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One of my coworkers at my full time gig came to me with this logo design project. I love branding design because it is always incredibly challenging. When working with this church, I had to have him be the sole communicator with me for a large committee that was making the ultimate calls on things.
I got the opportunity to work on a logo design for Whistling & Co. Emily has been doing some amazing work and you can go read more about what she is doing at her blog. A huge part of her business are the necklaces she makes and sells. They are beautiful and can be found
A friend of mine in Richmond has started brewing his own Kombucha. I am not a huge fan of it myself, but it is certainly trending now. It's really easy to make and he has started exploring lots of flavors using local ingredients like Strawberry Basil & Ginger. When he started looking to sell his
In the summer of 2013, I read the book Just My Type, and it was filled with these amazing quotes about the ampersand. One of my favorites reads, "Done well, an
I was so excited when Jay proposed to Jerusha, and even more excited when they came to me wanting me to letterpress their wedding invitations. We started with a simple brainstorming call and Jerusha sent me some samples of one's she liked and some of her color choices. They are getting married in Florida under
This past week at work we needed to create a fun infographic and video for a campaign about what restaurant workers are looking for in a job. My coworker Brandon and I worked together to get the photography just right, and then I lettered around the images he took. I built the final infographic in
So I have mentioned some of this before but I think it is time for a recap. When I first started in the whole small business world, I was operating under my design website and name: ilovenataliekay. As my letterpress and printing world expanded, I knew there would be a need for a change. Since
Last year, my friend Allison and I were talking about what to name my letterpress machine. I wanted to try to have some separation between the rest of the artwork I was creating and the specific letterpress prints. She came up with the name "Off the Beaten Press." It was perfect. I loved the impression
A coworker at my full time job recommended me to his friend who is working on staring his own electric company. This was a project I was excited about because the owner, Jason, really wanted a retro feeling logo design. I did a BUNCH of classic retro logos for him before we resolved to the
I am always so flattered when friends turn to me to help them with the next big step in their lives. Logan, a wonderful gentleman, excellent musician and chef, approached me with a logo design request. He is starting a sloppy joe food truck in Harrisonburg called Rocktown Slops. I'm lucky enough to have previewed


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This is a useful little list from IGN. It outlines the 10 most overused plot devices in games. If you don't have time to read the entire list, here's the short version: (complete article here) Secret Organizations Plotting Conspiracies, Possibly Relating to World Domination Uncovering Long Lost Remnant of Something Fulfilling a Prophecy Killing the [...]

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Hey Seniors - greetings from the College Guy!
Isn't daylight savings great??? Still flipping icy cold but it's light till past 6:30, which is a harbinger of spring. And if you need further proof of warm days ahead don't you find it consoling to pick up the sports section and see that the boys of summer are hard at work in Florida and Arizona? Before we know it the season opener will be here (and if you have to ask "What Season?", well, never mind!). For the rest of us, circle March 28th on your calendars - that's when my Yankees open against the O's in the Big Apple.
Here's a chock-full-'o-info College Guy Rant for March. Some of the stuff contained herein just may be of use to you and your folks, so take some time and read through it carefully...
First, lemme give you my "Chopped Liver" speech, which is what you're gonna get from me when I find out that you've received decisions from your colleges without letting me know.
Now many of you have been dutiful correspondents and have shared the good (and at times not-so-good) news with me, for which I'm appreciative. This is for the rest of you.
It goes like this: either you call me or I call you, or we run in to one another in the Old Port or at the Westbrook Cinemagic, and I say something pithy like:
"So, what's new?"
And you reply: "Well, I'm trying to decide between the acceptances I've gotten from Bard and Bates, but you know I was wait listed at Barnard and rejected at Brown, and also Beloit just offered me $26,000/year to go there, so I just don't know what to do!"
"When did you hear all this?" sez I.
"Oh, I've known for a couple of weeks!" you reply.
...and I say something sparkly like: "Well, uh, duh, that's great, like, were you planning on telling me? WHAT AM I, CHOPPED LIVER????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????!? !!!!!!!!!??????!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?"
So moral of the story here is to PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU HEAR FROM YOUR SCHOOLS: good, bad or wait-list. I'd really appreciate it cause it helps me keep the pulse on what schools are up to from year to year, y'know what I mean?
And as an added incentive (not that you should need one), I've got a suggestion for things you can do if you get wait listed. Briefly, it's an attempt to appeal the decision (without begging or getting all undignified), to make sure they didn't mix you up with someone else, to let them know you're still interested and to score some extra points toward them potentially taking you off the wait list and offering you an acceptance down the road.
Does that happen often? To be honest, no. But over the last few years I've seen more than a few qualified applicants successfully come off a wait-list after showing the school in question some love, desire and hustle. If you should get wait listed (or if you were deferred from early decision or early action) give me a holler andask me about the "waiting list appeal". You may still have some moves to make.
Now for those of you who haven't yet heard from some of your schools don't get all nervous. Take a deep breath and....relax. The most selective colleges like to take their sweet time, and they've been known to keep you in suspense till the middle or even the end of March to send out their decisions. So take a chill pill and keep the waiting game going...Concentrate on something else, like the upcoming baseball season. Um, or your physics homework.
It should go without saying (though I'll say it here anyway) that if you haven't heard from a college you've applied toand you never received confirmation from them that they received your application, you need to call that school and ask what's up! Sometime things get lost or mis-handled, and you don't want to find out in May that your folder got wedged between file drawers or your application got mislabeled and lost in cyberspace.
When you do get a letter of acceptance, you should follow a standard protocol something like the following:
1. Feel good about yourself, say "hip hip hooray"
2. Read the letter carefully, take note of grants and scholarship awards, invitations to attend accepted student programs, and requests for deposits (check out what I have to say about this further on in the rant).
3. Let your guidance counselor and me know.
4. Feel good about yourself again, say "hip hip hooray" again
5. Call me old fashioned, but I think it's a good thing to write a letter (or email) to the person who signed the admissions letter (usually the Dean of Admissions). Be gracious and grateful - ESPECIALLY IF THEY OFFERED YOU MONEY!!! - and let them know how excited you are. Then assure them that although you're still waiting to hear from another school or two, you will be getting back to them very soon to further explore their offer of acceptance.
(NOTE BENE: all schools MUST give you till April 30th before non-refundable deposits are due and you make your final decisions. No rush here - don't let yourself feel pressured)
6. If you've been in close contact with coaches, professors, other "pen pal" types at the schools which have accepted you, let them know the good news as well.
7. When you get accepted by your safety schools do the same thing (it's good to be nice, and one never knows) and as you thank them you might delicately ask if they have moolah for you.
8. Continue to feel good about yourself, lord it over younger siblings, particularly the annoying ones, and remind your parents that they won't have you around much longer so now's the time for them to ply you with movie tickets, nice gifts and later curfews. Try saying "hip hip hooray" within earshot of them - they're bound to be moved!
9. PARENTS TAKE NOTE: Make sure your financial aid applications have been received by each school and you've responded to any additional requests for information they may have made. Oftentimes these requests are in your students' "on line portal" at the college's web site, so make sure junior is properly registered at each of her schools and is checking there often and carefully.Follow directions and call financial aid offices for help if needed. If you're confused or in a bind, give me a holler and I'll try to help out.
Oh, and don't let junior manipulate you in to doing something foolish like increasing his allowance or taking the family van to see Phishin New Jersey...expect her to try though!
Here's a few important reminders to parents about paying for college and financial aid (and merit aid):
Within a week or two of getting an acceptance letter you should receive an official financial aid award (that is, if you applied for financial aid by submitting the FAFSA and, where required, the CSS PROFILE). If you haven't received such an award letter, phone the financial aid office (not the admissions office) and ask them when you can expect to receive it.
Some schools will request that you go though a process called "Verification". You may have to send them a copy of your taxes and another form or two they'll direct you to. It's annoying but not hard, and don't be bashful about calling the school's financial aid office and asking for clarification.
Remember, your son/daughter has until April 30 to make his/her final decision (that's when deposits are due to the school they're going to attend), but most folks can't make that decision until they know what it's going to cost. So you need to get financial aid information ASAP so you'll know whether it's going to be necessary to prepare an appeal for more money.
VERY IMPORTANT POINT FOR THOSE WHO QUALIFY FOR FINANCIAL AID: If you're not pleased with the aid you've been given you can appeal for more. However, you've got to be able to make a compelling argument (meaning: you've got toneedit, not justwantit).
I work with many families who wish to make an appeal for additional aid. Get in touch with me if you have questions or want help interpreting an award letter, or composing an appeal strategy, There's a right way and wrong way to ask for additional money. I'll show you the right way to do it.
For those families who do not qualify for need based aid there is a way to inquire about merit aid from colleges which offer it. Give me a call if you want some suggestions.
Worth repeating one more time:You have till the end of April before nonrefundable deposits are due. Often when a college accepts you they will request a registration and a housing deposit (usually between $200 - $600, total). Most schools make it clear that said deposit is not due till the end of April, but others (in an understandable attempt to "close the deal" - they're businesses first and foremost, remember?) will ask for the deposit NOW. In such cases the depositsmust be fully refundableif you let them know before April 30 that you've chosen another school.
IMPORTANT: If a school seems to be asking for a nonrefundable deposit before April 30th, that's extremely unkosher. Call me immediately and let me have at 'em on your behalf...
Whether your family filed for financial aid or not, now is the time to be sending out scholarship applications. There are many sources of funds out there, but (sadly) most won't give money to you. However making a time-efficient and strategic search and scholarship application blitz may not be a bad idea. Start right in your guidance office and ask about local scholarships - now is the time to be applying for them. If you're not already registered withwww.fastweb.com, sign up now.
Want some other suggestions for searching for scholarships without driving yourself too nuts? Give me a call - that's why I'm here!
Remember that the purpose of financial aid is to fill the gap between the full cost of the school (tuition/fees plus room/board) and a family's ability to pay and (reasonably) borrow. Asking the college for more money is NOT, in my opinion, an exercise in merely "getting the best deal", and this is an important distinction to make if you're to be successful. If the FAO (financial aid officer) thinks you're merely "shopping", you won't do as well. I tell parents to expect paying for college to hurt a little more than you're hoping it will, but not a great deal more. If your child gets in, and if the college is a respectable one (and most are), you should have success appealing for more money once you explain your need and your true EFC. Late March and April, when you've heard from all your schools, is the proper time to do this.
On that somber note, relax and enjoy the ever longer days, the NCAA basketball tournament, the start of the baseball season, and the wonderful and exciting changes which are in store for you in the coming months!
Stay groovy!
P.S. If you've read this far I suspect you appreciate all this information I'm laying out for you, despite the length. If you know of other students and parents who would benefit from receiving my emails (particularly members of the class of 2020 and 2021 who are just starting this journey) I would be grateful if you would pass my name and contact information along to folks who may want to receive my future rants. These newsletters are also posted on my web page (URL below) so you can refer folks there. I'm currently accepting juniors and sophomores to my caseload, in case you know underclassmen and their families who might want some help. And feel free to forward this rant to class of '19 seniors and their families as well!
Gary L. Canter
College Placement Services
210 St. John Street
Portland, Maine 04102
(207) 772-9711
College Placement Services provides high school students and their families
assistance with all aspects of the college search, selection, application
and financial aid process.


