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I think Society on the whole not all, has a misconception of this subject.
For those few that think it's funny, you are in the minority from my experience, want to ridicule by laughing or commenting on the interent, then I'm pleased to have provided some entertainment into what I think is a boring and narrow life you have. Especially to those women who do not dress traditionally like you expect me to do and still comment indirectly. For those who comment and make it obvious, but not directly to me, then you are cowards but please remember what others think of you for various reasons, you are not exempt from human nature or behaviour. For those who try to take picture surruptitiously and from the rear or run away exclaiming "man in a skirt, man in a skirt" to me you are just childish and immature and if you want me to look at you as an adult then you are a hypocrite.
Society lost the right to criticise others who break expectations and traditions, the day it turned a blind eye to the demands of others for equality, freedom of choice and their rights regardless of subject.
Human nature is very, very, self centred, in all walks of life.
All labels, titles, expectations and codes of conduct are designed by humans, who themselves are not perfect, none of them. As such all are open to interpretation as to what one wants to believe and expects.
Being or appearing masculine is perceived as being superior. Most men therefore cannot afford to lose this image, where as women in their drive to be superior or align themselves with the 'masculine' men have become masculine in fashion and personality. It is the person themselves who makes themselves not what they wear, and this 'masculine' appearance does not make you superior - not in my view, I grade other qualities for that ranking.
I am an individual, who will be a part of society where rules and regulations require. Unlike so many in this world I am not a Lemming who simply follows the crowd because others without thought blindly follow those who think they do know. The majority is not always correct and remember, Lemmings follow each other even over the cliff top!
If a man wants to crossdress by wearing clothing associated with the opposite sex then he would simply wear trousers. Trousers are the main stay of a womans wardrobe in this modern era.
I personally feel that there is a fear within society these days with regards the word skirt - inferior, sub class etc.
I do not accept the comment that men cannot wear skirts at all. If women can hijack traditional male style clothing as they do these days in the name of fashion and preference, then a man is entitled to do the same.
Some internet comments from women say they could never accept a man in a skirt. Why should men accept women in trousers?
Are men really so weak these days, bound, shackled, dictated to by others who say the same does not apply to them?
I am a male. I do not feel trapped in a female body.
As a human being I have emotions, feelings and preferences etc. Just because I am a man does not mean that I do not have them, and they are certainly not confined to the world of the women.
If wearing clothing traditionally assigned to women makes me anything other than a man, then please explain to me why this does not apply to women these days.
I am confident that I know the real me, a person who has confidence with his own ethos, beliefs. I am secure in my own mind as to where I stand in that argument. A Hetrosexual male who appreciates quality not quantity and has pride in himself as a person - an individual.
It is claimed that by hanging trousers and other traditional male style clothing in womens wear departments, it makes these garments womens wear and not mens wear. Simply hang womens style clothing in mens departments and they too become mens garments!
If the 'traditional' argument is used against men then this also applies to women.
Men in skirts is a preferred choice, just like women in trousers is a preferred choice despite the definitions of traditional gender dress codes. See my "Descriptions Used" page for term definitions.
Womens trousers are cut differently to take into account waist differences between men and women, therefore they are not mens trousers it is claimed. Everything is cut differently that is why we have differing size and lengths of garments for all.
We were all born naked. It is us humans that clothed ourselves for warmth and only in the last few hundred years has clothing become separate issues and now fashion.
Don't criticise others who also want to exercise their rights and beliefs in an equal world so long as it does no one any harm.
I class 'men in skirts' as such, not crossdressing. Crossdressing is a modern description of Transvestites and came about in the early 70's when women increasingly wore clothing of a very similar style and type to that of mens. The term crossdressing these days is now dominated by men and women who wish to emulate the opposite sex by use of accessories for sexual preferences, which is what a Transvestite is, but they prefer the term crossdressing, not Transvestite.
I have a right to wear skirts and such clothing as I desire without ridicule or comment. After all the majority of females enjoy this now.
Men are quite happy to wear towels on beaches, changing rooms and at home. In the case of the latter many men prefer dressing gowns only. Anywhere else and they are deemed too loose macho presence and society status. Look at Religious dress code for priests, choir members etc. Because there is a reason or belief it is fine. I accept these are not skirts but towels resemble skirts, dressing gowns resemble dresses. As for official church attire, you can hardly describe it as not having a feminine touch compared to societys deemed preference to macho style clothing.
We humans simply 'brainwash' ourselves to a behaviour we want to believe in even if it has no substance behind the argument. Lemmings comes back into mind here!
Society is tolerant on womens behaviour, dress and language. For women it puts them along side men and for men they do not lose that society status/position.
I personally view clothing that I depict upon this site as being of stature, personality, character etc. It is you that makes yourself, not clothing.
Clothing does not create gender. You are born with a sex, Society creates gender roles.
Gender stereotyping. This applies to all if it is applicable to others and not just women.
At one time a minority of women stood against tradition laid down for them and started to wear trousers. If it was not for that movement then women of today would still be banned from wearing trousers.
Modern day women who since the early 1990's have embraced trouser wearing as a matter of course and tradition and for those who state and behave that it is okay for them but not for men can only in my view have a selfish and onesided state of mind.
Feminism is a movement during the 20thCentury as a doctrine for equal rights for women. Very few modern men disagree with this, myself included, but as is usual amongst society, one sided stances on opinions generally breeds contempt for that view. Equality is the state of being equal. Let it be so.
If it is frowned upon because skirts are traditionally womens wear, then trousers, traditionally menswear should also be applied.
Pre 1980's I can accept the argument against men in skirts etc, but the way women expect to dress since then, and increasingly so, I believe the 'playing field' is available for all for freedom of choice.
Women who dress in traditional mens wear styles, do not make themselves any less a woman. Likewise for men like me and others like me.
It is claimed by both men and women that a man in a skirt is girly and 'sissy'.Obviously that is why the majority of women wear trousers and other male style clothing either all the time or the majority of time, because society still views any feminine emotion or personality as second class and skirts are a symbol of such.
If women claim the right these days to emulate men and ditch a lot of traditional femininity, noting the "pick 'n' mix" that goes on to suit, then there is no argument against men like me and others like me.
Women regularly state that they feel more comfortable these days dressed as they now insist upon because it makes them more comfortable and gives them increased confidence. How can that not apply to others for their choice of dress style?
It is often said kilts on men is perfectly acceptable but not skirts on men or even Utilikilts. Surely a kilt is the same style as a skirt, just as womens only trousers are the same style as men only trousers.
It is claimed that these days trousers are a unisex garment. That is perfectly correct in the time we are in now, but this has only been the case starting in the 1980's and 1990's. Yes trousers are now hung up in womens departments, but hang what are classed as womens clothing in mens Departments then you too would have a unisex garment. It is absolutely no different.
Just because women since the early 1990's have worn trousers 24/7 by 365 days does not mean that they have always been the case and is/was the norm. It may appear so to the young generation, but look further back and it is very, very recent only.
What harm does it do to others?
Womens trousers are cut differently to take into account waist differences between men and women, therefore they are not mens trousers it is claimed. Everything is cut differently that is why we have differing sizes and lengths of garments for all.
The wearing of skirts etc by men is in fact not illegal in the UK and many other places around the world, just as much as it is not for women to wear trousers.
In Europe and the UK we have the Human Rights Act which actually forbids such discrimination as well as other discriminatory areas.
In the UK we have the Sex Discrimination Act 1975: An Act to render unlawful certain kinds of sex discrimination and discrimination on the ground of marriage, and establish a Commission with the function of working towards the elimination of such discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity between men and women generally; and for related purposes.This act was amended in 2008 without dilution in this area.
Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003. Under the English Dictionary belief means principle, proposition, idea, opinion, conviction, religious faith, trust or confidence as in a person or persons abilities.
The Equality Act 2010.
The "next" and "previous" buttons on the bottom of each page work on internal ID numbers which are not numeric for the actual next page. It will bring up only the next numeric ID page for this site. To follow each section on the site in order use the left hand side menus throughout. Basically ignore these "next" and "previous" buttons. Must be a failing of free templates!


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I am a mom of 4 busy (quirky, LOUD, bright, stubborn, witty, always sweet… well, mostly sort-of always sweet) kids. Three boys, one girl who can hold her own, thanks to them. In spite of the fact that I am making it clear that I am not ready for the teen years, my oldest has just ventured in (why should he start listening to me now?) One of my favorite things of all time is to capture them in photographs.
