to judge if you don't do it right?
There are lots of thoughts they can soften your hardest intentions but they will have no effect if you simply remember the golden rule of hard-ons: Concentrate and act on the things that turn you on.
What does that mean? Visually and physically cultivating your personal brand of desire. This is harder than it may appear. Many people don't know what they want. Some are so fearful of expressing sexual desire their subconscious blocks them from conscious awareness. For example, if you come from a culture with strong codes about what males are expected to do (topping) then you're probably going to have a hard time admitting you want to bottom.
And even when you do know what you want—and have no hang-ups about it—you often don't communicate it. And when you do, there is often a lack of specificity. Let's say you love getting head. There are two levels of communication you should be engaged in: 1) Telling your partner what you want and 2) Telling your partner how you want it. Some people do a good job of #1 but suck at #2.
Part of the hesitation of making a highly specific request ("I really like it when you look up at me as you give me head") may be a lack of understanding of what makes you feel good. And part of it may be that you're too shy or afraid he'll react negatively. Either way, it's easy to remain at a lower level of horniness (and hardness) because you do not know or are too hesitant to communicate what turns you on.
Erections Love Communication.
What's the answer?
Gay Top: The Big Worry
Overheard in the locker-room:
"Would you wear shoes if you had no feet?"
"Then why are you wearing underwear?"
Gay men are far more obsessed with penis size than straight women are, even though both are sexually turned on by male genitalia. In most surveys women don't even rank it in the top five. So if it generally doesn't matter to women, why does it matter so much to gay men?
First, because we have a bigger is better mentality. I call it Male Math: Size + Size= Status on Stilts. That's why men love bigger cars, bigger biceps, bigger guns, bigger wallets, bigger everything.
Second, gay men watch a lot of porn, where every penis is a kidney-wiping, liver-lifting jabber. So they have a completely unrealistic view of what a "normal" sized erect penis looks like.
Penile size can be measured in a lot of ways. Obviously, the differences will impact the results. There are two widely recognized ways of measuring your one true thing. The most common is the "You Wish" method popularized by gay dating and hookup apps. It involves looking at your pinky and seeing a thigh.
I'll talk about the second way in a second. First, the bad news: the average penis size is not six inches. The "six inch myth" got started when Kinsey did his landmark penis size study back in the 50's. Although there were 2,000 men in his study, it had a fatal flaw—the results were self-reported. Men were asked to go into a room, get themselves hard and measure themselves. Now tell me, would you believe anything coming out of a man's mouth while he's holding his dick?
Men always lie about size. Why do you think we came up with maps that associate an inch with a mile? Realizing that too many men were backdating their stock options, urologists developed a new way of measuring the size of the prize: A third party. So, now every legitimate penis study includes medical staff doing the measuring and reporting. And guess what happened? The average erect penis size shrank from Kinsey' 6.2 inches to…
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Cerner is in the news today with joining efforts with Eldorado, a company owned by an HP subsidiary MphasiS. Eldorado has developed integrated applications to add value in the CRM and provider network management. ICD10 architecture is also included and most medical software solutions today, due to the complexity of various data platforms are choosing more often than not to outsource.
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Stepping through the doors of the Freedom Forum at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, I was extremely nervous and intimidated. The list of attendees included people of big-name news organizations and entrepreneurial organizations — CNN, Wall Street Journal, Knight Lab and Digital First Media to list a few.
I took a breath and relaxed into a sense of familiarity when I noticed the stacks of highlighter-colored sticky notes, black fine-point markers and plastic toy models sprinkled across the conference room tables. It was the Reese News Lab all over again.
Throughout the day I worked alongside experienced professionals to develop human-centered design solutions for mobile consumption of news. Our groups were formed for diversity; each included at least one student, journalist, media head and ONA leader.
After gathering our groups, everyone began to brainstorm. No one made judgments based off level of experience or previous knowledge. We all threw out wacky ideas. Kim Bui of Digital First Media proposed attempting to make news as addictive as Candy Crush while Eric Ulken of the Seattle Times suggested shaking your phone to receive news updates.
Once we settled on a product we began to identify the target audience. I sketched out user personas while the others interviewed group members for stand-in user testing. As a collective, the room had decided that no matter who you are or what organization you are connected to, your audience is the most important. "We have been building things for so long that are centered on what we (journalists) want," said Damon Kiesow, an ONA aficionado who works for the Boston Globe, "and that is why we are failing."
Using iPhone templates printed on paper, we sketched paper prototypes. Reggie Murphy, an ONA leader, said, "If you use paper, it is better. You can break it a thousand times coding." So it's true that any idea can in fact be sketched on the back of a napkin.
Finally, we had to pitch our products to the other groups. All of the pitches combined planted a question in our minds: Is promoting effective news on mobile platforms our only problem?
"Our goal is to figure out all of journalism's problems in one day," said Andrew Dunn of the Charlotte Observer.
"This wears you out," Elaine Duignan of McClatchy Interactive added. And both of these points play out on the larger stage of journalism.
What I have realized is that there is no way to "fix" journalism after a ten-hour ONA Camp or even semesters at the Reese News Lab. What it takes to fix journalism is millions of people across the nation who are committed to making news habitual and personal again: readers who are frustrated by interactive graphics not fitting their screen or fonts being too small to read, students who witness the change in culture, journalists who have their hearts in the newsrooms and want to spread good stories, inventors who envision the future of digital platforms. We must all work towards the answer.


