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5 Summer Cocktails That Are Actually Good For You
In the summertime, healthy and hydrated go hand-in-hand.
There are more fresh fruits and vegetables readily available, and our diets
naturally improve during the summer months because it's easier to make healthy
choices. We also increase our water intake to counteract the heat of the sun.
But at the end of a long day — or while relaxing on vacation — we may want
something more than plain water to sip on while sitting on the deck or hanging
out by the pool. Can we hydrate and be healthy while enjoying a summer
cocktail? Of course we can! Incorporating fresh fruits and vegetables in our
summer cocktails is not only refreshing, but it cuts calories and provides
nutrition our bodies need. Use this list to get creative with your summer
cocktails, and enjoy delicious health benefits at the same time. I'll drink to
#1 Sangria
Sangria, a cocktail from Spain and Portugal,
is refreshing and can be a smart option this summer if you're careful about
what you're adding to the pitcher. Using red wine as your base provides
antioxidants that can help prevent heart disease. Opt out of the simple syrup
and replace it with a flavored sparkling water that has no added sugar. Add
plenty of fresh fruit to boost your Vitamin C and fiber.
#2 Spiked Lemonade and Limeade
Spiked or not, lemonades and limeades are the go-to beverage of the summer.
Make it an adult version by adding a splash of vodka to your glass. To cut
calories, sweeten your lemonade or limeades with agave nectar instead of table
sugar or simple syrup. Don't be afraid to mix new flavors with this drink.
Cucumber and mint in lemonade and cherries in limeade are winning combinations.
#3 Wine Spritzer
Some people love nothing more than a glass of perfectly chilled white wine in
the heat of summer. Lighten this cocktail by pouring a half glass of wine and
filling the rest with club soda or sparkling water. Depending on the type of
white wine, several slices of fresh peaches or strawberries make the perfect
healthy garnish for this beverage.
#4 Garden Fresh Bloody Mary
Use tomatoes from your local farmer's market as the base, instead of pre-made mixes that are loaded with sodium. To boost the flavor in your Bloody Mary, try adding jalapenos to the tomato puree. These spicy peppers not only add flavor, but the heat will encourage you to savor your beverage instead of gulping it.
#5 Lighter Classics
Piña coladas and margaritas may be your favorite summer cocktails, but it can
be hard to enjoy one when you know the calorie count. On average, piña coladas
have 378 calories and margaritas have 280 calories. But you can still enjoy the
flavors of your favorites if you alter the ingredients and avoid high calorie
mixers. When making a piña colada, use light cream of coconut instead of the
full-fat one, and only use about a tablespoon, replacing the rest with
sparkling water. Get back to basics with a classic margarita. Fresh lime,
triple sec and tequila are all you need instead of those sickly sweet margarita
mixes. For some flair, try adding different fresh fruits or vegetables to find
your personal margarita flavor.
Wanting to look and feel our best while enjoying an adult beverage is
possible. Take advantage of the summer bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables to
not only make healthier summer cocktails to sip, but to also inspire a new
favorite that shows off your creative side. Drink to your health and remember….
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If you -- or your kid -- have been dreaming of making your own custom skateboard decks, don't miss this week's three-day Build Your Own Skateboard Workshop at Art Lab Fort Collins, 239 Linden Street, starting on Friday, February 24 at 4:30 p.m. The $60 workshop, which continues February 25 and February 26, is presented by local nonprofit Launch: Community Through Skateboarding, includes materials and instruction for designing, shaping, finishing, painting and griptaping your custom deck, and comes with a 15 percent discount coupon to hook up trucks, wheels and bearings through MRKT, a local skate shop.
"When we first started doing these DIY workshops, we thought a lot of younger kids would be interested, but it's turned out to be really popular with people of all ages and we've been getting kids, teenagers, adults, parents coming in with their kids, everybody," says Launch co-founder (and former MRKT owner) Andy Weiss.
"For this workshop, we're teaming up with Paul Schmitt's Create A Skate, which is a program designed for junior high and high school wood-shop classes, so you'll get an uncut blank to start with and you'll end up with a ready-to-ride skateboard deck, but what you're really getting is an experience where you learn about the history of skateboarding and the advantages of different skateboard shapes and you put some math, science, design and manufacturing principles to work to create something you'll be stoked to have made yourself."
We first caught up with Weiss in August, just as Launch was launching and trying to raise money for the Launch Creative Center, a proposed community space that Weiss hopes will one day feature a skateboarding museum, library and gallery, an indoor ramp and a permanent workshop and art studio space for hosting projects like Create A Skate.
"We're still looking for an ideal space," Weiss says. "But in the meantime, it's been great that we've been able to have some events at our local skateparks and start some of our programming without having a location, through partnerships with local schools and with great spaces like the Art Lab."
The most popular program so far is the "Honor Roll" Skate to Success program that Weiss and his Launch partners introduced for the 2011-12 school year, offering MRKT Skateshop gift certificates between $25 and $150 each semester to Fort Collins students registered for the program who can keep their grade-point average between 2.75 and 4.0.
"Skateboarders understand incentives for performing well," explains Weiss. "It's been pretty exciting to see all these kids working hard to get their grades up."
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Our portfolio of clients requesting design and print material has grown over the last 9 years. Please browse our initial launch site portfolio above. For more information on how eaW Limited can help your business please call us on 01992 444209 today.
We worked together with Ergro renewable energy group. Using the existing brand, we built and developed a new booklet which was to hold various company publicity material.
Fit For Sport
Fit for Sport are 'The UK's Leading Healthy Lifestyle Activities Provider'. Being the agency behind them, we have a catalogue of comprehensive works on all aspects of the brand.
Tavaziva Dance
Tavaziva Dance is a touring dance company led by Place Prize finalist, Bawren Tavaziva. The company tours nationally and internationally and aims to explore new territories in combining traditional dance forms of Africa within a contemporary Western base.
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Nightingale Academy
Careful consideration was taken to produce Nightingale Academy's Sixth Form Prospectus. We intended to separate the Sixth Form from the rest of the school to focus on designs that would attract the sixth former particularly, rather than younger children and parents.
Enfield Council & Futureversity
Each summer, Futureversity and Enfield Council run their 'Fun To Be Young' campaign. For 2 years running we have created the branding and visual feel of the material, consisting of a 32 page course listings booklet - fully illustrated with original imagery, all created and photographed by eaW Limited.
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Friday, 25 February 2011
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! Sad News!!
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Sunday, 20 February 2011
A New Contest and Heaps More Fun!!
Wooo hoo I am soo lucky. Back to back contests and having soo much fun mingling with fellow designers and designing kits right outside the box. I soo love the challenges and the gals at Ivy Scraps have some whiz bangers for us. This week we had to design a masculine kit called Daddy and Me. Gloria had the perfect set of colours. I just loved them. So you will find here a linkie to the contest mini and also an add on I made. Could you please consider going to Ivy Scraps to vote for me and also to download the Daddy and Me mini. Thanks soo much for your time. The linkies are below. Cheers Liz
Oh you must register first if you want to vote so you can go here to registger-
Ivy Scraps Forum
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Voting at Ivy Scraps
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Friday, 11 February 2011
Wooo Hooo Commercial Use Freebies!!
