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Jobless Day 7
On the 7th day, I move myself away from my projects a while and help out my new friend and also a female photographer, Mei Fern. Met her at Model Mayhem website and we somehow get to work together smoothly. This was my second time meeting her and being an assistant /helper for her photoshoot. I treat this as not only an opportunity to build a network or make a new friend who shares the same interests with me, but also an experience to participate in a photography session as a different role. Thus, I am able to not only grasp clear image and knowledge of how the whole photo shoot session process and also being an helper to any brave dream chaser who started up with nothing as I admire this kind of spirit that is within her because I also chasing a dream.
Today the location took place indoor, an empty house. The concept she planned to do is blue, calm, icy, dry kind of mood with a few different dresses and styling on the model, from black swan to gothic rock star, from edgy to bohemian witchy feel.
Dilara Aydyn, the model and also an international student studying here. Mei Fern doing the makeup on her face.
While waiting her preparation on styling the model, I snapped some photos of the things she had prepared and the things she brought along.
I realized this picture have a juxtaposition between an old fan and a modern laptop. =)
Something I tried with snap with a bubble wrap as filter of the lens and it gave an icy, cold, hazy effects.
Jobless Day 8
Yesterday is continuation on my acupuncture treatment on my hives and also hoping my bump on my face, near by jawline will be treated soon or I maybe thinking of finding beauty skin specialist to surgery to remove if there's not further improvement done by acupuncture treatment. To be honest, I have experienced meeting photographers who prefer just take raw photos without editing much and they will reject/ delay me because of pimples or the bump. But well, I do not blame them as I do think being a professional model also do need to have the responsibility to maintain or perform their best on appearance from inside to outside including behaviour. This is called, discipline and determination. I do think its tough industry if you are like me, the guy next door, who started nothing to begin with.
Anyway, other than acupuncture and doing some ordinary chores, I finally completed revamping my third blog which is my photography blog. I am excited that I have redesign, modified the wallpaper and the header but I didn't spend time on changing the layout as I have a target that I need to get something done and growing before December arrives to my doorstep.
This is the header I made yesterday. Click here to check out my photography blog although no new update yet and still a bit messy.
Jobless Day 9
Yup, I was wearing makeup this morning for a photo shoot with concept that Mei Fern and I have been discussing lately and were so curious wondering how the result will turn out to be. The concept was initially wanted to have me wearing a cardboard made crown and a sword, also with a big red cape like a boy living in his own kingdom dream.
But because of the busy time schedule that we both had for busy doing our own projects and stuff. We didn't really prepare the props well. I wish I can be a fast sewer and a fast handmaker with skill and quality so I can make for the photoshoot. =D We were also initially planned to have the photoshoot take place at an abandoned building but due to rainy day and also very messy and dirty the environment of the building, we decided to go for plan B.
We ended up having photoshoot at a lake park where there is a aged big staircase look like an open air theatre with some flooded are and formed like a small river or big drain. I have good time in working with Mei Fern and I like the makeup she puts on me except my hair is too short to style. It was my second time doing photoshoot at outdoor. But its the first time I doing a conceptual photoshoot where the concept and idea is from the photographer. She gives art direction of a certain moods and facial expressions that I can try to perform and play which is something that I do not normally get many from the photographers.
And again, before I end my post; I am grateful that I get the chance to worked with new people. I am grateful that I was given enough time to revamp my blogs before end of this week. I am grateful for coming home safe.
I wish every dream chaser all the best and bless everyone with love. Good luck and good night.


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03-15-05 – A man was thrown 75 feet from his car after colliding with a train in Durant. Authorities say he tried to beat the train across a railroad crossing on 49th street and did not make it. He was taken flown to an Oklahoma City hospital with head trauma.
The train attempted to break about a hundred yards away, but still hit the man's black Cadillac at 35 miles per hour.
The crossing does not have lights, but the train did sound it's horn.

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From the sounds of it, once Michigan and Michigan State heard that Iowa offered Micah Hyde, they suddenly became interested.
Hyde's brother, Marcus, is a defensive back at Michigan State. Here's an excerpt from a story on Advertiser-Tribune.com, a newspaper that serves the Fostoria, Ohio, area:
"(Fostoria coach Tom) Grine got an interesting call on Friday while on the way to Iowa. It was Micah's older brother, Marcus who will be a redshirt junior this season at Michigan State.
"Marcus calls and says coach Mark Dantonio from Michigan State had just came in the weight room and heard that Micah was going to Iowa this weekend and told Marcus as a result of the recruiting process, they ended up having another scholarship open for a defensive back," Grine said. "I told Marcus that if coach Dantonio has an interest and wants to call me, then have him call me. He called, but I was in a meeting at the time and he left a message saying what Marcus said. I told all of this to Micah but Micah said he liked what he seen out here (Iowa)."
According to the story, Iowa started recruiting Hyde last spring. Defensive backs coach Phil Parker was on point with Hyde's recruitment.
The attention made a difference. It seemed to resonate with Hyde.
"I don't want to go to a school that if they can't get another player, they can get me," Hyde told the Advertiser-Tribune. "Michigan was the same way. They offered a bunch of 5-star or 4-star athletes and if they didn't get them, they were interested in me. Iowa has been here the whole time since the beginning. They've been here every week and I've been talking with them all the time. I went there and they showed me a lot of love."
Hyde was a hugely productive player for Fostoria. As the team's QB, he was named Ohio Division IV offensive player of the year, northwest Ohio offensive player of the year and first-team all-state. Hyde holds or shares 24 school records on offense at Fostoria. including 46 rushing touchdowns, 425 points, 977 pass attempts, 606 pass completions, 7,846 passing yards, 65 touchdown passes and 10,755 total yards over his three and a half years of starting for the Redmen.
Iowa projects Hyde as a cornerback. On defense last season, he picked off eight passes.
He has a 73-inch wing span. During his visit to Iowa, Hyde was shown the pink visitors' lockerroom and said, "We were in the pink locker rooms for five minutes," Hyde said. "I was seriously falling asleep."
Iowa didn't offer Hyde a scholarship until his visit in late January. That was deliberate, coach Kirk Ferentz said.
"Phil had strong feelings for from day one. (But) We let that play out and didn't make the offer until he got here," Ferentz said. "We knew a month ago we were going to do that, but we were trying to protect ourselves a bit and keep the competition down. Sometimes, you're right and sometimes you're wrong, but we have a great feeling about all of the guys in this class.
