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Toilet Tips -- What Every
Woman Traveller Should Know
Another cure
for odors in bathrooms...
Travelling in
China, I found the washroom facilities in public places were
almost always workable. However, there were times that the
odours could be overwhelming. A lady on my tour brought along
a very tiny bottle of lavender oil. A sniff of a small drop
on my finger tip was a blessing and made the bathroom situation
much more bearable.
(Shirley Yarmoloy, Delta, Canada)
Wear a long skirt in developing
The floors in
the public toilets I've used in India were always wet and
very dirty. Wear pants if you must but the bottoms of those
pants are going to get wet. Instead wear a long skirt that
you can hike up away from the mess. A long skirt is also so
much better when you have to go beside the road or by the
side of your tour bus. It affords you at least a tiny bit
of modesty.
Free tissue in Japan...
In Tokyo's city
core there are people handing out free tissue. You'll see
some Japanese people refusing to take it. That's because the
companies offering freebies are advertising "escort services."
Our advice is for women travellers to take the tissue and
pretend you don't know what's being advertised. Because, when
you get to a Japanese washroom you'll find that many of them
do not have tissue and then you'll think...what a thoughtful
(Journeywoman files)
Bathroom etiquette in Japan...
When using the
toilet facilities, you will find a pair of toilet slippers
for the exclusive use of this room. Leave your house slippers
outside the door and slip on this special footwear. Be sure
to remember to change back again before returning to the living
(Raise Your Cultural IQ, Louisa Nedkov, Trade Winds Publication
Japanese toilets are fun...
Once you have
used the Japanese version of a Western toilet, it's hard to
come home. In a pristine, quiet and privately enclosed space,
complete with purse hook, bench and a gently warmed seat,
they have built-in front and back bidets controlled at the
touch of a button (like a car wash) and, for the toilet-timid,
sound effects like faux-flushing, birdsong or chimes summoned
with a wave of the hand. Western public toilets and their
grimy bathroom stalls now fill me with dread.
(Source: National Post Newspaper)
Best free public toilets
in London, England...
We all need
to know where the best loos are in central London whether
we're visiting or local. London train stations (not tube stations)
all have toilets but are not usually free. These public toilets
have been chosen by About.com: London Travel for their close
location to major London attractions. (Remember, all museums
and galleries have free loos too.)
The nearest
free public toilets to Buckingham Palace are in St. James's
Park. Go up The Mall -- the long road in front of Buckingham
Palace, towards Trafalgar Square -- and enter the park on
the right at Marlborough Gate. There are men, women, and disabled
toilet facilities. For more great advice, just click here:
A tip about toilets in Korea...
Here's some advice for JourneyWomen around
the world. Don't expect toilet tissue in all public restrooms
in Korea. In this country it's customary to bring your own.
When you go into Korea's small little markets or convenience
stores, you'll notice flat, plastic packs of tissue papers
- the whole pack is about the size of a standard greeting
card. These are their travel packs of toilet paper. I suggest
you buy several of them. They can even be 'fun' gifts to bring
home for your travelling girlfriends.
(Lisa, New York, USA)
Washroom in New York's Chinatown...
Have a peek
at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory (65 Bayard Street). Look
at the flavors. A little different from the Baskin-Robbins,
isn't it? Lychee, green tea and red bean are a few of the
selections. Those feeling less bold may choose from some of
the classics, too. At the Bowery, check out the Chinese Pagodalike
Macdonald's with Ronald sitting out front on a bench. This
is a good place to use a bathroom as they are somewhat hard
to come by in Chinatown.
Bathroom Times on an Aircraft...
of standing in long queues for the bathroom on flights? The
key to finding a free washroom is all in the timing. Usually
most passengers wait until after the meal trays are completely
collected to clamber over their fellow travellers. Then they
have to wait, wait, wait for interminable lengths in the loo-line-up.
Here are a few "hostie" (that's what we
call flight attendants in our part of the world) tips about
the best times to "Go" on an aircraft. More...
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FC: Flowers in the desert. | 2008 - 2009
1: 2008 and 2009 The years that take us from Michigan to Utah, from single to engaged, and many adventures besides.
3: Mackinac Island July 2008
4: Lucky Dogs | July 2008
6: Moving Week | July/ August 2008
8: Our New Home
10: After much debate we bought Willow this giant ball that we knew she'd love. We hoped it would last more than 30 seconds, but she did enjoy it.
13: Halloween | Jacquelyn's Visit
14: Chapel and Willow in their first dog show. Las Vegas, November 2008. | Jason's reading at CEU.
15: Our idea of replacing our terrible floor turned into a much bigger project than we expected. | Before | After
16: Jason and Chapel (and Willow) spent Christmas apart, in Vegas and Michigan. Vegas had the first big snow storm in years which made it a little stressful to fly with Willow from there to Michigan. Willow didn't like the plane.
17: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
18: Our summer 2009 trip took us back to Michigan, but we went to Colorado Springs first and competed in a dog show there. Brian Feeney had just moved there and so we met up with him and got to see some of the beautiful area. Then we spent a couple weeks in Michigan where we got to meet Henry, Nancy and Glenn's son and Gabriel Feffer. Then we drove to Iowa City where we competed in another dog show and stayed with Greg Delzer.
21: Larry, Maureen, and Autumn Massie played Bocce Ball with us at Scott's house in Allegan. Steve and Gabe Feffer at Waterstreet Coffee Shop.
23: Saugatuck, Michigan Scott, Jason, Chapel, Zola, Loki, and Willow.
24: The Crow's Nest
25: When we arrived in Iowa City it was in the middle of a torrential downpour. The night before we left there were tornado sirens going off and the next morning there was a heat index warning. But we had an amazing time anyway. Jason did a reading at Greg's store and we got to see a lot of the city where Chapel's parents first met.
26: San Rafel Swell | August 2009 | Jennifer Truschka
27: Barb Benson took us on a tour of the San Rafel area when Michael, Laura, Scott, and Kim were in town visiting. | Castle Dale | Buckhorn Panel
28: Chapel and Jacquelyn drove to California in November 2009 to visit Michael and Megan. | Torrey Pines Park, San Diego
30: Provo, Utah, where we spend a lot of time, is a very strange place. The Flirty Aprons store is in the Provo Mall. The Theather Exit sign marks the back doors to the Cinemark Movie theater. Jason got his PHD this fall. | Home Sweet Home
31: Fall 2009 | Larry, Will, and Erin Severeid
33: We got engaged! Jason proposed on the day after Thanksgiving in the Suncoast Casino's arcade. Then Pat and Tina went back with us the next day to get pictures.
34: Price, UT
35: Allegan, Michigan
36: Kalamazoo, MI
37: Happy Holidays

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When I read a book, or listen to a song, there is always a standout line that defines the story. But sometimes, the story can be filled with them. Do you ever get that?
I just finished reading Me Before You by Jojo Moyes and got exactly that. I just had to share them here, in this, my latest post.
None of them should give anything away about the ending.
So here they are, in order of appearance in the book – I hope you enjoy them as much as I did, and I hope it inspires you to read the book if you haven't already. The book is not only filled with standout lines, but standout paragraphs, pages, and chapters. The entire book is standout.
– The morning sagged and decided to last for several years.
– Long-legged and blond, with pale caramel skin, she was the kind of woman who makes me wonder if all humans really are the same species.
– I fought the urge to say anyone could make things look beautiful if they had a wallet as deep as a diamond mine.
– The handle stilled in my hand.
