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This week, we're presenting stories about unconventional solutions and things that seemed like a great idea at the time!
Part 1: Author Kate Greathead sets off on a cross-country drive to escape her anxiety.
Kate Greathead is a 9-time Moth Storytelling Slam champion. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair, and on NPR's Moth Radio Hour. She was a subject in the American version of the British Up documentary series. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the writer Teddy Wayne. Her first novel, Laura & Emma, was published in March 2018.
Part 2: After years of studying worms, Tracy Chong begins to wonder if they might hold the key to alleviating hunger.
Tracy Chong found her passion working with invertebrates as a graduate student at the University of Illinois. She studied the development and regeneration of the reproductive system in the planarian, a free-living flatworm. She is currently part of a team at the Morgridge Institute for Research studying parasitic worms that causes the debilitating disease, Schistosomiasis. Aside from worms and science, Tracy is passionate about entrepreneurship and food. Combining her formal training as a scientist, with her culinary interest and hands-on business experience, Tracy's vision is to provide a sustainable and affordable source of protein to meet the world's growing global nutritional demands.
Episode Transcript
Part 1: Kate Greathead
So I was twenty-four years old and I was driving across the country by myself from New York City to California and everything was going fine until I crossed the border into Wyoming. I'd always thought of Wyoming as like having mountains and stuff like that but this portion was completely flat. You could see for miles and miles. There were like no houses or trees. Just land and sky, which is kind of beautiful but also sort of existentially terrifying.
Anyway, that wasn't the problem. The problem was the wind. The wind was really, really intense. You know when you're in an airplane and the turbulence gets so bad that the pilot comes on and he's like, "Everyone, put on your seatbelts now. No one is allowed to go to the bathroom." It was like that, except in a car and I was the pilot.
Exits on the Wyoming interstate are few and far between, but finally I spotted that little green sign in the distance and I pulled off and I pulled into a gas station. I walked inside and the woman behind the counter was like out of a David Lynch movie or something. She just has this stone cold look on her face and she was wearing a lot of makeup. It reminded me of the makeup they put on a corpse to make it look more alive, but it just makes them look more dead.
So I go over to this woman and I explain my situation. "Hi. I'm driving from New York City to California and I don't know if you've listened to the forecast but really the wind is out-of-control dangerous out there. Do you mind if I hang out in your gas station until the wind passes?"
Here's how she responds. "If you're waiting for the wind to pass, you'll never leave Wyoming."
The way she spoke these words, not a trace of emotion or empathy on her face, gave me the impression she'd been waiting her whole life to deliver a line like that to a pathetic, neurotic New Yorker like me. A truck driver who had overheard us talking came over and explained to me that what would be considered a windy day in any other state is a normal day in Wyoming.
So what was going on outside there was no way around it. I had no choice but to get back in my car and return to the interstate. So that's what I did.
I'm driving and my car feels like a dryer on the spin cycle. My knuckles are turned white and it feels like at any moment a gust of wind is going to come and just , poof, blow my car off the road and just send me skittering into the abyss, like game over.
Wyoming, by the way, is this stretch that I was driving through is over 400 miles long. So this isn't like Connecticut we're talking about. As I continue my journey through Wyoming, I started to enter another state. The kind that begins with sweating and ends with thinking you're going to die.
Panic attacks are nothing new to me. I began getting them after college. I would be going through my day when all of a sudden, a cold, white terror would descend and whatever I was doing at the moment no longer mattered because I was about to die. That's what panic attacks feel like for me.
So I continue. I have no choice; I just continue to drive ahead. Finally, I see another little green sign, another exit and I'm so relieved to get off and just have another little break. But as I approach the sign for this town, it says 'Lost Springs, Wyoming. Population: One'. You can look it up on the internet. It's true. Except now it has four. Four people live there according to Google.
But anyway, it just seemed like a little intrusive to stop in a town where one person lives, so I kept on driving. Miles and miles and miles later there's another town and this one is like a normal town, more than one person lives. And on the sign it says there's gas, lodging, pay phone and a hospital. At this point I'm still in full-blown panic attack mode and that just seems like the best news to me. I need to get to the hospital.
So I pull off the exit. I find the hospital. I park my car and I'm about to enter the front doors when, all of a sudden, I sort of plan out in my head like what am I going to say when I get inside. I should explain that I'm having trouble breathing because… oh, I forgot a part of the story.
Part of my panic attacks, part of what makes them so scary is that I have asthma. And when I get panic attacks it triggers my asthma which exacerbates the panic, which makes the asthma worse. So it's sort of like a chicken-and-egg situation.
And to backtrack a little bit, the reason I'm driving, so when I had these panic attacks after college I went to a doctor. My medical doctor diagnosed me as having asthma and my therapist diagnosed me as having anxiety. I was put on all sorts of medication so I was put on Zoloft, albuterol, steroid inhaler, beta blockers, nothing worked. The panic attacks continued and I blamed them on life in New York City and how stressful it is to live here. I had this idea in my head that California would be like an easier, safer place to live. That's what I'm doing right now in my car in the middle of Wyoming. I'm moving to California.
But now I'm outside this hospital and I'm about to go in and I'm trying to think of how I'm going to explain myself to, once I get inside like should I go to the ER or should I go to the psych ward.
As I'm trying to figure this out, I remember this study that I learned about in college psychology class where a bunch of PhD students checked themselves into a mental hospital as an experiment to see what would happen. What happened is that they hated it there and they wanted to get out. The doctors went on this power trip and they're like, "No, we'll tell you when you're ready to leave." And I just had this sudden fear of being trapped in the psychiatric ward of a hospital off of the interstate in Wyoming.
I decided, "You know what? I'm not going to go inside. I'm going to get back in my car and I'm going to keep breathing and I'm going to keep driving. I'm going to get the hell out of Wyoming."
The good news is I made it. It worked. I arrived in California. The bad news is I discovered life was just as difficult and scary there for the same reasons I had been in New York. I was living in San Francisco and I just had trouble, like the same relationship problems and jobs and money and all your typical twenty-something issues trying to figure out what I was good at and what I was supposed to do with my life.