With Micah, we think he's comparable to a guy like Jovon Johnson, and we beat Kent State to get him. Marcus Paschal, I think we beat Hofstra. They had pretty good careers. We try to evaluate guys as we see them."
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Happy Belated Birthday To Me!11:02 pm
It was my birthday recently (I say recently, it was a week and a bit ago, but that's recent enough right?) So I thought I'd do a post about what I got.
Unfortunately I was away down in Oxfordshire for a training course for work the morning of my birthday, so I didn't get home untill about 5pm, but I was a happy bunny when I did!
These were my two main pressies;
The straightners come with a heat-proof carry bag, which will be handy when I pop to my mums or have to go away for training again.
They switch on the body as well as a dial so you're never using too much heat for your hair. It also came with a little booklet that tells you what kind of heat you need for your hair type/condition.
It comes with the usual attachments. I can't say I've ever used a diffuser in my life, but I'm going to make a point in using this one!
I also got a few more bits, like a new chunky-knit cardigan and a hat that's a birthday cake. I got some money from my family too so I ordered myself a Glossybox and Carmine box along with a few bits from E.L.F Cosmetics. So look out for my reviews on the boxes!
Thank you to my family, Liam's side of our family and Liam for all of this stuff. I'm so so grateful! Plus I got to finally go home and cuddle with my boy, so it was the perfect day.
Disclaimer: This is not me boasting, I just wanted to do a short review. If you're offended by hauls etc I'd advise not following my blog.
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Why does people's skepticism go out the window when it comes to military matters -- especially any that are secret? Granted, the recent dispatch of Osama bin Laden does make the U.S. military look all-but-omnipotent. But it's important to note that grand success was striking...because it was so rare.
Annie Jacobson's new book -- AREA 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base -- is the 398th touching on the Nevada site, according to Amazon's roster. But some of it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. (Video: Watch Jacobson discuss her most provocative Area 51 findings)
She has interviewed 74 pilots and engineers, among others, who used to work there, and uncovered lots of details about their ground-breaking work in developing the U-2 spy plane, the F-117 stealth fighter-bomber and other aviation assets that helped the U.S. win the Cold War. There are amusing tales of trying to turn pigeons and cats into animal-kingdom 007s.
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Part of Area 51's intrigue is that the government still declines to discuss it. That adds to its mystique, because truth...tends to be boring. It's the same way with the SEALs who offed bin Laden -- there is no quicker way to render a hero humdrum than to meet him. (Gosh -- he's so normal!)
Area 51 suffers one flaw. Jacobsen's tale of the UFO that fell from the sky near Roswell, N.M., in 1947, is just that: a tale. The U.S. government transported the "spacecraft" to Area 51, where it was subject to all kinds of probing. It has generated endless controversy and confusion since then. All government efforts to explain what it was -- usually a weather balloon of some kind -- have merely thrown gasoline on the conspiracists' fires. (See the top 10 conspiracy theories of all time)
Jacobson suggests in the book (as well as in recent TV interviews) that the UFO was, in reality, a Nazi-inspired Soviet spy plane manned by midget teen-agers. Josef Stalin purportedly had Josef Mengele provide surgically-tweaked mini-pilots who were supposed to disembark from the aircraft, pretend to be space aliens, and scare Americans to death.
Someone's DVD player has been stuck on Close Encounters of the Third Kind for too long. When stories like this pop up, I like to impose what I call the "human nature" rule. Why would they have wanted to keep this tale secret, if it had happened this way? More critically, could the U.S. government have kept it a secret? Just because a fair number of Americans become unhinged when discussing UFOs and military matters is no reason for the rest of us to tag along. (See the top 10 strangest government secrets)
"Facts are often more fantastic than fiction," publisher Little, Brown's website for the book says, "especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make." Most of Area 51 is solid and well done, but its dubious claim regarding the Roswell UFO makes one wish all involved had tried a little harder to separate fact from fiction, before printing the later as the former.
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Installing PHP 5.3 and PhpMyadmin 3.3 on CentOS 5.5 March 12, 2011Posted by Tournas Dimitrios in Uncategorized.
PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 has tons of functionalities which are not provided by PHP 5.1 (it has more OOP targeted features ) . PHP 5.1 is the most recent version of PHP available in CentOS 5.x and RHEL 5.1 via updates. Also, its difficult for people to upgrade OS(s) on production servers frequently and especially if the servers are running absolutely fine, it doesn't really make sense to upgrade just for the heck of it. One more reason for no upgrades is the OS choices provided by many hosting companies. But a lot of CMS(s) and softwares are now recommending at least PHP 5.2 for an extended feature set.
First let's install Php5.3 :
- rpm -Uvh http://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/latest.rpm
- Now you can install php by doing:
yum –enablerepo=webtatic install php == OR ==
Or update an existing installation of php, which will also update all of the other php modules installed:
yum –enablerepo=webtatic update php
- yum –enablerepo=webtatic install php-gd
- yum –enablerepo=webtatic install php-domxml
- If mysql is not yet installed on your box
yum install mysql-server mysql php-mysql
Caution : the command line switch enablerepo has 2 dashes vs – – enablerepo
By default mysq is not secured , so let's lock it with a password :
- start mysql-server : sercice mysqld start
- mysql_secure_installation (It is going to ask you a handful of questions :
- You will be asked for your current mysql-root password . Because this is a new installation , it is set to none . Just press enter .
- You will be asked to set a password twice .
- You will be prompted to remove the Mysql anonymous users . For security reasons we want to do this . Press Y and then enter
- You will be asked if you would like to disallow remote login for the root user and only allow connections from the server itself . To keep our server secure you want to say Y and press enter .
- Mysql ships with a default database called test . This is not needed and can be deleted . Press Y and then enter to delete the test database and it's associated users .
- Press Y to reload the user setting (called privilege tables ) .
Installing PhmMyadmin 3.3.9 :
PhpMyadmin comes in two releases :
- phpMyAdmin 188.8.131.52 : Version compatible with PHP 5.2 + and MySQL 5. Currently recommended version.
