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KOFIC Movie Studio with a Toddler in Korea
Have you ever wanted to just put a single toe over the line at the DMZ? No? Okay, maybe it was just me! Considering I enjoy being alive I wouldn't ever dare do it at the real DMZ. Thanks to the KOFIC Movie Studio in Korea I can get my picture and my life! ;)
After we went ice fishing we stopped at the KOFIC movie studio on the way home. KOFIC is a major motion picture company in Korea. I imagined something similar to Universal Studios in the states but it's not even close. No fancy rides or large scale movie sets. There were two large sets on the grounds that made for fun pictures and areas to explore. I haven't watched as many Korean films as SCS Daddy but I did make time to watch JSA before we moved to Korea. Of course, the JSA set was my favorite.
Parking was plentiful and the grounds were stroller friendly.
Old style Korean village set on the KOFIC grounds.
Inside museum to old Korean motion pictures.
Green screen play area.
Overall I'm not sure it would be worth a special trip just for the studio but since we were in the area it was perfect. Of course if you're like me and enjoy a laugh out load memorable picture, it might just be worth an afternoon.
Hours & Prices:
March- October: 10:00-18:00 (Last entrance at 17:00)
November- February: 10:00-17:00 (Last entrance at 16:00)
Closed every Monday (Except Holidays), Closed on New Year's Day
Adult: 3,000 Won
Student: 2,500 Won
Children: 2,000 Won
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- Stroller Rentals Available at the General Information Office
- Stroller accessible
- Several outdoor areas, dress for the weather.
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- Creatine can help increase muscle density in a number of ways.
- Taken in conjunction with a high-intensity exercise regimen, creatine aids your body in the production of ATP, which increases your energy.
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- ATP is the substance in your body that gives you energy, but it only provides enough for short bursts. Since creatine increases the level of ATP your body produces, it results in more energy. Added energy means you can exercise for a longer period of time, which helps give you the denser muscles you seek.
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012
SDC ~ Squares, squares, squares
I stamped ~{Oh ... Tree}~ directly onto the card blank, then stamped just the hooks of the baubles from ~{Mini Christmas Ornaments Cube}~ and ~{Christmas Ornaments Cube}~ onto the tree using my trusty stamp positioner. I then stamped 3 of the baubles onto card, coloured them with Copics, cut them out and stuck them in place. I also stamped a bird from the ~{Birds and Bugs Cube}~ and tried to turn it into a robin of sorts.
I took 3 square fragments and ran a Copic chisel tip around the edge for a slight border before sticking them in place over the baubles with Glossy Accents. This was a bit tricky as too much GA and you get a nasty mess, so I don't think I put enough on! Oh well! Here's a close up of the squares.
Head on over the the ~{SDC Blog}~ to see what the other designers have come up with and join in the fun. You don't have to use Stampotique stamps and, at the end of the month, there will be a draw to win a $30 Gift Certificate to spend at the ~{Stampotique Store}~.
Kaz xxx
16 comments:
- Coby said...
It's a lovely card, I love that bird and nice work too how you stamped the bals in the tree,
groetjes Coby
- 26 September 2012 at 08:11
- AssiCrafts said...
Fab card! XOXO
- 26 September 2012 at 08:30
- Sue said...
This is beautiful Kaz, it looks so crisp and clean - I love it! x
- 26 September 2012 at 09:08
- R.Maria Sabina(Lollyrot) said...
wonderful as always!
- 26 September 2012 at 09:24
- roc said...
great job!
- 26 September 2012 at 09:24
- Willy said...
Super, Kaz! great take on the challenge!
- 26 September 2012 at 10:57
- Netty said...
Loving your tree with its hanging fragments. x
- 26 September 2012 at 11:46
- tracy said...
very nice kaz-love the 'sort of robin' :)
- 26 September 2012 at 12:10
- Angelnorth said...
Love the use of the fragments, fab card!
- 26 September 2012 at 13:29
- Jo Capper-Sandon said...
Love the cold grey colouring. The fragments work beautifully on the tree Kaz. Fab 'Cro-bin' ;0)
- 26 September 2012 at 14:38
- Happy Days said...
Fab card, love the fragments. Claire x
- 26 September 2012 at 22:00
- Lillibelle said...
What a wonderful crazy tree!
- 27 September 2012 at 13:02
- Jenn said...
LOVE your little glass squares! Great idea!
- 27 September 2012 at 17:19
- Samantha Read said...
Oh Kaz, this is absolutely brilliant!!!x
- 28 September 2012 at 11:49
- Karen said...
oooo I am loving how your balls turned out!!! Really inventive! Fabulous c card xxx
- 29 September 2012 at 13:51
- Basement Stamper said...
Love the use of the baubles as ornaments, just perfect on the tree!
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By holiday here I mostly mean the semi-secular American Thanksgiving and Christmas. Other cultural and religious celebrations at this time of year come with their own food traditions (which I would love to learn!) If you've been making holiday dinners for your family for years, turning out oyster stuffing and decorating your pumpkin pies, this post is not for you. I'm talking to the people whose turkey dinner normally comes on a plastic tray heated in the microwave. If you have inherited The Meal, or you just want to make it yourself, it can be daunting to take on. So many dishes, so much expectation! And on top of everything else we're supposed to make it local and healthy? Here are some ideas to cut that massive project down to size. First, the local healthy thing works in your favor. The great thing about local fresh foods is that they … Continue reading
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This is a Captain Obvious post for experienced gardeners. For me, it's the first time I've ever grown brussels sprouts. I picked a good year to plant brassicas, they've done well this year in our cloudy cool summer, and I got four harvests from the broccoli plants and good heads from the cauliflower. Long after those stalks were on the compost heap though my four brussels sprouts plants kept growing. They've attracted some attention in the neighborhood – "what are those things?" So I thought I'd post a picture for others like me who might not have seen one before. The broccoli and cauliflower grew heads out of the central stalk. I was quite surprised when the brussels sprouts started forming at the juncture of the leaves and the main stalk. Most are still small, although a few are getting big enough to eat. It seems I'm going to get a … Continue reading


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Sunday, August 31, 2014
The owls came to us and I did not know how much they were going to rip me out of my life. Their gold eyes held the colors of the sunset, the colors thrown on you in that truck. The colors reflected in the blue of your eyes as you looked at me. We were both ready to change and as I embraced you, I knew I could not return to the way things were ever again. Now I have left you and the memory of those cold days we found each other in the winter landscape. I wonder what will happen when the snow comes again? Will the owls return to make me face myself yet again and die the death they promise? Or will the fields be empty of them? I know I will look for them as I will look for you and your white truck. I will scan the horizon for the falling sun and remember the taste of your mouth. I will always mourn that life could not make us a pair the way I wanted to be. Goodbye is the tragedy of time. In a world that marches ever forward I can't manage to stop the pace, I can't manage to go back to that first kiss. The one that opened me like a door to all the worlds I was missing. So today is empty of you and tomorrow will be as well. You may never understand why I had to take care of my own business first, because I didn't then. I had to close all the doors before I could truly let you in. I needed to know I was doing this for myself and not for you. I could never expect you to understand why or wait for me. You have waited long enough, as I have. Lifetimes, centuries, years, minutes, hours. We had it once while those gold eyes watched us. We had something people search for their entire lives and never find. Maybe there will be owls come winter and they will greet me in the empty fields. Maybe I will see your white truck sitting on the side of the road watching them too and remembering us.
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There are more than 7.7 million domestic dogs in Vietnam but just 41 per cent of them are vaccinated.
Workers from Animal Health Division in northern province of Bac Giang vaccinate dogs yesterday as part of activities to mark the World Rabies Day.
