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Placing Your Digital Gestures
The world of the "smiley" has increased the amount of digital "gesturing". We aren't physically present with another person. They cannot see us smile when we text or message them. So we have the possibility of showing them what our face (or body) is doing with an icon. In the case of the smiley, it shows we are smiling.
You might think it was that simple. And it could be. In fact, many people, many years before computers were even invented used "emoticons" in their pen and ink letter writing. They might sign a letter with a happy face as well as a name. Or they might put a sad face to show how they are feeling. Emotional icons (emot-icons) are a way of showing how we are feeling to another, when we aren't physically able to see each other.
And it could be that simple. Imagine that. You draw something that shows how you are feeling, because you can't show that feeling physically to another person. The key thing here is that, what you are showing in the form of an icon. is a symbol of what you are really feeling – truly feeling. That might sound strange, because why would you share an icon of what you are not feeling?
Yet that is exactly what many people do when they choose a smiley, or type "LOL". They insert a smiley, but they aren't physically smiling. They type LOL, but they aren't actually laughing out loud.
The simplest way to place digital gestures is to only place them truthfully. They become an authentic simplification of a true state – a smile or sad look on your face, or an LOL because you really are laughing out loud. The golden rule: never place a digital gesture that doesn't accurately and truthfully render your physical state or expression.
Yet people LOL all the time when they aren't laughing out loud. They LOL when they aren't laughing out loud. Why is this?
One answer is that the conversation is an imagined one. We fall into role play, and these roles are inner, imagined roles. Often the "avatar" we have created laughs a lot more and more loudly than the real me. I may not be laughing out loud, but I am laughing inside and the LOL reflects THAT state. It's an interesting state of affairs though, because often when we are chatting digitally, we are trying to render what might be taking place physically. If we are talking to our children or a loved one because they are a long way away, we miss them. We wish we were in a real room with them and this is the next best thing. We wouldn't be role-playing in that room (well, most of us wouldn't). We wouldn't want our loved ones to be faking their emotions, or exaggerating them. We hope a smile online means a real smile in the physical world. So, our avatars can take us into a world of often well-intentioned fakery, where we project ideal versions of ourselves, versions which laugh more, smile more, cry tears and hug all the time. If this suits you, then read no further. If you are feeling an ache for the authentic, wanting your digital gestures to reflect true physicality, then you need to start by placing your own authentically. Your next kiss has to be a kiss you genuinely believe would be well received by the person you are sending the digitally gestured "X" towards.
If we kiss digitally when we don't truly intend it, or when we know it would never be accepted by the other in the physical world, we also dilute the true gesture. It becomes projected, imagined, fictionalised and idealised. None of these things are necessarily wrong in all cases, but if we are missing a sense of truth and authenticity in our digital interactions, we need to place all of our actions as 100% truthful renditions of what we would do physically. Otherwise each digital gesture is as a good as a little white lie.
If the role play is intended freely and known by both parties to a digital conversation, then fun can ensue. We can play at being different and often ideally more than we are in the physical world. However, when this is done sub-consciously, or in ways that distort and self-delude, we can fall into the cheapening of relationships, the demeaning of those things we hold dear and precious, and even into illusion and deception. Role play can soon become power play, avatar can soon become dark fantasy, communication can fall into manipulation.
If I send an "X" it can signify many things. It can be role play. We kiss each other only in the digital role play. We'd never really kiss (or we might hope it becomes real one day if we X enough and in the right places). It isn't we who are kissing but our much better looking, more romantic virtual selves, our avatars. Often people realise this is a diluted form of reality and they X even more. Texts start to end with fifteen Xs. We kiss strangers, even work colleagues. Some would argue that is liberates us, helps us to flow more, reduces unnecessary inhibitions. People can feel uplifted and exhilarated (even turned on) by these typed kisses. In time a 3D-printed pair of rubber lips, lifelike and a perfect copy of your partner can be created and animated to turn that kiss into a perfect version of the real other. This will come in time, sooner than you think. And now it is up to you and your own instincts as to whether this digital copying matter to you at an essential level. If you feel that this technological pathway is one you don't want to travel down, then it is time to start consciously placing your digital gestures, to form them with attention and warm authenticity. Your foundation in the digital inferno will be walking with feet of truth, touching with fingertips of physical honesty and ensuring your inner gestures and your outer behaviours are in harmony with each other. An X means a real kiss, or you don't X.
Isn't this the same as faking in the physical world? Don't the false "mwahs" of pretentious friends when they greet us, the air kisses and the exaggerated words and smiles, amount to the same thing? There certainly is an overlap here. There's plenty of fakery in the world of the senses and the advice would be the same: to return to something that feels more authentic to you, make your kisses and smiles sincere, reduce your role-playing in front of those you want to truly connect with. And yet, for most people, when we are (without the emotionally lubricating assistance of alcohol or drugs) interacting digitally, without the physical cues and scrutiny of physically present others, there is more scope to be fake – the visual signs are not there. If we scowl in our face whilst typing a smiley there is no one there to see. The Digital world lends itself more easily to both deception of others and self-deception – deception of others because we can hide behind the screen, and deception of ourselves because we often get feedback that confirms the apparent veracity of our falsely delivered gestures. We see ourselves in the mirror, not the true other, and the mirror tells us often that we are the fairest of them all, often with twenty typed Xs in case we needed any more confirmation. The digital world takes away the complication that we might be rumbled, betraying what we really feel on our faces, in the way our eyes move, or our bottom lip quivers. We can replace all of these with clear, colourful, no-nonsense (and often humorous to add effect) smileys. There are even dark versions. We can puke, shoot ourselves in the head, or explode. Often the gesture is a huge exaggeration holding enough of a grain of truth to lend believability. An animated flood of tears actually hides mild irritation or disappointment. We feel the need to exaggerate, knowing it is all largely not believed, in the hope that by the time the floods of tears reach the other person, at least one tear might have been registered.
Will that reduce digital interaction down to something more bland? Possibly, if your physical life feels bland or disappointing to you and where you have embarked on imaginative and fantasy-based journeys online in order to compensate. The prize for this is digital intimacy, connection, devoid of physical touch of another. The prize is that you can role play your idealised self, as long as you don't leave your chair or your bed and actually realise your meeting in real with the other person. For some, that is a price too high.
Yet when we gesture (often less) authentically, we often find our well and consciously chosen emoticons assume more value for us. Their authenticity lends them credibility to ourselves and others. Our digital experiences seem deeper and richer. Often, without the simplicity of the faked emoticon, we can find that less is more, that our mindful typing and gesturing becomes more of a warm, nourishing and soulful experience. We may also find that we meet more. The no longer typed fake kisses which hid a genuine wish to physically see our loved one, turns into a will force to actually go and meet that person. Soon, weekly typed conversations with Grandma covered in guilt-laden kisses, turn into a more potent, real and enjoyed physical visit. By not diluting, we start to remember what physical life really used to taste like – both bitter and sweet.