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Law of Intimate Virtue #1: If you have to ask then you also have to check!
During intimacy, there should be a mutual approach to sexual health. Now that STDs/STIs have reached epidemic levels in our society, we must raise the bar when it comes to defining safe sex. Yesterday can't be changed of course, but SwaggerScan.com can help navigate through plenty of fish in today's sea. Along with being a member of this timely site, you'll also need to upgrade a few personal habits to defeat the issues we face in today's dating climate.
For instance, there must be shared responsibility for remembering to wear contraceptives but we also suggest paying attention to your partners' concern for such. If your partner needs to be reminded to wear a condom then this is clearly a red flag. In forgetting something so important, your partner undoubtedly shows a lack of value for safe sex (or 'always scanning his swagger') and should not be trusted until they can verify that they've recently tested. Assuming that your partner is safe ("Trust without Verification") will put you at risk of becoming infected and, of course, there is no swagger in riskiness.
Here is SwaggerScan's first offering of virtue for avoiding STDs/STIs:
If at any time during intimacy, you have to ask or remind your partner to wear protection, you must consider this a red flag and become immediately concerned with 'Scanning Their Swagger' (in other words, ask that they present recent test results). Your partner may have a history of intimate oversights and lapses in judgment – therefore may also be a carrier of a sexual infection. Most people don't have an up-to-date account of being tested for sexual infections yet 1 in 4 are carriers and 1 in 5 don't know they are carriers. Today, there just aren't enough societal-reminders of regular testing, which is why you must hold any intimate partner accountable for knowing their status.
*When it comes to the pursuit of a love through online dating, nothing is more important than knowing your own status. Anything less will garner limited leverage when it comes to expecting the same from your mate. You do expect you intimate partner to get tested, don't you?


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Ever have one of those days when you feel you want to update your website/blog/journal/whatever, but you just can't (be bothered to) think of anything substantial enough to really make it worthwhile?
I figured I should try to capitalize on that today, so I did a little programming and created MINIBLOG. Check it out at the top of the sidebar. It's basically just a way for me to update the blog without actually updating the blog, and requiring only a sentence to do it. It also works for those times when I feel like sharing something but there's no way to stretch it out into a real blog entry.
Also it was just a fun thing to program. That's reason enough for me.


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text: Wondering what to get your bestie who had a kid not so long ago? If you're thinking a baby sling or a high-tech breast pump, think again—your gal pal is just as cool as she was pre-child. She's that mom who always seems to have it together while always looking great. If you didn't know her, you wouldn't even know she had a kid. Sure she's traded in her daytime heels for really cool sneakers, swapped out her PS1 for a Balenciaga tote (it doubles as her diaper bag—duh), and still loves to exercise (perhaps even more than before), but she's still as effortless as ever. Plus, the last thing she really wants for the holidays is another gift that only defines her by her motherhood—unless its jewelry (obvi). Get her something like a gift card to Dream Dry or a chic pair of yoga sweats. Basically get her something you might appreciate even if you weren't a mom.


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The Physical Therapy Doctoral Program offered by Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences in Rochester, Minnesota, is a 33-month, entry-level Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program that prepares trainees for a career as a physical therapist.
The program is committed to educating you to become a knowledgeable, skillful generalist physical therapist who embraces high ethical and professional standards.
Graduates of the program become:
- Skilled in screening, examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention and prevention of disorders or conditions impairing movement, function and health
- Capable of assuming responsibility for independent judgment in making sound decisions regarding patient management
- Prepared to care for patients with varying conditions and in diverse health care settings
- Able to practice both independently and collaboratively in a multicultural society
- Ready to assume the multifaceted roles of an active professional, including practitioner, educator, researcher, consultant, administrator, collaborator, advocate, and lifelong learner
- Qualified to promote the advancement of physical therapy through practice, education, and research
Faculty members encourage you to commit to ongoing self-evaluation in your professional and personal development. You will be trained as both a physical therapy consumer and practitioner, able to contribute to the field of physical therapy. You will become a service-oriented professional who practices within the ethical and legal scope of current physical therapy practice.
The Physical Therapy Doctoral Program curriculum follows a traditional model that embraces evidence-based physical therapy practice. It includes a strong clinical education component to give you the necessary breadth and depth to achieve proficiency in professional skills.
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The mission of the Mayo Clinic Program in Physical Therapy is to produce physical therapists who inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.
The Physical Therapy Doctoral Program at the Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), 1111 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314; telephone: 703-706-3245; email: email@example.com; website: http://www.capteonline.org. If needing to contact the program/institution directly, please call 507-284-2054 or email email@example.com.
The Physical Therapy Doctoral Program at Mayo Clinic has been accredited since 1939.
See accreditation information for Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.
The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Minnesota offers comprehensive care for both inpatients and outpatients. At Mayo Clinic, physician evaluations, as well as physical and occupational therapy services, are available. Inpatient rehabilitation care is provided at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus.
Through training activities, specialized equipment, videos and other learning resources, students learn to treat adult and pediatric patients with medical diagnoses typically seen in the rehabilitative clinical setting, including stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, cancer, cardiac conditions, and neurological impairments.
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Upon successful completion of the Physical Therapy Doctoral Program, graduates receive a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences.
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Each year, Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences admits up to 28 students to the Physical Therapy Doctoral Program.


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…yeh its a rental car! which he slammed and has now given back (unslammed)
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Professor Tim Naish has been awarded the 2014 Martha T. Muse Prize, for his outstanding research in understanding Antarctica's response to past and present climate change and the role of Antarctica's ice sheets in global sea-level change through time.
He led the first season of the ambitious and highly successful Antarctic Drilling Program (ANDRILL) where his international team pioneered innovative drilling technology to obtain sedimentary records of the past 13 million years, paving the way for further successful drilling in previously inaccessible ice-covered areas. As Chair of the ANDRILL Steering Committee, he continued to be actively involved in overseeing the program, including securing funding for the next phase.
More recently, he has played an influential role in the process of translating science into policy as a lead author on the Paleoclimate chapter of the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is currently Director of the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, which continues to develop and has more than tripled its capacity under his direction.
The Prize Ceremony will be held at the SCAR Open Science Conference in Auckland in August.
Background information: The Martha T. Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica is a US$100,000 unrestricted award presented to an individual in the fields of Antarctic science or policy that has demonstrated potential for sustained and significant contributions that will enhance the understanding and/or preservation of Antarctica. The Tinker Foundation's goal is to recognize excellence in Antarctic research by honoring someone in the early to mid-stages of his or her career. The Prize is inspired by Martha T. Muse's passion for Antarctica and is a legacy of the International Polar Year 2007-2008.
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(i) the Muse Prize: Dr Renuka Badhe, email@example.com, phone +447889719766
(ii) Prof Tim Naish, email@example.com, +64272358101
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TechSmith has released a new iPad app called Fast Track that will help you learn the Camtasia Stuidio program at your leisure on your iPad.
The app has a collection of video tutorials, or screencasts, that cover almost every feature of the Camtasia screencasting program and whether you use Camtasia for screen recording or for recording PowerPoint presentations, you may learn something new through these tutorials. All videos tutorials have text transcripts as well though they are only available in the portrait mode.
TechSmith's YouTube Channel (@ChannelTechSmith) also contains a good collection of screencasting related tutorials but the advantage with the new Fast Track app is that it also works offline – you don't need an Internet connection to watch any of the tutorials. And it's free.
I think, going forward, TechSmith will extend this app beyond Camtasia Studio and include tutorials for other products as well including SnagIt, Jing and Camtasia for Mac.


