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The Last Great Hunt
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Expectations: 2/5
Reality Rating: 4/5
Fidget Factor: 0.2
Grindr Vs Tinder
Initially reading the title, Fag/Stag, hackles went up and expectations were low. In complete contrast to this preconception, The Last Great Hunt have produced a piece of theatre which is both charming and challenging.
Jeffrey Jay Fowler and Chris Isaacs explore the ugly, yet funny truths of these characters and their social circles. Jimmy is obsessed with Grindr, where a 'dick-pic' comes before a hello and Corgan has a compulsion to swipe right on every girl he thinks 'he could' with on Tinder. Amongst the fun, Fag/Stag also contains a series of painful incidents, not shared in search of empathy but to openly examine how society treat and judge different sexual orientations.
Just four props are used during the entire show; each actor has a phone and wii remote. The centre of this production is not an elaborate visual display but simply the conversation. Fowler and Isaacs only move away from their seats two or three times during the whole performance, yet the production is still extremely compelling due to the developed characters, playful interactions with the audience and energy from the pair. The actors interact directly for the first time at the end of the show, to demonstrate a united front.
The comedy in this production is found by two separate renditions of the same situation. Two sides of every story, and the narrator is always in the right. Jeffrey Jay Fowler finds a soft, magnetic charisma for Jimmy. Chris Isaacs doesn't go for the obvious big build, gruff stag but adopts a subtle physicality of high held shoulders, and harder set facial expressions.
Laugh with the lads at Fag/Stag, currently playing at EdFringe's Underbelly.
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▦ Photos – Courtesy of Naomi Reed
Time: 60 Minutes
Running: 3 AUG 17 ► 27 AUG 17
♥ Thank you to Tilly Wilson for the invite
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Caitlyn Jenner's Highly Anticipated Sports Illustrated Cover Is Finally Here
Caitlyn Jenner'sSports Illustrated magazine cover is finally here.
The "I Am Cait" star posed for the shoot to honor the 40th anniversary of her decathlon win. Back in 1976, she set a world record at the Montreal Summer Olympics.
A few months ago, it was rumored Jennerwould be wearing nothing but her gold medal and an American flag for the shoot.
But now the cover is finally revealed, and it's a little different than expected. In the photo, Jenner stands with her hand on her hip and rocks a gold sparkly romper with her medal around her neck.
It's the first time she posed with her gold medal since transitioning.
Check out Caitlyn Jenner on the Sports Illustrated cover in the photo below.
The caption reads,
Sports Illustrated's 2016 Where Are They Now 7/4/16 national cover Caitlyn Jenner at her home, 6/1/16, Malibu, California.
Photo by Yu Tsai @yutsai88 @caitlynjenner
According to Us Weekly,Jenner considers the medal her "most prized possession" and keeps it safe in her makeup drawer.
Just a year ago, Jenner posed for the first time on the cover of Vanity Fair, sharing her new identity as Caitlyn (formerly Bruce).
Since her transition, she has worked to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, although she has received backlash for her political views.
Recently, Jenner fought for gender-neutral bathrooms and met face-to-face with high school students who criticized her activism.
Historically, oursociety has pathologized trans life, so it's important to have trans visibility in the media to break down the barriers that still exist today.
Sports Illustrated also shared a throwback photo in honor of the athlete's 1976 Summer Olympics win.
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Maïwenn's My King aims to be a searing modern-day relationship drama along the lines of Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage and Maurice Pialat's We Won't Grow Old Together, focusing as it does on a couple—Tony (Emmanuelle Bercot) and Georgio (Vincent Cassel)—who fall in and out of love with each other over the span of many years. And certainly, the acting and direction in the film are strong enough that its grand ambitions come close to being realized. Bercot and Cassel have a convincing romantic chemistry on screen in the early stages of their characters' relationship—and Maïwenn, encouraging a generous amount of improvisation from her performers, often allows scenes to run longer than expected to allow us to hang out with these characters and observe their behavior in detail.
But while revelations about the characters—Georgio's alcoholism and infidelity, Tony's own struggles with depression during her pregnancy—may be dropped into a scene, the film too quickly moves onto the next one without their implications given enough room to breathe. That the film cuts between Tony's memories of her life with Georgio and her current efforts at a hospital to recover from a debilitating skiing accident partly justifies this rushed superficiality, as Maïwenn is attempting to impressionistically render Tony's own frazzled sense of recall. And yet, that isn't enough to banish the suspicion that My King might have been more resonant had Maïwenn allowed more time and space for her characterizations to organically develop. When, at one point, Tony bitterly articulates to Georgio her realization that, even after all their years together, she still doesn't really know him, the audience may well realize that, as much as Maïwenn allows us to watch Tony and Georgio interact, ultimately we don't really know these characters either.
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's Three Sisters has no such problems, but that's probably because of its source material. Though Bruni Tedeschi and co-writer Noémie Lvovsky have included a few idiosyncratic details not in Anton Chekhov's famous turn-of-the-20th-century play, and aside from the the third act having been excised, the film is basically a straight adaptation of the stage drama, with barely an attempt made to open things up beyond its one house setting. If My King features many scenes of characters simply hanging out with each other, Three Sisters is essentially built on three such lengthy sequences, set in three different time periods, in which we closely observe the titular siblings—Olga (Florence Viala), Macha (Elsa Lepoivre), and Irina (Georgia Scalliet)—and their various acquaintances, friends, and relatives as they try to distract themselves from their current dispiriting stasis, whether by drinking or gambling their sorrows away, philosophizing about their lots in life, or keeping their hopes alive by thinking about the future.
Bruni Tedeschi adopts a classical style that emphasizes the performances, with long takes and slow tracking shots following the members of the cast as they reminisce, parry, and bond. One sequence in the middle of the film, however, offers an intriguing break from the staginess: a very un-Chekhov-like party scene in which many of the characters engage in a drunken soirée that seems borne more out of desperation than actual joy.
