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by Darren Sleep from St-Lazare, QC
Jul 6, 13
In the latter part of the winter of 2008, I received an unexpected phone call from my parents in New Brunswick.
"Your mother wants to go canoe camping this summer," my dad said. "What do you think about that?"
"Have you called the ambulance?" I asked. "Maybe she's had a stroke."
Generally speaking, my mother is not the outdoor, canoe camping, "roughing it" kind of mother. She is tough enough alright, but this was not the sort of thing she would normally go for. Apparently she had read a piece in a magazine about a couple of retirees who went canoe camping somewhere. The image of floating down a gentle river on a lazy afternoon and eating dinner on a river bank had appealed to her. She had no idea just how thankful we all would be that she followed through on that magazine's advice.
When she asked my father if he could think of any couple crazy enough to accompany them on such an adventure, he hesitated only a moment or two before he picked up the phone and called us.
My wife and I had recently moved with our two young boys to Montreal. But we had spent the last decade or so moving throughout Canada in the pursuit of higher education. As an ecologist, camping and canoeing had always been part my repertoire, so my wife and kids were no strangers to the outdoors. My father knew this well, and was counting on the fact that we would have the equipment to make the trip enjoyable.
And so, several months later, we found ourselves on the banks of the Salmon River in central New Brunswick. We had borrowed and begged three canoes from friends and family. My mother and father were in one, my older brother and his daughter in another, and my wife, our two boys and I in the third.
We put in around mid-morning and followed the meanderings of the river for five or six hours. The weather was perfect, with the late August clouds drifting in and out.
The river was low in places, causing us to get out and pull the boats over shallow rocky areas. In the deep waters, when the children got restless, we grabbed them by their lifejackets, threw them overboard, and let them swim with the current.
By late afternoon everyone was tired. We began to look for a place to camp. After a few bends in the river, we spotted a grassy spot where a small stream entered the river. As if an omen, a Bald Eagle sat by the river's edge eating his evening catch. At the sight of our flotilla he took to the air. After tents were raised and dinner was cooked and eaten, we tied ropes to the kids and hauled them through the river's current while they laughed and splashed. In the evening, we sat by the fire and talked for a while before a few black flies, and exhaustion, drove us into our tents.
Dawn, revealed a misty morning, damp and chilly. But a hot breakfast of porridge, bacon, eggs and coffee brightened everyone's spirits. By the time we took to the river, the morning fog was burning off, and the sun was beginning to push through the gray. After three or four more hours of paddling, we neared the spot where we had stashed a vehicle. My wife and I arrived ahead of the others, and began to unload.
Most of us were tired and looking forward to getting off the river, but my mother, for reasons known only to her, wanted to press on. She wanted to follow the water a few kilometers farther, and take out near the town where she grew up. My eldest son, who was five at the time, was not feeling well and had developed a low-grade fever, so my wife and I were done. My father was needed to drive one of the cars, and my niece was in no mood for paddling, so, while the rest of us started carrying equipment up the hill to the cars, my brother agreed to paddle the remaining distance with my mother.
It was a short, but wonderful canoe trip and there was already talk of what we would do next time to make it even better.
In retrospect, that day and a half on the river was a once in a lifetime event. Much to everyone's great sadness, my brother was diagnosed with a brain tumor about two months later. Eleven months after that – he passed away. The last few kilometres he paddled with my mother are, for her, a cherished memory. That day on the water is etched in his daughter's mind, forever, as precious.
I've often wondered if events don't conspire at times to give us moments to hang on to when the sadness of life hits. The trip, of course, was not about my brother; but now that he is gone, we look back on photographs of our fondest memory together. The picture of him and his daughter as they paddled in the afternoon sun; the moment we stood on the riverbank eating supper and enjoying each other's company; the way he decided to carry on down the river with mom when everyone else was too tired or too busy; these are the moments that now define that trip for all of us. There may, of course, be other camping trips, but none will ever be as poignant, or as meaningful, as that trip … on the Salmon River.


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Cows are classified as mammals. A mammal is defined as an animal that possesses a backbone, hair, mammary glands, three inner ear bones and a neocortex. Most mammals also give birth to live young, save for the egg-laying monotremes.
The most obvious unique defining characteristic of mammals is their ability to produce milk in order to feed their young. Indeed, the term mammal has its roots in the Latin word "mamma," meaning "teat." With their well documented ability to produce milk along with their hair-covered body, cows have been classified as mammals since the term was originally coined in 1758.

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The concept is based on 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 sq meters as well as some exterior modules. The modules are finished before delivery, just plug and play.
Materials & construction
We focus on sustainable materials from Scandinavia.
Lars Frank Nilsen
The ONE+ modules is developed by Add a Room in co-oporation with the Danish architect Lars Frank Nielsen.
Come play with us! With our predefined modules and completely finished modules you are able to make your unique Add a Room house.
Plan solutions are the same for all house modules. Addtionally the 20 , 25 & 30 sq. meters have an extra room solution.
Basic sizes for a pergola and deck are:
- deck 3,3 x 2,4 meter
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Basic sizes are:
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The big sliding glass doors can be placed on the short end as well as the two long ends of the house.
The house can be ordered with several options, which always are placed in the short end of the house:
- Bathroom with toilet and shower
- Mini bathroom with toilet and shower
- Kitchen with stove, oven and refrigerator
- Kitchenette with a movable stove and refrigerator
- Bunk beds
- Wardrobes
- Sauna
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Create outdoor rooms and link together more rooms, by using our smaller modules.
The outdoor modules provide, together with the pergola, a nice feeling of being inside while you are outside. The outdoor modules (3,3 x 1 meters) consist of a deck, pergola and a thick wall.
The outdoor linking module options are:
- Outdoor kitchen with gas stove, a sink and a small cabin on the back. All are integrated into the wall
- Outdoor bench and a small cabin on the back. All are integrated into the wall
- Additionally both the above can be ordered with a outdoor shower on the backside
- And both can also be ordered without the standard deck, 3,3 x 1 meters if for example you already have a veranda to put it on
Sauna house
The sauna house has multiple purposes. The sauna module is also 10 sq.meter (3 x 3,3 meters) and it is possible to connect to other ONE+ modules. Use it as a sauna or as an extra room.
Another alternative is to put it on pontoons and use it as a sauna raft instead.
The sauna house has two doors and two decks, one at the front and one at the back. The back veranda is thought of as more private for taking a swim or an outdoor shower.
The deck goes through the sauna and is in total 3 x 6,7 meters.
Material & Construction
We focus on sustainable materials from Scandinavia.
- ONE+ is insulated.
- Insulation depends on location and use.
- Can be ordered for summerhouse or permanent house.
- Electricity ready within the house.
- Dark kernel pine floors indoor and Superwood veranda floor on the outside.
- The wainscoting has a characteristic thin profile designed by AART. The wainscoting is named Superwood and is sustainable and environmental friendly. The house is either black or in natural wood, last mentioned gets a grey patina over the years, and is possible to stay unpainted due to the fact that Superwood is high pressure impregnated.
