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On most returns from trips to other countries, I usually feel better than when I left home. Typically it's because I walked everywhere (dropping a few pounds, an extra bonus) and my palate was pampered by never eating foods that came from a can, package or freezer.
Cooks in village cafes and chefs in city bistros, especially in Europe, don't have large kitchens with storage, and it's simply their habit to buy fresh ingredients daily from area farmers. At the end of every trip, I realize how real everything tasted and that I want to feel that good all the time.
We're hearing more than ever now in the United States about our need to eat food that's in season, and, if possible, grown locally.
But peruse the produce section of your grocery store, and you're likely to scratch your head: You can buy tomatoes in January and in June. Berries are on sale this month, but they were last month, too. And, it all seems to be from Chile, Argentina, Mexico -- is eating fruits and veggies from these countries all that bad?
"Locavore" blogs, written by those who carry the torch for eating only what's grown within 150 miles or so from home, contain lots of helpful reading -- and, admittedly, fairly zealous material, too.
Don't despair. Eating seasonally and locally isn't strictly the purview of people who save whales, hug trees and spend most of their time in Pilates classes. And plenty of those locavore bloggers -- some of whom are also authors -- share with honesty, confessing that they miss exotic fruits and veggies out of season.
But I had a "Yes, I get that!" moment when reading Amy Cotler, author of The Locavore Way (Storey Publishing, $12.95), who wrote that she enjoys eating strawberries only in season so much more now that she has to endure months of doing without them. Because we're so accustomed to instant gratification, we forget how dramatically our appreciation factor rises when we have to wait for a certain culinary jewel to show up in its own time.
It's well-documented that eating seasonally and locally is better for the environment, too. "It benefits everyone to buy local because you're reducing the carbon footprint by cutting down on gas and emissions," points out Christina LaBarba, sales executive at Fresh Point, a food distributor in North Texas that buys from area farmers. "If you're supporting your community and you're supporting Texas, you're supporting small businesses."
Fort Worth chefs such as Molly McCook at Ellerbe Fine Foods, Dena Peterson at Café Modern and Casey Thompson at Brownstone seek out locally grown produce, often noting the producers' names on their menus and serving what is in season. One of the first to find area goods to serve in his restaurant, chef Jon Bonnell says he wasn't just jumping on a trend but that he likes the sensibility primarily from a flavor standpoint.
"I do think we should eat more local and seasonal produce because it just tastes better," says Bonnell, owner of Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine in Fort Worth, citing one of his favorite tomato producers, found in Cisco, about 100 miles west of Fort Worth. "If you buy Scott Farms tomatoes at the market here in town, these taste a whole lot better than tomatoes that have been on truck after truck for a week. You know the Scotts picked those tomatoes yesterday."
Bonnell likes creating specials with squash, herbs, peppers and tomatoes because those supplies grow better, and he says "peach season is always big -- we'll do everything, like peach pies and fresh peach margaritas." If you see him shopping at Cowtown Farmers Market in Fort Worth with his daughter on Saturday mornings this summer, you can expect to find ratatouille on the Bonnell's menu that night.
He says that you are getting a pure product from the farmers market.
"Everything is getting hit so hard with pesticides, but at the market, you're getting the product itself, not one grown with nitrates in the soil like the produce shipped in from somewhere else."
Nutrition experts also can tell you dozens of reasons why you feel better by eating the freshest food possible, and some can throw impressive data at you in the process.
"Some of the most important foods to eat are cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli, cabbage, kale and cauliflower," says Rhonda McKinney, nutritionist at Healthy Solutions in Arlington. "They contain indole-3-carbinol, which helps convert cancer-promoting estrogens to good estrogens."
McKinney's work in nutrition counseling includes her work with Cuisine for Healing, a nonprofit organization in Fort Worth that makes nutritious meals available to people who have cancer.
She educates clients, some of whom are seeking to cope with illness, about the importance of choosing certain foods and taking steps toward better health.
Her litany of essential foods (and the reason she considers them essential) include avocados, which help the body eliminate toxins; green tea, which can help stop growth of new blood vessels in tumors; raspberries, blueberries and blackberries, which are loaded with cancer-fighting antioxidants; and shiitake, maitake and reishi mushrooms, which are said to stimulate the immune system and fight cancer-promoting agents.
