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White Cottage Bakery is located in Mark and Helen Underwood's home, a charming white cottage in the picturesque village of Kingston, Cambridgeshire. Some of the most amazing bread has come out of that little bakery in Helen's kitchen. I discovered Helen's homemade bread last year at my local farm shops and I've been a White Cottage Bakery stalker ever since. Getting my hands on a fresh loaf is like winning the lottery! That's because you can't just pop into the bakery whenever you feel like it. The bakery isn't open to the public. You need to follow White Cottage Bakery on social media (Facebook, Twitter or Instagram) to see what Helen will deliver to select farm shops in Cambridgeshire. Helen bakes the amount of bread she can handle; no mass production there! Even so, it's a testament to Helen's passion and dedication to baking that she can produce as much as she does.
Helen also runs a series of workshops, which are aimed at groups of 4 to 6 people. I had the privilege of attending one of White Cottage Bakery's full-day courses: the French Breadmaking Workshop, held in Helen's lovely farmhouse kitchen.
All of the workshops are taught by Helen, an accomplished (and self-taught!) professional baker with decades of experience. The setting is friendly and cosy, as I was in a home and not a purpose-built cookery school. We were a group of 4 people and we were all made to feel very at home. We were led to the gorgeous dining room for a welcome breakfast featuring tea, coffee, jams and the bakery's own bread. I especially loved the hazelnut and sour cherry loaf.
Helen ran through the workshop with the group. We would be learning to make a lot of French breads… pain de campagne, baguette, bâtard, pain d'épi, fougasse and pain de mie. C'est magnifique! We received our own folders with the day's recipes as well as blank sheets and a pencil for making notes.
As tempted as I was to stay in the dining room and admire all of the lovely artwork and curiosities (there's even a stuffed badger!), it was time to begin the workshop. With my energy replenished with cups of tea and fabulous bread, I was more than ready and put on my White Cottage Bakery apron.
Helen is a patient instructor and explained everything very clearly. She showed us techniques on "practice dough" and helped us every bit of the way, to ensure we had understood everything. There is so much time, care and skill involved in making a quality loaf of bread… the next time I bite into a homemade baguette I will know exactly the dedication and expertise that went into making it.
We all received our own dough scraper to use during the course, and we got to bring it home as well. We began by preparing the recipe for pain à l'ancienne, the dough required to make:
Baguette – a long, narrow loaf.
Pain d'épi – a twist on the baguette, the dough is snipped to form a stalk.
Fougasse – the dough is slashed to resemble a leaf or sheath of wheat.
Bâtard – a fat, round version of a baguette. We filled one of them with onions and nigella seeds.
We also prepared recipes for pain de campagne (a large, round loaf) and pain de mie (soft, white bread that is slightly sweet).
We learned how to knead, shape and prove the dough. Some of the breads required a couche, a linen cloth rucked together to form gullies for supporting baguettes and bâtards during their final prove.
The pain de campagne got its shape from a spiral banneton / brotform proving basket. After its final prove, the dough was tipped out onto a board where we learned the slashing / scoring technique with a blade, called a lame or grignette. Helen showed us a variety of designs we could choose to personalise our loaf. We slashed our baguettes too.
Helen baked all of our breads in her professional ovens, even showing us how to steam the inside of the oven in order to create a crisp crust.
During all of this, Mark efficiently organised the breaks and ensured all the food and drinks were nicely laid out on the dining room table. For our tea break, we were treated to Helen's HEAVENLY cinnamon cardamom buns.
They were THE best buns, even better than a certain famous Cambridge bun! Made with spelt, they're not overly gooey and have just enough cinnamon and cardamom. If you're lucky you can track these down by
stalking following White Cottage Bakery!
The workshop also included a delicious lunch, complete with white wine if you so desired. Mark laid out a variety of dishes… a charcuterie plate, assorted breads and Helen's very own potted cheese – genius recipe!
A parade of salads graced the table, such as roasted butternut squash, beetroot & thyme; asparagus, beans, tenderstem broccoli & toasted almonds; courgette, rocket & Berkswell cheese; and Mediterranean vegetables & goat's cheese. Everything was fresh and full of flavour.
At the end of the day, we re-entered the kitchen to find all of our breads were beautifully displayed on the counter. What a treat to see the fruits of our labour in this way. It was photo session time! We proudly posed for the obligatory group photo.
We were given a cute Bag For Loaf canvas bag to carry our folder, dough scraper and any baking supplies that were purchased directly from Helen. We had so much bread to take home that we were given an extra paper bag.
We each took home:
Two baguettes
Two pains d'épi
A fougasse
Two bâtards (one plain, one onion)
A pain de campagne loaf
A pain de mie loaf
I learned so much about French bread in this excellent workshop. I can't believe I made such amazing bread. I have a freezer full now! The recipes provided are really easy to follow and I look forward to putting what I learned into practice.
White Cottage Bakery run other courses, such as Italian Bread, Sourdough and Introduction to Bread Making. There's even a Festive Stollen workshop in December. Keep an eye out on their calendar!
Helen Underwood of White Cottage Bakery kindly invited me to attend the French Breadmaking workshop. Although the course was complimentary, all views are my own. I did not receive compensation for my review.
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Although Super Heroes were still DC's bread and butter, the company made a preliminary entry into the funny animal market with the launch of Funny Stuff. Edited by Sheldon Mayer, the anthology title showcased a number of new animal humor features including; Rufus Lion, Blackie Bear, Bulldog Drumhead and McSnurtle the Turtle who could change into a super hero called the Terrific Whatsit.
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I am so very happy to have a message from Rebecca J Carlson to share with you girls today. Some of you may have read her awesome posts here on MMW before. If not visit the archives, but not before you read today's message.
Wisdom from the PianoGuys
A couple of weeks ago the PianoGuys came to Laie, Hawaii to do a concert and shoot footage for a new music video. If you don't know already, the PianoGuys are these amazingly talented people from St. George who make inspiring music videos for YouTube. I had a chance to meet the two performers, Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson, in person as they came to "talk story" with the BYU-Hawaii Ohana the morning before the concert.
After they played a song or two for us, they took questions. Someone asked, "What advice do you have to an aspiring musician who wants to be successful like you?"
Jon and Steve glanced at each other, as if not sure what to say. "We really don't know how this happened to us," they said. "All we can tell you is that you've got to put your life in the Lord's hands. He will lead you to meet the right people, be in the right places, and have everything come together for you. We never imagined we'd be doing this, but God built this path for us and all we had to do was follow it."
They told us that they pray over every detail. They pray before they begin composing an arrangement. They pray before they start a recording session. They pray before they go on a video shoot. They said we should never feel foolish about asking the Lord for help with anything. Then the miracles will come.
They emphasized how essential it is to interact with other musicians. Working together with others creates something better than anyone could do alone. And I would add that this is just as important for writers as it is for musicians. Even though writing itself can be a solitary process, I know my stories work best if I first brainstorm out loud with my husband and children throwing in their own wonderful ideas.
Last of all, the PianoGuys told us to always remember to write for the audience. We can't just write for ourselves or for people like us. We need to create things that will bring joy to as many of our brothers and sisters as we can.
I'd like to close by sharing this music video that the PianoGuys filmed while they were here in Hawaii, just so you can see what it looks like where I live:
Aloha everyone!
Rebecca J. Carlson
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Guest Post: Wisdom from the PianoGuys
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I really love the piano guy's music. This song is very beautiful. It's so true that God really will lead us down a path perfect for each of us. Some times it's not what we expect, but for me, it's always been better than I hoped for.ReplyDelete
You're so right, JoLyn! Sometimes I want to go back and tell my teenage self about all the fantastic opportunities ahead. Life has been harder than I expected, but far more wonderful too.ReplyDelete
A) Wow, you live in such a beautiful place, Rebecca! It's truly stunning!ReplyDelete
2. Love their music! So inspiring!
III. I think all their advice is definitely for writers!
D) It was great having you back on the blog!
