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Summer 2011
Ask the Experts: Vaginal Health
It's hard to get information about HIV and women's health issues. Yes, I'm talking about birth control, yeast infections and menopause. As a woman living with HIV, what do I need to know about my health down there? – E.R., Kamloops, BC
Interviews by Jennifer McPhee
Infectious Diseases Specialist
Women's College Hospital
Certain gynecological conditions that are already quite common among women are even more common, severe and difficult to treat in women with HIV. These include vaginal infections, such as yeast infections and bacterial vaginosis; sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes and syphilis; and pelvic inflammatory disease, a potentially serious bacterial infection of the reproductive system.
Recurrent yeast infections can be a warning sign for women who have not yet been diagnosed with HIV. For HIV-positive women, recurring infections can be a sign of a weakening immune system.
The treatments for these common infections are generally the same for women with and without HIV. It's important to know that having an STI increases your risk of transmitting both the STI and HIV. Bacterial vaginosis may also increase the risk of passing HIV. You can reduce the risk of many STIs by using condoms during sex.
Women with HIV have higher rates of problematic strains of a common STI known as the human papillomavirus (HPV). These problematic strains can cause genital warts, cervical cancer and cervical dysplasia, an abnormal change in the cervix that can progress to cancer when left undetected.
In the year following your HIV diagnosis, book a pelvic exam, including a Pap test, every six months. Your doctor will do an examination of your inner and outer pelvic area and take a tiny sample of cells from your cervix to check for cervical dysplasia or cancer and various other diseases and infections. If these tests uncover no significant problems, a yearly pelvic and Pap test will suffice.
The condom — despite its relatively high failure rate at preventing pregnancy (12 percent) — is the most common and important form of contraception for women with HIV because it is the only one that blocks the transmission of HIV and most other STIs. To prevent pregnancy, a second method of contraception should be used in addition to condoms. This is particularly important in situations where women don't have a great deal of control over when or how they have sex.
Some women choose oral hormonal contraception (the birth control pill). However, women on anti-HIV therapy should be aware that there can be drug interactions between some anti-HIV drugs and the hormones in many birth control pills. Talk to your doctor about your birth control options if you are taking:
- atazanavir (Reyataz; unboosted or boosted with ritonavir [Norvir])
- ritonavir-boosted darunavir (Prezista)
- fosamprenavir (Telzir; unboosted or boosted with ritonavir)
- Kaletra (lopinavir / ritonavir)
- nevirapine (Viramune)
- ritonavir-boosted saquinavir (Invirase)
- ritonavir-boosted tipranavir (Aptivus)
There are other forms of hormonal contraception, including injections and intrauterine devices, that contain other hormones. Talk with your doctor about whether they might be appropriate for you.
Clinic Director
Effective Health Solutions
Women with HIV are often plagued by stubborn yeast infections that won't go away. Naturopathic doctors recommend fending off chronic yeast infections by changing your diet. Since yeast feeds on sugar, avoid simple sugars and refined carbohydrates as much as you can; instead choose vegetables and high-protein foods. No diet should be taken to the extreme — a variety of fresh, unprocessed foods is best for optimal health.
Secondly, probiotic supplements are useful to restore your vagina's flora (healthy bacteria) balance. We are often unaware of our exposure to antibiotics as a regular part of our food supply; this can affect the beneficial bacteria so critical not only to gastrointestinal health but to vaginal health and immune function as well.
During an active yeast infection, I recommend alternating between a probiotic douche and a garlic pessary. To make the douching solution, mix 1⁄8 cup of lukewarm water with 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 teaspoon of probiotic powder. (The powder is available at health food stores or you can simply break open probiotic capsules.) Before showering, flush your vagina with the solution using a vaginal bulb syringe, which can be found in any pharmacy. A large syringe will also work. Make sure you use lukewarm water — hot water will kill the live bacteria and cold water will feel unpleasant.
I advise my patients to use a garlic pessary on alternate nights. Peel a clove of garlic — avoid nicking it and releasing any juice that might cause irritation — and then wrap it in gauze. Form a tail with the gauze to make it easy to remove. Apply coconut or olive oil to lubricate the pessary and then insert it as high as possible into your vagina and leave it there overnight. Allicin, a natural compound in garlic, helps kill yeast. Garlic is an antibacterial agent, so you can also use it to fight off bacterial infections such as bacterial vaginosis.
Naturopathy advocates the importance of addressing the body's ecological balance as part of treating the infection instead of simply taking the standard prescription medications. It's kind of like trying to get rid of dandelions without pulling out the roots — you may get rid of one infection but you won't stop them from recurring.
DEBBIE KELLY, PharmD
Newfoundland and Labrador HIV Clinic
St. John's
In most cases, treatments for yeast infections are the same for all women regardless of whether or not they have HIV. I tend to recommend antifungal creams and ovules (such as Monistat) over the single fluconazole tablet as a first treatment because we don't want to create instances of fluconazole resistance. If you are taking fluconazole tablets regularly as a preventative measure — which is more common when yeast infections affect the mouth or throat rather than the vagina — your HIV doctor will want to check for interactions between fluconazole and anti-HIV medications.
Bacterial vaginosis is usually treated with the antibiotic metronidazole (Flagyl). It can make you viciously sick if you drink alcohol while taking it, so try to avoid alcohol while taking this drug and for two to three days afterwards. If this is impossible, ask about the antibiotic clindamycin. Be aware that metronidazole, clindamycin and some other antibiotics can disturb the natural balance of bacteria in the vagina and may increase the risk of yeast infections. Clindamycin can also cause diarrhea, especially if you are already having a problem with this due to anti-HIV medications.
Herpes simplex virus outbreaks are often more severe, last longer and may recur more often among people with HIV. I send my patients home with antiviral medications prior to their outbreaks so they can begin their meds the moment they spot a new lesion or feel the tingling that precedes one. This really helps get painful flares under control.
Two herpes medications, acyclovir (Zovirax) and valacyclovir (Valtrex), may increase levels of tenofovir (Truvada and in Atripla), so your doctor should monitor you for adverse effects if you are taking either of these drugs for a long time. They can also affect kidney health.
Clinical Dietitian
Oak Tree Clinic
Reams of information exist in the media about using the "Candida diet" to prevent or treat yeast infections. Advocates of this high-vegetable, high-protein diet advise people to avoid simple sugars as well as other foods including some dairy products, fruit, starchy vegetables and starchy foods, such as gluten-containing grain products (anything made from wheat or related cereals such as barley and rye). Evidence does not show that cutting out all these different foods can prevent or treat yeast infections, though limiting added sugars and refined carbohydrates is always a healthy practice. I encourage women with HIV to consider that a balanced diet is important for getting all essential nutrients needed for good health.
Women with uncontrolled diabetes are at increased risk for developing recurrent yeast infections. For this reason and others, it is important to get diabetes under control, which includes working closely with a doctor. HIV-positive women with uncontrolled diabetes are encouraged to eat balanced regular meals, choose higher-fibre foods and limit refined carbohydrates to help manage their blood sugars. This, along with other strategies, such as regular physical activity and taking diabetes medications as prescribed, will hopefully help keep blood sugars under better control and decrease the risk of recurrent yeast infections.