(This one needs some context to really appreciate the drama it generates. We've just finished a chapter in which our heroine has overheard that the young man she's been caring for wants to end his life. The next chapter switches to an alternate point of view for the first time, and conveys the shock the (passive) heroine felt, to us, the passive reader)
– I never set out to help kill my son.
– There have been times… when my marriage proved to be somewhat more populated than I had anticipated.
– And finally, my head pressed into the pillow, I cried, because my life suddenly seemed so much darker and more complicated than I could ever have imagined, and I wished I could go back, back to when my biggest worry was whether Frank and I had ordered in enough Chelsea buns.
– There are places where the changing seasons are marked by migrating birds, or the ebb and flow of tides. Here, in our little town, it was the return of the tourists.
– I can tell you the exact day I stopped being fearless.
– He gestured at my minidress, a sixties-inspired Pucci-type dress, made with fabric that had once been a pair of Granddad's curtains. The first time Dad had seen it he had pointed at me and yelled, "Hey, Lou, pull yourself together!" It had taken him a full five minutes to stop laughing.
– I cannot tell you how much better I felt once I saw the way posh people danced. The men looked as if they had been electrocuted, the women did little pointy fingers at the stars and looked horribly self-conscious even as they twirled.
(When riding a bicycle alongside a running man)
– As I was marginally less proficient on a bicycle than I was at particle physics, this involved a lot of swearing and swerving on my part, and a lot of exasperated shouting on his.
(When sitting in a waiting room in a hospital)
– I flipped through the magazines that somebody had apparently left on the table in 1982, and then pulled a paperback from my bag and tried to read that, but it was impossible to concentrate.
I hope you enjoyed these as much as I did. Now get out and read this book!
Oh and you can read my review here.


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Was in my garage troubleshooting my ABS yesterday...and still am right now. ABS dash light turns on and off intermittently. My ABS fuse is good and I'm currently checking all the wheel speed sensors with a volt meter to see if they're detecting the reluctor rings. But, after more online research for tips and tricks (for those who don't have an ABS scanner), I was able to figure what I think are my ABS codes…16 and 43. I found a code chart: 43 "FR Holding Solenoid Valve" and 16 "CLASS-2 Communication Line Abnormality." (I originally looked at an online chart that gave different info, but then found the codes in the actual MY99 VehiCROSS Service Manual.)
Going to try and follow the steps, but seems a bit higher than my modest technical experience. Any helpful tips with Codes 16 and 43? I am determined to eventually figure out my ABS issue.


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by Anthony Horowitz
by Anthony Horowitz
Tue 18 - Sat 22 October 2016 at 7.30pm
The Playhouse Theatre, Clare Street, Northampton NN1 3JA
Mark Styler William Portch
Dr Farqhuar Vince Perry
Nurse Paisley Gemma Knight
Director Pat Bancroft
Stage Manager Jo Molyneux
Assistant Stage Manager Ed Toone
Lighting & Sound Phillip Welsh
Set Construction Mark Mortimer
Set Effects & Painting Derek Banyard
Front of House Masque Theatre Members
Publicity Jen Kenny
Artwork Tamsyn Payne
Programme Design Jof Davies
Rehearsal Photographs Tony Janney
As anyone who was lucky enough to see Mindgame, Anthony Horowitz's ingenious thriller plays devilment with the minds of both its characters and audience in many ways, and is one that can be really spoilt by wayward reviewing.
Set in a mental institution, true crime writer Mark Styler arrives at the gloriously named Fairfields with the intent of interviewing serial killer Easterman. In his way are hospital director Dr. Farquhar and Nurse Paisley.
First of all, the key requirement with a play such as Mindgame, with a small cast (in this case three) is absolutely nailing those actors in their roles, and director Pat Bancroft has selected them perfectly, as each of the three performers eases into their personas, and more importantly is able to adapt as their characters become different beasts as the play progresses (heading into spoiler territory now).
Balance of insanity
Vince Perry is particularly effective as Farquhar, arriving flustered and confused, and seemingly it later appears from a cupboard. He is impressive early on as the director, but perhaps more so later on as it is revealed to us by the close of the first act (and most of the audience will have got this by this stage) that he is actually Easterman. He keeps the balance of insanity perfect into the second act, which is also important with where the story eventually ends. He even just about makes the slightly strange pieces to the audience work and comments about farce. This is the only time that perhaps for me, the play strays dangerously close to being too silly.
As writer Styler, William Portch gives an assured performance from the outset, creating a developing character of some depth as he learns of his perils of his predicament at the hands of Easterman. His eventual collapse at the very end of the play leaves a lingering despair, but also with Horowitz's script, a still slightly open conclusion.
Stirring talking point
Finally completing the line-up is Gemma Knight as Nurse Paisley, who like the others goes through quite a transfer of character as the play evolves. All are distinctive, from the nervy but also cold original, through to the confident, crisp final persona. It is, like all three performances, believable and makes this a very well acted production.
Direction from Pat Bancroft, stage management from Jo Molyneux and assistant Ed Toone, and tech from Philip Welsh is mostly perfect (with ambition comes sometimes problems, but it's best never to play it safe). The set becomes alive itself during the show and is cleverly done on the small Playhouse stage. Also an ingenious projection brings an extra bit of ambition and professionalism to the production and provided quite a stirring talking point in the audience as the realisation dawned.
Superbly acted, cleanly and unobtrusively directed and with a clearly hardworking back stage crew making things happen, has produced one of the best of the recent Masque productions. Excellent stuff!
The author Anthony Horowitz is probably best known as the creator of TV's Foyles War and as a collaborative writer for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsummer Murders and his major film Stormbreaker.
With this experience behind him, he has just been chosen to write more of television's Sherlock series, but his first love is writing for the stage and Mindgame is one of his best.
Shocking conclusion
A gripping psychological thriller, with jet black comedy, that twists its way to a shocking conclusion.
Mark Styler, a writer of glossy 'true crime' paperbacks, arrives at Fairfields, an experimental asylum for the criminally insane, to try and get an interview with the notorious serial killer Easterman which will enable him to write his next book about the man and his gruesome murders.
Dr Farquhar, the head of Fairfields, is unhelpful and quixotic, and Styler finds things increasingly unnerving and odd, even the nursing staff appear uneasy.
Puzzle box
Is Nurse Paisley as odd as she seems? He has no idea what he has walked into. Will they let him see Easterman? Who is Borson? This puzzle box of a play will keep you 'wrong footed' to the very last page.
There is a great cast that welcomes back Vince Perry as Dr. Farquhar, and Wilf Portch as Mark Styler, with Gemma Knight joining them as Nurse Paisley.
Apparently undaunted by this challenging piece of gripping theatre, all three seem happy to have their psyche prodded and teased into mindgames. What have they let themselves (and you) in for?
Note: Horowitz is also known for his teenage Secret Agent Alex Rider books, but this play is definitely not suitable for children.
Masque Theatre's production is directed by long-time member Pat Bancroft, whose shows for the group include A Man For All Seasons (2013), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (2010), Reader (2005) and Blue Remembered Hills (2000)


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On August 25, 2016, the National Park Service (NPS) will celebrate its 100th birthday. But what's a party without people? In fact, while many Americans think of national parks as places to experience nature, they also preserve unique resources that tell stories about the everyday lives of people and their American journeys.
Along with protecting natural wonders, such as Yellowstone National Park's geysers, the National Park Service is charged with preserving cultural resources that are relevant to living communities. Many of the more than 400 sites in the national park system are repositories of history and heritages of people and communities – some well-known, others underrepresented – that shape the national dialog. Particularly in recent decades, NPS has worked to showcase a diverse range of human stories that help us understand our nation's past and present.
