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Hi Athletes!! We are so excited to see so many of you on board for our Nutrition Partner Accountability Plan (starting tomorrow). Hopefully all of you have checked in with your partner & have your individual nutrition plans mapped out, as well as any 'penalty exercises' planned. Don't forget to put a tally mark next to your name if either of you falls off plan. Hopefully we won't see too many of these. Remember your coaches are here to support you if you are still unclear of what direction you need to take to reach your goals.Read More
CrossFit Kalos Sthenos will be having a meal prep class on June 29th. We are all hoping that this can be a fun educational get together to help you with your nutrition at home. This will take place immediately after the 9am class on Saturday June 29th. We will be sending out an email reminder and a post on the Forum when the date gets closer. For now please save the date!!Read More
This is one of the most iconic hero WODs in the sport of CrossFit and it is performed in memory of Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, 29, of Patchogue, N.Y., who was killed in Afghanistan June 28th, 2005.Read More
The Femme Royale is a women's only CrossFit style competition. We have two teams of four women each competing. We would love to see you come and support our ladies.Read More
What Muscle Up May entails is, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we will be working at skills to get you to your first muscle up.Read More
Last weekend CRKS sent several teams to participate in The Festivus Games. It was a great day for our CrossFit Kalos Sthenos competitors and 3 out of 4 teams the podium!!!Read More


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Chris and Gary Fookes are hosting a Salsa Night in the Ballroom. Lifestyles will set up the delicious Appetizers you all bring, and a mini bar (beer, wine, iced tea) in the Ballroom. Chris and Gary, at their expense, is treating us all to a dance demo by Diego Guzman's students, then Salsa lessions for anyone game to try. We hope you enjoy this exordinary evening.
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Many employers are seeing a new generation of scholarship seekers who value no-strings-attached (with no bond period) arrangements. Once prized for their guaranteed employment and growth prospects, scholarship bonds are now often seen as constraints.
Scholarships used to be a surefire way to attract top talents, but they no longer guarantee that scholarship holders will join and contribute to the sponsoring company after completing their studies. As such, scholarships can be heavy investments with no assurance of returns for employers.
All the same, faced with an ageing workforce, employers are desperate to hire and retain talented young workers. How then can employers attract and retain top young talents?
Understanding Gen Y
Employers may want to first gain a better understanding of this new generation of workers. Scholarship applicants, undergraduates and fresh graduates normally fall into a group that many are now calling "Generation Y" (Gen Y). Also known as "echo boomers" and "millennials" in the United States, they are born between 1977 and 2002.
Many Gen Ys have yet to reach their 30s, and the first wave of Gen Ys have just started on their careers. They are among the youngest employees in many workplaces, and are often perceived by older colleagues as smart, individualistic, brash and always late.
This is a generation that has been encouraged to speak their minds, ask questions and be expressive and outspoken. They are taught that creativity is often rewarded and being a follower will not get you anywhere.
Technologically savvy, Gen Y workers are multi-taskers who grew up with the Internet and consider social networking tools like Facebook part and parcel of their lives.
Here are some Gen Y traits as identified by authors Dr Carolyn A. Martin and Bruce Tulgan of Managing Generation Y:
High expectations of self: They aim to work faster and better than other workers.
High expectations of employers: They want fair and direct managers who are highly engaged in their professional development.
Ongoing learning: They seek out creative challenges and view colleagues as vast resources from whom to gain knowledge.
Immediate responsibility: They want to make an important impact from Day One.
Goal-oriented: They want small goals with tight deadlines so they can build up ownership of these tasks.
Mr Tulgan, the founder of RainmakerThinking and an expert on young people in the workplace, believes that Gen Ys require high maintenance, but they also deliver high performance.
What Gen Ys value
Although they place a high priority on career success, Gen Ys prefer jobs that accommodate their family and personal lives. They want flexibility in hours, telecommuting options and the choice to work part-time or temporarily leave the workforce when they have children.
Most importantly, Gen Ys believe in their own self-worth. They are not shy about trying to make changes in their workplace if they think it will enhance productivity or efficiency.
Embracing change
Employers need to explore new ways to recruit and retain the best of the Gen Y workers. They need to market the qualities of their workplace that are attractive to them.
In the US, where Gen Y makes up 70 million people entering or who have recently entered the workforce, many companies are already reaching out to college students by telling them about company benefits such as flexible work schedules, telecommuting and online work tools.
Others are promoting their companies by emphasising time off as a reward and recognition for creative thinking.
Employers may want to reinvent their company cultures and work towards embracing change. Companies that are slow to react risk being left behind and regarded as unprogessive by Gen Y workers.
To be a workplace of choice for top Gen Y talents, companies need to encourage and welcome workers who actively find solutions to problems, question outdated protocols and celebrate results-oriented thinking.