There is more and more interest in the effect of probiotic preparations on preventing or treating yeast infections and treating bacterial vaginosis. Although this is a growing area of research, not enough evidence currently exists to show that they do this. It is a difficult area to research because studies are often small and the probiotic treatments being studied can be quite different. More high-quality research is needed to better understand the role of probiotics in treating vaginal infections.
Finally, women going through menopause should drink enough fluids to stay well hydrated and help ward off vaginal dryness. This applies to all women, but it bears repeating because it is so important and yet easily forgotten during a busy day. Talk with a healthcare provider, such as your family doctor, nurse or gynecologist, if you have vaginal dryness.
Herbal Interactions
Some herbs interact with prescription medicines, including anti-HIV drugs and over-the-counter products. This can change the medication's effectiveness or intensify its side effects. Be sure to let your doctor know about all the herbs, supplements and other complementary therapies you take.


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Picture Imperfect
Black Friday
Children of Ceausescu
Gaza Photoalbum
Killing Time
Mexico/El Niño
Out of sight
The Book of Beth
Ongoing work
Children of Ceausescu
El Niño
Gaza Photo Album
Kent Klich Gaza Works
Killing Time
Out of sight
Picture Imperfect
The Book of Beth
Where I am now
Beths Diary
Children of Ceausescu
Killing Time
Children of Ceausescu
Gaza Photo Album
Interview 2018
Out of sight
Picture Imperfect
Story of a Human Being
The Back of the Family
Pictures to Make
The Back of the Family Album
Review by MARIE LUNDQUIST
Published: Svenska Dagbladet March 6 2008
NO VICTIM For more than 20 years photographer Kent Klich has followed the heroically struggling Beth R, an orphan and a drug addict. The other book in which Beth is a co-author with her diary is a call to all of us to create an environment where every child is seen and met with kindness, writes Marie Lundquist.
There is nothing more important, more influential, or potentially more destructive to us humans than family. These are the words of photographer Kent Klich in his photo book Picture Imperfect. For more than 20 years he has followed a Danish woman, Beth, as well as providing flashbacks to her early life as an orphan. Beth may be the victim of a social failure; but she is not in the least described as one. She has been fighting heroically to recreate the love she was robbed of by her parents, early damaged by life themselves. With her self-reflecting intelligence and dramatic capacity of formulation she takes the edge out of all attempts at simplified classifications. For the first half of my life I've been locked up in institutions, for the other half I've been a drug addict. This is the blunt way in which she sums up her life in Beth's Book, a photo classic in the documentary genre from the late 80's, also made by Kent Klich. Already here, Beth is very much the co-creator in making the photographic representation of her life so succinct and impossible not to be moved by.
So she is also credited as co-author with Kent Klich in the new book. A book that closes the circle and tells the story of a heroic descent into hell made by a woman with an inherited social stigma and who has been fighting ceaselessly to maintain her dignity. The book is accompanied by the DVD-film Beth's Diary, elected best documentary short film at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.
Picture Imperfect the title may be read as the flawed, incomplete picture. But also as a negation of the expression picture perfect, an American reference to the family album. The book about Beth is very much a family album, if a highly twisted one. There may be the pictures of everything normal: family gatherings at nicely set tables, awkward teenage hugs in well-furnished living rooms, class photos from the early 60's resembling my own ones. Page by page with these pictures are shattering exposures of interiors with Beth naked, sitting on the floor with her legs parted, searching for a vein in her groin in which to inject. Over the years there are numerous hospital records and observations made by various authorities concerning Beth. In 1954, at the age of five, she is characterised thus by a nurse: Alert, lively and daring quick on the draw with words. A bundle of energy, tricks and ideas. Aggressive and dominating towards other children. All over the place, especially where least expected. Starved for love and wraps the entire staff around her finger. This affectionately piercing look at a personality which is at turns both fragile and strong, full of contradictions and lively, is shared by photographer Kent Klich. The most lasting impression of his and Beth R's insistent and multi-facetted book is that it precludes the option of dividing the world into us and them. How different our preconditions may appear, there is more to unite us than separate us as human beings.
Without letting go of his photographic professionalism Kent Klich expands the role as photographer to become a sharer of Beth's life. A prerequisite if a project like this one is to have any chance of being completed. Here he, the internationally recognised photographer, puts his photographic art at the project's disposal and subordinates it to the story he wants to tell. Without making any difference he mixes his own pictures with old black-and-white amateur snapshots. Beth, the main character herself, also participates as a photographer with two almost idyllic pictures of her cat. Everything has been accounted for, without hierarchies or dividing lines.
The description of Beth's life is more than the story of a human fate. It is first and foremost a powerful call on society, i.e. all of us, together to create an environment in which every child is seen and met with kindness. Together, both of Kent Klich's books about Beth offer a testimony to the human condition in contemporary life, putting them on a par with documentary classics such as Stefan Jarl's film series A Decent Life and Rainer Hartleb's films about the Jordbro children.
Copyright 2013 © Kent Klich


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ParioPlan is a professional land use planning and design consulting firm specializing in sustainable planning and design, rural planning, urban revitalization, urban design, and real estate development. Established in 1996 in Edmonton, Alberta, ParioPlan provides consulting services for urban and rural clients in the public, private and non-profit sectors throughout Western Canada.
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We know that the inter-related nature of planning decisions have cumulative lasting impacts on both natural and cultural environments, communities and individuals. At ParioPlan we are committed to planning communities that are complete and resilient, balancing sustainable development with a respect for diversity in values, cultures, economies, ecosystems, built environments and distinct places.
Our work is guided by the following core values:
Commitment to Sustainable Development. We share a commitment to promoting sustainable planning and development practices with knowledge of how to limit the impacts on the environment and develop climate-context solutions.
Excellence. Our commitment to excellence is demonstrated not only by our returning clients, but also by the regional and national awards our projects receive.
Working Collaboratively. As most projects today are developed in a multi-disciplinary environment involving expertise in several disciplines, we share a commitment to working collaboratively with the capacity to lead projects spanning multiple disciplines.
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The origin of ParioPlan dates back to 1996. That's when founder and President Armin Preiksaitis – professional planner since 1973 – formed the Edmonton-based consulting firm Armin A. Preiksaitis & Associates Ltd.
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[Yakson House] How to walk with good posture/ good body shape/ good walking
Hello, everyone!
Today I will give you some information on good walking.
I'm often pointed my bad walking posture :<
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Good walking is not only good for posture and health but also helps fight obesity and skin troubles. This is because when your walking is not good, especially when your little toe goes under the fourth toe, the muscles develop in bad shapes. On the calf, the inside muscles deteriorate and the outer muscles develop, resulting in aesthetically unfavorable form. This also has adverse effect on the meridians with frequent swelling of the legs. This then may make it difficult to lose weight.
Also, bad walking often bends the legs into the O shape or X shape.
