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Here is how it all began with Love House:
Every day I check our local MLS for 'deals.' You know, like once every never they show up there, so…to my surprise I saw this listing:
Obviously I immediately started to sweat and knew I HAD to have it! The listing said "value is in the land" *cringe* meaning the house was about to be torn down. TORN. DOWN. Sidenote: people who think that a 160 year old adobe home can be easily torn down and readied for a new lot are straight. up. crazy. This house wanted to live, and I wanted to save it.
At the time, Andy and I were just friends, and I was going through a divorce…sad times, long story, etc…but I saw this place and knew that this was my home.
I called the realtor, he said "you're in luck, I'm right by there." [running to my car] "Oh, cool, I happen to be right there, too" I wasn't. Backstory: I have long admired this house, even when it was covered in asbestos tile. I grew up in the next town over and would frequently come over for the 'carnival' right by love house. Something about it was just so stately, I knew even when I was 7 years old that this house was special.
Isn't this sad? This is what shows up on Street View. I will write about the whole history of the house in another post, but it's more recent history goes something like this:
Cute single lady and her 8 kids buy the home in the 1950's. Kids are a little bit overwhelming. House becomes overwhelming. House gets covered in siding to make it 'easier to maintain'. Vines begin to grow under siding. Vines begin to grow inside HO– USE. Lady goes a little crazy. House becomes neglected. Son inherits house. Put the most awful renters in for 4 years including but not limited to: drug dealers, prostitutes (although it is rumored that the sweet little single lady was a prostitute, too, so, ummm), meth makers, devil worshipers…you get the idea. FINALLY the police had reason to come inside (you don't want to know why) and saw the condition the family, including children, were living in and condemned the house. They gave them 2 hours to get out…thus the absolute mess.
I'm glad it was so bad though…it scared away anyone else who was not ready to take on so much…ding!
I walk in, past the "WARNING-UNSAFE TO ENTER BY POLICE ORDER" sign on the door and the first thing I see are the original kitchen cabinets.
I didn't even need to see the rest. You should know that the realtor thought I was crazy. For real. I said I'll take it and I'll pay cash. (I had NO IDEA where I was going to get $75,000 cash, but where there is a will there is a way!)
I put the offer in that day, put down $1500 earnest money, so he knew I was legit [sweating] and began to figure out how the h*** I was going to make this happen.
Lest you completely stress out with me for too long, I will skip to the good part…I got an investor to give me the cash at a high interest rate. Kind of like a hard money loan–but I had just finished CSM (center street manor) last June and it had a ton of equity in it, so I used that as collateral. All crazy, but #that'showwedo.
Is it weird that I am sharing every detail, even money? I know I am always curious and people never share that, so….I'm just going to share. Ok.
Photos from Day One:
Siding had been removed by the lady's son to make sure it didn't have asbestos on it because he was literally ONE day from tearing it down. He had the permit in and everything to build and ugly a** duplex. The only reason he didn't is because he is kind of hard headed and his contractor said it was going to be x ammount more that he originally bid. John (the son) said forget it, and listed it that day with his realtor buddy. Note the lovely Oregon Creeper that had been a spider hotel for 60 years underneath.
Here is the parlor and main living room. The pictures really don't do it justice…and the smell…oh the smell. Every room was nearly to the ceiling with STUFF. Not even cool old stuff either. Just crappy, smelly piles of s***, sometimes literally. (P.S. I am trying really hard not to swear anymore, thus the ***, I hope it's not TOO annoying, but talking about this gets me all worked up, haha!)
The den, master and guest rooms. The guest room was THE WORST. Disgusting images of women were modge-podged to everything! We cleaned up bodily fluids in this room (see above about why "you don't want to know why the police came over.") You could not walk in this room, there were over 600 drywall screws into the floors, walls, windows, couches, everywhere!! Oh my, that was rough….I'm reliving it now….
Some of my personal favorites, the bathrooms and the hall of the demon. Someone took great care in that piece of art, who am I to judge.
Looking through these pictures today reminds me of just how CRAZY everything was. You really had to look past all of the junk and neglect to see the amazing vision I had for this place. The original moldings, the newel posts, the stairs, the tall ceilings…it was so overwhelming to think about the time, thought and hard work that went into building it. I was sad for all of the people who had lived there, amongst the beauty underneath, and never realized what they could have had. I swear I could almost hear the house begging me to do what I had resolved to do.
Oh love house, you were almost lost forever, how sad. But like I said, this house did not want to die. We have come to see (what we already knew) that this house is solid. It was built to last forever, and it was meant to be the place we call home forever.
Up next: the snow comes, I get a screw through my hand that I didn't even realize until I was home and thawed out, work stops until spring….
P.S. Thanks to everyone for the warm reception of the new blog! We are so excited!!


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1. Discover | 2. Plan | 3. Create | 4. Refine | 5. Launch
When you engage a designer or agency for creative work, you have something specific in mind. A website. A logo. A print piece. The problem is this; there are subsequent things that need to be accomplished to support all your project that you might be unaware of. We like to help our clients take a step back and see the whole picture and make sure that there are no missed opportunities before heading into the planning phase.
This phase is all about asking "why". Repeatedly. Only then can we bravely step forward knowing that we're doing the right thing with your precious resources and time.
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The process doesn't stop after creating. Our projects are always a combination of our expertise, passion, and your expertise and passion. In the refinement phase we get your feedback on what we've built do a couple things; work with you to explain our choices to help you understand why a specific direction was taken, or correct our creative work so that it fits your vision better.
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Fresh tarragon and cucumber flavors this alcohol-free chamomile sparkler.
6 fresh tarragon leaves
1-inch slice of cucumber, cut into cubes
3/4 oz. fresh lime juice
1/2 oz. simple syrup (1:1)
1 oz. strong-brewed chamomile tea (chilled)
1/2 oz. sparkling water
Tools: mixing glass, muddler, fine-mesh strainer
Glass: tumbler
Garnish: sprig of tarragon
Place the first two ingredients in a pint glass filled with ice. Muddle all three, breaking up the cucumber and tarragon and crushing the ice. Add the simple syrup, lime juice and tea. Shake and double strain (a tea strainer works well) into an ice-filled glass. Top with sparkling water and garnish.
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I grew up in Panama and attended the Canal Zone College before moving to the States. My family originated from the provinces of Veraguas and Chiriqui, but I also have Chinese, Sephardic, and indigenous roots (Dorasque). I've been researching my family history for over 20 years. During that time, I was able to collect a large library of Panama books that are rich in historical, cultural, and biographical data.
I'm active in several local genealogical groups and a member of the National Genealogical Society. I"ve taught seminars on Hispanic genealogy in both English and Spanish. Currently the Panama wiki only has a few items from my collection, but I hope to add a lot more over the next few weeks. I invite your comments, contributiions, and your stories. If you have something to contribute but would rather not post it yourself, please send me a message and I'll add it for you.