Meanwhile, the number of human deaths from dog-transmitted rabies in the country has increased in the last two years, said Đàm Xuân Thành, Deputy Head of the Animal Health Department under the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry.
Speaking at a meeting held in the northern Bắc Giang province on Wednesday to mark World Rabies Day, which falls on September 28, Thành said that rabies might increase again in Vietnam =.
Last year, 91 people died of rabies — 17 per cent higher than 2015 and 38 per cent higher than 2014. In the first nine months of this year, 57 people, mostly from the northern provinces, died of rabies.
The Head of the Animal Health Department, Dang Quang Tuan, said that ineffective disease prevention, low rate of vaccination on dogs and humans contributed to the increased number of deaths.
Doctor Nguyen Trung Cap, Head of the Emergency Department under the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said that every year, the hospital receives about ten rabies patients who are bitten by infected dogs, but refused to get vaccinated.
Instead, the patients consult quacks for "secret remedies" and to find out whether the dogs were infected with rabies or not, Cap said.
He added that in cases when patients relied on quacks, they were usually hospitalised too late and could not survive.
According to the Agriculture Ministry, Việt Nam has launched a national programme on rabies prevention and control for 2017 to 2021.
The Agriculture Ministry and the Health Ministry will continue implementing the programme. They have also called for better public awareness and involvement to increase vaccination rates.
World Rabies Day, which is observed on September 28, also marks the death anniversary of Louis Pasteur — the French chemist and microbiologist who developed the first rabies vaccine. This year, the theme is "Zero Human Deaths from Dog-transmitted Rabies by 2030."
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The selection of a good rod and line combination can be challenging. I commonly get requests from clients to check their rod and line combination and help them out with proper set up. With the increasing variety of rods and lines on the market, rod and line selection is becoming even trickier. I am going to go over a variety of rods and lines in this article and review possible combinations and their potential use.
Let's first have a look at rods… The good news is that rods are getting better and better over the years. Many mid-range rods today will out-perform high-end rods from 10 years ago. The bad news is that there are so many to choose from that deciding on the right rod is becoming a bit over whelming. In order to narrow things down let's categorize rods into groups.
We can qualify a rod as "fast" or "slow" actioned. The speed of a rod is determined by two main aspects; it's taper and the material it's made of. The stronger the taper, the "stiffer" the rod will feel. Very mild tapers, or even regressed tapers will cause the rod to bend further down into the bottom end of the rod, and thus slowing it down and making it feel "softer". Rods that are built with a mild taper, or regressed taper, are often labeled as "full flex" or "parabolic action" rods. In order to give these type of rods sufficient speed, higher quality, "faster", graphite will need to be used. For most rods a "progressive" taper will generally work best. This means that when you load the rod lightly the relatively soft tip will be able to bend and propel the line. As more line is let out, the rod bends further down towards the but section. "Full flex" rods bend towards the butt earlier in the cast. This type of rod lends itself more for slower casting styles, Skagit style casting, and water born casts. The speed of the line and rod of this type is slower. In order to fully load this type of rod, a slightly heavier line is normally used.
Burkheimer rods are a good example of a typical north american style rod.
On the other end of the spectrum are the much faster, progressive action, Scandinavian style rods. Not only Scandinavian rods have fast, progressive actions, but in order to keep things simple we will use these rods as a typical example of this style of rod. This type of rod will bend less deep when loaded. This makes them faster, and makes the effective length that acts as a lever for the cast longer. Generally this type of action lends itself better for relatively lighter loading, faster, airborne, casts. The typical Scandinavian single spey style cast is a good example. Longer lines are also easier to manage with this type of rod, due to the longer effective lever for lifting long bellies.
The Guideline LXi 12'9″ #7 is a good example of a typical scandinavian fast actioned rod.
There are strong proponents of either type of casting style and accompanying rods and lines. Each have their benefits and disadvantages. Generally I feel that the slower actioned rods for Skagit style casting have a smaller range of application than the faster, progressive actioned, scandinavian style rods. When I fish I often use both airborne and waterborne casts in order to adapt to varying conditions. Slow rods, that are fitted with a heavy Skagit head are not very forgiving for airborne casts. Progressive tapered, fast rods, on the other hand can handle waterborne casts just fine. So, for all-round use I prefer a fast rod, with a progressive taper.
At this point, let's have a look at lines. These days there are a great variety of lines to choose from. The most popular style of line is the Skagit line. This is a shooting head that is rather short and has short tapers so that it loads up the rod quick and turns over heavy sink tips. For waterborne casts this is useful. The heavy head will pull the sink tip out of the water with little effort. Another benefit of the Skagit head is that it is easy to cast. It loads a rod very easy and is short. Skagit lines will enable beginning casters to be able to cover water that would not be easily covered with other types of lines. Paradoxically the Skagit head can also be a disadvantage for casters who are trying to improve their skills. The Skagit lines are so forgiving for casting errors that it is easy to adopt poor casting technique and create bad habits. From a practical fishing point the Skagit head also limits itself to the use of waterborne casts. It is not to say that airborne casts cannot be done with a Skagit head, but they are very awkward to execute compared to lines that have longer tapers, such as mid belly lines and Scandi heads.
A classic Skagit shooting head: Airflo's Skagit Compact.
The next line in order of popularity is the Scandi head. The key difference with a Skagit head is that the tapers on these shooting heads are longer. That creates a shooting head that is more stable in the air. Tighter loops and greater speeds can be generated. The longer front tapers also make airborne or "touch-and-go" casts easier to execute. Generally the are much lighter than Skagit heads. They are not as good at lifting heavy sink tips out of the water and turning over very big flies, as Skagit heads are.
A classic Scandi shooting head: Guidline's Scandi
The last category of lines are mid- and long-belly lines. These lines are much longer. They require good casting skills because longer lengths of fly line have to be dealt with. Since less line has to be stripped back into the guides, these lines are useful for covering big water. They do not handle sink tips well, and are mostly used in full floating versions.
A classic mid-belly spey line: Airflo's Delta Spey
Here is an image that shows the basic makeup of long belly, skagit and scandi lines.
Now that we had a look at the types of rods and lines that are available, let's have a look at how we can best combine these. Skagit heads work well with both fast, progressive tapered rods and slower, full flexed rods. Scandi style shooting heads work better with fast rods. The speed and leverage that is needed for airborne cast is easier to achieve with fast, progressive rods, than it is with slower rods. Mid- and long-belly lines work better with progressive tapered rods and also need longer rods.
Of course these are generalities; there are many exceptions to this categorization. For example, there are some good rods for mid- and long-belly lines that have a full flex action. The increased flex is compensated for by the use of very fast graphite and thicker walls near the butt section. There are other exceptions but in general the above is a good guideline to start from.
So, for fishing, what are the "best" rods? If I would have to choose only one rod, I would choose a fast actioned, progressive tapered rod. It will handle all line types well, and more importantly, both airborne and waterborne casts.
We have not discussed the length of the rod yet. The longer the rod, the longer the line it can handle. However, if the rod to line ratio is too big there will be a tendency to lift the anchor on the cast. Short Skagit and Scandi heads usually work well with a rod between 12′ and 13′. Long Scandi heads work well with rods between 13′ and 13'9″. Mid- and long belly lines work well with rods between 14′ and 15′. Again, this is a broad generalization and there are many exceptions. But it is a good starting point.
