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Virtually every job in America requires potential employees to undergo a preliminary background check, many require a drug test, and some may even mandate candidates to submit to a credit check. In the property preservation industry, employers preform rigorous background checks to protect the interest of their business, the clients they serve and the consumers they may impact. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Office of the Comptroller of Currency have established various background check regulatory guidelines to mitigate the risk involved with vendors securing and maintaining homes. The National Association of Mortgage Field Servicers has even gone as far to establish a standard for industry background checks.
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I'm training to get into the police and to do that I need to be able to run 1.5 miles in 12-14 minutes (12 being the target and 14 being the cut off). They usually take you for a mile gentle run to warm up too, so realistically I have to sustain the higher pace after a mile gentle run.
I've worked out my target to be about 8 minute miles, but I currently operate more around 10. I just took a month off after my graduation due to injury so I was pretty worried the fitness would have faded, but happily managed 4.5miles in ~45 mins the other day doing run walk 10:1.
I've tried making my own fartlek and interval training plans, but to be honest they're a mishmash of all the random stuff I've read/heard about and I'm not sure they're really working! I was wondering if anyone knows of any clear training plans out there to improve your speed over roughly 2 mile distance, or if there are any easy(ish) to remember rules of thumb for speed training? Has anyone tried Laura's SPEED workout and is it any good?
There's a deadline coming up for the autumn intake that I'm sorely tempted by (would love to get out of my current job!) but if I fail the fitness test then I have to wait 6 months before I can reapply which is risky as it would mean being tied to my current job for another 6 months! If I could make significant improvements over the next 3 months I'd stand a chance of being eligible for the spring intake.
What do you experienced runners think? Am I being too ambitious in too short a time scale?


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Dear Friends,
Let's clear the airways and throats of the obvious question; where the blazes have you been and what happened to the blog? 'Nuff said, I went astray in life for some free willy, careless adventure into something less desired by all, to say the least. Anyway, let's see what's different (as per myself or the world I became for a moment sensible of the surroundings)…
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#1 – The days as expected blazed through like it was a short weekend. I thought we were all still in 2010 but 2012 just popped out magically. The short naps and dozes in life I took finally added up to some two years! It shows that what may be little, can be accumulate each day and night until it become a sort of voluminous 'debt' and haunting one shamelessly. Take care what is small now and never underestimate a thimble against yon mountain!
#2- I found out rather amusingly that people are weird creatures and enjoy pretending to attain something but in truth, we yearn the other. Love and hate are quite synonymous rather than being plainly antonymous. Not in definition but in what these two words signify. In fact, almost (in general) all things in life that seemingly being in opposite to one another are quite interestingly of the same thing. Take for example my humble abode in dreamy CarJunk. I actually hated it here with all the nosy and self-assuming neighbours that enjoy pecking into others' life without batting an eye to their own atrocious way life. But as soon as that hatred begins to envelop me and I decided to move (to the greener side), a strange sense of love for this place began to pester me otherwise.
All manner and things how silly or beneath notice, caught my attention and nudge me (begging more like) to stay. Call it nostalgia or complacent. It hit me like some big fat hand slapping on my forehead. For everything that is so-called positive or negative in its nature, actually are of the same thing. It's just a different side of the same coin. One then may not chose a side without the other. And so we all learnt about magnets; both of its equator are opposite (different/dissimilar/against each other) and yet they ATTRACT each other. Velcros come to mind as is the rather boring and cliched ying and yang thingy.
Well, Einstein, eureka I would say as though the world wasn't made privy to this 'revelation'. Now, I wrote this up not as another attempt to state the obvious. My point is, do we really understand the exact ramification of such contradicting but proven nonetheless fact of life? Getting back at my convoluted accommodation situation, who wouldn't want a better place to live? Strangely is do you realise that, that yearning for a great place to live is actually a stark contrast to nature itself. You know that for every GREAT place, it will also have a NIGHTMARISH aspect to it.
We yearn for say, riches but you know that it comes also with a heavy price not only to achieve it, but also to handle it. Great food = terribly unhealthy / pricey. Great car = hefty maintenance. Great job = doesn't exist! In short and in reality, what we all want are not the great stuff but the horrible and worst things in life! So why in whatever, do mankind ever want that? Now who's eccentric… I mean really?
#3- I bought myself a pal hehehe… in the shape of an Asus laptop. It's lip smacking and choked with an Intel Core i5-2430M (2.4Ghz), 8 Gb RAM, 640Gb hard disk and superbly fast GeForce GT555m (2Gb)! It also sports an astounding Bang & Olufsen ICEpower laptop speakers. I may not know what is Bang and Olufsen but if they are people, then Mr. Bang and Mr. Olufsen this set of speakers is a job well done indeed!
4#- Books and books! My house if filling to the brim with books and more. I wish though these book fairs would also sell me some of those vouchers but not for books; I want time and lots of it! People will pay for it handsomely I expect, if we could at least chip in a few extra hours if not days to our lifespan. But then again, if we had those, probably kids nowadays will sell it anyway on eBay or facebook! In fact, kids today would sell almost anything on the net. Sheesh I shudder the mind of young 'uns today!
Okay, I think that's enough of my views to pollute and corrupt the masses. I leave the rest of you sane lot to be led astray by Facebook hahaha (okay that wasn't nice or funny!). Oh, I expanded my disjointed view of the world to Facebook but it's just an experiment on the minds of people and myself too. It was great but all too cliched sadly. I will post its results soon enuff insya Allah.
Thanks again for reading this thrash. Verily EPI is a place where I dump my corroded thinking for other to enjoy! Now, I am going back to whatever but I hope to see you all soon! Take care!
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Pictures from cultural day at St Rose High School
Girls' traditional dance.
This is a picture of the H. S. principal; he's wearing a traditional blanket
A picture of the boys marching to Peka in traditional garb on the cultural day at St Rose High School
Two of the many H.S. girls in the Lesotho hat.
Girls drumming on a bucket.
Boys' traditional dance.
Another picture of the march from the H.S. to the chief's house in Peka. The boys are in traditional dress.You can see the one tarred road in the background. The dirt road we're on is like the ones I walk every day.
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A few weeks ago the boys and I were looking on pinterest for a fun experiment we could do together but sadly we were fresh out of any and all ingredients required for said experiments. And, I just wasn't feeling up for a grocery store run...because whoa is me to have to actually be bothered to put on clothes and drive five minutes up the road to purchase liquid starch and clear glue.
In all seriousness Stacey was hunting and I'd pretty much rather stick needles in my eyes than take all four of my precious blessings to the store together. That may make me weak, and really an unfit mother of four, but there is only so much time I can spend in this life inserting buddy bucks into the HEB slot machine while my sanity hangs in the balance.