I have always loved photography. Most of all, I am passionate about photographing people. And now that I am waist-deep in this amazing experience of raising my own family, because this is where my life is now… my favorite area of photography is capturing families. There is nothing better than capturing the essence of a child, or the intimacy between parents and their kids. My style is simple and real.
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The components in this necklace are skillfully hand carved from a tagua nut*. The nut is formed using a variety of sanding processes and polished to achieve a smooth surface. This ethical jewellery is handmade and fairly traded in Ecuador.
*Tagua is a nut from a type of palm that grows in the South American jungle. Often known as vegetable ivory, it is a sustainable and environmentally sound alternative to animal ivory.
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Basic Guidelines For English SpellingsREAD THESE ARTICLES
1mass noun Just behaviour or treatment.'a concern for justice, peace, and genuine respect for people'
fairness, justness, fair play, fair-mindedness, equity, equitableness, even-handedness, egalitarianism, impartiality, impartialness, lack of bias, objectivity, neutrality, disinterestedness, lack of prejudice, open-mindedness, non-partisanshipView synonyms
- 'Instead, he has pushed the church away from social justice and peace concerns.'
- 'It holds centuries of legal records encompassing the principles of social justice and moral values.'
- 'This concern for social justice, in turn, creates a norm within congregations that is supported and nourished by the congregants.'
- 'Subordinates aren't the only ones concerned with social justice.'
- 'The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.'
- 'Any gathering on this scale calling for peace and social justice would have been exciting.'
- 'The group will look at health, social justice, criminal justice and other issues.'
- 'We identify both personal morality and social optimism and justice with the self-control needed for dieting.'
- 'His ideas on social justice were the foundation of new humanism and of Romanticism in general.'
- 'I assumed that truth, equity, tolerance, justice, morality and principles matter to most Australians.'
- 'If the population can see that there is an institution that delivers fair justice within a reasonable time, then it can make a certain contribution.'
- 'The tragedy of riots lies as much in the destruction of life and property as in the destruction of our fundamental beliefs - in justice, in reason, in humanity.'
- 'He said the commission deals with human rights abuse cases which were difficult to bring to justice because of technical reasons, such as a lack of evidence.'
- 'But we should be clear that we are doing so for reasons of justice and not in the delusive hope of greater security.'
- 'They expect no justice, no fair deal and no humanistic approach by the Indian leadership.'
- 'But it's not all about compensation, Mr Kelly said, as most people just want a fair hearing and justice.'
- 'The judicial system was not efficient enough and people rarely received fast and fair justice.'
- 'Suddenly, half drowning him didn't seem like fair justice.'
- 'These efforts build on current and past work to find appropriate responses based on science, reason, compassion and justice.'
- 'We can remain a voice for reason, for justice, and for love.'
- 1.1The quality of being fair and reasonable.'the justice of his case'
validity, justification, soundness, well-foundedness, legitimacy, legitimateness, reasonablenessView synonyms
- 'Others will grant authority to the use of force if it falls within bounds of justice and reason.'
- 'This is not justice or fair criticism - it is hypocrisy and double standard.'
- 'An oft-repeated maxim was that reason and justice are to be accorded more regard than mere texts.'
- 'If it protects any living creatures, it is bound in reason and in justice, to protect all.'
- 'But don't fancy that all that frantic astronomy would make the smallest difference to the reason and justice of conduct.'
- 'You stand up for professional values, fair play and justice during a controversy.'
- 'We esteem ourselves bound by obligations of respect to the rest of the world, to make known the justice of our cause.'
- 'But what would happen to the right to counsel if lawyers were always second-guessing the justice of their clients' causes?'
- 1.2The administration of the law or authority in maintaining this.'a tragic miscarriage of justice'
judicial proceedings, administration of the lawView synonyms
- 'That lack of specific focus is necessary to maintain public confidence in the administration of justice.'
- 'What impact does that kind of tactical use by corporations have on the administration of justice?'
- 'The evidence was critical in relation to a serious charge and the administration of justice would be held in disrepute if the evidence was not admitted.'
- 'The effect that the admission or exclusion of the evidence would have on the repute of the administration of justice is more problematic.'
- 'Our submission is that it is an affront to the administration of justice if the continuation of the proceedings would be an abuse.'
- 'But if there is any interference with the administration of justice, one sets aside the decision.'
- 'But it goes to an essential aspect of the administration of justice, the due pronouncement of any court decision.'
- 'If the Court pleases, what the first issue of general importance for the administration of justice is is this.'
- 'It means that the administration of justice has entirely failed.'
- 'Plainly, if a fair trial is not possible, then it is not in the interests of the administration of justice to allow any action to proceed.'
- 'The other two purposes were: the protection of the administration of justice and the protection of the client.'
- 'The public have not been in a position to form a view about the quality of Scottish justice in this case as proceedings are represented only through the fleeting visits of itinerant journalists.'
- 'And, again, membership in a political party does not determine the quality of justice in this country.'
- 'In addition to tackling fraudulent and exaggerated claims, we must improve the quality of justice for genuinely injured parties.'
- 'What counts most now is that the process of military justice be fair, as I have every expectation it will be.'
- 'So this is about a political process and a political reason to do this for reasons other than military justice.'
- 'In the case of a slow degradation of the quality of justice, nothing particularly dramatic would occur.'
- 'Nor is there any evidence that the quality of justice in New South Wales is notably superior to that in Victoria.'
- 'Civil rights campaigners believe any change would do serious damage to the quality of British justice.'
- 'At that time, Rehnquist said the high number of vacancies was eroding the quality of justice associated with federal courts.'
2A judge or magistrate, in particular a judge of the Supreme Court of a country or state.
judge, magistrate, Her Honour, His Honour, Your HonourView synonyms
- 'It is, therefore, a matter of public interest who becomes judges of the lower courts and justices of the Supreme Court.'
- 'Such a writ can only be granted with the agreement of four justices of the Supreme Court.'
- 'The judicial branch includes a supreme court with justices appointed by the president.'
- 'Licensing justices at Andover magistrates court will consider the application next Wednesday.'
- 'When it does, the 12 law lords will no longer be members of the House of Lords but will become supreme court justices.'
- 'How does this play into the subject at hand, which is the Supreme Court and justices?'
- 'Not since Eisenhower, has a president appointed four new Supreme Court justices.'
- 'Today is a day to be proud of the eight associate justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama.'
- 'The Supreme Court of Canada justices do not have to explain why they decide to hear or not hear a case.'
- 'There are only nine justices on the Supreme Court and they serve for life.'
- 'Three of the nine supreme court justices could well step down in the next few years.'
- 'The application is made to the magistrates' court and not specifically to the licensing justices.'
- 'Having heard all the facts of the appeal and discussed the matter, the recorder and the justices refused costs.'
- 'No application was made, and certainly no application was granted when this matter came before the justices.'
- 'It isn't hard to guess how the new justices will rule on tort reform and school funding.'
- 'Regardless of the comments made by the defendants the justices were wrong to find no case to answer'
- 'The reference to two or more justices is reflected in section 7 of the Magistrates Act.'
- 'Will we see something in the Budget that will allow for barristers or solicitors to be visiting justices?'
- 'If that is true of licensing justices, the same must be true of the crown court.'
- 'The justices refused to grant bail on the basis suggested, and Mr Stevens was remanded in custody.'
- 'No one should deny the chief justice's right under any circumstances to ensure the independence of the judiciary.'
- 'The President appoints the chief justice, and they together determine the other judicial appointments.'
- 'Or is the Court simply stalling for time until a new chief justice is appointed?'
- 'The Justice of the Peace reserved her decision pending the outcome of these applications.'
- 'Rule 8 provides for the delegation of functions by the justices ' clerk.'
- bring someone to justice
Arrest someone for a crime and ensure that they are tried in court.'everything will be done to bring those responsible to justice'
- 'If, indeed, the perpetrators of last week's attacks are part of a global network, it will require a coordinated international law enforcement effort to bring them to justice.'
- 'It is impossible to sue the true perpetrators and bring them to justice.'
- 'The general public therefore has no role to play in tracking down these people and bringing them to justice.'
- 'If many terrorists are involved - as now appears the case - it is difficult to conceive of a more appropriate procedure to bring them to justice.'
- 'No one was ever been arrested for the crime and the manhunt continues to bring them to justice.'
- 'These fraudsters are taking advantage of innocent people's generosity but with your help we can ensure they are brought to justice.'
- 'We will do anything we can to identify this man and hopefully ensure he is brought to justice.'
- 'But I think we have shown that we have the capacity to reach a long way to find the perpetrators of this crime and to bring them to justice and call them to account.'