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'Just read someone's heart-felt, out-pouring lament about the despair that sometimes seems to cloud over artists.
To be honest I identified with what this woman was saying. All her life she wanted only one thing and that was to be recognized for her art.
The problem seems to be less with 'money' as she says, but a lack of recognition and understanding among family and peers as to her 'being' an artist.
Also she says she only started showing her art when she was 48 years old and soon she will be turning 50. She says her "time is running out."
On her facebook post she gets lots of comments of sympathy and encouragement. So obviously it is an artist thing. Okay I'm kind of mad at myself for thinking in a similar way at times and I'd like a good honest attack on what the
heck is really the problem with 'us' (artists)! I've heard everything from creativity uses up so many 'happy' chemicals in the brain ( therefore leaving us depressed) to we were all just raised with a silver brush in our hands and therefore don't know just how good we have it i.e. ingratitude.
So what's the problem and what's the answer?
I'm going to give it my best shot.
I want to dissect her lament (without compromising her anonymity).
First let me work backward and deal with this age thing. These will be profoundly redundant truths but truths, none-the-less.
- Age is meaningless really. Most likely she didn't start being creative when she was 48. She likely has been creating her whole life in some way; at least 'seeing' like an artist. We are always growing!
- Chances are she will actually have more time to create now that she's 50 than since she was 16 ! Maybe not. Maybe she will have to look after an elderly parent or ill 'child'. But if you factor in the time just spent making a living and raising kids between , say, 25 and 45 it likely took up most of her time. So a year of solid creating or painting is more time than she would have had spending an hour a week for most of her life. ( You do the math..I'm an artist, lol)
- She says her time is "running out". Well I can empathize however a lot of people don't make it to 50 and a lot more ( in our western society) are making it to 85 ! So the simple fact is WE JUST DON'T KNOW! ha ha ( maniacal laugh). So why even bother to pretend to see the hour glass that belongs to an invisible Creator? We don't know.
Next she confesses discouragement is part of this creative life. I get what she's saying. I've known (and continue to know) that too. But is it really? Aren't there hockey players that thought they were just that good and wanted to make it to the big league but now 'just' coach the minors on a volunteer basis? Punch! Slam! Pow! That must have been one big Holy Batman Bag of Hurt!
Then there's the returning veteran who struggles with scars of night terrors and perhaps horrors that have robbed him of the very limbs he or she needs to lift a paint brush.
So maybe we are just whining and sighing and sounding like a rusty saw.
She says she finds herself often waiting and waiting (the unrung phone, the empty inbox) for someone to ask her to paint something.
She , like myself,is looking for Permission! Seriously. What else can it be? Who can ultimately give us permission? I think you know the answer. I think I know the answer. Sometimes she questions herself as to why she ever wanted "it" so badly. I take that to be the issue of recognition as an artist. So that's a whole 'nother thing. Let's tackle it. ( Hey I'm expecting you to comment and flesh out whatever I'm missing here).
One last thing about the age thing. Art ( the pursuit thereof) is a lifetime thing…it NEVER stops. It takes years, even decades to become proficient in one's skills.
Recognizing recognition.
Okay so further on in the comments on her post she mentions a spouse that is "very supportive" and is able to pay the bills. I don't know about you but this is sounding pretty ideal. In fact I confess to a space of time where my wife was able to pay the bills and I was able to paint and pursue artistic venues full-time.
Recognition is going to come in this life in one or both of two ways.
- You will sell your work.
- People will tell you in some way that they like/love your work.
Selling Out
This artist, all artists, myself as an artist has to ask one question. How far do you want to go with selling your work? Is that what this is really about I wonder? We want the phone to ring? " Hello, I see you are a great artist and I want to buy your work". GONG! It don't work that way. If your goal is selling out ( of stock) then it means creating, finding, marketing your work and that itself is a freakin' full time job! Nobody is going to save your a$$. Really.
The good news is, I believe, if you're willing to put in the time and the good Lord gives it to ya then you can make some kind of living from your work. It means uncovering a market, it means finding your niche. It means study, study, study and work, work , work. Yeah like a mad dog. That's what it takes. It means getting a thick skin and thinking of the veteran who just took a bullet for you and stop feeling sorry for yourself
The next great news is that with the invention of the internet you can paint while listening to free podcasts and Youtube vids on everything from marketing to creating work. Listen and listen. Replay the best ones until it gets stuck in your head how to do a thing and then practice it.
Falling in Love
After you're dead and gone and if you could be 'a fly on the wall' you would hear a litany of praise on how great an artist you were. People will remember and think of how YOU made them feel better. Young nieces and nephews will say " Gee Aunt so-an-so was an artist. It means I can be one too. maybe it runs in the family"
Every time your name passes over parting lips you will be remembered as someone who had a great gift, " a natural God-given talent". They'll say stuff about you that will make you smile. They won't say "she wasted her time". They just won't. The few that are saying it now have their own internal,emotional crises and it's bitter water coming from a bitter well. Why drink from it?!
Fall back in love with your work and that part of yourself which is a special gift to others. It doesn't have to be sold to be appreciated but it can be. Just remember that creating the art and the business of art are two different things that happen simultaneously. The artist is one who gives- not gets. This giving attitude , I believe, is what it takes to get.
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5 Signs He Isn't In The Relationship For The Right Reasons
Being in a relationship for the right reasons is so important. And though you can control your own reasons, you need to make sure that your partner is doing the right thing, too. If not, you can end up feeling low— or even trapped in a toxic relationship, which is a confusing and difficult place to be.
"'Toxic' is relative perception. In fact, it may be less about having a 'toxic partner' and more about conflicting survival strategies in the wake of broken or inconsistent childhood relationships," Portland-based Lifekey Counseling Jeremy McAllister tells Bustle. "When someone applies opposing strategies, it feels abusive. We have these two basic common extremes in attachment: one side clings and protests while the other withdraws and disengages, and these two attachment styles are like magnets to one another — sometimes intensely drawn, other times repulsed and polarized."
But how do you know if your partner is in the relationship for the right reasons? Well, if they are then it should feel like you're working as a team and taking on life together. And if they're not, things are going to be a whole lot harder. Here are five signs that your partner isn't in the relationship for the right reasons, because you deserve so much better:
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4. They Only Want Things Their Way
I swear, some people are in relationships just for a sounding board/partner in crime/yes-man. And it gets old real quick. If you find that you're always doing things on their terms, going to their restaurants, watching their shows, hanging out with their people, that's not an equal partnership. That's someone who thinks a relationship just means inserting someone into their life, which isn't how it should be. You're supposed to integrate.
5. They Are Shady With Their Friends And Family
You don't need to meet someone friends and family right off the bat, but being part of being in each other's lives means sharing those lives with each other. So it's fine to take it slow at the beginning, but if they're still being weird about introducing you to people, you need to start wondering why they're in a relationship.
Being in a relationship for the right reasons is so important— for both of you. Make sure that you're on the same page, because you deserve a relationship where you're an equal partner.


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I've been neglecting the blog recently :( The past couple of weeks William and I have been living out of a suitcase because we can't seem to stay in one place for more than a few days. We've been in Austin A LOT because of physical therapy for my back (that is a story for another post), and we have been visiting Jeff on the weekends. Needless to say, I have barely pulled out the computer for more than a couple minutes.
Today however is a special day because it is William's first birthday!!! I cannot believe that it has already been a year since Jeff and I welcomed him into our lives. For his birthday today, we had a lazy day with my mom running errands and we had a nice lunch in downtown Austin.
This Saturday we're having a Jake and the Neverland Pirates Pool Party at my in-laws house, so be sure to check back soon for a post about all the Pirate fun! Since this is the first (of many) birthday party I am hosting, I am a tad bit nervous :( My only wish right now is that it doesn't rain on Saturday!
I hope everyone will have an amazing rest of the week! I hope to be posting regularly again very soon :)


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- You can download and install the Rich Reviews plugin through the built-in WordPress plugin installer. Alternately, download the zip file and upload the '/rich-reviews/' folder to your '../wp-content/plugins/' folder.
