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The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) PRIME US Open of Surfing presented by Hurley and Nike 6.0 saw its first glimpse of action today with veteran campaigners mixing with young talent to march through the event's trials while top seeds hit the water in ASP Grade-2 Pro Junior action.
Surfers competing in the ASP PRIME US Open of Surfing are out to establish themselves as the globe's finest talent on the ASP World Ranking while ASP Pro Junior competitors are looking to find their way atop their regional ratings to qualify for the ASP World Junior Tour.
Luke Davis (Capistrano Beach, CA), 17, put in an impressive performance today to advance into the US Open of Surfing main event after taking out his Round of 32 ASP Pro Junior heat. The young Californian defeated former ASP Dream Tour surfer Ben Bourgeois (Wrightsville Beach, NC), 31, and progressive standout Clay Marzo (Maui, HI), 21, in the trials to advance through to the Round of 128 of the men's main event.
"I feel really good," Davis said. "It was a long day and that last heat was really hard. I'm just stoked that those waves came through at the end and I won my Pro Junior heat as well, so it's been a pretty good day."
Davis, who is a constant standout on the ASP Pro Junior rankings, is hungry to capitalize on the priceless ratings points on offer at this year's ASP PRIME event to help his ASP World Ranking.
"I did one major event last year, but didn't do well so hopefully I can do well out here," Davis said. "Getting into this event is definitely good for me. I want to start doing more events to help my World Ranking, especially next year."
Ola Eleogram (Hana, HI), 24, was another standout in today's US Open Trials. The talented regular-footer honed into the peaky lefthanders breaking into South Huntington Beach Pier to take out three consecutive heat victories to advance into the main event.
"I felt really good out there and I just stuck to the lefts all day," Eleogram said. "I'm stoked to be in the main event. I had a bad start to the year and only did a couple of events. I fell short of making it into the main event, but I'm stoked that I got into the trials and had the chance to make it through."
Mike Losness (San Clemente, CA), 29, who finished 3rd at the US Open in 2006, stylishly pushed into the main event with massive fins-out maneuvers and hopes he can continue to tear through the rounds.
"This is the one event that I've wanted to win since I was a kid," Losness said. "I finished in the Semifinals back in 2006 and I don't know if that was the best I'll ever do in this event, maybe this year is a second chance. I don't know."
Kolohe Andino (San Clemente, CA), 16, started strong in his Round of 32 ASP Grade-2 US Open Junior Pro heat by smashing one of the highest single wave scores of the day with a variety of carves and tail drifting turns to the tune of an 8.33 out of 10 to take out his stacked opening round heat over current ASP North America Pro Junior Series ratings leader Evan Geiselman (New Smyrna Beach, FL), 16, who advanced behind Andino in second.
"I saw that I had Evan (Geiselman) in my heat and I was kind of worried because he's been ripping and he's been beating me lately too," Andino said. "People say that we're rivals, but we're actually best friends too. I just wanted to get a really quick start because I was really nervous. I got one and started getting it going so that was nice."
Andino, who is currently sitting in the No. 3 position on the ASP North America Pro Junior Series, is in a comfortable position to qualify for the ASP World Junior Tour with his combined effort on the ASP Men's World Ranking and feels his solid standing has relieved a great deal of pressure entering the US Open Junior Pro.
"I'm pretty comfortable with where I'm sitting in the ratings, so I'm feeling pretty confident," Andino said. "I'm not worried about making World's like some of the other kids because this is the last event. Being comfortable and being calm is a huge thing, so I feel good. Also, I have two new boards that work amazing so I'm stoked."
Granger Larsen (Lahaina, HI), 20, marched to an impressive come-from-behind win by finding his way into a crucial wave in the dying seconds of his heat on the way to clinching the highest heat total of the men's ASP Pro Junior competition, 14.76 out of 20, to advance through to the Quarterfinals.
"In the beginning of the heat I had nothing the whole time," Larsen said. "I was freaked out, but no one had big scores so I knew I was still in it. I had that one towards the pier and got a 7.5 and paddled back out and got another 7 in the last 20 seconds and ended up winning the heat. It was a good heat, I was psyched."
The Maui native topped international threat Alejo Muniz (Santa Catarina, BRA), 20, who advanced in second, in form local Quinn McCrystal (Huntington Beach, CA), 20, and current ASP North America Pro Junior No. 2 Keanu Asing (Ewa Beach, HI), 17, and knows the that navigating through the talented global draw in this year's US Open Junior Pro will continue to be a serious project.
"Alejo (Muniz) was ripping," Larsen said. "The Brazilians here (Huntington) are gnarly. I've surfed against Alejo a million times and we're always beating each other. I'm stoked to get him back again. He beat me at World Juniors (ASP World Junior Championships) in the Quarterfinals, so I'm stoked to beat him again."
Finalists were decided today as well for the women's ASP Grade-2 US Open Junior Pro with reigning ASP World Junior Champion Laura Enever (AUS), 18, current ASP Women's World Tour campaigner Coco Ho (North Shore, HI), 19, defending event champion Malia Manuel (Kauai, HI), 16, and Californian Sage Erickson (Ventura, CA), 19, all earning the right to battle for this year's title.
Tomorrow's action will see the ASP 6-Star Women's US Open of Surfing take to the water at 7:30am local time.
