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Walmart offers a range of ice shavers from different brands. Though Walmart in known for quality selling products, this post reviews the top rated Walmart ice shaver– 'Hamilton Beach icy treats maker'.
Hamilton Beach Icy Treats Maker
You can prepare all kinds of icy treats within few minutes with this ice shaver; anything from snow cones to slushes or icy drinks. You just have to add the ice cubes to the shaver directly from the freezer and select the desired flavoring. That's it! You can get refreshing treats for your whole family. You can shave the ice cubes directly into your dish or make use of the mixing bowl that comes with the unit.
The maintenance of the Hamilton Beach icy treats maker is very easy as it is dishwasher-safe; you can just detach all the parts and put them in the dishwasher for a quick clean-up. A recipe book is provided with the product, which includes all the fun recipes. The manufacturer offers a warranty of one year for the ice shaver.
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Sabal Palm Sanctuary
The last remaining grove of the squat endangered sabal palms in the Rio Grande delta (they are the only palm tree native to the continental United States) is protected for future generations in the 527-acre Sabal Palm Sanctuary (Thurs.-Tues. 7am-5pm), run by the Gorgas Science Foundation with the National Audubon Society and located about five miles southeast of Brownsville. The palms are nice enough, but the reserve is really for the birds: Bird-lovers flock here to catch a glimpse of the rare green jays, as well as the colorful parakeets and hummingbirds that make their homes in the dense junglelike growth. Hundreds of species of butterflies are found here as well.
To reach the reserve from Brownsville, take Southmost Boulevard (Hwy-4) east, then turn right (south) on Sabal Palm Grove Road. The small visitors center (956/541-8034, Thurs.-Tues., $5 adults) has maps and natural history guides to the sanctuary.

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Bolney Wine Estate, Pinot Gris, Sussex 2015
Established in 1972 with 3 acres of vines, today, Bolney Estate is made of 39 acres and it is one of the few estates to have built a reputation for producing still wines, especially red wines. A more serious style than your average Italian Pinot Grigio, it is fragrant with notes of jasmine and pears. The palate has a creamy texture and certain richness backed up with floral and peachy characters and a hint of honey on the finish.
Alc 11%
Price: UK – £15 Bibendum, Oxford Wine Company
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Source as Physicality
May 2016 Monthly Energy Update
This update was taken directly from the MAY 2ND ENERGY SESSION and explores a process of Source as physicality.
The influx of Source energy saturating Gaia at this time is hugely significant. No longer will there be just one Christ, one Buddha or a few saints.
The ones are becoming the many and the many are becoming the one.
We are each capable of becoming a fully realized divine human who lives and loves from the awareness that 'I and Mother-Father God are one.'
Gaia herself has upgraded in order to support us in holding greater amounts of source energy in our physicality. Enlightened groups around the globe have been anchoring different energies in to the grid system of planet earth. Each time a new grid is unlocked, there is greater potential for us to hold more light in our bodies.
Source from above and Gaia from below coherently resonate with each other in a new way, thereby impacting all sentient beings in-between. Source is changing everything about us in every way possible. There is nothing about us that will be left unaltered when it's all said and done.
How can we move through this physically transformative expression of Source consciousness with the greatest ease, grace and joy?
The short answer is to deepen into the physical body. Ground ourselves there. Focus our attention there. Rely on our physical bodies as navigational tools to move gracefully with this influx of energy.
Trust the body; trust Source for they are one and the same.
Source consciousness is making its way in to the human experience as an awareness through the physical body. The body, as our primary interface with Source, is itself a portal or access point to all levels of the human experience.
By connecting with symptomology or any physical sensation that gets your attention, you may be led to an emotional, mental, spiritual or dimensional experience.
For example, tuning in to that pain in your neck may result in an emotional release of long-held grief you've been unconsciously carrying. Once you've had the good cry, you will have released a limitation that restricts the amount of Source energy you can hold.
Your body is trying to inform you of where you've held on to perceptions, controls or identities that limit your expression as Source. For optimal ease, grace and joy it's supportive to maintain the following mind-set:
- The Source of this change within my body and I are one.
- Source is transforming my physical experience.
- Everything according to Source is exactly as it should be in my physicality.
- There is nothing to be fixed here.
- Source is in charge.
- There is no separation between Source and what I'm experiencing in the physical.
When we focus our attention of physical symptomology in Source consciousness like in the statements above, then the energy lightens up. The sensations may cease. Even if the physical symptomology remains, we don't suffer with it.
We may also choose to respond with an attitude of 'If my body feels this way then something is wrong! I better worry about it. This is something to fear.' In that case we slow down the transformation by re-orienting ourselves back to a pattern of limitation.
Attitude matters and it's also good to ask a few questions to know whether to seek medical attention or to just ride the vibrational wave until it passes. Remember that if something needs physical attention that is also not separate from Source. It's the right 'medicine' for the right energy. There is nothing separate from source.
Ask, "At what level of density am I experiencing transformation?"
This information allows us to offer the symptomology the 'medicine' that most resonates with ease, grace, and joy. For example, the emotional level is best met with emotional release whereas a change in thinking supports the mental level.
Here are some good questions to evaluate the emotional, mental, and multi-dimensional levels of density for a given physical symptom:
- Does this issue change with an emotional release? If I share my fear with a friend or have a good cry, does my symptomology loosen up?
- Is the sensation always there or does it change when I walk in nature, ground myself, or if I forget and become joyful? Can I mentally distract myself from this?
- Does the physical symptomology change with different focal points such as a broader perspective of self, a grounded perspective, or from a different dimensional self?
- If I ask that energy to complete its cycle, does that change the dynamic?
If following through on these lines of self-inquiry positively impacts your physical symptomology, then it works. If nothing changes, then there may be something going on at a physical level that requires medical support. No judgment, just good information on the most appropriate course of action.
We are changing as we become more of our Source self than our limited identification of self. Many of the limitations held in our physical bodies are coming up and out right now.
Some of you will feel it as symptomology. The central nervous system, endocrine system and digestive systems seem to be especially impacted. Some of you will experience it as a shift in identity or personality. Some of you will have intense emotionality.
Go inward for greater connection and presence with your physical body in all cases. There you will find greater stability, supportive personal information, and the love of Source. From the portal of your body, go where you need to in order to experience ease, grace and joy.
Watch the body take on more space.
Feel the love flood in.
Know yourself as light.


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Top Ways for Kids to Tell Digital Stories
by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com
Recently I was asked to choose a few of my favourite ways for kids to make a digital story or presentation of some kind. Today I've listed my personal favourites here so you don't have to wade through a huge list if you don't want to. There's a lot of overlap but I've tried to separate them into categories. Some use mobile platforms, some are software, some use the web.
Story With/without Pictures
Storybird - web-based. Brilliant story-maker which offers art work for students to use in the creation of their digital stories. Read my article, Create Story with Storybird for more information. There's also an iOS app, Lark by Storybird, for creating poetry, and you can read about it here.
Camera and an image editor - various. You can find an example of this in Visual Storytelling. The storytelling activity might use a combination of an iOS device's camera, a web-based image editor, and/or software that accompanies a "real" camera.
Pages - Software for Mac. A fully featured text editor that might be the answer if your kids are interested in compiling stories into a magazine or book.
Strip Designer - iOS app. Not just a comic editor, Strip Designer also facilitates children representing their learning in a digital and visual way. Check out its possibilities in Children's iPad App, Strip Designer.