A snapshot of what's in season
Living in North Texas, we have access to regional produce much of the year, with the best selections arriving in late spring and early summer. Thanks to farmers markets, whose numbers are growing, and at stores like Whole Foods Market, in Arlington, and Central Market, in Fort Worth and Southlake, which stock produce from area growers, you can easily find out where your produce originates.
Because of unusual freezes this winter, the past few weeks haven't been good for buying produce, but that's expected to change soon. Farmers markets in Fort Worth and Coppell, for instance, have stocked mostly greens: lettuces, spring onions, herbs and hothouse tomatoes.
But a ray of sunshine was glimpsed two weeks ago with the arrival of asparagus, grown by B&G's Garden in Parker County. Smart shoppers lined up at the Cowtown Farmers Market at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, ready to snap up this delicacy, which was gone before 8:30 a.m.
"Ben and Greg's asparagus in the spring is just about my favorite," says Deborah Lollar of Arlington, who shops at the Cowtown Farmers Market every Saturday. She is among the farmers market's customers who load up through summer, when the market is open also Wednesday mornings, on peaches, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries.
Lollar likes making friends with the farmers -- she has been supporting the local market for more than 25 years -- "because our food supply has become too industrialized, resulting in the loss of family farms and farmers." On top of that, she says that she believes that she and her husband, Jim Lollar, have been healthier, rarely catching colds and the like, as a result of "eating a diet of local fresh produce."
Shoppers also can find B&G's Garden's asparagus at Central Market in Fort Worth, where produce manager Mike Arriaga says that the two varieties of pretty green stalks should be available through Easter. In April, Arriaga expects organic radishes from Morrison Farms in Cleburne, followed in May by yellow squash and zucchini, beets and turnips, and eggplant, squash, cucumbers, bell peppers and red potatoes in June, also all from Morrison Farms in Cleburne.
The list of popular summer items at Central Market includes gorgeous heirloom tomatoes and beefsteak tomatoes from Scott Farms in Cisco, which are also found at the Cowtown Farmers Market. The Scotts also grow cantaloupes, which can be found at the markets in July. From late May until about July 4, you'll find five varieties of shelled peas from farms in East Texas; and from the end of June until the heat becomes intense in July, figs from Lightsey Farms in East Texas and organic blackberries and blueberries will come in from various East Texas farms.
At Whole Foods Market, strawberries from Alvin, near Houston, will arrive any day now and will be available for a few months, says Shawn Sosa, produce manager at the Arlington store. Grapefruit and oranges from the Rio Grande Valley will be available through May. A favorite, 1015 onions -- big, yellow and sweet, and named for their Oct. 15 planting date -- are also at Whole Foods for another couple of months.
In summer, Whole Foods -- like Central Market and area farmers markets -- will be a destination for fresh Texas peaches. Whole Foods gets its peaches from farms in Fairfield and Mexia and will bring in cantaloupes from the West Texas town of Pecos in June and perhaps July. Organic jalapeños, squash and okra from Morrison Farms in Cleburne will be other popular summer goodies.
Sprouts, the Arizona-based chain newer to the North Texas market (sprouts.com/home.php), is sourcing some Texas produce. At the moment, you can find Texas-grown cabbage and basil in the Southlake store. By late spring and into summer, Sprouts' produce section will offer berries, squash, zucchini, cucumbers. tomatoes, cantaloupes and peaches grown on Texas farms.
Fall brings cabbage, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, pecans, cauliflower, beets and celery, while winter is the time to find locally grown greens.
Local resources
Although most of us tend to choose just those vegetables and fruits we already know, resorting to a comfort zone of recipes, local produce experts urge you to select produce unfamiliar to you, because there are plenty of food-preparation tips out there.
Stores like Whole Foods and Central Market frequently offer free, in-store demonstrations on new produce items, typically with tastings and recipes. The Dallas Farmers Market offers Saturday lunchtime cooking classes, taught by noted area chefs who use the newest products from the market; these classes usually cost $30.
Whole Foods Market's website offers a guide to fruits and vegetables, with lots of specific information for selecting, storing and using an individual fruit or veggie, and plenty of nutritional information, too. You'll never wonder again what to do with an artichoke, parsnip or fig. www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/produce.php
When you're searching for a nearby market and wondering what's in season, look at the Texas Department of Agriculture's handy online guide. It tells you which items are grown in Texas, who the growers are and which counties they serve, and there's a good list of farmers markets across the state. Find it online at www.picktexas.com.