Anyway, they were satisfied with some blank Lego guy printables and went to work recreating all the Lego Ninjago characters with very precise detail.
I couldn't believe how long they were engaged in this activity or how nicely they worked together as supervisor and account executive. :)


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Finished Project: Wee Fighting Mitts
Pattern: Sock Yarn Newborn Mittens
Begin Date: 03/14/2010
End Date: 03/14/2010
Yarn: Deborah Norville Serenity Sock - Aquamarine
Needles: US 1
Size: Newborn
Modifications: None
These worked up super fast. I was a bit confused when the designed said it was a garter stitch cuff, when in fact the instructions are for a ribbed cuff, but whatever, they are super cute.
The color choice could easily work for a boy or a girl and I did not have a gender in mind when I knit them. I just grabbed some random sock yarn and got started.
I worked these up duirng a Penguin's hockey game..and a little Avalanche too, hence the name.
I used a US 1 (2.25mm) and I think the pattern called for a 2.5mm, but really I don't know that a quarter millimeter would make a huge difference.
I don't know that a ribbon or tie is needed as they didn't fall off the model. Perhaps though if little mouths and wiggly movements were involved, Mom might want to tie these on. I need to make either longer chains for find some coordinating ribbon (my preference).
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Plastic-Free February: Day 2
1: Not buying or acquiring new plastic.
2: Not cooking with plastic or storing food in plastic.
3: Minimizing all other plastic use.
The easy bit for me is #2. I don't ever microwave in plastic. (Say what you will, I believe plastic does leach while cooking in the microwave. And I just don't want to take any chances, especially with my young son. Plus it's just as easy to microwave food in a glass or ceramic container.)
I think I am going to struggle most with not buying new plastic. For breakfast, my son wanted his organic yogurt, conveniently packaged in individual portions. Now I could just buy him yogurt from a large tub - or in keeping with the theme - I could challenge myself to make my own yogurt. Heck, Martha Stewart has a recipe. http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/perfect-homemade-yogurt (Although you have to cover it to set in...wait for it...PLASTIC wrap!) We could also reuse the yogurt containers to make cute seed planters!
So does anyone have any recommendations for what to do about this?
For tomorrow: Tackling our Toothbrushes.
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There are couple of brands (I believe, or there at least used to be) that deliver in glass???ReplyDelete
This is indeed a very tricky one!
Hi there-ReplyDelete
So glad to have you on the challenge! It's definitely tough, but worth sticking with to see just how much plastic we use on a daily basis.
For yogurt tips- check out what Rodale.com's Nickel Pincher has to say about making your own. It's not as tough as you think!
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Friday, September 3, 2010
After looking back at the guns I've made over such a long time,
I've been thinking about getting something new for a change.
For those still waiting for the M82, I am sorry.
All the parts have been completed except for the bolt and rear recoil spring.
Photos of those parts seem impossible to find, even on the Internet.
So those who have a real-steel Barrett M82 at home,
I ask for your help and snap me a few side view photos of the parts.
You can then host the image and drop me a link via comment.
Now to the point.
I've read through several brochures from Wacom,
and I've taken interest in their display-tablets...
Namely the Wacom Cintiq 21UX - or the Cintiq 12WX if I'm still too broke for it.
It sure is freakin expensive, so help me out on the Adsense income
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...better still ( e-begging detected :P )
donate via Paypal!
Not to sound like a total arsehole,
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Guess not :P
Skipper, over and out!
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- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 11:26 AM
Have you tried contacting Barrett Firearms?ReplyDelete
Did you look at the exploded view on Barrett's website?ReplyDelete
If this is not good enough you can always go to their forums and request a pic
I think this might be useful?
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2010 at 1:54 PM
this isnt the best and correct for PMG, but it might help you out. you can see the recoil spring but not the right ride of the bolt.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2010 at 2:02 PM
heres another link to the M82 bolt. skip to page 12 for a rough pic of the bolt.ReplyDelete
I don't know if this is helpful, but try thisReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2010 at 5:14 AM
Hey skipper, here are two links for the M82. On the first one skip to page 14 (12 in the actual manual) for a rough pic of the bolt. The second link shows the recoil spring, but the wrong side of the bolt.ReplyDelete
Hope this helped. Cant wait for the update, but no rush. Keep up the great work!
- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2010 at 7:30 AM
It's alright Skip, don't be too hard on yourself.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2010 at 11:24 AM
yeah, have you tried contacting Barret?ReplyDelete
Hey Skipper, here are two links for the M82. The first one shows a pic of the recoil spring, but the wrong side of the bolt. The second link shows a rough pic of the bolt on the 14th page (pg 12 in the actual manual).ReplyDelete
Hopefully this can help you out. Keep up the great work. Cant wait for this update (no rush though).


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1. Joanna (Polish, studying in China, living in Beijing.)
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NCEA Special Assessment Conditions
IEAG has prepared a response to the Review of Special Assessment Conditions for NCEA.
The Ministry of Education's and NZQA's review of the Special Assessment Conditions for NCEA is in relation to students who have permanent or long term medical, sensory, physical or learning difficulties that they believe will impair their performance in internal and specified external assessment.
The review will look at equity of access to special assessment conditions, the effectiveness of support provided, the capacity of schools to manage special assessment condition requirements, the efficiency of systems for managing applications and the impact of technology on assessment.
IEAG's response can be read here.
Our response drew on Kia Orite -Achieving Equity, the New Zealand Code of Practice for an Inclusive Tertiary Education Environment for Students with Impairments, developed by the student organisation Achieve.
Information on Special Assessment Conditions for NCEA can be found on the Ministry of Education website
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My expectation was a bunch of suits with a PowerPoint presentation talking about statistics, perhaps finding a way to pass the buck. My expectation was that there would have been very little real change. My expectation was that Maple Leaf Foods would portray themselves as any other faceless, cold corporation.
I was wrong.
Keep in mind when Love (my youngest son) died from a bacterial infection he got from the hospital there were 6 hospital reviews. I sat in meetings with hospital staff who were cold and skated around issues. They lied and contradicted themselves often. My experience told me this round table would be the same, but it wasn't.
As Sharon began to speak what became apparent was the heart of this company. You could see the human side, that everyone was deeply affected by the tragedy that had passed and that the heart of this company was to ensure nothing like this happens again.
Well and not just that it doesn't happen within Maple Leaf Foods again, but that lives aren't lost over this within any company. There have been other outbreaks in Canada since 2008 within different companies and it was refreshing to see that Maple Leaf takes that step to contact the companies to share what they have learned to prevent this from occurring again. They truly are doing everything they can to be the global leaders in this area.
When my son died I can tell you for 100% that the hospital was not following protocol and that is what ultimately led to his death. With Maple Leaf I have to say people need to know, they were following protocol. They were doing everything they were supposed to and yet this tragedy still occurred.
