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Taming of the Shrew
You have known her since you were children. She is green, capricious, malicious. She is small, but she can annoy. She is as hard as nails. She doesn't care who she hurts. If you wouldn't be careful she stings your fingers, hand, legs. No, she isn't a good girl !!! But she can be very useful for you. If you know, how to treat her. Urtica (lat.), nettle (en.), urzica (ro.), pokrzywa (pl.) Since a long time people has believed that... Read More

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The Sophiensæle was founded in 1996 by Sasha Waltz and Jochen Sandig, along with Jo Fabian und Dirk Cieslak (Lubricat), in the former building of the craftsman's association of Sophienstraße 18.
From 2000 to 2007 Amelie Deuflhard took over as artistic director of the theatre, followed (until 2010) by Heike Albrecht. Since 2011 the artistic director of Sophiensæle is Franziska Werner.
Today, the Sophiensæle is one of the most important locations for German-speaking independent art-production. Artists from Berlin, as well as the national and international theatre-scene are invited to produce and present their works here. They are selected on the basis of their artistic concepts, contents, and working schemes.
The Sophiensæle is home to cultural discourse and a vast mix of artistic genres – from theatre, dance and music, to performance and visual art - which complement each other and enjoy a productive dialogue. Alongside many young artists such as Rose Beermann, Henrike Iglesias, Lwowski/Kronfoth Musiktheaterkollektiv, Markus&Markus, Lea Moro or Quast&Knoblich, searching for new theatrical languages and forms of expression, a number of established artists and companies have longstanding partnerships with the Sophiensæle. These include choreographers such as Clément Layes, Lea Martini, Sebastian Matthias, Martin Nachbar, Jochen Roller, Naoko Tanaka and Christoph Winkler and directors such as Thorsten Lensing, Johannes Müller + Philine Rinnert or Milo Rau/IIPM, and among others performance groups such as Burmester + Feigl, Lovefuckers, Monster Truck, Schmidli + Haug, Social Muscle Club and Turbo Pascal.
The Sophiensæle belongs to a network of internationally oriented, independent theatres. Other members include Kampnagel Hamburg, Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main, FFT Düsseldorf, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich and brut Wien. Among others, the Sophiensæle are producer of Tanztage Berlin and Freischwimmer festival. Beyond that, a number of renowned festivals of Berlin take place here, amng others MaerzMusik and Tanz im August. Here is a place devoted to artists as much as the audience, where the face-to-face encounter between these groups is the essential goal.
The Sophiensæle's architecture, walls and ceilings still reflect the site's turbulent history and initial designation as a place for assembly, craftsman training and banquet. This special atmosphere creates unique conditions for artistic production and creative encounter. Through selected renovations in 2011, the work environment and convenience for artists and the audience have been considerably improved, while the traces of history within the building have been carefully preserved.
The promotion of young artists and innovative artistic forms of expression and content continues to be the main focus of our work. We support and encourage new impulses and concepts and strive to deepen already-existing partnerships in order to guide artists in their development. Through a network of artists, cultural stakeholders, and art locations of many genres we are able to further establish the Sophiensæle as a major player in the free theatre scene and a platform for current trends in the independent dance-, music-, theatre-, and performance scene of Berlin.
We continue the building's tradition as a space for assembly. With a welcoming and open-minded spirit, the Sophiensaele promotes a broad examination of contemporary artistic content, aesthetic and positions and seeks a strong connection with artists as well as the audience. We invite artists to tie in their networks with their projects at the Sophiensæle, to communicate with other artists who work with us, and to see the Sophiensæle not only as a place to showcase their works, but also a place that they themselves can shape and develop with us.
Working artistically means reflecting on one's surroundings. In 1996 the Sophiensæle was born out of the spirit of a group of artists who sought an innovative center and professional infrastructure for independent theatre production. Our work ties in with this founding spirit – the Sophiensæle understands itself as a voice for independent theatre production in Berlin and supports the establishment of Berlin's independent theatre scene both nationally and internationally. Similar efforts to further the projects of independent theatre groups have gained publicity and significance through the work of the Sophiensæle.
The development of innovative forms of expression, series, and festivals plays a large role at the Sophiensæle. The Tanztage Berlin and Freischwimmer festivals, in particular, are central in the promotion of emerging young artists. In addition to that, we experiment with many more new forms of expression, festivals and series.


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House committee OK's conservative-leaning Senate district map
TOPEKA — A key House committee has approved a proposal to redraw the Senate's districts to make them more friendly for conservatives who plan to run against Republican incumbents.
On a 12-5 vote, the House Redistricting Committee approved a Senate district map called "For the People 13b," proposed by conservative Sen. Steve Abrams, R-Arkansas City.
The map makes numerous changes from a more moderate-friendly map called "Ad Astra Revised," which was drawn by Senate leadership and passed the Senate on a 21-19 vote. The House has already voted not to accept that map.
In Sedgwick County, Abrams' map would add more conservative suburban areas to the Wichita-based 25th District, where conservative Rep. Brenda Landwehr is challenging moderate Republican Sen. Jean Schodorf.
In Senate District 31, Abrams' map splits Newton and cuts away a large part of Harvey County, a voting stronghold for Sen. Carolyn McGinn, who is being challenged by Wichita businessman Gary Mason.
The Senate has rejected two previous versions of the For the People map, by the same 21-19 vote that approved the Ad Astra map.
Today's debate highlighted the ongoing split between moderate and conservative senators.
Eight of the 19 senators who were on the losing end of the earlier votes on the Abrams and Ad Astra maps asked House members to approve Abrams 13b and send it to the Senate for another vote.
"I'm confident this house and this committee can pass a better map (than the Senate)," said Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, R-Shawnee. "It's clear the Ad Astra Revised map was not bipartisan … It's a map that puts incumbent senators (in safer districts) by drawing out opponents and reducing populations in incumbent senators' districts. I just think it's political maneuvering and inexcusable."
House Minority Leader Paul Davis, D-Lawrence challenged Pilcher-Cook's assertion that the Ad Astra map was not bipartisan. Seven of the eight Democrats in the Senate joined 14 Republicans in passing it.
"My recollection of the vote there is there were Democrats and Republicans that voted for that. Am I missing something?" Davis asked Pilcher-Cook.
She replied that it depends on what the definition of bipartisan is.
"I was thinking about limiting-government ideology (compared) with those who have big government ideologies and in that case it was not a bipartisan map," she said.
Sen. Tim Owens, the chairman of the Senate Redistricting Committee, said Pilcher-Cook's comments point to the "800-pound gorilla" in the redistricting debate, the Senate's moderate-conservative split that has been a hurdle for Gov. Sam Brownback's legislative agenda.
"It really boils down to the governor wanting to have absolute control over all three branches of government," Owens said.
"The whole issue of redistricting has been about taking out moderates," who are defined as "anyone who has a different opinion on things than the conservatives," Owens said.
Landwehr said she doesn't think the Ad Astra or For the People maps are Republican enough, so the House should jettison both and start over.
"We have districts where the Republican numbers are dropped — that are Republican seats currently — that are dropped 3 percent, 4 percent, 5 percent and I don't understand that, when that is not in the best interest for Kansans," she said. "It's not the way to draw a map."
The Senate Redistricting Committee is scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday, a session Owens called to hear from members about ways they might be able to break the impasse.
The House Redistricting Committee is scheduled to meet at noon and send the For the People map to the House floor for a Tuesday afternoon vote.
The new map is expected to go to a vote of the full House on Tuesday.
Assuming the full House passes the map, it is expected to face a tougher time in the Senate, where the members have already rejected two earlier versions of For the People maps.
Both the House and Senate are engaged in the once-every-10-year effort to redraw legislative districts to reflect changes in population shown by the Census.
Traditionally, the Senate and House draw their own maps and each chamber passes the others' distric maps unchanged.
But this year, conservatives are aimed at taking over the Senate by challenging the more moderate Republican incumbents in the GOP primary in August. The Senate has drawn maps friendlier to the GOP moderates.