Let's get practical…
1. Go for authentic simplicity.
Try this for a day, or even a week, then see how it went and how you feel. Set yourself the resolution to only ever digital gesture what you would truly physically gesture. Don't put a smiley if you aren't smiling. Don't put an X unless there really would be a kiss in physical presence. Choose what you gesture, do it mindfully and truthfully. Observe the reactions in you and in others. If someone offers you an X, don't offer one back unless you not only mean it, but really would be allowed to deliver it with your real lips.
You might start to feel this is all spoiling your fun. You might start to feel less "cool". It all might start to feel too sober and sombre. Be patient; see past that and persevere. Soon you may just find an electric moment creeps through – a genuine, natural high – a few lines of interaction that feel more real, and more vital. You might just feel more on control but also more present and feeling the interaction more keenly, when you succeed in placing your gestures with authenticity.
2. Watch out for gestured habit
Over the next day or two, notice how you end your texts or messages. Look our for habitual responses and gestures. Look out for "cool" and "LOL" and "XXX". Look out for habitual use of certain phrases or emoticons. Have a try at replacing them with consciously willed gestures, fresh and new, in THAT moment, relating to THAT person. Make each gesture or phrase a more conscious choice. Retrieve your spontaneity from the habit of repetition. It might feel slower, more clumsy, even interrupting your flow. Once again, be patient and go with it. Soon you might find it all feels more fresh, more alive, and more willed by you. Banish the automatic response. This digital interaction is based on real people. Behind those words I am receiving is a real person, with feelings in that moment. Value that person by giving them an authentic, in the moment and not automatic response.
3. Try a day with no emoticons at all, no digital gestures.
Simply "speak" and type deliberately to the person you are interacting with. Call them to mind in your memory. Picture them if you can. This is about getting back to essential thoughts and feelings, not dressed up with easily thrown out smileys, symbols and simplified gestures. Put those feelings into words, or simply feel them inside without communicating them. Let the words speak, Again you might find this slows you down, you might even get writers' block. But after a while, these words and phrases chosen by you in the NOW, will feel brighter, more yours, created by you out of your own inner life. You'll feel that it is entirely your expression, and your words may even feel more valuable, effective and eloquent as a smiley becomes a thank you, a frown becomes a statement of why you are disappointed, a wink becomes a little teaser of a line. Sometimes when we clear the cupboard of ready meals, we start to enjoy the taste of real home cooked food.
4. Direct the digital gesture into physical space.
Over the years I have noticed that gesturing on stage in the theatre, when done well by performers, really adds to the power of the drama. The effect is more authentic and lasting when there is a consciousness in the way the actors and performers direct their hands, their words. When it is all rather undefined the drama doesn't travel well to the audience. When it is all directed clearly and with consciousness and competence, the drama takes off, can become alive and deeply move us. When we speak to someone, but look elsewhere as if distracted, the listener feel properly communicated with. We can feel neglected or ignored. Now, this may seem strange, but when we send a text message by pressing "send", the data might travel along fibre optic wires and through the air, but our actual gestured words do not. We are in physical space. I am in London, you are in Edinburgh. There are a few hundred physical miles between us. So, when pressing "send", imagine the other person in physical space, geographically distant from you, and direct your gesture – your message and its meaning, using your will, across SPACE, not through the SCREEN. You might even turn your gaze away from the screen and look towards where you imagine the person to be. Put the gesture into physical space, even as you technically send the data via the digital realm. I'm not suggesting anything psychic or paranormal is going on here (though it might be). What you are doing is making a willed gesture, attaching importance and relevance to the physical relationship you and the other person currently have. You are removed from each other, apart from each other. The technology will transmit the data and enable the message to be delivered, but you are reminding yourself of the distance between you both.
Often this reminder can be a bit painful – it can wake you up to that distance, that detachment. It can also remind you that the very ease with which you can text each other can dim your awareness of, and make you forget, the importance of seeing each other physically. Remembering physical distance and apartness can reignite the will to move your physical feet into a real visit.
5. Do an Authenticity Check
This little exercise builds a bridge between what you do and what you feel and nudges you towards them being congruent. So, if you are about to send a smiley, then smile first. If you don't feel like smiling then don't send the smiley. If you are about to send an unhappy smiley face, then practice a little grimace or a sad look. Set yourself the discipline to always generate and express (outwardly if possible, in your mind if not) a real gesture before you send a digital one.
What if you don't feel like physically smiling but you do feel you are smiling inside? Then look at the digital gesture you are about to make as a little imagination in your head. Imagine yourself smiling. The smiley will be a simplification, but you can imagine the smile as physically real as you like. Ensure your imagination contains the fuller detail, the subtle nuance.
It is then more like blowing up a balloon and letting it go. You decide how much air to put into it and where, how and exactly when to let it go. The wind may still take it somewhere you didn't intend, but the original act was yours. And it will feel more real, held by you, an often more truthful. Those little grains of truth can add up to quite a lot of inner strength and motivation. Try it for a few days.
6. Dive into the Digital Inferno and Immerse Yourself
Try a day of using as many emoticons, digital gestures and icons as possible. Use as much text shorthand as you can ("LOL" etc) and immerse yourself in the medium. Give yourself permission to role play and be whatever avatar you want. Observe yourself and at the end of the day look back and read your various digital interactions. How did it feel and how does it feel now? How present were you, how conscious? What was gained and what was lost? How authentic did you feel and do you feel now?
Some people use digital gadgetry and hold back from diving in fully. It might be fear or it might be they've seen others doing just that. A day diving in can be a revealing experience. Some love it and find they can hold their own pretty well. The digital realm is a new space and there's a new artistry in the freedom of emoting, and digitally gesturing, role playing and avatar inhabiting. But if you are seeking to hold your own as YOU in the digital realm, a deep immersion can offer up some shocking perspectives. We can function very well with our white lies, our exaggeration and our role playing. It becomes game playing, shared fantasy, and we can also find it takes away or dilutes the need for physical meeting. Diving in properly may actually fire up your will to climb out for good.
Digital gesturing is a new form of theatre, and theatre is acting. Confident actors can step into role and then step out of the costume at the end of the day. For many others, we can lose our essential self-awareness and control by acting without quite knowing what we are doing. Emoticons offer us readily grabbable punchlines and, because we are all using them, the threshold for audience approval and applause is fairly low. Kisses fly all over the place and we exchange euphoria and giggles for tenderness and subtlety. As we get better at it we can become skilled at the drama and out chosen role and then a well timed smiley can achieve a sinister undertone of threat or smugness, and a carefully counted XX can communicate anger (because there's a third X left out). We can start to gesture deliberate;ly willed confusion and coded message. The drama becomes epic, the ongoing dialogue so much emotional rollercoasting soap opera. We can literally forget who we were and our digital gestures can become full blown drama.