Sign up for a CSA. The acronym stands for Community Supported Agriculture, and it's a practice found across the U.S. By joining a CSA, you support local farmers and get their produce. If organic everything is important to you, this is a good route to go. It's most convenient for people who don't have time to roam the markets, because you simply pay for a weekly, monthly or quarterly subscription and pick up your box of in-season goods once a week. Visit www.localharvest.org/ and enter your ZIP Code. You'll find abundant ways to sign up.
Ask your favorite restaurants about their produce. Every restaurateur has access to farm-fresh produce, but unless you request it, you may not be sure if it's among ingredients in the dishes you are ordering. Fresh Point, which supplies restaurants, hotels and hospitals from the Oklahoma state line to Waco, buys produce from dozens of area growers. Right now, in fact, Fresh Point is delivering cabbage from Uvalde, citrus and onions from the Rio Grande Valley, micro greens from Keller and Austin, and asparagus from Weatherford. The company updates its list weekly, and the variety available to restaurants changes accordingly.
Seasonal recipes
Quinoa with chicken, spring peas and asparagus
Roasted or rotisserie chicken works perfectly in this recipe. Any leftover quinoa -- a most healthful grain, perfect even for a gluten-free diet -- can be chilled and tossed with vinaigrette to make a lively salad.
1 cup quinoa
2 cups water
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
1/2 pound (about 1/2 bunch) asparagus, woody ends snapped off and discarded, spears cut into 1-inch pieces
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 cup fresh peas or frozen petite peas, thawed
1 cup shredded cooked chicken
1 cup thinly sliced baby spinach leaves
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1. Rinse quinoa under cold running water and drain. Combine water and quinoa in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer, cover and cook until quinoa is tender and all the water is absorbed, 15 to 20 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and asparagus. Cook, stirring often, until asparagus is tender and bright green, 5 to 7 minutes.
3. Add garlic and peas and continue cooking for another minute. Stir in chicken and cooked quinoa. Add the spinach and stir until it wilts, 3 to 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and serve immediately.
Source: Whole Foods Market
Berry blue salad
Toasted pecans, walnuts or pine nuts go well in this salad, too. When in season, toss a few fresh raspberries into the salad for color.
8 cups loosely packed baby field greens
1/2 cup fresh blueberries
1/4 cup blue cheese crumbles
1/2 cup thinly sliced red onion
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/3 cup orange juice
1 to 2 tablespoons fresh lemon thyme leaves
1 tablespoon minced shallot (optional)
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup roasted sliced or slivered almonds
1. Place greens, blueberries, blue cheese and red onion in a serving bowl.
2. In a smaller bowl, whisk together olive oil, orange juice, lemon thyme leaves, shallot (if desired) and salt and pepper to taste.
3. Toss greens with dressing and garnish with almonds. Serve immediately.
Source: Whole Foods Market
Texas citrus salsa
1 Texas Rio Star grapefruit, sectioned and chopped
1 large Texas orange, sectioned and chopped
1 medium tomato, chopped
1 cup diced bell pepper
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and minced
3 tablespoons chopped red onion
1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
Mix grapefruit, orange, tomato, bell pepper, jalapeño, onion, cilantro, sugar and salt. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Drain juice before serving.
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Whether you are hosting a celebration or visiting as a guest this holiday season, make it beautiful with flowers. Let us help you find ideas for how to create the perfect holiday interior with our DIY Tablescape recommendations. This is the second of four tablescapes we will be featuring this month, the "Plaid and Lace" tablescape.
To create this table, you will need:
- Red roses from florist
- Evergreen Branches from florist
- Willow Branches from florist
- Cranberries
- Various mixed nuts
- Cylinder vases
- Plaid fabric
- Lace, about 1.5" thick
- Rosemary sprigs
- Brown textured ribbon
- Candles
- Double-stick hem tape
- Scissors
Rich colors like red and brown are synonymous with winter and in this week's tablescape we use different textures to create a warm and comforting environment for your guests this holiday season. If you are not setting your table this holiday, you can bring a host gifts that will fit with the decor.
To make the table runner, we used double-stick hem tape to attach to plaid fabric that we cut to 1.5' wide.