Good walking ensures upright posture
1) Take the first step with your right foot. Ensure that the joint is not folded. Pace at about 90% of your height
2) Ensure that the heel of your right foot touches the ground first. Aim for 40% landing angle for maximum result.
3) Transfer the weight of your body onto the center of your right foot.
4) When touching the ground with the sole of your right foot, ensure that the big toe touches the ground first.
5) Repeat the process with the left foot.
Good walking is important both for esthetics and for health.
It may not be easy but take time to practice it. It will become natural for you before you know it.


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Against this background our project aims to understand how undergraduates actually match their choices of apps with their learning intentions after they are equipped with at least one mobile device for two years. This project might also shed light on how their choices and intentions that cannot be convened in formal settings could be integrated with digital literacy and employability initiatives (Hinrichsen and Coombs, 2014). We adopt Archer's 'three orders reality' model (Archer, 2000) to design a template for students to make sense of their choices and intentions.
At University of Greenwich, Science (part of the Faculty of Engineering and Science) has been providing new students with iPads since 2012. Currently these students are entering the final year of their university study. We implemented the above-mentioned project with this particular cohort of students. The process of the project is intended to be a participatory action research, which involves collaborations between learning technologists and students not only to use the working template to represent and reflect on student choices and intentions, but also to improve the design of the working template, which might be applicable to wider educational contexts.
The project is currently at the stage of template design and a pilot study. The session will be valuable as a source of feedback on our design framework and the actual template. Consequently, the session will cover:
- the background of so called 'digital disconnect' and emerging issues at our institution;
- the design framework and the actual design of the working template;
- preliminary results from our pilot study for discussion.
The session is aimed at those interested in mobile learning and the boundary crossing between contexts afforded by using 'off the shelf' technologies. There will be an opportunity for hands on activities with our template.
Archer, M. (2000). Being Human: The Problem of Human Agency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Buckingham, D. (2011). 'Foreword', in Thomas, M. (ed.) Deconstructing Digital Natives. London, Routledge (pp.ix-xi).
Hinrichsen, J., and Coombs, A. (2014). The five resources of critical digital literacy: a framework for curriculum integration. Research in Learning Technology 2014, 21: 21334http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21.21334
Madden, M., Lenhart, A., Duggan, M., Cortesi, S, and Gasser, U. (2013) Teens and Technology 2013. Washington DC, Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Selwyn, N. (2007). The use of computer technology in university teaching and learning: A critical perspective. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 23, 83-94.
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I'm looking forward to chairing this session.
If possible, could the presenter share your slides in advance of the presentation?
If not and you'd prefer to reveal all on the day (which I understand; I'd do the same), can you contact me directly to share any slides you'd like to show?
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I am now putting the finishing touches on the manuscript for a book titled Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization to be published by Pluto Press of London in 2018 (likely August, but we'll see).
The book is a collection of interwoven essays that attempt to lay out some coordinates for the radical imagination in an age of financialization. To do so, it examines the work of a range of contemporary artists who mobilize money or money-like stuff in their work: coins, bills/banknotes, credit and debt, derivatives, etc.
Here is a little blurb:
We imagine that art and money are old enemies, but Max Haiven argues that this myth actually helps reproduce a horrifically violent system of global capitalism and prevents us from imagining and building alternatives.
From the chaos unleashed by the 'imaginary' money in financial markets to the new forms of exploitation enabled by the 'creative economy' to the way art has become the plaything of the world's plutocrats, our era of financialization demands we question our romantic assumptions about art and money. By exploring the way contemporary artists engage with cash, debt and credit, Haiven identifies and assesses a range of creative strategies for mocking, sabotaging, exiting, decrypting and hacking capitalism today.
Written for artists, activists and scholars, this book makes an urgent call to unleash the power of the radical imagination by any media necessary.
Here is a tentative table of contents:
- Introduction: Art After Money, Money After Art
- Ch. 1 – Accounting for mediation: Three artistic strategies of money/art
- Ch. 2 – Six artists, two crises, three order of reproduction
- Ch. 3 – Participate: Benign pessimism, tactical parasitics and the encrypted common
- Ch. 4 – Art's crypt: Freeport fantasies and derivative socialities
- Conclusion: For the abolition of money/art
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"What about your friends? Will they stand their ground, will they let you down again? What about your friends? Are they gonna be lowdown, will they ever be around? Or will they turn their backs on you?" TLC, What About Your Friends
Hello everyone. Welcome to the recap for episode 3 of RHONY. This week was chock-full of fighting, choosing sides, back-stabbing, and the confirmation of what we've always suspected but had yet to confirm- the fact that Dorinda has friends everywhere, and if you try to f*^@ with her, she will have an entire of file of reasons to take you down. Dorinda is gangster- this much we now know.
Right from the jump, it becomes clear that this is going to be a Hamptons weekend. We see Sonja and Tinsley packing, Lu giving a tour of her (quite beautiful) SAG Harbor house, and Bethenny joking that she is going to invite Donald Trump for the weekend and "lock him and Carole in the guest house for the weekend and see how that works" (at least I think it's a joke.Who knows? I wouldn't put it past B to be friends with someone like him.) Bethenny tells Carole that Sonja talked badly about Luann and Dorinda, Sonja and Tinsley prove as much by talking about Luann (well, "talk" might be an understatement. Tinsley can barely get a word in) and Tinsley says Sonja needs to let the "lovers" talk go once and for all. Amen, sister. Luann, Dorinda and Victoria (Lu's daughter) talk about Tinsley and Sonja, who is supposedly "sober" and Dorinda passes around a pic of Sonja looking full-on hammer-times to disprove this theory. Of course Luann brings it back around to her relationship and wedding- "I think she's jealous"- and Dorinda says she's going to kill Sonja with kindness when she finally sees her, presumably at the dinner party Ramona is throwing over the weekend.
Carole won't let go of her "election stress" and you can tell Bethenny's patience is wearing thin regarding any topic of conversation that doesn't directly revolve around her. Carole doesn't want Ramona coming to her election party and Bethenny thinks Carole is being condescending. They go to acupuncture to relieve their stress, where Bethenny remarks that she's never seen Carole so worked up about anything. ("I didn't even know Carole had a pulse," she quips and then goes right back to making it all about herself, waxing poetic about her own "faux spirituality.") Carole, clearly a stranger to the science of Eastern medicine, asks the acupuncturist if he can do something about her toe fungus, and I am immediately transported back to her saying she had five good summers left last year. When that toe fungus sets in, it's the beginning of the end, lady. Might as well send young Adam on his way and get a few more cats and just lean into your bleak future, Rad-zi-ville. Carole then whines about Bethenny's "secret hell" with her ex and commends her for suffering in silence, because she doesn't "really talk about it." Unless of course there is a magazine willing to pay her for a story, that is. Bethenny gets "cupped" like a true rich, white Gwyneth and says, "I don't care what I look like. This is a group of beat-up women." Present company included, obviously. Continue reading "Talk of the Town- A Real Housewives of New York recap for Season 9- Episode 3"


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Letting go
It has been nearly four months since I quit my job.
Last night, I met a former coworker for a couple of beers. I caught up on some of the office news, the state of some big projects that were in mid-stream when I left, stuff like that. No major news on the surface, at least none that he had access to. Nothing really changes.