San Francisco was not the answer to my problems so I moved to Louisiana. After a month there, I went to Pennsylvania, and then there's a brief stint in Vermont in the Hudson Valley. I spent the remainder of my twenties bouncing around from place to place trying to find a place that just felt safe and easier. Eventually, it dawned on me that it wasn't any of these places that was scary. It was adult life. And there's no way to escape that.
In some ways, this revelation was a relief because it meant I didn't have to keep moving around. I get to return to New York City, which is where I'm from and has always felt the most like home to me. So I've been back here for a number of years.
I'm now thirty-five and I recently got married and I published this book I was working on for years. I'm about to have a baby. And on paper, so it looks like I have some semblance of a career and adult life on paper. But the truth is, I still find life pretty scary a lot of the time.
I recently went back to my old therapist to talk specifically about my fears about being pregnant and having a baby and I was kind of hoping she'd diagnose me with pregnancy anxiety and depression, because that would mean my fears were irrational and hormonally based and they'd go away once I had the baby. But instead she said everything I was thinking and feeling was completely rational, which just wasn't that comforting.
And when I asked, when I told her my big concern like, "What if when the baby is born like I project my issues and complexes onto this poor little kid and he grows up with problems? Because I love my mom but I really think that a lot of my issues come from her."
And my therapist said, "Of course, you will. There's no such thing as parents who don't screw up their kids somehow. How do you think I have a thriving practice?" And then she recommended transcendental meditation.
Somehow like the internet found out about this because I started, you know, when you get ads. It's like all of a sudden I started getting ads, like pop-up ads. "Check out transcendental meditation." There's a class in Manhattan and they were having like… you could sign up. They wanted you to register, and I did it.
I went to an orientation session downtown and we're all in this little room and we go around and we say why we're there, what specific problems we have that we think transcendental meditation can fix.
I told them like, "I'm really scared of life. I'm just so anxious."
And they're like, "This will fix… Trust us. This will fix you."
So I've signed up for the class. It hasn't started yet. I just only went to that orientation session. It's happening in a few weeks. I'm hopeful that it could help.
But I'm beginning to think that, like I always sort of hope that one day I'd wake up an anxiety-free person but the older I get the more I think that anxiety in me is sort of like the wind to Wyoming. Instead of trying to fight it, maybe the trick is to accept it and to keep on breathing and to keep on driving and that's it. Thanks a lot.
Part 2: Tracy Chong
I live in a tiny 150-square foot studio. Not by myself, but with over five thousand roommates. At night, I don't need a white noise machine to fall asleep because I can hear them rustling and crawling around, but maybe I do need some noise-cancelling headphones instead.
So this is not my first encounter with the sound of creatures rustling around at night. In southern Illinois, there's a very special road in the Shawnee National Forest. Twice a year, a mass migration happens, a mass migration of snakes, reptiles and amphibians as they cross this very unique country road from cliffs and bluffs to the vast swamps as the seasons change.
So what was I doing in Snake Road? Yes. This road is actually named Snake Road and my business in Snake Road was not to study snakes but to study worms. My first formal encounter with worms was with freshwater planarians, the masters of regeneration. Some of you might know them from biology class where, like in Game of Thrones, beheadings happen rather frequently. But in this case, it is not followed by a bloody death. Instead, they just re-grow a new head all without breaking a sweat.
When I was a graduate student, I helped with a comparative study to find out why some planarians can regenerate better than others. As it turns out, one of the most difficult parts of this project was to find those elusive worms. Unfortunately, we couldn't just order them off the internet so I actually had to go on worm-hunting adventures to find these worms in the wild.
My colleague James and I, over the span of two years, made multiple trips to Snake Road. And Snake Road is very special because this is one of the places in Illinois where we can find these worms. Sometimes we went by ourselves, sometimes we were joined by curious and helpful lab mates.
We spent days turning over thousands of pea-sized rocks in the stream often encountering many other different species of worms before encountering the rare planarians that we came for. They were very good at hiding.
At best, it was Zen-like and calming. I would glance at the beautiful cliffs and listen to the gentle sounds of the stream. At worst, it was mind numbing and frustrating, especially when the conditions were extreme, being bitten by swarms of mosquitoes in the hot, humid summer and dipping our hands in cold, freezing water for hours during the winter months. At the start of each trip we would wish so hard that today would be the lucky day where the worms would just be hanging out, but of course this was never the case.
Once, amidst the peace and quiet, I heard a soft rumbling sound. James and I locked eyes and he said with a very straight face, "A wild boar?"
Shit! The image of a wild boar rushing straight at me flashed before my eyes. I went through the different scenarios in my head. Should I climb a tree? Wait, could I even do that? Should I run? To where? Fight? Hmmm.
Then I heard some laughing and he confessed that it was his stomach rumbling. Oh, yeah, feeling hungry during those long afternoons was pretty common.
Then there was the fear of poisonous snakes. They are cottonmouths also known as water moccasins in southern Illinois. I remember reading how they are poisonous, producing toxins that can disrupt blood clotting and destroy tissues and cells. Such a scary thought.
But the scariest part, though, was when I had to pee. Imagine being this close to the ground covered with long grass, branches, fallen leaves, not knowing what's hiding underneath but knowing that there's probably a snake, maybe a poisonous one, lurking somewhere in there.
I remember my routine rather clearly. I would use my feet and a stick to sweep the ground before squatting down. Even then, my legs would be shaking and even the slightest rustle would cause my heart to skip a beat. But when I was done, though, it was such a relief in more ways than one.
Finally, we collected enough worms and brought them back to the lab to investigate with the polarity which end is which in the animal is important when it comes to regenerating a new body part.
Then my next adventure, my next worm adventure brought me to the Bay Area. It was a great time, exciting science, gorgeous weather, there were mountains to climb and hills to hike. I was in a very tight budget, though, so this meant that I rarely ate out. And when I did, it was very special and I would pack my leftovers for my next meal.