US Open of Surfing Trials Round of 132 Results:
Heat 1: Ola Eleogram (HAW) 9.63, Luke Davis (USA) 7.43, Richard Christie (NZL) 4.60, Jason Shibata (HAW) 3.10
Heat 2: Tomas Hermes (BRA) 15.84, Mike Losness (USA) 10.93, Ricky Whitlock (USA) 10.47, Kyle Knox (USA) 4.50
US Open of Surfing Trials Round of 140 Results:
Heat 1: Olamana Eleogram (HAW) 12.50, Richard Christie (NZL) 11.66, Sterling Spencer (USA) 6.00, Matt Pagan (USA) 5.73
Heat 2: Luke Davis (USA) 12.36, Jason Shibata (HAW) 8.90, Makuakai Rothman (HAW) 7.20, Clay Marzo (HAW) 1.56
Heat 3: Kyle Knox (USA) 16.33, Mike Losness (USA) 14.10, Hank Gaskell (HAW) 10.07, Anthony Petruso (USA) 10.04
Heat 4: Tomas Hermes (BRA) 11.40, Ricky Whitlock (USA) 10.66, Jano Belo (BRA) 9.56, Dylan Southworth (MEX) 6.90
US Open of Surfing Trials Round of 156:
Heat 1: Sterling Spencer (USA) 11.17, Clay Marzo (HAW) 9.43, Gustavo Fernandez (BRA) 7.43, Jay Davies (AUS) 7.24
Heat 2: Olamana Eleogram (HAW) 13.87, Luke Davis (USA) 11.73, Ben Bourgeois (USA) 11.66, Ryah Arthur (USA) 9.17
Heat 3: Jason Shbata (HAW) 10.50, Matt Pagan (USA) 8.86, Kevin Sullivan (HAW) 8.27, Chad Compton (USA) 6.80
Heat 4: Makuakai Rothman (HAW) 11.10, Richard Christie (NZL) 9.64, Jesse Heilman (USA) 8.47, Angelo Lozano (MEX) 7.60
Heat 5: Kyle Knox (USA) 12.16, Jano Balo (BRA) 11.06, Jason Harris (USA) 10.66, Gavin Gillette (HAW) 4.27
Heat 6: Mike Losness (USA) 12.83, Dylan Southworth (MEX) 10.74, Casey Brown (HAW) 9.56, Bruno Rodrigues (BRA) 5.94
Heat 7: Ricky Whitlock (USA) 11.26, Anthony Petruso (USA) 10.20, Teppei Tajima (JPN) 9.27, Andrew Doheny (USA) 8.84
Heat 8: Tomas Hermes (BRA) 12.00, Hank Gaskell (HAW) 11.67, Brent Reilly (USA) 6.77, Darrell Goodrum (USA) 6.73
US Open Junior Pro Round of 32 Results:
Heat 1: Nat Young (USA) 12.37, Cooper Chapman (AUS) 10.67, Tanner Hendrickson (HAW) 10.43, Alex Smith (HAW) 8.20
Heat 2: Kolohe Andino (USA) 13.83, Evan Geiselman (USA) 9.93, Kealamakia Naihe (HAW) 5.87, Taylor Clark (USA) 2.50
Heat 3: Kiron Jabour (HAW) 11.50, John John Florence (HAW) 7.84, Brent Reilly (USA) 7.60, Klye McGeary (USA) 5.13
Heat 4: Andrew Doheny (USA) 12.33, Ian Crane (USA) 9.40, Colton Larson (USA) 9.07, Dege O'Connell (HAW) 8.83
Heat 5: Granger Larsen (HAW) 14.76, Alejo Muniz (BRA) 14.33, Quinn McCrystal (USA) 13.76, Keanu Asing (HAW) 4.00
Heat 6: Miguel Pupo (BRA) 13.34, Fisher Heverly (USA) 11.13, Michael Dunphy (USA) 7.93, Conner Coffin (USA) 7.10
Heat 7: Jacob Halstead (USA) 11.76, Evan Thompson (USA) 10.50, Albee Layer (HAW) 8.87, Kaimana Jaquias (HAW) 5.00
Heat 8: Luke Davis (USA) 14.34, Chase Wilson (USA) 13.40, Victor Done (USA) 8.43, Taylor Brothers (USA) 5.90
US Open Junior Pro Women's Semifinals Results:
Heat 1: Malia Manuel (HAW) 13.00, Sage Erickson (USA) 10.43, Alana Blanchard (HAW) 10.43, Sarah Baum (ZAF) 3.44
Heat 2: Coco Ho (HAW) 15.10, Laura Enever (AUS) 14.70, Courtney Conlogue (USA) 13.73, Carissa Moore (HAW) 11.10


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Battelle On iPad as Metaphor For All That's Wrong With Media Distribution/
I got hipped to this by MovieCityNews. I had not read John Battelle before, but in his broadside he sums up what he doesn't like about the iPad and he sums up our current situation pretty damn well:
Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. Cable carriage, network airwaves, newsstand distribution and printing presses: all very expensive, so once you employ enough capital to gain them, it's damn hard to get knocked out.
The web changed all that and promised that economics in the media business would be driven by content and intent: the best content will win, driven by the declared intent of consumers who find it and share it. Search+Social was the biggest wave to hit media since the printing press. And the open technology to make better and better experiences has been on a ten year tear: blogging software, Flash, Ajax, HTML 5, Android, and more and more coming.
Read the rest of the article here. I look forward to reading more of him in the days ahead.
We are in a battle where the hope and promise offered by a free and open internet is challenged by the traditional drive for total control by excessive capital.

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ProperGander wrote: The elite have always funded artists to create the world as we see it. They have being playing this game since the dawn of culture itself.
"NEW YORK (AP) — Ever hear about the gargantuan octopus that dragged a New York City ferry and its 400 passengers to the river bottom nearly 53 years ago?
A cast bronze monument dedicated to the victims of the steam ferry Cornelius G. Kolff recently appeared in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, erected a stone's throw from a handful of other somber memorials to soldiers, sailors and mariners lost at sea or on the battlefield.
But if you can't recall the disaster it could be because the artist behind the memorial, Joseph Reginella, made the whole thing up."
"Artist Joseph Reginella poses for a photo, in the Staten Island borough of New York, with the cast bronze faux monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the steam ferry Cornelius G. Kolff, on Sept. 29, 2016 (AP Photo/ Ula Ilnytzky "
"The 250-pound monument, which depicts a Staten Island ferry being dragged down by giant octopus tentacles, is part of a multi-layered hoax that also includes a sophisticated website, a documentary, fabricated newspaper articles and glossy fliers directing tourists to a phantom Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Museum across the harbor.
It took Reginella six months to put it together. He said the idea for the project came to him while he was taking his 11-year-old nephew from Florida on the ferry between Manhattan and Staten Island.
"He was asking me all kinds of crazy questions like if the waters were shark-infested," he said. "I said 'No, but you know what did happen in the '60s? One of these boats got pulled down by a giant octopus."
"The story just rolled off the top of my head" and the idea for a mock memorial was born.
It evolved to become "a multimedia art project and social experience — not maliciously [ ] — about how gullible people are," said Reginella, who creates artworks for store windows and amusement parks. "
And from the Daily Fail :
" Joseph Reginella says the project is a testament to how gullible people are."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... TOPUS.html
By-line Title STF
Object Name Octopus Ferry Attack Tall Tale
Original Transmission Reference NYRD103
Time Created 11:12:21+00:00
Urgency 5 (normal urgency)
Caption-AbstractIn this Sept. 29, 2016 photo, artist Joseph Reginella poses for a photo, in the Staten Island borough of New York, with the cast bronze faux monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the steam ferry Cornelius G. Kolff, It took Reginella six months to execute his multi-layered project that includes the faux memorial, a sophisticated website complete with a documentary, a mocked-up newspaper articles and glossy fliers directing tourists to a phantom Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Museum with small pieces of the wreckage on display _ some with "strange suction-cup-shaped marks." (AP Photo/ Ula Ilnytzky )
Writer-Editor RED
By-line Ula Ilnytzky
Country-Primary Location Name USA
Country-Primary Location Code USA
Province-State NY
Copyright Notice Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
brianv wrote:
Oh yes and this - OcTOPUS and OcPOTUS 22/11/63
POTUS: "President Of The United States"
simonshack » October 25th, 2016, 6:22 pm wrote:brianv wrote:
Oh yes and this - OcTOPUS and OcPOTUS 22/11/63
OMG - thanks for that brilliant word play catch, brianv - it would otherwise have been lost on me !
For those who may wonder what "POTUS" stands for...POTUS: "President Of The United States"
CluedIn » October 26th, 2016, 9:11 am wrote:
The city where I live has a picture at City Hall of the old City Hall building (circa 1960) and in the picture there is a cell tower behind it. The picture is displayed on the wall with other historical buildings with no mention that the tower was added into the picture. One city at at time
Great catch brianv on that OcPOTUS!
