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Today is Divorce Day. . . I'll be leaving for the court house in about 10 minutes. This whole process has gone very quickly. It seems like just yesterday that Brandy was sitting in the living room telling me she wanted to move out, but that she wanted to work on our marriage. I hope I'm done with her lies now that we will be divorced in an hour.
Divorce Day
Weekend Plans
Weekends fly by way too fast don't they? I know it's only Saturday morning, but the thought that the weekend ends tomorrow is fairly depressing. I thought I'd post an update here for my 2 readers as to what me and the boys will be up to this weekend.
Last night was junk food and movie night. After I picked them up from camp, we came straight home for the festivities. They were already hungry so I let them start their appetizer of Dorito's. While they were eating those, I warmed up the second course by microwaving some nacho cheese for some nachos. They were pretty hesitant to try it as they were afraid it would be too spicy. Luckily, I had the solution to that; dip the tortillas in some sour cream first then into the cheese. They seemed to really like that as we went through the first bowl of cheese in nothing flat. While bowl number 2 of the cheese was warming, I started the oven to get the pizza rolls going. We started to get full of the nachos right about the time the pizza rolls were done so we moved on to the 3rd course. I did mention that this was a movie night too right; well, we started off by finishing The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian; which we had started watching earlier in the week. After that movie was over, we watched Snow Buddies, which was more entertaining than I expected. After Snow buddies, they wanted to watch Twilight again. Somewhere in the middle of Snow Buddies, we moved on the the 4th and final course of ice cream. I figured they couldn't possibly eat too much more so I gave each of them only 1 scoop. Boy was I wrong. They had that scoop gone before I got back to the couch with my bowl. The second bowl of ice cream started to take its toll on my stomach so I made that be the last course of dinner for the night. We made it about half way through Twilight before they got tired and were ready for bed. Maybe we will finish it tonight.
Todays plans are kind of a hodge podge. I need to mow the lawn so i hope to get that out of the way about 9:30am. I was ready a couple hours ago, but I'm sure the neighbors wouldn't appreciate the lawn mower at 5am. Parker has been asking me to take him out to eat at Hooters for a week now, so today will probably be the day. I've got a list of things I need to pick up at WalMart, so we'll swing by there after lunch. Parker and Casey still have some report card money burning a hole in their pocket, so a trip to Toys R Us may be in order for today as well. All that should fill up today, but if there is still time and the weather holds out, I may try to squeeze in a bike ride to the park. That reminds me, I still need to find a brake solution for Parker's bike. There are no foot brakes and he's not quite big/strong enough to properly use the hand brakes. I worry about him relying on putting his feet on the ground to slow down.
Tomorrow is the day I'm really looking forward to, but it is all dependent on there being no rain. I haven't told the boys my plans for tomorrow yet in case the rain does come and we don't get to go. The TT races are coming to Peoria this weekend and should be a blast. I've decided to not tell them the plan until we are pulling into the track and they see what is going on. I hope they like the surprise. They both enjoy watching the motorcycle races on TV. I just hope they don't decide to participate in these races when they get older, I would be too worried that they would get injured. I'm really looking forward to this as I haven't been to these races in about 10 years.
That should be a pretty full weekend, I hope we are able to do it all. I'm sure Monday will be here all too quickly.
Re-arrange the Fridge
The boys start a new Summer Day Camp tomorrow and have to start taking a lunch every day. We were making tomorrows lunch when I realized how pathetic my fridge looks. Keep in mind, I went grocery shopping today and it still looks this pathetic. In my defense, the boys are only with me tonight, Monday and Tuesday night this week. The bachelor-esqe look of my fridge prompted me to do a little re-organization of it's contents. Here is my before picture (forgive me for the picture quality as my phone takes horrible pictures):
After we finished making their lunch and me moving stuff out of drawers and onto shelves, here is what it looks like now:
There is stuff on the top shelf in both pictures, the glare from the lights is just cloaking them. The top shelf has eggs, butter, olives and onion. I'm sure it will look like the before picture again in a couple days, but this realization may prompt me to get more refridgerated items during my next grocery excursion.
Just Called to Say Goodnight
So I was laying on the couch watching Wipeout while playing Zach in chess on my iPod when my phone rings. Caller id tells me that it is coming from my future ex-wifes house. I answer, not knowing if it will by Brandy or one of my kids calling. What I hear brings one of the biggest smiles to my face. "Dad, I just called to say goodnight." I about melted when I heard Parker say that. I wanted to drive across town to give him a big bear hug but had to settle for our special handshake over the phone. Now, I'm laying on the couch with the window opened letting the cool breeze chill me. To fight the chill, I'm wrapped up in Parker's favorite blanket. If I close my eyes, I can smell Parker in the blanket. Maybe I'll dream about him tonight.
About 1 month of Marriage left
After 7 years and 8 months of marriage, it will be coming to an end in about 1 more month. According to my wife, it was completely over back in February; but will not be over till the judge signs the papers next month. Speaking of the divorce papers, we have agreed on everything and have each signed the papers at the lawyers office. I wanted to fight for more time with the kids, but realized that the only thing that would accomplish would be to make us both spend more money on lawyers. I most likely wouldn't have gotten any more time than what she proposed and any lawyer she got would probably convinced her to get more money out of me. As far as divorces go, I suppose I'm lucky in that I won't be paying any weekly child support or alimony.
