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My daughter's have seen pretty snowflake ornaments that had been made with Borax and were just dying to try this out to see how the crystals would form on the pipe cleaners. I wasn't really sure at first because I thought it might just be a big mess but I decided to give it a try anyways. Am I glad I did. Well, I didn't want to create snowflakes because those had been done before. I wanted to create a shape that I hadn't seen done, so I thought why not make stars? I first began making a star by just bending the pipes cleaners and I quickly became frustrated. One side always was a little lop sided and the entire star ended up looking misshaped. I came up with an idea to make a simple frame, using a printable star, finish nails, and a board. This ended up working like a charm and made it very easy and efficient to create the star shape. I was no longer frustrated. 🙂 Then it is was on to create the Borax stars. Everytime I've seen these, I've only seen one shape in a jar at a time. I wanted to crank a couple of these out at once, so I used a gallon bucket and a dowel rod to suspend multiples in the solution. To my surprise, they actually turned out VERY cool.
Here's What You Need:
- Gallon Bucket
- Dowel Rod or Stick
- Fishing Line
- Scissors
- Borax
- Hot Water
- Pipe Cleaners
- Finish Nails or headless nails
- Board
- Hammer
- Printable of a Star
Step 1: Find a star online. Any star print out will work & size it to the size of star that you wish to create. Print it out.
Step 2: Lay the star print out on top of a scrap piece of board as shown above. Using small finish nails, hammer a nail in each point of the star. You are making a frame for a star. You want to use finish nails or nails without a head so that once the pipe cleaner is bent around them, you can just slide them off of the nails without the head getting in the way.
Step 3: Take a pipe cleaner and wrap it around the the outside of the nail on the outer points and on the inside of the nail in between. Continue all the way around. Depending on how large your star is you might have to add on an additional pipe cleaner. Just twist it on and continue. Once you have wrapped the pipe cleaner all away around, trim the excess pipe cleaner off and lift the star off of the nail frame.
You end up with really great looking star for starting with pipe cleaners.
Step 4: Attach your stars to some fishing line. Using a gallon bucket, test to see how long you need to make the fishing line before attaching it to the dowel rod. I wrapped the line around the dowel rod and when it was the height I wanted, I taped it in place. Attach the other stars to the rod. The key with making these BoraxStars is that you don't want to let the pipe cleaner stars touch one another or the side /bottom of the bucket or the crystals will grow and attach the star to them. lift the stars out of the bucket and set them aside.
Step 5: Create your Borax mixture. I used 3 TBS. of Borax for every 1 Cup of HOT water and I multiplied this until I had my measurements figured out for my gallon sized bucket. Be sure to use hot water because it will help to better dissolve the Borax. Also, it takes a lot of Borax, so only fill your bucket as full as necessary to cover your stars. Keep in mind though, once you have finished with the solution, you can drain the water and reuse the borax crystals that formed on the bottom of your bucket 🙂
Step 6: Place the stars in the Borax mixture and let them sit for 24 hours (+/-).
This is not the best picture in the world. But, I wanted you to be able to see how I had these stars set up on the bucket as well as on the dowel rod. This is right after I had drained the Borax solution out. I let the stars drip dry just a bit too. In this photo it looks like one of the stars is touching the another one. It isn't, it's actually just turned a bit.
Step 7: Let them air dry.
We were all amazed at how well these turned out. Everyone in our house was checking on the progress of our stars to see how much they were growing. Watching the crystals form was a lot of fun for the entire family.
I had to take a picture of these in the sun light because they just sparkle beautifully like ice and snow crystals.
So pretty!
And last but not least, I had to share one picture with you of the stars actually on our Christmas tree…
So fun! You should try it. I am pretty sure your whole family will enjoy it.


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I'm a junior in high school and he's a freshman in college. I told him I wanted to go to prom and he said of course. Now he has a job and I don't and my dad already said he wasn't going to give me money for prom. I do have some money in my bank account but its little. Prom tickets are $60 each and after me telling him the previous he insisted he pays for my prom ticket. I was the one who mentioned prom in the first place but he's going to ask me on the perfect moment he said..so he's technically inviting me or will which means he has to pay but at the same time is my prom..so what do you think?
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I've never cared much for anchovies and I hated capers when I first tried them (years ago) so I hesitated to use them. But the rave reviews for this recipe, including one from someone else who's no anchovy advocate, convinced me to follow it to the letter. I still don't know about capers but a teesney dab of anchovy paste made all the difference in the dressing. I'm convinced.


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Baird says from November through January shoppers will be buying, exchanging and returning holiday items. They'll also be eating along the way — but the "quick bites" at food courts often wreck havoc with health and weight.
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Letter(s) from Elena Maksimova to Andrew (UK)
Letter 1
Hello my lovely.
I am happy to receive your letter I see that you are in my heart and I would like very much to be with you. I have never met such man as you before and I believe that we can be together and I hope that we will find our happiness. I want to come to you from all my heart and my soul. You are only man for me in all world. I feel you in my heart. My lovely I have good news. Today, on my work I talked with my director about my vacation. I have told him that I to go to you and he has told that I can take a vacation when I shall want!! he very good person he has understood me!! And today I was in travel agency to learn about trip to you. But it all made me sad. Trip to you is not very easy. Yes, I want it all my heart and hope that we will find heart and soul of each other when we will meet. But I was sad from cost of trip to you. I need Very much many papers for trip. Visa to UK with medical insurance, Very much many documents for visa, international passport, The inquiry from work, And many different documents. My love when I have learned about cost of these documents I was afflicted. It to cost 540 Pounds I want to come to you and to have my happiness and love - you. In travel agency I was told that I can get all necessary documents in 7-10 work days. But my sweet, I do not know about money. May be it is wrong but, but may be you will be able to help me with cost of trip ??? My love, you think, these are big money for you??? Lovely, please tell me can I hope for you, can you help me with it. I want to come to you as soon as possible. I miss you very much and I am sure that now my love, my happiness is close to me as never before. You are close to me and you are in my heart, I dream about us and live with hope that we will be together soon. I very much wish to arrive to you my prince, therefore I to ask you. To me does not give pleasure to ask money from the person, but I love you very much now and I wish to be with you. Therefore I cannot make anything. My love if you will agree to help me in two weeks or earlier we shall be together. I so want this moment when you to meet me. It is really fine!!!
My prince, I shall stop to write now the letter for you. Kiss you million times, my sweet.
Forever yours Elena.
Letter 2
Hello my new friend.
