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text: The Home Guide / Friday, 1 June 2018 / Categories: News, Wellington Show Midway Through a Home Renovation Project? Visit Home & Interiors 2018! If you're a busy, modern Kiwi who is feeling like you've stalled midway through a home renovation project, you're not alone. All over the country, brave men and women just like you are in the exact same position. You might think the rest of the reno is impossible, that you have bitten off more than you can chew, or that you're lacking inspiration for those finishing touches. Even though you might have already done most of the hard work, you probably feel like there's more work ahead of you than behind, and you're looking for that spark or idea that will have your finishing touches done in no time with your home looking better than you ever dreamed. That's where Home & Interiors 2018 comes in. If you're in Wellington and stuck mid-renovation, it's your best possible destination for inspiration, solutions and advice. Between the products on display, the prizes to be won, and the opportunity to be surrounded by renovation experts, coming to Home & Interiors guarantees you a creative and high-quality solution to your renovation problem! Inspiration & Ideas With over 100 exhibitors, Home & Interiors is going to be packed full of potential ideas and inspiration that could cause that light bulb to appear above your head as you come up with the perfect solution to that renovation problem that's been bugging you! With heavyweights such as BoConcept and Resene in the room you could easily come up with the answer to the question of that living room that just doesn't pop, but it doesn't stop there! There'll be exhibitions on construction, flooring, windows, , heating and insulation, lighting, beds, kitchens, and everything else you can imagine, so no matter what you're renovating, there'll be inspiration at Home & Interiors for you! Seminars delivered by Experts All day, every day of the show, we're going to be running speaker sessions sponsored by Resene, where expert speakers from our industries will be sharing their knowledge and professional expertise. Whether it's information on building, furnishing interiors, or any other home renovation topic that you need, getting to as many speaker sessions as you can will ensure that you maximise your time at Home & Interiors and learn as much as you can! Keep in mind that you should never be worried to ask that burning question: whether it's a Q&A session or you need to chase a speaker down for a chat afterwards, you should always make the most of the chance to pick an expert's brain and grab some professional knowledge! They could make the difference in your renovation project and give you that piece of advice or tip of the trade that makes your home that much more beautiful! Win with HomePrize and Save $26,000 Home & Interiors has partnered with HomePrize to offer a prize package that's made up of various renovation and building products and services from top-tier brands! The package is currently valued at $26,000 and counting, since our top exhibitors will be adding to the prize pool over the weekend. Winning with HomePrize would allow you to sit back and let professionals take over your reno work at no cost to you! Enter the draw at Home & Interiors 2018 to get your chance at walking away with the ultimate home renovation prize package. Home & Interiors 2018 will be held from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th June, at the TSB Arena and Shed 6 on Queens Wharf in Wellington. Snapshot of our 2018 Exhibitors! Tips for Visitors Print Rate this article: 3.3 2726

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Food Chip Separates the Pigs From the Geese
Worried about what the cow in your hamburger was eating? Or want to see if that tiny $100 can of goose pâté actually holds a cheap substitute?
Last month a French company, bioMérieux, launched a new gene expression test that can identify those mystery meats. Called FoodExpert-ID, it contains 88,000 handpicked probes from 33 different vertebrates including ostrich, Mozambican eel, and—more disturbingly—cat. Human DNA is on there too, but mainly as a "control," according to bioMérieux.
The chip is made by Affymetrix, whose GeneChip technology is already used in genomics labs the world over. It is meant to be used by manufacturers as sort of a seal of quality. Once evaluated, a product will receive an "identity card" listing all the species detected. "Unknown vertebrates" will also get picked up. Besides revealing cheap substitutes, such as the use of pork liver in the pâté de foie gras, it can be used to reassure those with strict food preferences and to test animal feed for vertebrate byproducts—a growing concern because of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
"Food purity is an important global issue," says Michael Hansen, a researcher at Consumers Union, which is pushing for a U.S. ban on mammalian or poultry parts in ruminant feed. "I expect many of these sorts of tests will start coming out." Affymetrix's Dirk Lammerts says other possible applications abound, including testing for gene expression patterns indicative of illegal drugs in thoroughbreds, cheap and fast paternity tests, and soil evaluation for oil exploration.
Disappointing News From Ohio
Turning a deaf ear to testimony from more than two dozen scientists, the Ohio school board voted 13-5 on 9 March to approve a creationist-promoted biology lesson plan called "Critical Analysis of Evolution."
Defenders insist that the guide does not discuss intelligent design and simply exposes students to "scientific" debates over questions such as "whether microevolutionary processes are sufficient to explain macroevolution." But scientists say the plan is creationist-inspired, and it has been condemned by groups ranging from the Ohio and National academies of science to the faculty senate at Case Western Reserve University (Science, 27 February, p. 1268).
The Discovery Institute of Seattle, Washington, creationism's main think tank, hailed the vote as "a significant victory for students and their academic freedom." But Patricia Princehouse, a Case Western philosophy professor, says a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union is inevitable: "We've got people pushing and shoving to be the plaintiff on this."
The lesson plan is designed to satisfy an Ohio education benchmark: "Students should describe how scientists investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory." Princehouse says other lesson plans—on fancy fish and wolves—already cover legitimate questions in evolution such as how species are defined. This one, she says, is "simple creationist activism."
Face Transplants: Next Step in Plastic Surgery?
Are face transplants an idea whose time has come? Not yet, according to the French National Ethics Advisory Committee. On 2 March that body prohibited a French plastic surgeon from performing the world's first human face transplant, ruling that the procedure is too risky. Laurent Lantieri of Hôpital Henri Mondor near Paris has five patients badly disfigured from burns or injuries to whom he wants to give new faces from cadavers.
Meanwhile, surgeons elsewhere are champing at the bit to save faces. Last November the Royal College of Surgeons of England stopped plastic surgeon Peter Butler from conducting a transplant. And in Spain, plastic surgeon Francisco Gómez-Bravo of Madrid's Clinica Ruber is waiting for an answer to a 3 March request.
The U.K. surgeons' group, noting that the psychological impact of face graft rejection would be "immense," said that more research is needed on other risks ranging from infections to lymphomas from the long-term use of immunosuppressive drugs.
But some surgeons believe it will only be a matter of time before face transplants are accepted. "Of all the physical handicaps, none is more socially devastating than facial disfigurement," says plastic surgeon John Barker of the University of Louisville in Kentucky, who has experimented with transferring faces from one corpse onto another. He says the procedure offers new hope to severely injured people who have been little helped by dozens of surgeries. A normal face from a corpse can establish significant nerve connections with the new host within a couple of years after transplant, he says.
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"Beagles are notoriously difficult to control when let off the leash. … Perhaps Beagle 2 will surface when he is hungry."
—Colin Pillinger, the scientist in charge of the Beagle 2 project, the lost British Mars probe, who said at a conference at the Royal Society in London last week that he had received letters from dog owners telling him the choice of the name was unfortunate.
The why questions. Physicist, philosopher, and antiapartheid activist George Ellis has won this year's Templeton Prize. Aimed at advancing humanity's quest for "spiritual information," the $1.4 million award is the world's biggest annual prize for intellectual achievement.
