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For Bookings or other queries please do get in touch by email . Or call Ashley or Anna on 01877 382600. We'll be delighted to help.
How long before I see my pictures?
My priority is to get your pictures to you as quickly as possible and I work very hard to make sure this happens. However, the length of time will depend on how busy I am at that stage of the year. I work on strict rotation so all my weddings are edited in the order I shoot them. It's going to be somewhere in the region of 2 to 3 weeks and I'll keep you posted on progress if it's going to be longer than that.
I sometimes make a taster selection available via my Blog or Facebook before the full set is ready.
Once you have selected images for your album the proofing and production can take up to 8 weeks.
Will you use the pictures for marketing or social media?
Being able to show my work – whether through my portfolio, my Blog, a brochure, magazine or competition is hugely important. If I can't show my photos, I can't promote my business and you would probably have never found me. Having said that, we pride ourselves on our discretion and we have many couples for whom privacy is essential. If this is the case please contact us and we will be happy to discuss your requirements.
What happens if you get taken ill?
In the very unlikely event that I am unable to photograph your wedding due to illness I have reciprocal arrangements with photographers who shoot to a similar standard and style, as well as providing the same caliber of service who will stand in for me. If you wish to arrange another photographer yourself you will receive a refund of all money paid to that point. It's worth mentioning that in over 20 years as a professional photographer I have never missed an assignment due to ill health.
Formal groups can be a very important part of the photography coverage for some couples and I'm very happy to include them in my schedule - it's often a rare opportunity to get all of your nearest and dearest together in the same photo. That said, I do prefer to keep them to a minimum because they always take longer to shoot than you expect.
Presumably you are looking at my website because you like my documentary style - so don't forget that the more time I spend on the groups the less time I can spend on doing what you've employed me to do. I suggest a maximum of 5 or 6 (see "Groups" below for suggestions)
How many pictures do we receive?
I don't specify the number of pictures because all weddings are different and lend themselves to different amounts of pictures. I take a large volume of images during the whole day and edit them down to between 300 to 500 images for your disc.
A big part of the creative process is to edit the collection so each picture you receive contributes something to the narrative of your day but also makes sure that you are not inundated with repetitious pictures just to make up a predetermined number.
Your USB disc will include all the images in both colour and black and white at a high resolution for producing prints and products. It will also contain a version of each image prepared at an optimum resolution for online use.
Yes. ... A day's photography gives a great range of pictures up to the first dance a bit beyond to get a good flavour of the party - but extra hours can also be added to cover up to Going Away as can coverage of the rehearsal and preparations the day before, or lunch the day after the wedding. Full details on price list.
Please rest assured that your pictures are safe and should one memory card fail all the pictures from that camera are duplicated on the second memory card. I have never had a failure of equipment in over 20 years as a professional photographer.
I use the latest Canon cameras and upgrade as soon as possible when a new version of the camera is introduced.
Whether a picture works best in colour or black and white is often a matter of personal preference. For this reason I include a version of each picture in both finishes on your USB disc so you can make your own choices. For your web gallery I choose the finish that I think works best. In rare cases a picture will only work in black and white due to adverse lighting conditions so I may exclude it from the colour folder on your usb disc.
Will you reserve the date for me?
If you want me to photograph your wedding but are not quite ready to make the booking I will happily reserve the date for you on a provisional basis. However, in the interest of fairness no booking is secured until I have received your £400 booking fee. So if I have a second enquiry for the same date it's the first to pay the booking fee who secures the date.
Tips on Choosing a Photographer
There are an awful lot of photographers out there and it can be pretty overwhelming. Prices range hugely from a couple of hundred quid to several thousand. What's the difference? How do you choose?
How much you are willing to spend depends on what your priorities are. I would, naturally, argue that getting the right photographer should be a priority. They will be an integral part of the day itself and (apart from your married life together) their work will be the most enduring legacy of the day you have put so much thought into. The photos are what's going to come out of the drawer to show the grandchildren….
Your first step is to find a photographer whose work you like, who you warm to, and who has the professional experience to deliver - whatever surprises the day may throw at them.
Look beyond the packages, the albums and the discs and start from the images and the person who creates them … are the images timeless, are they beautiful, are they honest to the character of the couple they are recording? Are they "you"? Is the photographer professional, experienced, personable, sympathetic, going to get on with you, your family and guests?
There are brilliant photographers working in lots of styles. Some are informed by Magazine photography, glossy, stylish and stylised. There are those working in a more traditional mould. And there are wedding photojournalists. Decide what style you like and choose the photographer accordingly.
It is important to bear the photographs in mind when pulling the timings together. Obviously I am a documentary photographer and so will just roll with the day and photograph things as they happen.
However there are TWO key points in the day when a little planning undoubtedly makes for the best range of photos.
A wonderful opportunity for photos of the Bride and the bridesmaids showing their dresses in all their glory is when everyone is ready just before leaving for the ceremony. Build in time for this - have a glass of Champagne, "take five".
You will be rewarded by feeling calmer when you walk down the aisle – and some lovely natural photographic moments.
Depending on the wedding I may need to leave half an hour or so before you to get to the church. So if you leave putting on your dress until the very last minute it will affect the images I can get.
Keep it simple! Presumably you like my work because it is not posed or contrived but I understand that you may want a certain amount of group shots. Make a list of the important people that you want to feature and tell them when and where they're going to be needed. Try to keep the variations to a minimum. Also appoint someone who knows them all, as well as a couple of ushers to help round people up. Just remember that the more group photos you want the longer it will take. This will keep you away from your guests and me away from shooting the kind of photos you've booked me to do.
Tried and tested combinations are:
1) Bride & Groom and both sets of parents
2) Bride & Groom with bride's family/relatives
3) Bride & Groom with groom's family/relatives
4) Bride & Groom with wedding party (bridesmaids and ushers)
5) Groom with best man and ushers
6) Bride with bridesmaids
I love winter weddings. They are cosy, atmospheric and have produced some of my all time favourite images. However, there is no doubt that as a photographer getting the results is more challenging - and this is down to two things - Light and Space.
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Spending time with Chrissie Wellington, you could be forgiven for forgetting you're in the presence of sporting greatness. She's just so… well, normal. Actually, this is doing her a disservice. She is engaging, open, determined, driven, positive and passionate – all the qualities you might expect from the four-time winner of the World Ironman Championships (widely considered the toughest one- day endurance event in sport, comprising as it does a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run). But she is also modest, spending the majority of our interview regaling me with colourful details of her life, rather than reeling off a list of (frankly amazing) achievements. What's more, look beyond the world-record sporting ability and, these days at least, she is a woman juggling work, motherhood and an active lifestyle, something so many of us can relate to.
Sport has not always been Chrissie's top priority. Rewind to her early years and, while she was an active child, sport wasn't her focus.
"I did sport because I enjoyed it – I had no aspirations of being great at it," she recalls. "I just had fun. While I'm driven, determined and incredibly competitive, at the time all of that was channelled into academia."
Indeed, Chrissie excelled academically, going on to achieve a first-class geography degree at the University of Birmingham, where she was also captain of the University Swimming Team. "Or rather, I drank for the University Swimming Team!" she laughs. "If I trained once or twice a week, it was a miracle!"