You may have dived in so profoundly and for so long that you are reading this and wondering what all the fuss is about? Well, there is no fuss unless you've personally had enough and would like to simplify and because you feel you've lost some or all of your authentic self in the process. If you feel that your two hours a day in digital gesturing is too much drama and not enough real life, then it might just be time to pull off the costume, get off stage and walk the street for a bit of physical time.
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Sameness is Lameness
When Earth was born, there was no oxygen, thus, no life as we now know it. A lot of crazy gases spewed around, a lot of heat, and a lot of acid. The first cells of life that arose out of that, which were essentially ancient bacteria (ancient to the nth degree), were suited to Earth's "volatile" trappings. These beings moved and reproduced, ate each other, made each other sick, and changed their environment. In turn, they had to change as well, because the altered environment required different defenses and adaptations. For example, cells that metabolized one gas may have produced oxygen as a waste product. Their release of oxygen then began to slowly but vastly change the atmosphere. Many organisms accustomed to living in the oxygen-devoid Earth started to suffocate, as oxygen became a dominant gas. Thus, many individuals died, and their descendants had to develop cooperative relationships, or parasitize other organisms in order to survive in the new order. With the ability of bacteria to reproduce rapidly, minute changes from individual to individual translated into adaptations that informed entire populations, in a matter of a few generations. Here you have a much-simplified story of evolution. Amplify it, drag it out over time, and you have the basic justification for your own individual life. Your ability to breathe in and out, or go out into the sunshine and survive, and many other seemingly simple things have been made possible by an epic journey of cause and effect, and by change.
I think about this story daily, probably. I think about my own cells being descendants of these industrious ancient organisms. I say industrious as though their evolution was conscious, but all signs point to the fact that it wasn't. Evolution is all about variation: tiny, random changes, expressed over the course of generations. I have a picture in my head of everything all pink and gluey, and a tiny bubble hacking its way through the mire, and some other tiny thing burrowing into its sick little membrane. For a moment, it is unconscious, silent, microscopic struggle. But then, something happens. Something changes. They begin to live together. One can breath, and one can reproduce. Perfect. What a happy variation, and then life goes on.
Oxygen's role in life and death aside (although that is a fascinating story for another time), imagine all the insane tweaks that had to occur in that pre-world in order to create huge, lumbering, and slow-growing humans. Or pigs. Beings that, compared to our ancient ancestors, take forever to do anything, but require such a fine balance of resources in order to survive. Lots of water, but not too much. Sunlight, but not too much. Oxygen, but not too much. Sulfur…but not too much. Take it as far as you like. That's right. It's mind blowing. The fact that we are even breathing is the result of infinitesimal, minute changes in nature that were and continue to be random, but necessary, so that life persists. These changes pulse constantly within our bodies, and outside of our bodies, in the water, air, and soil. We, and our brethren: animals and plants, respond to these changes via growth and change, too. And so it goes. It's all connected.
Why does this story matter so much to me? Well, because we eat nature. And we are nature. We mess around with it to make food, and then we eat it. And whatever we eat changes over time as we grow it, or depending on how we pick it, and on and on. And then we mess around with nature some more to make the food better, or different, or whatever we want. And in general, we see ourselves as outside of the random changing that is going on in tiny ticks all around us. But we are changelings, too. We are walking experiments in persistence, and we are in turn experimenting with and responding to our surroundings.
By the way, this isn't going to turn out to be a gigantic environmental rant about human impact on the environment. I just want to talk about food. I want to talk about the way food looks, and the way it tastes, and the way we grow it, and how we cook it, and the expectations that we have about controlling variation in our food.
I've worked for food and farming non-profits for 10 years, writing grants, talking to growers, linking buyers, training eaters. I was a grower myself, constantly trying to have some control over a wild and changing environment. I needed to grow food that was delicious, familiar, and abundant. And in pursuit of this, I can't even tell you how many times I used the word "consistency" to discuss business goals.
….due to these limitations in the regulatory environment, farmers are unable to profitably produce a consistent product….
or, in a panel discussion I took part in recently, someone said,
farmers I know have chosen corporate breeding programs because they are after a consistent end product.
or in a book I was reading,
this culinary methodology went out of practice, in part because it would not result in a consistent product...
As I write, and work, and cook, I have come to loathe this word as it is being used. I think we all mostly imagine that in the world of food business, from farms to delis to fine dining restaurants, the highest meaning of the word consistency is simply guaranteed quality. Food that is good every time. But what I have noticed, in our culture of mass-produced megafood, is that the meaning of consistency has been changed almost without our noticing. And certainly without our permission. Nowadays, we talk about consistency, and without even realizing it, it has come to mean sameness. And this is a problem.
Besides the fact that variation itself is the reason we came to be, and the reason we eat corn instead of teosinte, and the reason we appreciate Himalayan sea salt, there lies also the fact that variation is inevitable. Variation is the language of nature. I believe we ought to more often have this in our consciousness. That our food comes from life, and that to be alive, one must change. Constantly. With this in sight, we can begin to embrace variation as beautiful, and inspiring. It's charming, after all, when scones are lumpy, and a boule is not perfectly round, and homemade pasta is goofy. As long as it is good. I made a sausage for a friend recently, which I had made before, and he said to me,
This tastes different from the last time you made it. Not better or worse. Just different.
To which I said,
Well it was a different pig.
He rolled his eyes, but nodded, taking big bites, and I continued thinking about this. That not only was the pig different, (they all are. It's even noticeable, every time, if you're an astute butcher) but the spices came from different plants, in different soils, and the wind was blowing differently that day, and I may have varied the grind, and the minerals in the salt were not carbon copies of all minerals in all salts in the world. And this is the joy of cooking. The brilliance of creating good food is working with the ingredients in an organic way. Intuition, nuance, and respect. After all, many delicacies and cuisines have come from a reverence of food as a product of nature, as opposed to a worship of predictable, controlled, manmade food products.
Take huitlacoche. This Aztec delicacy abounds in Mexico, and is derived from a fungus that grows on corn. "Corn smut", Ustilago maydis, absolutely kills corn as we know it, inserting its fungal hyphae in between and in place of the plant's ovaries, feeding on the sweet, immature seeds (the kernels), and producing large galls on the corncob. These galls eventually fill with spores of the corn smut fungus, and are the means for the disease to spread its own seed and persist. But some Aztec pioneer, either desperately hungry, desperately curious, or desperate to produce any kind of sustenance from her failed corn crop, decided to harvest the immature galls of U. maydis, simmer them, and eat them on a tortilla. Thus, huitlacoche was born, from a disease. A mutation. A variation of nature. (Thanks to the hardworking folks at Pine Trough Farm for the photo. Credit: Hillary Wilson.)