The 64-year-old Ellis is at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where his work spans areas such as general relativity, cosmology, and epistemology. "He's very broad and very fair," says Lee Smolin, a physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario.
Ellis's Quaker beliefs helped shape his strong criticism of the former apartheid South African government—and are now driving him to donate half of the prize money to charitable causes. The same beliefs also influence his scientific interests. "The philosophy of science has to go its own way, but faith leads to other philosophical questions," says Ellis. "Physics itself cannot answer why the laws of physics are the way they are."
Common good. Russian biophysicist Dmitry Chernavsky has received many honors in his long research career. But this month he earned his biggest award not for doing science but for communicating science on television.
On 1 March Chernavsky, 78, received $1.22 million for describing the origins of biological information on Russian television. Nearly 200 scholars—predominantly scientists—accepted an offer from a Moscow TV station to explain "the structure of the world" to viewers. The contestants themselves voted Chernavsky's talk the best of the bunch.
A magnanimous winner, Chernavsky is dividing the prize—provided by the Central Moscow Depository (CMD), a stock registration company—equally among all the contestants. "One goal of the program was to integrate different sciences," says Chernavsky, a professor at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. "Supporting just one discipline, even the one that is closest to me, would be unfair." He hopes CMD's sponsorship of the program will motivate other Russian businesses to fund basic research in the country.
Giving Back
Basic thinking. For an industrialist, Fred Kavli is remarkably unconcerned with immediate results. On 10 March, the Santa Barbara-based philanthropist announced the creation of seven campus-based research institutions—dividing nearly $100 million—all of which will be promoting basic research rather than creating industrially useful ideas.
The University of California (UC), San Diego, Yale University, and Columbia University will host neuroscience or cognition institutes. Cornell University, Caltech, and Delft University in the Netherlands will begin nanoscience institutes. The University of Chicago gets a cosmology center. The seven will join Kavli's existing institutes at UC Santa Barbara and Stanford.
This is not the last that the scientific community will hear from Kavli, a Norwegian physicist who made a fortune by designing and building sensors for aerospace and other industries. David Auston, president of the Kavli Foundation in Oxnard, California, says more institutes may be in the works.
The vision thing. Three decades after anticipating the enormous impact of the Internet, U.K. computer consultant and author James Martin has turned his attention to an even grander topic: the role of science in shaping the world's future. This week, he helped launch an institute at Oxford University for the study of science and technology issues.
A new breed. An outsider is sowing the seeds of change at three of the nation's most prominent agricultural science societies. Since taking over as chief executive of the Madison, Wisconsin-based Agronomy, Crop Science, and Soils Science societies 8 months ago, animal physiologist Ellen Bergfeld has moved to reinvigorate the Tri-Societies, proposing to do everything from pruning governing boards to forging unorthodox political alliances.
Bergfeld is the first woman CEO of the 97-year-old group and, at 36, is substantially younger than many of its 25,000 members. She's also an animal scientist: "People ask, 'What's a girl with a Ph.D. in reproductive physiology doing running this organization?'" she says.
Her answer is an interest in science policy that led her to a stint tracking policy for Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) and running a leading animal science group. One current goal: finding common ground with ag science critics, such as those who oppose crop biotechnologies. "A lot of scientists are leery" of such moves, she says. "But there are things we can agree on."


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American Online and the Dial-Up Generation
I'm about to turn thirty-five and I belong to the last generation that knew a time before the internet. I belong to the Dial-Up generation. I remember American Online and the sound of the dial tone that preceded a series of fax machine sounds. An electronic cacophony that felt like a symphony back then. I remember crossing my fingers for a successful connection, the "You've Got Mail" refrain, and the excitement it would bring. We would wait hours for a picture or video to download and it was exhilarating! It was the internet! The information superhighway! Cyberspace!
Dial-up was like the Ford Model T. Innovative for its time. Perhaps clunky and cumbersome looking back, but a wonder nonetheless. Dial-up was the snowball that never stopped growing. Broadband's father. Wifi's grandmother.
I was in high school in the late nineties and watched America Online go by the wayside. Cellphone popularity soared. Started saving peoples' numbers. Didn't have to commit them to memory anymore. Not too much dialing-up these days. Some of those cellphones started having cameras and eventually a rudimentary form of the internet too. Texting started happening more as I started college, so phones started having keyboards and more internet. Then phones were iPods all of the sudden. Before I even got on the iPod train, they were sort of obsolete. Then there was MySpace and Napster, followed by many more of their ilk. The world was changing fast and the snowball grew.
I've watched Smartphones become a universal component of everyday life in most developed countries around the world. Limitless information at your finger tips, pocket-sized and all mixed together. The wonderful and the shitty. The kids born in the last 10 years will never know a world without Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr, Hulu...it makes your head spin! They will never go to a Blockbuster Video. They watch and read news reports where tweets are regularly included. Facebook statuses are submitted as legal evidence in the modern age. They are reading and spreading both information and misinformation in vaster quantities than ever and the snowball continues to grow, as does the shadow it casts.
So it begs the question, should etiquette and how we conduct ourselves on social media be discussed?
Internet culture has grown well beyond its teens now and I think we'd be better off as a society if we could all talk about some general rules of etiquette, much like what is expected at a dinner table. Most of us engage in social media at this point, so we shouldn't be surprised when inevitably while engaging in what passes as socialization these days, that we would encounter differences in opinion. However, it is rare when discussing polarizing issues in that forum that common decency or respectful discourse are displayed, where as in person, you'd most likely get both. Mostly because the majority of people don't want to look like an asshole.
And yes, this makes us petty and cowardly. We are a click culture where, as Don Hall so aptly puts it, the "Rage Profiteers" are able to manipulate the masses with misinformation and distraction. And so we argue amongst ourselves in cyberspace and we get nowhere.
We are back to writing on cave walls. Our emojis and status updates are modern hieroglyphics. We are surely growing backwards and forwards at the same time while technology advances and our socializations regress.
This stuff will be on the Internet forever. A digital time capsule for future generations filled with cat videos and memes. Endless selfies and ducklips. Could be worse. Tweet fights and hate-filled comment wars. Yeah, that's worse. So we must ask ourselves, "What do we want our legacy to be?"
I know social media is here to stay and that people will continue to quite literally live their lives inside these forums, but let's all agree, if we're going to continue to make this virtual world the main place where most modern socialization takes place, let's do it with some manners and some grace.
Because social media isn't all bad. It's easy to demonize it and scapegoat the medium for all of the world's problems. And sometimes we need reminded of the beauty and potential of such powerful, all-consuming technology, like I was at the October installment of Literate Ape's monthly artistic debate series, BUGHOUSE!
To give you some background:
Bughouse Square (from "bughouse," slang for mental health facility) was the popular name of Chicago's Washington Square Park, where orators ("soapboxers") held forth on warm-weather evenings from the 1910s through the mid-1960s. In its heyday during the 1920s and 1930s, poets, religionists, and cranks addressed the crowds, but the mainstays were soapboxers from the revolutionary left.