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In most text boxes that take measurements, you can use math to change the value. For instance, if you open up the canvas resize sheet and you want to double the width you can just append *2 to the width field and press tab. Division, subtraction and addition also work. You can also use the up and down arrows to increase the size by a point (or quarter inch). Hold down the shift key to increment by 10.
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App Support Folder
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Well known and loved since 1954, Visocchi's Cafe brings a little piece of Italy to the picturesque seaside town of Broughty Ferry. This family run establishment has become famous over the years for its award winning ice cream, authentic Italian cuisine, and a warm welcome from all the Neapolitan Caira family.
Mama Antonietta's traditional Italian recipes have been passed down through generations, and her hearty portions never fail to please. Her two sons Marco Junior and Roberto work hard to help their Mother, with champion barista Marco wowing the customers with his artisan Italian coffee and latte art, while Roberto spends his time in the ice cream factory producing the famous Visocchi's ice cream from the recipes passed down by the true ice cream master, his father Marco Senior.
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Life insurance isn't for those who have died — it's for those who are left behind. When shopping for life insurance, consider needs such as replacing income so your family can maintain its standard of living, as well as paying for your funeral and estate costs. A general rule is that you may want to seek coverage between five and seven times your gross annual income. As far as the various types of policies go, they can generally be placed into one of two categories: term and permanent.
Term insurance generally provides coverage for a specified period of time and pays out a specified amount of coverage to your beneficiaries only if you die within that time period. In a level premium term policy, you pay the same amount of premium from the first day of the policy until the term ends. A permanent insurance policy, on the other hand, will stay permanently in effect for the rest of your life, as long as premiums continue to be paid.
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We have known that on-the-ground activism coupled with online amplification could be powerful. Anyone who's seen NPR's Andy Carvin's curation of revolutionary tweets from the Middle East and north Africa knows how hard it is to figure out what's happening from 140-character bursts in real-time. But the Occupy protests are the first time we're seeing government-citizen confrontations on Twitter in all-English. The full glory of distributed leadership and communication are on display.
This is a very, very far cry from the streamlined protest narratives that we remember from the civil rights or anti-Vietnam War movements of the 1960s. As any historian knows, the actual events are nearly infinitely messier than the stories we tell about them, but that convenient elision is getting ever harder to maintain. From now on, we will record every blurt and cry from protesters, observers, supporters, and detractors. The medium will allow the people to be heard with an immediacy that can generate a ton of energy, at least more than white papers from think tanks or sociological treatises on inequality.
via The Fog of Twitter: Watching Last Night's Protest Arrests Through #OccupyBoston – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic.


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"I've got a new life," Genarlow Wilson tells reporters after being released Friday.
The Georgia Supreme Court earlier Friday ordered that he be released, ruling 4-3 that his sentence was cruel and unusual punishment.
Wilson, 21, was convicted in 2005 of having oral sex with a consenting 15-year-old girl when he was 17.
Wilson said he first heard about the possibility he'd be freed Friday when someone told him word was out on the radio."I'd seen it coming, but I didn't exactly know when," he said. "I'd just stopped trying to figure the courts out and stopped trying to put a date on it."click here to read article
Could Cheney be inherently good? Obama evil?
Lynne Cheney told MSNBC yesterday that her husband and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama are eighth cousins.
A month ago, the Chicago Sun-Times said the two very different politicians are "ninth cousins once removed."
The Sun-Times based that conclusion on this connection:
Obama is related to Cheney through Mareen Duvall, a 17th century immigrant from France.
Mareen and Susannah Duvall were Obama's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents and Cheney's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents.
We can't get our mind around all this. Anybody out there who can bring some expertise to this "important" news so that we can figure out what sort of cousins they are?
Meanwhile, Obama spokesman Bill Burton says of the apparent Obama-Cheney kinship that, "every family has a black sheep." Will he be charged by the political correctness police?


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Kilimanjaro climbers
The Memorial flag proudly swayed in the wind atop of the world's highest free-standing, snow-covered equatorial peak last month. That's when a team of 10 – including eight women from this province – reached the peak of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro which is a staggering 19,340 feet (5,895 metres) high. The team included, from left, alumna Diane Rendell, Marian Wissink, who works in the Department of Computer Science, Dr. TA Loeffler from the School of Human Kinetics and Recreation, Abigail Steel, a PhD student in engineering, and alumna Flora Seymour. Other teammates included alumna Wanda Highmore, as well as Leslie Grattan, Ann Marie Lane and Americans Karen Warren and Nancy Andrew. "It was thrilling when the entire team made it to the top – it made the accomplishment all the sweeter," said Dr. Loeffler. "We gathered around the summit marker and sang the Ode to Newfoundland ... between the thin air and the tears streaking our faces it was quite a feat. We figure we now hold the record for the highest signing of the Ode."


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The past truly is a foreign country of which we in the present are only visitors. Nothing propels the mind back through that distance than the structures that remain or in some cases vanished that comprised the global exercise that was the World's Fair. A sort of benchmark and national branding, the World's Fair snakes into the past like dots signaling a snapshot in the technological and scientific achievements of the last 150 years.
The structures that composed the World's Fair, which spanned the globe in date and location, were at once indicative of their time – and a kind of grandiose experiment in the possibilities of urban development. Some structures and their designers are justly world-renowned. Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion was a watershed in both interior and exterior design. The Eifel Tower soared above the Seine, a monument to France's vitality and genius, only to be saved a few years after the fair by its reconstitution as a radio transmission tower.
More often than not, the structures did not remain. The World's Fair was formatted like a giant advertisement, immediate, dramatic and generally transitory. Very little remained of Chicago's famous White City and it is both the moribund structures and the ghostly absences that many left behind, that Brooklyn-based photographer Jade Doskow documents in her series. As Doskow writes in her artist's statement, the series considers the footprint left by the fair and it's relationship to the world that grew up around it "World's Fairs were unique, spectacular cultural events from which one can glean worldviews that came into and out of vogue, the rise of industrialism, the rise of modernism, architectural trends and progress, and the hopes and dreams of each era."
The stray remains of these grand pavilions testify to the divergent path the world took from the idealized humanity that the fair let us dream in. A world far darker and more uncertain, where technology turned against its creators – and civilization could look back down history, to the places it had once been.