We Publish - iOS app. Not only can children create a digital story but that story can be printed out into a little booklet! Read my review here.
Presentation Tools
Shadow Puppet - iOS app. Shadow Puppet works really well as a means of presenting information by weaving together photos or video clips, narration, music, and animated bling. The result is a video you can share. Read more in my review.
30 Hands - iOS app. 30 Hands is a lot like a slideshow with audio added, then you can save it as a video. Perfect for simple digital stories. My review is here.
Comic or Cartoon
ToonToolkit - iOS app. I just love this app, but I'm quite prepared to believe it may not suit everyone. Still, it's the top of my list here because these tools are MY favourites. Read my review here.
Comic Life - Software for PC and Mac. Comic Life must be on this list, not just because it is one of my favourites, but because it's so versatile, adaptable and worthwhile. Kids can use their own illustrations and photograph them or scan them. Or they can use photographs, perhaps to show the changes in something over time, as well as to tell a digital story. Check out an example of it in Using Comics for Information Reports.
MakeBeliefsComix - web-based and iOS. Simple to use supplied art work to tell and edit a story, and multiple languages supported for the text you add. Read my web tool review here, and my app review here.
Creaza's Cartoonist - web-based and iOS. Cartoonist is just one of Creaza's tools - all are worth exploring with students. I love the many worlds on offer and the fact that there are lots of features to help you create a story. Read more in Cartoonist - Sharing Stories with Cartoons.
Chatterpix Kids - iOS app. This app uses the iPad's camera to take a photo, then kids can bring the pic to life by recording themselves while the mouth moves. Read my review here. YAKit Kids is similar.
Blabberize - web-based. Drawn and photographed images can be edited, then a "mouth" is positioned on the face, and kids add their own audio. Here's my article about Blabberize.
Voki - web-based. Voki combines the fun of choosing an avatar (provided) with giving it your voice. Here's my article, Encourage Children's Speaking with Voki.
PhotoPeach - web-based. PhotoPeach is a great way for kids to use slides of photos to add text and music to, with the result a slideshow. Read about it here.
Haiku Deck - web-based and iOS app. Read my review of the app here.
Toontastic - iOS app. Kids animate screen puppets and use the iPad's built in microphone to record their voices. The result is a video of their stories. Read my review here.
LEGO Movie Maker - iOS app. Anything to do with LEGO is motivating, and animating it to tell a story, while a little fiddly, will make kids keen. The result is a short video. Read about the app here.
Is the digital storytelling process just one that's creative, an opportunity for kids to express themselves? Creativity and self-expression are hugely important but kids have the chance to develop many more skills during digital storytelling. Critical thinking comes to the fore both before, during and after the activity. For instance they are making decisions during the creative process that have them thinking about communication, e.g., Which sound effect would go best with my story? How can I set up this photo to really show my character's feelings? What voice would a pirate use? Great questions – great tools! I hope you'll give them a try with your students/kids.
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Mega-deal promises to connect Windows and Linux
Microsoft opens its arms to open source in a wide-ranging agreement with Novell.
The days when Windows and Linux servers are worlds apart in the corporate enterprise may be coming to an end and, surprisingly, by the hand of Microsoft.
Microsoft and Novell Inc. struck a deal on Thursday to develop and offer joint support for Windows and the Linux operating system. The partnership centers on technology collaboration and patent coverage, something customers that increasingly operate in mixed environments have been pushing both vendors to resolve.
The companies are developing joint technology in the areas of virtualization, Web services management and document formatting.
As part of the Web services management technology collaboration, Novell and Microsoft are working on technology to improve the interoperability between Novell's eDirectory and Microsoft's Active Directory.
"This is recognition that Linux plays an important role in the IT infrastructure of many of our customers and will continue to play an important role and that the demand for systems interoperability in mixed environments is strong," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, adding that the two would come together to "build a patent bridge."
Every customer who buys a subscription for SUSE Linux Enterprise, for example, will get service and support from Novell and also a patent covenant from Microsoft. In exchange, Microsoft will receive a revenue percentage of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server sales from Novell.
Also as part of the deal, Microsoft will distribute 70,000 coupons for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server maintenance and support per year to encourage customers to take advantage of new technology developed through the collaboration.
What this agreement will not do is end the competition between the two companies, Ballmer said. "If anybody is confused, I'll say it right now -- if you ask what the right [operating system] is to run a new application, it's Windows, Windows, Windows," he said.
Competition aside, even the idea of a Microsoft-Novell pact would have been unthinkable just a short time ago when the software giant made it known that it would not support open source software. But the tide has turned, driven by big enterprise shops that have a mixture of operating systems typically separated according to the applications they are running.
"It all came down to customer need," said Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian. "They are dealing with a mixed-source environment with a whole host of benefits and complexities," he said.
"As Linux continues to grow as a market segment, this allows customers to accelerate that growth and the opportunities associated with virtualization and interoperability," Hovsepian said.
Novell and Microsoft's engineering, marketing and sales teams get the message, he added, and they are delivering a balance of competition and cooperation for the sake of interoperability for their customers.
In the background, Microsoft has been forging closer ties on its own with the open source community. In just over a year it has locked up collaborative deals with open source middleware developer JBoss Inc., a division of Red Hat, and with SugarCRM Inc., a provider of commercial open source CRM software.
"We've seen Microsoft head in this direction already with Xen," said Tony Iams, senior analyst with Ideas International Inc., based in Rye Brook, N.Y.
In July, Microsoft said it would cooperate with XenSource to develop technology that would allow Xen-enabled Linux to work with Windows hypervisor technology. That technology would be included in the next version of Windows Server, code-named Longhorn, to provide customers with virtualization across their hardware infrastructure and operating system environments.
"[Microsoft] laid the groundwork there to allow users to work with different operating systems on the same platform," Iams said. It makes sense for Microsoft to work with Novell, which was the first to come out with production-grade Xen, he said.
Microsoft has already added Linux guest support with Virtual Server 2005 R2. The company is offering the second beta of a service pack for this release.
But it may have been the spread of virtualization that really sealed the Microsoft-Novell deal. "Virtualization by definition neutralizes the operating system," Iams said. "The growth virtualization has forced vendors to create a more heterogeneous environment," he said.


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This e-Seminar introduces typical development of social communication in infants and toddlers and describes how to use the following milestones to identify a child at risk for ASD:
Based on these primary areas of difficulty, participants gain practical guidance for developing appropriate social and communication goals for these children.
Upon completion of this 2 hour e-seminar, participants will be able to:
Ian Roth, M.H.Sc., Reg. CASLPO, S-LP(C), is a speech-language pathologist who works primarily with preschoolers with autism and their families. He also works in the Tourette Syndrome Neurodevelopmental Clinic with children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome and co-morbid Asperger's syndrome. Ian has worked with individuals with autism spectrum disorders for longer than he has been a speech pathologist. Ian was first trained in It Takes Two to Talk® in 2000 and then in More Than Words® in 2002. He has been teaching More Than Words® to families – both in parent programs and individually – ever since.
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Margaret Chamberlain Children's Picture Book Illustrator
MAN WHOSE MOTHER WAS A PIRATE ...Well illustrated, marvellously told by Mahy, and just a delight.
GEORGIE GRUB...I bought this book for my son many years ago and it got mislaid. When I saw it has been reissued I had to buy it again even though my son is 19!!...The illustrations are great and the story is brilliant
MIMI AND MOOCHIE GO SHOPPING...This is a beautifully designed book in a retro style, it's lots of fun and you'll realise that although shopping is great, giving the stuff away gives you an even better thrill. The pictures are Fabulous.