At one point I was trying to tell him this story. A couple of weeks before I quit, I was in a conference room with my manager and several of my peers. I remember the meeting because I got so angry over something my boss said that I began yelling, pounding the table, rising out of my chair to do so, my face bright red and my whole body shaking with rage. It was the day I knew once and for all that I had to leave, and soon. I didn't get fired for it, miraculously, but you just can't stay somewhere if that sort of outburst is even possible.
But here's the thing: while I was telling him this last night, I couldn't remember what I was so mad about. No idea. I had a vague recollection that it was about this one other coworker, but I wasn't even sure about that. I remembered the anger, sure. But I couldn't remember why.


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Boxing promoter Don King announced yesterday in Las Vegas that he will sponsor what he calls the "Battle of the New Millenium", a heavyweight match between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell. It will be the first event of its kind, a fight between a man and a woman.
"This is absolutely awesome", King said. "I mean, we've got the Mouth of Manhattan taking on a Whole Lotta Rosie. It just don't get no better than this."
Though the fight isn't scheduled until this Halloween, the war of words has already begun. "Rosie is a loser and she knows it. I'm going to knock her out in the first round", Trump said. O'Donnell responded by saying that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 must have been part of some government conspiracy since it was the first time in recorded history that steel had been melted.
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My road to redemption has been twisty. Take motion-sickness medication and follow me:
- Catholicism:I was born and raised a Catholic with all the accompanying guilt and fear. I seriously considered becoming a nun named Bernadette to save my soul.
- Atheism: During my rebellious and liquored-up teen years, I gave up on saving my soul.
- Agnosticism: I didn't return to the Catholics and change my name to Agnes. I simply decided to be undecided about a Supreme Creator.
- Methodism: I adopted the religion as part of my marriage contract. I tried to fit in. But I was a better Method Actor than a Methodist.
- "New Age":Rather than believing in Someone, or no one, I dallied in believing in everything. I spent a year's salary on books, workshops, CDs, etc. before coming to the conclusion it all boiled down to one message: I have the power to shape my present, future and past life.
- Buddhism:This set of guiding principles was meant to help people navigate life moment-by-moment. Like any "simple" moral teaching, understanding and living it is as vexing as herding cats. But I was 50 years into this spiritual journey and I decided to settle down.
Finding a Buddhist sanga (community) in my strictly Christian region was like finding a vegan meal at a Longhorn Steakhouse. But I did. It was small and met once a week for an hour in private location. Careful word-of-mouth gets you in–they don't advertise because we know how Christians deal with heathens.
Back to the meetings…The first half hour was devoted to silent mindfulness meditation; during the remaining time, we discussed Buddhist topics.
Mindfulness meditation sounded so peaceful and relaxing. I suppose it can be if you are the Dalai Lama. But for most mere mortals, this form of meditation is like trying to control a tired child on sugar-high–your mind is the unruly child AND the frustrated ward of the wild child.
To any observer, all is tranquil: silence, rhythmic breathing. The task is to focus only on the breath, which lasts for maybe two breaths. Then the mind wanders. If you're lucky, you'll notice you've been thinking about your leaky faucet and return to your breath.
Once, as I was drifting, I was abruptly brought back to the room by a distinct fart. Rather than using the noise to refocus on my breath (like a good Buddhist), my mind danced with the fart-distraction. Here's a recap of my internal dialog between my Wild Child (WC) mind and my Buddhist (B) mind.
WC: Was that a fart? OMG. Someone farted during silent mediation! I wonder who it was? Does it stink? I can't smell it. It seemed close but not too far away. Maybe I can figure out who it was. (I mentally reconstruct the circle.) Thank goodness I didn't fart. I hope no one thinks it's me! I wonder what other people are thinking. They must've heard it, too. I wonder if they smell it.
B: Lorna, stop! Just breathe.
WC: I don't want to breathe too deeply. What if the smell travels. That would be gross! I wonder if the people around the farter are doing shallow breathing. This is going to make such a funny story…


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Woman accused in deputy's death back in court
Andria Kerchner charged with murder in death of Barbara Pill
MELBOURNE, Fla. – A woman accused of killing Brevard Deputy Barbara Pill appeared in court Wednesday afternoon to ask a judge to set bond and give her a chance to get out of jail.
Andria Kerchner is accused of murder in the March 6 killing and is being held without bond. Her attorney, Michael Bross, previously filed a motion to set a reasonable bond.
The hearing was continued and will resume at a later date.
Kerchner is being held in Orange County jail due to potential conflicts in the Sharpes facility. Alleged shooter Brandon Bradley, 22, is being held for the same reasons in Seminole County jail.
Steve Pill and his two sons, the family of slain deputy Pill, sat in the front row of the courtroom for the hearing.
Barbara Pill, 52, was fatally shot in a Melbourne area traffic stop on March 6. She stopped the vehicle because she believed it was connected to a robbery at a nearby motel.
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Relaxing Short Trip to Penang
Penang located at the intersection of Asia's great kingdoms and Europe's powerful colonial empires, Penang has long served as the link between Asia's two halves and an important outlet to the markets of Europe and the Middle East. This is one of Malaysia's most diverse, cosmopolitan and exciting cultures. It culminates in George Town, Penang Island's main city and an urban centre that delivers old-world Asia in spades; think trishaws pedalling past watermarked Chinese shop houses . This is what Lonely Planet descripted Penang.
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Le Dream Hotel-Strategic Location, and Complimentary goodies eg: High tea, Snack ( Cookies/Ice-cream /Wine ) at Sky bar, 3km Transportation, Morning Breakfast …
Fatty Loh Chicken Rice-diffract from Singapore
New Lane Hawker center- long Q for char Kew Teow …/ Fried Jawa Mee/ Duck Rice
Gurney Hawker center -no 48 Fruit Rojak
China Tea Cafe
KEK Lo si- Penang laksa
Kafe Ping Hooi Char Kway Tiao – but the chef didn't clean the pot clean, with burned stuff ( a lot of little black dot) inside the Char Keat Tiao
Day 1 we stay at Re-union Heritage Hotel @ RM 150/night, Breakfast included, my flight will be very early 1am in the morning, hence I just need a comfortable hotel to take a snap.
-The location will add point to this hotel, this hotel near to the Heritage street- Lebuh Armenian ( the street with wall drawing) and also The Clan jetty. All this tourist point just within walking distance .
After had our breakfast we started with our journey – we walked to Armenian Street , this street is famous with street art and wall painting . A lot of wall panting but I just took picture which I love the most .
Moreover this street with number of restaurant and with transitional local Chinese building . You can also buy souvenirs at this street .
You may try some local delicacy at here too.
Like butterfly flower tea with very nice blue color .
Bird's Net Delicacy – we took as brunch dessert .
92, Lebuh Armenian, George Town, 10200 George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Expensive but not really fantastic, the services like shit !! Nice Ambient of the restaurant is good .
I order mee one Tang yuan, bird Net egg tart ( RM 8.00) and also one Bid Net with Bean curd. Friendly speaking the Taste so so only !!