After graduating, and drawn in by the cache of pursuing a credible career, she opted to study law. But following work placements in London and the offer of a training contract, she deferred her conversion course in favour of travelling – a decision that changed the course of her life.
"It was a revelation. I was doing law because I thought I ought to, but it wasn't something I was passionate about," she remembers. "Then in Africa I met this woman, Jude, who told me, 'Chrissie, just follow your passion'. So instead of coming home after nine months and doing law, I came back two years later and did an MA in International Development at Manchester."
However, while studying for her MA, Chrissie's old patterns of obsessiveness and determination resurfaced. "All I wanted was to get a distinction," she says.
A former eating disorder had also reared its head once more while she was travelling and this, coupled with the huge pressure she was placing on herself, left her, she admits, in not a very good place.
"I had a great social circle, but I was just burdened by this disordered eating and also crushing myself with the weight of expectation to perform academically," she reveals. "I was a shadow of who I normally am."
Chrissie initially turned to running as a means of weight control, yet ironically running became the very thing that offered her a way out of the vicious cycle.
"I just loved running," she says. "Yes, I loved it because it enabled me to control my weight, but also because it was a release from things academically."
Then a chat with a friend who had grown up with a heart defect dramatically altered Chrissie's perception, demonstrating to her just what the human body can be capable of.
"My friend had done the London Marathon the year before. At the time, I didn't think of myself as someone who could ever do that, but speaking to her made me realise, maybe I could."
On completion of her MA, Chrissie moved to London to work for the government as a policy advisor on international development. She began to take her running more seriously – "although I didn't know anything about 'training'. I just went out and ran and ran!" She joined the Serpentine Running Club and gained a charity place in the 2002 London Marathon. She altered her initial goal of four hours, eventually completing it in 3hrs 8mins 17secs.
Spurred on by her impressive first foray into endurance sport, she joined a squad coached by the legendary Frank Horwill, determined to run sub-three at London the following year. But fate had other ideas. Chrissie was involved in a car accident while riding her commuter bike in London just a few weeks before the race, forcing her to pull out. She turned to swimming, because she couldn't run. "And that," she states matter-of-factly, "is how I got into triathlon."
Once recovered, Chrissie returned to running and, because of her improvements in swimming, someone suggested she turn her talents to triathlon.
"I'd never even ridden a road bike before!" she laughs. "I didn't have any cycle kit, but someone sold me a road bike for about £250. I didn't have clip-in shoes, I just used my trainers. I was really back to basics."
She completed a few sprint and Olympic-distance triathlons, fuelling her desire to improve.
"I loved triathlon," she enthuses. "But did I have aspirations at that point to go professional? Absolutely not. I did OK at Olympic distance, but I wasn't setting the world on fire."
Shortly afterwards, Chrissie left the UK to work in Nepal for 16 months, putting her triathlon endeavours on hold. However, during her time away, she spent as much time as she could mountain biking, alongside local Nepali enthusiasts and other Westerners. "We'd go out most mornings and I'd always turn up to work late!" A cycling trip over the Himalayas was an eye-opening experience, highlighting her suitability to endurance sport.
"At that point, it was 60 to 70 per cent off-road and conditions were tough – snow storms, sand storms, the altitude. But it made me realise how strong I was. I could just keep going and going and going."
On her return to the UK, she decided to take triathlon more seriously. Chrissie started training hard, putting in 25-plus hours a week on top of a full-time job. Despite a rather inauspicious start at the 2006 Redditch Super Sprint (during which she sank due to an ill- fitting wetsuit and had to be rescued from the water), she won her next race, qualifying for the World Age Group Championships. Which she also won.
At the age of 29, Chrissie was faced with a dilemma: to turn professional or not.
"It was really hard," she says. "People imagine it would be easy. You know, 'Oh just become a professional, it will be great!' But for me it wasn't. I didn't know much about the professional side of the sport – I'd never even seen a triathlon on TV! It was scary. I was scared of failure, of what people would think of me. I was worried I wouldn't even make a living."
Despite her reservations, and driven by her determination to give everything in life her best shot, Chrissie did turn professional. Although she initially planned on competing at Olympic distance, both she and her coach realised it wasn't where her talents lay, opting instead to target Ironman.
"I'd initially said Ironman was bonkers and I'd never do it!" Chrissie laughs. However, with her coach's insistence that she was ready, she flew out to Ironman Korea, coming first and earning her place at the start line of the World Ironman Championships in Kona, six weeks later. Not only did she win at Kona, but she went on to retain her title in 2008, 2009 and 2011.
While Chrissie was by then used to pushing herself physically, it was that 2011 Championships that truly pushed her to her limits: a bike crash two weeks before the race left her seriously injured – she could barely walk. "It was the toughest race I'd done," she remembers. "But in a way, my injury released the pressure from me. Everything being equal, I was expected to win. This time, no one was expecting that, so I could just go out and do the best I could. I definitely didn't go in expecting to win. However, I'm very good at focusing on the process and breaking the race down into manageable segments. So as the race progressed and I felt pain, but was continuing to do OK, my confidence grew.
Ultimately, I got through it in the same way I get through every race, because every race is uncomfortable. There are points in every race when I've wanted to quit. I know I can make it look easy, because I'm smiling and laughing and waving, but it's never easy. Those are just the strategies I've developed to cope."
Throughout her life, Chrissie has been driven by a desire to implement positive change. Retiring from professional sport in 2012, she now works for parkrun, where she is Global Lead for Health & Wellbeing. Just how important is it for her to be in a position to promote healthy living?
"Oh, it's vital. That was the whole point of being a professional athlete, to give me a platform to do something like this. When I was in my first few months of being professional, I said to Brett [her coach], 'I can't do this'. It feels too selfish. It's just the pursuit of my own goal. And he said to me, 'Chrissie, just you wait. Within a few years, through your achievements you will be able to effect more positive change than you ever thought possible'."
And she certainly does, combining her love of sport with her development work – albeit in a different context.
"Before it was international development, now it's very much developed-country focused. But nevertheless, it's encouraging people who wouldn't normally take part to take part. Whether that's women and girls or people from areas of social deprivation, it's about breaking down barriers to participation."
As an active mum, Chrissie is certainly opening the doors of opportunity for her daughter Esme, 21 months old, for whom seeing her parents partake in sporting activities is very much the norm.
"A big barrier for mothers is often guilt. 'I shouldn't be out running, I shouldn't be enjoying my time when my child should be the priority'." And I have to admit, I've never felt that guilt, because I've always felt strongly that I need to retain interests that go beyond me as a mum. It's important for me that I still have goals. And I think it's very important for children to see their mum doing sport. You know, Esme sees me each day putting my running shoes on and she knows Mummy's going for a run. And she points to her shoes and we'll do a little run together. It's normalising it for children at a young age and that's absolutely vital."
Aware, however, of the need to realign her expectations after the birth of her daughter, Chrissie has scaled back her endurance goals in line with her new life as a mother.