My friend Eliza MacLean of Cane Creek Farm, a woman who possesses more porcine knowledge that almost anyone I know, illustrated another beautiful celebration of variation. We were working with a group of women in the meat industry to seam out a small ham from a pig's leg for a group of food bloggers. One group member asked if we were working on the leg of an Ossabaw pig, a breed which Eliza is famous for raising and championing. Eliza very simply explained that she her farm's famous Ossabaw pigs tend to show differentiation in the muscles of their legs much later in life than do some of the other breeds. Therefore, she had not selected a young Ossabaw's leg for this particular demo, but rather from another breed whose leg muscles could be more easily seamed out individually, producing more well-defined, portioned hams for brining and smoking. The emphasis within the Ossabaw's genetics on building fat instead of muscle in the early stages of its life represent a an adaptation born of variation. These variations are also what makes Ossabaw an extremely respected pig in the culinary world.
Genetic variation, evolution and the adaptation of populations are extremely important to the food we have grown accustomed to. But then there is also variation between individuals. Look back at those carrots at the top of the page. They're looking pretty uniform, but perhaps they would be scoffed at by a large buyer, or refused at the dock of a huge retail food outlet. But I love them. Roots, as they form, must adapt to the environment around them. All living things do this. Indeed, it is one of the markers of a thing being alive in the first place. If my carrot is twisted, it likely is so because that carrot had to deftly and slowly grow around an obstruction. Perhaps it was a rock. Perhaps it hugged the rock, and twisted around it, and pulled in some extra minerals. Perhaps not. Either way, the fact that the carrot pulled off this amazing feat of response and variation gives me the feeling that the carrot is more alive. And the more alive it is, the healthier it is for me. And the more the carrot expresses a character distinct to its environment, the more special the carrot must be. This is not inconsistency. This is terroir. {End of ode-to-crooked-carrot.}
I don't have a problem with the word "consistent." It is quite a useful word. I have a problem with the word consistent, when it is applied to food, and used to mean sameness, and in a way that sameness means better. Food is nature. Nature is diverse, and gorgeous, and quirky, and varied. Sameness is lameness.
As a former buyer and retailer, farmer, and commercial cook, I know that we need a measure of uniformity to inform profit. And we want our products to be recognizable, and of course we want them always to be good. But if we can preach acceptance, understanding, and, actually, celebration of variation-- a seeking out and working with real nature within all levels of the food system, we would waste less, and taste more, and make more vital connections, moving the needle ever closer to real food.
What I got in this week's box:
sweet peppers
new potatoes
2 large squash/zucchini
pint of okra
pint of shishito peppers
1 bunch onion
1 bunch carrots
2 medium eggplants
What I had leftover from last week:
some carrots
one beet
some onion greens
What I bought or grew to supplement:
1 whole spanish mackerel
1 lb. shrimp
swiss chard (from garden)
cherry tomatoes (from garden)
panko or breadcrumbs
eggs (I trade for these)
lemon and lime
cane sugar
red and white wine vinegars
basmati rice
What I made:
Smoked Whole Mackerel w Fermented Radicchio & Eggplant Croquettes
Chicken Ballotine w Blue Cheese Roasted Vegetables & Swiss Chard
Andouille & Beef Burgers + White Carrot Slaw w. Beet & Citrus Salad
Lemon Zucchini Bread
Whole Plant Garden Kraut using beets, zucchini & onion greens
Pickled Celery Leaves

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EAGAN, Minn. — Minnesota's push for the playoffs continues, but the Vikings will have a new look to their offense Sunday against the Dolphins.
Kevin Stefanski is now the Vikings Interim Offensive Coordinator after the Vikings let go of John DeFilippo earlier this week.
Stefanksi, who has been with the Vikings since 2006, had been the Vikings quarterbacks coach in 2017 and this season.
"All of us, it's been a little bit different, and we are working through it," Stefanski said. "We are charged with winning a game on Sunday. Time doesn't stop for anybody.
"I've been really impressed with our players. I've been really impressed with our assistant coaches," Stefanski added. "We are kind of charging forward and putting a game plan together."
It remains to be seen how much different the Vikings offense will look going forward, but Minnesota has three games left to try and secure a spot in the postseason.
The Vikings currently sit at 6-6-1 and are the No. 6 seed in the NFC Playoff picture. Minnesota is also alive for the division title, but it needs some help.
Miami is also in contention for the playoffs on the AFC side. The Dolphins are 7-6 and have won two straight games.
Kickoff is noon (CT) Sunday from U.S. Bank Stadium.
Here are three areas to watch in Sunday's contest, plus some noteworthy stats on both teams:
Win or go home | By @Eric_L_Smith
The Vikings came into the season with lofty expectations that included a deep playoff run and a division title.
Yet as the league heads into the final stretch of the season, a division title is almost out of reach for the Vikings. But a playoff berth is not, and if Minnesota can get in, who knows what will happen?
But if you want to make the dance, it starts with a win Sunday at home against Miami, a team that has struggled mightily on the road this season. The Dolphins are 1-5 on the road (with their only road win coming against Oakland), and they have lost five straight games away from sunny Florida.
Miami's defense has allowed nearly 30 points and more than 400 yards per game on the road, while the Dolphins offense averages a hair over 17 points per game and has eclipsed the 300-yard mark just twice on an opponents' home field.
The Vikings have one of the best home-field advantages in the league, including a loud and raucous fan base that makes it difficult for opposing offenses, especially on third down.
This one is simple: win, and the Vikings increase their already favorable odds of playing in January. Lose, and a roller-coaster season becomes even more frustrating.
A step up on special teams | By @LindseyMNSports
Vikings players and coaches alike have talked about ways their respective areas need to improve after back-to-back losses, and special teams is not exempt from that discussion.
Against the Seahawks in Week 14, kicker Dan Bailey had a field goal attempt blocked when the officials didn't penalize Bobby Wagner for leapfrogging the line with help from teammates.
The previous week at New England, punter Matt Wile was late getting onto the field to hold for Bailey, and that field goal also was unsuccessful. Minnesota's return game and coverage teams have been up and down all season. As of late, running back Ameer Abdullah has shown flashes at kick returner after signing with the Vikings in November.
Vikings Head Coach Mike Zimmer said he'd like to see a step forward across the board on special teams.
"We need to do a better job in all areas," Zimmer told media members this week. "I'd like to be a lot more explosive on special teams than what we have been."
Special Teams Coordinator Mike Priefer said the units "need to get better."
"We're shuffling guys in and out like most teams are this time of year," Priefer said. "We've got to block them up better, and we've got to start this weekend against Miami."
Complementary football | By @pcraigers
The Vikings have had success during Zimmer's tenure with making complementary football a key part of victories because of the role that field position plays in the sport.
Offenses have generally protected the football. Even when drives haven't resulted in points, the unit has moved the sticks and enabled the punt team to flip the field. Conversely, the defense and special teams return units have helped provide advantageous field position.