My son asked me tonight why I was still wearing my wedding ring. My answer was that I was still married and would wear it on that finger till I wasn't married any more. At this point, I don't know that I'll be ready to take it off even when the divorce is final. I'm considering wearing it on my right hand till I'm ready to remove it. I know that at this point I should move on and just remove it, but that infinity symbol on it still means forever to me. I may get over her at some point and allow myself to move on, but I am just not there yet and don't know when I will be. I've had a few people tell me that I need to see a counselor, Brandy included. I did for a little while, but the person I was talking to wanted to focus on ways to "save" the marriage, which is exactly what I wanted to hear. Once Brandy convinced me that even if I changed everything about me and my life in a manner that would make her happier, the marriage was still over; I stopped speaking to the counselor. No point in talking about ways to save the marriage when the other person has no ambition to do so and is probably dating someone else already.
My ex-wife started taking flying lessons about the time our divorce started and she got her license shortly before our divorce was final, later that same year.
Yesterday afternoon I got a phone call, that she narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft she was piloting. Seems she was forced to make an emergency landing in Hamilton because of bad weather. Thank God the kids weren't with her.
The FAA issued a preliminary report, citing pilot error: Shewas flying a single engine aircraft in IFR (instrument flight rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight rating).
The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient fuel on board. No one on the ground was injured.
The photograph below was taken at the scene to show the extent of damage to her aircraft.
She was really lucky.
Cub Scout Camp-Out
This years cub scout camp out for our pack was supposed to be tonight, but 5 inches of rain yesterday is putting a serious damper on those plans. I have already decided that spending the night in a tent tonight is out of the question. It's supposed to get down to 40 degrees tonight and I'd rather stay indoors. I know, I'm a wimp. I prefer to say that I have an above average common sense ratio. They will still be having the raingutter regatta and a couple more activities, so I told the boys to get dressed in "play" clothes to get muddy. We'll spend a couple hours out there this afternoon. I'm hoping the sun comes out for a while.
There is another camp-out scheduled at the Peoria Chiefs baseball field, but that is on a weekend that they are at their mom's house. I would love to ask her to change weekends so we could go, but I'm not sure if I should since we are only starting this every other weekend schedule this weekend. I've still got a week before I have to order the tickets, maybe I'll run it by Brandy to see what she says.
Naive in Marriage
So I was watching this weeks episode of House tonight and found that I really identified with Chase. His relationship with his girlfriend is very similar to mine with my wife.
For those of you that don't watch the show, Chase and Cameron are dating. Chase has decided that he knows that Cameron is the one for him and wants to spend the rest of his life with her. On the other hand, Cameron is looking toward life without Chase. When Chase stated his confidence in his feelings to her, she accused him of being naive. The second it was said, I knew that's how I could be classified with my convictions in my marriage. I don't think that being naive makes it any less right, it just makes it confusing.
I am absolutely sure that Brandy is the one for me and am sad that she has given up on me and our marriage. I'm sure that Brandy would call me naive, just like Chase. She can't understand how I could still be so sure when she has moved on and is looking forward to life without me. I can't understand how she could look to life after marriage before trying to work at the marriage with her spouse.
Oh man,there I go again, feeling sorry for myself and blaming her for giving up. It is hard to shake the feeling that she gave up without putting forth enough effort when you are still naive enough to think that you are still meant to be together; which we are.
Happy Birthday Seth!
Happy Birthday Seth,
I hope you have a great day. I can't believe that you turn 12 today. I know you are here in the house with me now, albeit still sleeping; but I wanted to get something down so I don't forget this day. I don't know how much interaction we'll have in the coming years and this may be the last birthday I get to spend with you.
Today is your day, you get to make all the decisions. You already picked breakfast of corned beef hash and toast. I am now just waiting for you to wake up so I can make that for you. Lunch is apparently going to be Hooters, which definitely works for me too. Other than that, I don't have anything else planned. I expect that once you open your presents from me and your brothers, you won't want to do anything but play the Nintendo DS and Wii.
You're Mom will pick you up early afternoon. As you're pulling out of the driveway is always the exact moment that I start missing you; and I do stand at a window and watch as long as I can. I'm sure you will have fun with her tonight. As of now, you are planning on going to Kobe's for dinner. It's always fun watching them cook your food right in front of you. I hope you have a great time.
Well, I'm going to pick up the house a little now before any of you kids wake up. I hope you have a Happy Birthday and a great upcoming year. Remember to always be happy. That is my wish for you. If there is ever anything I can do to help make you happy, always know that I will.


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BOSTON — The defense-to-offense philosophy has been a mainstay in Bruins hockey since the start of the Claude Julien era. The end-to-end success showed in Games 1 and 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals, as Boston played their system almost perfectly, outscoring Pittsburgh 9-1 in two impressive victories.
"Its been good for us," Julien said after Wednesday's morning skate. "I think, when you look at our team, it's built that way. We take pride in that part of our game, and that part of our game's also given us the opportunity to be better offensively; turn that puck over quick and then everybody comes back, and then we go back up the ice as a unit. That's been a big part of our game and when it's good, it provides us with some good offense."
Lots of talk out there has been about Pittsburgh's visible frustrations this series, seen on the ice and heard in the locker room. In the first two games, it was clear that it wasn't the Bruins' physical play but rather their defensive system frustrating the Pens. Countless times Bruins forwards rushed back to help defensively, break up chances, and force turnovers that led to golden scoring chances, many of which they buried them.
The Bruins' style is certainly different than the likes of the Islanders and Senators, and is arguably harder to play against. It showed in the first two games and the Bruins looked to carry that success back to Boston.
The first period of Game 3 was more of the same for the black and gold. While it was a solid first period for Pittsburgh offensively, the Bruins forwards backchecked with high intensity, limiting any opportunities. The Bruins scored the lone goal of the first, when David Krejci slammed the puck off Kris Letang's skate and into the net.