You may not be aware of this but the slicer that was spreading the listeria, it was being cleaned to manufacturers specs. There was one small seal, about the size of a loony, that they were told if they broke the entire machine would not be covered by warranty. Behind that one little seal laid the culprit that was spreading this deadly bacteria.
How easy it would have been to have laid all responsibility with the manufacturer of this piece of equipment.
This is where my respect comes in. They took responsibility. Maple Leaf foods had the courage that seems all but forgotten these days to stand up and say, I am sorry.
How could I not respect a company that can accept responsibility when something goes wrong even after everything they did was right? Especially after I watched the hospital do everything wrong and never accept responsibility, only make excuses and lie.
My readers did ask a few questions and I would like to answer those now.
They are transported by refrigeration trucks. Many of these trucks have temperature recorders in them to ensure they maintain a healthy temperature. Some companies such as Walmart have a protocol that they are to take the temperature upon receiving any goods.How are products transported?
How are staff trained?Maple Leaf Foods is currently piloting a new training system that works kind of like a Wii. Each staff is given a controller and they are asked a question or given a scenario and they need to use their controller to select the correct answer. If one of them gets it wrong a second similar question or scenario is given to try again. Instructors know who answered which questions right or wrong and are then able to work with them on that. Oh and apparently there is a lightening round at the end!
Wow way to keep it interactive and make sure everyone is paying attention!
Oh yes and if you are curious there is annual training for all employees or more often as needed. As well there is a weekly 10 minute safety meeting each week.
How do you connect with stores to ensure things on their end are done correctly?OK I have something much lengthier written out but I was writing so fast even I can't read it lol sorry! I can tell you they have presentations with the different stores such as Overwaiti
What has changed and why were these things not being done before?This one is long so I'm going to use the point system.
-Slicers all replaced
-Visual Pinpoints
-Physical Barriers between stations to help prevent any spreading
-120,000 tests performed last year (that's 70,000 more than CFIA required)
-8:30am everyday there is a phone call that takes place to talk about test results from previous day
-Ethics phone line in place for employees in case they have concerns
There was more that I'm not going into right now but if you want more details follow this link
Before this outbreak they were following everything they were supposed to, as it turns out Canadian Food processors haven't been under a lot of stringent code, there perhaps hadn't been the need until now. Maple Leaf has been hunting down to learn more about best practices to ensure this doesn't happen again within any organization.
Did you do anything for the families of those who died or for those that got sick?While they were unable to openly to discuss this I can say that there was a lawsuit settlement for both the families who lost someone and also for those who had lost wages from the illness.
What measures are in place to keep everyone accountable and following protocol?With rigorous testing in place they are able to keep a close eye on employees. They did things like set up an ethics phone line for any employee who notices that perhaps someone isn't following protocol. If someone isn't playing by the rules it's simple, they are fired. Public safety comes first.
Maple Leaf Foods is claiming to have taken a leadership role, How are they passing along what they have learned?Well for starters they hosted a symposium to share what they learned with other food processors, 125 people shared data including CFSI.
Maple Leaf has also called the competition if they had an outbreak or recall to see how they can help and also to pass on more information.
They have raised the bar for acceptability and are going to be the first regulated under the BRC or British Retail & Consortion. Essentially to be ready for Audit everyday because this would ensure that the plants would not know when to expect an audit.
I attended this round table with rather low expectations. I have to be honest I have never gone out of my way to buy Maple Leaf products, but in the end they gained a customer.


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Duck FartsPosted: March 17, 2010 Filed under: Wednesday | Tags: beef stew, Guinness, Saint Patrick's Day 1 Comment
Hello! How was your Saint Patrick's Day? Mine was pretty low key but enjoyed. We had a little party at work and I had some of the most amazing Irish Whisky cake. I also had my planned wrap with leftover chard and mushrooms with some mustard and an LC wedge. I also had a lovely orange. Sorry, no pics, lots of people.
When I got home I walked into the lovely smell of Guinness Beef Stew!
- 1 lb london broil cubed
- 2 large organic potatoes cubed
- 2 carrots chopped
- 3 parsnips chopped
- 2 tbs tomato paste
- 1 can no salt added deiced tomatoes
- 2 tbs garlic
- 1 onion
- 1 can of Guinness stout
- splash of veggie broth
- 2 bay leaves
- lots of thyme
I didn't measure much, but turned it on low for 9+ hours and my slow cooker did it's magic.
I had two potatoes before heading out for my run this afternoon.
I went on a nice 3.5mile run. Who am I kidding??? It was hard! My chest hurt and I could hardly breath! My sinuses like so many others right now are seriously messed up. I could also "feel" my knee and my glutes were on fire thanks to yoga yesterday. I came home and did tons of stretching, foam rolling, core moves and icing.
When Nick got home it was time to celebrate! Duck Farts and Guinness!
I found out about these shots in Boston and they are supposed to be Kalua, Jameson and Bailey's but we were out of Bailey's?!?! I subbed it with Guinness because I think that is how they made them in Boston for some reason?
In my Fleming Irish shield shot glass. Katherine, this one is for you!
Along with stew and beer we also enjoyed some more of my Dubliner cheese from Kerrygold.
Yum Scrum natural light! I love that I don't have to rush out the door to run and it is still sunny at 7pm.
Time to enjoy the rest of the day with my loves.
Night All.
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Duck Farts!!!! So tasty despite their name! Stew looks AMAZING. want to come be my personal chef???


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Monday, December 7, 2015
Comprehensive abortion service-delivery interventions such as offering post-training support to providers can increase postabortion contraceptive uptake and reduce unintended pregnancy, according to a large-scale Ipas study recently published in Studies in Family Planning.
The analysis looked at the prevalence and attributes of postabortion contraceptive acceptance at 2,456 health facilities in six major Indian states, among nearly 292,508 women who received abortion care services from July 2011 through June 2014. It is the largest study of its kind ever undertaken in India.
"Nearly 10 million women receive abortion-related care in India each year, which includes induced and spontaneous abortion," says Sushanta K. Banerjee, senior director of Ipas Development Foundation (IDF) in India and a co-author of the study. "But existing data indicated that women who wanted to adopt a postabortion contraceptive method were getting inadequate or no postabortion services. One of the things our analysis examined was whether a post-training, provider-support intervention would have a significant effect on postabortion contraceptive acceptance and method mix. We found that it did."
The three-year study was carried out at health facilities in both rural and urban areas where IDF, a partner organization of Ipas in India, works with state health systems to reduce deaths from unsafe abortion by implementing a comprehensive abortion care model. The model includes training on abortion care and treatment of postabortion care, including contraceptive counseling, and efforts are made to ensure that adequate supplies of contraceptive methods are maintained. Providers trained after June 2011 received individual post-training follow-up support; those trained before July 2011 did not.