Cinema itself becomes an element in this adaptation when army doctor Ivan Romanovich (Bruno Raffaelli) brings a projector to the sisters' home and screens films for them and his fellow soldiers—including, in the film's final moments, Georges Méliès's A Man of Heads. Later, Bruni Tedeschi even includes a surreal scene in which the sisters' late mother walks off a movie screen and into the arms of a still lovelorn Ivan while he's watching archival footage of her by himself. But perhaps Bruni Tedeschi's most striking personal touch lies in her soundtrack, with her anachronistic use of not only French pop songs, but Lou Reed's "Smalltown," an excoriating ditty that, in this context, emphasizes the sisters' innermost desires to cast off the chains of their dead-end lives in this particular village once and for all.
Anachronisms and all, though, the essence of Chekhov's play remains intact—and what a bleak essence it is. The house in which these three sisters continue to live and work after their father has passed away becomes more than just a setting, but a state of mind: one of seemingly never-ending stasis, a landscape of dashed dreams in which characters are left to either justify their bitter compromises or continue to maintain an optimism toward an ostensibly brighter. In Bruni Tedeschi's film adaptation, the beauty of the open-air outdoor settings become almost oppressive in the way they implicitly taunt these characters for their belief in life as a "burden," in which characters are forced not only to work for goals that seem more impossible by the year, but also to try to talk themselves, through high-minded philosophical musings, into believing in the long-term value of their soul-sucking work. And yet, as with the best art, it's the ruthless clarity with which Chekhov—especially through Bruni Tedeschi's camera—sees these despairing illusionists that lends the film its cumulative gut-punch power.
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6 Tips for Small Group Discussion
August 5, 2014 at 7:05 am 2 comments
My friend Jeremy Maxfield recently wrote this post for the Explore The Bible blog, enjoy.
Yogi Berra once said, "It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much."
Most groups have one of two problems when it comes to meaningful spiritual conversation: discussion can feel like pulling teeth or herding cats. Either people won't talk, or they won't stop talking about things unrelated to the Bible study.
Leading a meaningful conversation that engages the hearts and minds of people takes practice. But healthy discussion can be the difference between people going to a group and growing througha group. A life-changing discussion has the following characteristics.
Everyone participates. Encourage everyone to ask questions, share responses, or read aloud. Discussion isn't one-sided. Seek balance.
No one dominates—not even the leader. Be sure that what you say takes up less than half of your time together. Ideally, good questions will result in group members speaking at least twice as much as the leader. Politely redirect discussion if anyone dominates.
Nobody is rushed through questions. Don't feel that a moment of silence is a bad thing. People often need time to think about their responses to questions they've just heard. They may also need to gain the courage to share what God is stirring in their hearts. Give room for others to move—including the Spirit.
Input is affirmed and followed up. Always point out something true or helpful in a response. Don't just move on. Build personal connections with follow-up questions, asking how other people have experienced similar things or how a truth has shaped their understanding of God and the Scripture you're studying. People are less likely to speak up if they fear that you don't actually want to hear their answers or that you're looking for only a certain answer.
God and His Word are central. Opinions and experiences can be helpful, but God has given us the truth. Trust Scripture to be the authority and God's Spirit to work in people's lives. You can't change anyone, but God can. Continually point people to the Word and to active steps of faith.
Ask for action. Discussion is the starting point. Action is the goal. Ask people how they need to respond to what they have heard. Based on what they've said, what will they do?
Pay attention to these 6 things during your next group discussion. If your desire is to see lives changed, intentionally engage each person with the truth of God's Word.
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[…] 6 Tips for Small Group Discussion – Matt Capps: "Leading a meaningful conversation that engages the hearts and minds of people takes practice. But healthy discussion can be the difference between people going to a group and growing through a group. A life-changing discussion has the following characteristics." […]
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As the sun rises,
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ALLENTOWN — Mistakes almost cost Pleasant Valley in the district quarterfinals, but the errors were just too much to overcome to reach the championship game.
ALLENTOWN — Mistakes almost cost Pleasant Valley in the district quarterfinals, but the errors were just too much to overcome to reach the championship game.
Fifth-seeded Liberty scored five unearned runs in the seventh inning to rally for a 6-2 victory over the No. 1 Bears in the semifinals of the District 11 Class AAAA softball playoffs at Pates Park on Wednesday.
The Hurricanes will face No. 2 Northampton, a 2-1 winner over Parkland in the first semifinal Wednesday, for the district title at 7 p.m. at Pates Park tonight.
The Bears (16-8) looked bound for the championship game through six innings, but it all fell apart in the seventh.
Liberty's Emily Cecchini reached on an error to start the seventh and scored the tying run when Lily Acosta reached on another error. Ashley Malek doubled to put the Hurricanes (15-7) up 3-2 before Mariah Kondravy singled in two more runs and later scored on PV's third error of the inning.
"We got that far, up 2-1 in the seventh inning, but the errors caught up to us in the end," Pleasant Valley coach Steve Caffrey said.
The Bears were able to overcome five errors in Monday's 5-3 victory over Stroudsburg in the quarterfinals, but Liberty took advantage of every PV mistake.
The Hurricanes' first run came after Malek reached on an error in the fourth with one out. Courtesy runner Brandi Grello scored two batters later on a single by Alyshia Dellatore for a 1-0 lead.
"A newspaper made a comment that we're a good team but not a great team and they hit the nail on the head," Caffrey said. "There are a few things we need to work on to go from being a good team to being a really good team."
Pleasant Valley also took advantage of a pair of Liberty errors to take the lead in the fourth inning.
Katie Lenart singled with two outs and scored all the way from first when Madison Shaneberger reached on an error and Liberty threw the ball around to tie the game. Shaneberger, who had made it all the way to third base, scored on Tracey Deubler's infield single and the Bears led 2-1.
That looked like enough for Rikki Correll, who was on her game in the circle.
Correll, named the Mountain Valley Conference MVP by the conference coaches, allowed just five hits through the first six innings and struck out four while walking none.