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Muriel, by C. Janssen, daughter of Sir Thomas Bromley, lord chancellor. On the accession of James I. she received, as an act of mercy, the forfeited estates of her husband Mr. John Lyttleton, who had been condemned to death, and had his estates confiscated, for the part he bore in Essex's plot. Her rational piety was evinced in carefully educating her children in the Protestant faith, the Lyttelton family, previously to that time, having been bigotted Papists; and her humility was displayed in her choice of a place of sepulture in the centre of the church-yard, amongst the croud of "unhonoured dead." There her remains repose under a plain tomb, bearing the following inscription:
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qualify for the 2020 olympic marathon trials in ATL (sub-2:45)
8 miles. emigration market loop. snow-hail.
i'm starting up my strength training regimen again this week -- need to stay healthy and keep my muscles huge.
10 bottles of muscle milk per day. Thank me later for the advice, after you can karate chop through a cinder block.
deena kastor drinks muscle milk, so i'm on board with this plan.
EWWW. Muscle Milk has a nasty aftertaste. How about a milkshake instead? Oh wait . . .you wanted to build MUSCLE, not fat. Guess you're stuck with the aftertaste.
Also, Josh Cox is sponsored by Ellipti-Go now... I refresh their website every hour to see when James' profile is going to appear on their elite athlete list. Tell him to get on it!
For the record Emily, I think muscle milk is gross, and I go w/ ice cream / milkshakes 100% of the time... and I can pretty easily lift like 5-10 pounds STRAIGHT OVER MY HEAD, so that pretty much tells you all you need to know about how buff I've gotten on my plan.
my secret is greek yogurt. i can do one pull-up.
i already made james an ellipti-go singlet, but we are still saving up for the actual device. he's more into race-walking now anyway...
FYI - Protien powder, yogurt, a banana, and apple juice all blended up make a decent smoothie/drink with no after taste.
I love greek yogurt, but I still can't do a pull up. Hmmmm.... Maybe I should beef up my buff plan!!
You better share all of your muscle building secrets with us. :)
Greek yogurt must go straight to your knees.
Are we back to pull-ups again? You should consider doing targeted training to avoid further increasing your massive knee muscles.
Muscles shmuscles. I had some once upon 3 months ago. Now I am just running it all off.... oh well.
Run. soon. Allie-cat.
Nice miles.
I was thinking about asking for some nutritional advice. I may come back and ask you guys.
Considering a Tough Mudder for July 14th. And upper body is what I will need to work on!
PRE - Dolphin and eagle are the best sources of protein.
I thought Gaston's method of downing raw eggs was worth trying at least once. The next time I see you I'm gonna ask you to flex.
Nice 8. Just put protein powder in your cookies hulk. Works great.
Jake you have led us all astray, there is a secret- muscle milk!
Allie I'm not so sure Deena drinks it, let me ask her sice I'm friends with her. Oh! Yep she does. She just messaged me. Carry on with the lifting and milk plan. And sice there's talk of targeted muscle groups it seems only obvious that you should inject muscle milk right where you want it. I'm pretty sure it turns into pure muscle once it enters the body. I hear Greek yogurt makes you work for it.
allie, you're muscles are Huge! One pull up is big. I tried to do it at my son's soccer game the other day bc it was in a Jr.High gym with bars, and it was pathetic. Funny when you think you're all cool and you can just walk up and do pull ups like you used to when you were young, and you get a sad reality check. Maybe I need to buy the muscle milk.
dolphin is $34.99/lb at costco. forget it.
Ms. A (instead of Mr. T)...you need to post pictures of these muscles. The people need to see what eating dolphin does!
Sometimes costco includes a $4 off coupon in their monthly mailer for dolphin.
Bigger savings can be had if you just eat tuna that isn't dolphin free. Look for the cans that have nets and harpoons on the logo, or find a tuna manufacturer that doesn't have separate processing equipment for the tuna and dolphin. You can be sure there will be plenty of cross-contamination.


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The reason I do climate science is because it has a very practical application: We have a very narrow window of time to do something meaningful about this issue, and that window is closing. Every year we go without a binding climate policy to reduce our emissions shrinks the chance we have of hitting lower emissions targets. So we're taking away our choices. By not making a choice, we're forcing ourselves into the higher scenarios.If there were more scientists like Dr. Hayhoe, who recognize the necessity of meeting with evangelicals on their terms and working to educate them on the reality of climate change, this could go a long way toward building a real and necessary consensus on the issue.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
How To Talk To Climate Skeptics (and maybe get somewhere)
This is an outstanding interview by the British newspaper the Guardian, with Texas Tech University climate researcher Katharine Hayhoe. Dr. Hayhoe is not only a respected climate scientist who studies and frequently speaks out on global warming, but is also a member of the evangelical Christian community, a community that has unfortunately not been won over to the reality of anthropogenic climate change. Dr. Hayhoe has worked both to spread the word on the necessity of dealing with the causes of global warming, and to bridge the gap between the evangelical community and climate science. One notable quote from this interview:
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text: Kevin Pearce, Jack Mitrani and maybe some more Frends will be webcasting live from the Dew Tour at 5pm Eastern Time on Thursday the 20th of January from the Killington, Vermont stop of the Dew Tour. Check out all their antics, chat directly with them, send in live email requests, text scandalous snaps, whatever. Just log onto ustream.tv/kevinpearce to be a part of this whole online love-in.