For whatever reason this year, however, complementary football has been fleeting.
Minnesota's defense struggled early, and the Vikings were unable to get a victory in Los Angeles, despite scoring 31 points (the second-highest total of the season). Zimmer and the unit were successful in making adjustments since then.
Turnovers have resulted in points for opponents and undermined the defense's improved performances against other teams in the playoff field.
"I think early in the year, we struggled a little bit defensively," Zimmer said. "Then the second part of the year, the offense has really struggled. And then special teams really hasn't helped us flip the field position nearly as much as I would have hoped."
Stefanski mentioned complementary football three times during his first media session on Thursday.
Can the Vikings connect the dots down the stretch?
"We'll have to see. I believe that these guys can play good together," Zimmer said. "We'll just have to see."
View all of the cleats that the Vikings players will wear to support their initiatives during "My Cause, My Cleats" Week.
Substantial Stats
— Dolphins running back — and Future Hall of Famer — Frank Gore is fourth all-time with 14,734 career rushing yards. He has rushed for at least 950 yards in 11 of his 13 completed seasons, and is on pace for 944 yards in 2018.
— Vikings running back Dalvin Cook is a Miami native and attended Miami Central High School, where he ran for 4,267 total yards and 64 touchdowns while leading the Rockets to a 52-5 record.
— The last time Minnesota and Miami met in the regular season, the teams combined for 41 points in the fourth quarter in a wacky game that the Dolphins won 37-35.
— Vikings defensive end Danielle Hunter has 12.5 sacks through 13 games, which ties his career high set in 2016. Hunter has 38 sacks in his first four seasons with the Vikings, trailing only Jared Allen (62) and Alan Page (39) for the most sacks in his first four seasons in Purple.
"Everybody understands the stakes of this particular game and the next couple of games. Our guys are pretty smart guys; they understand that. But I have a lot of confidence in this group. We have really good guys on this team, and they understand where they're at. There's obviously pressure, but there's pressure every single week. That doesn't change anything. It's going out and performing and doing the best, and I don't think that we'll play tight."
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As requested during the July townhall meeting, on Wednesday, August 14 at 6:30 PM in the HS/MS library, EI Associates will present the costs associated with the option of only expanding and renovating Shade Gap Elementary and Spring Farms Elementary.
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Conducting "Insanity" Evaluations
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117 Nutrition Details Prevent Chronic Illness – Fuhrman
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Use The Science of Nutrition To Correct Chronic Illness
Joel Fuhrman, M.D, from Flemington, NJ, is a board-certified family physician, six-time New York Times best-selling author and internationally recognized expert on nutrition and natural healing, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional methods. Dr. Fuhrman coined the term "Nutritarian" to describe his eating style, which describes in detail a diet of nutrient-dense, plant-rich foods. His work clearly explains the latest science for applied nutrition-in-action.
For over 25 years, Dr. Fuhrman has shown that it is possible to achieve sustainable weight loss and reverse heart disease, diabetes, cancer and many other chronic illnesses using smart nutrition. In his medical practice, and through his multiple books and television specials, he continues to bring this life-saving message to hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
Key Point
As noted, Dr. Fuhrman created the Nutritarian diet, an eating plan that incorporates the latest advances in nutritional science. At the center of the Nutritarian Diet is the simple health equation, H=N/C. This equation expresses the concept that you can predict your health (H) by your nutrient intake (N) divided by your calorie intake (C). His ANDI Scoring System (featured in Whole Foods Market), which measures the relative nutrient density of conventional foods, provides millions of consumers with specific instructions on how to eat an anti-cancer diet-style.
Put Dr. Fuhrman on your reading list – here's why.
Dr. Fuhrman Reports: Nutrition at the Street Level- Here at CBJ/117
- Now we can tell people about nutrition with scientific integrity [4:10]
- We can probably wipe out 90% of common cancers with responsible nutrition [4:28]
- I'm not philosophical based, my researched opinions are scientifically based [6:03]
- With long, effective studies we come up with three essential conclusions [8:16]
- Natural plant foods deliver far more nutrients, examples strawberries and broccoli [8:53]
- You can't reverse these conditions with drugs effectively [12:45]
- The reliance on medications alone does not allow modern science to intervene appropriately [13:10]
- Illness with both an acute and chronic presentation – diabetes [16:12]
- Immunity, IgG, issues arise as part of the complexity of nutrient effectiveness [21:40]
- About the different types of animal protein [27:30]
- Bad fat and the ratio of increased omega 6 to omega 3 can shrink the brain [30:16]
- Heart disease is a disease that doesn't have to happen [36:06]
- The debate about exercise and/or diet as a means to prevent Alzheimer's [41:19]
- We know that a high-sugar diet causes loss of intelligence in children [44:29]
- He recommends these books ↓ for each specific demographic [46:55]
- Children who eat one serving of french fries a week have a 27% increase in breast cancer as an adult [49:32]
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10 in 20: Dr. Fuhrman's Lose 10 Pounds in 20 Days Detox Program
Website & References
- Dr. Fuhrman's Website: https://drfuhrman.com – Abundant additional information
- Eat To Live – Fuhrman – '11 Global Amazon Link – Start here.
- The End of Diabetes: The Eat To Live Plan -'12 Global Amazon Link – For Any Chronic Illness
- The End of Heart Disease – To Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease – '16 Global Amazon Link – Review the numerous medical endorsements on Amazon.
- Super Immunity: The Essential Nutritional Guide For Boosting Your Body's Defenses – '13 Global Amazon Link – Recommended in our CBJ interview for millennials to get started early.
- The End Of Dieting – How To Live For Life –'14 Global Amazon Link For Weight Management
- Fast Food Genocide – How Processed Food Is Killing Us And What We Can Do – '17 Global Amazon Pre-order
Previous CBJ Interviews On The Relevance of Nutrition
- CBJ/005 Gluten Markers Matter – Osborne
- CBJ/014 Integrative Nutrition – Kumar
- CBJ/061 Autoimmunity – O'Bryan
- CBJ/071 Alzheimer's Diet – Healey
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118 Dr. Michelle Braun is a Yale and Harvard-trained board-certified neuropsychologist and brain health expert from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Many listeners found her first interview helpful here on Brain Health & Alzheimer's – at CBJ/107. So, we asked her back to address differences in psychological testing procedures, especially regarding the specifics of evolved Neuropsychology. Here she details how neuropsychological testing offers additional benefits for improved brain and biomedical diagnosis. Revised targets provide more treatment accuracy. She is passionate about defining clear brain and mind objectives and often featured on PBS, Fox TV, radio, and in other print media. Dr. Braun previously served as the Assistant Director of Inpatient Mental Health at the Boston VA Hospital and Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Remember: she's quick, engaging and with street level insights that work over time.
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We have only had sex three times and I lasted no more than 30 seconds each time.