We filled the vases with the cranberries and mixed nuts on different levels to add texture, height, and color. We laid evergreen branches and willow branches along the center of the runner as a basis for the vases and candles.
A beautiful red rose and rosemary sprig at every table setting using the brown textured ribbon is the finishing touch to bring the whole table together.
We recommend the Celebration of the Season Centerpiece as the perfect arrangement to accompany this table. Visit our selection of hand picked holiday flowers and gifts to find the perfect centerpiece for your table or a beautiful arrangement to present to the host.
Look for a new table theme each week leading up to the last week of December and don't forget to check out our Pinterest board to enter the Pin to Win contest.
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Just as humans settle civil or legal injustices in the United States court systems, believers are able to petition God. One of God's greatest roles is that of Divine Judge.
God is interested in knowing the details of our cases. Through mercy and divine favor, he uses unfathomable wisdom and mighty angels to work on behalf of our prayers and supplications.
There are many "court matters" we can petition our Father for: favor in the career realm. Temporary difficulties or distresses, even rightly judging the perfect will for our lives.
But what is a petition? How do we make a petition to God?
First, let's begin with what a petition is:
a is a formal request for something asked in a respectful and humble manner.
As Christians, we can enter God's heavenly courtroom make our requests. How one asks matters–we should ask respectfully and with a humble attitude.
In humble awe we can ask of God, knowing that if it's in His will, our requests will be answered.
Unique circumstances, the right people, and opportune moments allow for honest petitions to be answered.
Just remember, what we ask for usually occurs in His time, not ours.
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Childhood Inspiration
I've had friends on Facebook posting this video for a week or two and haven't looked at it until today. As I'm watching it for the fist time, I am compelled to share it here with you.
As a child, I would watch Mr. Rogers regularly. I'm not exactly sure what drew me to him, other than the fact that he looked like my next door neighbor and seemed friendly. Clearly he inspired the person who created this video enough to remind myself and others in my generation the pure intention of Mr. Roger's message. While listening to this, I know why my heart was drawn to him. I believe his message even more now than what I probably understood as a child.
Take the time and listen by clicking on the following link and you'll see what I mean.
Mr. Rogers Remixed
Did you ever grow anything in the garden of YOUR mind?
All you have to do is think and they'll grow!
It's good to be curious about many things.
Why Would You Do THAT?
A few days ago, I received a call from a potential student who was interested in knowing more about the philosophy of Gaining Perspective, as well as future dates for workshops. What really threw me most was his following question:
I saw on your website you have an entire page filled with links to your competition.
Why would you do that?
I was taken aback; I don't think of it that way. Each "competitor" that I've listed on Gaining Perspective's web page under the Player Resources section has a different philosophy of how to approach the art form. I'm a firm believer that if you love improv enough, you will want to become a well-rounded performer, thus making the commitment to study in as many institutions and from as many different instructors as possible. I didn't open The YES! Lab with the thought that I was doing this to compete with anyone, but to simply offer our way of looking at the work–as another option for students who wanted more.
I am confused by the thought that someone may perceive Gaining Perspective as competition, or that potential students may think the same thing. How can one institution's approach compete with another's when we are all different people with varying successful methods for training improvisers? The only similarity should be our end result: to further each student's ability to play successfully.
Gaining Perspective doesn't own improv, nor does anyone else in Denver, Miami, Phoenix, Austin, New York, Chicago or the rest of the universe, for that matter. If this were the case, certainly Second City wouldn't have had Mick Napier, co-founder of Annoyance Theater, directing some of the most incredible Main Stage shows they've had in recent years. And Susan Messing wouldn't be able to teach at each of the main institutions in Chicago: iO, Annoyance and Second City. The list of instructors in Chicago and around the country who teach and perform in various places in the same city is long. Why does Denver have to be any different? Communities are built by coming together, not segregating. Modern history has proven that one over and over.
In much the same way that different styles of music appeal to individuals on various levels, so do different styles of teaching improv. I invite you to create your library of knowledge based on what styles of improv appeal to you.
