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This spring I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work as visual display intern at the anthropologie retail store in wayne, PA (February 24 - May 2). I arrived just in time to help finish up the remaining Spring displays and the transition into the summer aesthetics. Each Anthropologie has a woodshed/workshop incorporated into the back of each store and the wayne store has one of the biggest workshops available in the district. The workshop is where we make the objects/decorations that will be used on display and includes a miter saw, router and various other types of shop equipment. The shop can get pretty full when my coworkers and I are all in there at once. I work under the supervision and guidance of the visual display coordinator at the Wayne store, Sammi and work alongside my coworker, Caili Fogarty, who is a full time visual display artist/Sales associate at the store. Her website and work can be found at http://cailifogarty.weebly.com
Below are some images of the shop:
Upon the start date of my internship I was asked to paint the tips of the pod flowers display a coral/red color, put them back into their wood blocks and arrange them on display. The process took a few hours due to the amount of flowers but I was able to have the display finished a few hours before the end of my day.
Below are some images of the pod flowers Display:
The first big project I was given was to make handmade radishes for the pantry display section. I started by making a radish shape out of newsprint paper and scotch tape. I would wrap the newsprint in tape until I was able to shape it like a radish and repeated the process until I had made just about over 100. The next part of the process called for creating the Radish leaves using a Die cutting press. After cutting out hundreds of leaves, I then attached them to wire to give them a more dimensional shape and spray painted them green. Once all the basic pieces were assembled, we attached the leaves to the tops of the tape and paper radishes and dunked them in plaster to color them. The final step was the paint them to give them life. The whole project took about 2 weeks to finish but the radishes were a huge success.
Below are some images of the Radish process:
The final radish display was set around the pantry section with multiple display sections. Some were "potted" in planners and others were set out in cheery bowls for our customers to view!
Below are images of the final Radish display:
Between the radishes and my second and final big project at my internship I spent most of my time assisting Sammi and Caili; assisting her build other store display, window display, water plants and clean the shop.
My second big project took up the rest of my time at Anthropologie. We were instructed to create a curtain-like structure out of ombre-turquoise clothespins. My boss put me in charge of the entire project from start to Finish. First I had to make a small color sampling so we could gauge the washes needed to make a successful ombre effect. Once I put together a successful sample, I had to do the math to calculate how man clothespins it would take to create the entire structure, the number came to 6,230 clothespins. From there we were sent the amount of clothespins needed and I was able to start dying them all appropriate colors. I had to evenly separate the clothespins into neutral, light, medium and Dark was he amounts, about 1500 clothespins each. Then I had to dye them all. We used Bear house paint, I had to mix the washes and dunk the clothespins in the lighter washes and set them out to dry. The darkest wash has to be very saturated so I had to hand-paint all 1500 clothespins.
Once all the clothespins were prepared, sammi and I used deer-netting to create the curtain and then hung all the clothespins from it. Unfortunately, when we were only 2 rows away from the top with over 6000 clothespins already on the deer-netting it broke. I then had to remove all the clothespins from the broken netting, resort them into appropriate washes and start over, this time using industrial cloth which was much sturdier. The process took over a month from prep to initiation to final result. The display actually came out better the second time around anyway, so it was well worth the labor!
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From November 3rd-5th, the Ignite Worship band loaded up our vehicles and headed east. We were invited to lead Worship at the SCIPHC Girls Retreat at Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach, SC. This was the second year in a row we have led Worship at this retreat and we absolutely LOVE it! Being a part of an experience where anyone's life is changed is an incredible thing, even more so when it is the younger generation. There were so many girls who gave their lives to Jesus on Saturday night. Samantha McCutcheon delivered a powerful and anointed Word to these young girls in such a way that the girls were able to pick up and retain as they returned home to help strengthen their walk with the Lord.
Our Ignite team was also able to fellowship with one another and plan for 2018. I truly enjoy this time because it gives our group a chance to reflect and reconnect with how Ignite began and then improve upon that foundation to plan for the upcoming year. We have many exciting initiatives coming this next year and we are excited to be growing within our Worship band AND our Bible study group. Looking forward to see what God has in store for us!
Author: Wes Atkinson
Gospel Temple Worship Center is a dynamic; spirit-filled church located in Florence, SC. GTWC is the place to start over. We are one of the friendliest churches in Florence.

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DIY Christmas Decorations and Keepsake Ideas
Cherylyn Ng
'Tis the season to get crafty! Not only are homemade holiday decorations and Christmas keepsakes unique and adorable - they're tons of fun for the family. Gather your friends and family around the table and, with a few affordable supplies, you can create Christmas memories and keepsakes that you'll have for years to come.
There's no need to spend tons of time or money to show off your holiday spirit. Take a look at these simple but fabulous Christmas DIY Ideas to celebrate the holiday cheer during this festive time of year.
1. Tassel Garlands - These are an elegant yet whimsical finishing touch to your holiday home decor and, even better, you can customize the colors and length to fit your color scheme and personal style. Take a look at this fun, easy tutorial here!
2. Christmas Tree Card - Ditch the mass produced Christmas cards this year in favor of these adorable handmade Christmas tree cards with fun pom pom "ornaments". Find everything you need to make these sweet holiday cards here!
3. Tabletop Pom Pom Christmas Tree - This chic decoration looks like it came just from a magazine, but can be made in a matter of minutes! All you need is a cone in whatever size you desire, felt balls, and glue! Simply affix the felt balls in your desired color combinations to the cone with glue and voila! Tres chic Christmas decor!
4. Tassel Ornaments - The Christmas tree ornaments of your dreams are only a snip snip away. For these sassy tassel ornaments all you need is yarn, 1cm felt balls, wooden beads, string, and basic sewing essentials such as scissors and needle. Choose your favorite holiday colors to create a chic magazine worthy look.
5. Cake Toppers - Transform a simple cake into an adorable holiday display with a felt ball cake topper. All you need is 1cm felt balls, string, needle, bamboo skewers, and a few spare moments. You'll look like a holiday decorating hero!
6. Gift Wrapping - It's the little things that count during the holiday season. So many people half-heartedly choose wrapping paper or skip gift wrapping all together. Give the perfect gift, the perfect display it deserves with darling little felt ball accents. All you need is a little twine, 1cm felt balls, and a few spare seconds.
7. Baubles - Simple is often dismissed as boring, but really, it's elegant - timeless. These simple bauble ornaments are the easiest (and cutest) ornaments you'll ever make. Simply fill clear baubles with 1cm felt balls in the color combination of your choosing and you're done. Elegant winter wonderland tree in mere minutes!
Now that you've been armed with these fab ideas, go forth and spread the holiday cheer with unique, thoughtful, and gorgeous Christmas decor and keepsakes!