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|The Haystack, Wind Rivers, Wyoming.
If you recall three months ago I wrote about a friends wedding down in Baja. Today, as I write this, creeping up on deadline, the groom from the wedding, Shaun and I are driving back Wyoming, having just emerged from the Wind River wilderness. My story is already late, and Shaun is signing papers for his new house in Gunnison in less than 24 hours. (Yeah, his wife is really cool for letting him go.) You could say we're both cutting it close. And, yes, I am writing this from the back of my Subaru, while Shaun drives, and our homey Keith rides shotgun. We'll see how this goes.
I've fallen in love with Wyoming over the last week. We were up in Lander for the International Climbers Festival, promoting my books and zines, drinking as much beer as possible, and also climbing and recreating to the fullest. Lander is a charming little town, and possesses the kind of friendliness many Colorado mountain towns must have had before they got too busy, and disgusting second home mansions started getting built. Everyone in Lander wants to chit chat. At first you think they have an agenda, but they are just nice. A little niceness goes a long way.
Lander is perfect for the climbing bum in the summer. There's free camping, friendly faces, and endless rock. These days too, there are groups of women in the climbing world, a thrilling new development. In short, for the last week, there's everything in the world I need in Lander, and it was a work trip!
As the festival closed, and we woke up with hangovers from partying four days straight, we had about one full day to play before we bee-lined in back home. Keith and Shaun suggested that we blaze into the wilderness for a quick alpine climb. I've always wanted to see the Wind River Range, so naturally I obliged. Plus, I figured it would be good to sweat out some toxins before the 11 hour drive back home to Durango.
I am not much of an alpine climber. I like being the mountains, but I don't really care for rock climbing in the mountains. I like Yosemite style climbing, and most of all, I like the sandstone of the desert. I go with what speaks to me, and unlike my homey John Muir, the mountains do not call, and so I don't go.
Once in a blue moon my friends will suggest an idea and I'm stupid enough to accept it. Last time it was hiking in the Cascades for 17 miles just to climb two hundred feet of dangerous rock. I always feel like death and doom are one move away in the mountains. I can only hide my Midwest roots so much, at a certain point I cling to comfort and security.
So, haggard and weary late Sunday evening we stumbled into the wilderness. Last minute stops before heading in included water treatment tablets and bug nets for our faces. Bug nets for our faces, I asked? You'll see, they said.
We hiked in at a brisk pace, and the week of intense socialization and partying faded into the peace and calm of the wilderness. Pine trees stood all abound, until we reached a series of alpine lakes and craggy granite faces. Small ripples appeared everywhere in the lakes, with fish jumping out of the water; happy hour in the mountains. We lamented the fact that we didn't bring a fishing pole. It was good to be there. A full moon rose between two peaks. The stars came out and we went to bed.
The shit show that is me in the mountains began in the morning. Sleep deprived and disoriented I stuffed instant oatmeal into my face, and wondered in my head how I would operate all day on this sugary junk of a breakfast. Soon we were standing below a thousand foot granite face called the Haystack, which from camp was more pointy than horizontal. It looked pretty, and the guidebook fully endorsed the route, calling it one of the best of its kind around. It wasn't.
We started the day by getting off-route on the very first pitch. Keith climbed up a hundred feet of loose, insecure rock in a dihedral before we realized we'd missed the correct start of the climb. He nervously climbed back down, risking big falls on less than ideal terrain. I'm sure his mind was brought back to a major fall he took on The Diamond on Long's Peak years ago when he fell 70 feet, broke his wrist and punctured a lung, leading to a helicopter rescue. Soon we found the correct start to the climb, and Keith started up again.
Quickly he passed the leading to me, and I managed to get off route. Soon, I found myself, falling out of a crack, the rope quickly catching my fall. I was safe, but I was rattled. I wanted off this damn rock, and we were only a hundred feet up. I passed the baton of leading to Shaun, who at the moment was the only one left with a positive attitude. Shaun quickly took the role of leader, launching off into the unknown, wanting nothing more than us to have a successful climb in the mountains.
Soon, we saw an object flying through the sky. It was a shoe. One of Shaun's hiking shoes had came unclipped from a carabiner and we watched it bounce off the rock and land on the ground next to a small patch of snow.
Shaun had motored us up the wall, past the point of retreat, we'd have to make it to the top. Shortly after I started leading again a storm started to roll in, thunderclouds building, and winds a whipping like they do in Wyoming. I wished I was anywhere in the world but on this stupid rock. This was not a climb worth risking dying for.
The storm finally broke a little when we were on the summit, but only one lone clap of thunder. When we hiked off the summit and were back at camp the experience already seemed fun, but I announced to the team that I was officially retiring from alpine climbing. I'd stick to the crags around Durango, and the Moab desert.
As we walked out amongst the pristine beauty of the wilderness, one of the finest things that the United States has to offer, I knew my retirement would only last a year or two, after all beauty always calls you back, and that call is a hard one not to pick up.
This piece was originally published in the Durango Telegraph on July 21st.