The other thing that we have not discussed yet is the line weight rating of the rod. For steelhead the most common rod line weight rating is a #8 rod. This is a good all-round rod. For smaller rivers and smaller fish a #7 is good. For big rivers and long lines a #9 is nice. One thing that causes much confusion is how different manufacturers rate their rods. You will see that a european rod for Scandi style casting can be labeled as a #8 rod, but the actual line weight that is recommended by the manufacturer will be much lighter than a north american #8 rod designed for Skagit style casting. A good rule of thumb is this: for beginning casters and Skagit style casting, stick with the line weight recommendation of the North American, Skagit style rods, and go one line weight up for the European style rods. For intermediate and advanced casters and Skagit style casting, go one line weight down for North American, Skagit style rods and stick with the line weight recommendation of the European style rods. For beginning casters and Scandi style casting, stick with the line recommendation of North American rod manufacturers, and go one line up for the European rod manufacturers. For intermediate and advanced casters and Scandi style casting, go one line weight down for North American rod manufacturers, and stick to the recommendation of the European manufacturers.
To end this very simplified review of rods and lines let me make it even simpler and recommend some rod and line combinations that I like. It may help you to figure out a good starting point.
– My "bread and butter" rod and line combination is an fast actioned, progressive tapered rod, in the #8 line class rating. The length can be roughly between 12'6″ and 13'9″. I rig that rod up with a Scandi shooting head. The Scandi line that I prefer is a DDC Connect multi-tip shooting head from Guideline. I like it because it is a line with a relatively short front taper. I often refer to it as a "robust" Scandi head. It handles wind and heavier tips and flies very well, yet performs airborne casts nicely. I use the floating head and combine the head with a variety of 15′-18′ tips, up to type 8 or T11.
An example of a good "all-round" rod; Guideline LXi 8/9 13'9″
– I will often fish with 3 rods rigged up. The above rod will be the rod I use the most. For a second rod I will have a Skagit head with a heavy tip, usually T14 in either 15′ or 18′. The rod I use for that line is also a fast actioned rod in the same line class and length. Sometimes I will use one of my older North American, full flex, style rods, in which case I underline those rods by one line class.
A fish caught on a classic Skagit setup; Burkheimer #8 13'4″ with Guideline 500 grain Skagit head and 15′ of T14
– For the third rod I will often have a dry line rigged up. Or a floating head with a light tip. Again I use a DDC connect for that line, with the floating tip and a very long tapered leader of about 18 – 20′ and a dry fly. I use that line on a 12'9″ #7 rod.
A fish caught on a DDC connect with a light sink tip.
For more advanced casters who are looking for something more specific here are a couple of considerations:
– With rod materials getting better all the time, it is now possible to fish quite light short rods that still will handle long distances. One rod that I fish extensively is a 11'6″ #8 Switch rod. I use it mostly with short Scandi heads, like the new 4D lines from Guideline. This is a very versatile rig that fishes very well.
A small hen caught on a Guideline LXi Switch rod (11'6″ #8) and a Guideline PT shooting head (scandi).
– For intermediate casters who want to improve their casting skills I suggest to utilize airborne casts and longer lines more often. This will force you to be more exact with your casting technique. I nice rig for this is a long belly line with a fast actioned rod around 14′.
I hope this helps with the daunting process of rod and line selection. Keep in mind that rod and line combinations are something personal, and will vary greatly from angler to angler. Also remember that this article uses strong generalizations. There are so many rods and lines out there that it is impossible to review the full spectrum in detail. If you have a chance to try out a rod and line combination do it, and don't be afraid to experiment with a variety of lines and rods.
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Chennai, January 11, 2017 - Aspiring Minds, India's leading employability & assessment solutions firm, held the National Employability Conclave (NEC) today at The Feathers Hotel, Chennai. NEC is a premium industry platform that brings together training and placement officers (TPO's), chairmen, directors of premier academic institutions and industry HR leaders, to nurture best practices and bring in practical solutions towards increasing employability in India.
The Chennai chapter of NEC saw industry leaders from global MNCs as well as start-up companies discussing what right talent means and what they seek from colleges and vice versa. The guest speakers also discussed how best to enhance employability of engineering graduates in an ever-changing work environment.
This year's NEC was attended by HR industry leaders and members of the TPO community including Viswanathan Venkat, Head - Engineering hiring, Wipro, Rekha Mathews, Head - India Campus Relationships, UST Global, Krithivasan S, Lead-India Campus Hiring, VirtusaPolaris, Mastan Vali Shaik, Technical Head, CaddyCode Solutions, Annesly Carvalho, Associate General Manager - HR, Kaar Technologies, and Senthil Kumar, Sr. Manager, American Megatrends. Leading discussion surrounded around shaping talent pool in line with organizational requirements and bridge the gap between increasing demand and limited supply of right employees. The speakers emphasized on the need for automation and use of scientific methods to enhance graduate employability.
Career Guru Awards were also given at the event to recognize the outstanding efforts and constant contribution of Training and Placement Officers towards fulfilling the placement aspirations of their students and contributing to build the Indian Growth Story. The award winners were:
NEC 2016-17 is scheduled to be held in two more cities. It kick stared the year in Bangalore on February 24th, 2016 followed by Pune, Vijayawada and Kolkata. The next one is scheduled to be be held in New Delhi (January 19th), followed by Hyderabad on February 10th, 2017
This year, there is an increasing focus on honing talent through technology interface. Commenting on the same Mr. Himanshu Aggarwal, CEO, Aspiring Minds said, "Our initiative through the The National Employability Conclave is to bring industry and academia under one roof to discuss and find solutions to the employability issues. It gives us immense pleasure to conduct the conclave so successfully in Chennai."
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A Los Angeles County woman has become the first local person to acquire the Zika virus through sexual contact after her partner returned from Mexico, public health officials announced Thursday.
Her partner, a male resident, traveled to Mexico and developed symptomatic Zika infection in early November, health officials said. She didn't travel with him but developed the Zika infection after he returned to Los Angeles, public health officials added in a statement. The woman is one of nine statewide that contracted the virus through sex since 2015, state health officials said Thursday.
Since 2015, there have been 122 cases of Zika infection reported in Los Angeles County. Of those, 121 people acquired the virus from the bite of an infected mosquito during travel to areas where Zika is occurring.
Urgent concern about the Zika virus began to increase in 2015 and 2016 as news spread about the disease's affect on newborn babies in Brazil. Federal and state health departments issued travel warnings to Latin American countries and the Caribbean where mosquitoes carrying the virus had been found. In California, there have been 634 cases since 2015 according to the most recent data from state officials. Almost all has been contracted through travel.
Only about 18 percent of those were from 2017, showing a decrease in the number of people who are contracting the disease while traveling, according to state data.
There have been no locally, mosquito acquired Zika infection cases is California to date, state officials said, but an education effort is underway, including a video, to continue to warn travelers how to prevent being bitten by mosquitoes when in countries that are most affected.
While the travel warnings, the number of people who contract the virus and urgency have waned in California and nationwide, public health officials still caution that Zika is present in other countries.
"Although Zika cases are decreasing regionally, transmission continues to occur in Mexico, Latin America, and other areas," health officials said in an advisory to health providers. "Providers should continue to review mosquito bite prevention measures and safe sexual practices with persons traveling to areas with Zika as well as recommend that pregnant women and those planning to become pregnant delay non-essential travel to areas with active Zika transmission."
RELATED STORY: LA County leaders to launch new campaign to warn residents about mosquitoes
While the mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus have been spotted throughout Los Angeles County, there have been no cases of the disease transmitted by local mosquitoes.
"This case is a reminder to take precautions during sex or avoid sex if you or your partner have traveled to an area with risk of Zika," said Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, interim Health Officer for Los Angeles County. "Sexual transmission of Zika can occur with or without symptoms. Given the risk for birth defects, the greatest concern is transmission of the virus to women who are pregnant or attempting to become pregnant."