SacredCowSlayer » October 26th, 2016, 12:51 pm wrote:
As to the City Hall comment. Well, I guess I'll be snapping shots of key things in my area from now on.
That way I can at least prove when something gets modified (yes, that is a very kind word for it).
simonshack wrote: [..] we are asked to believe that this is just the work of a lone artist, "eager to show how gullible people are".
on the statue. Corn Lie US .Kloff
brianv » October 28th, 2016, 10:38 am wrote:
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/25/artist_ ... labora.php
Location, location, locaction.
A monument to American illiteracy.
The Name on the Ferry is the Cornelius G. Kolff, as seen here http://www.sioctopusdisaster.com/home.html
The idiots have misspelt the name ason the statue. Corn Lie US .Kloff
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On the walls at Jane Street, I spotted this work by an artist I had not heard of before, Haskell Coffin.
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Garlic Lovers Salmon In Foil (Baked Or Grilled)
I've mentioned on here before that learning to cook as a visiting chef in Barclay's kitchen has always been– oh, shall we say — a bit of an adventure.
There are always multiple reasons for this. But probably the primary difference between his kitchen and mine is that his oven hasn't worked for a number of years. And instead of getting it fixed, he and his roommate have always happily just relied upon their 20-yr-old little toaster oven that sits on top of the counter. Works for them! But, um, cooking for a crowd with just a stovetop and a toaster oven has sometimes proved a bit of a challenge for me.
So this summer, I decided it was time to dust off their grill — that's surprisingly also rarely used — and put it to work when we were entertaining at his place. And it was so fun!! Turns out my boyfriend knows a thing or two about grilling. (And, ahem, looks smokin' hot behind a grill!) We made a series of kabobs over the summer, and cooked up a ton of grilled veggies. But mostly, we grilled so much of this lemony, buttery, ultra-garlicky, hea-ven-ly salmon. Seriously, like so much of it. Barclay does 100% of his grocery shopping at Costco. So whenever we decided it was salmon night, we grilled up a huge slab of it and invited friends and family over to enjoy it all together. And then chopped up tons and tons of garlic (from his, yes, Costco-sized bag of garlic) and spread it all over the top with some butter, lemon juice, herbs, and a dash of white wine to make it all the more delicious.
And oh my goodness, this garlic lovers salmon (as we decided to name it) was an absolute winner EVERY TIME.
Since the weather has cooled off, I've now switched to baking this up in the oven. But either way, it's always a crowd-pleaser, it always takes just a few minutes to prep, and it's always so incredibly delicious.
Garlic Lovers' Salmon Recipe | 1-Minute Video
To make it, grab a sharp knife and get to choppin'. You'll need tons of chopped fresh garlic. I recommend chopping it fairly coarsely, but if you don't want obvious chunks of garlic in each bite, you're welcome to finely mince it.
Then melt some butter in a small saucepan on the stove (or in the microwave) and cook the garlic in it for a minute or two until it is soft and fragrant, but not completely cooked through. Stir in some white wine and lemon juice with the butter. (<– Or if you don't cook with wine, you're welcome to leave it out.)
Then lay a very large piece of foil (or you may need to use two) on top of a large baking sheet, brush a little of the butter on the bottom of the foil (so that the salmon won't stick to it), and then place the salmon evenly on top of it. Spread the rest of the butter-garlic mixture evenly on top of the salmon, and then season it with a few generous pinches of salt and black pepper. Then fold up the foil on top of the salmon until it forms a sealed packet (again, just use two pieces of foil if need be), and you'll be ready to cook it up!
You're welcome to either carefully transfer the packet to the grill and cook the salmon there. Or you can just slide it into the oven, and then cook and broil it to perfection!
Different cuts of salmon will definitely cook more or less quickly, depending on how thick they are. So keep a close eye on the salmon to be sure that it's cooked through (and not overcooked). I like mostly cooking the salmon in the sealed foil packet until the last few minutes, when I open it up to let the top get a little crispy. But feel free to grill or bake it however best you prefer.
Then, once the salmon is cooked, remove it from the grill or oven. Sprinkle on a bunch of fresh herbs and green onions, cut it into your desired size of portions, and then — voila — dinner is served.
We loved serving this with grilled or roasted veggies on the side, and a big ol' green salad (like my family's favorite salad, this apple spinach salad, or this easy arugula salad), but go with whatever works for you.
Seriously, couldn't be easier, and couldn't be more delicious. And — bonus — it's naturally gluten-free as well.
Hope you all enjoy this one as much as we have lately!
Garlic Lovers Salmon In Foil (Baked Or Grilled!)
This Garlic Lovers Salmon is easy to make on the grill or in the oven, it's cooked with the most heavenly lemon butter garlic sauce, and it's always a crowd favorite!
- 2 pound side of salmon, boneless and skinless
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 8 cloves garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1/4 cup dry white wine
- 2 tablespoons freshly-squeezed lemon juice, plus extra lemon wedges for serving
- salt and pepper
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley*
- 1/4 cup thinly-sliced green onions
- Heat oven to 375°F. Or heat a grill to medium heat.
- Line a large baking dish with a large piece of aluminum foil.
- In a small saucepan, heat butter over medium-high heat until melted. Stir in the garlic and cook for 1-2 minutes until fragrant. (You want the garlic to be partly- but not fully-cooked.) Remove from heat and stir in the white wine and lemon juice.
- Using a pastry brush, brush a tablespoons of the butter mixture on the foil until it is evenly covered. Lay the salmon out on the foil. Then pour the remainder of the butter-garlic mixture on top of the salmon and brush it around until it evenly covers the salmon. Season the salmon evenly with a few generous pinches of salt and pepper.
- Fold the sides of the aluminum foil up and over the top of the salmon until it is completely enclosed. (If your sheet of foil is not large enough, just place a second sheet of foil on top and fold the edges so that it forms a sealed packet.
- To Cook In The Oven: Bake for 14-15 minutes, or until the salmon is almost completely cooked through. (Cooking times will vary on the thickness of your salmon, so I recommend checking it a few minutes early if you have a thinner cut of salmon.) Remove the salmon from the oven and carefully open and pull back the aluminum foil so that the top of the fish is completely exposed. (Be careful, lots of hot steam will be released!) Change the oven setting to broil, then return the fish to the oven and broil for 3-4 minutes, or until the top of the salmon and the garlic are slightly golden and the fish is cooked through. (Keep a close eye on the salmon while broiling, though, to be sure that the garlic does not burn.)
- To Cook On The Grill: Carefully transfer the packet of salmon to the grill, and grill for 12-14 minutes, or until the salmon is almost completely cooked through. (Cooking times will vary on the thickness of your salmon, so I recommend checking it a few minutes early if you have a thinner cut of salmon.) Carefully open and pull back the aluminum foil so that the top of the fish is completely exposed. (Be careful, lots of hot steam will be released!) Continue cooking for 3-4 minutes, or until the top of the salmon and the garlic are slightly golden and the fish is cooked through.
- Remove salmon from the oven or grill. Sprinkle the top of the salmon evenly with parsley and green onions, and serve immediately.