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Focusing your lens on the world beyond your neighborhood, community, town, city, country is another way to uncover material to write about. The Global village offers an endless number of topics and issues and influential people who you can write about, such as terrorism, global warming, war, famine, religious extremism, human rights, AIDS, famine, poverty, the Third World, and much more.
To understand the global village, you'll be required to stay informed. How? Reading publications that focus on publishing articles about international relations, world issues, and global topics. For instance, the current edition of Foreign Policy deals with "Cities in China", decapitating rogue regimes, living in slums. It also includes interviews Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident, and Salman Rushdie, who has been the enemy of radical Islam for many years.
In writing about the world stage, you'll craft literary journalism essays about other people, places, events, issues, and experiences. Often, extensive research is required. Not only will the you be required to read newspapers and magazines, you must also conduct extensive research in the library. You might also be required to carry out interviews with eye witnesses and subject matter experts. As well, the you might have to visit the place where the events occurred, or immerse yourself in the experience as it unfolds.
In this article, I'll discuss the following aspects about writing about the global village:
- Moving way from writing about the self
- How to approach writing about the world beyond
- The Five R's of Creative Nonfiction
- Creative writing techniques
- Resources on how to write creative nonfiction
Moving Away from Writing about Self
Writing about the global village is like writing about popular culture. You must move beyond memories of your past. Lee Gutkind, author of " You Can't Make this Stuff Up," distinguishes between "public" and "personal" creative nonfiction. For instance, when writing a memoir or personal narrative, you are writing about yourself, your own experiences, things that happened to you. This is personal side of creative nonfiction. In contrast, the public side of creative nonfiction is "someone else's story." Anyone can write about it. It requires that your lens be focused on the world beyond—the global village beyond your own life and the pop culture of the society you inhabit.
Check out The Atlantic, Harper's, The New Yorker, and you'll see examples of how writers use the tools of creative nonfiction to write about the global village.
Writing about the global village requires that you are informed and educated about global issues and events and topics. Staying informed requires that you read the newspaper and watch the news. It entails conducting research and analysis. You'll usually have to visit the library, read a books and magazines by experts.
How to Approach Writing about the World Beyond
In "Tell It Slant", author Brenda Miller suggests that you can write from two perspectives:
- The Layperson. Using this approach, your uncover facts and knowledge, such as scientific facts, and then add it to your own personal essay, memoir, literary journalism, which is not directly about the scientific facts you have uncovered. What might you include? knowledge of psychology, sociology, philosophy, physics, biology, astronomy, literature, anything else that is relevant
- The Expert Approach. The other way in which you can write about the outside world is to become a subject matter expert. To do this, you must learn everything you can by researching your subject at the library, conducting interviews, and by immersion.
What are some global issues you can write about? There are countless topics and issues to write about. Here are a few topics to consider:
- Genocide and war and war crimes and crimes against humanity
- Population growth, global poverty, famine, starvation
- Authoritarian government, Torture, failed states
- Human rights and Amnesty International
- Global warming, over population, extinction of species, desertification
- Religious extremism, fanatical leaders, sharia law, patriarchal societies
- The oppression of women in the third world.
- Global Village. If want desire to understand the economic, political, and social climate, read Time, MacLean's, The Economist, The Atlantic, Harper's, The New Yorker magazine, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs.
The Five R's of Creative Nonfiction
Writing about the global village as a creative nonfiction writer involves:
- Real Life– Writing about real people, actual events, and actual places
- Research– Collecting facts from the library, interviews, Internet
- Writing-Writing literary journalism essays, autobiographies, or biographies
- Reflection-Sharing personal thoughts, feelings, perspectives
- Reading-Read autobiographies, biographies, and other informative books about the world in which you live.
In writing about the global village, you purpose is to inform, educate, and entertain. To achieve these purposes, you'll apply the tools of creative nonfiction. For instance, you'll write scenes to describe significant events, write summaries to explain, and include your own thoughts or reflections about what happened. You'll share narratives that are true, factual, and accurate–but read like fictional stories.
Creative Writing Techniques
Writing about the global village as a creative nonfiction writer requires the following:
- Writing in scene (to show), summary (to tell), personal reflection
- Storytelling and other tools of fiction, such as narrative arc, dialogue, setting, characterization, point of view
- Using poetic devices of simile, metaphor, imagery
- Writing Concrete, particular, and significant descriptions
- Creating structure- Narrative, lyrical, meditative, opinion with an argument, or organic.
- Revealing the inner point of view-It means to see the world through the eyes of the person or people you are writing about.
- Providing intimate details-It means to capture significant details, based on observation, that a reader would not normally imagine as he/she reads the narrative.
- Researching the topic-Interviewing, immersion, fact-collection from the Library or Internet.
A Few Tips
Writing about the global village requires that you are informed and understand the issues and topics and events around the world. To expand your understanding of the global village, do the following:
- Read news-oriented magazines, such as Time magazines, The Economist, MacLean's, and Foreign Policy magazine
- Read the newspaper, such as your city newspaper or newspapers from around the world on the Internet.
- Read good books by subject matter experts.
- Watch and listen to the news on television or radio or Internet
- View important documentaries on YouTube or in the cinema or on television
- Keep a writing journal, making note of your thoughts and feelings of a particular event making news.
To find out more about writing creative nonfiction, I strongly recommend that you read Lee Gutkind's new book, "You Can't Make this Stuff Up." It's a complete guide to writing creative nonfiction.
- Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, Second edition by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola
- Creative Nonfiction : A Guide to Form, Content, and Style with Readings by Eileen Pollack
- To Tell the Truth: Practise and Craft in Narrative Nonfiction by Connie D. Griffin
- You Can't Make This Stuff: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative nonfiction from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything In Between Up by Lee Gutkind


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The New York Jets traded their conditional draft pick for OT Jeff Otah of the Carolina Panthers. After showing lots of promise at right tackle in his first two seasons, Otah has dealt with a series of injuries and has appeared in only four games the last two years.
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The New York Jets added another veteran safety to their roster, as they agreed to a 1-year contract with S Yeremiah Bell, who played his entire 8-year career for the Miami Dolphins. Bell's deal is reportedly worth $1.4M, which includes a $1.1M base salary, which is guaranteed, plus a $200,000 signing bonus and a $100,000 workout bonus. This move could spell the end to S Jim Leonhard's tenure with the Gang Green. Bell is expected to back up another free agent acquisition, S LaRon Landry, at the strong safety position, while S Eric Smith is expected to start at free safety. Although, as we all know, Smith is prone to getting exposed in pass coverage and the Jets could use an upgrade there as well.


