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Who's counting?
Seriously, I have no problem with it. I embrace my age. Hahaha... we will see if I say that in 364 days.
Speaking of numbers.
Number 75 raise your hand.
ELLEN, you won the Come and Knock giveaway. Oh yeah!
I will email you today so you can order your beautiful yellow wreath.
Speaking of wreaths.
No, it's not finished.
I worked on it once since we last talked about it.
The yarn kept knotting up.
I will post pictures though, trust me, it will be EPIC when I finish it.
Speaking of EPIC.
Really? Epic Underwear Sale. Don't want to miss that one.
Speaking of things you don't want to miss.
The last Birthday Month Giveaway.
Should I post it here?
Nah, I'll make you come back for more.
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A moral tale of crime and retribution, jam-packed with Bhutanese film stars, "In a Defiled World" is the latest effort from the prolific director Talop Wangchuk and was included in the Bhutan Cinema selection of Five Flavours Film Festival 2017.
Set in modern-day Thimphu, Bhutan capital city, the narration has a pre-title flash-prologue that places the plot very firmly in thriller territory. Mendrel (popular actress Lhaki Dolma) is a free-spirited woman who carries her strength and determination with plenty of confidence. When by pure chance in a difficult situation she bumps into a kind-hearted and helpful country folk called Tenzin (Tshering Phuntsho), something sparkling happens. Well, at least in Tenzin's hearth. Struck by her beauty and her positive aura he burns the bridges and, making a fool of himself, asks her immediately to marry him, hardly knowing her name. Mendrel laughs genuinely at him and Tenzin's offer of a comfortable life as a hen farmer's wife doesn't help either and eventually the two part.
Simultaneously, the movie follows the misfortunes of Penjore (Bhutanese heartthrob Sonam Tenzin), a charming and handsome gambler who's unable to fight back temptations and is gradually drowning in debt in the hands of a slimy loan shark (the other big star, Gyem Dorji).
We jump 3 years ahead and while things seem unchanged for Penjore, life has taken a very different course for Mendrel and Tenzin. After losing all his money and his farm in an accidental fire Tenzin is now penniless and job-searching in Thimphu. Following a job advert, he shows up for an interview, only to discover Mendrel is his interviewer and Company owner. She is indeed a successful entrepreneur after inheriting a little capital from an uncle and remembering how sincere and honest his proposal was, she decides to help him and give him the job. But despite her strong and rational mind, Mendrel meets a charming young man who is set to melt her heart and take advantage of her.
"In a Defiled World" is a well-executed pop movie that relies on good performances from beloved actors and a story that ticks the boxes of both entertainment and Bhutanese morality. The two alternating plot-lines are slightly confusing at first as if belonging to two different movies, but then slowly converge and start to make sense. In a very gentle way, the film is also a social commentary and an expose of what greed and money ambitions can do to people's lives. There is a very balanced sense of morality like in many Bhutanese tales. Good deeds will bring good results and bad action will be punished, in a way or another. There is no escape from this equilibrium and no nuances o noir-style ambiguity. Nevertheless, the good character studies and the dynamic editing both help to create a good pace and engage the viewer.
Lhaki Dolma as Mendrel is excellent, she especially shines when the movie offers a comedy moment and as the bossy but compassionate businesswoman. It is indeed very refreshing to see a female character in a powerful and major role. Together with Tshering Phuntsho, they form a well-balanced couple of actors and they have shaped two characters you really care about. Not surprisingly, during the final credits, they perform together a beautiful song and a clumsy (him) dance.
All in all "In a Defiled World" is a good piece of entertainment where solid performances make up for a plot-line that is partially weakened by predictability.

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Vitamin B9 Deficiency
General text about the lack of vitamins can be found here.
Vitamin B9 is also known as folic acid (folate). Our body can not produce this substance and we must therefore take it in food. It is a substance of great importance as it participates in many enzymatic reactions in our body. It is significant in metabolism of proteins and synthesis of DNA and RNA that are necessary for formation of new cells (very important in hematopoiesis and in development of human embryo). Like other vitamins of the B complex folic acid is present in large quantities in yeast and in leafy vegetables (spinach, kale and broccoli).
Deficiency of folic acid is usually caused by low dietary intake, which is typical for chronic alcoholics. The lack of vitamin also occurs in patients with diseases of digestive tract related to malabsorption of nutrients and in patients attending chronic dialysis programme. Relative deficiency of folic acid may occur in pregnant women, who have increased need of this substance that is necessary for proper fetal development. A very specific problem is the lack of vitamin B9 in patients treated with drugs containing sulfasalazine.
Probably the most typical manifestation of folate deficiency is anemia, which develops due to impaired formation of new blood cells. In the blood count we find erythrocytes with abnormally large volume, which is similar to pernicious anemia (which occurs in vitamin B12 deficiency). The anemia manifests with signs of anemic syndrome. Other symptoms include mouth ulcers, brittle nails, loss of appetite, diarrhea, headache and palpitations.
Due to the fact that folic acid is necessary for development of the human fetus, its deficiency in pregnancy is associated with more frequent occurrence of congenital defects (e.g. split spine).
Folic acid level may be easily measured in a laboratory from a sample of venous blood. If the reason for the examination is anemia with large blood cells, it is also advisable to measure the blood level of vitamin B12.
Folate may be administered as a dietary supplement in form of tablets; its increased income is mainly needed in pregnant women. Overdose by folate is virtually impossible as the vitamin is easily and rapidly excreted into the urine.
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U.N. Owen insanity
Late as usual, etc.
In this case, nooooooooo difference whatsoever.
The man's right – no words can describe this. Though to be honest, my primary motivation for playing Touhou is the music.
PS: And as a pointless note, this was linked to from Flandre's article.
By the way, a mix that does the song justice (without feeling too different) (Brain fart, it already is the version used in the above. Still, COOL&CREATE goodness): Now I must leave before I fanboy any further.
PPPS: (Sudden Flandre affinity!)
Speaking of which, I have never cleared Flandre's stage, ever – Sakuya already makes my fingers twitch…
PPPPS: What's with all the Touhou all of a sudden? Shrug.
Haven't gotten around to playing it yet, but… um, Subterranean Animism looks hard.
Bloody fast
Oh Jesus, thank you Hong Kong broadband. Of course, I still have to wait for a damn serial key, and been doing so for the past eight, sleepless hours. Thanks for the unreasonable requests, Dad.
EDIT: Well apparently, the key is only available to MSDN subscribers? [/facepalm + reading comprehension 101]
At last, a PRC win both public and moral
…in the form of a plug-in hybrid auto.
Okay, okay, maybe I'm jumping to conclusions a bit too quickly. But this brings up something I heard recently…
Luxury and Fashion Goods
America: Made in China
Canada: Made in China
China: Made in Italy
PS: And just for hilarity; US nuclear bomb lab develops 'self-warming' hand cream, and China Hosts Realistic-Looking Olympics.
Men scientifically proven to be weaker sex
Now, how the end of the world turns out is still up in the air, but in the short term, all I'm seeing is, "more women for less men."
Too bad, androgynous men of the future.
Windows 7 "won't need" a dedicated 3D accelerator
Oh, Microsoft, what the fuck.
About two years late, eh?
Snippets : October slash-and-dotting
Because you can never have too many links to material not written by yourself.
Oct.28 Unrelatedness: Y'know, I've suddenly found out that slashdotting is an actual term. Good thing I didn't put that in the title…
Scientists report experiments showing black holes cannot be 'naked'
That is, a black hole can never lose the event horizon. Basically, you can never see the actual singularity. I guess this is comforting for when the "micro black hole" scenario at the LHC wins out and the Earth collapses from gravitational overkill.
African continent to be divided by new ocean in 10 million years
This would be more relevant if humans can even survive the zombie apocalypse, deadly global pandemic, alien invasion, rise of the machines, second coming, the day after tomorrow, and all the 'mayhaps' shit thrown at us.
In keeping with the pessimism, this is rather foreboding. Eidos Montreal seem to be trying to streamline the game into another Call of Duty-style shooter, even though gameplay complexity and freedom was pretty much the whole point of Deus Ex, AKA THE BEST FIRST PERSON SHOOTER EVER (ahem). Now it just sounds like STALKER (or possibly Crysis), but without the gritty atmosphere or the awesome environment, respectively.
And no, no matter how surprisingly good this becomes, the diehards will hate it.
And now, something completely different: my two-month-old entry on Mirai Fukuin has somehow catapulted into my top-five posts in the last week. What the.
The LHC Will Kill Us All, Possibility #245
From Slashdot:
Physicists have been playing with Bose Einstein Condensate (BECs) for over 10 years now. But in 2001, one group discovered that placing them in a powerful magnetic field could cause the attractive forces between atoms to become repulsive.
This was little more than a curiosity when only a microscopic blob of cold matter was involved. But superfluid liquid helium is also BEC. And physicists have suddenly remembered that the LHC is swimming in 700,000 liters of the stuff while being zapped by some of the most powerful magnetic fields on the planet. So is the LHC a Bose supernova waiting to go off? Not according to the CERN theory division, which has published its calculations that show the LHC is safe. They also point out that no other superfluid helium handling facility has mysteriously blown itself to pieces.
All right, move along, nothing to see here. But if an Earth-shattering kaboom – or kaphumf, in the case of black holes – does occur you'll be sure to find us apologising from our fleeing private space shuttles.


