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The husband is a no-sweets kind of guy. As in, NONE. Almost ever. He has this weird ability to resist things that make him feel bad, even if they taste good. Just strange. 😉 Today was (is!) his birthday and the rest of the family wanted SWEETS to celebrate.
So, to get HIM to eat his birthday treat with us, we went 'real food'. The kids and I made ice cream from raw milk and cream and we sweetened it mostly with honey and a touch of raw sugar. To keep the sweet factor down for him, we didn't add fruit like we usually do. We spiced it up with cinnamon and nutmeg and added a couple of pastured egg yolks to pack the nutrients in and make it more custard-like. The recipe was adjusted and adapted from several ice cream recipes online but it is not really attributable to any one person so I'm including my adapted recipe instead of links to several others. I would call it flan flavored ice cream, which went right along with our sprouted corn chips and salsa and fajitas.
Real Food Cinnamon Spice Ice Cream (Makes about 4 cups)
1 1/2 cups raw cream (because raw cream is not legal to sell in Utah, I separate it from the raw milk -Check out my YouTube Video on my super easy method of separating cream from milk. )
1 1/2 cups raw milk
1/2 cup local raw honey
2 tbsp sucanant
1 tsp organic vanilla
2 tsp Ceylon cinnamon
1/4 tsp organic nutmeg
pinch Real Salt (we're used to the undissolved minerals in our food, but use plain sea salt if you prefer)
2 local pastured egg yolks
I mixed all the ingredients (except the egg yolks) together in a glass bowl earlier in the day to let the flavors settle in a bit. When I was ready to put the mix in the ice cream maker, I beat in the egg yolks and poured it in immediately. It took about 20 minutes to get to a nice soft-serve consistency and it was served with a sprinkle of cinnamon and nutmeg on top…and, of course, a candle for the birthday boy.
What? No cake? Well, no. I gave up on trying to make 'acceptable' cakes for him years ago although, one year I did whole wheat rolls in cupcake liners with real butter on top and that was a huge hit.

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Archives: April 2011
SQL Community Support
I have blogged before about my appreciation for the SQL community mainly within the PASS organization as that is what I was most familiar with. I have been active with SQL Saturday, PASS Summit, and my local PASS Chapter for the past two years and have benefited greatly by the… Read more
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If you truly want to understand something try and change it.
I saw this quote on facebook last week and it really hit close to home. I had just started working on a request at work to produce a flat file from a database I support that was to replace a similar file being produced by another team. The other team… Read more
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SQL Saturday #70
This blog is long overdue about my journey to Columbia SC for SQL Saturday #70. I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to speak at this event and to be able to attend the speakers dinner. I had a great time getting to meet and spend time with so… Read more
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Burien City Council Holds Special Meeting; Actual Annexation Projected For Spring 2010
Burien Mayor Joan McGilton began a special City Council meeting on annexation Monday night (Aug. 24th) by rolling out the welcome mat for 14,100 North Highline residents who will become part of the city early next year.
Councilwoman Kathy Keene, observing the "long, hard fight†to bring the south part of the North Highline unincorporated area into Burien is over, added, "We just want to assure everybody that it will be a seamless transition and a welcoming transition,â€
Sally Nelson, a city council member since Burien incorporated in 1993, said, "We feel like you're one of us now. We've erased that line (dividing the city from the neighborhood immediately to the north) and we have a new line and we hope someday to erase that line too.â€
City Manager Mike Martin said these future city residents will "see no changes until annexation actually occurs,†which is expected to happen in late March or early April. Even then, he continued, "they will not see substantial changes†unless services are enhanced.
With 2,472 ballots cast in last week's primary election counted through Monday, 55.91 percent (1,363) of registered voters in the North Highline annexation area favored becoming part of Burien in last week's primary election, while 44.09 percent (1.075) opposed the merger. The current total represents 38.72 percent of voters in that area.
"We do not consider this to be a mandate, but it certainly is a very strong showing,†Martin told council members. "We want to thank everyone who was involved, and they are legion … there was a lot of heavy lifting that went on here†in the months leading up to the vote. He extended special thanks to the North Highline Unincorporated Area Council "for their steadfastness†in support of annexation.
When annexation becomes official, Burien will be the 21st largest city in Washington with a population of about 45,000. Currently the city ranks 31st in the state. The annexation area extends north from South/Southwest 128th Street to a line that zigzags west to east along Southwest 112th Street in north Shorewood, South 116th Street, South 112th Street, and South 107th Street in Boulevard Park, ending at Tukwila.
Much of Beverly Park and Boulevard Park, including the Rainier Golf and Country Club, will be absorbed by Burien. Left in the remaining unincorporated area between the new Burien city limits and Seattle will be the North Highline fire station, Evergreen High School and Pool, and the Top Hat neighborhood.
Martin noted that after a lengthy telephone conversation with interim King County Executive Kurt Triplett, "it appears extremely unlikely that any (county) parks in our annexation area will be shut down.†Triplett has proposed closing 39 parks in unincorporated areas to help balance the county's budget next year. Five of these parks are in the annexation area.
The city's contract with the King County Sheriff's Office will be modified to hire more deputies as city police officers, many of whom already work in North Highline. All special districts – fire, water, sewer, library, and Highline schools – will continue to provide services in the newly annexed area without interruption or change, Martin added.
Council members also encouraged residents of the North Highline annexation area to become involved with their new city government now. Councilwoman Rose Clark invited them "to come to council meetings†and to offer comments. "I encourage that. We need all the advice we can get.â€
McGilton reminded them that they "can come to (advisory) commission meetings and participate†both before and after annexation takes place, even if they are not commission members. "You do not have to be at the table†to contribute.
Following a lengthy discussion, council members backed away from a proposed ordinance to allow North Highline annexation area residents to become members of the Arts, Parks and Recreation, and Planning commissions before they become part of the city.
Planning Commission member Jim Clingan reminded lawmakers that city policy has been to have no geographic preference for council positions and commission memberships. To make this exception now could result in preferential treatment, he cautioned.
Councilman Gordon Shaw and McGilton, who agreed there should be no geographic preference, noted the council's normal process is to invite applications for membership on these commissions in January, review them in February, and appoint new members in March – about the time the annexation area will become part of Burien.
The council directed staff to draft a new ordinance, relating to participation on city commissions by residents of the annexation area on city commissions, that states they can apply for membership on commissions before joining Burien.
During public comment, North Highline resident Karen Veloria told council members, "I wanted us to go to Seattle … but I'm now in Burien. That's OK with me. I'm willing to work with you all.â€
Another North Highline resident, Richard Beaubelle, told them, "I pledge to assist in making this a smooth transition.â€
Burien resident Cherisse Luxa added, "I'm so proud of the people in the south part of North Highline for choosing to become part of Burien.†Extending her welcome, Luxa said, "I can not wait until north North Highline†also becomes part of the city.
Liz Giba of North Highline exclaimed, "I can't wait until we become part of Burien.†She said she will keep on working on annexing the rest of North Highline into the city "and will remain hopeful.â€