THE NEWT IN A SUIT...This is a book full of energy not only the text but the illustrations
PINK!... I was originally attracted by the hilarious cover of this book, and both the story and illustrations are wonderful. It is one of those fun books to read and look at. I think it would be fun to share with most children, and they will learn a lesson from it also. Pink! is an excellent read.


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As a women's empowerment coach, there's not a lot I haven't seen or heard in terms of human conditions and experiences. That's not to say I am ever bored ~I am NOT! In the approximately 3 decades of studying human nature, and offering empowerment tools of the trade, there has never been a time when I questioned my calling and purpose. It's the energy that propels me like a feather on the jet stream, leading me to write books, conduct intimate highly intensive self-esteem bolstering empowerment groups, to work one-on-one, and to continue my education, and to add new tricks to my toolbox of self-development, and spiritual development.
In a "women's empowerment coach meets hypnotherapy" stream of evolution, I have recently become certified as a hypnotherapist. (If visions of talking like a chicken rear their ugly head, be assured, it's not THAT kind of Hollywood-ized hypnosis techniques!) It's been months of study, and frankly, it took a LOT of un-learning for me to embrace the idea of adding hypnotherapist to my repertoire. Mostly because I was once on stage as a charlatan attempted to get me to do that chicken-thing, I am skeptical. And for the record, I was NOT hypnotized into becoming a farm animal.
Adding new skills and techniques to my toolkit just means I'll have more to offer. And that's a very good thing. But in order to overcome my limiting beliefs about hypnotism I had to learn what hypnosis is, and what it is not. It's decidedly not about making anyone do anything they do not want to do. It's a tool for reaching the subconscious mind to open it to a new identity of the recipient, and unless they specifically ask to be made to act like a chicken, I'm not planting the suggestion!
It's effective in changing the self-image from a smoker to a non-smoker; it works to help form the image of a healthy body as opposed to an obese unhealthy body; it is highly effective in shifting a scarcity poverty mentality to a wealth mentality; it's fabulous for instilling the seeds of growing self-love and self-esteem and confidence.
Here's the truth about hypnosis: The word means to sleep. We all enter hypnotic states several times each day, and it is a perfectly natural state. Consider when you are on the Internet, and realize you've been down the rabbit hole for hours, and not just the few minutes that you had planned to spend. You were mesmerized and lost time in cyber-space. Likewise, when you've been driving a long time, and suddenly you realize that you have not been paying attention. Regardless of your focus on the road, you would be able to respond if required, such as when another vehicle passes you, or when you need to be more alert. Another example of being hypnotized in the light Alpha state of consciousness is when reading a good book, or even watching a particularly involved show or movie. You may be so immersed in the storyline that you forget to be present, but if someone were to interrupt, you would be alert immediately. (And no one could get you to act like a chicken, I'm guessing….)
Alpha is the relaxed state which we are in when we are awake, and fully relaxed. I meditate so I am very familiar with this feeling, and find it enjoyable. It's the state I am in while I sit on the boulder and listen to guided meditations with my headphones on. My eyes are often open as I look around my peaceful environment, but are just as often closed. Either way, but especially with eyes closed, we are approximately 200% more open to suggestion while in the Alpha state of consciousness. That's a pretty big increase in suggestibility, so it's a highly effective place to create transformative change with no fear…of farm animals!
At the deeper state of Theta consciousness, we are lightly asleep, but would awaken to a soft touch. Where the Alpha and Theta states meet is prime real estate for personal change. It's the place where we are falling asleep, before we are in the deepest Delta state of consciousness. Delta is the depths of sleep.
Clients ask what happens if they fall asleep during a hypnotic session. It makes no difference, as when the eyes close the ears remain open. Actually, all the senses remain active, but that's a story for another time, as this is getting lengthy and I don't like to bore. Suffice it to say that whether a client recalls everything that transpires and remains in Alpha, or goes completely into Delta, the results are there. The benefits are apparent.
So watch for things to come, because as I record some fresh, more professional MP3s of hypnotic sessions, I'll post them and let you decide if hypnosis is for you. For me, I am no longer a skeptic of the process, only of the purveyors of artificial acts.
To tie up this little hypnosis blip, I am compelled to mention two things:
- You may believe that you are not capable of being hypnotized. To this I say, read the part above about the Alpha state.
- Regardless of how deeply you are hypnotized, at any time you desired, you could count to three and be out of hypnosis. And again, there's nothing to fear because hypnosis is a natural state. Maybe you're even there now….


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Portable, squeezable and with lots of flavor options, homemade baby food pouches are easy to make and a great way to serve healthy fruits, vegetables and whole grains to your little ones!
I made ALL of the baby food for both of my little ones. Which was no small feat because they were very hearty eaters. A good thing, but whew, kept me busy in the kitchen!
I always made big batches of purees, to knock out a bunch at a time, and inevitably, I'd be left with extras when they were moving onto finger foods and self-feeding.
So I started turning those purees into homemade baby food pouches.
(I also have tons of other ideas of ways to use leftover baby food – I didn't want to waste a bit!)
You can of course buy squeeze pouches in the store. They have lots of different kinds of applesauce mixes, yogurt squeezies, and fruit and veggie combinations. But you can make your own so quickly, easily and for much less money. Plus, you can customize them to your little one's liking and feel good that you're controlling the ingredients.
My kids are older now – M is 5 next week (yikes!) and J is coming up on 3 – but they still love these squeezies. M says she has lots of friends who bring them for lunch, so she's always asking for me to send them to school.
And I'm happy to. I love that it's an easy way to ensure they are eating their veggies. They will take down one of these pouches in a matter of minutes but they don't always dig into a big bowl of peas or a plate full of broccoli. #yet #Iwontgiveup
So today I'm giving you the run-down on what I use, how it works and five easy homemade squeezie combinations to get you started.
What I use: The equipment
I have the Infantino Squeeze Station and it's been great. It's the only specific baby food equipment I've bought and was definitely worth it.
You'll also need to buy refill pouches (they come in batches of 50 and you will go through them!)
They have other accessories, but I've stuck to these basics so far.
You'll also need an immersion/hand blender or regular blender to make the purees to put into the squeeze pouches.
How it works
You set up the squeeze station by inserting three pouches into the bottom (they fit through some grooves and sort of snap in.) Then you put the empty containers on top and screw them onto the bags.
Note: Be sure to write the contents and date on your bags before you start to fill them. Much easier than after they're done.
Next, you spoon your puree mix into each container, filling it almost to the top. You use the press tool and push the puree down into the pouch. It's a weirdly gratifying feeling.
If the mixture gets stuck or won't push, you probably have a small chunk in your puree that got caught in the hole. Just unscrew your tube, dump the contents back into your blender and reblend (or pick out the offending piece if you see it).
After the bags are filled, unscrew the tubes and carefully pull the bags out. Twist on the orange top and voila! You can keep them in the fridge for a couple of days or pop them straight into the freezer to have on hand later.
It's really easy and actually, really fun!
A few notes about these combinations:
- Add 1 tablespoon lemon juice to all of these to help preserve them. The only exception is the pineapple-broccoli mixture. The citrus from the pineapple is enough on its own.
- You can keep the peels on the pears and apples, just be sure to puree them very well so pieces don't get stuck and prevent the mixture from going into the squeezie bags.
