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Below is an in-depth look at all the little details that went into making our wedding day everything we could have hoped…
The Look:
My dress was purchased from the lovely salon, She Said Yes in Rogers, AR. The style is "Quincy" by Sarah Seven in the color blush. It was paired with a Sarah Seven belt and topped off with the most gorgeous handmade headpiece and veil ordered online from Mignonne Handmade. Such a kind company with very a personal communication team. The creator let me know that she would be putting the finishing touches on my order while on holiday in France. Swoon. My jewelry was a mix of Madewell and Anthropologie. Similar items are linked here.
The Venue:
My husband and I are from Oklahoma. We wanted to have a destination wedding without going too far so we settled on Albuquerque, New Mexico. The mountains were a perfect landscape for our winter wedding. Our ceremony and reception took place at Casa Esencia, a venue that is a part of Hotel Albuquerque. It is a Spanish-style home that has been renovated to serve as an event venue. It was laid out with multiple meandering rooms, both big and small, that allowed for quiet conversations or a big dance party.
The Vendors:
Our photographer, Tish (of Matt and Tish), to whom I give credit for all of these glorious photos, was lovely, professional, and provided us with such stunning captures of all points throughout our day.
Our florist/ wedding coordinator, Amy Gallegos of For the Love Events, took on so many roles during the planning and execution of the wedding. Lots of the decor was handmade by or purchased by myself. Amy and her team were miraculous at taking my mishmash of items, ideas, and visions and turning them into a cohesive array of beautiful vignettes and stunning accents. She was worth her weight in gold in her planning and execution of the events in the day-of itself. If any issues arose, it was handled right away or (even better) without my knowledge that anything at all was amiss. The weight of the day-of timeline and behind the scenes work that need to be done was completely lifted off my shoulders and I was free to enjoy our perfect day. She created the most beautiful bouquets, boutonnieres, and floral arrangements.
It's amazing how once you find one vendor, then the rest start falling in to place. All of my unique choices seemed to lead me from one to another. Amy led me to Genica Lee, my beloved hair and makeup artist. This woman can work wonders in no time flat. She was hired to do wedding hair and makeup for my mom, my bridal party, and me. During both the trial run and the wedding day, she made the experience so wonderful and effortless. She was kind, responsive, time efficient, professional, and did such amazing hair and makeup for all of us. She used really quality products and gave us styles that were modern and soft, yet lasted the whole day and night.
The Group:
The bridesmaids were all given a set amount with which to purchase their dresses. The only stipulations were that they were black and long. Groomsmen were instructed to do the same with their grey suit, white shirt, and brown shoes. Ties were provided from JCrew outlet. The mixing and matching of it all coordinated the group while still giving an eclectic feel to the wedding party.
The Details:
This wedding day logo was painted onto canvases, stamped on the invitations and luminarios (stamp courtesy of The Paper Gold Company), and printed on wedding day t-shirts!
Our most meaningful Avett Brothers lyric from their song "Murder in the City" was displayed on the huge mirror above the bar. The Etsy shop, Stephen Edward Graphic did amazing work creating it.
Matchbooks printed with our monogram were fun to put in bowls on the bar for guest to take him. The Etsy shop, Gracious Bridal, was great.
Our confetti toss was hand made of rose petals and lavender buds in plastic tubes with a printed "Just Married" label. Rather than have this at the end of the night when guests were few and far between, we opted to use this moment as our announcement into the reception as husband and wife. This instance provided for a fun run through our assembly of family and friends, gorgeous pictures, and an everlasting reminder of our wedding day from the scent of lavender.
Invitations and Save the Dates were created by my ever-so-talented cousin/graphic designer extraordinaire using the company, Moo, to print her gorgeous designs. The paper they use is so thick and high quality.
I hope all this info can give someone a few ideas when planning your wedding. More to come on creating all of the concrete pieces and watercolor canvases…


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Ateljé Finne is one of the restaurants in Helsinki, which you can put on the group "a bit better ones". If you a planning to have a nice dinner with your loved one or you are wondering, where to arrange a dinner with your girlfriends, when one of you is getting married, we do recommend the Ateljé Finne. Food is excellent, service professional and the atmosphere cosy.