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Let Them See
Parents are role models
So powerful, this little bundle! From the moment you hold a baby in your arms for the first time, your life will change. What a blessing to hold that perfectly formed miniature hand and know that if you play your cards right, it will someday hold yours to soften the cares of old age. Their helplessness and dependence will inspire you to grow in grace. For the first time you will come face to face with your own strengths and weaknesses.
We owe them a debt of gratitude for kisses on our cheeks and warm little arms around our neck. It is our duty to nurture these little ones into a healthy and happy adulthood. The best gift we can give to them is and example of 'how to live'. Let them see first hand a life structured in moral principles.
Let Them See
Let them see you climb a hill
Let them see you pay your bills
Let them see you dry a tear
Let them see you calm a fear
Let them see your faith alive
Let them see you give a tithe
Let them see your heart forgive
Let them see how one should live.
What a lovely hub, even though a child is born after us we can learn so much from them. They teach us patience, to not give up and to want to do better.
Iloved your hub and I will take as the best parent advice: transparency and communication.
My babies are growing up and still, when i look at them, my heart fills with love and joy to have them in my life. I guess we can always Let them see no matter what age!
Great little hub! I enjoyed it. Too bad babies don't come with instruction books. lol
Thank you Ann, this is so, so lovely.
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A great message, with a powerful importance. Merry Christmas
These verses are not only poetic, but excellent advice. Too many parents want to shield their children from the world and real life. I was given a book as part of a package when I left the hospital with my bundle 39 years ago. The book dealt with telling your child the truth even if its ugly. Kids are more resilient that you think don't let that cute exterior fool you.
What you don't want is a child growing up in a bubble and once it bursts in adulthood they can't cope. Children must learn that every one in the world will not love and except them like their parents.
Excellent hub, interesting subject matter. Thank you for sharing, voted up, marked useful and interesting.
Morning Ann.
The truth is Ann i spend my time at my laptop shortly after i get up untill about 19:00 20:00 each evening that's 7 or 8 O'Clock at night of course with little breaks in between. But in all it's about 8 hours reading and commenting or trying to start a new hub.
There are so many new hubs each day and i receive around 100 announcements each day which i try to look at each one and if it's interesting for me i write a comment if not i go to the next. So Ann i'm here each and every day if you need to have a chat.
Take care Ann and let the party begin.
LOL Ghaelach
Hi Ann.
Lovely little hub.
Babys do a replay on what they see or hear so it's only right to get it right the first time, unfortunately that doesn't always happen.
Take care Ann.
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St. Louis 'Fish Fry Finder' map – 2019
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Looking for something to freshen up your Fridays this Lent? Our "Fish Fry Finder" is an easy way to find dinner. This directory has many of the fish fries in the St. Louis region. Check the map regularly to find a new dining location.
For Christians, the Lenten season is here. The 40-day period before Easter is considered a time of penance and reflection. Roman Catholics and some other Christian denominations give up favorite activities or foods as a form of self-sacrifice. They also abstain from eating the meat of warm-blooded animals on Fridays, a practice that can be traced all the way back to the earliest Christians.
Here in St. Louis, that means Fridays are for Fish Fries! Many Catholic parishes and other organizations cook up loads of fried and baked fish, macaroni and cheese, meatless spaghetti, cheese pizza, and other meat-free options for not just those following the Lenten rules, but for all hungry people looking for a great meal.
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The community led effort to win an All Civilian Review Board is not new. After more than 20 years of struggle, community members have organized support for the M.A.L.I.K All Civilian Review Board Proposal. Meanwhile, the City is trying to pass a watered down, toothless proposal in an effort to block the hard won community victory. If you can't prevent the creation of a Civilian Review Board, make sure it is as powerless as possible.
The M.A.L.I.K. proposal on the other hand was written by Ms. Emma Jones in honor of her son Malik (who was murdered by East Haven Police). This proposal has been developed and vetted for years in a collaborative, community based process dedicated to creating the system that New Haven Community members want and deserve. This proposal is informed by research, experience, and community. It has been through the very process that the city has desperately been trying to avoid and includes the voices the city has ignored thus far. This is the proposal we want. This is the proposal New Haven deserves.
It is telling that the city's proposal begins by emphasizing the importance of police and how difficult and demanding their job is. Many of us have difficult and demanding jobs. None of us would be permitted to use this as justification for violence.
The proposal goes on to offer an abbreviated history of policing starting in 1861 when the city abolished the "Old Watch" system and created its first police force. Anyone with knowledge of historical dates can tell you what else happened in 1861 and anyone with knowledge of the history of police in this country can tell you that most police forces in this country were established during this time. The history of policing in the United States cannot be separated from this nations' history with chattel slavery or from the abolishment, adaptation, and evolution of that system into our current mass incarceration reality.
Somehow, the city plan goes through 157 years of history without the mention of the many flash points of police violence in New Haven that have happened even just in recent years. To read this, one is left to believe that we are having this conversation because the city has benevolently taken it upon itself to make the department more accountable. For no particular reason whatsoever. Not only is this plan lacking the power to hold the department accountable in any meaningful way, it is also attempting to rewrite history into law. This is an insult to everyone who has taken a role in this fight. It is an insult to the memory of all of those we have lost and to everyone who has been harmed by violent policing in this city.
We have come this far. Together this community changed the city charter. We can win the Civilian Review Board our city deserves. We call on the City of New Haven, Mayor Harp, and the Board of Aldermen to delay a vote and to adopt the M.A.L.I.K All Civilian Review Board Proposal. We will not be silent and we will not be ignored. Our fight will continue until we win.
If we don't get it?
Shut it down.
Even this important work is just one piece of a larger struggle to reimagine community safety. The question of how we keep ourselves and each other safe is too important to file under "That's just how we've always done it." It's time to ask deep questions, to take measures like these that reduce harm while envisioning a transformed future where the "security" of one group isn't upheld by the oppression of another.
We have come this far together. Together we can build the future we deserve.


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Strike is an all-round shoe for climbers of all levels of climbing skills. Its slight asymmetry gives it a sport climbing shoe character, while its other characteristics offer convenient comfort. It is suitable for those who need sufficient performance and at the same time need to wear climbing shoes all day long. Its straight profile, relaxed heel rand and padded tongue provide comfort necessary for all-day sport or multi-pitch climbing.


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The Binewski's are a self-made freak show of a traveling carnival. Arturo, the water boy, has flippers rather than arms and legs, Iphy and Elly, the signing Siamese twins, who tend towards brutal battles between themselves, Oly, the disappointing albino hunchback, and Chick, who looks completely normal but has a gift that could make or break the family. Al inherited the carnival from his father and when times started changing resulting in sparse attendance, Al decided he and his wife "Crystal" Lil would start their own self-contained freak show. Lil, while pregnant (and while not) took drugs and radioactive material to purposely alter the appearance of their children. The results were more than they could hope for and allowed the carnival to become popular once again. Al and Lil sound like the worst kind of parents – willingly altering their children's appearance in order to keep the show on the road. Even though Al and Lil did horrible things to bring forth such children, Al and Lil love and care for their kids. However, the desire for the most freakish of appearances causes internal strife with the offspring, Arturo being the worst of the bunch.
Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn, is a whole different take on family values and one's perception of "normal." Narrated/told by Oly, Geek Love reveals how the family sees their altered appearances as normal and desirable, and sees those not like them as the freaks of the world – referred to as "norms" with scathing derision. Oly tells of her love for Arturo and how that is never enough for him. How Arturo's desire to be the most popular attraction whittles away at the family's unity and leads to competition. Arturo starts a most bizarre cult of followers, who desire to be limbless devotees and worshipers. Arturo's self-serving ways are most identifiable when Chick comes into the world and Arturo's need to be the top dog drives the family to places they can never come back from.
The book flips from past to present, with Oly trying to hide her true identity from her daughter Miranda, whose only freakish feature is a tail she keeps hidden unless she is performing. I found myself hoping that Oly would let Miranda know she was her mother. Oly is a character the reader can relate to – she wants the love and affection of her family. Her wholesome acceptance of her appearance is an inspiration to everyone – what is seen as weird and ugly is all within the eye of the beholder, as well as the confidence that comes with it.
Geek Love will leave the reader with a new sense of what is acceptable, both in terms of appearance and in terms of what the love of a family means to someone. Some scenes are brutally descriptive and hard to read, but all well worth the read.


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Sonic branding (also known as audio branding, music branding, sound branding, acoustic branding or sonic mnemonics) is the use of sound to reinforce brand identity.
Sound branding is increasingly becoming a vehicle for conveying a memorable message to targeted consumers, taking advantage of the powerful memory sense of sound.
Soundio has vast experience in sonic branding and music production and helps brands, property developers and others to create powerful musical expressions that enhance brand experience and makes stories stick.