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- View the instructions page in your the WordPress backend to see detailed explanations and examples of how and where to use the shortcodes which enable reviews to be shown, submitted, or averaged.
- Periodically check the Rich Reviews menu in the WordPress control panel to see if there are any pending reviews which need to be approved (or deleted).
- Installation Instructions
- You can download and install the Rich Reviews plugin through the built-in WordPress plugin installer. Alternately, download the zip file and upload the '/rich-reviews/' folder to your '../wp-content/plugins/' folder.
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- View the instructions page in your the WordPress backend to see detailed explanations and examples of how and where to use the shortcodes which enable reviews to be shown, submitted, or averaged.
- Periodically check the Rich Reviews menu in the WordPress control panel to see if there are any pending reviews which need to be approved (or deleted).
Cannot syndicate reviews from shopperapproved
I followed the instructions and added the API key but reviews could not be imported, this didnt work for me.
Abandoned Plugin!
Works but is a half solution. Yes, it provides the opportunity to get reviews from clients BUT….. where is the support on Rich Snippets?? How do you get reviews aggregated onto Google??? When you ask this question in the forums, it goes unaddressed.
Great concept, good plugin BUT – – there is ZERO support as the developers "have left the building" almost a year ago…. Sad WP continues to promote abandoned plugins….
Google Tos Violation
Works nice
I like it 99%. On thing it really needs is in your widget that shows the reviews it needs to have a link to the page the review is on. When someone sees the sidebar review it don't help much because they should have a link to the page the review is on. Other than that I love it.
Plugin broke the loopback request for site
The reason is 'Submit the form with an HTTP redirect. Keeps form displayed and will show instantly approved reviews immediately after form submission.' option
Great plugin
Great plugin
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- Fixed several vulnerabilities reported to us by the awesome people at https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/ — Thanks!
- Hi, did you miss us? We're discussing returning to this plugin and furthering development on it, but a lot of the WP and rich snippet landscape has changed since we first created this plugin. Stay tuned 🙂
- DB update for ipv6 strings
- Integration for Shopper Approved Widget
- CSS override for Shopper Approved Header Text on review form
- Javascript accessible elements to translate
- Brought more i18n to overlooked elements
- namespaced css classes
- stars only snippet attribute (stars_only="true")
- Redirect form submission option
- Schema type option "Product" or "Service"
- Options for setting text values for "Read More" and "Less"
- Option for Excerpt Length on Review display
- HOTFIX: Custom Style Output
- HOTFIX: Media Disruption from js script
- Rolled back solution for multiple form submition until media plugin conflicts could be resolved.
- HOTFIX: db update for new field
- Updates .pot file
- Further Refactor of i18n formatting for translation
- Added support for displaying reviews by parent page id
- Added option to scroll automatically back to form
- (solution under construction as of 1.7.2 due to js conflicts with other plugins, contact us for the patch) Fixed bug issues when multiple forms are displayed one the same page, by adding unique_key param to form shortcode
- Added basic user integrations
- Added avatar support, and alternatively user image upload to form
- Added login gate option
- Added optional Shopper Approved integration and support.
- hotfix: removed obsolete support for 1.0 – 1.2 version updates
- Added Rich Markup options for author and subject fallbacks
- Fixed minor overlooked bugs
- hotfix: global post for snippet query
- hotfix: Fixed non-categorized item reviewed schema, and itemreviewed and author defaults
- hotfix: Widget dependency on deprecated code.
- Added "all" value for both snippet and show shortcodes
- Altered and fixed aggregate category query
- Uppdated Rich Snippet output for Schema.org markup
- Fixed random order bug
- Added dynamic response message for name field dependency and approval requirement.
- Refactored file structure and option handling
- Refactored i18n string formatting
- hotfix: fixing longstanding global reviews show issue
- added option for email notifications, and accompanying field for admin emaail
- added option for scroll back to form after submission
- hotfix: scroll after submission
- updated rich formatting
- Updated layout of user opttions
- Made form fields editable
- Added Rounding for Aggregate Rating
- Updated rich snippet format to microdata
- Added option to display reviews at full width
- Added option to display date along with reviews
- Correcting star display issue.
- Fixing issue with stars not displaying.
- Fixing issue with extra div creation.
- Adding link to new plugins website on dashboard.
- Hot fix: Correcting the correspondence with Google Rich Snippets.
- Hotfix
- Added options admin page.
- Option to edit the color of stars.
- Option to edit form input title of previous "Review Title" input.
- Option to allow various user roles to manage reviews.
- Option to display stars in snippet instead of numerical value.
- Option controlling the order in which reviews are displayed.
- Option to skip the pending process for reviews.
- Adding the ability to add and edit reviews from the WordPress dashboard.
- Fixed minor css issues.
- Removing a debug dump function that was accidentally left it.
- Correcting admin page errors.
- Removing foxytech links
- Bug fix: correcting popular display issue
- Introducing new dashboard styles
- Database bug fix correcting possible site crashes
- Added option for credit line
- Big update! Complete rewrite of plugin to make it easier to update in the future, and to add more features
- We are now branching to add Nuanced Media as a developer of this plugin
- Everything about the plugin should function better, and with the rewrite and addition of Nuanced Media as a contributer, the updates should come much faster
- Hotfix: vertical-align: top on the review submission form
- Changed display order so that reviews are displayed newest-first
- Changed version numbering, and changed version checking function to compensate
- Some much needed tweaks, such as better displaying data from the database (no more "rnrn"!)
- VASTLY improved admin menus – now the tried and true WordPress menus you know and love are in Rich Reviews! This means that now you can approve/delete bulk items with much greater ease!
- Added scss files for easier css maintenance
- Much better css! I am no longer providing the majority of the styles – instead I will allow whatever theme you currently have installed to do the leg work (as it should be!)
- Much better javascript!
- Added the much-requested feature of per-page/per-product reviews, as well as adding optional review categories to go along with it
- Revamped the backend instructions page to be more pretty and to be much more informative, and to give detailed examples and explanations for each shortcode
- Cleaned up the CSS pretty much everywhere
- The stars in ratings are now orange/yellow when reviews are displayed
- Fixed a large bug where the MySQL database was not created properly if plugin was installed fresh, and hence no reviews could be sent, stored, approved, nor displayed! (Thanks, Mik!)
- Altered CSS to make the reviews and the review form more pretty (Thanks, Andrew!)
- New, altered CSS allows reviews to properly be displayed and stacked vertically (for example, in a sidebar)
- Integrated/fixed support for non-English characters (Thanks, IvicaD!)
- Split menu up into three parts: instructions, pending reviews, and approved reviews
- New "Approved Reviews" admin menu allows you to view every review you have ever previously approved, and change its status (to pending, or mark it for deletion) at will
- Initial release


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Looking for a fresh start I joined Claire's first Transformation Challenge in June 2014. It gave me the motivation and tools I needed to really kick start my health and fitness programme – getting back to what I really wanted! Not only did I achieve my goal weight, but I improved my fitness measures by over 200%! I've joined every program since then and have really made it a part of my regular fitness routine, setting a new standard for myself. Not only has my confidence improved, but I am a happier, healthier version of me!
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Internet Marketing February 24th, 2016
When it comes to building a branded image online, many businesses quickly become overwhelmed, discouraged and ultimately either abandon the prospect altogether or invest all their resources without doing the necessary research.
And it's understandable, it really is a confusing world to navigate. Should you just pour all your energy into trying to gain exposure on Facebook, or is it better to build the voice of your brand through frequent Tweets? Should you have a blog, and if so, what should you blog about and how often should you blog and how do you build traffic to those posts? If you find yourself feeling alienated by this onslaught of modern messaging, you're not alone. Don't worry, my mom is still trying to figure out how to work the VCR that we retired from use 15 years ago.