In today's almost absurd partisanship and polarization, Don Hall and David Himmel believe Chicago is the place to reintroduce the concept of a true dialectic in opposing views and BUGHOUSE! is just that.
At the time I saw the performance, I was working on the first drafts of this piece you're now reading. Annalise Raziq and Joe Janes were debating the question, "Has social media made us more narcissistic?" and Joe's piece really struck a chord with me and what I was writing about so I've included some of my favorite quotes here.
"We are writing our biographies in real time. And when we die we've left a way to be remembered that's better than a tombstone. I can visit my father, my uncle, and live through their pictures and read their words, their own words. I get to be with them as they were."
"Facebook is just another way we cave people write on walls."
"We share our lives on Facebook. Was there some other thing we're supposed to be doing on this planet while we're here?"
No, I guess there isn't, Joe.
And that snowball keeps growing. So again, we must ask ourselves, "What do we want our legacy to be?"


text: 15 Things I Learned in 2015 As we watch 2015 capsize like the Titanic, it's that time of year where you sit and reflect on how awesome or not awesome things went for you. 2015 was a pretty mixed bag for me, personally. It was a ridiculous amount of change in my external world as well as my internal world. With change comes a plethora of lessons to be learned. Lucky for you, I've compiled a list of things that I've learned from it that you can take with you into your 2016. 1. Shut up and listen. At some point I stopped listening to people (don't worry clients it's not you) but more so people in my personal life. I'd half listen or I'd listen with the intent of responding rather than truly hearing. I'd listen half distracted by an incoming text or whatever was trending on Twitter. When you stop listening you stop connecting with people. You lose that sense of community and it gets to be a really lonely world. Take some time in 2016 to give the people you love your full attention, I promise it will pay off. 2. Practice what you preach. Don't say it, do it. If you are not doing what you are telling your friends to do you are going to feel like a fraud. Take time to begin implementing whatever it is into your life. Action is key not to mention I'm sure whatever you are preaching is a really great idea. 3. Find things to be in awe about. If you haven't figured out the world is a really magical place, you are behind the curve. Being a psychic medium has forced me into daily magic and powerful knowing that the Universe is hard at work. We walk around in beautifully orchestrated awesomeness that we totally take for granted. Soak in that beautiful moon at night. Take time to notice the trees. Be overwhelmed by synchronicities. Magic is at your fingertips. 4. Learn something new. As busy as I can get with life, I get bored very easily so having something new to try not only keeps me occupied but gives me a new skill set. I started to learn to bake everything from scratch. Not only have I become pretty awesome at it, but my life is overflowing with triple chocolate everything. I also took some boxing lessons, which was fun and a great way to release stress. I faced some fears, stepped out of my comfort zone, but realized that actually hitting another human makes me want to throw up. #illsaveitforthebag 5. Don't settle for less than everything. Good news! You CAN have it all. Deciding at any point in time that what you have in front of you is good enough even if it's not everything you want is doing yourself a major disservice. Pack up the excuses, go out, and make a life worth living, you only get one. 6. You can't put lipstick on a corpse. If something in your life is no longer working, let it go. It doesn't matter how fancy you dress it up, what's done is done. Some things are better off being buried. 7. Get Real. Authenticity is the new black. Being different sucks in a world hell bent on conformity. But an amazing thing happens when you stop pretending and come to peace with all the bad assery that is you. 8. Surround yourself with people who get you. Like minded people rock. They will boost you into "more" by teaching you and allowing you to be however it is you need to be. Seek them out. 9. The sequel to Magic Mike was better than the first Magic Mike. Both story lines sucked but….Channing Tatum. 10. Freedom is a state of mind. Give yourself permission to be free, to feel free. Stop pretending like there's no way to make a change. There's always a way, you have options. It might be difficult or a lot of work, but there's always something. Choose freedom over complacency. 11. Slow the hell down. First off, time is a bullshit concept. Few things are important enough to warrant the stress and pressure of always feeling rushed. Decide if that's the hill you wish to die upon. 12. The only way to figure it out is to stop trying to figure it out. Sometimes admitting defeat and not knowing the answer is the best way to actually come to an answer. When we get out of our own way and stop over analyzing everything we give permission to our higher selves and intuition to speak to us. And BOOM! You suddenly have everything you need to know. 13. Take it day by day. It's great to have a vision of what your life is going to be but always looking to the future makes you miss a hell of a lot of things going on in the now. Work on being present in your life, in your relationships, with your kids, in your job, or wherever it is. Work on setting intentions for your day, not just autopiloting through them. 14. Be kinder than necessary. Yesterday I handed out cupcakes on the street. Ok, I know that's weird but someone had given me a million cupcakes and although I could eat them all myself, I felt like sharing. A few people were weirded out and politely smiled as they ran away, but everyone else picked out a cupcake with a smile. Life sucks sometimes and even assholes deserve cupcakes and a bit of kindness every now and then. 15. Your year is and always will be, what you make of it. Our greatest power lies in our ability to create our world the way we want. Our thoughts rule all and our beliefs filter everything else. Choose good ones. Decide it's going to be an amazing year, and it will be. It's time. You deserve happiness, you deserve love, and you deserve to know just how great you are. I am so thankful for everyone who included me in their lives this year. I am always amazed by how great the human spirit truly is. Thank you for supporting Clarity and me. Thank you for trusting me to be part of your journey. I'm wishing you all a wonderful 2016. 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Agenda for the Sixty-second Annual General Meeting of Reed Cricket Club to be held in the Howard Marshall Pavilion on Thursday 29th November 2018 starting at 2000hrs.
1. To confirm the present incumbent, Andrew Emms, as President and Chairman of the AGM. No alternative nominations for the position of President have been received within the time allowed. Consequently, Andrew Emms remains as President.
2. Minutes. Approval and signing of minutes of the RCC AGM held on 23rd November 2017.
3. Matters arising.
4. To receive the Honorary Secretary's Report.
5. To receive the Annual Accounts.
6. To consider amendments to the Club Constitution.
Only members over the age of 16 may vote. A majority of two-thirds of members present at the meeting in favour for changes is required.
7. To consider and ratify or amend rates of Subscription & Match Fees.
Only members over the age of 16 may vote.
8. To elect Vice-Presidents, Officers and Auditors for the coming year.
Rules, (all those voting must be fully paid-up members of the Club).
Playing members over the age of 16 may vote on the election of all the officers.
Playing members under the age of 16 may not vote.
Non-Playing members may not vote on the election of Captains, Vice-Captains, and Playing Sub-Committee, except the Chairman of the AGM in the event of a tied vote (Rules 21b and 22 refer).
9. To confer Life Membership.
10. Any other business. Any other issues raised during the General Meeting will be considered by the new Executive and / or General Committee(s) as appropriate at the earliest opportunity.
Club Officers' and Team Captains' reports have been posted on the Club website and a limited number of hard-copies will be available in the pavilion at the AGM.
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Japan Expo is over, but I had some really great times! Despite the fact that it was definitely too hot to be wearing a cosplay but well, what wouldn't we do for our passions.