PV's offense struggled to add on after the two-run fourth, though, managing just one baserunner and no hits over the final three innings.
"At times we're just not aggressive," Caffrey said. "There are times when we have to change and we don't make those adjustments at the plate. We have to start doing those things and once we do maybe we'll become a really good team."
The disappointment was clear as day on every Pleasant Valley player's face.
The Bears were just three outs away from the district championship game. With just two seniors, which includes Correll, there will be plenty of motivation for the players who return.
"We had our opportunities, but we let it slip through our hands," Caffrey said. "I told them to remember sitting out here in right field talking after this game when you decide to take a day off in the offseason. When it's time to get in the cages and get some defensive work in remember sitting out here."
That said there was still plenty good for the Bears to look back on.
After starting 0-4, the Bears got rolling in MVC play and rode it all the way to a third straight conference title and ninth in 10 years.
"I'm very proud of this team," Caffrey said. "We started the year 0-4 and if you would have told me we'd get this far I would have been pleasantly surprised."
District 11 Class AAAA semifinal
No. 5 Liberty 6, No. 1 Pleasant Valley 2
Liberty 000 100 5 — 5 9 3
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L, Lauren Epsaro and Ashley Malek; PV, Rikki Correll and Mackenzie Caffrey.
W — Epsaro. L — Correll .
SO-BB — L, Epsaro 4-0; PV, Correll 4-0.
2B — L, Mariah Kondravy, Malek.
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Not all sales taxes are now taxed but local officials want to change that
ALBANY — A group of county treasurers from across the state are jumping into the ongoing debate over internet sales taxes. They are urging the Republican-controlled Senate to approve a plan from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Democrats to levy sales taxes on on-line sales which are currently tax free.
"I don't think they have any idea what the impact is," Albany County Comptroller Michael Conners said Tuesday of the estimated $360 million in sales taxes that are currently uncollected from internet commerce.
With localities getting about half, Conners and others figure counties could gain $140 million in the first year of such collections alone, which could offset property tax hikes.
County finance officials were planning to visit with their respective senators, including members of the predominantly upstate Republican conference in an effort to convince them to lend their support during the ongoing budget talks.
The state budget is due by April 1.
Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif, though, said his conference was holding fast to its pledge against any new taxes, even on the internet.
"We don't support raising taxes. People pay more than enough already," he said.
Also opposing the change are those who represent relatively small internet retailers who are currently untaxed.
If every state enacted such a tax, retailers could face a confusing patchwork of collection tables that could overburden some small operations said Phil Bond, executive director of We Are Here, which represents web retailers.
The push is coming amid continued growth of internet commerce, often at the expense of brick-and-mortar establishments.
And it comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised in April to hear a challenge to the 1992 ruling that makes it difficult for states to collect internet sales taxes from vendors who don't have a physical presence such as an office or warehouse in the state.
Currently, New York like other states has a so-called Amazon Tax which allows for sales tax collections from large retailers like the Washington-state based Amazon. But those taxes don't apply to the countless independent or third-party retailers who list their products on Amazon. In those instances, Amazon isn't the actual seller but instead provides the platform or vehicle for a retailer.
The proposal by Cuomo and the Assembly would change that, with the taxes levied on platforms like Amazon Marketplace, Etsy or eBay that do more than $100 million in annual sales.
Either way, the nation's sales tax landscape may be changing after the Supreme Court in April hears arguments in South Dakota v Wayfair.
In that case, South Dakota officials want to be able to tax products sold over the Wayfair home furnishing platform.
But without a physical presence in South Dakota, the retailer claims the state is prevented from collecting taxes due to a 1992 Supreme Court decision. In that case, justices ruled that the state of North Dakota couldn't collect sales taxes from Quill, an out-of-state office supply firm since they had no physical presence in North Dakota.
The internet was in its infancy then and several states, including Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Rhode Island, have started taxing third-party sales.
A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court allowing the taxes could prompt Congress to develop a nationwide approach.
Traditional retailers also favor the tax since they still collect the full state and local sales tax – which can be up to 8.75 percent in New York. The state gets 4 percent and local municipal taxes are added on top of that.
"To me, this is leveling the playing field," said Albany area Democratic Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, who noted that the large Crossgates Mall is in her district.
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"Worship me and despair!", a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.
If I had only waited two weeks, I could have got her from Amazon for $19.99! I didn't pay a mega-scalper price, but still...::sobs::
She's a pretty manly-looking doll in person. Compared to my 2.0 Cleo I think that at least the smaller-eyed version of Cleo has a prettier face. However, Nefera does have the rockin' taller body, and some gorgeous teal and gold hair.
I'm surprised that this doll is nice-looking at all, considering how fug Nefera is in the webisodes. XD
Unfortunately, Nefera's stand is a total piece of crap that keeps falling apart. I had to give her a Pullip stand instead!
Noting the new Monster High releases--I think that Robecca, Rochelle and Venus are all really cute. There's not much hope for Jackson Jekyll in my eyes, though. The only male doll I find attractive enough to buy is Clawd. All the other ones are weird-looking in my opinion, and Jackson looks like he has jowls. O_O
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Or at least that is what the popular press is reporting. I was shocked that they were covering it at all, but not so surprised that they got the results just a little wrong.
As a mother of four, I was thrilled to hear about Dr. Harman's findings out of Australia's Edith Cowan University. Often when the news reports research in my field, I go straight to the source and have a little chat with the study author. It is a perk of having the letters P H and D after my name. Dr. Harman sent me copy of the actual study summary and we went back a forth a few times about the research. Although she said the results being reported are a little misleading, it appears as though we do have evidence that of "the more the merrier" really is mostly true but maybe not in the way you think.
Dr. Harman conducted a 5 year research study with the goal to explore the relationship between resilience, social support, self-esteem and life-satisfaction in parents, (source). Dr. Harman found that mothers of four or more children were the happiest group of the various family types. She did not however find that mothers of four or more were happier than mothers of say two children, or less happy than mothers with eight kids, because she didn't compare family size, but rather family type. Dr Harman writes in her summary discussion
Overall, mothers of large families with higher self esteem were more likely to report greater life satisfaction. One interpretation of these results is that mothers of large families feel supported (older children helping younger children, for example), but may lose their sense of self.