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If you find yourself in the East End at a loose end, visit Hackney City Farm. There are your typical farmyard characters to visit (great to amuse small children), fresh produce to buy and if you're more my way inclined, then you'll be most enticed by the option of a homespun breakfast.
Frizzante, the cafes that lies within the farm also has residency at the other 2 city farms (that I know of) – Surrey Docks Farm in Rotherhithe and Mudchute Farm on the Isle of Dogs.
The menu is sumptuous, offering brunches catering to all tastes with a separate blackboard of scrummy pasta dishes thrown in for good measure. Our group are all nursing this season's colds and opt each for a Hot Toddy mix of Ginger, Lemon, Cinnamon and Honey to ease our throats.
The interior is fairly basic- standard cafe issue tables and chairs, notices of upcoming events on the walls and plenty of high chairs designed for the young' uns.
Two in our party opt for the Vegan Brunch – Tomatoes & Oyster Mushrooms on Sourdough toast. The tomatoes are still on the vine and sweet and sharp and simply grilled along with the Mushrooms, is one of the best options on the menu.
Husband opts for the Farmer Breakfast with a full complement of Sausage, Bacon, Mushrooms and Tomato and Scrambled Eggs.
But I think I'm the one that's really lucked out – I've opted for the Canadian Brunch, where I have Grilled Homemade Banana bread to mop up my creamy scrambled eggs and bacon. Not at all sure why Banana bread makes my breakfast Canadian, but it's not really something I'm going to question. One to replicate at home perhaps.
Prices are somewhat typical of central London, but the food is fresh, the atmosphere homespun and there is the option of farmyard amusement before and after. As its a Sunday morning, we opt for a quick wander down Columbia Road to peruse the Flower Market and consider bringing back the better part of a florist home with us to see us through the week ahead.


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Apple has been providing a support for installing Microsoft Windows operating systems on all Apple hardware equipped with an Intel processor through Boot Camp. But hardware compatibility issues sometimes are very annoying.
The MacBook and MacBook Pro CirrusLogic sound chip are notorious for unsupportive sound drivers in Boot Camp 3 and 3.1. The internal microphone is not working in these machines and the volume of the loudspeakers is painfully low.
There is no official solution to the problem but Luca has proposed a work-around (that worked for me). His first solution is not working but the second one works like charm. It involves downloading the previous version of Boot Camp and extract the audio driver to update the current drivers.


text: In 1984, the State Court of Appeals heard the case Majauskas v. Majauskas, a divorce case which concerned pension plan distribution. The plaintiff argued that his pension rights were not marital property because he began work for the Rochester Police Department before the marriage. He was vested in the pension plan when the marriage ended, but was not yet entitled to benefits. His ex-spouse believed she was entitled to a portion of the pension which was accrued during the marriage. The Appeals Court agreed with her. Out of the ruling came what is now called the Majauskas formula.


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If you walk the miles of trails on Ben and Susie Feldman's 321 acres of wooded land, you eventually come to a sign marking the exact point where the three towns of Athol, Petersham, and Phillipston come together. Those three towns have now joined together to protect the Feldman's land, and 2,000 additional acres, as part of the Quabbin Heritage Landscape Project, funded in part by a $1,260,000 grant from Massachusetts' Landscape Partnership Program (LPP).
Quabbin Heritage focuses on protecting scenic and working landscapes in Athol, Petersham, Phillipston, and Barre. Partners include Mount Grace, the Towns, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation: Division of Water Supply Protection, East Quabbin Land Trust, and the landowners.
The Feldmans have created an expansive trail system for hiking, biking, and equestrian use during their years on the land. Protected portions of the land will be open for public recreation once the project is complete. Like most of the participating landowners, the Feldmans will continue to own, and live on, their land, but conservation restrictions will be held by the Towns in partnership with Mount Grace.
Further west, the Stoddard and LeBlanc families have conveyed their abutting properties to the Town of Athol, giving Athol nearly 200 new acres between White Pond and South Athol Pond to manage for timber and for public recreation, including hiking and hunting. Mount Grace will hold conservation restrictions on the properties. Ernie LeBlanc, one of five brothers raised on the LeBlanc land, says the family is "pleased to be able to protect this land for future generations to use as we did: for exploration, bird and nature study, and for our father's favorite—blueberry picking." Connie and Larry Blakley's nearby forest have also been protected, connecting already-conserved land together to create a forested corridor from South Athol to the tens of thousands of acres around the Quabbin Reservoir.
In Petersham, landowner Carly Hutchinson plans to protect 168 acres abutting land conserved in 1996 by her late parents, Theodore and Beverly Hutchinson, as part of Mount Grace's first Forest Legacy project in 1996.
In Phillipston, $70,000 of the grant has been earmarked to help create a new park on Town land next to the elementary school and ball field. "A new park is something we can really use. We don't really have a lot of outdoor spaces where people can gather," says Wayne Richard, of Phillipston's Planning Board and Parks and Recreation Committee. "Now that we've got the grant we can move forward. We'll start having informational meetings soon and I'd like to invite every Phillipston resident to let the Parks and Recreation Board know what they'd like to see in the new park." Phillipston will also work with the Hakkila family to conserve 180 acres of land that will be used as matching value to help qualify for the grant.
In Barre, East Quabbin Land Trust will work with James Engel to protect land next to the Prince River Wildlife Management Area. All told, the grant will help protect more than 2,700 acres, including working forests, rare species habitat, and the headwaters of the Quabbin Reservoir while providing corridors of open land to connect 130,000 acres of protected habitat in the region.
"The LPP grant program works as a dollar-for-dollar matching grant," explains Mount Grace Land Conservation Specialist Sarah Wells. "For each dollar LPP contributes, we need to show at least another dollar of value matching it. Luckily, this new grant can be matched by a portion of our unprecedented $7 million federal Quabbin to Wachusett Forest Legacy grant that's already in the works. We don't get opportunities like this very often, so we're stretching the state and federal dollars as far as possible to help local families protect their lands and livelihoods."


