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Spirit Tree Womb Healing Guidance with Christine
An episode of Womb Centered Healing
By Sama Morningstar
Womb Centered Healing is a growing focus of healing arts practitioners who recognize the foundational importance of the womb. We all started out in our mother's wombs and were deeply influenced by our experiences there. Women and men all hold strong imprints and feelings in the womb space that often require much healing before we can become our full potential. Join me on this podcast as I discuss my own Womb Centered Healing offerings and interview a variety of people exploring this aspect of the healing journey. Photo credit: Nora Gonczi
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Womb Centered Healing is a growing focus of healing arts practitioners who recognize the foundational importance of the womb. We all started out in our mother's wombs and were deeply influenced by our experiences there. Women and men all hold strong imprints and feelings in the womb space that often require much healing before we can become our full potential. Join me on this podcast as I discuss my own Womb Centered Healing offerings and interview a variety of people exploring this aspect of the healing journey. Photo credit: Nora Gonczi
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In this excerpt of a longer interview in the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit, Sophia Wise One shares about the intense PMS she suffered from and how she turned it around for herself through menstrual tracking and Red Tent practices. Join us for the full interview here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 10, 2018
The 3 layers of Womb Healing, The Here and Now, Ancestral, and Past Lives
In this excerpt from a longer interview in the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit Angie Twydall share about her journey healing endometriosis and becoming a Womb Priestess through exploring the 3 layers of Womb Healing, the here and now, ancestral, and past lives. Join us for the full interview by signing up for the summit here: Www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 8, 2018
Birth control, Breast Cancer, and the Healing Power of Intuitive Listening
In this excerpt of a longer interview in the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit, De'Nicea Hilton shares about the connection she discovered between her own teenage birth control prescription and subsequent breast cancer diagnosis. She reveals how she listened to her intuition and found out later how it saved her life. To hear the full interview sign up for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 8, 2018
Creating your own Temple of the Feminine Arts
In this excerpt from a longer interview in the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit, Marcia Daronch shares with us about how creating our own Temple of the Feminine Arts nourishes our natural need for beauty. Join us for the full interview by signing up for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 8, 2018
Sexual Healing and Full Embodiment
In this preview interview with Amrita Grace, she shares how important it is to come together in gatherings like the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit. We get to hear about so many different approaches to returning to womb centered living, full embodiment and sexual healing. There is something for everyone. Join us for the summit to hearthe full interview: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 6, 2018
Connecting With our Wombs and Hearts to Heal Collective Trauma
As we share the stories of our Womb Centered Healing Journeys, we begin to realize that we share much of our pain collectively. We realize we are not alone. Just this realization is healing. In this episode, Domanique Luna Blackwolf shares about how coming together in communities like the Womb Centered Healing Temple helps steward humanity into new ways of being. Join us in the Opening Summit for our full interview in which Domanique also shares about receiving potent spirit guidance about her healing journey here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 6, 2018
Sisters Holding Healing Vision Together
In this episode, Jonita D'Souza and I share about the beauty of holding vision for each other in sisterhood. Jonita was the first person I told about my vision for creating the Womb Centered Healing Temple upon emerging from my pilgrimage to Glastonbury this summer. In this preview interview it is palpable how important loving support between sisters, and in any relationship, truly is. Join us in the summit for Jonita's full interview in which we discuss how this loving presence with ourselves and our partners nurtures long term intimate relationships. Sign up here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 6, 2018
Healing the Shadows of Sacred Sexuality through Amrita Orgasms
Sacred Sexuality and Sexual Healing often reveal potent shadows. In this episode, Dakota Chanel shares about her journey with thse shadows in an excerpt from a longer interview we did for the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit. She also shares about her devotion to the Sacred Feminine Waters and how Amrita Orgasms can help us to heal the shadows. To hear the full interview, sign up for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 6, 2018
Womb Awakening through Earth Love and Art
Much of human suffering results from our feelings of disconnection from life, from Earth, from our emotions, from love. In this episode, I share an excerpt from a longer interview with Clare Galloway from the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit in which we discuss Clare's experience of reconnecting with all of this during her stay at Findhorn and how she began to express and live this new connectivity through art. To hear the full interview, sign up for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 5, 2018