Zika is spread primarily through the bite of the black-and-white-striped Aedes mosquito, but the virus also can be passed through sex, health officials said.
Also, babies born to mothers who are infected have a greater chance of having birth defects. Nine infected women in California gave birth to two babies with microcephaly, a condition in which a child's head is significantly smaller than normal.
Some symptoms of the Zika virus include acute onset of fever, a flat red rash and joint pain. Although death is rare, one in five people infected can become very ill, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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The road to opening day 2018 began for several teams across Major League Soccer on Monday morning, either kicking off preseason workouts or traveling to a warmer locale for the same.
Here's a rundown of who's getting started and what they're up to.
Atlanta United
The Five Stripes are aiming even higher after a remarkable debut season in MLS, and gathered at their home base in Marietta, Georgia to begin preseason on Monday.
Reunited and it feels so good 😄 pic.twitter.com/KfHLFnOkGz— Atlanta United FC (@ATLUTD) January 22, 2018
Atlanta will remain at home for the week before departing for the first phase of their preseason in Orlando on Jan. 29.
Chicago Fire
The Fire are getting their preseason underway with media day in Chicago and will begin their work on the field on Tuesday.
Tomorrow: ⚽⚽— Chicago Fire (@ChicagoFire) January 22, 2018
Today: 📸 😁 🎥#cf97 pic.twitter.com/RacjVmiUKh
Colorado Rapids
The Rapids reported on Monday to Dick's Sporting Goods Park, where they will undergo physical and medical testing before traveling to Casa Grande Arizona from Jan. 24-Feb. 3, with scrimmages scheduled against Columbus Crew SC (Jan. 31) and Sporting KC (Feb. 3).
Columbus Crew SC
Columbus will begin training on Jan. 24 at their home base in Ohio before heading to Casa Grande, Arizona on Jan. 26, and then on to Hawaii for the Pacific Rim Cup on Feb. 6.
D.C. United
The Black-and-Red are gathering at RFK Stadium – which remains their training ground and headquarters until a proposed new facility is built in Loudoun County in Washington's Northern Virginia suburbs in future years – to kick off preseason work on Monday. United will work out in their home surroundings this week before departing for Clearwater, Fla., on Sunday, where they will train leading up to their first scrimmage of the preseason, vs. Malmo FF at the IMG Academy on Feb. 8.
And we back.— D.C. United (@dcunited) January 22, 2018
Head to the #DCU Instagram Story to see the guys arrive for Report Day! pic.twitter.com/Votn8fyIFk
FC Dallas
FCD kick off their preseason at their Toyota Stadium home on Monday, with morning activities followed by an afternoon training session. Their first competitive event of the preseason comes on Feb. 3, when they'll visit lower-division side Chattanooga FC in Tennessee.
Preseason kicks off early tomorrow morning ⏰. Anxiously awaiting to hit the ground running this year. Going to be tough to sleep tonight. #FCDallas #Preseason #HardWork #LetsGo ⚽⚽⚽ pic.twitter.com/sR5sqkGrmO— Jimmy (@JimsMaurer) January 22, 2018
Houston Dynamo
The Dynamo, fresh off a run to the Western Conference Championship in 2017, reported back to Houston on Monday, which was well-documented on the team's website.
🔙🔙🔙🔙🔙 #ForeverOrange pic.twitter.com/uA31aNT5S4— Houston Dynamo (@HoustonDynamo) January 22, 2018
The hotly-anticipated expansion side holds the first training session in its history mid-morning Pacific time on Monday, a closed practice on UCLA's campus, which will serve as LAFC's home field throughout the preseason before the team moves into its permanent training home at Cal State LA. They'll meet Toronto FC, NYCFC, Vancouver and USL side Sacramento Republic over the next month.
LA Galaxy
After revealing some fresh threads for the new campaign, the Galaxy began their on-field preparations on Monday at the StubHub Center. The Galaxy's first preseason game is on Feb. 3 in Tucson, Arizona against Real Salt Lake.
It's a work day.https://t.co/EKnAY3vlsB #LAGalaxy pic.twitter.com/NgMrCORGe0— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) January 22, 2018
Minnesota United
The Loons began a snowy preseason indoors on Monday, with new arrivals Matt Lampson, Tyrone Mears, Harrison Heath, Xavier Gomez and Carter Manley (the latter two were SuperDraft selections) all working out for their new team.
(some of) the new fellas#MNUFC pic.twitter.com/P6nMRcDEhP— Minnesota United FC (@MNUFC) January 22, 2018
Montreal Impact
The Impact have been busy this offseason, and took Monday to introduce a slew of new signings. Chief among them was freshly-minted Designated Player Saphir Taïder, but Zakaria Diallo, Raheem Edwards, Jeisson Vargas, Jukka Raitala, Clement Diop and Michael Petrasso were also among those welcomed to the City of Saints.
5 🇫🇷🇸🇳— Impact de Montréal (@impactmontreal) January 22, 2018
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New England Revolution
While crews were still cleaning up the confetti from the Patriots' AFC Championship celebrations, the Revolution arrived in Foxborough on Monday to start their entrance physicals.
Catching up with #NERevs friends before entrance physicals 🤝 pic.twitter.com/clki5Fq8Nq— New England Revolution (@NERevolution) January 22, 2018
They'll head to Brandenton, Florida in the coming days ahead of three friendlies in the Sunshine State, including bouts with Swedish champs Malmo and USL's FC Cincinnati.
New York City FC
The Blue side of the Big Apple is flying south to Jacksonville, Florida on Monday morning. They'll train daily and play one scrimmage in the Sunshine State, a closed-door meeting with Jacksonville University on Jan. 31, before continuing preseason in California next month.
Let's go to Jacksonville ✈ Pre season is starting 🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/uHeuoI37k6— Maxime Chanot (@MaximeChanot) January 22, 2018
New York Red Bulls
RBNY also gathered their squad and jetted from New Jersey to Florida on Monday, where they will work out at the Oldsmar Sports Complex near Tampa, for the next two weeks. Scheduled scrimmages include a meeting with the University of South Florida (Jan. 27), the New England Revolution (Jan. 31) and the Philadelphia Union (Feb. 3).
Orlando City SC
While Cyle Larin's status remains up in the air, there were plenty of new faces to be found in the Lions' camp as it kicked off on Monday, perhaps none more notable than new Young DP Josue Colman and recently-acquired playmaker Sacha Kljestan. You can check the behind-the-scenes of Orlando players getting their physicals below, or hear from Colman, Dom Dwyer, and head coach Jason Kreis in their first media availabilities of the year.
Philadelphia Union
After welcoming big-money signing David Accam to Philadelphia on Sunday, the Union got things underway on Monday. They'll head to Clearwater, Florida for preseason, with their first game against the New York Red Bulls set for Feb. 3. In the meantime, you can check out head coach Jim Curtin's thoughts on the upcoming season:
Portland Timbers
The Timbers will undergo physicals before beginning preseason training on Tuesday in Tucson, Arizona. In the meantime, new head coach Giovanni Savarese met with media at Providence Park to talk about the start of preseason and the roster-building task that lies ahead.
Real Salt Lake
RSL kicked off season preparations on Monday in Utah. They'll head to Tucson, Arizona for the first phase of preseason camp, with their first friendly set for Feb. 3
Today's the day. 🙌 pic.twitter.com/gZkjmoKeC7— Real Salt Lake (@RealSaltLake) January 22, 2018
San Jose Earthquakes
The Quakes officially kick off preseason this week, but many members of the squad have already gathered in NorCal for informal workouts:
The team's first formal event of preseason takes place on Saturday, when they'll host season ticket-holders at an open training session featuring "the Black and Blue Scrimmage" on Saturday at Avaya Stadium.