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Snowshoeing in the Fells 2h
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"The Laplanders hung the wings of a willow grouse over the crib of a baby girl so that the girl would grow up to be as pure as the white willow grouse on top of the snow."
Snowshoeing is the closest way to experience the nature of Lapland. The deep snow crunching under the shoes, the snow-hooded trees, and the pearly-white willow grouse watching you from afar – the winter nature is a magical world of its own.
We hike through the forest in snowshoes to a nearby fell where we will build a fire, enjoy a delicious meal outdoors, and enjoy the spectacular scenery. The guide will provide information on the nature and animals of Lapland, and with any luck we may see a Siberian jay, a willow grouse, or a herd of reindeer wandering by.
This trip is especially suitable for nature-lovers, who wish to take great photographs and enjoy the natural scenery in an ecological way.


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HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG): Greg Kinnear stars in this adaptation of Todd Burpo's book about a father whose young son claims to have visited heaven during a near-death experience.
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4th Stamps by WM Squared Designs. I hand stitched the zig-zag, created the word art in Photoshop, and added a seam binding bow. I'll be sending this card in to Operation Write Home to go to one of our heroes to thank them for their service to our country.
I made this card with a bit of mojo from the Mojo Monday 198 sketch. Doesn't that sketch just beg to be done in a patriotic flair?!!!
Hope you are having a wonderfully crafty day!
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You'd think evangelical leaders in Alabama would be brandishing their 10-foot poles in order to distance themselves from the child molesting Republican candidate Roy Moore in the race for the U.S. Senate. You'd be wrong.
David Floyd, for instance, pastor of Mervyn Parkway Baptist Church, rationalized that "all of us have sinned and need a savior" in his statement defending Moore. "I've prayed with him. I know his heart." ("On morality, evangelicals get religion," Chicago Tribune, Nov. 19, 2017) Of course, Floyd was not so forgiving of President Bill Clinton back in 1998 when he told church members that Clinton had to go because of his sexual dalliances. Apparently Floyd is confusing himself with Jesus because he believes he has the right to judge who is morally worthy and who is not.
Moore himself brandished a list of 50 Alabama Christian pastors who still support him despite the growing number of women who say Moore made sexual advances upon them when they were teenagers.
What is happening here? The answer lies in an "end justifies the means" attitude that many Christians took to the polls with them to elect Donald Trump in 2016. Because Trump said all the right things about abortion, he passed the evangelical litmus test for office. Since his election, he has cemented evangelical support by appointing a conservative justice of the Supreme Court and coming out against transgender individuals in the armed forces .
With reference to Moore, evangelicals see him as a man who "hold[s] positions close to ours." (Tribune) So they give him a pass on behavior that does not even meet legal standards, never mind moral ones. As evangelical professor John Fea states, "What you're seeing here is rank hypocrisy. These are evangelicals who have decided that the way to win the culture is now uncoupled from character." (Tribune)
But the hypocrisy goes deeper than that. Evangelical Christians also tend to be politically conservative in other ways, and so this latest instance of propping up a morally corrupt leader serves to advance the conservative agenda on other issues, such as taxes and immigration. Proof of this is something Pastor Robert Jeffress of Dallas First Baptist Church reminds us.
Said Jeffress, "A watershed moment was 1980. Evangelical Christians chose between a born-again Baptist Sunday school teacher and a twice-married Hollywood actor who had signed the most liberal abortion bill and whose wife practiced astrology. And evangelicals chose Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter." (Tribune)
It's clear that Roy Moore has no intention of stepping away from the Senate race in Alabama. And although many evangelical leaders there have denounced his candidacy, many others justify their support in this hypocritical manner. Whatever happens in Alabama, this abdication of moral authority will ultimately backfire on religious leaders, especially with the next generation, whose hypocrisy radar is often quite high.
But the American people may ultimately pay too high a price if we continue to choose politics over character in our leaders.


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Learning communities...integrate academic subject matter and social interactions while providing the physical space or facility for an intellectually stimulating environment to emerge."
—Aaron Brower and Karen Dettinger, 1998
Learning Communities:
- Create opportunities for intellectual and social interaction with peers and faculty around shared interests
- Build a supportive social network among First-Year students transitioning into college life
- Promote strong student-faculty connections
- Help students realize the broadest range of educational opportunities that Dickinson's campus offers
- Emphasize inter-disciplinary perspectives
- Connect classroom discussion to applications in the broader world
Learning Community Activities:
Each Learning Community member can expect to participate in a variety of activities on and off campus that deepen the learning experience. These may include:
- Small group interaction with speakers on campus
- Field trips
- Service-learning projects
- Dinner-discussions with faculty
- Film discussions
Each Learning Community is assigned an upper-level student Coordinator (LCC) who lives in the residence hall and works with students and faculty in support of Learning Community goals.
Working with their LCC and faculty members, participants in Learning Communities will be able to plan and implement activities that help meet the goals of their particular community. During the spring semester students will have the opportunity to plan and implement programs.


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Friday, September 21, 2012
What Is It About the Fall That Caused Me to Overcommit Myself?
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You have every right to BEE proud!!! What an honor to be nominated!!ReplyDelete
What an exciting time for Baby Bee, who's really not a baby anymore! Hope we can call her Resident President Bee soon!ReplyDelete
You should be proud! I hope she will be voted President.ReplyDelete
Oh I understand! I've been busy myself. Work, canning, and on and on. Have a happy fall Sweet Bee!ReplyDelete
Being proud is wonderful..it shows love and commitment. Baby Bee's poster is lovely, and I wish her luck. When I was in my first year of High School, I became the campaign manager for a friend who was seeking to become our year's president of the student council. I had so much fun doing that...and we won...which was simply icing on the cake!ReplyDelete
Hope you enjoy your Sunday, today.
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Rava Idli
While those white idlis are a common sight and need ahead of preparation time for soaking and fermenting, rava idli is a quick fix in comparison. With the addition of veggies like peas, tomato, it's nutritious as well as filling.
1/4 tsp - Eno fruit salt
2 ) Now transfer to a plate and cool. Once rawa has cooled down,then do the next step. In a mixing bowl add curds and beat well.Then add green peas, tomato, coconut and salt to taste. Dissolve hing powder in little water and add to the batter. Then add cooking soda and eno to the batter and stir in well. Then add roasted rawa and mix well. The batter consistency should be like the idli batter ( add little water if the batter is too thick). Immediately go ahead and make the idli's.
Note - If the curds/ yogurt is sour then don't add tomato. End result could be too sour idli. Use yogurt that is not sour for this recipe.