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Heading to Rwanda Part 5: Top Stories From my Amazing Journey
Working 11+ hours a day Monday through Friday and trying to see and experience a country on the weekends doesn't leave much time for blogging regularly. In this post I want to take you back to some of the most memorable stories I did while in Rwanda. Remember, I was working as a reporting intern at a commercial radio station in Kigali, Rwanda's capital.


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Calling all meat lovers! This tutorial focuses on red meat, more specifically: baby back ribs! You'll find out how to cook the ribs as well as make a delicious looking pasta dish using the following ingredients:
-Baby Back Ribs
-8 italian Sausages
-2 medium onions
-1 teaspoon oregano
-2 teaspoons dried basil
-5 garlic cloves
-Two 28 ounce cans of tomatoes (1600 grams)
-2/3 cup beef broth
-8 ounces prosciutto (220 grams)
-salt and pepper
So sit back and enjoy this tutorial!


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A research by Stefano Fugazzi on behalf of ABC Economics – The Misery Index is a measure of economic well-being for a specified economy. An increasing index means a worsening economic climate for the economy in question, and vice versa.
The author of this paper was one of the first commentators to monitor the Misery Index in Italy (please refer to Stefano Fugazzi's paper published in November 2012: "Italia, l'austerità mette le ali al Misery Index") even before Confcommercio began to track it (March 2013,"Confcommercio introduces the Misery index, will be used to measure the new poverty crisis").
ABC Economics subsequently updated the Misery Index metric in May 2014 (based on the Q1 2014 data: "Italia, il boom del Misery Index negli anni post introduzione dell'euro") and in January 2015 (based on Q4 2014 data: "ABC Economics Research: il Misery Index italiano dal 2002"). Additionally, a comprehensive review of the Eurozone's Misery Index was detailed in Stefano Fugazzi's ABC Economipedia, a book now available both in paperback and eBook formats.
With the growing concerns over the health of the Chinese economy, ABC Economics took the initiative to track how the original Misery Index (and its variations – namely the Growth Misery Index and the Super Misery Index) has moved in the BRICS economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) since the year 2000.
Data was sourced from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) database. Our analysis does not include India as the IMF database presents a number of gaps; hence our reference to the acronym "BR(I)CS" as opposed to "BRICS".
Standard Misery Index
The starting point is the original formulation of the indicator (which we shall call "Standard Misery Index") found by adding unemployment rate to inflation rate. It is assumed that both a higher rate of unemployment and a worsening of inflation create economic and social costs for a country.
Standard Misery Index = unemployment rate + inflation rate
Growth Misery Index
In 1999 Harvard Economist Robert Barro created his own version of the index calculated as the sum of the inflation, unemployment rates and the central bank's interest rate plus (minus) the shortfall (surplus) between the actual and trend rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth (year-on-year, YOY, variation) i.e. adding-on negative balances and deducting positive variations in GDP. For the purpose of this exercise we decided to ignore interest rates.
Growth Misery Index = unemployment rate + inflation rate + (interest rate – interest rate) + YOY GDP variation
Super Misery Index
A subsequent iteration of Misery Index is to revise the Growth Misery Index to take into account government net lending / borrowing (expressed as a percentage of GDP), adding-on contractions and deducting positive variations.
Super Misery Index = unemployment rate + inflation rate + variation in GDP + government net lending / borrowing