"I knew running the London Marathon was something I wanted to do in my 40th year, but I didn't want it to be four months after Esme was born. I wanted to give myself time to feed back into it gently and not put any pressure on myself. After the first year of motherhood, it felt like the right time to have such a goal. And whereas before it was always my Ironman goal, this time it was our goal. I saw the 2017 London Marathon very much as our achievement, as a family."
And an achievement it was – Chrissie crossed the Virgin Money London Marathon finish line in 2hrs 49mins 01secs. "To run that at London was just as challenging for me as previously running 2hrs 44mins at the end of an Ironman," she says. "Goals can be challenging, even though the time may not indicate that's the case. Instead, it's about seeing those challenges in the wider framework and context of your life. So for me, London was a big achievement and something I'm really proud of."
Not one to rest on her laurels, Chrissie has also recently dabbled in the world of ultra running, taking part in Heineken Race to the Tower, an off-road double marathon, in June.
"It made me realise once again what the human mind and body is capable of," she says of the experience. "I found it liberating to be off-road, liberating not to be looking at the clock, relaxing to be in a non-aggressively competitive environment and I just really, really enjoyed it. I loved it!"
Ever modest, she failed to mention her impressive finish time of 8hrs 35mins 35secs, or the fact she was the first female to cross the line, finishing second overall. But then that's Chrissie all over – humble yet determined, modest yet passionate, and ultimately a true inspiration to us all.

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FT. LAUDERDALE, FL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- December 18, 2006 -- Prime Time Group Inc.,
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Sometimes books, like the one pictured to the right, creep quietly into the world and no one pays attention or notices or even gives a shit. But there are people out there in real life who are making some very playable arts and the people I am talking about aren't typically people who would be recognized in the OSR scene, or even the RPG scene. The person I am talking about this time is a one Sam Bosma, who is a fantastic illustrator, and prior to last week was someone I didn't know of or have the mental faculties with which to even comprehend. Last week, with a pure and serendipitous happenstance, I came across this little book he made. This particular book is the one you see here on the right, it is called Inventory v.1 and it is actually little- sizing up at 4.5 by 5.5 inches. It showed up in a tiny package and in all manner of tiny glory to my mail box today while I was at work.
On the cover of this lilliputian tome is an adventurer gal. She is wading into the darkness with a pack full of stuffs and it is a wonder anyone can fight holding anything, including heavy ass swords, but she is making it happen. The interior of the book is risographed onto creamy paper that mutes the art in a way that softens edges and vanquishes what would be glaring contrast. Whatever Bosma picked as the cover material is the softest paper I have ever fucking touched. It has some kind of texture on it that just works.Continue Reading


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I don't understand how the gound-hoggies can tell the wind and the snow and the cold-time what to do. The men say (but I think they're making it up), that when a ground-hoggie sees his shadow that means the cold-time will continue; but if there's no shadow then flower-time will come early. I've never actually met a ground-hoggie, but whenever I see my shadow nothing changes. And if I look for my shadow underground I never see it at all and flower-time still comes.
I'm not even sure what a ground-hoggie is, I've never met one, but the men say they're a lot like a marmot, almost the exact same they say, just living in different areas. Maybe someplace that's closer to wind and snow and rain, I'd think. The men even brought a pretend hoggie I could look at, but I didn't see the resemblance. Must be in the way you look at it.
Sometimes they are called 'Ground-pig' or 'Whistler' or 'Wood digger' or 'Monax' or 'Thickwood badger' (which makes no sense at all), and even 'Woodsock' or something like that, which must be very confusing because now they don't have to worry just about their shadow and where it might be, but with all those names they won't even know if someone is talking to them or someone else. I would answer to 'Whistler' because it's very musical and pretty, too, but some of those other names start to sound insulting. I'd rather be called 'hay you'. Particularly if I was being called to really eat, hay.
So if the hoggies see their shadows or not – or maybe just one ground-hoggie, I don't know how many have to see their shadows for it to work – I"ll be happy whenever flower-time comes. If it takes a little longer I won't mind, I'll just be dozing in my nice warm burrow dreaming about flower-time. It's not like I'm going to go hog wild.


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How Search Engine Optimization can Help my Business?
Are you wondering how websites appear on the first page of Google for certain keywords? It is because those websites are Search Engine Optimized. If you are a business owner, you know that the location of your business is very crucial for the success of your company. It is the same thing in the Internet age. Since, more and more people use Search Engines like Google to find what they need, ranking your website for a relevant keyword for your business can impact your business growth. As an SEO firm, it is crucial for us to rank for terms like SEO company Philippines. If our competition appears on the first page and we are not, it is like handling our potential customers to our competition. On the other, ranking on first page of Google, especially on the top 3 spots are like having the best spot in the city for your business. It will set the golden age of our business.
For sure, it is possible to learn the discipline and skills in doing SEO. However, let me tell you that it is more cost-effective to have an expert take charge your Internet Marketing campaign. Getting results in doing SEO is not an overnight task. Also, there is a learning curve that is needed to become successful with it. Yes, you can hire employees to do this in-house but think about this. Search Engine algorithm changes all the time. Who do you believe will solve the algorithm faster when it changes, those who are handling one project or those who have lots of project and experience. If you need SEO done for your websites, your best route is to leave it to the experts.
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I love spring bulbs. we can buy all these as cut flowers in sydney but I never have much luck growing them myself even if I put the bulbs in the fridge for a while first. it just doesn't get cold enough I guess.
though the "Blue Mountains" are only an hour or so away and the gardens there have beautiful cool weather plantings
one of the few things I miss about New Zealand….


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Question about HP Officejet 5610 All-In-One InkJet Printer
I changed the toner and when i close the lid, I noticed power light
was blinking and would not stop even when I cancelled print job.
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"All lights blinking and printer not responding" is
indicative of serious ink cartridge issue. Usually when this happens the
printer fails to goes through the motions of the printing process, kind of
stands still with indicator lights just blinking away. This could be as a
result of either of these scenarios.
The Solution is to try an older/another cartridge (doesn't matter if ink
is finished. You must replace cartridge one at a time). If lights stop blinking
it confirms that your cartridge has become incompatible or developed
incompatibility. Also if your printer is the type that can work with only one
cartridge, remove one after the other (closing back the lid/cover) to determine
which in the set (black or color) has become incompatible. At the instance the
incompatible one is removed and you close the lid, the blinking will stop (for
printers that can print with one ink cartridge only). Just replace the
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with one cartridge. But if both are affected, you have to replace both. Because
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in handy for this type of troubleshooting.
The electronic panel on the cartridge that makes contact with the
cartridge carrier inside the printer is dirty and needs cleaning. This electronic panel is front part of the
cartridge with copper "dots".
The Solution is to try to clean this panel with a piece of folded tissue paper soaked in a bit of methylated spirit. Also try to clean the area in the cartridge carrier/holder that makes contact with the cartridge's electronic panel (Usually this is more difficult). If you cannot reach it with your fingers, use a stick or something with tissue wrapped around it. Allow to dry well and return the cartridges, close the cover. The blinking should stop if the electronic panel is the issue. Once the blinking stops the printer will print.