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Pacific Ridge near Salem, OR, Treats Clients from All Over the West Coast
Posted on: July 17th, 2013 by Pacific Ridge |
Pacific Recovery is located in the small town of Jefferson, Oregon. Its clients however, come from all over the West Coast.
Jefferson is located in the heart of the Willamette Valley, just south of Salem, the state capitol. Pacific Ridge has treated clients from Portland, Oregon to Ashland, Oregon. Many of Pacific Ridge's clients come from …


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As children and teens return to school and lives become more hectic, it's important that families establish healthy lines of communication that help parents and kids stay in touch. Here are a few recommendations:
As communication becomes more instant through e-mail, texting, and messaging through social networking sites, there is a risk of more shallow – and impulsive – conversation between kids. Here are a few tips for helping your child avoid sending "mixed signals":
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Bab Christensen Net Worth
Bab Christensen made money by Actors niche. For all time, at the moment, 2019 year, Bab Christensen earned $73 Million. Exact sum is $73000000.
Short biography, height, weight, dates:
Birth date: January 8, 1928
Birth place: Oslo, Norway
Profession: Actress
Spouse: Lasse Kolstad (m. 1957Р 2012)
Parents: Halfdan Christensen, Gerda Ring
Siblings: Pelle Christensen
Movies: Stevnemote med glemte ar
Wikipedia Source: Bab Christensen
Barbra Karine Bab Christensen is a Norwegian actress. She was born in Kristiania as a daughter of Gerda Ring and Halfdan Christensen and younger sister of Pelle Christensen. She made her stage debut in 1947 at the National Theatre, and was employed at Den Nationale Scene from 1949, the National Theatre from 1952, Trø-ndelag Teater from 1963, Fjernsynsteatret from and Det Norske Teatret from 1970. She appeared in a small number of films. She is married to Lasse Kolstad. She was a sister-in-law of Henki Kolstad.


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Making More Money By Using The Law of AttractionWritten by Dian Herdiana on 7:06 AM
You know that there are a lot of people who feel the need to use the law of attraction in order to attract the big bucks. You will find that about how much work you are going to have to pit into the law of attraction for you to make some serious money. You will find that you may want to gain a lot of wealth, very quickly, but without minimal effort. You will want to sort through your motives and see if this is something that you truly want or if the money isn't the main thing that you want, but you are thinking about things like success.
You will find that there are a lot of people looking for the easy gold pot, but unless you plan on using your luck in the lottery, then you will want to consider that the law of attraction is not your easy way out. The law of attraction will take a lot out of you and you are going to have to put some effort towards the theory in order to find any successful amount of wealth.
If you would really like to find the money in life, then you will want to follow some of the few tips that are listed below.
Keep in mind that money is just a tool in life. Money does not make you happy and it can't buy you love or respect. Money is just something that people use to get by in life. Keep in mind that you may find that people will want to hang out with you more and you will be able to find more people try to include themselves in your life, however, you can not expect these people to truly love and respect you since they only came around because of the money.
It is still important that you realize the money is an important aspect in life. You will want to keep in mind that in society we need money to sustain a good life. A good life is meaning that you are able to pay the bills. You will also find that you may be attracting by Karma by trying to get more money than you need to have to be happy.
For you to stay positive and true to the definition of the law of attraction, then you will need to keep in mind that you are not a slave to the system, but the system is there to serve you. You will be able to best serve a positive image by trying to become personally successful and not materialistic successful.
It is a great idea to try to make your life better for the children and be able to give them more than what you parents gave you, however, you will find that most of the time quick money is a scam and you will not be able to benefit greatly from trying to find the big money.
Keep in mind that the law of attraction will help you to find your way to success in any way that you would like to have success, but you will also find that this is a way to make your life seem whole and radiate with positive energy. You will need to think about things like money in your goals, but you will also want to be aware of what benefits you are getting from the secrets of the law of attraction. You can do so much with your life, but you need to figure out what it is that your truly want out of life before you start setting your personal goals to work on with the law of attraction.


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I normally try to bring food from home with me when I travel, but when you're flying cross-country it is sometimes hard to bring enough. My partner jests, "well, maybe if you didn't take 7 books with you." Ha-ha…funny guy. Even so, why when I decide to get food at the airport are there 'rarely' any good healthy options? I never know where this food is coming from? And there are hardly ever any gluten-free options. WTF?
Today I ended up settling on a salad with tuna from Spring Fresh Salads. It tasted like bland cat food. I know, I should have known better on the tuna, but it's my favorite protein and I was quite hungry with a few more plane hours to go. (I won't even get into airline snacks.) So again, what's with the lacking airport food options?
I got thinking about it as I ate my bland cat food… Airports are striving to be greener – greener buildings, better energy efficiency, recycling, and even compostable packaging in some. Why haven't they applied the same standards to their food? So many people fly and thus have to eat bland cat food like me. They're already charging you so much for it; they might as well make it healthy, sustainable and taste good. Why can't they have mini farmer's markets like they have on highway rest stops? Sure they'd have to approach the business model a little differently, but think of the health, social & environmental impact that could have. I'd buy some fresh kale from a local farmer's market at the airport. I love eating raw kale, brussels sprouts, turnips…I could go on and on.
What do you think? Do you think we could use more healthy, sustainable, local, gluten-free and tasty food options at our airports?


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Episode 11: Still Marching
The day after Trump's inauguration, millions of people around the world took to the streets in protest. March along with us in this episode! We'll meet participants in the Women's March on Washington, and go back to where it all began—the first women's march in Washington, on the eve of President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration in 1913, before women even had the right to vote. Plus, two very special daughters make their Can We Talk? debut.
Nahanni's podcasts are models of clarity, craft, and reason. This one about the Women's March is a wonderful collage of eyewitness accounts, supplemented with historical precedents and cogent questions about our future progress. Music from Woodrow Wilson's inauguration and World War I, including the voice of Enrico Caruso, sharpens the focus on this present moment. By including the resistance of men to the original march in 1913, President Wilson's opposition to Women's suffrage, and the racial limitations during those years of struggle, Nahanni highlights both the progress towards true democracy and the challenges we need still to overcome. Knowing all of this is heartening in our contentious present.
I love listening to these podcasts because it makes me feel linked with so many other women. I live in New Jersey, but didn't have the heart to be here during the inauguration, so I escaped to Key West, FL, where I could ignore it all. However, my husband and I were able to join the Women's March there and join the other 3,000+ people. It was amazing to feel connected to the locals and tourists there and to know we were connected to people marching throughout the US and the world. Now the real work begins.
How to cite this page
Jewish Women's Archive. "Episode 11: Still Marching." (Viewed on February 20, 2019) <https://jwa.org/podcasts/canwetalk/still-marching>.