- phpMyAdmin 22.214.171.124 : Version compatible with PHP 4+ and MySQL 3+ ( this version is compatible with Php 5.1 )
- Go to the official web site of PhpMysql and download phpMyAdmin-3.3.3-english.tar.gz
- Download the archive on your web-server's root directory
- now : tar xvfz phpMyAdmin-3.3.9-english.tar.gz (this will create a directory phpMyAdmin-3.3.9-english)
- Rename the directory phpMyAdmin-3.3.9-english :
mv phpMyAdmin-3.3.9-english phpmyadmin
- That's it . Navigate with your browser : http://localhost/phpmyadmin
Now you will be asked for your mysql-root password
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Anchor Bay has officially announced a 30th Anniversary Commemorative set
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Anchor Bay has revealed early details on Halloween: The 30th Anniversary Commemorative Set. The 6-disc package will include the original 1978 film, the extended edition which has been out of print for several years, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, a Halloween 25 Years of Terror documentary with cast and crew, and a bonus Blu-ray release of Halloween. On top of all that, the collectible set will include a replica of the Michael Myers mask. Retail will be $89.97. We've attached a trade advertisement containing the official package artwork below:
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seriously?! hasn't anchor bay milked enough with the evil dead re-re-re-releases
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No Not this time This is just a repackage job. There is nothing new here.
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That mask is terrible. And I reeaally wish rob zombie's halloween was never made
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One severe cheap-ass mask...
Maybe with the rights in such a mess that the region 4 version may be complete?????
Maybe I will win the lottery next week as well..
Maybe with the rights in such a mess that the region 4 version may be complete?????
Maybe I will win the lottery next week as well..
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even though im a huge fan of Michael Myers, im not getting this...
i got everything that's on there...
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Why the heck don't they just release the extended cut from now on and while they're at it remastered the sound and put it on Blu-Ray?
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Smooth Operators
The comprehensive annual financial review (CAFR) for fiscal year 2009 of Goochland County presented to the supervisors on June 1 is both troublesome and reassuring. The report, prepared by the auditing firm of KPMG, examined a wide range of documents to reach it conclusions.
Only a handful of people attended the meeting, so please read the report and listen to the recording of the meeting. The full CAFR is posted on the County website, www.co.goochland.va.us, and the recording of the meeting —the CAFR was presented during the evening session — is on the left side of the supervisors' page.
After going back several years, in some cases to 2001, the auditors have put the county's books on sound footing. Their recommendations to improve systems and procedures are currently being incorporated into county operations. That process should be complete by the end of October.
In the future the county financial picture will be better organized and more transparent, providing a sound footing for the hard decisions to come.
The audit report painted a picture of, at best, a dismal dysfunctional management style with few internal controls or systems to ensure proper handling of the county's money.
It's hard to say whether the lack of comprehensive and cohesive fiscal oversight is the result of incompetence and inattention by the previous regime of county management or a strategy to obfuscate mischief. It is clear that citizen trust placed in those responsible for ensuring good stewardship of county money was misplaced.
People wonder whether the supervisors ever bothered to ask questions about how the county's financial affairs were managed or were snookered by smooth talkers running the county on their behalf. Did the supervisors enable or encourage the previous regime to create this mess?
Clearly, those elected to office before 2007 are uncomfortable about the results of the audit and it seems as though they want to sweep the dirt under the rug and move forward.
Except for Jim Eads, District 5 and William Quarles, Jr. District 2, who were employed by large companies, all of those who served on the board of supervisors in the past decade had experience in running small businesses.
No one expects supervisors to put on green eyeshades and chat about Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) regulations in detail. They should have enough understanding of basic financial management, however, to ask pertinent questions and insist on rotation of accounting firms used to perform county audits.
The county retained an outside firm, RFCA, to audit its books every year for close to a decade. That same firm failed to notice, for about four years, the stale checks found in the utility department. This firm also neglected to include a $21.3 million item for wastewater treatment on the county's financial statements since 2002.
A very troubling pattern discussed in the audit report is the failure of the county to update its accounting procedures, such as they were, to reflect the increasing complexity of Goochland's fiscal affairs as the county grew.
The Capital One campus was lured to West Creek with a goodie bag of incentives, funded in part by the governor's opportunity fund for about $3 million. This involved credits and rebates among the state, Capital One, the County and the Goochland Economic Development Authority. This activity is legal and above board, but requires far more sophisticated accounting than the county had ever used.
Why didn't RFCA sit down with whatever part of county management was responsible for monitoring those transactions and explain how they were to be reflected in county accounts?
Okay, so they missed it the first year, things happen. But for the next least six years, they never caught it. That just smells bad.
They missed a lot, including a $21.3 million obligation to the City of Richmond for wastewater treatment. As the TCSD was being explained to landowners, who put up their property as collateral for money borrowed by the county, this $21.3 million item was never mentioned.
Everyone believed that the cost of building the TCSD infrastructure was the $62+ million borrowed from the Virginia Resource Authority. Eight years later, we learn that there is another $21.3 million of debt the county is obligated to pay. How do TCSD property owners, whose land was used as collateral for the debt, reconcile that?
The report includes at least 43 restatements; that means that the KPMG audit team found 43 instances where the figures were either incorrect or had been put in the wrong place. Goochland County paid a professional accounting firm and others that missed or made these errors. According to Churchman, KPMG traced these items back several years to fix the errors.
In previous years, according to Churchman, RFCA in essence closed the county's books for the year then audited their own work. This may have occurred because no one on the county staff had the technical expertise to close the books.
There was not one county employee with an accounting degree. The previous regime, at best, failed to grasp the importance of this deficiency and was unable to understand the impropriety of the same entity closing the books and then auditing that activity.
Churchman stated several times in different ways that this action makes it impossible for an auditor to have the objectivity necessary to perform a proper audit.
Ned Creasey asked questions, which he said were prepared for him by an accountant, and which seemed to have been approved by Chairman William Quarles, Jr. District 2 before the meeting. What justification is there for the board chairman to interfere with another supervisor's attempts to inform the citizens of the management of county government? (These questions are included below)
Churchman carefully parsed his replies to Creasey's questions. His responses nevertheless painted a picture of county management and an auditing firm that betrayed public trust.
Additional recommendations made by the report include hiring employees with the necessary skill set to manage the increasingly complex financial affairs of the county.
The audit places Goochland on a sound footing to go forward, but raises questions about the county's previous management and auditors that cannot go unanswered.
Quarles, Eads and Andrew Pyror, District 1, sometimes collectively referred to as "the three blind mice" seem eager to move forward and ignore the implications of the audit about activity in the past.