Anyway, I held a raffle every day of the convention and here are the winners:
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My Tweet Tooth
It's all Melanie's fault. In March I received an email from her extolling the virtues of twitter, that micro-blogging, naval-gazing, Web 2.0 service. I knew about twitter but was totally uninterested in subscribing to a service that would allow me (force me!) to post short little "tweets" about what I was doing at the moment. More importantly, why on earth would I want to follow others doing the same? But she persevered.
In her email she said: "You're receiving this because you're among those open minded smart people I know who gets that things have changed and we need to understand the future. Right?" Right. And she went on to demonstrate how she was using it in the classroom. Ok, I was intrigued. A former prof, I have always been curious about how to get people interested in new ideas. And, now that I'm a veteran museum professional (ten years last month!) I'm constantly exploring and evangelizing new ways to connect the net to the museum.
So, I opened a twitter account. The artist in me soon found the limitations of the medium interesting: how could I be creative in 140 characters? And, given the flotsam and jetsam of the majority of twitter posts, how could I say something interesting? My posts weren't numerous and those following my every word were minuscule. Not a problem. I could see the creativity in the endeavor so I continued.
Last week, as I sat in my endodontist's office waiting to be evaluated for a possible root canal I tweeted: "Waiting to see root canal doc. Of course, my tooth doesn't hurt today." Suddenly, I got an email notifying me an endodontist from somewhere in Canada was following me. I asked for a consult in a short 140 character burst. My real doctor laid it out: 90% chance I'd need the procedure within six months. So I scheduled my appointment and suddenly I connected the dots. I saw the potential for something more interesting than drilling into my enamel: I would broadcast my root canal via twitter.
My twitter-based endodontist thought that was a great idea and tweeted my plans to his twitter followers. Suddenly, as I sat waiting for the drilling to begin geeky dentists and endodontists from around the continent were following me. It was a smart mob of dental professionals.
With iPhone in hand I called up both my twitter page and my twitter reply page so I could post a play-by-play and see the tweets of those following me. They were asking me questions as the procedure began. My endodontist didn't really understand my groundbreaking attempts to use social media to communicate during this medical procedure. But she was a great sport about it. She explained what she was doing and every now and then would stop so I could inform my audience (PDF of my tweets: read from the bottom up).
And, like any conceptual artist worth his weight in ideas I realized the most important thing was to document what I'd done. Just that very morning Rob Pegoraro, the tech writer for the Washington Post had written an article on Twitter. I wrote him and Marc Fisher, another Post writer who had covered my eBay auction back in 1999 (where I auctioned my personal demographics). Marc wrote a piece about my twittered root canal. I've posted the transcript of my tweets as well as the replies (PDF) from those who followed along during the procedure.
I must admit, I was afraid to tell my more normal friends and coworkers what I'd done. Groundbreaking as it might have been, this was pretty crazy, even for me (and some of my fellow conceptual artists thought I was nuts). But a little idea art always makes me feel alive (and after a root canal, that's a nice place to be). This was a demonstration of how social media could forge some interesting relationships. The best art is about just that. I never thought I'd "connect" with dentists from around North America. But my tooth is much better for it.
Related Post: My Previous Root Canal Experience
Update: A permanent home for My Tweet Tooth (getting the title font just right was fun).
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Snapchat, the mobile app that lets users send "self-destructing" photos, has the distinction of being the only digital tool that does not have a single redeeming feature. While the moral panic associated with blogs, cell phones, social networks and online games has largely faded in grudging recognition of their more positive uses (indeed, research shows that many parents have actually helped their children lie about their age register for Facebook accounts), Snapchat is seen as the Q-tip of the digital age: its sole function is to do the thing that you're warned not to do on the box.
I had a really interesting conversation with my 14-year-old daughter recently. She was wondering why so many adults assume that teenagers are all the same: a bunch of lazy, self-involved jokers who are glued to their devices all day. I didn't have an answer for her, really, only that people tend to generalize, and that this is Never a Good Thing, no matter who it is we're talking about.
Over the last week our world has been invaded: cute cartoon creatures can now be found lurking in parks, restaurants, museums, and even people's houses. If you haven't seen them, it's because they're only visible on a smartphone screen, and only if you're playing the new game "Pokémon Go".
There's a long-standing relationship between sex and the Internet. As far as back the 1980s, Usenet and local bulletin board systems were used to share pornographic text files and crude (in both senses) graphics, and people have been using digital media to form and carry out online relationships at least as long. However, just as estimates of how much online traffic and content is made up of sexual material tend to be exaggerated[1], our new report – Sexuality and Romantic Relationships in the Digital Age – from MediaSmarts' Young Canadians in a Wired World survey of 5,436 students, shows that for Canadian youth, sexuality and romantic relationships play a fairly small part of their online lives.
To mark Safer Internet Day on February 11, we'll be joining TELUS in a live webinar discussion of our Young Canadians in a Wired World research. Focusing on our first report, Life Online, our Director of Education, Matthew Johnson, will look at how the online behaviors and attitudes of young Canadians have changed over the past 10 years and what we can do to help keep our kids safe online.
It goes without saying that eight years is a long time on the Internet. Between 2005, when MediaSmarts published Phase II of our Young Canadians in a Wired World research, and 2013, when we conducted the national student survey for Phase III, the Internet changed almost beyond recognition: online video, once slow and buggy, became one of the most popular activities on the Web, while social networking became nearly universal among both youth and adults. Young people's online experiences have changed as well, so we surveyed 5,436 Canadian students in grades 4 through 11, in classrooms in every province and territory, to find out how.
This is a question I get asked a lot, and to be honest, I don't think there's an easy answer. Every kid is different and every family has different thoughts and experiences.
Our kids are coming of age at a time that things like online shopping, Facetime, and texting are all normal everyday occurrences. Technology is enabling people to do some pretty amazing things, and even communicate in a whole new way using a new language. You may know this as texting.
Building on MediaSmarts' findings on youth and privacy from our Young Canadians in a Wired World research, our new qualitative study, To Share or Not to Share: How Teens Make Privacy Decisions about Photos on Social Media examines the reasoning that teens apply when sharing photos online.
It's hard to think of a recent digital technology issue that's captured the public imagination more than sexting. This may be because it combines elements of the classic moral panic with more modern "technopanic," provoking worries not just about the morality of our children – and, in particular, young girls – but also about the possible effects of technology on how we grow, think and behave. As with most panics, of course, the issue is substantially more complicated and less sensational than we perceive it to be, and while it's unlikely that our worries about sexting will ever seem in retrospect to be as absurd as our grandparents' fears about crime comics, MediaSmarts' new data shows that many of our beliefs and assumptions on the subject need closer examination.


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Celebrating the life of Frieda Rose Haas
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Frieda Rose Haas, 91, Nauvoo passed away Saturday, February 17, 2018, at 11:41 a.m., in her home surrounded by her family.
She was born in Sonora Township on February 19, 1926, the daughter of Gabriel and Ellen Moffitt Wilkens. She married Roy Edward Haas on June 1, 1946 in Nauvoo. He preceded her in death on October 22, 1985.