Seattle Sounders
The Sounders got preseason underway at the Starfire Sports training facility, and there was a sizable media turnout. Among those experiencing their very first preseason was new draft pick Alex Roldan, younger brother of Cristian:
First day as a pro ✅@Alex_Roldan8 is ready for 2018! pic.twitter.com/v0o3kz9zff— Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC) January 22, 2018
Sporting KC
Though preseason did not get underway until Monday, SKC head coach Peter Vermes and his squad met with local media on Saturday at Children's Mercy Park. They'll kick off preseason action in Arizona on Jan. 27 with a scrimmage against a group of Phoenix Rising FC trialists. In the meantime, you can catch Vermes' remarks to the media below:
Toronto FC
The defending champs are back for more, and they kicked things off with a media day at the newly re-named BMO Training Ground, where a hold host of players and coaches spoke. Among the highlights was star man Sebastian Giovinco:
Vancouver Whitecaps
Whitecaps players reported for preseason on Monday at the National Soccer Development Centre in Vancouver with a total of 27 players in tow, including newcomers Anthony Blondell, Efrain Juarez and Kei Kamara. The group was bolstered by the presence of two training camp invitees – Canadian international defender David Edgar and Trinidadian youngster Isaiah Hudson – while defender Tim Parker (US national team), as well as Marco Bustos, Deybi Flores and Spencer Richey (on loan) were not present. The 'Caps will train in Vancouver until Jan. 31, then head to Hawaii for the Pacific Rim Cup.


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Photography After Painting: On Three Photographs by Assaf Evron / Ariel Krill
Clement Greenberg described painting's modernist project as "a progressive surrender to the resistance of its medium; … resistance [which] consists chiefly in the flat picture plane's denial of efforts to 'hole through' it for realistic perspectival space."*1* Greenberg, of course, was articulating painting's gradual departure from its earlier aspiration to create an illusion, one that attempted to fashion the canvas as a window onto the world. And even though the critic did not credit the invention of photography as one of the historical factors for abandoning this aspiration, many others did and still do*2*. These voices argue that since photography, due to its very technique, has no choice but "to hole through a realistic perspectival space" in the flat plane of the photographic paper, it liberated painting from the need, or the desire, to do so. However, whether we accept this position or not, it is clear that the photographic plane is as flat as the pictorial plane. In this respect, the difference between the two lies merely in the fact that while painting overcomes its flatness through human effort, photography does so through an allegedly automatic process: the craft of the painter is replaced by the physical and chemical interaction between light, the photographic film, and the development and printing materials. Ultimately, however, both illusions are the same: whether it is a painted canvas or a photographic print, the flat plane is perceived as three-dimensional perspectival space. Thus, the question remains: Is photography capable of overcoming this illusion despite the very mechanicity by which it is produced? Can photography – like painting – express its own essential flatness? Three works by Assaf Evron, displayed in his solo exhibition "Near and Apparent"*3*, not only suggest that this possibility exists but that it can generate a particularly potent viewing experience.
Three photographs: squared, 80x80 cm, untitled and unframed. The dominant color is beige – the color of Israeli concrete, the tone of the "Want of Matter" school of Israeli art. At the center of one of the images appears a diagonal cut surrounded by a series of punctures – seemingly, one of Lucio Fontana's less-restrained Concetto Spaziale paintings. Another photograph is dominated by a black-grayish horizontal smear crossed by vertical lines of similar color in regular intervals – a composition that brings to mind Gerhard Richter's abstract paintings. And, finally, the upper part of the third square is covered by an irregular stain of a purple-beige tone, dripping onto the light beige surface below it on which a form resembling the Arabic letter wāw or the number 9 is found. This image evokes the abstract expressionism of Antoni Tàpies, or even that of Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline minus their typical black-and-white contrast.
This list of painters demonstrates the unique quality of Evron's three photographs: namely, the fact that they gain their power from a particular painterly aesthetic. All three could easily belong to the tradition of "abstract expressionism," "action paintings," or "Want of Matter" − if only they were made of paint applied onto canvas or plywood rather than light bouncing from a wall and then registered, by a camera, on photographic film. Indeed, the three photographs depict forms that resemble "brush strokes … defined for their own sake" – a quality that, according to Greenberg, typifies modernist painting*4*. And, indeed, the faded color of the concrete wall resembles those elements in the Israeli landscape characterizing "Want of Matter" aesthetics, as articulated by Sarah Breitberg-Semel in the seminal article that gave this movement its name*5*. Yet, above all of these, Evron's photographs gain their power from their flatness, from the fact that they do not position their viewer in front of a "perspectival space."
The majority of Evron's photographs depict vertical planes – walls, cliffs, greenhouse netting, tree trunks, barrels – photographed from close-up and from a straight, frontal angle. The three works considered here are no exception. Yet they stand out from the rest because their subject matter – a wall into which a car has collided – is not contained within the limits of the image but rather exceeds it. There is no element in the photograph that functions as background and that can provide us with a point of reference for what appears in the foreground, as occurs in many of Evron's photographs: no sky above the cliff, no vegetation behind the netting, no desert landscape peeking from between the barrels. Rather, the whole image is mere foreground: the three-dimensional, "perspectival-realistic" space disappears; the vertical surface of the wall and the picture plane are, as it were, "stuck" together.
The result is that at first glance the nature of the depicted object – namely, the wall – is unclear to the viewer, causing the three photographs to resemble the paintings of the aforementioned artists. However, in time, one realizes that this is not the case: the longer one observes these photographs, traces of the wall and the car that crashed into it are revealed. Nevertheless, the fact that the wall does not present itself to the viewer in its three-dimensionality but as "adjacent" to the photographic paper continuously reverts the gaze back to the picture plane itself. Thus, the singular quality of these photographs is found in the infinite movement they initiate in the spectator's gaze: an oscillation between the wall and the photographic paper, between photography as a representation of reality and photography as art for its own sake.
In these three works, Evron harnesses the illusion that the photographic paper is a window onto reality in order to express the inherent flatness typifying the photographic medium, thus challenging this very illusion. Is the photographic paper "transparent" and the abstract, expressive forms carved onto the wall? Or are these forms situated on the paper itself, the wall functioning merely as the technical tool – the "brush" – used for their creation? The absence of a clear answer summarizes the unique experience that these three photographs provoke.
By channeling the documentary aspect of photography, which is intrinsic to its mechanics, to the creation of images that gain their power from the aesthetic of abstract (and, thus, non-representational) painting, the three photographs supply us with a refreshing view on two of the most important artistic phenomena of the past 150 years: the invention of photography and abstract art. On the one hand, these photographs demonstrate just how much abstract painting has changed our perception of the world. For it seems that without the abandonment of the quest to represent reality, the traces that one unfortunate car left on one anonymous wall would not have generated such a strong viewing experience. On the other hand, if it were not for Evron's decision to present these traces in such a specific manner – "attached", as it were, to the photographic paper – these traces would be categorized as no more than humorous, anecdotal gestures. However, this is definitely not the case. The power of the photographs lies in their ability to go beyond Roland Barthes's "that-has-been" – the dictum by which he summarized photography's viewing experience*6* – thus lifting the documentary bars behind which photography has been captivated for too long. They do not simply document the traces of an event, they are not merely a window onto reality. As far as the experience that these images evoke is concerned, their appreciation is no longer a question of subjugating them to a reality that is external to them. Rather, they pose the question of whether it is not the opposite that is the case – of whether reality, far from the being the end to which these photographs are a means, is not actually the brush and the paint through which they were conceived.