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Risk of Winter
Credit: Robert Mallin was the co-Media designer and co-Lighting designer with Lacey Erb on Risk of Winter which was part a series of final classroom projects by graduate students in Theatre and Dance. The MFA directing class collaborated with designers from the MFA media design class in creating 'spectacles.' The final projects were presented in the Laboratory Theatre at the University of Texas at Austin.
Other Credits:
Directing by KT Shorb and
Margaret Jumonville
Directing professor KJ Sanchez
Media Design professor Sven Ortel
Technical direction by
Jon Haas, Kate Ducey, Lacey Erb.
Adrian Collins, Cymone Love, Sam Pavich, Jake Brinks.
All photos of Risk of Winter are
courtesy of Jon Haas.
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My parents joined us for church on Father's Day this year. It was nice to get to be with my dad for part of the day!
Mike grew out a bit of a mustache to go with our church's theme of "taking back manhood" We waited to take pictures with him until after church when he could shave it off!! ;)
MUCH BETTER! Here's the rock of our family with our sweet girls!
Another picture with PawPaw:
Opening cards/gifts:
Mike needed new flops. So that's what I got him. You're impressed with my gift-giving, I know. Someone little had to try them on first:
After my parents headed home, Lexi napped, and then we visited Mike's family for the rest of the day:
Randy & Mike:
Thursday, June 27, 2013
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Randomness is a manifestation of locality. The world is big and anything works at a local level, asynchronously, and randomness ensues.
I want to advance the following hypothesis about the origin of life.
Life is a manifestation of the computational universality of a collection of chemical reactions.
Indeed, there probably are many small collections of chemical reactions which, coupled with a random chemical reduction algorithm, form a universal computing model.
A proof of principle for this is chemlambda. There are still to discover real chemical reactions which implement the (invisible in chemlambda formalism, for the moment) moves shown at the chemlambda moves page.
But they are so simple that there have to be many, many such chemical reaction.
In a system, in a chemical soup, if it happens to appear these chemical reactions, the following is a game of computation and self-multiplication.
Because universality means, in this particular case, that with non-negligible probability, anything can be achieved.
The role of randomness is tricky. On one side randomness selects resilient creatures. That's a funny thing, for example in chemlambda good candidates for living creatures are quines.
A quine in chemlambda is a molecule which stays the same in a daterministic world. This gives to the quine molecule a certain resilience when faced with randomness, which makes it to have a life: it may grow, it may decrease, for a time it may play around the deterministic state, and it may eventually die.
This is illustrated in the first battle of microbes demo, where several quines are put together and "fed" with enzymes, which appear randomly, but such that if at a moment there are more enzymes for the moves which increase the number of nodes, then the next time the probability of appearance of such enzymes decreases in favour of those which decrease the number of moves.
So globally it appears as if the the quines compete for the moves and those quines having a greater diversity of possible moves thrive, while the other die.
The 9_quine is the most fragile quine, as you see in the demo many of them die (i.e. they transform into a small molecule which is inert to any reduction).
There is a lot to add about this, for example there are other quines which behave like they adopt the strategy of spores, i.e. they regress to an "egg" state and they flourish later, from time to time, when they have to "compete" with bigger quines.
Of course, all this is in the eye of the observer, it is an emergent behaviour, like the intelligence of a Braitenberg vehicle.
But what if quines are a bit too fragile for life? Maybe there are molecules who grow to an approximately stable configuration, in random conditions, for a time, at least until they self-multiply.
[Have you seen the story of the 16 bubble quine, from egg to motherhood?]
Suppose, just suppose that in deterministic conditions such a molecule would grow slowly, instead of being a quine.
This is consistent with the requirement to be resilient in random conditions, there will be a second part of this post when the demos are prepared.
But it has a curious corollary, namely that such a living creature will blow out, like a cancer, in too calm, too deterministic conditions.
The example I have and play with is a molecule made by two 9_quine and a 5 atoms molecule which, if left single, it grown in a regular pattern, but in the deterministic algorithm, when coupled by some bonds with the two quines, it grows very very slow.
This molecule, under random conditions, display an amazing variety of shapes. But all the runs show the same thing, more or less: that the two 9_quines have a role of taming the growth of the molecule, keeping it controlled, but at some moment the 9_quines die, somewhere in the molecule, in some unrecognizable shape, and after that the molecule reverts slowly to the regular growth pattern (which makes it unsustainable if there are phisical limits to the growth).
So not only that randomness select creatures who can survive (and self-multiply) in random conditions, but it may select creatures who live in random conditions, but who die in deterministic conditions.
Maybe that is why life hates when everything is predictable.
I close this post with the comment that however, there are molecules which arrive at a determined state in random conditions.
This may be very useful for computer like computations. The exmple I have is again the remarkable molecule for the Ackermann function.
See it in this video self-reproducing while it computes.
Apparently some molecules display a huge resilience to randomness. The Ackermann function molecule daughters finish the computation at different times, but they do finish it.


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California Forum
How many aging football players must fall to dementia before we change the game?
One of the great shocks of my life occurred a few years ago when a buddy, an ex-Super-Bowl quarterback, revealed that he had been diagnosed with "early-onset dementia." What could I say?
Then the most devastating tackler on my own college team, famous for his head-first style, who had gone on to a sterling medical career, informed me that he, too, was suffering from early onset dementia.
I come from a football family. My grandfather played in the helmetless early 1900s. Late in life he was lost in dementia. My dad played for UCLA in the helmet-optional early 1930s; he, too, later fell into dementia.
I played at Sac State in the 1950s, but I was mostly a bench warmer. I still had my "bell rung" a few times during those years of better helmets and increasing "spearing."
As time passed, bigger, faster players began using even more improved helmets as weapons, so I urged my own children away from football. A few old teammates told me how disappointed they were to learn that.
Now as my grandchildren are entering adolescence, I've been asked by their parents about the sport. I tell them about my friends suffering from early-onset dementia – perhaps from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) – and that the rewards hardly seem worth that outcome, anymore.
I also mention the increasingly troubling association of football with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Lou Gehrig's disease. A 2012 study from the National Institute for Occupational Safety concluded, after examining 3,439 death certificates, that ex-professional football players were four times as likely to suffer from ALS or from Alzheimer's as non-players.
How to change that?
To start, spearing and other intentional head blows should immediately become ejection penalties, and cost the offenders suspensions. Shoulder-tackling and blocking can again be emphasized, and mentors can cease urging youth-league players to "Hurt somebody! Man up!" as I once heard a local pee-wee league coach urge 12-year-olds.
USA Football's "Heads Up" program, or "rugby-style" tackling can be emphasized. Team doctors or certified athletic trainers should be present for all contests. Only they should decide if a player is fit to be on the field.
Football isn't the only game with problems, but it's the one we Americans love most. As a collision sport, football is inherently more dangerous than most, but any contact sport may result in brain traumas.
Those injuries in youth sports especially are dangerous. We should take a close look especially at them. The rules for all sports – football, soccer, hockey, etc. – are arbitrary. We can change them to protect players, and we should.
Gerald Haslam played high school, college and service football. He is the author of 21 books and the editor of seven others, including "The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland" (University of California Press, 1993). Reach him at email@example.com.


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Builder Pate Keetongu has never played the game Shining Resonance, but that didn't stop him from being inspired to build based on it's concept art. And despite having never even heard of the game, I'm inspired to blog this beautiful MOC. I know a lose a few nerd cred points for having such poor gaming knowledge, but when you're as busy as I am, there's not much time for gaming. Check out the flowing forms of this lovely lady, the clever part use, the pose and sense of motion. Absolutely gorgeous.