Dr. Harman said that mothers of larger families overall had higher self-esteem. They basically feel like they are doing a pretty good job and are well supported. They also were more likely to report greater life satisfaction. She speculated that they may loose their sense of self in the process - she didn't measure that quantitatively, but collected some qualitative data that directed her to that conclusion. But that loss of self is still associated with greater life satisfaction so maybe we shouldn't fret so much about having to drive the dreaded mini-van (for more on that click here).
The next great question is of course
"Why do lots of kids correlate with greater life satisfaction?"
Dr. Harman was sited in The Sydney Herald in August (2015) as stating "The parents usually say they always wanted a large family, it was planned that way, and it was a lifestyle they'd chosen". So are these parents who choose this lifestyle just a different 'type' of people?
Yes, actually. That seems to be at the crux of this study comparing family types.
As a mother of four myself, and friend to many mothers of four or more children, I can say as a lay person that parents like those in the study who have been purposeful in having a larger family are likely couples who have chosen to take an optimistic and hopeful approach to parenting. I am not speaking of research here, but rather experience when I say that these types of parents tend to able to embrace the beauty and joy of parenthood and delight in their little ones. When discerning whether or not my husband and I felt our family was "full" with just the three, my mother pointed to my (then) 2, 5 and 7 year olds and said she could think of 3 reasons why we should have more kids... Gracie, JR, and Anthony.
Parents who choose large families, don't let fear prevent them from loving another child. They love with reckless abandonment and choose to leave a family legacy not of human 'replacement' or social reproduction, but of human expansion.
I recently got caught up reading about the War of the Roses in England. Truth be told, I was reading historical fiction (not real history), but one thing that struck me in the novels was the love and appreciation that people used to have for large families. Large families were the ideal and each child was embraced as a blessing. There are many social reasons for this of course, but I found such comfort in that attitude which permeated the (then) Catholic society, whereas I find the current cultural (secular) attitude to be isolating. In present American society, the stereotype is that couples with many off-spring either don't know how babies are made, or they are too ignorant to stop it, or they are socially and financially irresponsible. A couple couldn't possible want more than just a few of these little people, right? Children are not seen as a gift, or a blessing, or something to cherish. They are approached as one more thing on a checklist of lifetime achievements and something to accept in moderation.
College (check), job (check), spouse (check), house (check),
kid one (check), kid two (check), vasectomy (check).
Large families are more chaotic, but that chaos doesn't descend overnight. We grow into the noise and the chaos. We start with one (or maybe more) at a time and slowly re-adjust our family life, then we add another and re-adjust, and then make room for another, and another. Good parenting is about adjusting and shifting as our children grow and mature. In our adjusting and shifting we too grow. Growth is constant when you have a larger family and living a little off balanced allows us to turn to one another and to God with great regularity, often resulting in a closer knit family.
This study is great evidence of something that those of us with large families have known all along. Having large families is great for our mental and spiritual health. Yes it is messy. Yes it is crazy. Yes, it is hard. Yes, we have to loose ourselves in the service of others, but all parenting is messy and crazy and hard. There is no shame in loosing a little of ourselves to make room for more love. The love that we share in a family grows exponentially with each child we welcome into our home. And with love comes happiness.
I would love to hear your thoughts on this. There is so much to say on the topic and space here was limited. I hope this research sparks conversation and as always, thanks for stopping by!
For more on raising multiple kids check out this post (click here).


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Exhaustion is what happened to me this past weekend. But in spite of all of that, I had a fantastic time and got a fairly good dose of Broadway in the process (along with visiting with some awesome friends, meeting some new friends, and eating waaayy too much great New York food).
Before my roommate and I took off on our trip, we bought tickets to see La Cage Aux Folles and American Idiot. These were pre-planned shows. We figured we would do TKTS or lotto tickets for anything else we wanted to see.
La Cage Aux Folles was a show I'd never seen before. American Idiot, I'd seen twice already. I plan on writing reviews of both shows because it turns out that we ended up seeing American Idiot twice and had no time for another show (we missed the Saturday matinee because of time/travel restraints). We did, however, get to make a quick trip to SoHo to see John Gallagher Jr perform one night. That was an interesting night. That will also probably be it's own blog post.
You know, it's weird for me to be in New York. Even though I'm a tourist in so very many ways, I've been there enough times that places like Times Square give me the creeps and I rarely take more than a couple of pictures the whole trip. Sure, I still cart around my backpack and my map. But I also step out of the middle of the sidewalk if I feel the need to look at said map. Unlike about a million and two tourists that feel the need to stop and look at their maps or take pictures of random buildings (not even good ones like the Empire State Building!).
Either way, I always have fun and leave exhausted each and every trip. And I always make new friends each time I go (this makes it so much easier... I have more floors to sleep on!). Anyway, enough rambling from me. Stories and reviews to follow later this week!


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Saison de Rouille (Fr) / Caduta dei Gavi LP
The "Season of Rust" was born in the summer of 2011, originally formed by Karl S. (Danishmendt) and Sébastyén D. (Opium Dream Estate).
"Caduta dei gravi" (The falling bodies) takes place at the crossroads of dark and noisy musics, which invite brutal industrial orgies oscillating between slow and sickly jumble of sound.
The temptation to sing the sufferings of our flesh is sinking there...
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The release date of this first cycle is scheduled for September 24, thanks to the co-production of six labels:
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OCINATAS INDUSTRIES : http://ocinatasindustries.blogspot.fr/
By nature, SdR is a collaborative, multi-faceted project. In its first pregnancy, it has been nourished by the participation of Flo L. (Danishmendt), Benoit C. (Xnoybis), PH (piaytche.com) and Christian K (Valborg).