Today NPS' role in cultural heritage preservation – collecting and interpreting stories about people and the many ways they inhabit places – is more important than ever. These stories help us to see our similarities and better understand our differences as a society. And this work helps NPS tell a national story of relevance and significance to all.


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The durability, popularity and/or influence of a chef's defining recipe can't be denied. Here are some of Montreal's must-taste plates.
Lesley Chesterman: 12 signature dishes from top Montreal restaurants
Every great chef has a defining recipe — a signature dish that displays his or her taste, style, background and technique. Most commonly it is an inspired assembly of ingredients, often (but not always) unique, that becomes a chef's calling card. In the best case, a signature dish boosts a chef's star status.
Famous signature dishes include Paul Bocuse's puff-pastry-topped truffle soup VGE, Ferran Adrià's liquid olive and the Troisgros brothers' saumon à l'oseille. Jean-Georges Vongerichten claims to have invented the molten chocolate cake, Thomas Keller's Oysters and Pearls is considered his first masterpiece, and every time you eat a plate of black cod with miso, you should raise a glass to its inventor, Nobu Matsuhisa.
A signature dish can be something other than an expression of a chef's vision. Few would deny that the Big Mac is McDonald's signature dish, or that rôtisserie chicken made St-Hubert's name. Some restaurants remain famous for a signature dish long after the original chef is gone, such as Il Vero Alfredo in Rome, reputed to be the birthplace of fettuccine Alfredo, or Le Cirque in New York, where crème brûlée made its debut.
A signature dish doesn't have to be a creative masterpiece. It can be a classic that draws people to a restaurant simply because it's done so well, like Judy Rodgers's wood-fire roasted chicken at Zuni Café in San Francisco, or Tom Colicchio's braised short ribs at Craft in Manhattan.
How many restaurants have a signature dish? Fewer than you'd expect of late, since the trend is to constantly update menus as regular customers are eager to move on to something new. Twenty years ago in Montreal you may have gone out specifically for Le Passe-Partout's mousse de foie de volaille, Les Halles' pamplemousse Marie-Louise or Desjardins' lobster Thermidor. But today, with such a push for innovation and love for cuisine du marché, the signature dish is about as present as the chafing dish.
Dig a little, however, and you'll find a handful of dishes that have been served by restaurants since their early years, dishes that influence other chefs, dishes that have become so popular that they can't be struck from the menu — even if the chefs and restaurant owners yearn to. Dishes that you crave days, months and even years after you first tasted them.
In contrast to a list I assembled in 2011 featuring 12 of Montreal's iconic foods, this roundup is of 12 signature dishes found in some of the city's top restaurants. Of course I am bound to miss a few, so if you have a Montreal signature dish to suggest, let us know.
1. General Tao chicken, L'Orchidée de Chine. This beloved Chinese restaurant's menu features dozens of Szechuan classics, but it's their General Tao chicken that satisfies — and sells — most. Why? No doubt the succulent white meat enrobed in the thinnest and crispest of deep-fried coatings, then doused in just the right amount of sweet, sour and spicy sauce. When poorly executed, this Szechuan favourite is greasy, heavy and cloying. But for the past 30 years at L'Orchidée de Chine, a heaping plate of General Tao has been a thing of beauty. And just a little piggy, too. I love it. (2017 Peel St.; 514-287-1878; lorchideedechine.net)
2. Lobster spaghetti, Joe Beef (see sidebar below). Joe Beef's lobster spaghetti is probably as famous for being unapologetically rich and extravagant as it is for its recipe in the cookbook The Art of Living According to Joe Beef, where the headnote states: "Among other things that don't make any sense: this is probably the most popular Joe Beef dish." With a generous portion of lobster flesh, cups of cream, Cognac and bacon, what's not to like? The price of this baby can be an eyebrow-raiser, but thrifty diners take note: it's also sold in half portions. (2491 Notre-Dame St. W.; 514-935-6504; joebeef.ca)
3. Duck in a Can, Au Pied de Cochon. Who else but genius chef Martin Picard could think up this decadent mix of duck magret, foie gras, cabbage, roasted garlic and balsamic demi-glace, which is cooked in a can, opened at the table and poured onto a crouton topped with puréed celery root? Only at Au Pied de Cochon could something so luxurious emerge from a tin can. The picture in the Au Pied de Cochon cookbook of an awestruck Anthony Bourdain being served this dish says it all. (536 Duluth Ave. E.; 514-281-1114; aupieddecochon.ca)
4. Steak tartare, L'Express. Though L'Express is equally famous for its marrow bone appetizer, and though the steak/frites is its bestseller, the steak tartare feels most like its signature dish because when dining at this St-Denis St. institution, so many customers around you are scarfing it back. No, it's not moulded into a timbale shape or topped with vegetable chips. It doesn't look like much. But scoop up a few bites and you'll taste the ideal balance of caper tang and Tabasco kick, with a good hit of parsley, mustard and seasonings to make this mass of gooey meat simply irresistible. Make sure to request it "relevé" (spicy) and pair it with a glass of Beaujolais. (3927 St-Denis St.; 514-845-5333; restaurantlexpress.com)
5. Velouté de maïs, La Chronique. I can't get enough of La Chronique's gorgeous corn soup. It's a must in corn season, and also great made out of season when they use vacuum-packed kernels. The dish starts out dramatically, with a single fat scallop topped with truffle shavings and surrounded by sautéed leeks. With much brio, chef Olivier de Montigny arrives at the table and pours the corn soup over top. The soup is sweet and bright flavoured, with none of that overwhelming starchy taste you get from old corn. The leeks add a rustic touch, and that scallop brings in the fresh taste of the sea. Marvellous. De Montigny tells me it's always a bestseller, and the seafood changes according to the seasons, with crab and lobster often substituting for the scallop. (104 Laurier Ave. W.; 514-271-3095; lachronique.qc.ca)
6. Seared scallops with fennel purée and lemon confit, Le Club Chasse et Pêche. There are two signature dishes at Le Club Chasse et Pêche: the braised suckling pig risotto and the beautiful seared scallop dish with fennel and lemon, which have been on the menu since the restaurant opened in 2005. Seared on one side, the scallops are then lightly roasted and served with a sweet lemon confit cream and puréed fennel, though I recall a purée of Jerusalem artichoke in the early days that added a welcome earthiness to the seafood's sweetness. "We would be crazy to remove it from the menu," says Le Club's chef de cuisine, Mélanie Blouin. "It's always a hit." (423 St-Claude St.; 514-861-1112; leclubchasseetpeche.com)
7. Ricotta gnocchi, Impasto. Plenty of Montreal's Italian restaurants serve gnocchi, but none make one better than Impasto, which, since opening in 2013, has never removed the dish from its menu. Of five pastas on offer nightly, the gnocchi always comes out as the first or second bestseller, says chef Michele Forgione. He tells me the tomato basil sauce is made with canned Roma tomatoes imported from Italy that are cooked low and slow for five hours with garlic, red onion and basil. As for the gnocchi, it's made with a dense, whole milk ricotta, resulting in the most pillowy of pastas. Add a generous sprinkling of Parmigiano-Reggiano and a shot of peppery olive oil, and you've got a dish that has made gnocchi addicts of many. (48 Dante St.; 514-508-6508; impastomtl.com)
8. Gratin de chèvre et pommes de terre, Brasserie T! A true-blue signature dish conceived by chef Normand Laprise, the gratin de chèvre was on the menu back in his days as chef at Citrus before making its way to the Toqué! menu, and is now featured as an appetizer at his more casual Brasserie T! Made with a "parmentier" base of potatoes and leeks topped with a gratinéed mound of goat cheese, it's served with a red or yellow pepper coulis and a side salad, resulting in a dish that's as delicious today as it was when it was created in 1989. (1425 Jeanne-Mance St.; 514-282-0808; brasserie-t.com)