The Foundation
The foundation of what I teach is simplistic–simplistic, but not naive. I don't oversimplify improvisation because I don't understand it. To the contrary, it is precisely because I understand it that I can ignore the complexities and complications that others (and ourselves) feel are necessary to make it "better." Through this philosophy, all of Gaining Perspective's students are shown how our human conditioning interferes with how we approach our improvisation and how to free ourselves from that conditioning. This philosophy didn't start with me, though–it is a Viola Spolin invention through and through. What I refer to as "the foundation" is her "Five Obstacles to a Direct Experience," which may be found in her book, Theater Games for the Lone Actor. If you've never read it, do.
Five Obstacles to a Direct Experience
1. The Approval/Disapproval Syndrome
When we seek the approval of the audience, our fellow players or anyone we want to impress, we are trading the sanctity of that moment on stage with our work for that approval. If you've ever decided that the audience didn't like your show because they weren't laughing, you became more concerned with gaining approval than being present in your show.
On the flip side of this, when we allow judgment of self, our fellow players, the audience, the space, the piece we are doing, etc., we are allowing judgment to reside as the barrier between ourselves and our work.
2. Self-Pity
I refer to this as the hamster wheel of a past situation. Internal monologues include lovely phrases like,"Why did I do that?" and "I'm so stupid!" and "I completely screwed this all up!"
This internal monologue pulls us out of the here and now and onto the hamster wheel where we beat ourselves up over a brief moment from our past. Spending our energy on that hamster wheel is pointless and time-consuming. That moment is gone, and yet we choose to hold on to it, forsaking the scene or show that is still in progress before us. We MUST let it go and focus on this current moment on the stage, in classes or in rehearsals, without letting that brief choice from our past take us out completely.
3. Success/Failure
By attacking the stage to "win" each time you perform, your focus becomes so narrowed on being successful with every move you make that you lose sight of what's going on around you. No one "wins" in improv.
Stopping ourselves from making moves within the work because we're concerned we will fail at them clearly controls our ability to create freely. Failure is a necessary part of growth, so accept and revel in it when it happens. So much more may be learned by taking risks and failing than just staying in your comfort zone. Every time your butt hits the ground, you're learning something new and, ironically, the more it happens, your ability to achieve a higher percentage of successful moments increases–almost without effort.
4. Attitudes
When we load ourselves with attitude, we are always at a distance from whatever is around us because we are more connecting to the "judgment" of it than to the thing itself. Bringing to the stage, class or rehearsal any outside frustrations or discomforts and turning them into forms of anger or dissension toward a fellow player, a director or even an activity makes you completely unable to connect to this moment. In Viola's words:
"Attitudes clog the machine… keeping us from directly handling a problem."
If your mind is elsewhere, it contributes to a less than focused attitude for that moment, making you useless to your fellow players and to the scene.
5. Fear
The preceding four obstacles all revolve around the fifth: Fear. Fear is the driving force of self-doubt, which keeps us from making any move whatsoever because we're afraid we'll make the wrong one.
It is most common to experience a combination of these obstacles at any given time on stage, especially in the beginning phases of your improv life. Cultivating the awareness of each of these obstacles in your own relationship with and approach to the work is critical for understanding what works for you and what doesn't work for you on stage.
By recognizing these obstacles for ourselves in an improv setting, our awareness begins to spread off stage and into our everyday life. We begin to notice how our judgment of others gives us an attitude toward them, which keeps us from working effectively with them in professional or social settings. Our fear of saying the "wrong" thing, even though our gut is telling us it is the truth, keeps us from being deeply and honestly engaged with another person. Our inability to recover from a past mistake, which puts us on the hamster wheel of coulda/woulda/shoulda, keeps us from connecting to the amazing situation and people with us right now.
What is your obstacle? Make peace with it. All it wants is for you to listen to it and give it compassion. And once you do, you'll realize that it was never the insurmountable handicap you perceived it to be. Believe me, it's true.
With Love,
The Work Before Ego
I've been improvising and teaching improv for a long time. I won't bore anyone with the number of years because ultimately that does not matter. I don't believe your ability to improvise comes in a quantifiable form, but rather by simply doing.
I live by the theory that the work of improvisation is more important than all else, by which I mean it's even more important than me. If I allow my ego to be involved in the work in any way, I am doing the work a disservice by thinking that I am in control of how my time on stage will turn out, when the opposite is actually much more satisfying. When I play, I want to remove myself from the situation and allow the work to flow through me. It has taken a long time to get to this place, but it is very achievable and very rewarding when you do.