Before writing off the online marketplace, keep in mind that if you are truly determined to build a fully-formed online brand, it is not beyond your reach. Here are some things to think through and keep in mind as you go through the process of developing your image online:
Always come back to the questions above and make sure that anything you're putting online serves the broader goals of your business. If anything is remotely off-brand, try tweaking the design, phrasing or style to steer it back on course.
The goal of your online brand should always be to build trust with any potential visitors to your site and to demonstrate to those visitors the helpfulness and professionalism your business provides. People will be more likely to believe in the value of your product if your site is filled with useful, quality content. Likewise, a site that is easy to read and navigate will tell visitors that your company is reliable, honest and accessible.
Your logo, the colour palette used on your website and in social media profiles, and the overall look and design of any online platforms you use should be attractive, eye-catching, and most importantly, should be an expression of your brand. The same goes for the writing style and tone of voice in any written content you publish.
If you're interested in blogging but not sure where to begin, remember the first rule of blogging: Don't just churn out content for the sake of it. Your writing should offer helpful information that will answer concerns and queries of potential clients—the goal is to leverage the blogs as a way of drawing people into the rest of the site. Once you've piqued their interest through a blog post, you can begin the work of guiding that user through your site towards a conversion.
Whether you're publishing a blog, distributing a newsletter, building new material for the pages on your site, or even creating videos, make sure every last detail of that work is an accurate reflection of your brand's image.
Blogs are a great way to establish your business as an authority in its field, which again ties back to building trust with users. Your posts can help to draw people in by providing helpful answers to their questions and search queries. But once the user arrives on your site, if the language you've used is full of jargon, acronyms or highly technical language without sufficient context to support or explain it, your brand will go from helpful to hopeless.
Managing multiple social media accounts can be a full-time job, but if you are selective and focus your efforts on the platforms that will be most beneficial to your brand, at least your efforts will be worth your while. Though most of us have at least some familiarity with the major social media channels, it's important to remember the greatest assets of each one.
You can never know for certain what will resonate with your audience if you don't pinpoint and analyze your previous successes and shortcomings. At the same time, building a brand isn't only about audience reach – you can't go exclusively by what brings in clicks, you have to also go back to your business's initial mission and purpose, distill it into its most fundamental values, and ensure that is at the core of everything you write, design, share and post in your online marketing efforts.
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Awesome post Emily. The important take away from what you have said is that building a brand image is hard work. The good thing is that it really pays off well when done properly
Hi Emily,
I think the points you have shared are good enough to create a branded image online.
Thanks for sharing.
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thinkThin® Debuts Big Announcement in "Bite-Size" Form with Launch of Protein Bites and Protein Nut Bites
Inspired by the growing demand for quick, wholesome snack options, thinkThin® has shrunk down its nutritious and delicious protein bars to create its latest mini-innovation, the thinkThin® Protein Bites and thinkThin® Protein Nut Bites. Building on the success of thinkThin protein bars, the new bites are the first time a leading energy bar brand has launched unwrapped protein and fiber bars in bite-sized pieces. With 60 percent of Americans seeking healthier snack options¹, the Protein Bites and Protein Nut Bites offer new ways to snack, guilt-free.
"In particular, women are snacking throughout the day and are seeking a wider assortment of better-for-you options," said Cherry Joh, marketing director of thinkThin. "As a leader in the protein category, we recognize women are hungry for snacking options that are packed with protein and deliver wholesome ingredients. Our new thinkThin Protein Bites and thinkThin Protein Nut Bites satisfy that craving, whether they are seeking a small indulgence or looking to stay full and energized."
The new gluten-free, non-GMO Protein Bites are available in five delectable flavors.
• thinkThin Protein Bites –Each serving of thinkThin Protein Bites is packed with 10g protein, 5g of fiber and less than 200 calories. Available in Salted Caramel, Peanut Butter, and Chocolate Almond Brownie.
• thinkThin Protein Nut Bites –The thinkThin Protein Nut Bites are chock full of nutritious almonds, peanuts and pumpkin seeds offering 9g of protein, 3g of fiber and less than 200 calories. thinkThin Protein Nut Bites are available in two flavors, White Chocolate, with a drizzle of creamy white chocolate or Dark Chocolate, with a drizzle of real dark chocolate.
thinkThin Protein Bites and thinkThin Protein Nut Bites are available online and at select retailers and grocery stores in September 2015, with nationwide availability beginning October 2015. Please visit www.thinkproducts.com for more information and to find the nearest thinkThin retailer using the store locator search option.


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Danya International Transfers Africa Business Unit to Plan International USA
Silver Spring, Maryland (May 2, 2016)—Danya International, Inc. (Danya), a communications, research, and technology company, confirms the transfer of its Africa business unit to Plan International USA. Finalized in February of this year, this transfer "further strengthens Plan's technical proficiency in social and behavior change; monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning; use of information and communications technology; and capacity building of local, national, and regional organizations," according to Plan's press release.
Danya first collaborated with Plan USA in 2015, on the Nilinde Project, a $41 million USAID-funded initiative to improve the welfare and protection of the most vulnerable households affected by HIV/AIDS by reducing economic vulnerability and empowering parents to make investments that will improve the health and well-being of orphans and vulnerable children.
Danya founded our Africa business unit in 2008 in Kenya. Our in-country work reached more than 10 million people across East and Southern Africa with public health, agriculture, education, and food security programming. Our Vice President for the Africa Region Aaron Sundsmo joined Plan to lead the integration of Danya's capabilities into Plan's programs, which work across 51 countries.
About Danya International, Inc.
Danya International is dedicated to making an impact in health and education. Danya is a leader in providing technology-enabled solutions by using innovative communications, evaluation, and technology programs. Danya is based in Silver Spring, Maryland, with an office in Atlanta, Georgia. To learn more about the company, visit www.danya.com.


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Unless the regulatory process is somehow speeded up in the case of Google's latest acquisition of Admeld, the estimated $400 million deal that would add a new publisher-facing service to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) display/exchange business is at least several months away from actually being completed. That said, the announcement earlier today will surely speed up efforts by Google's competitors, whether its display advertising leaders like Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: AOL), to expand their supply-side efforts, or Admeld rivals like The Rubicon Project and PubMatic.
In a post on its blog, media investment bank Luma Partners, which represented Admeld in the deal, points out some of the basic implications of Google's acquisition: "Real time media buying is real and valuable. There has been some debate of late regarding the RTB phenomenon – whether it is a fad or a long-term shift in the market and whether it adds real value. This acquisition should squelch that debate – as we point out in the SCIENCE-ification of Media presentation, there's no going back."
I had a recent conversation about ad exchanges with AOL's Ned Brody, president of AOL's B2B businesses, which includes managing the company's display relationships with outside publishers through Advertising.com and its other ad tech units. He mentioned that one publisher, who spoke for many, had identified RTB as "a race to the bottom" not real-time bidding. Many publishers are reluctant to participate in RTB, because they feel it tends to drive down prices of their inventory. Companies like Admeld, Rubicon and PubMatic exist, in part, to help allay those fears by promising to protect publishers' ad yields.
Publishers' Frenemy?: Given Google's breadth in display, one generous theory is that it will be able to offer publishers better deals through the Admeld exchange. But Google has tended to be regarded as a "frenemy" at times, a view that has softened on the part of ad agencies with the addition of Invite Media as Google's DSP.
"Google's purchase a validation of the ad exchange space," says AppNexus CEO Brian O'Kelley. "If you look at Invite, that purchase was driven by Google being frustrated by DSPs' inability to get significant traction with the ad agencies. So Google figured, it would do it themselves. On the publisher front, Google felt it wasn't getting its own penetration there and that Admeld was more successful and that's the reasoning behind the acquisition and be able to build on that."
So that leaves two questions for publishers, O'Kelley says: are they comfortable with Google as their primary monetization partner? If so, Google wins. "I can't believe that after putting so much effort behind buying Admeld, Google doesn't have the market research to suggest they wouldn't get Admeld's publisher clients."