She is survived by children, Edward Lee (Rebecca) Haas, Nauvoo; Deborah Jones, Springfield IL; Paul Haas, Nauvoo; Diane (Jeff) Shoen, Moweaqua, IL; and Kevin (Laura) Haas, Hudson, IL; grandchildren Jonathan Haas, Riverview, FL, Kenny (Kayla) Haas, Nauvoo, Marianne (Brett) Pence, Prairie City, IL; Dr. Brett, and spouse (Dr. Sabina Modelska) Jones, Springfield IL; Kristy (Geoff) Wellman, Burlington, IA, Laura (Brandan) Beach, Dallas City, IL, Larry (Ashley Thomas) Haas, Fort Madison, IA, Danny (Katie Milligan) Haas, Keokuk, IA; Dr. Abigail (Brian) Barnes, Assumption, IL, Hannah (Austin) Donoho, Moweaqua, IL; Matthew (Jenny) Haas, Mt. Pleasant, SC, Aaron (Rachel) Haas, Mattawan, MI; many great-grandchildren and was looking forward to the addition of 2 more in the near future, also surviving are sisters, Mary Delaney, Keokuk IA, Margie Blindt, Burlington, IA, and sister-in-law, Ann Wilkens, Nauvoo.
She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters Virginia Benjamin, Ruth Grunewald; brother William Wilkens, and her beloved son, Larry, at age 2 years.
She was a proud farmer's wife, mother and grandmother. She loved gardening, cooking, baking, reading, and spending time with her family and friends. Frieda enjoyed researching and writing about family history. She was an avid card player and was a member of her Pitch card club for over 35 years. She loved playing games with her family, friends and grandchildren. Upon her graduation from Sts. Peter & Paul High School, Frieda worked at Sheaffer Pen Co. and later she worked as a substitute rural mail carrier. She enjoyed volunteering at Nauvoo Tourist Center, Sts. Peter & Paul Sunday pre-school program, Sts. Peter & Paul and Nauvoo Grade Schools. She was a member of the St. Peter & Paul Catholic Church and the Catholic Women's Club. Frieda and Ed enjoyed many years of Square Dancing together.
Visitation will be Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Nauvoo where the family will receive friends from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. with a Rosary at 6:30 p,m.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church with Father Tony Trosley as Celebrant.
Burial will be in the Sts. Peter & Paul Cemetery, Nauvoo.
A memorial fund has been established for Sts. Peter & Paul School.
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"Get in my belly!" Fat Bastard exclaimed. "...then do da stanky legg?"
Gotta give credit where it's due: The Fader (which, interestingly enough, has just combined advertising and sponsorship forces with Pitchfork media) was early to the Dallas hip-hop game, letting Play-N-Skillz, Tum Tum and Lil Wil showcase their side of Dallas for a feature about the local hip-hop scene.
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Hi, I'm Blake. My first game was '89 Doors', a rage game where you escape mazes whilst being pursued by an insatiable creature of hunger, and now I'm working on a tower defence game called 'Forgive Me My Henchman', where you play as a typical head 'bad guy', deploying henchman and sabotaging a building in an effort to stop a one man army action hero.
The Wisdom of Blow
I am learning the hard way that tower defence Level Design is difficult!
Even if all these elements come together, that does not necessarily mean that a level will be fun and engaging. With so many things to consider, designing great gameplay can sometimes feel like an impossible task.
That is why I was so fascinated by a quote I read this week by the creator of Braid: Jonathan Blow
So why was gameplay design such a zen process for him, and why is it such a difficult process for me? I decided to do some research and to figure out how his design principles differ from mine.
After watching an interview with him, I noticed he said "You don't necessarily need to always have difficulty ramping up"
To many people, there is no distinction between those terms, but not to Blow. He says that "the answer [should be] right there if you know the right way to look at the world". What I've learned from this is that I should make level progression a result of to the mastery of skills, not due to the memorisation of sequences or by trial and error.
He therefore takes out anything from a level that doesn't focus on that level's specific idea. It made me think of my game, and how it often feels very messy and haphazard. Often, even I don't know what exactly a level is supposed to test – how can I expect that level to deliver meaningful epiphanies?
That is why I am going to start my level design once again from the beginning, following some of the design philosophy of Jonathan Blow. I think my game will be better because of this.
Wish me luck guys!
PS - a great introduction to Jonathan Blow's design philosophy was given to me by a video by Game Maker's Toolkit. I highly recommend it.
PSS - there are many youtube interviews with Jonathan Blow. Here is one, but there are many others. All of them are golden.
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Lunch with Aiden Byrne
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By Yvonne Goldsmith-Rybka
Manchester House opened in 2013 and over the past two years has established itself at the forefront of the city's fine dining scene. Personally, this was my fourth visit, although my first time for lunch. I think a lot of people, including myself, see the venue as a place to book dinner for that very special occasion (which it is); but what this visit has highlighted is that it should be a restaurant to consider for lunch. For food at this level, £27.50 for three courses is bloody good value; and more accessible for those on a budget who worry their purse strings won't quite stretch to a twelve course dinner.
It's also worth knowing that anyone can book the Chef's Table with Aiden and his team on full view (yes, he actually does cook here!) where he and his chefs explain the various dishes and techniques; this is food theatre at its best and any foodies' wet dream. If you can, opt for the tasting menu with matching wines as it's well worth it.
Our lunch dissected:
Crab Risotto - Castro Martin Albarino 2013, Spain
This used the brown crab meat which gave a very intense, rich flavour; the puffed rice on top added texture. Paired with a Spanish Albarino with distinctive aromas and flowery character.
Grilled Carrot and fennel, Skyr Yoghurt and Wild Boar Ham - Cave De Hunawihr Pinot Gris 2013, France
A delightful dish and looked like a piece of art! The iron aged pigs dark meat was almost gamey, and what this kitchen can do with a simple carrot is mindblowing, the puree containing pure essence of carrot like an eau de parfum! Beautifully paired with a sweet Pinot Gris.
Red Mullet, Leek and Potato, Shellfish Consommé - L.A.S. Vino Chardonnay 2013, Australia
Soft flaky mullet in consommé from its bones with seafood fricassee. Paired with an exclusive Luck Art Science Chardonnay which produce only 3000 bottles per year.
Squab Pigeon, Scottish Girolles and English Broad Beans - Pinot Noir Spatburgunder August Kesseler 2011, Germany
Fantastic looking dish with pigeon claw! Roasted breast, confit legs, heart and wings. With the best, greenest broad beans ever! Paired with a very earthy Pinot Noir.
Mango and Lime Parfait, Summer Fruits, Strawberry Sorbet - Sauternes Chateau Petit Vedrines 2011, France
Some fantastic flavours and textures, the tastiest raspberries and strawberries, although I've never been one for a parfait and not even Aiden Byrne and his pastry chef Dominique can make me enjoy its' texture with the cold temperature! Paired with a very good, not too sweet Sauternes.