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From the fear of being asked
to give more than I have...
Deliver me, Jesus.
If you think Jesus will ask for more than you have, remember the little boy in the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000. He came forward with a small amount of food. Jesus needed to feed 5,000, but the boy could only offer five loaves of bread and two fish.
Jesus didn't ask Him for anything more. Jesus used EVERYTHING the boy had - and provided MORE than was needed, as there were 12 baskets of food left over after everyone ate and was satisfied.
The task may require MORE than what you have, but Jesus simply asks for ALL that you have. And even a small offering, when put in His Hands, can multiply.
"God is able to make every grace abundant for you, so that in all things, always having all you need, you may have an abundance for every good work."
(2 Corinthians 9:8)
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Come join TFT and performers from around the region for an afternoon of family friendly entertainment and good times as we come together to make a difference for children's charities.
Hosted by Laura Cheadle
Performances by Olufunsho Adeshina (Funshow), Celine Pence, Dalia Rae andMemories of March, Chris Gennett, Tatiana Barbosa, Laura Promiscuo, and more.
(Lineup subject to change)
All ages welcome / Children under 12 are free / Students with ID $5
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Australia v Pakistan Tests
Renshaw out of Test with concussion
Two helmet blows in three days bring a premature end to series for young opener
Sam Ferris at the SCG
6 January 2017, 09:45 AM AEST
Rookie Test opener Matthew Renshaw has been withdrawn from the third Test in Sydney after suffering concussion.
Renshaw was struck on the helmet twice in three days – the first by a bouncer on day one and a second time fielding at short leg yesterday – with the latter blow causing the 20-year-old to suffer concussion and end his participation in the match after the team's medical assessment.
"Matthew Renshaw was struck on the helmet fielding close-in on Thursday afternoon and came off complaining of a headache," said Bupa Support Team doctor Peter Brukner.
"He rested in the dressing room and then, when we returned to the hotel, we performed concussion tests and his cognitive, balance, co-ordination and reaction times were all within normal limits.
"However, on Friday morning he was still symptomatic and so we have taken the decision to withdraw him from the match as he is suffering from concussion.
"We will continue to monitor him over the coming days and work with him to produce a gradual return to play."
Renshaw was struck on the top of his helmet from a powerful sweep shot in the 77th over from Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Sarfraz Ahmed from the bowling of Steve O'Keefe.
Bracing for impact, Renshaw ducked and tucked his chin to his chest to present the crown of his helmet to the oncoming blow.
The Queenslander was examined by Brukner and carried on before leaving the field an over later.
Meanwhile, Brukner also confirmed that wicketkeeper Matthew Wade will take his place on day four, after the Victorian was on the field for only two overs on Thursday before leaving the action and returning to the team hotel to recover from illness.
"Matthew Wade suffered nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea on Thursday and returned to the hotel to rest," Brukner said.
"We administered medication and after a night's rest he is feeling much better and will take part in play on Friday."
Peter Handscomb took over the wicketkeeping duties in the absence of his state captain.
Handscomb is no stranger to standing behind the stumps having grown up as a gloveman and playing as a wicketkeeper in 14 Sheffield Shield matches for the Bushrangers.
The 25-year-old was called in to action early in his new role when he combined with Mitchell Starc to run out Pakistan opener Azhar Ali for 71.


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As winter approaches, we all have a tendency to "hunker down." Perhaps it is some vestigial behavior arising from an ancient and primitive time; as food became scarce, and the hours of daylight diminished, there was a good reason to stay inside, out of harm's way. Or perhaps it is a more adaptive response to the vicissitudes of Shoreline weather: our beautiful, crisp, golden days of late giving way to cold, wet, wind, and slush.
No coincidence, then that our main winter holiday, Chanukah, is a celebration of light. Not just actual, physical light, but also spiritual light. It takes light to beat back the fear of the dark, and it also takes light to bring people together, whether it is in work of rededicating the Temple, our rejuvenating our synagogue, or in the weekly rhythms of prayer, study, and community. There is an underlying fundamental relationship between light and gathering. Not just moths, but we too are drawn to a flame.
There are many opportunities to gather in the light here at TBT, even in the dark of winter. For those of you who do not have to navigate the "December dilemma," and will be in town on Friday, December 30th, we will have a fun 7th Night of Chanukah here at TBT, at which time we will gather and light our Shabbat and Chanukah candles. But we also have many other ways to gather together and bring light to each other - worshipping together on Shabbat and sharing the light of our Shabbat candles; performing acts of social justice and being ethical lights to our community and world; and learning together, illuminating the texts and narratives of our Jewish tradition.
My wish and hope for you, as we come to the end of our secular year, and prepare for the next, is that you come out and join us for all that we can bring to each other; for whatever our building surrounds and our activities promote, we are, after all, a holy community, bringing each other into our light.
Stu Weinzimer