When I first started improvising, I wanted to be funny… Like really. All the time. My entire existence was wrapped up in being funny. My thought was that if I wasn't funny, I was failing as a human being. This desire to be funny constantly became a method in which I would compare myself to others on and off stage, never feeling good enough or worthy if I did not have ALL of the attention in the room because I was not the funniest. That, my friend, is a lot of energy and ultimately a lot of sadness rolled into a ball waiting to become a tumor.
I started experiencing bouts of depression when not on stage and wondered if there was more to be examined in terms of how I expressed myself instead of being "on" all the time. I began to see that being on and being the center of attention is not only tiring, it subsequently keeps people at a distance instead of pulling them toward you, when what the funny person wants is to be loved, to belong.
After teaching improv for many years, I have noticed that same spark in others when they first find the craft. There are lots of jokes and funny-funny times that happen amongst newbies, which is simply what I've come to recognize as the beginning phase of development as an improviser. We enter thinking love is gained through how many laughs per minute (LPMs) we can attain from an audience or from our peers. We can get a lot of mileage out of this way of thinking in the beginning because it gives us friends, it gets our names mentioned in what we consider higher-level improviser circles and usually gets us onto house teams. We feel we have made it. Who could ask for anything more?
There is more. There is so much more. The work is more than any one of us. When we allow ourselves to settle into the belief that being funny is all there is, our ego is pleased. However, what has ultimately brought us to improv is our heart. When truly connected to the work, our hearts are opened as we are introduced to the purest forms of ourselves we could possibly be. By allowing our heart to guide us through this craft, by exploring new avenues, playing with new or different people that aren't from our normal circles, we learn to expand ourselves for the sake of what the work is here to teach us as individuals.
When I hear of others bad-mouthing each other for the sake of their improv group being better than another, or the idea that long form is better than short form, or this theater is better than that one, I am truly saddened. There must be some levity brought to looking at this way of thinking. This territorial idea that I'm better than you at playing make-believe is absurd. For as much as I love improv and hold it in high regard, I also know that just because I do a good scene, starving children in Africa will still die.
I invite you to allow the work to be from your heart today. Let it move through you so that you may be the catalyst it deserves you to be. The ego can take a break. Trust me, for the sake of our work's growth, the ego should rest.
"Improvisation is not just cleverness– it's an actor living his life onstage."
~Del Close
With Love,
The Personification of NO!
During holiday time spent with my in-laws, my father-in-law and I were home watching television. Because he had control of the remote, we landed on Sarah Palin's Alaska. Certainly not a choice I would have made, but I allowed it, as I wasn't feeling well and simply wanted my mind off of being ill for Christmas.
During this particular episode, the Palin family was to go camping with Kate Gosselin and her brood of children. What I viewed within that hour was truly the personification of NO! Kate incessantly whined, complained and eventually flat out bitched about being hungry, cold and wet, while doing nothing more than standing under a canopy. Her kids were having a ball, saying YES! to the new experiences they were having with fishing, cooking out, and playing in the rain.
I was torn between two opposing emotions while watching. On one hand, I was so annoyed that Kate is still on my television under some umbrella of "celebrity" simply because she pushed a bunch of babies out of her hoo-ha AND that this behavior was what she had to show for it. She appears to have absolutely no gratitude for what she has been given in this life, especially as a now single mother of eight children. On the other hand, I was deeply saddened that with all of her blessings in life, she continually chooses to play the victim in situations. Whenever I've seen her on television, she spends most of her time complaining about her life and those around her. Nothing is good enough for her.
Sadly, Kate is the perfect specimen of NO! personified. Although one's current surroundings aren't all they think they should be, there are still works of beauty and wonder surrounding any situation. All pleasure and pain exist at the same time. What one chooses to place their focus on, they will see with more clarity. When I teach, I remind students that their life is a garden and energy spent on anything they focus on causes it to grow. If one's energy is spent on the wonders surrounding them, then they are essentially watering those wonders and subsequently, more wonders grow. If one's energy is spent on the woes surrounding them, then they are in turn watering those woes.
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Happiness is…The RETRO DOME celebrating two years in business and kicking off their third year with the new, revised, Broadway Production of YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN.
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Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul stated that he would support a Muslim president, "if they support the things that made America great," "But I do think there would be some questions to ask" on Tuesday's "Situation Room" on CNN.
