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Alright y'all, Candice here and I'm giving away all my secrets today. If you took our challenge to host, you know that inviting people into your home can be vulnerable, but it's so worth it because friends around a dinner table create so much happiness in the world. But you also know that preparing can be daunting so here's our menu planning secret: a good fajita recipe.
– 1 pound of beef
– 4 limes
– Bunch of cilantro
– 2 garlic cloves
– Cumin
– Salt & pepper (to taste)
1. First, marinate the meat the night before. But I don't have time for that you say. The truth is that you don't have time to not marinade. It takes less time than doing *almost* anything else and the pay off is huge – a no stress dinner with friends.
2. Cut a pound of beef into strips against the grain.
3. Whisk together the juice of the limes, a chopped bunch of cilantro and a couple of cloves of minced garlic.
4. Sprinkle cumin and salt and pepper to taste.
5. Put the beef and the marinade in a plastic bag and store in the icebox (do you know the word ice box or is that soooo Southern?) overnight.
6. One you are ready, take the deliciously marinated meat out of the icebox and grill it up!
7. While the grill is doing it's stuff, heat up some charro beans in a large pot, and serve chips and salsa on the table. Sipping margs, snacking on grilled corn and chips and salsa starts out a casual but delightful dinner. When the fajitas are ready, place fixings down the table – some fresh topped tomatoes and onions are simple but taste delicious.
Due to popular demand, we are bringing you entertaining mavens this DELICIOUS grilled corn recipe! Just print this page out and tape it up in your cabinet – it's that good!
– One ear of corn per person
– Mayonnaise
– Sriracha
– Limes
– Cilantro
– Chili powder
– Salt & pepper (to taste)
1. Cut corn into thirds; add them to the grill first and they can serve as appetizers
2. Whisk together 1/4 cup mayonnaise, a large dollop of sriracha, and the juice of one lime.
3. To serve, gently pour the dressing over the grilled corn and sprinkle with cilantro and chili powder for an extra kick. If you've got some left over parmesan, shake that one top too.


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Multiple Healings
Left Shoulder:
At a monthly miracle service, Pastor Richard received a word of knowledge from the Lord saying that He was healing a woman's left shoulder from pain and complications which she had for twenty years. Praise God! I was instantly healed that night from pain and complications in my left shoulder that I was suffering with for twenty years. I have been pain free to this day and my shoulder works perfectly without any medication, treatment or physiotherapy.
- Sarah P
At another miracle service the Lord spoke through Pastor Richard saying that He was healing someone with a disease in the bowel and large intestines. It was me! I was suffering from a disease called diverticulitis which is a disease that attacks the bowel and intestine. I knew it was me because I knew I had this disease and as soon as Richard spoke the word, the pain that I was experiencing in my stomach left me immediately. Richard approached me after the service and told me that the Lord wanted me to have an x-ray done as a testimony to confirm that I had genuinely been healed. I had the x-ray done as Richard instructed and when the results returned they showed that the diverticulitis had completely disappeared.
- Sarah P
Jaw on the left side of face:
The jaw bones on the left side of my face felt like they were cracking and breaking every time I moved them. One night at a service, under the power of the Holy Spirit, Pastor Richard told me that the Lord was healing the left side of my jaw. It has been healed and problem free ever since. Glory to God!
- Sarah P
Bald Patches:
I had been suffering from hair loss, bald patches and pain in certain areas on my scalp. After prayer at a weekly service, I was healed. Without the assistance of medication, the pain in my scalp was gone and new hair grew back! Thank God!
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Wood and glass lanternslide with handmade wooden case. Slide is two circular glass panes fitted into walnut frame. The panes are painted in black and purple geometric designs. Opposite end has a crank handle that, when connected to the panes with cables, rotates the panes independently to create kaleidoscopic patterns when projected onto a wall. This slide is part of a collection used by Samuel Reader between 1866 and 1913. Reader was a Kansas farmer who was active in the early Topeka community. He built two homes, served in the Civil War, and wrote in a diary nearly every day for 64 years. Reader began painting slides in 1866 and continued throughout much of his life, holding magic lantern shows for the local community in his house and at church. This particular slide was purchased from William Young McAllister of Philadelphia. The pattern was called "Chinese fireworks" and the slide cost $5.00.
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The film is artifice. And the music is perhaps, of all genres, the best indicator of that device. In it, the characters are allowed to open their channel to dream reality singing, or celebrate a whole range of feelings intoning the melody that best emphasizes. It can serve as an excuse to inflame passions, to ooze evening promiscuity or serve social criticism. The music came with the sound and lived its golden age in the next decades, from which emerge some of the most amazing talents to the big screen. Gene Kelly , Fred Astaire , Judy Garland and Julie Andrews represent the summits of a cinema eventually, he would eventually be devalued and ostracized. From the 70, the majority public would demand other movies and music, with few exceptions, would fade to insignificance in the 80 and 90. The last decade marked a vague revival of interest in this, however, it has been an intermittent trend is far from offering the prospect of a genuine revival. Then we review the most significant and celebrated titles of a long tradition of music, a list that easily activated in several humming melodies and reader, attached to an irrepressible rhythm on the feet. All these movies are available on movie4k for free.
"Singin ' in the Rain" (Donen and Kelly, 1952). The tandem of Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly was one of the most brilliant and successful musical film. Since the late 40s and especially during the 50 under the Freed Unit at MGM -a division overseen by producer Arthur Freed and dedicated to this genre, director and actor collaborated on a series of films which "Singin ' in the rain" is perhaps the highest standard. A charismatic, jovial and impeccable jewel that contains the most famous musical number history: the character of Kelly love celebrating and exulting in the rain his infatuation. On the set, however, the actor had so much fun, since it had to carry the sick and feverish sequence. But his condition did not affect that was another of his great performances, one in a film that also had a great Donald O'Connor doing stunts and exploiting its comic gestures while singing Make 'em laugh or Debbie Reynolds joining the two for optimistic Good morning .
"Broadway Melodies" (Vincente Minnelli, 1953). Vincente Minnelli was undoubtedly one of the great architects of the golden years of the MGM musical. A year after "Singin ' in the Rain" "Broadway Melodies", an adaptation of the musical that had premiered on Broadway in 1931 with the presence of Fred Astaire and his sister Adele premiered. More than 20 years later, Minnelli took that material and turned it into an extraordinary film that combined the Faust myth within the story of an actor in decline accepting a role in the musical that perhaps you back to fame. The critic and writer Carlos Losilla, in his book "The invention of modernity" noted the numberShine on your shoes like that could be one of the key scenes in the transition from classical to modern cinema, one of the signs of the self – consciousness of a part of Hollywood that was beginning to understand that everything began to change in some way. But apart from subsurface interpretations of Minnelli's a wonder that perhaps has not enjoyed such popularity as others of their peers, but equally or more capable of reporting tons of happiness, with actors in a state of grace and a background footage excellent songs and choreography.