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Saturday in Singapore at UFC Fight Night 111, Holly Holm and Bethe Correia meet in the Octagon in the most important fight in either fighter's career. The former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Holm has been on a losing streak since reaching a career peak with a one-sided stoppage win over former bantamweight queen and pound-for-pound entrant Ronda Rousey. Correia was at one point undefeated in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, rising up the ranks and challenging for a world title before being summarily dismissed in one round by the aforementioned Rousey. Since then Correia's skills have continued to improve, but the results of her fights haven't been nearly as fruitful.
Today we give you ten talking points that explain why this fight is being made, as well as offer a closer look at the two participants' strengths, weaknesses, and the finer points of their games, so that you have the information that will assist your understanding and enjoyment of this very important and career-defining fight:
Germaine de Randamie, Miesha Tate, and Valentina Shevchenko were the most experienced, physically gifted, skillful opponents she faced, fighters with defined identities who didn't play to her strengths and whose styles/skills clearly exploited the weaknesses in her game. The best fighters can win bad matchups; Holm has not done so, not even once.
9) Holly Holm's biggest advantages over Bethe Correia are all attribute based: Holly is bigger, longer, quicker-footed, quicker-fisted, more explosive, and more flexible; not to mention her ability to fight at a faster, harder pace than most fighters. But while Holm is a better striker overall, if Correia had the same skillset with Holm's athleticism, she would outclass Holm on the feet. A lot of Holm's style and success with it are firmly rooted in her physicality and athleticism; this allows her to be mobile, super busy with her volume, effective with her kicks, and effective in spite of limitations in stance and creativity. I am not saying she isn't skilled or tenured -- she is -- but I can't ignore how much of a weapon her physical tools are.
7) Holly Holm is a multiple time world champion in boxing, but Holm, for as good as she was, was not a technician. Her wins were a result of volume, activity, and pace; they were not a result of accuracy, excellent punching mechanics, or efficient offensive footwork. And if you look at her time in mixed martial arts, you gets even more evidence of that being true. She is a "world class" boxer whose best and most damaging weapons are her kicks. Let that sink in.
6) Bethe Correia is a "right idea, wrong execution" type fighter; because of her limited experience as a fighter and as a person training in martial arts, her ability to execute on the feet and the ground aren't textbook. There are few fighters whose techniques aren't better than Correia's; on the flipside, there are very few fighters who have a better sense of when and where to use a technique. I.e., her cage IQ is elite; her ability to execute is not.
5) Both women fought Ronda Rousey (I know you know that), and both women had the same general game plan. They both wanted to exploit Rousey's confidence on the feet, let her bull rush in an attempt to land punches (to do harm or set up the clinch), and use deft defensive footwork to provide opportunities to counter her.
4) Correia and Holm are both most effective on the counter. Holm's sense of range and ability to maintain or extend her range allows her to manipulate her opposition's footwork, activity, and pressure, creating opportunities to score by moving around and forcing opponents to pursue. Holm's length, athleticism, and defensive footwork allows her to out-position opponents and extend the distance, forcing them to try to close the distance or cut the cage down. This allows Holm to pick them off with a variety of jabs, straight shots, and kicks, which are made more impactful due to the collision created by Holm's offense coming out and the opponent coming in, a strategy somewhat similar to that of Lyoto Machida or Gunnar Nelson. The difference between Holm and these two, however, is her willingness to lead and the amount of volume she throws.
On the other hand, Correia, whose athleticism isn't a tenth of Holm's, relies on timing and pressure, much like Daniel Kelly, in that her game isn't defined by top end athleticism or high-level technical skill. She is defined by grit, deliberate aggression, physicality, and volume. She applies pressure to opponents, forcing them to attack under the perceived threat that comes with her pressure and feints. Once an opponent attacks, Correia is in her comfort zone; she takes advantage of openings presented to her by opponents trying to push her back or halt her forward movement with sharp and well-timed counters. Unlike many counter fighters who will hit you with ones and twos, Correia will swarm with threes, fours, fives, and sixes, attacking the head and body and forcing her opponent back, punching her way into clinches, then breaking down her rivals with short punches, elbows, and knees.
In Holm's case, her issue is a matter of stance and temperament. Her stance forces her to cover excessively long distances, which allows her opponent more time to react and more opportunity to figure out her pattern and timing. Another issue is that Holm is very predictable in her setups, her techniques, and the manner she structures her offensive bursts and combinations; on top of the "shaky" punching mechanics, any attempt for Holm to lead often ends with her being countered.
2) This fight is a showcase for Holly Holm, as the UFC likes her and has invested a lot of money and effort into her; the promotion wants to see her succeed and has routinely put her in the position to get back to the bantamweight title, as well as pick up a featherweight championship. Now the matchmakers are trying to get her back on the winning track by having her fight a "beatable" opponent who has enough cachet to draw attention and enough skill and cage IQ to make the win legitimate.
1) Bethe Correia didn't get this fight because she is considered elite, even though her ranking says she is; she got this fight because of her mouth, her character. As underrated as her skills are, she still hasn't beaten a top end athlete or an elite fighter, but she has managed to get more publicity and notoriety than much much more successful fighters. Correia knows how to sell herself, knows how to play to crowds, and knows how to drum up interest in fights that for all intents and purposes don't have a big impact on divisional rankings. Her mouth has gotten her more fights and made her more money than her skills. On the downside, her over the top character and comments (as well as her dance moves) have resulted in people overlooking her ever-improving skills and elite cage IQ.
At UFC Fight Night Singapore we will see either the rebirth of Holly Holm or the reinvention of Bethe Correia. Both are very good fighters who haven't reached the potential that early wins had hinted they would reach. Nonetheless, it's an important fight for the division and for the individual fighters themselves. I hope this article has given you some things to look for, both in your analysis of the fight before it and for your enjoyment during it.
UFC Fight Night 111: Holm vs. Correia takes place June 17, 2017 at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.
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In an ever-liberalised society, it seems traditionalists like myself are coming under fire far more than our apparent 'minority' counterparts. Flexisexuality is a modernised bi-sexuality; i.e. the belief that love is not gender-specific. Heaven forbid an individual jump on their platform to think or say otherwise.
Hat : ASOS | Dress : H&M | Sandals : Debenhams
Some may disregard my views as ignorant, as flexisexuals are apparently open about whosoever else they are seeing. However, having been a female in a situationship one too many times (and I quite literally mean ONE is too many times lol), I understand that sometimes in a bid to please and perhaps secure a future place with the one you love, you compromise your values. That means muting the voice in your head warning you when he mentions past infidelity; or shutting your eyes to his temper which ignites after-hours after a drink too many.
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Why should that differ in apparent open relationships with a gender or two (or three...)? What is to say the woman who claims to be cool with the man you are seeing on the side, is in fact not seething with jealousy? That aside, why should traditionalists who would rather be in a monogamous, faithful relationships be cast out in disdain by modern day society for refusing to adhere to this level of liberalism? These thoughts swam around my head during a heated debate, or rather, an ambush by a wagging-fingered-Christian after an otherwise peaceful Sunday afternoon. In a bid to scold me for being a 'Christian' who sought to impose discriminatory Traditionalist Western on marginalised indigenes - having gone in support of a Missionary to speak at a local church - I soon felt like the marginalised victim being scolded by the liberalist Westerner. And it dawned on me that in a world where all views were accepted, it seemed some views were not. In a bid to accept and support the minorities, we have created a new minority. How flexible a view is that?
"The beauty of diversity is not to determine the right way of being, rather to foster mutual human respect regardless of differences" @TheStephWay


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Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act funds support Family-to-Family Health Information Centers in all 50 states and District of Columbia
"Family-to-Family Health Information Centers served nearly one million families of children with special health care needs last year alone," said HRSA Acting Administrator Jim Macrae. "Ninety-six percent of the families the centers served reported they were key in helping families find and navigate additional community resources and care for their children."
The state-wide centers are staffed by trained family leaders who themselves have children with special health care needs, such as cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, autism, developmental delay, and other health chronic conditions, and are linked to health professionals providing care. Centers provide education, training, peer support, and expertise in navigating federal, state and local public and private health care systems for families of children and youth with special health care needs.
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Since the program's inception in 2005, Family-to-Family Health Information Centers have served millions of families and health professionals nationwide. This latest round of funding supports 51 centers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with approximately $95,700 awarded to each center.
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Our writer and London expert Dave Hill spent two weeks hosting a series of debates on Comment is free, asking readers what their thoughts were on the next London mayoral elections' key issues: from housing to transport, the environment, cycling and more.
Your reactions, ideas and suggestions were the ingredients for Comment is free's manifesto for a model mayor. Here it is (click on the document viewer's bottom-left button for full screen). Have a read and tell us what you think.


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"Just now I realized that Win7 creates at least 2 partitions when you install it, even though you may have only one selected and formatted for it's use."
"And what is even worse, Win7 may put its bootloader to other existing FAT or NTFS partitions, even on the other hd, as it was in my case. I installed Win7 to (hd1,2) and then found bootmgr file on the (hd0,2) partition with music and video files."