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The building is constructed of concrete masonry unit walls with brick veneer and an exterior insulating finish system. Parking is provided in several designated areas at the west and east ends of the property. The heating and cooling for each unit is provided by an individual upright through-wall electric heat pump. Electric power is supplied from the public utility service and each apartment has an individual electric panel with seven breakers.
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Air Conditioning
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HATED it. Las Vegas would not exist without it. It has been credited with everything from lowering the incidence of heart attacks to the rise of the sun belt. It has been blamed for the disappearance of the front porch and the exploding size of the federal government. Few of this century's inventions have been so damned and praised as air conditioning. The rock band NRBQ once wrote a song called "I Love Air Conditioning," which included the lyric "And when I'm tired, and I'm so confused/Air conditioning I will use." There is even a mythology of air conditioning: for years the (unfortunately) baseless tale has circulated that the big character heads--Mickey, Goofy, et al.--at Disney World and Disneyland are air-conditioned. Like the car and the television set, air conditioning has always done double duty. It is both an appliance and a social force.
People knew they wanted air conditioning long before they were able to produce a machine that could do the job. The early efforts would have made Rube Goldberg blush. The first serious attempt to build an air conditioner in the United States took place in Florida in the 1830s. Dr. John Gorrie created a system that forced air over buckets of ice suspended from the ceiling to lower the temperatures of hospital patients suffering from malaria and yellow fever. Not much progress had been made by the summer of 1881, when President James Garfield lay dying from an assassin's bullet. Naval engineers contrived a box in which melted ice water saturated flaglike cloths over which a fan blew hot air. This could lower the room temperature by 20 degrees, but in the two months that their machine comforted the dying president, it consumed more than half a million pounds of ice.
What we would recognize as an air conditioner--a machine that cools, cleans and dehumidifies air--was not invented until 1902, when a young engineer named Willis Carrier created what he called an Apparatus for Treating Air. Carrier built his machine for the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and Publishing Co. in Brooklyn, N.Y., where humidity was bedeviling printers' efforts to accurately print color. Carrier used chilled coils to cool the air and lower humidity to 55 percent--or to any level desired and precisely every time. This exactness was the most wondrous aspect of the new invention. Carrier's machine was the template from which all future air conditioners would be struck.
Printing plants, textile mills, pharmaceutical manufacturers, the occasional hospital-the first air-conditioned buildings were mostly industrial. (The idea of using Carrier's invention merely for personal comfort lay decades in the future, although the first air-conditioned home appeared in 1914, when Charles Gates, son of the high-rolling gambler John "Bet a Million" Gates, installed a cooling system in his mansion in--of all places--Minneapolis.) Carrier's earliest systems were enormous and expensive, as well as dangerous. The original coolant was toxic ammonia. But in 1922 Carrier achieved a double breakthrough, replacing the ammonia with a benign coolant called dielene and introducing a central compressor that made the cooling units much more compact. The biggest step forward came when Carrier sold his invention to the movies, or, more exactly, movie-theater operators.
A handful of movie palaces were air-conditioned in the early '20s, but the most important debut was at the Rivoli on Broadway in New York City in 1925. Adolph Zukor himself, the head of Paramount Pictures, showed up for the opening. Willis Carrier was there, too, literally sweating it out because when the doors opened to let in the first customers, the system had just been turned on and the building was still hot. "From the wings we watched in dismay as 2,000 fans fluttered," Carrier wrote of that night. "We felt that Mr. Zukor was watching the people instead of the picture--and saw all those waving fans." At last cool air began flowing through the air ducts. One by one, the patrons dropped their fans into their laps. "Only a few chronic farmers persisted," according to Carrier, "but soon they, too, ceased fanning. We had stopped them 'cold'."
Before long, office buildings, department stores and railroad cars got central air. In 1928 the U.S. House of Representatives got it, followed a year later by the Senate and a year after that by the White House and then the Supreme Court. But the industry's biggest growth spurt came after World War II. The first window units appeared right after the war, and sales took off immediately, jumping from 74,000 in 1948 to 1,045,000 in 1958. The dripping box jutting out of the bedroom window joined the TV aerial on the roof as instant fixtures in the American suburban landscape.
Washington journalists have written endlessly and only half-jokingly about the effects AC has had on D.C., pointing out that the federal bureaucracy mushroomed only after air conditioning appeared on the scene to keep the city's famously fetid summers at bay. (Federal workers used to be sent home whenever the temperature/ humidity index topped 90 degrees.) But sociologists and historians have been largely silent about a much larger change: the rise of the sun belt in precisely the same decades that air conditioning became commonplace south of the Mason-Dixon line.
In the 1960s, for the first time since the Civil War, more people moved into the South than left it. In the next decade, twice as many people moved in as departed. The South today is a busier, more crowded, more urban, more industrialized place than it was 50 years ago. It even looks different. Walk down the street of a Southern or a Southwestern city at night, and there's no one out. All you can hear is the sound of the heat pump on the side of the house; all you can see is the blue glow behind the living-room curtains. Where people once wore seersucker and linen, the shoppers of Atlanta and Houston and Phoenix now buy the same clothes people buy in Cleveland or Seattle.
With 95 percent of the houses buttoned up for air conditioning, their porches gone, the owners inside all year round, there is no longer any need to accommodate the weather. As Raymond Arsenault, a professor of history at the University of South Florida, points out, "Ask any Southerner over 30 years of age to explain why the South has changed in recent decades, and he may begin with the civil-rights movement or industrialization. But sooner or later he will come around to the subject of air conditioning. For better or worse, the air conditioner has changed the nature of Southern life." Mostly, Arsenault suggests, by making it less Southern.
"General Electric has proved a more devastating invader than General Sherman," Arsenault writes. The only thing that allows us to talk about places as different as Miami and Houston and Knoxville and Tucson in the same sentence, the only thing, in fact, that allows us to entertain the notion of something called the sun belt, is that all those places are less unique, blander, if you will, than they were before air conditioning. "The modern shopping mall is the cathedral of air-conditioned culture," says Arsenanlt, "and it symbolizes the placelessness of the New South." Perhaps, but it is, at last, a cool place.


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What's Left Of Utopia : photography : Julien Mauve
I fell in love with the beautiful haunting images by french photographer Julien Mauve.
"This project acknowledges an impoverished landscape and loss of space due to the inhumanity of the structures we choose to build. In this mixture of grief and hope, the characters appear on the point of disappearing within the fog that engulfs those urban utopias, considered at the time of construction to be symbols of progress. Disembodied witnesses, they become actors in a play of which the ending is uncertain"