Nathan Horton broke up a couple Evgeni Malkin chances and did a terrific job continually frustrating the Pittsburgh stars in the initial frame. He's been an end-to-end force thus far in this series and was in Game 3.
Although the Bruins continued their best Patriots impression with a "bend but don't break" defense, Pittsburgh finally broke through to tie the game at one. Patrice Bergeron and Andrew Ference, who were both playing phenomenal to that point, gave Paul Martin far too much space, and the defenseman made them pay as he skated in and delivered the perfect cross-crease pass to Chris Kunitz for the goal.
The Pens had three power plays in the second period, and the Bruins killed them all. Unfortunately, Gregory Campbell, one of Boston's best defensive forwards, was injured while blocking a vicious Malkin slapshot. The Bruins killed off the penalty with an injured Campbell struggling on the ice, much to the delight of black and gold nation.
"Campbell! Campbell!" chants rained down from TD Garden as momentum turned back in Boston's favor, and the Bruins outshot the Pens 9-4 following the goal to close out the middle frame.
The penalty kill was a crucial factor throughout Wednesday night's game, as it gave the Bruins some needed momentum en route to the win.
"Yeah, it was huge," Bergeron said after the game. "We know the offense they have and the firepower and the plays they make, and you've really got to — it's a five-man unit I should say with Tuukka in net on the ice, on the PK, and we were really good to make sure we had our heads on a swivel and we were talking a lot, but definitely the penalty kill was huge tonight."
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Help! Tips for Good Boston Cream Pie?
Kitchn Reader Carolyn wants to make her boyfriend this classic dessert for his birthday. Think we can help her out?
Help! The Boyfriend's birthday is this Sunday (eeeeeeek!). Being the Boston native that he is, he's requested (duh) a Boston Cream Pie. Sounds easy enough, right? Except I've never made one, and there seem to be about ten zillion various recipes floating around the internet, all very different. Some have a custard filling, others go with pudding ... some use ganache for the topping, others do fondant ... it's enough to make my brain hurt.
If someone can deliver unto me the Perfect Traditional Boston Cream Pie recipe, I promise I will mail you a slice. (Or at the very least, email you a photo of the slice.) Thanks, Kitchn readers!
Wow! We think a Boston Cream Pie is a great choice for a birthday cake, and it's totally do-able in your home kitchen. At its most basic, this cake is simply two layers of yellow cake with pastry cream in between and chocolate frosting on top. Combine those three things any which way, and we think you'll end up with something pretty good!
If you want to go truly traditional and classic, you can't get much better than the recipe from the Omni Parker House in Boston. This is where the Boston Cream Pie was theoretically invented and its still served there today. Here's their recipe:
• Boston Cream Pie from the Omni Parker House (opens to a pdf)
In this recipe, we'd skip the fondant and go for a rich chocolate ganache instead. It's just as authentic and, in our opinion, a lot yummier.
Also, some people find that sponge cake can be a little dry and crumbly. If you're in this camp, you can either brush some simple syrup onto the top of each layer before assembling the cake or you could substitute the sponge cake with basic yellow cake.
You should wait to assemble the pie until the day you're going to serve it, but you can make the cake part the day or two before. This should save you a little work on the day itself.
Here are some links to guide you through the various steps:
• How to Make Yellow Cake
• How to Make Pastry Cream
• How to Make Ganache
• How to Make a Simple Syrup
Good luck and please let us know how it turns out! Does anyone else have advice for Carolyn?
Related: Quick Tip: Freeze Pre-Baked Cake Rounds
(Image: Boston's Best Cream Pie by Ken Baily, available from $37.99 from AllPosters.com)
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What a conincidence! My husband had his birthday Tuesday and I make him a Boston Cream Pie to celebrate. The recipe I used was from a free copy of Cuisine at home that came in our mail the month before. It had a layer of yellow sponge cake, cream, a layer of chocolate sponge cake, cream, yellow cake and then was covered with a chocolate glaze. I might leave out the chocolate cake part next time as it overwhelmed the cream (my favorite part). The glaze was great. I would go with a chocolate glaze or the ganache over the whole cake. You can't go wrong.
My one cake baking tip is that a cake is done when you start to smell it. It always happens in my oven before the timer goes off.
Good luck and have a fun celebration! Happy Birthday to your boyfriend!
Whatever you do, do NOT use fondant. That stuff is nasty.
I'd use this recipe from Gale Gand:
Follow the directions and don't go with the tweaks in the comments.
Good luck!
My sister made the recipe from Martha Stewart's baking cookbook...it was pretty traditional and very delicious!
If you want to make Boston cream cupcakes instead, here's how I made them: http://the-cooking-of-joy.blogspot.com/2009/02/boston-cream-cupcakes.html


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ACCOMACK CO., Va. - An 82-year-old man has been indicted for reportedly embezzling from Onley Fire and Rescue volunteer fire company in Accomack County.
According to court documents, James Morris, of Onley, reportedly served as company treasurer, and allegedly committed the crimes for more than four and a half years between January 2008 and June 2012.
Morris was reportedly arrested on October 9th, but court records show his wife posted $1,000 cash bond the same day. The investigation dates back to February when the Board of Supervisors stopped making direct payments to the company, after noticing funding "irregularities."
Morris is scheduled to appear in Accomack General District Court for a hearing on Wednesday, October 23rd at 1:30 PM.