- The walls inside are white painted or birch veneer.
- Energy efficient sustainable windows from Velfac, with slim frame, outside aluminium and inside wood profile. The slim frame of VELFAC windows let in significantly more natural daylight into the room.
- The roof is welded and has a slope on 1,5 degree.
- Heating system. E.g. small electrical heating (2000 watt) is enough for a ONE+ house and can easily be placed due to several plugs. Floor heating is available in the ONE+ bathrooms. Wood stove, air source heat pump and sun panel can also be provided.
ONE+ is build at our indoor production site in Scandinavia by carpenters with many years of experience at our partners Hansen & Larsen. ONE+ house is delivered in one piece and has hooks in the roof to ease the lifting and moving of the house.
The house is placed by a crane on a point foundation or a rand foundation which have been prepared in advance.
The combination of the architecture, sustainable materials and high construction quality reduces maintenance and ensures a house for generations.
Please have a look at the images.
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Lars Frank Nielsen is one of the founders of the Danish architect company 3xN, known for the Danish embassy in Berlin and several significant buildings in Denmark and around the world. After many years working at 3xN he decided to focus on designing smaller buildings. His company ONEN primarily designs different products such as benches, door handles and furniture. He has a focus on functional, minimalistic and sustainable solutions. Add a Room developed the ONE+ system in collaboration with the Lars Frank Nielsen.
Lars Frank Nielsen explains:
"The project started as a refinement of the minihouse concept in Sweden. We, Add a Room and I, wanted to provide a design alternative to the existing mini houses in Sweden called friggebod that mostly look like play houses for children. Our goal was to design a simple, almost minimalistic house, a house that can stand alone, but also a house that can be pieced together unit by unit. During the design process, there has been an evolution towards a true "multi-unit-concept": you can start with a single unit and enlarge it step by step into a genuine holiday home."


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Creating a Buzz - New Multimedia Development Company Emerges in Newquay
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Paul Axten and Lindsey Randle have decided to make the most of their wealth of expertise and years of experience in the creative and online arena and have set up Buzz Interactive. Buzz Interactive offers wide ranging programming and development skills, together with technical consultancy for website development, e-learning, CD/DVD multimedia and databases, delivering rich media solutions for business, education and entertainment.
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Two voices, one theater performance: Austrian playwright Julya Rabinowich and stage director Natalia Gleason share their thoughts on "Surfacing" (Auftauchen). The play tells the story about our invisible people – alive, yet not present in everyday life: a mother seeking asylum, a young man hiding from blood-revenge, and a young woman kidnapped and locked up in a basement. "Surfacing" gives a voice to those millions and millions of people, who are robbed of the most basic human right – enshrined in Article 1 of the UDHR – to be "free and equal in dignity and rights".
Julya Rabinowich
Surfacing is something quite Freudian. Only these things can surface, and emerge from the subconscious, which have been lost or imprisoned deep down there. So, on one hand, surfacing is about reflection of very uncomfortable truth- and understanding of the greatest fears. On the other hand: People who are stripped off their free will, who are hidden away from society, in one way, or another, seek for being found, being seen, being rescued. The room in which the story of Surfacing unfolds can be also seen as a model of our consciousness: the basement- is what Freud called id, the flat in the middle is a logical decision of the ego and the attic is the superego, drilled and fully controlled, without letting any feeling disturbing this grip of control.
But Surfacing is also more than this model of the mind. Surfacing is telling the story of violence in our society, and the attempt to deal with it and it is based on cases, which have happened in Europe- but also could happen anywhere. The monologue is woven of three speeches happening at the same time, forming a chorus, a stream of thoughts, uniting all three victims in one surviving mind.
Having worked with victims of violence as a translator for refugees, I was often astonished by their strength and their will to stay alive, to motivate themselves, to push themselves towards a better living. And also I was astonished by the society ignoring this violence. So, like two of my other stage plays, Surfacing is an attempt to bring this violence and this power to hold on to life back into perception.
Natalia Gleason
Directing theater is the art of mediation between different people: dead and alive, the listeners and the talkers, the morally present yet emotionally absent, imaginary yet real. For all people, a performance such as "Surfacing" at Forum Theatre aspires to create a temporary community that bonds us with our eternal humanity; it is an exercise of compassion and hope.
Julya's play is fiercely political but in an elevated and universal way. For instance, as the refugee mother re-counts the beads of her necklace, each bead a chapter of her journey, I re-count my privileges and contemplate my life as an immigrant mother in the USA. Julya's open dramaturgy embraces the audience, as they become a part of her mute chorus of unheard voices. I seem to have committed to these unheard voices as a theater maker: voices from the margins, people with far away experiences, whom I would never meet (perhaps) if it wasn't for playwrights like Julya.
I was at home in Budapest when the first wave of refugees arrived – after I have encountered those people, I no longer dare to complain how hard it was to get my green card or to leave for London in my early 20s because of poverty.
"Surfacing" is my performance offering for those mothers sustaining life – seeking a better life. "Surfacing", the perfect piece for a festival celebrating female voices – such a meaningful and important occasion. Theater can seem inconsequential when examined from a human rights perspective but theater, I believe, serves as a testament to our humanity; it is a commitment to bear witness, a collective effort to listen which may re-ignite the desire to broaden our consciousness.
Who is to judge the impact of voices heard for the very first time?
Julya Rabinowich is one of Austria's most exciting female playwrights. Born in the USSR, she was "uprooted and re-potted" in 1977, as she herself describes her move to Vienna.
Natalia Gleason is a Hungarian director living in Washington DC fascinated by the postmodern female muse and all her manifestations in contemporary plays.
"Surfacing" was part of International Women's Voices Day, sponsored by National New Play Network and the New Play Exchange®, as a part of the 2018 Women's Voices Theater Festival, and was performed at the Forum Theatre on February 13, 2018.


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Just want to wish you all a Happy New Year! 2014 is looking like another great year to be a Hybrid. Our 19 year anniversary is coming, the shows/races will come, more press, more accolades, more sponsorships, more fun and more import history to be made.
For all the Hybridz that have been around for a while, lets keep going strong. Lead the way so newer Hybrids can learn from your example and continue the legacy that started almost 19 years ago.
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I'm an arm balance junkie. You probably know by now. In yoga forward bends, backward bending don't really go easy, but arm balances… I especially like them if I can 'flow' from one arm balance into another. Lately I've been working on Crow, Side Crow from Headstand. If you want to try it, check out this little movie.
I like to start in downward dog and jump into Crow. Sometimes it goes smooth, other times it doesn't. The trick is in the bandhas. Engage your bandhas; especially Mula bandha, before you jump. (If you don't know what they are; I'll write a blog about it soon; so stay tuned.). I like to bend my elbows, so I land more easily then with straight arms.