The Need to Release Emotional Stress Held in the Womb
Many discover as we explore Womb Centered Healing that there is a whole treasure trove of stored up emotional stress in our womb space that we never accessed even after years of spiritual and emotional healing work centered in the mind or even the heart. In this episode I share an excerpt from Nicole Popper Katzender's interview in the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit in which she shares about her initial discovery of this. To hear the whole interview, sign uo for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 5, 2018
Re-connecting our Womb Rhythms to Mother Earth
In this excerpt from Laurel Kitten's interview in the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit, Laurel shares about receiving powerful guidance from animal spirit guides and directly from Mother Earth about how to re-connect with Her rhythms through the cycles of our wombs. To hear the full interview, sign up for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 4, 2018
Fibroids, the Mother Wound, and Womb Guidance
As we track back through pur mother lineage all the trauma and womb pain that has gone untended through the generations, it is no wonder we experience womb ailments like painful fibroids. But as we engage in the healing process, we can powerfully reclaim our connection to potent womb wisdom. In this episode, I share an excerpt of a longer interview with Stacey Herrera from the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening summit in which she shares her journey with all of this. To listen to the full interview, sign up for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 4, 2018
Harmonizing our lives with the season's of menstruation
Many women suffer from debilitating menstrual pain and PMS. In this episode I share an excerpt of an interview with Zsuzsi Hussla from a longer interview in the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit in which we disvuss how she learned to harmonize her life with the seasons of her cycle to address this. To hear the full interview, sign up for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 3, 2018
Womb Healing After Hysterectomy
So many women don't discover Womb Healing until after they have resorted to having an hysterectomy. In this episode, I share an excerpt of an interview with Tammy Dowling from the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit in which we discuss how the underlying causes of womb pain remain and still need healing attention, especially after a hysterectomy. To hear the whole interview, sign up for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 3, 2018
Womb Centered Awareness in Marketing and Business
A preview of my interview with Sophie Jane Mortimer in the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit. Sign up to access the full interview here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 2, 2018
Coming together in sisterhood
A preview interview with Thessa Sophia for the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit. Join us for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
November 2, 2018
The birth of a Womb Whisperer
Sharing an excerpt of my interview with Phoenix NaGig from the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit in which she shares about her first experiences with womb centered healing. To hear the full interview, sign up for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
October 30, 2018
Embracing the Transformation of Menopause
An excerpt of an interview with Barbara Hannelore from the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit jn which we discuss the powerful transformation process of menopause and the mystery of emergence into sovereign authority. To hear the fuul interview, sign up for the summit here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
October 30, 2018
Emotion and trauma influences menstruation
In an excerpt of an interview with Keli Garza ifor the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit, we discuss the effects of emotional stress and trauma on the menstrual cycle and how vaginal steaming helps
October 29, 2018
De-shaming Menstruation
An excerpt of Sneha Rooh's interview in the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit about how her organization is working to de-sham menstruation and empower women and girls in India.
October 29, 2018
Hormonal Balance through nutrition
A preview of the interview I did with Allie McFee for the Womb Centered Healing Temple Opening Summit in which we discuss the importance of a healthy diet for hormoal balance. Join us for the summit and hear 24 Womb Centered Healing practitioners discuss their personal and professional journeys. Sign up here: www.wombcenteredhealing.com
October 28, 2018
Womb Centered Healing to Restore Harmonious Partnership between Masculine and Feminine
We are in the midst of a great awakening about how the domination of the feminine by the masculing is hurting everyone. Those who are clinging to this domination model, who have gained the most power within it are addicted to domination and have lost any sense of inner power. As we heal our wombs and this dynamic within us, we are preparing to hold these deeply wounded domination addicts through their eventual recovery
October 1, 2018
Womb Centered Healing: Rites of Passage
How we meet the transitions in our lives, from conception to birth to puberty to parenthood to menopause, says a lot about who we can become. Much healing is needex around insufficient rites that don't honor the potency of these passages.