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Adequate elbow strength can allow you to avoid or recover from injury. The musculature involved with elbow function perform the motions of elbow bending, straightening and rotation, as well as some wrist motions. Beginning with light weights, you should be able to perform three sets of 10 repetitions. Once you are easily able to do this, you may increase your weight. Dumbbells or small hand weights are ideal for many of these exercises.
Biceps exercises increase the strength of your elbow flexion. Standing with your feet shoulder width apart, hold a barbell, which is a single long weight bar. Your hands should be shoulder width apart. Begin with your arms extended, palms facing forward. Bend your elbows as far you can, lower and repeat. From this same position, grasp a dumbbell or small weight in each hand. Bend your arms one at a time, raising one as you lower the other. Turn your thumbs so that they are facing forward and repeat with hammer curls.
Triceps exercises increase your elbow extension or straightening. Standing in an upright position, grasp a dumbbell with your arm straight overhead. Stabilizing your upper arm with your other hand, slowly bend your elbow, allowing your hand to lower behind your head. Straighten it back out. Lean over and support your weight on the back of a chair. Raise your arm behind you, with your elbow bent. Keeping your upper elbow parallel to the floor, straighten your arm behind you. Lower and repeat.
Rotation of your palm into an upward and downward position will increase your pronator and supinator musculature. Begin in a seated position with your elbow flexed and resting on the edge of a table. Grip the end of a dumbbell with your thumb pointing toward the ceiling. Slowly rotate your palm downward until the dumbbell is parallel to the floor. Turn your palm back so that it is facing the ceiling and the dumbbell is again parallel to the floor to complete one repetition.
Wrist flexion and extension exercises will increase the musculature that supports elbow function. Begin with your forearm resting on the edge of a table and your elbow flexed. Hold onto a weight with your palm facing the floor. Bend your wrist back as far as you can toward your forearm to extend the muscle. Slowly lower back to the neutral starting position and repeat. Turn your arm so that your palm is facing the ceiling and repeat the above exercise by flexing your wrist toward your elbow and back to starting position.
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The idea of Omnia is to create two identities at the same time: layered, matt and evolved on the outside and smooth and fine on the inside. Due to the isolating double walls with air in between hot stays hot and cold stays cold for a long period of time. Where matt and smooth come together, you touch the bowl and mug with your lips. This edge represents one of the most direct physical experiences possible with an object, and represents the essence and precision of Fürstenberg. Omnia consists only of four components. A dinner plate, a breakfast/dessert/side plate, a bowl and the mug are for us the essence of a modern tableware.
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In 1996, Jeff Schade began CF Physical Therapy in a single building in Pontiac, Illinois with the idea that the patient should come first-always! Now 20 years later and with several clinics operating in central and southern Illinois, the mission continues to be our guiding principle. We have treated patients, provided great experiences and produced positive outcomes for thousands of patients, but most importantly we have created thousands of relationships in the communities we serve. We realize physical therapy is a choice and that is why we appreciate being selected as your physical therapy provider. We want to earn your trust every time you come through our doors.
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Karen couldn't stop thinking about the pub last night. She had tried to tell everyone about the time that Allan had caught his little finger in the bathrobe, and ended up calling out the fire brigade to cut him out. She ended up embarrassing herself by getting it all in completely the wrong order and forgetting key details entirely.
Still, she thought to herself, as she worked alone in her private wool mill. I may be totally useless at telling stories, but at least I can spin a good yarn.
She smiled. Then she stopped smiling and wished that she had thought of it last night.
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Its been two years since Canadian trio Sports released their self-titled debut EP, a record that showed off their range. Syntax Error is a bit psychedelic with some muffled vocals, while the cheerful guitar and synths of Castlots are compelling enough. And, of course, Fleetwood sounds like the bands best stab at Fleetwood Mac a poppy, sunny tune that might wrap its way around your head for a few days. Its doubtful the song would turn Lindsey Buckinghams head, but you cant blame Sports for trying. Two years down the road, its these songs that still makes a full-length highly anticipated. With Austra, Tumble Dry, DJ FITS. BRYDEN MCGRATH
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Date: Sunday April 28, 2019
Location: Lake Hodges.
Start/Finish: Rancho Bernardo Community Park.
Packet Pick-up Location: Packet Pick-up will take place at the starting area. All racers will receive their bib when you check in. Make sure to get your medal when you finish then proceed to the check in tent where you will receive your custom, technical fabric race shirt and race logo pint glass.
Click here for Directions to Start/Finish area and Parking
Parking: There is ample parking at the start/finish area.
Half Marathon Start: 7 am
5K Start: 7:20 am
(Mandatory Race Day Check-in: 5:30-6:45 am FOR ALL RACE DISTANCES!)
(Parking Lot opens at: 5:30pm)
***Please have your photo ID ready to show in order to pick up your bib. You can also have a picture of YOUR ID to show on your smart phone******
Course Map Half Marathon: Note…..course is subject to mild changes depending on weather and any trail closures
Course Map 5K:
Course cut-off:
- Half Marathon: The course cut-off time is 4 hours. No finisher awards will be given for any racer not completing the course within 4 hours.
- 5K: Course cut-off time is 80 minutes. No finisher award will be given for any racer not completing the course in 80 minutes.
Aid Stations: There will be 5 aid stations on the Half Marathon course. The 5K will not have any aid stations but there will be water at the finish.
Entry Fees:
Foxy Trail 5K
- $43 – Early Bird through February 14, 2019 ($47 starts January 15, 2019)
- $47 – closes 3/31/2019 at midnight ($53 starts April 1, 2019)
- $53 – until race sells out
Foxy Trail Half Marathon
- $67 – Early Bird through February 14, 2019 ($77 starts February 15, 2019)
- $77 – 3/31/2019 at midnight ($87 starts April 1, 2019)
- $87 – until race sells out
Refund Policy:
Refund Policy: There are no refunds…no exceptions. Dirt Devil Racing does allow for bib transfers or distance changes 2 weeks or MORE prior to the race, however there is a $5 admin fee to do so.
Steps to CHANGE the distance you want to run:
1. You must notify the race director (firstname.lastname@example.com) with your request no less than 2 weeks out from the race. Give full name used for sign-up, and the NEW distance you want to run if dropping down for any reason. That's it. Simple.
Steps to CHANGE the Racer's Name/Info:
1. If transferring your bib to another racer … You must notify the race director of your full name used for sign-up, the full name of the the person taking your bib, and their email address. The NEW Racer must also notify the race director (firstname.lastname@example.com) and then go to ultrasignup.com to register their own information and sign the release. Upon completion, the NEW Racer will be prompted to pay….DO NOT at that point… but instead proceed to checkout where they will see a balance of $5.00 (This is the change fee.) If it says anything other than "$5" take a picture of the screen, get off the site, then contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
If all necessary information is not provided to the race director in the time-frame required, the bib will be "disqualified." Again … No bib transfers will be accepted within 2 weeks from Race Day …….no exceptions.
Race day changes are NOT guaranteed, but every effort will be made in emergency cases only. Please see "Krista" at Bib Check-in.
Race Schwag: All finishers receive a race logo stadium cup, moisture wicking race logo shirt and custom race medal.
Prizes/Awards: Prizes provided to Overall Male and Female 1st-3rd and First place Age Group Winners. Please see the Race Prizes Page for more details.
Half Marathon and Progressive Series Pricing
You must sign up for early bird/Tier 1 pricing for each individual race. Sorry but there is not an additional discount or way to sign up for all 4 at once.
- You must run all 4 races to be eligible for the series. Run all 4 Half's or the 5K, 10K, 15K and Half.
Half Marathon Course Description: This local San Diego Trail Half Marathon runs around beautiful Lake Hodges right off of Interstate-15. The race starts at West Bernardo Park and crosses the new stone suspension bridge from the South side of the Lake to the North side. After crossing the bridge runners head west along the North Shore trail overlooking the lake. After passing through the marina runners enter a wooded area and run along the lake shore. This race is an out-n-back.
***NOTICE: Actual Course distance is 13.3 miles! This is a trail race and therefore distances can't always be exact. Don't worry, we won't charge you extra for it. *** It is MANDATORY (HIGHLY SUGGESTED) that all Half Marathon runners carry at minimum 12 oz. hand bottle for hydration. This is a trail race and we are trying to eliminate the use of cups at Aid Stations to truly go green and sustainable. We need you to do your part. We will meet you half way this year … but may go completely green in 2018. So start running with a handbottle or backpack now!
5K Description:
The 5K is flat and fast with lots of lake views and single track technical trail. There are no aid station for the 5K so please bring your own water. This race is a loop.
Post-Race Party and Awards Ceremony: Will be held on site at Rancho Bernardo Community Park. Please bring something to eat and drink (unless you like beer….we are sponsored by Mike Hess Brewing Company so we will have beer!)
About This Race … and it's role in the Half Marathon Series:
The Foxy Trail Half Marathon is brought to you by Dirt Devil Racing.com and is the first Trail Half Marathon of four Half Marathons being held in 2019 as part of the " Half Marathon Series." All our trail races are incredible, but this Foxy out and back race is probably the most scenic course in our series.
If you plan to do the Series you MUST run all FOUR races in the Series. The Foxy in April, and the Wildhorse on June 30th are the first two. Virtual Stairway to Heaven in August, and Raptor Ridge October 13 completes the Series … so do NOT miss this first race!)
If you do NOT plan to do the series and just want to run a great trail Half Marathon … this is still one of the faster and most scenic Half Marathon trail courses that we offer. It sold out last year, and we expect the same this year!
Race Results: Preliminary race results will be available at the finish line. Please do not interrupt the professional timing team. Just as you want an accurate time, so do the racers that have yet to finish behind you. We will have the Overall & Age Group Winner times available when the race is finished and results will be posted by the next day on ultrasignup.com. All race times and distance placing will be available on the DirtDevilRacing.com website no later than the Wednesday after the race.
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We are big fans of Cosatto in the Freckle house. They are reliable, colourful and made with both the parent and child in mind. But they do not forget the fun. Their designs and colourways always get me a little giddy and I love love LOVE seeing when they have a new product due to be released!
You will have seen this beauty of a pushchair on my Instagram lately after Cossatto kindly gave me one to giveaway! I have never come across such an amazing team, who genuinely work together with proper love for their brand. If you don't believe me then check out their website, they have been nominated one of the best places to work and most trusted workplace. Now that is bloody impressive.
However, what is more impressive is their attention to detail and the needs for not only the babes in your life, but yours too. So without further ado, I bring to your attention …..drumroll please……..
The Busy!
This is the latest release from Cosatto and it does not disappoint. If you need a pushchair that is nippy, easy to manoeuvre and as stylish as they come then you definitely need to check the busy out.
We have got the spectroluxe colourway (as I am a colour lover) but it also comes in two other colourways.
When it arrived I was so excited and it was so easy to assemble, I literally popped the wheels on and opened it up and with the one maneuver it was ready to go. Honestly no manual required! Perfect!
Pretty and Nippy
I have had quite a few different pushchairs, and as you will know with children they grow far too quickly and require different needs. This is the ultimate lightweight get out and about pushchair.
The Busy is very lightweight. Like surprisingly lightweight! but do not let that deceive you, it handles the paths and country roads just as well as each other and we even took it camping and it withstood LOTS of rain and mud!
I can maneuver it EASILY with one hand and has took well to both city and rural paths.
When collapsed it lays flat, which is super super ideal for fitting into any boot and fits in without a problem. Then when taking it out there is just one clip and it pops up in a flash.
This has to be the ultimate go around town pushchair. The basket is huge and is easy to access and when the baby needs a nap its easy to lay them down.
It has a firm place in my boot so that I know I have it when I go shopping. However with the cosy snug that comes with it, I know that come the winter it will be my go to pushchair.
Stylish as it is practical, Cosatto have well and truly hit the mark with this one.
Well done Cosatto, this is an ideal pushchair for the busy mum who wants to pop to the shops and go somewhere rural all in the same day without worrying about whether the pushchair will withstand both.
Find it here in all its glory!