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IN a village around 50 kilometres off the capital, Anwar Miah has shot to fame for a unique reason. This tiny Bangladeshi hamlet of about 2000 people named him 'Afghan baba', after his second son, Sanu, died for the Talibans in the late nineties. Sanu's mamu (maternal uncle), Zoinal, accompanied him; first to Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, then to Kandahar, and saw Sanu die in the battle for Baghram with General Rashid Dostam's forces.
Zoinal returned home a month after his nephew's death, because he "couldn't bear it any more." He hasn't taken back arms since then; but like him, many have returned, and with them have brought extremism to a country once known for religious harmony and tolerance. In fact Maulana Abdur Rauf, leader of Al-Jamiatul Islamia, who was arrested on September 19, in Faridpur with 17 accomplices, told the police that about 500 Bangladeshis went to Afghanistan, of them 33 died.
Before the September 19 arrest, the government was vigorous in denying the presence of religious extremists on its soil. The BNP led Four-Party Alliance had banned issues of some international newspaper, including the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and the Far Eastern Economic Review, for breaking this news to the rest of the world. The reports, though extremely sloppy and in some cases malicious, tried to portray Bangladesh as a hotbed of religious extremism. One went too far in exaggeration-- the article published in the US weekly Time, quoting an unnamed foreign embassy staff in Dhaka, alleged that the country was playing host to Al Quiada's second in command Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The time the magazine had referred to, Al-Zawahiri was seen in a town in Afghanistan. Time didn't apologise for it.
The most publicised event in this saga happened last year. After being refused by Bangladesh mission in London, Zaiba Naz Malik and Bruno Sorrentino, two British journalists from Channel 4, concealed their identity and applied for the visa to the Bangladesh Embassy in Rome. Once they were inside the country, however, they made no secret of what they were doing. Police arrested them, along with their two Bangladeshi fixers, accusing them of trying to vilify the country by portraying it as a fundamentalist state. The two were later released, after both journalists, according to their lawyer Ajmalul Hossain, "Submitted statements expressing regret for the situation arising since their arrival in Bangladesh." The government, however, did not release Selim Samad and Pricilla Raj, who had been assisting them as translators. It was a High Court order that ensured their release.
Such was the extent to which the government rejected the presence of religious extremists here.
That unwavering stand got a jolt last December when several powerful bombs went off in four-movie theatres in Mymensingh. Investigation began, but it did not deter the prime minister from guessing the identity of the perpetrators: she blamed those "Who are making anti-Bangladesh campaign at home and abroad." No one expected a price for the right guess--it was the leader of the opposition who told a European audience, only a few days ago, in Brussels, that sympathisers of Al-Qaiada were ruling Bangladesh. That has been Sheikh Hasina and her party, Awami League's (AL) staunch line of thinking since the first such incident ripped off a cultural function in Jessore.
Like the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in power, AL, then in the helm, was quick to discover the perpetrators-- even before the primary investigation had begun, it blamed the religious zealots, "under the shelter of the opposition" for the incident. BNP, then the main opposition, was quick to condemn the incident, and bizarrely, it fed several conspiracy theories, amongst them, one accusing the AL of planting bombs in public places to reap political dividend.
Interestingly, during its five-year tenure, the AL had done nothing to nab those they believed were behind the blasts. "How come the Awami League didn't crack down on these Jihadi outfits during its term in office," asks Mahmadul Islam, a student of Political Science at Dhaka University. AL's inability, Islam thinks, can be explained in one way. "Though the party wasn't sure about the perpetrators, the AL wanted to use these blasts as a tool to win the next general election."
Though the bomb blasts' investigation has so far failed to make significant breakthrough, many here believe the presence of religious extremists in the country; but they think, unlike its Asian counterparts, it is a home grown phenomenon. "We don't have Al-Qaiada in Bangladesh," says Afsan Chowdhury, an independent media analyst and former correspondent of the BBC. But Chowdhury believes, "We have people who think and work like them." In fact Jane's Intelligence Review (JIR) in its May 2002 issue says, "Osama Bin Laden's February 23, 1998 fatwa urging Jihad against the USA was co-signed by two Egyptian clerics, a Pakistani and Fazlur Rahaman, leader of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh." The Movement is not believed to be a separate organisation, the report continues, "But a common name for several Islamic groups in Bangladesh, of which a Harkat Ul Jihad Islami Bangladesh (HUJIB) is considered the biggest and most important."
HUJIB hit the headlines of local and international dailies when the group was charged with planting two bombs at a meeting that was to be attended by the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina in her home district Gopalganj. "The mission of HUJIB, led by Shauqat Osman, is to establish Islamic rule in Bangladesh," says a US State Department report. It has an estimated cadre strength of more than several thousand members and it operates and trains in at least six camps," says the State Department, which has already listed HUJIB as a terrorist organisation.
So far, little has been known about the group and its elusive commander Shauqat Osman, who is also known as Sheikh Farid. According to reports on the western media, HUJIB was formed in 1992 in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. Ironically the US administration actively supported the Mujahidins, fighting the Russians in Afghanistan, with arms and military logistics. "Originally, it (HUJIB) consisted of Bangladeshis who had fought as volunteers in the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan," JIR says.
But, the country is in no way a fertile ground for religious intolerance. "Bangladesh is far from becoming another Pakistan, and the rise of extremism should be seen in the context of the country's turbulent politics since breaking away from Pakistan in 1971. Bangladesh was formed in opposition to the notion that all Muslim areas of former British India should unite in one country. Bangladesh is the only state in the subcontinent with one language group and very few ethnic and religious minorities," Jane's Intelligence Review says.
The country's biggest religious party, the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh was banned immediately after independence for actively supporting the Pakistani occupation forces by forming several armed militia groups during the liberation war; the ban was lifted later on, and it was allowed to operate as a political party. During the eighties, under a military dictatorship, Jamaat's appeal to establish Islamic law and good governance received a lukewarm response from general people.
In fact it was during that period Jamaat managed to get a significant number of recruits by luring them into the path of Islamic revolution. In 1991, in the first general election, the party had managed to get 18 seats in the national parliament. But once they were in democratic politics, the leadership begun to lose its charm offensive. Jamaat's coalition with the AL, then seen as a moderate left and a staunch secular, irked many of its radical supporters.
The AL ditched Jamaat before the general election, but it couldn't stop several disgruntled mid and lower ranking Jamaatis to openly voice their opposition against the party leadership. "There is a huge gap between the ideology Jamaat wants to establish and the way they are doing it," says Mahmudul Islam. "No one in the Jamaat leadership has sent their children to Maadrassahs (Religious schools)," he continues. "On the other hand," Mahmud believes, "they led a lifestyle that is an antithesis to everything true Islam stands for." Extremists groups have quickly filled up the ideological vacuum; these parties cannot be called Jamaat's natural offshoots, but they definitely constitute an ultimate by-product of its ideological failure. "It has happened before; in the sixties, the failure of a relatively moderate Communist Party had given birth to several Marxist extremist factions," Mahmud says.
Meanwhile the extremists, as elsewhere in the world, have been receiving an otherwise unusual assistance from an unwitting foreign administration. "George W Bush's foreign policy and his so-called war on terrorism have been helping the mullahs to allure a nation, already angered by the US occupation of Iraq and its regular assistance to the Israelis," says Mahmud.
"The whole situation is chaotic. BNP doesn't believe the terrorists exist, because the Awami League is pointing fingers at Jamaat, which is the BNP's main political partner in the coalition government. The AL is creating a hoopla out of all this because they want to undermine the government. The US, on the other hand, is busy with its own war, driven more by oil than anything else. Religious fanatics are microscopic minorities here, true. But then, so were the Talibans before they took over power in Afghanistan…" Mahmud says.