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The game is hard(ish) again. I agree with the previous poster who referenced the fact that in Wrath, even top tier raids had become a faceroll. Player got used to loot pinatas, cheap top -level enchants (lots of epics to DE every week depressed the price), and generally being able to clear the "hard" content in 3-4 hours or raiding. Now epics are either a 3 week long grind for VP or you actually have to learn how to complete an encounter. Coming from what I consider a small casual raiding guild (one 10m raid 3 nights/week for a few hours, we're 9/12 and started about a 6 weeks post expansion because our MT was moving and 2 of our healers were studying for finals), I think the encounters are fairly well tuned.
Personally, I love it. It's like a whole new game for me. I don't have a static 3 button rotation, CC matters, interrupts make or break an encounter, and fire is unforgiving. Blizzard made you pay attention again. Too bad so many people have short attention spans.
Honestly I think something similar to the ICC buff would be an equitable solution. Gradually increase the HP, damage done, and healing in 5% increments until BoT is a faceroll, Nefarian dies in 4 minutes, and Al'Akir can be spam healed. You've made the hardcore raiders happy by providing difficult content, catered to the midlevel groups by allowing them to have access to gear before the unwashed masses, and the unwashed masses get their titles and achievements and shiny purples so they feel special too.
Have you noticed that this thread's criticisms of raid difficulty focus on the human factor of raiding, how players enjoy the company of friends but frustration has endangered those ties — and not a single mention has been made of gear?
If you want "shiny purples" all to yourself for a few months, so be it. Hell, from the sound of things, you need to catch up to mine. But don't accuse others of your own fixation.


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Full Q&A with Jerry Olszewski
Jerry Oslzewski, the third and final candidate for the Augustana football coaching vacancy, visited with the Argus Leader in the chapel on the Augustana campus on Friday, which seemed somewhat appropriate.
Oslzewski quickly identified himself as a strong man of faith who sees his mission as mentoring and developing young people in addition to simply win football games.
That's not to say Oslzewski is overbearing in his religious convictions or that he came across as a square, but he has spent the last five seasons coaching at private, Division III St. Olaf College in Minnesota, an institution that is similar in profile to Augustana College. That makes the 44-year-old Oslzewski an attractive candidate, as he also boasts a 32-18 record at St. Olaf — including 15-5 the last two seasons.
While prior candidates David Brown and Daren Wilkinson seemed eager to sell themselves for the job, Oslzewski was far more reserved, seeming content to let his record speak for itself.
Q: Tell people a little about yourself.
A: I'm a pretty simple man — I'm a Christian man who loves to coach football, a husband and a father in that order. I've been married for 15 years and have three children. I've known I wanted to be a coach since I was in fifth or sixth grade.
Q: St. Olaf seems like a good job that's similar to Augustana. Why the interest?
A: The level of competition. The opportunity to get to compete at the next level. The resources are there to compete not only regionally but nationally. To be a part of maybe the best Division II conference in the country, and to be a part of a wonderful community that's a great place to raise a family. And the mission of the college is something I already have at St. Olaf so it wouldn't be a huge departure for me.
Q: Some people might be put off by St. Olaf being Division III, but you're in the MIAC, a pretty good league. Can you address any doubts people might have about the level of play at D3?
A: I'd love to talk to any of those people — I believe we play in the best conference in Division III. I have probably 10 kids on my team that could play for Augustana tomorrow. It's good football — very football. A lot of those kids had opportunities to go Division II. I spent nine years at Minnesota State so I know what it takes to be a successful student athlete at this level.
Q: Do you find yourself recruiting against D2 and NSIC schools often at St. Olaf?
A: All the time. Every day. Some of our best players had multiple Division II offers.
Q: Augustana has a new in-town rival in USF. St. Olaf also has an in-town rival (Carleton College). So you have some familiarity with what you'd potentially be getting into, right?
A: Yes, definitely. We do have a rival in our same conference and same town. It's big to alumni and big to our kids. I lost to them the first two years but we learned how to not let that happen again.
Q: Is that something you embrace? Some coaches try to treat it as just another game.
A: They're in our conference and in our division. It's a big game. Obviously it doesn't count any more or less than the other games, but it's for city bragging rights. It's exciting for both schools.
Q: Do you have a dream job?
A: No, there's not a dream job for me. It's just to be at a place where I can mold me into being the best they can be, and be better when they leave. If I'm in a place where I can do that and help them become great fathers and husbands then that's the right place for me.
Q: Let's say you had interest in a recruit who was very talented but has a public school background and doesn't have much involvement in his faith. Would you decide that kid was not the right fit for Augustana, or would you continue to pursue him?
A: Absolutely I would. I didn't have my faith at that time in my life. It comes at different times for everybody and I don't want to give up on one single kid. It's about celebrating the diversity of the school. I've had several players at St. Olaf who came to me with little no faith. One of the greatest things I've seen happen is their transition in growth in that time. If I'd gave up on them that wouldn't have happened. When that happens that's as special as winning the biggest game of the year.


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by Baruch Ben Daniel & Natanel Alent
© 2005
who enter into the Kingdom of Elohim are not to subscribe to pagan tradition, the Scripture says:
"A good name is better than precious ointment;
and the day of death than the day of one's birth."
Ecclesiastes 7:1
"Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?
But My people have changed their glory for that which does not profit."
Jeremiah 2:11
"That no flesh should glory in his presence."
1 Corinthians 1:29
"And again, YHWH knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Therefore let no man glory in men..."
1 Corinthians 3:20-21
The celebration of birthdays is a tradition that justifies the flesh, it is generally used as an excuse to eat foods of Babylon or do mundane and trivial activities for the sake of "amusement" that merit nothing for the world to come. Whenever pride and the flesh rise up in our souls, Truth and Sobriety for the Word and Spirit of YHWH takes the back seat. Although some politely choose not to celebrate birthdays, their family or friends push the issue and try to impose their will. Perhaps some feel a need to give recognition, hoping you will return the favor? Perhaps some want to indebt you, so you feel obligated to recognize their birthday? Do we want recognition to come, from YHWH or from men? It might be good to determine why some feel celebrating birthdays is of such vital importance?