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Welcome back to The Rotation! Here's a starting five of topics worth bantering about in Major League Baseball this week.
1. Cardinals rule
The St. Louis Cardinals will play the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday in Williamsport, Pa., in the MLB Little League Classic, and for a while it seemed that scheduled special just up the road from Lamade Stadium, where the Little League World Series is held, would be as close as the Cards would come to any World Series in 2017.
But that was before an eight-game winning streak and the "Rally Cat" clout contained therein. When a city that already has so much good mojo in its baseball background gets a boost from a friendly feline (one who will be the toast of Rally Cat Appreciation Day on Sept. 10 at Busch Stadium), it makes you wonder if some higher power is at play and if, perhaps, we are collectively wasting our time wondering how this 2017 season plays out.
Ah, but first things first: The Cards have a division to win. Stunningly, they are in prime position to win it, entering the week just a game behind the Cubs after losing to the Atlanta Braves on Sunday, 6-3.
Maybe this rise isn't quite as dramatic as what we witnessed in 2011, when the Cards were 10 1/2 games back of the (then-solo) NL Wild Card after play concluded on Aug. 24, but rose up to win that and then win it all. But it's still a surge that looked unlikely as recently as a week ago, simply because the Cards had spent the better part of the season's first four months looking lost. Aledmys Diaz, Stephen Piscotty and Randal Grichuk had all been demoted, Adam Wainwright had an unsightly ERA and Matt Carpenter an unflattering average, Dexter Fowler was either hurt or not hitting and Yadi Molina was lashing out at Mike Matheny on Instagram.
But as the Cubs struggle to pull away from the pack, none of the above has been a deal-breaker for the Cards, who have gotten great starting pitching all year (John Mozeliak's decision not to take advantage of Lance Lynn's trade value is looking strong) and whose middle of the order surprisingly gained esteem from Tommy Pham (134 OPS+), Paul DeJong (125) and Jose Martinez (123).
Baseball can always surprise, so the Cards' current placement isn't some eye-opening outlier. It's merely a quirky, cat-aided reminder that the game will always find way to disobey your assumptions and projections -- especially when you assume something as crazy as the Cards missing the playoffs in consecutive years.
2. August madness
It seems silly to even bother analyzing the AL Wild Card race at this point. It looks pretty certain to come down to the final days of the season, and the fact that there are 12(!) AL teams within 3 1/2 games of a playoff spot right now means that, even in the third week of August, it's darn near impossible to tell what's real and what's not.
But for now, let's just give big ups to the Twins and Angels for being the hottest clubs in this competition.
You might remember that the Twins acquired Jaime Garcia just before the Trade Deadline … then traded him away. They also dealt away their best reliever, Brandon Kintzler. Twins players weren't happy with the late-July punts, and lately they've been playing with an edge. Led by a homer binge from Brian Dozier, Eddie Rosario and Max Kepler (those three have combined for 15 homers in the last 10 days), they've averaged 6.8 runs over their last 10 games, and on Sunday they equaled their 2016 total with their 59th win.
The Twins will get tested this week against the AL Central-leading Indians and the NL Wild Card-holding D-backs.
You might know the Angels as the team supposedly wasting Mike Trout. But the Halos hung tough when Trout was out, playing a game below .500 in his absence. And with Trout posting a very Trout-like .347/.480/.602 slash since his return from the DL, they've risen to relevance. The Angels have won 12 of their last 16, averaging 5.8 runs along the way. They are three games over .500 for the first time since April 12, and they're getting healthier in their rotation, with Tyler Skaggs back from Tommy John, Andrew Heaney nearing his return from TJ and Garrett Richards tossing bullpen sessions in his bid to return from a biceps strain.
This week, a trip to the Beltways awaits the Angels, as they'll take on the Nationals and Orioles.
Anyway, give it a few days, and we'll have some other flavor of the moment to address in the AL. It's wild out there.
3. Back to bases
Bryce Harper slipped on the first-base bag Saturday night, and his left knee buckled. The Nationals announced Sunday that Harper has a significant bone bruise but not, thankfully, a torn ligament, which means they don't expect the injury to affect his late-season/October availability.
Harper was on track to figure prominently in the Esurance MLB Awards for Best Major Leaguer and Best Hitter and, of course, the BBWAA National League MVP honor, which he won in 2015. Harper, who is in his age-24 season, is/was in position to possibly join this brief, elite list of players to win the MVP twice before their age-25 year:
Jimmie Foxx (1932, '33) Stan Musial (1943, '46) Mickey Mantle (1956, '57) Johnny Bench (1970, '72) Mike Trout (2014, '16)
The Nats have not announced a specific timetable for Harper's return, but the NL MVP Award race is heated enough that any absence affects a candidacy. This could be the year Paul Goldschmidt's overall awesomeness rightly gets recognized (he entered the week just behind Harper in homers, doubles and OPS but a full win ahead of him in Baseball Reference's Wins Above Replacement count). If Harper is indeed out a while, that could also amplify the position of his teammate Anthony Rendon (.963 OPS, 4.9 WAR).
4. Out-Stanton
If Derek Jeter's group does complete the purchase of the Miami Marlins, one of the biggest decisions ahead would be what to do with the player with the largest contract in American professional sports.
Giancarlo Stanton still has 10 full years and $295 million remaining on that contract after this year, unless he opts out after 2020. It's an absolutely staggering sum for a player who has struggled to stay on the field and live up to his potential in his big league career.
But Stanton's recent hot stretch in what has been a healthy and productive 2017 reinforce the allure that earned him that gargantuan contract in the first place.
Stanton hit his 42nd homer of the season, and the 250th of his career, on Sunday. Because Cody Bellinger was late to the 2017 party and Aaron Judge has slumped, Stanton looks pretty likely to run away with the home run title. He's also on pace to have his highest on-base percentage outside of 2014, when he finished second in the NL MVP race.