One night, after a lovely dinner with my best friend Nick, I headed home happy and full. At the station, a homeless man, clearly hungry, asked me if I needed my leftovers. At that time, my leftovers were very precious to me so I said, "Yes, I need them."
The moment those words left my mouth, I felt like the most horrible, selfish person. There I was able to go and have a nice meal, able to go home and fall asleep in a nice, cozy, warm bed and yet I could not give my leftovers to someone who really needed them. At that moment I made a simple promise to myself that for as long as I could afford it, if I had leftovers and met someone who needed them, I would give them away.
From that incident, though, I've always wanted to do even more to alleviate hunger and food shortage. Well, as it turns out, the answer had been in front of right along. After years of working with gentle and harmless flatworms and roundworms, I now work in a lab that studies parasitic worms.
One of these parasites, the tapeworm, has a rather complicated life cycle that involves developing inside an insect, a beetle. And the larval stage of this beetle is known as the mealworm. Many mornings, I would watch my colleague Edward tending to his mealworms. And once we joked how delicious and yummy these mealworms would be. Actually, it was more like me joking and Edward, well, he looked rather grossed out at the thought of eating his mealworms.
I've always known that people ate insects but, at the same time, I was starting to hear more and more about using insects as a potential source of protein. The more I read, the more convinced I was that using insects as food could be a sustainable solution to the problem of food and nutrition shortage, especially as our population increases both in the U.S. and in the rest of the world.
Well, of course I had to test this out for myself, first. The first insect I ate was beondegi. Beondegi Is silkworm larva. It's a South Korean street food and it's often found boiled and served in paper cups. We found our beondegi at a Korean grocery store in a can. With much hesitation and trepidation I tasted my first beondegi with a Korean friend, and it was so bad. I had tears streaming down my face trying not to gag. I couldn't decide if I should swallow it and be done with it or spit it out because it was mushy and it tasted like wet wood.
I then had the brilliant idea of roasting it because I thought, oh, roasting it will make it taste better. But that, again, was a horrible, terrible mistake. Because roasting the beondegi caused the whole place to smell like rotting, wet wood. The smell was so bad and, fortunately, my friends were understanding.
At this point I was very, very worried. How would my idea of using insects as a sustainable food source work if I hated the taste of insects? Well, fortunately, the next bugs that I tried were the mealworms. I can still remember how relieved I felt when I took my first bite of a roasted mealworm. It was delicious. It was crunchy. It had a mild nutty flavor. I could eat lots of this. So as it turns out, mealworms have a great potential as a food source because they have high protein content and they are easy to raise.
So yes, my 5,000 roommates who keep me company at night are my mealworms. But rest assured these mealworms come from my happy farm and they have not been in contact with a parasite in lab.
So now I work with what I love, cooking and worms. And feeding my friends and colleagues who thankfully are quite open to being food testers. Even Edward has been convinced to try a mealworm. Of all my adventures and challenges with worms, I have a feeling that the best but maybe most difficult challenge is yet to come. I have to convince all of you that mealworms are delicious and nutritious. Thank you.


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Does your family suffer from the annoying glare of the sun beaming through the windows of your home? Does your furniture look faded? Do employees at your business complain that the heat and glare affects their productivity? These are common issues due to windows not having the capability to filter out heat, glare and dangerous rays of the sun and help keep your home or business warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
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Volunteering is in the DNA of Greater Des Moines (DSM) residents. The state of Iowa has a higher volunteer rate than all but nine other states at 32.5 percent, and there are about 87 nonprofits for every 10,000 residents in the state, which is the second largest share in the country.
According to Americans for the Arts reports, 7,590 volunteers donated a combined 277,664 hours in the region in 2015. This donation of time represents about a $6.5 million value. The study covered Dallas, Guthrie, Madison, Polk, and Warren counties.
Whether it's helping a neighbor in need or serving meals at a local shelter, there's no shortage of ways to give back to your community. Learn more about volunteer opportunities, charities, donations and mentor programs below.
VolunteerMatch.org is a way for people to discover meaningful volunteer opportunities. Many organizations and causes list their volunteer opportunities so that people can connect with opportunities that are important to them. The website lists opportunities by city, giving volunteers an easy way to access listings.
Volunteer Iowa's goal is to improve lives, strengthen communities and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering. The agency is part of a network of state services commissions that exist to foster a bi-partisan, state-level commitment to advancing service initiatives as well as developing, communicating and promoting a statewide vision and ethic of service. People who want to volunteer with a state agency can get involved with Volunteer Iowa's volunteer program or with its AmeriCorps VISTA project.
The United Way of Central Iowa brings together local nonprofits, businesses, elected officials and community leaders to collaborate and implement solutions to some of the region's challenges. The United Way counts on volunteers, advocacy and donations to pursue their missions.
The Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines provides charitable giving, connects donors with causes they care about and provides leadership for important community issues. The organization initiates change throughout the area and counts on people to help.
LeadershipLink is an effort to connect nonprofits with volunteer leaders. All nonprofits can post their volunteer leadership opportunities on LeadershipLink, and interested volunteers can search for opportunities to become involved. The region is a vibrant place with individuals and organizations dedicated to continued success. A key component to the numerous accolades Des Moines receives and the advancement achieved connects back to engaged leadership. The nonprofit community is a key player that drives the quality of life and critical support devices for all who call Des Moines home.
BAM is a partnership between mentor programs throughout the region. Because one in three children grows up without a mentor, BAM streamlines communications of seven state-certified nonprofit organizations to raise awareness of the benefits of mentoring and mentoring opportunities. The organization's goal is to increase the quality and quantity of mentors in Des Moines.