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To me she is The One and I don't want to lose her just because I am a bad lover.
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Jan 3: Community Maintenance
The Pearson Developers Network (PDN) Developer Community at https://community.pdn.pearson.com/pdn will be undergoing critical system updates on Saturday, January 3, 2015 from 6PM to Midnight PST.
During this time, all community services will be unavailable. All requests to the PDN Developer Community will return a maintenance page and the community widgets embedded within individual PDN pages will be unavailable.
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The scheduled upgrades to the Pearson Developers Network (PDN) and developer.pearson.com community were completed. The combined site is currently available.
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Sculpture has been in my veins since very young growing up in Bogota, Colombia. But I chose dentistry as my life training and profession, graduating at 25 as a dentist.
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There was no sculptor family member or friend growing up. My Dad was, and still is at 96 years old, a terrific oil painter of flowers and landscapes. Looking back, I now think it is a shame that none of the 6 siblings took up his wonderful painting methods. I am now a lucky owner of a few of his paintings.
I was not the art whiz kid who would be drawing all the time, or even showing any interest in making things. Yet, during my high school, college and dental school years I knew that I wanted to learn about sculpture making. My brothers knew that I was weird since none of them even thought about it. Yet, I had not taken the time at all to enroll in any art class by the time I finished my dental schooling.
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For 8 of the past 9 months, Tampa home sales continue to outshine their performance in 2010. The number of homes selling each month in Tampa has been gaining strength since September 2008, and the August home sales report shows another great month.
There were 18% more homes sold this year in August than August of last year, which has helped reduce the number of homes for sale in Tampa, and the market seems to be gaining each month against the imbalance of real estate supply and demand.
In the graph above, green vertical lines show when a gain in year over year home sales, while red vertical lines show a decline. The measurement of year over year home sales is simply comparing the number of homes sold each month with its corresponding month from the prior year (for example, August 2011 shows an increase when compared to August 2010).


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Driver in fatal Blaine hit and run has history of driving offenses
A pickup driver accused of a fatal hit and run in Blaine is a "habitual traffic offender," a deputy prosecutor said in court Friday afternoon, Jan. 23.
Andrey Sergeyvich Kirichkov, 26, of Blaine, hid his green 1993 Ford Ranger for about 2 ½ hours after the pickup struck and killed a bicyclist, Douglas Oliver Benton, a half-mile south of the U.S.-Canadian border, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Benton, 53, of Blaine, had been riding a green Murray one-speed cruiser eastward across the trucking road State Route 543 at H Street around 5:30 p.m. Thursday. He wore dark clothes and nothing reflective, said Washington State Patrol Trooper Mark Francis. The intersection has streetlights.
One witness, stopped in a left turn lane, told troopers Benton rode through the intersection diagonally from the southwest to the northeast. Benton, who did not have a helmet on, crossed against a red light, Francis said. A small pickup truck with the right of way to go north ran into him in the intersection.
Benton died at the scene from blunt chest trauma.
The truck kept going north. It was last seen turning left onto D Street, a quarter-mile from the Pacific Highway truck route crossing.
Almost three hours later, around 8:15 p.m., Kirichkov walked up to a state Department of Transportation worker still at the scene, Francis said. Kirichkov said he needed to turn himself in.
In an interview with a state patrol detective, Kirichkov admitted he knew he'd hit someone but he drove off because he "needed to take care of his mother" — who recently suffered a stroke — "and he was also worried that he'd be arrested for driving with a revoked license at the time," Deputy Prosecutor Christopher Quinn said.
Kirichkov, a self-employed contractor who attended Blaine High School, faces charges of hit and run leading to a death and driving with a license suspended in the first degree. He made his first appearance in a jail courtroom Friday before Superior Court Commissioner Martha Gross.
Kirichkov had been convicted of reckless driving in 2005 and again in 2006, and a "number of times" he's been caught driving with a suspended license, Quinn said. Also, he was found guilty of driving with a license suspended in the first degree in 2010. Since then he's been considered a habitual traffic offender by the Department of Licensing.
Kirichkov has no violent history in Washington state.
Gross set bail at $30,000, near the midpoint of what had been suggested by Quinn and Kirichkov's public defender, Angela Anderson.
Quinn asked Gross to order that, if Kirichkov posts bond, "first and foremost that he not drive whatsoever."


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Tip #1: Don't let the rain spoil your day of hiking. It was raining during this hike and found the thick canopy of this forest kept us reasonably dry. There was enough moisture though to really bring out the various earthy smells of the forest.
Tip #2: We treated ourselves to s'mores when we got back to rig. Cooking the marshmallows over the gas burner proved to be very effective. I don't know why we hadn't thought of this sooner!


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Online Doctorate Degree in Organizational Leadership
A doctoral degree in organizational leadership could prepare you for a career in academia or research. Keep reading to see what is expected of Ph.D. candidates, and what you can learn while earning your doctorate. Schools offering Organizational Design & Development degrees can also be found in these popular choices.
What Can I Expect from an Online Ph.D. Program in Organizational Leadership?
A Ph.D. program in organizational leadership focuses mostly on research. It can usually be completed in 4 to 6 years. Online programs in this field may operate in a cohort format, which means groups of students matriculate, take classes and graduate as a group; others may allow you to complete classes at your own pace. You can expect to participate in online discussion forums and watch lectures that have been recorded on video.
Ph.D. programs in this field culminate in a dissertation, a substantial work of original research meant for publication as a book. Many programs delegate the last one or two years specifically to working on your dissertation with the help of an advisor. You could also teach undergraduate classes or work on collaborative research projects.
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What Is the Curriculum Like?
Online coursework in this program combines business and psychology classes, which may require training in research methodologies and statistics. Areas of specialization might include entrepreneurial leadership, human resources management, educational leadership or business. You could find classes like the following in the curriculum:
- Organizational behavior
- Research techniques in organizational behavior
- Leadership mission development
- Accountability in leadership
- Training and development
- Business consulting
- Social justice and diversity
- Business law
What Jobs Does This Degree Prepare Me For?
Ph.D. programs typically prepare you to work in academia as a professor. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that employment for professors was expected to increase 13% between 2014 and 2024, although there may be strong competition for full-time, tenure-track jobs. Job prospects could be more favorable for part-time, adjunct instructors, according to the BLS. The BLS also reported that business professors earned a median annual salary of $74,090 in May 2014. Top-earning business professors brought home upwards of $162,890, while the lowest-paid earned $34,460 or less.
However, this degree could also prepare you to enter the workforce as a business expert. You could start your own business or join leadership teams in established organizations. You could pursue jobs like the following:
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- Chief executive officer
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Château de Projan
Projan, Gers
Come for brilliant Gascon food and cookery courses, and beauty and sophistication at every turn - nothing pretentious, pompous, or twee
€130 p/n
How to book
If you have any questions or want to enquire about dates, use our form to contact Christine & Richard Poullain or see their website for more information.