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Saturday, March 25, 2017
"GODZILLA: MONSTER PLANET" IS A G-TRILOGY! Character & Weapon Specs at AnimeJapan 2017
The main voice cast takes the stage at AnimeJapan 2017. ©Gigazine
Over this past weekend at the AnimeJapan 2017 event in Tokyo, Toho Animation made several announcements during the two presentations concerning the first animated film showcasing the "Big G", GODZILLA: MONSTER PLANET, including the cast, characters, setting (in the form of special giveaway file), as well as models of the futuristic powered suits and rife. Perhaps, the biggest news of all is that this will not a standalone, but a full-fledged film trilogy, with the first installment hitting Japanese cinemas this November (followed by a global release on the Netflix streaming service).
Powered Suit on display at the Godzilla booth. ©Gwyn Campbell
WEAPON SPECS: Powered Suits deployed by the "Earth Union Tau Ceti-e Field Expeditionary Brigade". Originally, created as pioneering exo-planetary heavy machinery with drilling equipment, but is now being introduced into actual combat for anti-Godzilla operations. Heavily armored to protect the operator, both arms have been fitted with 20mm calibre Railguns. Height: 3.9 meters/Width: 2.9 meters/Total Weight: 2.5 tonnes/Maximum Speed (while walking): 80kph
Director Seshita with a EIRI at the Godzilla booth. ©Polygon Pictures
WEAPON SPECS: Electromagnetic Induction Rifle for Infantry. Bullpup-type Sub-railgun. The electromagnetic induction system allows rapid-firing of 6mm cylindrical pellets made from a special alloy. Distance and stopping power is equal to .338 Lapua Magnum ammo [2745 fps-4768 ft lb], making it a formidable combat weapon. In addition, since it employs an electromagnetic system, power is thereby regulated in lowering the firing voltage. While used as a rifle during peacetime, it's also possible, in an emergency, to use the forward of the rifle's grip as a pistol. Total Length: 470mm (Pistol: 120mm)/Total Height: 230mm (Pistol: 170mm)/Weight: 2.7kg (Pistol: 650g)
Strategist Capt. Haruo Sakaki & weapons specialist Sgt. Yuko Tani.
Character Profiles: CAPTAIN HARUO SAKAKI (24), Japanese. Lost his parents during a Godzilla attack, and harbors a strong hatred against the king of the monsters in his heart. Highly intelligent, and despite his slim physique, is highly trained and able-bodied (Voice: Mamoru Miyano). SERGEANT YUKO TANI (19), Japanese. Growing up together, Yuko was Haruo's junior during their childhood schooling. Because of her slight frame, she has a complex in terms of physical prowess, but is a brilliant Armorer and Weapons Engineer (Voice: Kana Hanazawa).
Aerospace Pilot Lt. Adam Binewald & Biologist Maj. Martin Lizzari.
LIEUTENANT ADAM BINEWALD (21), German. He was a skilled hover jockey before taking the yoke as the pilot for the landing craft. One of the young officers who holds the actions of Haruo in awe. He has a high degree of mental health and thus is very cheerful (Voice: Yuki Kaji). MAJOR MARTIN LIZZARI (34), Italian-American. Former civilian environmental biologist. He is extremely optimistic with the curiosity of a scholar. As a specialist, he is able to analyze data of the altered global ecosystem in short-order (Voice: Tomokazu Sugita).
Lt. Col. Metphies of Exif & Engineer Col. Mulu-elu Galu-gu of Bilsard.
CHAPLAIN (Lieutenant Colonel) METPHIES (50, but is physically 25), Exifian. An Archbishop on his homeworld of Exif, he is a universally-respected and admired man of virtue. He speaks philosophically in a soft tone with a gentle smile. Has a keen understanding of Haruo's psyche (Voice: Takahiro Sakurai). COLONEL MULU-ELU GALU-GU (60, but is physically 35), Bilsardian. At one time, this Chief Technology Officer was the most physically superior and unmatched of all the Bilsardian people. This has been channelled into his capability among Engineers, with his striving for excellence in science and rationalism (Voice: Junichi Suwabe).
Did the illustrator work Godzilla's dorsal plates into the teaser art?
The first trilogy in the long-running franchise, GODZILLA: MONSTER PLANET is written by Gen Urobuchi (Aldnoah: Zero) and is co-directed by Kobun Shizuno (Knights of Sidonia) and Hiroyuki Seshita (Ajin: The Demi-Human). Please stay tuned to the official website and this blog for more details as they become available for this exciting trilogy of animated features!
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Our weekly theme, during this month of vision, will be POWER. Similar to last week's theme of courage, power is something within every single one of us. Most people assume power is having a strong force over others, but that is not the type of power we are discussing. Rather, this is a power of
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
This quote is so relevant to every single one of us. We all have a power within ourselves, we all have knowledge of what our truth is, our home is, what love is. All it takes is for us to quiet ourselves and simply listen. It is during listening that we start to realize how courageous and powerful we are. The next time we come across something that scares or challenges us, I urge you to practice this idea of being still. You will continuously discover courage within yourself. Let me know if this helps.


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Gastric band (lap banding)
Gastric banding involves placing an adjustable silicone band around the upper part of the stomach. It works by making you feel full sooner so that you eat less and ultimately lose weight as a result.
Is a gastric band right for me?
If your BMI score is over 40 (morbidly obese), gastric band surgery may help you to achieve long-term weight loss. Surgery may also help if you have a BMI over 35 (severely obese) and have other medical conditions such as Type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure.
Your bariatric surgeon at Nuffield Health will confirm your BMI score and carry out a detailed assessment before deciding if surgery is suitable for you.
What are the benefits of gastric banding?
If the operation is successful, you should be able to achieve long-term weight loss. However, this depends on your ability to keep to your new lifestyle. Long-term weight loss should improve any obesity-related health problems you may have.
Are there any alternatives to gastric banding?
The simple approach to losing weight involves eating less, improving your diet and doing more exercise. Sometimes medication prescribed by your GP can help.
There are other surgical options to gastric banding such as shortening your digestive tract, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass. Gastric banding has fewer complications and there is a lower risk of serious complications happening. Recovery is usually faster too.
Is silicone safe?
Many studies have been carried out to find if silicone is safe. There is no evidence to suggest that people who have gastric bands are at a higher risk of getting diseases such as cancer and arthritis.
What does the gastric banding operation involve?
- Gastric band surgery is performed under general anaesthetic
- It usually takes between 1- 2 hours
- The laparoscopic ('keyhole') technique is usually used and your Nuffield Health surgeon will make several small cuts on your abdomen
- They will place surgical instruments, along with a telescope inside your abdomen to perform the operation
- Your surgeon will create a tunnel behind your stomach
- They will pass the band around the upper part of your stomach and secure it
- This creates a smaller upper pouch
- To help keep the band in place, they will fold some of the lower stomach over the band and stitch it to the upper stomach pouch.
What complications can occur from having a gastric band?
General complications of any operation my include:
- Pain
- Bleeding
- Infection in the surgical wound
- Unsightly scarring
- Developing a hernia in the scar
- Blood clots (deep vein thrombosis).
Specific complications of gastric banding may include:
Laparoscopic complications
- Damage to internal organs
- Developing a hernia near one of the cuts
- Surgical emphysema.
Gastric banding complications may include:
- Air in the chest cavity
- Developing gastro-oesophageal reflux
- Stretching of the oesophagus or the oesophagus not working properly
- Difficulty swallowing
- Making a hole in the oesophagus or stomach
- Constipation or diarrhoea
- Infection of the band
- Band slippage
- Band erosion or leakage
- Failure of the band.
How soon will I recover from gastric band surgery?
- You should usually be able to go home the day after your gastric band operation
- In the first few weeks you will only be able to take liquids, progressing to soft food and then to solid food
- You should be able to return to work after 1 - 2 weeks, but this may vary depending on the extent of surgery and your type of work
- On average, people who have gastric banding lose over half of their excess body weight.
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January felt like a soft start after the baby. It felt good to peek back at the list and choose a few things to work on. The newborn period can be hard for me and I often feel like I'm being pulled in a million directions. 100 Little Things, if you can believe it, helps me remember my interests and desires. It's what self-care looks like for a crazy list-loving, curiosity-driven person like me. So although I didn't get many tasks checked off, I'm still pleased with my progress. I know I'll ramp up the finishes as the months go on and P gets older.
Current totals: 21 completed and 7 partial finishes
#4. Read The Birth Order Book.
This book was a recommendation from my cousin. I'm not sure how "official" the science is, but it was definitely an interesting read and fun to think about my family and how they fit into the different roles. I especially benefited from the sections about perfectionism. #soguilty
#60. Complete a 30-day walking streak.
Part of the Mutu System is walking every day. Since it's way too cold outside and I can't get on the treadmill as frequently as I'd like (without talking to/threatening/freaking out at my toddler who's tempted to touch the moving machine!), I decided to just set the timer on my phone for 20 minutes and pace the house. I'll check blogs on my phone, read a book or shush a fussy baby, but it was pretty easy to get this in!
#70. Complete a 30-day no spending challenge.Mark and I decided to try this challenge in January as a way to kick-start our debt reduction and savings goals. We have some big dreams and wanted to get started with a bang! Our "rules" for the challenge were pretty simple: we designated a grocery budget, but committed to using up things we already had in the freezer and pantry. Since Mark commutes and I drive the kids to school everyday, we also had a gas budget, but tried to stay close to home as much as we could. Everything else was off-limits: no eating out, no impulse Amazon purchases, no coffee on the drive home, etc.
Like life usually is, the result wasn't exactly as we planned. We had hoped to be able to save a bunch of money to then put on our debt, but instead we received a handful of medical bills from P's birth. We also had some sick kids (pink eye and colds) and a visit from the Orkin man. Thankfully because of this challenge, we were able to pay them all right away instead of starting payment plans or charging them. But no extra snowball money this month, which is a bit of a bummer.
BUT! We also learned some great lessons and are excited to implement them in the months to come. Turns out if you put something in your cart and then wait awhile, most of the time, you don't really need to buy it! We've had many conversations about toys vs. experiences. We've rediscovered the fun of cooking meals together. All good things.
#1. Read 35 books. (14/35 read)
I was on a roll this month. Six books completed: The Birth Order Book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Awakening of Miss Prim, Gift from the Sea, A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning, and Yes,Chef: A Memoir.
#19. Pray 5 novenas. (3/5 completed)
With our old house going on the market, we prayed the St. Joseph novena for his intercession.
#54. Make a dent on the movies on Common Sense Media's "50 Movies Every Kid Should See before age 12" (at least 50%) (24/50 completed)
So close to finishing this one! We watched: ET (typical 80's movie with tons of swearing), Hugo (we watched this after reading the book), and Song of the Sea.
#85. Create a postpartum wardrobe that makes me feel confident and not frumpy.
I got a small start on this with my Christmas money. I purchased everything in my current size, no wishful thinking purchases! Part of my 2017 goals is to purchase 75% through secondhand or ethical companies, so I found jeans and a few tops from Swap.com and ThredUp, all with tags or in like new condition! I also found a great pair of jeans with a birthday giftcard (thank you again, A & S!!) to Stitchfix.