Hey there peoples this week at Stuff to Scrap we had to design paper overlays. Now you know me I like to do things differently. So I thought about how I go about making my papers and how I can share this process with all of you. I came up with Paper Stackables. I have already done the hard work for you and all you have to do is mix and match, change colours and have fun. These are designed for everybody to use to create their own awesome papers. All of the files are 300 dpi and 12x12 most in png format with the odd few as jpg (these are the base papers which you add colour or a gradient too). This does not mean that these overlays can't be used with others in your stash. In fact go ahead and use them whichever way you see fit. I love being creative and encourage you to experiment with Paper Stackables !! Please be aware that Paper Stackables 1 has a cut out edge to it. Paper Stackables 3 is a little freebie I made for you. The flowers which star in this page have been painted and the white removed so that texture and the writing can show through. In each of the Paper Stackable packs there is a page example. So if you want to cheat you can use it!! LOL..LOL..LOL.. But the big idea here is to be creative and to have heaps of fun playing with the overlays. I soo hope you enjoy these. They will be up for download for a limited time so please hurry and snag them. Oh please don't hesitate to contact me at anytime if you have questions or problems at firstname.lastname@example.com Cheers Liz
You can download the 2 Freebies at Stuff to Scrap here-
You can download my blog Freebie Paper Stackables 3 here-
Creative Busy Hands
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Sunday, 6 February 2011
Still Standing and it is Week 3
Wow gosh golleeee!! I cannot believe I am still here and standing amongst such talented ladies as those in the Stuff To Scrap Designer Darling Contest. Especially since I made the most stupid mistakes this week. First I forgot to put in my swatch (which I did last week too DUH!!) and now I have discovered that I did not put my TOU in! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKK!! Now this is the first time I have done so. I mean the thing was looking at me all completed in the working file but not in the zipped file. Gosh I feel soo stupid!! Anyhows I have uploaded it to media fire and you can grab the linkie to it in the forums at Stuff to Scrap here-
http://stufftoscrap.com/forums/showthread.php?4123-Designer-Darling-Round-3-Challenge-and-Preview-Thread along with all the other goodies the girls have made and offer for your scrapping pleasure. There is just ooodles to chose from and such fantastic kits too!! You have just gotta see for yourself!!
This week we had some very cool photos as our inspiration and this is where it led me. Oh where to start!! I saw those lovely pics of peaches and right away I thought of doing a kit with a peach theme. But then I saw how much the children enjoyed the peaches and I thought back to my child hood too to the book called James and the Giant Peach. I had sooo much fun reading the Roald Dahl books and to this day I watch the movies based on her books. I took inspiration from her fantasy novels and made my own fantasy kit with Outlaw by Designs lovely poser fairy dressed in peach blossoms with her pet bee's for company. I loved the way the
giant peach was used like a kinda balloon in the story so I thought I would make my own peach balloon. I so hope that you have as much fun using and playing with this kit as I had making it for you. It has brought many happy memories of reading and fantasising about fun characters and worlds of make believe.
There is 6 papers and 12 elements in the original which you can download here-
Peach Blossom by Lizard Dau Designs
There is also 6 papers and 12 elements in the Add On which you can download here-
Peach Blossom Add On by Lizard Dau Designs
Thanks soo much for reading this. Cheers Liz of Lizard Dau Designs
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Exploring gender equitable quality Education
This presentation looks at findings from across the EdQual projects and assess the level of gender equality in classrooms. It shows how more work is needed to improve equitable treatment.
Joint RPC Conference, Education Access, Quality and Outcomes in Low and Middle Income Countries. Institute of Education, 15 November 2010. 10 pp.
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The music ministries of Central United Methodist Church provide many opportunities for people of different ages and skill levels to sing and / or ring in worship. Participants need not be experienced but, rather, must have a love for communicating God's word through music
The Central UMC carillon is one of ten in the state of Michigan.
Kimberly Schafer playing our carillon and practice carillon. For more information, see Kimberly's blog.
The Central Bell Ringers rehearse at 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays in the sanctuary. There are 4 four-week sessions, which extend through May. The group rings in worship four or five times a year with smaller ensembles ringing at additional occasions.
In September through May, the Chancel Choir rehearses on Thursday evenings. The group sings a broad variety of music: traditional, classical, and spirituals, including newer music. Members have one Sunday off per month. Singing in worship is fun because of the great fellowship and learning experiences. Andrew Minear directs this group.
The Spirit Singers rehearse on Thursdays. They sing mostly music that's quite recent, from a variety of composers. This group is more casual. They generally sing two Sundays per month. They make frequent use of the new Worship and Song Methodist hymnal. Fellowship is an important part of the group's weekly gatherings. Caryn Welter leads the group.
The Youth Praise Band schedules its rehearsals and times to play in worship by the season, dependent on availability of its participants. The Band often plays with the Spirit Singers. The group recently played excerpts from Godspell at the end of a worship service, adding yet another dimension to Central's wide variety of musical offerings. Bill Tennant is the group's director.


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When smoking meat, you need all of the right tools to make your experience simple and easy. All too often, the one aspect that is causing your meat to come out less than savory is that you simply do not have the best grilling tools for the job.
We have compiled a list of the best grilling accessories that can turn you from a novice to an expert in smoking meat.
1. Ivation Wireless BBQ Smoker Thermometer Set
The times of using a manual thermometer are over. There was once a time when you would need to closely monitor your meat's temperature to ensure that you never overcooked your meat. Now, the best wireless thermometer for smoking and grilling can be used hundreds of feet away. This allows you the freedom of knowing how hot your meat is without having to huddle near your grill for hours.
The Ivation Smoke Meat Thermometer is the best in the industry and can read temperatures exceeding 570 degrees. The probes are easy to insert and users will find that the readings are accurate and timely. Simply wait and the LCD receiver will alert you if there is a problem. A beep or flash will tell you when the temperature of your grill or smoker is not within your desired range. There is even a timer as well as a wireless receiver (batteries included) that allow you to smoke your meat at just the right temperature.
2. Cuisinart CGS-5014 14-Piece Grill Set
If you can only afford one accessory, this is the absolute best choice. This grill set has everything you need to cook and handle the meat you are grilling. Being made by Cuisinart simply puts this set above all others.
Included in this fantastic set are the following items:
- Corn holders
- Basting brush
- Grill brush
- Tongs
- Spatula
These items will ensure that you have every last item needed to cook delicious smoker food at any time. The set even comes with a beautiful aluminum carrying case. There is also a one year warranty included to ensure that if your items break, they will be replaced free of charge.
3. Steven Raichlen Insulated Food Gloves
Handling smoked food can be very dangerous. With many meats needing to be cooked in temperatures that exceed 500 degrees, a good pair of gloves is essential. These gloves have been rated 4 stars by over 370 users.