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What do you guys think about both these looks? With all the crazy hosiery trends going on lately, these are two of the top ones out there.
Both are considered top trends of the season, and will most likely be here for the rest of 2010. I think both have some staying power, with designers showing shorts and tights and socks and sandals on the runways and celebs such as Nicole Richie and Alexa Chung being devoted followers.
I, for one, love both trends, despite the protests of others, haha. Especially the shorts and tights look – I'm a big fan. It's such a fun look which can be both casual and dressed up depending on what you pair it with. For example, denim shorts with coloured or patterned tights and a tank top is a casual and fun look. Meanwhile, a high waisted short with black or dark coloured tights paired with a blazer makes for a dressier appearance. It can be taken from day to night very effortlessly which is always awesome.
The socks and sandals trend took me a bit longer to come to terms with. I have always said that I absolutely despise socks paired with sandals, but that's because I always imagine socks with no-heeled sandals or Birkenstocks. It's such an ugly look which nobody should EVER try! Unfortunately there are the few who get caught wearing them, and I always cringe. (It's worse when it's men with socks and sandals, gross).
Another similar look is socks with heels or flats, for those who don't want to pair them with sandals (even if they are more stylish high-heeled ones). Regardless of whether they are sandals, heels, or flats – not everyone can pull it off. The shorts with tights trend is a look which basically anyone and most body types can get away with. This one, not so much – you can either look fantastic or end up looking like a 5-year-old or a badly dressed tourist. I have yet to actually try this look for myself, but I shall, eventually. I just have to find a decent pair of socks along with a cute pair of high-heeled sandals, and the courage to go out in public wearing them.
All I can say is that it did take me a while to warm up to this trend. When I saw Alexa Chung donning a pair of flats with socks I thought what the hell is she wearing? Then I saw it on the runways and thought ok I guess this look is here to stay for a while. Now, I'm a fan. It's like a song you don't like at first, but from listening to it on the radio so much it gets stuck in your head and then you end up loving it (a la Rihanna – Rude Boy, as my personal example).
Anyhow, I am going to try this look and hopefully it doesn't end up being a complete disaster. If I am unable to pull it off, at least I know I always have the shorts and tights look to fall back on. Feel free to agree or disagree with me. I know not everyone agreed with my clog obsession, haha. Fashion is meant to be fun and you should experiment with different looks. Who knows what trend you may end up loving! Everybody makes a fashion mistake at some point, even the best of fashionistas 🙂
But I really am curious as to what your thoughts are, let me know!


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Bonus Activity: Hector's dolphins are a very special native animal found only in New Zealand. They are the smallest dolphin in the world measuring 1.5 metres long and they are quite rare. Sadly, many Hector's dolphins are killed every year when they get caught in large fishing nets and can't escape. Some people have argued that fishermen shouldn't be allowed to fish in Farewell Spit in order to protect the dolphins living there. What do you think? On your blog, tell us whether you think that fishing in Farewell Spit should be banned (stopped).
Farewell Spit
I think that fishing in Farewell Spit should be banned because fishing there is killing innocent dolphins. Also, there are many other places to fish not just Farewell Spit.


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Category Archives: Snacks
Recipe: Chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars
I've posted this Granola Bar Recipe before, here is another one. Similar, but a little less "healthy" and a little more like the kind in the box! A special treat!
What I've Been Eating
I know I haven't posted many recipes here lately. My blog is mostly a place where I'm sharing links to all the other places where I write. That's ok for now. It's temporary. I hope you don't mind. In the mean time, here are a few recipes and food ideas that I have been trying. Inspired from Pinterest and from my brain. (Oh, and here are a couple more that I shared on BVT Moms Blog.)
One of my favorite breakfasts, whole grain waffle with dates and honey. It's also delicious with figs and/or ricotta cheese with a side of the internet via my laptop.
Avocado Chicken Salad: Avocados mixed with chicken salad alongside some cheese and crackers. Delish!
Oatmeal with honey, almonds, cranberries and cinnamon. Tasty and healthy!
So there you have it! What have you been eating lately?
Recipe: Fried Cheese Curds
I was born in Wisconsin so it should come as no surprise that I love cheese curds! A while back I tried frying them and WHOA they were so good. The link I had saved for reference is no longer valid so I went on a google search for a new one. Here is one that I found that seems very similar to the one I had used. Try it. If you like cheese and frying stuff, you are in for a real treat!
Fried Cheese Curds recipe from simplecomfortfood.com
A couple of extra tips:
I used milk instead of beer.
Make sure your oil is at 375 degrees.
Let the cheese curds get to room temperature before coating.
Recipe from Pinterest: Taco Pizza!
I've been browsing Pinterest like a fool, and pinning so many great recipes! This is a quick and easy one that everyone loved so I thought I'd share!
Taco Pizza!
It's basically a crescent roll crust covered in taco fillings and baked! Super easy and fun for the kids to help make too! Not to mention they ate it like it was going to run off the plate.
All I did was spread crescent rolls into a cookie sheet, pressing all seams together. Sprinkle with cooked taco meat, a couple of kinds of beans so I could pretend that it was healthy and some cheese. Bakes at 375 degrees for about 12-15 minutes, or until the dough is cooked through. Then cut into squares and sprinkle with lettuce, salsa, sour cream etc.
It looks like the original recipe is from Pillsbury but I found it through this pin.
Recipe: Italian Cheese and Pepperoni Bread
This is a quick and easy recipe for a bread that can be enjoyed as a snack or as dinner on night when you need something, well, quick and easy!
Italian Cheese and Pepperoni Bread
3 cups self rising flour (or you can use regular flour and add 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt for each cup of flour)
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp Italian seasoning, plus extra to sprinkle on top
1 1/2 cups milk
1/4 cup olive oil
1 egg
1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese, plus extra to sprinkle on top
Pepperoni – as many as you want!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×13 bread pan.
Mix together dry ingredients. Slowly mix in the remaining ingredients until just mixed. Dough will be slightly sticky.
Place half the dough into the greased pan. Layer with pepperoni and cheese. Cover with the remaining dough. Top with more pepperoni and cheese and sprinkle with more Italian seasoning.
Bake for about 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
|With pepperoni…dip in pizza sauce for an extra side of deliciousness.
|Can also be made without pepperoni!
This post linked to:
Beauty and Bedlam's Tasty Tuesday
A Southern Fairytale's Mouthwatering Monday
Recipe: Tortilla Pinwheels
These pinwheels are an appetizer my family makes for just about every get together. It makes enough for a group or a very hungry Momma. They are easy and quick to make and really quite tasty!
Tortilla Pinwheels
2 (8 oz) packages of cream cheese, softened
1 Ranch Dressing Packet (or make your own!)
4 oz jar of dices pimentos, drained
4 oz can diced green chiles, drained
Black olives, drained and diced or sliced – I usually use the whole can cause I like olives!
1 package tortillas
Beauty and Bedlam's Tasty Tuesday
Recipe: Homemade Cheese Sauce
Who needs that box of chemically formulated cheese? Who needs the jar of processed "I'm pretending to be cheese!" stuff? Not you! Because I am giving you this delightful and easy recipe for Homemade Cheese Sauce! Replace it in any recipe for that fake stuff and your taste buds will thank you! (Not to mention your body who is not a big fan of the chemically processed stuff.) You can also serve over pasta for homemade mac and cheese, though I think my full recipe for that is better. You decide!
Homemade Cheese Sauce
2 cups shredded Sharp cheddar cheese
4 ounces softened cream cheese
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
3 tbs butter
3 tbs flour
1 cup heavy cream
2 cups milk
pinch of salt and pepper
Melt butter in a pot over medium heat. Whisk in flour, stirring for about 2-3 minutes. Gradually whisk in the heavy cream and then the milk. Simmer on low heat until smooth. (Tip: You know it is smooth and thick enough when it coats the spoon) Add in the cheeses and salt and pepper and whisk until smooth again.
Sorry I don't have any pictures to share. I kind of just throw this together when I need a cheese sauce and never to think to snap a picture!
Chewy Granola Bars
My kids like to eat. Often. So snack time is a very big deal. They love granola bars but the boxed ones can be filled with more sugar and preservatives than I care to feed my starving
zoo animal boys. The ones that are organic and wholesome can cost you an arm and a leg and sometimes even an eyeball, so I decided a long time ago that homemade granola bars were the way to go! I've tried a bazillion different recipes and this one is the result of many kitchen experiments and my family's favorite!
Chewy Granola Bars
3 cups oats
2 cups puffed wheat cereal (you can use rice krispies, but they puffed wheat cereal is a way healthier option)
(OR you can use 5 cups of just oats, no cereal)
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup honey
1/2 stick butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup nuts, dried fruit, or chocolate chips (or a combination of any of them!)
Mix all dry ingredients together.
Mix all wet ingredients together.
Mix all together. Then add nuts, fruit, etc and fold in.
Pour onto cookie sheet(If you are using a regular cookie sheet, I would advise lining it with wax paper because these puppies are sticky! I use my nicely seasoned Pampered Chef Bar Pan and they come out perfect every time!). Press down firmly until the entire pan is covered and the granola is packed down.
Bake at 325 degrees for about 15-20 minutes. That time is up for debate though because my oven is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get. So just watch them carefully and remove when they are nice and golden brown, like this:
Be careful not to overcook or they will not be chewy! And your husband who hates crunchy granola bars be will be severely disappointed and insist you use a timer next time instead of just "smelling for them."
Oh, is that just my husband? OK, sorry.
Score the bars while warm and then let cool. These can also be frozen if your family will not eat the whole batch before they go stale. Which I haven't had to do in a good couple of years.
Heavenly Popcorn
This recipe has been floating around our family and always shows up at get-togethers. If you haven't already read my Disclosure you should read that first and then come back to finish reading this recipe!
OK, now that you know of my love for junk food and understand that I will post some yummy not-so-good-for-you recipes here and there, let's get on to the recipe.
Heavenly Popcorn
3 bags of popcorn
24 ounces white chocolate or white bark
Misc yummy additions – mine include peanuts, toffee bits and M&Ms
Melt white chocolate, stirring frequently.


