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Icicle Necklace
Navone Jewelry
Clear glass pendant wrapped in oxidized beads, on 21" double gold-fill chain.
Clear glass pendant wrapped in oxidized beads, on 21" double gold-fill chain.
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Navone jewelry is made-to-order, so please allow 1-2 weeks for us to complete your piece before shipping. Having a bit of procrastinator blood in all of us, we understand the need for rushed orders, so please contact us if you find yourself in a pinch and we will see what can be done!
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Hot and spicy cauliflower bites, battered and baked and smothered with hot sauce. Serve this with skinny blue cheese dressing[1] and celery sticks on the side for a hot and spicy meatless appetizer.
I stumbled on a vegan version of this recipe on Peta[2] and thought they looked good so I made some slight changes and gave it a try. I tested it out on some of the cauliflower-averse people in my home, and they gave it a thumbs up.
One thing to note, if you are watching your sodium, you'll have to look
for a lower sodium hot sauce, or use half of the sauce. Frank's is my
favorite for buffalo sauce, but it's not low in sodium. If anyone knows
of a lower sodium buffalo sauce, kindly share!
Spicy Buffalo Cauliflower Bites
Servings: 6 • Size: about 1 cup cauliflower • Old Points: 2 pts • Points+: 3 pts
Calories: 119.4 • Fat: 2 g • Protein: 4 g • Carb: 21.4 g • Fiber: 3 g • Sugar: 0.2 g
Sodium: 1172 mg
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 22 oz (6 1/2 cups) cauliflower florets
- 3/4 cup Franks Hot Sauce
- 1 tbsp melted unsalted butter
Preheat the oven to 450°F. Lightly spray a large non-stick baking sheet with oil.
Combine the water, flour, and garlic powder in a bowl and stir until well combined.
Coat the cauliflower pieces with the flour mixture and place on the baking sheet; bake for 20 minutes.
While the cauliflower is baking, combine the hot sauce and butter in a small bowl.
Pour the hot sauce mixture over the baked cauliflower and continue baking for an additional 5 minutes. Serve with skinny blue cheese dressing[3] if desired and celery sticks.
Adapted from Peta[4]
- ^ skinny blue cheese dressing (www.gordon-ramsay-recipe.com)
- ^ Peta (www.peta.org)
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ABUS Granit City Chain XPlus 1060
The GRANIT CityChain XPlus by ABUS is the original for maximum theft protection. Your bike has never been this safe before!
The seven test seals from different countries speak for themselves: the GRANIT CityChain XPlus from ABUS is among the most secure bicycle locks on the international market. This lock has been awarded security level 15, the highest ABUS security system level. The chain, body, and structural parts of the locking mechanism are manufactured from specially hardened steel and make theft considerably more difficult.
- 10mm hexagonal chain with textile sleeve to protect against damage to the paintwork
- ABUS Power Cell technology offers the highest level of protection against impacts and attempts to break the lock
- ABUS Power Link technology enables the chain to be connected directly to the Power Cell
- Interwoven coating of the lock body to protect against brutal methods of attack
- The chain, the lock body and supporting elements of the locking mechanism are made of specially hardened steel
- ABUS XPlus cylinder for the highest level of protection against tampering, e.g. picking
- Cover to protect the keyhole from contamination
- Excellent protection where the risk of theft is high
- Ideal for securing high-value bicycles
- The longer the chain, the easier the bicycle can be locked to a fixed object


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How does hypnosis work?
Hypnosis is a wellness technique that works by promoting positive behavioral or cognitive changes. During successful hypnosis, the client should be eased into a state of deep relaxation in which the conscious mind takes a back seat and the subconscious mind becomes more active. The client is often able to let go of critical thoughts and become receptive to the therapist's suggestions. In this state of hypnosis, motivating suggestions can bypass your usual mental resistance and internal defense mechanisms. For example, even if you want to quit overeating cupcakes, you may have some level of resistance that your rational mind can't overcome. During hypnosis, the positive suggestions made by the hypnotherapist can bypass your usual blocks, helping you to achieve the formerly unachievable: stopping overeating, quitting smoking, mastering public speaking, or losing your fear of heights. The goal of hypnosis is to strengthen and empower the client's motivation, commitment and focus. Consider working with someone who is not just trained in hypnosis but also is a licensed therapist or psychotherapist who can bring their academic background into your session.
