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I don't know about you, but whenever I prepare a big meal, for a holiday, a party or whatever the occasion might be, I always like to include something light and fresh to the menu, just for a little balance. Like, let's say, a salad.
I absolutely love salads. And I love the fact that you can create them so they can complement any meal. To me, they're like a white canvas. You can mix and match ingredients, colors, flavors and textures, so really, they can never be boring!
I personally enjoy playing with different colors and textures. The more, the better. So you get the visual appeal and the health benefits too!
I love this salad because it really has a little bit of everything: beautiful colors from all the different vegetables; contrast in textures, crunch for the pomegranate seeds, creaminess from the avocado, a little chewiness for the mushrooms; and a whole lot of flavors going on, from the smokiness of the tempeh to the sweetness and tang of the dressing. It's even nutritionally balanced!
All that in one little salad.
So if you're looking to add a little freshness to your Thanksgiving table this year, whether you go vegan or traditional, give this salad a try! I'm pretty sure it will be a crowd pleaser.
- Prep time: 15 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
- Ingredients (serves 4):
- 1 medium size winter squash (here we used butternut), sliced into 1/2 to 1/4-inch thick slices
- 2 portabella mushroom caps, sliced
- 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- ¾ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- 3 tbsp pine nuts
- 1 large avocado, sliced
- 3/4 cup fresh pomegranate seeds
- 5oz baby arugula
Crispy Tempeh Bits
- 1-8oz package tempeh
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 tbs extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbs smoked paprika (we use Pimentón de la Vera)
Warm Pomegranate Vinaigrette (makes about 1 cup):
- 1 medium shallot, minced
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp grain mustard
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tbsp agave nectar (We use Wholesome Sweeteners Raw Blue Agave)
- 1 cup pomegranate juice
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1/8 tsp salt
- Preheat oven to 400F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper
- Place winter squash slices in a large resealable plastic bag. Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil, ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon cinnamon and 1/8 teaspoon black pepper. "Massage" the bag with your hands so the squash gets well coated with olive oil and spices.
- Arrange squash slices on one of the baking sheets and bake at 400F for about 30 minutes. Set aside to cool
- Cut tempeh into small bite size pieces
- In a large bowl, mix tempeh with salt, olive oil and smoked paprika until well coated
- Place tempeh on the other baking sheet and bake at 400F for 10 minutes. Set aside to cool.
- In the meantime, season portabella caps with ¼ teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon black pepper and ½ tsp garlic powder. Sauté in 2 tablespoons of olive oil over medium-high heat for 2-3 minutes. Set aside to cool
- Lightly toast pine nuts in a dry skillet over low heat, until golden brown, 2-3 minutes
- To prepare the dressing, sauté shallots in olive oil over medium heat in a medium sauce pan for about 5 minutes.
- Add pomegranate juice, mustards, salt, agave and vinegar and mix well. Cook over medium heat whisking often, for 12-15 minutes, until reduced. Set aside to cool slightly
- Arrange washed arugula in a large platter. Top with cooked squash, Portabella mushrooms, pine nuts, avocado and pomegranate seeds
- Dress it with warm pomegranate vinaigrette right before serving
Cut squash into 1/2 to 1/4-inch thick slices and season well with salt, pepper, cinnamon and olive oilCut tempeh into small bite size pieces. Mix with salt, olive oil and smoked paprika until well coated
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Preview: episode 2 of Top Gear TV, series 26
BMW M5 vs Mercedes-AMG E63, and tuk-tuks in Sri Lanka
What is it?
Vauxhall's futuristic plug-in hybrid, sister car to the Chevrolet Volt. Don't tar it with the same brush as the Toyota Prius and other existing hybrids that off er negligible benefits, as the Ampera moves the game along much further. It has a 1.4-litre petrol engine as well as an electric motor and an electric generator, all scrunched in underneath the bonnet. Juice it up from the mains and it will travel for up to 50 miles on electricity alone, then you've got the petrol engine to make up the difference.