Study findings and conclusions
"What this study highlights," says Kathryn Andersen, Ipas senior research and evaluation advisor and study co-author, "is that the millions of Indian women who received abortion-related care can be provided with effective contraceptive methods if they are provided with effective postabortion counseling and if the method mix is improved and offers contraceptive choice. Our findings can be used to scale up postabortion contraceptive services across all states of India."
One of the study's conclusions is that policies are needed to expand women's choice of modern contraceptive methods by introducing implants and improving the availability of injectables in public-sector health facilities. It also urges India's national and state governments to increase resources for commodities and supplies of all modern methods.
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I've had a lot of jobs but the one I've not talked about much was as a barber. I know, the barber's Union may come down hard on me for being a non-union scab, and the Commonweath of Virginia may act retroactively on my non-licensed activities. Or maybe the statute of limitations may have run out since it was a long time ago.
However, the more likely reaction may be a protest from the subject getting the haircut. But maybe he'll appreciate the generous crop of hair being displaced to the ground at the time.
For myself, I'd be pretty well off if I had charged today's going rate for haircuts. But those were days when a penny or three counted and any old way we could save was the way to go. I only had one style of haircut and that was a buzz cut or crew cut. Just whack it off with different cutter heads and say, "well, that's another few dollars saved."
I was in a big department the other day with my good half and mentioned that maybe we might buy a clipper with a variety of heads and she could cut my hair. She gave me one of those looks a wife sometimes gives a husband when he comes up with a far-out idea, and said, "I don't think so." I neglected to say I might pay her to do it - maybe the reaction would have been different.
I think she likes my silver locks the way they are and the way Carolyn does the haircut. Yes, I use a lady barber - a no-no in the old days. After all, the barber shop was a man's stronghold years ago - one of those places a lady never set foot in. Now I may be getting along in years, but I am young enough that I never saw a Police Gazette there and it was too soon for Playboy. But times have changed, and so have some barber shops, and so have the two figures in the picture above. But I won't complain if he won't.


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My Bug loves to color and paint. For his birthday his Yaya bought him the coolest little art table with a stool and he LOVES it so much he is just a little artist that creates master pieces.
One i am sharing with you is his camel.
He was painting one day and when he was done he proceeded to hang his art work on the fridge. SO he got up and asked his uncle to help him put his drawing on the fridge. My brother turned it and SURE'NUFF we saw his random painting change into a camel in the desert, with a beautiful skyline, mountains and even the camels reflections.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
keep plugging away
Thanks, Judy Sall, for that comment about your art teacher. I'll take his advice to keep plugging away and see what happens. I downloaded the list I used to work from, which used to be on the Every Day Matters blog when it was just a little, intimate blog. I am going to return to it for my journal sketches - let's see how long it lasts this time 'round. I am SO out of practice. Tonight, I drew my purse: it was painful but I am encouraged because I am not a photo realist - I am an INTERPRETER. There! That makes me feel much better. My note, added afterwards, says the inside of my head is like the inside of my purse -- and you do NOT want to see what that looks like. Here is the outside (of my purse). it does not look as heavy as it really is. Today, my crit group met here and it was the first time in eons that I had been to a meeting.Some of us had no work, but that's okay. Some just brought printed fabric, others brought finished pieces, and some brought work in progress. We discussed the group exhibits we are having in January: two at the same time -- my goodness! And once we got the business out of the way, we looked at the work, had lunch, and talked. One of the things we discussed was intent -- that it is good to have an idea of intent before you start, even if that intent is that you want to use every piece of green fabric in the drawer in one piece. Right now, my intent is to go to bed so I can take DH to his eye surgeon checkup visit and then take him to work. Then, hit the paint store for yet ANOTHER sample; nothing has worked so far. And finally, to my s-t-u-d-i-o, taking with me the piece on my wall at home so I have more room to work on it.
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- Judy said...
I'm impressed with your sketch. And, to me, your bag looks very heavy: makes my shoulder ache just looking at it. UGH!
Hope Marty's eye Dr visit goes well.
Our class is so great here, but would love to take a class with you here too!
- July 23, 2008 at 11:27 AM
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Recently, I attended a baseball game. I had amazing seats…10 seats from 1st base. The weather was perfect for an evening game. As I settled into my seat along come two guys who set to the left of me. In about ten minutes, a group of three men and one woman set to the right of me. As the players were being announced, a guy on the right side group announced "I'm going to get me a baseball tonight." I was like "wow", He sure is confident. The game begins and along with some fly balls, pop ups and two home runs, no ball has come towards the direction of where I was seating. By the fifth inning, the score was tied and the opposing team was up at bat. The hitter hit the ball and it clearly was a pop up ball in foul territory. However, this one was different. This ball was headed in the direction where I was seated. All the men on the right and both men on my left were up with arms stretched waiting for the ball to descend downward. The guy in the group on the right side of me, the one who made the declaration, actually did catch the ball. However, the ball bounced out of his hand and onto the ground where it rolled under my feet to the guy on the left side of me. He scoops it up and gives his buddy a high five. The man on the right was hollering about how he had the ball in his hands and it bounced out. He was devastated. He was so mad with himself of how he had something that he coveted, and lost it within milliseconds. To further torture himself, the guy on the right, asked the guy on the left, he could take pictures of himself with the ball that he titled, "the ball that got away." This lead me to an epiphany. How many times have we wanted something so bad and we almost had it, but for some reason, we never did get it or it was within our grasp and something happened which caused us not to get what we wanted? The guy on the left with the ball, after he caught it, took a picture of the ball and continued to enjoy the game. The guy on the right, after taking a photo of the ball he never did catch, he continued to talk about how he almost had the ball and it bounced out of his hand. My aha moment came to me. When you want something so bad it may come to you but you may not be ready for it. Its when you don't "covet" something, it comes to you in a miraculous way. The attitude of the guy on my left versus the guy on my right were like night and day. The guy on the right came to get something and will leave with nothing. The guy on my left, came with no expectations, and left with something. Sometimes, we have to just let go and let things take its course. We cannot force it or try and will it if it is not meant to be for us.