These pictures are taken in one evening, when one of my friend had got married and the group of friends wanted to celebrate that. It was great.

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Pacific Grove has a variety of options for basketball lovers. Whether you play, like to watch, or both, check out below for the best basketball in the city.
The Breaker Basketball Team is a program that supports both Varsity and Junior Varsity members in order to teach them successful sportsmanship skills. The boys are talented and love to show off what they have learned.
The Adult Basketball League in Pacific Grove is a great program, as well. If you can no longer call yourself a youth, this is the team for you. Recreational basketball for adults helps those who still want to play ball get the opportunity to do so. The team plays every Sunday at the Pacific Grove High School gymnasium.
As far as professional basketball goes, the Golden State Warriors play out of Oakland, which is only a two hour drive from Carmel. The Golden State Warriors play out of the Oracle Arena and guarantee an extremely worthwhile time.


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Our Services
All of us are committed to ensuring every Mustard Seed Community Health patient receives the best quality care for health concerns from routine preventive care to urgent care for acute illnesses and continuity care for chronic diseases. By treating each individual with superior medical care and personal compassion, we want to do our part to create and maintain a healthy community.
Basic information about the services we offer is below; however, if you have any questions about routine or specialty services, fees, or appointment availability, please call us for more details.
High Quality, Reliable Medical Services
Among other services, we offer:
- Complete physical exams for adults and adolescents, with routine screening for STDs, HIV, and chronic viral hepatitis (B & C)
- Complete physical exams for children: sports physicals, well-child exams, routine immunizations
- Continuity care for chronic disease such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, seizure disorders, and asthma
- Basic urgent medical care for health concerns such as acute illnesses, cuts and burns, fractures, and other medical issues needing prompt attention
- Screening and treatment of anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder including referral to local specialized behavioral health providers
- Basic and preventive dental care to be added by Year 3 of operation
Specialty Medical Services
Specialty services are provided by referral through the Guilford Community Care Network (GCCN) for those with the GCCN orange card. Those with medical insurance will be referred according to their insurance coverage.
Our Fees
Although Mustard Seed Community Health's primary effort is to provide care to those in our community who cannot afford medical insurance, any Guilford County resident of any age will be accepted for care (private insurance, Medicaid,
and Medicare).
- Patients who have Guilford County Care Network (GCCN) Orange Cards will be charged according to their sliding scale fee
- Those with medical insurance will be charged according to their insurance coverage
- Patients not meeting the criteria for the GCCN orange card and without any medical coverage will be charged using the GCCN orange card fee scale


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The Difference Work-Life Balance and Work-Life Integration
1. Work-Life Balance
What is it, you wonder? Achieve something at work. Enjoy something at work. Achieve something at home. Enjoy something at home. For the mathematically inclined:
Aw + Ew + Ah + Eh = Work Life Balance.
What does this mean? Working and living are never truly balanced—there are no coefficients or constants to guide you through the process. Sometimes you'll achieve and enjoy something more at work than you will at home. What's important is that all aspects of achievement and enjoyment in work and life happen throughout the day. Some days—as you know—are harder than others.
Here's an example: you might have a fantastic interaction with a persnickety coworker (achievement) and then laugh at a joke at a board meeting (enjoyment), followed by not tripping over a pile of laundry in the middle of the floor when you get home (achievement) and meeting a friend for dinner (enjoyment). These achievements and enjoyments do not have the same weights. That great conversation with that persnickety coworker might be the biggest achievement because you know he'll probably invite you to work on that project you've been wanting to work on with him. You probably enjoyed that dinner with your friend the most.
The big idea? You unplug. You achieve and enjoy something in both parts of your life—working and not working—and there's a clear boundary between the two. Over time, achievement and enjoyment will balance each other out. It's the day-to-day that can be a bit tricky.
2. Work-Life Integration
This is way trendier. Thanks to the gig economy that's sprung up in the past decade, integrating what you do and how you live have become a necessity for some. Even in bigger businesses, there's this idea that living and working in the same place are desirable attributes for living.