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There was a lot of hype around Chris Ritter's Surge Strength ebook. I just bought the book which at $4.99 I think is a steal. If you have read it or have experience with Chris' strength training program please let me know in the comments about your experiences.
Water is Life
Surge Strenght
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Extreme Cardio from Natalie Coughlin
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Great video by Yahoo! Sports with Natalie Coughlin showing some of her dryland work.
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Just this past week I also worked again with the swimmer from Tampa Bay Aquatics while on their 3rd team training trip in the Florida Keys. This time around it was more focus on dryland and circuit work as Gary did the technique sessions. You can read Julia Lamb's, TBAY coach, testimonial on their experience on the Race Club website.


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I am sure you know that hubs is a rugby player. He loves this sport. I tolerate it and I understand the game. More than I want to understand. And don't tell Sean but sometimes I actually like it. But more when he isn't playing.
It just happened that we would be on vacation while the Rugby World Cup was on so we went searching for a pub that would be airing the game that way we could watch and eat.
All ready to watch some Rugby:
We even met some other rugby crazies.
After the game ended we just took random pictures.
I liked the red chair. And hubs wanted to take pictures this night. Took advantage of that.
Love this picture. It's so cool.
We ended the night with the most delicious, biggest slices of pizza we've ever had. I am still looking for this tomato, basil, cheese slice. Pure perfection.
We went to bed that night, hoping that the weather forcast was wrong and that the sun wanted to play with us. I mean, come on, we only had 2 days left.


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New Vocab. 4/29 Test
Student Showcase
The last couple of years, we have had a final exam that consisted of a science fair. This year, with the change in dates of STAAR, I didn't feel that we could do our usual science fair. Instead we are doing a Student Showcase event. It will still serve as our final exam and will some what be a sort of a science fair.
The students were able to choose their own objective. I shared with them the TEKS that were studied this year and they were able to choose their favorite or most interested objective. They were then able to choose what ever kind of project they would like to to demonstrate their learning of the objective. Any free time in class is devoted to their project. They also have a pride time class that they are able to use for planning and design. I check in with the 2 times a week on their progress through Google Classroom. They were to copy their objective onto a Google Doc and then beginning their brainstorming process. The next step was to list their materials and begin their plan.
We will check in again this week, they should be adding links and pictures of their plans. The step after will be their first drafts of their models.
I have included some planning documents that were used in the process. The rubric, courtesy of Alice Keeler, is a digital form that allows grading to be done along the way, feedback and then with Flubaroo, emailed back to the student. The parent letter, is to inform them of the importance of the project. It is a final exam, attendance is required. We are hoping that every attempt will be made to attend the event. The practice presentation forms need to be tweaked a bit, but will serve the purpose for now. The final link are the TEKS that were put into a Google Doc -it has readiness standards underlined. The students must focus on the readiness. Differentiation occurs with the students including readiness and supporting.


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Editions hosts first Liverpool open exhibition
Editions is very pleased to be hosting and collaborating with Loaca Art to bring you the launch of the Liverpool Open Arts exhibition. Featuring a wide range of styles sizes and artists, we have tried to make this, the first of what we hope will be an annual event, as inclusive a show as possible with photography, limited edition prints and paintings from some of the most interesting artists working in and around Liverpool.
We have been impressed with the quality and range of work from both artists we know and much to our surprise some impressive pieces from artists whose work is new to us.
This is a wonderful opportunity to see work from so many contributors in one space and we intend to squeeze in as much as we can on both our ground floor and top floor spaces. The artists and works are too numerous to list . Most of the work will be available to purchase and as well as featuring a variety of media there is also a range of prices from small prints and photographs to large scale originals.
We hope you will join us on what promises to be a very exciting event and one that will be repeated annually