- The vegetables and grains need to be cooked and soft, so plan ahead. Or use leftovers. These can be a great way to use up scraps and reduce food waste.
- If any of your mixtures seem too thick (because the water content of fruits and veggies can vary), just add a bit of applesauce or a splash of water to the blender until its thin enough.
- Each pouch holds about 4 ounces. Most of these batches for me make about 3 squeezies worth. You can of course always double up if you want to knock out a bunch. They freeze great, so you might as well!
Check out the recipes below and get to making some baby food pouches! Hope your little one enjoys!
(And let me know if you want to see another round-up like this – we have lots of other flavor combinations we've made over the years that I can share!)
Homemade baby food pouches
Portable, squeezable and with lots of flavor options, homemade baby food pouches are a great way to serve healthy fruits, vegetables and grains to your little ones!
For the apple-brown rice-spinach pouches
- 1 apple, core removed and roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup cooked brown rice
- 1 cup packed fresh spinach leaves (raw)
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
For the pineapple-broccoli pouches
- 1 cup cut pineapple (thawed if frozen)
- 2/3 cup cooked broccoli florets
For the mango-sweet potato-quinoa pouches
- 1 ripe mango, peeled, seed removed and roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup cooked sweet potato
- 1/2 cup cooked quinoa
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
For the banana-barley-zucchini pouches
- 1 ripe banana
- 1/2 cup cooked barley
- 1/2 cooked chopped zucchini
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
For the pear-peas-spinach pouches
- 1 ripe pear
- 1/2 cup cooked peas
- 1 cup raw spinach
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- Make sure all of your grains and veggies are cooked, if indicated.
- Combine all ingredients for each pouch combination in a blender or immersion blender and blend until it's a smooth, pourable consistency. (See notes.)
- Label your bags, set up your station and add the mixture to the squeeze station containers, filled to the indicated line. Push down with the press tool and fill each bag. Remove the bags from the station and twist on the tops.
- Store pouches in the refrigerator for 2-3 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months. To defrost, simply move the pouch to the refrigerator - it thaws in less than a day.
Recipe Notes
If your blended mixture seems too thick (because the water content of fruits and veggies can vary), just add a bit of applesauce or a splash of water to the blender until its thin enough.
|Nutrition Facts
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|Calories 366kcal Calories from fat 20
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|Total Fat 2g
|Saturated Fat 0g
|Sodium 43mg
|Carbohydrate 86g
|Dietary Fiber 13g
|Sugars 42g
|Protein 8g
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How do we ensure that everyone has an equal chance at a good life?
What can we do right now to ensure the wellbeing of future generations?
What concrete action can we take in our community now, to ensure wellbeing for the next hundred years?
Huge questions, bordering on unanswerable in their solemn grandeur. Yet, they are meant to be answered, in a concrete fashion, in half an hour, by ordinary Finnish citizens.
Year 2017 marks the centenary of Finnish independence. Consequently, this year the calendar is sprinkled with events, big and small, state-official and informal, to celebrate the occasion. The Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation, the country´s oldest organization of non-formal learning, marks the centenary by arranging a string of citizens´ discussions throughout the country. The topic? The three questions mentioned above.
World Café method: Shifting viewpoints
The tour of discussions, titled 100 steps towards the Finnish future, visits over 30 cities and communities throughout the country. The idea is to bring ordinary people from all backgrounds and ages together in an informal setting to discuss wellbeing of contemporary and future Finns. The ideas, hopes and insights of the discussions will be recorded by the organizer and later taken to decision makers.
The method powering the discussions is the World Café process. The World Café has its roots in the United States from where it has spread around the world to be used in different sectors from business to education. Its core idea: to produce knowledge and ideas together in a group, in dialogue, changing viewpoints and seeking consensus.
"Café" in the name refers to an ideally informal, low-threshold atmosphere during a discussion session. A session may physically resemble a café, with participants sitting at round tables, each table dedicated to a question topic, and with attendees possibly taking turns at different tables. A facilitator often sits at each table, ensuring the smooth running of the discussion.
A session normally lasts around three hours (introduction, an half-hour discussion, voting on ideas) and has a predetermined set of questions which attendees want to contemplate. The resulting ideas are then voted on by all attendees, aiming at concrete, consensual and collective opinions.
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Helsinki-based community educator Pihla Ruuskanen has used deliberative World Café in her work for years and is an active trainer of the method. Ruuskanen consulted on the planning of the 100 steps discussions, and believes the World Café to be a powerful tool in any adult educator´s toolkit, particularly in settings where groups need to think and learn together.
Pihla Ruuskanen (left) coaching adult educators in World Café facilitation. / Photo: Annu Griñan
Ruuskanen compiled a list of tips for a successful deliberative World Café session from an organizers´s and facilitator´s perspective, along with solutions to common pitfalls, applicable also to other types of group learning.
Formulate the discussion questions carefully
-The World Café method is best suited for situations where a large group of people need to develop a consensual opinion to a particular question or problem.
-Formulate questions that produce concrete and useable, applicable ideas. For example: "What kind of course content should we develop this year to better cater for recently-arrived immigrant learners?" is better than the more abstract "What kind of courses would be interesting for immigrants?"
-Draft a short list of auxiliary questions for the facilitator that elaborate on the main questions. If the discussion stalls, use the auxiliary questions to restart the conversation.
Create a laid-back atmosphere
-Creating a positive, stressless atmosphere is a key ingredient in the success of a World Café.
-Avoid "putting people on the spot" straight away. A round of introduction where every participant introduces themselves to the group might cause nervousness instead of breaking the ice.
-React to and curb comments that are inappropriate, aggressive or directed at someone´s person.
Time your session
-A typical session would take 30 minutes. A good breakdown of this time could be 15 minutes of discussion followed by a facilitator´s summary of what has been discussed so far. Then use another 15 minutes of fleshing out concrete statements and ideas out of what has been discussed, followed by writing down the results.
Maintain common ground
-A World Café session brings together people from different backgrounds, yet discussion with the same concepts and on an equal standing must be possible.
-Ensure all used concepts are understood by all and ask participants to break down abstractions into concrete examples.
– Use the same language and concepts as the participants when summarising to prevent conceptual confusion.
Encourage subjective opinions
-It often happens that a discussion table is shared by a dominant, opinionated participant and a quieter, perhaps insecure attendee. Yet, both have the right to voice their opinions.
-Clarify to the participants that opinions need not be fully-formed to be expressed. The discussion is also a learning process. Opinions based on personal experience and emotion are allowed -they give a valuable subjective viewpoint to the topic, something a fact-oriented expert can also learn from.
-If a participant clearly dominates a discussion, actively encourage others to voice opinions. The facilitator can even interrupt long, rambling monologues.
-Don´t fear silence and don´t feel obliged to fill silent moments with talk. A thinking pause might encourage more silent members to voice their opinions.
Set realistic expectations
-The World Café is a powerful tool, but half an hour is a short time to solve major problems. Dialogue is the core of World Café in good and bad: the trajectory of a discussion depends greatly on participants´ skill in formulating and arguing their opinions in a short time.
-Consequently, a World Café discussion need not solve everything – rather it can be a kickoff for a bigger process.
Read more about the World Café method.
100 steps towards the Finnish future
100 steps towards the Finnish future is The Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation´s flagship project for 2017, the centenary of Finnish independence. 100 steps invites ordinary Finns from all walks of life to participate in a string of citizens´ discussions on wellbeing, in over 30 cities and smaller communities. The discussions are arranged in cooperation with local adult education centres which host the events.