September 15, 2018
Why Womb Centered Healing:Emotional Wisdom
We receive emotional wisdom in our mother's wombs and throught childhood it is transmitted to us through our continued connection to her womb. Many womb ailments and health issues for both men and women result from undeveloped or non-existent emotional wisdom. The medicine for this resides in the womb.
August 31, 2018
Why Womb Centered Healing?
We were all born from a woman's womb. Our experiences there deeply influenced our development, creating a blueprint for our life. Womb Centered Healing can help us rewrite that blueprint.
August 22, 2018
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WALTHAM, Mass. -- Brandeis junior righty Kyle Brenner (Brookfield, Mass./St. Peter-Marian) tossed his UAA-leading sixth complete game today, going a career-long 10 innings, but suffered the loss as visiting Roger Williams rallied with two runs in the eighth inning to earn a 3-2 non-conference win on Stein Diamond today. With the loss, the Judges fall to 12-15, while the Hawks, coached by Brandeis alumnus Derek Carlson '91 improve to 20-11.
Brenner was dominant on the hill for the first seven innings. He didn't allow a hit through the first four frames, allowing just one base-runner on a hit batter in the third. The Hawks' first hit was a hard shot to first base with two away in the fifth.
The Judges' scoring all came in the second inning. Brenner led off the frame with a single to right. Junior Cameron Shaw (E. Setauket, N.Y. / Ward Melville) followed by going to left, and senior Dominic Schwartz (San Francisco, Calif./Lowell) bunted both players into scoring position. Hawk lefty sidewinder Sean Boyle (Arlington, Mass./Arlington) got the second out by way of strikeout, but sophomore CF Sam Miller (Sudbury, Mass. / Lincoln-Sudbury) placed one perfectly between the pitcher and first baseman for an RBI single. Junior SS Brian Allen (Concord, N.H./Central Catholic) laced a ball to center to give the Judges a 2-0 lead.
With Brenner cruising, RWU picked up its second hit of the game in the sixth when Caulin Rogers (Gloucester, Mass. / Gloucester) slugged a ball that reached the fence in left-center field. Brandeis senior Brian Ing (Sandwich, Mass./Sandwich) fielded the ball on one hop and gunned Rogers down at second. Carlson came out and argued briefly after the play, but was more vocal between innings, and wound up getting ejected from the contest.
A fired-up Hawk squad broke through against Brenner in the eighth. DH Shawn Cariglio (Milford, Conn. / Foran) singled through the left side to open the inning. Pinch runner Mike Barry (Medway, Mass. / Medway) was still at first two batters later, as Brenner induced a pop-up on a bunt and got a strikeout. Rogers followed with his second hit of the game, through the same hole between first and second. That brought up leadoff hitter Jamie Timothy (Cohasset, Mass. / Cohassett), who went to right again, dropping one just inside the line that enabled both runners to score, tying the game at 2-2.
The teams failed to score in the next three at-bats, with a 4-6-3 double play in the bottom of the eighth erasing Brandeis's only baserunner in regulation. In the top of the 10th, RWU scored without a ball leaving the infield. Barry led off with a well-placed bunt single. The Hawks moved him to third with a sacrifice bunt and a grounder to second. The next batter was Rogers, who worked the count to 2-0 when Brenner came too far inside, unleashing a wild pitch that allowed Barry to scamper home with the winning run.
Brandeis nearly evened it up again in the bottom of the 10th. Facing Roger Williams senior closer Tyler Pogmore (Lebanon, Conn. / Lyman Memorial), Ing singled to center with one out, and rookie catcher Connor Doyle (Avon, Conn./Avon Old Farms) bounced one through the left side. That brought up rookie 1B Greg Heineman (Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug Regional), who laced the ball to left field. Ing attempted to score from second on the play, but senior Mike Pascarella (Milford, Conn. / Foran) threw a strike to the plate and junior Chris Travers (East Freetown, Mass. / Apponequet) blocked the dish to apply the tag for the second out. Pogmore nailed down the win by covering on a tough-to-handle ball off the bat of Brenner.