Made with insulated rubber, these gloves are very sturdy, yet flexible enough that you can move your fingers with ease. Virtually no dexterity is lost in the process, which is a major benefit.
These gloves are not only great for handling meat, but they are meant for the shredding process as well. This means you can hold the scorching hot meat for minutes at a time without ever burning your fingers in the process.
4. Bear Paws Meat Handler Forks with Claws
One of the best BBQ tools is that of the bear claws. When cooking a turkey, chicken or various other meats, it is often hard to transfer them from the grill to your plate. Large forks are just awkward and handling them with your hands is merely out of the question.
These bear claws are made with heat resistant nylon and have been approved by the FDA. Users can easily lift meat with these claws or use them to shred their meat.
If you cook up pork often, these claws work great for the shredding process. They are very comfortable to hold and provide users with the utmost in protection.
5. Weber Rapidfire Chimney Starter
Charcoal provides a superior taste over its propane counterpart, but there is one issue – starting. Trying to get a grill to start for 20 minutes is never fun. Weber has created a great tool for all of your charcoal grill and smoker needs.
The Rapidfire Chimney starter is one of the best smoking tools to have. For anyone that is simply tired of wasting time on the starting process, but loves the taste that charcoal gives their meat.
This start is 7 ½ x 7 ½ x 12 inches in length and has a cone bottom design to ensure starting is a breeze. One of the best parts is that there is no need for lighter fluid thanks to the starter's unique design.
The basic design also ensures that all of the charcoal is heated evenly. This means that when you take your meat off of the grill, the meat will be cooked thoroughly. Over 1090 people have rated this as a must-have for anyone that does not have a gas grill. For any grilling enthusiast that simply needs to have the best flavor and is tired of pouring in more lighter fluid to get their grill to start, the 7416 will make your grilling a breeze.


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St. Elmo Village, a free-spirited arts education complex, has been transformed into one of Los Angeles' under-recognized Black arts hubs.
The hub has a long history of activism and has been a space for people who could grieve and brainstorm ways to mobilize activists.
Artist and activist Patrisse Cullors transformed the space into a safe, creative hub where it spawned the National Black Lives Matter movement.
Muralist and photographer Roderick Sykes and his uncle, visual artist Rozzell Sykes, built St. Elmo Village.
St. Elmo Village is a living, thriving testament to the 1970s Black Arts Movement. It has enabled many artists and writers to experience an alternative, creative space. The hub, for its long-term survival, is planning on funding, leadership and renovation.
Up to the minute current grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
Christopher Girdwood, after witnessing how small business owners cope following a disaster, founded the Recovery Pledge.


text: I\u2019m pretty certain I fell in love for the first time on a bike. The power of self-propulsion, confidence, freedom, and camaraderie were things that helped to build the foundations of my adult life. Like many of you, I still experience those same things each and every time I pedal my bike. I can recall stripping the training wheels off my first big-boy bike, a green Schwinn. A few scrapes, bumps, and bruises followed. My dad was a building contractor so there was never any shortage of bricks, cinderblocks, or plywood to build the sketchiest ramps ever. I remember flying through the air for the very first time. What seemed like minutes must have only been a fraction of a second. All the same, I was hooked\u2014and have been ever since. My bike is an avenue for so many things. My closest friends all entered my life in some way, shape, or form because of the bike. A long, solo road ride is my shrink, my time to get away and let the creative juices flow, problem solve, and bring my life back into balance. A bit of freeriding on my squishy bike gets the endorphins flowing, and a trip up to Valmont bike park in Boulder lets me fly through the air and feel like a kid again. A cyclocross workout builds my heart and sprints on my 20\u201d make me feel strong. It\u2019d be hard to imagine a life without my bike. My bike has also built my career. I\u2019ve been riding and racing for 38 years, a cycling coach, writer, and lecturer for more than 20. I work with professionals and amateurs in road, track, \u2018cross, gravity mountain bike, cross-country, ultra-distance, and BMX riding. My athletes have won world and national titles, are Pan American medalists and Olympians, and I\u2019ve been blessed to travel around the world to support them in competition. My bike has taken me all over Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa, and Maui Hawaii, a place I\u2019ve met some of the most incredible people you can imagine. In August of 2012, I coached at the Olympic Games. Did I mention I was blessed? As this column unfolds, I\u2019ll be sharing the lessons I\u2019ve learned pedaling countless miles on every type of bike you can imagine, coaching top professionals, and consulting with brilliant coaches, nutritionists, physiologists, massage therapists, strength and conditioning specialists, psychologists, mechanics, team managers, physical therapists, and weekend warriors from all over the globe. I hope you\u2019ll join me for the ride. James Herrera is a U.S. national team coach and the founder of Performance Driven Coaching. Follow him on Twitter: @poweredbyplants More from James: Avoid Indoor Trainer Boredom \u00a0 Burn More Fat


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Firstly, we would like to thank the guys at NeoFlash for sending this unit to review. Don't you miss the other devices their are constantly developing, specially if you enjoy classic consoles.
And now, here we go with the review.
The packing of the MK2 device is very small and in it, we can only find the Magic Key 2, no manual neither software are included.
In this image we can see the MK2 (left) and a Passkey 2 (right) together with a GBA cart and a DS cart to compare their size.
In this other image, we see the MK2 with a SD card and a DS cartridge in it.
And here, the whole thing inserted in a Nintendo DS console.
The MK2 is inserted and removed from the NDS cartridge slot like any original cartridge, that is, you have to push down to extract the cartridge, no need to pull it out.
The MK2 works like a PassMe device, but at the same time, NDS save games, can be saved directly to the 2Mbits memory that incorporates. Also it has 16Mbits reserved for the loader and other applications. It supports MMC/SD cards and the possibility of executing NDS code from a memory card or the GBA flash cart.
The Magic Key 2 needs a flash cart to work, since it really is a conventional PassMe device with an aditional slot for MMC/SD cards. In order to be able to use the MK2 we will need a GBA flash cart, since we will need to load the MK2 loader from it. If we don't use the MK2 loader, MK2 behaves like a conventional PassMe, and we will not be able to access any content in the MMC/SD card. Once the loader in the GBA flash cart is loaded we will be able to select any NDS games in the GBA flash cart or in the MMC/SD card inserted in the Magic Key 2. We can browse files and folders in the MMC/SD card using a simple interface. When we select a file, the load process begins. This has been successfully tested with a 512 mb EZ Flash II cart and a 512 mb Sandisk miniSD card with a SD adapter.
Compatibility with NDS games is not very high in comparison with other devices, but this device has beeen for a while in the market, so it is not comparable with newer units. So to play our backups, it is not the best option, although it is not a bad alternative, if what we want it is to program for our console.


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This makes me truly happy. I never knew Franz Kafka used to be an attorney. According to Wikipedia, anyway. It does follow a certain logic. Who else would know what it's like to wake up one day feeling like an insect but an insurance attorney? When I was practicing law, I experienced this feeling more than a few times.