"West Side Story" (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961). "West Side Story" was born as a Broadway musical in the second half of the 50, written by the great Leonard Bernstein and lyrics of another essential tables,Stephen Sondheim . In the early 60s, producer, director and theater choreographer Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, one of the most brilliant craftsmen in Hollywood, adapted it to film and became one of the egregious successes of the genre, winning 10 Academy Award of the Academy. This is a work still fascinating, a revisiting of "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare set in New York working and street gangs, here represented in -norteamericanos autóctonos- Jets and Sharks portorriqueños- – immigrants.In between, the forbidden love between Natalie Wood and Richard Breymer , sublimated in the romantic encounter accompanying Tonight on the outside stairs of a building, but threatened towards the end of the film when the same song is reinterpreted by all the main cast to heat the final battle between the two. No less memorable is the musical number that provides America , intense debate sung in the Puerto Rican side and led by Rita Moreno on the advantages and disadvantages of Americanism.
"The Wizard of Oz" (Victor Fleming, 1939). Hito musical film, "The Wizard of Oz" was released after several versions of the script, serious doubts about the acceptance of fantastic between the public and a number of directors and collaborators who shaped this classic by which finally would be credited Victor Fleming. This adaptation to all Technicolor tale Frank Baum and WW Denslow would have an inevitable impact on popular culture and raise the figure of Judy Garland to Olympus of the genre, especially with its emotional, tender and hypnotic rendition of Somewhere over the rainbow , versioning post until exhaustion. But it is also the merits of the film Fleming are countless, from the same time it established a visual iconography warm and unsettling than any other adaptation has managed to replace final. And that, thanks among other things to that yellow brick road, the Scarecrow Ray Bogler , dancing the Tinman of Jack Haley , built by the Cowardly Lion Bert Lahr or the omnipresent Frank Morgan .
"Mary Poppins" (Robert Stevenson, 1964). The health of the musical cinema during the 60s begin to weaken, but two titles huge success as "Mary Poppins" and "My Fair Lady" ( George Cukor , 1964) both premiered the same year, they would offer resistance before the genre had just definitely overwhelmed by other proposals. The two also were closely linked to the name of Julie Andrews. The actress came from an established theatrical experience that was highlighted on stage with his role in "My Fair Lady". When it comes to adapting the work to the big screen came, however, Jack Warner chose to Audrey Hepburn for paper and Andrews would eventually debuting in the middle as the film 's most famous nanny. "Mary Poppins" mixed live action and animation, integrated fabulous special effects and unfurled a repertoire of dangerously catchy songs, namely Chim Chim Cher-ee of Dick van Dyke , A spoonful of sugar as ideal for housework theme and twister was sung Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious .
" Gold Diggers of 1933″ (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933). If we look back at 30, one of the major names of the decade is to Busby Berkeley , choreographer Warner who designed and directed some of the most majestic of gender numbers. His imprint the marked sequences of major infrastructure and amazing geometries, many dancers diluted in kaleidoscopic forms often observed from the overhead shot. But also, prior to the establishment Hays Code censorship musical, he dared articulate wild and little hindrance pointedly social and political criticism. " Gold Diggers of 1933″ -moralista Spanish translation of the original "Gold Diggers of 1933" – is one of the best examples of this. In the film directed by Mervyn LeRoy always effective, a group of choristers lived in their flesh the hardships of the Great Depression, at least until hunting for a husband with resources or a bumpy musical show ended in success materializing. His bite was twofold: to moral values- the time choristers, traditionally identified with light life, turned into materialistic heroines unabashedly style of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" ( Howard Hawks , 1953) – and policy Hoover -the impressive final number, administration Remember my forgotten men , it was a critical open to the march of veterans of World War I that took place in Washington DC one before- year. The year title apart from her sisters, speaking of a series of films dating back to 1923, when Warner launched a silent version of the musical "The gold diggers" who was playing on Broadway. To this followed "Gold Diggers of Broadway" (Roy Del Ruth, 1929) -of which only one part- is preserved, said "Gold Diggers of 1933" and subsequent "Gold Diggers of 1935" (Berkeley, 1935) , "Gold diggers of 1937" (Bacon and Berkeley, 1936) and "Gold diggers in Paris" ( Ray Enright , 1938), and conducted under the impositions of the Hays code.
"Sound of Music" (Wise, 1965). In its Top 10 best movies ever for the magazine Sight & Sound, the philosopher Slavoj Zizek argued that at the time your bet was for ten guilty pleasures. Among them was one in particular that he described as a great Nazi melodrama, which was none other than the beloved "Sound of Music". Beyond the controversial readings that could give rise to the story of the Trapp family and their governess, a charming novice (Julie Andrews) fresh from the convent, the film was a new demonstration of the exquisite craft that showed Robert Wise in each job, and deployment of new skills for gender Andrews crowning a musical joy with a flowery hill in the most iconic scene.
"Meet Me in St. Louis" (Minnelli, 1944). One of the best titles of great Minnelli and one of those essential that accompany the Christmas night on television. "Meet Me in St. Louis" was pure candor, pastel colors and an angelic and love Judy Garland. This was proclaimed in which, alongsideHave yourself a merry little Christmas , was the most recognizable song of the film, the enthusiastic The trolley song in which his character sang in a trolley moving the absent object of his love. Few films have as much capacity as this to soften the heart of the most stoic viewer, in part because so warm and endearing characters like the little Margaret O'Brien or elder Harry Davenport ; but above all, for quite bright Garland, before which it was hard not to fall asleep. The Minnelli himself was seduced by the beauty of the actress, with which a year later would marry. A union, by the way, which arise another eminent figure of the musical as would Liza Minnelli .
"One day in New York" (Donen and Kelly, 1949). The origin of "A Day in New York" – "On the town" in its original title it is in "Fancy Free", a ballet byJerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein who triumphed in 1944 at the American Ballet Theatre. Hence, the work made the jump to Broadway, where it was directed by George Abbott and choreographed by Robbins himself. In 1949, it launched this film version would mark the debut behind the camera of Stanley Donen and retain some songs from Bernstein to incorporate other of Roger Edens . The film chronicled the adventures of three sailors – Frank Sinatra , Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin – who enjoyed a day of service to spend in New York, in search of adventure and girls. In the course of just 24 hours, still remains in the collective memory the arrival of the three protagonists to the Big Apple with the song New York, New York -this yes, Bernstein composed, although deserved to be featured as delicious as the numbers sharing Betty Garrett and Sinatra in a taxi,Come up to my place .
"Magnolia" (James Whale, 1936). Few stories in the old Hollywood there are as fascinating as that of James Whale, whose interiors were portrayed by Bill Condon on the estimable "Gods and Monsters" (1998) with the face of Ian McKellen. Whale only worked behind the scenes for a decade before leaving the cinema, but it was enough this time to be one of the executive arms of Howard Hughes in the ambitious "Hell's Angels" (Hughes, Whale and Edmund Goulding, 1930) establish itself as a creator of two of the greatest hits of terror of Universal as "Dr. Frankenstein" (1931) and its sequel "the bride of Frankenstein" (1935), and also lead one of the best of the decade musicals. "Magnolia" whose original title is "Show Boat", was based on a 1927 musical with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II , in turn based on the novel by Edna Ferber published in 1926. Whale signed a loaded movie social readings on the banks of the Mississippi, a delicate and beautiful musical in which the always imposing presence was counted Hattie McDaniel and in which so emotional songs as quoted ol 'man river , intoned by the deep voice of Paul Robeson or Can not help lovin 'dat man , sung in chorus in the musical climax of the film. In short, a priceless gem that had a new version in 1951 with Ava Gardnerand Kathryn Grayson as protagonists.