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Scientists Analyze Genetic Makeup of Dogs:
Among other findings, the analysis determined that the Chihuahua is actually a type of large rodent, selectively bred for centuries to resemble a canine.
Ha ha!
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My son just turned 3, and I threw a Safari-themed party for him. I wanted everything to still be sort of cute and baby-ish, as opposed to life-like (since he's still a toddler, but not for long!), so his invitation had a cute giraffe and lion on it. I sent the invite by email, because I had created it in photoshop, but not the way you're supposed to – I'm totally clueless – and so it wasn't looking good in terms of being able to print out quality invitations. Oh well.
I tried to have "rustic", non-fancy food, something you might actually be able to eat while on safari, so the menu consisted of:
trail mix
Chocolate Turtle Chex mix
watermelon & cantaloupe
white bean dip w/pita chips & bread
lemon chicken kabobs
Filipino BBQ pork kabobs
vegetable cous cous
The only activities I had were decorating your goody bag with stamps, playing with the puppet theater (that I got a few days previous at IKEA on sale for $1.99!), and hanging out in the safari canopy I made. It was a featured craft in the June/July issue of Family Fun magazine. But all the kids wanted to do was play at the playground, anyway, since we were at a park.
I never figured out exactly what to do about the cake. I originally planned to ask a friend of a friend who works at a Costco bakery if she would hook me up, because she and my friend would sometimes decorate cakes however they wanted, for their own parties. Costco doesn't allow this, but they somehow were able to. So anyway, I never got around to asking her, and ended up making it myself. My first idea was to buy some cute animals I'd seen at Toys R Us, that were only $6.99 for 6, plus a nice tree. But the set includes a tiger, which aren't native to Africa, and I'm really a stickler when it comes to details & authenticity. I also really wanted a giraffe and zebra on the cake, and I just never found the right set of animals. I wanted at least a giraffe, zebra, lion, and elephant, and they had to be cute & friendly looking, not too life-like. Since I'm no genius with the fondant or the frosting, my only option was to make paper animals with my Cricut machine. I did, however, want to try to at least put some frosting leaves on the sides of the cake. I borrowed a leaf tip from a friend, that she had just acquired from her grandmother. The decorating set was from the '50's! It's the metal kind, where you put the frosting into a canister and push down to decorate. Needless to say, the tip didn't fit properly in my plastic decorating bag, but I tried anyway – first at my friend's house while picking it up, where it worked ok, and then the next night, after frosting the cake. Where it didn't work ok! For some reason, the last bit of frosting I had dyed green and placed in the bag became so runny that it was impossible to work with. I did pipe on several leaves, hoping it would work, but it was such a disaster! Frosting was coming out of all sides of the hole, the decorating tip fell out of place, and the leaves just looked awful. So I said screw it! I wiped the leaves off as best I could, and made some paper grass with my Cricut.
I had no idea exactly how I was going to place everything, but I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. Besides my very crooked, mediocre cake. Oh, and I'm so glad I saw a cake on coolest-birthday-cakes.com that had 3D palm trees on it, made with cereal straws. Also very glad I was able to find them, after going to 4 different grocery stores. That was a genius idea, they work very well, and look quite realistic. They're also yummy!
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The fiddle is one of the most well-known and popular instruments, its versatility spanning many genres and making it popular in many traditions worldwide. Folk fiddle playing is a fluid technique that can change as much with the individual player as it does with regional style. This course aims to introduce traditional fiddle tunes and accompaniments and open the door to developing personal style. Material will be predominantly English but will also include tunes from other European and American traditions.
The groups have a laid back and friendly approach, and allow a variety of abilities to co-exist happily. Learning will be done by ear with recordings provided online after each session.
Level 1 (Absolute Beginners) - Autumn term only
In the autumn term this class is open to absolute beginners, you never need to have played before! You will explore the sound of the folk fiddle, learn simple tunes, develop your rhythm, learn how to tune your instrument and develop your ensemble skills by learning and playing with others. This course aims to give you a solid grounding in both the basics of playing the fiddle and of traditional folk fiddle tunes and accompaniments. A great way to start your learning and prepare you brilliantly for approaching any style of playing with confidence and knowledge.
Level 2-3 (Beginners / Improvers)
You will start with simple traditional folk fiddle tunes in a greater range of keys and rhythms than at beginner level, and move on to more complex tunes by the end of the year. Alongside learning lots of great tunes, this year is about building a wider musical understanding that will prepare you to build your own style, and fully explore fiddle music. By the end of the year you will be confident to play in a range of keys, explore and absorb the structure and understand and be ready to build your own style and repertoire. You will start to explore the limitless role of the fiddle in folk music, learn great tunes, improve your rhythm and build your confidence by learning and playing with others. This class is suitable for anyone returning to the violin after a break of any number of years!
Level 4 (Intermediate)
This course aims to immerse you in fabulous folk fiddle music in a range of keys, rhythms and structures. You will have ample opportunities to refine, develop and explore personal style, explore the limitless role of the fiddle in folk music, learn great tunes, improve your rhythm and build you confidence by learning and playing with others. We will improve skills in ornamentation and double stopping, as well as improvising variations and accompaniments. Besides students who feel ready to progress from level 3, this class is suitable for students who are new to folk repertoire but have a good working knowledge of the instrument.
Level 1
Suitable for absolute beginners and re-starters.
Please note that we only accept complete beginners during the Autumn term – there is no Level 1 class offered in the Spring term.
Level 2-3
Students should be able to hold the instrument and bow confidentially, make a reasonable sound, and know how to play one-octave G, D major and A major scale. Previous experience of folk not required.
Level 4
Students should know their way around the violin in 1st position effortlessly, and be comfortable with basic scales and arpeggios in at least G, D, A, C major and E, B, G, D minor. Previous experience of playing folk is not required, but a willingness to try playing by ear is!
Fiddle Level 1-2 is taught by Beth Gifford. Fiddle Level 2-3 and Level 4 are taught by Laurel Swift.
Beth Gifford
Beth is an experienced performer, composer, workshop leader and teacher. She studied Music at the Birmingham Conservatoire with her principal study in viola. As a Violist she is one half of the duo Anna Mullens and Beth Gifford (New Roots Finalists 2015) and a former member of The Conservatoire Folk Ensemble. She regularly performs on violin and viola with the ceilidh band Take the Biscuit and with Anna Mullens and Beth Gifford and Gifford Brookes. Workshop experience includes working with The Full English education team in Birmingham, setting up and running One of the Few (Primary folk education workshops) and leading fiddle, ceilidh, full band and playing by ear workshops for youth tutoring company Shooting Roots. Beth is also a violin and viola teacher for Camden Music Service.
Laurel Swift
Laurel is a fiddle player, a dancer and an inspiring instigator of creative new projects and performances rooted in the folk arts. She plays fiddle and viola in dynamic fiddle-singing duo with Ben Moss, double bass with Gadarene, a high-energy band blending obscure 18th-century manuscript tunes with modern beats, and fiddle with irresistible ceilidh dance groovers, The Gloworms. Laurel has choreographed and devised national touring dance productions for Morris Offspring, co-created and performed Under Her Skin with Debs Newbold, advised theatre & film companies on using folk music and dance material. She is in demand to perform and teach at festivals in the UK and America, founded Shooting Roots, which develops youth folk arts projects, and teaches and contributes to education projects in London and nationally.
2018-19 dates
Fees: Annual fee £210 | £172 concessions Term fee £113 | £90 concessions
Autumn Term 2018: Sept 15, 29 | Oct 13, 20 | Nov 3, 17, 24 | Dec 1, 8 (9 week term)
Spring Term 2019: Jan 19, 26 | Feb 2, 16 | March 2, 16, 30 | April 13, 27 (9 week term)
Please note that we only accept complete beginners during the Autumn term - no Level 1 class is offered in the Spring term.
Fiddle Level 2: 10:00 - 11:30 (Beth Gifford)
Please note that we only accept complete beginners during the Autumn term - there is no Level 1 class offered in the Spring term.
Fiddle Level 3: 11:45 - 13:15 (Laurel Swift)
Fiddle Level 4: 13:45 - 15:15 (Laurel Swift)
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Just as I begin to go mad, shopping for new additions to my Fall wardrobe each year, I tend to also re-evaluate my beauty collection and the mad dash for new makeup ensues. I have no real excuse for this apparent frenzy, but so it goes like this every October, and especially in November. Are you the same way? I can't be the only crazy!
Anyway, after falling in love with my Dior Addict lipstick in "New Look" last week, I went back for one more that caught my eye. It's called "Diablotine". It's described on Sephora's website as " a sheer muted poppy red" but I think it has more peach undertones then it leads you to believe. It's one of those that you can slap on your lips rather hastily, no mirror required. This is a nice change from the pigmented reds I tend to favor because it's less work to apply.
I probably won't post again until Monday, which I realize is the norm these days for this blog. My goal is to begin posting three times per week again, but don't hold me to it just yet! Nate and I are heading out on a California road trip of sorts, and we leave tomorrow morning. As I mentioned before, we are heading towards San Francisco but are stopping along the way, with an emphasis on coastal towns. We have both been to S.F. separately, never together, and it has been a long time. We have no plans really. We don't even have a hotel booked for Thursday or Friday night because we are attempting to be spontaneous and adventurous. Ha, even just writing that makes me laugh because he and I can be two of the most Type A and high-strung people I have ever met. Once we do get to San Francisco, we will have a hotel waiting for us, thank goodness. The rest is a mystery. I'm a little nervous, but mostly excited to travel in our car and just fly by the seat of our pants so to speak. Wish me luck! I'll tell you all about it next week :)