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The Global New Car Assessment Programme (Global NCAP), the overarching vehicle safety advocacy body, today expressed its disappointment in recent media coverage across Australia which criticises the vital work undertaken by the national consumer information organisation, the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).
"The life-saving role of New Car Assessment Programs is well established in all world regions and a key contributor to the current UN Decade of Action for Road Safety," Global NCAP Secretary- General, David Ward, said today.
"Global NCAP is baffled by the recent negative comments made in the Australian media about ANCAP when, in fact, it has made a huge contribution to reducing road trauma at home in Australia and is also a strong partner with the other nine established NCAPs around the world."
"ANCAP is a leader in vehicle safety advocacy and has been immensely successful in improving the safety of the Australasian fleet over the past two decades.
Thanks to ANCAP and its simplicity of message, Australian consumers now consider safety as the primary factor when buying a new car.
ANCAP through its affiliation with Global NCAP has also assisted the development of new NCAPs in South East Asia and Latin America."
"Unfortunately today new cars are still being sold that are specified differently for different markets with key safety technologies sometimes missing. In unregulated emerging markets models are sold that would fail to meet even the minimum UN crash test standards. NCAP's are on the frontline of improved vehicle safety and without them the huge improvements in car safety seen over the last thirty years would not have happened.
"Their crucial role in driving up safety standards in the interests of consumers across the world is widely recognised." For example, in April last year, the UN General Assembly adopted a new resolution on road safety that calls on Member States to implement NCAPs in "all regions of the world in order to improve availability of consumer information about the safety performance of motor vehicles" 1.


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Xiaomi has unveiled the Redmi Note 4, the first phone to offer MIUI 8 out of the box. The phone retains the 5.5-inch Full HD display as the Redmi Note 3, but we're now looking at a metal unibody design with chamfered edges and much-needed 2.5D glass at the front.
Specs on offer include a MediaTek Helio X20 SoC with ten CPU cores (two Cortex A72 at 2.1GHz, four Cortex A53 at 1.8GHz, and four Cortex A53 at 1.4GHz), dual SIM slots with a hybrid microSD slot, 13MP f/2.0 camera with PDAF, storage configurations of 16GB and 64GB, and a massive 4100mAh battery. Like the Redmi Note 3, the Note 4 offers a fingerprint sensor at the back.
The Redmi Note 3 proved to be incredibly popular for Xiaomi in India, with the company seeing a record 880,000 shipments in Q2 2016. Since its debut in March, Xiaomi sold over 1.75 million units of the Redmi Note 3 in India. It isn't hard to see why the phone did so well in the market. The Redmi Note 3 featured a great metal design, excellent hardware in the form of a Snapdragon 650 SoC, 3GB of RAM, 32GB storage, 16MP camera, and a huge 4100mAh battery that lasted at least a day and a half on a full charge.
With the Redmi Note 4, Xiaomi isn't changing a lot (which is a good thing), with the major difference being the Helio X20 SoC and the 13MP camera. The design is also much more polished, and makes the Redmi Note 4 look premium.
Xiaomi will kick off sales of the Redmi Note 4 in China starting August 26 for ¥899 ($135) for the 16GB variant, and ¥1,199 ($180) for the model with 64GB of storage. No word as of now regarding availability in India or other Asian markets, but seeing as how Xiaomi will be looking to continue its momentum, it shouldn't be too far off.
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Laura Mendoza, manager of Café Santa Ana
Meet La Biblioteca
Because an institution is formed by people who work in it and bring it to life, in this series we present to you the people who operate the Biblioteca every day. It is much more than a sanctuary for books and readers; it is an educational and cultural institution. Its functions extend to several social enterprises, such as the Café Santa Ana, for which Laura Mendoza is responsible.
Laura Mendoza is the manager of Café Santa Ana, in charge of receiving suggestions and feedback from customers about any problems. She also supervises staff at the coffee bar and is in charge of supplies and orders.
This is a job that puts people under pressure. This situation has taught Laura to organize her time wisely and to respond in a positive way. The responsibility has helped her to be a leader and to work well with coworkers. This builds up her character.