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The Prusuit of the Ball
The Race To Push The Button
Tags: Career, education, employment, inspiration, job, winning
The office building I work in has 4 elevator banks; 2 on the right and 2 on the left. Sitting in between the two elevators is the button to call the elevator to the floor where you currently are. When you arrive in the designated space and you do not see an elevator available or one waiting for you, you simply push the button which signals that you are available to ride the elevator. Seems pretty elementary right? The other morning at 7:15am, I walked toward's my building's elevator bank, distracted as I looked for my security badge in my purse, I was startled to feel a cool breeze fly by me. Out of no where, came a guy who literally rushed passed me to push the elevator button. Could he be late for an appointment I asked? It was early in the morning so he may have been late. Why the need to rush to push the elevator button as if something magical is going to happen? By pushing the elevator button first, does it signal that he "won" something? Not sure what he won but he did beat me to the button. So as we waited for the elevator, another man came and pushed the already lit button. Now, I'm no rocket science but I'm thinking, if the elevator button is already lit when you arrive in the elevator bank, it means that a call for the elevator has been activated. Why did he feel he needed to re-push the already lit elevator button? As if his pushing of the button meant the elevator would appear faster. Have we become such a "now" society that even waiting on the elevator is becoming antiquated? Is there no way for Scotty to beam us up to the floor we need to be on rather than stand and wait for the elevator? I am shifting the "wait" paradigm. Waiting is good. I will wait on the elevator patiently and expectantly, after all, it is on it"s way. I just have to be ready to enter when it arrives.


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So I had heard terrible things about Green Lantern. But I'm a sucker for the superhero movies for some reason, so I rented this on the way out from work the other night. One of the perks in working in a building with 4,000 other people is a Redbox in the lobby! LOL I have to say, I don't get the bad reviews. It's not the best movie I've ever seen, but I would not have called it bad at all.
I'm not one of those guys who was into comics as a child, or even an adult. I had a few fantastic four and some assorted others, but never got into that kind of stuff. So I can't say how much justice they did to the original story, but the idea for the movie wasn't too bad.
"In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light."
"Tomar-Re: Actually, I'm a Xudarian. Our DNA does some what resemble your own ichthyological species. I am Tomar-Re, protector of Secter 2613 and home to...
Hal Jordan: 80,012 galaxies, 2.34 million sentient species. How do I know that?"
The sectors are BIG, that's a lot of ground for a single person, even a Green Lantern to cover, my guess is they only involve themselves in big, huge events. The action is pretty good, but character development is lacking. The movie moves pretty fast, but in do so skims over the heart of the story itself, it come off feeling like a light snack rather then a meal. But it was entertaining and I enjoyed the experience. There were several parts where the wife was a bit confused, so it didn't explain itself all that well, but even she enjoyed it. She blogged about it here.
One part I like is where the female lead, Carol played by Blake Lively, makes fun of the mask after she figures out it's really Hal Jordon in just a few moments after seeing him clearly as The Green Lantern.
Ryan Reynolds, surprisingly, did a very good job. I wasn't hoping for much, but it turned out much better then I had hoped. Of all the characters, his was the most fully developed, but he was the star so that's not surprising. However I felt his back-story was somewhat awkward, as was the whole love interest thing with Blake Lively. They have her being a bit of every-woman. Hot, smart, geeky, business wise, daredevil pilot, unsure of herself, love sick and coy...kinda all at once. It's comes off ok, but she seems like an awkwardly developed character.
The other strange thing they did was the duel "bad guy" roles in the movie. There is one BIG bad guy, and a small bad guy. The role of the small bad guy is almost a total waste of script. The only reason I think the character existed in the movie was to menace the hotty, so Hal could be the knight in shining armor. This would have made much more sense if he hadn't already made up his mind to save the world before he even knew she was in danger from the little bad guy. They could have left him out and the movie would have been fine.
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Hip Hop Album Sales: Vic Mensa "The Autobiography" Is His biggest Project Yet
Meanwhile, Tyler The Creator and Meek Mill saw large falls in sales, but only one of them managed to stay in the Top 5.
Although 21 Wild Issa Album jumped from #12 to #6 on the Billboard 200, with sales still recorded a slight decline for the week ended August 3. Tyler The Creator's Flower Child LP dropped a staggering 75 percent from last week, landing in the #12 slot, while Meek Mill Victories And Losses fell 64 percent, but managed to keep the #3 slot, just behind Kendrick Lamar's double-platinum album, DAMN., that is stable at #2.
In other places in the chart, Vic Mensa's Autobiography made its debut, but barely cracked the Top 30. With 8,209 pure album sales and 10,913,416 streams, the Chi-Town rapper entered the chart #27.
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Changi is one of the best places to spot nudibranchs! Also sea stars, multicoloured sea cucumbers, weird cnidarians and more!
I have no idea kind of nudibranch it is. A closer look shows it has a fringe around the 'mouth', hand-like bumps on the body and a rather large frilly breathing gills on its back. I'm sure Chay Hoon will know what it is.
Biscuit stars (Goniodiscaster scaber) in various sizes, one small Cake sea stars (Anthenea aspera) and one Painted sand star (Astropecten sp.). I guess the rest of the team have to be there to find the special sea stars.
Sea apple sea cucumber (Pseudocolochirus violaceus). Its eye-poking clashing colour combinations warn of its toxic nature. It's not a good idea to put one of these in an aquarium as it may kill all the animals in the tank. This sea cucumber is clinging onto a Fan clam (Family Pinnidae) which were plentiful on the shore.
Orange sea cucumber and many Warty pink sea cucumbers (Cercodemas anceps) and Thorny sea cucumbers (Colochirus quadrangularis). There were also many buried Ball sea cucumbers (Phyllophorus sp.). But I didn't see any Purple sea cucumbers.
See-through sea cucumber (Paracaudina australis) and I've been waiting for the low spring tides to find one. So I'm very glad to spot one today.
White sea urchins (Salmacis sp.) and some Black sea urchins (Temnopleurus sp.). They were quite well dispersed.
Seagrass pipefishes. I checked and one of them seemed to be carrying eggs under his belly which was distended. But sadly, today I didn't see any Estuarine seahorses (Hippocampus kuda).
Cerianthids (Order Ceriantharia) are also abundant on this shore. Sometimes called peacock anemones because they are so colourful, although they are not true sea anemones. There seems several different kinds of cerianthids, but our cerianthids have yet to be identified.
elegant with tapering tentacles.
Haddon's carpet anemones (Stichodactyla haddoni) and several Tiny carpet anemones (Stichodactyla tapetum). There are still many of the yet-to-be-identified Tiger anemone. And I saw one Swimming anemone (Boloceroides mcmurrichi) and a few Peachia anemones (Peachia sp.). I also came across some of the sea anemones that Dr Daphne is interested in. Hurray!
Ball flowery soft corals (Family Nephtheidae).
tipped with balls.
Spiky sea pens (Scytalium sp.) which are often home to tiny Painted porcelain crabs (Porcellanella picta), others look like sticks: The Sea pencil, Flowery sea pens (Family Veretillidae) and Slender sea pens (Virgularia sp.).
hydroid. I managed to get a closer look at the super tiny polyps that emerge from the transparent branches.
fluffy orange hydroid that we often see growing on hard surfaces. The colony is made up of pretty daisy-like polyps.