From €130 per night
The interiors are remarkable and the proportions grandiose, a pleasure to stride. And the history of the 18th-century château is fascinating: ask Richard and Christine to tell you the stories. Eclectic, quirky and entertaining is the mix of antiques with paintings, tapestries and sculpture from the Art Nouveau, Cubist and Art Deco periods; equally special, the inlaid marble floor at the foot of the staircase. First-floor bedrooms have wide oak boards, tomette tiles, antique writing desks; one great room has a 15m ceiling with original mouldings, others still have their timber frames. Most astonishing are the recent panelled bathrooms, gleaming with massive mirrors and huge showers. There are two dining terraces with views across to the Pyrénées, a hall-cum-piano room, fireplaces for chilly evenings… make yourselves at home in grand fashion, book in for cookery courses, Armagnac tastings, fabulous sejours. The kitchen opens to the ground-floor hall so you can watch chef/patron Richard prepare his Gascon specialities, which you can then savour accompanied by local wines. Welcoming, and perfect for the jazz festival in Marciac.
- Swimming pool
- Hot tub
- Garden
- Open fire / woodburner
- Breakfast included
- Breakfast available
- Meals available
- Vegetarian meals
- Parking on premises
- Free parking nearby
- Accessible by public transport
- WiFi
- Television
- Spa
- Central heating
- Limited mobility
- Wheelchair access
- Mobile reception
- Hob
- Bar
- Barbecue
- Licensed premises
- Paid parking nearby
- Air conditioning
- Relaxation areas
- Washing machine
- Tennis court
- No smoking
- Credit cards
- Working farm
- Owner has pets
- Pets welcome
Family friendly
- Baby monitor
- Books and toys
- Children welcome
- Babies welcome
- Stair gates
- High chair
- Cot available
- Pub/bar within 3 miles
- Restaurant within 3 miles
- Shop within 3 miles
- Bikes available
- Food courses
- Kayaking
- Other courses
- Sailing
- Surfing
- Wild swimming
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Booking information
- Check in
- Flexible
- Booking restrictions
- Minimum stay: 2 nights in high season. Pets by arrangement.
- Closed
- Christmas, 2 January - 6 March.
- No smoking
- Smoking not permitted anywhere in the property.
- Meals
- Breakfast €14. Dinner €38-€60.
- Nightly price
- from €130
- Surcharges
- Singles €110-€130. Dinner, B&B €115-€140 per person. Extra bed/sofabed available €15 per person per night.
- 6 Doubles
- From €130
- 1 Family room for 4
- From €200
Have you visited Château de Projan? Be the first to leave a review.
The neighbourhood
Local points of interest from Christine & Richard Poullain
- We have a Scottish black lab, who understands English and French, his name is Harchie
- In March we will welcome hens, variety Noire de Bigorre et d'Astarac to eat the kitchen waste
- We are organizing yoga courses
- Walks in the fabulous countryside
- Vegetarian food on request
- At Projan, charm, serenity and intimacy mingle to inspire you another word... so that your stay is transformed into an enduring memory


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A meat grinder is an important kitchen appliances .Especially for families with young children. Meat grinders help us prepare dishes that require fresh meat more easily than traditional meat choppers.
You can grind meat by hand or through the use of a food processor, but these options are only ideal for a small portion of meat and if you are not doing the task frequently. If you ought to do this often to a large quantity of meat, these options won't suffice. In this case, it is best that you invest in a meat grinder.
Please read this article to get more experience, choose to buy yourself a best meat grinder.
- The Uses of the Appliance
Aside from making the job of grinding the meat faster and more efficient, here are the other benefits of using this appliance.
- You will have more control on the texture of the meat, whether you want it to be fine or coarse, and to what extent.
- This is recommended to those who are under strict diets. They can control the portion and add the necessary flavors while grinding the meat.
- When done through this appliance, the result is fresher and healthier than when you grind the meat manually or through the use of a food processor.
- Different Kinds
A meat grinder is now available in many kinds, but its three major types are the manual, attachments and standalone. Here's a look at the features, pros and cons of these three.
- Manual. This is intended for those who only plan to grind meat every once in a while. This can handle up to three pounds of meat in a minute. This is stable, which is its main advantage. Be wary though of certain kinds, specifically the types with clamps that can be bolted to a table countertop, which can slip while in use. The latter can pose a problem with the process when it happens.
- Attachments. These come as an additional feature in certain models of stand mixers. The attachments can be used in grinding other items aside from meat. This type is popular to those who do their own hamburger and sausages. This is already considered affordable. The only part that is pricey with this model is its motor.
- Standalone. This is more expensive than the two previous models. This can accommodate large quantities of meat. This gives the user more options when it comes to the components that can affect the results of the process.
- The Buying Process
Here are the essential considerations that you ought to think about when choosing which kind of this appliance is best suited for you.
- How often do you intend to use the product? If you will only use this casually, then you better opt for the manual type, but even if you will not use this often, but you plan on grinding large portions of meat when you do, then choose the type that can accommodate such demand.
- Browse for the product choices before settling on your choice, especially if you are under a tight budget. There are certain brands that offer the high-end type of the appliance at lower prices than the more known brands.
- Read about the reviews and feedback of those who have availed similar appliances. This will make it easier for you to choose the kind that is most appropriate to your needs and other requirements.
- Aside from the price and features, you must also ask about how the appliance can be cleaned. There are certain models, which components can be safely washed in the dishwasher, but there are also those that can only be cleaned manually by hand. Check if the components can be disassembled, and how easy or hard the process might be. This step is necessary to do every once in a while in order to clean all parts of the appliance thoroughly.
I hope some information help you find good quality meat grinder for your family.


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Senior management professionals to present at Offshore Survey 11
18 March 2011
Held alongside the industry acclaimed Ocean Business event in Southampton UK, the 2-day Offshore Survey conference will take place at the National Oceanography Centre from 6th-7th April 2011.
With recent offshore events in mind, there is more global awareness of the dangers and challenges the offshore industry faces on a daily basis. The Offshore Survey industry continuously shows how it excels in meeting such challenges, devising innovative new technologies, unusual applications of existing technologies and some amazing, standard-setting projects.
Offshore Survey 11 will bring together some of the best of these developments and recent projects, revealing real life experiences. This conference historically attracts delegates from around the world who wish to be part of a valuable programme of technical presentations from many of the world's leading technology and services companies in the field of hydrographic survey and data management. This year will be no exception, with delegates from countries including Algeria, Brazil, Denmark, France, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, South Africa, the UAE and the USA already registered.
The Keynote Address from John Westwood, Chairman of Douglas-Westwood will be entitled "Prospects for the global ocean industry business". This will be followed by twenty two speakers, at senior management level within leading global organisations such as Shell, Sonardyne, Kongsberg Marine, Reson, Fugro, Subsea 7 and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, who will be presenting on topical issues such as 'Mapping the seabed with other people's money' and '3D visualisation for data - the way forward in safety and efficiency'.