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Archive for January 17th, 2007
Excuses, excuses
I have obviously not kept my promise. Between trying to deal with a pending IPO, a new car that has had more incidents in the two weeks I've had it than what I've had in two years with the old car and some 36 GB of data and miscellaneous settings to transfer to the new laptop, blogging is just not something that I could find a lot of time for.
First, the GBN IPO. Nope, I am not getting any allocated by the company since we were chopped off into Web 18 two months ago, so it is the open market for me. Everyone expects it to do well, but will it do well? God alone knows and I think I will plonk a bit of cash into it. I am not good with money or gambling, so it should be fun.
The car, a black Maruti Suzuki Swift ZXI, is a lovely thing to drive. It has surprised me on all counts – suspension, power, fuel efficiency, ride quality, climate control – and other than for two incidents that were directly connected to my stupidity (and a third one where I was hit by a two wheeler from behind, not nice at all), it's been smooth sailing. I'd never considered this car as a long-term buy, but it is growing on me.
The laptop, Toshiba Qosmio F20, was not really the laptop I was looking for to replace the aging HP. For reasons that are known only to the systems guys, I was given a multimedia laptop when I asked for workhorse business/developer laptop. On the plus side the display is amazing. In fact, it is amazing enough to start hurting your eyes after a while, forcing me to hit the brightness reduce button quite often.
On the negative side it is very heavy, weighing in at over 3.5 kilograms, is not easy to hold from any angle and has a weird keyboard layout that has kept the Windows key up on the top row alongside the number keys and the pause button. Someone please hit the guy who did the layout on the upside with a nice big trout for doing it as I used to depend a lot on the Winkey+R, Winkey+L, Winkey+E and Winkey+D shortcuts a lot.


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I fear I might take potatoes for granted. Food shortages have haunted history since, probably, the beginning of time, and wheat is no exception. In scarce times, potatoes were added to breads to feed hungry bellies when wheat was not in abundance. This somber tradition carries on today, and potato breads are an austere reminder of the power of food.
I start the hydration of this bread at 60%. The dough will feel dry and stiff before the autolyse, however, after the autolyse, it will have hydrated considerably. Use your intuition, but you will want to keep this dough a little on the stiff side. The Baker's Percentage for this bread is as follows:
Total Flour 1,000 g 100%
White Flour 900 g 90%
Whole-Wheat Flour 100 g 10%
Mashed Potatoes,
Unsalted 1 Cup
Fresh Rosemary,
Minced 8 tsp.
Levain 200 g 20%
Water 600 g 60 %
Salt 24 g 2.4 %
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I find it to be a pretty strange coincidence that a few weeks ago, I decided to do a 4-part series of blogs about denim trends, because I love jeans…who doesn't? Then I found out that April 24 was National Denim Day and thought, what a coincidence? I was thinking it was just one of those fun "holidays," days arbitrarily designated to celebrate the things we love in life (like jeans). But I didn't have to look very far to find that I was way off the mark (though by then a few days had passed – though I can say that I did wear denim on Denim Day!). The day has a meaning and movement behind it that goes far deeper than I could have imagined – wearing denim on National Denim Day is symbolic of your support of the movement's aim to get rid of the outdated views and preconceptions that people still have about sexual assault and its victims. Wearing jeans is also relevant because this terrible incident of injustice that led to Denim Day would likely not have happened had the victim not been wearing jeans at the time.
Let me back up and start from the beginning to avoid confusion. In Italy in the early 1990s, an 18-year-old girl was picked up by her married 45-year-old driving instructor, supposedly for a lesson. Instead, he drove her to an isolated area and sexually assaulted her. Her parents were very supportive and helpful as she pressed charges against him. First he was convicted of a lesser offense, indecent exposure in a public place. The victim was not satisfied with the outcome, so she filed an appeal (unlike in our court system, in Italy both the plaintiff and the defendant can appeal the verdict.), and he was eventually convicted of all charges, including rape, and sentenced to 34 months in jail. Next, it was his turn to appeal his conviction, and in 1999 – 7 years after the original crime was committed – the case made it all the way up to Italy's highest court. In a matter of days, the court ruled in favor of the formerly-convicted rapist, overturning his conviction and releasing him from jail. Simply put, it was stated that the case lacked evidence for a conviction; however, in it's official ruling, the court stated: "It is common knowledge … that jeans
cannot even be partly removed without the effective help of the person wearing them … and it is impossible if the victim is struggling with all her might." The Chief Judge explained further that "because the victim wore very, very tight jeans, she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was no longer rape but consensual sex."
Understandably outraged by the verdict, the women in the Italian Parliament sprung into action by wearing jeans to work as a means of expressing their protest against the court's ruling. The case made international news, and motivated the California Senate and Assembly to join the protest by wearing jeans to work. It further spread to Patricia Giggans, Executive Director of Peace Over Violence, a nonprofit whose mission is to eliminate all types of violence in our society. They provide emergency help and other services to assist victims as they recover, community education about prevention and other important issues (such as the legal definition of consent), and a slew of other empowering benefits and forms of advocacy to it's clients.
Since it's induction in 1999, the Denim
Day movement and message quickly spread throughout the nation, as well as to 120 foreign countries. Wearing jeans on the designated Wednesday each year in April has become a symbol of expression, that we as a society will no longer accept biased and destructive misconceptions about all types of violence and its victims. In addition to wearing jeans to express your support, you can get involved in many other ways – CLICK HERE to view the page on Peace over Violence's web site about how you can further support the cause, and not just on Denim Day.


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|Praying in St. Andrews
Bed & Breakfast: The Old School House
Starting time: 9:00 AM Finish Time: 1:30 PM
I'm a couple days behind in these blogs so it's hard to write about this somewhat boring walk day when we've just completed a 24 mile marathon...but we'll give it a brave attempt.
|Horses were the highlight today!
|Gabriel got some fudge!
So after saying good bye to our new friends Steve & Mary as well as to our hosts, Peter and Jan (telling her how my mom said she had honored us by her lovely "scratch" cake) we set off for Richmond.
|Reaching civilization again!
|Fish & Chips in Richmond
The church itself was amazing. More than just a relic, it obviously was used frequently having a children's area set aside and slightly upsetting the "solemnity" of the building. No one else was there so we spent a few minutes walking around, saying a moment of prayer, and signing the visitor log indicating we were from Hong Kong. Gabriel even wrote "very beautiful" in Chinese characters.
|Watched Spiderman here!