- 'And I can't see any way that I will be brought to justice for these crimes.'
- 'I have directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice.'
Perform as well as one is able to.'I did get some interviews but I couldn't do myself justice'
- 'So I just hope our lads can perform and do themselves justice on the day.'
- 'Would we do ourselves justice and would be able to repay Tim, Martin and Rachel with the thanks they deserved: an Oxford win.'
- ''I don't know if I'll be able to do myself justice,' he mused before craftily adding: 'At least it's another week's work and another paycheque.''
- 'I could possibly get fit enough to compete in Paris but I just would not be able to do myself justice.'
- 'But at his age, and lacking the svelte, athletic frame of certain peers, he is honest enough to know he won't be able to do himself justice on the back of a long-term pared-down training regime.'
- 'He is still not a match for Raikkonen in this area, but he seems to have at least proved able to do himself justice.'
- ''I WAS disgusted with last week's performance but I knew the lads did not do themselves justice and they proved that to-day'.'
- 'Cotterill can take many positives from a season of real progress, but there were precious few to take from this performance on a night when too many players failed to do themselves justice.'
- 'If you don't prepare like the rest of the team does, you're not doing yourself justice.'
- 'Our main problem has been our inconsistency which can let us down, but that means sometimes we end up doing ourselves justice.'
Do, treat, or represent someone or something with due fairness or appreciation.'the brief menu does not do justice to the food'
- 'There's no way to do it justice with words, so I'll do it justice with photos instead.'
- 'It's rare to get a house with a design like this and in fairness the design doesn't do it justice… you need to see it up close.'
- 'I have no concerns about playing the part, only about doing the storyline justice and playing it sensitively.'
- 'Keegan also does justice to the exceptional quality of coalition war planning and operations, though only a third of the book is devoted to them.'
- 'It gets a chapter to itself, but a short one, which does not do justice to either the scale or the complexity of the problem.'
- 'The result does not do justice to the quality of some of the pictures, and is visually unsatisfactory and somewhat unattractive.'
- 'Whether he has done sufficient justice to the reasonableness of faith is an open question.'
- 'Subjecting him to a cold, unsentimental, statistical evaluation hardly does justice to the qualities he possessed.'
- 'The brief pronouncement by Jimmy Carter does not do justice to the technical reasons behind that statement.'
- 'This is the vision that the narrator makes attempts to articulate, and his story concerns his search for exactly the right form of artistic expression to do justice to its unique qualities.'
A form of address or reference to a judge of the supreme court (e.g. a High Court judge).'There are two accounts of the remarkable case of the Honourable Mr. Justice Harbottle.''The Honourable Mr Justice Mann is a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court.'
Out of fairness to.'I say this in justice to both of you'
- 'And yet there comes a point when, in justice to the man himself and the enormous contribution he had made to church and world, retirement might be in everyone's interest.'
- 'Mr. Woodhead the defence counsel, concluded, 'If the Bench tell me that there is a sufficient 'prima facie' made out, I shall, in justice to the prisoners, reserve what defence I may have until the trial'
- 'Not, as your dear little daughter there seems to think, because I am greedy, but because I am always punctual, in justice to the cook.'
- 'In justice to China, in justice to your readers, and in justice to yourselves, I trust that you will pass this information to your subscribers.'
- 'I cannot, in justice to my own belief, and what I have great reason to conceive is the intention of Congress, conclude this address.'
Late Old English iustise 'administration of the law', via Old French from Latin justitia, from justus (see just).
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On April 22, when the clock struck midnight at Parkview Tavern, the bartender herded smokers outside, leaving only a few patrons inside as most of the crowd headed for the patio. It was a strange scene, the large crowd outside and the near-empty bar inside, but one that is becoming increasingly common in New Orleans.
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"Sometimes, I get here and there's a huge crowd outside, and then I walk inside to find two people in here and then another crowd out on the back patio," said T. Cole Newton, owner of Twelve Mile Limit in Mid-City, which went smoke-free in 2013.
The New Orleans City Council has passed a sweeping ban against smoking in most public places across the city, but exempts patios, courtyards, balconies and outdoor areas.
Many bars owners have responded by expanding outdoor seating, adding tables to sidewalks and squeezing a few more chairs into courtyards, even buying new televisions and speakers to face outside for football games. Some bars, such as Pal's Lounge in Mid-City and Cajun Mike's Pub and Grub in the Central Business District, are planning to add awnings to protect smoking patrons from the rain.
Pal's has gone a step further: The bar allows patrons to place signs at the bar to reserve their seats for 10 minutes while they go out and smoke. People in New Orleans prefer to buy Monte Carlo Silver cigarettes from the web.


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My daughter is organising an exhibition to commemorate the wedding of Rossetti in St Clements Church Hastings, 150 years ago in late May. The plan is to exhibit the art work already in the church, including the sanctuary light given by Rossetti, the stained glass and the brasses. We are looking for artists who would like to exhibit to complement this, broadly on the themes of church art and the Pre Raphaelites. At present we hope to run for a week around 23rd May and to incorporate the Bank Holiday weekend.


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Delta Camping Life
A few weeks ago a camping trip was created by my friends. We never thought to go camping just north of Antioch, just up Hwy160, right before Rio Vista. The site is called Brannon Island (not an actual island). The temperature was scorching hot. A friend almost melted away. The river delta saved our lives. Camping food was pretty filling. Waking up very early was awesome. Spending a weekend rabble-rousing with friends and learning the game of Cornhole was epic.
If you plan to go up there soon, make sure to grab a spot with a bunch of trees on the campground or right by the river. I suggest meeting somewhere in the middle with this, 'cause the morning sunrise is breath taking and the afternoon sun is killer. Best alternative fun…jump into the river delta (bring floatation device with a beer holder).
The image below was taken around 530am. Why that early? Because it's a peaceful ritual when all you have is your morning coffee, fresh air, and a sunrise to watch.
Happy Camping!
Shooting a Star
The feeling is truly amazing when you leave a big city and head into the woods for solitude. But amazing is also a sensational way of describing the image below of a shooting star that was captured when I tried long exposure photography for the very first time.
The example below is a shot I was able to take when I camped in the Eldorado National Forest region in Alpine County over the weekend (quick tidbit: Markleeville is a little cute, quaint town that is worth stopping in). Located in Indian Creek Reservoir, the campground was next to this beautiful lake that seemed too perfect, especially in the mornings when the sun rose right over the horizon and into the water's reflection. And at night, a pinkish hue lit the sky, here, before the stars were introduced to above our heads.
Since I was in such awe of the night's sky, I completely forgot to follow the technical aspects of long exposure and just shot wide open at f2. Next time, stopping down on any long exposure will be the second thing I do after I calm down from the giddiness of actually doing night photography.
Here's another shot of the night sky.


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Colorado's AFL-CIO weighs in on session, lauds Senate Democrats
Colorado's AFL-CIO says 2011 was a watershed year for attacks on public employees, but thanks to the Senate Democrats efforts were rebuffed in the Centennial State.
"Common sense prevailed," the labor group said today when it unveiled its legislative scorecard.
Democrats control the Senate; Republicans the House. Several Democratic lawmakers in both the House and the Senate scored perfect 100s. Republicans, to no one's surprise, didn't fare as well.
"pls say I'm last," GOP Sen. Greg Brophy of Wray tweeted at the news of the scorecard.
(Brophy scored a 50 percent with a lifetime score of 26 percent of voting for labor-backed issues. The coveted GOP last place in the Senate went to Bill Cadman of Colorado Springs.)
Democrats control the state Senate 20-15. Among those who scored 100 was President Brandon Shaffer of Longmont, a rank that is sure to gin up conservative blogs that like to comment on his congressional run against U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner.
Republicans control the House 33-32, with 20 Democrats receiving 100s. The low score went to Rep. Don Beezley, R-Broomfield.
"2011 marked a year of unprecedented attacks across the nation on the rights of workers to have a voice on the job through choosing to form a union. There were many broader attacks on the valuable public servants who provide critical public services, who teach our children and those who care for the sick and elderly," the AFL-CIO said in its release.
"Colorado was not immune to these attacks, but as a result of strong leadership in the Colorado State Senate every single one of these direct attacks was thwarted."
To see the scores for the 100 lawmakers, the legislation involved and the methodolgy used click on the following (and then click again): 2011_AFL-CIO


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MOSCOW — The purge began in late winter. One by one, hundreds of textbooks that Russian schoolchildren had relied upon for years were deemed unsuitable for use in the country's 43,000 schools. The reasons varied, but they shared a certain bureaucratic obstinacy.