I am very glad to receive your letter. It is very pleasant for me, that you have written to me. And I am glad, that we can begin our acquaintance.Well, I shall write to you a little about myself. If I shall overlook to tell something about myself you can ask me any questions. I with pleasure shall answer your questions. my name is Elena. To me of 27 years. I was born December ,15, 1980. My growth of 170 centimeters and weight of 60 kg I think that it well for girl. I keep up for the my figure and on it I on a regular basis attend fitness clubs and pool. Earlier when I was younger I I went in for sports played volleyball for a combined team of our city. I have Brown hair and Green eyes. I the Harmonious, attractive, decent girl with remarkable sense of humour and gentle disposition. At leisure I like to have a rest on a nature to go in theatres and to visit exhibitions, art galleries. I like to read book about romanticism, me very is pleasant to look at stars. I like to go with my friends to cinema, weekends, I very much love youth comedies and romantic films as I love cognitive films. I do not love films where beat and insurgents kill people for example It is awful for me. my favourite color blue. I do not smoke, I drink only on holidays and only red wine. I to a kind a healthy way of life. I keep up for my health. As to my hobbies I very much like to prepare, besides usual dishes I like To experiment in cookery, and usually it turns out is very tasty. I I like on the TV to look figured driving, channel discovery and Culinary films. read interesting books, But most of all me to like to spend time on Fresh air: I like to spend time for the nature with my friends. In the summer I like to spend time on a beach to sunbathe and bathe. I love a life - I am an optimist, and I believe, That the majority beautiful the thing expects us in the future. I trust the God and destiny, On religion, I'm Christian and I believe in God Jesus. I think to you I will be very interesting to know about which person I search! I search simple for the man which can understand, estimate me all my merits and demerits. I to search for the man which to not be afraid of serious relations. I to want that he to make me happy. Appearance, Color of a skin and religion for me not the most important. The main thing for me in relations this understanding and support on the part of the favourite person. I would like to meet a honest, reliable, sincere, kind, caring and loving man. I want to find my soul mate who will also be my best friend, a loving husband and a person that possess a loving heart that needs to be loved. I have a lot of love i want to give and share with someone who can receive that love and then give love in return. I very much want to find loved person who would love me sincerely and with all the heart. For me the most important qualities are honesty and sincerity because without these qualities it is impossible to create strong family of which I always dreamed. I search for person with whom I might be quiet for the future and the future of our children. I want to present to my second half all love, tenderness and caress. my husband Should be: kind, with good sense of humour, tender, clever, Careful, loving the wife and children, And I would not want that my the husband was greedy!. I think it dreams of any girl I would like, that you have written to me about yourself. It would be desirable to see from you is a lot of photo. I hope, that you too share my point of view and too want to find such person. With which it is possible to live the rest of life with the favourite person and to be happy with him. I shall be very happy, if we in fast with can be together and go on life together. I hope, that you understand it I do not accept simply the correspondence and familiarity. I search for serious attitudes. I have no children, and I never was for the husband. But I very much want will get acquainted with the person which further my husband. I hope, that you will write about yourselves naturally too, only the truth. I do not want to spend all for nothing time with the person which Me deceives or only for entertainment. Interestingly I at all have not noticed that have written to you such big letter!!! I hope that you will not be tired by reading of my letter and it to like you. I shall wait from you the letter as soon as possible.Your friend Elena.


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I've been excited about this trend, its so unique, fun, and surprisingly it can be a great staple in your wardrobe…and its all about eyeballs! And it can be perfect to do before Halloween, because its a little creepy chic, even though I would make this regardless of the holiday. A few ways I would make this (and plan on making this), is either with freezer paper, stencil, or stamp. I looked online and in all the stores and had no luck finding any stamp or stencil that resembled this eyeball. So, DIY it is…here are the 3 ways I would.
1. freezer paper – find an image online, print it off onto freezer paper, then cut out the image. Iron it to your shirt. I would just stick with one big eyeball or a couple, because the cutting out can be a little time consuming. (example here)
2. stencil – print of the image onto hard stock paper, cut it out with an exacto knife, place where you want it on the shirt, then paint away with a sponge brush and fabric paint. Repeat if you want it to be small multiple eyeballs, then throw the paper away. (example here)
3. stamp – carve the evil eye image out in a stamp, dip in fabric paint or on stamp pad and stamp away on your shirt.


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I am so proud of my kiddos and what they did with our research project. At our school, each classroom takes a different region of Texas and studies the animals. We each take a different one so that we can share with each other and compare the differences. Our class studied the Texas Gulf Coast. This is the area that includes Corpus Christi, Galveston, Houston, etc. Here is what we did:
We talked as a whole group about the land and they wrote a page about what the land was like. Then, they were off to pick which animals they wanted to learn about. They could work in partners or by themselves. They would pick an animal they were interested in, take the bag back to their seats, and begin their research. They wrote notes on post-its that they stuck to my mini-clipboards as they answered questions that we brainstormed were important.
After they answered the four questions, they wrote their research on a book page. They added a title and picture to the page.
A basket to hold all the materials in ziploc baggies.
One held the paper:
The last page was titled "Animals You Won't Find Here". We talked about how certain animals need a certain kind of habitat. They wrote down a few animals that would not live in the Gulf Coast and Why.


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Pant suits are classic business formal attire. Wear your best suit with a simple button down or a shell.
Styling tip
Pant suits look good if they're the right length. The hem should hit anywhere between your ankle and the middle of heels.
the skirt suit
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Skirt suits are more feminine than pant suits, but just as formal. Show off your favorite heels in a nice skirt suit.
Styling tip
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Starting from humble roots in 1959 to becoming a worldwide institution in sketch comedy improv, The Second City has helped to define the comedic landscape in North America by training many well-known actors and directors. Currently found at 1616 N. Well St. in Pipers Alley, Second City Theater is the premier comedy venue in Chicago and is a perfect place to visit after an architecture boat tour from Shoreline Sightseeing. Here's a brief history about this powerhouse stage company that changed American theater.
Second City History Highlights
Rooted in improvisational theatre games developed by Viola Spolin, The Second City created unprecedented ways of performing comedy and theater. Founded by Paul Sills, Bernie Sahlins, and Howard Alk, their works railed against conformist culture when they opened in 1959.
This company's comedic legacy is built on famous alums that helped to spread its reputation. In the 1960's, the likes of Alan Arkin, Robert Klein, Barbara Harris, Fred Wilard, and others emerged. With the debut of Saturday Night Live on NBC in 1975, more Second City graduates became recognized, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and Gilda Radner.
As its reputation grew, demand for improv training expanded. Second City theaters and training centers opened in Toronto, Edmonton, and on the West Coast. Canadian alums were responsible for creating the sketch comedy series SCTV, which launched the careers of Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, and other recognized comedians.