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Rand added that he could support a Muslim "if they support the things that made America great, constitutional principles, Bill of Rights, but some of those are inconsistent with the interpretation of the Koran that's being put forward by, particularly some folks. And I think this is a big deal because we've made this really simple that, oh, Ben Carson is terrible because he said this, but think about what he's saying. In England, for example, 20% of the Islamic public in England thought the bombings were okay on the subway. These are important questions to ask if you have someone who's Muslim running for office. Do you think violence is okay? Do you think shariah law should be the law of the land? Do you think that the 9/11 bombings were OK? For goodness sakes, I surely wouldn't vote for any Christian, or Muslim that thought that violence was a way to shape your religious views."
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By all accounts, William Nickerson was a bit irascible. A weaver who left Norwich, England with his wife Anne Busby in search of greater freedoms in the New World, he first settled his family in Salem, then moved to Yarmouth, which in 1640 would have been akin to a tiny village in the wilderness. "By all accounts he was a willful man used to having his way, and impatient with bureaucracy," Dana Eldridge writes in the opening chapter of "Three Centuries in a Cape Cod Village, the Story of Chatham," published by the Chatham Historical Society for the town's tercentennial. Nickerson, essentially, wanted to be left alone, and he found a place where that could happen: the very elbow of Cape Cod, an area devoid of European settlers populated only by the local Native American tribe, the Monomoyicks.
He bought four square miles near Ryder's Cove from the sachem Mattaquason in 1656, then spent the next 16 years fighting with the authorities in Plymouth over his failure to get their permission for the purchase. Nonetheless, in 1664 or so, Nickerson built a "rude cottage," as Eldridge describes it, near a fresh-water creek that emptied into Ryder' s Cove. From that one small homestead, and William Nickerson's refusal to live by any one else's rules but his own, grew today's Chatham.
The recent discovery of the Nickerson homestead site by a team of archaeologists working for the Nickerson Family Association has great significance both for the organization and the town. Not only does it confirm the location of the first home built by a European in Chatham – within 50 feet of where the site was believed to be – but it tells us that the building was larger than expected, about 35 by 35 feet, not really surprising considering the Nickerson's had nine children who survived past infancy. The eight-foot-square hearth had a base of locally collected stones and was well-used, according to Archaeologist Craig Chartier. From the other artifacts discovered during the dig, we know that Nickerson – both William and Anne, maybe? – smoked clay-stemmed pipes and probably used both locally made and English and German pottery and china in their everyday lives.
There's a certain sort of comfort that comes from knowing exactly where Chatham's first family lived and worked. They would have had close contact with the Native Americans, and the choice of homestead locations may have been influenced by the locals, who knew the best places to fish and shelter from the elements. As the village of Monomoyick grew, it spread out, the center of William Nickerson's community moving as the population grew and economic and social forces exerted their pulls. It would be interesting to find out what happened to the original Nickerson home, whether it was moved, disassembled for its constituent parts, or abandoned by subsequent generations.
The Nickerson Family Association anticipates a final report on the archaeological dig soon; we'll be curious about their next step and how the homestead site will be preserved. The Nickerson artifacts, we hope, will be made accessible to the public as a display in the Caleb Nickerson Homestead, located on association property not far from the original Nickerson house. In the meantime, some items from previous digs are part of an exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts titled "Mysteries and Revelations, Discovering Cape Cod's Museum Treasures." The show, which features items from 36 Cape museums and institutions and runs through Nov. 26, highlights objects and stories that reveal little known facts or mysteries about the peninsula. The Nickerson homestead find clears up one of Chatham's enduring mysteries, and helps bring the earliest chapter in the town's history into better focus.


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By Becky Ham, Staff Writer
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Overweight and obese individuals incur up to $1,500 more in annual medical costs than healthy-weight individuals, according to a two-year study of nearly 200,000 employees of General Motors.
Average annual medical costs for normal weight individuals in the study were $2,225, while costs for overweight and obese individuals rose steadily, from $2,388 for overweight individuals to $3,753 for the most severely obese persons.
The study, by Dee W. Edington, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan and colleagues, is the first to examine the relationship between medical costs and the six weight groups defined by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's weight guidelines. The guidelines separate individuals into categories of underweight, healthy-weight, overweight and three different obesity designations, based on average body mass index.