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December 1st, 1998. The day the Oklahoma football program changed forever with the arrival of a young up and coming coach from Iowa named Bob Stoops.
I`ve never compared it to other jobs. I`ve had opportunities with other schools, not just Iowa. And this is the one I've always had my eye on.'
He also always had his eye on championships...in just his 2nd season stoops brought back sooner magic leading OU to their first conference title in 13 years, then followed that up with this...
'Oklahoma wins the national championship, alright, Oklahoma wins it.'
'Pretty safe to say in a few years we went without a few trophies, we made up for it this year didn`t we?'
Stoops would become the first head coach ever to win all four BCS bowl games along with a national championship. In all, Stoops took OU four national title games. While those didn`t all go his way, the Big 12 usually did. Stoops won ten Big 12 championships. That`s more titles than he had home losses during his tenure.
Winning was never a problem for Stoops. On a cold November afternoon in Manhattan Kansas, Stoops took the kings crown passing Barry Switzer to become Oklahoma`s all-time winningest coach.
'I don`t have time to look at it. It`s something down the road that I`ll reflect and look back.'
In all big game bob won 190 games...he helped produce seven Heisman trophy finalists and two Heisman winners, Jason White in 2003 and Sam Bradford in 2008.
Not only did the six time big 12 coach of the year build a winning program on the field, but literally helped build the program. By selling out every home game in his era, Oklahoma was able to renovate Oklahoma memorial stadium by closing it in complete with brand new facilities and locker room.
It definitely is going to have a big impact just looking at it visually. It will be second to none in the country.
The program did face challenges...quarterback Rhett Bomar and offensive lineman JD Quinn were dismissed from the team for being paid for work they didn`t do at big red sports and imports...and more recently stoops had to answer questions about keeping Joe Mixon on the team after he punched Amelia Molitor before playing a down at OU.
Again may have too strong of a commitment to these guys that i recruit. But i always have and believe in them and I believe in that time a young 18 year old deserved an opportunity to redeem himself and to improve from it and to some day possibly be forgiven. If that can`t happen, that can`t happen. That was the intent.
But in the end, that`s not what bob stoops will be remembered for...it`ll be iconic plays, returning a national power to prominence, and sustaining that success for an unprecedented 18 years.
One of my messages was always this. When Oklahoma, I said when I didn`t say if, when we got back to winning championships again to what it`s supposed to be and what it`s always been it would not be because of me. It would be because of the collective effort of everyone. The assistant coaches, the players, the fans, the administration.


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Employment-Second Circuit Rules That CVS Pharmacist Was Exempt From FLSA Overtime Requirements
In Anani v. CVS RX Services, Inc., Docket No. 11-2359-cv (2nd Cir. 2013), plaintiff Salah Anani ("Anani") was appealing a grant of summary judgment by the district court that Anani, a pharmacist at CVS, is exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (the "Act") because he is a highly-paid employee.
In analyzing the case, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (the "Court") noted that FLSA Section 213(a)(1) provides an exemption from its overtime requirement for any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity. To qualify for this exemption, an employee's work must satisfy both a duties requirement and a salary requirement. Here, Anani conceded that the duties requirement is met. To meet the salary requirement, under FLSA regulations (at 29 C.F.R. § 541.600(a)), the employee must be compensated on a salary basis at a rate of not less than $455 per week. In turn, FLSA regulations (at 29 C.F.R. § 541.602) provide that an employee will be considered to be paid on a "salary basis" if the employee regularly receives each pay period, on a weekly, or less frequent basis, a predetermined amount constituting all or part of the employee's compensation, which amount is not subject to reduction because of variations in the quality or quantity of the work performed. An employee is not paid on a salary basis if deductions from the employee's predetermined compensation are made for absences occasioned by the employer or by the operating requirements of the business.
The Court found that Anani's base salary substantially exceeded $455 per week and there were no impermissible deductions. There is also no dispute that Anani's base weekly salary was guaranteed, to be paid regardless of the number of hours he actually worked in a given forty-four-hour shift. Thus, the salary requirement is met and the exemption applies.
Futhermore, the Court found that-due to additional pay for extra work hours that raised his total annual compensation to over $100,000 and the concession that the duties requirement is met- Anani also met the FLSA overtime exemption for highly compensated employees in the regulations (at 29 C.F.R. § 541.601(a)). This exemption applies to an employee whose total annual compensation is at least $100,000 and who customarily and regularly performs one or more of the exempt duties or responsibilities of an executive, administrative or professional employee.
Based on the above, the Court concluded that Anani was exempt from FLSA overtime requirements, and it upheld the district court's summary judgment.


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Make a Sunflower Halloween Mask
Let your child's imagination grow with this fun, flower-theme Halloween mask. Cut 24 petal shapes from yellow felt, two leaf shapes from green felt, and two circles from brown felt. Place the brown felt circles over the eye holes on a plastic mask shape, marking the holes on the felt. Cut out the eye holes from the brown felt and set aside. Using the eye holes on the mask as the center, glue the yellow felt petals onto the mask in a circular pattern. Add green pipe cleaners for the stems, and glue on the leaves. Place the brown felt circles on top of the petals, and add a few sparkly beads around the eyes to make them stand out.
Make a Princess Halloween Mask
Make your little girl's fairy-tale dreams come true with this princess-for-a-day Halloween mask -- no fairy godmother required. With a paintbrush, outline the eye holes of the mask with glue and immediately dust with silver glitter. Hot-glue pink and purple flowers, feathers, butterflies, and other shapes fit for a princess around the top of the mask. Adhere four ribbon ends to the back corners of the mask, and adorn the ribbon with pretty flowers if desired. Add another flower to hide where the ribbon meets the mask to give it a polished look.
Make a Lion Halloween Mask
Add an impressive mane to a store-bought Halloween mask in a pinch. Simply glue raffia to a cardboard strip, then hot-glue the strip to the inside perimeter. Coat the mask with yellow paint, then mist the cheeks, forehead, and chin areas with orange paint for extra dimension. Cut two triangles from yellow felt to form the ears, and cut a triangle from brown felt for the nose; hot-glue pieces in place. To make the mouth, bend pipe cleaners into jowls and secure to the mask with hot glue. Use a marker to add extra facial embellishments to finish.
Make an Owl Halloween Mask
Even though owls are noctural creatures, don't let the wearer of this Hallowen mask stay up all night! To make it, brush the entire mask with glue and layer on feathers -- the thicker, the better. Cut rings from brown and yellow felt to frame the eyes, and glue on a yellow felt triangle for the beak. Attach a few larger feathers above the eyes to finish the mask.
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The University of Hertfordshire has invited professor Gus John to chair a debate on racial issues, as part of their Black History Month celebrations. The session will happen on Thursday 25th October, at 6:00 pm.
The debate will follow the 'Question Time' format and it will count with the participation of: Rodney Hinds, sports editor at The Voice newspaper; Paul Macey, director of Words of Colour Productions; and Anne-Marie Senior, Community Engagement Officer at Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council.
The panel will focus on some of the following topics: transracial adoption, black and minority ethnic athletes in the 2012 Olympics, image and reality, race and the US presidential election, and more!