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DIYSB Consultant: You want answers?
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DIYSB Consultant: You want answers?
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Business Owner: Did you order the marketing spend?
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Business Owner: Did you order the marketing spend?
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Basecsp.dll Error Problems Solved Today
Basecsp.dll is a Microsoft Base Smart Card Crypto Provider developed by Microsoft for the Windows operating system.
In Microsoft Windows, a Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) is a software library that implements the Microsoft CryptoAPI (CAPI). CSPs implement encoding and decoding functions, which computer application programs may use, for example, to implement strong user authentication or for secure email.
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Bittersweet Chocolate Cheesecake Bars
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The tang of the goat cheese perfectly balances the richness of chocolate in this biscotti-crusted cheesecake. Serve it as is or gild the lily with a little chocolate sauce drizzled on top. Choose a moist local chèvre with a low salt content.
- 8 medium biscotti
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate (60% cacao or greater)
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder (natural or Dutch-process)
- 3 tablespoons boiling water
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- ⅔ cup chèvre (Such as Redwood Hill's Traditional Chèvre), at room temperature
- ⅓ cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons honey
- Pinch of salt
- 2 large eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Finely chop the chocolate. In a small bowl, combine the chocolate with the cocoa powder. Add the boiling water and whisk to combine. Make sure all of the chocolate melts; if not, microwave on low briefly until the mixture is smooth.
- In a medium bowl, using a mixer on low speed, combine the cream cheese and chèvre. Add the sugar, honey, and salt; beat until smooth but not fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, blending after each addition, and then the vanilla extract. With the mixer running, slowly add the chocolate mixture and blend until smooth. Pour over the pre-baked crust. Place in the middle of the oven and bake until the center sets but the edges haven't yet browned, about 30–35 minutes. The top of the cheesecake will still appear shiny, but the edges will have slightly pulled away from the pan.
- Cool on a rack to room temperature, then refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Once the cheesecake has been thoroughly chilled, lift the foil from the pan and cut the cheesecake into bars.
- For lump-free cakes, mix the cream cheese briefly before adding anything else. This helps to soften it up a little so it blends more smoothly with the other ingredients. Scrape the bowl frequently while mixing. After each ingredient is added and mixed, stop the mixer and use a spatula to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl.
- If all else fails and you notice that the batter seems lumpy after all of the ingredients have been added and mixed together, pass the batter through a fine strainer before pouring it into the pans.
- If you've baked the cake for the recommended amount of time and it's still not set in the middle, turn off the oven and leave it in for an extra 10 to 20 minutes. It won't overbake, and you can be sure that it's done.
- This recipe is best made a day ahead to allow for complete cooling. They can also be made up to a month ahead and frozen. Wrap well, first in a layer of plastic wrap and then in aluminum foil. To defrost, let them sit in the refrigerator overnight.
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Furthmore, I unfortunately have no photos because I didn't really feel right taking photos where I work - I don't really want my colleagues to know I'm a food blogger. Not because I'm embarrassed or anything, I'm just not sure how appropriate it is to be a chef/blogger, doing reviews of competitors etc. Anyway, will add in some pics from our website.
Anyway, onto the food. I recently went to Capital Grill with a couple of friends who are currenly living in Hong Kong and visited Sydney for four days this week. I'd planned on going to Sake, a Japanese place in the Rocks but they wanted anything but Asian food.
The girls ordered cocktails, Nic had a fantastic fruity thing (created by our Bar Manager) and Rach had a pretty good looking Pisco Sour - she enjoyed it but I didn't taste it myself.
Having been seated upstairs, we were given the royal treatment. It was a quiet Tuesday evening so the head chef had time to create some specials for us: Obviously I'm a chef there so I knew the menu, which meant that he tried to mix it up as much as possible and ended up providing us with a fantastic 7 course meal. We were also offered a fantastic Pinot Noir that had been matched to our menu (not sure of anything about the wine though; it was recommended and we drank it!)
First up, we had an amuse bouche of a spicy gazpacho with basil oil, followed by our first entree of Sydney Rock Oysters (from Port Stephen I believe); served with Red Wine Vinegar Granita, diced eshallots and cracked black pepper. Awesome - much prefer these to the Irish Oysters I'm used to back home.
Next course was what is becoming our signature dish, having featured in our Telegraph and SMH reviews. Carpaccio of Hiramasa Kingfish with Pomegranate, Watermelon Vinaigrette and Salmon Roe. I'd tasted it several times before but never actually had a whole dish, and it was beautifully presented and the flavours will brilliant, only I might've liked a little more salt, even with the saltiness of the Roe.
Kingfish Carpaccio
Third course, we were sent up two seared scallops on sweetcorn puree with sauteed trompette mushrooms and parsley. This dish isn't on the menu as such, but the flavours were fantastic together, the sweetness of the scallop and puree, which give way to the deep earthiness of the trompettes.
The Fish Course, and we received a fantastically presented fillet of Blue-Eye Cod with Desiree Potato scales, sat on top of sauteed Cavalo Nero (a Tuscan Cabbage), with whole roast garlic cloves and a Bordelaise sauce (not an overpowering bordelaise though, we made it half chicken and half beef, and the Blue-Eye is a fairly meaty fish that can stand up to the flavour of the jus.) Again, everything was delicious.
Meat Course was Beef Fillet from Riverine, SA, with Soubise (a creamy onion puree-ish), Red Wine Jus, a Fondant Kipfler Potato and Roasted King Brown mushrooms. The meat was cooked to perfection, a beautiful medium rare, although the girls would have preferred it more well done. (Rest assured, for normal customers the meat is cooked to their requests, it's just for me that he sent up the meat cooked [in a chef's opinion] how it should be!)
Finally, on to dessert. I was trying to guess what Zac, the head chef, would send up to us but I'd completely forgot he'd been experimenting recently with a peach souffle... It arrived at the table, towering up over the plate, garnished with a fat chunk of beautifully creamy vanilla parfait and some scattered fresh raspberries, and I prayed the girls were too full to eat theirs!!! I love desserts - I hope to develop into a pastry chef eventually - and this souffle was magnificent. For those of you that are turning green with envy now, there is a chance that it'll go on the menu soon, and I promise you wouldn't be disappointed!
Mezzanine Dining Area
So, that's all folks. Definitely the best meal I've had in my five months in Sydney, and one of the best I've ever had. Granted, we weren't "normal" customers so we were treated to that extra bit of attention that makes all the difference, but I am still confident that when the new Good Food Guide comes out in September(?), we'll win our Chef's Hat.
I don't really intend this post to read like a review, I pretty much just wanted to make you jealous. I know I'm salivating just thinking about it.