*1*Clement Greenebrg, "Towards a Newer Laocoon" in Charles Harison and Paul Wood (eds.), Art in Theory: An Anthology of Changing ideas, (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell, 1992), 558.
*2*One recent example, among many others is Barry Schwabsky, "Sheer Sensation: Photographically-based Painting and Modernism," in Ralph Rugoff, The painting of Modern Life: 1960s to Now (London : Hayward Publishing, 2007), 26−31.
*3*Heder Gallery, Tel Aviv, 22 December 2007 – 26 January 2008.
*4*Clement Greenebrg, "Towards a Newer Laocoon", 558.
*5*Sarah Breitberg-Semel, The Want of Matter as a Quality of Israeli Art (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1986).
*6*As articulated in Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, (New York: Hill and Wang, 1981).
English translation: Alma Mikulinsky


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I love lists, I love crossing things off, I love to be productive and I love to accomplish new tasks. I've seen several bloggers do this and have decided that I should give it a go. I think this will hopefully push me into trying new things and experimenting and accomplishing some great goals in 1001 days. It's a great combination between a bucket list and a to-do list, with just over 2-¾ years (or 2.75 years) to finish it all. This was started by Mackenzie Horan from Design Darling (Check Out Here Second List).
Date Started: Wednesday, June, 7th, 2017
Date Ended: March 4th, 2020
Travel & Adventure:
1.Visit a European Country
2.Visit New York City
3.See a Broadway Musical
4.Take a Trip Alone
5.Visit Canada
Vacation on an Island (7/11/17, Kona, Hawai'i's Big Island)
7.Travel for a Blog/YouTube Collaboration
8.Visit my Family in Arizona
9.Visit Mackinac Island
10.Tour the White House
11.Explore Washington D.C.
12.Road Trip Around the Country
13.Try Sprinkles or Georgetown Cupcake
14.Visit Martha's Vineyard
15.Go to Disneyland, CA
16.Take a Helicopter Ride
17.Explore Texas
Have my First Legal Drink (2/3/2018)
Get an Awesome Internship (Summer 2018)
20.Graduate College
21.Own my Own Downtown Apartment/ Loft
22.Purchase my First Car
23.Decorate a Killer Apartment
24.Get a Sweet Job
Meet Another Fellow Blogger/Vlogger (11/21/2017, I met Sarah)
26.Go VEGAN for a Month
27.Create my own Business Card
28.Go Gluten-Free for a Month
29.Go to a Pittsburgh Steelers Game
Visit a Museum in Downtown Pittsburgh (3/31/2018, Heinz History Museum)
31.Run a Half Marathon
32.Send a Care Package to my Sister at College
33.Do 3 DIY Projects (2/3, Reindeer Mason Jars, Hot Chocolate Ordainments)
34.Learn Calligraphy
35.Start my own Vlogging YouTube Channel
36.Learn Final Cut Pro
37.Get 200+ Views on One Video
38.Create a Gallery Wall
39.Grow a Succulent Garden
40.Get Hired to Bake for 5 Clients
41.Bake Macaroons
42.Make a Fresh Berry Cobbler
43.Learn how to Frost Cupcakes
44.Take a Baking Class
45.Make Ice Cream
46.Make a Fancy Pinterest Recipe
47.Frost Adorable Sugar Cookies
48.Bake a Multilayer Cake
49.Learn how to use Fondant
50.Reach 500+ Followers on the Blog
51.Reach 1,000 Page Views in One Day
52.Create my Own Domain Name
Write a Collaboration Post with another Blogger (8/11/2017, How to Style Chacos with The Mountains are Calling)
54.Hire a Photographer for a Post
55.Switch to WordPress.org
56.Attend A Blogging Conference
57.Post 10 Outfit posts
Host a Giveaway (8/18/2017)
Write 200 Posts (5/10/2018)
60.Write a Sponsored Post
61.Add 4 Recipes / Food Related Posts to the Blog (1/4, Reindeer Chow)
62.Reach 1000 Followers on Instagram
63.Reach 500 Like on one Instagram Photo
64.Photograph my First Wedding
65.Book my First Client
Upgrade my DSLR (12/25/2017)
Buy a Fancy Camera Lens (12/25/2017)
68.Learn Photoshop/Lightroom
69.Buy a Polaroid Camera
70.Purchase a Drone
71.Own a Mac
72.Open my Own Photography Business
73.Reach 1,000 Followers on Instagram
Just For Fun
74.Attend A Paint Party
75.Go Horseback Riding
76.Do Hot Yoga 10x (1/10)
77.Try Stand-Up Paddle Boarding
78.Do a Juice Cleanse
79.Go to a Festival
Have a Movie Marathon (9/23/2017, We Watched Pocahontas, Pocahontas II, Beauty and the Beast, and Finding Dory)
Journal Everyday for 3 Months
82.Try a New Fitness Class
83.Treat my Parents to Dinner
Go One Week without using Heat on my Hair (7/11/2017, I went around 10 days)
Stop Drinking Coffee for a Week (7/11/2017, no heat and no coffee for 10 days)
86.Get a Henna Tattoo
87.Give Golfing another Go
Win a Giveaway (1/22/2019, Baker Babe Cookie Co.)
89.Attend a Gala and Wear a Long Dress
90.Leave a 100% Tip for Good Service
91.Run a Disney Marathon
92.Spend a Holiday with Someone
93.Build a Makeup Collection
Read 20 Books (20/20), The Lucky One, Nineteen Minutes, Firefly Lane, Chasing Harry Winston, The Longest Ride, So Much Closer, Secrets, Dreamers and Deceivers, FML, Al Capone Does My Shirts, A Pinch of Love, Descent, Small Great Things, All of Nothing at All, Brain on Fire, The Best Kind of People, The Family Man, What Made Maddy Run, See Me, Leaving Time)
95.Attend 4 Concerts
96.Make Someone Dinner
Go Berry Picking (7/28/2018, picked blueberries & blackberries)
98.Throw a Holiday Party
Make 10 Recipes on Pinterest (10/10 Sweet Corn Zucchini Pie, Cinnamon Pecan Roasted Butternut Squash, Quinoa Taco Bowls, Spinach and Artichoke Dip, Spinach and Artichoke Pastry Braid, Avocado Fries, Honey Brown Sugar Carrots, Pressure Cooker Mac & Cheese, Blueberry Mojito, Watermelon Frosé)
100.Kiss Someone Under the Mistletoe
101.Make homemade Ravioli
Total Completed 17/101 ~ Updated February 15, 2019
You can read my one year update on my progress and the stories behind how I accomplished some of my hundred and one goals this past year.
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"No price is set on the lavish summer/ June may be had by the poorest comer."
― James Russell Lowell
The weather has finally turned, if not especially dry, into something June-like. Aside from today and Monday, the rain has mostly come in fierce summer thunderstorms and the days in between are hot enough that the ground gets a little workable. Those dry days are muggy, thickly hot and humid, but we are relishing them and trying to get caught up. The strawberry season, delicious though it is, was a short-lived one this year, and we're not as sad to see it go as you all probably are. Two days a week, full of nothing but picking and picking, were making it hard to take advantage of the few dry days we've had. Now the forecasters are calling for clear skies and hot days on to the beginning of summer, so the farm crew will just keep on rolling, rolling, rolling along behind the transplanter, popping those seedlings into the ground. We've got to get this done! – the blueberries look to be coming in early this year. - Dave
Produce and Cooking Notes
Lettuce – More lettuce for your boxes – today we've got red leaf lettuce, green romaines, or reddish-green head lettuce.