Today, many Chicago natives, and people throughout the U.S. and Canada, have trained at The Second City to learn their legendary improv techniques. Enjoying their full schedule of shows is always time well spent with family and friends while in Chicago.
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The red "M" for Marriott glows against the white and black décor of the entrance lobby
An international hotel providing an expansively elegant space
On first entering one of the hotel's guest rooms, which are all stylishly engineered for optimal function, what catches your eye and makes an impression are the graceful curves of the sofa, table, and bedside lamp. On the purple carpet (a color regarded since Edo times as the hue of nobility) is a cherry blossom pattern, referencing Gotenyama's famed cherry trees. The high-ceilinged rooms are infused throughout with the essence of Japanese peacefulness. Expansive night views of Haneda Airport and Tokyo Bay stretch out from guest room windows on the east side of the hotel, while rooms on the west side offer views of Shibuya and central Tokyo.
Just by the hotel entrance is Lounge and Dining G, an integrated single floor that includes a restaurant, lounge, shops, terrace, bar, and private dining rooms perfect for conducting business. Just in front of the central bar counter are the shops, terrace, and lounge, and further back is the dining area where guests can enjoy lingering over a meal. Popular drinks at the cafe include original smoothies, which guests can have order-made from a selection of fruits and toppings. This special service allows guests to enjoy their own custom-made flavors. Western-style breakfast is also served at Lounge and Dining G.
The hotel's bakery and pastry shop carries freshly baked bread as well as tempting cakes and gift items such as jams. The shop's most well known product is Tokyo Curry Bread, made from dough with tapioca kneaded into it. These treats are baked in a long, thin shape so they can be eaten with one hand. The subtle sweetness of the springy dough pairs perfectly with the filling's rich curry flavor, making for a novel food experience. Another popular offering at the shop is a specially priced takeout lunch pack that includes two types of bread and coffee or tea.
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As PhotoMedia enters its 23rd year of publication, we can't help but reflect on the wide variety of events and developments there have been to cover along the way, including the rise of digital photography, global terrorist threats, political and celebrity scandals, natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake, and now, unfortunately, the still-unfolding man-made disaster in the form of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
It seems timely that this issue focuses on the subject of nature and landscape, allowing us to feature a photographer who has made it his mission to expose mankind's not-so-kind treatment of the environment and the planetary damage caused by our collective deeds.
In June 2007, I was invited to join a group of seven professional photographers on a trip to Alaska to photograph grizzly bears in the wild, which resulted in a feature story in our Fall 2007 issue. The first day, I was paired with photojournalist Daniel Beltrá in a tiny room on a 10-passenger trawler. Daniel had just won the World Press Photo contest for his pictorials on the rapidly vanishing Amazon rainforest. Throughout that trip, we established a solid friendship. Two years later, I was proud to learn that ABC News had chosen Daniel as its Person of the Week for his work's influence on policy decisions at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen.
While our story on Daniel was under way, he was assigned to cover the BP oil spill and produced the photo that graces this issue's cover. That image epitomizes the dedication evident in the photos that comprise our feature on him, along with some words from him on how he discovered his life's purpose.
Our profile of painter/sculptor/photographer Jeremy Kidd offers a very different perspective, showing how this artist's digitally assembled panoramas of cityscapes and nature give the viewer an unusual, multidimensional visual experience.
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Racism speaker sees life in black and white
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Greg Williams has a view of racism that is like non other.
He grew up white – then black.
Williams is a dean of the Ohio State University College of Law and author of "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black."
He will be one of two keynote speakers at the first Ottawa Area Summit on Racism on Feb 13 at Hope College.
"Greg Williams gives us a poignant view of the struggle of racism in America," said David Rhem, president of the Alliance. "I was so moved by his story of what it was like thinking he was white, then realizing he is African-American."
The summit – plus two town meetings and a leadership conference held previously – are sponsored by the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance and three collaborating groups. It is part of a five-year plan to break down racial barriers in the community and promote inclusion.
About 300 people have registered for the daylong event. Participants will share their ideas and insights on one of seven teams: business, community, education, faith communities, government, health care and media.
Registration costs $15. Payment may be made at the door as long as participants call the alliance at 856-9074 early this week to indicate they will be attending.
The event also is featured at the website www.ethnicdiversity.org
The other keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Juan Andrade Jr., cofounder and president of the United State Hispanic Leadership Institute. The Chicago-based Institute organizes voter registration campaigns, publishes studies on Hispanic demographics, and develops leaders.
Williams spent the first 10 years of his life in Virgina thinking his father, a tavern owner, was Italian. When his parents' marriage disintegrated in the mid-1950s, his mother departed and his father's business failed because of his own drinking.
With debtors pursuing, William' father moved sons Greg and Mike back to his hometown of Muncie, Ind. There, a striking truth became clear: They were black.
"My Dad was light-skinned and able to pass for being white, which opened certain doors," Williams said.
But not in Muncie. As a result, a father who had made a good living as a businessman suddenly could only find low-paying word as a janitor.
Young Greg and Mike's lives suddenly turned from privilege, opportunity and comfort to poverty, oppression and struggle.
They were taken in and raised by a poor black widow. Williams said he learned to proudly proclaim the ethnicity Muncie wouldn't let him forget.
Alliance Executive Director Gail Harrison said she read Williams' memoir while making arrangements for him to speak at the summit. She said the book is so powerful that initially she could not speak over the phone with him about it.
"All I could think at first was, 'It's amazing this person has lived to adulthood,'" Harrison said. "It's a wonder to someone who has lived this life is not dead."
The alliance is patterning its effort after a similar Summit on Racism in Grand Rapids. About 400 people attended that summit the first year and 700 the second year.
Organizers include Latin Americans United for Progress, the African-American Support Group, and the Alliance for Cultural and Ethnic Harmony.
Harrison said collaborating groups are pleased with the number of registrations, but are still hoping for as many as 500 participants.
In Holland, 320 people attended the town meeting; in Grand Haven, 150.
Williams said he is eager to be part of the summit because of its "forward-thinking" approach to looking at racism in the community and commitment to finding ways to promote racial unity.
He said he has studied videotapes of town meetings on racism held in Holland and Grand Haven, and a half-day conference for community leaders.
"The community is aware its racial landscape is changing," Williams said. "Issues like this occur across the country. Talking about it like this helps people grow with the change."