Publishers and perception: But a number of sources on the publisher and ad network side think that Google will have a tough time initially convincing publishers that it is not operating a closed system with Invite at one end, Admeld at the other and the Google Ad Exchange in the middle. "Publishers are going to be very concerned and will walk away — assuming they can," one ad network source said. " You can argue publishers will have to work with Google because they are so reliant on them for driving traffic and technology. How do they say no? And publishers need to be concerned that Publicis Groupe, the largest buyer, does not just get closer to Google and buy everything through these systems thus killing publishers' primary revenue. And if that happens there is negative impact on consumers."
While Google executives repeatedly deny that agencies and marketers get special deals by funneling their ad spend through Invite if they agree to put more dollars in the Google Ad Exchange, the perception that the various parts of Google's display business operate closely, if not tightly, persist. And while Google may be able to prove it to regulators, it will still take a lot more to convince publishers.
The competitive landscape: Of course, there's more than just Google to consider. A lot depends on how the other supply side platforms respond. Beyond that, it also depends on Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), all of which offer various solutions to publishers and command a large segment of display ad spending.
Ad tech providers evolve: The other primary companies in the supply-side platform space — publishers, the sellers of ad inventory are the "supply-side," while agencies and marketers, as the buyers, are the "demand-side" — are Rubicon and PubMatic. Like Admeld, all three have evolved from offering "yield optimization" — helping ad impressions and campaigns perform better, such as driving higher clickthrough rates or determining the times and places for certain ads — to supply-side platforms, which include offering price protection through real-time bidding exchanges.
As Google and Admeld await regulators' decision on whether they can work together, PubMatic, which doesn't say how many pubs it works with, and Rubicon, which represents 450 publishers through its REVV system, can be expected to continue to build on the array of efforts and relationships each has put in place over the past few years.
All of been aggressively expanding their businesses in recent weeks, as both have made notable hires and deals, such as PubMatic's acquisition of ReviNet, a smaller SSP that brought 57 additional publishers along with it, while Rubicon has been collaborating with Donovan Data Systems on building a media buying platform. Both companies have been building up their ad sales and engineering teams.
Meanwhile, Admeld recently scored a coup with publishers by being selected to build an ad exchange focusing on local ad inventory for quandrantOne, the online newspaper media sales joint venture owned by The Tribune Company, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst Corp. and The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT). Q-Exchange, as its called, is a private ad exchange promising to focus only on "premium" buys.
Lately, there's been a lot of attention being paid to SSP's "private exchanges" or marketplaces. Rubicon and PubMatic, for example, have launched over a dozen private marketplaces over the past few months. The idea of private marketplaces is to protect publishers' relationships with advertisers and agencies and allows them to set specific terms with specific buyers, as opposed to just opening their inventory widely for any agency to bid on one.
"The purchase of Admeld is a massive opportunity for Rubicon," O'Kelley says. "If I was [Rubicon CEO] Frank Addante, I'd be thrilled by this news. The same for PubMatic. I don't think they're in play, but both Yahoo and AOL have to be seriously thinking about them as an obvious play. But aside from entertaining offers, both companies will benefit as publishers consider alternatives and see what the combination of Google and Admeld means for them."
While there are dozens of DSPs that are already established, there aren't too many SSPs. O'Kelley believes that companies operating at the ad network level will also be looking to expand into the space as well, in particular, companies like Collective, ValueClick and Undertone.
Display leaders' challenge: There is a big question for display bellwethers Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft about how to react to the Google/Admeld deal. While Microsoft is partnering with AppNexus on building out its exchange services, Yahoo and AOL have circled the publisher side of the exchange business the last few years.
AOL reassembles: AOL's Brody said that the company doesn't have any desire to create an exchange business on par with Google. It does have a number of products that leverage bidding platforms, like AdDesk, which isn't a DSP but is pretty close in some ways, and it has self-service options for publishers as well through its Advertising.com network. The company recently integrated its ad tech operations more closely together under the Advertising Group, which houses Advertising.com, ADTECH, Pictela, Goviral, 5min Media, StudioNow, Seed and AOL Answers under one entity. The group is an update of Platform-A, which was dissolved after Tim Armstrong became CEO two years ago.
"We're one of the biggest participants in the ad exchange space as a buyer, but not as a seller and we don't plan to be," AOL's Brody said. "We have found value buying in exchanges, certainly. And we are looking at the yield optimization space. Right now, there are three main companies providing that specific service. Are they the only companies who can do that? I don't think so."
Yahoo's moves: While AOL has been reorganizing its existing properties to better serve publishers looking for an upper hand in the exchange space, last month, Yahoo paid $28 million to acquire 5to1, an online ad marketplace that lets top brand advertisers purchase unsold premium inventory on the sites of 20 major publishers. Yahoo said that the addition of 5to1 will allow it to increase the premium inventory it can offer advertisers.
"Yahoo has been investing for four years," notes, AppNexus' O'Kelley, who started with ad exchange Right Media before it was acquired by Yahoo in April 2007 for $680 million. Although Google earlier this month appeared to displace Yahoo as the display leader, according to IDC analyst Karsten Weide, O'Kelley says, "I wouldn't count Yahoo out. They've been the market leader, so that allowed them to move a little slower perhaps than Google. But they've made a statement about getting more serious about display business as the landscape changes with the purchase of 5to1."
Next steps: Right now, ad exchanges represent a small amount of the total $26 billion spent online — and an even smaller amount of the roughly $7 billion spent on display — each year. O'Kelley estimates that about 15 percent of online ad dollars will go through exchanges this year, but he's betting that 50 percent of online will be funneled through exchanges within two years. In the meantime, according to a recent Forrester study commissioned by Admeld, the researcher predicted that spending on RTB will rise to $823 million in 2011, a 130 percent increase over 2010.
That bet is predicated on the notion that publishers will eventually embrace — or at least, acquiesce — to online ad exchanges in greater numbers, creating more of a seller's market. That's certainly the notion of private exchanges that the SSPs are rolling out.
Ever since Google bought Doubleclick for $3.1 billion over three years ago, observers were wondering what sort of impact it would have. Initially, many believed that Google wouldn't dominate display, but it's certainly proved itself as the leader in the space. Unlike search, where despite the efforts of Microsoft's Bing, Google remains peerless, display is so much wider and the exchange space is still nascent. Even if Google does continue to loom large over display, which is pretty likely, there are still a lot of publishers out there who are ready to back alternatives and in any case, are unlikely to rely solely on Google. But, as with everything involving the search/display giant, time will tell.


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the shows
The region's most popular radio station, AlgoaFM teams up with the Eastern Cape's most popular band, The Centrestage All-Star band, to celebrate a birthday milestone with the music that has shaped our lives!
The finale of the station's 21st birthday party celebrations comes in the form of a show which starts at the Boardwalk's Vodacom Amphitheatre on 3 October, moves to East London's Guild Theatre from 11 October, before taking in Graaf-Reinett on 17 October, Queenstown 23 Oct and Grahamstown on 24 October.
The musical selection, representing listener favourites and the most-requested songs over the past 21 years, is given the Centrestage high impact entertainment spin, with the focus on the songs that both defined and bridged our generations - and in doing so, got our feet tapping and bodies swaying.
From early party favourites such as Brown Eyed Girl, Pretty Woman, Bad Moon Rising, Hey Jude and Mony Mony to 80's and 90's classics such as Could You Be Loved, Bed of Roses, Summer of 69, Billy Jean, Africa, Beds Are Burning, Simply the Best, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Mamma Mia and A Kind of Magic, the show is set to rocket along! Centrestage showstoppers such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Impi and Hotel California are also included, as are more contemporary hits such as Where the Streets Have No Name, Angels, I'm Alive and Rockstar are also included. The boy-band phenomenon is saluted - and the Centrestage All-Star band will also put down their instruments to show their versatility and all-round vocal strength by performing a special a capella arrangement of the Beach Boy's Kokomo.