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Taking care of business: tips and resources for the mediator
For many mediators in private practice, it's not delivering services that poses a challenge. It's managing the business end of things that can be tricky. Here are some links that offer tips that may help:
For general, all-around ideas and support on running a home office, since many solo practitioners do, visit Home Office Warrior, where you can find among other things a Home Office Warrior Blog Carnival, with a list of resources for anyone who works from home, and a look at the "Cell Phone v. Landline" debate for those struggling with selecting a phone service that keeps them connected best with clients.
For those deciding whether to launch a business from home, Dumb Little Man lays out a plan for those who want to work successfully from home.
Although April 15 seems far away, it's never too early to organize your records for tax time. Web Worker Daily has ideas on "Tracking Business Expenses", with a link to our friend the IRS for more information. (Hint: save those receipts.)
Mediation Mensch points out the marketing lesson for mediators in a recent BusinessWeek article, "Education-Based Marketing Sells".
Mediator Tech has advice on expressing end-of-year appreciation to clients and referrers in a way that will make your thanks stand out from the rest.
Finally, for those of you seeking to keep costs down (or just in need of a good laugh), you may want to consider Word Perhect, a free online word processor. (A hat tip to Slaw.)
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Page 219 - No more — no more — no more" — (Such language holds the solemn sea To the sands upon the shore) Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree, Or the stricken eagle soar! And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams — In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!
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Page 24 - In fine, I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating words, not only By common inexperience of youth, But by the trade in classic niceties, The dangerous craft of culling term and phrase From languages that want the living voice To carry meaning to the natural heart ; To tell us what is passion, what is truth, What reason, what simplicity and sense.
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(*In the text below you can find all paintings' titles from "Faces" project, marked bold front.)
The project "Faces" is made to show the usual human's feelings and the attempt to freeze them in the certain painting with oil impression and lingered sensitive concentration.
The palette of environment inside the person is appeared by new fresh emotions and they increase his acuity of feeling.
In this series I tried to develop film of internal sense of life trough the evident things.
Sometimes you just need to look in the mirror to catch a moment, so that to awake in the middle of something which is going on in a parallel universe of yourself. But what is better, you don't need to do it, just keep this "small flag" in your memory and realize the deepness you are flying in.
People are different and that is stunning. Every day we meet faces, faces, faces… We love, we are flounding in the forest of hearts, we meet Marfa, read her Dream
We feel joy, being inspired by Metal Spring
We think we are normal, we are curious, gone from irreality, free of vendetta, looking for a mystical Frau Deko, she knows everything about tenderness, and we are getting minded, lost, forgotten, find ourselves under Malena's question, her rustle
Like a phantom GolovaVanna with many affairs, we, lonely and detached, floting through the rivers of hypocrite to outland rtying to find a secret of musician about normality
Donna Butterfly kisses us through the flower with perfidious immaculation and we are not afraid to detect ourselves alone like a ghost of the past
Somebody like him smiles to us and whispers "V moyim sadu" and will go away for Liana
This is like a trip, where everybody can enter and create a new chain of emotions.
Just remind me about this once upon a time.
A list of oil paintings in "Faces" project series:
"Faces: Alone", 70×100
"Faces: Backward", 50×70,
"Faces: Curious", 50×60,
"Faces: Detached", 50×70
"Faces: Donna Butterfly", 73×53
"Faces: Forest of heart", 70×50
"Faces: Gone from Irreality", 70×50
"Faces: GolovaVanna", 50×60
"Faces: Ghost of the past", 73×92
"Faces: Frau Deko", 50×60
"Faces: Forgotten", 50×60,
"Faces: Flower", 70×70,
"Faces: Her Dream", 70×50
"Faces: Hypocrite", 50×70
"Faces: Joy", 50×60
"Faces: Lonely", 50×60
"Faces: Lost", 50×70
"Faces: Loved", 50×60
"Faces: Malena's Question", 60×60
"Faces: Many affairs", 50×60
"Faces: Marfa", 50×70
"Faces: Metal Spring", 50×60
"Faces: Minded", 50×60
"Faces: Musician", 70×50
"Faces: Normality", 50×60
"Faces: Outland", 50×60
"Faces: Phantom", 50×70
"Faces: Perfidious Immaculation", 80×80
"Faces: Remind me", 70×50
"Faces: Rustle", 50×70
"Faces: Secret", 60×80
"Faces: She knows", 60×60
"Faces: Tenderness", 50×70
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Like many New Yorkers who live cheek by jowl in rented concrete spaces many times removed from the energy sources that power the city, plumber Ivan Crespo says he used to "look the other way" when confronted with news about environmental issues and climate change. But since moving into the Eltona Apartments in the Bronx last fall, he feels he's finally taken a stake in the environment. That's largely because of the 10 eight-foot-tall wind turbines mounted on parapets atop the five-story building – an experiment in urban wind power that developers hope could become a national model.
"It's just amazing to see them work," says Mr. Crespo. "I never really thought about where energy comes from before, but now I pay close attention to things like that."
Crespo is so enthused about clean energy that he's changed his habits, too: He uses green cleaning products, recycles, and unplugs electronics and appliances when he's not using them.
The Eltona's developer and owner, Blue Sea Development, specializes in green buildings and wanted a site to experiment with wind power in urban housing, says company president Les Bluestone. If you want to put wind turbines on a building, the structure needs to be strong enough to support them, meaning the turbines should be incorporated into the initial building plan. Mr. Bluestone figured the Eltona, a precast concrete and masonry structure built from the ground up last year, would be the perfect experiment.
"My partner and I felt like someone's got to try it out, someone's got to be the first," Bluestone says. "Otherwise we'll all just sit here and talk about how wonderful the technology could be."
The wind turbine system cost about $100,000 to buy and install. The turbines have been up and running since October 2009, when the building opened. Bluestone says they don't want to release any cost-savings numbers until the system has been on-line for a year. But when the wind blows steadily, the turbines can generate enough electricity – about 12 kilowatts – to serve the common-area energy needs of the 63-unit subsidized housing complex.
Typically the electricity bills for common areas in such a building would cost thousands of dollars a month. That means the turbines will ideally save Bluestone tens of thousands of dollars per year in electricity costs, allowing them to offer programs including job training and counseling free of charge to low-income residents and to invest more in attractive, ecological landscaping.
"The energy savings allow us to do those things, and it's just a healthier building over all," says Bluestone.
The building also gets electricity from an on-site natural-gas generator. Through cogeneration – an environmentally friendly strategy for large buildings – the "waste heat" from the generator warms the building's water. There is also a community garden on the property and various green design features.
Wind turbines are rare in cities because surrounding buildings block the wind, and because of limits placed by zoning, yard space, and infrastructure too weak for roof-mounting. But if buildings are constructed to host wind turbines, as the Eltona was, environmental awareness might be multiplied among urban denizens like Crespo. Though city regulators have been slow to revise codes to deal with residential wind turbines, Bluestone and Crespo say the Eltona draws only accolades from neighbors.
"[The turbines are] very sculptural, so most people respond well. They're very aesthetically pleasing and soothing to watch," Bluestone says.
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NCSA is on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. The address is 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana.
Air transportation to Champaign–Urbana arrives at the University of Illinois' Willard Airport (CMI).
Other airports in the vicinity are: Indianapolis International Airport (IND), Indianapolis, Indiana (120 miles/190 kilometers away); O'Hare International Airport (ORD), Chicago, Illinois (140 miles/220 kilometers away); Midway Airport (MDW), Chicago, Illinois (140 miles/220 kilometers away); and Central Illinois Regional Airport (BMI), Bloomington, Illinois (less than 60 miles/100 kilometers away).
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Rental cars are available at all airports.
Daily bus service to and from O'Hare and Midway airports offered by Illini Shuttle and Peoria Charter.