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cookbook reviews with kristina: gluten-free and more!
At first I thought that this week I'd offer some books that marry well with Julia's Blackberry pie (Rose Levy Beranbaum's Pie and Pastry Bible comes to mind!). Who isn't curious for pastry and pie making tips? But then I thought…why not offer some ideas for those of you who can't have gluten, don't eat gluten, or are looking for some great alternatives to wheat flour/gluten based recipes. If you have favorite gluten-free resources, please share them here or on Twitter, I'd love to learn more, too! –Kristina
CLICK HERE for the full cookbook reviews after the jump!
I have two books tied for first place this week. The first is Red Velvet & Chocolate Heartache by Harry Eastwood (Bantam Press). This is a phenomenal book that has moved to my inner circle, especially for entertaining or group events where you are unsure of dietary restrictions. Note, it relies heavily on nuts, so if you have nut allergies, this is not a good book for you. However, if you can have nuts, Eastwood has designed all of the recipes to use rice flour and wheat flour interchangeably. She also has designed the majority of her recipes to use vegetables (carrot, zucchini, butternut squash, sweet potato, even eggplant!!) often in place of butter or oil, consequently the cakes are fantastic and soft without compromising at all on flavor. In fact, she calls these healthy natural cakes! (Which seems like an oxymoron, but try for yourself and see.) To sweeten, Harry uses muscovado sugar or honey. These unique cakes (think Zucchini and Chamomile Cupcakes) are a welcome change to the usual flavor combos I see around. She has given her cakes personalities, and describes each one to you as though they were a neighbor or friend. Chapters include her recipe development notes which give insight into how the final recipe came to be. I am particularly fond of the Coffee and Walnut Courage Cake, and the Almond Vanilla Honey cake with Apricots. My celiac colleagues give the cakes a thumbs up! With wonderfully styled and photographed images of her very home-made (but neat) looking desserts, I love flipping through this book for photography ideas.
Tied for first place for me this week is also Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights by ex plus-sized model Sophie Dahl (published by HarperCollins). This book is the result of Sophie Dahl's 'coming to terms' with her relationship with food, and is a personal narrative as well as a collection of recipes. The recipes are generally portioned for one to two people, and are designed to provide healthy, balanced, flavorful meals. The chapters are divided into seasons and each season into meals (7 breakfast, 7 lunch, 7 dinners for each season). To celebrate the coming autumn for example, last weekend, I made Indian Sweet Potato Pancakes (with scallions and curry) and Squid and Chargrilled Peppers with Cilanto dressing. The photography and colors in the book are so inviting, I just pick images and go source the ingredients so that I can taste. There is enough variety in the book, that vegetarians (Vegan and non) as well as omnivores will find plenty of satisfaction. If lots of pictures of an author in their own books annoys you, consider yourself warned! You can see sample images from both of these books by following their hot links above)
Uncooked by Lyndsay and Patrick Mikanowski (Flammarion). This is certainly a book to pick up if you'd like to see what types of dishes you might prepare on a raw diet. Although it is intended to be a full on "cook"book, I find it appropriate for appetizers, or finger food rather than mains. This book is excellent for vegans, and people with gluten intolerance. Fish is used a lot and some duck breast, but most recipes easily accommodate substitutions or omissions. The soups (creamy asparagus (no dairy); garden pea soup with coconut milk and coriander) and the sushi (salmon and melon; mango, avocado, pear, and carrot maki, and spring roll of cucumber and fresh goat's cheese) are perfect and quick to make. It is ordered alphabetically, an ingredient for most letters of the alphabet. The book is presented in an artsy fashion, highly composed food, just look at the cover! –and this is generally a turn off for me– but I was able to get used to it once I realized the utility of the recipes, and the inspiration the book gives me to try my own food combinations! I wasn't discouraged by the use of some ingredients I can't find here. I know what I like and am happy to substitute it. I also am not worried about perfect looking food, as presented in the images. It's all about taste. Pieter from last week's post wouldn't like the coated pages, but I don't mind them.
The Gluten-Free Cookbook for Kids by Adriana Rabinovich (published by Vermilion). I have used this so far for reference, but have not had a chance to try it. It is designed for the newbie to Celiac disease and gluten-free diet needs. It provides simple advice and tips on preparing your kitchen and adapting to your child's specific dietary needs. It is also intended to be a book you use together with your child so that they learn how to prepare gluten-free food. Not all of the recipes would be that easy for a child to make, but they could definitely help. The recipes offer gluten-free versions of what kids may see their friends eat- chocolate chip cookies, banana bread, chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, fish fingers, pasta dishes, party food, Mexican food, in short, a well-rounded sampling of food. In the US and the UK at least, certain ingredients like xanthan or guar gum may be easy to find to make the baked goods, but this definitely is a challenge for me where I live. Still, I found this book, very basic in its approach, helped me understand a bit more about living with gluten intolerance. One note– there is a recipe for gluten free play dough… which I found odd…in a cookbook… The author also has a website.


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I'm very excited to finally be able to present installment 3 of 3 from our Cushy Tushy reviews & highlights out of the amazing goodie basket that Megan sent my way. This last piece enables me to share some more great products from Mother-ease, RearZ, and GEN-Y, yet again! :)
Already having tried the GEN-Y Classic cover from the Cushy Tushy goodie basket, I was very excited to try the soft, minkee-feeling Universal cover as well. It was also a side-snapping cover like the last one I tried, which I have suddenly fallen in love with, especially for covers. In pocket diapers, I am not the hugest fan of side-snapping diapers because their rise is higher; however, in a cover, a higher rise is exactly what I'm often looking for to cover longer fitteds or bulkier prefolds (I'm not yet the best at folding my prefolds down neatly!). This cover also came up higher on the tummy but provided perfect coverage for whatever type of diaper was underneath (nothing ever poked out!). These covers also have a snap-down rise for a more customizable fit, since they are available in fewer sizes (small or large only) so that your money stretches even further and the covers can last you even longer (these two sizes should get you from birth to potty!). Though not all of their Universal covers have to come in minkee (different prints are available in different fabrics), I loved this fun & funky gender-neutral minkee print in "Balloon Party". It is so soft on the outside but is still a practical PUL backing on the inside (which makes it easily wipeable so that you don't have to launder it with each and every use--only when it's heavily soiled).
Compared to other covers I've tried recently, I would say that this cover has some of the best leg gussets I've ever seen. The outer gusset fits well, but the inner gusset fits even better! I also think it's neat that the inner gusset comes without the minkee coating on it as this will help to prevent wicking and makes that section more wipeable if need be (as it would be more likely than other parts of the diaper to get soiled in a bad newborn blowout emergency ;) The whole system gave a great fit that fit comfortably and left no red marks.
|these double leg gussets were terrific!
Using the inner flaps is simple--
|Step 1: Trifold RearZ Sherpa Prefold
|Step 2: Tuck prefold into cover flaps
|Step 3: Easily use this diaper like any other hybrid system
Probably my favorite item out of this set that Megan sent me was the Mother-ease one-size fitted (in unbleached Cotton Terry). Once again, for summertime heat and humidity, you just can't beat a natural fibre fitted diaper. Although this diaper is a little thinner than the other Mother-ease (Sandy's) fitted that Megan sent me last month, this still had a great, reinforced wet zone that will allow plenty of absorbency for you to sense the dampness in time for a diaper change (when coverless). When paired with a cover (the GEN-Y fit great over it!), the entire diaper will continue to absorb and absorb. We wore it for long naps with no leaks, and by the time I took it off, the whole diaper was soaked but had done its job well!
This is a one-size fitted diaper (more rare in the fitteds world). It doesn't have rise snaps like most other one-size diapers--instead, it has adjustable rows of snaps at the waist. The waist itself cinches in with cross-over snaps on the tabs, and the rise of the diaper can be slighly adjusted by buttoning into either row of waist snaps (top or bottom row). The top row can also be folded down if need be. I do think that this diaper would have a great range of fit, especially because of its wonderful soft stretchiness; however, I am a bit skeptical that it would fit all the way down to the "newborn" phase as it claims. I do believe it could fit from about 10 lbs awkward, but likely would remain a little "long" on a smaller newborn, especially one that still has a cord stump attached. However, I can definitely see this diaper fitting well (and comfortably) into the upper ranges all the way until potty training--it's soft and stretchy and leaves no marks or pinching whichever way it's fastened.
|Tummy snaps can fold down (one row into the other) for a smaller, customized fit
One of you lucky readers is going to also have the chance to win this soft diaper--perfect for the end of summer and the hot weather! Read on to find out more, or stop in to Cushy Tushy to buy this item for only $11.95--much cheaper than many of the other fitted diapers I've seen on the market lately.
Head over to Cushy Tushy right now and buy your very own diapers, covers, or accessories at great everyday low prices.
Megan of Cushy Tushy is also offering one lucky winner a Mother-ease one-size fitted diaper!
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We are currently working on a beautiful project at Arley Hall, Arley, Cheshire. This Virtual Tour is a tour with a difference as we have created a 360 degree aerial view to show the scale of the grounds at Arley. With the additional use of "hotspots" on the ground it also allows the viewer to enter the Hall from above. This creates a whole new view point of Arley and one that you would not get by visiting the hall.
We have also added information points to give the viewer some background history to Arley Hall. These information points can be switched on and off so that they do not detract from any of the details we captured during photography.
Starting with the aerial view you can quickly explore your way through the hall from the ground floor upwards. Every now and then there are information points that either take you through to the next room or feed you information about the particular room and it's history.
We have spent an amazing amount of time to capture details. The whole project has taken many weeks to put together including photography and building the tour but have to say that we have enjoyed every second of it and it will be worth it when the project is completed. Once completed we will definately upload it to our website for you to enjoy.


text: SidSpelts 0 Posted July 19, 2010 (edited) In our environment we have Outlook Web Access. It has been requested that we write a script that will close any and all instances of OWA in the web browser at a certain time of day. I can get it to close down the windows if OWA is the active tab. I would like to be able to close certain Tabs in Internet Explorer 7, that have certain display names like "Outlook Web Access". Does anyone know how to do that? thank you so much, Sid Edited July 19, 2010 by SidSpelts Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Anastasia vom Grosswardein BH, CD, CGN
I don't know if I will ever experience a dog quite like my Baby Girl. As my first "real" Schutzhund dog, I learned more about competitive obedience with Ina than I have with all my other dogs to date, combined. She is the first dog I ever competed with and taught me what it's like to win and what it's like to fail miserably. Stolen from me far too young, my heart fills with joy every time I look through her pictures, but the pain and the loss also surfaces. Losing Ina was the worst thing that has happened to me in my life to date.
Something that also makes me sad was that her titles do not reflect her abilities as a dog. She was capable of the next level in everything. She was easily ready for a SCHH2 and had 2 legs of her CDX when she passed. It was a sudden, very unexpected illness that stole her from me in 30 hours. I will never get over it, I am sure.
Ina was a quiet and serious working girl. She was a dream to keep in the house and was very calm, but take her out to the protection field and she turned on like a Ferrari. She made me proud and gave me everything that I ever asked of her. I think all dog trainers say this; if I had have known what I know now, she would have been 10 times the dog.
I love you Ina-Beans. I miss you every day. Thank-you for you.