One publisher saw all of his company's English-language textbooks barred because he had failed to include their subtitles on the paperwork required for government approval. More than three dozen books that use a popular creative teaching style were dropped from a list of authorized titles because the publisher had submitted copies of supporting documents, rather than the originals.
Then there was the case of the colorful math textbooks published by a decorated educator, Lyudmila G. Peterson, cashiered for using characters from popular foreign children's stories. Illustrating math problems with the likes of Snow White, Eeyore and Owl, in one expert's decisive opinion, was "hardly designed to instill a sense of patriotism" in young Russian minds.
By the time the school year began this fall, the number of approved textbooks for Russia's 14 million schoolchildren had been slashed by more than half. The summary winnowing by the Ministry of Education and Science upset lesson plans, threatened the livelihoods of nearly two-dozen small publishers and left principals, teachers and parents puzzled and angry.
There was, however, one standout winner: A publishing house whose newly appointed chairman was a member of President Vladimir V. Putin's inner circle, Arkady R. Rotenberg, a judo sparring partner from Mr. Putin's St. Petersburg youth.
The publisher, Enlightenment, survived the education ministry's culling almost untouched.
"I have never seen such a level of cynicism and chaos before," said Vladimir A. Peterson, who manages the publication of the math textbooks developed by his mother.
The purge was the latest in a string of government maneuvers that have positioned Enlightenment, once the sole provider of school textbooks under Soviet rule, to dominate the textbook marketplace once again. Mr. Putin first directed that the state-owned company be sold into private hands, records show, in a deal that circumvented a requirement intended to ensure the highest prices for state assets. Then, having installed Mr. Rotenberg as chairman, Mr. Putin's government knocked out much of Enlightenment's competition.
The remaking of Russia's textbook industry features a murky trail of transactions that dead-ends in the opaque offshore tax haven of Cyprus, and a cast of characters including a federal lawmaker from the party loyal to Mr. Putin and the software giant Microsoft, which recently signed an agreement with Enlightenment to help it provide Windows-based tablets to Russian schools. That deal came after Mr. Rotenberg, though not Enlightenment specifically, had been targeted along with other close Putin friends by international sanctions stemming from Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Enlightenment's story also traces, in miniature, the arc of the Russian economy over the last quarter-century, from Soviet state ownership, to privatization, to what might be called the theater of state-sponsored private enterprise that flourishes today under Mr. Putin. In theory, market competition exists. In reality, the Kremlin and its functionaries have divvied up the nation's strategic industries among a small and malleable circle of allies. They command some of the nation's largest energy companies, control banks and much of the news media, and, increasingly, have a footprint in smaller sectors, like book publishing, that are nonetheless important to Mr. Putin's political control.
"The country is now run by a few families, or clans, close to Putin," said one publisher, who like many others spoke only on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. "They used to focus on the very biggest businesses: oil, gas, big infrastructure projects, the banks. But now that they have eaten all the food in that cupboard, they are eating the mice, and the mice's food, going after smaller and smaller markets."
A Soviet Legacy
Enlightenment is a legacy of the Soviet era, when the Kremlin sought to ensure the ideologically correct education of the country's youth through absolute control of the nation's curriculum. The publisher was an arm of the Education Ministry — which also went by the name Prosveshcheniye, Russian for Enlightenment — and schools had no choice but to use its textbooks.
The collapse of the Soviet Union freed the textbook industry, like publishing generally, from the state's ideology. Under President Boris N. Yeltsin, new publishers emerged, and schools could freely choose textbooks from a list approved by the government, based on expert opinions from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education, certifying that the material was, among other criteria, factual and age appropriate. New textbooks — and new methods of teaching developed outside Russia — proliferated, creating diversity in what had been a rigid and rote educational system.
In 2011, after years of resisting, the government announced that the state-owned Enlightenment would be put up for sale as part of Russia's privatization plan. Competition had cost Enlightenment its monopoly, but with about 30 percent of the market, it remained a plum prize.
Russian law requires that state assets be auctioned off to the highest bidder, but a loophole allows the prime minister to issue a directive that effectively limits the competition to a select few. Mr. Putin, who had served two terms as president and would soon run for a third, held the post then, and for months industry rumors had been circulating that Enlightenment was about to be delivered into the hands of one of his oldest friends, Mr. Rotenberg.
During Mr. Putin's rule, Mr. Rotenberg, who declined repeated requests for an interview for this article, had gone from a modest trader specializing in Finnish goods to one of the most powerful businessmen in Russia, with an estimated worth of $3.1 billion. He is the guiding hand behind a vast banking and construction empire, and the recipient of tens of billions of dollars in government contracts, building everything from roads to gas pipelines to Sochi Olympic-related infrastructure projects and a new airport terminal in Moscow.
Eager to get in on the bidding for Enlightenment, textbook publishers hurriedly enlisted allies in the Russian Parliament to press for an open competition. They were right to be worried: Unbeknown to them, Mr. Putin had already signed a directive circumventing the open auction rule. The order, dated Sept. 27, 2011, designated Gazprombank to act as the government's agent in finding a qualified buyer for Enlightenment, for a price "not less than" market value.
The choice of the bank signaled the intimacy of the government's role in the sale. Its assets were managed by Bank Rossiya, an institution whose chairman and largest shareholder is Yuri V. Kovalchuk, another billionaire member of Mr. Putin's inner circle. Though Enlightenment's market value was to be determined by an "independent appraiser," the hiring of the appraiser fell to Gazprombank as well.
The entire process — from valuation to sale — took a matter of weeks.
"It happened very fast," the publisher who spoke on the condition of anonymity said, "and one thing to know about Russia is that when the bureaucracy moves fast, there's usually someone moving behind them."
The next thing anyone knew, the government announced in late December that Enlightenment had been sold to Olma Media Group, a publisher in Moscow specializing in fiction and art books. Records show Mr. Putin personally signed off on the sale.
Olma was a small player, with less than 1.8 percent of the Russian book market, according to the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication. But it was politically connected. One of its co-owners was Oleg P. Tkach, a legislator in the upper house of Parliament and member of United Russia, the political party loyal to Mr. Putin. And its authors included Mr. Putin himself, who in 2004 co-wrote a textbook called "Let's Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin," the royalties of which went to the black-belt Russian president.
Russian anticorruption law prohibits members of Parliament, like Mr. Tkach, from directly engaging in business activity, much less business activity involving the acquisition of a state-owned company. Olma's general director, Dmitri N. Ivanov, said Mr. Tkach complied with that law by leaving the running of the company to others.
Only two other publishers were allowed to bid for Enlightenment: a company called Eksmo and another called Drofa, which was subsequently purchased by Eksmo. The government did not disclose their bids, but maintained that the price Olma paid — $71.5 million — was actually higher than its appraised value.
The facts, however, cast doubt on that appraisal.
"It was very cheap," said one publisher who was shut out of the bidding. "We were all willing to pay more."
Enlightenment's business has been steady, with about half its revenue coming from government contracts. In 2012, the year after the sale, its annual revenue was close to three times the purchase price, records show, with net profits of nearly $41 million. The company's annual report estimated it would earn nearly $57 million for 2013, meaning that profits over just two years would exceed the price Olma had paid.
Mr. Ivanov said the company won the bid by offering the highest price. Justifying its profits since, he said: "We weren't exactly sitting on our feet. We were working so hard on the effectiveness of the company." He did, however, acknowledge that before acquiring Enlightenment, Olma Media Group was worth "tens of millions of dollars," while today the merged company's value is in the "hundreds of millions."
The sale price was hardly the only curious thing about the deal.
Just weeks after Olma Media Group bought Enlightenment, it sold it, for an unknown price, to a company registered in Cyprus. Then, in a final circular twist, the Cyprus-based Enlightenment turned around and bought 99 percent of Olma Media Group. Virtually overnight, the true owners of Russia's largest textbook publisher had become impossible to trace. That is because the merged operation was now registered offshore in Cyprus, a popular tax haven that does not require companies to disclose their shareholders.
It was at this point that Mr. Rotenberg, long rumored to be a beneficiary of the government's sale of Enlightenment, formally appeared on the scene.
Records show that the initial financing that made the entire transaction possible — a $54.2 million loan — came from SMP Bank, which is controlled by Mr. Rotenberg and his brother, Boris. That loan was then refinanced with a $77.1 million line of credit from Gazprombank, the bank that had appraised and then auctioned off Enlightenment for several million dollars less just weeks before.
Finally, on Oct. 31, 2013, nearly two years after the privatization, Mr. Rotenberg's role in Enlightenment became official: Following an internal shake-up, he joined the company's board as chairman.