We had our tiger pawn Keat tiao at Cafe Ping Hooi . The taste was good , but hygiene factor is my concern, compulsory beverage order for this cafe .
In Georgetown ( Capital of Penang ) , I saw a lot of Chinese Temple, this is different from other place of Malaysia . This is one and only place fully preserve Chinese culture in Malaysia .
We continue our food detective journey , the next station will be Penang Street .
Penang Road is the most important street in Penang. It runs the from Lebuh Farquhar in the north, to Jalan Gurdwara in the south, near the Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak (KOMTAR) tower, at the junction of Macalister Road.
A mixture of nouveau-riche and quaint heritage, it is brightly lit and divided into four main sections. When you a long Queue will be famous Penang road Chendol, there are 2 store, but only one store full of crowd.
This is the Chendol, made from Coconut milk, Gula Melacca, Pandan Leave and so on.
Short walk to Parangin Mall / Komtart/ First Avenue , this was the most famous Shopping in Penang last time.
Boloon fair at First Avenue .
We shop till 4pm and back hotel for Complementary high tea . As early mention, Le Dream will provide complementary goodies for guest to enjoy.
High tea with not much verity , but surprisingly all the cake, hand food and Kuit are delicious.
We back to the room and take a snap. If u drink the sky bar open at 7.pm and you may get a glass of wine and enjoy the view of Georgetown.
Our activities start again at 8.30pm, we went for movie time.
They serve home made popcorn , cookies and ice-cream for free . I remember we watch I am number 4 at sky bar. The movie end at 10.30pm and we went to New Lane Hawker center and Gurney Drive Hawker Center for super .
Day 2
The Morning Breakfast really impress me. Amazing selection of variety of food selection, even with handmade roti tissue and canai, this is only one hotel with roti tissue.. the taste good, i really enjoy my abundance breakfast at this hotel
Beyond this the Hotel manager even impress me with their hospitality and services, she came to our table " Morning Miss Tan, how your holidays in Penang, are you have a good sleep? our Hotel with 2 action store in outside, they serve Penang Char Keat tiao and Jawa mee, you may want want try'. so sad, too late, i am too full now. at the end i didn't try the keat tiao. wow !! they greeted every hotel guest.
we spend whole morning for food and after bath, we proceed to Gurney Paragon, actually no must thing in Penang Shipping center.
We having Lunch at Fitty Loh chicken rice. This place is rightfully a landmark in Penang! When you walk in, it's as if you just strolled into an antique shop!The Dining area is a trip down memory lane. Totally full from floor to ceiling with kitsch retro knick knacks and retro benches and tables, it was really cool. Plus somehow the mish mash all worked. There are little trinkets everywhere, giving it a lot of character.
Fatty Loh is run by a Chinese family and they do a great job. difference with Chicken rice that we usually eat, but it is more like home cook food.


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This season they seem to be trendy, which means they are easy to find and the shopping choices are great.
The question remains: "Should I/you/we buy a pair?"
Paige $189
Current/Elliott $198
It looks like the price range for a decent pair of printed floral jeans is $200. If they were cheaper it would be easier to justify buying them, but at $200 a pop, I need to think about it some more. In any case, I like the Current/Elliott best.
Will you buy a pair this season?


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Thanks to everyone who has written requesting a reading. If you are interested in a tarot reading, please check out the Case Studies in Tarot page for more information. At present any new requests will be posted around end of June / early July.
Here is some feedback for the first two readings I posted. In the future, I will place feedback (if any) as an update to the original post.
For Case Study 1, the querent has this to say:
Well, I don't know what to say here, Monica. Everything seems to be quite true. I guess deep inside I already know most of this, but it's good to have it affirmed through the cards. I especially like the world card at the end of the reading. It's very positive and I feel very encouraged to try something new in the upcoming year. Thanks for the reading Monica.
And for Case Study 2, I received the following:
"Thank you for doing the reading! Wow…well, I think the reading makes sense and really has my number. You are absolutely right. I had already decided to quit! The 8 of Cups and 10 of Swords definitely show that. I think the main problem is that I don't really have enough momentum to continue. The most flawed premise of the venture is that I like doing it somewhat, but maybe not enough to turn it into a business. To me it has always felt more like a side project. With my last venture, a few years ago, I cared more about it and put more into it, but it was ultimately very tiring and disappointing (very few sales). I think the person who commented on your blog is right–it often takes several years to establish a business and if you aren't keenly interested in it to begin with …well, I am not sure if I can dedicate myself to it in that fashion!"
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As former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine and other company executives testified before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee on Tuesday about missing client money at the bankrupt securities firm, ABC News turned to Pace Law Prof. Edward Pekarek for his expert perspective.
According to the story, the chairman of the CME Group told the committee that Corzine "was aware of loans that may have used customer money, contradicting Corzine's two testimonies to Congress and authorities investigating missing clients' funds."
The story states that MF Global's chief financial officer, Henri Steenkamp, and chief operating officer, Bradley Abelow, earlier testified that they did not know where the missing client money is located. The two executives and Corzine said they did not authorize any transfers of customer money.
Prof. Pekarek, who serves as assistant director and supervising attorney of the Pace Investor Rights Clinic, told ABC News that it is "quite conceivable" the three MF Global executives answered truthfully when stating that there were no directives to misuse or transfer customer funds.
"Whether the firm violated federal securities laws related to its non-disclosure of the off-balance sheet transactions that led to its demise is an entirely different question, both in terms of prospective civil and criminal," Pekarek said.
Pekarek said he suspects that U.S. and U.K. customer funds were "re-hypothecated," or pledged as collateral for a loan, through one of MF Global's British subsidiaries. Canadian customers were reportedly refunded their account proceeds within two weeks of the firm's collapse.
"How is it possible that Canadian customers were quickly made whole, yet U.S. and U.K. customers are now likely to proceed as mere unsecured creditors?" Pekarek asked.
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Planning to buy a home this spring? Why not wait?
Several months ago, I had a meeting with a representative of the OC Register who wanted to sell me ad space. During the conversation, he said the realtor community in conjunction with the OC Register needed to create a "buying frenzy" to help liquidate the abundance of distressed inventory. Obviously, he was not a reader of the blog.
Perhaps in the era before blogs, a coordinated mis-information program conducted by realtors and the local media would succeed in persuading buyers to act when it is not in their best interest to do so. We have certainly seen consistent examples of ludicrous statements from the NAr that vacillate between spin and utter bullshit. However, in today's world of citizen journalists who have access to facts and who aren't willing to spin them to suit the conspiracy, it's much more difficult for the NAr to dupe buyers into action.
The OC Register's salesman's comment is very revealing of the mindset of realtors everywhere. The salesman from the OC Register wouldn't have made such a suggestion unless he believed it was something I thought would be a good idea. Therefore, it's safe to assume realtors think it's a good practice to create a false sense of scarcity to induce buyers to overpay for real estate when the realtors know full well the distressed supply is much larger than what's currently on the market. These are the same realtors telling potential buyers in Orange County today that they need to buy now because prices are bottoming and the distressed inventory is evaporating before our eyes. Don't believe them.