So Stanton appears to be at the peak of his powers, which could conceivably extend an opportunity for the Marlins to unload his contract this offseason (the Phillies have often been cited as a club capable of absorbing such a sum) before it becomes particularly punitive on the Fish's future payrolls (his salary leaps from $14.5 million to $25 million next year).
Having said that, a Jeter-led ownership team might feel leery about what such a move would signal to a fan base it is trying to win over. Stanton is the Marlins' signature star -- and lately he's been playing like it.
5. Glad for Chad
There is no better story in baseball this week than Chad Bettis' return to the Rockies' rotation on Monday against the Braves.
Bettis was diagnosed with testicular cancer in late November and underwent surgery. Just when it appeared he was cancer-free and ready to impact the Rox in 2017, he had a recurrence of the disease in Spring Training, just before the birth of his daughter. After months of chemo and a handful of rehab assignments, the senior member of the Rox rotation takes the ball in what is sure to be an emotional scene at Coors Field, and his return comes at a time when Colorado is embroiled in an increasingly interesting NL Wild Card race.
Every player in the big leagues has beaten the odds to get to this level. But for some, the odds grow even longer when the unexpected intervenes. Here's wishing Bettis a rousing return and, more importantly, a long and healthy life.
Anthony Castrovince is a Sports on Earth contributor, MLB.com columnist and MLB Network contributor. Follow him on Twitter @Castrovince.


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I am looking for someone on a short term project to fulfil the following requirement - obtain data from an external cloud based CRM system and write required code to select and integrate the data with small number of Word documents. You should know and understand: * Visual Basic for Applications * Some .NET language that can be used to create
Greetings, I need a basic REST-ful Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) project that will serve as a template for a project. I am using VB.NET in the new Visual Studio 2015 environment. I would prefer for the project to be native to VS2015, but if it will convert successfully from a prior version, that is certainly acceptable. I would like to
The basic premise of this app is an inventory manager that can be synchronized with our web server to download inventory with images to the app and also push newly added inventory with images to our web server using XML to communicate. The app shall be designed so that it is functional for both tablets and phones. The design flow shall be similar
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...distance for the horizontal axis. This project will comprise of developing a number of views displaying multiple parallel waveform data acquisitions in discrete modes (parallel waveform AScans) and merged modes (color coded strip representations of the waveforms – google B-scan data display). • Environment: Visual Studio 2010 or 2013 (currently in 2010
...understand how to apply this for multiple connections using the 1 to 1 method however this is inefficient. We want the connection to the master account only if there is a match in the XML Slave Account Numbers As described in the text below! Step1. We need the code upon start up to load a 2 Separate XML list consisting of The Master Accounts and the
This project is extremely small and only requires an AddIn to be constructed to display the licence level and Active Extension details in the main application bar. The licence level is obtained from the ArcGIS Administrator. The Active Extension is activated in ArcGIS Desktop or Catalog. The Addin Must be Compatible with ArcGIS 10.x and be signed
...exists a real estate website where announcements of houses and flat for sales are posted. This website is a main reference for the real estate. The idea of the current project is to create a software who will read periodically the new annoncements published on the website and send a message via a web form through this website. The message consits
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I need a simple MS visual c# application for a school project. It is a quoting system for a fencing company. It can not be too preofessional, something a student would write. The quoting should be written so that it can be converted and used later on android or Ipad. It should have the following functions. Add and retrieve and being able to amend
...probably fairly basic issues. After a great deal of Googling and reading, I have concluded that I need someone whom I can call apon to help when I need assistance. This may involve remotely logging in to my machine using Teamviewer and working with me when I need to resolve an issue. Presently, I am having trouble setting up a Visual Studio 2010 Express
Hi I need to decompile a program in 48 hours, the software was made in .net, using visual studio 2005, visual basic, crystal reports and has .rpt, .dll, .pdb, and xml files. Once the code has been decompiled I will ask you for some fixes, that would be a second project. I need the code to be divided in proyects and files so it can be edited. Please
The project consists in the development of an MS Sharepoint connector for document and metadata integration (PDF, text, Office documents, images ...) ======================================================================= WE ARE LOOKING FOR REAL MS SHAREPOINT EXPERTS THAT CAN DELIVER THE JOB WITHIN 30 DAYS DO NOT BID IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THE MILESTONES
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Developer/Development Team needed for the development of a client server software application written under the .net framework. The project is essentially a technical/customer support chat application. The full system will consist of a front end chat interface that will interact with a software system built under the MVC (Model View Controller) paradigm
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Developer/Development Team needed for the development of a client server software application written under the .net framework. The project is essentially a technical/customer support chat application. The full system will consist of a front end chat interface that will interact with a software system built under the MVC (Model View Controller) paradigm
...site recreated using Visual Basics. · When at all possible all code should be written in a Visual Basic project using Visual Studio 2010 · Dot Net version 4.0 · Access to the database will be thru a XML feed · When at all possible all code should be written in a Visual...