9. Sashimi platter, Park. Every Japanese restaurant worth its salt serves sashimi. But when chef Antonio Park decided to take on the sashimi platter, he made his big, colourful, and so sought-after that he and his crew assemble a dozen on a busy night. Just look at Park's Instagram account to ogle dozens of his sashimi masterpieces. Not only are his creations absolutely stunning to look at, the fish he slices into the most perfect of rectangles include many Japanese varieties like sayori (halfbeak) and kaimin tai (red snapper), as well as sustainable bluefin tuna (with the often high prices that follow). (378 Victoria Ave.; 514-750-7534; parkresto.com)
10. Milos Special, Milos. The signature dish of the city's most famous Greek restaurant and its owner, Costas Spiliadis, the Milos Special is on the menu at all six of Spiliadis's restaurants (Montreal, Miami, Athens, London, Las Vegas, New York). Made with thin slices of zucchini and eggplant that are coated in the lightest of batters and fried to a shattering crisp, the vegetable chips are stacked high and served with a thick tzatziki sauce and nuggets of fried saganaki cheese. Who can dine at Milos without enjoying this seriously scrumptious dish? (5357 Parc Ave.; 514-272-3522; milos.ca)
11. French toast with caramel sauce, Leméac. This fat slice of french toast is made with homemade brioche and topped with a quenelle of milk jam ice cream and a generous slug of maple-caramel sauce. It's the epitome of sheer piggyness and, more importantly, deliciousness. Conceived by Leméac's original pastry chef, Patrice Demers (now of Patrice Pâtissier), back when the restaurant opened in 2001, this dessert always elicits oohs and ahhs when it hits the table. "C'est vraiment un hit," says chef Maxim Vadnais, who tells me it's their top-selling dessert. "It's a dish regulars always order for newcomers," he says, "because they like to see their reaction when it arrives at the table." Sweet. (1045 Laurier Ave. W.; 514-270-0999; restaurantlemeac.com)
12. Beignets with caramel sauce, Le St-Urbain. These made-to-order beignets look like a piece of modern sculpture and taste like the world's lightest doughnuts. Featured on Le St-Urbain's menu since Day 1 in 2009, the golden squiggles are part churro, part beignet, and the salted butter caramel sauce adds just the right gilding to the lily. "It's the one thing that never changed on our menu," says chef Adam Ganten. "We tried to take it off, but customers were angry, so we put it back on. We sold over 2,220 beignets last year. It represents about 75 per cent of our dessert sales." (96 Fleury St. W.; 514-504-7700; lesturbain.com)
The making of a signature dish: Joe Beef's lobster spaghetti
The year was 2005, and the restaurant was the original 25-seat Joe Beef. The planned menu would feature market cuisine with fresh seafood — oysters especially — and no more than three starters and three main courses changing daily.
In search of what to serve, chef-owners David McMillan and Fred Morin turned to an American colleague for inspiration. "We were reading a Bon Appétit article about this chef in Philadelphia called Marc Vetri," says McMillan. "He has a 25-seat restaurant like what we were planning, and he even removed a table of four to make room for a meat slicer. We were impressed by his priorities, because back then the idea was to put in as many tables as possible, no matter where they would go. We were reading the dishes on his menu and one stood out: the lobster spaghetti. So we put it on our menu, too, as an ode to cool chef Marc Vetri.
"Years later, we had him here at the restaurant as a guest chef and he saw us making lobster spaghetti and we admitted we got the idea from him. He wasn't mad at all. He was flattered."
Though the name is the same, the Joe Beef dish and Vetri's are very different. Vetri's is more Italian in nature, featuring a tomato base, while the McMillan/Morin version is made with a heavily creamed lobster bisque base spiked with Cognac. "To me," says McMillan, "lobster begs for butter and cream."
With the meat from a 1 1/2- to 1 3/4-pound lobster added to the mix, no wonder the dish retails between $40 and $80, depending on the market price. Happily, half portions are available.
"Lobster spaghetti has never left the menu, and I'm a bit mortified that something so luxurious has become our signature," says McMillan. "But for many who come here, it's a celebratory dish — a plate of lobster spaghetti along with a rib steak for two. When the Rolling Stones ate here, it was four lobster spaghettis. It's really too expensive at times like now when the price of lobster is so high, but as soon as that fluctuates, it's our bestseller. Every restaurant should have a lobster spaghetti on the menu."
The making of a signature dish: Toqué!'s salmon tartare
Although chef Normand Laprise still serves his gratin de chèvre et pommes de terre, he is equally famous for starting the salmon tartare trend in Montreal. The first time I tasted the now-common timbale of seasoned raw fish cubes was 24 years ago at Toqué!, where Laprise's salmon tartare was considered a signature dish. Decorated with taro-root chips, his rendition was a simple mélange of cubed salmon, chives and mustard vinaigrette, which he topped with a thin layer of mashed avocado.
Tartare is found on many Montreal menus today, but back then it was unheard of. From where did Laprise draw his inspiration? The classic steak tartare? Sashimi plates at the then new and branché sushi bars?
"I first recall tartare making an impression on me in the early '90s, when I dined at Bouley, David Bouley's restaurant in New York City," Laprise told me in 2008. "I ordered a tasting menu, and one of the courses was a small mound of striped bass tartare with a quail's egg yolk in the middle. It was so good I wanted to ask for more."
After that revelation, Laprise started on his own rendition, beginning with the freshest fish available in Montreal at the time: salmon. As for the topping, he told me those many years ago, "I was eating often at a little Mexican restaurant back then, and I remember eating guacamole and thinking it would marry well with the salmon tartare."
Laprise debuted his salmon tartare at Citrus and it was such a big hit that when he opened Toqué! in 1993, he put it on the menu because customers kept requesting it.
Though considered cutting-edge then, tartare has come a long way. You'll still find a tartare at Toqué! on occasion as well as in the vast majority of Montreal's other high-end restaurants, ranging from the trout, apple and celery root tartare at La Récolte, to the salmon tartare with puffed rice, nori, purple perilla leaves, chives and dill at Montréal Plaza.
You can hear Lesley Chesterman on ICI Radio-Canada Première's Médium Large (95.1 FM) Tuesdays at 10 a.m., and on CHOM (97.7 FM) Wednesdays at 7:10 a.m.


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Keeping up with healthy plant based lifestyle can be tricky if travelling or just running around whole day. Finding clean options in take aways it s .. oh not such an easy process. So I always prefer to pack my own food. It gives me great peace of mind knowing that don't need to worry about being properly nourished during the day and it's always fresher, much more cost efficient and taste so much better then anything that I could possibly get outside.
So from mine experience I have few rules that I follow every single time for the best experience. Dressing always have to be carried separately, root vegetables travel the best, if you add leafy greens they have to stay on top and my salad have to completely cold then I take it out of the fridge to pop in my bag.
I used rainbow carrots here because they are so pleasing to the eye and I find that I always enjoy my food the most when it has every colour of the rainbow. They give slight taste variations which is always welcome on my table but if you can not get hold of them just substitute with normal carrots because this salad is a bomb and there is no excuse not to make it! It s fresh, crunchy, light, but filling, qualities of the perfect lunch if you would ask me, to fuel you through the day, not to way you down. I recommend toasting sesame seeds and topping salad with them just before you are going to eat to keep their flavour and texture at the best condition.