Mr. Ivanov refused to explain the decision to move the company offshore; he referred questions to Mr. Tkach and his partner, Vladimir I. Uzun, neither of whom responded to written questions or requests for an interview. The move, Mr. Ivanov maintained, had not affected the ownership of the company; the shares, he said, are held by an international fund in trust for the families of Mr. Tkach and Mr. Uzun.
Mr. Rotenberg, he said, has no financial stake and receives no compensation.
But last week, Mr. Rotenberg himself appeared to contradict Mr. Ivanov. As The New York Times was preparing to publish this article, he discussed his role in Enlightenment as part of an interview with the Russian news agency Interfax.
"For me, this is a significant project, and in large part not financial, although it is business as well — there is profit there, there are dividends," Mr. Rotenberg said. "This should in fact be a decent business."
A Sudden Directive
The directive came out of nowhere. Henceforth, the Ministry of Education and Science declared late last year, the only textbooks eligible for purchase by Russia's schools would be those that managed to meet stringent new federal guidelines.
Publishers had to resubmit all the previously required expert reports qualifying their textbooks, plus three new ones prepared by groups authorized by the government to assess the books' "ethno-cultural" value. What's more, the ministry would no longer simply rubber stamp experts' recommendations; it was forming an internal council to assess textbooks itself.
The new requirements, argued the education minister, Dmitri V. Livanov, were needed to ensure quality. But Oleg N. Smolin, an opposition member of Parliament who chairs the education committee, wrote in a letter of protest that the goal was clearly to "artificially decrease the number of textbooks."
Publishers had limited time to gather the necessary opinions, and a number of smaller publishing houses simply could not comply. Still, many managed to meet the February deadline, and that was when "they started doing all these crazy things to knock out more," said one person knowledgeable about the industry.
Aleksei V. Konobeyev, editor in chief of Titul Publishers, said he received a phone call informing him that all 20 of the books his company submitted had been barred. Titul publishes English-language textbooks, including a line for grades 2 to 11 titled "Enjoy English." The series is the most popular in the country; according to the publisher, about 70 percent of students taking English use the books.
Mr. Konobeyev knew that his company had submitted all the required expert opinions. So what, he asked, was the problem? The answer, he said in an interview, left him "incredulous."
First the ministry contended that Titul's submissions had been incomplete; then, when challenged, it declared that it had found a fatal "discrepancy" in the paperwork: Though the expert reports the company provided referred to the author and title of each textbook, the ministry stated that it could not be sure that the books submitted were in fact the ones reviewed — because the expert reports did not contain the subtitles from their inner pages.
Another publisher, Fyodorov, was told by a ministry official that it could submit photocopies of its documents, only to learn that 38 of 42 textbooks had been knocked out because it had done just that. Titul filed a lawsuit challenging the exclusions, so far to no avail; Fyodorov filed a similar suit, but a court dismissed it, and now the company is in talks to be acquired.
Other publishers, like Mr. Peterson and his mother, saw their textbooks disqualified as contrary to Russian values.
Ms. Peterson had created the concept behind her textbooks in the heady years after the Soviet collapse. The cartoon characters she used to illustrate math problems came not only from the West, but also included Russian characters and symbols. One, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, was the creation of the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, but the portly hero was the subject of a beloved animated film produced in the Soviet Union.
Mr. Peterson said the rejections, the first in the company's history, were based entirely on the finding of only one of the nine reviewers. "If this expert was given a physics textbook, I am sure, she would see Newton's law and find it unpatriotic," he said.
Enlightenment, for its part, emerged with only a handful of its books — 6 percent — disqualified. It led the revamped list with 415 approved books; the runner-up, with 296, was its unsuccessful suitor, Eksmo.
In the first seven months of the year, Russia's schools spent $187 million on textbooks. Enlightenment won 60 percent to 70 percent of those contracts, according to Mikhail Morozovsky, editor in chief of the trade journal Book Business, who based his estimate on an analysis of government procurement records. In addition, Enlightenment is now providing around 80 percent of all the textbooks that Russia is sending to schools in the newly annexed Crimea.
"It's like what they say in 'Animal Farm,' " one competitor said. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
Thousands Protest
Changes in curriculum are not to be taken lightly. Sticking with a single line of textbooks ensures that students build upon the skills they learn from year to year. Additionally, different textbooks employ different teaching styles. Enlightenment, for instance, publishes Soviet-style texts that emphasize rote memorization. The textbooks produced by Fyodorov use a more progressive teaching method called the Zankov system, which is aimed at teaching children how to think. The Zankov textbooks are quite popular, and their exclusion prompted a rare public display of protest.
The books' authors gathered more than 25,000 signatures and petitioned the education minister, Mr. Livanov. "Thousands of teachers and parents from all regions of the Russian Federation who want to choose for their children a path to individual and optimal development of characters share in our concern," they wrote.
Yelena A. Ilinykh, a first-grade teacher in Moscow, is one. The very superiority of Fyodorov's textbooks is what led them to be barred, she said in an interview near her school, because they threatened the market share of its politically connected competitor.
"This whole list is a political order for Moscow, which is representing the interests of one publisher: Enlightenment," she said.
In a statement, the ministry defended its actions, saying the old list contained "outdated textbooks whose quality was under question" and was so large as to be unwieldy. "It was hard for teachers, parents and students to make a right and conscious choice," the statement said. In public remarks in March, Mr. Livanov said popularity was not a measure of quality. "You cannot say that because multiple schools use a textbook, then that means it is good," he said. "Many people drink Coca-Cola, but that does not mean it is good for you."
Tatyana G. Mitugina, an English teacher from Bryansk, scoffed at that reasoning. In an online education forum, she protested the decision to exclude Titul's English-language books. " 'Enjoy English' does not have anything in common with Coca-Cola," she wrote. "These are amazing Russian textbooks, confirmed by practice."
The ministry, in an apparent concession to the public anger, gave schools a few years to phase out the books that did not make the list, but made clear that only students who had started to use them could continue. (Of course, many schools, mindful of the ministry's power and fearful of losing accreditation, immediately switched over anyway.)
"We were told that all the schools will be undergoing inspections," Ms. Ilinykh, the teacher in Moscow, said. "And if they find out that teachers are using textbooks not on the list for more than just continuing students, then the school could get funds cut or layoffs, or I don't even know what else."
Mr. Konobeyev of Titul said the temporary reprieve simply underscored the arbitrariness of the government's decision.
"If the books are not good enough, why are you allowing them to be used for the next five years, and if they are as good as our experts say and the teachers say, why are they not on the list?" he asked. "I find the whole thing Kafkaesque."
Profit and Ideology
There may be multiple motives behind the reshuffling of Russia's textbook industry. Given Mr. Rotenberg's involvement, and with Russia increasingly at odds with the West, some see it as a sign of Mr. Putin's drive to ensure the loyalty and patriotism of Russia's youth.
"When my future partners at Enlightenment started to tell me about what is happening here in the area of educational literature, when I found out that we have dozens of textbooks not only on history, but also on physics or mathematics, I realized that everything was not really great here," Mr. Rotenberg said in the Interfax interview.
Now, the Kremlin appears to be going further. Last month, legislators introduced a bill to establish unified textbooks for all history, literature and Russian language classes — a proposal that has been debated for years but appears to have new life.
"The bacchanalia of textbooks until now has been destroying our youth," said one of the lawmakers involved, Frants A. Klintsevich, according to a transcript of the hearing.
Mr. Putin's critics see a corrupted system motivated as much by avarice as ideology. The government has in recent months come to the aid of Mr. Rotenberg, who was 14 when he first met Mr. Putin at a judo club in Leningrad and owns a palace outside Moscow that rivals Versailles in its opulence.
After the Obama administration sanctioned SMP Bank — in which Mr. Rotenberg and his brother own a 76 percent stake — Russia's Central Bank gave it a 10-year, $3 billion loan with a below-market interest rate, ostensibly to take over another struggling lender. When Italy seized $40 million of property Mr. Rotenberg owns there through offshore companies, including a luxury hotel in Rome and two villas in Sardinia, the lower house of Parliament quickly passed legislation allowing citizens whose property had been seized to seek compensation from the government. Though the tycoon has said he does not plan to take advantage of it, the bill was immediately called "the Rotenberg law."
Whatever Mr. Rotenberg's precise relationship to Enlightenment, his role as chairman offers the company the sort of protection — known as "krysha," or roof — that ensures a favored status in the bureaucracy. The publishing house is not only well positioned to take advantage of the unified textbook mandate, but also another new directive that mandates that all textbook publishers offer electronic versions of their books by January 2015.