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SAMBALPUR: In a bold and revolutionary step, 40 students and faculty from different engineering disciplines at VSS University of Technology (VSSUT) Space Development Programme here are set to build, launch, test and recover indigenously developed reusable satellites and rocket.
With not much of data available about Hirakud dam, the team has decided to use their idea and innovation. Siltation, seepage and unscientific water distribution system, flood control, irrigation and hydel power generation will be some of the areas which the students will be dwelling on.
Active team member, Bodhisattwa Sanghapriya, estimate on silt deposit will be carried out using sounding rocket, designed and developed in R&D Lab of VSSUT. The rocket will carry a Can Satellite (CanSat) payload of around 350 gms well equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
The rocket upon launching will reach a height of over 13000 ft in the sky and deploy the Can-satellite which will monitor the real time scenario of the dam. The CanSat will transmit data to the ground station before it is retrieved for reuse. The untreaded cattle island has been identified to launch the rocket while the satellite and solid propellant will launch the rocket while lithium polymer batteries will be used to operate the CanSat. He revealed that while the rocket is ready, they are working on the CanSat.
As for any such project, funds continue to be a concern and the students are planning to seek help of State Government and industries. After initial trial, all they require is cost of the fuel to ensure that the data on the dam can be collected every year.
The dynamic scanning system would provide the base station with the real-time raw data of the entire study area. The data collected will be analysed using software also developed by the team and provided to the dam management for remedial and necessary action for proper water and flood management.
The students have already held discussion with dam authorities and were also invited by Indian Inventors Association (IIA) at International Innovation Festival, Bangalore- 016, where inventors and scientists from 20 countries participated.
The project has also been selected to showcase our project in upcoming Maker Fest, Ahmedabad and Maker Mela, Mumbai in January 2017. The students aim to collaborate with ISRO to launch our very own satellite v2.0 into a geosynchronous orbit to study the eastern coastline of India.


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Top 10 Pearls of Wisdom from Jackie. (Do you have your own Top 10?)/
At the Meeting House, we pride ourselves on being able to translate the theories of social-emotional learning into practical teachings that make sense for kids in the real world. Social-emotional learning is only valuable if kids can then apply it in their lives outside the classroom or our program, and just like anything else, practice makes perfect. With that in mind, every week our Clinical Director, Jackie Covell, has been sharing tips for parents on ways to practice the skills kids are learning at the Meeting House. We've compiled the best tips from throughout the year, and share them below as our end-of-the-year gift, and a reminder to keep up the social-emotional skills development over the summer!
Top 10 Tips
Practice flexibility. Introduce a new food at dinner or rearrange your weekly schedule of meals, rearrange a piece of furniture or the way toys are stored in your home, or surprise your child pleasantly with a sudden change in plans.
Praise your children for doing good things twice as often as you correct them!
Remind children that if they set up win-win situations socially, it is most desirable. Examples include taking turns choosing what to do, rotating seats in the car, at the table etc.
Raise your own level of physical awareness about your body posture throughout the day
Kids these days have so many "have to" directions in their lives....whenever possible, provide choices. This can be as simple as dinner choice or restaurant ideas, all the way to selecting what to wear. It builds children's self-esteem to feel their parents value the choices they make, so it's important not to second guess their decisions.
Whenever possible pair a touch on the shoulder, a hug, or high five with your child when they have done something good. This will reinforce the message about positive physical contact and increase the likelihood that whatever they were doing, will happen again!
Practice giving multi-step directions in the home. Give 2-3 part directions and see what happens. If that's too easy, add details. Too difficult? Have your child first repeat back to you for understanding.
When entering a school, elevator or subway car practice letting people out first before entering.
On the staircase, practice staying to the right side going up and down.
When people are engaged in conversation, walk around them, not through, in order to get where you are going.