Seagrass octopus! I only see this kind of octopus on Changi. It seems to be different from the kind we see on our reefs in the South.
Geographic sea hares (Syphonota geographica). Some were half buried, while this one reveals the inner shell that is usually hidden between the two flaps of its body.
Calf moon snail (Natica vitellus) on the shore today, some appear to be mating. I also saw two Tiger moon snails (Natica tigrina).
tubeworm that had fallen apart!
Sponge crabs (Family Dromiidae) which were carrying ascidians as a disguise.
Spoon seagrass (Halophila ovalis) which have large leaves here. In some parts of the shores, the seagrass blades had lost their green stuff. Oh dear. I don't know what this means.
Pink sponges (Haliclona cf baeri)! But I didn't see any sea fans (Order Gorgonacea) today.
purple branching sponge (Callyspongia sp.).
July 2011. It's good to know that the shore remains lively and well.


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|Vision Rheintal
|Service Areas:
|Administrative Services and Tasks, Culture and Education, Socio-Economic Development, Environment, Infrastructure, Social Services, Solid Waste Management, Transportation, Urban Planning, Water Management
|Altach, Bildstein, Bregenz, Dornbirn, Feldkirch, Fraxern, Fußach, Gaißau, Götzis, Hard, Höchst, Hohenems, Kennelbach, Klaus, Koblach, Lauterach, Lochau, Lustenau, Mäder, Meiningen, Rankweil, Röthis, Schwarzach, Sulz, Übersaxen, Viktorsberg, Weiler, Wolfurt, Zwischenwasser
|Contact persons:
|Martin Assmann
|Legal form:
|Public law agreement
The Vorarlberg Rhine Valley has experienced a massive change over the past 50 years. The population has grown from 140,000 to approx. 240,000 inhabitants. There is no other region in Austria that has experienced comparable growth in the same time frame. This strong growth in the population can be seen in the development of settlement areas. The number of buildings has almost tripled (1960: 19,096, 2001: 53,294). The built-up areas have increased eightfold (!). From 29 scattered and spread out separate municipalities and small towns, the valley has seen the formation of a fairly dense urban ribbon from Bregenz to Feldkirch. Further sprawl of the boundary areas of settlements into green areas has only been able to be prevented through stringent regional planning countermeasures. However, leaving or entering a new municipality is mostly only recognizable by means of place name signs.
It is not just a result of the spread of the settlement areas that has caused the merging of the Rhine Valley. Owing to a high increase in mobility, it is no longer to be expected that the population's requirements can be all met in the residential community/municipality they are resident in. The way in which different kinds of important facilities in the Vorarlberg Rhine Valley (polycentric) are spread across many locations and municipalities means that nowadays we take advantage of the Rhine Valley as a whole. We live in the countryside, work in a business park in a neighbouring municipality and take advantage of the cultural life in another municipality etc.
Vision Rheintal is a projekt of the regional government of Vorarlberg and the municipalities within the area of the Rheintal (Rhine valley).
Interestingly enough, it was a high-rise building scheme that caused a great deal of regional planning discussions in Vorarlberg's Rhine Valley and ultimately gave impetus to the project. On the outskirts of Lustenau, the highest building ever to be seen in Vorarlberg was to be built, with 23 floors and a height of 83m. Heavy public discussions regarding the heights of buildings followed. In conjunction with the recognition that a regional approach cannot just be limited to the height of buildings but should also encompass a full range of regional planning, the first process outlines of "Vision Rheintal" slowly began to materialize. This was followed by a survey in 2003, which involved questioning 89 "key persons". The aim of this survey was to sound out the "starting point to explore ideas". The results showed that the time was right to hold a broad public debate on the future of the Rhine Valley. The initial responsibility was to be held by the state government of Vorarlberg. Furthermore, it was discovered that the vision could be developed both on the level of the entire Rhine Valley with regard to competing with other regions, as well as inter-municipal cooperation in Vorarlberg's 29 "close-knit" Rhine Valley municipalities.
After further in-depth preparations, the mission statement process of "Vision Rheintal" got underway in May 2004. Over the next two years, a mission statement for regional planning and cooperation was to be developed. This process was successfully completed in the summer of 2006 and the objectives, guiding principles and mission statement were presented to the public. The key messages of the mission statement visualize the future of the Rhine Valley as a region where:
The content process has been led by specialist teams. This style of processing was complimented by wide public participation. Altogether more than 800 citizens, experts, municipal and state politicians have actively participated in this open planning process. Numerous opportunities were on offer to get involved. Rhine Valley forums, planning workshops, think tanks etc made more detailed information and debates possible but also enabled development of visions and vision statements. Field trips at home and abroad provided the opportunity to analyze and discuss successful projects home and away. And many information events took place in municipalities to inform a wide range of interest groups, clubs etc. This is where interim results were passed on and there was plenty of room for discussion and exchanging of views.
"Vision Rheintal" gained the support of the general public – as spring 2006 got closer discussions arose regarding the necessity of continuing the "Vision Rheintal" process. The guiding principles and mission statement were now to be finalized and implemented. A first important step in this direction was the official recognition of the mission statement by the state government of Vorarlberg. The state government made the necessary decision on 12.9.2006. The municipality of Zwischenwasser had drawn up a similar decision shortly before the official release of the mission statement in May 2006, most of the other municipalities followed from the autumn of 2006 to the spring of 2007.
In the autumn of 2007, after a one-year "interim" phase, in which the structure and its continuation was clarified, the implementation phase was "officially" launched.
A central aim of the project from the outset was that it had to be a project that was part of the state and the municipalities. It seemed to be essential to break the existing hierarchical structures. Things needed to be worked out together on an equal footing. In other words, neither a command planning from above via the state, nor exclusive design from below via the municipality. These efforts are reflected in different ways in the structure of the project and process flow. This meant that the steering committee was composed equally of representatives of the state and municipalities. This balance was also an important aspect when putting together the professional teams. And the project office was not in the government building but set up outside of the "state-governing house".
The fact that the state and municipalities have wanted to pull together is most clearly illustrated in the Rhine Valley Conference. Once or twice a year, members of the state government, members of the state parliament of the Rhine Valley as well as the mayors of the Rhine Valley municipalities meet at a round table to discuss the results of the ongoing project and advise the next steps. An institution like this did not exist until the setting up of "Vision Rheintal". The Rhine Valley Conference has taken a major step forward since the first meeting in February 2005: from an advisory body to a decisionmaking committee. The presidency has also changed. The conference now has a political chairman with a Rhine Valley major and the respective state councillor responsible for spatial planning. The growing political importance of the Rhine Valley Conference has therefore made its mark.