How is hypnosis used in therapy?
Hypnosis is a powerful tool to help clients overcome challenging issues such as anxiety, phobias, pain management, hot flashes and more. Hypnosis is also a way to help let go of addictions like smoking, overeating and gambling. In and of itself, hypnosis is not a therapy, but it can be used in conjunction with therapy to empower and encourage the person receiving it to make positive change. Some people are more susceptible to hypnosis and will benefit more from hypnotherapy than others.
According to Dr. Clifford N. Lazarus, speaking for Psychology Today, hypnosis is a "genuine psychological phenomenon that has valid uses in clinical practice … hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention or concentration, often associated with relaxation, and heightened suggestibility. While under hypnosis (i.e., in a hypnotic trance), it seems many people are much more open to helpful suggestions than they usually are." The suggestions made in a therapeutic setting get deep into a person's brain, beyond their conscious thinking, leading to behavior change and the ability to overcome challenges that might otherwise seem insurmountable.
What is the effectiveness of hypnosis?
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services recognizes the healing power of hypnosis and its proven effectiveness for anxiety, pain control, smoking cessation, headaches and more. Hypnosis may be safe and complementary way to augment medical attention you are receiving for a chronic illness or pain, or a way to resolve an addiction or phobia that you are otherwise unable to control. Hypnosis does not work on every person. When scientists began studying hypnosis in earnest, a report published by Stanford University titled "The Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale" demonstrated that different brains respond to hypnosis in varying degrees, and a very few do not respond at all. Working with a trained psychologist, you'll soon determine whether you are a good candidate for the healing benefits of hypnotherapy.
During a hypnotherapy session, the therapist will bring you into a state of deep relaxation in which the critical, conscious part of your brain recedes and the subconscious mind becomes alert and focused. The therapist will make suggestions, based on your intended goals, that will take root in your subconscious mind. These suggestions should affect your thinking in a positive way and empower you to make change.
What can hypnosis help you with?
According to many sources including the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which is part of the United States National Library of Medicine and a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), hypnosis is scientifically proven to help relieve both mental challenges and physical pains. Hypnosis can alleviate stress and reduce pain after surgeries, has been shown to relieve anxiety in children in the emergency room, and can be useful for managing pain associated with everything from arthritis to migraines. Hypnosis is non-invasive and gives you a way to control pain or discomfort that might otherwise seem out of your hands. Hypnosis shouldn't be used as a substitute for medical care, but may be an excellent complementary tool that is best provided by a trained therapist or licensed medical provider. The University of Maryland Medical Center shares many conditions for which hypnosis can be useful:
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Tension headaches
- Alopecia areata
- Asthma
- Phobias
- Insomnia
- Addictions
- Bedwetting
- Fibromyalgia
- Labor and delivery
- Skin disorders, such as acne, psoriasis and eczema (atopic dermatitis)
- Stress
- Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
- Cancer-related pain
- Weight loss
- Eating disorders
- Warts
- Indigestion (dyspepsia)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Smoking cessation


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What you'll achieve:
In this project-centered course*, you will create sounds and use them in your own musical compositions. Whether you're an aspiring producer, composer, or hobbyist, this course will help you gain skills in music production and confidence using software synthesizers. Along with your classmates, you will create a massive database of designed sounds, or patches, to use in your compositions. As part of the course, you will work with a free version of FXpansion Strobe 2. What you'll need to get started: This course is designed for learners who are familiar with music production basics, and who have access to some basic music production equipment. Specifically, you should have experience with a digital audio workstation that supports VST, AAX, or AU plugins (Introduction to Music Production or Pro Tools Basics are recommended if you do not have this experience). You will also need a MIDI keyboard or controller (such as an oxygen 8), a digital audio workstation, such as Pro Tools, and FXpansion Strobe 2 (a free 90-day demo will be provided for Coursera learners in this course). *About Project-Centered Courses: This is a 'project-centered course', which means it is designed specifically to help you complete a personally meaningful real-world project, with your instructor and a community of learners with similar goals providing guidance and suggestions along the way. By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you'll master the course content more efficiently; you'll also get a head start on using the skills you gain to make positive changes in your life and career. When you complete the course, you'll have a finished project that you'll be proud to use and share.