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Health coaching, also referred to as wellness coaching, is a process that facilitates healthy, sustainable behavior change by challenging a client to listen to their inner wisdom, identify their values, and transform their goals into action. Health coaching draws on the principles of positive psychology and the practices of motivational interviewing and goal setting.[1][2] The terms "health coaching" and "wellness coaching" are used interchangeably.
Coaching involves a conversation where one person listens and then advises another person on any subject matter.[1] Over time this term has been used for coaches in education, athletics and music. Through his book The Inner Game of Tennis,[3] Tim Gallwey changed the perspective of coaching when he shifted the focus of coaching. Rather than teaching a skill or technique, his process encouraged individuals to explore their inner strength and wisdom, improving their confidence and making changes and improvements from within. Health coaching is embedded in psychology, social work, nursing, eastern philosophy, holistic health and wellness management fields.
The roots of health coaching began with psychologists treating persons addicted to alcohol.[4] In the early 1990s, The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism conducted a study that compared several methods of treatment for alcohol addiction. They included: cognitive behavioral therapy, a twelve-step program approach similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, and motivational interviewing.
The findings demonstrated that while all were equally effective, motivational interviewing was more cost effective and timelier in reaching the desired results.
Due to the success of this project and others, researchers have been keenly interested in using this approach and studying how its use may affect health behavior change in persons with chronic conditions. Studies are likely to continue in this arena as this is a relatively new approach for many healthcare providers.
There are many people seeking help for various situations and in 2009 the largest category of coaching was that of health, fitness and wellness, with a combined 83.7 millions listings. The importance of a health coach is widely needed as well as guidelines to properly counsel somebody in the area of health and fitness.
To fully appreciate and understand health coaching, one must be aware of the process.
The process starts with engagement. Engagement and building trust with client is established by building rapport. Many factors are included in this process. Essential traits to building rapport includes genuineness, eye contact, good energy, warmth, good quality of voice, a feeling of connectedness, being comfortable and relaxed in the exchange, mindful listening, being supportive and positive body language and physical gestures. Rapport is fundamental in the initial coaching session but must also be sustained in each coaching session. Although rapport is important, a coach may want to avoid becoming too close with client. Becoming too close to a client can create a barrier for a successful coaching process by being too emotionally attached, having a personal agenda and falling into assumptions based on personal relationship or experience.[1]
Once a coach has established rapport, building strong communication strategies is essential. An effective tool used in health and wellness coaching and other clinical work is motivational interviewing. Motivational interviewing is a process used in psychotherapy, social work, medicine, addiction, coaching and other fields. The basis for support of this method is that motivational interviewing provides motivation to shape the knowledge obtained which encourages behavior change. Research shows knowledge alone does not promote change; but when motivation is added to the equation, change is likely to occur.[5][6][7]
Motivational Interviewing is also characterized by a focus on the present rather than the past. There is an emphasis on communication that is conducted with clients concentrating on internal motivating factors and an exploration of individual core values an goals. This allows the client to express their desire to change their lifestyle and identify it themselves rather than having it come from the health coach.[8]
A wellness vision is a creative statement by client that reveals his/her highest potential and can include physical, emotional, social, spiritual and financial realms of one's life. A new life vision empowers one to see new possibilities along with a specific and clear direction, which can be manifested through inner creativity, wisdom and power. It allows one to activate their imagination and then think, feel, speak and ultimately see the manifestation of their unified highest potential to manifest. A wellness vision is a tool coach uses to help client move to new levels of wellbeing by connecting client to the truth and wisdom within.[1]
The manifestation of a wellness vision is done through the process of goal setting. Goal setting is a collaborative behavior change technique used between the coach and the client. During the motivational interviewing process, after strengths, values and desires are determined and client's vision is set in place, specific goals are set so client is able to move in the direction of his/her newly formed desires.[9]
Goals promote behavior change through a collaborative process, which includes the coach making a plan to follow up and evaluate progress. The coach can help the client focus on the success the client has had, even if goal is not yet achieved. Evaluating strengths and what is successful helps the client move forward. Positive feedback helps the client progress and move through any negative self-talk, ambivalence, resistance and other hurdles. Although self-regulation is a powerful behavior change tool, client may lapse. When coach promotes the principles of positive psychology and goal setting through the motivational interviewing process, the coach helps the client continue to improve self-efficacy, which supports behavior change.[7][10]
Coaching and psychotherapy both are rooted in person-centered psychology. Today many therapists are now coaching or have practices where they concurrently are practicing both disciplines. Both coaching and psychotherapy take place in individual and group sessions. Both are catalyst for change driven by the desire of the client for improved health. Both use similar methods of inquiry. A clear difference between psychotherapy and coaching is therapy focuses on a problem while coaching focuses on the solution, driven by client's inner strength and wisdom.[1][11]
Social workers are skilled in the field of helping individuals overcome obstacles that inhibit their growth potential.[12] Both coaching and social work fall under the mental health field. Coaching and social work have similar elements. Both practices rely on motivational interviewing. Both are focused on the client being the expert, and both work with the client without judgment allowing the client to be in the driver seat. The essential difference between social work and coaching is that social work is more oriented to the client's relationship to community life and social ethics, whereas coaching is focused on an individual's personal dreams, desires and goals.[5][13]
The traditional approach to patient teaching and education is one that directs information "at" the patient. In essence, the goal is to have the patient do the things prescribed for them to do. Healthcare professionals have the knowledge about disease processes, exercise guidelines, special diets, and medications that must be imparted to the patient and caregivers in many forms: booklets, pamphlets, audio CD's,and the like.[14]
Several Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) are now using health coaches as a selling point for their health care services. Healthcare professionals that are entering the field of health coaching may include counselors, social workers, health education specialists, nutritionists, psychologists, nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nursing case managers, occupational therapists, and Oriental medicine practitioners.