Chocolate, Cherry and Chai - Plum Sake, Japan
A 'sweet & sour' dessert with the most wonderful chai tea ice-cream. Paired with a rather intriguing sake tasting of burnt caramel and plum.
Thank you to Jo Houlcroft, Aiden Byrne, and all the team at Manchester House for what I can only describe as one of the best lunches I have had in Manchester. In my opinion, with each visit the food has improved, and the kitchen now runs like clockwork; it was an absolute privilege to see it perform this close up.
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The Chef's Table seats up to 6 guests and is available for lunch and dinner.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Please Don't Grow
The first time I met my son I immediately fell in love.
Well, not immediately, if truth be told. Immediately I thought - "Who's that?" after they laid his slippery body on my stomach and his face shot up to within inches of mine - and we looked at each other with mutual fear and surprise.
But later, as the pain became something I would gladly endure again and again to receive such an amazing reward (mostly because it was now a memory), I gazed on his sleeping form on the eve of our first night together and thought I'd never loved anyone so shamelessly and completely.
And I could tell he was an old soul - not just because he came with male-pattern baldness and a comb-over.
For the first time in my life, I didn't want TIME to hurry up and get somewhere else.
All I wanted was to hold him and love him and have him in my arms. I wanted TIME to stop so he wouldn't grow up and leave.
Other mothers have said in consolation that TIME brings new joys with children and that it just keeps getting better. Two months into Kaleb's life (10 weeks and three days) - I believe them - but am happy to just enjoy what I have. Although....I have to admit I am really enjoying the awareness that TIME is bringing into my son's life.
Last week, we were hanging out in Kaleb's room, my iPod playing in the background, me putting away his laundry - him lounging on his changing pad. Suddenly, I heard coos and aahhs join the chorus to Jet's 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl?' Yeah! I yelled and grabbed him up to dance with me. And we rocked out together.
For a few weeks now I've had a couple cute, stuffed animals hanging off the handrail atop Kaleb's car seat. Mostly, they were for me. They looked adorable but he was completely unaware of them. A handful of days ago, he started engaging the black and white cow and the pink teething pig in an emphatic conversation. I'm pretty sure he's convinced them to see things his way.
And on occasion, my soothing voice actually cuts through his senseless fussiness. And by fussiness I mean: brain shattering, throat ripping, heart piercing wails for which I've been given no translation guide. (That part hasn't been as much fun). But kisses will sometimes now turn his heartaches into smiles. It's the best.
Right now he's mine. Or ours. Our little guy. And my worry is: when he gets older, I have to give him up. And of course I do. That's my job: to raise him to be a self-sufficient adult and a kind and happy man. But that also means I'll need to let him go. And I am already dreading this.
I'm already seeing it happen with my 10 year old step-son, Kyle and his father, my husband Howard. Just a couple short months ago, Kyle would turn his head away in disgust when he'd witness people kissing on television. "Ewwwwww," he'd plead if it was us showing the affection.
But last Wednesday, he graduated from Elementary School. He'll be attending Lindero Middle School next year. And before they sent them off, they gave them a 5th grade graduation dance. And he asked a girl to be his date. A girl....with no ewwws in the vicinity.
Howard suggested Kyle ask her if she'd like for them to pick her up beforehand. And Kyle almost immediately picked up the phone to call and ask her! With no hesitation. Wow. I was really impressed with his temerity.
Before talking to him, she made sure when she answered his call, that it was really him by quizzing him about things only he'd know (like his last name). Apparently, some not as mature 5th graders had been plaguing her with crank calls pretending to be him. After ascertaining that it was indeed her date, she informed him that she planned on going with her friends and she'd just meet him there.
Then Howard suggested he bring her flowers. "OK," he said and went across the street to a vacant neighbor's house in search of the perfect rose to clip off their bushes. Just like that. Again, I didn't remember being so fearless with the opposite sex when I was his age.....or even when I was 30.
He went to the dance and we got to peek in and see him jumping up and down with the girl and their friends and later we heard there was a slow song that he danced to with his date. Again, wow. I couldn't believe this was the same boy I had met four years ago, age 6!, now a budding pre-teen.
I am happy for Kyle because he seems more relaxed in his new awareness. But I am watching my husband's pain as he grapples with the reality that next year they won't be walking to school together every morning - as they have done since Kyle entered Kindergarden.
And now I understand.
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10 comments:
- AmyGeek said...
Beautiful picture. Thanks for the update!
- June 23, 2008 at 11:14 PM
I love the photos! What a great update! My son will have to introduce your son to the nice kids in 7th grade at Lindero Next Year.
- June 24, 2008 at 7:28 AM
- susan said...
you're both so gorgeous
it's great to hear the latest news, i think about you often!
- June 24, 2008 at 11:23 AM
You just made me cry! I read your blog and it is so ON. I am with you 100%, dreading having to give up Jeremy.
Thanks for the beautiful, touching words.
Love you,
- June 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Your words also made me cry, because I totally felt the same way. The only thing to do is to accept those feelings. You will be excited about every new milestone, however tiny, but you will always in the back of your heart be dreading that time when you have to let go. I still do, everyday.
- June 24, 2008 at 1:00 PM
- Stratton Family said...
We've talked about this same exact thing on the Tuesday walks.
By the way that is the CUTEST picture of your stepson walking w/ the flower behind his back.
Can't wait to see you guys at the birth class reunion its getting closer!!
- June 24, 2008 at 6:28 PM
Who says you have to let them go? Your friends are right - the connection between you will only get stronger, more meaningful over time. I think the trick is to keep the connection going while you teach them to fly and watch them soar!
Summer is here see you soon.
- June 24, 2008 at 8:32 PM
beautiful, simply beautiful, & sad & happy all rolled into one!
- June 25, 2008 at 10:47 AM
What a beautiful writer you are. I enjoyed reading your blog and hearing about your new revelations and the on goings of Kaleb and Kyle. Look forward to more. What a great photo as well.
Love love love! xo, Nicole
- June 26, 2008 at 9:06 AM
great photo Rina! cherish the mommy/baby ones those are always few and far between. thanks for sharing :)
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The day that changed my life
March 25, 2008, is the day I lost my "good" job. I remember curling up in the corner of my closet, hiding from my four small children and crying until there were no more tears. My life was in a million pieces, first my marriage was over, then my job was gone and here I was, now a single mom, without a job. I did not want to come out of the darkness, I'd fallen too deep and so fast. I wanted it all to be over. YES, OVER. Thank God for my children... Or I would not be here. I'd already buried a child, now all of this, what was the point of my being here? To be in pain and struggle? Depression is real. Can anyone relate? I can not be the only one... Just maybe the only one to speak about it.
Let's fast forward to today...
It's March 25, 2017... I have NEVER worked a JOB again. I have never worked for someone else again. I have never had someone else tell me my position again, I created it. I became the boss. Let that sit for a second. Not only that, I surpassed my salary the first year in business and every year since has been increase. And let's be clear, that job paid me really well.