From Crow lower your head to the floor and bring your knees to your chest. Straighten your legs into tripod headstand. Bring your knees down again and make a deep twist, bringing your legs to the left and placing the outside of your right thigh on your left elbow. Find your balance and lift your head up from the floor for one breath.
Bring your head down again then bring your knees towards your chest and straighten your legs once more. Stay here for one or two breaths. Now do the other side. Keep your abdominal muscles strong and tight, so your movement is controlled. Stay again in side crow for one breath and bring your legs back up.
Now lower your legs down one more time, this time placing your left knee on your left elbow and your right knee on your right. Bring your weight a little back and find the balance point where you can lift up your head, so you are back in crow again. Stay in it for a couple of breaths and then either step back or jump back in plank or chaturanga dandasana. Flow through upward facing dog and downward facing dog. Rest in downward facing dog or come to a sitting position.
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On their debut full length, Always Almost, Tonopah enliven ideals of a retro romance. Their dreamy and melodious pop is a time-warp back to diner dates and shared milkshakes, a place where falling in love is as sweet as the last slice of apple pie.
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I am not scared of getting married – Chinenye Uyanna
Alluring Nollywood actress, Chinenye Uyanna, has described marriage as an institution that needs to be properly understood before taking a headlong dive into it.
Uyanna, who also agrees with her industry colleague, Anita Joseph, that the high rate of divorce prevalent in the society is scaring young singles from taking a dive at the marriage institution due to fear of marital crisis and an eventual crash, believes that a lot of people are completely oblivious of what marriage entails.
According to her, parental pressure, peer influence or public opinion should not be a factor when taking the ultimate decision to get married.
In a chat with newsmen, the sensational actress who loves to keep her dating life a private affair takes on the misunderstanding people have about marriage. "Yes, the rate of divorce is becoming rampant. If you ask me, I would say that people do not know the meaning of marriage. Some get married today because parents are putting pressure on them, some because their friends are married and others because of what people will say. So when you rush into things you will still rush out of it", she mused.
She however, concluded that the so-called alarming rate of divorce in the country does not scare her from tying the nuptial knots when she finds her heartthrob. "Due to this fact of divorce, some people are scared of getting married but I'm not. When you find the right person everything will work out. If I see the right person I will", she said emphatically.


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praise for There
"Heather Rounds manages to make entirely everyone in her novel, There, rootless and adrift, whether that be her American protagonist or the various homelanders she meets on assignment in Kurdistan. No one—and certainly not the reader—escapes from a feeling of escape, of a gnawing tumble in space. Thing is, that feeling is so perfectly pitched, so well attuned through imagination and craft, that one feels the wheel of familiarity, a presence of home in homelessness."
—Joseph Young, author of Easter Rabbit
"Rounds gives us her eyes and ears, jacks us up with the heightened receptivity of the traveler, and sets us down in Iraqi Kurdistan. With direct, economical prose, alive to its surroundings, she chronicles every contour of that space between wanderlust and the way a place actually turns out to be—and the way one turns out to be in it. There takes us all the way in, and on the way gives us a meditation on the poetics of self as a foreign body, on the accidental poetry of translation and strangeness, on the merry-go-round of subtle breakthroughs, approaches, and evasions; in short, the being there, and the being always destined to lose it all by going home."
—Megan McShea, author of A Mountain City of Toad Splendor
"As an American writing about time spent in the Middle East, Rounds' voice is mercifully free of the hubris and self-pride that infects many Western travelers. This story has been skimmed of Orientalist attitudes and biases; this is a rare protagonist whose eyes have not been clouded with self-righteous assumptions and expectations."
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...is being with my family for eternity. I am so grateful that Mario and I have been sealed for all eternity in the temple. Adam just asked me today why we need to go to church. I told him it was to be obedient to Heavenly Father. He asked why (he asks that a lot!) and I explained to him that we want to be a forever family. Adam thought about it and then agreed. Later at church he surprised us by getting up all by himself and bearing his testimony during sacrament meeting. I was in the mother's room feeding Alex so I could only hear the meeting. I heard his sweet little voice bear testimony that his family loves him. Several people came to me throughout church complimenting on Adam's simple but strong testimony. I am proud of the wonderful little man he is becoming. Eternity is a long time; I'm glad I get to spend it with such wonderful people.
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#24 What means the most to me....
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#23 15 Facts About Me
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
#22 A letter to someone who has hurt me
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#21 What Makes Me Happy
Mario likes to make Alex ride Rosie around the house. It is hilarious. When it comes to fatherhood Mario is a pro. When I get stressed he can always make me laugh. And look at Alex's face? Come on! That is priceless.
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#20 The meaning behind my blog name
Well, lets see. I am married to Mario. My name is Linda. Our last name is Aguirre. Super creative, huh? I should have let my boys come up with a name. They, on the other hand, are super creative. For example, this is a spaceship!
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Friday, January 28, 2011
#19 Me...
...as of this second. Rosie won't get off of me so I can type. And Tyler is walking around with his Monkey Backpack having it "eat" things. He is cracking me up.
Tyler: "Monkey, no no eat Mommy's shoes!" "Okay....Eat shoes. Mommy no see....YUMMY, Shoes!"
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#18 The thing I crave is....
....Diet Coke! Super cold with lots of ice and fizz. MMMMmmmmm! Make that with hospital ice.......oh, man. So good! I'd post a picture but I think I'll go pour myself a Diet Coke instead.
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#17 My Family!
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Sometimes life is all about perspective. For example, I can be mad about 2pm church or grateful that we get to spend relaxing mornings as a family. I've decided to be thankful for things in life. Complaining is just a waste of time.
A couple days ago I was feeling grumpy. We found some fraudulent charges on our bank account, which resulted in deactivating my debit card and having to wait a week for a new one. I never carry cash or a credit card, and my debit card wasn't working, when the gas light went on in my car. I was so frustrated that I had to go home and hunt for Mario's card when I had about a million other things to do. As I was grumbling and being just plain grinchy I drove past the local food bank a couple miles from my house. There was a long line of people waiting outside in the frigid cold. I felt like such a jerk for complaining. I was in a nice warm car driving to my home that has heat, clothes, and plenty of food. There were moms in that line with their children. How hard would that be? I feel so blessed and know that to who much is given, much is required. I pray this is a lesson I can remember.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
Which Sandwich?
Saturday was gorgeous. I'm talking 55 degrees and sunny with not a thing to do. We headed to the park (YAY!!!!) with a picnic.
Before leaving I made Adam a turkey and cheese sandwich. He freaked out! Full on tantrum. The kid is 5 so this was not okay. I told him, after he calmed down, that I would make him a jelly and butter sandwich if he cleaned for 15 minutes without stopping. I set the timer and he did it, so I made the sandwich.
Fast forward to the park. This was his face....
Then he tells me that his sandwich is gross and he would prefer a turkey and cheese. AGHHHH! So he ended up eating the dreaded turkey and cheese sandwich.
I will never win. At least my house got cleaned!