At the helm of proceedings is popular funnyman and drummer Gino Fabbri, whose crazy characters have become a firm crowd favourite. The music is directed once again by Donovan Hattingh, who was responsible as music director on the runaway successes, The Magnificent 7 1 and Mag 7 2 - The Next Generation, amongst other hit shows also involving the Centrestage All-Star Band. Donovan also plays lead guitar along with Wayne Kallis on acoustic and Mike McAully on bass. Keyboard duties are shared by Rory McLaren and Candy G, while Donna Africa and Lelanie Fourie make up the balance of the glamour department. To accommodate rugby fans, the 6th and 13th October performances will be followed by screenings of the games on big screens after the show.


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Monday, July 29, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
always practicing heads
Oil on Centurion canvas.
Labels: woman
Friday, July 26, 2013
lookin' at you
Thursday, July 25, 2013
contortions of plumbing
And drawing a moving worker is a challenge too!
Pencil in the Aquabee Superdeluxe journal.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
skiing in July
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Labels: figurine
Monday, July 22, 2013
pillow pile
Pen and w/c in the Aquabee Superdeluxe journal.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
foliage challenge
Labels: plant
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Rex Begonia
Labels: plant
Friday, July 19, 2013
heat-flattened cat
But in this heat (85 inside but a fan blowing on him), he stays limp and flat for long periods of time.
Finished the whole drawing before he moved at all!
Liquid stylus pen in the Aquabee Superdeluxe journal.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
the joy of iced tea on a hot summer day
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Labels: glassware
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
new mini palette
I love it! I loaded it with Winsor & Newton paint. Though I've made mini palettes of my own, usually using mint boxes or eye shadow boxes, this metal version with easily removable pans struck my fancy.
It's super thin and light, perfect for any tiny bag with a waterbrush.
And it comes with a small absorbent towel for brush cleaning.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Boston--reflection of Trinity Church in the Hancock Tower
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
simple ink
Friday, July 12, 2013
back to the cat
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Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Drawing in Canyonlands NP, Utah
Few people were there, but an Australian man approached and stood with me in the vast desert silence as I drew, interested in the process.
Later he said, "All I can hear is the sound of your pencil." But he didn't sound like he was complaining.
On Fabriano Artistico.
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Labels: tree
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Red cliffs in Springdale, Utah
There is some blue pencil for the sky here, but too light to show in the scan.
Photography stepped in for most of the rest of the trip!
Pen, pencil, w/c on Moleskine w/c paper.
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Saturday, July 06, 2013
Moab area, famous rock formations
Just to catch the sense of the moment at Landscape Arch and Balancing Rock.
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Friday, July 05, 2013
Drawing in Zion Park Lodge
Pen and colored pencil on Fabriano Artistico.
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Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Back to life drawing
Pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013
early morning at Arches National Park
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Monday, July 01, 2013
How to fly so no one talks to you
Even the flight attendant got a little surprise when she glanced to the window seat.
This passenger was friendly as we sat down and later got up. But the cocoon was very effective when she was in it.
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Maintaining a healthy, well-balanced diet makes it easier to manage your weight but also gives your body the nutrients it needs. However, there's more than willpower at work when it comes to eating right. Sleep—the most basic of biological functions—plays a pivotal role in appetite control. For optimum health, you'll need to cultivate good sleep habits that lead to the deep, restful sleep you need.
How Sleep Deprivation Changes Your Eating Habits
The Brain During Sleep Deprivation
When you get less than the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep, you enter a state of sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation takes a heavy toll on most parts of the body. The immune system can't fight off infection or heal as quickly. Digestion slows down, and mood swings become more common during sleep deprivation. Stress levels rise, making stress increasingly more challenging to manage.
And then there's the brain. Without adequate rest, the brain doesn't have time to prune unused pathways or strengthen the ones that are most needed. Neurons begin to slow down, so reasoning skills, decision-making, and reaction times are impaired. More importantly, the brain changes how it controls the appetite during sleep deprivation.
Sleep Deprivation and Hunger
The brain controls the release of the hunger hormone ghrelin. During sleep deprivation, ghrelin levels rise higher than usual, making you feel hungrier than you would on an average day. Before you know it, you're grabbing more food than you typically would. At the same time as you feel this increase in hunger, the satiety hormone leptin, which makes you feel full, gets released in smaller amounts.
Sleep Deprivation Changes What You Crave
That's right. Sleep deprivation not only changes hunger and satiety, but it also changes what you crave and what those foods do to your brain. When you're going on less than seven hours of sleep, you're far more likely to crave high-fat, sugary or salty snack foods. Resisting the urge to reach for cookies, cake, or candy becomes harder than ever when you're tired.
Additionally, the effects those foods have on your brain changes too. Sugar and fat stimulate the reward center of the brain. The brain receives even more rewards than standard, leading to effects similar to those experienced during marijuana use, which explains why you get a case of the munchies when you're sleep deprived.
Develop Good Sleep Hygiene
Your sleep hygiene includes all the habits that contribute to the quality of your sleep. Everything from the condition of your room to the amount of exercise you've gotten makes up your sleep hygiene. A good place to start if you want to improve the quality of your sleep is your bedroom.
The bedroom should be a sleep sanctuary where you escape from the stress of the outside world. At night, it should be cool, quiet, and dark. If you live in an area with light pollution, consider blackout curtains, heavy drapes, or blinds. Your bed needs to support your favorite sleep position. Morning aches and pains might indicate that you either need a mattress topper or a new firmer mattress that will help you rest.
If you're still not getting the rest you need, try:
Developing a Bedtime Routine: Bedtime routines work with kids and adults alike. The routine should be performed in the same order at the same time each day. Try to include activities that help you relax and destress like taking a warm bath, drinking a warm cup of milk, reading, or meditation.
Exercising Regularly: Exercise does more than get your heart pumping. It wears out your mind and body so that you can fall asleep faster. Just be sure that you don't do a vigorous workout within four hours of bedtime as the release of endorphins can interfere with your sleep.
Turning Off Your Screen: You might like scrolling through social media in bed, but the bright blue light from your smartphone and other electronic devices suppresses the release of melatonin, a sleep-inducing hormone. Turn off your screens about an hour before bed to prevent sleep disturbances.
Going to Bed at the Same Time Every Night: A consistent bedtime helps your body establish a regular sleep-wake cycle. The brain recognizes your daily pattern and starts the release of melatonin at the same time each day.


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Brightspace LE Help Files from D2L
The Brightspace Learning Environment is a learning management system for creating, hosting and editing online learning resources. Brightspace LE contains a flexible suite of tools for creating custom content for institutions, courses and users. Use the link below to access the Brightspace Help area which contains the most current documentation on their Learning Environment and other tools.
Instructors can also visit the Brightspace Community site to access documentation, tips, and additional topics related to Brightspace LE.
Note that some of the workflows, tools, and settings referenced in the Brightspace Community Resource area are not utilized in the Montana State University - Bozeman Brightspace LE (D2L) instance. Note also that MSU's look (My Home page, Course Home page, etc.) will differ from the look in documentation produced D2L regarding Brightspace LE.


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Westerville Lacrosse Club is a not-for-profit organization that teaches the sport of Lacrosse to boys and girls from grades 1 through 8, providing our youth with a safe and fun environment that fosters diversity and inclusively. In addition to teaching our young members the technical skills necessary to competitive play, we aspire to instill in them the ideals of sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, and effort, so that they might grow to be strong and upstanding citizens within our community.
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Creative just had another breakthrough in this year's CES 2009 event. This time, the Silencer™, its proprietary noise-cancellation technology. And it is now incorporated in the Tournament Gaming Headset HS-1100 - the world's first product to incorporate Creative's Silencer.
Creative's Silencer is a breakthrough in voice technology that allows the user's voice to be clearly heard by other gamers they are communicating with, because Silencer intelligently eliminates ambient background noise to provide improved voice fidelity.