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Taxi service is available in Champaign-Urbana. The area is also an Uber community.
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Metered parking is available near the NCSA Building on Clark Street, in the parking garage just north of NCSA, and on other surrounding streets. Rates are $1.00/hour, and all meters accept quarters, dimes, nickels and dollar coins. While you can park all day in the garage, time limits for surrounding streets are usually two hours. There is no attendant in the parking garage, but you do have the option to pay for metered parking in the parking structure by credit card by calling 1-866-234-PARK (7275); the garage is location 4801. For more information, go to paybyphone.com.
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Background, Present situation:
Daily start-up meetings in Operations are using data to provide overview of performance and to support scheduling and decisions. These data are (partly real time) maintained and daily presented in Microsoft Excel format. Examples of data used: people & production planning, availability of components, quality issues, safety issues, actions and improvements.
Reason why this project is nessecary:
At present there is no full standardisation between production teams regarding data content and means of presentation. Available systems are not user friendly with respect to filling, maintaining and presenting. Avalable systems are not following the Philips Lean guidelines.
Design and introduce a standardised and robust visual management system for daily start up, which can be used in all MR Operations teams in Best, using available data and following Philips Lean guidelines.
Expect result:
The system has to work and to be robust and easy to maintain. Users (Unit Managers, Team Leaders, Shop Floor Controllers, Operators) will be trained to enter data and to present. The design will be carried over to the designated key user (Production Controller).
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Written by Alan Barnes, Doctor Who: Daleks Among Us concludes the latest Seventh Doctor trilogy in fine style, with Klein (Tracey Childs) making some key discoveries about who she is and a fight for control of the Persuasion device, hotly contested by the Daleks and their creator, Davros - taking on the Seventh Doctor on audio for the first time! Sylvester McCoy returns as the Doctor (who he played on TV from 1987-1989 and in 1996), with Terry Molloy back as Davros and Nicholas Briggs once more providing Dalek voices.
Also now available is our first release celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men. When the Fifth Doctor takes Nyssa to see The Beatles, he discovers that they've vanished from history, replaced in everything but name by The Common Men. Who are this trio, and can the Doctor put history back on its proper path? Peter Davison (1981-1984 on TV) returns as the Fifth Doctor, joined by Sarah Sutton as TV companion Nyssa, and the guest cast includes Radio 4 The Now Show star Mitch Benn alongside David Dobson and Andrew Knott as The Common Men, and Plebs/Up the Women/New Who star Ryan Sampson as Lenny.
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Pecan Weevils were found in Hays County back in December of 2014. This finding has caused concern within the Texas Pecan Industry because of the ease of access to the Guadalupe River Basin and the potential impact to commercial pecan trees along the Guadalupe River.
Pecan weevils lay their eggs in the developing pecan. The developing larva eat the meat in the developing kernel and then bore a hole in the pecan and then emerge. They burrow into the ground before they emerge as an adult two years later.
August and September is when one would expect to begin seeing damage from the pecan weevil. If you see a round hole bored into the shell of a pecan, chances are good that you have pecan weevil.
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POST: 'The Breeze In May' - did it all happen?
What's it about?
A drop out from Purchase struggles with the death of his girlfriend, and may possibly be schizophrenic.
What I experienced?
"I'm going to see a play this weekend." I say to my coworker.
"Cool, what's it about?"
"I don't know, but they are advertising it as a 'psychological drama,'" I paused. "What's a psychological drama though?" I asked my co-worker.
"You know.... it's drama that mess with your head..." She replied.
"Hmmmm." I replied as I daydreamed about the possible psychological drama I was about to go see.
I started to feel anxious about seeing a "psychological drama" by myself, and so I spent a week asking people if they wanted to join me. If I was going to undergo a psychological journey, I wanted someone to be there with me for emotional support. I invited a few friends, but in the end, they all cancelled. It looked like I was I was meant to experience this alone.
The play was located around an apartment complex. The setup reminded me of Broadway Housing Communities and I wondered if this was a community space that the public was able to rent out.
As the play began to unfold, I found myself constantly second guessing the play's reality. Did the protagonist have schizophrenia? Wow, I can't believe he killed his boyfriend. Wait his boyfriend's not dead? Wait his girlfriend is dead? Who are the other people in his head? Did he really meet that crazy woman in the woods or did he imagine it? Was that crazy woman really his mom?
There was a scene where he was writing in his room and you could hear all the papers on the floor rustling, and the people on stage were picking it up and putting flashlights on it, so that the audience could see. I simultaneously thought about my depressive experiences and my uncle's depressive experiences that resembled the one on stage.
I kept wondering if this was the writer's true experience or if it was completely made up. I guess after seeing David's Friend and being in a memoir class, everything felt believable and realistic. Whether it was schizophrenia or not, I was still able to relate to the constant chatter in the mind. It sounds like that when I have a millions things to do, but only an hour to do them all. It sounds like that when I fall into a depressive state and sometimes it sounds like that when the chatter is happening in real life around you.
Because the topic was so heavy, and because I've been in depressive states, I didn't want the protagonist to choose death over getting better. I wanted him to defy Summer who kept telling him to kill himself. That's why I felt dissatisfied with the ending because they suggested that the protagonist died in the end. I really wanted him to I wanted the protagonist to choice to get better, but I know that's not the case for everyone. I honestly don't know what I'm supposed to say about suicide because I've experienced these thoughts before, but I wanted to end the play with hope and not with a harsh reality.
The play ended with the main character and Summer laying on the grass and repeating the same lines they said when the play had started. It did take away some of the pain of the suicide, but then I was left with the question of: Did it all happen?
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StarzUncut.com got a hold of Lady Gaga perched on her throne in what would normally be a private moment for the superstar. In this invasive photo, Lady Gaga can be seen squeezing out her own little monster.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Sewing for the Teen
7 comments:
- Norma's Nonsense said...
Darling skirts! How fun that she wants you to make her clothes. My mom made most of mine. Corinnea got her sewing ability. Can't believe how much Haven has grown up. She is a very pretty young lady.
- July 13, 2011 at 12:57 AM
- Corinnea said...
Holy cow she's gorgeous! She's always been a pretty girl but now she is grown up! Waaaaaa!
The skirts are very cute and very her!
- July 13, 2011 at 4:51 AM
- Tina said...
IS that the fabric you and her picked out yesterday at the shop? I can't believe you have already make a skirt. Or two? WOW! I am impressed. And yes, where do I sign up for the legs?
- July 13, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- Adrienne said...
Ok, those are just awesome. You're such a cool mom. Mine wouldn't have let me wear skirts like that, let alone make them for me. And she is absolutely gorgeous, I agree with Corinnea! She is looking so grown up!
- July 13, 2011 at 2:35 PM
- Kelly's Korner said...
Tina, no that fabric you saw me buy was in the wash last night! The bottom one is the skirt Haven was wearing when we all went to dinner.
Adrienne, these skirts are not as short as they look. Haven just has legs that go on forever. They pass the finger tip test and the bending over test! That's what's great about making your own clothes - you control everything! :)
- July 13, 2011 at 8:05 PM
- Jessica said...
Oh man adrienne's and your comment back had me cracking up. I was thinking the same thing my parents were upset about shorts I can't even imagine trying to get out of the house in the skirt!
What's really funny is that now my mom dress's in things (talking patterns and colors) that make me uncomfortable (she knows lol)
I wonder what I will have to deal with if we ever have a girl! It may not be terrible to just have boys... hopefully sagging will be old by then : P
Oh and I really like the second skirt.
- July 13, 2011 at 11:29 PM
- Jennifer said...
I love these kelly!! super cute!! I'm so glad shes letting you sew for her. LOVE THESE!!
- July 28, 2011 at 6:47 AM