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DEAR MISS MANNERS: When my husband and I dine at a restaurant, if the waiter does not give us his name upon greeting us, my husband will ask for it. My husband then proceeds to introduce us to the waiter, saying, "I'm Joe, and this is Jane."
I find this to be incredibly awkward and even patronizing. It seems unnecessary for the waiter to know our names, as we are not trying to make friends. We're always friendly to wait staff and we tip well, but we're ultimately just at the restaurant to enjoy a meal.
Am I wrong — Is this introduction proper or appropriate?
GENTLE READER: Not unless your husband intends to invite the waiter to share your meal, in which case Miss Manners wonders who will bring the food.
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I (female, professional) volunteered as a coat-check person for an auction fundraiser for a not-for-profit group. Was it appropriate for me to offer to help people put their coats on after I retrieved them?
When my "customers" were a couple (man and woman), I'd offer the obviously feminine coat to the man to allow him to help the lady with her coat.
Rarely did he seem happy to take it. One man said, "Nope! That's HER coat."
Was I wrong to give the women's coats to the men? The event was formal, "black tie."
GENTLE READER: Miss Manners understands the confusion of the gentleman who is handed a stole while you retain his wool overcoat. Surrender both coats to the person who asked for them. A gentleman who has the courtesy to help a lady on with her coat no doubt has the dexterity to juggle his own coat while doing so.
A loan is no gift
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Nineteen years ago, I moved out of my shared apartment into a studio. At the time I had a buffet/sideboard that did not fit in my new apartment. Some newly married friends offered to take it.
I don't see these friends but once a year, as we now live around 50 miles apart, but we remain on friendly terms. A number of years ago I did see the sideboard in their dining room and noticed that they had refinished it. Though I have no immediate need for it now, it does match my dining room table and it belonged to my great-aunt Mary. How do I bring up the topic of my sideboard and that I want it back, if not now, eventually?
GENTLE READER: Your description of what happened 19 years ago is hazy on who said what — as, no doubt, is your friends' memory. Unfortunately, it matters who said what at the time.
You can call in a loan, but you cannot politely request the return of a present. Assuming, however, that it was clearly understood by both parties as a temporary loan, you may remind them of the original agreement. Miss Manners suggests you also express your gratitude for their extended generosity and offer to pay for the refinishing.
Judith Martin writes the Miss Manners column with help from her son, Nicholas Ivor Martin, and her daughter, Jacobina Martin. Send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, MissManners.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
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Whitehead is another member of the Klondike family, with some of the flavor of Spider. This relaxed variant of Whitehead is the one found in Eric's Ultimate Solitaire.
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Ascension: The Awakening is an fantasy adventure game set on a hostile planet. Players must overcome fierce creatures and solve cryptic puzzles to reach their ultimate goal, transmitting a distress signal into the far reaches of space.
Rocket Powered Hippo have submitted Ascension: The Awakening for assessment/ View our new trailer of EPIC proportions!
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Reveal of first in-engine video, a fly through of the port of yagomir environment.
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Pocket Monsters XY&Z 005 Pikachu Dreams of Squishy!
Satoshi and his friends decide to camp out in a forest. But when Pikachu wakes up that night, it's startled by the fact that the other Pokémon have changed their form! Also, they're talking the human language! Confused, Pikachu encounters Nyarth, who is equally confused, as similarly strange things has happened to his travelmates as well. The two are then joined by the now talking Squishy. It seems Squishy wants their help, but...?
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Cassava mosaic disease resistant clones' growth and yield are prone to early drought stress
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Babirye, A., Ntawuruhunga, P. & Edema, R. (2016). Cassava mosaic disease resistant clones growth and yield are prone to early drought stress. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 11(25), 2240-2244.
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This study was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield stability of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) resistant breeding populations clones against early drought. Field trials were planted using 200 CMD resistant clones and 7 local landraces in a randomised complete block design with 3 replicates at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) station, Sendusu in Namulonge (Central Uganda) during the second rains of 2006 (2006B) and the first rains of 2007 (2007A). The 2007A crop suffered from drought stress in the first 4 months after planting (MAP). Data were taken on the leaf lobe length and width at 6 MAP and plant height at 12 MAP. Harvest was done at 12 MAP during which the number of storage roots per plant and storage root yield were recorded. Data were analysed using the Mann-Whitney U test to compare crop performance between the 2 seasons. The 2006B crop had significantly (P<0.01) longer leaf lobes, taller plant heights, higher number of storage roots per plant and higher storage root yield than the 2007A crop. There was no significant difference in the leaf lobe width. In this experiment, it was observed that the CMD resistant breeding clones were susceptible to early drought and thus it was recommended that selections should be done for higher water use efficiency.
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One year ago, in Slovakia's Bratislava, France won the crown in Junior and Cadet Boys Team's Event, whilst Romania clinched the title in Junior Girls. The winners in Cadet Teams Event were the girls from Russia. Anton KALLBERG of Sweden and Adina DIACONU of Romania were the most successful Juniors in Singles; Darko JORGIĆ and Deni KOZUL of Slovenia clinched the Doubles title in the same age category and Maria MALANINA and Daria CHERNORAY succeeded to the highest place at the medal rostrum in Junior Girls Event. Romania's Alexandru MANOLE and Andreea CLAPA were winners in Junior Mixed Doubles. Once again, Romania reached the top place in Cadet Boys Singles with Cristian PLETEA and Russia's Maria TAYLAKOVA secured the crown in Cadet Girls. French pairings Irvin BERTRAND and Lilian BARDET as well as Ema MARIN and Andrea PAVLOVIĆ of Croatia were the best Doubles and Romania's/Russian combination of Cristian PLETEA and Maria TAYLAKOVA won the Mixed Doubles title.
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Today I want to show you something very special that I ordered a few days ago!
He is a famous boy and was in a French Magazine!
Called Maison Chic!
I absolutly adore this piece of beauty
His name is Prince Harold
And he is a white duck!
With a magical crown on his head!
I was looking for so long to find a
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Now I am a happy owner of a royal beauty :-))))))
He will look awesome in my interior!
Now some pictures ...
Have a beautiful sunny day :-)
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So after signing up for a Mason Jar Pin Cushion Swap, I was inspired to attempt my first pin cushion before my swap creation. One of the blogs I follow http://heartofagypssy.blogspot.com/ is Gladys Moreno who makes the prettiest pin cushions from vintage tea cups and anything pretty she can get her hands on.
Sooooo . . . following her examples I started sewing and stuffing little cushions. The first cushion I made was a little small for the jumbo sized mason jar I'm using for the swap, so I found this really cute pink ramekin in the $1.50 section and Michael's and created this little gem. I absolutely love it!! I use stick pins on the cover of most mini albums and on altered pieces, so having this pretty pin cushion to store them is perfect!
I am not one to just sit and watch TV, so if there is a show I really want to see I will sit and make stick pins in different color combinations while I watch. Now I can store them in a decorative way instead of just stuck into a piece of styrofoam and hidden. I have so many stick pins still in the styrofoam though I think I need to make another pin cushion already.
Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my latest creation!
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This joint announcement today marks the occasions respectively of the Oceania Area's IAAF Centenary Gala, Cairns, Australia at which IOC Member Sergey Bubka is guest of honour, and a leg of the Olympic Torch Relay, Sheffield, England, a city where Sebastian Coe, the Chairman of LOCOG, the organising committee of the Games of XXX Olympiad London 2012, was brought up and will be one of the torch bearers.
Bubka, starting with a surprise victory in the Pole Vault as a 19-year-old at the inaugural IAAF World Championships in 1983, went on to triumph on the next five occasions as well. No other athlete has ever won six gold medals in the same individual discipline. Bubka, the 1988 Olympic champion also set 35 World records in his event, breaking the outdoor World record 17 times and the indoor record on 18 occasions; both World records remain in his possession today.
Coe, the two-time Olympic 1500m champion became a true superstar of the sport in 1979 when he set three World records in 41 days, running 800m and Mile records at separate meetings in Oslo before going into new territory over 1500m in Zurich. Four more World records followed in 1981, with his 800m time lasting until 1997 and his 1000m mark not bettered for more than 18 years. His Olympic titles in 1980 and 84 were accompanied by silver medals at 800m.
"I am delighted that two more of my Council colleagues will join the inaugural membership of the IAAF Hall of Fame," commented IAAF President Lamine Diack. "With the creation of the Hall of Fame we set out to honour the lifetime achievements of our greatest athletes, and heighten public awareness of our sport and its rich history. In Sergey and Seb we have two great champions and record breakers whose contribution to our sport's success cannot be underestimated."
Click here to read Bubka and Coe's profiles in the Hall of Fame Members' section of the IAAF website - http://www.iaaf.org/mini/hof/Members/Members.aspx - and to discover the other inaugural members who have so far been announced.
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My mind is a greyhound that has missed you TERRIBLY - It seemed like a good idea at the time...
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My mind is a greyhound that has missed you TERRIBLY
[Jan. 20th, 2012|
01:38 pm
sharing the awkward
why my brain needs a leash