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It's Elmo, Baby!
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#16 My Celebrity Crush
Celebrity crushes are so 2001. But Rachel saw a girl yesterday with Robert Pattinson's face tattooed on her arm. Classy, right? Maybe I should get one of Mario...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
#15 I don't leave the house without....
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Poor Rosalie!
Rose got spayed today. It is just so sad! She did fine, but now she is just laying here next to me with the saddest look in her eyes. I feel like I took away her puppyhood. I know it was the right decision but it's still sad. She has a huge suture across her belly. Jasper is being so sweet. He comes over and checks on her. Always licking her face and looking so concerned. He stood by the door the whole time she was at the vet. Hang in there Rosalie!
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#14 Show I am Currently Addicted To
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#13 My Favorite Musician/Band
I listen to different music depending on my mood:
Chillaxin- Sufjan Stevens, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service
Driving in the Car- Twilight, New Moon, or Eclipse soundtracks
Cleaning the House- Muse, Vampire Weekend or Taylor Swift
Reminicent- Nsync, Justin Timberlake or Hilary Duff
Playing with the Kids- Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Peas or Disney Music
Spiritual- Mormon Taberbacle Choir, Micheal McLean, or Kenneth Cope
BUT my fav of all is Death Cab for Cutie.
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
Sleeping Sweeties
This picture melts me....
I took it last night. Adam and Tyler had been fighting all evening. Adam kept running out of his room saying that Tyler was bothering him. Then Tyler would come tripping behind saying, "NO, Adam bother ME!" After sending them back to bed about 50 times and telling them to get along I finally hear silence. I crept to their room and found them hugging each other in their sleep. It made my heart happy. I hope my boys have the same great relationship that I have with my siblings. It reminded me of Jennie wanting to sleep in my bed as little girls.
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#11 My Make-up Bag
I thought this was a dumb post, but it actually says a lot about me.
#1 I love a deal! I got the bag and half the make-up as a free gift with purchase at Clinique.
#2 I have psoriasis. The little tube in the front right side is my cream. I get it in my ears and my right eyebrow. YUCK!
#3 I wear contacts, hence the contact solution.
#4 I am not very brave when it comes to my make-up. I wear neutral colors, no eye liner or shimmer.
#5 I love lotions and potions! I am obsessed with eye creams or anything that claims to get rid of wrinkles. I have way too many wrinkles for a 27 year old.
And that is me in a nutshell.....(actually a make-up bag)
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Saturday, January 15, 2011
#10 My Favorite Places to Eat
One of the perks to living in Southern Oregon are the great local restaurant's.
Noho's Hawaiian Cafe is one of our favorites.
Their Macaroni Salad is TO DIE FOR!
Callahan's is a lodge up at Mount Ashland that has a restaurant. We like to go for birthdays and our anniversary. It is so cozy with tables right by a crackling fire place, big windows to watch the snow fall, live guitar music to enjoy, and delicious food to eat.
Kaleidoscope Pizza is melt in your mouth, drool, and return-as-often-as-you-can goodness! It is a tradition to go whenever family comes to town.
Now I am hungry!!!
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Friday, January 14, 2011
#9 Something I Last Purchased
A Diet Coke at Target!
Big surprise there, right? I make this purchase at least twice a week. Difference today is that I had to use Mario's debit card. I don't have one for 5 to 10 days!!!!!! I am going through with withdrawls....shakes, chills, you name it. Mario and I noticed some fraudulent online charges and had to call it in. So, they deactivated my card and I have to wait until the new one comes in the mail. I had to take Mario's card today since I had an eye doctor appointment and needed to get a birthday gift for the kids' friend. My new optometrist is Graham MacPartland. He is my friend Genevieve's husband and a great eye doctor. Give him a call if you need an appointment! (there's my plug!)
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
#8 A Song for Today
I taught Joy School today and introduced Mr. Gunny Bag. He likes to gobble up toys that aren't cleaned up. He only coughs them up once a week. But when there are no toys to eat he cries and cries. The kids are obsessed! He is really just a pillow case with a face....shhhhhhhh!
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
#7 My Dream Wedding
Since I'm married already to my dream man, I'd have to say that my wedding 7 years ago was my dream wedding. I don't have any pictures on this computer but it was a perfect day. We were sealed in the temple and then had a gorgeous reception. My colors were black and white with red roses. Very elegant. I love wedding so much though that I would totally renew my vows with Mario just for fun. I would do it here:
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#6 My Dream Pet
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
#5- A photo of yourself 2 years ago
Ack! I don't love this picture of me, at all! But I love the girlies in it and it is so representative of my life two years ago. I noticed in every picture of me from two years ago that I was fat. Which is kinda funny because my excuse was that I had a 6 month old (Tyler). Well, now I have a 7 month old (Alex) and am at least 15 pounds lighter than I was then. Yay for that!
This picture was taken at our annual Chocolate Extravaganza. Just close your eyes and imagine...(insert angelic melody)....chocolate as far as the eye can see. Fun times!
Anja is right next to me. She moved a while back and is greatly missed. Two years ago we were getting together regularly for play dates and girl's nights out.
Janice comes next. She also moved away, but just recently. I miss her to pieces. She is such a creative, fun person and one of my best friends.
Crissy is at the end. I just got to see today at her baby shower. She is having a little girl! She has two boys already. This girl is so fun to be around.
What would I do without my girlfriends and chocolate?!
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So I have been busy busy busy the last few days. And today is no different....
swimming lessons
music and movement
bring Adam to school
baby shower for Crissy
pick up Adam
clean the house
make dinner
plan tomorrows preschool
keep children alive
That is my plan for today. Preschool tomorrow is on cleanliness and order, so I figure I should lead by example and organize my house. It isn't all that bad, just yesterday we went to a party to watch the Ducks game so I went to bed with it messy, which I never do.
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Saturday, January 8, 2011
#4 Best Friends
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Friday, January 7, 2011
#3 The Details of Dating
Mario drove me to Applebees in Idaho Falls. I ordered chicken fettuccine alfredo and Mario ordered a lot of meat. There was a Mariner's game on in the background, good food to eat, and an amazing guy across from me. Mario was so sweet and gentlemanly. After dinner he got us lost driving the 30 minutes home. I still think he did it on purpose! I knew it wouldn't be our last date and thankfully it wasn't.
That week we ended up studying at the park, going to Hogi Yogi, going dancing, taking walks, talking on the phone...you get the idea. We fell in love fast and 7 years later I can't imagine anyone more perfect for me.
Just last night we were laying in bed and decided that for our 10 year anniversary we need to go somewhere awesome. It will be in December so I am thinking tropical. I feel so blessed to have a wonderful husband that I can build castle's in the sky with.