That action would not serve taxpayers well. At the very least, the supervisors must investigate legal remedies to recover the cost of the KPMG audit as well as the $434,000 expended to understand the finances of the TCSD.
At the end of the day, the supervisors are responsible for the operation of county government. Failure to pursue recompense from those whose actions led to the deficiencies outlined in the audit gives credence to the belief that the supervisors enabled or were complicit in those actions. Citizens have little trust in local government. The smooth operators need to foot the bill for their deeds.
Questions asked by Ned Creasey (these are about 33 minutes into the recording of the evening session.)
Preliminary Info/Audit planning:
At what amount(s) did KPMG set materiality for the overall audit? Was the overall materiality amounts altered from initial levels during the audit?
Did KPMG alter the nature, timing, and extent of substantive tests in order to address deficiencies uncovered during tests of controls?
When performing tests of controls, were there any areas where controls were absent or not implemented?
What is the typical period of time for fieldwork related to an entity similar to Goochland County?
Material Weaknesses:
According to your draft report, "The existence, magnitude and causes of prior year restatements and current year adjustments are the basis for material weaknesses." Were there weaknesses that existed in prior year information that no longer existed in the period currently under audit?
Regarding a "Lack of segregation of duties" – does the county have the personnel necessary to properly segregate duties in the departments identified within the report? In KPMG's experience, would the benefits of increased personnel outweigh the costs?
Was KPMG able to discover the existence of liabilities related to the TCSD by reviewing the minutes of past Board of Supervisors meetings and workshops? A review of all board minutes is a core activity in the planning stage of ANY audit, isn't it?
Would subsequent debt service payments be an obvious indication of the existence of a liability?
Has KPMG been given a copy of the previous audit firm's response to proposed restatements of previously reported amounts?
The previous accountant has addressed the proposed restatements in a letter to the county administrator, stating that many of the items noted by KPMG are immaterial in nature. How can we (the B.O.S.) reconcile the difference between what KPMG and RFCA finds to be material?
Further, the previous accountant repeatedly noted that "Management failed to communicate the changes to or monitor the controls over the capital asset listing." How long would KPMG allow reportable conditions to exist without being addressed by management before qualifying its opinion about fair presentation?
If the county disclosed the discovery of a group of stale checks (on the scale that was discovered in the utilities department) after KPMG issued its report, would KPMG feel compelled to restate or disclose this discovery?
Was there any evidence of collusion on behalf of the former county administrator or other county employees? Is it possible that collusion existed but was not discovered?
Does KPMG plan on obtaining a representation letter from the county administrator at the conclusion of its field work? Does this representation letter typically include a statement regarding the completeness and accuracy of the information provided by the county?
Is it appropriate to rely on external auditors to manage year end closing procedures?
Does the county now have appropriate documented procedures to ensure complete and accurate accrual accounting? Are the personnel in place to achieve this goal?
Did KPMG find evidence of misappropriated assets?
How often, in your experiences as an auditor, has KPMG (or you personally) come across a previously unqualified report for a period requiring so many restatements of year end amounts and balances?
3 comments:
- Anonymous said...
When situations like this mess occur, the buck stops at the top. The Supervisors blamed the former Utility Director and his assistant for the check mess-up. They allowed the County Manager to resign, instead of being fired. They seem to point fingers way down the chain of command and allow the higher ups to bow out gracefully. By attempting to lay the blame as low as possible down the chain, they are clearly attempting to avoid any finger pointing in their direction. Jim Eads, Bill Quarles, and Andrew Pryor control the Board with their 3 votes. The buck should stop at the top. These 3 Supervisors need to show some integrity for once and do the honorable thing, RESIGN! The shady deals that created the TCSD have put the County on the road to ruin.
- June 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- Anonymous said...
There needs to be legal remedies asked for by Mrs. Warwick. The county's citizens have been bilked by their former County Administrator and by Robinson Farmer Cox Associates. Both should be sued.
And like the previous comment, I feel that those on the board should be held accountable too.
- June 16, 2010 at 7:06 AM
- Anonymous said...
And just what responsibility do the citizens of Goochland who voted for these Supervisors, year after year, decade after decade, have for this mess? How much do you want to bet that they all get reelected?
Who can we blame? Where can we point the finger? When people start looking in the mirror, we'll have the answer.
- June 17, 2010 at 11:39 AM


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So far it seems like the only form of assessment are tests & quizes. My CT gives points each day for class work and homework, but I wouldn't really count these grades as a form of assessment. Points for both are awarded on whether or not you completed the assignment. Doing an assignment doesn't necessarily mean understanding it. An efficient approach can be to copy the assignment from someone who understands it best. It seems though that waiting until a test or quiz to find out info about students' progress is too late. I will sometimes go around and ask students what they learned from a particular activity or exercise. Students rarely seem to understand what the meaning is behind what they are doing and/or they don't have the words to explain what they do understand. I'm wondering how one teaches students to explain their reasoning other than modeling it for them and requiring them to do it over and over.
Students don't seem particularly accountable for their work either. A class typically goes like this: The CT checks for homework completion as students check their answers/finish up their work. Then the CT lectures or leads an activity. Then there are book problems. It is usually unclear to me whether these problems are considered class work or homework. Many students opt not to do the work in class and instead say that they're just going to do it for homework. It is unclear however if the CT checks that the classwork got completed. Also, I'm not sure what the mechanism is for assessing understanding through class work. Whether or not there's assessment or accountability, it seems like an extraordinary amount of class time is wasted by students choosing not to work. I can understand that students might need some time to disengage, but class time does seem like the best time to do the work so that they can get ideas/feedback from the teacher and classmates. It also seems to breed a culture of slacking in the classroom. This is the part that troubles me most.
As I think about taking over these classrooms in January, I have to say that I am quite nervous to see how students respond to my accountability measures. How do I keep kids working for the entire 50 minute period if they are used to checking out for the last half?
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I heard someone cough. It wasn't a real cough, it was a fake cough. The type you do to announce yourself or when you're interrupting something. And whoever had coughed was interrupting all right.
My head span to see who it was. It was a man, he was overweight and bald, probably in his mid to late forties, but I hadn't seen him before, at least not to my memory.
"I love you, too," Spencer whispered in my ear, before standing up.
"Mr. Norton, thank you for coming, I really appreciate it," Spencer said.
"Of course, Ms. Hastings," Mr. Norton replied, "Alex speaks very highly of you."