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What will help you to find ascension more attractive than self-guided materialism? Here are some suggestions. Remember that everything We advise is to be taken in moderation. Make smaller steps in order to maintain the changes rather than overwhelm yourself and lose your progress.
- Independence is essential. You must be able to walk a path that many of your close family and friends are not taking. It may be helpful to change one portion of your life toward spiritual gains and keep your ties to loved ones intact. Read books, visit websites, join group which promote spiritual development. You may be able to keep your current job, maintain your close relationships and minimize calling unnecessary attention to yourself while you align with your soul and begin to complete your chart.
- Pray daily. Communication is a two-way process. The more you speak to your Creator the more likely you are to hear God and spirit speak, sense spiritual help, recognize synchronicity and feel compelled by something greater than you. If you don't open to God there is little chance that the grace of spiritual success will happen for you. There is a softness about prayer that will replace many of those walls that you have erected out of fear, anger or depression. It will become more like talking to your best friend and confidante.
- Faith is very important. It is a "knowing" that may often seem indescribable. You know that God is with you. You understand that you have a greater purpose. Your life will become more open and loving. You will accept that you have much to learn without question. The synchronicity and flow will make undeniable sense and you will expect more of your intended experiences to teach you what you need to know. Faith is comfort, contentment and a sense of belonging. You will resist asking, "Why me?" "What did I do to deserve this?" "Why is this happening to me?" Instead you will say, "Yes, I accept this experience and I will do my best to understand the lessons I am intended to learn. Thank you for your love and guidance."
- Empathy is a good way to accept the trials of those around you. You are expected to learn from your own experiences as well as those of the people around you. It would be unreasonable for you to learn everything personally. Instead, We encourage you recognize some occurrences in the lives of your loved ones, the people in your local community, as well as those in your global community. You are a portion of the global energy and learning from the experiences of others will add volumes to your own ascension.
- Seek communion with others of like-mind. You will find companionship, support, ideas and a vast amount of inspiration. You are not alone in your desire to find God and return to the world consciousness from where you came. If your spiritual journey is just beginning, you will find others new to this evolution and mentors who will help to guide your efforts. If you have been on this journey for a while you will find others who have also travelled a long time and you will share experiences with them. Humans are social beings. God created you to share your lives and make progress together. Many spiritual gains are increased when it involves a group. The combined energy increases exponentially. Much will be done in a positive, proactive, group setting.
- Be more comfortable with your faith and belief in God. Are you worried that your loved ones will not be accepting of your faith? Will someone ridicule you? If this is possible it is acceptable to praise God in private. Your inner dialog may easily be about faith, acceptance, forgiveness, healing and unconditional love. Increased faith brings greater strength, wisdom and maturity. You will be less emotional. You will find stability to weather conflict. Be "One With God" and represent strength and confidence that others may not know.
- Recognize when relationships and circumstances are having a negative effect on you. Creating distance from unhealthy things is a good start. You may have undeniable connections that you must maintain but it is possible for you to improve your soul-health and keep some marginal relationships. The key is to focus more on your spiritual growth and care less about what these darker energy people or circumstances mean to you. The more you grow into the light, the less these troubling interactions will feel acceptable to you. You will naturally seek people who are positive and hopeful. It is true that you decide how people treat you. If they are disrespectful you may choose to have less contact with them. You may suggest they approach you with more positivity so that they will know what behavior you find unacceptable. If someone is truly negative with darker energy, they may walk away from you because you have changed the way that they are allowed to treat you. Some relationships are unavoidable, especially with family. This is an instance when you would value their opinion less in order to promote your own good emotional and physical health.
- Find your Zen. Dwelling in the past or future may derail your progress. Being "in the moment" will cut through a lot of distractions. You'll find that your present life is where much of the changes will happen simply because you will allow them. You won't be pushing into the past or future and your "now" will be guided by a stronger connection to God and spirit. Looking forward will be unnecessary since your intended life will flow to you with grace. Looking back is only helpful to learn from your mistakes so you won't repeat them. Then, let it go. This release will support a forgiving attitude since you have learned from your past experiences and it was all necessary. Your "now" may be genuine if you let go of all attachments and find it positive to just "be."
- Get involved with positive, uplifting causes. There are a multitude of opportunities to make a positive impact. Be honest and caring. Do not seek any recognition. Be content to do your best and make something better.
- Become introspective and realize your tendency to be dishonest, manipulative, unfair or overly emotional. Make some changes over time. Do your best to accept constructive input. Being defensive will limit the amount of factual information you will have access to. No one is perfect. There are some positive and proactive changes you may make without anyone else's involvement. Improve your life and behavior just because it is what God would have you do. Each day may be an homage to God and spirit by increasing the light you posses and the light you send into the universe. Be that bright, helpful, industrious person that everyone wants to be around.


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ITM-NSR Top Model Glamour Gala Dinner/
ITM, CHMB AM1320 and the BC Cancer Foundation are partnering together to host a Glamour Gala Dinner on July 8th, 2010 at Richmond's River Rock Show Theatre , with proceeds funding research at the BC Cancer Agency. This year's proceeds will enable the foundation to purchase a second PET/CT scanner for the cancer agency. We are currently looking to fill the following Ladies in Pink volunteer positions:
- Contestant assistants (*knowledge of spoken English and Mandarin an asset)
- July 3 - 5th, 9-6pm; July 6 - 8th, 9-11pm
- Set-up, registration, raffle ticket sales, escorting VIPs for speeches/prizes
- July 8th, 3 - 11pm
- Backstage model changers
- July 7th, 6:30 - 10pm (rehearsal)
- July 8th, 3:30 - 10:30pm
For more details on the ITM-NSR Top Model event click here.
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Lauren & Mike 5.13.17 | Indianapolis Wedding Photography
We leave you as we head out on some much needed vacation time, a whole 37 days before our own wedding, to view Lauren & Mike's big day at The Sycamore at Mallow Run. We didn't realize it at the time, but since our very first wedding in Indy on 5.9.14, this is our 100TH wedding completed in the Indy market. Thank you to all you amazing clients out there that allow us to tell your stories for you!
Enjoy, and we'll see you all when we get back next week!