At any rate, I love his work and it gives me hope that practicing law does not necessarily extinguish one's creative instincts forever.


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Britisk politi arresterte fem menn i Birmingham og Stoke fredag. Noen timer senere ble politiet bombeenhet tilkalt. Det var funnet en bombefabrikk.
Two of the men, aged 32 and 37, were arrested in the Stoke area of Staffordshire while another two, aged 18 and 24, were arrested at their home addresses in Birmingham.
Another man, 28, was arrested at a different location in Birmingham.
Staff and guests at the Pentahotel, which is on the edge of a police cordon, were advised to stay inside as a precautionary measure.
Veshh Kumar, a concierge at the hotel, said: 'We had seen police activity since about 12.00pm then all of a sudden at about 4pm the bomb squad and the army arrived.
One resident, who lives in nearby Bishopgate Street, added: 'Bath Row is cordoned off at the moment.
'There are about seven police vans and i would estimate over 35 police officers.
'The bomb disposal unit is there and I have seen a white bomb disposal robot. There is also an ambulance and two fire engines.
'I have never seen a police operation like this in my life.
Politiet holdt kortene tett, men uoffisielt lekket de at det handler om en bombefabrikk.
But a security source told The Times that the raid was on a bomb-making factory and a significant step forward in a long-running investigation involving M15 and the West Midlands counterterrorism unit.
He told the paper that police and the bomb squad were searching one property that police suspected was being used to make home-made bombs.
Fordi politiet er dyktige og lykkes å forpurre flere angrep, går de i glemmeboken. Hvis man går tilbake ser man at det pågår en krig mot det britiske samfunn, men samfunnet har problemer med å ta det inn over seg.
In April this year police arrested five people in connection with terror offences in Birmingham and at Gatwick airport which were reportedly linked to attacks on Brussels and Paris.
Politiet er teknisk dyktige, men det er kapasitetsproblemer og tilfeldigheter som spiller inn.
The most recent bomb plot in the UK was led by Mohammed Rehman and Sana Ahmed-Khan, a husband and wife from Reading, who were planning an attack in central London in June last year.
Rehman had pledged allegiance to Islamic State and had manufactured 11kg of urea nitrate using a hotplate in his bedroom. The couple were sentenced to life in prison in December.


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Chapel Christ in the Desert Monastery Chama River Valley New Mexico June 08, originally uploaded by wordcat57. (photo courtesy of wordcat57 under the Creative Commons License. This photo may not be reproduced for commercial purposes.) On Tuesday I celebrated yet another birthday. My forty-third, to be exact. And now that I'm meandering decidedly toward middle […]
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South Dakota Democratic Senate hopeful Rick Weiland apparently is not so hopeful.
Republican former Gov. Mike Rounds is the clear front-runner for the state's open Senate seat, and Weiland accidentally ceded that fact at a debate Wednesday.
"Senator — or, soon-to-be —" Weiland said before catching himself and laughing. "No, not soon-to-be. That's a good gaffe. I'll take that back. Soon-to-want-to-be Sen. Mike Rounds." Rounds and Weiland won't be alone on the general-election ballot. Two independent candidates are also running: former GOP Sen. Larry Pressler and Gordon Howie. Pressler was realistic about his chances in a November interview with CQ Roll Call, saying, "If I win, I might demand a recount."
The candidates are vying for the seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson. After Democrats failed to recruit a top candidate, the seat became among the most likely pickups for Republicans — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said this week Democrats will "more than likely" lose it.
The race is rated Favored Republican by the Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call.
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As many of you know, Morgan's Cloud is laid up and we have spent most of the last year at our Base Camp in Nova Scotia. However, nice as it is, The Hovel, as we affectionately call our cabin, is not insulated…not even slightly. So, faced with a Nova Scotia winter, we did what any sensible people would do and bailed.
I say "sensible people" but, now I think about it, that might be an unrealistic claim for us to make since, instead of doing what a couple aspiring to that designation would do and heading for a warm place, we are heading west toward Canada's Rocky Mountains on the theory that if you are going to do winter, you might as well do it full-on and cross country ski like crazy. There's also the added attraction of a rented condo with insulation and heat that does not require splitting and lugging wood—a novel concept, don't you think?
Wait, it gets better…or maybe worse. Sensible people would fly. But Phyllis and John, oh no, only the train will do. So as I write we are somewhere north of Lake Superior in the middle of…well, nowhere. And I do mean nowhere. Lots of trees though. Lakes too. It's the Great Canadian Shield, all covered in snow, and quite beautiful.
But no cell phone coverage, which means no internet. So this post is really just a long lead-in to explain our absence from the comments. We will be back. When we get somewhere. Rather than where we are now, which is, as I said, nowhere. Actually, it's rather nice, and a good reminder that being without the internet sometimes is a good idea.
As to the title of this post. One of the interesting things about traveling by train, particularly a train that moves at, shall we say, a leisurely pace, is that it reconnects us to the real dimensions of our planet. Kind of like offshore voyaging in that way, only without the puking. But unlike flying, which compresses everything in unnatural ways.
We have now been traveling for some 48 hours and we are not even halfway across Phyllis' native land and my adopted country. Canada is a really big country. Beautiful too.


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Nothing is as difficult as saying "Good-bye" to someone you love. We understand those times are very hard on friends and loved ones alike. That is why we take our business very seriously and carefully handcraft each and every Sympathy Flower Arrangement and Funeral Spray we make.
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Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain (pictured here with daughter Isla and husband Gary Lough) , the women's world marathon recordholder with a 2:15:25 from London in 2003, will do her first 26.2-miler in more than two years when she lines up for the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday. She was champion of New York in 2004 with a 2:23:10 after an epic battle with Susan Chepkemei. Radcliffe's first race in 21 months - since giving birth to daughter Isla (who fortunately "sleeps through the night totally") in January and then struggling to return after a stress fracture of her sacrum - was September's Great North Run from Newcastle to South Shields, England, a half-marathon in which she finished second to Kara Goucher of the U.S. in 1:07:53. Besides her 2:15:25 in 2003, Radcliffe won London two more times, in 2:17:42 in 2005 and in 2:18:56 in her debut in 2002, and she was the 2003 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon champion in 2:17:18. She was the marathon gold medalist at the 2005 World Championships in 2:20:57. Radcliffe was a World Cross Country champion in 2001 and 2002; she'd been a World Junior champ back in 1992. She's also won three World Half-Marathon Championships. Her rivals on Sunday will include two-time defending New York City champion Jelena Prokocpuka, 2007 Berlin Marathon winner Gete Wami, and Catherine Ndebera, who won her second World Championships marathon in Osaka this summer.