Alex? Like Alex Santiago? It can't be. Spencer wouldn't do that to me. But it has to be, he does work here.
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I let out a breath I hadn't realized I was holding.
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Spencer gestured to me.
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Mr. Norton nodded.
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"I'm sure we will," Spencer responded, "And thank you again for coming in today, it means so much to me."
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Spencer turned to me, her eyes gleaning, even in the candlelight. The way she looked at me, it was like the world could crash and burn and she wouldn't even notice as long as her eyes were on me. Just knowing that I could capture her attention so entirely mad eme blush red as she kissed my forehead gently.
Spencer pulled out a chair from the table. "My lady," she said gesturing the chair was for me.
On the table now were two platters, one at each place setting, covered in metal domes.
"Dinner is served," Spencer said, imitating a butler, "Bon appétit."
She lifted the metal dome off of the platter in front of me to reveal three plates. The first contained a house salad with ranch dressing, my favorite, on the side. The second, had heaping pile of Beef Burgandy with a side of scalloped potatoes. The last plate had what looked to be tiramisu. It all looked so elegant and delicious.
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I was grinning like an idiot.
"Spence, this is amazing, I can't believe you went through the trouble of getting me vegan tiramisu! You're too good to me."
I felt Spencer kiss the back of my neck gently, felt her hot breath tracing upwards until it mound my ear. She nibbled on it momentarily before whispering, "Au contraire, mon amour, not good enough."
Her husky voice whispering French into my ear sent shivers coursing through me, but in the best of ways.
Spencer sat down across from me, removing the metal dome from her own platter with a smirk on her face. She was, I'm guessing, smirking because she knew exactly how she affected me.
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About halfway up my thigh, I heard my cell phone go off. I threw an apologetic look towards Spencer, before digging it out of my clutch. I had meant to turn it off, but had forgotten.
I looked at the Caller ID.
"It's Mike," I said, a little shocked that he was calling me. He only ever called if he needed something.
"I'm sorry, babe, do you mind?" I asked, gesturing to my phone.
"Go ahead," she said as her foot's presence on my leg vanished.
"Hello?" I answered, concern coloring my voice, hoping that Mike was okay.
"Hey, uh, sorry to bother you, I know you're on a date," Mike said, "I was just wondering if I could borrow some of your art supplies?"
Art supplies? Mike wasn't the artistic type. He was more of an athletic type. Not your typical jock, though he sometimes fell into the stereotype. He was a nice boy, a sweet kid. He had a heart of gold. But why did he need my art stuff?
"Why?" I asked, trying to be nice about it, but unable to hide my surprise.
"Umm, well, there's this girl."
I laughed, "Say no more, Mike, just make sure to put them back when you're done."
"Sweet. Thanks Aria, you're the best," Mike said.
"Love you, have fun."
"Love you, too. Bye," Mike said before hanging up.
Spencer was looking at me, her head cocked slightly to the left.
"What was that about?" Spencer asked curiously.
"Sorry," I said, getting up and standing behind Spencer, wrapping my arms loosely around her neck.
"Mike's trying to impress a girl," I told her.
I kissed the back of her neck gently, slowly kissing to the other side. Spencer moaned, letting her head fall backwards.
"Well if he's anything like his older sister, then she's probably already hooked," Spencer said.
"You're so sweet, baby," I said, kissing her one more time, before turning her chair to sit in her lap.
"So when exactly did I have you hooked?" I asked, looking into her molten chocolate eyes.
"Mmm, when was I first hooked? Or when did I first realize I was hooked?" Spencer asked, trying to clarify my question.
"Both," I answered, moving a stray piece of hair out of her porcelain face.
She smiled at me, seemingly lost in thought.
"The first time I realized I was hooked on you was in the sixth grade. It was a few weeks before Ali had taken us into her group. I was going to meet you in the park after practice. When I got there you were laying in the middle of the grass. You had this multi-colored tie-dye dress on that fell just above your knees, and a pair of dark-wash skinny jeans with a hole in the left knee. You were listening to your music, and your eyes were closed. I remember looking down at you and thinking 'I wonder if she knows how beautiful she is' and I remember wanting to kiss you, which scared me at first, but at the same time, it felt like the most natural reaction. Instead, I nudged you with my foot. You opened your eyes, looking at me standing over you and smiled. You took out one of your earbuds and handed it to me. I laid down next to you and put it in my ear. The song "Wherever You Will Go" by The Calling had just started to play. You started to sing, and you sang it better than they did. When the song ended, I thought 'This must be what heavens like' not realizing that I'd said it out loud. But then you said, 'It's perfect right now, isn't it?' and that's when I knew."
I was amazed at the detail that she recalled. From what I was wearing to the song I was listening to.
"As to when I was hooked, looking back, it's clear that I was hooked on you from the first moment I saw you. At first, all I saw was your brown hair pulled into a ponytail and the white shirt and overalls you were dressed in. But even only seeing the back of your head I knew I had to have you. Of course I was four, so I didn't think much of it, just that I had to be your friend. And we've been friends ever since."
I felt a tear roll down my cheek.
"Spence," I said, "That was so beautiful. I had no idea."
I wondered if it was a bad thing that I didn't have a lot of these vivid memories of us like she seemed to have.
"You still have no idea, do you? How beautiful you are? How simply amazing you are?"
Spencer whispered into my ear.
"All I know," I whispered back, "Is how ridiculously lucky and blessed I am because I have you."
She brought her lips to mine. Our lips moved passionately, and perfectly in sync with each other. My hands laced themselves in her hair, and I felt hers on my ass, pulling me closer to her.
"Spence," I moaned into her lips.
"Spence," I said again, pulling back this time.
She looked at me expectantly, as if she already knew what I was going to say.
"Not here," I said through heavy breaths.
She nodded, "Let's go home, babe."
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Bloggers react to the first year of fundraising numbers from Facebook Causes App
I've been reading several blog postings about the fact that May 30th marked the first anniversary for Facebook's toolkit that enables the development of 3rd party Applications (Apps) that integrate directly with Facebook user data.
The Giving in a Digital World blog provides some interesting statistics on the biggest non-profit Facebook App, 'Causes' from Project Agape (now also available on MySpace). The allure to nonprofits is strong since they now have a total of 12 million registered users supporting over 80,000 US and Canadian non-profit organisations.