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Musings on Marriage
Okay guys, before I begin this post, I feel like I'm obligated to tell you that we're headed in a new direction. Not 100% sure what that is yet, but I'm going to be expanding this from just a Fashion blog to like, a Life blog? It'll include fashion, art, crafts, and a lot of my musings. Again, I'm not quite yet sure what it's going to look like, I'm taking a couple months to brainstorm. But if in the meantime, I get inspired and feel like I got shit to say then I shall post it, as I am doing now. Also, other thing I should mention, is that if you are watching or intend to watch Aziz Ansari's new show Master of None, have not yet finished the first season, and do not wish to see spoilers, I highly suggest you stop reading now. The first paragraph describes the entire finale lol. But if that's not you, then by all means forge ahead! Cheers!
Okay so I just finished watching Master of None and I have so many feelings. In the season finale, Dev and his girlfriend attend a wedding where the bride and groom share ridiculous vows about being 100% in and never having any fears or doubts about their relationship. Upon hearing this, Dev freaks out because he wasn't positive he was 100% sure about his own relationship. He tells his girlfriend who, instead of hearing his fears and examining them as his own issue without making it about herself, freaks out because she feels like he's saying he doesn't want to be with her. And then HE, instead of hearing her fears and assuaging them while still trying to successfully communicate his own, decides that they should each write on pieces of paper what "percentage sure" they are that their relationship is gonna go all the way.
I know, even recounting it makes me almost burst into hives, it was literally the worst idea ever. As you might have guessed, since it was IMPOSSIBLE for them to have predicted each other's exact number, hers ended up being slightly lower than his and because of that they broke up. This whole thing, like I said, makes me want to crawl in a hole and die.
First of all, being 100% sure about the future of your relationship is literally impossible. I'm not sure how many of you guys are hip to this but we can't tell the future. Surprise! And no amount of star gazing, or tarot reading is going to help that. As, thankfully, a smarter character on the show pointed out, the percentage sure you are about your relationship will fluctuate. Sometimes you'll feel good, sometimes you'll feel bad, but what doesn't change is the decision you made to try, which I'll address more in a second.
The other worry Dev brought up is not knowing if his girlfriend is the person he is "supposed to be with forever". But… I feel like the whole idea of "supposed to be together" is bullshit. You literally choose— if you are with someone forever, it's not because you were "supposed to be". It's because you decided. And the thing about forever is that it's every minute, every second. Do I know if I will love you forever? No, because I can't tell the future. But also Yes, because I'm loving you now. And now. And now. *a few minutes pass* And now.
That's how people get to forever, it's just a bunch of "nows", one after the other.
I was also struck by the idea that once you're married, the window of time to do "crazy shit" is damn near closed. All it takes is children to put that last nail in the coffin and you are essentially stationary for the rest of your life. Am I the only one who thinks that's ridiculous? Okay the children part, definitely. Because those little shits will consume your entire life and never look back. But I mean marriage? Like okay ya if you marry someone, there's one more person you have to consider before making big decisions like that. But I see no reason why, if your partner has a heart for adventure as well, you can't just both go. Or even if they can't, or you just want a solo mission and you won't be gone for that long, why can't you just go?
Maybe I'm "too independent". Maybe that's not how you're "supposed to do marriage". I dunno, I just— I feel like I understand why marriage is hard but at the same time I don't understand it at all. My therapist told me most of the work of being in a successful relationship is working on yourself, and like everything else, I'm pretty sure she's right. The hard part is learning to decipher what you're feeling and communicate it in a constructive way. But once you've learned that, and you've chosen a partner who's also learned that, all you have to do is keep doing that. Right? Like I understand I'm 26 and have never been married but after observing successful and unsuccessful relationships for many, many moons, I feel like all it boils down to is communication. Because we will change. Your partner will change, you will change... Hopefully it will be towards growth. But I feel like as long as you can communicate your change, it will result in growing together, which I think is how "forever" happens.
The show also illuminated the idea that marriage is a crapshoot anyway because you marry whomever you "happen to be dating" at the "time that people usually get married". Which, while understanding the sentiment, I disagree with. It's not like choosing someone to marry is like spinning the Wheel of Fortune and wherever it lands is who you're stuck with. There is some happenstance involved of course, as there is with all of life, but my hope would be that by the time you're of "marrying age" and are considering marrying someone, it's not just because they were present at the appointed time, but because you have done work on yourself to emotionally mature and they have also done work on themselves to emotionally mature and that's why you've started dating. And marriage happens, not because you both feel you're "supposed to", or because it's "the time people get married", but because you've both decided—you've both taken the agency, to WORK. "I will not stop loving you." That is, I will not stop trying to look out for you. Trying to understand you. Trying to support you. Trying to learn you. It's literal effort. It's a practice. And sometimes you'll nail it and sometimes you won't but the point is to keep trying, which is what I was referring to earlier. And I think in that trying, we grow ourselves, and maybe that's why we do it.


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NY Client. SC Atty. Which State's Privilege Law Covers Their Calls & Emails?
Let's discuss conflicts-of-laws—privilege style. I know you want to.
Here is the scenario—NY client emails her SC-based attorney—which state's privilege law applies? In Wellin v. Wellin, 211 F. Supp. 3d 793 (D.S.C. 2016), the USDC SC provided an informative analysis of the often-ignored conflict-of-privilege-law issue, and applied the Second Restatement's paradigm in holding that SC privilege law applied. You may read the opinion here. Now, let's break it down.
The Wellin case involves multiple lawsuits over the distribution of the substantial assets of Keith Wellin, a former Wall Street executive who died in 2014. Read his obituary here. Wellin's eight grandchildren, non-parties to the litigation but contingent beneficiaries of one of Wellin's Irrevocable Trusts, lawyered up with South Carolina counsel.
One of the grandchildren, Ann Plum, a New York-based otolaryngologist, sought a protective order to prevent deposition questions about communications she had with her South Carolina-based attorneys, her brother, cousins, and mother, and her mother's attorney.
To determine the privilege issues, the court had to decide whether NY or SC law applied to the putatively privileged communications. In this diversity action, the court looked to FRE 501, which provides that "state law governs privilege regarding a claim or defense for which state law supplies the rule of decision." FRE 501, however, does not answer which state's privilege law applies—the forum state or some other state.Keep Reading this POP Post


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Press Release: Project Legacy Receives An Important Donation
June 5, 2018 – Rochester, Minn. — Karen Edmonds has announced today that Project Legacy received an important grant from Mayo Clinic for the organization's youth empowerment programs. Serving youth of color in Rochester, Project Legacy's programs offer youth access to resources, mentorship and support as they work to make healthy, lasting changes in their lives.
"This donation from Mayo Clinic will help us sustain our one-of-a-kind youth empowerment programs," Edmonds said. "Our approach enables youth of color to address unresolved trauma, while accessing needed support, resources and mentorship."
With this funding, Project Legacy will continue serving youth of color through programs like Operation Nourish and Operation Encourage, while providing weekly support groups, study tables and individualized mentorship opportunities.
About Project Legacy
Project Legacy provides hope, training, and support to Rochester youth and young adults of color who are refugees, homeless, formerly gang-involved or recently incarcerated. Project Legacy provides unique, long-term support to help youth in their journey out of poverty, incarceration, and addiction towards a vibrant and sustainable future for themselves and future generations. Project Legacy provides comprehensive, free services for youth seeking employment, education and a path out of poverty. Project Legacy seeks to address immediate needs of youth, such as employment and housing, while simultaneously addressing issues including deep poverty, mental health disorders, substance abuse and lack of education. Tantamount to our approach is our belief that when youth are surrounded with love, affection, kindness and support, they will heal and flourish.
For more information, visit www.projectlegacymn.org.
About Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world. Doctors from every medical specialty work together to care for patients, joined by common systems and a philosophy that the needs of the patient come first. Over 3,000 physicians and scientists and 46,600 allied staff work at Mayo which has sites in Rochester, Minn., Jacksonville, Fla., and Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz. Mayo Clinic also serves more than 70 communities through the Mayo Clinic Health System. Collectively, these locations treat more than half a million people each year.
For more information, visit: www.mayoclinic.org.