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (Howard Hawks, 1953). If we mentioned before the nerve to " Gold Diggers of 1933″ in his carefree portrait of a female protagonists in search of a wealthy husband in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" that purpose acquires the status of vital objective, central to the characters played by Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell . No wonder the critic Jonathan Rosenbaum called the film "Potemkin capitalist" -meaning the Soviet classic "Battleship Potemkin" (Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925) – Celebratory unprejudiced frivolity and desire for social climbing, punctuated with deliberately materialistic songs like Diamonds are a girl's best friend .Again, it was the adaptation of a stage musical that had a few years before Anita Loos successfully released on his own novel, whose film adaptation was given by the teacher Howard Hawks.
"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (Donen, 1954). Another Christmas television classics, this gem apparently naive and colorful took as its starting point the myth of the Rape of the Sabines to tell the story of seven rough brothers and primary seeking winning seven demure sisters. The music ofSaul Chaplin and Gene de Paul , accompanied by the lyrics of Johnny Mercer and choreography Michael Kidd gave much of the charisma and charm of a movie that are memorable scenes like the massive fight around the barn. In 1979, he had its corresponding version of the boards, which follow a series for CBS in 1982 and a Bollywood adaptation of the same year.
"42nd Street" (Bacon, 1933). One of the choreographic masterpieces of Busby Berkeley His first work for Warner, demisting the same year as the spectacular " Gold Diggers of 1933″ -and that "footlights Parade" , another of his works insignia- and executed by the very efficient Lloyd Bacon, who came to replace Mervyn LeRoy when he had to withdraw from filming sick. It also marked the debut of his leading actress Ruby Keeler , which was thewife of pioneer Al Jolson , officially, the first voice that sang in films, in "The Jazz Singer" ( Alan Crosland , 1927) – and star of the genre the decade would be diluted after just a dozen jobs. "42nd Street" is perhaps the best standard of this monumental musical 30, culminated in the song that corresponds to the title with Keeler and Dick Powell delivered a mutant, magnificent and unforgettable number. Based on a novel by Bradford Ropes, would in 1980 his theatrical review, which is still represented in the British stage.
"Cabaret" (Bob Fosse, 1972). Daughter of the union between Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland, the artistic talent that Liza Minnelli carried in the genes deployed him as ever in "Cabaret" perhaps the summit in the short filmography of Bob Fosse who performed the musical when he wasbeginning to be an endangered genre. This his great film developed in Nazi Berlin 1931, in which the Kit Kat Club and the performances of its star Sally Bowles (Minnelli) became the night shelter a reality grayer. Vaguely inspired by the eponymous Broadway musical of 1966, of Kander and Ebb , it resulted in a huge box office success and eight Academy Award of the Academy. Five years later, "New York, New York" ( Martin Scorsese , 1977) would be the other side of the coin for Minnelli, a significant failure that left more naked its interpretative shortcomings, but in which the actress and singer embroidering the celebérrimo title track, composed by Kander and Ebb own and sang it with melancholy emotional Carey Mulligan in "Shame" (Steve McQueen , 2011).
"A Star Is Born" (Cukor, 1954). Cukor was a prolific and sensitive filmmaker, SUV but with special talent for comedy, as he had demonstrated in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) or "Adam's Rib" (1949 ), among other. His main contribution to music, apart from the aforementioned "My Fair Lady" was the remake of the film of William A. Wellman, 1937, in which Judy Garland was a young talent discovered by a famous performer addicted to alcohol and interpreted by James Mason . Nearly three hours of intense and full of great performances, punctuated with melodrama songs Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin and music by Ray Heindorf . In 1976, Frank Pierson would direct a new version with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson heading the cast, which will soon follow another update fromClint Eastwood , with Beyonce Knowles starring.
"Moulin Rouge" ( Baz Luhrmann , 2001). Controversially, passionate, sentimental, lysergic and thunderous. This is the third feature by Australian Baz Luhrmann a tremendous show moves to Paris early last century amphetamine rollbacks songs of Nirvana, which celebrates love with amash-up full of milestones of pop music, which makes Kylie Minogue in fairy of absinthe. The aesthetic decisions and the level of hysteria "Moulin Rouge" may be subject to debate, but what is certain is that we are faced with a dizzying free, able to find your own emotional epic in the chinks of his visual madness work. His pride and anachronistic soundtrack is largely theresponsibility of the mixer genius of Marius de Vries . His imagery excess would not be the same without the complicity of a completely devoted to the cause actors from a sweetened Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman to the hyperbolic side of Jim Broadbent and John Leguizamo .
"Grease" (Randal Kleiser, 1978). Resorted reference for costume parties, whose music is sued in verbenas and karaokes and whose passes on television are repeat offenders in afternoon sessions, "Grease" has become a musical milestone often more celebrated so it is not that their real intentions. And it is likely many and many of those who once toupee combed back or a blonde wig placed did not realize that, actually, the film Randal Kleiser was not so much a product of the time ready to be consumed from nostalgia, but a thug parody of that past time and obsolete values. It is not explained if not bad baba theme Beauty school dropout , who himself Frankie Avalon sings a rapturous Didi Conn , or that final blatant and deliberate so often criticized. "Grease" was based on a musical of 1971 Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs, and much of his triumphant leap to film some great was because John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John who showed extraordinary chemistry with their respective characters macarra background modosita sensitive and wild background.
"Carmen Jones" (Otto Preminger, 1954). Of the European directors whoemigrated to Hollywood, the Austro-Hungarian Otto Preminger was one of the most influential and one of the most interesting. Preminger signed indispensable films as "Angel Face" (1952), "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955) or "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959) and also this unusual musical black that adapted the play by Oscar Hammerstein II, in turn adaptation of the novel "Carmen" by Prosper Merimee, who inspired the famous opera by Georges Bizet. "Carmen Jones" replaced the torero by the boxer and adapted the famous songs to put them at the service of its star Dorothy Dandridge , well accompanied in the cast by secondary Pearl Bailey , andHusky Miller , particularly splendid accompanying the rhythm of Beat Out Dat Rhythm on to Drum (Gypsy Song) or intoning vigorous Stan 'Up an' Fight (Toreador song).
" Top Hat" (Mark Sandrich, 1935). While we have mented the magnificent "Melodies of Broadway", it is true that the film career of Fred Astaire is best summarized in works like "Crazy Rhythm" (Sandrich, 1937) or this " topHat" sublimation of a modulated dance style from the virtuosity and elegance, from the smoothness of movements that seem to caress the music with exquisite delicacy. In her one of his most iconic sequences is located: those that are soft, beautiful Cheek to cheek dance well stuck toGinger Rogers , the same as both did mourn the character of Michael Clarke Duncan in "The Green Mile" ( Frank Darabont , 1999).
"An American in Paris" (Minnelli, 1951). Two years before "Broadway Melodies" and shortly after signing "Father's Little Dividend " (1951) -secuela of his celebrated "Father of the Bride" (1950) – Minnelli adapted to film the symphonic poem Georges Gershwin "An American in Paris", again under the production of the Freed Unit Minnelli retold with Gene Kelly- and had worked with him on "the pirate" (1948). and he chose as a companion to the French Leslie Caron , which was his debut film. Caron did not miss his chance and embroidered role, running a seductive dance with a chair on a set of different ranges of pink, a proposal for artistic direction unusual which was awarded by the Academy with the Oscar, one of six that ended taking the tape including that of best film at the 1952 ceremony.