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"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life-forms and new civilizations; to boldy go where no one has gone before." — Star Trek


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Our Potluck Jukebox film festivals of favorite music movies continue...right here. Mr. Robot and The Pacific's Rami Malek is hardcore Oscar bait as Freddie Mercury in the fully Queen-authorized $ma$h biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, mostly directed by Bryan (uh oh) Singer and not featuring Sasha Baron Cohen but definitely featuring Mike Myers. Is it good? Not sure, haven't gone.Read More
Welcome back to Potluck Jukebox, where our panel of contributors each brings a musical dish to a themed get-together of audiovisual delights. The long-awaited and now critical/commercial success of the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga team-up A Star Is Born (version 4.0) has brought Hollywood once again back into the world of the music industry and the art n' heartaches of musicians for story ideas.Read More
For this springtime entry, we'll open up the patio and ask our guests to bring their favorite musical rebirth/return/comeback bid. The re-emergence of a musical hero-at-rest teems with possibility, but is fraught with potential disaster. So we're asking our panel to shout out what they think were music's most commendable second (or third, or fourth…) acts in this edition of Potluck Jukebox.Read More
This edition of Potluck Jukebox is like a category card from a game of Encore, in that it could go on forever with unlimited offerings. I call it Nom de Choon: songs that you immediately associate with a certain name—like you can't meet a person with that name without thinking of that song.Read More
Last time out we introduced you to Potluck Jukebox, wherein Choon-Group contributors bring a dish or two to a musical buffet centered on a specific theme. For our next course, we have the visual variation: Potluck Bingewatch, specializing in music-related Film, TV, and Video.Read More
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It's that time of year, again. Giampaolo and Daniele will be trekking around the US for the Slow Wine and Gambero Rosso tours for the next few weeks. The main stops will be in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin.
Not only that, but Giampaolo will be at a dinner with our friends at Via Umbria in Washington D.C.. Bill and Suzy Menard will be hosting a dinner in their Wine Room starting at 7:30 PM, tonight. The meal will feature:
Marinated Pork Filet Carpaccio with Juniper Oil and Rosemary
Deep fried Beef Meatball with salad and Balsamic
Scrambled Eggs with Truffle
Gnocchi with Sagrantino Sauce
Tagliatelle with Lamb Ragu
Beef Stew
Zabaglione with Cookies
This will surely be an incredible experience for the 10 lucky guests and the perfect start to our U.S. Tour. It will be a long few weeks filled with excellent food, wine and friends. There are worse kinds of business trips. Have you reserved your tickets?
The dates for the Slow Wine Tour are:
25 January – San Francisco, CA
27 January – Los Angeles, CA
1 February – Austin, TX
3 February – New York, NY
The dates for the Gambero Rosso Tour are:
4 February – Chicago, IL
9 February – New York, NY
11 February – San Francisco, CA


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The 5 Hottest Bathroom Renovation Trends
Thinking of renovating your West Chester or Liberty Township home for sale? Why not start with the bathroom? Sprucing up a bathroom can make the entire home feel more luxurious.
If you're ready for a bathroom remodel but aren't sure where to start, let us help! The latest trends in bathroom renovations may give you some inspiration. Here are five ideas that can help you make a splash.
Trick out the shower: You don't have to go MTV Cribs here. Instead, you can give a basic shower stall a boost with discreet water-safe speakers, steam-generating controls or a digital panel that programs the water stream's temperature and pressure.
Choose wood: Wood in the bathroom? Absolutely! All you need is the right type of wood and sealer. A simple wood slab can function as a floating vanity, planks can create an eye-catching feature wall, and slats on the shower floor can add warmth. Any way you use it, wood gives your West Chester or Liberty Township home for sale an organic, tactile feel to what can otherwise feel like a cold, sterile space.
Increase the size: Bigger may be better when it comes to your bathroom space. More of today's bathroom renovations focus on increasing room size, often with the aim of a light, open feel.
Add a standalone tub: A freestanding tub can steal the show in a bathroom revamp. It's not only a great design feature but also a way to create a relaxing, spa-like atmosphere.
Upgrade to high-tech: Bathrooms can be outfitted with all kinds of technology nowadays -- from high-tech toilets with self-cleaning mechanisms (yes please!) or heated seats to smart lighting that lets you sync it with your music and personalize hues.
Whether you try one or all of these trends, one thing is for sure: Once you renovate the bathroom in your West Chester or Liberty Township home, you'll wonder why you waited so long to get started. In fact, you may decide you don't want to sell after all!
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November 2013 Issue
Toxic Chemicals: Prepare for Product Regulations
Taking several steps now can significantly impact future operations.
Optimize Boiler Loads
A boiler's limited turndown ratio causes huge dollar losses.
Hoax Highlights Publishing Problem
Bogus research papers get accepted by scores of open-source academic journals
Global Biofuel Efforts Expand
Korean researchers introduce novel method that uses bacteria to produce gasoline.
Fire Safety: Douse a Burning Issue
You're not as safe as some fire safety tests may lead you to believe.
Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger: Pick the Right Side
Allocating fluids in a tubular exchanger demands care.
Anti-Corrosion Coatings: Novel Approach to Offshore Manufacturing Pays Off
Coating manufacturer succeeds by thinking differently about project
Don't Neglect Pressure Gauges
Inadequate attention can make plants vulnerable to mishaps
Don't Fall For Common Myths About Hot Oil Systems
Thermal fluid heating systems still cause users a certain amount of trepidation.
Fabric Simplifies Production of Chemical Compounds
Method enables low-cost production of long-term functionalized textiles without causing pollution.
Improve Operator Training
Make the most of simulators by understanding five key factors for success.
Oxygen 'Sponge' Suits Redox Reactions
Catalytic converters for cars, sensors, fuel cells and rechargeable batteries could benefit from the transition metal oxide.
Dow Chemical, Eastman, Eli Lilly and AkzoNobel Incite Innovation
Companies are relying on a variety of strategies to foster creativity
Options May Improve Aniline Removal From Wastewater
Readers offer suggestions for a two-stage countercurrent solvent extraction process.


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46/52 Yasmin Luiza | Weekly Portrait
We had a huge shift in the weather and haven't been outside as much this past two weeks, but this day we felt brave and decided to go to the park for a walk. We got there, the sky went completely dark, raindrops started coming, and we almost gave up, but decided to walk to a shaded area to try and do your portraits. 5 minutes later, the sun started shining, the rain and sunshine together made such a beautiful scene. Then we walked down to this river and found this beautiful scenery. Now I am in love with this photo of you and so glad that we persisted.