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Watch interviews with the keynote speakers.
Neal Matthews, Validation Research Supervisor at PIC, discussed the role of swine genetics in the sustainability of the pork industry. In the future, feeding the world's growing population with limited resources will require rapid application of scientific advances in agricultural production. Food safety, new meat product development and meat processing technologies will continue to be of the utmost importance.
Albert Vernooij, Industry Analyst at Rabobank presented the developments in the global meat industry and their implications for processors. The global meat market will endure another turbulent year after a challenging 2014. Recovering production, changing exchange rates and volatile feed costs will continue to impact the players active in this industry.
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capsule wardrobe | what and why?
Simplicity. Necessity. Style. Freedom. Purpose.
These are words that have been used frequently in our home for the past two years as we strive to live this lifestyle. About a year and half ago, we started Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University... life changing and I cannot recommend it enough. About six months ago, my oldest sister Katie started sharing inspiring lessons from Joshua Becker's becoming minimalist blog and we have been renovating and recreating our home and life. While we still have a ways to go to create the life of a minimalist, our quality of life has improved SO much.
About a month ago while chatting about a simplified life with friends over dinner, my friend Lindsay asked if I had heard of a capsule wardrobe. As she explained it to me, I was so intrigued and thought, "Yes! I need this in my life!"
The next day, I found myself on Caroline Rector's blog reading all about it. She puts a call out for a challenge and I was ready to take it! Right then and there! BUT, I was knee deep in our master bedroom renovation so it would have to wait awhile.
Here's a little history on the Capsule Wardrobe:
The term "capsule wardrobe" was coined by Susie Faux, owner of the West End boutique "Wardrobe", in the 1970s to refer to a collection of essential items of clothing that would not go out of fashion, and therefore could be worn for multiple seasons. The aim was to update this collection with seasonal pieces to provide something to wear for any occasion without buying many new items of clothing. Typically, Faux suggests that a woman's capsule wardrobe contain at least "2 pairs of trousers, a dress or a skirt, a jacket, a coat, a knit, two pairs of shoes and two bags".
The concept of a capsule wardrobe was popularised by American designer Donna Karan in 1985, when she released her "7 Easy Pieces" collection. Her aim was to fill what she referred to as "a void in the marketplace" for a stylish and practical wardrobe designed with working women in mind. When the collection debuted, she showed eight models dressed only in bodysuits and black tights. The models then began to add items of clothing such as wrap-skirts, trousers, and dresses, to demonstrate her interchangeable style of dressing.
As a term, "capsule wardrobe" is widely used in the fashion media; for instance, the fashion sections in British newspapers The Independent and The Daily Telegraph have recently run dedicated capsule wardrobe features, as well as British Marie Claire and Elle magazines, among others. The concept has been further popularised by several television programmes, including Trinny and Susannah's 'What Not to Wear', which aired on the BBC 2001–2007, and Gok's Fashion Fix, which aired on Channel Four from 2008 onwards. Presenter and stylist Gok Wan asserts that a capsule wardrobe is an especially important tool in a recession as it allows people to look good on a small budget. This is perhaps part of the reason that the idea has endured since its conception in the 1970s.
General Rules
- Choose a colour scheme. This would typically involve choosing one or two base colours that go with everything, such as black, white, brown, grey, or navy. Items such as trousers, handbags or coats would be bought in shades of these colours, so that they can be put with anything else in the wardrobe. After choosing the base colours, choose one or two accent colours, which are brighter than the base colours, and co-ordinate with each other. These would typically be used for items such as tops, dresses, or accessories; once a colour scheme is established, all the items in a wardrobe should be interchangeable, as the colour of the pieces always complement each other.
- Consider your body shape. Some cuts of clothing are more flattering than others; for instance, stylists often advise that women with wider hips wear cap sleeves, as they make the shoulders appear wider, and more proportionate to the hips. If the items of clothing chosen are flattering, the wearer is more likely to want to keep them in their wardrobe.
- Consider your complexion. As with cuts of clothing, some colours are more flattering than others, to both skin tone and body shape. If the colours are well-chosen, then the items are more likely to remain in favour.
- Choose classic shapes and patterns. While some cuts and patterns of clothing go in and out of fashion, others are considered 'classic' because they do not date. It is wise to choose classic pieces for a capsule wardrobe, as the wearer intends to keep them for a number of years.
- Choose high-quality fabrics. As the idea of a capsule wardrobe is to own a few items of clothing that can be worn different ways, individual pieces get lots of wear. Therefore, it is a good idea to choose clothing that is well made and continues to look good despite wear.
When I saw this quote (and her awesome branding) on un-fancy.com, it was love at first sight. As I read on, I loved her modern take on the capsule wardrobe. She's also as cute as a button and I kind of feel she could just have one item in her closet, a paper bag, and be adorable every day:
Here is her challenge:
Rule #1: Pare down your current clothes situation into a happy little 37 piece capsule wardrobe. Your 37 pieces should include: tops, bottoms, dresses, outerwear, and shoes. Your 37 pieces should not include: workout clothes, jewelry, accessories, purses, swimsuits, pajamas/loungewear, underwear, and the jeans you wear when you paint your living room.
Why 37? After trying out different numbers, I settled on 37 because of how it broke down in each category. For example, I knew I wanted 9 pairs of shoes, 9 bottoms, and 15 tops. Then the remaining 4 were just enough for 2 dresses and 2 jackets/coats. To me it feels generous yet minimal.
And honestly? The point of this is just to try something new if we don't like our current closet situation — it's not about getting obsessed with a number. If 37 isn't your thing, find a number that's right for you.
Rule #2: Wear only these 37 pieces for 3 months–what I refer to as a season. I split up my seasons like this: Winter (Jan-March), Spring (April-June), Summer (July-September), Fall (October-December). And remember, since accessories aren't included in your capsule wardrobe, you can mix them in to your heart's content. Yay.
Rule #3: Enjoy your capsule wardrobe, and don't go shopping during the 3 month season. Like, at all. That is, until you get to Rule #4…
Rule #4: During the last week or two of the season, plan + shop for next season's capsule wardrobe.
Rule #5: Okay, not really a rule, but still really important! The amount that you buy for each new season is up to you, but remember, this is a minimalist challenge. So, less is more, you know? That being said, style should be fun and picking out a few new pieces for my next season is my favorite part. I typically end up getting between 4-8 new pieces for each new season.
See more details and get more helpful info here.
I will be sharing my fall capsule wardrobe with you tomorrow and be posting the adventures with you under the category capsule wardrobe. I am pretty excited about taking on this challenge and hope some of you will join me in the journey of "less is more"!