*Feel free to also sub in whatever other fresh herbs you have on hand, or use a mix! I love using parsley as a base, and then mixing in some chopped fresh rosemary and thyme too. OR, I also love just stirring in 1 teaspoon of Italian seasoning into the butter mixture, and brushing that all over the salmon.
If you make this recipe, be sure to snap a photo and hashtag it #gimmesomeoven. I'd love to see what you cook!
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84 comments on "Garlic Lovers Salmon In Foil (Baked Or Grilled)"
Thanks, Ali! I was wondering what to whip up for dinner tonight, and I have the ingredients for this amazing looking salmon.
Yum! This looks delicious!
It's hard to say which I love more – garlic or salmon! I love cooking salmon in foil (really all kinds of ways) – I could literally eat it a few times a week!
This recipe looks amazing, Ali!
Foil is not suitable for cooking and is not suitable for using with vegetables like tomatoes, citrus juice or spices." On the other hand, the researchers also noted that foil can be considered safe to wrap cold foods, since no leaching was observed without heating.
what would you use instead of foil?
I'm always scared to make fish on my own at home… but you made this look so easy and delish! Can't wait! Thanks : )
this looks scrumptious and I will definitely send a pic when we make it.
Thanks for this recipe, Ali! Will try it this coming weekend. As I am quite new to using oven for cooking/baking, should I just half the cooking time for a 1 pound Salmon? I live alone, hence the plan to try this recipe out with half the ingredients first. Thanks in advance!
Yes! I doesn't get better!
Made this last night! Added fresh chopped basil on top. Delicious. Served it over a spinach salad with heirloom tomatoes, red onion, and a light sweet mustard vinaigrette.
OMG this looks so much like our dinner this past weekend! I too love to buy the huge slabs of salmon! And I always drench it in my cajun, garlic butter :) My mom only had a toaster oven to work with so she made this kind of dinner frequently when I was growing up :) YUMMERS
This was delicious! I must have had a really thick cut of salmon because I needed to cook it for twice as long. But it turned out great. I used meyer lemons and it seemed to add some brightness.
Sounds delicious! when do you add the wine & lemon?
I absolutely love salmon too! And normally cook them in parchment parcels for easy clean ups. This looks fantastic, will have to try it!
I made this for dinner tonight, and it was so good! Very easy and very tasty!
That's a gorgeous way to do salmon! Thanks for sharing :) I'd also LOVE to know how you did the brussels sprouts that are pictured with the salmon. I like them, but never know quite how to cook them in an appetising way. Any tips?
I'm not a big fan of fish, but this dish I'd love to try out. Looks so delicious, my mouth waters just by looking at the amazing photos. Would definitely try it this week!
Loooove this one!! Salmon is my favorite fish and I'm a total garlic fiend. Making this this week for sure.
I just made this tonight. My family LOVED LOVED LOVED this recipe! This will definitely be a keeper in our home. I used vegan butter and couldn't tell the difference. Thank you for the recipe!
I also substituted white grape juice for the wine. Absolutely scrumptious!
Hi Ali, Thank you for this recipe…I saved it awhile ago, but have always been intimidated when it comes to cooking fish. I love so many of your recipes and your instructions are always so easy to follow, so tonight I bit the bullet and tried to make this salmon. It was a total hit! My husband commented that I cooked the salmon perfect and it was soooo delicious! Thank you for helping make a wonderful dinner!
Well that was weird! When I added the lemon juice to the garlic butter mixture it turned blue. Doesn't look very yummy but hoping it will taste otherwise!
This recipe was great. Made for dinner tonight. Fast and easy. Thanks. I half the recipe.
Salmon reachs Omega 3 and really good for health, especiallypregnancy and baby. :) I didn't know how to cook salmon. But when I read your post, I thinkI can make itbut don't know it's good or not :) ahha. This weekend I'll make it for my family.
Thank you for you guide.
Salmon rich Omega 3 and they are really good for health, especially for pregnant woman and baby. I didn't know how to make the salmon. When I see your post about this meal, I think I will try to make it this weekend formy family but don't know it's will tasty or not :D Ahaaa!.
Thank you for your guide
My boyfriend is pescatarian and we're always looking for new ways to jazz up some fish. This is a must try. Thanks so much!
I love the combination of salmon and garlic. This is definitely a must try recipe for dinner!
Thank you!
Thank you for this recipe!! Now, I have dinner planned out for tomorrow night!
Legit so easy and so delicious! thanks for sharing!!
Made this for my family last night. We really love it. Added to my new favor :)
My husband and I definitely classify as garlic lovers. Pinning this one for us to try!
I love Salmon, it is so tasty, thanks
Love salmon and this dish looks so tasty and healthy in those pictures!!! Great ingredients. Planning to make it for dinner.
I will try it at home. Such food recipes are hard to find in my country Indonesia. Thank you for sharing
Can't wait to make this!!
Made this last night….so good. And first time cooking fish in the oven! Will be adding to regular rotation for sure. Thanks!
Would substituting minced garlic from a jar work as well as, or close to fresh?
Salmon + garlic = WIN! I will try this one today and can't wait to taste it ( let's hope my dish will look as gorgeous as yours).
You're amazing Ali! I was wondering what to prepare for dinner tonight, and I have the ingredients for this amazing looking salmon. Thanks for sharing!


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"The quest to feel certain becomes an idol when a person's sense of significance to God and security before God is anchored not in their simple trust of God's character, as revealed on the cross, but in how certain they feel about the rightness of their beliefs." – Greg Boyd
Today I am just thrilled to share an interview with theologian and teacher Greg Boyd, whose new book, Benefit of the Doubt, releases this week. Greg is the co-founder of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota where he serves as Senior Pastor, speaking to thousands each week. He has authored or co-authored 18 books and numerous academic articles, including his best-selling and award-winning Letters From a Skeptic and his recent books Repenting of Religion and The Myth of a Christian Nation. Greg has also been featured on the front page of The New York Times, The Charlie Rose Show, CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC and numerous other television and radio venues.
What I love about Greg's work is his commitment to both intellectual integrity and faithful obedience. His books always challenge me to not only think, but to act. And his latest, Benefit of the Doubt, is right up my alley…and likely many of yours too…for it tackles issues related to faith, doubt, certainty, and obedience. I think you will find many of Greg's thoughts here helpful and profound. Enjoy!
Rachel: First of all, thank you so much for this book. I really related to your personal experience with doubt and found myself underlining paragraph after paragraph of Benefit of the Doubt, praying your words would reach those who need it the most. To start off, tell us a little of your own story. What triggered your first doubts about your faith?
Greg: Thanks Rachel, I appreciate the opportunity to talk. I don't know if I can say when I first had doubts about my faith, because my faith has pretty much always been accompanied by doubt. But it was a prayer meeting I attended twenty-some years ago that first got me questioning the very concept of faith that most Christians embrace today. A dozen or so other people and I had gathered to pray for a young man who had been diagnosed with brain cancer. At the beginning of the meeting the lady who owned the house we were in stood up and read Jesus' statement, "according to your faith it will be done to you." She then told us that if our faith was free of doubt, this young man would be healed. The implication was that if we doubted, he would not be healed.