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Paul says that tension is building up at his new job, and a lot of people may quit, or be fired.
I've got to come up with three letters of recommendation for my professional development class. I've gotten two people to promise to write me one, but who is going to be the third?
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I'm doing this freelance job, for a law firm. It's my first. I feel a lot of stress to make everything go perfectly.
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STR Global reports Central/South America hotel pipeline for July 2010
The Central/South America hotel development pipeline comprises 133 hotels totalling 20,770 rooms, according to the July 2010 STR Global Construction Pipeline Report released this week.
Among the countries in the region, Brazil reported the largest amount of rooms in the total active pipeline with 7,042 rooms, followed by Panama with 5,400 rooms. Two other countries ended the month with more than 1,500 rooms in the total active pipeline: Argentina (1,700 rooms) and Colombia (1,509 rooms).
Among the Chain Scale segments, three segments each accounted for more than 20 percent of the total active pipeline. The Upscale segment made up 24.6 percent of the total active pipeline with 5,116 rooms, followed by the Upper Upscale segment (23.4 percent with 4,864 rooms) and the Economy segment (22.9 percent with 4,748 rooms).


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Edward Snowden felt his whistleblowing paid off on Friday.
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The web is home to many animals who have been personified on various social media accounts. An imaginative Tumblr account called "Text from Dog" posts SMS conversations between a dog and his owner. Apparently, if your dog could text, he might ask abo...
It may seem like everyone, everywhere is sending text messages these days. But according to a Forbes report, texting may be on the decline across various countries. Tero Kuittinen, a senior analyst at M.G.I. Research, wrote via a blog post for Forbes...
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Mountain Chickadee
"Upper part ashy-gray, with scarcely a shade, and only on the rump, under parts similarly grayish-white, without a rusty tinge, the middle of the belly, the rest more heavily shaded. Wings and tail with comparatively little whitish edging - tail at least with no more than that of P. carolonensis. Sides of the head and neck white; top of the head, and the throat, black. A conspicuous white superciliary stripe in the black cap, usually meeting its fellow across the forehead." Elliot Coues, 1884
bird head, bird sketched, birds, chickadee, Mountain Chickadee, non-migratory birds, omnivorous birds, ornithology, passerine birds, Poecile gambeli, songbirds
Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)


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Learning to step back and take a break from an overworked project is hard to do. This is the case for any creative idea. Working with clay has taught me the importance of this lesson (repeatedly)! Rest renews and rejuvenates creativity.
I visited Huntsville, Alabama this past week to spend several days with my daughter's future mother-in-law. I was invited to acquaint myself with a garden clay project she has in mind and spend some fun time together. This relaxing break from my typical routine, proved to be rewarding in numerous ways.
Travel is an opportunity to recognize our shared commonalities as well as appreciate unique local traditions. We spent time visiting art galleries, area shops, historic sites and tasting regional food selections. I gained a sense of the community through all these encounters and look forward to future visits to supplement my first-time enjoyable experience.
Rest from routine has its rewards. When I returned to my studio, it was easy to jump into several of the custom projects I have on my plate. Ideas that may have been stalled seemed easily accessible. This is the beauty of rest.


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This article was originally posted on my other site, This Biz Life.
I looked at my post from December 2016 to see how I was doing on leaving behind things that no longer serve me and moving forward to greatness, and realized I hadn't posted an update in a while.
So here goes...
Intentions & Reflections:
Build & Serve -- My focus for May is to work on growing my audience (reaching 40K YouTube subscribers -- currently at 39,733 and grow my email list by 200 people), provide quality content (on YouTube & the podcast) and focus on money-generating activities.
Mo'Money Mo' Money -- I set an income goal for the first time since February! I swear it's like the universe heard me right away because dope paid opportunities are falling right in my lap.
Digital Girl Going Offline -- One of the things I've embraced this year is the power of offline paid opportunities. Even though it can be very uncomfortable (and I don't feel like I know what the hell I'm doing lol), I love being able to connect and hug folks in person.
I did my first paid cooking demo in Baltimore back in March!
I also have speaking gigs at the Kansas City VegFest and Vegan Soul Fest coming up this summer.
Since I plan to work offline more, I've been thinking about the importance of having physical products to offer at events. I'm still not sure what I will offer...just that I need to figure it out.
Unplug -- My phone was acting crazy last month and shut down twice for several hours. I went from panic to bliss during those hours, and it reminded me just how important it is to unplug. This month I will let my battery go dead and then stay offline for several hours. I scroll social media way too much.
Intentions for May 2017:
- Get a summer curriculum for the kids
- Continue to add videos and PDFs to the Simple Side Hustle course (I need to finish this!!!)
- Add a dedicated page to the Brown Vegan site to promote offline opportunities.
- Write an email sales sequence for Zero to Vegan
- Write an email sales sequence for Ready Set Go Vegan
- Make a doctor's appointment
Consistency Goals for February
- Post 4 YouTube videos on the Brown Vegan channel
- Post 2 podcast episodes on Brown Vegan podcast
- Send 3 newsletters to my email list (you can join the list here and get a free vegan starter kit)


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Pat Behr, E&E News reporter
Energy Secretary Rick Perry has brought on veteran Texas energy consultant Alison Silverstein to produce his first major energy policy statement, a controversial study of whether federal tax and subsidy policies favoring renewable energy have burdened "baseload" coal-fired generation, putting power grid reliability at risk. Silverstein, who sources say will direct the writing of the report, which is due next month, was a senior adviser to former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Pat Wood III, a Texan picked by former President George W. Bush to lead the commission. She has also had leadership roles in organizations championing energy efficiency and "smart grid" technologies, which rank high on many Democrats' list of priority energy policies, but not most Republican or conservative energy agendas. Silverstein is secretary and former board president of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), which promotes advanced energy efficiency policies. She is also project manager of the North American SynchroPhasor Initiative, a collaboration among DOE, the power industry and national energy laboratories supporting a principal technology advanced by the Obama administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.
While at FERC, Silverstein was one of three principal authors of the U.S.-Canada report on the 2003 Northeast blackout, which recommended that the industry-monitored voluntary guidelines for power grid reliability be replaced by mandatory, enforceable standards. The mandatory policy was established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
The Perry report will be closely read for evidence of whether new DOE leadership will directly advocate for coal-fired generation, following President Trump's personal commitment to restoring coal industry jobs and production.
According to a copy of Perry's memo ordering the study's preparation, Perry criticized Obama administration clean energy policies, which he said were "designed to decrease coal-fired power generation" through the use of "market-distorting" federal subsidies favoring wind and solar energy. Prior policies have "destroyed jobs and economic growth, and they threaten to undercut the performance of the grid well into the future," Perry stated in the memo.
DOE's inquiry into these and other issues in the study has been wide-ranging and not tilted toward coal, department officials say. Experts from across the energy spectrum have been invited to weigh in, including those who challenge the idea that coal's eroding role as a power plant fuel is solely based on an Obama administration preference for renewable power.
"We haven't prejudged anything; it's the outside groups that are prejudging it," a top DOE official told E&E News. "It's going to be interesting to me to see how they respond to it, especially when it turns out to be a well-researched and balanced study" (Greenwire, May 30)