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Rumors of this Blog's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
I went to NJ for the summer (for just over two months) to help my parents with some stuff. And then after I planned my trip, something else came up with my parents that ended up eating up significantly more of my time than I had originally planned. No need to go into details. Suffice it to say, all is great with them and nothing to worry about. But it kept me busy all summer. And while I'm very glad I was able to be there for them when they needed me, I'm also very happy to be back home in L.A. now!
Plus, there was time before and after those two months that were also eaten up, since i moved out of my apartment before I headed back East, and am in the process of moving into a new one here, now that I'm back. So while it was great being back there, it also cut into some of my free time for blogging, etc.
At the same time, I have been moving forwards quite a bit with my safari script. I will aim to do a full update on that soon, but in the meantime I'll just give you the bare bones. I believe I had already turned in my first draft on the script before I left town. Since then I did two significant revisions of it, with some substantial changes along the way. Among other things I had to work in 3 more characters at the producers' requests, and made a number of other changes. Overall, I believe the script has gotten better and better, and I'm hoping that they believe it is good enough at this point to take out and start looking for financing. (They are currently making a short film, so they haven't had the chance to read and give me feedback yet.)
So that, and continued reading work, is what has been eating up all of my time over the past few months. Now let me look ahead to the Fall.
Regarding the blog itself, I hope to get back to blogging at least somewhat more regularly. One new feature I'm hoping to add in is a series of relevant interviews. I've realized that I have a number of other writer friends, some of whom have movies coming out soon, or have made other types of progress. So I thought it would be relevant and interesting to give a forum to them, either via interviews or "guest blog posts."
I will be again teaching at the Screenwriting Expo this year, with one repeat class and one new one (they are having fewer classes overall this year, so I'm not able to do four again, like last year). In addition to continuing to work on the safari script as needed, I'm gearing up to do revisions on my D2DVD type horror script and/or Hell on Wheels. And once I've completed that I intend to start looking for representation. I'll try to keep you all as updated as possible on that as well, since I hope my experiences on that front might also be interesting and helpful.
Then, depending on how long it takes to get those done (it may be spilling over into Winter already by then), I have two ideas for my next spec script, and I'll have to choose between them. One I've been thinking about for a while, and it is a wedding-themed comedy, in the vein of My Best Friend's Wedding or Monster-in-Law. The other is a new idea that is still in the very early gestational phase of my thought process (little more than the kernel of an idea), but it is a timely and relevant satire about the American economy.
Finally, I've begun the work on my new website that will be geared towards my Screenplay Services, but will also be the home of my new, migrated and redesigned blog. I still have a ways to go, but I've started, which is more than I've done before. So now I just need to find the time to finish it up!
So, that's what's happened, and what I hope and plan will be happening! Far from dead, I hope. And please feel free to nudge me to ask things like, "Hey, how's the agent hunt coming along?" Or, "What's happening with the new website?" And for any of you who are still reading after two very long, nearly back-to-back absences, you have and deserve my thanks and respect!
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Here are the last bit of the Scotland photos!
These photos are from my tenth day.
Feel free to read the above link so you understand the story behind the photos!
You can see a round up of all my posts from my trip here.
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I told you yesterday that I was going to rend a chicken, soak the pieces in buttermilk and fry them up for dinner. Readers, I got lazy. I plunked the bird in the big black skillet, surrounded it with potato chunks and roasted it with some whole garlic cloves. With Darina Allen's recipe for Buttered Cabbage as the vegetable side dish it made for some cheap and cheerful eating, and I can still taste the garlic, which is fine by me. It saddens me that I'm not the trencher-woman I was twenty years ago — I could have eaten that chicken single-handedly (roast chicken — yum!) — but I'm not. Neither does he put food away in the volume of meals twenty years ago, so we have half a chicken sitting in the fridge. As we turned off the news last night he said: "I think we should make chicken pot pie tomorrow ." We make a lot of chicken pot pie.
The filling hasn't gone through many changes over the years: a veloute sauce stirred with lots of black pepper, cayenne, nutmeg, some shallots, tiny cubes of carrot, potato and a handful of frozen peas. Pick over the bird, chop the good bits not too fine and toss them with the sauce. Done.
It's the crust I teeter about. Jacques Pepin's Quick Puff Pastry is always a winner. Here's an example, baked on a night when Lou was feeling romantic with the garnish:
But , as much fun as I have making puff pastry, I'm feeling too pooped to puff tonight. (Tossed and turned last night — computer probblems — another story with a happy ending.)
The the choices are:
1)My plain old butter/lard pie crust.
2)Delia Smith's fabulous Flaky Pastry, made by grating frozen butter on the large side of a box grater into cold flour.
3)Make a batch of buttermilk biscuits , roll it out thinnish, and drape the top of the pie with it.
I'm leaning towards the biscuit crust solution, but I need to keep the crust off the filling;I don't want Chicken and Biscuits or Chicken Cobbler. Luckily I have a flock of pie birds (and they're another post) to keep the dough off the filling with their skinny little shoulders.
So, which way would you go? After all this this analysis, I'm now leaning towards Chicken and Biscuits. So easy. except… Should I bake it or treat the biscuits like dumplings and cook the dish atop the stove, covered?
Too many choices! My brain hurts. What drama about half a chicken! But that's how I roll.