So now a gamer can have music blaring in the background, have their dog barking, or pop cans of Red Bull, because Silencer will block out the ambient noise. Teammates and allies can hear their voices more clearly than ever before possible in online gaming. Silencer technology will be unveiled for the first time this week with the introduction and live demonstrations of the Creative Tournament Gaming Headset HS-1100, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in the Creative exhibit #30651 in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
"With the Silencer technology, gamers will be blown away whether they're playing an intense 5 v 5 Counter Strike™ match or a raid in World of Warcraft™," said Steve Erickson, Vice President and General Manager of Audio and Video at Creative Labs, Inc. "Our award-winning audio engineers are passionate about gaming, so they had a lot of hands-on experience when they invented Silencer, which was developed specifically to give gamers a competitive advantage."
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Hello world! Okay, tonight was my first live broadcast on KPRN-DB, the Prepper Podcast Radio Network (http://www.prepperpodcast.com/Prepper-Doc-Show.php).
Yes, it was nerve racking. Seriously nerve racking as if you look up to see a big smelly sumo wrestler was about to squash your head with his bare-naked bum and you have only two seconds to get out of the way.
I was so nervous that I even made a mistake in my speech: I meant to say Coccidiodomycosis (or also called, Coccidiodomycoses) which is a fungus that caused lung infections in California after the earthquake. Instead I said Cryptosporidium which is a protozoan that causes diarrhea. LOL.
Blast those $5000 words! There are so many of them that when you break out into a cold sweat from nerves they start stumbling over each other out of your mouth. Total word salad. Except my word salad was like adding tomatoes to a fruit salad and then adding a spoonful of pepper: it just should never happen.
Anyway, it was fun broadcasting live. From now on, I will have at least one post per show to give further information about the material mentioned in the Little Prepper Doc show.
For those of you that don't know about the Little Prepper Doc show, it runs similar to this blog talking about the ins and outs of preparedness medicine. Next week I will be talking about folk remedies: Do they work and how they work. Please Stay tuned. The Little Prepper Doc show runs Friday nights at 8pm central time.
If you have any questions that you want answered on the show or subjects that you want to hear more about, please email them to email@example.com with "Little Prepper Doc" in the subject line.
Thanks to all of you that listened to my broadcast today. If you missed it, you can download it at http://www.prepperpodcast.com/.


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text: The Nature Museum in Grafton, Vermont sponsored a great screening event in May which included an energetic post-film discussion with director Camilla Rockwell, David Sobel (featured expert in the film and author of the terrific new book, WILD PLAY) and Rick Gordon, head of The Compass School in Westminster, Vermont. (All pictured here.) Schools are discovering Mother Nature's Child — there were several teachers in the audience, from preschool through high school. We hope the film will support conversations between teachers, administrators and parents about the ways our children learn best. (See previous post with clip of Jon Young!)


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T.I. (Clifford Harris, Jr.), has definitely had his share of issues with the law; this is definitely an understatement. His 2010 effort No Mercy was essentially promoted by numerous singles being released prior to the effort as T.I. had been sentenced prior to its December 7 release to an additional 11 months in prison. No Mercy managed to be certified gold, though showed a marked decrease in first week sales for the ATL rapper – a stark difference from the 568,000 for 2008's Paper Trail with 159,000 copies moved and a no. 4 bow as opposed to no. 1. Critically, the album wasn't lauded like two of T.I.'s best efforts, 2006's valedictory King (my personal favorite) or 2008's Paper Trail. Essentially then, No Mercy left room for concern for T.I.'s lucrativeness in the future.
Rather than set his troubles aside from prison and an underwhelming seventh album, T.I. embraces his checkered past on his 8th studio effort, 2012's Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head. T.I. had much more free reign and mobility on the promotion of this effort, but the approach has been much like No Mercy with a multitude of singles released to iTunes prior to the official release.
The effect of the iTunes promotional campaign has turned some singles into bonus cuts on the deluxe version ("Love This Life" and "Like That"). On the bright side, Trouble Man is on pace to sell about the same amount as No Mercy did or possibly more (150,000 to 170,000 copies is projected). Additionally, T.I. has some solid cuts here, sounding much more convincing than his previous effort. It's may not be the 'second coming' of album King, but the bright spots outshine the less notable ones.
Within the album's introduction ("The Introduction"), producer DJ Toomp samples Marvin Gaye's famed "Trouble Man," foreshadowing and confirming the narrative of T.I.'s own effort ("I come apart baby, but now I'm fine…Trouble man"). Once T.I. begins to rap, the sample is less obvious, but still easily discernible. DJ Toomp is the perfect fit for T.I. as a producer providing overall solid production work with buttressing hip-hop drum programming, present bass line, and southern rap organ. T.I. manages some memorable lines including verse 3's "Weight on my shoulders, chose to squat with it/real n***as say I kick it the same way Pac did it…"). As expected, the hook unifies: "Trouble man, I always in trouble man/Grand Hustle man, I'm the motherf*ckin man/Trouble man stays in some trouble man/bank rolls, rubber band, you can call me Trouble man…" Not the second coming perhaps, "The Introduction" establishes the album's tone.
"G Season" finds T.I. At his best – being a 'G'. The cut basically writes off fake folk who aren't true gangstas but just wannabes (they only speak in ebonics T.I. suggests at one point). Cardiak produces here and the production begins mysteriously, foreshadowing the dark, hardcore sound that is imminent. T.I. Initiates things with and intro: "Okay, aye man, I'm sucka-free, sucka duckin' tell all them suckas get the f**k outta my way man you understand, G Season!"
Over exceptional production work characterized by malicious synthetic brass and hard drums, T.I. definitely reasserts his swag and status, rapping with a vengeance ("Told you motherf*ckers once, prison ain't change me/all it did was make a n***a crazy deranged, see…") Meek Mill guests on an excellent second verse asserting "…Started in the back now I'm that n***a in the front/shawty want the real so I'mma giver what she want…." Not outdone on his final verse T.I. brags "My best flow too cold to just bring it out…" Solid start for Trouble Man.
The real banger comes via DJ Toomp's dramatic production on "Trap Back Jumpin". If T.I. was trying his hardest to come up with a banger to rival 2006's "What You Know", he achieves/nearly-achieves it with this anthemic cut where T.I. essentially suggests it is time for him to show all the competition how it's really done and who's really the king. "It's time to get trap back jumpin/get shit back poppin ho, I show these sucka n***as how it go…" T.I. raps on the addictive hook. T.I. never cedes the reins or momentum here, making "Trap Back Jumpin" one of T.I.'s very best. He's on 'autopilot' here.
At the beginning of "Wildside",a skit about smoking and hiding weed finds T.I. And his boys getting caught by the cops. This plays right into the hands of the narrative of Trouble Man as well as setting up the A$AP Rocky assisted cut. "Smoking weed, riding chrome/only thing I've ever known/walk on the wild side/welcome to our lives" is sung on the lush, southern hook. T.I. gets it done on two verses while A$AP Rocky closes out on the third. It's not as epic as "Trap Back Jumpin" but it is still solid by all means.
"Ball", a previously released track, completely contrasts the slower tempo of "Wildside" aiming for a club track that celebrates sex, drugs (weed specifically), and partying. "This club so packed, these hoes so drunk…I got a bottle, got a model, got a molly, got a blunt/ball, ball, ball…", T.I. Asserts on the carefree, totally irresponsible hook. Lil Wayne adds his two-cents on the third verse, just as irresponsibly and O.O.C. as T.I. When the cut first materialized, I thought it wasn't worthy of a second listen. Hearing it again, it suits its purpose as a club cut without superseding better developed cuts like "G Season" or the juggernaut "Trap Back Jumpin".