- Serves 2-3 person
- Half of the head of broccoli
- 4 rainbow rainbow carrots
- handful of baby broad beans
- 1 avocado
- 1 zucchini
- 2 tablespoon of sesame seeds
- dressing
- 1 chili pepper
- 1 teaspoon of sesame oil
- 2 tablespoon of olive oil
- juice of 1 lime
- 1 glove garlic
- 1 inch of Ginger
- Blanch the broccoli florets and broad beans for a minute in salted boiling water, transfer to the ice bath.
- Using mandoline thinly cut carrots and zucchini
- In mini food processor combine all the ingredients for dressing and process till emulsified
- Place sesame seeds on the dry frying pan and heat just till they start to pop and became very fragrant
- Combine all the ingredients for salad except of avocado and pour dressing and sesame seeds over, mix till everything is evenly coated
- Cut avocado on the cubes and gently fold it to preserve it shape.
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For nine nonstop months, we speculated about what Meghan Markle's wedding makeup was going to look like, and on Saturday she did not disappoint when she rolled up in her Rolls, sporting her signature glow (and those freckles!). It was rumored that she might do her own makeup, but in the end and in true Meghan style, she opted to have her longtime friend and makeup artist Daniel Martin help her out. Lucky for us, Glamour, too, has been a longtime friend of the Dior brand ambassador and Honest Beauty creative color consultant, so we rounded up the best insider tricks he's given us about glowy skin over the years. Here's how to get it right.
Prep your skin.
Even the fanciest foundation with major moisturizing and illuminating properties in the world won't look good on dry skin. Before any kind of makeup, you need to "wake up your complexion" with a nongreasy moisturizer, said Martin. (Try Dior Hydra Life Hydration Rescue Intense Sorbet Creme.) Smooth on a pea-size amount, then massage your face for a few minutes to plump things up and boost circulation. Ditto for your eyes. "Hydrate with an eye balm or eye cream first to build up resistance to the layers it takes to cover up dark circles," he once told us. (We love Honest Beauty The Depuffed Eye Gel.) Once your skin is properly hydrated, anything you put on top—foundation, concealer, powder—goes on a lot smoother and lasts longer.
Color-correct a touch.
Sure, sheer makeup is the goal, but sometimes a girl needs a little coverage. And to do that in the most natural way possible, you need to neutralize—not just camouflage with concealer—spots and discoloration. "Unbalanced undertones and uneven skin texture are distracting and not appealing to the naked eye," he said. "The benefit of color-correcting products is being able to put your skin tone back to a blank-canvas state." To cancel out pimples and uneven patches of redness, try applying a whisper of green-tinted cream like Dior Fix It 2-in-1 Prime & Color Correct in Green on bits that need evening out. If you want to counteract sallowness or hyperpigmentation, lay down a thin layer of peach color corrector like Dior's Fix It in Apricot. "Once your canvas is treated and prepped, you can use less of everything else," said Martin.
Stipple (don't swipe) on foundation.
Smearing foundation over your color-correcting handiwork will only make a mess. Instead, "lightly buff and swirl your makeup brush dipped in foundation over your skin to create a flawless, diffused finish," suggests Martin. "Think of it like waxing your car—minus the pressure. When you use light, short circular motions to achieve coverage, it ends up looking seamless and not streaky at all." His three must-haves for no-fail blending: Dior Backstage Blender Sponge, It Cosmetics Heavenly Luxe Magic Eraser, and the Sigma F64 Soft Blend Concealer Brush that he uses as a foundation brush.
Spackle a zit with eyeshadow primer.
What's worse than a big zit? A big, flaky zit, which is usually what happens when you use a spot treatment and then dump on a ton of concealer over top. Trust us: When it comes to hiding a pimple, more is not more. His pro move for making an angry spot look less noticeable? "First, treat the inflammation with either a cortisone gel or redness-reducing eye drops. It really gets the red out!" he said. Wait a few minutes for the swelling to go down, then dab on some clear eyeshadow primer. It works twofold, says Martin, by creating a smoother, less permeable surface (so bacteria stays out) and helps everything else stick and stay put.
Highlight strategically.
The quickest way to glow up, says Martin, is to dust a shimmery gold highlighter (or gold eyeshadow if you're feeling wild; watch him break down his best shadow hacks, below) all up on your cheekbones. But don't just put it anywhere. For a believable glow, concentrate the color underneath your eyes and along your cheekbones to "brighten the complexion and add a nice radiance to the face without looking too much." Add a dab of gloss and you're good to go.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Germany's BASF SE, and two other big platinum and palladium dealers have been sued in the US in what the plaintiff's law firm called the first nationwide class action over alleged price-fixing of the metals.
In a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court in Manhattan, units of Goldman, BASF, HSBC Holdings Plc, and South Africa's Standard Bank Group Ltd were accused of having conspired since 2007 to rig the twice-daily platinum and palladium "fixings" and the prices of futures and options based on those fixings.
The plaintiff, Modern Settings LLC, a Florida-based maker of jewelry and police badges, claimed metals purchasers lost millions of dollars.
The defendants illegally shared customer data, used that information to engage in "front-running" of expected price moves, and manufactured phantom "spoof" orders, according to the plaintiff.
Platinum and palladium are used in catalytic converters to curb vehicle emissions, and they are also used in dentistry and jewelry.
On Oct. 16, the London Metal Exchange said it would on Dec. 1 take charge of platinum and palladium price fixing and use a new electronic platform.
The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd unit said the platform would replace a benchmark system established in 1989 and run by Goldman, BASF, HSBC, and Standard.
The complaint said such changes had "come too late" for Modern Settings and other prospective class members. The complaint seeks unspecified damages for the defendants' alleged violations of US antitrust and commodities laws.
Regulators around the world have tightened scrutiny of pricing benchmarks in recent years after uncovering evidence of rigging in currencies and the London Interbank Offered Rate.
The more stringent regulation has spawned new price setting platforms for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. Metals purchasers have filed similar lawsuits this year accusing banks of gold and silver price-fixing.
Goldman spokesman Michael DuVally and HSBC spokeswoman Juanita Gutierrez declined to comment. Standard Bank declined to comment.
A spokeswoman for BASF, the world's largest chemicals maker, said the group could not comment because it had not been notified of a complaint.
BASF generated 2.36 billion euros ($2.95 billion) in precious metals trading revenue last year. The London-based trading business is part of BASF's Catalysts division, which is the world's largest maker of catalytic converters.
The law firm Labaton Sucharow represents Modern Settings.
The case is Modern Settings LLC v. BASF Metals Ltd et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 14-09391.
(Additional reporting by Ludwig Burger and Frank Siebelt in Frankfurt and David Dolan in Johannesburg. Editing by Andre Grenon and Louise Heavens)
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I spoke with Deborah Ben-Canaan, partner and head of the Washington, DC in-house practice for Major, Lindsey & Africa, a leading global legal search firm. She provided great insight into determining career goals and what it means to advance your career in-house.
What does it mean to advance an in-house career? Is there one general formula for moving up and growing professionally?
It depends on what advancement means to you. For some people, this means a higher compensation; for others, it's a different title or broader skill set or leadership role. You need to carefully think about what advancement means to you and how you want to grow professionally. Different answers will take you down different career paths.
How does one advance their career in a corporate legal department since they tend to be flat with fewer turnovers?