This is a simple project, we require a UI application that allows us to manipulate configuration settings of any [login to view URL] file or XML document to update its node/attribute values. The configuration editor MUST be able to read and edit settings from applications built in visual studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 [login to view URL] files. We will supply you sample
VERY SHORT: Need someone to map some Object properties into an e.g. XML string and "socket connect" to a server on the Internet. Hand over the XML string - and receive a response from the server. The (more) detailed description: I have a current Visual Studio C++ project running, where I am maintaining/writing a DLL for a Windows program, that does
...Party Web Service hosted on Apache Axis. The Web Service is not public so the WSDL definition files and the Proxy Class file will be provided. The Application is a Visual Basic Project that lists of all the items that need reordering from the supplier. The data is stored in a Microsoft Access database. The current system lists all of the items that
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Build from scratch a small desktop application in C# or Visual Basic .Net to store and manage personal details about our clients. Firstly the application must be able to "import" the data. It means to get on line and request client's details from an external web site already implemented for us in PHP (no need to know PHP). You will deal with it as a
...get the XML using an authcode header ([login to view URL]{domain name}/{username}/vacation) but I need a way to read the XML into its individual entries for use in a form. I'd then like to be able to use PUT to update settings. - Extract xml entries into strings - Use a provided string to update using PUT
This is a kind of demo application and a real project will be based on it. It should be a VB.NET (Visual Studio 10) desktop application, using SQL Server for database. For the data access must use "massive" library, [login to view URL] And the GUI will be based on [login to view URL] (developer can use the 45-day
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Hello Freelancers I have already developed a Visual Basic 2008 application which has 5 forms. This application is supposed to be connected with MS Access 2010 so that can retrieve data (database file in the same folder of the app) and have the ability to export to PDF or Word. What I want : 1) Connection to the database when application starts
The project is a kind of item listing website; it mainly functions by auto-crawling private shopping clubs and e-commerce websites and it extracts/imports, categorizes and lists product/service prices, discounts, deals and time limited coupons therefrom using XML, datafeed and other relevant resources. The website will have a front page (the layout
...behind must be fired with identifiers of the tables selected so in near future it will be possible to save this information into a real database. See OTHER details of this project before bidding. ## Deliverables Hello, A customer of mine ask me a prototype to be encapsulated into his web site for letting his customers to book tables at his
...this project: 1) Server Side Software The Web Service "Server" shall be written in Java and be deployable as a war file on a Glassfish Server. Code should be protected by a license that is dependent on the machine id and that expires after a configurable time. After expiry, a new license would be needed on the server to continue using the system
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...currently assembling basic quotation data on having a small personal project built. As a Flash designer, i do not as yet have the skills in HTML and CSS development to undertake this project myself, and am looking for a competent developer to estimate both cost and timings for a prospective build. PLEAE NOTE: this personal project is still very much
...requiring that not all designers can do. It is a BIG project with many levels and layers to the website. Some pretty advanced stuff in there once you start creating accounts for agents to manage their own listings, e commerce for sales of packages (featured listings, advertising, etc.), XML feeds, admin account management, etc. The website
...responsible for hosting the web server Objective of this RFP To let "Vendor" know about Mobiliz´ requirements to prepare and submit their proposals. T&C and Scope of work The project consists of 2 phases. The first phase consists of "The Website" design and elements standardization. The second phase consists in the web site actual implementation. ...
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32bit MFC App Project Files Required for Visual Studio 2010 tabs left click "+" tab to create new tab right click tab for menu - New Tab - Save Tab - Save Tab As... - Close Tab - Close All Tabs File App Menu - New Child Window - Open Tab Windows App Menu - Tile (child windows in current tab) Basic Operation:
The project consist of making an XML Configurable SDK to be able to integrate FOIP (Fax Over IP) functionality into other applications made with .Net Languages like C# and Visual Basic .Net. The SDK components will be based on the Open source project located at: <[login to view URL]> and the following build: Sirius Stable 3 Release
...simple XML based application. its a project what will contain the following options: - Rosterview, source code for this is available in cacao touch from one of our previous projects. So only minor changes need to be done. This is made using the SimpleXML parser. - Small calender import function - 3 static tabbar options with basic static
...simple XML based application. its a project what will contain the following options: - Rosterview, source code for this is available in cacao touch from one of our previous projects. So only minor changes need to be done. This is made using the SimpleXML parser. - Small calender import function - 3 static tabbar options with basic static
...do a website like gofundme.com. It has to be able to have login profiles, integrated payment, (paypal?), and user sign up process. The site will be designed and built using WordPress. Looking for someone to build the "SignUp" process as shown at <[login to view URL]> Please respond with your price and timeline. Thanks


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Conservative vs. Left-Wing Tax Protests
A conservative tax protest is a protest that taxes are too high, too onerous or illegal. A left-wing tax protest is a demand for more taxes on someone else. Or, in this case, a baseless accusation that someone else isn't paying enough taxes.
It's hard to think of a better way to summarize the fundamental differences between conservatives and the left when it comes to big government.
Conservatives protest for more freedom. Leftists protest for less freedom. Conservatives want to keep their earnings. Leftists are convinced that all their utopian projects don't have enough money from the money tree because the "rich" aren't losing enough of their income to big government.
Conservatives want fewer chains. Leftists insist that the problem with the chains is that not everyone is chained down hard enough.
Can Maxine Waters Even Spell Impeachment?
How short of talent are the Dems? A few names
Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and… Maxine Waters. Some might ask why a confused Dem hack would become the voice of the "resistance". A better question might be why not.
Maxine Waters has built her career on getting out there and yelling angrily about things. That makes her perfectly qualified in a political atmosphere where all the left-wing wants is angry shouting. Waters has picked up on the fact that anything involving impeachment is perfect prog-bait feeding the fantasy that President Trump will go away soon.
And so this is her hour. Show up, deliver an incomprehensible rant about Trump's imminent impeachment and spin convoluted conspiracy theories.
At the rally before the march, Waters vowed to fight every day until Trump is impeached and questioned the motives behind the U.S. attack on Syria. She believes Syria to be "phony tension between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, all being hyped up by the White House, still trying to distract us."
After her speech, I asked the congresswoman whether she believes Putin and Assad were colluding to help take the heat off of Trump from the investigations into his ties with Russia. She believes that Putin and Trump are "tied at the hip;" the tension is a charade; and that the end-game is getting the oil sanctions lifted for drilling in the Arctic.
It's all a conspiracy.
Maxine Waters keeps insisting that she'll lead efforts to impeach President Trump even as she makes it clear that she has no idea how impeachment works. But that's surplus to requirements. The only qualifier for left-wing leadership these days is hate. You don't have to be able to accomplish anything. All you have to do is make your base crazy while feeding off their anger.
Maxine has got that covered. She may not know how to spell impeachment. But she knows a sucker when she sees one.
"He's making decisions that perhaps should scare us all."
Rep. @MaxineWaters on #Trump's brinkmanship #AMJoy https://t.co/XGHTXHkk0L
— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) April 15, 2017
Should they actually scare us all? Or only perhaps? Who cares. Not Maxine.