As we entered into prayer for this young man, everyone in the room felt pressure to try to make ourselves certain that this man was in fact going to be healed. As I share in my book, after a couple of minutes of praying the image of the Lion on the Wizard of Oz suddenly popped into my mind and I saw him saying, "I do believe, I do believe, I do, I do, I DO believe!" just as he does in the movie. It occurred to me that this was exactly what we were doing. We were trying to talk ourselves into becoming certain, as if faith was a sort of psychological gimmick. And it made me wonder what kind of God would leverage the life of a young man on how well we were to perform this psychological gimmickry, and about a matter that, if we're honest with ourselves, we can't be certain of. It seemed like we were caught in a cruel, twisted joke!
This motivated me to begin to seriously question whether the notion that our faith is as strong as we are free of doubt is really an accurate understanding of faith. The Benefit of the Doubt is really the outcome of that line of questioning that began in that prayer meeting so many years ago.
Can you explain what "certainty-seeking faith" is and why you claim that it's a problem today?
"Certain-seeking faith" is the sort of faith that people were trying to exercise in the prayer meeting I just talked about. It's the assumption that a person's faith is as strong as they are free of doubt and that striving to have a "strong" (viz. doubt-free) faith somehow pleases God. I've found that this is how most Christians today think about faith, and it causes far more damage than most people realize (I spend two chapters in my book fleshing out these problems). In fact, I argue that this misguided model of faith is at the root of most of the struggles believers have with the Christian faith and behind most of the negative things non-believers associate with the Christian faith.
Among other things, as I stated earlier, this model reduces faith to a psychological gimmick in which people try to convince themselves that their beliefs are true beyond what the evidence warrants. Thoughtful people legitimately wonder why God would consider this ability virtuous, to the point of leveraging people's eternal welfare on it! So too, this model makes thoughtful people who have perfectly reasonable doubts feel guilty and rewards people who either lack the concern or the intellectual curiosity to question their beliefs by making them feel like they have "strong" faith.
On top of this, those who embrace "certainty-seeking faith" tend to become narrow-minded, for honestly trying to see things from other peoples' point of view might lead them to question their faith and thereby jeopardize their "salvation." In fact, this model can easily lead people to develop learning phobias, for if you dare to read broadly and learn to see things from other people's point of view, you might uncovering facts that could shake your certainty and thus displease God. I'm convinced this explains why Christians, especially conservative Christians, have a well-deserved reputation in the broader culture for being narrow-minded.
You go so far as to claim that certainty-seeking faith is "idolatrous." That is a huge claim, especially since this is the kind of faith most Christians today embrace! Can you explain it further? And how can we break free from it?
In the book I make the case that we are created with a core need to feel fully alive, unconditionally loved and worthwhile, and ultimately secure, and God created us with this need because he wants to meet it, and is the only one who can actually meet it. An idol, I argue, is anything we use in place of God to meet this core need. While many people try to meet this need with the idols of wealth, power, success, sex and other such things, many Christians try to meet it with the idol of certainty-seeking faith. The quest to feel certain becomes an idol when a person's sense of significance to God and security before God is anchored not in their simple trust of God's character, as revealed on the cross, but in how certain they feel about the rightness of their beliefs. This form of idolatry is a danger whenever people assume (rightly) that they are saved by faith while also (mistakenly) equating faith with their sense of certainty. For it means they now feel "saved" – uniquely significant and secure before God – on the basis of their psychological certainty.
As I show in Benefit of the Doubt, the only way to get free from this without falling into some other form of idolatry is to realize that biblical faith isn't about feeling certain, but about a willingness to commit to living for God in the face of uncertainty. We need to accept that uncertainty is simply part of what it means to be human and to trust that God's love for us, revealed most perfectly on Calvary, isn't dependent on how certain or uncertain we feel. The God revealed on Calvary isn't a God who is impressed with people's ability to make themselves feel certain that their beliefs are right. He's rather a God who simply wants us to trust him, in the face of uncertainty, by lovingly laying down our lives for him in response the way he has lovingly laid down his life for us.
What difference do you see between 'faith' and 'belief'? And why do you believe this distinction is important?
As I define them, "belief " is an opinion about something or someone, while "faith" is a willingness to commit to a course of action on the basis of that opinion. When I married Shelley, my wife, I had to first believe a number of things about her, but I only became married to her when I demonstrated faith by being willing to commit to living the rest of my life as her husband.
The most important thing for people to realize about this is that salvation is not merely about beliefs that people hold. James tells us the demons "believe," but it does them absolutely no good (Ja 2:19). Salvation is rather about entering into a marriage-like, covenantal, relationship with God through Jesus Christ by exercising faith. And whereas one might measure beliefs in terms of how certain or uncertain a person feels, the measure of faith is simply about how willing one is to trust God's character and how faithful a person is in living out the covenantal relationship they have with the Lord, despite the uncertainties they may have.
Sadly, many today think that people are "saved" simply because they espouse certain beliefs, apart from any consideration of how they live. This is why research demonstrates that the vast majority of Americans admit to believing in Jesus (and a host of other "Christian" things) while also demonstrating that this belief has very little impact on how they actually live. It also explains why so many mistakenly think God is impressed with our level of certainty over our beliefs, when in fact the only thing that means anything to God is how faithful his people are in trusting his character and in living in relationship with him, regardless of whatever level of certainty they have, or don't have.
In the book you write that, "God enters covenants, not contracts, with people." Could you share a little about how the court-of-law framework of theology has affected how we read the Bible?
This is a very important point that I spend a lot of time on in my book. Whereas a "contract" is a deal between parties, a "covenant" is a commitment that involves the parties themselves. Contracts involve exchanging money, work or possessions, while covenants involve a commitment of our life. And while covenants are rooted in people trusting one another, contracts are only necessary when people don't trust one another. So too, while contracts are about what different parties can get from one another, covenants are about what different parties pledge to give of themselves toward one another. Buying a car or house involves a contract: getting married involves a covenant.
Unfortunately, while covenants permeated the lives of people in biblical times, western culture is entirely contractual. Indeed, marriage is the only remaining covenant we have, and people today are unfortunately increasingly viewing even this in terms of a contract. Because of this, most contemporary western Christians interpret Scripture's covenantal concepts as if they were contractual, and as I show in Benefit of the Doubt, this has fundamentally screwed up our understanding of a number of theological concepts in Scripture.
Can you give us an example?
Sure. Consider the way most Christians think about "salvation." They think of it primarily in legal and contractual ways. God the Father is the judge, we are the guilty defendants, and Jesus is our lawyer. In this view, the Father was going to send us to eternal prison (hell), which we deserved, until Jesus stepped in and worked out a strange deal with the Father in which he somehow takes on our guilt and our punishment, while we are acquitted, assuming we can believe these things are true with a requisite degree of certainty.
It's of course true the Bible uses some legal metaphors to describe salvation, but as I demonstrate in my book, the primary framework, and the framework in which even the legal metaphors should be understood, is covenantal. This dramatically changes everything! Understood as a covenantal concept, salvation, isn't about a deal that takes place between us and God. It's rather about entering into a marriage-like relationship with God – a relationship that involves us pledging ourselves to him in response to the pledge of himself he offered us on Calvary. So too, whereas the legal model was focused on belief and therefore didn't involve our character transformation as a central consideration, the covenant model is all about character, for its anchored in faith, and as I've said, covenantal faith is about our willingness to trust another and to live in a trustworthy way in relation to another.