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The Changing Role of the Teacher in the 21st CenturyBy Dr. Brad Johnson and Tammy Maxson McElroy
By the authors of The Edutainer: Connecting the Art and Science of Teaching
"Many of our schools are good schools, if only this were 1965."-Louise Stoll & Dean Fink
The irony of this quote is not the fact that our educational system is antiquated, but that most new initiatives and programs are still focused on perfecting the antiquated school of 1965 rather than transforming formal education to be relevant in the world of today.
It seems that while business models, technology, and even religion (steeped in tradition) have adapted to an ever changing culture, education has remained comparatively unchanged. The global business market has moved from an assembly-line manufacturing culture to a more service oriented culture. The Information Age of technology has moved us into an era of instant information. The world is literally at our finger tips. However, one glance into a classroom and you would find very little has changed over the past 30 or more years. Oh, there might better lighting, air conditioning or even a computer or a smart board in the room, if you are lucky, but the process of formal educating has changed very little over the past several decades.
Education still mainly involves teachers "data dumping" information to students to cover the curriculum in preparation for a standardized test. So, if education has not kept up with the changing times, then one has to question its relevance in preparing students for the world of today – not to mention the world of tomorrow. And if education has not changed with the times, then it is reasonable to assume that the role of educators has not changed as well. Therefore, one could conclude that the role of the teacher is effective… if only this were 1965.
So, the question becomes, is the role of the teacher effective in the year 2010?
With research suggesting that students are seemingly unprepared for college and the world, it is apparent that there is disconnect between formal learning and the world beyond the classroom. And when you consider that the attrition rate is around 50% for teachers within their first five years of service, one would have to conclude that they are not prepared for the reality of the classroom in the 21st Century. These teachers graduate with a degree, pass certification exams, participate in professional development and still half of them will burnout within the first 5 years of teaching.


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Puma Rihanna Fenty Trainer
White/ Team-Red/ Black
February 26, 2016
Puma brand and actor, singer, songwriter Rihanna have teamed up for what has been a successful endorsement campaign so far. Her original sneaker the "Creeper" was her edition on an existing silhouette and today we preview her very first original shoe with the brand. The "Fenty Trainer" is a very fashionable futuristic show stopper. Much like the astounding artist herself, these kicks will stand out in all the perfect ways. Three colorways are set to debut on the 26th of this month. They have been dubbed the "Whiteout", "Blackout", and "Red Alert" editions. These sneakers feature a very high top appeal with a laceless foot entry system. Check out the pictures below and let us know how you feel about the new Rihanna shoe.


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Route numbering system
The signs show the number of the route that is being followed. National route numbers are shown against a red patch and regional route numbers are shown against a blue patch.
Most signs and markings relating to cyclists are self-explanatory, but it's worth familiarising yourself with some of the more common ones.
Shared-use paths are a great way to get around by bike, but they're also used by many other people.
It's important to follow a few basic rules so that everyone can enjoy them as much as possible.
If you follow some simple road safety advice the roads don't have to be a dangerous place to cycle.