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Alex is 6 1/2 months old, which is one of my favorite ages. Every taste of food is a new experience for him. It is a delight to see him try new things. Today for breakfast he had one of his favorite meals, rice cereal with applesauce mixed in. I canned the apple sauce this fall with apples from my friend's neighbor's tree. Nutritous and delicious! (For real....I tried it.) The funny thing is that he will only swallow the food while sucking his thumb. Weird! I really hope he out grows it ;)
I am supposed to write something I ate today for the 30 day blog challenge so here goes:
- oatmeal
- beefy 5 layer burrito from Taco Bell
- Diet Pepsi (yuck! The downside to Taco Bell)
- A speculaasje cookie
- Pulled pork sandwich for dinner
Not the most nutritous day ever. Whatev!
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
What in the world....
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"Only Rowsaleee"
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Monday, January 3, 2011
National Invisible Jammies Day
(This picture is from SinterKlaas Day last month. I love it!)
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
For years we have had church at 9am. Now with the new year we are meeting at 2pm! Yes, that is church from 2-5pm. It was dark when we left for home. We literally walked inside, made and ate a quick dinner (spaghetti omlet...yes, you read that right), read scriptures, brushed teeth and put the kids to bed. So weird! I haven't decided if I like it yet. This morning was amazing since Mario didn't have his meeting (he is the Elder's Quorum President and has to go to ward council) until 12:30, when it used to be at 7am. The extra relaxation was nice, not to mention we were actually early to church. I know, shocking, right?! But it is still just weird to get out so late.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Do I Dare?
New Years Day has always come with a resolve to do better, try harder, lose that last 15 lbs, and be perfect in all aspects of life. Of course 10 minutes in to January 1st I am eating chocolate while yelling at my kids in a dirty house. But those 10 minutes of perfection have to count for something....right?
I may fall short in most of my goals but I am BIG on giving myself one resolution that I WILL fulfill every year. In the past I have given up chocolate, soda, and french fries. I have learned to cook through using new recipes. And a personal favorite was reading 100 books. This year I have decided to do a blog a day. I know, I know....just stop laughing and hear me out for a minute. Yes, I am the worse blogger ever. My posts come sporadically with months between. But my bff, Jacki, inspired me and I have made up my mind. Can't be worse than giving up chocolate, right?! So hold on tight and check back daily! This means you Mom, since you will probably be my only follower. :)
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Q: My teacher says there's no such thing as 'truth' in science. So why do we bother?
A: Think for a second about how you'd prove something to be true. You could say, for example, that all swans are white – but you can't prove that's true because it's impossible for you to observe every single swan. However, just one observation of a black swan would prove that you were wrong. It's much easier to prove something is untrue than to prove it's true.
Accordingly, the scientific method works by trying to falsify a statement. When a scientist puts forward a theory, the rest of the scientific community try to disprove it. It's only those theories that survive the onslaught – the ones that can't (yet) be proven wrong – that we stick with. That doesn't mean that one day a new piece of evidence won't come along to disprove it, but you trust it for now. For example, we think that dropping a brick will mean it falls to the ground, but we can never prove that it wouldn't one day float off. So far, though, the theory that it will fall has withstood all attempts at falsification.


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Mass Surveillance Makes Us More Vulnerable to Bad Guys on the Web and On Computers
Spying makes us vulnerable to hackers and other bad guys:
- IT and security professionals say spying could mess up the safety of our internet and computer systems
- For example, the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes:
"By weakening encryption, the NSA allows others to more easily break it. By installing backdoors and other vulnerabilities in systems, the NSA exposes them to other malicious hackers—whether they are foreign governments or criminals. As security expert Bruce Schneier explained, 'It's sheer folly to believe that only the NSA can exploit the vulnerabilities they create.'"
- The NSA's big data collection itself creates an easy mark for hackers. Remember, the Pentagon itself sees the collection of "big data" as a "national security threat" … but the NSA is the biggest data collector on the planet, and thus provides a tempting mother lode of information for foreign hackers
Read this for other little-known spying facts … including the fact that mass surveillance makes us more vulnerable to terrorists.


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New Lego Star Wars sets are coming out every year, yet there are still iconic buildings, ships or minifigures missing from the otherwise huge catalogue. Elgiemd's fan-build on Lego Ideas adds one very important set to the list: Bespin's Cloud City from The Empire Strikes Back.
He imagined it as part of the "Ultimate Collector's Series," which is a sub-theme of very large Lego sets. This means thousands of bricks, a micro-scale environment compatible with other large Star Wars sets (just think about the massive Super Star Destroyer) and the best part: tiny versions of Boba Fett's Slave 1, the Millennium Falcon and a few Cloud Cars.
The build is up on Lego Ideas, awaiting supporters. Once it reaches 10,000 votes, Lego might consider releasing it as an official set.
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I know. I am super original. But here in San Diego, I live for the days that scarves are encouraged. How can you not feel super cozy in an oversized plaid blanket scarf or a cashmere blend one? My favorite is the beige one I purchased in India. All the stores were stocked full of bright colors and I feel in love with an oversized ultra versatile beige one. It is easily the most worn one in my closet and I love the memories that it brings when I wear it.
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By: Missy Sorg
It's that time of year when things are changing. The sun is setting earlier. The cold winds are blowing. The trees are changing.
This time of year, however, also means the farmers' markets are closing, and fresh fruits and vegetables will be shipped in from warmer climates. For me, I enjoy baking and cooking with fresh ingredients whenever I can. That's much easier to do during the summer months when you can literally pick fresh ingredients from a backyard garden (or grab them from the farmers' market a couple blocks away, in my case). Nothing beats cilantro, onions, and tomatoes fresh out of the garden for a quick and easy salsa during the summer. That's what makes this time of year a little bittersweet – especially since this is the time of year I do more cooking. (Probably because as it gets colder outside, it's easier to warm the house while I'm cooking and/or baking.)
If you're like me, this is the perfect time of year to break out those family soup/stew recipes. My favorite? Chili. (As my tummy grumbles a little – reminiscing about Grandma Stone's chili.) Chili aside, there's nothing like using fresh ingredients in a recipe. When I'm making something like wedding soup, which calls for parsley and garlic – it makes me sad to think about having to run to the grocery store to grab fresh parsley. And, it makes me sadder to think about using dried parsley flakes and garlic powder.
In an effort to find some "fresh" winter herb options, I did some internet research. (Okay, so I was on Facebook for a little bit before I did some internet research. But, whatevs.) I am happy to report that I have some options! If you are green-thumb-inclined (which I am most definitely not) you can try your hand at an indoor herb garden (like the one outlined over here: https://bonnieplants.com/library/how-to-grow-herbs-indoors/). Or, you can get the same "fresh" feel by freezing your herbs. Now, don't think of freezing them the same way you think about frozen mystery whatever-it-is that's been sitting at the back of your freezer for decades. Instead, cut the fresh herbs and place them in an ice cube tray. Fill the tray to ¾ full with cooking oil, and freeze the herbs into little ice cubes. When you're ready to use them, unthaw and add your "fresh" herbs. Of course, I feel this works best with cooked items – such as my fall/winter soups and stews. I'm not so sure oil-frozen cilantro will work as well in making salsa in the winter. Looks as though I'll still be making a trip to the grocery store for that one.