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I love the idea of using every day objects for art. This week, try creating an art project that incorporates an envelope - any shape or size, new or used. Just flip, fold, score, tear, ink, paint, stamp, doodle, embellish or keep it clean and simple - just have fun!
I must admit my first though on seeing her challenge was 'I got nothing' especially as my teamies make the most amazing altered envelopes, so I had to keep it really simple.
I stamped loads of stamps with Versamark, then embossed with white EP. Then I coloured over with lots of Distress Inks. I love how Crow Line stands out against the inks.
Same again on the other side, can you spot the deliberate mistake? You can... how rude! Yup I stamped Spiritual Journey upside down. I do like to get things right, but at the end of the day it's only an envelope and some ink, so after an initial outburst that would make Jerry Springer blush I decided to 'not sweat the small stuff' which is my mantra for 2013 (except for when the odd sock escapes the wash bin and then laughs at me lol)
Then I made the tags to fit inside my little tag booklet.- Told you I kept it simple...
Here's how it fits together.
I love the way Nerd Cat's tail hooks him in place. The flower has been UTEE'd and bradded through, so it stops the tags from falling into each other.
Once I knew what I was going to do this was great fun to make, though the amount of mess I made making three tags and an envelope was unbelievable. There was less devestation when Neil decided to rip out the kitchen (he's still not finished off in there but that's another story.. :-)
There's a huge number of stamps used, and they're all my favourites lol.
Daniel's Hearts
Scalloped Lace Border
Steampunk Border
Vintage Script
Crow Line
Quails Cube
Journey Collage
Nerd Cat
Stacked Suitcases
Flying Bird
Grumpy Koala
These are all available from Stampotique Originals
So have some fun with envelope and link to our new June Linky for a chance to win a $30 gift certificate. Thanks very much for looking and enjoy your week xx
I'm also entering this into the following challenges
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Ask any Melbournian* what to do in Melbourne, and the answer is pretty causal. "Oh just walk around!", "Check out the laneways", "Get a feel for the city". But what exactly are the Melbourne Laneways and where do you go? Armed with a laneways... Continue Reading


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Our Microsoft Windows-based platform simplifies complex motion environments by integrating all of the activities under one environment:
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This art form is very close to my heart. Spray art/paint had always excited me.This art form is done with spray paints(cans, guns etc) usually on non-porous surface, but its a choice, you can try it where ever you feel like. I remember the first time when i saw some artists(on youtube) performing spray art, i was mesmerized with their work. They are amazing. Since then i always dreamt of trying it. I had no idea of where to actually start from. I had been an artists more used to acrylic, oil and water colors. Spray was something very very new.Rather in India its still not explored like other art forms.To start of with i did some research as to what kind of spray paints are used and a lil the techniques(most important aspect) of using it. I saw lot of videos on youtube and still do, its the best channel for self learning.
One thing i missed before going ahead was the medium on which it could be or it is mostly used. I went ahead and did my first spray art on canvas, which as till date i had not heard and seen many artists using as a medium. But then art has no rules and i came up with my first spray art form(see below sp.at.01) which was loved and liked by many….Since that day i have been trying to improvise on my techniques and my art to get better and create better.


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Parents love to blame MTV for all sorts of societal ills. This period of brand stewardship for MTV wore that blame like a badge of honor and positioned MTV as the evil behind everything from LSD to the faking of the Apollo moon landing. Ultimately, the work was banned in liberal, student-centric Boston, Massachusetts. For most organizations this would be a problem. For MTV, it was a win that made this work among its most successful.
Industry Recognitions
- Best of Show Hatch Awards
- 2 One Show
- Archive Magazine
- 1 Obie Award
- Banned by Boston Transit Authority
- Gunn Report Top 20 In the World


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Short intro I'm a fedora contributer who is active in the games SIG, see:
As Games SIG, we are so successful at packaging games, that the
Applications->Games menu can become rather cluttered up. To fix this "problem"
I've created a package called games-menus. Which creates a number of submenus
under the Games menus based on the additional categories a .desktop file with as
main category Game may have, see:
However some gnome-games games do not show up in the submenus (instead they stay
in the "main" Games menu) or show up in a strange submenu. This happens because
of missing or invalid additional categories in the .desktop files for these games.
To reproduce:
yum install games-menus
Goto your application menu and then:
* Iagno shows up directly under Games, should be under Games->Board Games
Fix: add BoardGame to the categories
* Sudoku shows up directly under Games, should be under Games->Logic & Puzzles
Fix: add LogicGame to the categories
* Tali shows up directly under Games, should be under Games->Card Games
Fix: add CardGame to the categories
* Nibbles (aka snake) shows up under Games->Arcade, I have _never_ seen snake
in an Arcade, should be under Games->Logic & Puzzles
Fix: remove ArcadeGame from and add LogicGame to the categories
p.s. The categories field of a .desktop file can be modified by editing /
patching it, but also with the --add-category / --remove-category options
of desktop-file-install. This has the advantage that you do not need to redo
patches when a change is made to the .desktop file(s).
Hi Hans,
Bug seems reasonable to me, but it doesn't really make sense for fedora to do
--add-category/--remove-category etc. Instead, would you mind filing upstream?
We can then just pull in the fixes in 2.18.1 or whatever.
Filed upstream, external reference added, closing as upstream.