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The mentor board at Silicon Valley Growth is composed of senior executives, successful entrepreneurs and academic professionals. The board provides four vital services to increase the safety, velocity, and growth of our partnerships. They:
- Act as our eyes and ears to identify investment targets
- Step forward on a case by case basis to assist with due diligence
- Aadvise our portfolio companies as needed
- Accelerate the expansion of our companies to foreign markets.
Dr. Lee Chartock, is an active investor in early stage companies. His interest and expertise includes life sciences, IT, media and consumer product companies. He has recently invested in such companies as Corbus Pharmaceuticals (OTC:CRBP), QView Medical, Stream TV Networks, EngageClick, Embee Mobile and Galuku. He has also acquired pre-IPO positions in Twitter and Palantir.
Dr. Chartock graduated from Brown University with an Sc.B (Phi Beta Kappa), received his MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and an MPP from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His awards and honors include the Dupont Warren Fellowship, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University and Kennedy Fellowship, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Dr. Chartock, served on the national clinical advisory boards-neuroscience for GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Lilly, Novartis, Searle, Forest Labs, Wyeth-Ayerst and Bristol-Myers/Squibb. Lee divides his time between Massachusetts and California, and is involved in the angel communities on both coasts.
Dr. Ben Gavish A native of Israel, Dr. Ben Gavish is the Editor in Chief of two global academic journals:
- The Electronic Commerce Research Journal
- Telecommunication Systems.
This involvement allows him to review the latest ideas and trends affecting eCommerce. He is a leading expert on Fraud and Trust on the Internet, as well as other topics including "Supply Chain Planning", and "Production Scheduling."
His recent published work includes, Reducing Internet Auction Fraud, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 51, No. 5. (May 2008), pp. 89-97, Hard Limits on the Growth of the Internet and Computing Capacity, International Journal of Information Science and Management, 2010 (1), pp. 1—14.
Dr Gavish holds three degrees from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and has taught at the University of Rochester, William E Simon School of Business (www.simon.rochester.edu) as well as Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management (www.owen.vanderbilt.edu). He currently holds the Eugene Constantin, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Business at Southern Methodist University.
Dr. Rebecca Homkes is currently faculty at the London Business School (LBS) and its Executive Education program, where she focuses on strategy execution; the interaction of leadership, management and management practices in driving performance; and how organizations create and maintain shared context. She regularly leads strategy summits and workshops with multinational firms, teaches related courses, is directing the global Active Learning Program (ALP) with a set of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) companies, and consults several multinational companies on enhancing their execution capacity.
She is also a Fellow at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), and has directed the joint McKinsey & Co/ CEP Global Management Project since 2007. A Marshall Scholar, she received her PhD from the LSE in International Political Economy. Dr. Homkes also earned an MSc from the LSE in International Political Economy and was an Indiana University's top graduate in 2005 and its sole Herman Wells Scholar, where she earned a BS (Honors) in Business Administration with majors in finance, accounting and international studies alongside a BA (Honors) in Political Science. She previously served as a fellow at the White House's President's Council of Economic Advisors and has worked in management and strategy consulting for Bain & Co. as well as public policy consulting and on Capitol Hill.
Ronald L Ramseyer, is the founding President & CEO of Macy's Direct for Federated Department Stores, the former President of Bass Pro Shops, and Senior Vice President at Talbots for direct marketing credit / loyalty programs, and store expansion. Ron is invaluable in evaluating prospective investments, especially in the consumer space, both online and social media. Once investments are made, his ability to mentor and coach is unsurpassed.
Ron earned his MBA from the University of Chicago and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern. He and his wife Penny and dog Gracie live in Duxbury, MA
Mr Paul McKeon: is a technology marketing expert with nearly 30 years driving results for technology companies, ranging from well-known brands to startups. During the 1990's, at the helm of Crescent Communications the agency he founded, he handled many of the US marketing efforts for technology stalwarts such as Nokia, IBM Software, Hitachi and many others. In 1997, he sold his agency to Ketchum and assumed the leadership of Ketchum's Global Technology Group where he managed nearly 200 marketing and public relations professionals and led engagements with a wide range of technology companies, including Yahoo, Intuit, IBM, FedEx, Visa and others. Since 2004, he has been heading up The Content Factor, an Atlanta based content marketing agency with a specialization in eCommerce, Supply Chain Management, Healthcare and financial services businesses.
Paul has an economics degree from Princeton and an MBA in finance from Vanderbilt.
Dr. Candida Brush is the holder of the Franklin W. Olin Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson College in Boston, MA. An active member of the famous Boston Harbor Angels, she is known for her pioneering research in women's entrepreneurship. Her research investigates resource acquisition, strategy and financing of new ventures and is invaluable to many of the SVG portfolio companies. Candy is often featured in leading business media including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Boston Globe and Inc. She is a regular blogger on Forbes.com
When not teaching at Babson Dr. Brush travels globally and is a visiting professor at the Nordlands University Graduate School of Business in Norway.
Mr. Wesley T. Wood resides in Long Island, New York, where he serves as a President of Marketing Capital Corporation, marketing consulting and investment company providing specialized consulting services to the direct response and specialty retailing industry in eleven countries. He is the co-Founder of Candlelite Music, Country Music Magazine, Hamilton Mint, Marketing Capital Corp and Invest National Bank.
Mr. Wood serves as a member of the Executive Committee to the Board of Advisors for the Center of Direct Marketing at New York University; Trustee for St. Dominick's R.C. Church; Board Member of Intervest Corporation (Real Estate), Intervest Bank (Florida Commercial Bank); and Member or the Trustees Advisory Committee at Fairfield University in Connecticut.
In the past Mr. W. Wood has had widespread general marketing experience in the fields of packaged goods (Ballantine Beer, La Rosa Spaghetti, Visine Eye Drops), real estate, banking, insurance, and closed-circuit sport promotions including marketing of the Boston Celtics Basketball team.
He has since concentrated on Direct Response Marketing. From 1972 to 1981, he was Co-Founder and President of Candelite Music, Inc. and Candelite Collectors Society. Candelite was the largest independently owned direct marketer of records and tapes in the United States and Canada. He was also owner and publisher of Country Music Magazine.
From 1968 to 1972, Mr. Wood served as Executive Vice President; Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Downe Communications, Inc. Downe published Ladies' Home Journal, Family Weekly, Sports Magazine and various other publications. The company also owned and operated radio stations and many direct marketing companies. During this time, Mr. Wood co-founded The Hamilton Mint, which became the second largest private mint in the United States during the early seventies.
Wesley T. Wood earned his BS degree (1965) from New York University.
Lee Zieben, President, The Zieben Group, for over a decade, Lee has been an award-winning residential developer and builder of single family and multifamily projects with a cumulative value of over $200 million. An experienced investor in high-tech and hospitality businesses, Lee will be SVG's "eyes and ears" in the city of Houston to seek out new investment opportunities and investors.
His operating company, the Zieben Group has a earned a quality reputation as an environmentally conscious, high quality real estate development and investment company. Zieben currently has several projects located throughout Texas, including one of the nation's first complete reconstructions of a Section Eight multifamily project at the LEED Platinum level.
Lee currently serves as an active board member of the C Club of Houston, Houston Business Education Coalition, a mentor to the Silicon Valley Growth Venture Fund and Pro Unitas. He previously served as board co-chair for Texas Southern University's Jones School of Business, a board member of the University of Houston's College of Technology and chairman of the Houston 2012 Olympic technology committee and the Texas Exes technology committee. In 2004 the Governor appointed him to the Texas Online Authority, the world's largest e-government portal.
Mr. Paul Lacey , consultant to the Firm, has held senior marketing positions for leading corporations in several verticals including: Toys/Games, Liquor/Liqueurs/Cognac, Direct Marketing/Delivery/Logistics/Fulfillment, CRM/BI Systems Integration, Database Marketing Services/Software and Direct/Digital Marketing/Advertising Agency Services.
He focuses on direct/digital marketing integrating multi-channel/multi-device technology with data to execute business-to-business/business-to-consumer results-driven measurable marketing campaigns for publicly traded corporations, privately held organizations and early stage entrepreneurs.
Mr. David Vulcano is responsible for all Clinical Research at 163 hospitals and 109 freestanding surgery centers owned by Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). He has held this position since 2007. David is the founding president of the Nashville, Tennessee Angel Capital Group. An experienced Investor, his investments include Ardent Health Systems, LLC. David's expertise and experience allows SVG to evaluate investment opportunities in healthcare and biotech.


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You don't realize how much you don't actually need until you have to fit it all into a 75 litre backpack and carry it over mountains for days on end. You can get by with a lot less than you think, even in extreme circumstances.
As I packed for the John Muir Trail, I tried to keep it to a minimum. Learning from past experiences on smaller treks, I knew that there was always room to make things smaller and lighter, but that how to do it might not always be obvious. I just never put much thought into it before, because I never had to.
In the past, the most food I had to carry was a few snacks, and maybe a lunch for the day. On the Inca Trail, my food (and most of my gear) was carried by porters; on the Tour du Mont Blanc and in the Dolomites, I hiked hut-to-hut, where multiple course meals were provided almost on arrival; on the Laugavegur Trail, food and camp gear was transported from one camp to the next in a van (though, at the time, I knew I'd be hiking the John Muir Trail and had opted to carry most of my own gear as I hiked, in preparation). Still, compared to all my past experiences, this trek was a whole other animal – it was time for me to start thinking about ounces.
I meticulously considered each and every item I had in my pack. I had:
-A lightweight Therma-Rest and sleeping bag
-Two pairs of pants
-Two t-shirts
-Two pairs of underwear (one of each to wear, and one of each to wash)
-Three pairs of socks (one to wear, one to wash, and an extra in case my washed ones didn't dry in time – I figured it would be worth it to splurge on dry feet for this one)
-Long johns and a thermal base layer
-One long sleeve shirt
-A fleece sweater
-A rain coat, rain pants and a rain cover for my pack
-A pair of running shoes to wear at camp each night
-Such essentials as water bottles (two one-litre Nalgene bottles), sunglasses, a Swiss Army knife, a headlamp with spare batteries, a pack towel, a spork, and collapsable cup and bowl.
-My toiletries consisted of my toothbrush and a travel-sized tube of toothpaste, and the smallest bottle of bug repellent, sun screen, hand sanitizer and first aid kit I could justify.
-My luxury items included my camera and a spare battery, my iPod, and a pair of tweezers and a travel-sized mirror.
-I also had a book to read, and my journal for writing.
Keeping in mind that I'd still be carrying several days worth of food, a bear can, part of a tent and group gear, I wanted to keep it light. For a 23 day trek, I thought I'd done alright.
The morning I was to begin my trek, I picked up my beautifully organized pack and experienced the mélange of feelings that I would imagine many through-hikers experience as they lift their pack for the first time. I was both shocked and disappointed by its weight. I was also a bit intimidated. How would I carry this, for 23 days?
As I took another mental inventory of the contents of my pack, I was stumped and overwhelmed. The only thing I felt willing and able to sacrifice was my book. I had solid reasons for keeping everything else (not to mention, everything in their was on the packing list provided by my guides). As much as I looked forward to reading the book, I figured I'd be busy enough either living the magic of the trail, or writing about it in my journal that I could do without it (I found myself bored enough in the mountains, I could pluck my eyebrows).
I knew, though, that I needed to get rid of more than a book to save weight.
One of the perks of staying in hostels is the people you meet. Hostels are full of people from all over the world, and time spent in hostels are full of fleeting conversations with them about their varying travels and experiences. In Mammoth Lakes, my hostel was full of hikers – day hikers, section hikers, and through-hikers of both the John Muir and the Pacific Crest Trail.
Awesome were these people.
Awesome are not only the stories they shared, but also the encouragement they offered as I picked their brains over the course of my 3 days in Mammoth Lakes.
Especially awesome is the woman, whose name I never did actually catch, who took time that morning to help me pare down the contents of my pack. With her help, I was able to do so without sacrificing anything. She suggested I cut my pack towel in thirds and bring only one third, that I mail things to myself in resupplies (like that extra t-shirt and pair of socks) that I wouldn't need right away, and convinced me to bring a pair of flip flops rather than my running shoes. Without her help, I probably would have never thought to cut the handle off my tooth brush, leave the deodorant behind (it's futile, anyway), or tear my book into sections (each to be sent in a resupply along the way). These things that might seem insignificant, but do add up to make an enormous difference in weight. Without her help, I probably would have found myself trudging along the John Muir Trail with a monster of a pack that not only would have held me back, but probably would have put a damper on my experience.
To all the hikers I met in Mammoth Lakes: nakurmiik for your stories, help, and encouragement!
All organized and ready to pack!
My pack, which didn't normally have things dangling from it, but it was laundry day in the wild.