Over the last 12 months, $2.5 million has been raised through Causes for 19,445 organisations - equating to an average of just $126 per organisation. No donations at all have been made to 75% of the 80,000 organisations being 'supported'.This leaves blogger Bryan Miller wonders if there is a greater potential. Caroline Preston at the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Give and Take blog also wrote about the underwhelming response to the news from people over at TechCrunch.
Adam Hyman points out on TechCrunch that the $2.5-million total works out to being only $0.21 per user. "How can anyone call this a success?" he asks.The TechCrunch reaction is likely to shape the industry's reaction to the fundraising news because Michael Arrington published this article at the Washington Post. However, Allan Benamer at the Non-Profit Tech Blog took issue with the idea that the fundraising revenue was low. Benamer reminds readers:
"...the amount is actually greater than the first year revenue for Kiva, GlobalGiving and DonorsChoose COMBINED."My own personal reaction is that the success of the Causes App should not be judged based on the dollar amount raised. Rather a more important metric should be the number of users who agree to share their name and contact information with their favorite nonprofits through this feature. That's why this is a revolutionary development.
For too many years, nonprofits have settled for the "cash bucket" mentality of fundraising where they failed to see the future value of collecting the names (and contact information) from people who threw donations into a bucket.
I'm happy to see social networking sites recognize that it's not enough just to raise money as a one time donation... the question for me will be whether nonprofit fundraisers figure out how to develop appropriate follow-up strategies to continue engaging this new breed of donor.


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Based on a pure western atmosphere, the game draws on the major themes of the American Wild West through the confrontation of two powerful and iconic characters.
Epic duels, train robbery, horseback riding across unending terrain, fights from horseback& All the ingredients of the best western movies are blended seamlessly together in Call of Juarez.
Choose to play as either one of two stimulating characters: Billy, a young fugitive accused of murder, or the merciless vigilante hunting him down, the Reverend Ray, an ex-outlaw who turned to religion, believing that God Himself has chosen Ray to be the instrument of His wrath.
Amidst the twists and turns of this absorbing psychological story aspect, players will also encounter a wide variety of gameplay features, with many differences between the stories of the characters.
Special Features
* Exploitation of physics and innovating simulation of fire, liquids, dust, smoke and gas.
* Amazing graphics that fully exploit the potential of the latest video cards.
* Play either of two characters with their specific gameplay style and abilities.
* All the western in a video game: horseback riding on never-ending maps, horseback fights, train robbery, gun fights, and more!
* Screenplay inspired by the most famous westerns of the 1970s and 80's.
* Solo and multiplayer modes .
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General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) shares are down more than -14.25% this year and recently decreased -0.58% or -$0.31 to settle at $52.97. Kellogg Company (NYSE:K), on the other hand, is down -13.50% year to date as of 11/13/2017. It currently trades at $63.76 and has returned 5.91% during the past week.
General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) and Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) are the two most active stocks in the Processed & Packaged Goods industry based on today's trading volumes. Investor interest in the two stocks is clearly very high, but which is the better investment? To answer this question, we will compare the two companies across growth, profitability, risk, and valuation metrics, and also examine their analyst ratings and insider activity trends.
The ability to consistently grow earnings at a high compound rate is a defining characteristic of the best companies for long-term investment. Analysts expect GIS to grow earnings at a 5.99% annual rate over the next 5 years. Comparatively, K is expected to grow at a 6.39% annual rate. All else equal, K's higher growth rate would imply a greater potential for capital appreciation.
Profitability and Returns
Growth in and of itself is not necessarily valuable, and it can even be harmful to shareholders if companies overinvest in unprofitable projects in pursuit of that growth. We will use EBITDA margin and Return on Investment (ROI), which adjust for differences in capital structure, as measure of profitability and return. , compared to an EBITDA margin of 16.15% for Kellogg Company (K). GIS's ROI is 13.80% while K has a ROI of 12.00%. The interpretation is that GIS's business generates a higher return on investment than K's.
Cash Flow
The amount of free cash flow available to investors is ultimately what determines the value of a stock. GIS's free cash flow ("FCF") per share for the trailing twelve months was +0.32. Comparatively, K's free cash flow per share was +0.50. On a percent-of-sales basis, GIS's free cash flow was 1.16% while K converted 1.33% of its revenues into cash flow. This means that, for a given level of sales, K is able to generate more free cash flow for investors.
Liquidity and Financial Risk
Analysts look at liquidity and leverage ratios to assess how easily a company can cover its liabilities. GIS has a current ratio of 0.70 compared to 0.70 for K. This means that GIS can more easily cover its most immediate liabilities over the next twelve months. GIS's debt-to-equity ratio is 2.58 versus a D/E of 4.25 for K. K is therefore the more solvent of the two companies, and has lower financial risk.
GIS trades at a forward P/E of 16.47, a P/B of 7.82, and a P/S of 1.97, compared to a forward P/E of 14.98, a P/B of 11.41, and a P/S of 1.72 for K. GIS is the cheaper of the two stocks on book value basis but is expensive in terms of P/E and P/S ratio. Given that earnings are what matter most to investors, analysts tend to place a greater weight on the P/E.
Analyst Price Targets and Opinions
When investing it's crucial to distinguish between price and value. As Warren Buffet said, "price is what you pay, value is what you get". GIS is currently priced at a -2.29% to its one-year price target of 54.21. Comparatively, K is -9.13% relative to its price target of 70.17. This suggests that K is the better investment over the next year.
The average investment recommendation on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being a strong buy, 3 a hold, and 5 a sell) is 3.10 for GIS and 3.00 for K, which implies that analysts are more bullish on the outlook for GIS.
Risk and Volatility
No discussion on value is complete without taking into account risk. Analysts use a stock's beta, which measures the volatility of a stock compared to the overall market, to measure systematic risk. A stock with a beta above 1 is more volatile than the market. Conversely, a beta below 1 implies a below average level of risk. GIS has a beta of 0.63 and K's beta is 0.51. K's shares are therefore the less volatile of the two stocks.
Insider Activity and Investor Sentiment
Short interest, or the percentage of a stock's tradable shares currently being shorted, is another metric investors use to get a pulse on sentiment.GIS has a short ratio of 7.21 compared to a short interest of 8.77 for K. This implies that the market is currently less bearish on the outlook for GIS.
Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) beats General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) on a total of 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks. K is more profitable, has higher cash flow per share and has a higher cash conversion rate. In terms of valuation, K is the cheaper of the two stocks on an earnings and sales basis, K is more undervalued relative to its price target. Finally, HCC has better sentiment signals based on short interest.


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hey there,
AFTER a looooooong thought process! lot of thinking was involved in there!!! (boy did it hurt my little head) it came to me!
My 11 second club idea SUCKS!!! BIG TIME!!! it is one cliche after another! I donno from where I heard this but I heard this form some one really important 'An idea which you consider the BEST in the world will probably be crappy in next couple of day' meaning if after a couple of days, u still think the idea is good is the good idea... I experienced it all through most of my takshaa days (never realised though)
Any way!!! I decided to finish my unfinished works!! i look into my files... and when the dust settled! i finished coughing with all the accumulated dirt!! In my WIP section of my Hard disk, I was shocked to find another 11 second club dialogue! when I opened the file I found the half blocked dialogue... took a while to remember what I planned to do! It all came back to me (with a bit new ideas also) so I decided to do that dialogue...
here's the Rough blocking of the dialogue!
will put up the finished blocking soon (hopefully within the end of this week)
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Calling all glo girls!
Time for you to tell us what you think about all the products we offer on gloskincare.com. We have added Customer Reviews to our website, and we want to hear what you think about all your favorite glo products - including things we could do better!
Just go to any product on the website, and click the 'review product' link to give it a rating and a quick comment or two. This will help other glo girls find products that you love, and it will also help us learn more about how you use glo!
What's your favorite way to glo? Can't wait to hear from you!
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Monday, January 31, 2011
The End is Here
Today marks the end of Art Month, but that doesn't mean the creativity ends here. I always have some projects and will continue to pump out designs, jobs, art, or whatever else is in the pipeline. I actually do have a couple of projects that I want to post and were hoping to have completed by today but alas I didn't get to complete them. In the coming weeks I'll post some more, and remember Valentine's Day is right around the corner so order your human heart valentine early (because it takes a while to make and order the necessary pieces). But for now, January bids you farewell. Tomorrow is a new day, month, and theme. Stay tuned...
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We are an internationally-recognized, award-winning manufacturer of a wide range of architectural and design products that appear in landmark projects worldwide.
Sensitile's interactive material Scintilla won the 2017 PIA award for Hospitality material. You can learn more about Scintilla and it's various uses here.
PIXA Dimensional won the 2017 HiP award at Neocon. Learn more about this versatile concrete material here.
Sensitile earned a Best Booth Award (600 to 800 square feet) at Lightfair International 2015, held in New York City.
In September 2013, Sensitile Systems won a Gold award in Booth Design and a Silver award in the Finishes/Materials category in recognition of product innovation for our Infinity panels at the IIDEX trade show in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In recognition of our sustainable business practices — specifically, Sensitile's efforts at waste diversion and plastics recycling — Laird Plastics honored us with its 2009 Environmental Excellence Award.
Our FIN™ light fixture product line snared Best Product for Hospitality honors from Architectural Products magazine for their 2015 Product Innovation Awards issue.
At its 2011 event, Lightfair International organizers gave Sensitile their Best Booth Award in the Design Pavilion category.
Sensitile's FIN light fixture garnered another Lightfair International honor in 2012.
Even in 2004 — the year Abhi Lath founded Sensitile — we began to earn the attention of the design community, including the international trade fair Materialica, which bestowed on us its Design Award in the Best of Material category.
The iF Design Award is one of the world's most prestigious. Sensitile achieved this lofty recognition in 2005, when the International Forum Design GmbH organizers recognized us for our inventive use of material.


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Teameni Tupelo Honey - Chinaprice: contact company for price
Tupelo honey is often called ' The Queen of the honey world' , and is considered the sweetest liquid gold in the South. Tupelo nectar is transformed into a delicacy whose combination of strength, subtlety and sweetness is almost impossible to describe. Tupelo Honey never crystallizes in the bottle.
Tupelo honey is often called ' The Queen of the honey world' , and is considered the sweetest liquid gold in the South. Tupelo nectar is transformed into a delicacy whose combination of strength, subtlety and sweetness is almost impossible to describe. Tupelo Honey never crystallizes in the bottle.
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Teameni is set up many purchasing centers and productive factories worldwide, the annual output of our factory in hamburg amounts to ten thousand tons, our large warehouse and logistic center located in Jiangsu Changzhuo, and we will serve customers around the world.
To make our products more fashion, our Teameni group has searched for the inspirations from the world s large tea plantations for a long time, we will lead the international tea s trend with our bold reform and innovation.
The magic weapon to make Teameni always popular is the strict attitude towards the product s quality, both the production line in hamburg or the formula laboratory in LA or the large warehouse in china will not allow a little negligence.
To make sure that our group can meet the specific wishes of customers, we mix various high quality fruits and herbal with all kinds of tea from nature, of course included sorts of high quality spices and other ingredients.
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When studying theatre in Berlin, back in the early days of this century, I loved seeing theatre that took itself serious—no make-believe, no drama, no night like any one before (disclaimer: I still do). At that time, performances by René Pollesch (Telefavela, Death of an Intern), Gob Squad (legendary: King Kong Club), Rimini Protokoll (Torero Portero, Deadline, Black Tie…) were all the rage in academia, at least in the small world of theatre studies. Just a few years before, Hans-Thies Lehmann had coined the label "postdramatic" for these and other practices that didn't rely on a literary work, but rather took off on their theatrical explorations from personal experiences, social or media phenomena (social media didn't exist yet), everyday and/or professional life, or simply some playful situation. Many among this new generation of theatremakers had graduated in Applied Theatre Studies at Gießen University, so sometimes these groups are also referred to as the "Gießen-school".
Strange though, in Berlin I had never attended a performance by She She Pop. With their highly self-reflective, personal, performative works, this female collective of experimental non-actors is usually counted among the postdramatics. Finally, in Seoul I got to see their latest and probably most successful work, Testament (유서), invited by Goethe-Institut and Festival Bo:m (페스티벌 봄) to perform at Mary Hall, the theatre of Sogang University. That year the festival was very much postdramatic and presented a solo-piece by Rene Pollesch, the furious Casablanca-cum-capitalism-criticism Ich schau dir in die Augen, gesellschaftlicher Verblendungszusammenhang!, as well as a video-talk with Hans-Thies Lehmann (but that's a story to be told another day).