You can also see the significant difference between these two models of salvation by the sorts of questions they inspire. If a person is thinking in terms of the contractual model, there are all sorts of legal-type questions that need to be addressed. For example, since salvation is a legal deal, it makes sense to wonder if the deal can be "undone" (the debate about eternal security)? If it can't be "undone," it makes sense to wonder what, if any, are the negative consequences for living in ways we know God disapproves of?
On the other hand, if the "salvation-deal" can be undone, it makes sense to wonder what are the precise legal conditions that would undo it? Is the "salvation-deal" undone if a person fornicates, for example, and dies before they can repent? And (here's one I've found Christian engaged couples ask frequently), what exactly does it mean to "fornicate"? How close to "vaginal penetration" can you get before you "cross the line? In the contractual framework, it naturally makes sense to want to get away with as much as you can without "crossing the line," for contracts, recall, are predicated on a lack of trust and are about what individuals can get from one another.
The mindset behind these questions makes perfect sense in a contractual, court-of-law framework, but that make no sense whatsoever in a covenantal framework. No one in a remotely healthy marriage would ever wonder about how much they could get away with before their spouse would divorce them, for example. And if a spouse ever did wonder about this, it would simply reveal that he or she was already dishonoring their covenant. For one only resorts to contractual thinking when the covenantal pledge to give of oneself to another and to trust and be trustworthy toward another is absent.
In this light, and in light of how pervasive the legal paradigm is in contemporary Christ thinking, is it any wonder we see so live covenantal trust and trustworthiness in the lives of professing Christians today?
You acknowledge that one of the greatest challenges confronting people who believe the Bible is "God's Word" concerns the violent portraits of God in the Bible. and you spend a whole chapter on this topic. What advice do you have for people who are deeply troubled by these portraits?
There are three things I share in Benefit of the Doubt about this incredibly important topic. The first is that I attempt to show that the revelation of God in Jesus Christ isn't just one revelation among many others in Scripture. He is rather depicted as the supreme revelation that culminates and surpasses all others. God spoke in many different ways in the past, the author of Hebrews tells us, but in these "last days" he has spoken "through the Son." And in contrast to all that came before, the Son is "the radiance of his glory" and "the exact representation of his being (hupostasis, meaning "essence," Heb. 1:1-3). This is why Jesus could say such radical things as; "If you see me, you see the Father" (Jn.14:9) and could claim that all Scripture points to him (Jn 5:39-45; Lk 24: 25-7; 44-7). What this implies, I contend, is that, whether we can explain the violent portraits of God in the OT or not, it would be unfaithful for us to ever allow anything we find in the OT to compromise what we learn about God in him.
Second, I argue that as the NT depicts it, the cross sums up and supremely expresses everything Jesus was about. This is why John said, on the basis of what he learned about God from Jesus, that "God is love" (I Jn,.4:8) and then defined the kind of "love" that God is by pointing us to the cross (I Jn 3:16). God's very essence, in other words, is cross-like love. On the one hand, this increases the problem of the OT's violent portraits of God, for the cross reveals a God who would rather did for his enemies than use his power to crush them. So we have to wonder, how do portraits of God commanding genocide or causing mothers to cannibalize their babies point to the enemy-loving, non-violent God revealed on the cross?! On the other hand, however, I argue that the cross itself holds the key to solving this problem, which leads to my third point.
The cross reveals that, out of his covenantal faithfulness and unfathomable love, God is willing to stoop to bear the sin of his people and thereby take on an appearance that reflects the ugliness of their sin. Yet, in doing this, God reveals his true nature, for as we look upon the God-forsaken, guilty-appearing criminal on the cross, we know that it was God who voluntarily stooped an infinite distance to become this for us. Now, if the cross reveals what God is really like, then it reveals what God has always been like. And this means we should read Scripture with the awareness that God has always been willing to stoop to bear the sin of his people and take on appearances that reflect the ugliness of their sin.
I thus suggest that we should read all Scripture "through the lens of the cross," and when we do this, we can begin to see how even the most horrendous portraits of God in the OT bear witness to the God revealed on the cross. The cross reveals God to us only when we look past the surface appearance that reflects the ugliness of our sin and discern in its depth our gracious God stooping to bear our sin and take on this ugly appearance for us. In this light, I suggest we should read Scripture always asking, where else might we find that God is revealed not by how he appears on the surface, but by what faith can discern as we look past the surface to discern God humbly stooping to bear the sin of his people?
My short answer to this question is that, whenever we come upon portraits of God that, to one degree or another, fall beneath the beautiful, non-violent portrait we are given in the crucified Christ, we should assume that the revelatory content of these portraits is, to this degree, not found on the surface of the portrait itself, but in what faith can discern happening beneath the surface as it beholds God stooping to bear the sin if his people. Hence, I submit that the ugliness of portraits such as the one of Yahweh commanding his people to slaughter "everything that breathes" or of causing mothers to cannibalize their children reflects the ugly, fallen, culturally conditioned hearts of his people, not God himself. What rather reveals God is that, out of his covenantal faithfulness and unfathomable love, he was willing to stoop to bear the sin of his people by being willing to take on this literary appearance in the inspired record of his covenantal activity (viz. the biblical narrative).
You are such a prolific writer and theologian, and you've written about everything from open theism, to Satan and demons, to politics (The Myth of a Christian Nation is among my most often recommend books), to the problem of suffering. What's next on the horizon for you? What are you feeling most passionate about right now?
Right now I'm in the final stages of a massive research project I've been working on for five years that develops and defends the thesis I just outlined in response to your previous question. It's entitled The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Reinterpreting the Old Testament's Violent Portraits of God in Light of the Cross. To say I'm "passionate" about this topic is a massive understatement! I've been absolutely obsessed with this Scripture's' violent portraits of God, for I believe these portraits constitute one of the biggest reasons why many abandon the faith while many others refuse to take the Bible as God's Word seriously. It's also the primary reason why most Christians today refuse to accept that God is altogether as beautiful as he's revealed to be on the cross and/or that God is unconditionally opposed to all violence.
Because I'm proposing a new hermeneutic, I needed to make my case as airtight and as comprehensive as possible, which is why the book has taken me five years to research and write and has now evolved to over 600 pages! But non-academics need not worry, because I plan on following it quickly with a much shorter work that will capture the gist of my argument, but without all the scholarly material that's packed into the larger academic book. I hope to have both finished by the beginning of 2014 which means they should be published (by InterVarsity Press) by the end of 2014.
When it comes to theology, you seem to have a curious mind and an explorer's heart. How do you handle the inevitable criticism that comes along with that?