Radcliffe opened Thursday's press conference with a comment about her return to New York and to marathoning: "I'm really, really please to be back here in New York and really, really pleased to be back racing marathons. And it seems to me that New York was a natural place to start back. It was great to come back here and bounce back from the disappointment in Athens in 2004, but more than that, ever since I first came to New York in 1995 to run the Fifth Avenue Mile, it's been someplace that's been special to me. I've always raced well. I love the buzz of the city, but even moreso, I love the buzz of marathon week leading up to it and I'm really, really excited to get on with the race on Sunday, which I think is going to be a great race. It's a very strong field, and I'm looking forward to dropping back in there and running well.
How would you compare this with the 2004 field that you ran against in New York?
Paula Radcliffe: I think it's probably stronger in depth. I think there's six or seven people up at the top of the women's field, and maybe it is a little more unpredictable as well, given that Catherine's coming back after Osaka and Gete after Berlin. I haven't raced for a couple of years at the marathon. It's a little bit more unpredictable but a little more exciting as well .... I would equate with the field for a major championships, because with the exception of the Japanese and Deena (Kastor), there are not many people not here who are sort of right there at the moment. I think that makes for it to be a very challenging race and an exciting race as well. I think you've also got a mix of different styles of running, styles of racing. Constantina (tomescu-Dita) races very different to Catherine, to Gete, to myself, and that can mix it up and make it more interesting, too.
Will the lack of pacemakers this time affect your strategy or the strategy of the field?
PR: To be honest, I don't think it will make much difference. I think it's a very very strong field .... In men's racing, the pacemakers go a long way. In women's racing, it's very rare that we have pacemakers go a long way anyway unless it's in a mixed race. So I don't think it will change the field that much. And with the field being so strong, I think people are going to be more looking to each other than they would at the pacemakers anyway.
This is a re-entry marathon for you. Are you likely to more cautious in the early going than you would be normally be in a race of this magnitude?
PR: I doubt it. The fact that I'm here and I'm putting myself on the line means that the training's gone well and I'm prepared and I feel prepared to run well over the marathon distance. So I'm just going get on and run my race. I'm maybe a little bit more nervous in that I haven't run one in a couple of years, but I think that's a good things as well because if you're nervous, it matters to you and you're ready for it.
What did you think about your Great North Run and what were you able to accomplish in your training since then?
PR: I was a little bit disappointed with the Great North Run. I hoped, at the stage I was at in fitness, to run maybe a minute or so faster than I actually did. I actually had a few problems with my foot in the race which have been worked out then. But more importantly, I've had a good five weeks worth of training which I think has brought me on a lot. I only really had five or six weeks of running training going into the Great North Run. So I've kind of doubled that and really feel that I'm in a lot more of a competitive position going into this and certainly a lot fitter and ready to run the marathon.
Do you think the Athens experience might help you with the weather conditions and air pollution you might encounter at the Beijing Olympics in 2008?
PR: None of those factors really contributed to what happened to me in Athens. That was glycogen depletion from the problems I had with my injury and the treatments to that. But things that I've learned can carry into Beijing, I guess, are just that bad things can happen but you have to deal with them well and get ready for it as well as possible.
Will you do another marathon after this one, before Beijing?
PR: I don't know. I'll see how I feel after this one, whether I feel I need to or want to do another one, whether that would be the best thing recovery wise going into Beijing.
What are the challenges you face combining new motherhood with being a professional runner?
PR: I think, so far, I'm really enjoying combining the two. The more important things is the happier I am, the better I run, the better I race. And certainly, I'm a lot happier with Isla in our lives. I'm also very lucky because Gary is really good with sharing...somebody asked if she was a mummy's girl or a Daddy's girl. She's definitely a Daddy's girl because he spends so much time with her and he's so good with her. And she's very adaptable and already used to traveling which makes things easier for us. You do have to be more organized as well. But I think the benefits that come with it by far outweigh a little bit less time; sometimes that's good thing if you've got less time to sit around worrying about the race, and more time just to rush around doing everything and then got on with racing.
How has your body felt not only coming back from childbirth but from the injury (a stress fracture of the sacrum in her lower back)?
PR: It took longer than, if I'm honest, I anticipated it would be because I had the injury. But having said that, I certainly felt stronger coming back afterwards and certainly feel now that stamina wise, I'm a lot better and can run for longer faster than I could before. Some of that might be part getting older, some of that might be benefit from pregnancy; I don't know.
A lot of your earlier marathons have been very very fast ones with you on your own, and when you came here in 2004, you had a real battle on your hands for a very very long time. How did you initially react when you initially realized you were going to have somebody running with you to the 26.2-mile mark (the finish)?
PR: I think I enjoyed that. It was a totally different way for me to run a race, the experience of a marathon like that. But it was something that I'd done many times over shorter distances.... But it was a change to run a marathon like that. I enjoyed that. Certainly, I think, it made for maybe a more exciting spectator race.
Do you have thoughts on Gete Wami's attempt to run two hard marathons in five weeks?
PR: Well, I definitely think it's possible. I don't think she was all out in Berlin. I'm sure she's recovered or else she wouldn't be here and she's definitely someone to watch.
Early in your career, you were mostly racing the clock. But your win here in 2004 and in Helsinki (the 2005 World Championships) sharpened your skills for championship racing. You've diversified. Do you have a preference or are you pleased with both?
PR: I'm pleased that I can do both, I guess. I think that was one of the refreshing things, maybe one of the things I loved about the marathon. When I came to the marathon, I realized that I held a lot more cards over the marathon distance than I had over shorter distances. So many time over shorter distances, I didn't have any opportunity but to go to the front and run hard from the beginning because that was my best tactic in trying to run over five and 10k. When it came to the marathon, I've got a lot of different ways I can run this race.


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I loved driving in Morocco, a country where customary road rules are vaguely optional and the entire country becomes a themepark for a loose game of chicken.
After my 2-weeks in the country with G Adventures, my friend Damien from Ireland met me to explore some of the places the trip did not. We decided to stay in Marrakesh for a few days and then head down to the desert. Based on the timetables of buses and our limited days left in the country, we thought renting a car would be the best option. Having watched the driving for a few weeks already, I was itching to get behind the wheel and Damien was kind enough to let me do all the driving. It was a five-hour drive from Marrakesh to Ourzazate over Morocco's highest mountain pass, the Col du Tichka, and then descending toward the Sahara. From Ourzazate, it was another five hours past Zagora to M'hamid, most of it on a one-lane "highway" called N9, where I would watch the cars and trucks barrelling toward me, sticking it out to see who would flinch and move out of the way first.
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Tyga is being sued by three video vixens for breach of contract surrounding the explicit version of his "Make It Nasty" video.
Tyga's most explicit music video to date was released via his Twitter feed on July 28th, and depicts the hedonistic rapper partying in a mansion with a lot of women, many of them blatantly topless. Apparently, the casting ad stated that there would be no actual nudity involved in the video, and that the girls would be shot tastefully. Those who were asked to appear topless in select scenes were told their nipples would be either be edited out or covered up.
But video girls Elizabeth Velasquez, Alissa Rae Ross and Azia Davis claim this was not the case, and that their nipples were exposed and included in the project without their permission. They were actually told that the explicit version of the video would never be released.