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Firebirds Wood Fired Grill opens Monday
Monday is opening day for the new Firebirds Wood Fired Grill.
The Charlotte, N.C.,- based restaurant chain, started by Wichitan and Lone Star Steakhouse founder Dennis Thompson and some partners, will open for business at 11 a.m. Monday at the Waterfront, 10096 E. 13th St. N. Firebirds Wood Fired Grill opens on Monday.Hours will be 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Wichita's Firebirds is the 26th to open.
The menu features items such as slow roasted Prime Rib, a BLT salad, wood grilled salmon, lobster spinach queso and creme brulee cheesecake. Firebirds also has a happy hour special that offers half-price drink specials and appetizers at the bar and outdoor patio from 4 to 6:30 p.m.
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Hearing loss is the third most common chronic physical condition in the United States—as many people report hearing loss as those with diabetes and cancer combined. Untreated hearing loss is associated with anxiety, depression, stress, and loneliness. Noise exposure can lead to high blood pressure and heart disease. Exposure to loud noise at home or in the community can damage hearing as much as working in a noisy work environment.
What can you do to help prevent hearing loss due to loud sounds?
CDC is offering several opportunities where you can learn more about CDC's new Vital Signs report and how you can influence health.
- Read and share the new hearing loss Vital Signs materials. You can find them at http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns.
- Participate in the conversation via your social media channels.
- Share your stories about how you and your partners have addressed noise-related hearing loss using the hashtags #TooLoud and #VitalSigns
- Embed Too Loud! For Too Long! materials in your website and member communication.
- Find the badges, buttons and widgets for this Vital Signs at https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/digitalmedia.html and use excerpts from the Vital Signs fact sheet in your emails, bulletins, and newsletters.
- Watch the CDC Public Health Grand Rounds this summer.
- "Promoting Hearing Health Across the Lifespan" – Tuesday, June 20 at 1 PM EDT
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Dear DECORUM! Readers,
By Marghi Merzenich on December 13, 2010
According to scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, eye movement can teach you a lot more about politics than you might guess. These scientists studied how liberals and conservatives respond to "gaze cues," and found dramatic differences. The short version: the liberals generally followed the cues, the conservatives did not. Read about the study here.
According to one of the authors, the study "basically provides one more piece of evidence that liberals and conservatives perceive the world, and process information taken in from that world, in different ways."
Might such perceptual differences help explain the difficulty liberals and conservatives have in finding common ground, especially in Congress?
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Chicago, Berkeley Aim to Wipe Out Junk Mail, Cut Landfill Waste
Chicago, Berkeley Aim to Wipe Out Junk Mail, Cut Landfill Waste
Five U.S. cities rolled out programs targeting unwanted junk mail today to trim landfill waste and related disposal costs.
Chicago, Berkeley, Calif., Ithaca, N.Y., Kansas City and Salem, Ore., introduced a Mail Preference Service Tuesday, allowing residents to put an end to unsolicited junk mail, such as credit offers, phone books and advertisements.
The annual collection and landfill cost of these mailings and phone books is estimated at up to $10 per household. It may not sound like much, but it can add up when you consider that Chicago has more than 1 million households, while Kansas City boasts approximately 200,000.
The cities are characterizing the program as both a zero waste effort and austerity program. It was designed by Catalog Choice, a nonprofit that hosts a localized website for each city that allows residents to sign up for the program. Cities then receive data on participation rates and environmental impacts.
"We've identified waste reduction as a crucial strategy to meet the goals of our Chicago Climate Action Plan," Suzanne Malec-McKenna, Commissioner of Chicago's Department of Environment, said in a statement. "The Mail Preference Service with Catalog Choice will cut paper waste at the source, and offers an ease of use that we know Chicago citizens and businesses will appreciate."
U.S. residents are subject to more than 100 billion pieces of unsolicited mail each year, according to Catalog Choice. The city of San Francisco recently moved to ban the distribution of phone books unless publishers get residents to opt-in.
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Forget fear. Worry about the addiction.
By the way, that is the slogan for Trapeze School New York. They have a school down at the Santa Monica pier, and I always have fun watching the kids practice on the trapeze when I'm visiting there. That is something I would sure love to learn someday if I ever had the time and money for it! Actually, what I really want to try is silks... that thing where you are hanging from basically two long pieces of silk and you wrap yourself up in them and twist into all sorts of cool poses and shapes. One of my ballet friends does that stuff in New York, and she's been trying to convert me, but it hasn't really worked out yet since we live on opposite sides of the country now... but it looks like really hard and FUN.
And if you think THAT sounds cool (as I wander farther and farther off topic), you really have got to check out some of the footage from Project Bandaloop. They are an aerial dance group that does performances on the sides of skyscrapers and mountains. Incredibly cool stuff. Their demo reel is here to get you started: Bandaloop demo
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Exactly How Was Jesus Divine?
Lots of individuals are accepting that Jesus was God's son but less clear on his divinity. Actually, the two phrases do not teach different things. Even while Jesus is called the "son of God" it does not mean He is not divine. So, how was Jesus divine? Let's look at two solutions to what some think is a big problem.
First, there are many passages that clearly state that Jesus was divine (i.e. God in the flesh). "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God" (John 1:1). Verse fourteen portrays who "the Word" was when it says, "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." The Word was Jesus Christ and John 1:1-4 obviously shows that "the Word" was "God."
Second, Paul in the Philippian letter reconfirmed this truth. He wrote, by the power of the Holy Spirit, "Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men" (Philippians 2:5-7). Christ existed in the form of God before He decided to lay that off and come to earth. He did not take the mindset that being divine was something that He was to grasp and continue to hold onto.
Again, Paul stated very clearly that while Christ was on earth He was divine. "For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form" (Colossians 2:9). The Greek word for "Deity" means "the state of being God" (Bauer 452). It was not that He had some features or characteristics of God. No, He was the very essence of God. We can have characteristics, but we simply cannot have the essence of God.
The uncertainty comes when we think about the phrase "son of" in human terms. In human relationships "son of" means one who is younger than the one who is the father. But, the phrase "son of" carries with it one "who has the nature of." To illustrate, Barnabas was called "Son of Encouragement." This doesn't mean that his father was "encouragement." But rather, Barnabas had the nature of being an encourager. So it is with Jesus Christ. How was Jesus divine? When He is spoken of as the "son of God" it just conveys that He had the nature of God —the essence of God (Colossians 2:9).
(Bauer, Walter. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd Edition. Ed. Fredrick Danker, W. Arndt, and F. Gingrich. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Print.)
This article was written by Wayne Burger. Wayne is a local preacher in Conifer, Colorado and an instructor at the Bear Valley Bible Institute with over 30 years of preaching experience. Wayne holds a B.A. in Bible from Abilene Christian University and a M.B.S. from the Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver. Wayne's methods have published four books, and he is a regular writer for the Rocky Mountain Christian Newspaper. If you'd like to learn more about how to be saved and other similar Bible topics, please check out www.alivewithchrist.com.