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Hello – I'm David Kernohan (dkernohan on twitter) and as well as the various other things I do I am a guitar player.
I started playing when I was about 8 years old, but there was always a guitar lying around when I was growing up. My Dad plays, and he taught me my first chords. After that I was hooked, picking up ideas and techniques from my Dad, friends who played, music I listened to. I had about a year of semi-formal guitar lessons when I was about 16, and have picked up various books over the year. It was these latter two that helped me get my head around scales, but I've always much preferred playing rhythm to lead.
I have a horrible feeling that a "guitar solo", in the traditional foot-on-the-monitor headbanging manner, is a complete anachronism in 2013. There's a few current players that I do enjoy listening to though:
- Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention, Solo)
- Efrim Menuk (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra)
- Graham Coxon (Blur, Solo)
- …
I guess what connects them is their use of unorthodox techniques and sounds as a means of expression, in place of the usual guitarists trick-bag of blues scales, overdrive and semitone bends.
Both of the bands I work with ask me to play the occasional solo, which is something I struggle with. With the jazz band I do have the leeway to be a little more textured and experimental, but the barn dance band do ask me to do a lot of stuff in the traditional rock idiom. I'm hoping to use the experience of sharing and learning from Talons adherents to get past this issue and unleash my inner wailing rock god!
My guitars
Kamsin is a 1992 hard-tail Patrick Eggle Berlin in emerald burst, with a rosewood neck, locking tuners and two tappable factory-fitted Seymour Duncan humbuckers. She's sophisticated and quite restrained, with a smooth tone especially from the neck pick-up.
Shirley is an AXL telecaster copy in a (very distressed) white finish. She's got two EMG pick-ups, the neck one being an absolute joy for playing Curtis Mayfield/Steve Cropper -esque soul/funk fills. She seems to bring out the messier, noisier side of my playing.
I've had the same, very cheap, acoustic dreadnought since I was 16. One of the tuners is hanging off by one long screw, and it's got a dead spot just above the 12th fret on the G and D strings.
My sounds
I don't like to get too distorted – if it gets too much I can't hear the pick on the strings or the fingers on the fret board. I do play through an amp-simulator/effects unit but I use very few effects – usually a wah pedal or a phaser. I guess if I could spend any money on any amplifier I'd be using a Fender Twin, but as I like to have the option of playing my keyboard through the same ring I use a mono full range PA speaker with a cabinet simulator.
Some questions?
Who are some interesting current players that I should be listening to, especially in terms of interesting improvised "lead" parts?
Do other people find that they play in different ways with different guitars? Or is that just me being odd?
What are some interesting ways to approach lead playing?


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This necklace is so beautiful. In a gorgeous peacock feather design. Its like a little cage encasing a Swarovski crystal. The silver has a turquoise crystal inside. Such an eye catching design and so unusual. Looks lovely against black or nudes but to be honest......it goes with everything! From an afternoon tea to a Wedding, this necklace will take you anywhere!
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Courgette Blueberry Cake recipe
Preparation Time: 20 minutes | Cooking Time: 50 minutes
Sneaking courgettes into cakes is a fantastic to way to make them a little healthier - but also to encourage your children to eat them too! In this recipe, courgettes and blueberries bake into a delicious cake batter.
- 375g plain flour
- 325g blueberries
- 250g grated courgettes, pressed of excess moisture
- 250ml veg oil
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 450g caster sugar
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp. ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tps. bicarbonate of soda
Grease 4 mini loaf tins or 2 normal loaf tins. Preheat oven to 180C.
Beat oil, eggs, caster sugar and vanilla. Sift together the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and bicarb. Stir courgettes into the wet mix. Gradually add wet mix to dry mix and stir until just combined. Fold in blueberries. Divide between loaf tins.
Bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack before serving.


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A few months ago we have started having steak on a Friday night. It's a quick to cook, delicious treat for the end of the week. But last Friday was a disorganised, all over the place kind of a day. Dinner was the result of a hasty search through the fridge and freezer for something that might go with my purple sprouting broccoli which I had randomly bought on a whim.
The result? On the right. A hearty kind-of-Spring salad with purple sprouting broccoli, broccoli, white beans, French beans and lettuce. Healthy, bordering on slightly dull. But made wonderful with this superb basic dressing from Nourishing Traditions.
Honestly, I never really bother with salad dressings from cookbooks and tend just to use oil and balsamic vinegar. However, this really was much better than what I usually come up with, and so quick and easy, that it may well become my go to dressing recipe.
Benefits of home made salad dressing (if you like to know this kind of thing!):
- It makes salad tastier than no dressing at all, therefore you are probably more likely to eat it!
- Bottled dressings, particularly low fat versions, tend to have a not so lovely mix of stabilisers, preservatives, artificial flavours, colours and MSG
- Cold-pressed olive oil is a traditional, 'good fat' containing antioxidants and vitamin E. It is a stable monounsaturated fatty acid, and it is linked with protection from heart disease
- Flax/ linseed oil is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids – but keep it in the fridge and don't overdose!
- Finally, this is really quick to make and really delicious.
Basic Dressing (Nourishing Traditions page 129)
- 1 teaspoon Dijon-type mustard, smooth or grainy
- 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon raw wine vinegar (I used Aspall organic white wine vinegar)
- 1/2 cup or 4 fluid oz. extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon expeller-expressed flax oil (I have just placed an online order for linseed oil, this is something I haven't used before)
Dip a fork into the jar of mustard and transfer about 1 teaspoon to a small bowl.
Add vinegar and mix around.
Add olive oil in a thin stream, stirring all the while with the fork, until oil is well mixed. Add linseed oil et….voila!
This is so easy and so delicious. Give it a go!
For those who have kids, this is what the kids ate: a deconstructed salad without the salad bits and without the dressing but with a piece of chicken. They were happy. My kids will not go near a lettuce leaf or salad dressing.