Brenner ended up going the distance for the sixth time this season, moving him into a tie for second in NCAA Division III play this season with two other pitchers. He allowed seven hits and three earned runs. Brenner struck out 10 for his second double-digit K performance of the season. He falls to 3-4 on the mound. Brenner also went 2-5 at the plate with Brandeis's only extra-base hit, a double. Heineman, Miller and Allen also had two hits for the Judges.
Boyle got a no-decision with seven innings of eight-hit ball. He fanned six and walked one. Pogmore earned the win to improve to 3-0 this season with seven saves. Rogers was the only multiple hitter for the Hawks, going 3-4, while Timothy's two-run double was the only extra-base hit for the visitors.
Brandeis is back at home on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. against Curry, while RWU faces St. Joseph's (Maine) on Monday.

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I have a Konica Minolta Bizhub C1100 with IC-308H v1.1 RIP and Fiery Command Workstation 184.108.40.206.
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I am in a computer science academic event and in the practice tests, they give a code fragment and ask what the output will be. I know that the if statement can be notated like:if (someBoolean){ someEvent}
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In my previous post, I did a how to make cube shaped & pyramid shaped hard boiled eggs. (see "how to mold a hard boiled egg")It was a lot of fun making the molds, but some of you must be thinking "Yeah, but that's a lot of work to make a mold for a hard boiled egg…" and I completely agree. I'm just a nut. So I'll show you a very easy & popular method to mold a hard boiled egg in Japan.
[How to make a <3 shaped hard boiled egg]
- Egg
- Milk carton or any juice carton (cut open, washed well and dried)
- Chopstick (round one is ideal)
- Rubber bands
Step 1: Cut milk carton and fold it in half lengthwise.
Step 2: Make a hard boiled egg.
Step 3: While the egg is still warm, peel the egg and put the egg on the milk carton, place a chopstick on the center of the egg, and put rubber bands on the both ends.
Step 4: Leave it for about 10 minutes. (Keep the egg in the fridge if it's summer time.)
Step 5: Take the chopstick off and cut the egg in half.
This is great for beginners of both kyaraben makers and eaters. It doesn't require any special technique or ingredients. Also I think it can be awesome finger food at a party. You don't need a special mold so you can make a lot of them at the same time. Put seasoning on the top like salt, egg, ketchup, anything to dress them up or you can make deviled eggs with them. It's easy, and a delicious way to tell someone how much you <3 them.
Check out How to make a heart shaped egg on my flickr
For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.
If you have any questions about any of my how-to's, please feel free to leave a comment or email me at AnnaTheRed[at]gmail.com!


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Cameron Dunlap - Investing in Real Estate Since 1993
Hey it's Cameron Dunlap. I'm thrilled that you've stopped by to check out my site. If you don't know by now, I'm a real estate investor. I've been successfully buying and selling real estate since 1993. And boy, how things have changed since then. I mean, I've never seen a better time to be investing than right now. This is a foreclosure bonanza I will probably never see again in my lifetime.
I've had the good fortune of teaching students how they too can learn this business and make a killing. As an active investor myself, I see the roadblocks and challenges you face because I face them too everyday. I've made it my business over the years to overcome these challenges and pass the knowledge onto you so your experience can be a positive one.
I've also developed specific tools and resources as I gain more knowledge that help the real estate investing business become that much easier. Tools and resources like these didn't exist when I first got started. I sure wish they did because it makes investing easier and saves a ton of time.
Automating Foreclosure With iFlip
One of the tools I've perfected over the years has literally saved me thousands of hours. And when I add up what my time is worth, it is a substantial amount of money this tool has saved me. It's called iFlip. iFlip is a unique data management system that allows me manage bird dogs, properties and buyers.
I learned early on in my career that my time was extremely valuable. The money was great but the 60 - 70 hours per week I didn't like. So I came up with a way to leverage my time better and focus on the most important things. iFlip is like having a virtual secretary, house finder and house buyer all in one.
iFlip manages all my bird dogs. First it goes out and gets them and once it finds them, it also trains them on exactly what types of properties I'm looking for. Once they find a property, they can submit it through the system and then I can accept or reject it based on what qualified as a deal. The system then pays the bird dogs what as agreed upon. I then make the offer, tie up the property and immediately send it out to my buyers list. Usually I'll have 1 or 2 backup buyers which is a great feeling. So instead of it taking me 40 hours per week to do all of this, it now takes about 2. I did a quick video on it, go check it out.