I make it my primary goal of every day to get all of my "life" – my core need to be loved, to feel worthwhile, and to feel ultimate secure – from what God thinks about me as revealed on the cross. I believe this is the most fundamental objective for disciples of Jesus. To the extent that Christ is our "life," we don't need to be trying to get "life" from what people think about us, or from any other potential idol I might latch onto. But to the degree we don't get all our "life" from Christ, we can't help but try to get it from what people think about us, or from some other idol. This is sheer bondage. Only to the degree that all our "life" is from Christ can we live in true freedom. And only to this degree can we "die to ourselves" and live out the radical call of the kingdom to imitate Jesus by lovingly sacrificing ourselves for all others, including those who would identify themselves as our "enemy."
Thanks so much for asking such great questions Rachel! Keep up your great Kingdom work!
Thanks for this profound and thought-provoking responses, Greg. You are ALWAYS welcome here!
Be sure to check out Greg's new book, Benefit of the Doubt. And if you haven't found Greg's ReKnew site, you're missing out; there are tons of great resources, articles, and discussions there. And if you're interested in hearing Greg speak on the topics covered in this interview, consider participating in the upcoming ReKnew conference on Faith, Doubt, and the Idol of Certainty, September 27-28 at Wooldand Hills Church in St. Paul, MN.
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Oklahoma Signs New Long-Term eGovernment Contract with Oklahoma Interactive
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – February 22, 2010 – The state of Oklahoma has signed a new contract with eGovernment firm Oklahoma Interactive (OI), part of the eGovernment firm NIC's (NASDAQ: EGOV) family of companies, to manage its official government portal, http://www.ok.gov, for up to 5 years. The contract has an initial term of one year with four, single-year renewal options.
Oklahoma Interactive signed its original multi-year contract with Oklahoma in 2001, to manage the state's portal under the name YourOklahoma.com. In November 2004, YourOklahoma.com was rebranded to OK.gov, Oklahoma's Official Web site, and the portal was designed with a focus on self-service so users can easily find what they are looking for, with little or no knowledge of government agency functions. In 2009, Oklahoma issued a competitive bid for eGovernment portal services and the contract was awarded again to Oklahoma Interactive.
"In the past 9 years, we have seen much evolution in Oklahoma eGovernment and eGovernment in general," said Joseph Fleckinger, Deputy Director of Information Technology and Director of Information Services Division of the Oklahoma Office of State Finance. "This new contract ensures that we have the leaders in eGovernment services improving our portal and the online services that will be needed to service our community in the most efficient manner."
"Oklahoma has achieved tremendous success with its eGovernment initiatives," said Harry Herington, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of NIC. "The state's ability to drive and launch more than 280 services in just nine years is extremely impressive. We are honored that we will continue to serve the state and help add to these accomplishments."
Oklahoma uses the self-funded solution to provide eGovernment services at no upfront cost to citizens and businesses. In the past 9 years, OI has worked with more than 85 Oklahoma state agencies to develop more than 285 interactive government services. During this time, Oklahoma has led the nation by introducing innovative technologies that improve efficiencies in government. OK.gov has had the opportunity to partner with state agencies to provide eGovernment services such as:
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Today I'm reviewing Gabriela Szulman's site.This site has given me more of a headache than any other site I've looked in (in a good way, not the lying-down-in-a-dark room sort of way), and I think it's because there are so many different solutions.
Gabriela is an artist who makes incredible collages that combine memorabilia (photos, objects, postcards) with painting. She lives in London but is originally from Buenos Aires and her prints often contain wonderful vintage images from South America.
Take a look at the homepage below:
At first glance, the website looks very nice and Gabriela's own images are beautiful. Gabriela has started a blog and writes about travels, exhibitions, and her creative process. There are some fascinating pieces here, not only on the blog but also in Gabriela's account of recent commissions.
There isn't a huge amount wrong with Gabriela's site. The main problem I can see is that it can be confusing and repetitive. There is lots of similar-looking content in different places (with some broken links). And, although there are lots of calls to action at the end of each piece, I was left unsure about Gabriela's real goals for the site. Is it about selling the work, or providing a nice artistic experience for the reader?
So my general recommendation is to tell a much simpler story. But what story exactly? Here are the steps I would go through in thinking about the future development of this site.
1. Think about art, selling and blogging
There are lots and lots of different things that Gabriela could do.
Her blog entries are inspirational and visually delightful. Some artists who like to write take a blog-first approach, with new art highlighted in passing. Right now Gabriela's blog is buried under all her other lovely stuff.
But how does it all fit together? Have a hard think about your site visitors and art customers, the relationship you want with them, and whether this tends to be repeat or one-off.
Do you want regular customers who are informed about new exhibitions and sales?
Do you want a stream of Memory customers for your bespoke service?
Do you want supporters and family who will read your blog posts and cheer you on?
Or maybe you want to speak to a bigger audience (customers, supporters, would-be artists) about the creative process (and in that case, if you want to sell something what will they actually want to buy?)
I say all this because I think an art site needs fans and buyers, and there is a slight tendency to acquire fans and non-buyers. Especially if the site feeds the need for inspiration but doesn't create desire for the work itself. Personally, I think an art site needs to maintain a bit of distance between the artist and the reader (unless you're really selling teaching). Gabriela's recent post on travelling to Bilbao does that beautifully, as does the piece on her home.
2. Where do you want to focus the business?
What does Gabriela want to lead with?
Is it the Memory Print service, making art from customers' own pieces? (it looks wonderful)
Is it her original art and cards?
Or is to provide general inspiration for other people, as artists?
(There is a lot of detailed information about the Memory Print process in the blog, which also makes me wonder whether people would like to learn how to make these in a workshop setting, OK, I would).
(This is such a stunning image.)
Right now, the site features absolutely everything and there's no particular hierarchy. Everything looks equally important. It feels to me like a more structured organisation would help visitors to pick their way through.
3. Simplify the Homepage layout
There is a lot going on here and as a result it's quite difficult to work out exactly what Gabriela offers and how to access it.
I would reduce the categories listed in the top navigation to something like Home, About, Collections, Shop, Journal.
And I would consider a blog-first (blog on homepage) style. It needs some thinking about. The alternative is to choose a visual layout which focuses on some of these categories more than others – so rather than 8 little squares, the viewer sees one big image and some smaller ones. You provide signposts to important stuff rather than letting everything be important.
4. Improve the basic SEO
A Google search on Gabriela's name brings all her sites up but a search on 'Art made from Memories'…nothing.
The absolute minimum required here is that Gabriela adds a longer, SEO-focused Title tag to the homepage.
You'll see the title above the browser window. For this site, it currently says 'Gabriela Szulman'. To get it right you need to think about what your site vsitiors are searching for and amend it to be a bit more descriptive… something more along the lines of 'Gabriela Szulman | Mixed Media Artist, Making Art from Memories in London, England'. That is a bit shonky perhaps, but you get the picture. Think about how people search for what you provide.
5. Write an editorial calendar
The final piece is to create an outline calendar for the blog which is built around external events such as exhibitions, open studios, and major festivals. Then you can fill in all the other things that give the visitor a peek into your world and a cue to buy your work – featuring new work, talking about travels, going behind the scenes and so on.
There are so many different ways Gabriel could go: great talent and a lovely individual voice.


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Taylor Swift's new video: A definitive ranking of the looks
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From "most Taylor" to "not at all Taylor."