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The Quincy (Ill.) Airport Terminal (1972; John Benya) is another nice modernist one.
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Following World War II, influential and international architects were tapped to design terminals, control towers and other facilities at expanding airports across the country. Well-known examples of aviation architecture include Dulles International Airport Terminal and TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, both designed by Eero Saarinen, and the former Terminal 6 at JFK Airport designed by I.M. Pei.
The historic importance of airport terminal architecture is particularly relevant because half of aviation's history occurred within the past 50 years. The Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Historic Aviation Properties outlines how to evaluate these properties that are of the recent past.
The application of National Register Criterion G to aviation-related properties is exemplified by the terminal building at the Dulles Airport. This terminal, built in 1962, was determined to be eligible for listing in the National Register only 16 years later. The main terminal was found to be eligible because the "building's exceptional architectural importance was immediately recognized as one of the most important post-World War II American architectural masterpieces and one of the most innovative airport designs."
Lesser known examples of post-war terminal design are also being recognized. An example is the Spokane International Airport terminal built in 1965 in the Neo-Expressionism style and designed by Warren C. Heylman and William Trogdon. The terminal is one of many post-war buildings featured in the Washington State Historic Preservation Office's "Nifty from the Last 50 Initiative". The initiative is an effort to recognize and record the state's Mid-Century Modern resources.
Guidelines for Evaluating and Nominating Properties that have Achieved Significance Within the Past 50 Years offers relevant National Register guidance.
To learn more about the preservation of post-war resources, see Architecture of the recent past: Why care? blog article by Liz Boyer.
The Quincy (Ill.) Airport Terminal (1972; John Benya) is another nice modernist one.
Hi Christina, unfortunately the Spokane airport has seen quite a few changes over the years. But you can still see aspects of the original design, particularly if you know what you are looking for!
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Getting a flat tire stinks. But when you're a mommy like me, getting a flat tire–or two, in my case–on your stroller really sucks.
In some ways, I shouldn't be surprised. I am hard on my stroller, putting it through its paces week in and week out. It is baby and my primary mode of transportation; so, for more than a jog around the neighborhood a few times a week, it's called into service for nearly every errand, from grocery shopping to the post office to the dog's daily walk. I dare say that between the nanny and me, we probably put 20 miles a week on it, at least–and that's excluding runs, which if I'm honest, I am not nearly consistent enough with to count in my weekly mileage.
And then there's the terrain. It would seem that rolling over sidewalk wouldn't be all that stressful on a stroller, but city strolling has little in common with a walk around a new neighborhood development. There's a reason it's called an urban jungle.
An average outing for me with the stroller involves negotiating stairs. I usually avoid bumping down our front stairs, if I possibly can, which are scary steep in heels and pretty much death defying with a stroller with a baby in it. So, I usually try to go out through the backyard, which has far fewer stairs but a number of other obstacles, including lifting the stroller over the toe-kick on our back gate and maneuvering it between the cars and over the gravel in our parking spots.
Then there's the back alley, which is in itself an adventure because you never know what kind of rodent carcass or trash, broken glass, abandoned TV or mattress or other matter of debris you may encounter. Not only that, but the terrain is atrocious–half brick pavers, half pavement, it's all pocked and pitted making for a seriously bumpy ride for baby.
Once out to the main street, it only gets marginally better. In my neighborhood, there's all manner of sidewalk cracks, curbs, and increasingly construction.
When I lay it all out like that, it's no wonder I had a tire blow out given all the bumping, thumping, and thudding along. But two in one week seemed a little much. The stroller gods certainly had it out for me.
But one of the problems with having a tire malfunction–other than it can put your stroller out of commission–is figuring out how to fix it. I so wish there was such a thing as AAA for strollers.
With the first tire problem, a slow leak in the front tire, I tried to pretty much ignore it for as long as I could. I would pump it up with the air compressor, but after about a day and a half, it would deflate. I toyed with using that spray Fix-a-Flat, but I was scared that I would ruin the tire and then be really screwed. Fortunately, the nanny passed a bike shop on one of her outings and 10 minutes later, the problem was fixed.
However, the second flat, occurring just a day or so after the first tire was
fixed, was a bit more traumatic. I noticed a weird sound coming from the stroller on the way to the gym one morning, but I thought it was it was the strap on my bag dragging on the ground. However, as I came out of the elevator at the gym, I took a look down and noticed that one of the back tires was looking rather pancake like.
Fortunately, there's a Target in the same building as the gym, so post workout, I popped in there to buy a cheap bike pump to get me home. (Yes, I totally was the person using the pump before I bought it, but I was desperate.) However, the flat was so bad that I had to stop and pump up the tire three times before I got home and the trip is all of 10 blocks or so. So, back went the stroller to the bike shop.
But when I had called around to a few bike shops to find out of if they could fix my tire troubles, the answer I got was maybe. Most shops were confident that they could fix any tire-related problems, but anything more than that and I likely would've been out of luck. So, it got me thinking about what I would do if I had a bigger problem, like a wobble in the front wheel or a broken foot brake or something.
Where do mommies go for heavier duty body work on their strollers? If a bike shop can't (or won't) do it, what would option B be? I suppose you'd have to try and sort it out with the manufacturer. Just saying it makes me feel like I have a headache coming on. I imagine spending a gazillion dollars to ship the stroller back to the manufacturer only for it to take weeks to resolve the problem. (Where can you even get a box big enough to do that? My stroller box is long gone.)
At any rate, all this stroller drama just served to highlight two things for me. First, I'm glad that I have more than one stroller. I was able to use my umbrella stroller while the jogger was out of commission. It made carrying my groceries home a little more difficult because it has a much smaller basket, but it worked in a pinch.
Second, I'm glad that I didn't spend a whole lot of money on any of my strollers. I mean, tires are one thing. They can be more or less easily remedied. But I can imagine how irritated I would be if my $400 (or more) stroller had any sort of problem that needed more specialized attention. At least with a value-priced one, the worst case scenario is just buying a brand new one. Not exactly ideal, but, hey, if I had to do that, I figure I still come out ahead in terms of dollars spent on strollers than if I had bought the expensive one in the first place. And with how hard this family is on its strollers, I'm not confident that any stroller is really up to the challenge over the long haul.


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It's official, winter is here for the majority of the country and we're feeling the icy coldness of mother nature. With the cold comes along sipping hot chocolate, wearing sexy layers to keep warm, and for some people, seasonal affective disorder (SAD) which is a type of depression that drains your energy and makes you feel extra moody—which is basically me after Thanksgiving diner. At the Get the Most out of Light event sponsored by Citizen, that I attended, a design expert showcased how to use color and light to combat the winter blues which was extremely valuable.
Who knew a few extra mirrors and using the color white in your home in oder to reflect more light would help do the trick? And of you follow me on snapchat, many of you saw the footage I snapped first-hand. But what resonated with me were the 5 things needed to beat the winter blues as presented by Carrol Brick PhD.
- Keep your curtains and/or windows open. When you brighten up your environment, you immediately feel the positive effects—it's like sunshine fairies sprinkling your moody-self with goodness. Go out for lunch, no more eating at your desk, besides, you finally get to flee the smell of fish being microwaved in the company kitchen!
- Eat smarter. Did you know that during the winter you crave more carbs because your making less serotonin (the happy chemical)—blame that on your big mac attack!
- Exercise more. Winter also makes you not want to leave your home or move away from the couch which will contribute to weight gain so put that remote away and head to your nearest treadmill.
- Take on a hobby. Whether you new interest involves instagramming your sock collection or pinning bikinis on Pinterest or putting wigs on your cat, find something that will keep your mind active and help fight seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
- Keep it social. When you meet up with friends and hug hello, your body releases oxytocin which is the bonding chemical. Make sure to stay connected with your community or try a new volunteer experience.
Not only did I meet new people at the event, and learn more about seasonal affective disorder (SAD), I walked out with the classic SPORT (Model: AW0050-82E watch in silver tone stainless steel) Citizen's watch for men which is valued at $225. And in my big Oprah moment — Citizen's is letting me give away the same watch to one of my readers. So YOU get a watch!
How to win:
Tell me you what you do in order to ban those blues in the winter? 3 ways to win the Citizen's SPORT watch.
- Leave a comment on the blog, or
- Tag me in an instagram post (@nandoism) showing me what you do, or
- Snap me (nandoism) on snapchat doing your activity!
Contest run starting today Jan 28th and it ends Feb 1st. Winner will be announced Feb 3rd. One lucky person will win that watch, maybe just in times for their valentine?
UPDATE (feb 3,2016): WINNER: From instagram @Aobrooks — congrats! And thank you all who entered! There will be more giveaways to come!