Transactional Funding
One of the biggest challenges investors face today is financing. Years ago, this wasn't an issue because we could use our end buyers money to pay for our side of the transaction. This isn't the case anymore. This discouraged a lot of investors because they either had to have cash or borrow the money. And when you borrow money, sometimes there can be substantial costs involved or credit issues in getting the money in the first place.
Realizing this dilemma early in the game, I wanted to make it possible for students to have an equal opportunity to make money investing in real estate regardless of income or credit. So that's exactly what I did. I've made it possible for ANYONE to flip deals regardless of their situation through my transactional funding program.
More on Cameron Dunlap
My business is to help you succeed in real estate. I also run another website called CameronDirect where you can find tons of information, tools, webinars and basically everything an investor could possibly want. I do partner with students on deals. I train students personally. I do events 2 or 3 times a year where we all get together. So, whatever you need, know that I'm here for you and can help you solve any problem you might have in the world of real estate.


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In this eight-part series, I will be choosing a grape varietal and searching for a dish that shows it off best. When I find the dish, I then test between 10 and 20 wines made with that grape, and narrow it down to the three I think make for a great fit. This week it's sauvignon blanc and next week, sangiovese. Give a pairing a try and if you think it makes for a winning match, let me know at firstname.lastname@example.com
MONTREAL - The first wine I ever fell in love with was made with sauvignon blanc grapes. I was 16, and it was at a restaurant called Lapérouse on the Quai des Grands Augustins in Paris. My father, citing Ernest Hemingway's lust for the stuff, ordered a bottle of Sancerre, a wine whose virtues were extolled in The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, who was rumoured to have always kept a case of Sancerre in his trunk.
That Sancerre wasn't my first taste of wine, but it was the one that stuck. I eventually developed a lust for this elegant Loire wine, finding in it one of those benchmark flavours of French cuisine that paired wonderfully with chèvre chaud salads, seafood, meunière-style fish, and all those cream-laden Julia Child chicken recipes my mom churned out in the '80s.
Scents of grapefruit, cut grass, melon, asparagus, gooseberry, lemon and herbs are typical when you take a whiff of sauvignon blanc-based wines. Words like flinty, mineral, crisp, racy and nervy are used to describe its bouquet, which is hands-down the easiest to detect when tasting blind. Pouilly-Fumé, Menetou Salon, Quincy and Cheverny are some of the more popular appellations of Loire wines made with sauvignon blanc, a grape also popular in Bordeaux, where it is often blended with the more flowery Semillion grape to produce dry, shellfish-friendly wines such as Entre Deux Mers, or sweet wines such as Sauternes. But don't stop there: you'll find sauvignon blanc all around the planet: Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, South Africa, California, and even as far away as Romania and India. How enticing!
Not so fast.
Thing is, sauvignon blanc can throw you for a loop. For as lovely and elegant as it is in the form of Hemingway's cherished Sancerre, a more rustic sauvignon blanc can turn you right off this popular varietal. "I hate sauvignon blanc," a Montreal restaurateur told me. "It smells like kitty litter and lawn clippings." When I mentioned sauvignon blanc to a local wine-loving chef, his response was, "eesh!"
I've also noticed that people who have an aversion to cilantro tend to shun sauvignon blanc wines because of their herbal taste. I myself often find some of the citrus notes overwhelming, and cannot drink a glass of the SAQ's best-selling sauvignon blanc, Kim Crawford, without thinking of 7UP.
Some associate such unappealingly aromatic sauvignons with New World wines. Yet after tasting 20 last week, I have no doubt the Loire has its fair share of potent sauvignons, including an especially odd Cheverny that tasted like green peppers. Perhaps even worse were the cheaper wines that had little personality at all, or, worse yet, a touch of sweetness (hello, Monkey Bay), or woodiness (hello, Mondavi Fumé Blanc). Ugh!