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Two of the women who sparked December's suit over the explicit "Make It Nasty" video have filed new legal documents in the case. Elizabeth Velasquez and Azia Davies are now looking for $10 Million each, in compensation for Tyga's video depicting their fully topless bodies-- after being specifically promised no nudity in the final cut.
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NBC - one of the networks that has virtually ignored the Tax Day Tea Party protests against taxation and government spending - finally mentioned it on "Today" April 15.
The network's chief White House correspondent, Chuck Todd tacked his criticism on to the end of a glowing report about President Obama's economic speech from April 14. He cited "White House aides" who called Obama's speech "a modern-day fireside chat," but Todd said "it also had the feel of an economics class."
After such positive remarks about Obama, Todd dismissed the grassroots movement as "so-called tea parties."
Todd said, "Republicans, meanwhile, are struggling to make use of the day politically. There's been some grassroots conservatives who have organized so-called 'tea parties' around the company-country hoping the historical reference will help galvanize Americans against the president's economic ideas."
He continued to write off the protests saying: "But I tell you, the idea hasn't really caught on. The RNC has jumped in. A few other radio hosts have jumped in but it hasn't galvanized the party the way they would hope."
"Today" host Matt Lauer didn't challenge Todd's appraisal of the tea party protests despite the fact that there are over 500 protests scheduled across the country today and people will be gathering in every Congressional district.
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50% of Our Readers Work Full Time on the Internet
I must confess that I was surprised with the results. When I launched the poll last Monday asking our readers whether or not they worked full time on the Internet, I was expecting at most 20% of them would say "Yes."
It turns out that almost 50% of our readers do work full time online (47% to be precise). We had a total of 371 people casting a vote, so the results should be somewhat meaningful. Another 40% of the readers who took the poll said that they don't work full time yet but are definitely planning to. Only 13% answered that they don't work full time on the Internet and don't want to.
Interesting huh?
Anyway, I am glad to know that almost 90% of our readers are either working full time online or planning to. I firmly believe in this professional path (more on this on a future post).
Thanks for everyone who answered the poll, and stay tuned for the next one.
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34 Responses to "50% of Our Readers Work Full Time on the Internet"
Lia Qistina
For me, this statistic is very surprising. Hopefully someday many Malaysian will acknowledge blogging as a professional career.
Doc Westfield
@Blake at Props
Not sure where you are getting your data on the demographics for this site, but quantcast.com is showing a larger 35-49 age group with a high level of college educated users. The way I'm reading that data I would have to say that the 50% full-time results would be pretty close to accurate.
It would be interesting to do a follow-up poll asking those that do work full-time on the internet to rate their success.
Daniel Scocco
@Lee, pretty much, but I don't think that is necessary. I will write a guide on that some day.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who made legal history with his Wall Street lawsuits and $1.4 billion resulting settlement last year, has turned his attention to the mutual fund industry. The investigation pays special attention to practices called "late trading" and "market timing." (See below.) In early September 2003, Spitzer announced that one hedge fund under investigation, Canary Capital Partners, LLC, had agreed to make restitution $30 million in illegal profits generated from unlawful trading and pay a $10 million penalty. In the first week of October 2003, Bank of America said it would pay back holders of any fund affected by such practices.
Throughout November and into December further suits have been filed against additional mutual fund providers, including one in Dallas against Mutuals.com and several by New York Attorney General Spizter. On December 9, 2003, a former executive at Security Trust pleaded guilty in an illegal mutual fund trading case brought by Attorney General Spizter and the SEC just two weeks before.
The effect of the scandal on the small investor is yet to be determined. In his October 6, 2003 column in THE WASHINGTON POST, financial writer Allan Sloan stated that the "mutual fund machinations may be the most troubling of recent scandals." On October 8, 2003, FORBES ran a Reuters article entitled "Investors may dodge much of mutual fund fallout," which suggested that individual investors would probably see no noticeable changes, positive or negative, as a result from the scandal and its resolution.
What is sure is that the story isn't over for investors or institutions. Attorney General Spitzer and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are continuing their probe. According to financial market tracker AMG Data Service, since the scandal broke the weekly inflow to mutual funds has dropped from $4.9 billion to $2.2 billion, perhaps indicating investor wariness. In addition, worries that some mutual fund advertising been misleading to investors has led the SEC to implement new rules for the industry.
According to the trade association Mutual Fund Education Alliance:
A mutual fund is a company that pools the money of many investors its shareholders to invest in a variety of different securities. Investments may be in stocks, bonds, money market securities or some combination of these. Those securities are professionally managed on behalf of the shareholders, and each investor holds a pro rata share of the portfolio entitled to any profits when the securities are sold, but subject to any losses in value as well.
Late Trading
Late trading is placing a buy order for a mutual fund after 4 p.m. ET and getting it at that day's closing net asset value. Late trading is an illegal practice which lets an investor benefit from events that happen after the closing bell changes which aren't reflected in the stock's closing price.
Market Timing
Market timing involves the short-term trading in and out of a fund. Market timing is a legal practice unless prohibited or discouraged by a mutual fund's prospectus. Watchdogs worry that since fund managers have to pay commissions on buying and selling, this practice could lead to charges which could effect investor returns.
When New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the first settlement coming out of his investigation of the mutual fund industry he stated:
The full extent of this complicated fraud is not yet known, but one thing is clear: The mutual fund industry operates on a double standard. Certain companies and individuals have been given the opportunity to manipulate the system. They make illegal after-hours trades and improperly exploit market swings in ways that harm ordinary long-term investors.
In addition, one trader from Millennium Partners has been convicted for late trading as a result of the probe, and several other firms, including Merrill Lynch, Alliance Capital Management and Prudential Securities have fired personnel.
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Canary Capital Partners, Ltd.
Responding to concerns that individual investors are buying into mutual funds as a result of misleading print and television advertising, the Securities and Exchange Commission is phasing in new guidelines for advertising.
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A professional blog is a professional business. As such, the blog itself has to look and run professionally. This means it has to meet certain industry standards, and you've got to pay a fair amount of money to pull this off. Sometimes this can mean taking out a professional loan. A business loan is a big commitment so use this free loan calculator to play with the numbers first to ensure this is something you can afford. Because many bloggers live internationally, it can be hard to find the best banking options, much harder than it would be to get a loan back home. For European bloggers, Norskelån offers some of the best options. However you finance your improved look and function, make sure the changes you are making differentiate yourself from the crowd in terms of quality. This is one of the main ways that professional bloggers become professional in the first place.
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In order to take your blog to the next level, you've got to have a unique, focused take on a specific topic. When a blog's focus is too disparate, it's impossible to get the kind of attention needed to build a real career. At this stage, it's important to create or buy content which is unique and valuable. If it provides genuine information to your readers, then it will help build a real audience over time. By focusing on SEO as well, you can be sure that your blog will perform well in search, giving you the ability to grow your audience at a rate that exceeds the regular growth from word of mouth.