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The assignment you are working on has confused "scholarly" and "reliable" in the wording. Professor Satcher is aware and understands that you should be looking for a reliable/credible web site, not a scholarly one. Scholarly and reliable are two different ideas. A reliable source may not be scholarly. A source that is scholarly will be reliable.
A source can be evaluated for its reliability using our sources at http://libguides.brenau.edu/webeval or http://www.screencast.com/t/SHVwurpjEnHR .
Scholarly sources are (as you know from our video at http://www.screencast.com/t/9F6j6Qv89e !) evaluated based on the credentials of the author, the intended audience, the level of vocabulary used, the amount of background knowledge needed to understand the content, and the presence of references. Therefore a scholarly web site would be written by PhDs, Masters, or other researchers for PhDs, Masters, or other researchers, using a college level vocabulary. It would require an advanced understanding of the subject to comprehend the information, and it would include references.
I'm not aware of any web search engine that filters for scholarly content. Even Google Scholar, http://scholar.google.com , which indexes scholarly information, focuses on scholarly articles, not web sites.
Given the extreme rarity of scholarly sites, I suggest you search for scholarly books and journal articles (there are plenty on your topic) and search for a reliable/credible web site. It is highly unlikely that your target - a scholarly web site on dance - exists.
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Thirty two years ago today, I lost someone special to me. Here is the story of his burial, just six years ago this month.
RIP Rodney Wendell Emerson Roberts. I no longer dwell on you, but you cross my mind most days. You probably always will.
On Saturday, August 19, 2006, I traveled back into my past. The time machine was a small sailboat that left Santa Cruz harbor at 11 a.m. The cargo: six passengers, a guitar, a few pieces of paper, and the ashes of my first love. He was raised in Nevada County and died there, too, just after his 18th birthday. His name was Wendell Roberts. He was a brilliant, hippy teenager who washed dishes at Friar Tuck's when it was a tiny place. Thanks to an early beard, he snuck into Duffy's Success for an occasional draft beer. He scored 1460 on his SAT and turned down a full ride to MIT to go to UC Riverside, major in English, and stay closer to me. He was editor of the high school paper and on the wrestling team.
Wendell died on Dog Bar Road at 1:35 a.m. on August 26, 1980. He was returning home from the state fair. That wasn't the way to his house, though, it was the way to mine, although I'd already left for college in the Bay Area. (I have always wondered why he was a passenger in a truck driving down that road. Officials named no cause for the accident, but family legend has it that his best friend, Danny, fell asleep at the wheel.)
He was supposed to leave Nevada County a few weeks later, also bound for the Bay Area to begin his second year of college. Wendell and I were experiencing great turbulence in our relationship at that time. His family elected not to have a funeral for him. Through the years, I've kept in touch with them.
In early August of 2006, I received a call from Langdon, one of his two younger brothers. He and his brother Mallory had realized they regretted their family's decision not to hold a ceremony, and while their father (who lives in England) was in the states, they wanted to bury Wendell's ashes at sea. "We need you there," Langdon said. "You knew a side of him we didn't."
Wendell and his brothers had not been close, to put it mildly. Recently, when I reviewed old letters I'd written him, I noticed occasional pleas I made asking him to be sweeter to his brothers. Despite the emotional distance that marked their childhood, it was important, nearly three decades later, for Langdon and Mallory to give their brother a proper and soulful burial. More than once, I tried to talk myself out of joining them at the harbor. Why bring up so much old stuff? But in the end, I was there.
I got to the harbor about 11 a.m., the last to arrive in our group. I had not seen Wendell's father in over 20 years, although I had spent some time with him after Wendell's death. He greeted me with a warm bear hug. Langdon I see fairly often, since he lives in the Bay Area, but I had not seen Mallory since he was a young teen, since before Wendell died. His deep brown eyes were haunting–exactly like his brother's. He held my hands in his and looked deeply into me.
We grabbed our sweaters, the guitar, assorted papers, and Wendell's ashes and headed for the sailboat. Moments later we were out at sea.
For an hour, we shared our memories of Wendell. His father told of their formative father-and-son cross-country trip when Wendell was just four years old. I read "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning", a poem by John Donne that Wendell had once demanded we read after we had a fight. Mallory played Led Zeppelin on his guitar and read aloud the vows Wendell had written for our wedding, a less than legal, very private affair some 30+ years ago in Pioneer Park. And one by one, we went to the bow with the urn of ashes and said our private good-byes.
As I sat there, six inches above the Pacific with his ashes in my hand, I thought mostly of our broken dreams. They were broken finally by death, but time and time before by youth and immaturity and all we were up against. I let some of the ashes fall back in the box, holding on to just a bit. I already knew what I needed to do, but I hesitated, because it seemed sketchy, even obscene. Even so, just for one moment–I had to experience some form of his DNA again. I rubbed his ashes deep into my cheeks. I ground them in, hard, absorbing their coarseness and their familiarity. I took another small handful and watched them sift down toward the ocean floor. I felt something leave me, then, jump out of a dormant part of me and join him in the water. Shaking, I took my seat and handed the urn with the last of his ashes to his father.
On our way back to the harbor, we blasted Bruce Springsteen (Wendell's favorite) and huddled together. Our hands, intertwined, gathered a puddle of our tears. Our shoulders shook. Just then, twenty-six years might felt just like one minute.


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Steve Melanson is searching his smart phone for a picture of his mother's grave.
Alice Melanson, who died some 17 years ago, is never far from the Owen Sound car dealer's mind. But her memory is especially present at this time of year, as the Grey Cup Game approaches.
It was at that frigid game, in Montreal, in 1981, that her ultimate, Mother- Knows-Best moment was frozen into her son's doting brain.
"It was a funny story, I'll never forget it," says Melanson, turning his thoughts back three decades to that blustery, Ottawa-Edmonton contest.
Melanson's parents had recently moved from Richmond Hill back to their native New Brunswick. And Melanson and his wife Carol, who'd stayed back in Ontario, had arranged to meet his mother and father for a family reunion in Montreal and take in the game.
The clan was staying at a Laval hotel, which as Melanson recalls, though foggily, was a "hopping", disco-blaring place during the days leading up to the tilt.
His mother, "just happy to get out of the darn house", was not participating actively in the festivities, she being a light drinker at best.
But the merriment carried on to a roofless Olympic Stadium, where Melanson and his father Philip were warding off the late November cold with some flask-borne warmth during the game's first half.
"It was just a typical Canadian Grey Cup, we were dripping wine and everything, it was just a blast," he recalls.
"But by about the third quarter, we were out, and it was really, really cold."
That's when his sainted mother, proudly clad in a massive new sheepskin coat — and clearly aware of her husband and son's predilections — came to the rescue.
"We're going, 'oh (crap), we're out of booze, now we've gotta buy it'," says Melanson.
"Then she says 'nope, no you don't.' And she whips out this big jug of Canadian Club (rye whisky) from under her coat.
"She says 'there you go boys!'
Of the game itself, Melanson recalls he was pulling for the underdog Rough Riders, but that the play got progressively vaguer as the clock ticked down.
The 5-11 Ottawa squad was up against an Eskimos team that had gone 14-1-1 during the season and was in the midst of a five-cup run.
But Ottawa, which came into the game at plus 22.5 points in the betting, had surprisingly pulled out to a 20-1 lead over quarterback Warren Moon's Edmonton side at halftime.
"The last half, though, we were drinking and all of a sudden the score is tied," Melanson says.
"I said 'holy (crap), what happened?' Then they (Edmonton) kicked the field goal."
That 27-yard, Dave Cutler kick with three seconds remaining won the game for the Eskimos and a place among the greatest of Grey Cup moments.
Melanson, now 55, says he attended three or four subsequent cup games.
But that 1981 Montreal tilt was special because of his mother.
"She really wasn't a CFL fan. But she really had a blast," Melanson says
"So whenever Grey Cup time comes around . . . I always think of my mom. Thanks mom."
We want your Grey Cup memories. Send them to email@example.com or better yet, go to our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/GreyCupMemories. We want a memory for every year the Cup has been handed out and we're over halfway there. We'll also run one a day in the newspaper, counting down to the biggest game of the year on Nov. 25.