Obviously I need to do more writing. I can tell when I'm not writing enough…or enough of the RIGHT stuff. My brain just gets so filled with words and thoughts and then I finally get a few minutes to put metaphorical pen to paper and it's the literary equivalent of a greyhound going batshit* when you get home: highspeed joy that makes you feel like you have seventeen dogs freaking out that you finally got home and rescued them after two HOURS of complete, total, UTTER abandonment. And suddenly there is a dog part everywhere you turn and you're getting stomped on by practically prehensile toes tipped with raking claws, being poked at by an impossibly intrusive pointed snout, bodychecked by a veritable Metrotrain of oddly articulated dog midsection and brutally whipped by a tail that would be prized by dominatrixes the world over. And then the 60 seconds is over and the greyhound goes and lays down, completely ignoring you until you touch leash or dogfood bowl.
THAT'S how I've been writing. Here are some quotes from WORK e-mails this past week:
"Ha, still haven't found my mind, but I've put up posters on telephone poles, so I have high hopes of retrieving it, as I lied and said it needed daily medication. That tends to work with dogs, so we'll see."
"If you could coat this with a glaze of urgency, I'd appreciate it."
"I know you have a lot of forest fires to put out, and this is just a small problem, but consider it a hole in one of your fire hoses. Eventually, conflagration."
"Here's the deal: I am not going to change the way we do business because it annoys your accounts receivable department. You're just going to have to suck it up."
"Make this go away and I will totally owe you my firstborn. On second thought, my ovaries are like raisins that rolled under the couch six months ago. How about I buy you a beer instead?"
I've used these words/phrases: Palpitations. Rat's Patoot. Please sit up and focus. Time to pull on your big girl panties. Completely unglued. Havoc that makes Ragnarok look like a childs' birthday party.
It's bad enough when this stuff is in my head. Less professional when my internal editor stays home sick and I say it out loud. But when I start committing it to my work record? Eek.
So – what follows is probably in need of some severe editing, but right now the brainpurge is needed far more then knowing I've gifted some finely crafted piece of writing to the world.
Ow. You can't hear it, but there is a Greek Chorus in my head that is saying variations of "Ow." All the time... I got a tetanus booster shot (how proud am I that the cover of my patient chart has two warning stickers: "Animal rescue: Accelerated Tetanus" and "Allergy: Prednisone Psychosis". It's going to be much harder to be cool when this is all computerized!) and because I get them every five years, rather than every ten years, owing to my propensity for getting deep puncture wounds from dirty claws and fangs, they are particularly painful. So for three days now, every time anything – oh, like clothing, fabric, a colleague who's trying to get my attention – touches my deltoid'been three days and it's faded to more of a murmuration. As in, a Greek Chorus of murmurs, as opposed to a Greek Chorus of starlings.**
I got an e-mail touting a seminar on Culinology: the marriage of culinary arts with food science. Okay, on the one hand, I sort of get what they're trying to do there. But art and science are NOT separate things that need to be joined like some medieval land grab scheme, I mean, union of two houses to reaffirm peace, loyalty and a united kindgdom. Art and science are a spider web. One fuels the other and neither can exist without the other. Plus, it's just a matter of time until someone lists "Culinologist" on their resume and we all know that pretentiousness causes brain tumors in innocent bystanders. Like me.
A serious moment on a serious topic. I've been following the story of a high school student in Rhode Island who asked her school to take down a prayer banner – a banner that while in the middle is generic and completely reasonable, is titled "School Prayer", begins with the phrase "Heavenly Father" and ends with "Amen". Hanging in a public high school. And she asked the school to take it down. Because it violates the LAW. Which it does. And the school said "no" because it was part of the school tradition. So, she took it to court. And the court agreed and told the school they needed to take it down. (Mind you, a similar banner hangs elsewhere in the school, and omits the words "prayer", "heavenly father" and "Amen". No one has a problem with that.) And the whole town of Cranston, RI has their panties in a wad over it.
I've been following it for several reasons. Number one: I will admit to living in Cranston for a certain time period. Long enough to be able to fall into the accent (think Boston in a cage match with New Jersey) the way I fall into a pothole but NOT long enough to learn how to tease my hair into a Cranston big-hair-do.
Number two: normally I'm pretty much a live and let live person. I mean, I don't CARE that a God I don't believe in is on the dollar bill. I will bow my head if you want to say Grace at dinner. I'm respecting the people I'm with. I will recite "One nation under God" during the Pledge, because, it just doesn't matter enough to me. Although I will happily grab any chance to remind you that that phrase has actually only been in the Pledge of Allegiance for nine more years than I've been alive. I'm old, but not old enough to be considered a national tradition. But when wingnuts start declaring that we are a "Christian nation" – a code word that no longer seems to mean "the majority of Americans are of a Christian background or belief system" but instead "screw you people of other faiths, or no faith, if you don't want to support Christianity, then you're against America"…I get a little tetchy.
Number three: when I was about this girl's age, I petitioned my high school to allow girls to have equal access to the weightlifting equipment. And I had a lot of people tell me that I should stop making a fuss. That they couldn't believe I was making such a big deal over it. That I should be HAPPY that for 30 minutes a day we girls, with special permission, would be allowed into the boy's locker room where the equipment lived, while the boys teams were all out at practice. Even if that meant that we had to MISS 30 minutes of practice if we wanted to lift weights. And I was called a lot of names by my classmates – you can imagine that I was the DARLING of the "important" boys' sports teams. I got called a dyke, a lesbian, an ugly brute. The Hulk. Brutus Maximus. I remember being hit in the head by basketballs "Oh, I guess lifting weights doesn't protect your FACE, you ugly bitch!". I remember being shampoo having been squirted over everything in my locker. I remember being elbowed and shoved by the members of the GIRLS basketball team because they were siding with the BOYS team. I remember crying in the locker room. I remember crying at home. I remember wishing I'd never, EVER brought it up. I just wanted to be a stronger athlete and didn't think it was fair that GIRLS didn't have access to the equipment that could make that happen. I just wanted it to be fair and right and follow the LAW of equal access. Hell, tell a teenage girl now that she's just lucky she has access to weight lifting equipment and she'll look at you funny, like omg, next she's going to start talking about how she had to walk five miles to school in the snow…
And now all I can think is: thank goodness that was before the internet. Because this young girl is getting DEATH threats. Whether you are Christian or not, religious or not, you have to admit that all she was doing was asking the school to obey the LAW. You can be opposed to this law, you can be opposed to separation of church and state – I disagree with you, but I do know that we agree that issuing death threats, threatening to rape a sixteen year old girl, sending hate mail, publishing her home address on the internet, so that every troll and whackjob in the country can share the ugly filth in their minds (if you doubt me, it's not hard to find screenshots, or scroll halfway through this article:
) I mean, that's just WRONG. And seriously? NOT Christian.
Here's the irony: Roger Williams founded this part of Rhode Island. He was the first and strongest proponent of the separation of church and state. He also founded if not the first, one of the first Baptist churches in America. Rhode Island (then Plymouth Plantation) was a HAVEN for religious minorities. The rest of the colonies were pretty supportive of a national church that all people should be compelled to join. But NOT Rhode Island! Well, until NOW. Sigh.
Honestly, I think we have far less to fear from terrorists than we do from some of our own citizens who have decided how the rest of us should think and pray and believe. And, in an overlapping, but not necessarily inclusive group: people who use the anonymity of the internet to attack people who think differently.
Civil discourse. When I'm Empress of the Free World, THAT will be law.
Okay, enough of that. This is adorable:
And -- so, I spend four days eating the following: lobster, lobster butter, bacon, bacon fat, lamb shanks, a lovely farmhouse cheddar, popcorn...WITH lobster butter and parmesan. Lobster macaroni and cheese. Red wine, white wine, rum and gin. I skipped the pool. Oh, and on the day I'm supposed to fast before those tests and only have water or black coffee or tea? A good liter of Diet Mountain Dew.
And great cholesterol, great blood pressure, great blood sugar levels, and even an eight pound weight loss from my previous visit. (Although at some point I've lost a full half an inch in height. I think that might be why my knees look all squished.) Admittedly, I'd also been eating lots of good vegetables: three days of brussels sprouts, a gallon of lettuce, green beans and beet greens. And almost no refined sugar. But still. It FEELS like permisson to eat things I probably shouldn't be eating. Correlation is NOT causation. Multiple anecdotes do not data make. Hmm, it's pretty slippery, here on the this slope...
* yes, it's an uncensored bad word. There's something about having "bat" on the front of it that makes it feel less threatening. Just remember, when Lady Gaga shows up on stage with a dress made of bats…*I* thought of it first.
**you may not get that joke if you don't know that a flock of starlings is called a murmuration. And watching a mumuration of starlings do their flowing scarf of flocking behavior is one of my top one hundred things in the world. The fact that there is no "secret" to it, and it's just math and physics and anything in a group responds that way, it's just the three dimensionality of doing it in air or water that make it so utterly magical-seeming…that's the expletive icing, my friends.
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2012-01-20 07:22 pm (UTC)
you're wackin' me with your tail, Mere.
2012-01-20 07:27 pm (UTC)
I think I could live quite nicely simply scrounging through your leftovers ... but this spoke to me on a deep resonant food orgy level
popcorn...WITH lobster butter and parmesan
oh .... oh oh oh yes
2012-01-21 01:18 am (UTC)
If you want another great blood review keep on eating the way you are! MORE BUTTER! MORE LOBSTER! MORE LOBSTER BUTTER POPCORN!
*pant, pant, pant*
That last one sounds fabulous...
2012-01-22 11:28 am (UTC)
very cute.....