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Sun, 21 January 2018
Elizabeth and Andy discuss past nicknames, why Andy stopped drinking brown liquor back in the day and the one way Elizabeth is annoying when she gets high. Then they give their unqualified advice to listener questions about what to keep in mind when starting a podcast, and how to navigate shared car expenses when it comes to shared custody of teenage children? Enjoy!
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Perhaps the best way to lose weight – completely refuse to eat? But the experts say: hunger persistently interferes with the activity of the body – much more active than the most potent drugs. Therefore, to reduce the weight of the low-fat diet is much more effective than starvation!
"Connected" with the food, we have to survive, automatically switches to internal (endogenous) supply. Both supporters and opponents of starvation agree that the basic principle of its impact – a stress that activates the internal forces of man. But here the effects of stress is assessed in different ways.
HUNGRY wisdom of the ages
Treatment with complete refusal to eat is actively used by the doctors of ancient Greece, Egypt, India, Tibet… In medieval Europe, starvation and widespread, but it is not practiced by doctors.
Numerous enthusiasts taught their followers in such a way to achieve physical and spiritual cleansing.
In 1928, the World Congress of dietitians discussed the "starving" the problem and recommended a complete nutritional (food) fasting for the treatment of hypertension, atherosclerosis and obesity. In Russia fasting began to apply in the XIX century, and its most persistent researcher and became a follower of Professor Yu Nikolaev. Incidentally, he was not a nutritionist, a psychiatrist, and to start treating such patients with a variety of mental disorders (schizophrenia, even), but then came to the conclusion that some diseases are not the soul but the body (including, of course, obesity) is also amenable to curative effects of hunger.
Doctors from the beginning expressed their doubts about the scientific validity and safety of this method. But those who want to lose weight with the help of such "miracles", apparently did not pay attention to the main principle formulated by the author of the popular book "The Miracle of Fasting". Paul Bragg: "If fasting is carried out correctly – by the time of his weight is restored to the original figures".
Strictly Doctors warn: starvation process should begin with a visit to the doctor and preferably – with a full medical examination. It is important not to cross that limit the physiological features, which can occur after a severe illness. This "threshold" is individual, and correctly identify it at home is not possible.
Fat people are much more difficult to go hungry than lean.
So, is there anything you can not, you can only drink water (some prefer distilled, but experts recommend regular boiled). Need to drink a day for at least 1.5 liters – by the way, it may not be so easy, "on hunger" water may seem very nasty. Go to bed rest does not force anyone, on the contrary – offer outdoor exercise, massage, hydrotherapy (including – required daily enemas).
The first 3 days (they called the "stage of the food drive", speaks for itself) is usually painfully hungry, there is irritability, sleep becomes restless, often exacerbated by a previous illness. Then hunger blunted and completely disappears, the language is covered with dense grayish-white coating, while breathing the smell of acetone – all the outward signs of acidosis (increase in acidity).
Peak acidosis – the so-called acidotic crisis usually occurs 8-10 days and causes weakness, dizziness, nausea and sometimes vomiting. It is believed – a real therapeutic effect is achieved only when the "top" is overcome. Abstaining from food for a period of less than 10 days is called a short starvation and respected less than long-term (10-21 day).
In general, the duration of the hungry period is calculated individually in the clinic, it depends on the age, health, weight, and most importantly – from the time will come, "the completion of the clinical signs of starvation" is clearly visible only to doctors. This signals – it's time to feed! Patient, by the way, this may not want to feel very refreshed and demand "to continue the feast", and this is totally unacceptable. Therefore, it is dangerous for a long time to starve yourself, without the supervision of a doctor!
For home use only recommend a shortened 36-hour fast – it is generally well tolerated, and after it did not require any special restrictions, just the day after should be vegetarian. But the recovery period of prolonged fasting lasts no less than the famine, and the number of calories the body newfound food increases very slowly.
During fasting blood products accumulate fat oxidation. As a result of their actions on the brain a person experiences an emotional lift, euphoria, ease.
Slimming effect of hunger – a very fragile thing. Once people get into the first tiny portions of pureed vegetables – immediately started gaining weight. After the loss of pounds due to the fact that fasting is actively excreted sodium, which is literally "pulls" for a water from the cells. Once restarted, "supply" of sodium – all returned to their seats.
Counting the losses
With the unpleasant consequences of this method are facing many doctors: gastroenterologists and internists, cardiologists and psychiatrists, and even resuscitation. Of course, medical help turn those who were starving at home, uncontrolled.
Main purpose of losing weight – force the body to consume its own fat. The main purpose of the body: to survive, and for that he constantly needs to "fuel" (especially for the brain and red blood cells) – glucose. Carbohydrate reserves it is not too great, they are muscle and liver glycogen (this is – about 1% of body weight), and is fully consumed within 1-2 days of fasting.
Refusing to eat, people are actively losing weight at first, but by day 7-8 basal metabolic rate is reduced by 30-40%, and the weight loss is not more than 100-200 grams per day.
Then the body is switched to 'nutritional self "and begins to synthesize glucose and that it should be used not only its fat but also proteins. Theoretically reserves the average person with a body weight of 75 kg are approximately as follows: 15 kg is the accumulation of fat, and 60% of them can be lost without jeopardizing lives. Source of protein – muscles, their weight around 10-12 kg, and 50% of consumption means death.
And, by the way, the reaction required for the synthesis of glucose, a person of average weight will lose about 300 g of muscle mass every day… The body is frightened and for self-preservation mechanism includes adaptations: reduces the production of insulin and thyroid hormones, goes to a reduced metabolism and begins to "feed" the brain of the products of incomplete oxidation of fat (ketones).
Dramatically reduces the amount of all vitamins (because proteins were lost to them a kind of anchor), and their content is restored not earlier than 2-3 months after cessation of starvation, and even after six months. Followers Bragg demonstrate jar with his "hunger" urine with the words: "You see how many crystals – it's all the dross out, the body is clean!" And this is just what they, vitamins, and together with them – micro and macro minerals that are vital to us. The result can wait no longer.
There are even cases of "hungry" heart attack!
In the blood, increasing the concentration of uric acid – it provokes acute gout and kidney stones.
The view that hunger enhances immunity, are not scientifically proven, because the basis of immune cells – a protein that is how we spend our time.
The risk of emergence and exacerbation of peptic ulcer, colitis, gastritis.
Too long uncontrolled starvation leads to complete failure of the body to digest food, to mental disorders, general exhaustion – doctors call this state of nutritional marasmus.
Rapid weight loss at the beginning of starvation turns "rebound syndrome" – a set of fast and "brute force" extra pounds after returning to the joys of cooking.


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2017-18 -- Track: Earned a career-best 1,500-meter performance of 3:47.61 at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa on April 20 ... his PR closed the entirety of the 2018 season ranking among the top 100 (No. 94 regionally) west of the NCAA's Mississippi dividing line ... almost won the Big West title for the 1,500m, taking second place at the conference finals, in 3:56.37 at CSUN on May 12 ... the same afternoon — on Day 2 of the Big West meet — he added a 17th-place time in the 5,000 meters, at 15:07.17 ... also in the 1,500m, won the event at the 36th annual Cal Poly ShareSLO Invitational on March 24; came in third place at the San Francisco State Distance Carnival on March 30 (via 3:48.93); and sixth at UCLA's Invitational April 14 (3:48.10) ... made the Big West All-Academic Team altogether for the sixth time in his career, in addition to earning Conference Commissioner's Honors. Cross Country: Selected as Big West Conference Athlete of the Week after winning the Fresno XC Invitational on Sept. 9 with a 4-mile time of 20:38.5 ... went on to help lead the Mustangs to their second consecutive Big West title on Oct. 28, via 29 points; posted a crucial third-place individual 8k performance of 24:39.9 at the conference championships to help Cal Poly earn back-to-back trophies ... continued postseason at the NCAA West Regional in Seattle on Nov. 10, taking 113th with a 10k of 31:54.6 ... began fall with a 16th-place 26:17.10 at the Lagoon Open vs. UC Santa Barbara on Sept. 2, when Cal Poly won the Blue-Green Rivalry Meet 17-44 ... also added an 89th-place 25:12.6 at Oregon's Invitational on Sept. 29 ... earned fifth career Big West All-Academic Team accolade.
2016-17 -- Track: Finished fifth in the 1,500-meter finals at the Big West Conference Championships at Cal State Fullerton on May 13, with a time of 3:56.35 ... his season-best 1,500m performance, 3:52.86, was the runner-up at the Bulldog Invitational in Clovis on April 22 ... also came in 18th place in the 5,000m at the Big West Championships, in 15:30.57 ... for the fourth time in his career, made the Big West All-Academic Team. Cross Country: Helped lead the Mustangs to the Big West Conference title with a dominant score of 18 points, as he came in ninth place individually around Kahuku Golf Course in Hawai'i on Oct. 29, with an 8k time of 25:27.3 ... earned his third overall Big West All-Academic Team accolade ... began the season with an eighth-place performance of 25:02.74 at the Lagoon Open hosted by UCSB on Sept. 3, contributing to the Mustangs' 19-40 victory ... added a 31st-place time of 24:53.1 at the UC Riverside Invite on Sept. 17 ... closed his fall by taking 110th place at the NCAA West Regional meet at Haggin Oaks Golf Course in Sacramento on Nov. 11, at 32:07.6 for the 10k.
2015-16 -- Track: Ran the squad's fastest 1,500-meter race all spring, 3:49.30, at the Mt. SAC Relays in Norwalk on April 16 ... went on to also finish 10th at the Big West Conference Championships on May 13, running Jack Rose Track in 3:54.65 ... won Heat 6 of the event at the Stanford Invite on April 1 at 3:51.94 ... also competed in the 5,000m at Long Beach State on May 14, finishing 24th in the conference at 15:22.51 ... his top 800m performance, a runner-up 1:54.96 at the Big West Double Dual on March 12, equaled his PR from the previous season ... also made his second consecutive Big West All-Academic Team. Cross Country: Closed his redshirt freshman season with an 18th-place finish at the Big West Championships at UC Riverside on Oct. 31, with an 8k time of 24:59.47 ... posted a third-place 26:44.9 at the Cal Poly Invitational hosted at Fairbanks Memorial Course in San Luis Obispo on Oct. 17 ... opened the year with a 20th-place 27:12.50 at the Lagoon Open on Sept. 5, followed by a 31st-place 19:05.7 (in a 6k) at the Fresno State Invitational on Sept. 11 and a 53rd-place 24:52.0 at Stanford on Sept. 26 ... earned conference all-academic honors.
2014-15 -- Track: Came in eighth place in the 1,500-meter final at the Big West Conference Championships hosted by UC Riverside on May 16, with a time of 3:56.27 ... his season-best performance, a runner-up 3:50.30, came at the ShareSLO Invitational at home on March 28. Cross Country: Competing unattached at the Cal Poly Invitational on Oct. 18, clocked a time of 28:19.0, earning 10th place.
Prep -- At New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill., had the eighth-fastest 1,600-meter time in the state as a senior (4:13.22) ... also ran a 9:42.70 in the 3,200m ... was a two-year All-Central Suburban League selection for the Trevians ... took 17th at the 2013 3A state finals in cross country, with a 3-mile performance of 14:57 ... was an honor roll student every semester.
Personal -- Majors in Mechanical Engineering.