While it's true that the distressed inventory is low right now, this is not because lenders are running out of it. Current foreclosure rates are an astonishing eight-times their historic norms. While it's also true that delinquency rates are declining, they are still very high at nearly double their historical standards. Therefore, lenders are not running out of future inventory of delinquent borrowers to foreclose on. Whatever lenders may do to manipulate currently available properties on the MLS does little to impact the enormous stockpile of bad loans yet to be processed which ultimately will become future MLS inventory either as REO or short sales.
Today in real estate markets across the Southwest, inventory is way down, particularly distressed inventory. This reduction in inventory is a completely voluntary decline created by lenders. Lenders have no shortage of REO they currently own, nor have they put a significant dent in the shadow inventory of upcoming REO and short sales. Anyone who buys today because they believe there will be no further distressed inventory to weigh down prices is making a serious mistake. The lack of inventory on the market will not cause a sudden spike in house prices. The lack of inventory will cause a sudden decline in sales volumes and a premature end to the spring selling season.
Think about it this way; if you went to the Toyota dealer to buy a car you could afford, and they were out of cars, would you buy a more expensive Lexus instead? Probably not because you couldn't afford the Lexus. Instead of buying the more expensive Lexus, would you go shop for an older Toyota or a lesser quality car? Probably not because you know Toyota would simply build more if you waited for the one you wanted. The same analogy holds true for houses today. Buyers cannot raise their bids and buy more expensive properties because they can't get the bigger loan, and most buyers today are not substituting to inferior housing because they know the better house will be on the market eventually.
During the housing bubble, there was no reasonable expectation of better housing coming to market later because at the time, there was no shadow inventory needing liquidation. Today, most buyers know about shadow inventory because there are media outlets like this one who are willing to tell them. Armed with this information, most buyers are responding to today's diminished inventory with a wait-and-see attitude. There is no reason for any prospective buyer to believe they will be priced out any time in the next three to five years and probably much longer. Given the inevitability of shadow inventory liquidations, why not wait?
I am.
Plus, if you try to buy in a market characterized by depleted supply, you will not get a good deal. Any reasonably priced property is going to have multiple competing bids. In that environment, there are no good deals to be had. Last fall and winter, there were often competing sellers and few buyers. In those circumstances, the buyer is likely the only bidder on the property, and the seller knows if they hold out for top dollar, the buyer will go to the competing seller. Really good deals can only be had when there are no competing offers, and sellers are motivated.
Huge Spike in Home Prices Is Not Real
Published: Tuesday, 22 May 2012 | 11:27 AM ET
The median price of an existing home that sold in April of this year was $177,400, an increase of just over ten percent from a year ago. That is the biggest price jump since January of 2006. The difference between now and then, though, is the 2006 price jump was real, this latest spike is not.
"This is a mix of home issue," warned National Association of Realtors chief economist Lawrence Yun, who usually tries to see the positives in all housing numbers. "There is an acute inventory shortage in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Ft. Myers," Yun explains.
I always find it surprising when Lawrence Yun tells the truth, particularly when it doesn't fit the typical buy-now-or-be-priced-out-forever realtor narrative.
This same problem with the changing mix of homes is also responsible for the dramatic change in listing prices on the local MLS. With the reasonably prices REOs and short sales selling and not being replaced, and with the WTF priced discretionary sales remaining on the market, the aggregate listing numbers are skyrocketing.
Since what's currently listed at WTF asking prices is not selling, the actual sales prices have only rebounded slightly, and sales volumes are starting to fall.
Lack of Distressed Supply Continues to Hit Home Sales
Published: Wednesday, 30 May 2012 | 12:20 PM ET
The unexpected drop in signed contracts to buy existing homes in April should have come as no surprise. It is all about price point, supply, and where the action is/has been.
Depending on which survey you follow, sales of distressed properties (foreclosures and short sales), make up anywhere from a quarter to 40 percent of all home sales nationwide.
The bulk of these sales are out west in cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas and much of Southern California. Real estate agents out west will tell you that supplies of these distressed properties are dropping fast, thanks to huge investor demand.
The drop in inventory is not being caused by huge investor demand. This is a fallacy being promoted by realtors because increasing demand implies market strength — a strength that simply isn't there. The drop in inventory is almost entirely due to dramatically decreased liquidation efforts by lenders. That is a temporary condition that masks true market weakness.
That, in turn, led to a huge drop in sales of lower priced properties, as we reported last week, down 26% in the $0-100,000 price range, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Now we see contracts to buy existing homes in April dropping 12 percent out west, …
"Aside from the inescapable month-to-month variability, the increasing problem is on the shortage of inventory," admits Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the NAR. "Areas like Phoenix and Vegas, Orange Country, California are all reporting sharp reductions in inventory, and this is a problem because this is reducing the business transaction potential. …."
The declining supply is a catastrophe for realtors because fewer homes for sale means fewer sales commissions.
Home Prices See Gains, But That's Not the Whole Story
Published: Tuesday, 5 Jun 2012 | 10:49 AM ET
The spring sales season, while not exactly robust, was busy, especially for investors in distressed properties.
As for the summer, the numbers do not look as strong. After two months of gains, asking prices on for-sale homes, a two-month leading indicator, were unchanged in May month-to-month, according to a new report from sale site Trulia.com.
It is starting to look as if the declining inventory has caused a premature end to the spring rally. Perhaps the activity will carry over longer as buyers sit out the summer and wait for inventory to return in the fall. Since there is essentially no move-up market, the active buyers today are all renters or homeowners capable of buying a home without selling their current one. Those buyers are less sensitive to the time of year to complete a transaction. And since the fall and winter are generally the best time to buy anyway because prices are weaker, it is probably wise for those looking right now to be patient and wait for lenders to cajole more short sellers or release more REO in the fall and winter.
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Some people don't believe banks withhold inventory from the market. They don't realize or accept that lenders have thousands of properties they currently own that they must eventually liquidate. When they do, they are certain to harm the neighborhood comps, and since most people don't know where or when these comp bombs will be dropped on the market, many choose to ignore them as if the problem doesn't exist. Well, it does exist as properties like today's featured property attest to. As long as banks are withholding inventory, the housing market will face lingering uncertainty about future pricing, not as some unfocused fear, but as a legitimate recognition of the power of distressed inventory to push prices lower.


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"Bobby Floyd's talent has launched him into a very rewarding career, putting him in demand and making him one of the favorite, first-call pianists/organists for many well known artists. He has traveled the world accompanying Ray Charles on piano and organ. He currently makes guest appearances with some of the most distinguished orchestras, including The Boston Pops, The Rochester Philharmonic, and The Detroit Symphony. He is presently the feature pianist for the world-famous and legendary Count Basie Orchestra. He also tours nationally and internationally as organist for the Grammy Award winning Dr. John. The prestige associated with Floyd's worldwide appearances can also be witnessed at home. In his hometown, Columbus Ohio, Bobby is the feature pianist & organist with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Byron Stripling where he has performed with a large number of major artist. He is occasionally featured with The Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and other arts organizations and venues throughout Columbus and Ohio. He has also completed several recordings that can be purchased at many of the major online services including amazon.com, iTunes, and cdbaby. Bobby's recordings and live performances demonstrate his ability to electrify audiences and have received the highest praise from critics and musicians alike."