Several studies have shown health coaching to be effective in improving various aspects of health. One study on type 2 diabetes concludes that after 6 months, individuals who were coached showed improvement in medication adherence. Coaching had a positive effect on patient's knowledge, skill, self-efficacy and behavior change while an non-coached control group did not show any improvement. Additionally, coached participants with a hemoglobin A1C over 7% showed significant improvement in A1C.[15]
A study on coronary heart disease indicated that patients in a coaching program achieved a significantly greater change in total cholesterol of 14 mg/dl than the non-coached patients, with a considerable reduction in LDL-C. Those involved in the coaching program showed improvements in secondary outcomes such as weight loss, increased exercise, improved quality of life, less anxiety, and improvement in overall health and mood.[16]
Another study shows that telephonic coaching is an effective program for assisting individuals with self-efficacy and weight loss. Confidence to lose weight increased from a baseline of 60% to 3 months 71%, 6 months 76% and 12 months 79%. The average BMI significantly decreased during this interactive coaching study. Average Baseline was 32.1%, and then documented at 3 months (31.4%), 6 months (31.0%), 12 months (30.6%).[17]
A study on tobacco cessation concluded that after 12 months, the coached participants had a 32% quit rate compared to 18% for nonparticipants. Those that participated in the program, who acknowledged that they were ready for change, had the highest rate of quitting at 44%. Additionally, 11% of participants who did not quit reported reduction in tobacco use. This is considered a positive outcome because other studies have shown that when individuals reduce their tobacco use they find increase motivation to quit in the future.[18]


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A History Brief Norwegian National Language
Norsk is the official language in Norway. It is also spoke in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Canada, UK and the USA. Norwegian Literature, mainly historical prose and poetry flourished between the 9th to 14th.This was mostly West Norse. Immediately after this, Norway was under Swedish rule and later on Danish Rule. At this time, the Norwegian language was still under use even though Danish was still the official language, both in higher education and as a literary language.
In 1814, Norway officially separated from Denmark. Despite this, Danish continued to be used for scholarly purposes until in 1831 when a movement rose to create a official national language for Norway. The main drive behind this movement was that written Danish differed significantly from spoken Norwegian making it hard to learn. Norsk was therefore picked up as the official Language for Norway. There are however different version of spoken Norsk some of which have Danish influence.


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About every six months to a year, I start to think about why I started writing on Squidoo and how far I have come. For those of you who do not know my story, I began writing to help support the back end of my gallery, Lake Erie Artists Gallery, hence the name lakeerieartists.
Between the economy and the nature of the art business, it is hard to maintain a regular business cycle in an art gallery. Art buying comes after pretty much everything else, because it is considered an extra or a luxury item, so if you are trying to make sure you have enough money to feed your family, you will not spend much on art. Therefore, I am always looking for ways to help stabilize the income of the gallery to pay for regular expenses like rent.
It has taken me some time to establish myself online, and it has not been my primary business. The funniest thing of all about it, is that I have an English degree and have always liked to write, but never did it professionally. So I can say now that I am in my 4th year of writing online, that I have become successful, way beyond my beliefs of what I could do at the beginning.
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This is Tripod she has been living in the pond between the seventh and eighth holes at Habitat Golf Club for a long time. I walked within 5 feet of her today before realizing she was there. They call her Tripod because she only has three legs missing the left front. Still she gets around.
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Peripheral Review: Plantronics RIG Gaming Headset w/ Mixer
Up until now, if you were gaming away and received a phone call, the process you would have to go through to answer the call would be rather tedious. You'd have to pause your game, answer the call, chat away, then continue your game however many minutes later. I don't know about most…
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I am establishing a few static IP addresses within my home network for ADT Pulse, NAS (which hopefully my Macs will now 'see'), a wireless printer, my Vonage box and a webcam which I've not yet purchased.
I've just changed the range of my DHCP generated IP addresses to begin with ...10 instead of ...2 and plan to assign the static IP addresses in this low range of numbers.
I can see how to change IP addresses generated by DHCP to 'static'. No problem. But when I try to add static IP addresses for these devices connected via DHCP previously, I am getting the following error message:
"MAC Address already exists in Wireless Broadband Router's database."
I removed the entries in the DHCP connection list...but how do I remove the MAC addresses from the router database? Do I have to wait for the DHCP lease to expire as well?
Thank you in advance for some insight into IP addressing within this router.
01-19-2013 07:06 PM - edited 01-19-2013 07:07 PM
A few thoughts:
Check the ARP list from the advanced menu. You may find the offending entry there
Reboot the router, this may clear the database.
I gave up on trying to establish static IP entries outside of the DHCP range. Instead, I assign static DHCP entries. This way, I don't have to configure anything on the devices, they just use DHCP and don't care that they get the same address every time. The trick is to go to the DHCP connection list on the router, first set a device to static DHCP, then name it, then change the IP address. You may need to reset the device as well.
I've got the first 20 or so IP addresses of the DHCP range (192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.20) set to static DHCP. This covers all the devices in my home; printers, servers, and user devices. If I have temporary devices on my network (say from a friend or device I'm testing), they get a dynamic IP address. With this setup, I can easily see when a device has an active DHCP lease, which gives me some idea if it has recently been online. This is a helpful network management tool.