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SurfAid International, a non-profit humanitarian organization, and action sports superstore Killer Dana, LLC, have created a philanthropic alliance to increase awareness of SurfAid's mission to improve the health, wellbeing and self-reliance of people living in isolated regions that are connected to us through surfing. The organization's main focus is developing long-term, sustainable community health through the prevention of treatable disease via widespread education efforts to promote behavior change.
SurfAid works in the Mentawai Islands, located 90 miles off Indonesia's West Sumatran coast, and Nias Island, 80 miles off the North Sumatran coast. The infant mortality rate (children under five) in the Mentawai Islands is 93 per 1,000 live births – nearly one in 10. In Nias, the rate is 66 deaths per 1,000 births. In industrialized countries, on average there are six deaths for every 1,000 live births.
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A socially responsible retailer, Killer Dana continues to focus on cause-based marketing efforts such as its partnership with SurfAid to make the world a better place by supporting a significant cause. Killer Dana will provide marketing and media support – mostly through social media networks such as Facebook and its company blog, the Killer Dana Board Society – to help spread the word about SurfAid's efforts around the world.
"This partnership aligns with our core values – being a part of the surfing community and helping out as much as possible," said Jacin Greenhill, Creative Director at Killer Dana. "We're always looking to give back, and this is our opportunity to do that. Partnering with SurfAid allows us to connect with the action sports culture all over the world and do our part to help foster better standards of living in remote communities where surfers gather to pursue their passion."
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SurfAid International is a non-profit humanitarian organization with offices in the U.S., Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand. Its mission is to improve the health, wellbeing and self-reliance of people living in isolated regions that are connected to us through surfing. SurfAid works to implement community-based health programs in the Mentawai Islands, located 90 miles off Indonesia's West Sumatran coast, and Nias Island, 80 miles off the North Sumatran coast. SurfAid USA is located in Encinitas, CA, in the heart of the surf and action sport industry. Learn more about SurfAid at www.surfaidinternational.org .
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A new year has arrived, and many of us have created goals to attain more satisfaction in life.
At first glance, New Year's resolutions (NYR) appear as a positive approach to drive self-improvement. However, a NYR is a fleeting, cultural phenomenon, where resolutions are taken very lightly and are thus abandoned early into the new year. The NYR originates from ancient prayers and vows of piety after the onset of the new year. But as the NYR evolved from a religious expectation into a modern norm, people became lazier about pursuing these resolutions. Now, as few as 8% of people achieve their NYRs each year.
This could be explained by the absurdity of the NYRs, which often consist of poorly defined and lofty goals such as earning more money or losing weight (2017 Statista survey), as people fail to realize the complexities of their wishes. The seriousness of NYRs is further called into question as people choose the beginning of the new year, an arbitrary start date, to make a resolution. Why should someone intent on bettering themselves need the new year as motivation for a resolution?
For others, the NYR is only a declaration followed by little to no action such that it is more a means of maintaining social conformity, with no external repercussions for failing the resolution. Whereas those who succeed in fulfilling their NYRs put forth consistent effort and aim for gradual progress over time.
We Americans are a proud people, whose patriotism, individualism, competitiveness and achievement-driven mentality is as strong as any other society. In fact, people of all racial, religious, and cultural identities have fulfilled many arduous goals and resolutions in America. This characteristic zeal and vigor in American attitudes and actions can only suggest that we are passionate and capable of bettering ourselves when the situation demands it. Ironically, in an environment that encourages ambition and passion, the NYRs that are declared by many inspire very few to sincerely make good on their promises.
Next year, avoid the trouble of making a NYR. It is more effective to commence a resolution, no matter how trivial, immediately after the desire for a resolution surfaces into consciousness and pursue it with all the vigor and attention that one's time allows until it has been fulfilled.