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Venison Terrine
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On the issue of which standards .gov agencies are using and not using, for the U.S. federal Executive Branch agencies the annual A-119/NTTAA reports are supposed to provide such data, via http://standards.gov/standards_gov/index.cfm However, (why are we not surprised) that data is not in readily shareable, reusable format. See the annual reports at https://standards.gov/NTTAA/agency/index.cfm?fuseaction=NTTAAReports.main Automating the A-119/NTTAA reporting process on a real-time basis is among the proposed enhancements to the ET.gov site/process for which resources have been lacking. See desirable enhancements 6.4 and 7 toward the bottom of the "page" at http://et.gov/history/enhancementrequirements.htm Of course, too, part of the problem is that the metadata about standards themselves is not in readily referenceable format, which is the part of the problem I wish the eGov IG could help to resolve. Owen Ambur Co-Chair Emeritus, xmlCoP Co-Chair, AIIM StratML Committee Member, AIIM iECM Committee Invited Expert, W3C eGov IG Communications/Membership Director, FIRM Board Former Project Manager, ET.gov -----Original Message----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Bennett Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:43 AM To: Jose M. Alonso Cc: Sharron Rush; eGov IG Subject: Re: charter and publication wrt W3C Process I was thinking that having best practices and having use cases was the most obvious things to do. I think that the "small how-to" project of identifying and exposing OGD is actually a huge, but important project that I encompasses citations and indexing documents (hmmm perhaps schematizing repositories). Citations would be a big win that could help transform access and referencing govt. documents. Another not-so-small project is to allow for a posting of what various governments are using and the standards they are using or breaking. Legislatures, executive and judicial organizations across the world use different authoring tools that often determine what is published online and how, the success in using standards or being accessible, how the governmental entities index/make searchable/usable the online documents and services, are all datum that we could help be collected. We don't need to even comment on the data collected, just make it reference-able for conversation. And this would help governments find out what software is available, especially if the software was developed internally and could be made available. In the United States alone there are thousands of governments (federal, state, municipal) using different standards and tools with different results, but no place to post and/or search for what they are all doing. Daniel Jose M. Alonso wrote: >> ... >>> + a set of small docs with guidance? >>> (could be recs or not) >> >> I am not sure what these "small docs" would do that would not be >> included in BP and the rewritten Note, but am open to suggestion. Are >> you thinking of technical documents that would be more of a how-to? >> a series of case studies of particularly effective practices? > > I was thinking of small how-to like things, e.g. techniques to > identify and expose OGD, but also identification of scenarios to do > so. More how-to than case studies. > >> The suite of ARIA documents could be a model, I suppose. > > Maybe... I like this how-to piece: > http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/#accessiblewidget > >> This one requires more consideration and could be decided after >> being chartered, is that not so? or do we need to state our entire >> scope of work at the time of charter? > > As specific as possible is always welcome, but we can definitely leave > some room as we did first time. More on charters: > http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups#WGCharter > > >>> + a second version of the Note? >>> (no need to be a rec, as you know) >> >> Yes, the Note must be rewritten for coherence, narrative flow, >> conclusions, etc. > > Heard several saying this. I don't have an opinion yet besides that > this should be done if there are group members willing to take on this > task. > > >>> In summary: going normative is "stronger" but has more implications: >>> patent policy matters, strongest coordination with other groups, >>> more process-related stuff to deal with... >> >> If we are saying that we will produce normative standards and expect >> eGov practitioners around the world to begin to claim "conformance" >> to these standards, that is a mighty undertaking. Think of the >> arduous processes around WCAG2 and HTML5. Also, eGov is a bit less >> easily defined because of cultural influences, history, forms of >> government etc. I would advise that we not commit to normative >> output at this time, but as previously stated, happy to hear another >> point of view. > > Ok, thanks. I think I'm more of a non-normative opinion so far. > > >> Please let me know if this is the type of input needed and/or if I >> have overlooked any questions. > > Very much so, thanks! > If you have something more specific in mind about the content we > should produce, please share it, too. > > Cheers, > Jose. > > >> Thanks, >> Sharron >> >>> [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ >>> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups#GAGeneral >>> [3] http://www.w3.org/2008/02/eGov/ig-charter >>> [4] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/05-patentsummary >>> [5] http://www.w3.org/2005/02/AboutW3CSlides/images/groupProcess.png >>> [6] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr#Reports >>> [7] http://www.w3.org/Guide/Charter >>> [8] http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/ >>> >>> -- >>> Jose M. Alonso <firstname.lastname@example.com> W3C/CTIC >>> eGovernment Lead http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/ > >Received on Saturday, 23 May 2009 18:34:12 UTC
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Sculpting the lips – time to fix some errors!
Well, I have some good news and I have some bad news. The bad news is that I checked the proportions of my sculpture in the mirror and a lot of the facial features were off. The eyes, nose, cheeks and mouth just need a lot of work. This is a good example of why you should consistently check your sculpture in the mirror when you are sculpting. I started out by checking the symmetry in the mirror but I failed to continue to do so in the later stages. If you have no idea what I am talking about then read the "Why use a mirror when sculpting" lesson first.
The good news for you is that I have to sculpt the eyes and mouth all over again. So, this is a good opportunity to show you the individual stages of sculpting the different facial features. I'll break the sculpture features up into different lessons.
|Ok, as you can see in this picture the eyes, lips and cheeks have completely been scaled down. I spent a lot of time at this stage to make sure that the sculpture looks ok in the mirror. I will continue to check the sculpture periodically in the mirror as I progress through the lesson. Step one is to simply draw a horizontal line in the clay to identify where the mouth will be located.
|Using one of my sculpting tools I create a flat surface on the top and bottom of my line Note: The shape of the mouth is not flat under the nose and I already had a protruding lump of clay before the mouth's line was drawn.
|This picture should give you a better idea of what I am talking about. Notice how the flat edges go out from the center of the line to the outer edges of the mouth?
|Ok, now it is time to define the area right about the upper lip. We are not done with the lips yet but I want to define the reset of the mouth before I finish off the lips. Right under the nose I create a little valley in the clay. Look at your own mouth in the mirror to get a better idea of what I am talking about (I have no idea what the medical term for this part of the body is called)
|On each side of my little valley I am going to carve out a little bit of clay.
|Now create little vertical lines in the clay to detail the lips
|And do the same for the bottom lip. Once complete, take a brush with 90% rubbing alcohol and lightly clean up the lips.
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ALBANY – New York's economy is improving, but not all of it.
As Gov. Andrew Cuomo spends down a $1 billion pledge to Buffalo that is reviving the once-struggling city, state lawmakers and regional development officials said they are hopeful that other parts of the state will gain a similar focus this year.