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Skipping Stones Designs sketch
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Dear Father
Skipping Stones Designs sketch
Posted by Riley at 10:26 AM
Labels: everyday button bits, well scripted
11 comments:
- Kelly Braund said...
Super cute! Love the colors, too!
- June 14, 2011 at 4:53 PM
- Crafty Math Chick said...
Nice job with the sketch, those colors really do go nicely together.
- June 14, 2011 at 7:04 PM
- Allison said...
Fabulous father's day card! Love the colours and embellishments!
- June 14, 2011 at 8:59 PM
- Kim P said...
Very cute! Love how you used the buttons for the balloons!
- June 15, 2011 at 10:44 AM
- E.T said...
This I LOVEEE! So adorable, gorgeous and elegant too!
- June 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM
- Patchi said...
What a great card! I love how you used the buttons for the balloons! Thanks for joining the Party this week and I hope to see more cards from you soon!
- June 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Danie May said...
This is too cute! I love your use of the buttons for the Balloons and the colour combo is fabulous too! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Party Time Tuesdays this week and Good Luck.
Danie - PTT Design Team
- June 18, 2011 at 3:29 AM
- Barb's Boys Inspired said...
LOVE this card, and I love what you did with the ribbon! I love how you used the color scheme too. Thanks for playing along at Skipping Stones Design!
- June 19, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- Sharon Caudle said...
Beautiful card, Riley! Love the use of buttons! Thanks so much for joining us at Papertake Weekly! Hope you're able to join us again soon! Hugs! Sharon
- June 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM
- Jingle said...
Very cute card! Pretty colors!
- June 20, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- ~amy~ said...
perfect-o! Thanks for joining us at Skipping Stones!
- June 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM


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You can buy Apple Mac, iPod and iPads at a range of Retail stores around Australia.
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Its perfectly okay to buy products from Authorized Apple Stores because:
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Q&A: Can I take Lortab while 28 weeks pregnant?
I have been perscribed Lortab for both headaches and back problems and I've been taking two pills a day for a little over a month. The other day when I went to the pharmacist to fill the perscription he told me I was hurting the baby and asked if I'd ever heard of crack babies! I need to know if I can continue to take this or if I'm putting/put my son in jeopardy. Please help me! I'm 28 weeks pregnant.
Certainly a sustained dose of narcotics can lead to withdrawal in your baby after birth. That having been said, Lortab isn't a particulary heavy hitter in this arena. But if I were your doctor I would try to figure out another plan for the chronic pain, or at least a drug you can alternate with, since exposure could last another 10-14 weeks. This may pose a difficult task, though. Physical therapy can sometimes alleviate back problems that could allow you to ditch the narcotics. Re: the headaches, a neurologist can evaluate you to see what kind you have and that could help guide your OB into what medicines to recommend.


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Philadelphia Flyers center Brayden Schenn will have the first meeting of the NHL season with Brendan Shanahan for this monstrous hit on Devils defenseman Anton Volchenkov: No penalty was called on the play. I don't think he'll receive a suspension for this hit, but he may be the first player fined under the rule of the new CBA which states: "Permissible fines for on-ice infractions increased to an amount up to 50 percent of the Player's Paragraph 1 NHL Salary and Bonuses (not including Performance Bonuses) divided by the number of days in the Regular Season and may not exceed $10,000 on a first-time basis, and $15,000 on a second and subsequent time basis (determined in accordance with a rolling 12-month period). All fines above $5,000 are subject to the hearing procedure accorded to Players subject to suspension not exceeding five (5) Games." Via TSN var conf_57407 = { APIKey: '2_N1YlfjHIEAtyRAK3CAYRE5a1aBuANuMOCLc_7hsOQ13HnwCrW_u-6OuDhjC7vR06 ', lang : '...
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Sony PS3 and Video On Demand – How To Kill A Brand.
Found this funny video (below), thanks to Mike Abundo, that pokes fun at Sony and the PS3 for the fact that they seem to have very little focus or strategy that is working for the PS3. You may have seen the announcement that Sony plans to launch an on-demand high-definition video service in Japan for PlayStation 3 early next year, according to Japanese press reports. As Mike points out, maybe they could focus first on getting some good games out first?
Below is an online video that pokes fun at Sony's lack of focus: How to Kill a Brand by Sarcastic Gamer. I doubt they will be offering this video on demand for the PS3


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Hello Kitty Taser Gun is a cute little weapon
Taser guns are supposed to be badass, they are after all a weapon. So when Hello Kitty features on a taser gun, you have to think what are they doing by making a self defense weapon this cute? Not that I'm complaining, I like seeing Hello Kitty anywhere and everywhere. Maybe it will make the girls feel more secure to have the pretty kitty on a weapon, who knows. Their attackers would never guess that this cute gun holds 50,000 volts of electricity. It's a version of the Taser C2, a unique weapon that uses "propelled wires to conduct energy to affect the sensory and motor functions of the nervous system." Not only can this baby shoot 15 feet of insulated conductive wire, but it can also be used as a direct contact stun device. Well, I'm hoping Hello Kitty plays a role in keeping us girls safe, but this may just be a gag.
not real? *sobbs* I want it so bad theres gottat be a way to get it made like that


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Materialized views (mviews) have been part of Oracle for along time, before Oracle 8 they went under the name snapshots and indeed some of the current dictionary tables refer to the old name. Common uses of mviews are to replicate data and to summarise data. It's this second use I'll write about here.
Firstly a small rant about words associated with materialized views.