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Child Orthodontics
Investing in a straight, beautiful smile for your child is one of the most important decisions you will make for them. Undoubtedly, having a great smile will boost your childs self-esteem and confidence, which in turn will have a positive effect on their life personally and in time professionally. Therefore, it makes sense to help your child reap the benefits of a wonderful smile while they are young, created as a result of treatment from our top orthodontists.
We offer a wide variety of treatments, with our specially trained and experienced orthodontists. Your child's initial consultation will be free of charge and will cover all options available for you and your family.
We often get asked what is the right age to bring them for an assessment. Some treatment can be carried out in the mixed dentition phase, when both baby and adult teeth are present, so bringing your child as early as age 7 can be beneficial to help eliminate treatment which could be more complex if left until they are older.
Functional Appliances
Functional appliances are removable braces that work on the upper and lower teeth at the same time. For example, with an appliance known as a Twin Block braces, when you bite together the blocks on the braces fit together in a certain way that encourages your jaws to grow or move into the correct biting position. For this reason they are mainly used in growing patients (children ages 11-18) as they gain the most benefit from this technique. Functional appliance are one of the fastest and most effective methods to correct receding jaws or prominent teeth.
With Bionator/Frankel appliances, these braces are worn in the evenings and overnight. These are most commonly used braces when deciduous (baby) teeth are present.
The first few days are tough with all braces & appliances. Initially saliva flow increases and speech is difficult. It is very important that you wear the appliance as instructed and practice reading out loud concentrating on pronunciation so that the braces becomes comfortable in the shortest possible time. Intermittent wear will prolong the problems.
The braces are removed for tooth-brushing. Clean the appliance with your toothbrush carefully. If braces are removed for eating or sport they must be placed in suitable container.
Typically this treatment should be completed in 9-12 months. You may then have to wear the braces overnight or progress to the next phase of treatment.
Fixed Braces
Fixed braces are the most common type of orthodontic appliances. They consist of small brackets that are attached onto the front surface of the teeth. The brackets are then connected with a thin wire. These braces require elastics to be fitted around the brackets, but to make orthodontic treatment fun we have coloured elastic options available. These elastics can be changed at most appointments, so you can choose your favourite colour, the colours of your football or rugby team or a colour for a special occasion, such as Christmas.
There are various types of fixed brace systems available ranging from metal brackets to clear or tooth-coloured brackets. They enable the orthodontist to accurately move the teeth into the desired position.
Fixed braces orthodontic treatment usually lasts from 6 to 30 months depending upon the severity of the orthodontic problem and the scope of the proposed orthodontic treatment.
Most patients will need to visit our orthodontist for regular appointments (usually every 8 weeks) for the braces to be adjusted.
Once the active phase of the orthodontic treatment has been completed, the majority of patients are provided with retainers in order to maintain the finished result. Retainers can be removable or fixed onto the teeth. Failure to wear or maintain retainers as instructed is likely to result in the teeth becoming more crooked and crowded as they try to move back to their pre-treatment position.
Removable Braces
Removable braces are very simple devices which clip on to the teeth (usually the upper arch) and they can make simple movements such as moving a tooth forwards that is trapped behind the bite (i.e. in a 'crossbite'). These tend to be used in simple orthodontic cases where a fixed brace (metal or ceramic) may not be a suitable choice or where a patient would rather a less invasive treatment. They are also used for on young patients who are not yet ready for a comprehensive correction but need some early intervention to prevent other problems developing over time.
Invisalign Teen
For teens who don't want braces. Are you worried about how braces will look? Are you worried about how braces will feel? Don't be. Metal braces aren't your only option, we also offer Invisalign Teen. Unlike braces, Invisalign doesn't require any metal at all, just thin, clear plastic aligners so it's almost invisible! To learn more about Invisalign please visit our treatment page.
It's Invisalign but with added benefits. Invisalign Teen offers the regular benefits of Invisalign but with some added bonuses. The product includes six free aligners in case you lose or break one or two and for the benefit of parents and doctors, also includes a blue indicator that allows the doctor to ensure the teen has been wearing their aligners for the prescribed period of time.
Removable to fit in with your lifestyle. Although the aligners must be worn for 22 hours a day, they are removable so you can take them out to eat, brush, floss and on special occasions.
More hygienic than traditional treatment options. You remove the aligners to brush and floss your teeth so it's much easier to maintain your good dental hygiene.
Top 10 frequently asked questions about dental braces are: Do braces hurt? What causes crooked teeth? Can I get my braces off sooner? Are there clear or less noticeable braces? Can I get braces just on my top or bottom teeth?
1. Do braces hurt?
For the most part, braces do not hurt. The procedure of getting braces simply involves gluing the braces to your teeth. The day after you get braces, your teeth may start feeling sore and may stay sore for a few days. The soreness usually peaks during days 2-3, but should start getting better by days 4-5. Future adjustments may or may not cause you discomfort depending on what is being done to your teeth. To alleviate the discomfort, you can take whatever pain medications you would normally use for a headache.
Because your lips, cheeks and tongue are not accustomed to rubbing against the braces, you may experience sores. The sores may last for one to two weeks until your lips, cheeks, and tongue get used contacting your braces. If there is part of the braces that is irritating your mouth, you can place orthodontic wax to help smooth the rough area of the braces. After your lips, cheeks and tongue get used to the braces, you may even forget you have them on.
2. What causes crooked teeth?
If you have crooked teeth or a bad bite you probably inherited these traits. However, losing some baby teeth early or indulging in harmful habits such as thumb or fingersucking can also cause your teeth to be crooked.
3. When is the best time to schedule a consultation with the orthodontist?
We would recommend that all children see an orthodontist for an evaluation no later than age seven. There are a few orthodontic problems that should be corrected at that age. If your orthodontist determines that no treatment is necessary at that time, he or she will be able to offer you guidance on when to start treatment or when to bring your child back for re-evaluation.
For adults, treatment can be started at almost any age as long as the gums and bone surrounding the teeth are healthy.
4. Can I get my braces off sooner?
Unfortunately, orthodontic treatment time is limited in part to how quickly or slowly your bone can remodel, thus allowing your teeth to move. In younger patients with less-developed bone, teeth tend to move faster than in older patients with more-developed bone. Some patients think that if the orthodontist "tightens" the braces more, the teeth will move faster. Indeed, the teeth need force in order to move. However, there is an optimal force that moves teeth, and increasing the force level after the optimal level has been reached may actually cause damage to the bone and surrounding tissues, and may slow down tooth movement. The best way to ensure that your braces come off on time is to not break anything, wear your elastics and prescribed, and keep your teeth and gums healthy.
5. Can I get braces just on my top or bottom teeth?
That depends. Besides straightening your teeth, orthodontists are also concerned about correcting your bite if needed. Many times, if only one arch is treated, the bite will still be uncorrected. Over time, a malocclusion (bad bite) could cause damage to your teeth, tissues, and jaw joints.
6. Do I need a referral from my dentist to see the orthodontist?
No. While dentists can refer patients to the orthodontist, many patients actually are referred to the orthodontist by family and friends of existing patients.
7. Are there clear or less noticeable braces?
Yes. Compared to 30 years ago, braces have gotten smaller and can be directly bonded (glued) to teeth. The bands or metal rings that used to be placed on every tooth now only need to be placed on the back teeth, if they are placed at all.
Besides smaller braces, there are also clear braces or even lingual braces that are bonded on the tongue-side of the teeth. Another option to straighten teeth is not to use braces at all, but a series of clear aligners such as Invisalign. Your orthodontist can determine which option would be best for you.
8. Can wisdom teeth (third molars) cause crooked teeth?
Research has shown that wisdom teeth or third molars do not necessarily crowd teeth. In fact, some people who have had their wisdom teeth removed still get crowding, while others that still have their third molars erupted or impacted do not have crooked teeth.
9. What is an orthodontist?
An orthodontist is a dentist who has completed an additional two to three years of training at an accredited residency program after graduating from dental school. During their program, orthodontists learn to diagnose and treat dental, facial, and jaw problems. Orthodontists typically limit their practices to the field of orthodontics to focus on correcting misaligned teeth and jaw problems.
When choosing an orthodontist, you are not only getting someone who has undergone significant additional training, but someone who deals with orthodontic problems every day.
10. Do I need to be numbed up?
No shots are generally needed for orthodontic treatment. However, if your orthodontist refers you out for other procedures such as extractions, surgical exposure of teeth, or miniscrews , you may need a local anesthetic.