The event will take place in the courtroom of the Law Building at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield and is free to attend.
For more information, click here.
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Ebro Catfish and Carp
We have a fair amount of keen anglers staying in our holiday apartments throughout the year. Many combine their fishing with a family holiday. And why not? Fishing is generally best early morning and evening anyway – which leaves a whole day in-between to go to the coast, pool or sightsee with the family! It seems to be a very happy compromise for the families that do it this way. (and it is has been known for the missus to get hooked on the fishing whilst they are here!)
For the anglers that wish to spend more time out on the river, we are happy to recommend either of the two local guides who will take you out on their boats. These guys know the river, the seasonal changes, the weather, the depth of the water, where the snags are and will do their utmost to put you on a spot where you are most likely to haul in your dream catch. If you book your accommodation at River Ebro Apartments, we will be happy to arrange guided fishing for you. I must also mention that within a few yards of our apartments you can access about 150 metres of riverbank – quite unusual on this section of the Ebro. We offer a tackle hire service if you do not wish to bring transport your own and we will arrange your rod licences to be ready on arrival.
Anyway, here are some samples of the fish that have been caught in the last 4 months of this year. All these fish were caught form the bank in front of River Ebro Apartments or on this stretch of river by boat.
For more photos of fish caught by our guests, please see the album on the Facebook Page for Ebro Apartments


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The Hotel Show Dubai, the largest, longest-standing and most comprehensive hospitality trade show in the Middle East and Africa, is announcing a host of new features for its 18th edition in September 2017.
Each year the event offers the ultimate showcase of everything needed to build, develop and maintain a hotel or restaurant in the region. Sectors at the show range from décor and finishings to in-room technologies.
For the first time in 2017, the annual exhibition will form a core part of a brand-new industry mega-event 'Dubai International Hospitality Week' organised by dmg events and the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC).
Bringing together dmg's The Hotel Show with the launch of DWTC's GulfHost (alongside an extended programme of live events), the Dubai Tourism endorsed event is anticipated to attract more than 50,000 visitors to the DWTC when it launches in September.
The Hotel Show portfolio has unveiled an all-new brand identity this year in consultation with the global hospitality industry at a time of international growth. New editions of the event are launching in hospitality development hotspots Africa (June) and the Philippines (August), while its existing event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia turned five in May. Each event is taking the format of the successful Dubai show, adding elements of local flavor.
Also expanding in 2017 is the feature line-up of the flagship Dubai edition. With an aim to cater to every element of the guest experience like never before, new installations are set to focus on some its most important elements: housekeeping, staff uniforms, F&B, technology and much more.
The Middle East Hospitality Leadership Forum will be a central new feature of this year's show. GMs and owners from all types of hospitality operators will sit alongside major developers, asset managers, online travel sites and other influential players in the industry to debate the key strategic opportunities and challenges shaping the regional sector at what is a period of accelerated expansion and change. Speakers from major hotel brands including Marriott, Fairmont, Jumeirah, Four Seasons, Nikki Beach, and Waldorf Astoria will discuss a range of topics, including: 'Building Genuine Brand Identity', 'Market Positioning', 'Online Influencers' and 'Women in Leadership'.
Alongside a range of educational seminars and workshops run by leading industry experts, new features have been announced: 'The Middle East Housekeepers League of Champions', and 'The Runway', set to entertain and offer valuable hospitality insight.
In consultation with the UAE Professional Housekeepers Group, The Middle East Housekeepers League of Champions, sponsored by Restonic, is a live competition where two typical hotel rooms will be set-up back to back and turned upside down. Two teams of housekeepers (part of a wider league) will compete head-to-head to put the room back to its original state in the fastest time.
Lakmall Mawella, Executive Housekeeper at The Address Boulevard Dubai commented: "The hotel industry keeps changing yet many people think housekeeping is stagnant, which it's not. It has moved a lot in the last decade in terms of technology and efficiency and how to clean a hotel room. In the past, it was all about just cleaning, but now it's about engagement with guests and the efficiency of doing things. A few years back it took one hour to clean one room and now it takes about 20 minutes. Based on this, at The Hotel Show I may meet a supplier that provides a machine which can scrub a floor in less than a minute compared to longer in previous years, so its gives us more insight how we can do things more efficiently and increase productivity which may help the hotel, revenues or ROI which is the important part."
Meanwhile The Runway, in association with bespoke uniform designers A. Ronai LLC, will showcase trends in the latest uniform ranges for the likes of security, front of house, spa and pool personnel.
Further, exciting details of the new seminars and features will be announced by The Hotel Show organisers in the lead-up to the event. Ray Tinston, Portfolio Director of the dmg events hospitality portfolio, commented: "As the industry changes and grows, so must we, and we have. The Hotel Show is showcasing an all-new brand identity, creating a sleek platform on which to network in the most efficient way possible."
"Through our new features that directly reflect the industry, the hoteliers and all departments within a hotel, we are confident that our rebrand allows us to reposition our place within the region's outstanding hospitality industry, and provides a stage that its people deserve and are proud to do business on. We are a community, and The Hotel Show is our annual get-together."
More than 600 exhibitors, 7 show sectors and multiple installations placed throughout 8 exhibition halls, will welcome 1000s of hospitality industry professionals across 3 days. To find out more information on The Hotel Show 2017, access: www.thehotelshow.com


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It is a continuation of Read Across Georgia. She hopes this will encourage students to keep reading through their summer vacation.
She encouraged students to read everyday and practice, practice, practice. She told them to work hard and never give up and never stop trying. She told
She stated that it is also important to give a special thanks to the teachers and administration. "We're also here to say thank you to our teachers because we know they've worked hard to get these children to where they are," said Deal.
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Mortgage backed securities (MBS) closed up 3 basis points today at 102.47 having come to rest exactly 28basis points below resistance offered by the 200 day moving average and remained below all the moving averages. The 30 year was available at 4.00% today. The 30 year jumbo was at 4.125%. Whether in New England, the Mid Atlantic or the Midwest or anywhere else in the U.S. history tells us it is time to refinance!! Please call me at 203-981-8282.
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The Bay of Plenty region property pulse factsheet for November 2011 is published using data from Realestate.co.nz and REINZ (Real Estate Institute of NZ).
Property sales across the Bay of Plenty region at 349 in the month rose significantly on a seasonally adjusted basis in November, and was up 9% as compared to a year ago. The inventory of unsold houses remained at 55 weeks; this still leaves the region slightly above the long-term average of 53 weeks of equivalent sales.
Median sales price for properties sold across the whole of the Waikato / Bay of Plenty region at $310,000 was down 3% as compared to a year ago and down on the prior month. The asking price expectation of new listings in the Bay of Plenty was up 6% as compared to a year ago at $420,291.
The level of new listings coming onto the market in November at 881 was up from October and down 18% as compared to a year ago.


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We are very proud of our impeccable record of successfully and safely completed projects. Not just because it confirms the extra steps we take are effective in creating a safe work environment, but also because it ensures that our projects run smoothly and efficiently.