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Modern Monetary Macroeconomics
A New Paradigm for Economic Policy
Edited by Claude Gnos and Sergio Rossi
Chapter 10: World monetary disorders: the mystery of the 'missing surplus' and of the 'missing capital outflow'
Alvaro Cencini and Mauro Citraro
The discovery of double-entry book-keeping marked the outset of modern economies as well as that of modern economics. From then on, the basis was laid for the emission of bank money, and for the birth of capitalism. Indeed, the very existence of an economic system allowing for capital accumulation requires that of banks as institutions carrying out the double role of monetary and financial intermediaries. The recording of debts and credits is the essence of this twofold intermediation. According to the principle of double-entry book-keeping, each transaction is entered twice in the balance sheet of the bank carrying it out. Yet this is only half of the picture. If payments simply implied the payer being debited and the payee being credited, the introduction of bank money would not be as revolutionary an event as the contributors to this volume have been, more or less explicitly, arguing throughout their work. As a matter of fact, each payment is double-entered twice, once with respect to the payer and once with respect to the payee. This may be easily illustrated, for example by referring to the purchase of output. When income holders spend their initial earnings for the purchase of an output, they are both credited and debited by their bank, as are the sellers of the purchased output. This is so because the bank acts as an intermediary, and money is a simple catalyst, a means of payment, and not the object of the payment. Thus, the bank issues money to the benefit of the payer–it credits the payer with a positive amount of money–and carries out the payment on his behalf: it debits him with an equivalent amount. Simultaneously, the bank credits the payee with the same sum of money, and debits him by making him a bank deposit holder. Thanks to double-entry book-keeping, money can indeed be the subject of a double credit and of a double debit, which is perfectly in line with its nature as a flow.
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Hi oatmeal lovers! I am back in New York City after a three-week excursion to visit friends and family. If you've been following the blog, you know that I've been featuring many guest posts to keep the blog active throughout the summer despite my travels. Although I've been eating simple oatmeal every morning, I didn't really have time to create new recipes, make them look pretty, and take nice pictures of them. So I outsourced. 😉 I found Tiffany's "Glühwein" (aka mulled wine) Oatmeal on Instagram and thought it was brilliant.
To see the recipe for this splendid recipe, scroll down, down, down! Otherwise, leisurely scroll through some pictures from my travels.
So what have I been up to? Well, I spent some time in Minnesota and reunited with high school friends:
My family and I cheered on the Minnesota Twins:
My boyfriend and I went to CANADA!!
And, of course, I drank enough espresso to fill the Space Needle:
If you'd like to see more pictures from my travels, check out my Instagram.
But now for the main event, Tiffany's Mulled Wine Oatmeal!
Hello fellow oatmeal addicts!
My name is Tiffany and I am thrilled to be asked by Lauren to share my recipe for mulled-wine-spiced porridge with you. I'm a long-time oatmeal lover and an avid reader of Lauren's blog, and often find myself turning to her expertise when I'm looking for inspiration or exciting combinations.
I hail from sunny Australia, although right now we're in the middle of a damn cold winter and even though it chills my bones, it's perfect oatmeal weather! I'm a postgrad student at the University of Melbourne, and when I can't be found buried face-first in a mountain of books, I'm probably making a delicious mess in the kitchen. I love to cook! My food philosophy is pretty simple: local, seasonal, kind. I eat a mostly vegan diet and I love to use produce that's in-season and abundant. Fresh is best! One of my favourite things is to go to farmers' markets and stock up on loads of fresh fruit and veg.
Like most of you, I love breakfast. Love it. On frosty winter mornings, a comforting bowl of oats is what gets me out of my toasty warm bed and ready to face the day. I like my porridge with fruit – lots and lots of fruit. Add some toasted nuts, a chef's pinch of salt and a touch of sweetness and I'm in heaven.
Something else I love is mulled wine, which I discovered a taste for when I moved to Melbourne a year ago. Deep and warming and spiced, it smells of winter and tastes of Christmas. Recently I bought some Glühwein Spice (mulled wine) from Gewürzhaus Spice Merchants, fully intending to infuse it in a bottle of South Australian cab sav. One dreary and unproductive day I wondered, 'What would mulled wine spice be like in oatmeal?' And so was born my Glühwein Red Grape Porridge with Toasted Almonds and Medjool Dates. So delicious.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! And thanks to Lauren for letting me share it with you! Oatmeal on, fellow addicts.
Tiff xx
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What you'll need: How to make it: Just an FYI: *Gewürzhaus use: wild hibiscus, orange peel, clove, lemon peel, star anise, cinnamon, cassia and pepper.
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This weekend I was invited to Don Giovanni in Manchester to review their impressive array of Italian cuisine. Nestled at the top of Oxford Road, I must have walked past the restaurant a million times, but for some reason the temptation of Italian food has never drawn me in. To be completely honest, I've always felt like Italian food was a little... well, plain. But after 3 courses of Italian taste sensations at a restaurant with over 30 years experience pleasing food lovers, I think it's safe to say I have changed my mind. Each course was so full of flavour and satisfying, that I'm finding myself craving more pasta delights right now. The things I would do for those olives...
When arriving at the restaurant we were guided to our seats right by the window. The entire place was heaving with people already enjoying their food, which made the atmosphere perfect, with just the right level of background noise. Our waitress didn't mind our poor attempts at pronouncing our choices from the menu either, which is always a bonus.
After settling in to our seats, we quickly ordered the Antipasti selection for two, which helped us to fuel our way in to choosing our main courses. There was so much choice on the menu it was really hard to narrow it down to a short list of options. The starter selection was a delicious combination of cold meats, alongside roasted aubergine and peppers with a handful of thin grissini sticks on the top. Not to mention the sundried tomato and mozzarella, with a dash of pesto completed this extra large plate of absolute deliciousness. To be honest, I could have stopped this foodie experience after this, as my belly was satisfyingly full already. However, in the spirit of the review I continued on to the main course.
From the pasta section of the A La Carte menu I chose 'Farfalle Al Salmone', which was ribbon pasta (aka those little bow tie shaped ones) with delicious pink smoked salmon stirred through a dill and peppercorn cream and tomato sauce. My date for the evening also went down a fishy route with their option and chose Spaghetti Nero di Seppia, which was squid ink spaghetti with prawns and mussels in a delicate white wine sauce. As we'd both chosen dishes with a sauce base, we knew we couldn't risk any of the flavour going to waste, so also went for the rosemary and rock salt focaccia to mop up any remainder.
It's safe to say that all three dishes lived up to expectation. The Salmon pasta had just the right amount of creaminess, alongside a deliciously rich flavour all bought together by the tangy spice of the peppercorns. The squid ink spaghetti looked a little intimidating in appearance, which it's ultra dark, black colour; but once you got your head around the colour it was more than delicious with the ultra juicy prawns.
Despite both main courses being really amazing, I must admit, the thing that got me hankering for more was the focaccia bread. It was just *so* good. So, so, so, so, sooooo good. I almost felt like crying when I couldn't fit any more of it in to my stomach. And believe me, I tried.