Working at Goethe-Institut Korea (주한 독일문화원) at that time, I had written the announcements for the shows and that way had learned a bit more about this quite unusual piece of "reality-theatre". Although often alluding to Shakespeare's King Lear, this is merely a red thread that shines through from time to time. The performers of She She Pop discuss—in real-time, live on stage—their generational relations with their fathers, exactly in this double sense. Because they have brought their fathers with them, even to Seoul!
I saw the play twice, first the final rehearsal and then the afternoon show on Saturday. And what can I say? It was really moving to see the 40-something actresses (one male) and their fathers perform what must have become a routine by now, two years (and some international tours) after the premiere in 2010. (And the show goes on! See some reviews of guest performances at the Barbican, in Toronto, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, as well as a moving blogpost from there, and another review.)
Despite the casual and improvised feeling of many scenes, most of them are scripted, some quite ostentatively. But don't our interactions with family (and friends we know long enough) follow more or less fixed paths and habits? A few images stand out, e.g. the fathers, dressed as kings, judging the lives of their children, or live video montages of the daughters (and the one son) who, now, wear the crownes themselves. And of course the karaoke-style performance of
Celine Dion's Titanic-theme, more on M-sli©k da ninjA here) "Something' Stupid", famously performed by Frank Sinatra and his daughter Nancy in 1967, is heartbreaking, again and again, and even on Youtube:
Are family ties unavoidable destiny that can only be problematized relentlessly? I believe in elective affinities (I want to, at least), but nevertheless have to admit that time spent together, the first and most impressive years, is difficult to strip off. Future projections, including senior cohabitation (which demands the destruction of books for lack of space—doesn't that sound quite Nazi-like?) and retirement homes made me think of the years to come. Theatre about the past for the future, certainly not the worst kind!
For further reading (if you can get past the pay-wall), Kate Bredeson has written an extended review of the piece ("The Sum of Testament is Love", PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 36.1 (2014),45–52).
– 14 April 2012 (토)
- 극단 쉬쉬팝과 그들의 아버지들의, 유서, 페스티벌 봄, 서강대학교 메리홀 대극장, 2012년4월13일 (토), 오후 3시~5시.
- She She Pop and their Fathers, Testament, Festival Bo:m, Sogang University Mary Hall, Main Hall, 2012–04–14 (Sat.), 3–5pm.


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LOVE IT!!! This will definitley be a dress I make for my little girl. Can't wait to see more!
Your model is a DOLL! The dress is fabulous. Too bad it wouldn't look that cute on me! LOL
SO adorable!
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Book review: Eating for the Seasons - cooking for health and happiness by Janella Purcell
If you are looking for inspiration either for your cooking repertoire or for improving your health,
'Eating for the Seasons' is a great place to start.
You may recognise Janella as the 'Good Chef' from the TV program 'Good Chef Bad Chef'. With her impressive list of credentials: naturopath, nutritionist, herbalist, iridologist - Janella's food as medicine approach is my style of cooking.
This is her third book, (she has a fourth in the pipeline 'Janella's Wholefood Kitchen' due for release October this year) and as the title suggests it follows the seasons with a chapter dedicated to each. There is a really easy to understand introduction to each season that outlines some Chinese medicine principles, then a list of what's in season.
Recipes are divided into breakfast, lunch, dinner, sides & dressings, sweet things and drinks. I like the added value a list of variations beneath each recipe adds to the book. The recipes and techniques are not complex, the list of variations offers flavour twists and combinations you may not have considered or options if you don't have exact ingredients on hand.
The recipes range from a simple summer breakfast of baked sweet ricotta with mango cheeks, to a cleansing spring lunch of clams with quinoa, heartier winter dishes include brown rice spinach pie with feta and black olives and an excellent version of vegetable lasagne that is not overloaded with oil and cheese.
Some autumnal options on my list to try are fennel and pomegranate salad - any excuse to use pomegranate molasses -, broccoli egg-lemon soup sounds just right to me, and a dish I have made before and look forward to making again is Loobia, a traditional Lebanese dish made with green beans and a spice blend of cumin, coriander, black peppercorns, sweet paprika and ground ginger.
My standout favorite sweetie in this book a vegan chocolate cheesecake made with silken tofu and dark chocolate - it is heaven! Really. A recipe I didn't have as much success with (or win as many fans at home) is a chocolate almond 'mousse' made with agar agar. Admittedly I was missing an ingredient - carob molasses - and I tried substituting it with straight molasses which was totally overpowering. So there's a tip, that is one ingredient for which there is no substitute! I'll give it another go.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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Now on to my BIG dreams.
I am amazed by the capabilities of five year olds.
There really is something so special about Kindergarten.
In addition to loving my job, there is also a lot of pressure. I feel a great responsibility to my students to ensure that they get what they need when they are in my classroom. I put a lot of pressure on myself to get better and continue growing.
I'm known for having very high expectations for my kindergarteners, and I think that stems from having high expectations for myself and those around me.
I am committed to being a life long learner and growing as an educator.
I've already learned so much through the teacher blogger community and am excited to continue!
2. Blogging and TPT have allowed me the opportunity to share my love of teaching with others.
I just love it. I can't explain it any other way.
Teaching makes my heart full and very, very happy!
3. Okay, so if we're dreaming BIG…
I dream that TPT can one day help me purchase that perfect, rickety, old farm house on the perfect piece of property that is ready to be gutted and beautified! I am fortunate enough to have a husband who can literally do anything. He is just so darn handy and I love it!
We've been having so much redoing our current home….
BUT are so ready to find our forever home and move out of the city.
This "perfect" farm house in my mind:
-has a BIG wrap around front porch, so I can enjoy my morning coffee outside!
– has at least 5 acres… big open yard, complete with some woods, perhaps a pond?!
-is within 20 minutes of my school ( I'm so over my drive)
-Oh and how about a tree lined driveway, maybe even on a tree lined country road
– is large enough that I can have a BIG dining room, kitchen and closet..oh and a craft room 🙂
-needs a lot of work so we can make it our own
I know, I know… it probably doesn't exist. But I'm going to keep on looking just incase.
So what if I have to stalk the local MLS daily?! I enjoy it. 🙂
So there are are some of my BIG dreams for my blogging and TPT journey! Special thanks to the ladies at Third in Hollywood, Sparkling in Second, Peppy Zesty Teacherista, and Teach Create Motivate for hosting this amazing challenge!