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August 18, 2018 10:24:50 PM
Adam Minichino - [email protected]
STARKVILLE -- Challenges don't faze MaKayla Waldner.
When you grow up in an ultra-athletic and competitive family, you never know when you're going to be tested.
"We would race to the car," Waldner said. "Anything that could be a competition we made it a competition."
Waldner's upbringing allows her to accept the responsibility of being one of the primary scoring threats for the Mississippi State women's soccer team in 2018.
Waldner's ability to come back after having reconstructive surgery to her face also has helped her build confidence to know she can accomplish anything with hard work and dedication.
"She became a mentally tougher individual," MSU second-year head coach Tom Anagnost said. "I think she made the decision she wanted to be great. She increased her work rate. I just think she made the decision, and from the time we have had her until now she has grown up a lot. She is a better communicator, leader, teammate, and player."
Waldner helped kick the new season off in style Thursday with a goal in MSU's 3-0 victory against Southern Mississippi. On Sunday, Waldner will celebrate her 21st birthday and then lead MSU against Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, Texas. The match will start at 7 p.m.
Waldner's goal was the sixth game-winner of her career, which is two shy of the school record. The effort comes on the heels of a sophomore season that saw Waldner lead the team with nine goals and finish second in points (19). As a result, Waldner the United Soccer Coaches named her third-team All-Southeast Region. She also received second-team All-Southeastern Conference honors.
"I knew freshman year I was just kind of on the threshold of everything," Waldner said. "Sophomore year I felt like things were finally coming together and I was able to put away my chances."
Waldner said staying after practice and working on her tactical skills enabled her to become a "different player" her freshman spring to her sophomore fall season.
Anagnost saw the intangibles that make Waldner such an important piece to his program after she suffered a broken cheekbone in the team's final match of the spring season against Southeast Missouri State. Anagnost said Waldner suffered a head butt to her face that required surgery that kept her out most of April and all of May. He said she continues to get better.
"She put so much work into her rehab and things. She is like full bore about getting back," Anagnost said. "She spent all of her spare time taking care of her body and rehabbing. She had an ankle (injury) in the winter. Her ability to come back much faster than anyone is a testament to all of the time she has invested in it. It is a great role model and behavior we want everyone to follow and copy."
Waldner was Senior Class President at Dexter High School in Missouri, so she also has the leadership qualities off the field Anagnost is looking for on a team with 14 freshmen.
"There is more weight on my shoulder to kind of make sure the team runs smoothly and we're looking after the freshmen and sophomores more closely," Waldner said. "Whether that means we're helping them on or off the field, that is just more pressure on us to help make sure everyone succeeds in the classroom and on and off the field.
"There is more of a leadership role, but I don't think there is anything too big we can't handle."
MaKayla is the daughter of Robert and Kim Waldner. Her father was a three-time All-American in wrestling at Chadron State (Nebraska), while her mother played basketball at Chadron State. MaKayla has two sisters, Samantha and Brittney, and two brothers, Trevor and Travis. Trevor won the Missouri State Championship in wrestling, while Brittney was second female to compete at the Missouri State Championships in boys wrestling. Samantha runs cross country and track at Highland Community College (Kansas). Coming from such an athletic family, it's easy to see where MaKayla gets the competitiveness that fuels her to be the best she can be.
Waldner said competing against her brothers and sisters helped her set little goals and to be competitive with herself. She said it a personal achievement to know she can achieve her goals on and off the field. She feels that attitude has pushed her out of her comfort zone and helped her grow as a person.
That mentality drives her off the field, too. The mechanical engineering major earned First-Year Academic Honor Roll accolades as a freshman.
Waldner admits life can be "hectic," but she said time management skills are crucial to prevent her from feeling overburdened.
Anagnost will look to the seniors and the returning players in the program to set the standard and to be extensions of the coaches on and off the field. He feels Waldner is one of the experienced players he and the rest of his staff will look to make it happen.
Senior midfielder Carly Mauldin and senior defender Courtney Robicheaux will be two of those players. Mauldin feels Waldner will be in that mix, too.
"You could say Roby is the fastest we have on the back line, and I would say MaKayla is the fastest we have up top," Mauldin said. "She is going to work hard and give it her all every chance. She is going to score goals for us this season. I think she is up for it."
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For the residents of Idaho, the USDA Loan Program is helping to make many of their dreams of home ownership become a reality. Backed by the United States Department of Agriculture and offering a practical alternative to the traditional home loan, advantages of these Idaho Rural Development Loans include:
- 100% Financing up to the appraised value
- NO private Idaho mortgage insurance
- Flexible Idaho credit qualifications
- No Idaho loan amount limitations
Idaho Areas that Qualify for a USDA Loan
The problem that the USDA Loan program faces is the misnomer that it has something to do with agriculture. In truth, USDA Loans were simply created to help build many of the country's less populated areas. This includes many Idaho communities that lie just outside of major metropolitan areas.
To qualify the community must:
- Lie outside city limits
- Have a population of less than 20,000 people.