Despite being fit to burst, we knew we could not leave without trying a dessert (or two). One could say we are gluttons for punishment... Or perhaps just absolute gluttons. I mean, no human needed this much lavish food in one evening. But we did it. For the good of blogging WE DID IT. After a quick browse of the dessert menu and brisking over the sorbet option, we settled on a Creme Brûlée and a Tiramisu to share. I must admit, the creme brûlée left me a little on the disappointing side, as it didn't seem to have that really satisfying crunch you usually get on the burnt sugar top, and it was quite cold throughout. I always love when you have the really warm bits contrasting against the cooler creamy bits in your mouth! However, the flavour and consistency of the dish was spot on. As for the tiramisu? WELL, this ticked allllll the boxes for flavour, texture and satisfaction. We both loved it.
All in all, Don Giovanni in Manchester was a delicious taste and texture journey, showcasing exactly why they have stood the test of time within the ever changing face of Manchester restaurants. Winning multiple awards, the quality of food and excellent service spoke for itself and has definitely changed my entire opinion on Italian food! 'Plain' is the last thing this little lot could be described as.
Massive thanks for having us Don Giovanni, and an extra shout out for the hospitality of Enzo who introduced himself after our meal just to say hello.
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BEING A MYSTERY shopper is a job many of us wouldn't mind having, but it's not quite the case that Kravitz gets to rant and rave to restaurant owners. He largely sticks to his "objective" list, and he knows he's often viewed as the (unseen) enemy. "The thing that too many restaurant employees don't understand is that our job is not to get them," Kravitz says. He does what he's hired to do: lay out exactly what happens during a meal. The report he works from — a combination of each restaurant's guidelines and his own set of standards — keeps him from straying toward opinion. For each staff position, each interaction, there are points to be awarded, for things as small as "Was I offered bottled water?" to as large as "Was my steak cooked right?"
Kravitz spends a lot of time editing judgment and emotion out of his freelancers. "I had a report recently where the shopper wrote that the chips didn't go well with the dip," he says. "I took that out." Where he needs to get subjective — mostly when it comes to food — he treads lightly. On the Center City Latin shop, his report read that the shrimp was "perceived to be rubbery and slightly fishy." No matter how you sugarcoat it, it was poorly cooked shrimp. But as unbiased as his reports are "perceived" to be, it might not matter that the line between opinion and fact gets blurred. The restaurants use him for both truth (the bartender was stealing) and perspective (the shrimp sucked).
Both are what Kravitz — as a proxy for us — gets to hand directly to Garces and Stephen Starr, hopefully making everyone's dining experience better. It's a brave new restaurant world.
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Jill Badonsky Interviewed by Stacy Magic
From where does your creativity spring?
I believe inspiration is beyond the intellect's ability to explain it. Somehow it comes from a beautiful concoction of ingredients that emerge from our intuition and imagination and includes the latest wake in the pool of collective consciousness; our personal drives, passions, history, personality tendencies, needs, quirks and even directions from our DNA. Which is another way of saying, "Heck.. I have NO idea where my creativity comes from, it just seems to be there when I need it and the more I use it the more it is there."
Paying attention to what else is possible other than what's before me, asking small questions, being curious, wanting to be whimsical and witty, the need to express what's bouncing around in my being, all contribute to making creativity a priority.
I love that the word "amuse" is literally the words "a muse." My creativity often originates from the value I place on amusement and inspiration. Like everyone, I was born with propensities – one of them is unfettered drive, the others are humor and teaching – so I've had an unstoppable drive to teach in a fun and playful way.
Sometimes my creativity comes from making associations, connections, and toying with convergences of thoughts; seeing things in a new way – extrapolating, expounding, and using different perspectives from which new concepts spring forth.
When I discover little inventions, prompts, or easy ways to access my own creativity, the teacher-DNA I was born with directs me to package them with humor or whimsy and share them with others. I get satisfaction from thinking I might be discovering something that can help others; a tendency which probably comes from the need to heal some dark, subterranean madness I harbor. I just go with it.
What did your creativity look like when you were a child?
It looked like a little girl with really short blond hair in the backyard pretending she herded cats or, if she had a towel on her head, it meant she was the ruler of a kingdom which required long hair. I also invented clubs with elaborately hilarious languages that I invited friends to join only if they were willing to change their name to Edith, Ethel or Gladys. My artistic and eccentric mother fanned the embers of my creativity by allowing me an incredible amount of freedom and solitude when I was little.
This question actually is a great follow-up to the first question about where my creativity springs, because the way I made sure to get attention from my parents was to do anything I could to make them laugh. So I think my need to share creative tricks with wit and whimsy was cultivated by this early attention-seeking behavior.
Have you written in a more formal genre than The Awe-Manac?
Yes, I wrote The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers, and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence which was bought by Penguin-Putnam back in 1999. It the same voice as The Awe-manac but there are actual paragraphs and longer trains of thought.
My writing experience is derived mostly from my obsession with writing in my journal or from writing funny newsletters – either for my friends or for the jobs I held in Expressive Therapy departments on psychiatric units (as staff not patient). I do not have any formal writing training. I'm just obsessed with it.
How/when did you harness your creativity into concrete and shareable formats?
The newsletters I wrote at work in hospital were the first forms of sharing my creativity. In the early '90s I wrote a column for a magazine called California Woman about the creative process, and eventually spun-off into my own creativity-oriented newsletter in 1994 called Hammocks and Moons which was snail mailed to about 75 readers. Now I email a monthly Muse Flash e-zine to around 5,000 readers.
One of the biggest accomplishments that catapulted my creative life into full gear occurred in 1997 when I wrote and performed an hour and a half one-woman multimedia play called I Can't Always Handle Reality But it's Really the Only Place to Get a Good Cup of Coffee. I played seven different characters. The play was about a woman lost in the corporate world who was directed back to her artistic self by a cocktail waitress, a Marshmallow Queen (with long hair), a TV repairman beat poet, a detective and Guru Babaloo Nanda Nanda Bo Banda, Banana Fanna Fo Fonda.
Running creativity workshops and coaching creative souls for several years gave me the opportunity to invent prompts, exercises and tools to help people through creative blocks. This eventually became my first book, The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard) – 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration. Getting a book out there opens all sorts of doors, which continued to challenge my creative growth.
I am very drawn to your artwork. Are you doodling all the time? What are your favorite mediums? How does one find their medium?
Thank you, I do doodle all the time. In fact, my best doodles happen when talking on the phone, listening to books on tape, or watching TV, because my critic and left brain are engaged in something, while my right brain takes over in wild abandon on the page. Sometimes I don't even realize what I've drawn until I'm finished. Picking a subject and rendering it in all different ways helps my doodles evolve. Right brain techniques help me deepen my artistic voice.