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Corporate Source vs. Open Source*
Has Open Source sold out? Has the corporate world somehow managed to take over the soul of open source without anyone noticing? When did open source "projects" requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars to participate become a thing?! In this talk we'll explore this and what it means for the OSS community at large.
Do you know the different interpretations of "free"? If you're in open source, you should. In this talk we'll take a walk down memory lane in roughly the past 20 years of open source, how what "open source" means has changed and evolved, and how companies have in some senses co-opted it rather brilliantly to what I would say is our detriment. Gain some insight into the history of our beloved industry through the thoughts of those who were there to create it, the philosophical ideas that powered it, and how those ideas have both evolved and been in some ways subtlety manipulated in the years since.
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The following is a reproduction of the April, 1995 article that
appeared in Southern Living magazine about Weston Gardens.
Randy and Sue Weston are horticultural heretics. At Weston Gardens, their nursery in Fort Worth, they refuse to sell creeping junipers. They refuse to sell Indian hawthorns. They even refuse to sell Burford hollies. So how do these green industry iconoclasts stay in business? By specializing in lesser-known trees, shrubs, and perennials well adapted to the soils and climate of Central Texas.
They didn't start out breaking rules. Up until about 10 years ago, they followed a mainstream path. They grew up in the Texas Panhandle, went to college at Texas Tech, met on a blind date, hit it off, and got married. She became a C.P.A. and he a computer whiz. For six years they partook of corporate America. Then something just snapped.
'We decided we didn't want to debug endless lines of computer codes, work in glass buildings, or count beans for financial scorecards," recalls Randy. So they left their jobs and set up a nursery on rural property they owned. Why start a nursery and not, say a general store? "We're both farm and ranch reared and wanted to get back to the land," he replies. "We believe that plants and beautiful gardens can make a difference in our lives."
Plants have made the difference for the hundreds of customers who travel to Weston Gardens for species they can't find elsewhere—plants such as gaudy, beaming winecup (Callirhoe involucrata) or the hummingbird magnet called turk's cap (Malvaviscus arborous drummondii). Though many of their plants are Texas natives, some, such as Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia), hail from abroad. Yet almost all share certain characteristics—they're tough, need little water or spraying, and tolerate alkaline soil.
It's difficult to get most people to try unfamiliar plants until they've seen them in a garden setting. So in 1988 Randy and Sue bought an old estate across the street from their nursery. Today a series of newly installed gardens allows the Westons to display their botanical wares.
Come looking for a flowering tree and you won't be shown a run-of-the-mill Bradford pear or crabapple. Instead, Sue might suggest chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus), extolling its aromatic foliage and deep-blue flowers. Or she might direct you to a Mexican plum (Prunus mexicana). Its white spring blossoms smell sweet as honey. Moreover, the leaves turn orange-red in fall, and the fruit makes delicious jam.
Weston Gardens makes its mark by selling only the hardiest.
Need a sturdy shade tree with outstanding fall color? Try a Caddo sugar maple (Acer saccharum Caddo), says Randy. "It turns multicolored in fall—pinks, oranges, yellows, and purples—just like a sweet gum," he notes. Unlike Eastern sugar maples, it thrives in rocky, alkaline soil.
Texas ash (Fraxinus texensis) is another favorite. Fast growing and drought tolerant, it turns gold, orange, and purple in autumn.
What about perennials? Randy and Sue can point you to dozens of time tested flowers, ornamental grasses, and ferns that have proved their grit. Ten of their top picks appear in the box below.
Known as a source for uncommon plants, the Westons have established their niche. Fortune should follow— that is, as long as they maintain an eye on Jackson, their 3-year-old son. "He likes to rip off all the display items," says a bewildered Randy. "There goes all our profit margin."
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Much has been made of Errol Morris' commercials for Miller High Life in the years since they were released, but I still can't get enough of these commercials. To be honest I haven't seen any of his other movies like The Fog of War and Gates of Heaven but I love these commercials. I will have to get to those films sooner than later, Roger Ebert called Gates of Heaven "one of the 10 best films of all time."
With summer times on the horizon, I know there will be some High Life in my future.
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Petros Sakelliou of Visual Music Circus grew up in Athens, Greece. After graduating from Architecture school (2003), and with a classical piano diploma (1998), he moved to Los Angeles where he got his Master's Degree in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts (2005). The following 4 years he ...
"I always feel that my music begs for choreography, that there's some other, very colorful story it projects in the air," muses the Athens-born composer and pianist Petros Sakelliou. "It feels as if we're playing for dancers, for something that's almost visible, almost there."
Sakelliou's pieces suggest polychrome motion: A swoop of accordion, a shimmer of vibraphone, and a fugue morphs into a Brazilian choro ("My Choro"). A madcap tango lurches into a graceful, if wry dance ("Ironic Dance #1"). Jazz complexity builds and fades in a flash of chords ("Stucks"), in a chorus of instrumental voices vying to catch the melody. In this wonderful whirl, Petros stands at the center, though always shares the limelight.
He's the ringmaster for Visual Music Circus (release: March 20, 2015; release celebration at NYC's Drom March 20, 2015), Sakelliou's lush and spirited compositions performed with classical rigor and worldly wildness. An architect as well as a musician, when he has had a break from a recent three-year gig with Cirque de Soleil, he's been conducting his own carnivalesque exploration of Afro-Latin, Brazilian, Western classical, and jazz elements.
"The compositions on the album have a circus feel to them. It's multilayered, multicolored music, and very visual," says Petros. "When you're playing in a crazy orchestra, the music creates colors, creates a more visual side to the experience of listening. The circus is a great metaphor to describe how this music is composed."
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Sakelliou's work has garnered awards ("Swingalong" won the 2007 Thelonious Monk Prize for composition), yet he didn't set out to be a composer. He began playing classical piano at 4, and never stopped picking up instruments or jamming with friends growing up in Greece. His first professional training, however, was as an architect.
It's had a quiet but noticeable impact on his pieces. "There is a sense of structure and symmetry, the rules and values that translate from one art to another," reflects Petros. "Architecture really inspired my orchestration. I have a certain love and inclination toward textures, toward combining certain elements that complement each other, the different ranges, instruments, or idioms you can use in music. Function and form have to follow each other in architecture, and you have to feel it in music as well."
The musical elements run the gamut. He plays vertical chord stacks off of the horizontal rush of melody. He spent years learning about the clave and its role in Afro-Latin music, and then invented his own clave part, a very unusual 3-beat unit. He composes in a standard form—the fugue, the tango—then zag in a different direction, but one that feels right, that flows from the beginning point. He took a hint from a piano teacher that he should compose some etude-like pieces for her students, and turned them into large-scale orchestral works, the Ironic Dance Suite.
Though the techniques may be complex and the structures intellectually engaging, Sakelliou's music is often an exercise in sonic humor. "Humor in music is like with humor in life," smiles Petros. "It's about timing and expectation and about playing with these things."
Playful shifts, twists, and turns serve to paint pictures and set scenes, yet it's Sakelliou's troupe of musical friends—some old friends from Greece like Magda Giannikou, some newfound collaborators, like his ensemble's Japanese rhythm section—that inspires the voicings and even the structure of the pieces. From his years at CalArts to a PhD stint in Boston, to his more recent move to New York, Petros has gathered a group of devoted musical friends from across the globe. A typical rehearsal unites musicians from Italy, Turkey, Greece, Japan, Switzerland, and the US.
"They really inspire and drive my writing," he enthuses. "I craft parts with particular musicians in mind." "Love for Magda and Maximos" was written to give Giannikou liberty to vamp like mad over an odd meter, and to pay affectionate tribute to two long-time friends who shaped Sakelliou as a musician.
"I love a joyful mess," laughs Sakelliou. "There's real freedom in it, going from influence to another influence. It's about being free to just express music in different idioms without feeling you have to stay within one style. We're incorporating and embracing styles, not sticking to them."