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We do not know how it is where you are, but here in Strasbourg we are freezing. It's that time of the year when we all have a flu or we know at least one person in our surroundings that has it. Everyone has their own secret remedy. A grandmother's recipe or a magic potion that is supposed to make you heal. True or false, many people believe in the power of food on health, and this is certainly the case with us! If you believe it too, then this article is for you. Today we propose a flu fighter pack! Recipes and tips to help survive during this great winter ahead!
The secret to a good flu fighter meal is fresh products! Even if you wish to stay in bed and die, force yourself to go for a quick walk in the market and refill your fridge fruits and vegetables loaded with vitamin C. You will also need to get some honey, cloves, maybe a little bit of herbal tea and that's it. Your healthy future "you", will thank you for your effort.
We are not gonna lie to you though, a good soup can not miraculously make you flu go away, but the food nevertheless has the power to strengthen the body stop it from getting sick. And if you are already sick, good balanced meals can give you a little more energy and help you tend to your everyday activieties even with a flu. And as my dad says: take your food as a medicine if you do not want to end up taking medicine as food.
Key ingredients
Originally from Asia, ginger was once considered a magical and aphrodisiac plant. It is characterized by its unique and spicy flavor, due mostly to the presence of gingerol and shogaol.
Ginger is used to cure many ailments: nausea, digestive disorders, headache, dental pain and colds. Containing antiviral substances, it combats sore throat, inflammation of the mucous membranes and cough.
Cloves have expectorant, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, making it a good remedy in the treatment of flu.
Garlic has antibacterial, antiviral, antiprotozoal and antifungal properties. It reduces the risk of becoming ill in the first place. And if you are already sick, it can reduce the severity of the symptoms. It is certainly difficult to ignore its strong smell, but sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice social life for the well-being of the body …
Honey soothes sore throat, making it an effective and natural cough inhibitor. It also improves the body's ability to fight infection and decreases the risk of fevers.
The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds of raw onions help fight bacteria and viruses. Also, in the room of a person with a flu, onion can act as a disinfectant since it has the ability to absorb germs.
Rich in vitamin C, lemon keeps the immune system strong and neutralizes free bacteria in your body. It also reduces inflammation and swelling and has an antiseptic effect.
Red Radish and Red Onion flu fighter Syrup
- 5 Tsp Honey
- 1/2 Lemon
- A bunch of red radishes
- 1 Red onion
- 3 Garlic cloves
Blend the red radishes (without the branches), the lemon juice, the red onion and the garlic cloves.
Pass the contents of the blender through a colander and collect the juice in a jar. Spin the pulp in the strainer with a spoon and press to extract as much juice as possible.
Add the honey and mix.
Beware of this sweet candy color! This syrup is not very easy to drink. As you can imagine the fresh garlic's scent is really strong. You can keep the syrup in a jar for 4-5 days and take 2-3 shooters per day.
Chicken, tomato et parsley flu fighter soup
Chicken soup for the sick is a classic with a hundreds of different recipes. This one I simply call Mum's soup, because it is the one that my mother made when I was sick. I continue to make it myself today, because I strongly believe in its healing powers. It is a comforting soup loaded with vitamins C. The most important is not to cook the ingredients too long in order to preserve their benefits.
- 1 Onion (large)
- 3 Garlic cloves
- Oil
- 200g Chicken breast
- vegetable broth (homemades recipe here)
- 6 Tomatoes (medium)
- A handful of soup noodles
- 1 Bunch of Parsley
- 1 Lemon
Cut the onion into 8 pieces. Cut the garlic into small cubes. Place onion and garlic with a little oil in a saucepan over medium heat.
Wait about 30 seconds and then add in the chicken cut into small cubes.
Stir the ingredients in the saucepan for 2-3 minutes and then add the broth.
Cover and let the chicken cook for 15 minutes on low heat.
Add diced tomatoes and noodles. Cook for another 5 minutes.
Finally, add the chopped parsley and cook for another 2 minutes.
Squeeze a little lemon juice into your bowl of soup before eating it.
Golden Milk
Golden milk, also called turmerica milk or turmeric tea is an ancient Indian remedy, which has become very trendy recently, for its amazing health benefits.
Turmeric contains potent antiviral, antifungal, anti-cancer and antibacterial properties and Golden milk is a great way to get the benefits of this superfood. With a little honey, a little ginger and lots of milk, this drink contains the perfect ingredients to help fight flu, congestion, headaches and sore throat.
- 20 cl Milk
- 1Tbsp turmeric (ground)
- 2Tbsp Honey
- 5g Freshly grated ginger
- A pinch of black pepper
- PBee pollen (optional)
In a saucepan or a metal milk jug, pour the milk, turmeric and grated ginger and stir.
Let the spice infuse over a low heat for about 10 minutes.
Strain and add the black pepper and honey.
Cranberry and wallnut flu fighter cookies
These cookies will not really ward off your cold or flu instantly but the good fatty acids of the wallnuts and the natural sugar inthe dried fruits will give you the energy you need to beat your disease. Also these cookies contain cloves that have antiviral and antibacterial properties.
- 125g Butter
- 100g Brown sugar
- 175g Flour
- 1 Egg
- 1 Tsp Baking powder
- A pinch of salt
- 50g Cranberry
- 50g Wallnut
- 5-6 Cloves (ground)
Mix the soft butter and the sugar to obtain a creamy mixture.
Add the egg then the flour, the ybaking powder and finally the salt. Mix well.
Once you have obtained a homogeneous preparation, add the cranberries, wallnuts and cloves.
Place cooking a baking sheet on your oven tray. Take large balls of dough and place them on the plate. No need to spread into cookie shapes, they will do that themselves.
Place the tray in the oven and cook the cookies for 10-15 minutes.
Ginger and Clove Cough Drops
Homemade cough drops can really help soothe an irritated throat and they are super easy to make.
Making hard candies of this type requires, as a base, water and sugar. We can simply infuse in this water herbs of our choice to make a herbal tea and make sweets more fragrant with it. And we will once again use cloves for their antiviral and antibacterial properties. Easy!
Ingrédients :
- 2 Tsp Herbal tea
- 40ml Water
- 100g Brow sugar
- 30g honey
- 4 Cloves
- 1/2 Lemon
- 3g Grated ginger
Let the herbal tea infuse in boiled water for 5 minutes.
Remove the herbal tea and place the pan on fire. Add sugar, honey, ground cloves and grated ginger.
Let simmer until the syrup has become a little thick. Stir constantly.
On a baking paper placed on a flat surface, pour the syrup so that it forms small circles spaced from each other (perhaps with a spoon it will be easier). You can also use small molds.
Let the candy harden for half a day.
Sprinkle the cough drops with icing sugar, to prevent them from sticking to each other.
We hope are remedies can help you feel better. Take care!