My favorite medium is ink and watercolor.
I think one finds their medium by exploring different techniques through classes or, just by walking through Dick Blick's or Michaels and seeing what calls out to them.
Taking classes can help you discover techniques you may not find on your own, but finding what and how it works for you and ignoring all rules and comparisons to others is important.
One also finds their medium by allowing themselves to be beginners and not expecting perfection. Perfectionism is one of the biggest obstacles to starting, enjoying, and advancing our creative world. I'm constantly saying, "This is close enough" and "So what?" to quiet the tyrannical inner critic.
Which one: real book or e-book?
Real book hands down, no contest. Touching and turning pages, flipping back and forth, having books under the bed as comfort, highlighting passages, as friends, as opening and reviewing a quick reference or seeing what the page says. I don't think e-books will ever replace the magic of a real book for me.
How does one discover their muse?
By paying attention to where they get their inspiration. It sounds obvious but many people will have "aha" moments while driving, in the shower, listening to music, watching a certain TV show or movie, in nature, or by reading something they love, but they'll sit down to create without including any of these fertile activities as a conduit for starting and expect inspiration, then find themselves in avoidance.
Just engaging in writing without pressure for short periods of time can awaken a sleeping muse, as can asking small questions without expecting an immediate answer: "What would be a small thing my character might say?" "What would make this fun?" "What's one small thing that would make showing up to my work easier?" "What if I approached this work 5% angrier, bigger, edgier, truer to my beliefs, wilder, tamer, more fluid complex, liberated, concise, abstract?
What one thing can I do each day to unleash my creativity?
Making time for creativity effects every area of life positively. It's one of those essential activities that often gets ignored because it's not urgent. Neglected creativity leads to crankiness and even depression.
Different things unleash our creativity according to our individual styles and because creativity is fickle, what works one day might not work the next, so it's nice to have a variety of "unleashers" to choose from. Here are some that have worked best for the creativity coaching clients, groups and, companies I've worked for:
- reading and re-reading quotes, passages, or your own prior work to inspire you,
- remembering what worked in the past and doing it again,
- breaking things way down and lowering expectations to get started,
- meditating,
- taking a small, delicious question for a walk,
- writing lists and mind-mapping,
- dark roasted coffee,
- teaming up with a friend while working on your own projects at the same time,
- writing haikus or very short poems or paragraphs whenever you think of it,
and of course, reading The Awe-manac which was designed for this purpose.
What words do you love to say?
Table for two, please.
Where, in San Diego, do you like to spend time?
I live in a Banker's Hill studio filled with windows that let in ocean breezes. It overlooks a canyon so it's my creative den of invention, imagination and inspiration. It feels like a tree-house and most of the time, I simply sit on my futon doodling and writing bliss but when the grassblowers are in full throttle, Lestat's in Normal Heights or Rebecca's in South Park are my favorite places to write. My inspiring walks are to Little Italy, Balboa Park and to area cafes for inspiration.
Where do you go to be calm? Happy? Energized? Sparked?
As long as my creative inspiration is in the on-position, I feel those feelings anywhere I have space to write or draw. Having a sea-breeze, a view of trees, and my music is a plus.
I also get energized running and listening to my i-pod, in art galleries, museums, lectures, waking up between high thread count sheets and during massages.
What's next?
I'm working on a book called Creativity: An Owner's Manual which is a take-off of a camera manual but for creativity. It's tongue-in-cheek but practical. It's fun and entertaining to get your attention and filled with new illustrations and prompts. It will be designed to both make you laugh and give you sensible ways to easily install your creative action.
I'll also be animating my illustrations and returning to the world of performance writing and film-making once the book is finished.
Thanks for asking! Let this quote inspire you to pay attention:
"What a wonderful life I've had. I only wish I realized it sooner." ~Colette
Jill Badonsky, M.Ed., is an internationally recognized workshop leader, keynote speaker, creativity-coaching pioneer, illustrator, and humorist. She has creatively consulted with national magazines, filmmakers, comedians, artists, writers, women in business, and spiritual groups through-out the country. Her background is in occupational therapy, writing, marketing, educational media and instructional design. She writes a monthly column for Creativity Portal and is editor of the monthly Muse Flash.
Jill is founder and director of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching. She is author of The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers, and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence and the award-winning, The Awe-manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder from Running Press. Jill lives in the San Diego with two cats and a bougainvillea. Find her at www.themuseisin.com or www.kaizenmuse.com


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Seahawks Concerned Russell Wilson Has Become A Celebrity QB
This Peyton Manning Retirement Home Parody Commercial Is Hilarious (Video)
by: Justin Leger On Sunday, November 22, 2015
Peyton Manning's benching for Brock Osweiler could indicate the beginning of the end of Manning's career, so he might be in the market for a retirement home.
Thankfully, he'll have "Peaceful Pockets Retirement Community for NFL Quarterbacks". Someone created a hilarious retirement home commercial parody directed toward the 39-year-old quarterback. "Peaceful Pockets" is located "thousands of miles from New England" and includes commercial acting. So in other words, it seems like Manning's idea of paradise.


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The Who in the 60s and early 70s were unmatched for energy and presence
Sometime between 1979 and 1983, cannot remember when.
I was living in Zagreb at the time, and saw Leonard Bernstein conducting a fantastic concert in the Lisinski Hall. It included Brahms 4.
That man was sheer dynamite....
that would have been amazing ...he was a true icon. For me Classical music -- Isaac Stern an the University of Connecticut in 1975ish. Popular music Bruce Springsteen at the New Haven Coliseum August 1978...
Foreigner had a great laser show. Ike and Tina Turner put on an amazing performance.
Ozfest, all of them, about a dozen. I especially enjoyed the Dark Carnivale. Never saw so many freaks in one place.
Music gives so many beautiful moments; it is difficult to narrow it down to one occasion.
Other wonderful memories (and there are many, many more as I am not young!):
Segovia sometime in the mid-late 1970s at the Colston Hall, Bristol. I had a choir seat so was very close up to him. He was already old, missing notes and making mistakes, but the magic was still there.
Also in mid-late 1970s, watching Michael Tippet's Midsummer Marriage, a wrongfully neglected opera, at the Bristol Hippodrome. Then, the next night, singing in his Child of Our Time at the Colston Hall, only to find him present in the audience.
Late 1960s, attending 25 London Proms concerts, in which the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra featured a lot as the guest orchestra that year, conducted by Bernard Haitink. Hearing Gurrelieder (Schoenberg) and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Mahler) sung by Heather Harper during the same series.
Itzhak Perlmann playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in the Albert Hall sometime in the early 1970s.