You need to start by asking yourself what it is you want. Depending on the answer, there are a variety of different paths available to you. For example, you might choose to broaden your practice by acquiring more skills and volunteering to take on more responsibilities. By taking on more things, you can become indispensable to the organization. On the other hand, you might consider moving outside of legal and transitioning into compliance, government relations, or human resources. If your goal is to look for a better title, broaden the scope of responsibilities, or have more people reporting to you — and you aren't getting that in your current organization, you may need to consider looking elsewhere. And keep in mind that sometimes the next step is not a bigger company, but a bigger role in a smaller company.
Since we are talking about a title, how important is one?
Once again, this depends on your goal. A title is less important if you want to stay within your current organization and continue your professional growth by acquiring new skills, expanding your practice, getting leadership opportunities, and being compensated fairly. However, if you are looking to switch jobs, you want to consider the title and the significance of the role within the new company. A vice president in one organization means something completely different than that same title in another organization.
Since different companies have different title structures, how can someone find out where the new job they are interviewing for fits in?
The best approach would be to ask about the structure of the organization during the interview. This will give you an idea of where this position fits into the department and organization as a whole then you can determine if this job is a wise move for your career.
If the path someone wants to take is a leadership one, what type of skills do they need?
Being able to demonstrate that you have business and financial acumen and are able to think strategically — along with possessing actual leadership and management experience — will position you for success as a leader.
How does one obtain those skills while in their current position, especially if these are not in their current job description?
Volunteer to do more within your own organization. For example, if you are a litigator but are looking for contract drafting experience, ask to shadow your transactional colleague and then ask to assist with a smaller transaction. Also, look for learning opportunities externally. If you are interested in board governance experience, volunteering for a nonprofit board or becoming a president of your HOA are two examples of things you can do. For financial acumen — and even business skills — take classes or find a mentor in your finance group that will answer your questions. The more proactive you are in seeking knowledge, the more likely your leadership will take notice of the steps you are taking to advance yourself.
To help with professional advancement, should one proactively look for a sponsor?
Absolutely! A sponsor is someone who proactively touts your accomplishments and helps you identify new opportunities. Finding one is a natural process. You need to align yourself with the right person, identify a need, and become indispensable to that person. You should also consider finding a mentor, which is different from a sponsor, who may be outside of your legal organization and who will help you develop professional relationships.
Is there anything our readers should consider before starting on the road to career advancement?
In thinking about your career advancement, you should always ask yourself why you want to advance and what your goal is. Is it because you think you have to move up? You might be assuming that everyone wants to be a general counsel, but not everyone wants to be or should be one. And, that's OK! It is OK to excel as a corporate counsel, to work part time or even move into a non-legal position. You need to answer what advancing means to you personally, then the path will become clear.
I hope you enjoyed a peek into our conversation. As you begin on your path to career advancement, keep the following in mind:
1. Find ways to broaden you skill sets and volunteer to do more within your organization to show your initiative and interest in advancing.
2. Keep your resume up-to-date and maintain a running list of your accomplishments, which will help when you need to demonstrate all the hard work you have done.
3. Always take a recruiter call because the conversation will either help you appreciate your current position or introduce you with a new, better opportunity


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You are a space archaeologist. You have your own spaceship, holographic personal assistant and there are so many planets to explore! What could go wrong? You're right. Everything. Star Story: The Horizon Escape is a 2D point-and-click adventure game with colourful graphics and space shrimps.
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About Casey
Casey served as the Co-Commander of AWANA for FBC for two years, before accepting a call as the Children's Ministry Coordinator in November 2017. She is excited to see kids' accept Christ and grow their relationships with Him. She has been married to Luke since 2013, and together they have two children, Lane and Landree. Casey enjoys spending free time with her family and friends and serving the church, and there is nothing she enjoys more than seeing people experience the joy that comes from being in relationship with the Lord.


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You know nowadays its very hard to find love. Its like no one is wanting that togetherness like it use to be. What happened to meeting someone, dating, falling in love, getting married? I'll tell you what happened The Internet along with other reasons. After this internet dating started all this meeting someone by chance stopped. I know alot of single people both male and female its like mating season for us has stopped. Why do people not want to be married anymore? In my opinion there can be many reasons. Here are a few I have come up with. The main one I believe is.
1. Being hurt by the one you did love you just don't want to try again. For some its because when you were in a relationship or married and for one reason or two or three it was a bad relationship. It just makes some people not want to try again in fear of being hurt again. This one is very hard to get over for alot of us. Why though? I believe no matter what you should never give up on love. It was not meant for us to live this life alone.
2. There are so many fake people in this world now. Why do people deceive other people so much? Have they ever heard of karma? Some men and women don't have good intentions to start with. They are deceitful from the beginning using other people to get what they want. Thats not what relationships are about. Its about two people working together to get what they both want together. Not one pretending to love the other to get what they want. Marriage is you and your mate as a team of two loving and working together as one.
3. Some people just don't want to be in a relationship or be married. Yes there are some people that enjoy being single. The only thing they want is sex. They enjoy going from person to person just having sex and that is all they want period. I truly believe there are more of this type than any other except crazy. I'll talk about that one in a minute. Alot of people pretend to want to be in a relationship just to get sex. After they get the sex they are gone not to be heard from again. This is very dangerous with all these STD'S out here.
4. Crazy or should I say Mentally Unstable. There are actually crazy people out here preying on men, women, boys and girls. They go around seeking people they can pretend to love or want to be in a relationship with and they will actually kill you. I suggest when you first get a sign that something is just not right with someone you are dating or getting to know, Run. I mean as fast as you can you better get this person out of your life. Before you end up not having a life.
5. Internet Dating has taken the place of chance meeting and dating. Me personally I still prefer the chance meeting and dating. It just seems like alot of people have forgot how to approach someone in person and actually have a conversation. What happened to saying Hello to someone you are interested in getting to know? I know the way things are today we need to be careful. But there are some times when you can still meet by chance.
I've touched on just a few reason's Why Love Is So Hard To Find but there are many other reasons. Let me leave you with this. If you are looking for love it will find you never give up no matter what.


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Play Matters: Sunday Streets in the Third Ward
After every Sunday Streets HTX, I round up photographs and reflect on the event. What stood out for me on November 2 in the Third Ward was the play. Previous routes, especially Westheimer and 19th Street, were compact and lined with businesses, whereas on this last route activity was clustered at either end. All that space in between was open to playful appropriation.
In Play Matters (MIT Press, August 2014), Miguel Sicart argues that to play is to be in the world; playing is a form of understanding what surrounds us and a way of engaging with others. Play goes beyond games; it is a mode of being human. I am still reading Sicart's book and trying to wrap my mind around his rhetoric. In a blog post called "The Accelerated Flaneur," he writes that "playing is taking over the world to make it ours."
As I pointed out in my unofficial guide and in an interview for KUHF, the Third Ward route turned old dividing lines — African-Americans were permitted to live north of Alabama but not to its south — into a public space. To play along that route, then, takes on a special meaning. There is a politics to every movement, latent or indirect or unintended or overt.
Sicart notes that play can be harmful and destructive, and it can be subversive and liberatory. If at this Sunday Streets in the Third Ward we were taking over the world to make it ours, we have to ask who "we" are. The answer is complex. Participants appeared to come from within the neighborhood and outside of it and were quite diverse by race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Garnering even more people from the surrounding neighborhoods would likely have required more time and resources for door-to-door outreach.
I love the above photo of a man on a six-foot unicycle with his arms raised up. The figure of his body and the unicycle echoes the shape of the highway and its T-shaped concrete supports. He reminds me of the "carry-a-kid" caryatids at the Children's Museum of Houston (1992, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Jackson & Ryan Architects). This infrastructure was disastrous for the Third Ward when built. It chopped up a community, created a new boundary, displaced families, and accelerated disinvestment. The unicyclist somehow changes that story, temporarily of course, though the image has a life of its own.