The Legislature and Cuomo are putting together the state budget for the fiscal year that starts April 1. Cuomo and lawmakers also are up for election in November, and the economy will be a top issue. Some lawmakers expressed concern about the emphasis on Buffalo and not their areas, which also have suffered from job and population losses, poverty and vacant homes.
"You definitely get concerned about it," said Sen. Thomas Libous, R-Binghamton. "Buffalo has certainly got a large share of money from the state, and obviously we feel that the Southern Tier on occasion gets cheated."
Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos of Nassau County said it will be up to the Legislature to work with Cuomo to direct aid and policies to areas of the state in greatest need.
"That's our job as a legislature — the Assembly and the Senate — to look to balance things," Skelos said. "Those are the governor's proposals; a lot of that is economic-development money that he basically has control over. We'll look to balance it."
Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said a gap remains between the upstate and downstate economies. Sales-tax growth over the past year was 5.9 percent downstate and 1.7 percent upstate. In the 10-county downstate area, the number of private-sector jobs grew 2.6 percent over the past year. In the 52-county upstate region, it was just 0.6 percent, the state Labor Department said.
"There's no doubt that when you get north of the downstate suburbs, you have a very uneven picture of how much of a recovery is going on," DiNapoli said.
The overall picture is improving. Unemployment upstate dropped from 8.4 percent to 6.4 percent over the past year, while Putnam and Rockland counties had among the lowest unemployment rates in New York, the Labor Department said. The 2 percentage-point decline was the biggest one-year drop since statistics were first kept in the early 1990s.
"These figures prove upstate New York's economy is heading in the right direction and that our focus on revitalizing the region is delivering results," Cuomo and legislative leaders said Jan. 28.
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Syracuse reportedly has had 115 water-main breaks so far this year due to its aging infrastructure. Mayor Stephanie Miner rejected a state and county plan for a new arena for Syracuse University, saying it would overlook the city's basic needs.
Yonkers wants mayoral control of its schools after it was left with as much as a $55 million budget gap this year. Sales-tax revenue in the Southern Tier last year fell as much as 5 percent. Rochester has the nation's fifth-highest poverty rate and recently got state approval for a review of the city's finances.
"It's unconscionable that the governor would overlook our region's priority projects and the thousands of associated new jobs," Mark Peterson, president of the Greater Rochester Enterprise, a business group, said in a recent op-ed piece. "To realize the economic benefit, these projects require a fraction of the dollars given to other regions of the state for unspecified future projects."
Libous said the Southern Tier has been waiting since 2008 on whether it can proceed with hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural-gas drilling technique. Supporters say it would be a boon for the area; critics said it would damage the environment. Cuomo hasn't made a decision.
"Obviously the fracking issue is huge in the Southern Tier, and that seems to have stalled, and it's five years in the making," Libous said.
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Cuomo said his initiatives show the upstate economy is a top focus: tax-free zones mainly upstate, four upstate casinos, an expansion of yogurt production, an elimination of some upstate manufacturing taxes and 10 regional development councils.
The number of employed New Yorkers hit 8.96 million in November, up 1 percent from November 2008 during the depths of the recession. It was one of the first states to recover all the jobs lost during the recession.
Conversely, though, New York has 16 percent more unemployed residents than it did in 2008 — up from 574,900 to 665,200.
New York's unemployment rate was 7.1 percent in December, down from 7.4 percent in November. It still lagged the U.S. rate of 6.7 percent in December.
Cuomo said the Start-Up NY program for tax-free zones near college campuses will be a major driver for upstate and improve on past development efforts. The program started Jan. 1, and Wednesday he announced the board to oversee it. No major deals have been announced.
The state has been spending money on ads nationwide to tout it.
"This Start-Up program sort of learned from all the ones that came before," Cuomo said Tuesday on Fox Business Network.
On Monday, Cuomo announced that IBM would keep 3,100 jobs, mainly in Dutchess County, as the state builds a $55 million facility for IBM and other tenants in Buffalo. It includes adding 750 jobs, mainly in the Hudson Valley.
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Cuomo has said Buffalo is a unique case: It lost half of its population since the 1950s, had as many as 10,000 vacant homes and has been under a financial control board. The Buffalo area, though, is also the only place Cuomo lost in his landslide election victory in 2010, skeptics say.
Local leaders have praised Cuomo's attention on the city, the state's second largest. Over the past year, the Buffalo area added 5,300 private jobs, the most of any upstate region.
"We can't think of another New York governor who has set his sights on turning around a regional economy," the Buffalo News wrote in an editorial Wednesday. "Any of them could have taken it on, but only Cuomo did."
Meanwhile, the number of jobs in the Poughkeepsie area was down 4,100 over the past year, while Binghamton and Elmira were flat.
Cuomo suggested that the success in Buffalo – which has five major, state-backed projects underway – is a sign that government can create positive change.
"When we first started talking about bringing the economy back to Buffalo, people looked askance at us," Cuomo said Monday when he announced the IBM deal. "But we've been doing it, and we've been doing it with such success and frequency that you almost feel that it's taking on an energy of its own."
Other N.Y. areas
Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R-Fayette, Seneca County, said he recently expressed concern to Cuomo about potential neglect of his sprawling district across the Finger Lakes. He said he was pleasantly surprised: Cuomo said he wanted to help. The two discussed expanding the agricultural research partnerships among Cornell University, other colleges and the private sector. They talked about ways to expand the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, Ontario County.
"He's seen firsthand that it's an area underserved, and he's looking for special attention to that type of challenge, where you have a transitional economy," Nozzolio said.
Cuomo has focused on development at the former Eastman Kodak business park in Rochester, announced $10 million for a pharmacy school at Binghamton University and is building a $3.9 billion new Tappan Zee Bridge.
Some lawmakers said the state needs to turn more attention to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Sen. Terry Gipson, D-Rhinebeck, said New York no longer can rely on its major corporations such as IBM or Eastman Kodak. Indeed, just days after the IBM deal in Buffalo, the company announced worldwide layoffs, and it's unclear whether New York was largely spared.
Gipson introduced legislation to provide no-interest loans to start-up companies with fewer than four employees.
"We are certainly living in a time when we have to invest in small businesses and entrepreneurs instead of big companies like IBM," he said.
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This simple vegan meal is great for the cold winter months, throw everything in your slow cooker and dinner is ready! It can be cooked in large batches and frozen or served fresh.
- Whole Wheat Taco Shells
- Chopped Onion
- Chopped Lettuce
- Sliced Avocado
- Lime
Taco Filling:
- 30 oz pinto beans (we used Eden Organic canned pinto beans but you can also use your crock pot to slow cook dry beans)
- 1 cup fresh corn kernels
- 1 chipotle pepper packaged in abodo sauce minced (for spicier filling you can use the whole can of peppers)
- 6 oz tomato paste
- 6 oz chili sauce
- 1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
Begin by putting all the Taco Filling Ingredients in your slower cooker and turning on low for 3 hours. Turn the slow cooker up to high for a 4th hour.
Add the Taco Filling to your Taco Shells. Top with Onion, Lettuce, Avocado and a squeeze of Lime. Serve alone or with rice.
Makes 10 tacos.