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Being a coach is an honorable and accountable position to check. A coach is held responsible for each defective and excellent characteristics of their player, advancing their actions, gameplay, clearing their fundamentals, and managing a track of their periodic improvements and figures.
Being a coach can be an overwhelming task sometimes, being a coach makes you responsible for their on- off field activities.
Keeping the record and tracking improvements have become easy for coaches, thanks to the sports apps accessible on these dates with each iOS and android smartphones. Some are paid and some are totally free, but each one inevitable in every coach's smartphone to get some help from them for the benefits of the players.
Here's a list of popular for team sports management which we have made for the hard-working coaches:
1.Ubersense: With Ubersense analyzing your body motion kinetics to check the possible faults is easy. The slow motion video playback allows coaches to analyze the techniques and skills of the player's frame by frame lest miss any faults. It's available for all Android and i-OS users and the cost is ($ 1.99).
2.Baseball Gameplan With Jason Giambi: Baseball Gameplan With Jason Giambi is an app that provides step by step instruction guide to users with tips and fundamentals of Baseball game. Also, helps with stretching tips, customized goal monitoring, and high quality training videos. It's handy for all the coaches and parents teaching their sons or players. Moreover, it's free and available for I-pad.
3.Assistant Coach: Assistant coach is designed for Basketball coaches, to help them with manage team, players, and routine drills and practices. Also, using the predefined algorithms, Assistant Coach automatically calculate the game statics of each player based on the values that coach enters.It's like a complete assistant helping with attendance, sharing practice videos, making PDF files of game statistics etc. This app will cost you around $ .99, and it's available on i-OS platforms.
4.Chalk Talk: Chalk Talk allows coaches to use their fingers to draw modifications onto the pre-defined and pre-programmed field diagrams to devise the team's gameplan. This app can be used for a wide variety of games like Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer and Volleyball. This app will cost you $ 4.99
5.Game changer: Game changer is a great app allowing coaches to simplify the daunting task of scorekeeping, stat management and play-by-play updates. Using Game changer coaches can directly send the stats over the internet for live streaming. This app is free to use.
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Learning to Play
When my oldest son Max was five he asked me to teach him how to play chess. One of his friends at school was some kind of chess prodigy and Max thought it looked fun. Fun's got nothing to do with it, I thought, but I was a life-long gamer, and if he wanted to learn The Game of Games, then it was my fatherly duty to teach him. Max wasn't quite tall enough to see the board comfortably at our dinner table, so I set it up on his plastic, purple and white kid's table that came equipped with little red drawers for storing crayons. I had no doubt Max would be able to quickly grasp the rules to chess. What I wasn't sure about was whether he really wanted to play it. There is nothing fun about chess other than the exercise of one's strategic muscle. There are no cards with colorful pictures, no dice, no ringing bells. To play chess is to think your way to victory. That is all.
So I showed him how the pawns and rooks and knights and bishops and the queen and the king moved. I showed him how to capture and how to castle. I started a sample game for us, moving out our pawns and then our knights and bishops and then moving his queen to the center of the board. I was enjoying myself. Come join me in manhood, I thought, where I will teach you how to win.
"All right, Max," I said. "Now you move a piece."
Max thought for a minute, and then grabbed his king and hopped him four squares, right to the middle of the board beside his black queen.
Something nearly as old as I was sounded an alarm in my brain. A rule had been broken. Worse yet, he had moved his king to the worst place on the board. This is how you lose games. To lose is the worst thing in the world.
"What are you doing?"
"He wants to be with the queen," Max replied.
Do you know I almost scolded him? That alarm was still ringing in my brain and I almost didn't hear what he said. But I did hear it, and so I asked him, "Why does he want to be with the queen?"
"Because they're going to be married."
First there was disappointment. He didn't really want to play chess, to learn how to win and not to lose, he only wanted to play make believe. All my earnest teaching was for naught. But when I said—
"Okey-dokey. The bishop can marry them and the rook will be the best man."
—and helped Max set the pawns up in a neat procession, I discovered the bell wasn't ringing anymore. I did not know until then what victory actually sounded like.
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Hi girls, I am so pleased to introduce you to one of our amazing customers, Katrina. Katrina runs a lovely shop, Jo Bangles. Katrina is a true talent, as you can see from her beautiful work.
(Katrina and her beautiful family)
I really have no self control when it comes to pretty pictures full of eye candy. So, as you can see, I've included nearly everything I could! I'll let Katrina take it from here.
1. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
My name is Katrina (aka Trina) Ashburn and I am a sewing addict. There I said it. Isn't admittance the first step in recovery? But seriously, a little about myself... I am a stay at home mom to three beautiful blessings, Noah "6 about to be 7"- direct quote, Avairy my 4 year old Diva who often refers to her age as "This how many!" while holding up 4 fingers, and Lincoln my 6 1/2 month old sweetheart who reminds me of a baby koala who never leaves his mothers side. I live in the big ole' state of Texas with my Coast Guard veteran Hubby of 8 years. After living in Texas for 20 years we got married in 2004 and moved to Michigan for 3 1/2 and I could, in a sense, say there is where my sewing took shape.
(Ruffle Skirt - left) (Brooke Dress & Ruffle Pants - right)
We had our first baby in 2005 and I graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design in 2007. I dabble in just about everything though from Cake Pops. Sewing, Jewelry Making, Crafting to Photography as well. I work alongside my photography parter Robin Maxwell with Life in Bloom Studio (www.lifeinbloomstudio.com) mainly with weddings now that our third baby is here. She, Robin, is a blessing in creating the perfect setting for our pieces to be photographed in. My thanks goes out to her immensely! I actually developed my photog skills first and then decided to be able to stay at home, sewing was just more convenient for us. And thus, here I am!
2. Is there a story behind your shop name?
Our name gets a lot of questions. Ha! Joe Bangles... Bo Jangles? Yes, there is a pun intended for it. But in a real sense my husband and I always talk about opening a coffee house that doubled as a boutique selling handmade jewelry and such. So hence the name Joe = Coffee and Bangles = Jewelry was created. My mom and I actually put the name together while shopping one day and it just kind of stuck.
3. What is your sewing story? Who/what inspires you?
My sewing story, let me think... Well it all really started when I was pretty little. I would watch my mom sitting at her sewing table stitching me up some new garbs for Easter sunday. I watched her closely and she even let me practice on her spare sewing machine, fixing the snags and screw ups I would create every time with patience and love. I knew then that I needed to learn to sew because I wanted to be just like her!
My main source of inspiration comes from the Lord but secondly my children. Those little people are so amazing! I'm also inspired by what I see coming in the photography studio. People are constantly coming in with adorable clothing for their little ones and when I see something I analyze it, look over it and tell myself, "I can make that!" I would have to say though that I learned most of my skills by just doing it. Reading patterns and making mistakes. Over time I've gotten pretty confident in my abilities and I hope to share them with my kids one day.