When I look back now, I know the job was a stepping stone. My life was never about the job, the titles, the degrees, the accolades, etc. The job created relationships that would build strength, wisdom, character and knowledge in this young grasshopper. The job was my path to success, NOT my success. This took years for me to understand. God knew I'd never quit my "good job" so he took it from me. He gave me the vision, but not the instructions on how to accomplish it. I had to figure that out on my own. It was the BEST thing to ever happen in my professional career and my life.
I don't often share my story, but I felt compelled to do so today. So many are lost right now or in the corner of their closets. Facing what feels like the impossible. Some find themselves in the same darkness that I once did, and they sit silent, like I did. Embarrassed, confused, lost? A million emotions around it, I get it. I'm reaching out to you. I am here. Whatever it is that has you there, you don't have remain there. I rewrote my story... I created my path when it felt like the road had ended. Sure I cried a ton of tears along the way, but every tear shed was watering the determination under my feet.
Since that crazy day, I've traveled the world doing what I love. That's not a boast or brag, I don't need to do that, but I want you to see life is bigger than where you are right now. I've been capturing life and love with a camera, proving that people who were once in their "closet moment" existed where they once felt alone. Who would have thought? A camera saved my life. Not me. God had greater purpose for me than that JOB, but he had to take me through some things first. He had to break me down, to build me up better. It had to be done, so one day, I could appreciate the "closet moments" of my life.
If you're in your "closet moment" right now, dig deep, let those tears fall, there is strength in it, activate your faith... do not sit there long. Figure out the lesson in the pains of your life.
I'm passionate about people and purpose. So here's to vision, peace, purpose and prosperity. Claim it. No one ever said it would be easy, but trust me, it will be worth it. Hold on a little while longer. Surround yourself with conquerors, eventually you'll be one as well. By the way, never forget where you have come from... the growth is hidden within that.
love & light,
I'm Tasha Prescott and I'm a photographer with purpose greater than myself.


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With thyroid 'cancer' reclassified, patients can receive more appropriate treatment
In a highly unusual move, a panel of international pathologists has determined that a type of tumor in the thyroid is not cancer as they previously thought.
They've stripped the name cancer off the pesky tumor, known as encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma. It accounts for up to 20 percent of thyroid cancers diagnosed in Europe and North America.
"To my knowledge, this is the first time in the modern era a type of cancer is being reclassified as a noncancer," said Dr. Yuri Nikiforov, director of UPMC's division of molecular and genomic pathology and one of the experts on the panel.
The reclassification has vast implications in the field of oncology because this type of tumor is treated aggressively — often with surgery or radioactive iodine. So it's entirely possible that some 10,000 patients who have this type of thyroid cancer will not have to endure potentially harmful treatment.
It is also possible that this seemingly innocuous move by a panel of 24 experts in seven countries eventually will have an effect on other types of cancer. If we're lucky, many diseases that today we call cancer might not be cancer after all.
The idea isn't new.
Doctors for years have been saying that the word cancer is incorrectly used to describe tiny lesions that might never develop into an illness. Some doctors have urged the National Cancer Institute to reconsider using the word for some pre-cancerous lesions or slow-growing cancer cells that never wind up harming a patient.
Some forms of prostate cancer grow so slowly that all it does is scare the bejesus out of older men. Sure, it can be a serious disease, but the American Cancer Society says most men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not die from it.
Problem is, people hear the word cancer and immediately think they need to pull out the big guns. Several years ago, I interviewed an oncologist who told me he was confounded by patients who insisted on treatment for early stage prostate cancer even though he told them the treatment would cause more harm than benefit, including sexual dysfunction and urinary incontinence.
Those treatments come with a very steep price. Cancer drugs alone cost more than $30 billion a year in the United States, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology. That doesn't even include the cost of hospital stays, physicians and other treatments.
Some forms of cancer arguably need — heck, demand — aggressive treatment. They also deserve the nasty name that is cancer — with all its nasty connotations.
But cancer is big business, with high-priced drugs that sometimes offer little survival benefit. The fact that experts are willing to examine and question diagnostic criteria is a giant step in the right direction.
When I spoke to Nikiforov, he warned me that the reclassification, although significant, "doesn't mean all cancers will be reclassified."
But he said it will have a "huge impact" as doctors identify indolent, harmless forms of cancer that don't need to be cancer.
Any way you look at it, that's progress.
Luis Fábregas is the Tribune-Review's deputy managing editor for news. Reach him at [email protected] or 412-320-7998.


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Building a lunch bowl is as simple as looking in the fridge and identifying what ingredients you already have. Spring, summer and fall are months filled with delicious, in season produce. What reason could you have for not wanting to take advantage of that? When it comes to quinoa, you either love or hate it. Some people equate it to eating sand, others swear by its versatility. I love quinoa but if you're not a fan, couscous is another fantastic grain to use in this recipe.
Eating healthy for lunch can be tricky. We all have good intentions in mind but going to the nearest Mexican joint for a burrito is easy. Too easy. However, packing a lunch with identifiable ingredients and grease-less flavor has got to be a more appealing option. We can share recipe upon recipe that you can make the night ahead, prep on weekends, etc. You probably have a few ideas yourself. The remaining dilemma is getting it to the office without making a mess, worrying about leaks and keeping everything fresh. Thanks to the team at Box Appetit, we were able to try a few of their fantastic products complimentary including the one you see featured in today's post, the Lunch Pot.
The Veggie Pesto Quinoa Bowl is a vegetarian dish but it is easily customizable to include meat. Add sausage, cut up left-over chicken or steak and you've got a protein-rich dish. The chickpeas roasted along with the other veggies add a nice touch of protein to the vegetarian dish so you still get a good punch of energy and nutrition. The lunch pot from Box Appetit comes with two different "pots" and a spork. Fill one pot with the quinoa bowl and fill the other with fruit salad or a snack for mid-afternoon. Hummus and veggies is a great option or apples and peanut butter (a personal favorite of mine). When you're finished, the pots condense into one for easy storage on your way home.
Like anything that requires roasting different vegetables, make sure to let the sturdier ones cook longer than the rest. Root veggies and starches will always need extra cooking time from lighter veggies like peppers. The amount of time they need depends on how they are cut. Since we're slicing the carrots and veggies, this recipe only requires about 20 minutes extra time. Get the full recipe and instructions below.
2 Carrots, sliced on a diagonal
2 Parsnips, sliced on a diagonal
2/3 cup Chickpeas, drained and rinsed
2 tablespoons Olive Oil
1/2 cup Quinoa
1 cup Vegetable Broth
6 Asparagus Stalks, Cut into thirds
1 cup (a handful) Snap Peas, ends trimmed
1/2 Red Bell Pepper, diced large
1 tablespoon Pesto sauce
salt and pepper
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Add carrots, parsnips and chickpeas to a baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper. Bake for 20 minutes, add the snap peas, asparagus and red bell pepper to the pan. Mix all the ingredients together. Bake another 10 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, bring 1/2 cup of quinoa and 1 cup of vegetable broth to a boil. Cover and let cook 12-15 minutes until water is absorbed. Mix in the pesto and add the vegetables. Serve.