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UTEC scoops Greater Enfield survey gig
UTEC, a survey company in subsea services group Acteon, has been awarded a survey and positioning services contract by Technip Oceania, a part of TechnipFMC in Australia.
UTEC said Monday that the contract was for the provision of survey and positioning services on the Greater Enfield Project, offshore Western Australia.
The work scope includes pre-lay surveys, onshore dimensional control, survey and positioning associated with the installation of rigid and flexible flowlines, umbilicals, jumpers, flying leads, and subsea structures, as-laid surveys, as-built surveys and final reporting.
The Greater Enfield Project will develop the Laverda Canyon, Norton over Laverda (WA-59-L), and Cimatti (WA-28-L) oil accumulations. These reserves will be tied back to the Ngujima-Yin FPSO unit.
Simon Hird, UTEC's Asia Pacific business unit director, said: "This is a significant survey contract award in Australia for 2018 which reinforces UTEC as the leading construction survey contractor in the region."
To execute the work scope, UTEC set up a project management team in Perth and Singapore with additional personnel based in Kuala Lumpur. Preparation is underway with offshore activity due to begin early in 2018.


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|Progress of objectives 2014
|Progress of objectives 2015
|Progress of objectives 2016
Renewable energy
We will purchase 100% renewable electricity in Finland.
All electricity purchased by Kesko in Finland is renewable since the beginning of 2017. We purchase renewable electricity that has the Renewable Energy Guarantee of Origin (REGO) from the Nordic countries. In 2017, electricity purchases will especially focus on Finnish bioenergy.
We will increase the production of solar power for our own use.
In June 2016, Finland's largest property-specific solar power plant was completed on the roof of K-Citymarket Tammisto. By the end of 2016, solar power plants were built in two other K-Citymarket stores and nine K-Supermarket stores. By the summer of 2017, a total of 16 solar power plants will be in operation on the rooftops of K Group stores. The new investments will make the K Group the largest producer and user of solar power in Finland.
Energy efficiency of stores
During the agreement period 2008–2016: We will improve our annual energy efficiency by 65 GWh by 2016.
The final results of the agreement will be published by Motiva in summer 2017.
During the agreement period 2017–2025: We will reduce our energy consumption by 7.5% by 2025.
Kesko signed a retail sector energy efficiency agreement for 2017–2025. In the action plan, we commit to reducing our energy consumption by 7.5%.
Logistics emissions
We will reduce the emissions of Kesko Logistics relative to the net sales index by 10% by 2020 from the 2011 level.
The relative emissions had decreased by 1.9% from the base level. In 2016, emissions increased by 3.8% compared to 2015. The increase in emissions can be attributed to the increased number of stores caused by the acquisition of Suomen Lähikauppa. At first, only Kesko's own brand Pirkka products were delivered to the new stores and as the conversion of the stores to K-Markets advanced, refill loads were delivered to the stores as separate deliveries.
We will set Science Based Targets
We are committed to setting emission targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative. The calculation began in December 2016.
Food waste
By 2020 we will reduce identified food waste by 10% from the 2013 level.
By the end of 2016, K-food stores had reduced identified food waste by 3.5% from the base level.
Approximately 90% of K-food stores work together with local charities. The amount of food products donated increased by 1.8 million kg from the previous year.
We continued cooperation with Gasum, Myllyn Paras and Wursti to utilise biogas produced from inedible organic waste collected from retail stores as energy in the manufacture of new Pirkka products. In 2016, approximately 3,700 tonnes of organic waste was transformed into 2,800 MWh of biogas. CO2 emissions were reduced by 550 tonnes compared to natural gas and by 740 tonnes compared to fuel oil.
Waste recovery
The goal is to minimise the generation of waste in all operations and to recover all waste.
In Finland, the recovery rate was 99% and in other operating countries, it was 48%. The waste recovery rate of retail stores in southern Finland covered by the waste management agreement was 100%.
The K Group's environmental and energy policy covers the operations of the Group and the stores both in Finland and the other operating countries. The K Group's key business partners are also expected to observe corresponding environmental management principles.
Environmental management is part of the K Group's management system and is based on the ICC Business Charter for Sustainable Development, environmental management standards, as well as requirements set by legislation and the authorities.
Kesko Group's Corporate Responsibility Advisory Board defines the main policies for environmental work and the target levels for the Group companies, taking into account the environmental impacts of operations and their significance throughout their whole lifecycle and supply chain. The division parent companies and subsidiaries specify the main policies of their environmental work into environmental action programmes which support their business operations. The action programmes are monitored and updated annually as part of the strategy work.
Kesko's maintenance partners monitor the energy consumption of properties with the help of the EnerKey.com system supplied by Enegia Oy. Enegia remotely reads energy consumption measurement terminals located in properties and records the data in the database by the hour. The consumption figures for properties where the data are collected manually are also saved in the EnerKey system. The EnerKey programme responds to even minor location-specific changes in consumption and sends an alarm to the person in charge. Water consumption monitoring is part of consumption monitoring in the properties.
Kesko's goal is to maintain a high level of water consumption efficiency in all operations.
Kesko participates in the retail sector energy efficiency agreement for 2017–2025.
In accordance with the agreement, Kesko is committed to reducing its energy consumption by 7.5% by means of various savings measures. The agreement covers all of the K Group's store chains. Kesko has joined the Foreign Trade Association's (FTA) Business Environmental Performance Initiative (BEPI). BEPI aims to help member companies in the management of global supply chains and, consequently, in increasing the transparency and risk management of their product supply chains.
In line with Kesko's building and home improvement sourcing statement, products made of tropical wood must be either FSC or PEFC certified.
The K Group's fish and shellfish statement directs its sourcing of Kesko's grocery trade and Kespro, as well as K-food retailers' sourcing to safeguard the responsible fishing and management of fish.
Kesko's grocery trade is a member of the RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil). The objective is that by 2020, all palm oil in own brand grocery products will be responsibly produced (CSPO).
Kesko is a founding member of the Finnish soy commitment group. Kesko has become a member in the RTRS (Roundtable on Responsible Soy) and made a commitment that by 2020, all of the soy in the production chains of its private label products will be responsibly produced, either RTRS or ProTerra certified soy. The commitment covers both the Finnish production chain and sourcing from other countries.
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The Chili's Grill & Bar (5707 Southfield Fwy.) in Warrendale is joining thousands of other participating Chili's restaurants across the United States and donating 100% of their profits for today to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to help fight childhood cancer.
To date, participating Chili's restaurants have raised more than $30 million for St. Jude, moving the brand beyond the halfway point of its 10-year goal of $50 million. Once completed, Chili's contribution will be the largest donation from a single partner campaign in St. Jude history.
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Seniors: GabePosted in Portraits, Seniors on February 2nd, 2017
Boise may not be the first city to come to mind when you think "grunge," but you can find some grit if you know where to look! We hit up the colorful graffiti in Freak Alley for Gabe's senior photos last year before heading over to my favorite photogenic alley by the Record Exchange – a perfect urban setting for a senior session. Take a look at a few favorites below, or check out the family resemblance with brother Noah's senior photos from a few years back!