Against the backdrop of huge banners calling attention to the "death" or "assassination" of Black Panther Carl Hampton in 1970, children danced, boxers sparred, fruit from NuWaters Co-Op was eaten, and a group of urban acrobats performed. That's about as close to a fully realized public space as I've ever seen in Houston.
I'll end with a quote from another blog post by Sicart: "Playing is a vaccine against darkness; playing is learning the world by taking it over; playing is maximising our being as humans."


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How can playing a game with my breath train my brain?
0.1 Hz breath gaming is brain training. Breathing is controlled by your brain.
.1Hz breathing engages the brain to enhance brain plasticity and neurogenesis—the birth of new neurons—by engaging the brain's vagal nerve.
Overtime, daily practice of .1 Hz gameplay can train the brain to chronically increase vagal nerve stimulation, enhances the capacity for plasticity.
The vagal nerve also promotes an anti-stress response that protects the brain from the damaging effects of chronic stress.


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Google 'inadvertently' removed Digg from from its indexes
Digg accidentally removed from Google's index
Google suffered a temporary case of dementia earlier today which resulted in Digg being erased from Google's indexes. The deletion of Digg from the index resulted from Google accidentally applying a Webspam filter to the whole site rather than the one link they were trying to disallow.
We're sorry about the inconvenience this morning to people trying to search for Digg. In the process of removing a spammy link on Digg.com, we inadvertently applied the Webspam action to the whole site. We're correcting this, and the fix should be deployed shortly.
It comes at an ironic time. Just a few days ago, Digg's Kevin Rose announced that they would build a replacement for Google's ill-fated Reader. Digg's General Manager Jake Levine added that the accidental removal wasn't too terrible for business:
The good news is that it doesn't really impact us all that much. The vast majority of our traffic is direct (like 90 percent) so it's not a huge deal for us from a business or user perspective.
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Friday, January 20, 2012 7:00pm
Will the year 2012 be the time where Apostolic students SHINE amongst their peers in school and throughout their community? The Bible says in Matthew 5:16 "In the same way, let your good deeds SHINE out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father." In order to fulfill that scripture, we must equip our young people with biblical principles and the guidance of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Come join us for the first Downpour Youth Service of 2012!
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Now through March 2 Cherry Creek High School and the Student Senate will be putting on its 4th annual Wish Week. Every year Creek raises money to be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Wish of a Lifetime foundations.
Half of the money that is raised is used to grant the wish of a suffering child. This year Creek will help grant the wish of 3-year-old Thalia. Thalia suffers from Optic Nerve Glioma. Thalia's wish is to go to Disney World, and Creek is determined to make that dream come true. Thalia enjoys the color pink, eating lollipops and listening to the music of Justin Bieber. She also loves popcorn, swimming, eating Italian food and playing with her younger sister.
The other half of the money will be donated to the Wish of A Lifetime Foundation, an organization whose goal is to honor those of the older generation by granting their wish. This year, Creek will be raising money to grant LeAnn's wish. Her wish is to fly in a hot air balloon. Creek's goal is to make LeAnn's dream a reality.
The events for the week included Putt-Putt throughout the school on Monday night; a Choir Concert on Tuesday night; a Playoff Basketball game with special guests on Wednesday night; and a Talent Show, on Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. There will be an assembly, Friday, March 1, at 2 p.m. in the CCHS South Gym..
If you are interested in making a monetary donation or finding more about the week, please log-on to the Cherry Creek High School website at www.cchs.ccsd.k12.co.us or download the Cherry Creek High School cell phone application from the Apple or Android stores. For further questions, please contact the CCHS Activities Office at 720-554-2393. Thank you for helping the Cherry Creek family in granting life-changing wishes.
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Nijo Castle is one of the must see spots on our Kyoto list. We were really surprised to hear several visitors to the city say they weren't going because there's 'no point when there's no castle'. It is true that the main tower of Nijo castle burned down centuries ago but there are still plenty of other reasons to visit.
Nijo is one of the more complete examples of a castle complex in Japan. It earns its place as a world heritage property for these many cultural assets. While several castles in Japan have retained the main castle tower often other aspects of what it once was are lost in time. Castles such as Himeji and Hikone do have original towers but the full site has not been retained as completely as Nijo when those towns were build up around it. In many instances the gardens, outer moats, other buildings and layers of fortification have been lost in time.
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A brief history of Nijo Castle
The castle was established in 1601 when Tokugawa Ieyasu decreed that the feudal lords of western Japan must contribute to it's construction. Ieyasu was an important figure in Japanese history as the first Shogun and founder of the Tokygawa shogunate that fundamentally ruled the country from 1600 – 1868. The Ninomaru Palace in the outer circle of defense was built first as the residence and offices of the shogunate.
The 5 story castle tower and Honmaru palace in the interior circle of defense was completed in 1626 during the time of his grandson Tokugawa Iemitsu. While the Tokugawa shoguns continued to treat Edo (Tokyo) as the capital, the Imperial Palace at the time was in Kyoto so the shogunate kept this impressive residence nearby.
In August 1750 a lightning strike hit the castle tower, the resulting fire burned it to the stone foundations. Disaster struck again in 1788 when a great fire swept Kyoto, it claimed the Honmaru Palace. Neither the castle or the palace were ever rebuilt.
In 1893 the palace of the Katsura Imperial family was relocated to the site from the Kyoto Gosho palace to become the new Honmaru Palace. The beautiful Honmaru gardens were also created at this time. The precursor of this change from a shogunate palace to an imperial one was of course the return to imperial rule in 1868. Known as the Meiji restoration the leaders of 40 feudal clans ended the Edo Bakufu government and returned power to the Imperial throne. In 1939 the Imperial household donated Nijo Castle to the city of Kyoto and in 1994 it was inscribed on the World Heritage list.
The structure and architecture
The grounds today are still complete and feature two concentric rings of fortification walls and wide moats. In many other castles the outer moats were filled in and lands cribbed from the castle ground to make way for growing town. Despite the immense value of the land that Nijo stands on it's remained intact in central Kyoto city.
The Ninomaru palace complex is a series of five buildings that connect on the diagonal, a shape compared to a flock of flying geese. As the palaces of Edo castle (Tokyo) and Osaka castle have been lost Nimomaru has provided a lot of information about the design and structure of the period.
Moving backwards from the main entrance, and closest to the entry gate the 5 sections are:
The Tozamurai
This is the Guard House and the largest building in the complex. Rooms here were used by the shoguns retainers, others were lounges where the feudal lords and Imperial messenger waited for an audience with the shogun.
The Shikidai
The Shikidai is the reception room and the smallest building made up of only two rooms. The highest ranking councilors of the military government would be based in here when the shogun was in residence and convey greetings and gifts from visitors to the shogun.
The Ohiroma
Ohiroma is the grand chamber that was used for meetings with feudal lords. At 92 tatami mats in size it was great in both size and opulence with its tiled ceiling and heavily decorated wall panels. The shogun would sit on the raised floor of the Ichinoma chamber while the feudal lords would sit below in obeisance in the Ninoma. The white paper screens shown on the outside corner below could be opened to provide an impressive sweeping view of the garden.
The Kuro-shoin
The forth section was the shoguns personal inner audience chamber. The tiled roof styling of the Ohiroma continues on through here. The areas is also styled with an ichinoma and ninoma used in the same way as the grand chamber to ensure the shogun retained the higher physical position and others looked up to him.