Chard – The chard and kale are now the only survivors of the "early spring" plantings that brought radishes, arugula, and spinach to late winter and early summer shares. Everything else is tilled up and ready for a second round of crops.
Garlic Scapes – Garlic scapes are the flowering stalk of the garlic plant, pulled out so that the plant puts all of its energy into sizing up the bulb. They can be used like a scallion, or, with a bit of olive oil, make a delicious pesto ground up in a food processor.
Cucumbers – Cucumbers make a great and easy addition to salads and sandwiches, or don't be afraid to quick-pickle small batches.
Zucchini – Zucchini season looks like it will be here for a while, but just to be sure we got a second generation planted yesterday afternoon.
Snap Peas – The snap peas are round, fat peas in cardboard tills (berry boxes) and vary a bit in quality depending on which planting they come from. Some are beautiful and green, enough to eat raw – while most could use a little cooking and a few sad pods might be better off shelled. They should all be tasty though.
Snow Peas – Today's snow peas (the flat pea pods in plastic bags) are from the Hostetler's, our Amish friends. They are spray- and pesticide-free but not certified organic. Snow peas are not as sweet as snap peas, but their crisp texture makes them just the right ingredient for any stir fry.
Radishes – Full shares are getting a bunch of radishes. They're small but should still be a fun addition to a salad or snack bowl.
Cabbage or Spinach – Full shares are also getting a choice between a spring cabbage (from a fellow co-op member's surplus, so they're certified organic but not from our fields) or a bag of spinach from our planting. Odd weather makes for odd choices, I guess, but you can decide whether you want a springtime spinach salad or a summery cole slaw.
Cucumber Moons Sautéed with Fresh Dill – From Asparagus to Zucchini
• 2 large or 3 medium cucumbers
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons chopped green onions
• 2 tablespoons fresh dill
• salt and pepper
Peel cucumbers with potato peeler and slice in half lengthwise. Scoop out all the seeds with a spoon. Slice about ¼ to 1/3 inch thick. Heat butter in large, heavy skillet over medium flame. Take care not to let the butter brown, but get it good and hot. Add cucumbers and onions and cook, tossing often, until cucumbers begin to get tender, about 4 minutes. Stir in dill plus salt and pepper to taste. Continue to toss and cook until crisp-tender, 1-2 minutes longer. Serve immediately. (Note: The cucumbers in this recipe could also be cut into "hoops": use a long spoon to scoop the seed out of a peeled cucumber, then slice it into rounds.) Makes 4-6 servings.
Spicy No-Mayo Cole Slaw
From How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard, or to taste
• 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar, red wine vinegar, or freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 small clove garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh chile, like jalapeño, Thai, serrano, or habanero, or to taste (optional)
• 1/4 cup peanut oil or extra virgin olive oil
• 6 cups cored and shredded Napa, Savoy, green, and/or red cabbage
• 1 large red or yellow bell pepper, cored, seeded, and diced or shredded
• 1/3 cup chopped scallion, more or less
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley leaves
1. To make the dressing, whisk together the mustard and vinegar in a small bowl, along with the garlic and chile. Add the oil a little at a time, whisking all the while.
2. Combine the cabbage, bell pepper, and scallion and toss with the dressing. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and refrigerate until ready to serve. (It's best to let the slaw rest for an hour or so to allow the flavors to mellow; the cabbage will also soften a bit and exude some juice. You can let it sit longer, up to 24 hours, if you like. Drain the slaw before continuing.) Just before serving, toss with the parsley.
Stir-fried Beef with Snow Peas
From The Pioneer Woman Cooks
• 1-1/2 pound Flank Steak, trimmed of fat and sliced very thin against the grain
• 1/2 cup low-sodium soy sauce
• 3 Tbsp sherry or cooking sherry
• 2 Tbsp brown sugar
• 2 Tbsp cornstarch
• 1 Tbsp minced fresh ginger
• 8 ounces fresh snow peas, ends trimmed
• 5 whole scallions (or scapes), cut to ½"
• Salt as needed
• 3 Tbsp peanut or olive oil
• crushed red pepper, for sprinkling
In a bowl, mix together soy sauce, sherry, brown sugar, cornstarch, and ginger. Add sliced meat to bowl and toss with hands. Set aside.
Heat oil in a heavy skillet (cast iron is best) or wok over high heat. Add snow peas and stir for 45 seconds. Remove to a separate plate. Set aside.
Allow pan to get very hot again. With tongs, add half the meat mixture, leaving most of the marinade still in the bowl. Add half the scallions. Spread out meat as you add it to pan, but do not stir for a good minute. (You want the meat to get as brown as possible in as short amount a time as possible.) Turn meat to the other side and cook for another 30 seconds. Remove to a clean plate.
Repeat with other half of meat, allowing pan to get very hot again first. After turning it, add the first plateful of meat, the rest of the marinade, and the snow peas. Stir over high heat for 30 seconds, then turn off heat. Check seasonings and add salt only if it needs it. Mixture will thicken as it sits.
Serve immediately over rice. Sprinkle crushed red pepper over the top to give it some spice.
I'm rather reminded by the farm of how I imagine a bear would act upon coming out of hibernation. Yes, we haven't really been hibernating, I've felt busy all winter (except those 2 vacations within 3 weeks), but between the greenhouses, the shop, and the biweekly csa distributions, our days have felt quite full. But now it seems the farm is fully waking up, shaking off the sleepy winter calm, and heading out. Full of the same sense of urgency I think of a hungry bear roaming around for food. Instead though, we are out trying to beat the weather, scrounging not for hidden acorns or grubs, but spots of dry tillable land, a plastic bed perhaps made up in the fall, or the small herb beds that are workable by hand. Perhaps untrue of both the farm and the bear, but I imagine a bit of grogginess, a bit of uncoordination due to unuse, the need to learn or relearn for both the staff and the equipment. As a four-wheeler not used for months needs a bit of time to get reaquainted with the idea of shifting out of reverse. A parade of tractors rearranged in the machinery shed to access the plow last used months ago. A dash to plow, till, make raised beds, and seed, as decisions are made that indeed the soil is finally dry enough... today. not yesterday but today... unfortunately the snow/ rain/ crazy wintery (spring) mix is called for in a few hours...so out of hibernation into a sprint.
We try to prioritize- what will our members really want in a month or 2. The precious dry ground is fit for peas, both snap and shell, spinach, baby bok choi, mesclun mix, arugula, but beets and carrots still stored in the cooler will need to wait a week or 2. Its also a matter of what can take the crazy weather this spring is bringing and what transplants are ready to go out. Coming out of hibernation is a bit of balance. The energy is there, but tempered by a bit of winter's rust. Leaving the comfy confines of the greenhouses for the wide open skies over the spring mud is something we all have been looking forward to... but a few hours in the damp chill of a cloudy afternoon and I was ready for just a bit more time back in that warm hollow. With rain in the forecast, we most likely won't be abandoning the shelter of the packing shed, shop, and greenhouses, but when the sun returns (hopefully not with accompanying 20 degree nights), we'll be ready, having had a chance to stretch and encouraged by those first tastes of spring planting.


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Hypnosis and gardening have a lot in common.
The other day I was up at our little plot of land at near the Haldon Hills in Devon – we call it "Our Piece of Heaven in Devon"
I had just put the horses away, lit the fire-pit and sat watching the sunset over Dartmoor. I began to think how lucky I really was. We had just eaten a completely organic meal grown out of our garden and were playing silly games with our daughter. Not bad for a North London lad who had certainly seen the underbelly of society on more than a few occasions – but that's another story.
Then, whilst wandering down to pick some fruit for a snack I realised that actually luck had very little to do with it at all.