"Hair" (Milos Forman, 1979). Originally, "Hair" was an Off-Broadway musical written by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot music. Premiered in 1967, soon he became one of the stalwarts of the movement hippie , although its treatment of issues like drugs or sex led him no little controversy. Just over a decade later, the Czech director Milos Forman took the material and turned it into a musical that had lost some of its critical to the context of his birth power, but not a hint of charisma and vitality. Yet it is hard not to feel emotionally struck by the complaint on the hard end to ditch the fate of John Savage with Let the sunshine in , nor is itan option to forget the film version for the theme Aquarium or unbridled Hair baptising the proposal .
"Chicago" ( Rob Marshall , 2002). The career of Rob Marshall began with a television adaptation of "Annie" musical of 1977 on a small orphan who had already had its film version in 1982 of the hand of John Huston. It is no wonder, then, that his movie was to play the genre in a larger and more ambitious as it was "Chicago , " adapted from the play by Maurine Dallas 1926 written by Watkins production. In it, a plethoric Richard Gere ,Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger were collecting their musical skills in a history of vaudeville dancers, lawyers and murders able to grab and dilute genres with remarkable skill. He triumphed in the Academy Award 2003, accumulating up to six statuettes and becoming the first musical since 1969 to proclaim himself -the best film last to get it had been "Oliver!" (Carol Reed, 1968) , and even "Cabaret" had galardón- done with this. Its success would make many drawn to Marshall as the possible successor to Bob Fosse and even talk of a possible bonanza of gender, something that has not been confirmed except for sporadic cases. Not that Marshall himself help realize any trend, which has since been more successful with other projects like "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005) and "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (2011) with his remake musicado of "Fellini 8 1/2" ( Federico Fellini , 1964), "Nine" (2009).
"Dancer in the Dark" ( Lars von Trier , 2000). If we think Lars von Trier as the twisted genius and manipulator capable of malear genres and take the viewer to your basement, then "Dancer in the Dark" is one of his masterpieces, a musical-melodramón with echoes of Dogma and devastating conclusions in which it was passed Björk an ordeal. The film radically reinterpreted musical codes in the same way that he surrendered to them-chamber rises to conclude the narration. With it, the Danish stirred passions as ever among his admirers and detractors, even after being boosted with the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2000.
Do not stop the music. While this is a significant selection of the best of the genre, we can not fail to rescue some of the forgotten or excluded from the preceding paragraphs. A longer list maybe if we would to include, for example, two other gems Minnelli such as "Brigadoon" (1954) and "Gigi"(1958), or other essential Stanley Donen as "Funny Face" (1957 ), with the duo Fred Astaire-Audrey Hepburn in the lead. No less important are trends as established in the 40 MGM around the water music with swimmer Esther Williams as a star, namely "Bathing Beauty " ( George Sidney , 1944) or"Thrill of a Romance" ( Richard Thorpe , 1945), not to mention its direct competitors, the films that starred the Norwegian figure skater Sonja Heniefor Twentieth Century Fox.
They have been without mention such significant titles as "Yankee Doodle Dandy" ( Michael Curtiz , 1942), or James Cagney exploiting its musical side- and squeezed the other hand, in "Parade footlights" before- nearly a decade, "They and they " ( Joseph L. Mankiewicz , 1955) or " The king and I " ( Walter Lang , 1956). Nor it can forget the condition of music who held most of the films that starred the Marx brothers , Chico and Harpo as virtuoso piano and harp, respectively. Among the following decades, also arenoteworthy for many reasons raids Barbra Streisand in "Funny Girl (A funny girl)" ( William Wyler , 1968) and "Funny Lady" ( Herbert Ross , 1975); satiric "Producers" ( Mel Brooks , 1968); the phenomena of "Jesus Christ Superstar" ( Norman Jewison , 1973) and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" ( Jim Sharman , 1975); the two big musical with orphans, "Oliver!" and "Annie"; the eighties "Xanadu" ( Robert Greenwald , 1980),"Footloose" ( Ross , 1984) and "The Little Shop of Horrors" ( Frank Oz, 1986); the arid tribute to musical Herbert Ross 30 in "Pennies from heaven (Pennies from Heaven)" (1981); the transgendered "Victor Victoria?" (1982); two antics of John Waters as "Hairspray 60" (1988) and "Cry-Baby (The tear)" (1990); or, as in the 90s, the exhausting "Evita"( Alan Parker , 1996).
In recent years, the timid revival of the genre was promoted from the success of "Moulin Rouge" and "Chicago", which was followed by others like"The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber" ( Joel Schumacher , 2004), Oscar – winning "Dreamgirls" ( Bill Condon , 2006), the remake of "Hairspray" ( Adam Shankman , 2007), the burtoniana"Sweeney Todd : the Demon barber of Fleet street" ( Tim Burton , 2007), the music of the Beatles " Across the universe " ( Julie Taymor , 2007) and verbenera " Mamma mia! The film " ( Phyllida Lloyd , 2008).Also, a work so alternative and unclassifiable as "Repo! The Genetic Opera " ( Darren Lynn Bousman , 2008) or the celebrated Spanish contribution, " The Other Side of the Bed " ( Emilio Martinez Lazaro , 2002) continuation is by its sequel " The 2 Sides of the Bed " (Martinez Lazaro, 2005 ) -.
In addition, we should devote a report to the central part representing the Disney films, mostly peppered by musical numbers and built between worshiped compositions traditionally hoard Oscars® in the categories for sound and music bands. As examples, worth rescuing the outstanding "The Jungle Book" ( Wolfgang Reitherman , 1967), "The Aristocats"(Reitherman, 1970), "Robin Hood" (Reitherman, 1973), "The Little Mermaid" ( Ron Clements and John Musker , 1989), "beauty and the beast" ( Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise , 1991), "Aladdin" (Clements and Musker, 1992) and "the lion king" ( Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff , 1994). The tendency to include musical passages in the animated film is somewhat extended beyond the productions of the company, although in recent years the 3D animation has finished to minimize the number of songs, still present in films such as "Madagascar " ( Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath , 2005) or the recent " Brave (untamed) " ( Mark Andrews andBrenda Chapman , 2012). Watch it here on putlocker.


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Using Math To Become A Better Writer
Using Math To Become A Better Writer? Most people would not associate math with writing. However, some of the most famous writers in history have learned the secret to mathematical precision in writing. Here is an excellent article about the relationship between mathematics and writing.
"Fiction writers have rarely expressed such earnest appreciation for mathematical aesthetics. That's a shame, because mathematical precision and imagination can be a salve to a literature that is drowning in vagueness of language and theme. " Why Writers Should Learn Math – By Alexander Nazaryan November 2, 2012
The Basics of Digital Writing
Writing for a digital magazine is different from writing for a print magazine. As well, writing for "The International Travel Herald" requires unique content. For instance, writing about worldwide travel requires new and up to date material. The qualities we look for in a well written "digital" article include Using Math To Become A Better Writer. Some of the most famous writers in history have learned the secret to mathematical precision in writing. Articles for us should have these qualities.
- Professionally written articles.
- Articles well edited for grammar, spelling, Style and Readability.
- Good SEO. Search Engine Optimization. Good SEO is essential to all digital content.