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I realized recently that I stopped writing (regularly) in the summer of 2008. That was about two years ago, when I started student teaching (and playing World of Warcraft).
I haven't been student teaching since spring of 2009. In fact, between May of 2009 and January of 2010, I was basically unemployed or substitute teaching. It wasn't until recently that I have been working full-time at a job that allows me to openly talk about the daily goings-ons. You can't do that with schools, administrators get all uptight when you call your students "sluts" or "idiots" on the internet. People get fired for crap like that.
So I suppose that's why I stopped updating any blog of mine, because my life had to appear internet-free (and therefore free of all child ruining immoralities).
However, now that I am free to write about any aspect of my life, that means I have to start living again. I noticed that some of my best MRoDT posts involved me out doing stuff with other people. That doesn't happen so much anymore. Why? I'm not sure really. I know all the same people and live in the same city.
Maybe it's true what they say, about life sucking after college.
What do they say? They say that life sucks after college.
Who are they? I don't really know.
Since I got my degree, life has been on a steady downward spiral. Not financially, emotionally, or otherwise. It just seems like there isn't as much fun stuff going on anymore, not since the fall of 2008 when I started student teaching.
I've had enough. If the wife can take one "interesting" picture every day, I can do one "fun" thing every day and write about it. Let the games begin.


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a hotel bar, Toronto, the early hours, Terrence Malick, David Cronenberg and David Lynch have been knocking back the whiskey sours, Lynch and Cronenberg decide they should make a movie together: it will have dream logic – a maggot will be ingested – through an inhaler – later it will crawl beneath a woman's skin – the maggot will be sourced in the roots of a blue orchid – ingestion will make the victim completely suggestible, she'll give up all her savings and lose her job, but remember nothing – for the rest of the movie she'll be trying to work out what the hell happened to her life – there will be rabbits – no, pigs – okay, pigs – it will be a romance, says Malick quietly
Well, this movie has been made. By Shane Carruth. Who's Shane Carruth? (No, not the guy serving the drinks in Toronto – that epic session never happened, I made it up.) Carruth is the guy who made 'Primer', the brilliantly mundane low-budget sci-fi feature that won Sundance back in 2004. I'd forgotten about him. 'Upstream Color' is sort of sci-fi too (I hope), this time pursued with sensuality and lyricism, both emotionally present and narratively elusive – it does have a narrative, but the logic is associative, the editing elliptical, and though, deep down, the film is rooted in procedure and process and details of ordinary life, the strange world it describes is one that doesn't actually exist and one its characters struggle to understand
experimental, unnerving, a delight to the senses: this film is not a film, it's a menu by Heston Blumenthal
an absolute treat
and possibly the greatest pig movie ever made
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13 members enjoyed another beautiful autumn day at Pfaffing this morning. It was chilly at the start but after the sun managed to beat the clouds it was really warm. The course was in good condition, 1. Simon Dean with 36 Stbf 2. Martin Reilly with 33 Stbf 3. Lee…
Oct 7th, 2018 Tegernbach
11 members enjoyed a beautiful day at Tegernbach. The course was in good condition. The golf was interesting, challenging and improving. 1. Svenja Lechner with 38 Stbf 2. Simon Dean with 36 Stbf 3. Martin Reilly with 32 Stbf.
Sept 30th, 2018 Odelzhausen
Last Sunday's EGS event turned out to be a cracking day with 7 members attending. In the money were :- 1st – 41 points – Will Wilde – very impressive. 2nd – 32 points – Markus Fraunholz 3rd – 29 points(better back nine) – Martin Reilly
September 21st, 2018 Reichertshausen
Three of us played at Reichertshausen this afternoon. Although it was very hot and sunny, the wind was quite strong, making conditions tricky. The results were: 1st – Steve Wallace – 30pts 2nd – Markus Fraunholz – 29pts 3rd – Simon Dean – 28pts
President's Cup Sept 16th 2018 Pfaffing
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I received this product complimentary from Influenster to give it a test run. I was so excited to put it to test. As per instructions, I washed my hair, let it dry completely and then sprayed onto dry hair before using flat iron.
Smell: As for smell – it has a hairspray smell. When I used this product for the second time I had to actually go outside to spray my hair, because I didn't want to be trapped in very strong over-powering chemicals odor. So when you use this product, be sure to find another space to spray it onto the hair otherwise you will not bare in your bathroom for more than 1 minute.
Flat ironing: Because the spray makes the hair sticky and hard, it took me about 30 minutes to flat iron my hair. The spray has a sticky feel to it and sticks onto hair. Because of this my hair felt as straw-like textured, (Something like dry grass). Not soft at all, not smooth at all. I finally did the flat ironing job. Regardless, I did a good job on my hair, but again, it took me much longer and it made my hair more difficult to brush or comb. Every 5-10 minutes interval when I touched my hair, I felt the need to brush again and again, because that feel that they are so tangled and dry grassy feel. This was just a feel. In real life they were not tangled, but I had to brush my hair so often because I could not get used to the dry tangled feel.
Shine: It advertises that it will give your hair a glossy shine. It did not give my hair any shine at all. I would say it gave my hair more of a dull look.
The following day: On the following day I had the worst hair day look in the morning. Basically my hair needed another flat iron treatment.
The opinions above are my own and based on using this product 3 times. I will not be using this product again. I have found better more natural and organic product that I will be using. I immediately felt the HUGE difference. My hair was very soft, shiny, and felt much lighter with the healthier look. It is a bit more expensive but you get what you pay for, although Vidal Sassoon Pro Series Heat Protect & Shine is not cheap.
Did you have good or bad experience with Vidal Sassoon Pro Series Heat Protect & Shine Spray?
Disclosure: I received the sample of the product for free and was not required to write about it. I just wanted to share my opinion to help decide whether to purchase this product or not (since I know many other moms who use heat protect hair products)
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C.L. Hunter
Emmalyn Stone lives in Hilton Head, South Carolina. For many months, Emmalyn has been in therapy struggling to overcome her deep depression and unbearable grief after losing her husband, Thomas in a car accident in Dublin Ireland. After months of healing, at her therapist's suggestion, she decides to write Mr. O'Neill, the man who lives across the sea, the one she has blamed for months. Emmalyn's anger against him and the world begins to change, and strange, surprising things begin to happen to her. She starts to believe in the unbelievable.
Nolan O'Neill lives in a breathtaking castle in Castlebar, Ireland and owns a multi-billion-dollar company in Dublin. He thought he had everything until his friend and attorney, Thomas Stone, was critically injured in a car accident while in Ireland for business. Nolan reaches the hospital just in time to hear Thomas' last words and sees an exquisite angel materialize at the beside telling him things he doesn't want to hear or believe. Nolan is a loner. He is a man with a disturbing past. After months of doubting himself, Nolan is shocked to receive a letter from Hilton Head, and now wonders if maybe what the angel said is real.
Unknown to them, once they meet face to face their lives will never be the same as dangers appear from Nolan's past, and they unravel astonishing secrets together. With each new discovery, it takes them to places, events and ecstasies they could never have imagined.
This is a story of loss, pain, romance, and electrifying thrills that will keep you captivated until the very end.
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|Windows security software vendor Comodo has added its contribution to the short list of Chromium-based browser remixes that have sprung up in the wake of Google Chrome's success. Best known for its firewall software, Comodo's Chromium browser is called Dragon, and it promises better security features than those available in Google Chrome. It is the first browser released by a security software company.
Previously only available in beta test form from the Comodo forums, Dragon introduces one new feature not in Chromium and strips out all of the Google-based innovations. Comodo Dragon has a stricter policy on Web site certification than other browsers, and it will throw up a yellow warning page, if a user tries to access a Web site with an unvalidated certificate. Users can see this on the Facebook log-in page, for example. You can still click through with the "proceed anyway" button, but it's interesting to see major sites with poor certification get called out.
Facebook.com is a trustworthy Web site, but Comodo CEO Melih Abdulhayoglu sees it differently. "My goal is to secure end users. And if that means I need to put a message saying that this site is unprotected because [it doesn't have] a validated certificate...then I will." Abdulhayoglu added that cost shouldn't be an issue for Web site certification because an unvalidated certificate "costs the same" as a validated one.
Dragon is based on Chromium version 3, so it supports themes but not extensions. Abdulhayoglu said he expects Dragon to update to Chromium version 4 before the end of March. There are plans, he said, to introduce more security-based features, including banking Web site support and a remote-access collaborative feature that allows two people at different computers to share the browser.
Besides missing extensions, Dragon lacks bookmark sync, automatic translation, and all the other Google features. It also lacks the reporting feature, which was a major concern for many users when Google Chrome debuted. Although you can uncheck the anonymous reporting in Chrome's Options pane, some users have found this unsatisfactory.
In a statement it e-mailed on Friday, Comodo touted this lack of reporting as beneficial because it prevents attackers from finding vulnerabilities in the software error-compiling mechanism. It's entirely unclear at this point, though, how big of a vulnerability the remote-reporting compiler has posed.
After using Dragon for a few hours, it's not clear that many users will find it superior to Chrome at the moment. Too many features are missing, and although Comodo claims on its Dragon launch page that it's "very easy to switch from your browser to the Dragon," you can't import settings from Chrome, only from Opera, Internet Explorer, or Firefox.
Right now, Dragon is little more than a curiosity, except for the excessively paranoid, but if it is able to gain back some of the features it lost through extensions and introduce better security features on its own, it might be able to hold its own as a niche browser.
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Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church in North America, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South
Archbishop Beach's passion is to share the Word of God in such a way as to help others discover the incredible living Jesus. Beach served as the Rector and Pastor of Holy Cross Anglican Church in Loganville, GA, from its founding in February 2004, until December, 2013. On October 9, 2010, he was consecrated in Atlanta, Georgia as the first Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South in the Anglican Church in North America. Beach is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, the School of Theology at the University of the South, and Georgia State University. Married for more than 30 years, he and his wife, Allison, have two grown children and make their home in the Metro-Atlanta area.