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Work activity; whether it reached associated milestones.
Bill (submitted on 7/16/2009)
- Data mapping in Harness: fleshed out design; began implementation with Greg's help
- Parasoft (automated V&V): supporting Robyn on tracer.ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Automated build system: functioning normally
David (submitted on 7/../2009)
Greg (submitted on 7/../2009)
Steve (submitted on 7/20/2009)
- Bug fix for evmon threads.
- Worked on prototype selectors for broker side event filtering.
- Worked on broker file descriptor error with Greg.
- University Holiday July 3rd.
- Was on vacation from July 8th through July 17th.
Ray (submitted on 7/../2009)
LSST Corporation
Robyn (submitted on 7/15/2009)
Robyn is working <= half-time this summer. Primary focus:
- satisfying TCT requirement to prepare LSST Legal Notices for DM software licensing and copyrighting, created draft LSST Legal Notice and draft LSST Copyright. Spoke with Ray Plante, who is orchestrating the insertion of the Copyright headers in DM source. The Lsst license and copyright is installed on the public website: http://lsstcorp.org/LegalNotices/.
- developing command-line driven procedures for Parasoft C++Test use within LSST Build procedure.
- chairing the DM TCT meeting as appropriate.
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Daniel (submitted on 7/20/2009)
(July 3: holiday)
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- Updated observation cooking for multiple time-steps.
- Converged on Array, nested Array creation.
- Ported and merged cooking obs/groups with executor udf lookup.
- Implemented graph walking for observation grouping.
- Wrote sample XML queries for C1/C2.
- Scalable queries:
- Updated wiki with simpler API.
Jacek (submitted on 7/../2009)
On vacation June 22-Aug 4
- organized 2 DataAccWG telecons
- db risk assessment text for decadal survey
- refactored MySQLBase (#844)
- cleaned up cat package
- scidb/vldb
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- funding-related discussions
Major Accomplishments
Significant breakthroughs, issues resolved.
Ray (submitted on 7/../2009)
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A Nobel reading list: Essential Alice Munro books
Canadian writer Alice Munro, "master of the contemporary short story," has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for her body of work. Here is a list of books by the 82-year-old author, who recently said she was retiring from writing:
Best-of collections:
Selected Stories (1996)
Vintage Munro (2004)
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories (2006)
Stand-alone books:
Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)
The Beggar Maid (1978)
The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
The Progress of Love (1986)
Friend of My Youth (1990)
Open Secrets (1994)
The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
Runaway (2004) Excerpt of USA TODAY's review: "Runaway, her 10th short-story collection, is set in the barren, often isolated provinces of Canada and spans several decades up through the '70s. Against this landscape, and with a faultless ear for poignant detail, Munro presents ordinary lives that disguise larger dramas. She delves deep into human belonging and exile." The book "may very well be the synthesizing work of one of literature's keenest investigators into the human soul. It will, in any case, reach far beyond its time." — Maria Fish
The View from Castle Rock (2006) Excerpt from USA TODAY's review: "No one writes more beautifully and with less sentiment about children, nature, rural life and the limits placed on people's dreams, particularly women's." — Deirdre Donahue
Too Much Happiness(2009) Excerpt from USA TODAY's review: "The title of the collection comes from the last and longest of the stories, 'Too Much Happiness.' It tells the story of a Russian mathematician named Sophia Kovalevsky as she journeys through 19th-century Europe searching for her place in the world. With this collection of surprising short stories, Munro once again displays the fertility of her imagination and her craftsmanship as a writer." — Deirdre Donahue
Dear Life (2012) Excerpt from USA TODAY's review: "Dear Life, Alice Munro's exquisitely calibrated collection of stories, celebrates the essence of existence, no matter how mundane." … "Her prose is spare, graceful and beautifully crafted, her vision expansive. What Munro does with a story is like alchemy. She presents toiling, troubled characters who bubble up and engulf our imagination, leaving the reader to ponder, fascinated, the contours of dear life." — Claudia Puig


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Founder of night market phenomenon Street Feast.
What advice would you give to your 14-year old self?
I wish that I understood that drink was there to be enjoyed! I'd tell myself to stop drinking Thunderbird & Southern Comfort and get on to a good whiskey or rum instead!
What one moment in your career defined your future?
At the age of 20 the nightclub I was managing got taken over by gangsters. It was pretty full on for a young lad, so my mum convinced me to get a 'normal' job and I ended up organizing training courses for Kensington & Chelsea council. The big thing I took out of my time there was the extent to which some employers invest in and develop their staff. This wasn't something I'd come across previously working in early 90s London rave culture. I ended up leaving there to work at the seminal London nightclub The End, before eventually being part of the management team that launched the superclub Home. The defining point here for me was that while this was a business built on underground dance music culture, Home were also an Investors In People company. I spent months before the venue opened on training courses, before eventually learning how to train my staff. Today as I progress in my career, supporting and developing the team around me is incredibly important.
What was the opportunity that you saw that inspired you to set up StreetFeast?
In 2010 street food was a niche, underground concept. I wanted to significantly raise awareness of it whilst taking care to retain that underground street feel and not make it commercial. I started by going anywhere you could find a street food trader in London and filming the people behind the food. It also occurred to me that night food markets didn't exist London like they did in other parts of the world, which seemed pretty crazy to me considering our mix of cultures. I decided to create a London version of what I'd be seen in Zanzibar and Barbados; a 'market' that didn't just open for one night, but that was open every single week so it would eventually become part of the fabric of the city.
Which people and places are exciting you about the hospitality industry right now?
I've just got back from LA. There is more and more happening there and Downtown in particular reminded me of East London 10-15 years ago, with the art and fashion crowd taking over disused buildings. Over there chef Roy Choi is really setting the pace. He caused a stir a few years back launching his Kogi food truck selling Korean Tacos for just $2 in less than trendy neighborhoods. He's got a social conscious, is heavily involved in his community, has built Kogi into a significant brand with a truck even in LAX airport, and is behind some of the best food in restaurants across LA particularly the Line Hotel on Wilshire.
Back here at home I'm also loving James Low's Lyle's and Issac McHale's The Clove Club. Though they cut their teeth at the wonderful St Johns they also took a non-traditional route with their Young Turks supper clubs. Right now I'm particularly excited about the launch of our newest concept Dinerama opening soon. Whilst retaining the feeling of Street Feast, it will be built around six street food traders we've chosen to create a more expansive menus, serving to 20-30 covers within their own micro diner.
What do you think it takes to be a leader in the food & drink industry?
I'd say a respect and understanding of the wider industry. The industry is split, with most of us enjoying a range of great food and the different ways to experience it, whether that's on the streets or in a wonderful restaurant. However there are some in the established food industry including some well known critics who have a real snobbery about street food, which is a shame, because how can you say you're a lover of food when you're ignorant of what is becoming a very influential part of the industry, not least because there is some truly excellent food coming out of this area too.


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