About ITR's 5W+H=BW Writing Success Formula
Using Math To Become A Better Writer is about developing an easy to read but informative article. The global traveler needs expert advice to have the best and safest journey possible. That is why ITR uses its own proprietary math formula for better writing. Obviously, we cannot talk about ITR without talking about our math equation for good writing. That is our 5W+H=BW™ formula. In short, we include the 5W+H (who, what when, where, why, plus how) questions which equals you becoming a BW (Better Writer). This helps you tell people what they need to know about anything you write.
For instance, in a travel article you could inform them about their travel destination by telling them the following.
- Who to know for help and information.
- What to do, What not to do, and What to avoid.
- When to travel for the best deals, and When are the best times of day to eat.
- Where to get the best meals, or Where to go for fun and excitement.
- Why you should visit one place or another, and
- How to get there safely, as well as How to relate to the locals.
Travel Intelligence
The 5W+H=BW formula is more than just a writing formula. Using Math To Become A Better Writer is also the foundation for development of Travel Intelligence. We founded International Travel Reviews (ITR) to promote a gold standard for providing timely, top-notch, world-class travel intelligence. As well, we emphasize High Travel Safety And Travel Security Standards. Moreover, we use our formula in developing a travel intelligence scenario for each of our travel reports.
Using Math To Become A Better Writer – Breaking It Down
Who to know for help and information. The #1, most important person on this list is a knowledgeable Travel Agent. We will soon publish an article on why you should always use a travel agent. We are not a travel agency. However, for travel, we always want to book through a competent and well experienced travel agent. Travel Agent's are like having insurance against those things that inevitably happen that are out of your control.
What to do. Planning your trip is essential to get the best out of your vacation. You cannot do it all, so plan for what you most want to do.
What not to do. You must also know in advance What not to do. Countries other than your own may have drastically different laws, rules, and regulations that you must follow. So, know this in advance.
What to Avoid. You must also know What to avoid. This is especially true of customs, rituals and foods of other countries. Most Americans would probably regurgitate if they learned the chicken or pork they just ate was actually a dog or a cat
- When
When to travel for the best deals. This could save you a lot of money. As well, When are the best times of day to eat. This can help you either join the crowd or avoid it. Likewise, prices often vary by time of day.
Where to get the best meals. 5 Stars doesn't always equal the best. Sometimes a mom and pop type shop or restaurant has far better food. Where to go for fun and excitement or solitude. This is a given since, after all, you are on vacation. Unless of course you took your vacation for quiet and solitude. Still, you should know in advance where you can find the best of either one.
Why you should visit one place or another. As noted above, you cannot do it all and see it all. So, research Why should you visit one place or another. Do what you, and your children, most want to do and enjoy.
How to get there safely includes knowing everything from what airline to fly to remote locations, to what tour company offers the best and most knowledgeable tour guides. Furthermore, How to relate to the locals is a critical piece of information that can save you from much embarrassment. This reminds me of a story from a missionary. He learned basic Spanish, but there are dozens of dialects of Spanish. Sometime words have different meanings for the same word. He could not understand why, when he was shouting to get a taxi, the drivers would make rude gestures or speed away. Finally, a kind local explained to him that the word he was using that he thought meant taxi, actually in that country, meant garbage truck!
Writers: Keep A Journal
Using Math To Become A Better Writer helps travel writers and travel bloggers. In fact, it helps any writer even book writers. For Travel Writers, this simple formula 5W+H=BW™ starts even before the journey. First, use the formula as an outline. Second, add to each one as you go, making changes on the fly. So, be sure to keep a journal. It can be digital, hard copy, or both. Obviously we recommend both. Moreover, it is always nice to have a backup. First, you can write highlights to jog your memory in the written journal, For instance, in case your digital journal is lost, stolen, or deleted. Second, the advantage of using a digital journal is the ability to copy/paste, edit and refine on the fly. Third, by keeping a digital journal, you actually write the article as things happen. Finally, all you have to do is edit and publish.
In short, mathematics and writing go hand in hand. Using Math To Become A Better Writer as a tool for better writing has many elements. Indeed, the logical precision of mathematics combined with the flair of writing is compelling. Moreover, mathematics helps writers develop a precision that guides the reader in a logical sequence. This prevents the meandering journeys mentioned in our previous article "How To Write Your Best Article".
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Episode 35 of the Is This a Thing Podcast!
"Supercut Tuesday"
We're off celebrating Super Tuesday, so here's a supercut of these unreleased topics:
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- Fighting Game Woes
- Trophies/Martin Luther Burger King
- Ballpark Proposals and the "New Sincerity"
- Expensive Buildings/Zombie Apocalypse
- Introverts: the Waiters of the Internet
- It's a Small World After All
- Marc's Mom
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Its Episode 35 of the Is This a Thing Podcast! The guys are all off being patriotic and waiting in line at their respective primaries and caucuses. While they wait to flip a coin to determine the leader of the free world, we've weaved a quilt of possible things for you! Most of these things were deemed too weird/opinionated/short to make the cut on a normal episode, but in the spirit of Bernie Sanders, FREE SHIT for EVERYONE! Also, next week we're planning on pulling a Trump and Making the Podcast Great Again by recording a new episode! Thanks for listening.
"That's why Lutherans aren't allowed to go to McDonalds."
Special thanks to Fletcher Magellan for our theme song, "Oh, No!" off his upcoming album Became a Stranger. Listen to it on his Bandcamp, and follow him on Facebook for more information about show dates and tour info.


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Loraine Lawson over at the IT Business Edge Integration blog discusses Microsoft's entry into the MDM space in her most recent post. She notes that:
"I was also intrigued to learn that the whole thing is API-based. Why does that matter? As Hayler explains, it allows ISVs to build apps on top of MDS. That's a good thing, since the description of MDS sounds pretty bare-bones at this point. The idea seems to be that ISVs will be able to build on better user interfaces and create support for things like version comparison, which, oddly, it does not provide out of the box."
I was surprised at this bit of thinking. It's always nice when a vendor product provides ways of extending it's functionality. It's occasionally useful for enterprise IT shops, and often useful for niche vendor's or ISV's looking for opportunities to extend a major vendor's product(s). But that's some old school thinking.
Since the early days of COM (Microsoft's Common Object Model), followed by COM+ and ActiveX, Microsoft has been exposing component level capabilities of their products. Thus, not only could their products be used for their primary purpose, but they could be leveraged to provide modular capabilities to other applications.
Take a look here… This is a presentation slide showing the object palette of the BPM tool from Acentn, Agilepoint:
It's a little hard to see (click for larger image), but notice the Microsoft exposed functionality – Exchange server can be used to create meetings, appointments, and read them later (calendar engine), Excel can be used to read data, write data, and perform calculations (calculation engine), Active Directory can be directly accessed to manage a user base (user management engine), and Sharepoint + Infopath can be access to generate a variety of automated portal functions. Even Word can be used as a print engine.
So when Microsoft says their MDM tool is exposing it's functionality via an API layer (SOA based I hope), my thought is how I'll be able to orchestrate that functionality into business solutions I'm architecting, and how well they'll fit various BPM processes being created.
Extending the application is nice, decomposing the application into function modules (with an easy to access open standards SOAP API) is Service Oriented Architecture. In this area Microsoft's thinking is way ahead of the competition.