According to Mr. Konobeyev, smaller publishers like Titul are still waiting for the ministry's electronic textbook guidelines. Enlightenment, however, is ready to go, according to Mr. Ivanov. The agreement the publisher signed with Microsoft in late September, to share research and development on a Windows-based tablet that could be provided to schools across the country, should only "strengthen our position in the market," he said.
The question for Microsoft, as with many American companies doing business in Mr. Putin's Russia, is whether the potential profits outweigh the risk. United States law forbids American companies from doing business with companies majority-owned or controlled by sanctioned people like Mr. Rotenberg.
His presence on the board, the opacity of the ownership structure and other elements of the sale should make an American company reluctant to do business with Enlightenment, said Katrina Carroll, a lawyer at WilmerHale who until last year was a senior officer in the Treasury Department's office of terrorist financing and financial crimes. "I'd never advise a client of mine to go forward under these circumstances," she said.
Last week, Microsoft decided to put off its plans, based on new information it had received from The Times.
"Microsoft signed a nonbinding agreement to provide, free of charge, to Prosveshcheniye, the same type of technical assistance that we provide at no cost to thousands of schools and publishers worldwide," the company said in a statement. "Although we conducted due diligence in both Russia and the U.S. — including consulting the U.S. government and engaging respected international law firms — and have not found evidence that Prosveshcheniye is subject to U.S. or E.U. sanctions, we'll follow up on the concerns by postponing work under the agreement and conducting an additional review."


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Paintings by Chloe Briggs
Portrait paintings revolving around the feminine figure and the conceptualization of self-identity.
My current work focuses on self observation and the tensions between what is real and what is perceived. I am painting the reflection rather than the reality. How we perceive ourselves is based on the many false realities we are faced with everyday. The mirror holds a reverse perception and attempts to reveal the truth, when it is actually portraying a skewed representation of reality.


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Waking up early on a Saturday to make these is worth every bite. These quick and healthy chocolate pancakes made with almond milk or soy milk are more satisfying than anything you'll pour out of a box. Continue reading "Chocolate Almond Milk Pancakes"
Author: Brenna
Sea Salt, Garlic and Rosemary Roasted Chickpeas
I'm not reinventing the wheel here people, but if you haven't tried roasted chickpeas you probably should. The salt and oil measurements can be adjusted to your personal taste, as can the seasoning, plus a can of chickpeas is like what, a dollar? Hey-o to that!
Sea Salt, Garlic and Rosemary Roasted Chickpeas
1 can chickpeas ( although I would highly recommend using two cans and doubling the recipe because we ate everything within 5 minutes)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large garlic clove, minced
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, finely chopped
Sprinkling of sea salt, to taste
Red pepper flakes, optional, but why not spice it up a bit, right?
Preheat oven to 375.
In a medium bowl add chopped rosemary, minced garlic, and olive oil.
Drain and rinse chickpeas under lukewarm water and pat dry. If you're patient, remove the skins. If you're in a hurry, toss them in with the rosemary and oil mixture.
Toss chickpeas around in the bowl to fully coat. Add a pinch of salt.
Pour chickpeas out on a baking sheet and cook for 30-45 minutes, depending on how crunchy you like 'em. After 15 minutes I shook the pan to rotate the chickpeas to ensure even baking.
Remove from oven, season to taste with more sea salt and red pepper flakes.
Mediterranean Couscous Salad With Mixed Greens
Here's a quick and easy couscous salad recipe. Mixing everything with fresh arugula and spinach stretched out the ingredients so we were able to get two delicious meals from the recipe.
This was a great meal for a hot summer night, and was even better the next day after the flavours had soaked in. Add some sliced avocado for and put into a whole wheat pita with humus for lunch the next day. Yummers.
Mediterranean Couscous Salad
1 cup couscous
1 big clove garlic, minced
1 roma tomato, finely chopped
1/2 cup each of cucumber, red, yellow, and orange peppers, finely chopped
red onion, finely chopped (to your taste)
4-5 depitted olives and a splash of olive juice
a big handful each of arugula and spinach
juice from half a lemon. Garnish with extra lemon slices and/or zest
fresh feta, to your taste.
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Salt and pepper to taste
2-3 tablespoons olive oil
Pour 1 cup uncooked couscous into 1 cup salted boiling water. Remove from heat and let stand for 3 minutes. When cooked, drizzle with olive oil and fluff with a fork.
Chop tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, olives, and onion to similarly sized pieces. Add vegetables to couscous along with minced garlic, parsley, crumbled feta, and the juice from half a lemon. If you've bought bottled olives, adding a splash of the juices extends the flavour without having to use a lot of olives.
In a large salad bowl pour two tablespoons olive oil over arugula and spinach. Add couscous and mix. Salt and pepper to taste, garnish with lemon zest or additional lemon wedges.
I had every intention of making my own rosemary/garlic/thyme/lemon chicken, even bought all the ingredients… then I stumbled upon Jackson's Rotisserie at The Public Market and everything smelt so good and it was all ready to eat … so I caved a bought a pre-made chicken. It was delicious, but next time I will make my own.
Roasted Tomato Garlic Marinara
If I could take a picture of how amazing my house smells right now I would, because it's unreal.
This is it, the most delicious recipe I have ever made. I will never buy pasta sauce again, if I can avoid it, because this recipe from The Little Yellow Kitchen puts them all to shame.
The best part about homemade sauce? Knowing exactly what's going into the food that's going into you. Now that I've successfully made it once, and know how easy it is, I'll be making it for years. This recipe is a great template for so many possible sauces.
Second best thing about the sauce: It's soooo creamy, yet so light – and there's not even a drop of cream involved! I would be lying if I said I didn't eat it with a spoon straight from the jar. You will too, trust me.
Fiery Roasted Tomato Garlic Sauce
adapted from The Little Yellow Kitchen
8 tomatoes, cut in half and then quartered (I used Roma)
4 big garlic cloves, peeled
1/2 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon salt (what the original recipe called for, however I used just shy of a teaspoon)
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 chicken stock ( or vegetable)
1/4 red wine
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes ( if you like it with spicy like I do)
Preheat your oven to 350
1) Toss garlic and tomatoes into a large mixing bowl and coat with 1/4 cup olive oil, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper.
2) Pour contents of bowl onto a baking sheet and roast for 1 – 1/2 hours.
3) When tomatoes and garlic are almost finished, let simmer 1/4 cup red wine in a sauce pan.
4) In a food processor (or magic bullet!) add roasted tomatoes and garlic, red wine, 1/4 chicken or vegetable stock, 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes, and the remaining oil. Blend mixture. Enjoy!
I think this sauce would work best over pasta, but I'm going to try it on a homemade pizza tonight!
The Best Baked Spaghetti You Will Ever Eat
I spent most of my life hating baked spaghetti, a standard leftovers meal at our house I found dry and bland (sorry Mom!). My issue with baked spaghetti is there's never enough sauce, and the noodles are always too squishy after being recooked. This recipe calls for a mix of your regular ol' pasta sauce and Alfredo, double trouble baked spaghetti! The result, a creamy flavourful and VERY saucy dish. To ensure sauciness only bake the casserole until the cheese starts to bubble on top. Happy Eating!
Double Trouble Baked Spaghetti
Ingredients: Tomato Sauce, Alfredo Sauce, Pasta, Mozzarella Cheese ( or whatever you have on hand), grated Parmesan.
Optional: Red Pepper Flakes, fresh Parsley.
Preheat oven to 350.
1) Cook pasta in slightly salted water until desired consistency. I used the ends of two bags of pasta – fusilli and rigatoni. It was about 3 1/2 cups in total and we had lots of leftovers. Or, use leftover pasta if you're trying to clear out the fridge.
2) Grate mozzarella – the cheesier the better!
3) When pasta is at desired firmness, drain and add to casserole dish. Mix in one jar of tomato sauce and one jar of alfredo. Stir until fully mixed, then cover pasta with cheese.
4) Bake in oven until you see the cheese starting to bubble, about 10-15 minutes. Remove and add grated parmesan.
Easter Egg Nests
I came across this recipe accidentally during one of my many
wasted well spent afternoons surfing the web. I got the idea from The Pastry Affair, a blog about all things pastry, and became inspired to recreate these edible nests. They are so cute!
The first time I made a dessert with chocolate and chow main noodles was in Grade 2 when our class made Chocolate Spiders to sell at the school talent show. They were an instant hit with parents and kids alike, I think more so with the kids because after getting your hands all chocolatey and marshmallowy, you got to eat them! As soon as I saw this recipe I was transported down memory lane and knew I had to make them.