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for VKZ
Ivory, rose, cobalt,
The Northern Lights contest the stars;
The sky, replicating grass and blossoms
as if earth had become too promiscuous
for all except extinction… angels
long since gone to higher ground.
Sons born in Summer
seem stronger. That long season
of flowering no more than metaphor.
Earth also gives up her fruit…
in due time is reunited.
The axis is not fixed in space.
is the third discovered motion,
Light comes brightest
on the Summer solstice,
Someday we'll celebrate
converging rays.


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Our goal is to ensure customers have a seamless and enjoyable journey through Sydney Airport. To achieve this we promise to strive to:
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Our airport community follow Service Standards which provide practical examples of how to ensure customers enjoy a great airport experience.
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Death is in the Refrigerator
Pluto closed last Sunday. Out of context, I guess that sentence could mean just about anything.
Let me try that again. Pluto, a new play by Los Angeles playwright Steve Yockey, just ended its run at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater on Sunday. Yockey is an insightful and imaginative writer whose works deal with important human issues but often feature fantastical and mythological elements. I think these otherworldly devices help audiences process difficult topics better than if they were faced with pure reality.
We've talked a little bit about storytelling in this blog before, but I thought it was worth it to revisit because this play really takes the art of the story to a much higher level.
I'm a big movie buff, but movies are very different animals. When theatre gets desperate and presents itself like cinema to try and drag a few more folks in from the multiplex, I think theatre loses.
But when it does things that movies can't do, when it personally delivers human drama to audience members who are physically in the room with the storytellers, then it really wins. And man, this play really won.
You might think I'm biased because my wife was part of the group of artists who produced this work, but she'll be the first to tell you that I can be a pretty harsh critic when I feel like something doesn't come together.
Right away I was drawn into the seemingly ordinary world by the beautifully grounded text and performances. And as it morphed smoothly from a harried single mother sparring with her underachieving post-teen son drama to the gruesome horror of a mass shooting…as we slowly realize that time isn't moving…that something may be terribly wrong with that tenaciously perky blonde who keeps appearing…and as the incarnation of death comes in through the refrigerator with the help of the mythical three-headed dog usually found guarding the gates of the underworld? Well, the play really had me in the palm of its hand.
Keep in mind that this was not random. The events and transitions were seamlessly interwoven – inviting the audience to learn, feel, fear, and grieve in real time with the characters.
The world of corporate video production rarely overlaps with this kind of surreal and marvelous landscape, but a lot of the underlying fundamentals that we rely on – elements like structure, theme, and tone – are shared. So there's that. (Blog post = validated.)
I'm not a drama critic, and this isn't a review (like I said, the production has already closed), but I'd like to congratulate all of the storytellers – the actors, designers, stage managers and production artists, the director, and the playwright – and thank them for bringing this work to the stage in The City Beautiful.
Art like this elevates the mind and enriches the soul.


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- May 28, 1929 - March 30, 2015
- Platteville, Wisconsin
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Whataburger laid the spicy ketchup on thick when it offered less than 140-characters of sound advice to Sunday's losing No. 10-team, Notre Dame.
READ: Texas-Notre Dame is most-watched season opener ever on ABC/ESPN
If Notre Dame was hounding after that win as much as their double-overtime push indicated, then, the Texas chain suggested, they could still get one by stopping by the orange-and-white on their way out.
Whataburger has proved merciless when it comes to orange pride (burnt or other). Check out the restaurant's reply to a fellow Twitter user below:
Does a honey-butter chicken biscuit taste just as sweet after major defeat? Let us know, leprechauns.


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|This article is about the original Red Riding Hood. You may be looking for the impostor featured in The Last Castle.
Red Riding Hood is a Fable that didn't make it to Fabletown during the mass exodus but lived as a subject of the Empire. Her identity had been used in many instances for cover operatives of the Empire.
Not much is known of Red Riding Hood's history outside of her origin story. During the Adversary's occupation of the Homelands, she lived alone in a cabin and would sometimes go years without seeing or speaking to anyone else.
Red Riding Hood was impersonated twice. The first time was at the Last Castle. It is presumed her appearance was taken by a spy of the Adversary. Boy Blue first met Red Riding Hood under this impersonation, and fell in love with her.
The second time, she was impersonated by Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga took Red Riding Hood's form to lure Fabletown into trusting her with information so she could plan an attack against them.
During Boy Blue's mission to assassinate the Emperor, he requested to meet the real Red Riding Hood. She claimed to have never met him, and it is revealed that she had been impersonated during the events of The Last Castle. As he escaped the Homelands, Blue took Red Riding Hood with him, fearing for her safety.
She became a member of Fabletown despite her reservations from having been taken away from her Homeland. Some of the other Fables still treated her ill due to the former incident with Baba Yaga. She quickly grew fond of the mundy world, despite being unsettled by it's technology at first.
She became friends with Flycatcher since he was the only one (other than Boy Blue) who was kind towards her, and she eventually developed feelings for him. When Flycatcher became King Ambrose of Haven back in the Homelands, Red Riding Hood appointed herself as his adviser, pending he find a queen. After much patience Flycatcher finally understood that she was interested in him, and the two are now in a relationship.
She later marries Flycatcher and has four children with him.
Red Riding Hood is a kind, good-natured person. She has shown that she is capable of standing up for herself and has a clear view of how she thinks people should behave. After Flycatcher falls into depression, she gets frustrated with him for not seeking revenge. She can be quite cunning for in Clamor for Glamour[1], she persuaded Rose Red to let the animals and birds in Haven compete in the Glamour lottery, but the tickets were really to increase Mr. Webb's chances in winning a glamour so that he can be with his wife.
In The Runt[2], Bigby stated that she was difficult to kill because she had magic in her. She's also a popular fable because of her story, so she would be difficult to kill.
Despite being one of the characters who was terrorized by Bigby back in Homelands, it's unknown if she holds a grudge on him for the two are never seen interacting throughout the comics. When she attended Bigby and Snow's wedding with Flycatcher, she found Bigby oddly familiar but failed to recognize him as the Big Bad Wolf.
- In The Last Story of Flycatcher[3], she is shown happily married to Flycatcher with many children.
- While she doesn't appear in the game The Wolf Among Us, she's mentioned several times in the first episode by the Woodsman who was drunk and proclaimed that he saved her from Bigby Wolf, and again when he explained to Bigby his real reason for going to her grandma's cottage. She was also in the Book of Fables where Bigby stated that "she didn't make it out".
- She also makes a cameo appearance in Fables: The Wolf Among Us 12.