But hold on. Played softly, cut-grass/lemon rind flavours can go a long way when paired with certain dishes. Just slide your teeth into a slice of goat's cheese and try to tell me the acidity of the sauvignon doesn't work well with the tanginess of the chèvre (funnily enough, "smells like cat pee" is a comment often made about both).
When considering a dish I would pair with this varietal, my initial thought was lobster bisque. I shelved that recipe for later use, though, because so few of the wines tasted offered that aristocratic seafood-enhancing flavour I associate with Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé. Instead came visions of South Asian dishes from hot spots such as Thailand and Vietnam, two countries whose cuisines are chock-full of herbaceous flavours. In place of the bisque (which I'm still convinced would be brilliant with the less grassy sauvignons blanc, as would lemon-enhanced fish dishes, and even a simple Italian piccata al limone), I went for that warm-weather fave, Vietnamese rice-paper rolls.
Filled with shrimp, herbs, carrots, bean sprouts and noodles, these rolls are dipped in nuoc chain, a typical Vietnamese table sauce made with lime, fish sauce, vinegar, sugar, chili and garlic. Yet despite the spiciness of the dipping sauce, the mint and cilantro in the mix played the biggest role in the wine pairing.
In the end, the Sancerre was too rich, the Bordeaux too domineering, the Chilean too perfumy, the Californian too woody, and the Pouilly-Fumé too refined.
Two Loire wines scored best in show: a vibrant Domaine des Ballandors Quincy 2010 ($20.80, SAQ #00976209), whose slight herbaceous edge worked wonderfully at enhancing the rice rolls, and a Cuvée le Charnay Jean-Max Roger Menetou Salon 2010 ($21.70, SAQ #10690519), which scored raves with my wine friend for its "true taste of terroir," but with me for its personality and subtle tastes of basil and lemon. It was the first wine I tasted of the 20, and when I did, I scribbled down the words, "Vietnamese spring rolls" in the margin. My instincts paid off, and the resulting match was a winner.
But let's not give the Loire sauvignons all the credit.
Out of seemingly nowhere came a wine that scored a close third, a New World sauvignon, Stoneleigh 2011 ($17.75, SAQ #10276342) from New Zealand, whose zesty, clean flavours enhanced the dish no end. An eye-opener indeed, and at that price, a wine sure to make even the sauvignon blanc shunners reconsider.
Rice Paper Roll-ups with Shrimp and Herbs
Makes about 15 rolls, serving about 10 whole, or cut in half, as appetizers or as part of a meal
This recipe is a slightly adapted version of a favourite of mine from Jeffey Alford and Naomi Duguid's award-winning cookbook, Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia (Artisan 2000). You can make these up to two hours ahead, then cover them with a damp towel until ready to serve.
15 medium shrimp, fresh or frozen
3 ounces dried rice vermicelli, soaked in warm water for 20 minutes and drained
15 rice papers ("medium" size, about 8 inches in diameter)
2 cups bean sprouts, blanched in boiling water for 30 seconds and drained
1 cup grated carrot tossed with 1 teaspoon sugar and I tablespoon rice vinegar
½ cup packed mint leaves
30 chives or Chinese chives, or substitute greens from 6 to 8 scallions, cut lengthwise into slivers
½ cup packed cilantro leaves
To serve: lettuce leaves and nuoc chain (Vietnamese Must-Have Table Sauce, see recipe below)
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Drop in the shrimp, bring back to a boil, and cook just until pink and firm to the touch, 1 to 3 minutes. Lift out immediately with tongs or chopsticks and transfer to a plate to cool.
Bring the water back to a boil. Drop in the soaked vermicelli, cook for 2 minutes, or until soft, and drain. Refresh with cold water, drain. Remove the shrimp shells, devein, and cut the shrimp lengthwise in half down the back. Set aside.