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Here's the best part: every Trivago website's sites scan through over two hundred different travel and tourist websites for each hotel they show you, show you who is present the top price. As such, it's easy to just throughout the website with the cheapest price and book your reservation from there.
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This place is prime. You have everything you could want one location including a Sports Bar inside. Outside there is a swimming pool that is open to people that are buying dinner. The boat parking is really good at a bunch of different bars on the water in the Florida Keys.
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As a 70-year old humanitarian organization representing 37 Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox communions and 33 refugee resettlement offices across the United States, Church World Service (CWS) urges all members of Congress to oppose the "Cuban Immigrant Work Opportunity Act of 2016" (S.2441) and the "Cuban Immigrant Work Opportunity Act of 2015" (H.R.4247). Both of these bills would deny important integration services to Cubans rebuilding their lives in the United States. We know from sacred texts across faith traditions that we all have a moral responsibility to welcome the most vulnerable: the widow, the orphan, the refugee, during trying times.
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S.2441/H.R.4247 would dismantle one of the foundations of preeminent U.S. refugee law by eliminating Cubans' eligibility to receive refugee assistance under the Cuban Haitian Entrant Program. As a result, these bills would have disastrous consequences for Cubans who are seeking refuge in the United States. This legislation purports to place Cubans on a level playing field with other immigrants entering the United States. In reality, however, it would divert Cubans to other countries and undermine the U.S. government as a leader in refugee protection. This legislation would separate families and jeopardize Cubans' reunification with generations of families already integrated into U.S. communities. It would also undermine the United States' leadership in refugee protection and in welcoming and protecting our neighbors.
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More fantastic advice "Oh Great One". Thank you! The "helicopter parent" reference nailed it for me. That's why you get the big bucks my friend.
Keep up your mentoring, we all love it and need it!
Been a while since I posted, so I wanted to check in with you guys. Just came back from Denmark where I was conducting a leadership session. A question came up that you may find very relevant…
It was about duplication. And the answer may surprise you.
Because in the counseling I was doing, my advice was to back off. Let people step up and do more, even if they can't do it perfect like you.
A lot of leaders suck all the oxygen out of the room. They have to do all the trainings, all the webcasts, all the presentations, because they do them better than anyone else.
Welcome to Grinderville…
If you ever want to move out of Grinderville – leave some oxygen for others. Just as "helicopter parents" suppress the growth and self-sufficiency of their kids, you can do that with your team, if you never allow them to fail.
Try loosening up and letting your people do more. Be willing to let them make mistakes. Because that's how they get good!
More fantastic advice "Oh Great One". Thank you! The "helicopter parent" reference nailed it for me. That's why you get the big bucks my friend.
Keep up your mentoring, we all love it and need it!
Hey Randy,
Real leaders don't dictate you what to do , they show you the way how to do things by yourself .They teach you and direct you to the right path which you need to go.
Real leaders are not those who make the loudest show, on the contrary most of them are humble, modest like Moses in the Bible
Leaders are not humble
So true. When you let go of control you achieve so much more of the freedom you where looking for in the first place and you enable others to do the same.
That is truth.
Cannot imagine how anyone can enjoy and bloom working under a controlling person. By the way thanks so much for all that you have done.
That's great.
True duplicate lies in letting the followers do most of the things you do. By so doing, they learn from their mistakes and grow. I've to start implementing that right away.
Awesome post Randy! it is so very true, growth comes from not being confined, but allowed to expand. Just like skillsets 🙂
I was going to leave a long winded comment, express my prowess and 'suck as much oxygen' out of this post, but decided to be a 'real' leader and pass your views onto my downline. I'll await their comments and watch them GROW.
Now i know what a leader looks like.
Thanks Randy. You Rock!!
Will do… Thanks for the reminder, RG
Hi RG,
Let go and grow. Let your team do what it can. This is how they learn. Power advice.
I learned how to run live webinars by…running live webinars. I learned how to run a blog by blogging. To call prospects by…you get the drift. I never reached out to my coach…my fault..but thank God I didn't. Because I never would have developed the courage in myself and desire to succeed.
Our team won't succeed unless we allow them to get through the same awkward, difficult situations we sliced through. This is where all the growing is. All the good stuff. All the success.
Wow! This is a timely advice. Thanks so much
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You are so right. If you do all the work for your team then your team will never grow to become leaders. You have to step away sometimes and allow them the freedom to fail because once they do then they can move forward.
Also if you do all the work for your team, then you have created just a bunch of followers and what you really is is a ton of leaders who builds other leaders.
Trustworthiness is very important in a leader. People won't cooperate creatively with you if they sense something unworthy in you. Building trust takes time, but the fruits are sweet and long lasting.
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Who Can Benefit from Life Coaching?
I found a great post about life coaching and its benefits by geek granny. I love how she describes what life coaching is and what it can do for you. Here are some interesting excerpts:
Life is a skill that can be acquired and often you need help to learn this skill. Like any skill you desire to learn or become more proficient there are many ways to do this. If you want to become a better golfer you can hire a golf pro. If you want to become a better singer you perhaps hire a voice tutor.
We think nothing of paying someone to teach us how to do what we want to do better. That includes everything from cooking, writing, or a professional trainer to help us sculpt our body.
This is good. Of course, we can attempt to teach ourselves through books, videos and lots of practice. But most of the time if we're serous about furthering a need or talent we must seek professional assistance.
Learning how to live life is somehow viewed differently.
Great point. We pay for all sorts of trainers that are commonly accepted, but when it comes to life coaching or life training, its somehow different and perhaps even viewed as a deficiency if used. Why? We can all improve. We can all benefit.
True. Life coaching is not well understood and not well known.
Wow. This is so true and sometimes hard to face or even realize.
Making the decision is the huge first step we all have to make. It's common to want to have a better life but taking steps to do something to achieve it is a different story. It's hard. Fear of failure may deter us. Feelings of hopelessness, lack of skill or any number of excuses may stop us.
Living the life you desire can come with a high price tag. But, if you're willing to pay the price in money, effort and dedication then it's time to define your life on your own terms and take control. You understand you've reached the point in your life that you must feel happier and that life can be rich and dreams realized.
Money is the least of it. It takes effort. People are always willing to throw money at a problem thinking they are doing something to solve it. They're not, they're often fooling themselves. It takes dedication and determination to solve your problems and make a better life for yourself.
Therapy has its place and by all means if you feel like you need it, get it. But life coaching is not the same thing. Life coaching takes you beyond your current state to a higher and better place. Its not therapy. You should be ready to make things better and move forward with your life before seeking out a life coach. If you have deeper issues therapy may help. If you are looking to get out of a rut, better yourself, and achieve your goals, life coaching is something for you!
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Ray tracing is a photorealistic image synthesis method where we trace coherent light rays between their source and the eye using physical simulation. Such methods are able to produce certain effects (e.g. shadows) much more easily than the scanline algorithms that are currently used in the gaming industry. They are also able to produce light effects scanline algorithms are not capable of (refracting materials, caustics). These abilities come at a severe performance price, however.
The local illumination methods solve the lighting equation by great simplifications: they only model direct light paths that connect the surface directly with the light source. This makes local illumination methods unable to produce certain light phenomena. To render truly photorealistic images, one should calculate the lighting equation in its original form, meaning the use of global illumination methods.