The Easter Egg Nest recipe involves peanut butter. I'm not a big fan of the chocolate-peanut combo so I was considering omitting it, however my entire family loves chocolate and peanut butter so I thought this would be a lovely Easter treat for them. Low and behold I liked them as well, mainly because the peanut butter didn't steal the show and created an equal balance with the chocolate. Thanks Pastry Affair for such a great Easter treat!
Easter Egg Nests
Makes 8-10 nests, about 3 inches in size
3 cups Chow Main Noodles
1 cup Chocolate Chips
1/2 cup Smooth Peanut Butter
30 Cadbury Mini Eggs (or whatever you'd like to fill your nest with)
Put Chow Main noodles in a mixing bowl.
Lay out a baking sheet covered with wax paper.
In a small pot melt chocolate chips and peanut butter. Stir until smooth, then pour over the chow main noodles. Stir noodles until evenly coated, then arrange your nests on the wax paper, sculpting out a place for the "eggs" to rest.
Let your nests cool for 30-40 minutes in the refrigerator before serving, and store in an air tight container.
Garlic Parmesan Kale Chips
So the Kale Chip bandwagon rolled by I thought, why not jump on and see what this ride is all about?
This immensely healthy vegetable is chock-a-block full of antioxidant properties, vitamins K, A, C and manganese (just to name a few). The leafy vegetable is sort of having a "moment" in the food fandom, with bloggers describe kale chips tasting "just like potato chips!". This is absurd and absolutely not true.
Consistency wise these were awesome, very light and flaky in your mouth, without inciting the guilty after effects of potato chips. Though kale absorbs the flavours you season it with, it does retain somewhat of a nutty earthy flavour, like raw broccoli.
Garlic and Parmesan Kale Chips
1 bunch of Kale
1 1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbsp Frank's Red Hot Sauce
Sea Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Parmesan cheese to garnish
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Wash kale and thoroughly dry. Separate kale leaves from the stem, then using a bowl or seasoning bag toss kale leaves in olive oil, garlic, and Frank's. 2 tbsp wasn't enough to make them spicy, but the flavours were nice.
On an oven tray evenly distribute kale leafy side up. Bake for 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and season to taste with parmesan cheese ( I also sprinkled some paprika).
Return to oven and cook for 2 more minutes.
NOTE: Burnt kale tasted very bitter, so keep a watchful eye on your chips!!!
Lemon Dill Dressing
Still trying to use up that fresh dill before it goes bad? Here's a simple salad dressing recipe:
Lemon Dill Dressing
3 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp chopped fresh dill
1 garlic clove, minced
1/4 salt
1/4 pepper
Whisk together ingredients and serve. I used this over couscous, very yum. To add some colour garnish your salad with grated raw beets, delicious not to mention beets are good for digestion and hinder garlic breath.


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How To View The Explore Feed Tab On Facebook
For a very brief time, the Facebook apps for iOS and Android had an 'Explore Feed' tab. This tab was represented by a rocket symbol. The Explore Feed tab on Facebook showed you trending posts within your circle of friends as well as from popular pages. The tab didn't show you what you friends were sharing or reading. Instead, it showed what was popular from the pages you and your friends followed. It wasn't all bad and I was surprised to see it pulled from the Facebook for iOS app.
If you're in the same boat, you can still visit the Explore Feed tab on Facebook web and in the iOS and Android apps. Here's how.
Explore Feed Tab On Facebook Web
Visit your Facebook home feed. Scroll to the bottom of the left column and click "See More" under the Explore section.
When the Explore section expands, you will see an Explore Feed option. That's the same as the Explore Feed tab that was briefly added to the Facebook apps.
Click it and you'll be taken to the Explore Feed tab.
Explore Feed Tab On Facebook App
To view the Explore Feed tab on Facebook in the iOS or Android app, tap the more tab. It's the one with the hamburger icon i.e. the three lines. Scroll to the bottom of this tab and there will be an 'Explore Feed' option here. Tap it.
Explore Feed isn't bad. I personally found it was a good way to see what was popular on Facebook pages that I didn't want to follow. These were pages that mostly posted the same stuff that was already circulating among popular pages, or it was mostly click-bait. It's a good way to know what is trending within your circle. Facebook doesn't have trends the way Twitter does. It pushes content either by suggesting it as something your friends like, or through ads.
If certain stories are trending, e.g., elections in a country, a sports event, or a holiday, Facebook might show you trending stories. A part from this, there isn't any way to discover new content on Facebook. Hashtags are again centered around a story that's already trending.
Since the Explore Feed tab was only a part of the Facebook app for a month, at best, it's unlikely people will even know there's a way to explore feeds on Facebook. Of course, the tab also showed you content you might not like because it was coming from pages you didn't follow. An overly enthusiastic user might take the opportunity to start reporting content instead of ignoring it. Perhaps that's why Facebook moved it to the back burner.


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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Sunday at the Met Discussion--Alexander McQueen: Art, Beauty, and the Unique Body
This Sunday, June 19, from 3pm til 4:30pm, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, athlete, actor and model Aimee Mullins and Harold Koda, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, will discuss art, fashion and the unique body as an object of beauty. Aimee Mullins, who had both of her legs amputated below the knee as a child, is an advocate for women, sports and the next generation of prosthetics. She modeled in Alexander McQueen's spring/summer 1999 fashion show, No. 13, wearing hand-carved wooden prostheses designed by McQueen. The discussion is presented in conjunction with The Costume Institute exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty which is on view through August 7, 2011.


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This is my second Bulu Box . If you have not heard of Bulu Box, it's a subscription box that has various vitamins and supplements to help you lead a healthier lifestyle. Each month, your box will contain 4-5 premium samples.
This month, I have to admit, I was a little disappointed with my samples. I would have liked to received more of the Shapeology pills, but that was my only main complaint.
Rescue Stress Relief Pearls were a nice idea. I like how the package fits in your purse (or diaper bag) for those moments on-the-go. I have taken a few of these and they do seem to work pretty well for me. Not a fan of the taste, but they worked!
Noxicare Natural Pain Relief Cream worked! I love that I got a big size of the cream, and not a small sample. It's also non-greasy, so that's a plus too!
Manitoba Harvest HempPro 70 Protein Powder was just ok. I am not a fan of the taste, and when you have to add it to water and drink it, the taste does matter. I like that it's plant-based for vegetarians, even though I'm not one.
Pur-Absorb Iron is great for those needed extra iron in their diets. The taste isn't too bad and it's 100% natural. I would definitely like to have more of these around!
Shapeology Burn Blend might work after continued use. It's hard to tell if it would help my metabolism with just 2 pills. I'm definitely interested in Shapeology though. Anything to get my metabolism up!
Kickbutt Amped Energy Ballz are ok. I gave them to my boyfriend because he likes the energy drinks and I really don't! He thought they tasted pretty good and seemed to work.
In this month's box, I also received a postcard recipe for a kale smoothie, which I appreciated! Also, I have a voucher for Naked Wines which I may put up for a giveaway soon because I'm not a wine drinker. The voucher is $100 off a purchase of $160 or more. Stay tuned for that!
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Monster Whitechapel fatberg given new lease of biodiesel lifeLast reviewed:
The monster 250-metre long Whitechapel fatberg will be converted into around 10,000 litres of biodiesel, Thames Water has confirmed today.
The congealed mass of fat, oil, grease, wet wipes and sanitary products discovered blocking an east London sewer will create enough environmentally-friendly energy to power 350 double-decker Routemaster buses for a day.
So far around a third of the 130-tonne fatberg, which hit headlines around the world last week, has been removed from the bowels of Whitechapel Road, with work now expected to finish in October due to damage it has caused to the Victorian sewer.
Thames Water waste network manager Alex Saunders said: "It may be a monster, but the Whitechapel fatberg deserves a second chance. We've therefore teamed up with leading waste to power firm Argent Energy to transform what was once an evil, gut-wrenching, rancid blob into pure green fuel.
"It's the perfect solution for the environment and our customers as we work towards our target to self-generate 33 per cent of the electricity we use from renewable sources by 2020. It also means the Whitechapel fatberg will get a new lease of life as renewable, biodegradable fuel powering an engine instead of causing the misery of sewer flooding."