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I've been approached by a new deity, and he's someone I greatly respect and admire. He's offered a formal relationship with me, and I wanted some clarification about *what* exactly he meant by "formal," as well as some other things.
This reading's under a cut because it's just over 1,000 words long; I had questions, and he had answers.


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Lysa & Alex's engagement sessions was the first one that we have photographed exclusively on our new property. We were delighted with how the photos turned out and even more so with this fantastic couple! It was fun to crack out the canoe for some shots as well!
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Never plan too much about anything. I think that's something I should have learnt long back. But seems like I'm still in the process of accepting it as a valuable lesson for life. Guess what? I'm at Merlin's place right now. I didn't want to go home, so came over to her place. On the way, she mentioned about how this must be like a second home to me, considering the many times I've been here. 🙂 And yes, it is so much like a second home to me. Even though her relatives may not be very familiar with me, I'm more than comfortable with her family; I feel so much at home over here. So, it's no wonder that I seem to have words pouring out of my 'fingers'…
Well, so…I have this super-bad headache. Don't know why. But to add to it, there are a couple of issues that have come up. Like some plans being ruined, guess I mentioned that yesterday. I'm all muddled up right now because of the issues running around in my head. It bugs me like hell when things go wrong, like way too wrong. I can accept some deviations, some unexpected surprises/shocks…but not too much of it. I just hope I find some way out of this mess. There's so many places I need to go to/be at, which includes my exams, vacating from the hostel, a cousin's marriage and an important interview!! And I'm trying hard to squeeze in everything as best as I can. It just gets to my nerves when dates get rescheduled and I have to change the whole plan…especially when I don't have enough time for anything to be postponed.
By the way, I'll be going home soon…and when I say home, I mean 'home'…like home home! That's Ras-Al-Khaimah (an Emirate in UAE, not very fast-paced like Dubai but beautiful and awesome enough for my taste). That is the place I call home, in the true sense of the word. And I'll be flying off to RAK soon, probably by the end of this month. 😀 I think that is the only thing I'm happy about, right now. Like, really happy…like, my only spot of sunshine! 🙂 Looking forward to it! I can't wait to get there…I can already feel the familiar heat of April, the smell of the desert all around, see the barren trees everywhere… (inspite of seeing so many lush green trees out here, I still miss the sight of those bare, dry trees for some reason…probably because they symbolize home, for me). So, the thought of being back there, with my family, in a place where I belong, is what drives me on right now. 🙂
So, I guess I'll just pull myself together and go on, trusting that whatever happens will be for good! Good day to you all! 🙂
P.S: These are a couple of photos I loved, from the day out with friends.


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To become a valuable asset for the organization by using my skills sincerely, dedication and honesty and try to improve and develop my efficiency and systems involved in my working environment and to grow with the organization.Been interested in Art seine childhood. Learnt painting as a child and participated in many local, state level , national and international level competitions. Won many awards at these competitions including awards from Poland, Japan, China, Slovenia, Zukav and many countries.Academic Details:
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Hola friends. I recently did a podcast interview with Thomas from Escape from Illustrator Island. It's a part of Illustration Mundo that deals with resources and fun stuff for illustrators and artists. Thomas and I covered the topics of how Illustration Friday got it start and where it's headed... how I got started as an illustrator... how I got a rep... and so on.
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"You're from Australia?! Really?! I love Australia!" They screamed.
This reaction is not only typical but often extremely loud. And 9 times out of 10, a love story follows.
I now understand why these travelers openly share their deepest experiences within 5 minutes of meeting me. I am their bridge of connection. Not with me, of course. They are connecting with themselves. Connecting to the person who travelled to a foreign land, had those experiences and fell in love. Connecting to the person who still lives inside them, who now, doesn't get the attention they deserve. Life happens and the traveller they were, the traveller they really are, takes a backseat while life happens.
"I would love to go back and work there. I applied for an internship but I didn't get a response. I guess, it's the economy."
(Fun Australian Fact: No response, means no.)
"Did you contact them by email?"
"Yes, sure."
"What did you write in the subject line?"
Blank stare.
"It was a few months ago, I don't remember. 'Internship in Australia' or 'Application' or something."
"That's why you never heard back."
"Where was that passion that you just channeled to scream in my face?"
If you're applying for an internship in Australia, you're walking a difficult path. The concept of internships do not exist in Australia like they do in Europe or Asia. This means you are not only selling yourself but you're selling the entire concept of 'internships.' To further stress the situation, if you're writing to a company for the first time, you don't get an elevator pitch nor even a 30 second pitch. You get a subject line pitch. That's it.
Your dream, whether it's working in Australia or anything else in life, begins with someone, somewhere in the position to make that happen, OPENING YOUR EMAIL.
Ask yourself, "How can I offer so much value to the person on the other end of this email, that they won't resist opening it and sharing it the entire company?
So, for the love of all things holy, CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE.
How does "Application for an internship in Australia" sound, now? This subject line does not scream dream. It screams, university requirement. Imagine if you asked, "how can I provide so much value to this company that they'll pay to hire me?" How would your communication change?
Here are 3 examples I made them just for you, to inspire you next application email:
1. International University Collaboration: 3 month research project with German university.
2. German university seeking pro bono partnership with private industry: 12 week innovation assessment by research assistant.
3. New market analysis: opportunity for companies to participate in analysis of new markets in your industry.
Changing the subject line is only the first step in landing an internship. You're not just doing an internship you're building your carer. The success is in changing your mindset.
How many interns do you know? Now, how many short term research assignees do you know? To get what you want you must to be different.
I'm obsessed with work. Not in the sense that I am a workaholic, more in the sense of caring about your CAREer sense. I want to lead a happy and significant life and I imagine you do, too. I whole heartedly believe your work is your expression of service in the world. This matters because we face a lot of new challenges and we need everyone on board.
Pour your heart out.
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At a glance
- Chou du Volant Wooden Riding Toy
- One main part : wood (100% PEFC, from sustainably managed French forests)
- Sleek and timeless design
- 3 silent wheels with precision bearings leaving no marks on the floor
This wooden riding toy (motorcycle) with a sleek, timeless design is immediately recognizable to accompany the children with their first steps to their first turn of wheels. This wooden riding toy can also be used as a toy to push (toy 2 in 1) and thus allow multiple children to play at the same time.
This toy can also be transformed into a rocking toy (with a support piece available in the 1st quarter of 2017). Due to its design, this wooden toy has a high stability allowing the child to play safely from the age of one year.
The wooden riding toy Chou Du Volant was designed to help the growing child, to propose to him several toys that have complementary educational roles to develop his motor skills, his coordination and his balance.
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