Let's look at a few examples. Consider Silicon Valley—companies like Google have on-campus apartments, child care centers, organic gardens with staff cafeterias, and buses for those who don't live where they work. The idea is simple: integrate your work into your life. For others, technology has allowed people to live their lives—exercise, take their kids to school, go food shopping—and work full-time. No one decided that all work needs to happen between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM. If you can meet your deadlines, show up for your meetings (even virtually), and live your daily life, then all is well.
What's different here? Discipline. Strategy. Knowing when to unplug. And a stick-to-it attitude. With work-life balance, the "unplug" is pre-set. You're done with work for the day, you leave. With work-life integration, you plan on when you're doing your work, meet all your job's expectations, and still show up for touch football, or your volunteer work at that organization whose mission you love.
Is one approach better than the other? Nope. It depends on the kind of work you want to do and the kind of life you want to live. If you need a strict schedule and need to know when you're "on" and when you're "off," integrating your work into your life could be tough. You might opt for a more traditional job with traditional hours. If you feel constrained by that, you might want to integrate your work into your life and have more "flexibility" during the day—this is especially helpful if you have a family.
Whatever you decide: your work and your life should bring you joy—not all the time, but enough so that it all balances out in the end. L'chaim!


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NM – Peter Deswood, Jr., the man who took local empowerment to new heights through
Kayenta Township, served three tribal presidents, and won a seat on the Navajo
Nation Council in 1978 after the Navajo Court of Appeals reinstated him because
the Navajo Board of Election Supervisors (NBOES) deemed him "too young" to run
for office, passed away on Monday February 15, 2016 at 4:30 pm. He was 66 years
Mr. Deswood was Kinłichii'nii, born for Tó'aheedlíinii, maternal grandparent Kiyaa'áanii, and paternal grandparents Tó tsohnii. He was born in Ganado, Arizona. His parents were Peter H. Deswood, Sr. and Evelyn Notah Deswood. He is survived by his wife Maggie Deswood. They were married for 43 years. His four children are Shawna Deswood, Peter Deswood III, Kevin Deswood, and Nat Deswood—all from Farmington, N.M. He has 10 grand children.
He has several siblings Luke Deswood, Marilyn Nez, Virginia Deswood, Sally Deswood, Henry Deswood, Susie Deswood, and Phillip/Sandra Deswood.
He attended the University of Arizona in the 1970s. It is there he learned how the intricacies of organization and leadership impact tribal government. He began his career as a Lukachukai Chapter Council delegate after winning his well-known case in Deswood vs. NBOES. From 1983-1987, he served for former Chairman Peterson Zah as executive director for the then Division of Water Resources. Under Interim Chairman Leonard Haskie, from 1989-1991, he served as executive director for the Division of Natural Resources. Later under President Albert Hale, from 1995-1996, he briefly served as executive director of the Division of Community Development until he was elevated to a special assignment for Hale's Local Empowerment initiative. He also worked for Navajo Agriculture Products Industry for a period.
Over the years, friends and family would call him "Mr. Local Empowerment" and other tribes began seeking his consultation..
He truly believed the Navajo Nation would only prosper under local control and to that end, he took a job as the first Town Manager for Kayenta Township during the late 1990s and early 2000s. During his time there, he implemented new policies, self-regulation, and pursued innovative approaches to local governance. In March 2000, his effort was recognized by one of the country's largest newspapers, the Arizona Republic, in an article entitled, "Navajo Township Rocks Tribal Establishment." He was quoted as saying, "To many of the bureaucrats on this reservation, we are this monster out here growing and they have no idea how to deal with it," Deswood said. "But the answer to that is simple. Give towns their freedom."
In 2001, Kayenta Township was one of the first to receive high honors recognition by Harvard University's prestigious Honoring Nations Program in the Governance of American Indian Nations award for the self-governance initiative.