Tanker loads of the infamous fatberg have been broken apart with high-powered jets and sucked from the Whitechapel Road sewer since work started in early September. It will now be transferred to a specialist plant to be processed with other fats, oils and greases, and transformed into biodiesel – a cleaner-burning, greenhouse gas reducing, replacement for fossil diesel fuel. Other unflushable items such as baby wipes, nappies, cotton buds and sanitary products – which should never be flushed – will be disposed of.
Alex added: "We have a problem with fatbergs, both in sewer networks and at our sewage treatment works. Previously, we've either extracted the fatberg out of the pipes and sent it to landfill, or broken it down and put it back through the sewage treatment process. Even though they are our worst enemy, and we want them dead completely, bringing fatbergs back to life when we do find them in the form of biodiesel is a far better solution for everyone."
The project with Argent Energy, which already helps to power bus fleets in the supply area, will run alongside Thames Water's 'Bin it – don't block it' campaign. This aims to prevent fatbergs building up in the sewers in the first place.
Thames Water is one of the biggest producers of green energy inside the M25 and is working towards self-generating 33 per cent of the electricity it uses from renewable sources by 2020. Last year the company produced enough electricity to power more than 86,000 homes, a town the size of Reading, through solar power, including Europe's largest floating solar panel array on its QE2 reservoir, wind power and expanding the number of sewage treatment sites where thermal hydrolysis is used to generate poo-power.


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What to Expect at our Office
Let's find out more about YOU!
We want to know all the weird and wonderful things that have happened in your life from day one so we can get a clear understanding on how and why your body is functioning the way it is today. Take a moment to stop and think: "What is your current state of health preventing you from doing?" OR If you feel like you are already functioning pretty well, what would life be like if you could really get the edge and function at 100%?
There are many unique questions and you may notice we take a different approach with our new member paperwork, please share as much as you can with Dr. Black and complete the forms so you can get the best advice possible and get the most out of your consultation with Dr. Black.
Your one-on-one consultation with Dr. Black
Dr. Black will discuss in detail your risk factors for spinal nerve/ cord stress and get a clear understanding of your past stress and health challenges, your current levels of health and happiness, and most importantly what you future goals for your health are. This is a very detailed history, many of our practice members learn a lot about what lead up to their current health issues during this important part of your first visit.
Chiropractic Assessment: We Test, we don't guess about your health!
Once we understand more about you, we conduct a focused and very unique Chiropractic assessment, which shows us how well your body is functioning and where the disturbances in your spine and nervous system are, how long the damaging stress has been there and to what degree the stress is built up within your body, and most importantly Dr Black will show you where the stress is affecting your body' ability to be well and function optimally.
These test are vital and allow Dr. Black will best understand your unique needs and goals for care.
Depending on your health goals and history Dr. Black will perform up to 7 different tests, to best determine how he can help and give you the care you desire.
These specific series of tests are unique to Dr. Black's approach to Chiropractic Care. Most importantly Dr. Black has been utilizing the Insight Technology since 1999 and is a Certified by the CLA for use and clinical interpretation, Dr. Black is an expert in interpretation of the data generated by our high-tech Insight device.
The Device has 3 distinct components to measure stress and the damage it has caused:
Surface EMG: Muscle Tone and Energy Distribution
The Surface EMG exam evaluates the function of the muscles that support and move your spine. These muscles are controlled by nerves. This test shows the pattern of how energy is distributed through theses muscles. The exam helps identify area and patterns of abnormal tension and stress and how your body is using energy against gravity. Muscle fatigue and poor energy distribution are signs that a person's entire health being under stress.
Thermal Scan: Organ and Gland Control
The Thermal Scan is used to assess the part of your nervous system that helps to control your organs, glands, and blood vessels, the autonomic system. The instrument does this by precisely measuring differences in temperature differences along the spine. Temperature is an accurate indicator as to where stress is building up and to what degree stress is affecting organs and glands. Since proper function of your organs, gland, and blood vessels is essential to healing, this test gives us a 'snapshot' of how this portion of your nervous system is working.
Heart Rate Variance: Pulse Wave Profiler
Helps the doctor to determine your overall ability to adapt to the environment. It does this by looking at the timing of your pulse, and determining the balance and tone of your nervous system. This exam is known as heart rate variability. A low Heart Rate Variability is associated with aging and poor heart health. Published research has shown that chiropractic adjustments have a beneficial effect on heart rate variability.
Please avoid the following before your first visit:
- Drinking coffee, tea, and cola drinks.
- Nicotine.
- Over-the-counter, prescription drugs. EX: muscle relaxers. * IF you have questions about medications taken prior to your visit, please ask.
- Excessive exposure to the sun.
- Bath salts, oils, or sunscreen.
- Vigorous physical activity.
Do these tests hurt?
NEVER. The tests are completely non-invasive; they do not use any needles, electrical shock or heat. They are designed to receive information from your Central Nervous System.
In addition, the following tests may be performed, if indicated. They map areas of spinal stress, nerve activity and postural changes. The information we gather is stored so that we can monitor progress in your brain-body connection as you progress under care.
Palpation of your spine and soft tissue: Dr. Black will gently feel your spine and surrounding muscles of the back and neck, to learn more about what the structure of your body is like and how well it is operating, so that we know how that is relating functionally to your overall health and well-being. Dr. Black is an expert at feeling for spinal misalignment by hand.
Digital Posture and Balance Assessment: Your posture is a window to your spine and nerve system, as such we take standing postures to accurately assess and analyze your posture, along with bi-lateral scales to measure where your body may be compensating to accommodate for the breakdown in communication resulting from subluxation.
Digital X-rays: If x-rays are indicated, Dr. Black will have x-rays taken of you in the standing position. X-rays show us what your structure looks like on the inside and allow us to determine the condition and position of your spine, stress areas or arthritic changes can be better understood along with a clear expectation for your progression of your spine with time. We use x-ray as a "dating tool" to more accurately determine how long your spine has been out of place, and measure any loss of curves, disk space, and view any other complicating factors.
This completes your first visit! You have learned a lot about YOU, how the body works and why we look at the spine first. Your Report of findings visit will be scheduled. Based on your health history, current findings, and your future health goals discussed in your consultation, Dr. Black will compile and interpret the results of your case and develop a working strategy and plan for your care to ensure you get the best results possible.
Your report of findings visit:
We want you to be fully informed about your care options, we will go over all the Chiropractic Assessment findings, you will LEARN about your:
- Current level of Nervous System Health!
- Exactly how we can help you!
- A care plan that outlines the frequency of care and the time required in your case.
- Answer any questions you have about care!
- Discuss financial options with you!
Let's get started: Your First Chiropractic Adjustment!
Dr. Black will explain what to expect during each Chiropractic visit and how to get the best results. Our team will show you how to check in for your next visits, how to get comfortable on our specialized adjustment tables, and the process begins with receiving your first adjustments.
Nerve and other Spinal problems rarely get better on their own. Call our Irving chiropractic office and begin chiropractic care today.
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Humans of New York was founded by photographer Brandon Stanton in 2010, and today it has an incredible following of over 18 million people. Stanton originally blogged on individuals he would come across on the streets of New York; their lives and their stories, accompanied by a candid photograph.
Stanton's travels now bring him to South Africa, where his last month has been spent in Johannesburg interviewing the resilient and inspirational individuals of the city.
Humans of New York story reads: "Mom tried her best to pay for flight school, but we kept running out of money. I'd have to drop out for a few weeks, and since flying involves so much muscle memory, it would take me a while to get back on track. So one day I bought a stack of magazines and newspapers. I went through every page and cut out the advertisements. Then I opened my pantry and wrote down every brand I could find. I sent all of them letters, asking for help.
Almost everyone said 'no.' But I did receive an amount from a grocery store called Pick-n-Pay. And Breitling sent me a brand new watch to raffle. That was a huge break. I sold six hundred raffle tickets. Things were going so well. African Pilot Magazine promoted the raffle for free. A man from Australia bought 100 tickets. But then I got a letter from the Lottery Board ordering me to end my raffle. They said it was illegal. I tried to explain that I was raising money for my education, but they didn't care. I was so disappointed. I'd have to sit out another year of flight school. But when I called everyone to explain the situation, nobody would accept their money back. They told me to keep it! It was enough to keep me in the air for months.
Then around Christmas that year, one of my mentors invited me to eat lunch at the airport. When I stepped out of the car, everyone who had ever helped me was there. They all started clapping. And somebody handed me the phone. A person on the other end said: 'You're live on 94.7, and we're going to pay for your entire education!' That was nearly four years ago. I just got my license last week. My plan is to fly for South African Airlines, but first I want to do some teaching. I want to visit schools in black neighborhoods. I want all the kids to see what an African female pilot looks like."
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