It's a widely accepted fact across the world that Mondays are terrible, but thanks to Taylor Swift, this one just got a whole lot brighter. During a live stream on Yahoo, the 24-year-old not only revealed the cover art for her new album "1989," due out on October 27, she dropped the video for her next single "Shake It Off," which is everything we could have hoped for.
The video, which looks to be a hybrid between an episode of "So You Think You Can Dance" and an Old Navy commercial, features Swift dancing awkwardly (yet adorably) through a wide variety of scenarios that include, but are not limited to: A ballet class, a pep rally and a breakdance battle à la "Step Up 2: The Streets." Seriously, it's a bit hard to follow.
To go with each form of dancing, Swift wears a different outfit, naturally. So, without further ado, we bring you the definitive ranking of the looks in the singer's "Shake It Off" video. Yes, spoiler alert, it goes pretty south at the end. Click through the gallery above.
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Hope you all have a great weekend~
Today we have a polymer clay tutorial here :)
We're going to show you how to make twisted cookie sticks.
Let's get started:
Tools you'll need ----
Polymer clay
Clay roller
Hard bristles paint brush
Blade ( Or any cutting tool you have )
Acrylic paint
First, we need to have a light yellow color clay.
(Here's a blog post of how to mix this color :
Use the clay roller and make it into a flat sheet, about 1.5mm - 2mm thick.
Then, let's use a brush and put some texture on the clay sheet on both sides. (Top & Bottom)
After texturing the clay sheet, use a blade trim it into a rectangular form.
Now, we can start making the twisted cookie sticks~
First, cut a thin strip.
Next, we will need a toothpick to help forming shape.
Take this thin strip of clay and wrap around the toothpick~
Make sure it's evenly wrapped on it :)
You can make different sizes too~
Here's another way to make a polymer clay twisted cookie stick :
Like the one above, cut a strip of clay first.
Then put your fingers on both ends,
roll in 2 different directions ( one finger goes downward and the other goes upward )
You'll get this other type of twisted cookie sticks~
You can also form them into so many different shapes, let's be creative with it :)
Ok~ now we're ready to bake them.
After it's baked, we can start coloring them~
In this step, you'll need an orangey yellow acrylic paint and a sponge. I'm using Delta Soy Paint in Curry here.
Now use the sponge dap it on the color.
Make sure you wipe off the the excess.
Then lightly glide it on the edges of the twisted cookie stick. The color should be concentrating on the twisted edges. ( As shown in the mint green arrows )
and that's it~
Now you have your well baked twisted cookie stick :)
With is toothpick wrapped around cookie stick, coloring step is kinda similar to the one above.
Make sure the color is concentrated on the outer surface. ( Lightly gliding the sponge on the cookie stick and make sure the color doesn't go onto the inner part. )
We have some twisted polymer clay cookie sticks!
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Goldman Mulls Majority Sale of Reinsurance Business
Goldman Sachs is considering the sale of its reinsurance business as Basel III capital rules force banks to consider exiting non-core businesses.
On a conference call to discuss fourth quarter earnings Wednesday, Harvey Schwartz, Goldman's incoming chief financial officer, said the firm was looking at a sale of a majority stake in the business given the Basel III capital changes.
Goldman Sachs Reinsurance Group, based in New York, sits within the firm's securities division. The firm said Wednesday that net revenue from reinsurance in 2012 was $1.08 billion, including $317 million in the fourth quarter. That is up from $880 million for all of 2011, including $158 million in the fourth quarter 2011.


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The process is easy. Simply ask the physician to write an order to "Consult LifeCare Hospitals of Dallas" for transfer or admission. The individual receiving the order need only call us to arrange for a Clinical Liaison to evaluate you or your loved one. Our carefully trained Liaison will evaluate the patient. If clinically appropriate, it should take no more than 24 hours to have the patient admitted to one of our campuses. We accept Medicare and most private insurance, and will coordinate with your insurance company to ensure a seamless admission process. Our Liaison will be happy to answer any questions you may have about our program, and you are invited to tour our hospital. If we are unable to accept you or your loved one, we will be happy to recommend other options.
To begin the referral process, please call our referral hotline at (214) 640-9628. An Admissions Coordinator is available to answer your admission questions.
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text: FAQsCommon Sleep Disorders Questions What types of sleep problems can be evaluated at a Sleep Disorders Center? Any sleep-related problem can be evaluated. Some common problems include insomnia, which is trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. Some of the more popular causes of insomnia are restless legs syndrome (RLS), medication dependency and anxiety/depression. Another common problem is daytime sleepiness, which may be a result of more serious sleep disorders, sleep apnea and narcolepsy. What does a Sleep Disorders Evaluation include? A sleep disorders evaluation is a medical assessment. It may begin with an office visit where the patient is interviewed by a sleep disorders specialist, or the primary care physician may simply refer the patient for overnight testing. Because the diagnosis of many sleep disorders requires that the patient sleep overnight in the laboratory, the St. Joseph Hospital Sleep Disorders Center provides sleep rooms that are private and comfortable in a hotel-like setting. Sleep patterns are monitored by applying sensors to the skin's surface which record brain waves, muscle tone, eye movements, heart rate, breathing patterns, and body movements. This monitoring process is painless, and a technologist is available all night to assure the patient's comfort. Will my insurance cover Sleep Evaluations? Once a primary care physician has referred the patient for a sleep disorders evaluation, overnight sleep testing is a procedure covered by most insurance plans, as well as Medicare. The St. Joseph Hospital Sleep Disorders Center assists patients by verifying their coverage and obtaining any pre-certification or authorization the insurance might require. How long does a sleep evaluation take? Because the evaluation requires that sleep patterns be observed at night, the patient must spend the entire night at the sleep center. Each patient receives one-on-one attention from the technologist. All sleep rooms at the St. Joseph Hospital Sleep Center contain a TV with a VCR, and patients are welcome to watch television or a video they've brought from home. Tests are generally finished by 7:00 a.m. the following morning, but if necessary, special arrangements can be made to complete the study earlier. What should I bring to an evaluation? Patients should bring pajamas, sweats, shorts or any loose-fitting clothing in which to sleep (no nightgowns or underwear only), a bathrobe and slippers. Any toiletry items such as toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, razor, or shampoo may also be included. Patients are instructed to also bring a favorite pillow or blanket they may have. Showers (and towels) are available in the morning if desired. Can I take my usual medications? All medications being taken should first be discussed with a physician before making an appointment for a sleep study. Certain medications, such as sleeping pills, stimulants, anti-histamines and drugs for anxiety and depression can interfere with the test results, and may need to be discontinued prior to the evaluation. However, unless instructed otherwise by a physician, patients should continue to take all their medications on the day and night of the sleep test.


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MacDonald of Kinlochmoidart's Lament (Tune No. 2)
MacDonald of Kinlochmoidart's Lament (Tune No. 2)
Alternative Title
Cumha Tighearna Cheannloch Muideart
Angus MacLellan
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Tunes Index - A-F
The tunes index contains most tunes in the piobaireachd repertoire with links to recordings and manuscript sources where possible and also information about current sources and publications. The interpretations of tunes in the recordings are those of the player.
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