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The Importance of a Beauty Salon Consultation/
Do I really need a Beauty Salon Consultation?
Many clients when they first ring up ask if they really need to have a consultation, especially if they have had similar treatment elsewhere first. The answer is always yes. Let me explain.
The consultation is important for many reasons. Firstly, we have to take a full personal history. We are required to do this by our insurance company. This includes contact details (we never pass these onto a 3 rd party) but also a full medical history to ensure that you are suitable for the treatment being requested. There aren't many things that really stop a treatment taking place, and often it can be just so that we are aware and can assist should anything happen. Sometimes we also have to seek GP approval if we're not sure of certain conditions or medications.
Secondly we need to find out exactly what treatment you have received before coming to the salon. This enables us to adapt and personalise your treatment plan in accordance with your needs. No two clients are the same and it would be terrible if we treated you as such. Everyone's needs and journeys are different and need to be individual.
It's a time for you to ask questions, so please go ahead!
The consultation also helps us to find out more about what you want to achieve from your treatments, and help manage expectations. It is a time for you to inform us and for us to educate you. Working together as a team is important to ensure that you get the best from your treatments, so that you are happy with the results that we achieve. We often will recommend the use of homecare products to go alongside your personalised treatment plan. Some clients will expect the salon treatment to provide all the results, like waving a magic wand. And in some treatments this may be the case. However homecare can be an important part of the programme to achieve the best end result.
And finally the consultation is about building trust and establishing relationships. You want to make sure that you know what you are paying for, what we are trying to achieve and to ensure that the programme developed is to your requirements.
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Black Friday who? Cyber Monday (online equivalent to Black Friday) is where it's at.
Retailers have finally caught on that most of us just do not have the time, or inclination, to deal with crowds, and are now offering sick holiday sales, available exclusively online. You'll also get to shop the sales at the online retailers, who've happily hopped on the holiday shopping bandwagon..
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FRANKFURT, March 4 (Reuters) - New car sales in Germany, Europe's largest auto market, rose 3 percent year on year in February, rebounding from a decline in January.
New car registrations rose to 268,800 vehicles, with German makes accounting for 70 percent of the cars sold, the VDA association of German carmakers said on Monday.
New passenger car registrations in January fell 1.4 percent.
The industry's latest models will be on display at the Geneva motor show this week, with higher production costs a hot-button issue for Europe's carmakers as Britain could leave the European Union on March 29 without a withdrawal agreement. (Reporting by Ludwig Burger; editing by Jason Neely)


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Passover and Easter herald Spring with longer days and the end of winter's chill. Although these holidays celebrate solemn biblical events, people everywhere feel bright and optimistic about the advent of warmer weather and the first green shoots of primrose and daffodils peeking from the soil in our gardens. Many people wonder why the two holidays are so close together…Passover from the Old Testament and Easter from the new. Read below to see why the dates for both holidays are different each year, why they align with different calendars, and why they are so close together.
March 25, 2013 – April 2, 2013:
Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, the holiday commemorating the Hebrews' exodus from slavery in Egypt, lasts seven days in Israel and among Reform Jews, and eight days elsewhere around the world. It begins on the 15th day of Nisan, which is the seventh month in the Jewish calendar. It ends on the 21st of Nisan in Israel (and for Reform Jews) and on the 22nd of Nisan elsewhere. Since Hebrew days begin and end at sundown, Passover begins at sundown on the preceding day. Some say that Jesus' Last Supper was the first Seder.
See also dates of other Jewish feasts.
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Easter – (Western Churches)
Easter is calculated as the first Sunday after the paschal full moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox. If the full moon falls on a Sunday, then Easter is the following Sunday. The holiday can occur anywhere between March 22 and April 25.
The Western church does not use the actual, or astronomically correct date for the vernal equinox, but a fixed date (March 21). And by full moon it does not mean the astronomical full moon but the "ecclesiastical moon," which is based on tables created by the church. These constructs allow the date of Easter to be calculated in advance rather than determined by actual astronomical observances, which are naturally less predictable. See also A Tale of Two Easters.
The Council of Nicaea in 325 established that Easter would be celebrated on Sundays; before that Easter was celebrated on different days in different places in the same year. To Read more go to Infoplease.com.
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Alert level stays. Farmers harvest rice stalks at the foot of Mount Bulusan in the province of Sorsogon. The volcano has spewed ash for the past two days and while Phivolcs has recorded fewer volcanic earthquakes for the past 24 hours, the alert level No. 1 remains.
MANILA — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) yesterday reiterated its call to the public to avoid venturing into the permanent danger zone around Bulusan Volcano in Sorsogon province, even if there were less volcanic earthquakes in the past 24 hours.
The threat for ash explosions still exists since the volcano is still at an "abnormal" state, said Phivolcs director Renato Solidum.
He said alert level No. 1 is still up.
For the past 24-hour period (7 a.m. Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday), Phivolcs recorded eight volcanic quakes, much lower than the 28 quakes recorded from Sunday to Monday.
At around 3:40 p.m. yesterday, Phivolcs observed an ash explosion that produced about a kilometer of brownish to light grayish smoke with minimal ash contents.
Traces of ash were reported in towns of Irosin and Juban, Phivolcs said.
Bulusan began spewing ash and steam Saturday morning, causing the Phivolcs to raise alert level No. 1.
Bulusan, with a height of 1,565 meters, is considered the fourth most active volcano in the country, after Mayon, Taal, and Pinatubo.
It has erupted 15 times since 1886, the latest in July to October 2007.
The Office of Civil Defense in the Bicol Region is conducting an information drive especially for those in danger zones.
Citing 2006 data, OCD-Bicol regional director Rafael Alejandro said there are about 80,000 persons from six municipalities or 70 barangays who are likely to be affected in case of an actual eruption.
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Uruguay vs. Egypt
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The Line: Uruguay -139 / Draw +307 / Egypt +406
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We have some group A action from the 2018 World Cup as Egypt takes on Uruguay from the Central Stadium in Yekaterinburg.