At Geddes-Armstrong Construction we take extensive measures to ensure safety on our job sites and, thus, of our employees and subcontractors. Some of the measures we take to maximize safety on our job sites include periodic on-site safety training, routine safety toolbox talks, and strict enforcement of all applicable safety rules and regulations. Additionally, GAC employees receive training in fire hazard management, storm evacuation plans, and material safety data sheet (MSDS) awareness. By enforcing adherence to these safety procedures we maintain the security and safety of the construction crew, and of those who may work or live nearby.


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Whew! It's been an especially busy but fun few months here at the Workshop. Here's just a glimpse at what we've been up to:
- Showing our thanks. On November 6, we hosted "A Taste of Performing Arts Workshop," a party to show BIG appreciation to our current family of individual supporters, and also to welcome new folks into the fold. Thanks to our generous host and partner, the African American Art & Culture Complex in Western Addition, we had a festive and colorful venue for showcasing some of our students' latest work. Former board member Merti Walker and former teaching artist Taylor Strand read their favorite poems in the anthology of student writing we published last spring from our residency at Marin Juvenile Hall. Three young poets attending one of our partnering schools, Visitacion Valley Middle School, performed a moving poem they wrote about violence in their neighborhood. When they finished, you could hear a pin drop. And as partygoers milled about with drinks and snacks, Core Teaching Artist Amani Manning transformed one corner of the room into an Afro-Peruvian dance class for anyone game enough to try it (including a few intrepid and utterly wonderful board members). With these tastes of the Workshop's programming, a community of generous individuals and corporate sponsors donated food and spirits to make it a truly festive party. What a fantastic way to kick off a holiday season celebrating gratitude and community. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen!
- Sharing our smarts: We just learned that Program Director Karena Salmond's proposal to the prestigious SXSW Education conference has been accepted! She will head to Austin, TX in March to present at this national conference. It's a family affair; she'll team up with sister Kimberlee from the New York-based Girl Scout Research Institute to lead a session on process-based instruction. Karena will present the Workshop's unique teaching method — the Cycle of Artistic Inquiry — as well as the research and evaluation data we've gathered on how our classes develop critical thinking and other cognitive and behavioral skills. Go Team Salmond!
- Shouting out for artists: As one of the largest and oldest teaching artist hiring organizations in the Bay Area (and the state), Performing Arts Workshop has long been an advocate for building up the profession of teaching artists and giving artists as teachers all the support and security their professional commitment deserves. Read more about my work with Teaching Artists Guild to professionalize the field and provide access to health and other benefits to teaching artists here.
Approaching the Workhop's 50th birthday, I'm especially interested in seeing a direct line from the fierce commitment and generous spirit of our founder, Gloria Unti, to our teaching artists today. One constant has been an unwavering belief in the potential of each and every child. (In fact, we were just cited in a Wallace Foundation report on after school arts education on holding high standards). I'll leave you with Core Teaching Artist Sonia Reiter's inspiring insight into her 4th grade dance students:
I'm asking them pretty challenging questions in class reflection time. Sometimes I don't get a lot of answers and I was wondering if my questions might be too complex. But I'm starting to realize that these students have the ability to reflect in pretty complex and exciting ways. So I'm going to keep asking hard questions even if I don't always get answers in class, because I believe they're thinking about it — even if they're not answering in the moment.
Here's to our devoted, dedicated and insightful teaching artists. Here's to asking hard questions and having the patience to wait for the answers. And here's to holding the greatest expectations for all that our young people can accomplish – in and well beyond our classrooms.
Wishing you each a warm and peaceful holiday season,


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InsurrectionPosted: July 1, 2017 Filed under: Writing | Tags: dungeon, fantasy, fiction, flash fiction, girl, prompts, serial, story, wizard Leave a comment
Natalie peered around the corner, wondering how much longer she would have to wait before the bird's murky song echoed through the halls and set her free.
The wizard colonel in charge of the palace was unaware of her existence, and that was the only thing saving her ass right now. Natalie crossed her fingers that he wouldn't find out about her before it was too late.
The first notes trickled through the corridor, and Natalie blew her advantage by stepping out at just the right moment, right into the path of Wizard-Colonel Larkspur. Their eyes met, and as he raised an eyebrow, the fear in her expression made him realize that this was a person he needed to know more about.
"Seize her!" he commanded, and the first three guards behind him grabbed Natalie by her arms and waist before she could turn and run in a desperate bid for freedom. "Bring her to me."
The guards somehow managed to march Natalie the four feet between them, and the wizard colonel reached out a finger and tipped her chip up so he could look deep into her eyes. The puzzlement cleared from his face in an instant, to be replaced by a loathing that even the guards behind him could feel. Natalie cringed at the hurtful gaze, fearing the worst was about to happen.
"Take her to the dungeon at once!" His voice trembled the slightest bit on the last word, and Natalie was the only one who caught it. Her heart lifted anew with fresh hope, and she cooperated with the guards tugging her along.
She looked back over her shoulder just once, and her timing was perfect enough to catch Larkspur mid-shudder.
Natalie began to smile as she stood a little straighter. Maybe things weren't as bad as they seemed after all.
The ChasePosted: May 24, 2017 Filed under: Writing | Tags: chase, escape, fiction, flash fiction, prompts, race, random, run Leave a comment
Kevin looked back over his shoulder, just once, as he ran down the empty street. The drone was still back there, following him. He cursed his luck; why did this have to be the one day that not a single person wanted to be out enjoying the sunshine on Fourth Street? Any other day this place would be thronged with people.
He felt like a fool for choosing the path he had, and nearly wasted running energy to facepalm himself as he remembered that the boat races were this afternoon. Of course no one was on Fourth! You couldn't get any farther from the river and still be downtown.
Kevin huffed and puffed and tried to urge a tiny bit more speed from his worn tennies. He couldn't check for it any more without slowing down or risking a dangerous fall, but he imagined the drone inching closer and closer, nipping at his heels, as it were. A silent tear ran down his face. If he got caught, the scandal would annihilate his reputation.
The daylight was creeping from the cracks and crevices of the still neighborhood, and Kevin let the loaf of bread slip from his fingers and into the clutches of the grocery manager's drone. Entropy slithered upward another notch, and Kevin's family would go hungry tonight.
A Slight InconveniencePosted: May 22, 2017 Filed under: Writing | Tags: daisy, distraction, fiction, flash fiction, frustration, miscalculation, plan, prompts Leave a comment
Rochester's gamble looked like it was going to pay off; the girl was walking toward the alley where she would, with any luck, meet her doom. He peered at the screen intently, waiting on the edge of his seat, without the slightest tinge of remorse to mar his heartless soul.
The girl stopped, and so did Rochester's heart. She cocked her head to the side, as though listening to someone who wasn't there. He ground his teeth in frustration as he watched her kneel to pluck a daisy from a crack in the sidewalk. That's just so like her, he thought. Never keeping on task when there's a bit of fuzz to distract her.
Rochester breath whistled in and out between the heavy hairs lining his nostrils as he played the waiting game. Will she or won't she? Come on already!