Over the years Deswood was often asked by many to run for Navajo president, but he never did. In 2014, he was amused by an anonymous newspaper advertisement asking him to run for office. He was highly respected, virtuous and a consequential leader. He was known as a walking encyclopedia on Navajo politics and many consulted his advice. He was well-known across the Navajo Nation for being humble, friendly and generous. He regularly planted each summer out in Lukachukai fields and was deeply devoted to his family and close friends.
After Kayenta Township, Deswood worked for a few years at Shiprock Chapter to then return to Window Rock in 2009 to work for the Navajo Division of Economic Development as Senior Economic Development Specialist. He served in that position until he passed on President's Day.
There will be a family meeting on Wednesday Feb. 17, 2016 at 2p.m. at Lukachukai (Ariz.) Chapter House, and a viewing for family and close friends only on Thursday Feb. 18, 2016 at 3 p.m. at Shiprock (NM) Desert View Funeral Home. Funeral service will be on Friday Feb. 19, 2016 at 10 a.m. at the Catholic Church in Lukachukai, Ariz. A reception will follow at the chapter house.


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In May, take an in-depth tour of our forthcoming GLX-D Digital Wireless System, and learn how to choose the right SE Sound Isolating™ Earphone model for your application. As always, Shure Learning Center webinars are free to attend, and attendance is first come, first serve.
New Product Overview: GLX-D Wireless Systems Webinar
Join us for an in-depth look at the technological innovations that make GLX-D Digital Wireless a breakthrough for anyone needing great sound in a user-friendly, affordable wireless microphone or guitar system. In this 60-minute webinar, we will explore features including automatic frequency management and smart power options, and discuss available configurations.
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How to Choose a Shure Sound Isolating™ Earphone
Whether you use them onstage with personal monitor systems or with an MP3 player at the gym, Shure Sound Isolating Earphones deliver professional sound quality and block unwanted outside noise. Join us for a 60-minute webinar that will walk you through the different models and how to choose the right one for your application.
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First Cool CES Toy – The BladeRunner Recon
After 20 hours of traveling and queuing I had to choose between drinking and gambling or attending the first official CES event of 2007, CES Unveiled and am I pleased the geeky side of my head won that argument.
The CES show opens good and proper on Monday but tonight they gave us a bit of a preview of what to expect. There were 30 or so exhibits to have a look and play aroud with (the main show is host to something like 2,700 spread over 65 miles of carpet) and the one that particularly caught my eye was the BladeRunner Recon remote control helicopter.
We've written about a few remote control helicopters in the past but the BladeRunner Recon is the coolest one yet. The 3 channel controller makes it very responsive and easy to manoeuvre (though one of the guys at Interactive Toy did manage to crash a similar helicopter into my head twice). What makes it so cool is the video camera built into the nose and tiny LCD screen in the controller.
You can also connect the controller to your PC (USB) and save your spy flicks for later viewing. The BladeRunner Recon will be available in the fall of 2007 and will be priced at the $200 mark, if it's anything like the prototype it will be worth every penny.
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Located In Voula, on the Athens Riviera, Lorentzen & Stemoco have formally been represented in Greece since September 2013, but have been closing transactions in the Greek community for decades.
A physical presence in Greece has seen the group expanding its activities deeper into a key market, being one of the world's largest and dynamic ship-owning communities. The firm's activities are focused on the expanding Greek, Scandinavian and European based clients being part of our "Global portfolio". Our services cater for the variety of our client's needs, predominantly focusing on Dry Cargo Chartering, Sale & Purchase / Newbuilding and advisory services. Our experienced and professional team provides focused service on all segments from Handy- up to Cape-size bringing the effective worldwide connections and expertise from the Lorentzen & Stemoco platform to our clients. The Athens team focuses its Chartering, Projects and Sale & Purchase efforts towards conventional, traditional family run shipping companies as well as sophisticated, public and institutional clients.