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- I²C bus, only 2 microcontroller lines are required
- 8 independent channels, each 500mA (650mA peak)
- Output can be paralleled
- Controls 2 unipolar steppers 500mA/phase or 1 stepper 1000mA/phase
- Selectable I²C address
- Externally powered (50V max) or 5V from I²C header
- Simple small single sided PCB
- Based on cheap and popular ICs
- Unipolar stepper control
- Led or Luxeon power
- Power for small DC motors (direction of rotation can not be controlled)
- General purpose output lines
- Power management
Designed to control camera pan and tilt using 2 unipolar steppers.
The circuit consists of only two ICs, a ULN2803 that drives the steppers and a PCF8574 8 bit I²C expander.
Two jumpers JP1 and JP2 allow selecting power source for the driver and I²C bus address. 2 or 4 drivers can be connected to one I²C bus. ULN2803 chip contains clamp diodes, so it is safe to connect inductive load.
Single sided, size: 83×42mm.
The device is really simple to build. First solder all the elements. Then connect SL3 header with one of the I²C headers on the control unit PCB (or any other I2C master device). Power the control unit; red diode should be bright. Check the power (it should be 5V) on IC1 and C3 chips.
By default you can select one of two I2C addresses to use: 40hex or 42hex. If you use PCF8574*A* chip it is 70hex or 72hex. JP2 jumper selects the address.
Short pins 1-2 to select 42hex (or 72hex for PCF8574A)
Short pins 2-3 to select 40hex (or 70hex for PCF8574A)
Maximum number of I2C drivers connected to one I2C bus is limited to 2. If this is not enough you can cut the wire that connects PAD1 and PAD3 and connect PAD1 with PAD2. This creates two additional addresses that allow you to connect up to 4 devices to 1 bus.
If you not sure which version of PCF8574 chip you have it is probably version without 'A' (address 40hex or 42hex).
JP1 jumper lets you select power source for X2 and X3 headers. If you short pins 1-2 the power is taken from SL3 header. That means, control unit is your source of power and the voltage on X2 and X3 is 5V. Use this power configuration only for small receivers. 7805 voltage regulator that is used in control unit can give you maximum 1A. Theoretical power consumption of I2C driver is 8×0.5A=4A. This too much for poor 7805 chip.
In case you control steppers or any other device that needs more than 0.5A@5V you must provide external power source that is sufficient for your needs. Short pins 2-3 of JP1 and connect power lines to X1 header. Maximum voltage you can use is 50V.
Note that IC1 and IC2 chips are still powered from SL3 header and red diode indicates power on SL3 not on X1.
Parallel power
Maximum current for one output is 0.5A. If you need to control devices that require more power you can parallel outputs. For example you can short X2-1 and X2-2. In that case maximum current is 1A. If you short 4 lines X2-1 to X2-4 you can use 2A. You can short any output line except X2-5 and X3-1. Additional holes around X2 and X3 headers are for that purpose.
Software Example
Please find attached PCF8574_stepper.bas program written in BASCOM AVR. It is a simple example how to control unipolar stepper motor from control unit
It is important that you properly connect phases of the motor. Unipolar motor has usually 5 wires. Connect common wire to X3-5 pin and other wires to X3-1 to X3-4.
If you improperly connected phases motor would vibrate not rotate. In that case try to swap phase wires.
If you use atmega32 microcontroller instead of atmega16 uncomment
$regfile = "m32def.dat" line.
Step_mode variable changes full step(=0)/half step mode(=1).
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Blue Duck Tavern at Park Hyatt Washington, D.C., is pleased to unveil their new Seasonal Garden Table beginning on Friday, April 28th.
Available on the last Friday of every month, fans of the Michelin-starred restaurant will have the opportunity to get an exclusive experience of seasonal dishes not on the current menu, while dining at a 12-seat communal Chef's Table in Blue Duck Tavern's garden terrace.
This group dining experience echoes back to the restaurant's motto, "gather and celebrate," by creating an experience where guests come together as a community through sharing a meal.
Priced at $125 per person (tax and gratuity not included), guests will enjoy a three-course family-style Chef's Table dinner with multiple dishes per course, along with beverages, including seasonal cocktails and wine (Maybe Monastero Suore Cistercensi Coenobium 2013…) for the table.
Guests can anticipate Soft Shell Crab with pea shoots and herb aioli; Fluke Crudo with avocado puree and citrus; Bone Marrow with a five-spice crust and roasted garlic; Roasted Lamb Neck with charred cucumber and flatbread; Scallops with peas and morels; Tilefish with mushroom dashi and wild rice, and Asparagus with soft egg and chicken skins.
For dessert, one can look forward artful dishes such as Caramelia Bavarian with sage cream and bacon caramel corn; Jasmine Rice Pudding with matcha streusel and strawberry sumac espuma, and Cherry Blossom Truffles.
Reservations are required and are limited to parties of one to four guests. Reservations can be made through calling (202) 419-6755.