Finally the shiro-shoin was the Shoguns personal residence comprising his sitting room and bed chamber. While beautifully decorated with ink sketches this private area was less lavish in its opulence and decoration than some of the other rooms.
The Nightingale Floors
If you've heard or read much about the time of the samurai and ninja you will probably be familiar with the concept of the nightingale floors. If you've not heard of them then me telling you that you have to visit a place because the floors squeak is going to sound a little crazy but the tone and 'song' of these floors, plus the imagery of all those stories of intrigue and espionage, made it a must do for me.
Between the entrance to the Ninomaru Palace and the Ohiroma (the most important reception hall where the shogun would receive his visitors) you may be able to hear the singing floorboards announcing the arrival of a visitor. The chirping is created by wedges pushed up into the floorboards on the underside of the floor, the weight of someone walking over it causes the floor to move on the wedge rubbing it against nails near the beams and creating the noise. In Japan these floors are referred to as uguisubari or bush warbler floors. A bush warbler is a bird common around Kyoto with a beautiful song that led to it being known in English as the Japanese nightingale, hence the English name for the technique.
The floors were designed as a counter measure against thieves or spies and assassins, the ninjas of feudal Japan. They were complex and expensive, not something that was common but the homes of the top shogun and some other buildings did employ the technique. The photo below shows how the floor is created but this was taken at Chion-in temple in Kyoto on the overpass walkway which is much easier to access and observe the technique in use.
Seasonal highlights
There is no one right season to visit Nijo castle, the famed gardens are worth a visit in any season but as with much of Japan the spring blooms and autumn colours are perhaps the most popular. If you time it right you may also visit an evening light up event. We were a little early for peak blooms on this visit and when we returned to Kyoto a week or so later to a full flush of cherry blossom we had such a list of locations to visit we didn't make it back here at night.
Getting to Nijo Castle
There are several ways to get to Nijo Castle in central Kyoto depending on your starting point, personal preferences and available time.
The first option is on foot. Kyoto is a great city for walking, it's flat and much of it is compact for grouping highlights together. You might have read of our love for wandering around this beautiful city in our series on walking Higashiyama (the eastern hills area). We plan a central Kyoto version soon which will include Nijo Castle. From Kyoto station it is 4km by a direct route, from a more central location such as Nishiki Market or the nearby Daimaru it's 2km.
The second option is to use the bus system which is the cheapest option for getting around Kyoto. A day pass will cost you Y500 and you can jump on and off as you want but it can be crowded and the bus routes are convoluted making it a slow way to get around for shorter distances. If you are using the bus to get to Nijo Castle the Raku 101 bus is a good option, it's a tourist bus so announcements are made in English and the route is less convenient for locals so it often seems to be less crowded. This one covers the central west area so works for not only Nijo Castle but the Golden Pavilion, Ryoanji, Kitano Tenmangu shrine and the Nishjin textile centre if you're interested in a free kimono fashion parade.
The subway is the third option and the one we ended up using because of the combination of activities we had planned for the day. You want the Nijojo-mae stop and from Kyoto station will cost you Y600 each way, the subway comes out at the convenient south east corner of the castle grounds. There is a day pass for the bus and subway available for Y1200 if you have a few stops planned.
If you have a JR pass or prefer the train it's only Y190 from Kyoto station on the Sagano line but it's south west of the castle and is about a 1.5 km walk to the entrance. This option is really for anyone arriving at or staying near Kyoto station as unlike the bus and subway it doesn't pass through the main city areas.
Nijo Castle Visitor information
Opening Hours
Nijo castle is open from 8.45 am until 5 pm. Admission closes 1 hour prior to closing time. The Ninomaru palace opens from 9am until 4pm.
It is closed from 26 December until January 4 for the new year celebrations. We were also told it closes on Tuesdays during some months of the year (January, July, August, December).
Special Openings
There are extensive cherry blossoms and trees providing autumn colour through out the grounds around the Ninomaru and Honmaru palace. There are spring and autumn special openings where the grounds are lit and open into the evening. During this spring openings there are many young women walking around in kimono and yakata and we were told by one group of friends that they received free entry to many of the temples and historic spots when in traditional dress which is a great incentive for them to dress up.
Entry Fee
Entry is Y600
There are public restroom facilities, a tea room and souvenir shop on site.
There are also english audio guides available for hire for Y500. Some people seem to like these but after trying them once on our first trip at the silver pavilion we found it frustrating so worked it out the best we could ourselves as we went around.
Have you been to Nijo Castle? What were your thoughts, would you recommend it to someone visiting Kyoto city?


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Tom Deierlein (C1) '89 is still recovering from a serious hip injury sustained by a sniper round in Iraq. His spirits are high, though, during his recovery as this video on Fox NY news shows. As always, Tom is making us proud.
Archive for November 28, 2006
Tom Deierlein on Fox NY News
Nate Lamar Wins Election
Nate Lamar (A3) '89 won one of four district seats (three at-large seats are elected in Presidential years) on the Henry County Council (a county legislature in Indiana) with 62% of the vote and won all precincts in the district. He says:
I didn't realize this until yesterday when I finally crunched all the numbers (a little difficult for us HPA types!), but I'm thankful that I also "led the ticket," garnering the highest percentage of votes of any Republican candidate with major party opposition in my county. The 89 year-old female dairy farmer incumbent finally decided to retire, so this resulted in the open seat for which I ran for a four year term in this rural district.
Congratulations, Nate!
LTC Paul Finken (H1) KIA
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April 1st is a holiday only a 4th grader could love.
Dr. Who, however, is a tv classic that 4th graders and 40-year-olds alike adore.
The BBC staple even has its own fan club right here in Pittsburgh: Steeltown Whofans.
Together, The Hollywood Theatre in Dormont in association with Steeltown Whofans and Pittsburgh ComicCon had gathered up 200 some Dr. Who fans clad in their best cult gear for the 2nd annual Dr. Who costume party and 50th Anniversary showing of DALEKS- Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
To have 114 pre-sale tickets and another 100 at the door is a feat for any theatre, let alone an independently run one, hidden away in quaint Dormont.
Pittsburgh Who fans knew where to find the fun as Rose Tyler look-alikes, Doctors, and even a masterpiece of a cardboard costume Dalek (complete with lights and a little boy inside who shouted "Illuminate" instead of the Dalek motto "Exterminate") scuttled into the darkened theatre.
Unfortunately, the lights were not to come on that night. As all of the Whovians awaited the showing, snapping selfies with the other costumed guests and the Tardis cutout, the Hollywood staff ran around looking for answers and called Executive Director Chad Hunter to come in. Mr. Hunter himself thought it was an April Fool's joke at first, but later when he arrived, a representative from the electric company informed us all that sadly the lights would not come back on in time for the 8 o'clock showing.
The joke is on the power outage and perhaps April 1st itself. Why, you ask? Because all of us Whovians will be back at The Hollywood Theatre in Dormont on June 24th banging on the proverbial door of the time-traveling Tardis at exactly 7pm, eagerly awaiting the 8 o'clock showing of DALEKS- Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
And it's cheap too. Adult tickets are $10 at the door and online, Children get in for $6, and Members get in for just $5.
So again, now we all have a second chance to party at The Hollywood for the 2nd annual Dr. Who party.


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I'm so pleased to be givin an award from Lyn at Two Ghosts blog. She has a verity of unique posts which I have enjoyed reading. Many of the posts have a bit of macabre feel to them.
Thanx so much for taking the time to read and look at my stories and photographs I know I haven't posted in awahile but I hope to have a few new post up soon.


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