- They are not views, they are physical tables that take storage, and there is no such statement as create or replace materialized view foo as …
- The word "fast" as is fast refresh is not always (possibly, never) true.
A good source of notes on mviews in a DW or BI context David Aldridge's OracleSponge blog. In my opinion you could stop reading here and go straight to him.
Oh, you are still here.
Mviews for summary management is a still evolving subject. The things that can be accomplished with mviews has increased version on version since those 8i days at the end of the last century; query rewrite has become more and more sophisticated and degree of complexity that can be accommodated by fast refresh as also increased.
Creating MVIEWS
Oracle gives two fundamental options to create a mview; create the whole object in the create (including allocating its storage) or registering an existing table as a mview by providing just the query definition and refresh clauses. I favour using pre-built tables and registering them as it allows me to separate thinking about storage (and partitioning) from the query definition used for maintenance and query rewrite, it allows me to be more exotic in the way I structure tables – I have even used Index organised materialized views in the past. But perhaps the most important thing is that it allows you to drop a mview with out loosing its content, and for big summary this could be important. I hear that 11g will have an option to drop a mview without the loss of the underlying table, I do hope this feature makes production
Maintaining MVIEWS
The other area to consider is how the mview is to be refreshed. This basically falls into three options on how it is done: NEVER which means that you have to do it yourself, COMPLETE which as the name implies replaces all of the content of the mview using the defining query as the SQL, and FAST which adds new information and updates changed information (in reality, there is fourth option, FORCE which is also the default – it is "do fast if possible otherwise complete"). You also have options on when it refreshes: ON DEMAND is completely in your control, ON COMMIT refresh is triggered when a change is committed to the defining tables and scheduled using the START WITH and NEXT clauses. I am firmly convinced that the only sensible option is on demand, on-commit is plain silly with fast changing OLTP sources or even batch processes with multiple commits for the various source tables. Scheduled refresh only uses time to control the activity – this could be a problem if the refresh is fired off before the underlying data has been loaded
As I mentioned before fast is not always quick as we have to go through several hoops to implement it and at the end of the day we are applying updates to many records. We need to implement mview logging on the source tables to detect changes, which will add an overhead to maintenance of those tables. We need to add extra columns to materialized view to contain various counts and sums to allow the speedy calculation of changes and we need to mark that the logged change has been applied. And of course this is a row-by-row change which will contraindicate the use of features such as compression and readonly tablespaces. Also we have no real concept of how much change is to be applied in the update is this just going to affect ten rows or are we going to hit every row in the table. Finally, fast refresh can not cope with complex SQL, it just will not work in every case.
I also do not like complete refreshes. In a DW most data is historic and unchanged so why rebuild it? The complete refresh is all or nothing – it will delete the existing rows (truncate in a limited set of circumstances) then build the whole thing as a single statement with of course massive impact on the storage needs for sorting the intermediate result set, it does not know about the expedience of disabling bitmap indexes until the build is complete (and even if did it could get caught out by a quirk of truncate table and disabled indexes) So for me the only way to go is DIY


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The Havanese breed is uniquely tied to Cuba. The name of the breed is actually derived from the famed seaport Havana was the modern variation of the breed originates. The Havanese is greatly loved in their home country and as you will see from this piece they have long been an integral part many upper class homes in that country. The Havanese is still recognized as the national dog of Cuba.
The Havanese made their way to Cuba from the Spanish island of Tenerife. When Spain conquered the island of Cuba they brought with them the sea faring dogs which were the ancestors of the dog now known as the Havanese. When the dogs first arrived in Cuba they were known as the Havanese Silk Dog or Blanquito de la Hablana.
Because of the good natured spirit of the Havanese combined with the luxurious coat and a very nicely defined face they soon become popular with the wealthy upper classes on the island. The Havanese was popular not only for their lovely appearance but also for their intelligence. The Havanese is a very smart dog that is capable of following commands and performing tricks for its owners. In fact the Bichon breed has been employed as circus performers for hundreds of years. Thanks to this knack for performing tricks the Havanese could do dances for their owners to entertain them.
The Havanese proved so popular that they were considered a natural accessory to any well established family home. However in the 1900's the breed starting to become less popular with the wealthy of Cuba.
The reason for the decline of the breed in Cuba was due to the rise of the influence of America in Cuba. Up until 1900 Cuba was mostly under the influence of Spain. Wealthy Cubans on the island did most of their business with Spain and look towards Spain for its fashion influences. The Spanish were lovers of the Bichon lapdogs and this is what proved popular with the Cubans as well.
After 1900 however The United States start to grow in influence over the island. Trade and investment between the two nations grew and more and more wealthy Cubans took their cues from America. At this point the Havanese was not yet popular in the North America and so the Cubans also started to lose interest in their previously beloved dog.
While the Havanese may have lost its status amongst the elite it found a home amongst more common households. Out of favor with the wealthy the intelligent and affectionate Havanese were adopted by commoners. The breed is still popular in Cuba today and saw a massive resurgence during the 1990's.
The Havanese has close ties to this day to the country from which it both takes its name and originates from. Cubans have a deep reservoir for this most favored of breeds. The fortunes of the Havanese have mirrored that of the island itself. First rising to pre eminence amongst the islands elite, then falling out of favor, only to see their star rise once again.


text: The Michigan-Ohio State rivalry burns hot all year long and the latest tussle goes to the Buckeyes. Even though the 2013 recruiting class isn't finished, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer continues to work on the 2014 recruiting class. Highly regarded 2014 cornerback prospect Damon Webb committed to the Buckeyes. Webb goes to Cass Tech in Detroit. He is the second verbal commitment for the Buckeyes in 2014.