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Just when Rafael Nadal had recovered from a knee injury, a stomach virus has delayed his return to tennis by a couple of months.
TennisNadal will skip Australian Open because of stomach virus
Just when Rafael Nadal had recovered from a knee injury, a stomach virus has delayed his return to tennis by a couple of months.
Nadal said yesterday that he will miss next month�s Australian Open and probably won�t play again until the end of February. He said he needs time to recover from a virus that prevented him from coming back this week in an exhibition in the United Arab Emirates.
Nadal has been out since June because of a knee injury, which forced him to miss the London Olympics and U.S. Open. He had planned to rejoin the ATP tour at the Qatar Open in Doha next month before the Jan. 14-27 Australian Open, but pulled out of both.Nadal emphasized that his decision had nothing to do with the injury to his left knee.
ElsewhereWalther, who survived fiery crash in 1973 Indy 500, dies at 65
David � Salt� Walther, a former auto and hydroplane racer who was severely burned in a spectacular crash at the 1973 Indianapolis 500, died in the Dayton suburb of Trotwood. He was 65.
The Montgomery County Coroner�s Office confirmed the death yesterday, saying Walther was reported dead on Thursday night and that the cause of death hadn�t been determined. Walther also drove briefly in NASCAR, finishing 12th in the 1976 Daytona 500.
At the start of the 1973 Indy 500, Walther�s car pinwheeled down the track, his legs sticking out of his torn up racer, after touching wheels with Jerry Grant and slamming into the catch-fencing in a fiery crash near the starting line. Blinded by the fireball that spread across the front straightaway, several other drivers slammed into Walther�s car.
Walther fought an addiction to pain killers after the accident and spent time in jail and prison. He was arrested in Dayton last month in a case dating to 2007, and it wasn�t immediately known if he was incarcerated at the time of his death.
� Andrei Makarov made 41 saves to help host Russia defeat the United States 2-1 at the world junior hockey championships in Ufa, Russia.
Canada leads Group B with six points after two games. Russia is second, a point behind, and the U.S. has three points. Slovakia has one point, and Germany has zero.
� Sports reporter Bob Baptist of The Dispatch won a runner-up award in the U.S. Basketball Writers Association national contest for best writing. Baptist placed second in the �game story/spot news� category for his account of Ohio State�s 74-70 loss to Indiana on Dec.?31, 2011.
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WebViewGold. The WebView solution that just works.
Create your own app for iPhone, iPod and iPad with just a few clicks. Use your mobile site as basis and this Xcode package wraps your URL (or local HTML) into a real, native iOS app! No more coding, no more plugins needed. It just works.
- Optimized for high performance (up to 2x faster than UIWebView)
- Universal app: Optimized for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
- Full support for new iOS 11, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus & iPhone X
- Easy: Just define your URL (or your local HTML folder) and WebViewGold takes care of the rest!
- Native iOS activity indicator while loading your URL
- Native offline screen with "Try again" button if your app can't connect to your URL
- Geolocation supported
- HTML 5 Audio supported – even if your app is in background mode
- Define which URLs should be opened in Safari instead of your app (for external links, e.g. Facebook/Twitter)
- iOS Multitasking supported
- Custom status bar color design
- Custom UserAgent string supported
- Image Saving API (use JavaScript to save images to Photos app)
- First Run dialog (e.g. "Thanks for downloading this app!")
- Rate my App dialog
- Follow on Facebook dialog
- No WebView bounce for better usability feeling
- Cache Management
- Local push notifications API via JavaScript
- Swift Xcode source code + Objective-C Xcode source code included
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iPhone, iPod, iPad, iOS, and Safari are trademarks. All rights belong to their respective owners. Xcode 9.0 or higher required. Swift edition requires iOS 8 or higher. Objective-C edition requires iOS 6 or higher. iPhone X screen dimension support & WKWebView technology is available in Swift edition only (Objective-C edition uses UIWebView technology instead). Both versions are included. No coding required. Enjoy! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.


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SS122 series submersible pressure transducers use piezoresistive technology, oil filled, douleb o-ring sealed structure with IP68 grade, suitable for liquid level and depth measurement. Their all stainless steel, hermetically sealed housing makes them suitable for immersion in most industrial liquids and oils, are designed to give accurate readings at pressure ranges from 100 mBar up to 20 Bar (corresponding to water column depths of 1.0 m to 200 m).
SS122 series are designed to offer mV output signal with 1.5mA, 1.0mA, 3VDC or 5VDC supply. The electrical connection is a special designed PE cable with air tube and the pressure connection part is an exposed 316L stainless steel diaphragm, no pressure port and no blocking problems, easy for daily maintenance. The typical applications including water and sewage treatment plants, water level monitoring at reservoirs/dams, down-hole water wells.
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Visiting Nancy, France Through Cafés
Can you believe that I've officially been in France for 200 days?! I can't. It feels like it was just yesterday when I was struggling to order a sandwich at my first boulangerie. In honor of my 200th day in France, I thought I would take you on a double-whammy blog/vlog tour of some of my favorite cafés in Nancy. What better way to … Continue reading Visiting Nancy, France Through Cafés


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501410 KAGO – Honeycomb
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|Rina Ono
|Tin (100%)
|Known as the most expensive metal after gold and silver, tin is very malleable and flexible. Though having nearly the whiteness of silver, it does not rust easily nor will air tarnish it readily. It is significantly antibacterial, and also known as a material with high heat conductivity. NOUSAKU uses pure tin. It is common to add other metallic materials to provide durability and facilitate cutting work, but NOUSAKU uses tin without such additives. Accumulated experience of skilled craftsmen enables us to produce these unique pieces.
KAGO series are items capitalizing on flexibility of 100% pure tin. Pull and extend the product up & down and in sideways. Unique crackling sound called Tin Cry may also be heard. Enables you to enjoy these in multipe ways; as a fruit/vegetable basket, decoration for the vase, or as a lamp shade with light bulb in the middle.


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Built for the construction industry, ToolBox allows you to seamlessly manage the onboarding of staff, subcontractors, safety and OHS. It also gives you the power to track interaction with equipment and materials on your site.
CreatorDoc automates document creation and management directly in ServiceNow. This app eliminates repeated and manual processes, prevents human error, saves time and frees up team members to focus on their core role.
EvacuApp leverages your existing ServiceNow platform to manage and monitor building evacuations during fire drills or real emergencies, allowing you to monitor the employees and visitors who are linked to each of your facilities.
OneClick produces technical specification documents with the click of a button! Additional features include: technical compliance for reporting on projects; real time reporting; and collection of witness accounts via iPhone, desktop and tablet.
TalentEnabler is a powerful tool that can streamline your talent acquisition and recruitment processes and workflows, from initial candidate attraction and profiling to intelligent search and candidate matching algorithms
VisitUs integrates with your ServiceNow instance. It allows for rapid and seamless tracking of visitors at each of your corporate locations. Receive notifications when a visitor arrives or leaves, and allow the visitor to store their details for future visits.


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The industry recorded a 26% increase in growth from RM630mil to RM795mil.
JOHOR BAHRU, APRIL 8, 2015 - Multimedia Development Corporation (MDEC), Performance Management and Delivery Unit (PEMANDU), Johor Corporation (JCorp) and Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) today made two key announcements on Malaysia's cloud services and data centre industry: Malaysia's 2014 data centre industry performance and the new Data Hub in Sedenak, a 700-acre area, earmarked in the Iskandar Region for local and global data centre companies.
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The announcements were officiated by YBhg Dato' Sri Ahmad Shabery Bin Cheek, Minister of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia, in the presence of YBhg Senator Dato' Sri Idris Jala, Chief Executive Officer of PEMANDU, YBhg Dato' Yasmin Mahmood, Chief Executive Officer of MDEC, Engku Ahmad Kamel, Director of Economics and Investment, representing IRDA and Ibrahim Bin Abdul Samad, Managing Director, Property Services, representing JCorp.
"In the data economy, creating wealth requires the skill of an alchemist. It is about selecting, sifting through, separating, combining, cleansing and purifying the almost unlimited amount of raw data to produce the 'gold' that provides value for businesses, people and the nation. In other words, management of this abundant resource will be key for countries and companies that aspire to surge ahead," said YBhg Dato' Sri Ahmad Shabery Bin Cheek.
Speaking at the press conference YBhg Senator Dato' Sri Idris Jala, Chief Executive Officer of PEMANDU said, "Through the Economic Transformation Programme, the Data Centre industry will continue to be supported by the Government. The past five years has brought great progress in the Data Centre ecosystem, and I look forward in seeing exciting projects coming to fruition within the next five years."
The Malaysian Cloud Services and Data Centre industry is marked by broad trends of expansion, efficiency and consolidation in 2014. The industry recorded RM795mil in revenue for 2014, a 26% growth from RM630mil in 2013. Exports grew from 7% to 18%.
Key industry sectors that contributed to the industry revenue include the federal government (29%), banking and financial (19%), and content and technology (17%).There was also growth in High-value Data Centre Services such as Managed Services that accounts for 50% of the total revenue, a 20% increase from 2013.
Iskandar Data Hub 02"Growth in the data centre industry showcases a positive development and confidence from local and global investors in Malaysia. We are targeting the industry to grow by 15% to RM915mil by end of 2015," said YBhg. Dato' Yasmin Mahmood.
Building on the encouraging performance results of the industry, the new Data Hub in Sedenak is set to meet the region's rising demand for data centre space and services. The hub is equipped with robust, state-of-the-art infrastructure; supported by high capacity power and reliable connectivity; and comes with friendly cloud and data centre policies.
"Cloud services and data centre is a key sector identified to contribute to the national gross income. With the new Data Hub, we aim to attract high value investments from top cloud services and data centre providers to Malaysia, to further accelerate the growth of industry and position Malaysia as a world-class data hub in the region," said YBhg Dato' Yasmin Mahmood.
The Data Hub will create a healthy ecosystem for local businesses to scale their capabilities and competencies with knowledge sharing from established data centre players. The hub will also contribute to the development of sustainable communities where future generations can continue to thrive and expand.
YBhg Datuk Ismail Ibrahim, Chief Executive Officer of IRDA said, "We will continue to support these data centre initiatives as part of Iskandar Malaysia's efforts to provide state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure and connectivity under our Smart City Framework.
"We would like to thank MDEC, as the lead agency developing and promoting the data center industry, for their advice, support and promotion of Sedenak as a prime location for the Data Hub. We are confident that our location is conducive and strategic in supporting data centre infrastructure for the Data Hub," said YBhg Dato' Kamaruzzaman Abu Kassim, President and Chief Executive Officer of JCorp.
The Data Centre Task Force consisting of MDEC, MIDA and PEMANDU will continue to work together with Johor partners, IRDA and JCorp, to further develop the cloud services and data centre ecosystem and industry towards positioning Malaysia as a world class data hub in the region.