"Sorry" was a pre-release I wasn't sold on initially either. Hearing it in the context of the album made me take a second look, more so than the empty partying of "Ball". One facet of my opining that didn't change was the fact that André 3000 outperforms T.I. Playing on his eccentricities as both an MC and as a vocalist that made OutKast shine so much over the years. T.I. doesn't fall flat by any means as he has sharp lines with "Ay, never mind what the blogs say/this what my mind and my heart say…" (verse one) or "I grew up in the gutter life a mother f*cker.." (verse 2), but few have an easy time of going up against André Benjamin. Amongst brilliant lines from André 3000 is where he states "…round the time the dope wear off, you feel stupid, she feel lost/that's that dope, I mean, I mean dopamine you think Cupid done worn off…" There's definitely a reason André 3000 receives an extended amount of time. Makes me want to listen to Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, sigh*.
"Can You Learn" begins with an interlude once more involving the 'po-po' as Madea would say. R. Kelly then gets the cut started with a bold intro: "Hey I got a question for the ladies out there/yeah cause there's a few things that I would like to know before I f*ck with you…" Lover man then breaks into an incredibly soulful hook that sums up the premise of the cut: "Oh baby could you learn? Could you learn to love a troubled man?" Slated as a 'can you love a man with flaws' (lots of 'em), the results are effective. Again, T.I. may be a tad overshadowed by the soulful Kells, but it's a solid cut.
"Go Get It" gives T.I. a much needed solo spot, though it doesn't shine like the collaborative cuts or his best solo spot on "Trap Back Jumpin'" The production by T-Minus (Drake, Nicki Minaj, etc.) as well as the hook are bright spots. "Guns And Roses" featuring P!nk atones, sporting excellent production work once more from T-Minus (big, soulful drums) and strong vocals from the pop star. P!nk soars on the hook: "Should've knonw it from the start it was already over/we were just too dumb to notice and we'd pray but even love couldn't save us/we'd wake up on a bed of guns and roses/and we don't know which one to choose…" Later she really lets loose on a well written/performed bridge.
"The Way We Ride" delivers some of he effort's most unique production work, provided by 1500 or Nothin'. Characterized by gimmicks and southern rap clichés, "The Way We Ride" is lush and enjoyable for the most part. It's not the best cut from this affair, but it definitely makes you feel like you are from the south and makes you nod your head. "Cruisin'" proceeds produced by Lil C. The tempo is slow and the general sentiment one gets from this cut is that it isn't a song normally associated with T.I. More sung than not, the cut has more of a contemporary R&B vibe about it, much like a cut Drake would embrace. Repetitiveness hurts "Cruisin'" some but like "The Way We Ride" the cut is nothing short of lush, particularly the sensual hook: "She had on purple panties, blue bikinis/and we were cruisin in my Lamborghini…"
"Addresses" is once more produced by T-Minus. "Aye everything ain't what it seem," T.I. Asserts on the hook. "Ride dirty when I'm clean/best check that disrespect unless you want it with the king/put an address on that shit…" The hook has a 'flow' about it, but T.I.'s been much catchier in the past. Don't get it twisted, "Addresses" has its moment such as on verse two in which T.I. Raps: "I swear to God another day another f*ck n***a/that's why I just get that paper and be like f*ck n***as…" "Trap Back Jumpin" it's not, but has its moments.
"Hello" makes the best of Pharrell Williams's eclectic production work, fusing elements of jazz, soul, and hip hop. Who better to solidify these things than Cee Lo Green contributing a soulful hook ("Just keep going and don't look back/and look forward from where you're at/there's some jealousy in your rearview/wave hello, hello, hello…")? T.I. contributes two verses on this pleasant cut, which is arguably better than either "Crusin'" or "Addresses."
"Who Want Some" seems to reignite some power from T.I. lost during a stretch of weaker cuts than the earliest portion of the effort thanks to DJ Toomp's production work and the 'King' clinging tight to his southern sensibilities. The biggest drawback of "Who Want Some" is its nearly six minute duration.
Follow-up cut "Wonderful Life" featuring Akon is certainly poised as this album's "Dead and Gone" finding Akon lifting from Elton John on his thoughtful, raspy hook: "And you can tell everybody this song…I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind/that I put down in words how wonderful life like…" T.I. Delivers some strong messages on this cut whether it be talking to his son (verse 2) or memorializing the lost (verse 3). "Who Want Some" and "Wonderful Life" end up strengthening the end portion of the standard edition.
"Hallelujah" is the closing cut, featuring lifts from the children's hymn "Jesus Loves Me" during the intro and the Leonard Cohen classic "Hallelujah" during the hook. The cut doesn't opt for blasphemy like Game's "Hallelujah" does on Jesus Piece, feeling more sincere (even though Game's is more lively!).
Two excellent bonus cuts characterize the deluxe version in previously released "Love This Life" (the best of the two) and "Like That". "Love This Life" possesses a killer quasi-sung hook in which T.I. Asserts "You know, you love, bitch you know you love this life, don't nobody do you like me…" On "Like That", T.I. Is full-on aggressive mode asserting "they want that young n***a dumb, who you with where you from shit/that gang banging rag hanging, what you claiming crunk shit…"
So ultimately how does Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head stack up? Overall, it is an enjoyable affair. There are triumphs and flaws alike. Triumphant are cuts where T.I. Sounds like he is truly in command or at least surrounds himself with collaborators that truly take the reins and deliver. The production is solid throughout, which further strengthens his case.
Some flaws include the overindulgent length of this album (16 tracks, 70 minutes in standard edition) and some cuts that could've been scrapped or better conceived. But as suggested, the winners are more than enough to give T.I.P a much stronger, more inspired affair than 2010's rather forgettable, disappointing No Mercy.


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Parade Bottle Bag (Charcoal)
For all-day outings with baby in tow, take along our new Bottle Bag, featuring Sarah Jane's whimsically sweet 'Parade' print. Made to fit up to four bottles in an insulated interior, you can now pack up for those feedings—fuss-free! 8.75" x 7.25" x 4.25"
Exterior: Water-resistant polyester
Interior: 100% insulation
Trim: Vegan leather & Nylon webbing
*Made with water-resistant exterior fabric, and fully insulated interior.
*Vegan leather handles.
*Nylon webbing long strap to carry as a crossbody, and a removable clip on one side to hang on stroller.
*Adjustable drawstring closure for easy access.
*Fits up to 3 bottles with 2 elastic bands inside to hold bottles in place.
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Lime Crime has always been known for their intricate colors, quality products, and their empowering creator and CEO, Doe Deere. She also realized that at some point her unconventional way of thinking about colors was not popular to her adult peers, but she would later find that it would be a precious color source for girls and guys everywhere that craved color. Her cosmetic line dares individuals to be creative and completely unapologetic about choosing vibrant colors. Amazingly, her wearers now have the option of choosing trendy hair color dyes through the newly launched Unicorn edition.
Their new collection of hair dyes still comes with the LEAP Bunny approved hypoallergenic products that you're use to. Each jar comes measured with 700 ml that provides over 14 washes for the permanent dyes. Choose from semi, permanent, and tints. There tents offer their customers over 8 washes with their tints. Choose from radical colors that mimic the Lime Crime cosmetic line like Radical Metallic and turquoise colors that really give you a color scheme that can't be matched with any of their competitors. LC has expanded their colors with the benefits of all-natural hair dye products. Discover the inner unicorn in you today.
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The MUB has more than 26,000 square feet of meeting space to accommodate groups from 2 to 600+ people. Our flexible space includes conference rooms, configurable meeting rooms, a café style entertainment center, a games room, two large banquet and event rooms and two state of the art movie theaters.
Display Cases
Wall mounted display cases on the 2nd floor are made available to recognized student organizations and campus departments, on a per semester basis, for the purpose of promoting their events and services. Access is provided by picking up a key at the information desk on the third floor.
Display space requests can be submitted online via Wildcat Link.
Information Tables
Located on the second floor, the MUB provides tables that recognized student organizations and campus departments can reserve to promote their events and services. These tables are located in the food court and in high traffic areas by the Granite Square Mailroom and east end staircase.
Information tables reservation requests can be submitted online.