The hopes, concerns and concrete ideas of citizens are collected by the organizers and eventually published online to spark an even broader nationwide discussion. The ideas are also submitted to youth panels across the country to allow the growing generations to comment and contribute to them.
The method used in 100 steps is "deliberative" World Café, a variation of the method. This means that the discussion aims at producing a transparent and high-quality dialogue based on knowledge, facts or contextualization previously offered to participants.
At the time of writing, in February, the discussion tour has reached 10 communities.
Project coordinator Anne Tastula of the Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation thinks the discussions are off to a good start.
– Typically participants are a bit reserved when they first enter the discussion venue. But once the conversation starts flowing, it is hard to stop it even when time runs out. People discuss the themes even on breaks. Remember most of these people are strangers to each other.
According to Tastula, three big themes concerning future well-being in Finland have spontaneously emerged from nearly all conversations. Education, environment and a sense of community.
– Education is often mentioned in the sense that raising the next generation is so important, and also families need support in this. The need for a sustainable lifestyle comes up constantly, as does the need to "be on the same team" as citizens instead of having different camps and divides.
The World Café method has been met with enthusiasm, with many participants intending to use it in other contexts.
– On the other hand, many participants have found it hard to formulate concrete suggestions from such big abstract questions, Tastula explains.
– These conversations have proved to be quite profound learning experiences. I recall the words of one participant after a discussion: "I learned so much of other realities today. I live a stable pensioner's life, and although I am active in my community, I had no idea that people can have such different lifestyles and ideas."
The Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation is the main publisher of Elm Magazine.


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.............and can be fund at The Rosemary Branch in February with ANOTHER BIAFRA.
Anthony Abuah was born in Kenya to a Rwandan mother and Nigerian father. Having lived in more than 7 countries worldwide, he learnt to adapt to different people and losing himself in his own imagination. His early passions included art, football and then storytelling. Anthony soon realised his passion to be a writer and began writing and developing scripts for both the theatre and film. He launched Tales From The Motherland Productions to highlight his passion for the continent of Africa and it is devoted to telling stories about the continent that would otherwise be ignored.
Tell us about Tales From The Motherland Productions Ltd...
Tales From The Motherland was launched officially in 2010. It's a forum where I can go nuts about my passions and views on things close to my heart – such as Africa (also called the Motherland) hence the name. It isn't just a theatre production company but we also deal with film production as well. I thank God I've got it!
What drew you to writing/directing and producing?
Well…like most actors, getting a job on stage was hard, especially without formal training. I was also finding myself getting kinda irritated with what I was seeing on stage, as I couldn't relate to very much being black and of African descent. There was very little about my heritage out there that wasn't some sort of revival – I was looking for something original that pertained to modern day issues. It was all pretty much the same so I decided to write. I also believe it was God's plan for my life as I had been writing scripts and stories since I was little and I always thought the best way to get your point across is to invest in it totally with everything you have.
What first attracted you to the theatre?
Just being able to act! For people to acknowledge my work and the art-form I represent. The stage is a way that I can tell stories and put my opinions and views forward in the hope that it will make people think. I also love the Negro Ensemble Company they have in New York where Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and many others honed their craft. They always pushed the envelop on socially powered material.
What was the most inspiring production you have seen? Why?
I don't know if there is one but I am very inspired when I see actors or writers who are passionate enough to go to great lengths to get a play put on. I saw a play at the Baron's Court Theatre in 2008 put on by some actors and I thought the performances were amazing. I forgot the name, but it had Camilla Arfwedson in it.
What is your opinion of Off West End theatre, in general?
I absolutely love it! Just like Off-Broadway and Fringe theatre, I just think it's so necessary. Plays you won't be able to see in the West End that aren't musicals or big productions can be put on Off-West End. I think its an artist's home.
What makes a really good character?
The ability for the audience to draw elements of themselves from him/her; a character that will make people think and that is realistic!
What piece of work are you most proud of?
I will have to say Another Biafra. I was amazed by the feedback the audience received. People felt educated on issues they never knew existed, they laughed, they cried; they sold out the final show. I loved the experience.
Are you primarily focused on just writing plays about Africa?
Not at all! I write about human beings from all over. The characters I write about could be (and are) from different parts of the world. I just base things around Africa because I don't see enough of it.
Musical, Comedy or Drama what's your preference to watch?
I love a good comedy.
Can you tell our readers about what you're doing now/next?
Well, Another Biafra is at The Rosemary Branch Theatre from Feb 1 – 20. Come see it! Bring your mum, dad, uncle, aunt and cousins!
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Comparison of outcomes – Forceps delivery v Caesarean Section
A study conducted in China has compared outcomes of forceps delivery with outcomes for caesarean section during the second stage of labour. The study of 7046 women found:
'women who had a need for intervention with a station of + 2 or below, forceps were associated with a lower frequency of maternal infection but a higher rate of postpartum hemorrhage. Deliveries performed for nonreassuring status were accomplished faster by forceps and were associated with a lower frequency of the composite of perinatal mortality and HIE.'
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Maternity eHandbook resource - management of breech and external cephalic version (ECV), and birth after caesarean.
Safer Care Victoria have released 2 new maternity ehandbooks in addition to the 5 they currently have. The new resources on management of breech and external cephalic version (ECV) and birth after caesarean complement the current resources that cover topics including decreased fetal movement, induction of labour & preterm labour. The handbooks provide clinical guidance for maternity clinicians caring for women during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. They provide an overview of the current evidence & information available on the topic, linking to further useful resources and providing key decision making and documentation points.
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Navy secretary nominee withdraws from consideration
Philip Bilden, President Donald Trump's choice to serve as secretary of the Navy, withdrew his nomination Sunday, citing an inability to divest from his financial investments.
"After an extensive review process, I have determined that I will not be able to satisfy the Office of Government Ethics requirements without undue disruption and materially adverse divestment of my family's private financial interests," Bilden said in a statement, according to ABC.
Last week, Major Garrett at CBS reported that Bilden — a private equity firm investor — was "likely to withdraw" his nomination.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer denied Garrett's report, saying Bilden was "100% committed to being the next SECNAV pending Senate confirm."
Spicer — who has attacked the media for publishing so-called "fake news" — immediately took heat for his incorrect pushback.
Bilden is now the second military secretary nominee to withdraw his nomination.
Vincent Viola, Trump's pick for secretary of the Army, withdrew his nomination earlier this month for similar reasons. Viola, a billionaire and owner of the Florida Panthers hockey team, said he was unable to remove himself from his business ties.


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This is part three of the holiday giveaway featuring local products perfect for under the tree this Christmas, and I'm thrilled to spotlight something treasured in our home. Authored by Leanne Power, "You are sooooo beautiful" should be in everyone's library!
Why is it so difficult, even for people with otherwise high self-esteem, to feel truly beautiful?
The problem is not that we aren't beautiful, but that most of us have learned a definition of beauty that is limited and skewed. True beauty isn't the collection of unrealistic physical ideals that the media loves to promote. True beauty is embracing who you are at your very core.
I love this book. But more importantly, my girls adore it. As a mom, I'm always striving to find a medium to stir up real conversation about the important stuff. Dialogue that will help to instill confidence in who they really are and empower them to deal with life's struggles. But let's face it, some of these intentions get lost on a busy schedule, where each day turns into the next and we relay on the old adage of there's always tomorrow.
You won't see this book collecting dust under the bed or on the bottom of the toy box. (You can read more of my thoughts here.)