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It is a story as old as time itself. I'm sure that it predates rock'n'roll, but it is a paradigm that has appeared so many times within the canon of the sort of bands that I have spent the last four decades listening to, but it hardly bears repeating. Except, of course, that I must because without the back-story the extraordinary tale of Blodwyn Pig would just be another rags to... well, if not exactly riches, then slightly more expensive rags.
In the beginning there was Robert Johnson who sold his soul to the devil. The cornute one passed it on to some evangelical promoters in the Thames Valley. The Blodwyn Pig story begins back in the mid-1960s when a whole generation of relatively privileged white kids in the UK discovered the music of a previous generation of reasonably underprivileged black men living in the southern states of the USA.
People quite often forget that Jethro Tull, who are best known for having a personable front man who looked like a tramp and stood on one leg whilst playing the flute, didn't start off as a folk band or even a progressive rock band; they started off as a blues band. Back in the halcyon days of 1967, a couple of members of a Blackpool-based blue-eyed soul band travelled down to the teeming metropolis where they teamed up with two members of a failing, Luton-based blues band. They appropriated the name of the legendary 18th-century agriculturist (inventor of the rotary seed drill, no less) and the rest is history. Except, of course, that it is nothing of the kind.
The band signed to the legendary Island Records, home of the cream of what was then known as 'the underground', and during the summer of 1968 recorded their first album This Was. Ian Anderson, the aforementioned gentleman of the rock and roll road, described their music as ''a sort of progressive blues with a bit of jazz.'' The blues influence came largely from guitarist Mick Abrahams. It was Abrahams who, on the first album, provided the only non-Anderson lead vocal in Jethro Tull's recorded history, and with the benefit of hindsight it is easy to see that both he and Anderson were jostling for position as the prime creative mover behind the band.
Unsurprisingly, there was a massive falling out between the pair, and Abrahams left the group. He was replaced by Martin Barre (after brief tenures by Toni Iomni, later of Black Sabbath, and Davy O'List of The Nice) and Jethro Tull did their own inimitable thing for the next four decades.
But what of Abrahams? One of the main reasons that he had fallen out with Anderson was that he was a blues purist and didn't want to follow some of the more esoteric paths that Anderson was to lead the band into. No, he just wanted to play the blues. Robert Johnson hadn't sold his soul to the devil in order to make progressive rock albums about a nine-year-old boy poet. There was a purity and an integrity to the blues, and it was the path along which Mick Abrahams intended to walk. So he started his own band and for reasons that remain obscure he named it Blodwyn Pig.


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AUBG Joins AMBA Development NetworkJune 22, 2018
The American University in Bulgaria's Executive MBA program is the first in the region to join the international Association of MBAs Development Network (ADN). The recognition comes shortly after the program celebrated 15 years of bringing excellent executive education in Eastern Europe.
Membership in the ADN not only gives AUBG access to a community of business schools all over the globe, but also provides valuable services like an annual desktop review, institutional mentorship and access to AMBA resources.
"The AMBA membership is an example of our success in setting and achieving high standards in executive education," said AUBG Provost and EMBA Director Dr. Emilia Zankina. "I believe this achievement will benefit education in Bulgaria as a whole, a mission AUBG has proudly served for the past 27 years."
The association was founded in 1967 and now offers accreditation to programs from the top two percent of business schools in more than 70 countries. Its research center offers a rich body of reports which explore global trends in postgraduate education, while a vast online community network allows faculty, students and employers from all over the world to easily connect.
AUBG's Executive MBA, the first of its kind in Bulgaria, is accredited both in Europe and the U.S. It is recognized worldwide for its practical curriculum that provides up-to-date skills for successful performance in today's complex business environment.


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CULLOWHEE, N.C. – Te'Ja Twitty narrowly missed a double-double, finishing with 18 points and nine rebounds, and led three UNCG players in double figures in a 66-42 victory over Southern Conference foe Western Carolina in women's basketball action on Saturday evening at the Ramsey Center in Cullowhee.
Twitty, who finished 8-of-13 from the floor and 2-of-2 at the charity stripe, also pulled down five of the team's 12 offensive rebounds in the process. She was joined in double-digit scoring by Nadine Soliman (16 points) and Aja Boyd (12). Amesha Miller and Alexus Willey combined for 15 points off the bench, scoring nine and six points, respectively.
Soliman wrapped up the game by knocking down 5-of-15 from the floor, 2-of-6 from beyond the arc and was successful on 4-of-5 at the free throw line. Boyd shot 50 percent (5-of-10) from the floor, grabbing six rebounds (four defensive) and blocked two shots.
The Spartans improved to 10-17 overall and 4-8 in league play by hitting 25-of-62 (40.3%) from the floor and 13-of-15 (86.7%) at the charity stripe. UNCG hit at least 35 percent from the field in three of its four quarters, including a 55.5 percent performance (10-of-18) in the opening frame.
Defensively, Western Carolina (4-23, 0-12 SoCon) was limited to 15-of-51 (29.4%) shooting from the floor, hitting seven of those shots from beyond the arc at a clip of 36.8 percent. Judith Martin-Ruiz led the way for the Catamount offense with 20 points, while Jewel Smalls came off the bench to score 11.
"This is a tough league and teams usually shoot better at home, but this team did not," said UNCG head coach Trina Patterson. "We focused on defense throughout the week. Our primary focus was on help side defense and we did a really good job of executing on offense. They did a good job of trying to counter some of our set,s by double teaming and leaving certain players, but we did a good job of moving Soliman at the point.
"We are a very good free throw shooting team and that was not our typical performance in the last game against Samford," added Patterson. "We came into this game fourth in the conference and at one point we were first, so that is not us that was a lack of focus. We have to get our big three of Te'Ja, Nadine and Aja to take a bulk of the shots on offense, but having Amesha come off and score down low with a very good high-post game is valuable. Alexus came in and hit some big 3-pointers for us and she been really working on that shot and it showed today."
UNCG separated itself with a 20-point third quarter, hitting 6-of-17 (35.3%) from the field and converting all six free throw attempts, stretch the lead to 51-34. After a 3-pointer by Martin-Ruiz cut the lead to seven, the Spartans scored five unanswered, highlighted by a 3-pointer by Soliman, to move in front 36-24.
Western Carolina managed to trim the lead to 36-27 with 5:01 remaining, but four points by Soliman and three by Willey keyed a 7-0 run by the Spartans, who pushed in front by 16. The scoring tandem of Soliman and Willey combined for six points over the final 2:11 of the quarter as UNCG lead 51-34 through three periods.
Continuing to apply defensive pressure while receiving three points from Miller, UNCG extended its lead to 56-34 inside the first three minutes of the fourth. The Catamounts briefly cut the lead to 19, but a 7-0 run by UNCG that included four points by Twitty and three from Soliman, closed the door on a Western Carolina rally.
The Spartans established themselves early, jumping out to a 6-0 lead in the first quarter behind a pair of buckets by Boyd. Soliman found her rhythm on offensive, draining a 3-pointer and adding a bucket in fast break, while Boyd added four points in the paint to extend the UNCG lead to 19-7 with 3:59 left in the frame.
Just under a minute later Miller connected on a jumper to give the Spartans their largest lead of the first quarter, 21-7. Western Carolina retaliated by scoring three of the next five points to close the quarter, with Miller accounting for the two Spartan points, to make for a 23-10 UNCG lead.
Boyd got the Spartans' offense in the early stages of the second quarter with four points, while Twitty and Cece Crudup added two points each to stretch the UNCG lead to 29-12 with just under six minutes remaining. Western Carolina amped up its defensive pressure, holding the Spartans to two points, while the offensive took advantage of four points by Smalls and a 3-pointer off the hand of Martin-Ruiz to make for a 31-21 UNCG lead at the intermission.
The Spartans conclude the regular season next weekend when they face Chattanooga (Feb. 28) and ETSU (March 2) at Fleming Gym.