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In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter offers advice to you about working with recruiters.
Today, I want to offer you some No BS Job Search Advice about working with recruiters. Now, many of you have very unrealistic expectations of what a recruiter going to be able to for you.
I want to take the mythology out of it. Recruiters aren't there to find you a job. Recruiters in there to fill jobs that their clients need to have filled and then get paid for their work. You are the collateral requirement to be able to do that. However, they're going to find the job for you once . . . maybe. They're hoping to have a relationship with this client where they're filling lots of jobs.
Now, from your vantage point, there are a couple of different things you have to pay attention to. One is if you're sending an unsolicited resume to them, why would you expect that they're going to call you? They may not have anything for you. You are just sending spam to them. So that's point number one.
Point number two is when you send your resume, make the resume demonstrate the fit in a way that's obvious. All recruiters are overwhelmed with resumes these days, because it's so easy for you to send them out. Most of what we get is garbage. It's garbage because they in no way shape or form demonstrates a fit for the position you think you're qualified for. You're wasting our time. So, the second point is tailor your resume for every job that you submit it to. Every resume that you submit to a recruiter, use a cover letter emphasizing some of those points.
Now, I don't mean attaching an extra file there. The extra file isn't going to be read. But using the mess age area of the email to call attention to the fit that your resume is also going to display goes a long way toward getting a recruiter's attention.
Number three is, yes, they're trying to help you find the position. But more importantly, they're trying to fill the requirement at a client. They don't want to get yelled at by the client. Take their coaching. They know these situations better than you do. And they know this client.I have to say hopefully because you may be talking to the junior recruiter, and the senior's really the one who knows the client well. Get to the person who's the account manager in order to ensure that you're getting the best coaching before each interview.
Finally, when it comes time to salary negotiations, they're in an awkward position. The client is telling them how much they're willing to pay. They're trying to drive you to that number. Make sure that if you're getting a signal that that number that you're looking for, isn't going to be met by the client, halt the process somewhere.
Now, I'm not saying yell and scream, I want to be clear about that. But halt the process and just make sure that the numbers that you're talking about are numbers that can be met later on. Otherwise, you're going to waste a lot of time interviewing for something pointless that's going to result in you turning down the offer.
Today, I want to offer you some No BS Job Search Advice about working with recruiters. Now, many of you have very unrealistic expectations of what a recruiter going to be able to for you.
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These days most of us are living busy over-scheduled lives. It's easy to lose track of the moments that really matter, which can often be the most ordinary parts of our days. In the midst of all the responsibilities of our day, we need to remember to check in with ourselves so that we don't lose sight of who we really are and what is really important to us. This series, #TheDailyMoments was started by my good friend @steph.pollock and as soon as I saw her first post, and when she said,
It's these small moments that make up a lifetime of beautiful ones,
I knew this was something I needed to join in on.
Last week I added some short captions, and this week I had a little more time so I'm using this as more of a journal. So when I look back a year, two years, or even 5 years from now, I can relive the season I was in currently, and either be thankful I'm out of it, or grateful for the new season i'm currently experiencing.
Finn crawled into our bed at 4am, he told me, "mommy my tummy." I'm pretty sure he was telling me that he wanted to potty because when he actually crawled out of bed at 5:45, he told daddy..."I want to use the potty!" We're on day 4 of potty training today and we haven't left the house since last Friday morning. I'm working on a full potty training post and will link it here soon, but it seems to be going well with only 2 accidents in 4 days. So this morning we went to Target to get a BIG SURPRISE for Finn to celebrate goodbye to diapers.
I assured Jason Target opens at 7, but he wanted to go by his normal Starbucks first. We sat as a family and chatted about our days all before 8am and it was such a nice change compared to Jason waking up at 4:30 to go to the gym and us just saying goodbye as he left for work most mornings. I spotted an elderly man reading the Wall Street Journal and even though he numerous other tables were open, he decided to squeeze into the table next to us unfazed by the crazy toddler trying to tear the blinds off the window. I don't know why but I love watched elderly people. He was writing a to-do list to himself on a small piece of paper and it made me smile because no days everyone is glued to their phones.
Jason left to put Finn in the car while I cleaned up the table and as I was leaving this young business sitting alone across the room stopped me... he said, "That's so awesome! Do you guys have breakfast together every morning?" I wanted to answer yes but it kinda made me sad that we actually don't ever do that. I told him in an almost embarrassed way, "no, my husband is actually going out of town tomorrow so he wanted to spend some extra time with us before work today." He applauded us for it again and we both smiled and went on our way.
I don't know, the last few days have been challenging for me. Potty training is no joke and I just needed a break. My patience level is at an all-time low and I can't stay calm and be present with my actions. This toy we bought him as a celebration of joy, I almost threw it out the window, it was so hard trying to build while he was so excited and wanted to play with it. I took a break and just breathed and then it turned out perfectly.
This part is very hard to share but, I know when I look back at these images of this day. I will only be able to think back about how hard it was for me. My best friend has been in the ICU for the past couple of weeks, and can't get it off my mind. I find anytime I can to go see her and today after I put Finn down for his nap, I had a sitter come over and I rushed to her bedside for only 30 min, until it was time to head back home and put my mom hat back on.
I tried so hard to push my sadness aside today and to just be present with him. We played outside in the sunshine until daddy came home. I then retreated to the guest bedroom for a little mental break alone while my two boys did push ups and yoga in the playroom. I heard them on the other side of the wall and really felt so thankful in that moment.
I cooked a comfort food dinner, the kind my bestie would love. It was still 80 degrees outside, as we are in the middle of another heat wave so, we sat outside as a family and talked for a bit and then daddy took over. I crawled into bed at 8:30pm. He did bath time, bedtime and even did the dishes and laundry for me. I need that today.
Just as Steph did, I am inviting you to do the same, join us in this movement of letting life be more enjoyable just by letting it be exactly what it is. Tag your photos with #thedailymoments so we can all share in the joy of the simple moments that make up a lifetime of happiness.


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A letter to Jude on his 8th Birthday
Dearest Jude,
Jude! You're 8!
I'm overwhelmed with love for you, my tall, handsome bird who was once the angriest baby on the block. It's so exciting to see you grow in knowledge, compassion, and creativity.
For sure, you've had it the worst of the boys: first born to a mom and a dad who had no clue what to do! We took you caving at 2 Weeks old! You were our baby Bjorne buddy at rock concerts, late-night, underground art auctions, and home group hangouts past midnight. We were winging it pretty much 24/7. I don't think we really "got it" (this whole parenting thing, that is) until Noah came along.
And yet you've always been up for the challenge! You're brave even though sometimes you get scared by clowns, kangaroo, and the dark. Your so sweet to your brothers, always a best friend and helper (even when sometimes that "help" takes the form of sneaking cookies).
Ypuve grown so much in the past year. I hardly recognize you from how y'all, funny, talkative, and outgoing you've become. And WOW can you build legos! Don't even get me started on how well you play video games. You're one of a kind, a burst of brilliance in our lives and we are so, so thankful for you.
I pray that God calls you to himself, continues to mature you in wisdom and gentleness, and floods your heat and life with blessings.
Love you forever and back again, Judah Boods.


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