In this paper I present the implementation and results of a Monte Carlo based global illumination algorithm in C++. I will provide an overview of the graphical engine itself, the process of implementation, the arising technical and performance problems.


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Air-conditioned villa with heated pool in an exceptional location with stunning views across the sweeping bay of Le Lavandou towards the headland of Cap Benat and the Grandes Calanques. Built in 2014 into the hillside just 700m above the beach, and spread over 3 spacious levels, every room faces the sea and offers the highest standard of modern comfort and convenience. A heated infinity pool is set on the lower terrace overlooking the bay with a large sunbathing area and covered terrace to escape from the mid-day heat. At mid-level, large glass doors join the indoor and outdoor living spaces and a fantastic partly enclosed au -vent provides shade for comfortable outdoor dining. Built using soft pink bricks to reflect the colour of the coastal rocks and with large open panels to frame the view, what better place to sit back and allow the lovely sea breeze to cool you as you dine! A 10 minute walk downhill brings you to Aiguebelle beach, and a cycle path runs between here and nearby Cavaliere, putting an endless array of watersports and beach facilities within easy reach. The heady atmosphere of St Tropez is known all over the world; dazzling yachts, designer shops and pavement cafes buzz with life as people watch people going by! As you travel west of St Tropez the landscape becomes noticeably less populated and feels increasingly relaxed, making this the ideal choice for your holiday base. With 12km of beautiful coastline, Le Lavandou is known for its '12 beaches' ranging from hidden coves to family beaches with great facilities and watersports, but they all have one thing in common; golden sands and award winning, clear blue waters. It feels like a whole world away from St Tropez, and yet is only 20 miles along the coast. 20 miles in the opposite direction, the Giens peninsula offers fantastic windsurfing in a protected bay, and a 10 minute boat trip takes you to the Ile de Porquerolles, a magical unspoilt island with fabulous seafood restaurants, white sands and turquoise waters, often likened to the Caribbean!
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There are likely folks who will say you cannot have a real Pho with no meat involved at all. And, when those folks make me Pho, I eat it as they made it :) Even when they lie to me and tell me that their balls in their Pho are not testicles when they so obviously are (remember that trip to Rock and Bowl in Springfield, Reneé?). Van Lang's beef ball Pho is at least a bit less frightening, as the balls are sliced.
I'm guessing you understand that I don't have a problem with Pho that has no meat. Here in town, Lulu's Noodle Shop is good, as is Vietnam Cafe over on Rainbow (I am pretty sure their broth is meaty). So, if you don't want to make your own, head to a local joint and see what you get. But don't be surprised if you wind up with a surprise or two in the bowl.
One of the things I love about Vietnamese food (and Thai and Korean food, really) is the way that each bowl or plate is a marriage of contradictions: sweet, savory, hot, cooked, raw, smoky, salty, tart--it's all in there.
Angel's Vegan Pho
Adapted from Cooking Light's Turkey Pho
Serves 4-6 people (how brothy your bowls are is key).
8 cups vegetable stock
3 Tablespoons low sodium soy (Tamari if you're gluten free)
2 Tablespoons of brown sugar
1 3 inch piece of cinnamon stick
Several slices of ginger root (I use a good amount of ginger)
In a tea ball or a muslin tea bag put:
5-6 whole cloves
4 star anise (I have used anise seed and even fennel seed here. The licorice notes are what you want).
Simmer all of that together for about 30 minutes. Taste the broth and adjust seasoning if necessary. Take out the chunky bits (the cinnamon stick, ginger, and tea ball).
Rice noodles are customary. I usually buy wider Pho noodles, but this is what they had where I shopped last. My preferred brand is Three Ladies, but these were good. I don't follow instructions here. Instead, I boil them for about 7 minutes, rather than doing the hot water soak method. I cook 2 ounces per person, and I cook the noodles right before serving. In other words, if there are only two people having a bowl, I cook four ounces, regardless of the fact I have enough broth for more than two folks. Then, noodles are cooked for leftovers. Rice noodles tend to get too soft if you cook, chill and reheat. But, you just do what's best for you.
In addition to the broth and noodles, one other non-negotiable thing for me is charred onions in my Pho. You can grill the char on, but I like to slice the onions in slices and leave them intact, putting them into a scorching hot iron skillet until they are charred on both sides. Once that's done, I move them to my cutting board and slice the rounds in half, separating the strands. I throw them in the mix of whatever stir fried vegetables I'm using in my bowl. The version above has some red, yellow, and green bell pepper strips stir fried with some chopped Napa cabbage with ginger and garlic. In addition, when I reheated my broth and veggies today, I threw in a couple of handfuls of mustard greens.
Anything you like could go in here, including proteins like tofu, seitan, soy curls, or even edamame. Mushrooms are great.
I also like to put my chili paste in the bottom of my bowl, so when I pour the broth in, I get a good mix. I put a little extra soy here, as well.
As important as the heat, though, are the garnishes. Here, we've got thinly sliced cucumber, torn mint and cilantro, and julienned carrot up top. This gets "dressed" liberally with fresh lime juice. You're going to want both chopsticks and spoon here, unless you're with family and can just pick up the bowl.
Every time I make Pho, it's a little different from the last version. Have fun with it by swapping out the vegetables you use.
Who's dishing?
Angel lives in Camden, Arkansas where she writes stuff and sometimes sends it out to other people to read. She used to grade papers, but not anymore. Check out her main site to see what she's up to lately.
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Connecting Social Care and Social Media
Many organizations are looking to rationalize their publishing strategy, realizing that digital publishing has come of age and that substantial cost-savings can be made by switching from print to digital formats. However simply transferring all publications to web publishing carries risks. There is a growing body of evidence that readers do not engage as thoroughly with materials published on the web as they do with printed materials (or materials that are presented in other digital contexts, such as e-books). And where readers are printing out materials from the web, there is a reputational risk from transferring the burden and the cost of printing from your organization to theirs (or to them personally).
There is an alternative, however, which achieves the benefits for your organization of switching from print to digital publishing, yet avoids these risks. This is to make your publications available in print-on-demand and e-book formats. There are…
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Though these are products I have emptied over a period of time, it always gives happiness and a sense of satisfaction to write product empties posts.
You can see that I have emptied 2 big sized and 1 normal sized moisturizers. Thanks to winter and my dry skin. I have purchased Nivea body lotion twice but right now I am using a travel-sized Vaseline moisturizer and stocked up a big sized Dove moisturizer. I will definitely come back to Nivea as it is one of the trusted/stable moisturizers.
Most talked products on the beautysphere which tempted me to try are the Bioderma make remover and La Rosche Posay effaclair skincare range. Sadly, these didn't live up to the claim. I have purchased Maybelline micellar water after finishing the bioderma one and in no way, I could say bioderma was better than Maybelline. But I don't use waterproof makeup, so bioderma might be a better option to remove waterproof makeup compared to other makeup removers. Do your research before you invest on this. When it comes to the Effaclair range, it didn't react with my skin in a bad way yes. But, does it clear my scar, prevented acne? No. I still use the toner which comes along with this combo but I am not repurchasing this skincare range.
I was religiously using biotique shampoos for a while. I think it was my 3rd bottle and I have a travel sized one unused. There is nothing great or bad about this product. A regular shampoo which comes with the 'natural/organic' tag. I might repurchase it or try something similar.