Place a large bowl of warm water by your work area. Moisten a tea towel or cotton cloth thoroughly with water and lay it flat on the work surface. Working with 1 rice paper at a time, immerse the rice paper in the water. It will soften in less than 30 seconds. Lift it out and place it flat on the wet cloth. Place about 1 tablespoon of noodles on it, spreading them in a line across the wrapper about one-third of the way from the bottom edge. Lay about 1 tablespoon bean sprouts and a heaping teaspoon carrot salad along the line of noodles and then sprinkle several mint leaves along it. Start to roll up the fillings in the wrapper, then place 2 shrimp halves along the length of the roll. Fold over the ends to seal in the filling, then roll up another half turn. Place 2 chives or a sliver or two of scallion along the crease, letting one end stick out past the end of the roll. Place several cilantro leaves along the crease, then finish rolling up. Moisten the edge with water and set on a plate, seam side down. Cover with a damp cloth and plastic wrap, then repeat with the remaining rolls.
Serve immediately, or set aside for up to 2 hours, covered with the damp cloth and plastic wrap to prevent the rice paper wrappers from drying out. Serve on a platter or on individual plates, whole or cut crosswise in half.
To eat, place a leaf of lettuce in your palm and lay a roll-up on it. Wrap the leaf round one end of the roll-up (as if you were wrapping a cone in a napkin). Use a small spoon to drizzle on the sauce as you eat, mouthful by mouthful.
Nuoc Chain
Makes just over 3/4 cup
Nuoc chain is the basic Vietnamese sauce that goes on the table at almost every meal. It brings out the flavours of the food and sparks the appetite. Everyone has a favourite version: This one includes a little vinegar, which gives it a fresh sharp edge. Even if the amount of sugar seems high to you when you make it for the first time, try it this way at least once before you start making adjustments.
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 cup Vietnamese or Thai fish sauce
1/4 Cup water
2 teaspoons rice or cider vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
1 small clove garlic, minced
1 red chili, minced
Several shreds of carrot (optional)
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir to dissolve the sugar completely. Serve in one or more small condiment bowls. Store in a tightly sealed glass container in the refrigerator for up to three days (after that, the garlic starts to taste tired).
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Nightlife is not all parties, it is the live music shows, gigs at cafes or a kickass concert. You get to witness the best of the music events in Davis; from live music to the tours of artists, there is a lot that the city has in store for you. For a different choice of music, there are distinct events in Davis. For classical music lovers, they have classical music shows and concerts, while for the groovers they have concerts in Davis to dance your heart out.
The city is never out of stock when it's music events so get grooving already.


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Stumbling upon remarks on an obscure internet bulletin board (thank you and credit where credit is due, "Ocelot"!), we came across this:
"In 1989, Michael Schumacher wrote a book containing advice for young writers called, "On Being a Writer", where he asked advice from 31 famous authors. One of.. (those) interviewed for the book was Allen Ginsberg. The quote "Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness." was part of his (Allen's) advice for aspiring writers, so the context is Ginsberg's advice on self-expression."
"You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you."
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Electronic musicians and DJs often repurpose the music of old for a new audience, like Andy Baio's 8-bit Miles Davis rebuild, Kind of Bloop. Others reinterpret old music with the vocabulary of electronica, occasionally to great success, like New Orleans' Gypsyphonic Disko and Toronto's A Tribe Called Red. Still others unite styles of music that have normally been ill at ease with one another, like Gangstagrass's hip hop and bluegrass.
But nobody takes electronica and reinterprets it with a traditional NOLA brass band. Check that. Earl Scioneaux, III does.
Scioneaux, also known as Madd Wikkid, is the recording engineer at the venerable jazz Mecca Preservation Hall, and for the Preservation Hall Jazz band, the musical griots of the city. He is also a producer and musician. He is responsible for one traditionally non-traditional project already, Electronola, which melds the Crescent City's traditional sounds with electronica, and features, among other musicians, drummer Jason Marsalis, bassist James Singleton, and vocalist John Boutte.
Now, however, he is blasting the future back into the brass past. He's remaking Daft Punk for a brass band.