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Today is gluten free Friday at Sidecar in Costa Mesa. And I mean gluten free donuts! I stopped by to get one for my best co-worker friend as she is doing the gluten free thing.
I got her the cinnamon crumb, it's just too good. Lighter weight than most gluten free options and very tasty!
As you can see I started in on the lemongrass donut in the car and no, I have no patients to wait while there are yummy donuts so close to me in a small space.
See the little bits of lemongrass? Super awesome! And they have Stumptown coffee which was not bitter so that is love to me! Check them out at: www.sidecardoughnuts.com.


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- If you say anything about a magazine limit, you're either stupid or ignorant. The man killed 49 people and wounded 53 more. Even if he only used one round per person, that means that he had to reload multiple times, during which times he was not shooting. Magazine limits just mean that he has to reload more often. Given that even inexperienced shooters can change a magazine in seconds, this doesn't really give a tactical advantage to anyone, except the shooter, because it reduces the ability of concealed carriers to carry ammunition covertly.
- The same thing goes for banning removable magazines. Before removable magazines became popular, stripper clips enabled easy reloading. There are disadvantages to stripper clips (which is why removable magazines replaced them), but don't think for a second that someone couldn't take an SKS (with a 10 round fixed magazine), and a bunch of stripper clips and produce similar levels of carnage.
- Assault Weapons Ban. I've already covered, in detail, why an AWB is stupid and counterproductive. We're not going to get another one.
- If these assholes were smart (which, fortunately for us, they aren't) they'd stop trying to shoot places up, and instead use fertilizer bombs. The Oklahoma City Bombing had more than 3 times as many dead, and more than 12 times as many wounded. Shootings can (and have) been stopped by ordinary citizens with guns. A bombing doesn't take that chance.
- Stop using the word "Compromise". Compromise implies a give and take. Anti-Gun "compromises" so far have offered nothing in return to gun owners. If you offer me universal background checks, I'll tell you to go fuck yourself. If you offer me universal background checks, in return for which, you'll repeal the Firearm Owners Protection Act and the Gun Control Act of 1986, I might consider it.
- Stop acting like you can actually control guns. Outside of the US, criminal arsenals (i.e. gun factories) and individuals make guns, ranging from "You couldn't get me to shoot that for a million bucks" to "professional quality sub-machine guns". Inside of the US, hobbyists (and criminals) make guns with the same range of quality - although the hobbyists tend to avoid making sub-machine guns, if only to avoid a felony conviction.
The rather politicized arrogant opinions of two brothers. Our wide array of interests means that if it exists, one of us has an opinion about it.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Gun Control and Orlando
I'm a bit late to this - as part of my job, I'm often without internet for days to weeks - but since the "debate" is still going on, I'm going to put my two cents in.
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Apr 2015
Posting NHTRC hotline number saves lives
Larry was a truck driver who stopped for the night at a busy truck stop. Before going to bed, he saw two females he believed to be minors knocking on the cab doors of trucks parked around him. Larry had learned about human trafficking happening at truck stops from Truckers Against Trafficking and knew he needed to call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center. The NHTRC immediately responded and law enforcement found both females that night and took them into protective custody….
The above story was taken from the website of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center. It's an example of how a confidential, toll-free, 24-hour phone number can and does save lives.
To read more: http://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2015/04/15/posting-sex-trafficking-hotline-will-save-lives/25835493/


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Having worked for decades in areas where natural landscapes and populated areas converge, and where interests and priorities may sometimes diverge, Millar Western undertands the importance of maintaining open communication with our neighbors and strong relationships with all stakeholders. To foster dialogue, we have established several consultation mechanisms:
Open HouseS
Each year, we hold open houses to provide the public and forest stakeholders with an opportunity to meet staff, provide input into draft annual woodlands operating plans and discuss forestry issues. Dates, times and locations are advertised in local newspapers and on this website, so visit regularly or contact us.
Public Advisory Committee
Millar Western's PAC is composed of representatives of stakeholder groups including towns and counties, recreational organizations, other industrial forest users, contractors, aboriginal communities and area residents. As well as monitoring the company's environmental performance, the group advises on forest management issues, reviews operating plans, and discusses a wide range of topics related to our forest and manufacturing operations. Click here to view a list of the committee members.
Environmental co-stewardship committee
In 2004, Millar Western signed the Forestry and Economic Development Agreement (FEDA) with the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation. Four years in the making, FEDA formalized and expanded upon past efforts by Millar Western and the Alexis Nation to work together in the responsible development of forest resources in areas where the parties have shared usage rights and traditional ties. In 2009, the agreement was renewed for a further 10-year period. A key feature of the Alexis/Millar Western FEDA was the creation of the Environmental Co-Stewardship Committee, established to foster ongoing dialogue on issues including land use; forest management; and training, contracting and employment opportunities. The ECSC also disburses awards, funded by the company, under the Alexis/Millar Western Scholarship Program.


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I haven't had much time for cards lately. The end of the school year, 3 birthdays and summer school have made things a bit busy around here. (I'm the one taking summer classes .......CRAZY I know!)
I have made a couple of cakes lately, though. We had our oldest's birthday on May 21, our youngest's on May 31 and kiddo #3 on June 8, plus a cake for one of my "regular" clients.
This one was for my client. Her niece had her First Communion and they wanted a "girly cake". It was almond poppyseed with whipped cream icing. I thought the pearls made it pretty girly (they were not edible).
This is Austin (our oldest) with his Aunt Sheilah. They share the same birthday, so we had her over for birthday dinner and cake. Not a very fancy cake (mom was BUSY). Austin loves almond poppyseed cake so I baked that one and iced it with homemade buttercream.
Finally, #3 had his birthday on June 8. He is a baseball junkey! He loves to play, watch, read about.....you name it, so I decided to do a baseball sitting in some grass. He is another of mine that loves almond poppyseed with buttercream. (I have had enough of that flavor for awhile)
Merry Christmas!
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Why You Should Get a Wireless Security System Installed
Posted By Mark Hoppus on April 10, 2015
I think every house and apartment should now have a quality wireless security system. There are a few things that are driving me to make a blanket statement like that. First is how affordable the systems are. Why forgo protection when it does not cost that much? Also, the wireless types of home security alarms are easy to install. Whether you get a technician installed one or a model you put in yourself, you do not have to run cables to every sensor. That means you do not have to cut into walls or ceilings to string wires. Oh, and you do not have to worry about batteries either. The lithium battery each sensor has lasts for years before needing replaced, and they are easy to replace.
Another reason, and probably the biggest, to get a a wireless security system is that crimes are happening everywhere. An alarm system is a deterrent. You can't just put up a sign in your yard. Savvy criminals will look to see if you have the sensors on the windows. They can see them from the street with a zoom lens on a camera. They are sneaky that way. Another great thing about the alarm systems is that they are monitored around the clock. If a sensor is tripped or a smoke or carbon monoxide detector connected to the system goes off, then the monitoring agency is notified. They send out the help you need.
The peace of mind for just the fire and carbon monoxide safety should prompt everyone to get a wireless security system installed in their homes or apartments. You could be overcome by smoke or carbon monoxide and be unable to summon help. If you have a good wireless security system, help will be dispatched automatically. For the little bit of money it costs for monthly monitoring, it is worth it.


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I LOVE this idea for a KS2 self-portrait…
Children can create the outlines to their picture by writing information about themselves. You could link in adjectives or why not get them to draw the portrait of someone else in the class and link in PSHE.
What about using this as a transition day activity?
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This Victorian red brick building, gutted by fire in 1946, is part of Osney Mill, taken over in 1898 by William Henry Munsey, whose family still owns the site. It is seen here from Osney lock, built in 1790 by the inmates of Oxford prison for the Thames Navigation Commission. At the rear of the mill complex not accessible to the public are the only remains of Osney Abbey - a rubble stone building with queen post roof and stone archway dating from the 15th century. The rest of the abbey lies below Osney cemetery (1848), now disused.
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