In this context it was the decision of the Rhine Valley regional contract that was of importance in the 5th Rhine Valley Conference. But also for the rest of the overall process, the signing of the "Rhine Valley Contract" represented the biggest milestone to date. With this, the state of Vorarlberg and the 29 Rhine Valley municipalities, strengthen their joint responsibility for Vorarlberg's Rhine Valley and their willingness to cooperate. They commit themselves to lead the project together as an open process. The state and the municipalities view themselves as a region that is part of a constant learning process and the mission statement is to be used as a future guide for action. By signing the Rhine Valley Contract, there is another important aspect involved. Since them the municipalities participate in the costs. The project is now funded in equal parts by the state and municipalities!
In order to maintain necessary transparency and flexibility, it was agreed to initially continue the "Vision Rheintal" project until 2010. The central objectives have been to define the following in as many minds as possible: implementation of the objectives named in the mission statement, processing of high-priority issues, further development of the Rhine Valley Conference as well as anchoring the findings of the process to date.
Looking at interim results to date, it can be recognized that we have come substantially closer to the project objective, which is to recognize Vorarlberg's Rhine Valley as a living space and to develop this space together. People are becoming increasingly aware of the responsibility for this living space. Municipal co-operations have received impetus in many ways. Various interlinked municipality border projects were able to be launched or are currently in the making. The fact that the end of the project has not yet been reached must also be clear to us all. And there will most certainly be many challenges in the future to be overcome along the way to "29 municipalities – one living space". The fact that it is worthwhile taking such challenges on board with the ultimate goal of overcoming them, has already been clearly demonstrated by "Vision Rheintal".
Questions about the vision Rhine valley can be asked to Martin Assmann.
Further information (in German language) can be found at the project website http://www.vision-rheintal.at/


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By Siw Amina Bech
To create an easy and transparent system for the money that is coming into this story, I have now decided to establish a fund! The fund will take care of everything included in The Story Of Sleep Well – also Innocent and Sarah. In fact, it is all connected!
The mattresses: There's no real way to help people understand the poverty we see around us in Africa, but even if the poorest may need some help with small things like a mattress, learning skills and commitment is the most important. That's why each mattress comes with a "contract": learning how to read and write – and thats why even a mattress is a big thing! The temporary school is slowly taking form, and we have started to raise money for the new one. Will update about this as the story progresses!
Funny though: I went to Uganda to do an art project about Trauma and Dreams – a trip that became so much more (and longer) than I thought.. and I know now: Everybody can do a little, and achieve a lot. Small stories is the next big thing!


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Our Director of Sport Sampling, Lily Donatelli, is excited to help kids stay "active for life" by instilling in them the same love for sport sampling she developed at an early age by playing soccer, basketball, softball, and lacrosse throughout her youth growing up in West Hartford, CT.
Coach Lily truly exhibits the "Life's 2 Short 4 Just 1 Sport!" lifestyle!
A graduate of Loyola University Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts degree concentrated in Music, Lily helps to incorporating music and movement into the physical literacy programs she works to develop for NAPL.
"What I love most about my job is being a part of a great team of people not only within our staff, but also with the wonderful teachers and students I have the opportunity of working with on a daily basis. I feel like I learn just as much from these amazing students as they learn from our program. I believe this special interaction is why our program is so successful and leaves such a lasting impact on so many lives."


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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Day 23 Spawn of SoDDDY Challenge: Is My Scale Wonky? Or is it just a good week so far? My Two Meals Yesterday & a Recommendation if You like Both Convenience and Black Beans...and even are vegan; GIANT KILLING has me hooked and inspires a dieting metaphor, natch...
Okay, I did stay under 1300 calories (1284), just barely made my water, but made it. So, maybe it's just a good week.
Or Tanita-San is playing a joke on me. :D 'Cause that's 2.2 lbs down in 3 days. My stubborn apple-shape waist is not moving, though. Grrrrrr.
I will add that yesterday was a lowfat, high fiber, high carb, moderate protein day. Here's yesterday's ratio: 53c/20f/27p. My DNA test said I needed to do a low calorie version of high carb/low fat, but I almost never make the lowfat aspect, but that percentage for fat was dead-on to the recommendation. 20% of calories. So, whether this is a correlation or not....there it is.
You know, last time we had an arctic blast reach Miami, I lost well. The last two days/nights have been shivery ones. I was joking about shivering burning calories last time. I'm not joking so much right now. Maybe not turning on the heat is a very, very good idea. heh.
I ate two meals yesterday:
breakfast: scrambled egg whites with fat-free cheese and pico de gallo (had some leftover from dinner the night before from Lime Fresh Mexican grill). WS hot cakes with sugar-free syrup. Half a red grapefruit. 1/3 cup fresh blueberries. 3 slices of turkey bacon (the extra lean JennieO brand, which I'm gonna toss, as it's crappy. I ate it just...cause. How dumbass is that? Don't buy this brand. The other turkey bacons I've had were fine. This one is awful.) Coffee. Water. Fiber supplement.
lunch: whole instant cup of Dr. McDougall's black bean with lime soup (it's an instant soup, but it's really amazingly yumsy...comes out creamy with Mexican type spicing). Leftover tortilla chips baked with fat free and lowfat cheese and fat free sour cream and pico de gallo for topping. 3/4 cup of chopped yellow and red bell peppers. coffee. water. As a treat: 3 low carb biscotti by BariWise (lemon flavor, and I sprinkle crystalized lemon on it to make it tart). Vitamins/supplements.
breakfast: WS hot cakes, 1/2 cup blueberries, sugar-free syrup, 1/2 grapefruit, 1/2 small papaya, coffee, water, vitamins, fiber supplement.
lunch: raw green bean casserole--green beans, tahini, lemon, garlic. :D Yum.
No dinner for me. Hubby and I were engrossed watching GIANT KILLING--a soccer anime that first aired in Spring, I believe, but we are watching now. I hate sports, but this has me totally caught up. Funny and good characterization with nice game twists. The title refers to the little guy (like a Jack or a David) winning over the Giants. The underdog team getting its act together under a very skilled and amusing coach. Love it! Then I caught up on the last issue of BLEACH manga online and started wondering how Ichigo-boy is gonna get his powers back....cause he will!
It's no stretch to say we fatfighters, particularly those of us who got into the big, morbidly obese numbers, are out to kill our own Giants--whether it's trigger foods, emotional issues regarding foods, lack of exercise, whatever. We're the underdogs and we're the giants...and one has to win. So, might as well be the slim underdog inside us fighting to get free.
I actually love the inspiring messages in many manga and anime. The Japanese have a common saying used a lot: "Do your best"
A character will often say it to themselves, as well: "I will do my best". Whether it's a school life manga with a character overcoming a mean clique or trying to get better in athletics or get a higher ranking to get into a better college, the head band comes on and the cry goes out that they will DO THEIR BEST!