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Removable Phone Holder, Grip & Stand
The perfect add-on for your mobile device to keep up with your lifestyle! Attach the GoGrip to the back of your phone or phone case. Push up the band to create the perfect grip for your finger or keeping your phone steady and away from any free falling.
This band will also allow you to keep your earphones at hand and converts itself into a self-supporting phone-stand for watching videos and more!
*Device excluded, GoGrip onlyPlease note: This item is hand printed with love and small inconsistencies may occur
Our slim fit phone cases are made of clear TPU which is designed to absorb low impact and prevent scuffing and general wear and tear of the device. They are produced as Fashion Accessories and offers limited protection against extreme conditions.
Case Features:
Every case from Hey Casey! is made right here in South Africa. We are a bunch of creative girls that personally create & print each case individually – this way we can make sure that you get the best quality!
* Due to different computer monitors & calibration settings, colours might vary from depicted pictures.
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*** Pictures shown are mock ups and are a representation only and not a guarantee of the final results. Cases used in mock-ups are for presentation purposes only and may differ slightly
Our phone skins are made out of scratch proof superior grade vinyl, they are light weight, thin and super easy to apply! They can last up to 6 months (or even longer, depending on how you look after it) and when you are tired of your skin or want a new one, simply peel it off - The special adhesive won't leave any sticky residue behind!
Our laptop skins covers the back of your laptop screen and comes with an additional sticker for the space by your keyboard, and even better, you can personalize it with any text you want!
Please note that actual keyboard stickers are not included in laptop skins.
Every skin from Hey Casey! is made right here in South Africa. We are a bunch of creative girls that personally create, print & cut each skin individually – this way we can make sure that you get the best quality!


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One of the things I've learned in almost 20 years of being in the video production industry is that if you want to be crazy successful, you need to find certain "accelerators" that can propel you forward in ways traditional marketing can't or won't.
Here's an example of how I used an "accelerator" marketing tactic that has the potential to be a huge revenue boost for my production company this year.
I recently wrapped up and delivered a kick butt fundraising video for a local non-profit. It just so happens that this chapter is just one of more than 800 within the same organization worldwide. When I delivered the DVDs to my local client, I asked them the following questions…
1. Do you compete with other chapters associated with your organization? Or, do you each have your own territory without any overlap? The answer was that there was no competition between chapters. (great news)
2. Do you think other chapters would be interested in having a similar fundraising produced for them? The answer was an astounding YES!
3. If you are okay with using your video as the "template" that we can customize for each chapter's specific needs, would you be open to us offering it at a discounted price since most of the hard work has already been completed? The answered yes again.
4. If we offered other chapters a price of $2,500 to customize the video, would it be okay if we gave $500 of that revenue back to your local chapter since you are the one that took the risk in the first place to pay for the original production? They love this idea but have to check with headquarters and their local board of directors to make sure it's okay for them to collect money in this fashion. They paid $3,500 for the production so the other chapters would get a discount of $1,000 which is pretty good.
5. What would be the best way to get this in front of all the other chapters to see if there is any interest? At this point in the conversation, their wheels are turning and they said they'd have to get back to me with what the best approach might be for this.
When I'm working on an "accelerator" for my business, I like to do a "What's the revenue potential if I get 100% of the chapters wanting to customize the template?" exercise. Of course, we won't come anywhere near this but it's still fun to dream at the front end of the deal.
800 chapters x $2,500 = $2,000,000
Wow! So this shows me the upside of the potential here. Now, let's look at what is probably the worst case scenario… 1% decide to take advantage of our officer.
800 chapters x.01 = 8
8 chapters x $2,500 = $20,000
In my mind, the worst case scenario is still worth the effort as long as I'm smart as to how much time and money I put into getting these new customers.
The other cool factor is that even if I only get a 1% return on the initial push, there is still 99% of that micro niche market that I can approach with future marketing efforts over time.
If you think about it, you can apply this approach to just about any type of video you produce for your customers in your video production company.


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Origin Fitness offers a high quality, bespoke custom branding service.
We can apply bespoke custom branding to our stretch mats, weight plates, dumbbells, and even strength equipment.
Reinforcing your brand across all touch points with your members helps add that extra level of style and professionalism that many gyms don't consider.
As well as providing assistance with wall branding, signage and graphics as part of our marketing support packages we are also able to provide options for custom branded gym equipment.
The most popular use of this service is to place custom branding on our stretch mats, weight plates and dumbbells, however, the possibilities are really endless. Bespoke markings on floor tiles and rolls can let you segment the gym floor just the way you'd like, they can even act as functional tools for a wide variety of classes and exercises.
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Camping at the Guadalupe River, come enjoy a CAMPSITE or CABIN, with River Access for Tubing the Guadalupe River. Our cabins are at our Shanty 2 location and are in walking distance to the beautiful Guadalupe River.
Cabins at Shanty Tubes 2 near the Guadalupe River
Our newest campground experience is our private cabins for two.
Each of our rustic cabins have A/C, electric, lights, outlets, and a full size bed. (Does not include bedding or pillows.) These are perfect for those who want the camping experience, but prefer a few comforts from home. Cabins also have BBQ grills and picnic tables and are located at the Shanty 2 location.
Don't forget to book in advanced to assure that you are able to take advantage of the cabins.
Who wouldn't enjoy camping and being near the Guadalupe River, with a few extra comforts from home? Staying near the Guadalupe River never looked better.
Cabin Pricing
Cabins with access to Facilities located at Shanty 2:
- Cabins are for 2 people, (1 full size bed)
- $100.00 per night from Memorial day weekend to labor day weekend. ($85 per night during during off season).
- Check in time is 2pm
- Check out time Noon
- Weekends and Holidays may require a two-night minimum stay
Camping near the Guadalupe River
The Shanty River Center has provided camping near the Guadalupe River for over 15 years.
We have two camping locations available for your convenience. Both locations are near the Guadalupe River and have river acces. Camping in the Hill Country and access for tubing on the Guadalupe River. What more could you ask for?
Shanty 2 is the location of our campgrounds and has access to Guadalupe River Horseshoe entrance. This location has tube, raft, and kayak rentals, public restrooms, showers, and plenty of parking.
Our 2nd location is located near Guadalupe River 4th Crossing entrance. This location offers primitive camping and use of a portable restroom. Campers at this location have free access to showers at Shanty 2 location but must provide your own transportation.
Our main location Shanty Tubes also has a Tiki Bar and Ice House on Location, as well as the Shanty Salsa Kitchen to add to your camping experience. So after a fabulous day of tubing, come to the Shanty Tiki Bar for some good times, music and some good food.
Camping Grounds Pricing
Prices include camping on the Guadalupe River with access to facilities at either location.
- Camp Sites are for up to 6 people per site.
- $35.00 for up to 4 people, and $10 per person extra (for a total of 6 per site)
- Check in time: Flexible
- Check out time: Noon
Thank you for your interest in our Camping and Cabin lodging. We hope to see you soon at the Shanty River Center, while camping at the Guadalupe River, in Canyon Lake, Texas.