Egypt comes into the 2018 World Cup as the #45 ranked team in the world, qualifying for the tournament after finishing tops in group E of the African qualifying with a 4-1-1 record. Essam El Hadary is the team's captain and will most likely be Egypt's goalkeeper, with the 45 year old owning 158 caps for the national team. There is a heavy Premier League contingent on the Egyptian side, with seven different players in the current squad on English teams, most notably Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah, who netted 32 goals for Liverpool this season.
Uruguay comes into this one as the #14 ranked team in the world, looking to improve on their finish in Brazil 2014 when La Celeste was eliminated in the round of 16, just four years after an impressive 4th place finish in South Africa. There is a heavy European club contingent in the Uruguayan side, with all but 9 players playing for a club associated with UEFA. Most notably, team captain Diego Godin who plays his club football for Atletico Madrid, alongside Barcelona forward Luis Suarez and PSG powerhouse Edinson Cavani. Cavani and Suarez have combined for 93 goals in 199 combined career caps.
These two teams have not met since 2006, a friendly that Uruguay won 2-0.
As tempting as heavy plus money is with Egypt, I think with that side it's Salah or bust. Uruguay is a deep squad that's always in contention to be a dark horse in the World Cup, and this year is no different. All in all, to open the tournament, I think Uruguay has too much depth for the Egyptians to handle, so I'll lay the juice with Uruguay in this one.


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You are a doctor looking at available family medicine jobs in anticipation of completing your residency. You are looking at full-time, permanent placement as well as locum opportunities across the country. Here's a question: does the quality of care in specific regions of the country affect your job search? Would you take or turn down a job based on your perception of the quality of care?
Both questions are legitimate given new state rankings just issued by WalletHub. The rankings are based on a 100-point system that looked at 30 metrics divided into three categories:
- Health and access to healthcare;
- Nutrition, physical activity, and obesity; and
- Oral health.
The first of the three categories counted the most, making up 55% of the total points. The second and third categories came in at 40% and 5% respectively. This break down makes it clear that the survey was targeting access to healthcare services and how people were using those services, based on lifestyle metrics.
Accessibility to Healthcare Services
Family medicine jobs are plentiful; there is no doubt about that. What new doctors may want to know before taking a particular job is this: how easily his or her family medicine services will be accessed by the local community. This may not necessarily be an issue in large, urban areas where everything is tightly compacted and people have public transportation options in addition to their own cars. It may be a problem in rural areas.
Interestingly enough, the Northeast scored very highly in the Wallet Hub rankings. Vermont ranked number one, and a host of other states made the top 10: New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The states at the bottom of the list were more rural than metropolitan. They included Nevada, Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi.
Accessibility to healthcare services is always an issue for both patients and doctors in a given geographic area. If you could increase accessibility by taking a job in a rural location, would you? If you could work as a locum focusing mainly on rural assignments, would such an opportunity appeal to you?
Patient Lifestyles Based on Accessibility
The second category of the WalletHub ranking is even more intriguing. Past studies have shown that accessibility affects patient outcomes, with less healthy people either having limited access to healthcare services or deliberately choosing not to access them.
Once again, the question of taking a family medicine job based on accessibility comes into play. It could be that a particular job remaining vacant is having a negative impact on a local community via lack of access to services. By the same token though, another job could offer access to a variety of potential patients who just do not take advantage of it.
Accessibility and outcomes translate into having to decide what kind of family medicine job to take. You might be the kind of person who is committed to working with inner-city, disadvantaged people where access to healthcare is limited by financial restraints. The perfect job for you might just be a public health clinic offering free or reduced-cost care.
On the other hand, you might be the perfect candidate to take a family medicine job in farm country. You may have grown up in a small town where agriculture plays a big role in daily life, and you really want to return as a way to give back. In either case, the decision to take a job in order to provide access to a core group of patients can make a big difference to all concerned.


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Behavior of the guanosine monophosphate modified boron-doped diamond electrode in the presence of the pesticide alachlor
Jana Svítková *, Ľubomír Švorc, Ján Labuda
Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Radlinského 9, SK-812 37 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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Abstract: Alachlor (ALA) has been widely used in agriculture and may act as a carcinogen and an environmental estrogen. The present work deals with chemical modification of boron-doped diamond electrode (BDDE) by guanosine monophosphate (GMP) and its study in the presence of ALA. Cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedimetry in the presence of the redox indicator 1×10-3 mol/L [Fe(CN)6]3-/4- together with differential pulse voltammetry of the nucleotide base were explored to test effects of GMP immobilization time, the pesticide concentrations and incubation time in the pesticide solution). It was found that GMP layer on the BDDE surface is distorted after incubation in the ALA solution.
Keywords: boron-doped diamond electrode, chemically modified electrode, guanosine monophosphate, DNA, alachlor
Full paper in Portable Document Format: acs_0227.pdf
Acta Chimica Slovaca, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2015, pp. 172—177, DOI: 10.1515/acs-2015-0029


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For those of you who don't speak squirrel—which is a very efficient language, and the fastest-growing language today*—Squirrel Girl is an absolute delight. If you're unfamiliar with the character, Doreen Green is a mutant with the relative strength and agility of a squirrel. And she can talk to squirrels. She has also single-handedly defeated Doctor Doom, Deadpool, and Thanos in the past. (Yes, really; squirrels are resilient.)
North, Henderson, and Renzi's Unbeatable Squirrel Girl kicks off with Doreen getting ready to move out of Avengers Mansion and start college. This means living with a secret identity for the first time in her life and navigating roommates and romantic interests as she fights the likes of Kraven, Whiplash, and Galactus. This sounds goofy; and it is. This is a book that does not take itself too seriously, about a character who does not take herself too seriously. Not only is it hilarious, but it is actively anti-cynical.
Cartoony feels like a cheap word to use to describe a comic book, but in the sense that this book looks like it could be a Saturday morning cartoon, I think it is accurate. The art is comedy-forward, supporting the humor in the book's writing, and its coloring is bright and upbeat, reinforcing the title's earnestness.