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I am pretty embarrassed at how little sewing I did this last week.
- This linky party is for any scrappy project - It can be in-process or a finished piece.
- You can link up your blog post (not your homepage please) or Instagram photo from the past week that features your use of scraps.
- If you are linking to a blog post, I ask that you link back to my blog somewhere in your post. So if you are writing about scraps, just get into the habit of including a link as there will be a linky party available every week!
- If you are using Instagram, please use the hashtag #ohscrap.
- This is a party so remember to socialize and comment on the posts of others.
- Following my blog is not necessary but it sure would be great if you do!


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It's undeniable that using keyboard shortcuts activate computer commands faster than dragging a touchpad or a mouse. To that end, if you're using Windows 10, there are a couple of new keyboard shortcuts worth trying.
Windows Snapping
If you've never used Windows Snapping, you're missing out on one of Windows 10's key features. Known as Aero Snap on Windows 7, the snapping feature allows you to snap windows vertically on top of each other. You can even snap windows to a 2×2 grid for better multitasking. Simply use these keyboard shortcuts:
- Windows Key + Left – Snap current window to the left side of the screen
- Windows Key + Right – Snap current window to the right side of the screen
- Windows Key + Up – Snap current window to the top of the screen
- Windows Key + Down – Snap current window to the bottom of the screen
You can also combine these shortcuts to snap your current window into a corner like top left, top right, and more.
Task Views
This window management feature allows you to see all your opened windows so you can quickly return to a specific program or document. This is particularly useful if you have multiple windows open at once. In addition to clicking the Task View button on the taskbar to open it, these keyboard shortcuts will do the trick:
- Windows Key + Tab – Open a new Task View interface with windows from your current virtual desktop appearing in the Task View list. To switch between virtual desktops, simply use the virtual desktop switcher at the bottom of the screen.
- Alt + Tab – While not a new keyboard shortcut per se, it allows you to switch between open windows on all virtual desktops.
- Ctrl + Alt + Tab – This is similar to Alt + Tab but the thumbnails stay on the screen even after you release all the keys.
Virtual Desktop
A great way to stay organized, this nifty feature lets you use an unlimited number of virtual desktops so you can dedicate each of them for certain functions. For instance, one could be used solely for work with all your business software and the other for entertainment. Some keyboard shortcuts to help you quickly manage your virtual desktops include:
- Windows Key + Ctrl + D – Create a new virtual desktop and switch to it
- Windows Key + Ctrl + F4 – Close current virtual desktop
- Windows Key + Ctrl + Left/Right – Switch to the virtual desktop on the left or right
If you're looking for ways to boost productivity, or have any questions about how Microsoft Windows can help streamline your operations, just give us a call. Our IT experts are more than happy to help.


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In hono(u)r of Friday night, the Difference of the Day is AmE take-out (noun) and to-go (adj/adv) vs. BrE take-away.Let's start with the BrE one. Take-away is extremely flexible, both grammatically and semantically. It can be:
A noun for the food that's been taken away: We had a Chinese take-away.On the last point: it's not really a full-fledged verb. You never hear anyone say We took out or We took out a pizza (or even worse, We took out a Chinese). It's used mainly in the infinitive and mainly in the process of making or receiving a food order. After the fact, you'd say We got a take-away, or some such thing.
A noun for a place that only sells prepared food to eat off-site: We went to the Chinese take-away.
An adjective for such food or place: a take-away pizza
A phrasal verb: Is that to eat here (or eat in) or take away?