4. What was your first sewing project?
Oh, gosh.. My first sewing project? One that I can actually remember is when I was living with my new hubby in Michigan and it was our first Christmas. I didn't have a sewing machine but I really wanted to sew us some stockings! So I hand stitched 3 elaborate stockings. Adorned with our names and everything. The extra one was for the dog. Ha!
Oh, gosh.. My first sewing project? One that I can actually remember is when I was living with my new hubby in Michigan and it was our first Christmas. I didn't have a sewing machine but I really wanted to sew us some stockings! So I hand stitched 3 elaborate stockings. Adorned with our names and everything. The extra one was for the dog. Ha!
5. What was your biggest sewing disaster?
My biggest sewing disaster? Do I have to just talk about one? I've had many but in every one I've learned what NOT to do and what TO DO better. One particular sewing disaster I can remember was an apron knot dress for a client of mine. I cut everything out and stitched it up entirely. When I was finished I said to myself, "Now, that seems REALLY small." When I got to looking at my measurements I miscalculated and my math didn't add up right. At all. I was off by about 4 inches in length and width.
My hubby often says, "It's amazing that your projects come out!" I'm terrible at math. I even remember a conversation while riding in a car with some friends and the question was raised in reference to a songs lyrics, "What is 257 weeks anyway?" I blurted out, "Well, that's how many weeks are in a year." Really?? Brain neurons weren't computing that day. I honestly don't know how I've gotten this far. A lot of grace and love from up above I'm sure!
6. Tell us about your fabric stash, sewing space, and/or favorite sewing supplies.
My fabric stash? You could call me a fabric hoarder if you like. I have an armoire that is filled to the brim with material. Every time I open it I hear the hallelujah chorus and golden rays of sunshine fill the room. If only there was more time in a day to create! My sewing space as of right now is our dining room. We tried our spare room in the back but I couldn't see or HEAR what the kids were getting into so I ditched it and now reside at the dining table. Often times it's covered in pattern pieces and fabric that we eat in the living room. I'm no Martha, obviously, but we enjoy our evenings together no matter where we dine. My favorite sewing supplies consist of my machine and serger. I don't know how I did it before without my serger for sure. It has revolutionized my craft and upped my product to a whole new level!
7. Aside from sewing, what do you enjoy doing?
Aside from sewing I love camping and hiking, playing with my children, visiting new places and I love taking pictures of my kids. But in actuality my life consists a lot of getting orders out and day to day activities. When I can do the other things I really love also, it's a real treat!
My advice to new sewers? Measure twice, cut once. It will save you a lot of headache! And another, not all etsy patterns are created equal but Little Lizard King gets it right every time! I purchase hers constantly. Another thing don't be scared. My mom sent me her sewing machine while I was in MI and I was scared. Literally petrified to touch it. I don't know whether I thought the needle was going to eat my finger or I was afraid of failure but I didn't touch it for months. It took my husband showing me how to use it for me to even open it up. I'm sure glad he did!
You can find our lovely shop at www.etsy.com/shop/joebangles OR Joe Bangles on Facebook. We'd love to have you stop by and say hello!


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Episode 57: Russia, North Korea & Rudy →
The Senate Intelligence Committee released 2,500 pages of congressional testimony related to the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, and it doesn't make the Trump administration look good. North Korea might be pulling out of talks with the U.S., which teaches us to not count our chickens before they hatch. Rudy Giuliani has been on a media blitz and each interview is more disastrous than the one before. Trump has pulled the U.S. out of the Iranian nuclear deal and the world is less safe because of it. A White House aide said something truly heinous about Senator John McCain, but the Trump administration refuses to apologize. Finally, Gina Haspel is hoping to be confirmed as CIA director, but her past actions might prevent it.


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By John Ruberry
When President Obama give a public speech before a large crowd, his operatives pack the house with loyalists and sycophants. Such was the case in Kansas City with an Obama address last week that was in all effects a political rally, as are most of the president's speeches.
But one woman who didn't fit the Obama-lover profile somehow made it into the crowd at the KC event and she shouted, possibly in relation to his administration's veiled hostility to the Jewish state, "Jesus is the Lord of Israel."
Obama replied that he believed in God. Meanwhile, the Obama-bots that made up the rest of the audience chanted, "We love you, we love you!"
I don't believe they where speaking of Jesus.
Hecklers at a political speech are usually rude jerks, but once in a while they are spot-on right, as East Berlin factory worker Kurt Wismach was in 1961, days before East Germany began construction of the Berlin Wall.
The nation's dictator Walter Ulbricht was giving a speech at a cable factory where he criticized the flow of refugees from his country into free West Berlin as well as calls for free elections.
Sitting on a row of cable above the man the head of the Soviet secret police called "the greatest idiot" he ever encountered was Wismach, who belted out, "Even if I am the only one to say it: Free elections!" Ulbricht, as all demagogues do, expanded the issue to a ludicrous level, mentioning that prior the rise of Hitler, Germany had free elections; while on the other hand, the personality cult leader failed to add that West Germany successfully rose out of rubble of World War II because it was a democratic and capitalist nation.
Undaunted, Wismach shouted back at Ulbricht, "Have you the slightest idea what the people really think?"
Of course Ulbricht didn't.
Wismach was of course interrogated by communist officials and forced to recant his statements, but he and his family quickly escaped to West Berlin.
Does, as Wismach asked of Ulbricht, President Obama have the slightest idea what the people really think?
A majority of Americans oppose ObamaCare, they oppose what Obama calls "comprehensive immigration reform" but in effect is really amnesty for illegal immigrants, and they oppose Obama's hostility to fossil fuels, which is best exemplified by his refusal to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
Does Obama know what Americans think?
Does he even care?
Kurt Wismach where are you?
John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.


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DanC asked me to post the following to the DAWG wg, as this was so far only part of the internal W3C team discussion. This regards requirement 3.6 "optional match" (http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-dawg-uc-20040602/#r3.6 ). In order to have an appropriate judgment on this requirement, some clarifications would be needed, so to know more precisely what the meaning of the requirement (and its possible future impact) is. An example DanC sent is the one from the Algae documentation: [[[ Example 6: query with optional terms (extends Example 2: query with multiple terms) ns vcard=<http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#> ask (?vcard vcard:FN "John Smith" . ?vcard vcard:N ?name . ?name vcard:Family ?family . ?name vcard:Given ?given . ~?vcard foaf:mbox ?mbox . ~?vcard foaf:mbox_sha1sum ?sum) A particular vcard entry may or may not have FOAF [4] data attached. This query will retrieve two FOAF properties if present, but will still return vcard entries without this vcard information. ]]] Likely meaning: optional queries are to obtain *optional bindings*, and not as a filtering tool (at least, that's my guess). Point is, what does one do with these "optional bindings" then? How are they treated? In case of a compositional semantics, for instance, this forces a two-valued interpretation fork (existent data / nonexistent data), similar to the NULL state in databases and other prog languages. So anyway, this would have to be specified, because what is apparently simplified with the "optional binding" part (no need for explicit test guarding) might come back with a higher price in terms of complication of the language to handle in every expression this extra state (nonexistent data). If this gets too complex, and one is to re-introduce explicit handling of the NULL values, then optional queries might just go away. So, apart from a single example of optional bindings (like the Algae one), how are these "potentially nonexistent data" planned to be treated in the language? Can anybody provide more data/examples/design ideas? Note I'm not expressing a judgement on optional match, just trying to better figure out what the proposed requirement is, so to evaluate the pro/con and be able to express a proper judgment. Thanks, -MReceived on Wednesday, 23 June 2004 16:47:24 UTC
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Joey Diaz Speaking with Steve Simeone and Lee Syatt about fitness
Joey: But no Lee, I'm proud of you that you made the choice, and that you uhm
Lee: And like, I cut diet Coke out, that's gone. It's just water.