The findings highlight the economic burden that obesity places on society, Edington and colleagues note. In 1994, researchers conservatively estimated the direct medical costs of obesity in the United States at $51.6 billion dollars.
Controlling weight and obesity-related health conditions "is especially important to corporations, where the percentage of revenue spent on medical benefits continues to increase," say the study authors.
Edington and colleagues analyzed weight, height, gender, age and annual medical costs charged per person and found that 40 percent of the GM employees in the study were overweight and 21.3 percent of employees were obese. Healthy-weight employees made up 37 percent of those in the study, while 1.5 percent of the employees were considered underweight.
In general, annual median medical costs were lowest for the healthy-weight group, compared with both underweight and overweight and obese groups. Medical costs steadily increased as body mass index increased, for the most part regardless of gender or age. The relationship between BMI and medical costs was unclear for the oldest males in the group, ages 75 and older.
Although the study does not consider any specific links between obesity and medical costs, the authors note that "it has already been established that overweight and obese conditions can lead to many chronic diseases and excess health care utilization."
The study is published in the January/February issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion.


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These are gorgeous!! And I love the picture to sketch of the little beauty down Below too! See ya around the playground!
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I really like these storyboards you have been making, I would really like to lift them if you don't mind, they are too gorgeous. You could make a little coffeetable book out of those!
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Crestwood polling place moving to John Muir
The polling place for ward 87 is moving from Crestwood School to John Muir School, starting with the April 4th election (map).
The Crestwood location has had several challenges, including insufficient space, disabled accessibility, parking, room temperature...if you vote there, you know. The school has been gracious in hosting the polls for many years, but their facilities are limited. Muir has offered us a nice-sized classroom right off the main entrance, and on-street parking is close and generally plentiful. The street is much easier to cross than Old Sauk.
I've been working on finding a new location for several years, and John Muir was an obvious choice, since it was a polling place until 2012. But nothing panned out until now.
On this blog and via signs at the polling place on primary election day last week, I asked for feedback on this potential change. The messages I've received have been 100% in favor of moving to Muir.
The city council will vote on the change of location on March 7. If you have feedback you'd like to share on this proposal, please let me know.
A big thank you to the staff at John Muir and to MMSD for being accommodating.
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News is now reporting that Equifax had an additional hack, a potential related precursor to the hack in May, 2 months prior – this one in March. At the time this original hack happened, Apache Software issued a software patch to be immediately implemented – Equifax did not do it, causing the 2nd more extensive breach.
Credit experts are advising individuals to immediately go out and FREEZE YOUR CREDIT on ALL 3 Sites – Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. If you need to purchase a home/auto/other, unfreeze your for that purchase then re-freeze it!
Original Post: 09/14/2017
By now you've most likely heard that Equifax, one of the 3 credit reporting entities, had a data breach back in May of this year. It is estimated that nearly 50% or 143 Million Americans may have been affected by this incident. And Yes.. you heard me right… MAY and we just now found out about this. The SEC is looking into why it took Equifax so long to notify the public of the breach. In the meantime, major stockholders sold off their shares of stock before the public was made aware. I say this only because this could very well be determined to be an act of insider trading and the SEC is also looking into this as well.
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- If you bill your clients for meals as part of the services you provide, so long at the meals are line listed on their invoice, you can include the meals on your tax returns at 100% however your client can only include these meals at the 50% tax deduction level.
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- The total expense that you can use for the credit in a year is limited. The limit is $3,000 for one qualifying person or $6,000 for two or more.
- Overnight camp or summer school tutoring costs do not qualify. You can't include the cost of care provided by your spouse or your child who is under age 19 at the end of the year. You also cannot count the cost of care given by a person you can claim as your dependent. Special rules apply if you get dependent care benefits from your employer.
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AURORA, ON: The folding soft top on the new Fiat 500 cars is being made by a unit of Magna International. Magna Steyr's roof systems group has started production of the textile folding roof for the 2012 Fiat 500 Cabrio being sold in North America. The vehicle, which is built at Chrysler Group LLC's Toluca (Mexico) Assembly Plant, was presented at the New York International Auto Show and is now available in Canada, the US and Mexico.
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Detectives believe the artworks, the property of the Sam Simon Foundation, were taken on 9 April (15).
Philanthropist Simon lost his battle with cancer on 8 March (15).


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