You Are Sooooo Beautiful holds a precious and timeless message for readers of all ages. Share it with your children to help set the foundation for their understanding of true beauty. And let it help you—and the other beautiful adults in your life—reconnect with your inner child and set your beauty free. How many opportunities do we have to counteract that false and superficial message? Each time you read this book, is one of those precious opportunities.
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We all know too well the daily pressures of our society, bombarded with the media about the importance of outer beauty. How many opportunities do we have to counteract that false and superficial message? Each time you read this book, is one of those precious opportunities. To revisit the message of embracing our uniqueness on a regular basis, all on the initiative of my girls is a gift.
A gift that is sooooo beautiful.


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The City Council approved a motion Tuesday, Dec. 4 to form a Council Ad Hoc Committee for the Suzuki Project. The Councilmembers who will serve on this committee include: Rasham Nassar, Sarah Blossom and Matt Tirman. It's expected the Ad Hoc Committee will meet in early January to begin the process to develop a recommendation to the full Council for a new development partner to replace Housing Kitsap. As a result, the next Council Study Session discussion has been postponed from January 15, 2019 to a later date. A date has not yet been selected.In addition, the video and presentation of the Olympic Property Group's (OPG) Nov. 28 public workshop are now available on the OPG project website. The workshop included information about completed site studies and revised draft site plans.
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An awful lot of fiction is immensely autobiographical, and a lot of nonfiction is highly imagined. We dream ourselves awake every minute of the day. "Fiction"/"nonfiction" is an utterly useless distinction. David Shields Reality Hunger
As an English teacher with a degree and masters in literature, I have a terrible confession to make. I don't actually read that much.
Perhaps I should qualify that statement a little. I don't read that much fiction, in particular that most amorphous of things, literary fiction. I do still read other genres, whenever I get the chance that is, which with two small children and working long hours isn't always easy. During term time I read about education and, of course, books related to what I am teaching. In the holidays I generally go for a mixture of biography, history and all manner of things in between.
Not much fiction, though.
I've been aware of this state of affairs for a while, noticing with an increasing sense of sadness that I am reading less and less of what I once loved so very, very much and what I also insist on telling my students is incredibly important and empowering. Does the fact that I don't read much literary fiction make me a bit of a hypocrite, a sham of an English teacher who undermines his profession through his own private reading habits? I don't know. Maybe.
I wonder about this disconnect between my words and my deeds each Friday, when I share a gate duty with a history colleague, and the conversation turns to what books we are reading. He finds it perverse that whilst he reads literary texts vociferously, I tend to go for things like memoir, books on psychology and even history! Our short conversations leave me unsettled and make me reflect on why it is I read so little literary fiction.
A possible answer came to me recently. Whilst putting together a CPD session on threshold concepts, it occurred to me that what I might be experiencing is the deep sense of loss that Land et al suggest accompanies a shift in ontology – the troubling aspect of troublesome knowledge. Perhaps I have a passed through a threshold in the way that I think and feel about the novel and its attendant truth claims, which means I can no longer read and appreciate books in the same way.
I think I can trace this shift in attitude to the third year of my undergraduate studies and then to the later masters in twentieth century literature I pursed in the early years of teaching. Whilst my degree introduced me to ideas about the death of the author and the instability of language, my masters took things much further, destabilising all notions of truth, objectivity and intentionality and unmooring me from previous ideas about the centrality of narrative craft.
It wasn't until some years later, though, when I came across the American writer David Shields, that I found someone who was able articulate reasons for my gradual disquietude towards literature. It would be fair to say that Shield's short 2011 book Reality Hunger – a kind of manifesto for a new kind of genre-blurring 21st-century prose – left a significant impression on me, one that, over time, has contributed to a significant change in my reading.
Reality Hunger stitches together aphorisms, asides and quotations, from high and low culture, alongside the writer's own reflections. It is almost impossible to locate any kind of authentic voice, and it would have been completely so had Shields got his way and had all attributions expunged. Despite its patchwork structure, one message remains consistent – that the boundaries used to distinguish between genres don't really exist. What we think of as non-fiction, contains as much fiction as what we consider literature, and what we think of as beautiful, or poetically true has as much chance of appearing in journalism as in poetry.
The line between fact and fiction is fuzzier than most people find it convenient to admit. There is the commonsensical assertion that while the novelist is engaged on a work of the creative imagination, the duty of the journalist is to tell what really happened, as it happened. That distinction is easy to voice but hard to sustain in logic. For imagination and memory are Siamese twins, and you cannot cut them so cleanly apart. Reality Hunger, David Shields
Reading Shields' book, and his 2013 follow up, the ironically titled How Literature Saved My Life, made me profoundly question the authenticity of literary fiction, particularly recently-published works that I feel too often try to do what novels have done before but can no longer pull off. Many a book I start but find myself unable to buy-in to the worlds and characters it tries to create. Sadly, I no longer submit to the power of literature to cast a spell; it can be too easy to see the spell being cast and the artifice being exposed. I still read some older fiction, but only as a form of nostalgia for authenticity and the stability of character and plot – a time when things were different, or had the appearance of being so.
I could write more about all this, and about how my love and belief in literature has been slowly undermined through a combination of high theory and the thoughts of an obscure American, who has grown disillusioned by contemporary meaning making, but what I am really interested in is the experience of loss itself. What fascinates me is how learning more, in this case about books and the way they work and can be read, has meant a letting go of many of the things that I knew and once loved – things that attracted me to a degree in the first place. I am left wondering whether the trauma involved with learning certain things, is necessarily always worth the pain that might go with it.
James Atherton, in his excellent website about teaching and learning, provides a useful frame of reference for explaining the process of loss that accompanies the learning of something new. Atherton suggests loss is one of the unseen or hidden explanations for why some students do not learn challenging new material. Using a comparison with evolutionary survival, he explains how the struggle to learn new things – perhaps something as troublesome and undermining as that which I have been experiencing with my own developing thoughts about the novel – might lead the students we teach to reject new ways of seeing the world in favour of preserving the security of their existing ontology.
In Atherton's model, species survive and grow, but only (counter-intuitively) by becoming less fit, at least in the first instance. His account works on the premise that the effort required to move on – whether physically or intellectually – requires a significant expenditure of initial effort, which in evolutionary terms equates to a loss of fitness. Rather than thinking of dominant species occupying higher plains of existence, he sees them residing in lower pools or troughs. In this model, it is thus an effort, or a loss of fitness, that is required to provide the impetus to move from one pool to another. Survival and growth is about adapting and making sacrifices – but only through letting go of current ways of thinking and knowing in order to find better ways of thinking and knowing.
Now, I am not for one moment suggesting that the way I have come to think about literature– and what it can and can't do – is necessarily superior, or even more truthful per se. It might be for me, but it probably isn't for you. This post is intended as a personal account of how I have come to understand truth, and the best ways of capturing it in written form. One of the central tenants of threshold concepts, in particular the state of liminality, is that given the myriad intersections of knowledge possible, every journey or ontological change will be different. In time there may well be a dominant cultural understanding about the role of the novel; for now, I think we are far from a settled belief in its status in relation to truth claims.