You know the satisfaction that comes with eating your favorite candy? That's how I felt about this book. It was satisfying and sweet, and I look forward to having more in the future. Some might find it cloying or be put off by its goofiness, but that goofiness charmed me. So I say go nuts.
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The National Regulatory System for Community Housing (NRSCH), a national system of registering, monitoring and regulating community housing providers, came into effect on 1 January 2014. This new single National Register for community housing providers created a consistent legislative environment across all participating states and territories.
On 1 January 2014, amendments to theHousing Act 2003 (PDF, 488KB) enabled the NRSCH to operate in Queensland. As of June 2017, registration arrangements had been made with all community housing providers that wanted to continue delivering services in Queensland's funded housing and homelessness assistance system. Arrangements were also made with providers who wished to exit the community housing sector.
Because of the complex issues surrounding registration, land tenure and Indigenous housing, Indigenous local governments and specified Indigenous Community Housing Organisations have until 30 June 2019 to register under NRSCH.
Community housing providers interested in joining this national system should apply for registration through the registrar in the state or territory where they do most of their business.
A range of resources and news are available to assist community housing providers prepare for registration. We welcome your feedback on how these tools are meeting your needs.
The Profile of Community Housing Provider Registration Activity in Queensland 2015 — 2016 (PDF, 228KB) (RTF, 210KB) details the progress made by Regulatory Services registering Queensland-based community housing providers under the National Regulatory Code.
The registration activity is separated into National Regulatory System Community Housing (NRSCH) and the Queensland State Regulatory System for Community Housing (QSRSCH).
NRSCH registration activity applies to private providers of community housing, whereas QSRCH registration activity applies to local government providers of community housing.
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Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 5020 01/14/14
As much as the HDTV industry evolves, it still cannot replace the cinema experience. This is why home cinema theaters are still the ultimate dream for movie lovers. However, having such a system demands a lot of expenses which can go as high as tens of thousands of dollars. Luckily, there are brands which understand the needs of cinema lovers and whose mission it is to satisfy those needs within a reasonable budget. One of the best companies of this sort is Epson who recently released an amazing device which plays top quality images and comes at a reasonable price of $2,900. If you were to purchase a similar product a couple of years ago, you would have had to spend a lot more in order to get the picture quality provided by the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 5020.
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The most amazing advantage of the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 5020 is the fact that you get high quality 2D and 3D entertainment, in the privacy of your home. The full HD experience features 1080p and a 320,000:1 contrast ratio. The device also delivers 2400 lumen of color brightness and 2400 lumen white brightness. In case you are not familiar with the meaning of these terms, you should know that the first indicator measures the color light output and the second one measures the white light output. The device also features a 2D-3d conversion feature which allows you to transform 2D movies in 3D format. It is one of the best home cinema gadgets available at the moment. If you want to keep in touch with tech news which feature other gadgets that could improve your home cinema experience, try www.sifrutech.com. This website is full of useful information, easy to understand tech reviews and upcoming gadgets releases.
- Brilliant colors
The Epson projector has a higher quality than competitive products despite its reasonable price. It delivers colors three times brighter than similar products on the market. In order to deliver these vibrant colors, it uses 3LCD features and a 3-chip optical engine. This projector doesn't just simulate a cinema experience but it manages to deliver real life colors.
- Watch all movies in 3D format!
Aside from the main device, the home cinema kit also includes RF 3D glasses. The battery of the glasses is rechargeable and it lasts up to 40 hours. You can connect all your favorite devices to the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 5020 such as DVD/Blu-Ray players, game consoles and many more. From now on, you don't have to bother to look to 3D format movies or to wait in line at the cinema in order to see a good 3D movies. You can play all your movies in 3D format and enjoy the eye-popping effects in the privacy of your home. The only thing that would make this home cinema device better would be a great surround system or a wireless system. However, before making any purchase, it is always best to do some research on a tech website.


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⚡ New Arrivals at Electric Woman ⚡
Hello Electric Tribe!
I'm Katharine, the new CEO of Electric Woman, and it is with immense joy that I start my first letter to you all with the happy news that Nikki's daughter Eliza Grace has arrived.
In Nikki's own words: "Eliza is incredible, so relaxed and peaceful. The birth was intense, powerful, calm and a massive emotional journey. Tom and our doula were amazing and I had a positive experience even though it was very tough at times. It's so special to hold her, to look into her soul and to feel like I've known her forever."
And I'm thrilled to report that the Electric Woman tribe is growing in other ways as well.
I joined in July and will be leading the team until 2019 when Nikki comes back from maternity leave when we'll helm the ship together. I've been a big believer in and supporter of Nikki and her vision for Electric Woman for the last couple of years, and I'm utterly thrilled to be leading Electric Woman into this new chapter.
We're growing fast as we work to realize our mission to enable every woman to live the life she desires, claim her feminine power, and unlock her utmost potential. Indeed we now have five (five!) Electric Woman coaches trained to deliver our coaching and run workshops in the UK and US. You can see our growing list of upcoming courses, here.
We're also developing new courses and workshops (Power and Money are just two of the topics we'll be exploring next year). And there are lots of other exciting developments in the works: expanding in the US, recruiting even more amazing coaches, and building an even stronger tribe of Electric women who are energised to make the impact they want to make in the world.
I want to take this opportunity to share a few things we're calling in as we enter this new phase.
Would you, or a fabulous woman you know, be interested in hosting a gathering at your home or office? You bring together 20-30 awesome women, we introduce them to their Electric self. I actually met Nikki at an event just like this and can testify to what a wonderful evening this can be. We're keen to run events in NY, SF, LA or London. Let us know!
Do you know a conference or a company that would benefit from the Electric Woman magic? We love running sessions where women connect to a vision of their most Electric future - like the one Nikki gave for Marie Claire in June. We also love to speak on shaking off self-sabotage, feminine power archetypes, and embrace a mindset of pleasure. More here...
Do you know any outlets who'd be interested in a regular column from Nikki or one of our Electric coaches? Perhaps on Nikki's motherhood journey, or Vanessa's journey into embracing her inner empath, or me - and my mission to bring the Electric message to the world? Point them our way!