A couple of readers pointed out that in Scottish English it would be carry-out (with the same grammatical range) rather than take-away. I'll still call take-away BrE rather than just English English since (a) it's certainly spread that far, even if it's not the native term; there are businesses that call themselves take-aways in Edinburgh and Glasgow (though probably more that call themselves carry-outs, it's true) and (b) 'non-Scottish' doesn't necessarily mean 'English'--there are other parts of the UK too. On point (a), there are over a million hits for each of take-away+Edinburgh and carry-out+Edinburgh, and the Glaswegian equivalents--in fact, one of the first hits is www.glasgowtakeaways.co.uk.
Damien Hall wrote to say:
Damien has remembered correctly. I found this quotation in "The study of dialect convergence and divergence: conceptual and methodological considerations" by Frans Hinskens, Peter Auer, and Paul Kerswill (in their edited collection Dialect Change, Cambridge University Press, 2005):
I haven't checked this, but I think I've heard that this is a demonstration of a classic dialectological phenomenon, two varieties with an intermediate transition zone in between: so Southern English take-away, Scots carry-out, and I think some bits of Northern English say take-out.
Whenever dialect mixing leads to the stabilisation of the variants that are typical of the respective 'pure' lects along with additional 'compromise' variants, one usually speaks of fudging (cf. Chambers and Trudgill 1998: 110–118; Britain 2002, 2004). [...] a similar, more recent, example from British English, discussed by Trudgill, concerns central and southern take away, the northern variant carry out, and the intermediate take out, which is used in the southern part of northern England.Incidentally, if you're getting fish and (BrE) chips, you generally don't need to mention that it's take-away. As we say in Linguistics, fish and chips are unmarked for taking-away--it's far less usual to have your fish and chips in a restaurant. A (BrE) fish-and-chip shop is perhaps the archetype of British take-away establishments, and they most often don't have seating for eating-in.
On to the American: take-out does not have quite the range that take-away does, since it shares the work with to-go (which we have discussed a little bit already). A friend pointed out that he'd say carry-out for pizza or Italian food. And you know what? So would I. I'm not sure why this is--it doesn't seem to be particularly regional, since my friend is from California, living in Illinois, and I'm from New York state.
The noun take-out has a very New York City feel to me, but that's probably just because I grew up in a part of the state that didn't really have take-out establishments (fast food, yes; Chinese restaurants, no) in my long-ago (1970s/80s) youth. The fast-food places would ask if you wanted your food for here or to go. (Indeed, I had to ask that myself during my two stints of McDonald's purgatory-on-Earth.) The pizza places ask if you want it for carry-out (or also pick-up) or delivery. For me in my youth, getting a take-out was what people on television did--though getting carry-out pizza was a regular treat for us.
A completely non-linguistic aside: it can be funny to reali{s/z}e how atypical one's everyday foods can be. For me, pizza is the food of childhood (perhaps it wasn't so in other parts of the US way back then--I'm not sure. The northeast has had plenty of Italian immigration.) Better Half was introduced to pizza when he was about 13 at Pizzaland, where they served up a half a pizza with a (BrE) jacket potato/(AmE) baked potato and cole slaw. I still get the giggles whenever he mentions it. (His sister's mother-in-law made it into her 70s without ever having had pasta. She was not impressed when Sister-in-Law introduced her to it.) I also find it funny that some English people say to me that they couldn't eat pizza often. I reply: but you have sandwiches every day--what's the difference? It's another way of having bread with cheese, meat or veg and condiments. (It becomes clear in most cases that we're never going to see eye-to-eye on this. But as a conciliatory point, I really like British pizza--which is more like what one gets in northern Italy. Thin, olive-oily crusts and top-rate toppings.)
On the other hand, a few English people have asked me how curry here compares to Indian food in the US, and I have to explain that I never had Indian food until I moved to South Africa in my mid-20s--and that I have never lived in an American town that had an Indian restaurant (though some of the towns have changed by now--though their Indian places are generally fairly fancy, not the kinds of places you'd get a take-away/take-out curry from). I still haven't acquired the British native's facility with an Indian menu. I can tell you that I like dupiazas (or dopiazas), that chicken tikka masala is supposedly the national dish of the UK and that kurmas (or kormas) are for (orig. AmE) wimps. Other than that, I have to read all the fine print on the menus. Here's a cheat-sheet if, like me, you need one...