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When a new Klim Valdez non-insulated jacket showed up at our office last year, our first thought was, "What's wrong with the Valdez jacket we have now?"
The quick answer is, "Nothing." The Valdez jacket we had was fine. It works fine and it was "broken in," meaning we were very comfortable in it.
But with the handful of changes Klim made to the new Valdez, the jacket is just that much better.
Klim didn't rock the boat by making any major changes to the Valdez jacket, which we're guessing is one of the Idaho-based company's best sellers (we aren't privy to any sales numbers but are basing that on the number of those jackets we see on the snow on any given ride).
The new Valdez, like the one we already had, features the same Guaranteed to Keep You Dry promise, the same Comfort Mapping Technology, Three Layer Technology and Gore-Tex Pro Shell Technology. To refresh your memory, Comfort Mapping is fairly new technology that creates a garment that meets the specific needs of each region of the body, instead of a garment that covers your body and treats different parts of your body equally. Comfort Mapping goes farther than your traditional pit zips. For the complete story on Comfort Mapping, dig out your old SnoWest Magazines and find the October, 2008 issue. On page 84, you'll find an in-depth story we did on the technology, titled, "Pinpointing Your Body's Needs." You'll also be able to brush up on Three Layer Technology in that article. In a nutshell, a three-layer fabric is made up of three different pieces of material each having a specific function. These three layers are permanently laminated together to form one integrated piece.
The list of features in the new Valdez is, well, as long as one of the jacket's arms. And these features have helped Klim set the standard in snowmobile clothing. The company may not have invented each one of these individual features, but it certainly has refined them to make them more snowmobiler-friendly and useable. Some of our favorites include the snow dust skirt, shoulder pads (which are removable), zipper pulls that you can actually keep your gloves on and still zip up and down, and breathability. We like the shoulder pads because we carry backpacks and the pads certainly help cushion the backpack straps.
So what's different between our old and the new? There are basically five changes:
The pocket configuration in the jacket has changed. The lower pockets are now "cargo" pockets, which simply means they're bigger and you can carry more stuff in the jacket. These are actually two pockets in one. You can use them as handwarmers (slide your hands in from the sides of the pockets) and/or you can use the opening in the top to carry things. They're definitely big pockets. Our other Valdez only had the side-entry option.
The patterning in the shoulders and the sleeves have been "fine-tuned" (Klim's words) to provide a better range of movement. One of the things we've really like about our Valdez-both old and new-is the freedom of movement the jacket offers. There are no "binding" spots where you're fighting to reach for the handlebars or when you're twisting.
The collar has been altered a little to protect the rider (mostly your neck) better and feel less bulky. If there was a complaint-albeit a minor one-we had, it was that the upper part of the front zipper/collar area was a bit stiff and obtrusive. It seemed it was in the way of our helmet or wouldn't quite fit close to the skin/balaclava when our helmet was on. It's not a big deal when you're not wearing a helmet, only when you are. But that's pretty much been fixed with the subtle changes on the new Valdez. One reason it works better on the new jacket is that the zipper doesn't go all the way to the top of the collar like it does on the previous Valdez. The zipper is part of why the old Valdez was so stiff and bulky up around your neck. This change is the most noticeable to us and the most welcome.
The back vent is longer (by about an inch) and now has a mesh liner to prevent snow from getting in through that vent. The mesh liner is a good change as there really wasn't anything in the old Valdez to prevent snow from coming in as it was wide open when unzipped.
The amount of reflective material was increased.
The new Valdez works great, but then so did our old Valdez as we didn't think there was anything really wrong with it. There still isn't, but the new changes do make it that much more comfortable and snowmobiler friendly.
The new Valdez retails for $399.99.
For more information, contact Klim (208) 552-7433 or www.klimusa.com.
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