Like Electronola, "Brassft Punk" has also been funded through Kickstarter. The project has exceeded its $10,000 goal by over $3,000. The plan is to record an EP of Daft Punk's best-known tracks with a NOLA brass band. The songs include "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," "One More Time," "Around the World," and "Da Funk."
"I was originally looking through my electronic music collection for a whole album to redo," Scioneaux told Ars. "But I wasn't really finding anything. But Daft Punk's greatest hits I thought would translate well. It's danceable stuff and brass bands are upbeat dancing kind of music."
Scioneaux has already written the arrangement for the first and is working on those for the other three. He will be hiring local New Orleans musicians, which, given his connection to the city's musical community in general and the Preservation Hall in particular, shouldn't be a challenge. The final product, to debut in a hybrid coming out party at Preservation Hall in December, will be available as a download and also on vinyl. As New Orleans music magazine Offbeat noted, Scioneaux also plans (if the donations continue) to possibly "offer access to multitrack stems of the record, which would allow listeners and DJs to remix the songs themselves."
Sometimes when musicians mess around with traditional music, they get cracked upside the head by purists. Gangstagrass, for instance, took criticism for their alleged adulteration of bluegrass with rap. It is no different in New Orleans, according to Quickie Mart, one of the city's first electronic dance musicians to gain national respect and one of the two brains behind the EDM-bounce-Balkan-LatAm act, Gypsyphonic.
"New Orleans purists are stubborn, and they like to keep it local and off the map," he told Ars. "They are not open minded to original jazz and funk being fused and altered. To them, it's almost sacrilegious. But to me, and a lot of younger musicians and listeners, it's how music has always been created, and how new genres are birthed."
As a new generation moves under the spotlight, this attitude is bound to change. Quickie Mart believes acceptance is inevitable, if not imminent.
"People need progression with music, and I think that's why these trends are so successful."
New Orleans it seems is not just a musical twisterberry freakout but a technological one as well. When Scioneaux used Kickstarter for Electronola back in 2009, it was not well known, having only launched the previous year. It had yet to fund wristwatches and video games. But Scioneaux knew about it because his former roommate was none other than Kickstarter's founder Perry Chen. Baio of Kind of Bloop was Kickstarter's first CTO and founder of Upcoming.
Whether we're talking about music or technology, mixing up the armbones is the bane of the frightened and nectar to the fearless. Brassft Punk combines both.
"Tools to make music better and more affordable are creating a sort of a parabolic curve," said Scioneaux. "The ability to make an idea into reality is becoming more accessible to more people."
This sort of tech-driven cross-pollination is an increasing aspect of music making. It will, no doubt, produce a lot of dross, but some of what shines brightly will surely be gold. Will one of his Brassft Punk compositions make it into the repertoire of New Orleans' famous second-line bands? Scioneaux laughed.
"Man, if I were on the street and heard (a Brassft Punk song) as one of the parade bands came around the corner," he said, "that would make my day."


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One of the perks of this job is having a new car delivered to my house nearly every week. This time it's the gorgeous new 2012 Porsche 911 in Carrera S trim in a stunning Guards Red. Something very strange happened when the delivery driver handed me the keys.
The thump-thump of the horizontally-opposed six-cylinder Porsche engine summoned a beaver from the nearby woods. He skirted up to the gleaming car and just stared at it like a slack-jawed teenager might. I went for my camera and by the time I caught up with the little guy he'd already crawled underneath the 911.
Eventually, I was able to get him to move (after a snapping a photo) to a safer place. As nature's engineer perhaps he was just admiring something so sturdily built. Or maybe this model came equipped with Porsches new lightweight balsa wood brakes.
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Facebook may want to play down its role in overthrowing governments on the other side of the globe but Egyptians fighting for their freedom see it differently.
NBC News reporter Richard Engelis covering the popular uprising taking place in Cairo that many have said would not have been possible without youngsters organizing on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The Washington Post ran a story Thursday saying Facebook was reluctant to embrace its role in "international takedowns." Egyptians on the other hand are not so shy to give credit where they see credit is due.
Friday Egyptians were standing in Tahrir Squareholding a sign in Arabic that translated read "Thank you... Youth of Egypt Facebook."
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