Late 1960s: playing in a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in Hitchin with the Ealing Youth Orchestra together with the North Herts Guild of Singers conducted by the inspiring John Railton, who even one-armed was a brilliant conductor and even more brilliant pianist. Shivers up and down my spine, especially during the soprano+flute solo of the Et Incarnatus Est.
The first time I saw Steeleye Span, again in the 1970s, at the Bristol Hippodrome, with Maddy Prior whirling all round the state.
Catching Nana Mouskouri on her farewell tour at the Sage in Gateshead. Lovely, lovely woman. She started off really shakily; it was almost embarassing, but as the love of the audience got to her, she became superb.
And many, many occasions when I've played/sung West Gallery music, and most recently, when I've discovered Welsh plygain carols.
Music has given me so very many magical moments!
Ahhh, and Maddy now runs singing courses from her home in Northumbria, together with Abbie Lathe, who is a wondrous teacher. I had the privilege to be able to go on three occasions.
I went to an R.E.M concert years back where due to illness they only played a couple of live acoustic tracks, before ending the gig. They rescheduled it, but to be honest the uniqueness of that first gig, in retrospect made it the best gig I've ever been to.
The Cure at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, 2000. My last outing as a goth chick at the age of 28
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For me, it has to be:1. Judas Priest 2. Iron Maiden3. Poison4. Bon Jovi5. Queensryche6. Cinderella7. Deep Purple8. Kiss
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This includes weddings engagements Birthdays, I am interested in the theme settings and the food.Mostly the food. It's great to reminecse
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Have you guys heard? Prince died. I'm beside myself, one of my favorite and beloved artists. Ugh, so sad. Talk amongst yourselves, I have to see clients, didn't have anyone else to share with, back later.
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At this year's edition to Google I/O 2013, the whole world got to see 'wow' device in the form of Samsung Galaxy S4. Wait a second! The South Korean giant announced the Galaxy S4 back in April. But what made Google to announce Galaxy S4 once again. Is it a new base model? Has Google announced a special edition of Galaxy S4 to woo developers' community? So, what's the truth? To answer this question let GizBot give you an overview about Samsung Galaxy S4 'Nexus 'edition. Yes, you heard it right. There was no Nexus 5 neither was Nexus 7.
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What was astonishing is the Google's loudness towards Samsung Galaxy S4---Is it the new Nexus 5. Looks like Google now wants to continue its relationship with Samsung in a more refined way. The special thing about the Galaxy S4 Nexus edition is that it comes loaded with stock android 4.2.2. Jelly Bean. What does that mean? Your device will get updates fasterthan other comparable handsets. Of course the device is expensive --$649 (unlocked); its value can be compared to iPhone 5.
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 Nexus Edition comes with a 5-inch display with resolution of 1,920 x 1080 Full HD display. Its eye dropping display at 440ppi is just so gorgeous. On the other LG made Nexus 4 packs a 4.7inch 720P HD screen. Obviously, the Galaxy S4 Nexus Edition is far more superior in displaying crisp and vivid colours than compared to Nexus.


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icons and graphics for iPhone and Android Apps
Budget $30-250 USD
I already have this app and I need you to change a few things.
1) First what we need changed is the home screen. Currently the Options "Instagram, Facebook, Camera Roll, etc." are all shown as a list under an image. I dont want this. I want an easy to use Icon interface. This Icon interface should look similar to the iPhone, iPad Home screen, with icons the user can press.
I have provided a sample of what it should look like, but it is only an example, you cannot use those images, I have provided you images you can use for the Facebook and Instagram options
2) I also want to revamp the screen where the user chooses a frame. Currently all the frame options are on the bottom of the page and the image with the frame loads after they click on that frame. The way I want it (like in the example) is like a showcase, I want the user to be able to drag from one frame to another and even give them the option to use the scroll bar.
3) I need the sizing page like the sample, the sizes should be adjustable from the admin panel. We currently are only using one predefined image, but we may add more in the future.
I need you to do the following with the stock photo I provide to you:
- Change background to white
- Sofa color of Leather (Like in #4)
- Change texture to more subtle texture
- For the iPad you can use the full image, but for the iPhone the image is too big and so I want you to crop out the middle seat of the sofa and a little bit off of the sides (to the right of the lamp, and left of sofa) to make the image more suitable for the iPhone.
4) I need the cart page like the sample I provided to you. I want the user to see a synopsis of their order and on top specific details of the particular image they selected. If they only have one image ONLY show that portion. The user should be able to swipe on any image to also bring up the "Edit/Delete" options
5) I need icons done for the app itself (what it looks like on the phones home screen). I want these icons to be different for the iPhone and iPad because I want them to be the perfect amount of pixels for the device. These icons should have rounded corners, a light drop shadow and it should be reflective (like this UPS logo: [url removed, login to view]). They should go nice with the new iOS 7 icons
6) We need the following icons done, try to keep them nice and like the new iOS 7 icons:
- A shopping cart icon
- Icons for the following frames: Canvas, Wood Mount, Poster Print, Black, Espresso, Pecan, White
- "Continue", "Back and "Next" Buttons
- Icons showing the different sizes for the framed art
7) The color theme and the fonts should be changed on all pages and should not resemble the current app, the buttons should also be changed. Lastly, I want this application to work in both landscape and portrait modes (depending on how the user is holding the phone)
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Goldman Sachs To Pay $550 M To Settle SEC Fraud Charges
We now know the answer to the question: How much does investment bank Goldman Sachs & Co. have to pay to make the Securities and Exchange Commission's civil charges against it go away? It's $550 million.
Goldman Sachs, one of Wall Street's most powerful names, agreed to pay the amount as fines and restitution to settle a case in which it was charged with defrauding investors by selling them investments in which the firm withheld some critical information from buyers.
One key piece of information, for instance, was that many of the mortgages packaged into the investments were chosen by one of the nation's most successful hedge fund managers, John Paulson, who chose them expressly because he was betting that those mortgages would default.
The SEC and many lawmakers contended that if investors had known this information, they might have been more wary about those investments which eventually wound up losing them a lot of money.
Here's the essence of the what Goldman agreed to although, as is customary in such settlements, the firm neither legally admitted or denied wrongdoing. From the SEC's news release:
Goldman acknowledges that the marketing materials for the ABACUS 2007-AC1 transaction contained incomplete information. In particular, it was a mistake for the Goldman marketing materials to state that the reference portfolio was "selected by" ACA Management LLC without disclosing the role of Paulson & Co. Inc. in the portfolio selection process and that Paulson's economic interests were adverse to CDO investors. Goldman regrets that the marketing materials did not contain that disclosure.