And because so many anime and manga have superheroic types, I sometimes tap into that when I'm exercising and feel I can't do ONE MORE REP! I imagine myself as one of these never-give-up characters and just push on. This is why I had my trainer upload Japanese anime themes into a playlist for me. On days when I just don't WANNA...on goes the anime music and I become Ichigo or Yoruichi or the Fullmetal Alchemist or L or any character who just refuses to stop trying to reach their goal and win the fight! Okay, so maybe not L's eating habits (a skinny pale dude who eats sweet treats and sugar cubes all dang day to fuel his mighty brain!)
Feel like a superhero or superheroine today. Kick fat's ass! GAMBARE! (Do your best!)
6 comments:
- Karen Butler Ogle said...
I'm glad I'm not in Miami. It would totally suck to be in a tropical place and still be this cold. :)
- December 29, 2010 at 5:07 PM
- Kimberly said...
Okay, but I am not wearing no spandex! :)
And there is nothing wrong with your scale. You are eating less calories per day than you used to eat. That is why it is giving you a lower number. Ain't math grand?
- December 29, 2010 at 8:21 PM
- Beth said...
Wow, amazing loss, that must be so encouraging.
I dunno about the shivering encouraging weight loss, doesn't seem to be working for me.
I must get some inspiring music for myself...I don't feel like much of a superhero today, maybe some sleep would help. But I will do my best! Love the new word...Gambare!
- December 30, 2010 at 2:45 AM
- Beth said...
Oh no, just saw my backlinking is back...got a rogue link here. Just hope I'm not showing up on other unrelated sites again...
- December 30, 2010 at 2:46 AM
- Christine said...
lol, came here because of your title which has to be the longest title in the history of blog posts...I am deep like that. My oldest daughter loves manga and anime. So I actually get the reference.
- December 30, 2010 at 4:04 AM
- Diandra said...
Of course shivering burns calories. Not too much, but it's muscle contractions after all, producing warmth to keep your core temperature up. ^^
- December 30, 2010 at 4:52 AM


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Looks like anything before 2005 was a Seville, not an STS....According to Consumer Reports: For 2005 Cadillac redesigned the Seville, switching to rear- or all-wheel drive, renaming it STS, and turning it into a genuinely competitive sports sedan.
Correct, the STS was an option package for the Seville unit 2005. I believe the letters stand for Special Touring Sedan. HTH. -Jim
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Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw Pilot Episode Screening
Nowadays, Teleserye has been part of every Filipino. We are hooked in these teleseryes because we don't want to miss every moment and every scene. It is very important specially if we want to know the whole story.
This coming week, another teleserye will be airing that will touch our heart and enlighten some realities in our lives. Yours truly had an opportunity to watch the pilot episodes of the said teleserye, together with the casts and of course the other casts as well.
Three showbiz royalties-Queen of all media Kris Aquino, Box Office Queen Anne Curtis and Idol of the masses Robin Padilla-will join forces in ABS-CBN's highly anticipated Primetime Bida drama series "Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw .
In the story, Kris and Anne will play the roles of a sisters Roxanne and Ruth, who will both fall in love with one man , Bogs who will portrayed by Robin. You will feel the kilig factor between Robin and Anne. The saying that "opposite attracts each other" reflects on the love team of Robin and Anne. Of course there are still some coming episodes to watch for. The story tackles also the status in life, between rich and the not so poor, dignity and pride, and some other things that reflects life.
Together with the rest of the cast Tirso Cruz III, Ian Veneracion, Smokey Manaloto, Emilio Garcia, Lito Pimentel, and Xyriel Manabat. Teen sensation Daniel Padilla will also be part of the series as he plays the role of the young Robin. Don't miss the beginning of a top-caliber drama series "Kailangan Ko'y Ikaw" on January 21, 2013 in ABS-CBN's Primetime Bida. For more updates, log on to www.abs-cbn.com or follow abscbndotcom on twitter.


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Travel writer Christopher Clark recently joined us aboard the Pangolin Voyager. Here he shares some of his experiences and a few of his images:
It had been two years since my last visit to Chobe, and getting off the plane at Kasane, I felt a little like I was coming home. There's something about the place.
We were picked up by Guts and ferried the short drive to the Pangolin base on the banks of the river, where we were welcomed by a few elephants and a number of warthogs munching away in the garden.
We threw our things in the room and headed straight out on the photo boats for an afternoon cruise, the balmy air and golden light a real treat after the cold, dark winter morning we'd left behind in Cape Town.
With sundowners in hand, we shared a typically beautiful Chobe sunset with a herd of elephants who were drinking at the water's edge beside us and we took the opportunity to play around with silhouette photos.
After a braai and a good catch up with the Pangolin team, we turned in early, ready to board the Pangolin Voyager and embark on a new adventure in the morning.
After stamping out of Botswana and into Namibia at the most casual border post I've ever seen, we sped along the river towards our home for the next five days. We rounded a bend in the river, and there she was, moored on the bank and looking even more regal than I'd imagined.
A couple of fisherman paddled past in their mokoros and a herd of cattle perused the bank. Otherwise, I already felt a long way from civilization and the busier sections of the river on the Botswanan side, to which most tourist boats on the river are largely restricted.
We were welcomed on board by the crew and took some time to explore the three floors before the other guests arrived.
Finally satisfied that I'd traversed almost every inch of the boat, I took a well-earnt afternoon drink onto the top floor sundeck, absorbed the uninterrupted views for a while and waved at the sporadically-passing mokoros.
Over the following days, we fell into the comfortable routine of morning and afternoon game viewing excursions on Pangolin's state of the art photo boats, enjoying the time between relaxing on board the houseboat as we drifted along the river from mooring to mooring.
There is something very surreal about eating a delectable brunch as you cruise along with vast herds of elephants, impala, buffalo and a 50-strong journey of giraffe scattered across the plains on either side of your dining room.
Evenings on the Voyager were an equally enjoyable affair, with all of us eating around the communal dining table. Guts, our guide and host, would share some of his fascinating stories from the field and give informative powerpoint presentations with tips and tricks for us to try out.
Wine and laughter flowed freely, then every so often we would fall silent for a moment at the sound of an elephant's trumpet, an impala's alarm call or a lion's deep roar in the darkness beyond the boat.
Among the many memorable sightings during our stay was a pride of lions trying to take down a lone bull elephant who made the mistake of loudly interrupting their chill time. The next night, the same lions came to drink at the water's edge just a few metres from our photo boat. Bobbing gently in the water at eye level with these cats was a truly exhilarating experience.
As always with Pangolin, I also felt that my photography improved considerably over just a matter of days. Now back in my office in Cape Town, I still find myself looking through my images in awe at the beauty they depict, and wondering when my next Chobe homecoming will be. It can't be soon enough.