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Architensions presents Dikhroos, designed in collaboration with Transsolar NY, a portable tent originally designed for a competition organized by Architectural League of New York and Socrates Sculpture Park . The project engages the users through different conditions of light filtered via dichroic film by 3M . Dikhroos derived from the Greek and means dual-color. The main structure is composed with bamboo poles joined together with custom 3D printed joints. Our proposal, which responded rigorously to the brief which asked for an easy assembly and a strong presence in the park, has now a new life and will see its first prototype soon! Stay tuned! Photo credit by Elizabeth Leitzell
Bandirma Park Masterplan Released
Our Bandirma Park masterplan was conceived sculpting the landscape creating a continuous man-made surface that enters every building and creates a new typology: the split building. The result is a succession of protected plazas woven together activating the park throughout the entire year. Our team was composed by Format Engineers led by Stephen Melville and Transsolar KlimaEngineering led by Krista Palen.
Architensions Releases Stage 2 Design for Civic Centre in Ryde Australia
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Design Our Ryde: Rising Ryde
Architecture as a Living System
Conceived as a hill-shaped building covered in local vegetation embracing the local communities and context, Architensions imagines a building as a complex system of social connections and interactions with nature to generate an ecological system that prioritizes people.
The architecture becomes an open spatial system that helps aggregate its micro-cells to the macro scale of the city. It is the user that defines the use of the space with its continuous movement, trajectories, through a circulation system intertwined with the space that serves as a primary usable social condenser with its intricate succession of public plazas and vertical gardens.
View project details here.
Architensions is among four shortlisted offices to design the Civic Center for the City of Ryde in Australia
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Architensions proposal for the Civic Center of the City of Ryde in Australia is selected for the second phase of the international competition among 175 entries from forty-nine countries.
The design for the Ryde Hub Precinct embraces the local context enhancing the raised topography of the site and the surrounding vegetation that becomes the iconic element of the new development.
See the official announcement of the shortlist here
Architensions is among four shortlisted offices to design the Civic Center for the City of Ryde in Australia
Highlighted Entry – Common Tectonics
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Architensions Proposal For A Building That Opens Towards The City Fabric Has Been Highlighted By A Jury Among 235 Proposal From 47 Countries.
Architecture must relate to urbanism. Under this premises the design for the new Aarhus School of Architecture wants to establish a relationship between the educational facility and the city fabric through a highly inspiring space totally open to the users. The school is conceived as a social condenser where students, city officials, professors and international visitors can use the same space to share knowledge, information, for the advancement of the discipline.
See more of our project here or click to see the other proposals.
Common Tectonics: Aarhus School of Architecture
Extension Between the Alvar Aalto Museum & The Central Museum of Finland
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Architensions proposes a Spatial Porosity building, light sloped canopy that dematerializes its presence—merging the front landscape with the back courtyard and topography.spatial porosity extension
The design for the extension aims to merge the edged angled geometries of the existing Alvar Aalto Museum and the Museum of Central Finland with the fluidity of the movement of the connection paths that will make the two institutions function around a new pivotal public space. Instead of imposing a volume, a light sloped canopy, constructed with wood columns and glulam beams, dematerializes its presence, merging the front landscape with the back courtyard and the topography. At the urban scale a maximum level of porosity has been achieved to transform the new shopping / connecting addition into a social condenser and a connecting hub between the hill where the topography rapidly drops and the front plaza of the new Ruusupuisto University building. The new building creates an alternative access point to both museums connecting them in a north-south axis, while the transparent curtain wall absorbs the surrounding, fusing interiors with the landscape in an east-west axis direction. The respect and intention for the preservation of Aalto's work and legacy has been taken into account since the early stage of the design. Coherent with this direction the choice of materiality has been fundamental to redefine the space in between the two museums. The volume interiorizes now two of the existing museums walls. The new addition juxtaposes light color clay bricks in grid pattern for the floors and the circulation elements to the original masonry bricks walls in a way to match the colors but announce the new building with a different texture.
Cultural Center in Italy
InfinityScape was submitted by Architensions for the Space to Culture Architectural Competition. The project was a chance to rethink a disused industrial place and transform it in a lively space for culture, art and public relationships. Wide and versatile open spaces are meant to provide local citizens and tourists a modern cultural / leisure time activities centre.
Architensions Shortlisted for Boffo Building Fashion – Michael Bastian
Architensions was shortlisted for Boffo Building Fashion – Michael Bastian.