He lashed out, kicking a filing cabinet into the wall as she stood back up and turned around. Rochester's sweaty hamfists pummeled the desk, and the slip of a girl went on about her day, thoughts of butterflies and flowers babbling through her brain, never knowing how close she had come to dismemberment.
30 Day Writing Challenge: Days 4-9Posted: August 31, 2015 Filed under: Blogging | Tags: challenge, lists, prompts Leave a comment
Day 4: Write about someone who inspires you.
Fellow bloggers inspire me, to write, to paint, to participate, to keep on truckin'.
Day 5: List five places you want to visit.
- Uluru
- Angkor Wat
- Machu Picchu
- Stonehenge
- Singapore
Day 6: Five ways to win your heart.
- Be smart
- Be charming
- Be funny
- Be cute
- Be Ian
Day 7: List ten songs that you're loving right now.
- Gold Dust Woman, Fleetwood Mac has been stuck in my head for days. Maybe weeks.
- Chains which is apparently Nick Jonas. Had to google that one. Also stuck in my head a lot.
- This is super hard. I don't really listen to new songs, so it's the same songs, year after year after year. With the occasional mall music thrown in. So I guess eight more of my favorite songs? Burden in My Hand, Soundgarden
- Gold Dust, Flux Pavilion
- Ghosts N Stuff, deadmau5
- Panama, Van Halen
- Fighter, Christina Aguilera
- Long Time, Boston
- Sex Type Thing, Stone Temple Pilots
- Pepper, Butthole Surfers
Day 8: Share something you struggle with.
Overextending myself. I say yes a lot; not nearly as much as I used to, but it's something that I've struggled with for years. I hate to disappoint anyone–I hate to disappoint anyone else. I spent a lot of time trying to save the world before I realized that I was wasting my time.
It's not that I was necessarily wasting my time by helping others out or by volunteering to stay late at work or by taking on a new project. I was wasting my time by spending it doing things I didn't really want to do just because I thought I should do them.
And after some major life upheavals, I've almost gotten to a point where I don't cringe inside to say no. Sometimes.
Take NaNoWriMo, for example. A few months ago I got an email telling me that my area could use a coordinator, or whatever the job's called. I know I can't do that, so I pointed it out to a friend of mine who's even shyer and more introverted than I am. He told me I should do it, and a few years ago, I would have signed right on up and hated myself for it. But I didn't! I thought about it, sure, but I decided against it again, just as I had when I first read the email.
But I still do it to myself; I take on more than I can handle. Look at my sidebar. Do you think I've read any classics this year besides Lolita? Nope, sure haven't. And I didn't even write a post about Lolita. By the way, I finally fixed the link on that image, if anyone wants to have a look. Signups closed in like February, but there's a section on Forgotten Classics if you need some reading materials.
So yeah; still a struggle, but something I'm working on. A happy ending of sorts, maybe?
Day 9: Post some words of wisdom that speak to you.
I love this:
"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
Presented by a blogger who I don't keep up with nearly as much as I should, because she's amazing.
Bits and PiecesPosted: June 25, 2015 Filed under: Blogging, Entertainment, Writing | Tags: barber, camels, prompts, thanks 2 Comments
In case no one's noticed, I've sort of been buddy-buddying it up with these blog prompts from The Blog Propellant. I can't help myself. This gal comes up with some good ones. And it's been doing me tons of good to get to writing some good, meaty posts, instead of the here and there, skin and bones filler I usually end up using for half the month when I sign up for NaBloPoMo. Well, I think it's cool, anyway.
I had a moment earlier this afternoon as I was cutting Ian's hair. I even said it out loud: this is why barbers do it. It was like I had a glimpse into what it would be like to do that all day, every day. Fulfilling is a word that comes to mind, something I'd never thought of before when it comes to barbering, and one of my best friends in school is a barber, as are her parents, who own their shops. Fulfilling because hair is important in the same way that fashion and makeup are important, as a means of self-expression. Cutting someones hair helps them be themselves, although possibly somewhat less here, in a military community with a large percentage of mandated hairstyles covering the heads walking on the streets.
Have you ever thanked someone for a good deed they did in your dream? I know it's cliche to be mad at someone for something they did in a dream; I'm guilty of it myself. It's hard to turn the emotion off as soon as you wake up, especially if that person is sleeping right next to you. I had a dream a few weeks ago in which Ian wouldn't let me do heroin. I was pretty angry in the dream, but awake, it sounded like a fairly decent decision for him to make. Last night a friend of mine did CPR and saved someone's life in a dream. I don't know if he even knows CPR, but I forgot to Facebook him a thanks for being a good guy in my subconscious.
I watched the movie Tracks earlier this evening, based on the book by Robyn Davidson about her camel-assisted trek across the Australian desert. I actually liked the movie better than the book, although I appreciate the depth the book goes into about 1970s social mores in Australia. Also, camels are so gross. Anyway, decent movie.
Ketchup MicrophonePosted: May 15, 2015 Filed under: Blogging, Entertainment | Tags: dog turnip, posting, prompts 5 Comments
I have so much to say, and nothing at all–again.
On my to-do list of future posts:
- shoe shopping
- our anniversary vacation
- my birthday crawfish boil
- stinky lying liars
- internet etiquette
- the Jem and the Holograms movie
- books I've read
- writing
- a busload of various prompts in my inbox
But let me ask you: what do you want to read? Tell me, and I shall write.
P.S. My new hobby is googling weird things and posting an image result on Facebook. Today was 'dog turnip.'