We're looking for someone to run our social media. Someone who totally gets the Electric message and wants to help us reach new audiences on Instagram and Facebook. Do you know that person?
And, that's it for now… after this the newsletter will go back to bringing you Electric inspiration and information on the latest courses and workshops. Sign up at this link if you haven't already.
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Champions League permutations: Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool and Man City
Take a look at the current standings as clubs eye qualification to the knockout stages of Europe's elite competition
TOTTENHAM and Manchester City are the first English sides to book their place in the next stage of the Champions League.
Spurs recorded an unforgettable win over Real Madrid at Wembley, meanwhile Pep Guardiola's men overcame Napoli to progress.
Manchester United and Basel could qualify on matchday five when they go head-to-head in Switzerland.
A draw would be enough for the Red Devils to book their place in the knockout stages in their next Champions League outing.
If Basel manage to win, they would qualify if Benfica manage to beat CSKA Moscow.
This group is all but wrapped up as Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich have both qualified for the next round.
PSG will top the group if they can beat Celtic at home in their European match and Anderlecht manage to beat or draw against Bayern.
But if both PSG and Bayern both win on matchday five, then the final group game will see them decide who finish the group in first place.
It is mathematically impossible for Celtic and Anderlecht to qualify for the next round.
Chelsea and Roma are yet to confirm their in place the next round, but can do so on matchday five.
The Blues are away to Qarabag in their next Champions League game, while Roma face a tough test away to Atletico Madrid.
Atleti and Qarabag still have an outside chance of qualifying but would need to win their last two fixtures.
Barcelona and Juventus have the chance to clinch their place in the next round of the Champions League on matchday five.
The two sides meet in Turin and a win for either side, or draw, would put them through to knockout phase, if Olympiacos beat Sporting Lisbon.
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Liverpool and Sevilla will have the chance to advance to the next round on matchday five.
Both sides meet in their next match and a win for either team would secure their place in the next round.
Man City went through to the next round, after their 4-2 win over Napoli.
Shakhtar Donetsk meanwhile will have the chance to qualify in their next match away to Napoli.
But Napoli face an uphill task as they trail Shakhtar by six points and also have a goal difference of -2.
Although it is mathematically impossible for Feyenoord to go through to the next round.
Besiktas and Porto both have a chance to qualify for the knockout phase on matchday five.
The pair meet in Istanbul, while RB Leipzig remain within a shout of qualifying.
And last-season's high fliers Monaco, have a very slim chances of making it out of their group.
Tottenham clinched qualification after their standout victory over Real Madrid at Wembley.
Although if Los Blancos can bounce back, they can qualify against APOEL.
While Dortmund and APOEL will hope to have the chance to cause an upset on matchday six.


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On a sleepy summer Sunday we ventured out on bikes along the wooded Highline Canal to visit three great south suburban breweries. The ride was slightly longer than usual and we had to tackle a few big hills but the tasty beers made it all worthwhile! Most of the ride is on-trail, with much of it on the scenic canal, although part of the route uses the C470 trail, which currently has major construction. The trails switch between packed gravel and concrete so road bikes may find it challenging. A good map app is essential, as the route features loads of twists and turns.
Starting at Halfpenny Brewing Company near Arapahoe & Holly, we enjoyed the mostly American- and German-style beers in the new biergarden (out back past the brewing equipment). The patio can get hot since it's really just a fenced-off section of parking lot with a partial sun shade, but hopefully when the hops grow up it'll have more atmosphere. For beer, you'll mostly find comfortable, traditional beers with a sprinkling of experimental stuff like Lichtenhainer smoked-sour (Seedstock collaboration) and a Cherry Cardamom Wheat. The staff was all super-friendly and helpful and our big group had no problem finding space in the large taproom amongst the regulars. If you get hungry, there are several food places in the strip mall, including a pizza joint.
Next we headed off to Three Freaks Brewing near Park Meadows. The ride was absolutely beautiful and very peaceful along the Highline Canal and local streams, with amazing voyeuristic views of swanky Cherry Hills Village mansions. The end turned somewhat less peaceful, as we navigated the sun-baked C470 trail with traffic whizzing by. Just past Quebec look for the strip mall on your right with Le Peep and Egg Roll King. Go past the building and you'll find a trail into their parking lot.
Three Freaks Brewery has a small brewing system so beers cycle through quickly. The brewers usually get a little experimental so go in with an expectation of "anything goes" and don't be afraid to try some of the unusual-seeming combinations – you're unlikely to be disappointed! This is actually one of my favorite stops on any south suburban beer crawls because it's always a surprise. The small taproom has a very laid-back vibe, and you can also sit out front on the shaded patio. Despite the big third anniversary celebration on Saturday, the staff was energetic and amazingly friendly and helpful, as usual. Seriously, talk to the staff – there's always something interesting going on. There's not much for food in the area, although rumor had it that the Egg Roll King is worth a visit. Sadly they hadn't opened yet.
From there it was off down the wide-open C470 trail through construction and some good-sized hills. A right turn at Colorado took us one block to the corner of County Line where the dead-looking strip mall contains Blue Spruce Brewing Company. For some reason the space has always seemed a little chain-restaurant-like but the beers are most definitely original. Blue Spruce has a huge taplist with virtually every style so this might be a good place for a flight. They also have a kitchen so if you haven't already eaten it's probably advisable after all the beers! Sundays feature all-day Happy Hour which involves $1 off beers and a food-special menu. The large taproom opens onto an enclosed deck on one side and a small sunny patio on the other. After the hot ride along C470 our group opted for the blissfully air-conditioned indoors. Service was kind of random but friendly, although we might have been a little disorganized ourselves by that point.
Finally, back to Halfpenny following the sidewalks on Colorado Boulevard for a bit and then cutting through neighborhood streets and a bit of trail. Overall this ride provides a decent balance between chugging down the calories and working them off, and will become somewhat easier once the C470 construction wraps up. It can be done in any sequence, as all three breweries have ample parking.


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