Steve: Wow
Joey: You're 25 years old, Lee. I wish I was 25 years old now...
Lee: Yea
Joey: ...To tell you how easy it can be, cause you don't want to do this when you're 40.
Lee: No.
Joey: When you're 40, there's gonna come a time you're gonna gain 30 lbs. And you're gonna go, 'you know what? I already did this. I did this. So this is coming right off'. But right now you're 25. Right now you're metabolism - you could fucking eat a cake and it's gone within 10 minutes. It should be.
Lee: Well, not mine but yea.
Joey: It should be! Because you haven't kicked that mother fuckin engine in.
You got an engine.
Steve: Yes
Joey: In the 80's there was Pennzoil. And Pennzoils' motto was; 'you can pay me now, or you can pay me later'. That stuck with me for my life. Those people that drive around, and don't change the oil then their engine blows up. And they go; 'what the fuck happened?' And that was their motto. Either you can pay me a $1.99 now or you can pay me $800 later. You're gonna pay me. So, you gotta get into exercising. You know, and I did it as a chid and when I got into Comedy, I sold my soul so deeply into Comedy that I go; who needs their fitness? You always need your fitness.
Steve: Mind, Body, Soul - It's all connected.
Joey: You always need to breathe. You always need that hour for yourself. That hour for yourself is sooo spectacular. My wife left the other day and she came back and I could see that she was a different person. And I go, you gotta do this three days a week.
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Face The Music is a highly interactive music team building and leadership development process that brings teams and individuals to the next level of engagement — out of their heads, out of the box, and into a more powerful place of participation.
And while we are definitely entertaining, we are not mere entertainment. Rather, we are a catalyst for change - using a variety of musical genres as our team development toolkit - to help organizations become higher performing.
Each Face The Music event is carefully customized to meet the specific needs and goals of the client.
Part of this process can include writing a custom song for your team and organization that pinpoints your core challenge or goal. We'll perform the song to kick off your event. Your own "theme song" also helps prime team members to embrace the creative process and write their own songs.
Together we assess your current team dynamics, challenges or culture issues and the ultimate outcomes you want to see. Depending on your goal, budgetary and scheduling directives, we will recommend the optimal program format for you.
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The purpose of any FACE THE MUSIC program is to give your people an opportunity to identify and address their key issues in a creative and memorable fashion, and express them in collaboration with their teammates in song lyrics creation and performance.
Music dissolves barriers, helps air issues, identify common ground, find creative solutions and put a dynamic spin on your team dynamics.
In longer workshops we take time to deep dive into the issues, brainstorm business innovations, look at new processes, and find empowering ways to go beyond the business blues.
Face The Music events are insight-invoking business simulations - a "holographic mirror" - in which your workforce gets a good look at how to:
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Welcome back crafters. I'm playing along with the color challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments. They are all In Colors! Emerald Envy, Flirty Flamingo and Watermelon Wonder. Immediately thought of stamping flowers but then when it came to actually getting a stamp set. The Tasty Truck set was calling to me to use it instead. It didn't turn out as I planned. Was casing the Sale-A-Bration catalog and then the ice cream cone image didn't stamp correctly. So out comes the scissors.
So no ice cream cones at all on this card. It didn't work out and I was tempted to start completely over. But I didn't. I thought about how I could still use the truck image. Light blub moment! I could cut out the windows and create a shaker card. Woohoo!!! That's what happening!
Hand Stamped Sentiments (#HSS255) is one of my go to challenge blogs. I was excited to see this week was a color challenge.
Creative Color Combination
Mixing In Colors seems to be a great choice.
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The Vikings Learning Centre can support you to gain a NCFE Level 1 or Level 2 Certificate in Employability Skills, which will help you to become job ready and fulfil your work aspirations.
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Hyper focus on compliance and risk management has blossomed since the world financial crisis in 2008. As regulators and legislators struggle to define, design and implement new regulations to be sure that never again will we face such calamity, what must the leaders of business large and small do to cope?
First, some guiding principles:
Business is good. Business exists to serve customer needs. By taking various types of risks to transform capital into product, the business seeks to generate a return for its owners that the owners feel justifies the risk involved. It is too easy in the current environment to perceive that not only risk but business itself is bad, and compliance and risk management csars are required to discipline the bad and eliminate risk, including non-compliance risk. There can be no innovation without risk, and innovation drives progress.
Change is constant. It is hard to ignore the seeming increase of unexpected events. As a Harvard Business Review article put it, "Surprises are the New Normal; Resilience is the New Norm".
Business resilience is a term for a collection of steps that enable a business to endure and recover rapidly from these unplanned events. IBM defines it as "The ability of business operations to rapidly adapt or respond to internal or external dynamic changes – opportunities, demands, disruptions or threats – and continue operations with limited impact to the business."
Regulators are behind the curve. Their job is to react. Their effort to address their embarrassment for having overseen a system that went astray is understandable. Like having more security at airports, new rules create the comforting impression that Something Is Being Done. In many cases, they are, however, looking backward, which is not something business can afford to do.
Business must model best practices. Our best bet as business leaders is to continue to become ever better: to develop agile organisations able to adapt to change.
So how does company leadership handle ever more demanding customer markets, more volatile supply issues, ever shorter product life spans, various cross-border and cross-cultural issues, increased shareholder and even employee activism, and also comply with a constantly growing burden of regulations that are so numerous that the regulators and legislators that created them cannot yet fully define them?
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Without the burdens of legacy systems and ways of thinking, innovative retailers like Wayfair and Etsy are amplifying customer lifetime value. With strong retention mechanisms, they're able to create contextually-relevant, individualized engagements for each customer. At Jetlore, we call this new model "Relationship Commerce ". A planned marketing calendar is replaced by AI-curated content that actively "listens" to the customer, which results in a "media-like" (think Facebook, Netflix, Youtube) experience. This form of individualized adaptive content generates significantly higher customer lifetime value for e-commerce businesses.
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