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Hello July – how are you doing? This morning I was going through my notebook trying to find an empty page on which to scribble a to do list, when I stumbled on my 2016 goal list. The past 6 months have been a whirlwind and I'm so excited to say I have met many of the goals that I set for myself at the beginning of the year. Others have changed as I have grown and changed, and some I have made some progress on but I need to get... Read More
Trail Factor Half-Marathon Race Re-Cap
Running in Forest Park: they call it "going into the green". No matter what time of year, whether pouring rain or bright and sunny, while running on the trails in Forest Park you are submerged in the greenest of green forest scenery. The beautiful scenery is one of the reasons why Forest Park is one of my favorite place to run and why,on a whim, I signed up for the Trail Factor Half Marathon. While I have completed runs that were longer... Read More
Getting Crafty
This weekend I was inspired to get into the holiday spirit. That is, I got into the holiday spirit after sleeping in, peeling myself off the couch, and going for a nice run in the park. Then, I got into the holiday spirit and decided to bust out all my Christmas decorations. Sweat Pink, y'all. Anyways, I had signed up for a terrarium making workshop on Sunday. On Saturday night, I knew I would be bringing home a beautiful table centerpiece,... Read More
Time to Relax
Before the holiday madness began, Ben and I got away for a relaxing weekend in wine country. We stayed in Carlton, Oregon and spent the night in converted grain silos at the Abbey Road Farms B&B. We visited several places to taste wine, but our favorite vineyards from the trip were Coelho and Dukes Family Vineyard. What I love about Carlton is that the whole town is centered around celebrating good food and wine. As we were walking through... Read More
Oregon Water Falls
Jamie came to visit! One of my besties, Jamie, came to visit Ben and I in Portland with her cooler than cool boyfriend, Casey. The weekend was full of hiking, eating, wine tasting, relaxing, and laughing in the backyard by the fire. The weekend kicked off by the fire with some tasty food, wine, and catch up time. Jamie is a vegan, so when we woke up the next morning I was really excited about introducing her to one of our favorite places, Paradox... Read More
Mother's Bistro and Buzzing Around Portland
Hooray for meeting new friends. When I first moved to Portland I felt completely isolated. Now that two years have passed in the Pacific Northwest, I finally feel like I have a solid base of friends and every day it seems like I meet new ones. On a Friday afternoon my good friend in California sent me an unexpected text: her sister was in town visiting grad schools and she wondered if I could show her around town. How exciting! Of course I obliged. We... Read More
The Big Weekend, Part 2
I woke up Sunday morning thinking about one thing, and one thing only. No, not Superbowl….dips! I knew my healthy eating was going to be put on hold for a day, so Ben and I decided to go on a nice long walk before all indulgence began. The weather was beautiful so we enjoyed the path on the riverfront. We also stopped and explored the new Nike Town and read some books at Powells. Then the real work began. Ben loves Buffalo chicken wings... Read More
Slow Bar
I haven't really discussed it much on this blog but since the new year started I have been focusing on making healthy changes in my life. In addition to being more organized, getting out on the weekends, and exploring new restaurants, I am now working out almost every day and making healthier food choices. Most of what I eat is not blog worthy (e.g. rice, carrot sticks, salad, beans, and roasted vegetables). But when I do cook up something... Read More
Restaurant Style Steaks
My everyday cooking is comprised of the healthy basics: whole grains, veggies, and a little protein here and there. This diet plan is inexpensive, time efficient, and, let's face it, a little boring. In addition to getting out more on the weekends, my other New Year's resolution is two pronged: 1.) Make a concerted effort to dine at and review the restaurants listed in Portland's 100 Best Places to Stuff Your Faces. This neat... Read More
The Pink Rose
Since I've been talking so much about my quest to get healthy, I thought I would share my workout schedule from this week: Monday: 3 mile run + weight training Tuesday: AM:30-40 minutes on elliptical (I don't remember most of it because it was too early in the morning). PM: Boot camp style yoga class Wednesday: 3 mileish run after work Thursday: AM: 30 minutes of ellipitcal Friday: Off Saturday: 7 mile run planned in the morning! Even... Read More


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Metropolitan Community College's four National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) memberships will consolidate to one membership effective Fall 2018.
The primary goal of consolidating MCC's athletic programs is to expand student athletes' access to the full range of MCC academic programs at all five campuses.
Under the current structure, an athlete is required to enroll full time at the campus housing the team he or she is playing for. Under the new structure, student athletes will be able to take classes at any of the campuses and still play for any MCC sports team. This structure affords a better balance between athletics and academics in alignment with the College's strategic priorities.
Secondarily, the athletic program consolidation comes about as the College works to meet budget shortfalls resulting from cutbacks in state appropriations. Athletic programs at MCC currently cost $1.3 million annually, which represents about 1 percent of the College's operating budget.
Since the announcement of budget cuts at the state level earlier this year, leadership has engaged in an analysis of all MCC programs. Consolidating the athletic programs will eliminate the cost of sport duplication across the campuses and effectively improve the overall efficiency and consistency of compliance and leadership.
Here are the specifics:
- Sports teams as they are currently assigned to the MCC-Blue River, MCC-Longview, MCC-Maple Woods and MCC-Penn Valley campuses will continue as scheduled through the 2017-18 academic cycle.
- MCC will honor scholarships for all current players (2017-18 academic year) and for newly signed players for two years (including 2018-19 academic year).
- Coaches will work with existing players who are impacted to transfer to another community college or four-year college/university so they may continue their athletic/academic pursuits.
Here is how the new sports team structure will look as of Fall 2018:
- Men's and women's soccer will be housed at the MCC-Blue River campus.
- Men's baseball and women's softball will be housed at the MCC-Maple Woods campus.
- Men's and women's basketball will be housed at the MCC-Penn Valley campus,
- Women's cross country and women's volleyball will be housed at the MCC-Longview campus.
A task force coordinated by Dr. Kathrine Swanson, vice chancellor for student success and engagement, has been formed to develop the plan for transitioning to one athletic program over the course of the next year. As the consolidation progresses, MCC will consider adding sports upon evaluating the impact to students' access and success goals.
Like every tough decision, this was not done without deliberation and concern for those impacted. While the initial change will be unsettling for some, the focus remains on the long-term benefit for future students.


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We named our restaurant after Bigoli, homemade Italian pasta, kneaded only by men traditionally.
The cornerstone of our cookery is different types of homemade pasta produced from first-grade Italian flour. Over a dozen fresh pasta and ravioli dishes are prepared and served in traditional Italian manner: with duck, seafood, rabbit, wild brown mushrooms, various sauces, and fillings.
We have an exquisite selection of fresh Italian delicacies in our menu. Excellent fresh buffalo, mozzarella-burrata, affumicata, stracciatella, superior prosciutto and antipasti.
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10 Habits of Highly Effective...
Tonight I was cleaning out some files. I am a great clipper of articles, blogs and studies related to church technology, growth and groups. I use a popular program to store all of this useful information and to search for the things that I need later. From time to time, I like to go thought and delete things that are no longer relevant and review and categorize the things that still have value to me. Some of the things that I find valuable I like to share with my leadership team and others.
I ran across an article entitled 10 Habits of Highly Effective Small Group Leaders by Paul Sohn. While I will not take the time to share the entire article with you, I found his list thoughtful and something every Adult Sunday School/Biblical Community leader might want to consider when seeking to improve the effectiveness of the discipleship in their small group.
Here is Sohn's ten habits.
- Don't do all the talking
- Be comfortable with silence
- Be a good listener (Personally hard for me.)
- Don't answer your own questions
- Ask open-ended questions
- Make sure everyone understands the purpose of the group from day one
- Try to involve everyone
- Remember, the focus is not on getting through the material
- Pray (Before you start for guidance, after you finish for assurance)
- Remember that God is in charge (Remember - loaves and fishes)
Why do I think this list is important enough to share? I think the list reminds me of three very important things. First, in my preparation (1-3), I should plan to facilitate a group treasure hunt, not explain where I have been. I learned early that it was more fun to go on vacation with my family than to watch a slide show of where someone else had been.
Second, most people learn better if they are given a chance to think, reflect and discuss (4-7). I some dusty recreation class notes, I once wrote you cannot force someone to have fun, you can only place them in position to enjoy themselves. I think this would also be true with a group that is learning together. You can't force it, you can only get them in position.
Third, I am reminded (8-10) that my role is that of facilitator, it is the Holy Spirit at working through me and the participation of the group members that bring about transformational discipleship. Number 10 is the one that I most often have to remind myself about. I sometimes that my hours for preparation are the key, while useful and a great offering we must remember that it is God at work that changes lives in a Sunday School/Biblical Community group.
Well, just something from the files tonight.
In Christ, Larry