Tresemme shampoo/conditioner combo is again a stable product. I like to try different shampoos and conditioners (right now using L'Oreal clay shampoo/conditioner) but I will always come back to Tresemme.
I bought the body shop lip balm after a beauty vlogger recommended it for removing pigmentation on the lips. Though it worked well as a lip balm and as a base for matte lipsticks (without taking away the matte effect), I didn't see any change in the lip pigmentation. I may not buy it again mainly because of the price range.
If you ask me to recommend a mascara or ask me to choose only one mascara for the rest of my life, it would be the Maybelline falsies. I have tried a few more mascaras even from the same brand but nothing made me go wow like this one. Currently, I am using a different variant from Maybelline but will definitely repurchase the falsies.
I am on my third bottle of the Nivea deodorant. Of course, I didn't buy it for the whitening claim. I am sure no deodorant can make your underarm milky white and I have come to terms with the way my underarms look 😛 I have repurchased only because of the refreshing fragrance which stays all day long. I have used a few more deodorants in between but I always come back to this. The only drawback I have wrt this is, it forms a white cast when I spray it on my visible pulse points.
I bought the plum green tea facewash with so much expectations. But seriously, what miracle a facewash can do? Do you have a holy grail facewash that can do wonders? Let me know. Coming to this face wash, I was disappointed to see micro-granules in it; as I have sensitive skin and such scrub particles can affect my skin badly. Luckily nothing of that sorts happened but again, it's just another face wash that cleanses your skin. Nothing excited me to repurchase this.
The Maybelline baby lips lipbalm is my all time favorite. The days I feel like not wearing lipstick but want to have some color going on, I reach for this. I have bought 2 more of it with different shades but this pink is something I will repurchase.
The Ansolar sunscreen was prescribed to me by a dermatologist. I have a detailed review of this sunscreen which you can check to know more. Right now I am using the Lotus 3-in-1 matte sunscreen but looking to switch to some other sunscreen. As summers are approaching, the Ansolar sunscreen might make my skin oily and that is the only thing that makes me hesitate to purchase this again. Do you use a mattifying sunscreen? Let me know.
As much as I am happy to write this post and glad that there are a few more products which are in the verge of getting over, I am extremely sad about something else. To know more you have to wait till my next post.


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I was able to get this picture off my phone.. this was just after she was born... so she's a little swollen...but I need someone a little more computer savvy than I am to figure out the new card thing...Maybe my dad can do it today!
Anyways, the Ped came in today and said he thought she looked great. He did recommend seeing a Cardiologist next week...but didn't want to do any further tests in the hospital because if there are any holes in her heart of valves, a lot of times they will close in the first few days after birth on their own... so he just wanted to wait a few days so anything that may correct on it's own will do so before we check! So that's good news... Her feet still look good. She has thrown up each time after she's eaten....but I don't know how much weight she's lost yet.
I am feeling good except for a horrible head cold and cough... and coughing is not something you really want to do a lot of after giving birth... Ouch... I am just going to try and sleep as much as possible today while we have nurses to look after the baby! (Can't you tell she's not a firstborn!)
Love yall!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Update on Cardio
2 comments:
- Chelle said...
Oh, little sweet pea! She's precious! Yes yes, enjoy those nurses who will care for the baby while you rest. That was a good thing when our girl was born, very good thing indeed!
- January 3, 2009 at 9:57 AM
- fatoreo2008 said...
Jamie, Harper looks so beautiful! I am so glad she is finally OUT! Praise the Lord that her feet look normal and I will continue to pray about her heart!
- January 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Here is a great link to Otto Von Busch's work 'Recyclopedia' which forms a Cookbook of ways for consumers to alter their clothes with ease, providing them with step by step instructions.
A project by 'Self_Passage'
>self_passage< is a long term method-based project in an attempt to create a field of democratic-productive consciousness and empowerment within the fashion system especially regarding the modes of production. The methods in this book should preferably be seen as a collection and be read with political glasses rather than fashion/aesthetic/environmental ones. It is a contribution to the critical discussion concerning the interpassive system of contemporary consumption.
For more information: www.selfpassage.org
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Black and Women of Color Protesters Gunning for the NRA
by G. Brown
Some things just go together…peanut butter & jelly, socks & shoes, Ashford and Simpson. Some things simply don't go together—peanut butter & sardines, knife and spoon, Blacks and the NRA. That last coupling was just inserted as a jump off get in to the topic…do Black people join, like, care about or ignore the NRA?
It's not a new convo, but it is a topic that's seeing a resurgence since Tamika Mallory has voiced her concerns about the organization. Mallory is one of the co-organizers of the group Women's March who told HuffPost in an interview that "recent actions of the NRA prove the organization only cares about defending the Second Amendment rights of white gun owners." Again, nothing new among minority gun owners, but Mallory says the group's recent ads are targeting progressive activists.
One of the two ads that have Mallory and other activists fired up is a one minute recruitment video that features conservative talk-show host Dana Loesch talking about all the resistance to the current President and linking Trump's majority disapproval to former President Barack Obama….
The NRA's ad left gun owners and even Republicans taking shots at them for the divisive rhetoric and incendiary tone behind lines like "They use their schools to teach children that their president is another Hitler."—-Who the hell are "they"? What schools are teaching kids that Trump is Hitler? Many of those outraged by the ad fired back at the NRA on their Facebook page.
One man who would not release his name for fear of his own safety, but did identify himself as a gun owner called the ad, "Orwellian nonsense designed to make you cheer and fist pump for your 'freedom' like dogs drooling when the bell gets rung." He added, "Much of their [the NRA] core membership seems impervious to logic and reason, sadly."
Mallory and her group are not impervious to logic though and see the ad as "very dangerous" because she says it "specifically calls for members of the NRA and other gun owners to take up arms to address protesters or to push back against protesters , particularly people of color."
Mallory also says, "The NRA does not believe in protecting black and brown lives…They are not an organization that represents all people. Because if, in fact, the NRA was an organization that represents all people, why would you not have a response to Philando Castile?" Mallory's assertion led to some fireworks with the NRA before the 4th of July when the group responded in another ad—this time four minutes long, titled "We Don't Apologize for Telling the Truth" and specifically called out Mallory.
Mallory's response? Her group has called a protest for next week (July 14 & 15) . The terrifying possibilities include, what if NRA members show up as well with that rallying cry from those ads still scrambling their brains. Even worse, what happens if Black and minority NRA members show up—are they expected to go head to head with the female protesters many of whom are women of color?
Which brings us back to our opening statements…do Blacks who belong to the NRA? If we are to believe theFa NRA's Facebook page, then the answer is yes. And some stats from other groups like Ammoland.com says that "40% of NRA members are women…another 40% are minorities (mostly Asian and Hispanic). Stats say gun ownership is on the rise among Blacks, but many are remain reluctant to join a group many still see as that bastion of White supremacists and alt-right supporters who hate Blacks and other minorities. The NRA is trying to change its image…but recruitment ads like the recent releases don't exactly convey that sentiment as much as stoke fears that Blacks may be the "they" referred to by Loesch?
What do you think…is Mallory right? Is the NRA still the group that's not there to help Blacks and people of color? Or are Blacks still judging the NRA based on ideas from the 50's and 60s?