I chose to leave my London environment for the Devon life, many people thought I was daft for coming down to Torquay, I didn't have a penny to my name or a job or anything but it was my choice – not luck.
Looking at the stables I began working out how many blocks would be needed to rebuild the back wall. Again I thought how lucky I was to have the skill-set to do such a thing. Well actually no that wasn't luck either. I started my working life as a diesel fitter in a factory and hated it with a vengeance so I went into the building trade as a hod-carrier, from there I put myself through training both at college and on site to become a qualified bricklayer – that wasn't luck, it was hard and often painful work. Now many years later I run a successful hypnotherapy practice and help people make some really positive changes in their lives so that's quite lucky – or is it? I train people to Diploma standard in the art and science of hypnotherapy so that's not bad – again I worked hard at it – it wasn't luck by any stretch of the imagination.
So what about our beautiful bit of Heaven in Devon? Surely we are lucky to have such a wonderful spot? Well actually that wasn't luck either, we didn't win the lottery or get given it, my wonderful partner Carol and I stretched ourselves and took the plunge financially. Our vegetable patch used to be an old muck heap that had become overgrown with weeds, brambles and stinging nettles. We (well Carol mainly) cultivated it and turned it into a beautiful patch where our daughter can eat healthily. No luck their either, just hard work and determination. We planted seeds, we nurtured them and encouraged them to grow. Like it says in the bible ….. "for whatever one sows, that will he also reap" – just like hypnotherapy really. Whatever you say to yourself, whether it be positive, negative, authoritarian, angry, sad or just plain boring that is the internal message you are giving yourself. It really is all about perspective. Is there luck in the world? Well I think that there is, I also think that we have a lot more control over our own destiny than we may realise, we just need to change our perspective….


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Peonies appear as two different types of perennials: garden peonies (Paeonia valbiflora or Paeonia officinalis) and tree peonies (Paeonia suffruticosa). Garden peonies reach 3 feet tall and produce five different types of flowers. Tree peonies grow as cold-hardy shrubs that remain standing through the winter. Both species bloom in the spring at varying times, depending on the cultivar. They produce large blossoms in coral, red, white and yellow among other colors. Despite their structural differences, garden and tree peonies require similar care.
Remove all side buds and retain the terminal ones to induce the production of large flowers.
Divide peonies in the fall when they become crowded, every 10 to 15 years, according to North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.


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In late 2008, President George W. Bush, Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, met with the CEOs of the nation's largest banks. Bush stated that the nation was looking down into a Financial Abyss. At that meeting, he announced that he had instructed Treasury to immediately transfer tens of billions of dollars to each of those banks and, later, the Fed Chairman suggested that there was plenty of more money where that came from.
Over the next six months, the stock market continued to plunge, and unemployment continued to climb, after Lehman Brothers fell into bankruptcy. As cash liquidity and available credit vanished, businesses closed, and the housing market hit rock bottom as foreclosures surged. Unemployed workers just could not stay current on their mortgage payments, and they reduced their consumer spending, as well.
As a financial advisor during that time, I can attest to the fear and anxiety that many consumers–not just homeowners–felt during the so-called "Great Depression." The teamwork and creative hard work that the Fed and Treasury put in, during both the Bush and Obama Administrations, is still not adequately appreciated. The common question was, and still is: Why Wall Street and not Main Street?
There are several parts to the answer: the Fed and Treasury already had, at least, some of the necessary tools on hand to bail-out the banking system; while new programs to aid consumers, especially homeowners, and expand the social safety net, would need the approval of a dysfunctional Congress. As such, the quickest response was a matter of financial logistics. Main Street–think the Economy–absolutely needs a functioning Banking System. Many financial analysts, at the time, referred to the economy as the "patient", and they figuratively followed it's virtual progress: into ER: through Triage: OR: Post-Op: and beyond.
In that context, consider liquid money and the availability of credit as being vital to the proper functioning of the economy, similar to the flow of blood and oxygen within a human's overall system. And the credibility—both the capability and the willingness—of the government to build a firewall around the banking system, represents the hope for the patient's survival. That's why the government threw lots and lots of money at the banks, beginning in October of 2008.
The Treasury and Fed did try to devise new programs to assist consumers directly: extending unemployment compensation; food stamps; short-term loans; mortgage assistance; but, over time, they realized that they were merely using tools with low probability of short-term success. Enhancing the liquidity within the banking system; however, and forcing banks to make credit available, had a much better chance of expanding the job market, and thereby resuscitating the economy.
Bailing-out GM and Chrysler, which are not even banks, demonstrated a great opportunity to jump-start the economy, on a top-down, rather than individual, basis. By keeping those two corporate giants solvent, the government not only kept auto workers in the labor force; but, also those of: the parts suppliers; steel companies; auto dealerships; auto insurers and finance companies, and a multitude of other American workers. People who are employed pay taxes, buy homes and cars; patronize the retail stores, etc. And consumer spending, in turn, just creates even more jobs, and so on!
Following the Stock Market Crash of '29, and the subsequent Great Depression, new legislation was enacted, creating the FDIC deposit insurance and other financial safeguards. At the beginning of his Administration, President Barack Obama initiated the drafting of new legislation—updated for today's much more complex financial marketplace—to reduce the potential for other dire economic melt-downs in the future. Unfortunately, the Dodd-Frank legislation has been watered-down by the Republicans in Congress, and after six years, they still want to repeal it. When will they ever learn?
NOTE: For anyone who has an interest in learning more about The Great Recession, I very strongly recommend "Stress Test", a book by Timothy Geithner. Mr. Geithner was intimately involved, both as Secretary of the Treasury and President of the New York Fed, throughout the Financial Crisis, as well as the various currency crises in Mexico and Asia, in the 1990s. That and other books relevant to that time are on the "Recommended Books" on this blog.


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Drop in Mortgage Rates Leads to More Home Refinancing Loans
- July 13, 2010
- Posted by Mcfarlin Law, in Mortgage Litigation
A new survey recently released by Freddie Mac, the nation's second-largest mortgage finance company, shows 30-year mortgage rates have plummeted to new, all-time lows. "With mortgage rates falling to historic lows, refinance activity has been strong over the past three months," said Freddie Mac Vice President and Chief Economist, Frank Nothaft.
There's no question these more-than-friendly mortgage rates have "up'd the ante" as far as home refinancing loans are concerned. The survey, which started back in 1971, shows the average rates for 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages (the most common loan utilized) were 4.57% for the week ending July 8th, a drop from the week prior, 4.58%, and 5.20% last year.
Despite the extra low rates, which have certainly saved and helped the housing market flourish again, abnormally high unemployment rates and the consistent flow of foreclosures, have taken the market two steps back.
"Even with historically low interest rates and the affordability factor for housing at all time highs there seems to still be an air of caution for many would be buyers," said David Adamo, CEO of Luxury Mortgage based in Connecticut. He also noted many first time homebuyers are, in the face of low mortgage rates, still hesitant when it comes to buying a home. "In addition, many homeowners have been discouraged from refinancing, particularly for jumbo loans."
Generally, home loan refinancing not only helps the country's economy (as it gives cash to the consumers which then, goes right back towards our economy) but in doing so, also helps homeowners avoid foreclosure. Additionally, the report shows the 15-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.07%, which was a jump from 4.04 percent only the week prior.
The rate on the 5/1 adjustable-rate mortgages (set at a five-year, fixed rate and adjustable each following year) was 3.75%, down from 3.79% a little over a week ago—and consequently the lowest Freddie Mac has encountered since it began to follow ARMs five years ago. Applications for home refinancing loans soared recently according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).


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