Yields 2 servings
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
What does a typical lunch look like for you? Make sure to check out all the products Box Appetit offers including a Bento Box, reusable water bottles and more. There are plenty of options that can fit all sorts of purses and work bags. No need to worry about a clunky lunch box that takes you back to junior high. This is lunching adult-style.


text: The special items for our MyCity Youth Group have been getting better and better and better. These are ran once a month and we needed to start capturing the greatness of our team at church. Here is Thomas, Nicole and Bernie rocking out to some Macklemore to get the youth hyped for the start of our Friday night service. I love Friday nights for the youth of San Diego.


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Communication – Keep in Rhythm
I seem to breeze through different themes in my life, some themes lasting a week or so and others lasting years. I've decided to blog about my experiences in hopes that someone else out there resonates with them too, and would like to share this journey with me. Let's connect!
When one speaks of evolution, it's assumed a good thing – survival of the fittest and all that. Our world has evolved so much in the last 50 years. Men are taking care of the kids, and it's not called babysitting, it's called parenting. Science has put humans on the moon, and someday there might even be a colony on a different planet. Our phones no longer need operators and wires – they are little wafers of metal that are small enough to put in our pockets, and more powerful than the mainframes of the 70's. The internet has changed the world. But is all evolution good? Not really.
Language evolved so that we could connect with each other, and share experiences with one another. Today, more often not, it seems to have the opposite effect. There is a lack of understanding of each other, and an inability to be compassionate to a fellow human being that would seem to stop true communication from occurring. How did this happen?
It happened innocently enough. Our lives got faster. We didn't have as much time to spend with each person we met, so we would get to the point quicker and would skip the pleasantries. Regular phone calls and in person visits with family went the way of the dodo, and we just posted pictures of the kids on Facebook so everyone can be up to date with little Johnny's latest Little League achievement. We are communicating with more people at one time, primarily electronically. There is no context, eye contact, body language or tone that can be conveyed in the written word, which leads to disconnect. Our tweets have to be 150 characters or less, so brevity is the word of the day. Of course, we need brevity, because we are all busy and cannot be expected to hold anyone's attention for much longer.
When we have in person communications, there are more opportunities to truly connect, but do we? Eye contact, body language can be witnessed, but often the incessant pull of the mobile device can lure us in with its seductive tones. The hurriedness we experience can cause us to speak more quickly, and with less care about our choice of words. This can lead to misunderstanding and hurt feelings that were never intended.
How can we make sure that our intent is delivered with our words, so that misunderstanding is minimized?
How can we communicate with care and compassion?
How can we connect authentically?
Here are some things that I have put in practice for myself.
When communicating with someone, my phone stays stowed away. Phone calls can be returned, and texts can be returned when I am done personally interacting with who is in front of me. The person in front of me is the only one who exists in this moment.
When communicating with someone, I slow down. I breathe. I keep soft eye contact. I focus on them while they are speaking, and ask clarifying questions and acknowledge what they say. How did that make you feel? Why did you do that? My objective is not just to hear their words, but to make them feel heard too. When I respond, it can be from the place of compassion and connection, and can give them not only what I want to say but also what they need to hear.
When someone is venting to me, I ask an important question – do you want advice or a sympathetic ear? When people just need to vent, they often know the solution already, and giving them advice is not going to be met with gratitude.
Always think before speaking – it is better to keep your mouth shut and appear foolish than open it and remove all doubt.
Language. It rolls off the tongue or ties it. It connects or divides.
How do you make authentic connections with others in pen or voice?
Sahej Anand Kaur Khalsa
Trinity Energy Progression Practitioner
*This blog is also available at Sahej Anand Kaur's Website.


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Saw something on Bruce Sterling's blog that has turbo charged a sense of unease I've had since the Bush re-election.
Noted Bio-Artist Steve Kurtz Still Outside Bounds of Guantanamo
In a sinister neo-McCarthyite turn of the cards the prosecution of the renowned artist Steve Kurtz, a core member of the US-based art collective Critical Art Ensemble and Professor of Art at the University of Buffalo, still continues after more than 8 months.
On May 11th 2004 Steven Kurtz awoke to find his wife of 27 years dead. After emergency workers arrived, they called in the FBI after finding what they considered to be suspicious items. These items were scientific samples and equipment, including harmless bacteria.
The continuation of legal proceedings against Steven Kurtz and Robert Ferrell, now suggest a political motivation to the case.
Instances of this growing culture of fascism are dropping down from above like snowflakes. And sticking, aided by a winter chill in the air. Check out this over at the Daily Kos, and ponder the things that are happening around us. Perpetual war - making it easy to suppress dissent. A political monoculture in Washington D.C., complete with manufactured crises like Social Security flailed loudly to distract you from the price of chocolate.
On Bill O'Reilly the other night, Newt Gingrich (spotted wearing a t-shirt made from Dan Rather's skin) made this comment about the Ward Churchill flap:
The former Speaker also commented on the Ward Churchill-Hamilton College controversy. "Someone who describes the innocent victims of 9/11 as little Adolf Eichmanns is so despicable and hateful that the taxpayers of Colorado should not be paying his salary. Taxpayers don't have to pay for lunatic professors to teach their children."
His Newtness, who may run for president in 2008, strongly stated, did not imply, that people who attack "The Government" should not recieve public funds, ie, Ward, the rogue leftist tenured professor, should be fired. Our Government, of the people, of which Ward is one, with FREE SPEECH as a core credo? When God tried a similar semantic trick in the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", he disappeared in a poof of logic; sadly the same did not happen to Newt, on the brighter side proving he is not God.
This is fascism, from the ruling party of our nation.
And the dance has only just begun, for the American economy is rickety and dependant on the kindness of strangers picking up our debt to the tune of 2 billion or so a day; we are about to swing into serious commodity issues in a few short years; (I'm talking fuel and food, not toaster ovens and beamers) and there is no end in sight to the gerrymandered, co-branded, Republican-Corporate machine.
Red states, as far as the eye can see, a mobius strip of self perpetuating power.


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So someone has finally taken a page out of Mizuno's playbook. I will be spending a week at Ping headquarters/R&D in a few weeks and will provide additional info on-site
The Ping nFlight Motion fitting process utilizes an attachment that clips onto any golf shaft, which sends information from the swing to an app on the iPhone or iPod touch through Bluetooth. The nFlight software models and digitally analyzes each swing and measures swing speed, path and angle of attack to fit the golfer into a combination of the proper shaft, loft and Ping club head. Like the Ping putter app & cradle Ping will also offer an nFlight Mobile that works through an iPad.
About Andrew Hodson
I am the youngest with in a golfing family which has spanned three generations. My grandfather started the tradition in England (Bert Hodson-1931 Ryder Cup Team) and has since passed on his knowledge and love of the game. Although I did not follow in the steps of my father and grandfather on a professional golfing level, my love of the game and commitment to accurately fit equipment has only grown. Even as a kid I enjoyed re-gripping clubs which eventually led to refinishing wood heads, re-shafting, and now has culminated in more detailed custom club fitting, building, and repair.