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Here are all the dates and opportunities for you to get fit and healthy in July. Don't forget that I am on holiday from Sunday 16th July to Monday 24th July inclusive. If you haven't already given me your holiday dates yet then can you please do so. I am keen to get my diary organised for July and August to make sure that we fit in all the sessions around holiday commitments. I hope that there is something here for everyone – please get in touch if you want any more information or if you can't see what you are looking for. I am more than happy to come up with an individual plan for anyone wanting a more specific solution.
fit4evermore Challenge Series. You will have seen the May Burpee Challenge and the June Skipping Challenge. These are the first of the fit4evermore Challenge series. The aim is get you to move more and to build regular activity into your day. The series is free and each one lasts for 15 days. July will be about 'Going the Distance' with the aim of getting you to go further. Once you have signed up for the series you will receive the details each month and can decide whether to take part. The plan is then yours to keep and you can repeat it at a later stage too. I will post my progress each day on the fit4evermore Facebook page and it has been great to see you all adding your comments too. I would love to see more of taking part. To get your copy by email click here.
FitPack. Many of you have already purchased your copy of 'FitPack 1' and have started using the sessions to supplement your existing training. I know that some of you are planning to use it whilst you are away which is great. The feedback has been good so far and I am going to record the sessions for 'FitPack 2' next week. This will be available by the end of July so watch this space. At only £9.99 the FitPacks are good value and packed with motivation for you. To get your copy follow the link at the end of this newsletter.
Take Control of Sugar. This has been my focus for the last month with the launch of a new standalone brand. There is the logo, website, Facebook page and the '5 Day Sugar Challenge' to get you started. You can find out more and buy your plan here.
Outdoor Bootcamp. I have decided not to continue with my Outdoor Bootcamp sessions. I love these classes and will miss the different challenge that they present. Numbers have been dwindling in recent months and I now have other commitments on a Saturday morning that are my priority now. Thank you to everyone who has supported these sessions over the years and I hope to see you again soon. In the autumn I plan to run a Beginners Outdoor Plan so watch this space for more details nearer the time.
55+ Circuits. We have started our usual summer sessions at my house rather than in the Church Hall in Dunlop. The new term will start on Tuesday 22nd August 1,30-2.30pm in Dunlop Church Hall. There will be a 6 week block for £30 with spaces strictly limited as booking is required.
Swimming. After a good break from swimming I have been back in the pool for the last month. I am pleased to say that I have loved it and progressed well. I have been in Loch Lomond again too at the sessions run by Chris Sifleet from Swim4miles. We meet at Luss and swim for around an hour on Sunday mornings. It is suitable for all ages and only £5 a session. So if you have always wanted to give Outdoor swimming a go then here is your opportunity. I am loving it and my next challenge this year will be the Great Scottish Swim. I need to decide what distance to sign up for this year – do I play it safe or go for it???!!!!
Taking time out. Heading into the summer holidays is a great time to take stock and to look after yourself. I hear time and again at the end of a massage that the client feels lighter, longer and had no idea how tense they had been feeling until it released. We all work so hard and keep going and going and that takes its toll on our bodies. I have clients who come for a massage each month keeping the tension under control and ensuring that they are aware of any changes in their bodies much more quickly. Walking around like a tightly coiled spring wastes energy, creates imbalances and will affect everything that you do. Book a massage and feel the difference for yourself. A 45 minute massage is £30 and 60 minutes is £40. If you opt for a monthly massage you get 60 minutes for the price of 45 minutes.
Have your say. Is there anything that you would like to see from fit4evermore over the next 6 months? Here is your opportunity to have an input into plans, blogs, sessions or workshops. I get an idea what you are looking for but it is really helpful to get some feedback directly and from a wider audience than the clients I see each week. Please drop me an email if you have any requests or suggestions big or small.
I hope you all have a great July and enjoy your holidays too. Make sure you keep active and take advantage of the good weather if you are away. Don't forget to sign up to get your copy of the fit4evermore Challenge series and if you need to add in another workout each week then 'FitPack' could be just what you need. Click on the image below for more details.
Clare x


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Videos for the PC Boards for the 8X8X8 3D LED Cube designed by SuperTech-IT.
RGB Music Demo
RGB Animation Demo
RGB PCB Boards Explained
Single Colour Cube Animation Demo
Single Colour Cube Music
Response Demo
2 Mono Cubes With Music
Modes Linked
RGB Cube Text Modes And
Firmware Demo
SuperTech-IT custom designs PC Boards for the 8X8X8 3D LED Cube projects and is an IT Specialist and Technician. Please visit his YouTube channel. You may find some other interesting videos in here beyond the 8X8X8 led cube as well.


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888 Liberty St. N.E. Salem, OR, 97301
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Boon's Treasury
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Fox and Bones is a conceptual folk collaboration between American songwriters Sarah Vitort and Scott Gilmore based in Portland, Oregon. The internationally touring folk duo combines lush harmonies and a complex, heartwarming lyrical landscape with soft-spoken yet rich musical accompaniment. They've been called "addictive like peanut butter" by European music blog Rockette and were voted runner up for Portland's Best Folk band by Willamette Week in 2017.
Vienna Wurstelstand gushes: "These two will lull you with their sweet and delicate melodies and woo you with their complex lyrics. Recommended if you like: making out slowly, folk and singer/songwriter tunes, music you can hum to."
Perhaps Luke Neill of Portland Radio Project sums it up best: "Their two voices meld so perfectly together that you never want to stop listening."
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