In what appeared a happy accident of history, news of the settlement came on the same afternoon that Congress passed historic financial-overhaul legislation, the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression, meant to clean up some of Wall Street's more questionable practices.
The $550 million settlement included fines of $300 million. The balance would be paid out in restitution.
The SEC said the settlement was the largest it had ever extracted from a financial firm.
Another excerpt from the SEC news release:
"Half a billion dollars is the largest penalty ever assessed against a financial services firm in the history of the SEC," said Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "This settlement is a stark lesson to Wall Street firms that no product is too complex, and no investor too sophisticated, to avoid a heavy price if a firm violates the fundamental principles of honest treatment and fair dealing."


text: Since we've been talking about dogs, I've just gotta share this. If you're not familiar with Bostons, they are are very intelligent, very inventive and very funny little guys. Their rubbery little faces can have almost every expression that a humans' can - they smile when they're happy, they can give you dirty looks, sad looks, guilty looks ... and they will keep you constantly laughing at their antics. My youngest Boston, Katy, outdoes them all! She has amazed me more than once at some of the things she does. But she's such a sneaky little booger! and not just sneaky, Ms. Katy is very clever and very determined too! We have the same routine every morning. She plays with her toys while Im getting ready to go to work, then when Im ready to leave, she goes in her crate. She eats her breakfast in her crate, and I put a durable toy in with her so she has something to do until I come home from work. Her very favorite toy is her neon green Holey Roller ball. If you've never seen one, they're WONDERFUL toys! They're open weave hollow balls made out of springy plastic in hexagon shapes - almost indestructible. She LOVES hers! It still bounces but its missing a few of the cross pieces now so its become one of the toys that she plays with only with supervision afraid shell pull more pieces off of it. For the last few weeks Katy has tried to take the Holey Roller ball in to the crate with her when she goes in before I leave - I take it out again and replace it with her Kong (really indestructible!) and shes miffed at me! So yesterday morning she got sneaky! I noticed that she was playing with a different toy while I was getting ready. I looked in her crate and she had stashed the Holey Roller ball waaaay back in the corner of her crate where she apparently thought I wouldnt see it. I took it back out. A few minutes later I noticed that the HR ball was gone again! So I looked in her crate again the ball was waaay in the back again and this time she had made a very good attempt to hide it under her blankets! Again, I took it out of the crate. Finally I was ready to leave I was carrying her breakfast bowl and her Kong and told her to get in her crate I saw the faintest flash of neon green as she zipped past me! I looked in the crate and she was sitting there smiling at me innocently but no Holey Roller ball in there! I looked around the room thinking she had dropped it no ball. I looked in the crate again and this time I noticed that there was a small loop of neon green plastic sticking out from under her pudgy little rear she was SITTING ON IT! She knew I didnt want her to have it so she snuck it in to her crate and she SAT ON IT so I wouldnt see it! Who ever thought youd have to work so hard to try to outsmart your own dog!


text: AUD/USD is drifting sideways and consolidating on what has been a lackluster session so far in the absence of catalysts. China and commodities in sharp focus - ANZ While the main theme remains with China and the commodity sector, a broad based pause in the recovery is set in place and we turn heads to the Yuan fix, noting a devaluing from yesterday's 6.5041 mid to today's 6.5106, in line with the bearish outlook for the Yuan. AUD/USD pressured on data After yesterday's shocking export figure from China's trade data, the data from Australia for today offered a poor number in the home loans at -3.9% for Jan vs -2.3% expected and vs prior 2.7% albeit calculated over the holiday season. Nevertheless, the Aussie is slightly bearish on this for the session, while the Westpac consumer confidence for March is back to the average six- month reading, noted by the analysts and arrived -2.2 vs 4.2% prior. AUD/USD levels AUD/USD remains with a bullish bias medium term having broken up through the weekly cloud at 0.7378 recently and in the absence of any significant downside pressures . However, price is fading towards 100 1hr sma at 0.7397 currently while below there, the 8-month resistance line previously (0.7331) below S3 (0.7341) and combined with 0.7320 is a key support area. Daily RSI turns below 70 now on the correction in price as the market targets the 55 week moving average at 0.7380. For more information, read our latest forex news.


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Apart at the Seams is the Kindle Daily Deal Tomorrow
Apart at the Seams has been chosen for the Amazon Kindle Daily Deal for September 5th. Which is tomorrow.
I'm telling you this for several reasons.
One, I'm partying — this is great news, and I'm totally honoured that they chose my book for the deal.
Two, if you haven't gotten a chance to get Apart at the Seams yet and wanted it, here's a chance to get it while it costs about as much as a cup of coffee. Buy one for yourself. Buy a copy for a friend. Laugh together. Cry together. Celebrate friendship and relationships together, culminating in a big, 11 o'clock, emotionally-wrenching number. Wait… what?
But the big one is three, if you love me — and I think you love me? — please help me spread word tomorrow. I'll put a reminder in the Roundup too, but I wanted to set this idea out there before September 5th when the book goes on sale.
You could write a blog post about it (hey, if you're participating in the tour, you could mention it in your post), or Tweet it, or Facebook it, or send an email to friends, or pin the cover below on Pinterest (linking to the Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Apart-at-Seams-Melissa-Ford-ebook/dp/B00JMQ3N0M/), or… however else you want to spread word. Me? I'm going to do an interpretive dance about it in the middle of my street. But that's just me.
So pretty please help me spread word. And a massive thank you in advance to everyone who does.
Additionally, if you head over to Lavender Luz this morning, you will see the first posts from the online book tour. An even larger thank you to everyone who participated in that. I can't wait to read your posts. And thank you, Lori, for organizing it. It makes me weepy when I think of everything you've done for this book. And for me.
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- 1 JB { 09.04.14 at 4:07 pm }
this is so cool! I don't have a Kindle unfortunately, but I'm definitely putting this on my Nook as soon as I can! I've been wanting to read it and I finally have time in the evenings!
- 2 Pepper { 09.04.14 at 5:11 pm }
So cool! Congratulations! I'll be spreading the word to my bookie friends. 🙂
- 3 Mali { 09.04.14 at 6:04 pm }
Must have different copyright for NZ – can't find it (as an ebook) at all on Kindle. Sigh.
- 4 Lori Lavender Luz { 09.04.14 at 10:48 pm }
I'm so excited that your book was selected as a Daily Deal — wowza!
Honored to host this book tour. The posts have been so engaging and well thought-out — just like "Apart at the Seams."
- 5 Tiara { 09.05.14 at 5:11 am }
That is good news. Congratulations!
- 6 loribeth { 09.05.14 at 9:38 pm }
I haven't checked yet, but is there or will there be a Kobo (epub) version?


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