As hard as it has been to let go of my previous feelings towards literary fiction, I cannot really see how things could be any other way. Whilst I enjoyed once thinking the novel one of the best ways to understand our nature, I can now see that other genres – particularly those that collapse the distinction between high and low culture, between fiction and non-fiction and between poetry and prose – may well have as much, if not more to offer. It is no coincidence the majority of books I read occupy this space in between: the part biography, popular science of Oliver Sacks; Patti Smith's mix of poetry and life in M Train; the combination of grammar and vignette that is Mary Norris's Confessions of a Comma Queen. Even education books, like John Tomsett's wonderful Hope Over Fear, defies its notional educational category, framing, as it does, insights into effective leadership with touching true-life accounts.
Learning can certainly be a long and painful experience, but one that is quite clearly necessary for our individual and collective growth.
Ignorance may well be bliss, but who'd want to be a sheep?


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Monday, October 12, 2009
Random Travel Post
This is a picture of one of the vending machines in our hotel. See if you can spot the "interesting items" it offers. Oh, and in case you were worried about corrupting minors, there was a sign on the top that said you had to be 16 to purchase things other than the candy.
If you get all three bad items correctly, then you win a prize! Of course, the prize is the knowledge that you purposely seek out wickedness. Sinner.
Did you spot them? I'll help. We have, right next to the "kinder" treats (really), a dirty magazine, c0ndoms, and cigarettes! Awesome, and what a great cover story. "Honey, I meant to get the M&Ms, but I hit the wrong number and got these cigarettes instead! Might as well smoke 'em."
So, what if one of these isn't the vice of your choice? (The M&Ms, I mean. Not everyone likes chocolate, but cigarettes--those meet everyone's desires.) Never fear, next to vending machine number 1 was the beer vending machine!
If you never have good luck with vending machines, you can still have convenient shopping. In Northern Luxembourg, we ran into a store that definitely would be helpful around Christmas time. It specialized in two types of products:
That's right! Alcohol and toys. Hard liquor and puzzles. It had three or four big window displays and everyone one of them showcased both children's items and alcohol. Some of the alcohol was in delightful animal shaped bottles, in case you were torn between indulging your alcoholism and buying your child a present. Go ahead and buy the scotch in the glass duck and then when you've finished, the duck can be a present for Junior.
13 comments:
- George A Guajardo said...
Liquor and toys? Marketing genius, I say!
- October 12, 2009 3:08 PM
- Marie said...
To which most Europeans will retort: it still feels better than being allowed to get yourself a rifle before you're legally old enough to purchase beer.
(And there was a condom machine in my catholic high school.)
Cultural gap, I suppose.
Herzlich Willkommen in Europa. :)
- October 12, 2009 4:44 PM
- Kimberley said...
How convenient! One stop shopping!
- October 12, 2009 6:48 PM
- Angela Rao-Brown SPHR (angel1003) said...
Aren't you sorry you didn't you move to Luxembourg now? :)
- October 12, 2009 9:02 PM
Oh, the days of old, where minors were trusted to make the right choice....Maybe thats why we are in such a quandry now. lol.
- October 12, 2009 9:53 PM
oh EHRL you'd have a field day in Japan
they have vending machines for everything from beer (1 litre cans are available) to cigarettes to umbrellas to hot dogs - yep - the vending machine has a microwave built in it, and it gives you HOT hot dogs!
- October 13, 2009 4:05 AM
You should post on failblog!
- October 13, 2009 11:58 PM
OK, I give up... someone tell me which ones are not supposed to be there. Is this another "Where's Waldo"?
I've lived overseas for 35 years (currently in Afghanistan for 2 years). Ameriacns have a different culture and different views. I'm not saying it is good or bad, just different.
In Japan you could buy condoms, gum, cigarettes, beer, Tylenol, and hand warmers from vending machines. What does that tell you?
- October 14, 2009 6:06 AM
imagine that a country that treats it's citizens like adults.
- October 14, 2009 8:03 AM
- HR said...
This is great. I'd love to have one of these vending machines in Boston (my hometown) and have a hidden video camera watching people look/select/buy items. LOL!
- October 15, 2009 7:11 PM
I once saw a "live bait" vending machine in Southern Ohio. Too funny!
- October 21, 2009 9:29 PM
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- October 24, 2009 9:20 PM
- Suzanne Lucas said...
Hey, my last anonymous friend, no bad words on this blog. You are free to repost your thoughts, sans dirty words.
- October 25, 2009 7:17 AM


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Viburnums are true star
s in both garden and landscape
by virtue of their outstanding foliage, flowers, berries, and, in some species and varieties, wonderfully fragrant flowers.
This marvelous Botanical Center garden was created in 2008 and today displays 150 viburnum varieties representing 20 species.
Created by Dr. Bill Roston and maintained by the Friends of the Garden volunteer organization, the Garden is designed to ensure year-round appeal featuring mid-spring-to-late-summer flowers, fragrance, autumn color, and winter bark and berries.
Viburnums also
provide great variety in size and shape, taking such forms as ball, pyramidal, doublefile, and layered.
The berries are excellent food for birds, and some berries, such as those of the variety 'Cardinal Candy,' are especially showy.
Plans for the future of this remarkable garden call for adding new cultivars as they become available, with the continuing goal of allowing visitors to see the best viburnums for the landscape and for providing strong visual interest in the home garden.
The Viburnum Garden is one of 27 botanical gardens in Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park, 2400 S. Scenic in Springfield, Missouri.
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American Cranberry Viburnum
The American Cranberry Viburnum (
Viburnum opulus
, formerly
Viburnum trilobum
), native to northeastern North America, can reach 8-10 feet in height and width. It bears flat white flower clusters up to 3 inches wide, followed by brilliant red berries that provide winter food for birds. The berries, which are extremely sour, have been used to make jams and jellies since Colonial times. The plant thrives in sun or partial shade and leaves may turn purple-red in autumn. Common names include American Cranberrybush.
European Cranberry Viburnum
The European Cranberry Viburnum (
Viburnum opulus
) is an upright shrub thatt produces an abundance of exceptionallly attractive, rounded clusters of white flowers in May and brilliant red berries
and bright red foliage in the fall. It does well in either sun or partial shade and can grow to 12 feet tall with a 10-foot spread. Virtually spectacular in the garden or landscape, it also attracts birds but is not attractive to deer. The berries are said to be less palatable than those of American Cranberry. Common names include Guelder Rose, European Cranberrybush, European Cranberry Bush, and European Cranberrybush Viburnum.
'Kern's Pink' Viburnum
One of the loveliest of all the Viburnums,
'Kern's Pink' (
Viburnum plicatum
'Kern's Pink') features bronze-tinged foliage and delicate, soft-pink flowers in May. In full sun or partial shade it can grow to 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide. In time some flower clusters will be pink, some white, and others mixed pink and white.
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'Shasta' Viburnum
'Shasta' Viburnum (
Viburnum plicatum
'Shasta') is one of the viburnums commonly referred to as "doublefile" viburnums, so termed because their large, flat-topped flower clusters appear in a single file on each side of the branch. Easy to grow and dramatic in the landscape, it can reach 12-15 feet tall with a similar spread.
Common names include Shasta
Doublefile Viburnum
and Japanese Snowball Bush.
'Shasta' Viburnum was developed by horticulturist Donald Egolf of the U.S. National Arboretum, who developed some 60 valued ornamental plants before losing his life in an auto accident in 1990.
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Prague Viburnum
Prague Viburnum (
) is an exceptionally beautiful evergreen Viburnum with extremely attractive glossy green foliage and, in late spring, clusters of pink buds that open into pristine white flowers. Very easy to grow, it does well in full sun or partial shade. It grows in a nicely rounded habit, and rather quickly, to 10 feet tall and as wide. This one is a superb addition to the garden or landscape.and also makes an outstanding evergreen hedge or windbreak.