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Are you listening? The most important aspect of parenting is listening, says Sarah Ferguson.
"Nobody listens anymore," Sarah tells OK! at the La Vita Dolce event benefiting her foundation. "What I do with my girls is I go in, shut the door, turn the telephone off, turn the TV off and say, 'Let's talk.' "
The Duchess of York believes that's the best way to guide her daughters, Beatrice, 19, and Eugenie, 17, away from the temptations of fame and Hollywood. But that doesn't mean the girls are always up for chitchat.
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What have also stopped her daughters from going down a self-destructive path are the values Fergie and her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, have instilled in them. "My girls have been brought up with really strong boundaries from me," she tells OK!. "I believe very strongly in manners, kindness and in really just listening."
And they listen in return. Beatrice and Eugenie have followed in their 48-year-old mother's philanthropic footsteps.
"They are donating me to the world's children now," she says. "'Go on, mom, off you go.' I really like that."


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Joel Savoy's Honky Tonk Merry-Go-Round CD
Joel Savoy's Honky Tonk Merry-Go-Round CD
Valcour's own Joel Savoy has been at the forefront of the roots music scene in Acadiana since his teens and as a result he has become part of a growing community of young musicians across the country who are asking for more out of their radio than commercial stations provide.
On his new release, he offers a view into Acadiana's own vintage country scene, showcasing the incredible talents of many of his peers who are oftentimes associated more with the dominant tradition in the area, Cajun music. Anna Laura Edmiston (Feufollet), Courtney Granger (Pine Leaf Boys), Kelli Jones-Savoy (Feufollet), and Linzay Young (Red Stick Ramblers) are just a few of the singers "sitting in" with the all-star band on this album and they're sure to have you dusting off your cowboy boots and stepping back into a simpler, twangy-er time.


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OK, so after yesterday's lunchtime debacle, I decided my wife is right. When I take lunch, I am at lunch. I usually eat at my desk where I can work on other technical things, so I need to POLITELY tell folks, I am at lunch and I will happily help them afterwards.
Ringer Mute is activated on my phone. I refuse to check the call queue until lunchtime is over (or course I have a test I am running this morning anyway, so the queue is secondary, but I still get paranoid about it).
I will be working on honing my CSS skills. I need to work out my STYLESHEETS baby!
HA! Another email into the ether of the AFTER LUNCH queue!
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You don't need to do anything drastic to your face or your body if you want to take years off it. Sometimes all you need is a nice and flattering haircut to make you look years younger. Maybe a new hair color, or some soft curls, or some wispy bangs.
Here are ten hairstyle inspirations to help you pick the best look.
1) Layered Bob
This layered bob worn by Diane Keaton is a fun and flirty way to take years off your face. We especially love the dimension this haircut gives to her hair, and the bangs that frame the face so nicely. Her highlights and textured pieces make this hairstyle both casual and yet classy enough to be worn on the red carpet!


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June Catnip Harvest
By JULIE - 6:45:00 PM
|June Catnip harvest Check out how it took over our whole counter
I'm contemplating replacing our current catnip with low catnip (would look prettier and be less maintance) or we could just try to keep it contained (maybe even taking some out and donating to friends with cats) since we do get more catnip per sq ft with our current tall plants. I thought I'd be able to dehydrate all of the catnip in a few hours, boy was I wrong. I use our microwave to dehydrate it you can see how in this post. It's been days and I still haven't finished. I think what's taking me so long is I have been separating out the leaves from the stems. If you look at the pictures of our catnip harvest you can only imagine that would take along time!
I'm learning the longer we homestead that we constantly have to analyze if we're as productive as we can be with both our time and land. I'm finding the best way to do this is to pay attention how long it takes me to do tasks like harvesting and preserving. In this case the question is should we devote more time and land to growing more catnip than Mr Cat (and our friends with cats) need? I know you can use it for tea, and medicinal purposes too so I think I'll play around with that before I decide what to do for next year. I am contemplating for now since dehydrating is taking too much of my time on just doing it the old fashioned way from now on and hanging it upside down to air dry and then crushing the leaves into a bag to separate the leaves from the stems. How do you dehydrate your herbs?
Mr Cat was so funny when he saw the harvest. He knew right away what it was and proceeded to inspect, eat, play with it, and guard it for a long time. He likes me to use cat nip stalks like his cat dancer toy, it's like a cat dancer toy he can eat that smells like catnip. I shot a video of us playing below. Now that's a homemade cat toy!
Update July 1 2012 I have finally figured out the most efficient way of dehydrating catnip:
I figured this out be mere chance. I was microwaving the whole stem to see if this would be faster, after taking to long I gave up and hung outside to dry. I only nuked half of the catnip. Turns out the half I nuked dried the next mourning while the half I didn't put in the microwave never dried completely even a week later. Here's what I did:
- Nuke a batch of whole branchs of cat nip at a time for two 3 1/2 minute intervals while your in the kitchen (you don't want to have the catnip in the microwave for too long at a time or unattended to ensure the catnip doesn't get too dry and start on fire. I did have a spark once start once but I think it was due to the fact I placed a paper towel under the catnip. Nothing happened luckily).
- Your catnip shoud not be dry yet, but what you are doing is starting the process which will speed it up.
- Hang your catnip outside upside down if the weather will be dry and your able to otherwise hang upside down inside in a less humid part of the house.
- Your Catnip or herbs should be dry in 1-2 days take your catnip down once so dry it crumbles at the touch
- To process take your dried catnip and place in a brown paper grocery bag.
- Strip the catnip leaves from the stems with your hands letting the leaves fall into the bag and discard the stems.
- Once done with that step for all of your catnip, check visually and with your hands for any missed stems and discard
- You know can scoop up the cat nip and place into a PVC free plastic sandwich bag and crush with your hands. Fill as many baggies as you can. Once you've gotten all the catnip you can out of the bag, don't forget to let your cat play in the bag if you have a cat. Mr Cat sure had fun eating catnip out of a paper bag (see below pic)! Happy Birthday Mr Cat (it actually was his birthday!)
|Mr Cat's Birthday Gift Catnip in a paper bag