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'Emerald Triumph' Viburnum
'Emerald Triumph' Viburnum (
Viburnum lantana
'Emerald Triumph') is a special prize in the garden or landscape for its glossy deep-green foliage, abundant, creamy white, flot-topped flowers, red berries after flowering that turn black in fall, and deep purple autumn foliage. Extremely easy to grow, in full sun or part shade this deciduous Viburnum can grow to 8 feet tall with a similar spread.
'Lanarth' Viburnum
'Lanarth' Viburnum (
Viburnum plicatum
'Lanarth') is an exceptionally beautiful deciduous doublefile Viburnum with bright green foliage and beautiful white flowers that are
larger than usual and arranged on tiered horizontal branches. In sun or partial shade it can grow to 10 feet tall with a spread of 12 feet. In fall the leaves turn purple to burgundy. Common names include Lanarth
Doublefile Viburnum
and Japanese Snow Ball Bush.
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'Mariesii' Viburnum
'Mariesii' Viburnum (
Viburnum plicatum
'Mariesii') is another deciduous doublefile Viburnum. It features rich green foliage, large white flowers in flat clusters along horizontal branches, and bright red berries that mature to black. The autumn foliage is reddish-purple. Easy to grow, in sun to part shade it grows quickly and in time can reach 12 feet tall with a 15-foot spread. Common names include Mariesii Viburnum.
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Snowball Viburnum
This Snowball Viburnum may be
Viburnum opulus
'Roseum', a European native and a garden favorite since the 16th Century, or it may be the "fragrant snowball",
. In any event, any Viburnum with a common name that includes "Snowball," and there are several, is a marvel for an amazing profusion of large, puffy, pristine-white blossoms. If this is the European plant. in full sun to part shade it can grow to 12 feet tall and as wide. If it's the fragrant plant, it can grow to 9 feet and as wide.
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'Flavum' Viburnum
Viburnum 'Flavum' (
Viburnum sargentii
'Flavum') features white flowers and in the fall the green foliage turns vivid bronze-to-reddish and the flowers give way to clear yellow fruit. Tough and easy to grow, it can reach 12-15 feet tall with the same spread.
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'Onondaga' Viburnum
'Onondaga' Viburnum (
Viburnum sargentii
'Onondaga') features remarkably attractive foliage as well as beautiful flowers. New leaves are a bronze purple when they first appear, the summer leaves are dark green with maroon blushes at the edges, and the autumn leaves take on red and gold tones. The flowers appear in late spring as maroon buds in very flat clusters and open from the edges white to pink, creating a very striking effect. Easy to grow, it can in time rise to 12 feet with a 10-foot spread.
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Here are some volunteer opportunities available with the Wareham Land Trust. If you don't see one that interests you, invent your own. Use the form on this page or leave a message at 508-295-0211 to tell us how you would like to help. Enthusiastic volunteers are always welcome!
Committee Member: Participate in planning and projects for the Stewardship, Acquisition, or Outreach Committee. Time Commitment: 6 hours per month.
- The Stewardship Committee oversees our conservation properties. The committee ensures that the WLT upholds its ethical obligation to protect the conservation values of the properties.
- The Acquisition Committee seeks out and evaluates potential land conservation projects, negotiates with donors, and prepares a financial plan for approved land acquisition projects.
- The Outreach Committee organizes events to engage the public through educational programs, such as lectures and nature outings, communicates with the media, and provides environmental awareness to the community.
Property Steward: Be assigned to a WLT conservation property, periodically visit the property, annually monitor the property using specified methodology, and create a formal report on the findings. Some training provided. Time Commitment: approximately 12 hours a year.
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Event Organizer: Become a member of the Outreach Committee. Solicit guest speakers in areas of interest to the WLT, secure a venue, prepare flyers, advertise event, and organize refreshments. Time Commitment: 6 hours per month.
Grant Writer: Keep track of grants that we use to fund our land acquisitions, maintain comprehensive list of available grants, application deadlines and potential award dates, and assist in preparation of grants. Some training provided. Time Commitment: 4 hours per month.
Blogger: Write articles about conservation and land trust issues.
Researcher: Research ecological features in conservation areas owned by the WLT. Conduct bird surveys, wildlife / vegetation inventories, archeological investigations, or design and implement a research project of your own. This is an ideal opportunity for a self-directed project by a natural history student or any qualified individual.
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Cane Corso
Cane Corso (Working Group)
Noble, majestic, and powerful in presence, the Cane Corso is a muscular and large-boned breed. One of two native Italian "mastiff type" dogs that descended from the Roman canis Pugnaces, the breed's name derives from the Latin "Cohors" which means "Guardian" and "Protector."
The breed's coat is short but not smooth (like the coat of a cow), very coarse and thick in order to be perfectly waterproof. It can be black, gray, fawn or red, with brindle variations and a black or gray mask also acceptable.
A Look Back
The Cane Corso is a native of Italy. He was a property watchdog and hunted wild boar. Prior to 1988, the Cane Corso was known only in southern Italy, and was considered very rare, but has still been featured in many paintings throughout Italy's history.
The Cane Corso as a protector of his property and owners is unequaled. Intelligent, he is easily trained. Noble, majestic and powerful his, presence is impressive. He is docile and affectionate to his owner, loving with children and family. (AKC)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell filed cloture on the motion to proceed with the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) Thursday, moving the bill closer to floor consideration. The bipartisan regulatory relief bill is strongly supported by CUNA, which has launched a nationwide grassroots support effort.
"We're thankful to Senate leadership for carving out floor time for this important piece of bipartisan legislation. Washington doesn't seem to agree on much these days, but the bipartisan support this bill has seen since its introduction shows that the need for relief goes above party politics," said CUNA President/CEO Jim Nussle. "This legislation will greatly benefit credit unions and other community financial institutions while retaining important consumer protections, resulting in major wins for the American consumer."
S. 2155 was introduced in November, and passed the Senate Banking Committee in December. CUNA and all 38 credit union leagues wrote to Senate leadership earlier this month calling for Senate floor consideration.
The bill contains a credit union-specific provision to exempt one-to-four unit, non-owner occupied residential loans from a credit union's member business lending cap. Other provisions would also offer regulatory relief through mortgage servicing and lending rules, help protect credit union employees who report suspected elder financial abuse and require the Treasury to study cyber risks.
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94 HASKINS & SELLS December
Prize Competition
THE firm offers three prizes of $100,
$50, and $25, respectively, for the
three best essays to be submitted on the
subject of "How May We Improve the
Quality of Our Service to Clients?"
The competition will be open to all
members of the organization, in grades not
higher than that of supervising accountant
and will close December 31, 1923. Envelopes
bearing postmarks prior to midnight
on such date will be accepted.
Essays submitted in competition must
be limited to fifteen hundred words, typewritten
on sheets 8 ½ x 1 1 , securely fastened
together on the left-hand side, and
preferably protected by a suitably inscribed
The essays will be judged by a committee
which will take into consideration arrangement
of content with a view to facilitating
easy reading, clearness of expression,
and practicability of the suggestions
Essays should be unsigned but marked
with a nom de plume and accompanied by
a sealed envelope bearing the same nom
de flume; the envelope to contain a card
giving the name, address, and practice office
of the author.
We hope everyone in the organization
who is eligible will enter the competition
and give free expression to his thoughts on
the subject.
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