A young professional woman, 27 years old, Mendoza has an easy smile and long curly hair worn up. She is pleasant and outgoing despite the seriousness of her responsibilities.
She is a graduate of the local University of Technology where she studied for her bachelor's degree in gastronomy. Shortly before graduation, she did her social service in the Biblioteca for four months, totally immersed in everything related to the café. She soon began an outline of possible improvements and updates.
Upon graduating, she joined almost immediately and became part of the Biblioteca's staff.
Her major goal was to improve the menu, an endeavor that has given very favorable results.
Another aim is to get the Mexican public to visit, which is not an easy task due to the prevailing view that the library is a place for foreigners. It is actually an inclusive place that celebrates multiculturalism, and it is also quite affordable. The prices are not only competitive, they are very agreeable. And Mexican faces are now seen among the people at the tables.
The specialty that gave the Café Santa Ana fame is the muffins. From 10am, customers are already lined up to wait for the aromatic muffins studded with raisins and full of shredded carrots and apples as they arrive fresh from the oven.
Mendoza has a sweet tooth. Her true passion is chocolate, and one of her dreams is to produce handmade chocolates. Out of the kitchen, to clear her head, she practices basketball at the park whenever she can.
The most rewarding thing she has learned from being around people is providing good service to the customers. "It is a very special thing when you go to a table and people congratulate you for the good work," she says.
Mendoza's immediate plans are to pursue a master's degree in baking, to grow in both personal and professional capacities, and to help the café grow.


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"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it" – Ferris Bueller
I'm a relatively fast runner, not Flo-Jo fast, but recreational runner fast. However, this marathon training cycle is different from past races. I am excited to run Boston and have no intention to run for a goal-time.
"Cash Me Ousside"
Running can be a veryyyy competitive sport. Not only when it comes to competing with others but also when you are pushing yourself to improve. I used to size up the competition at 5k's, half-marathons and other races to figure out how fast I needed to run in order to place or beat a running nemesis – that one person who you go back and forth with. If someone attempted to sprint past me during a run, I'd speed up thinking "Don't let them beat you, Brie" or "Catch me at the finishline, how bout dat".
During my many attempts to qualify for the Boston Marathon I focused on beating my previous time. During training runs, I'd check the pace on my Garmin every couple of minutes as if I were an anxious employee ready to jet out of the office on a Friday at 4:59 p.m. The harder I trained and worked on pacing, the lower the finishing time went 3:45, 3:40. 3:39, 3:36 then finally 3:33 ding, ding ding BQ!
Enjoy the Journey
The Boston Marathon will be my first visit to the City of Champions. While my main goal is to finish the race without injuries, I also want to spend time taking in the sights and sounds.
Looking back, I realize I missed out on making some fun memories while running "fast". For instance, the 2014 Rock & Roll Marathon in Raleigh was a blur to me. Instead of seeing the scenic views I chugged along the rolling hills hoping to get a qualifying time (Unfortunately I did not).
This April, I will not be focusing on on the clock. I plan to relish the 26.2 mile journey by taking in the moments, enjoying the scenes and snapping some pics along the way. After putting in the work to get there, it's time to enjoy the reward.


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The Kardashians are back again! This time they have come up with a family music video, which is not that family-friendly though.
The clip shows the family dancing and lip synch lyrics to Hypnotize sung by the Notorious B I G, aka, Chris Wallace, who was gunned down in 1997 in a murder that's still a mystery. It was shot during the family's vacation in the Dominican Republic. The Kardashian girls are seen in leopard print bikinis on a yacht and Scott Disick rapping in a purple mantilla. The 31-year-old reality show star flaunts her curves in tiny bikinis, while her other sisters Kendall and Kylie bring along some of their close friends to join the family vacation. Even while splashing in the pool, Kim dons a heavily made-up face.
What might seem unacceptable would be the part where Bruce Jenner and Kris join the fun, in some explicit dance moves. In the end, the family is seen throwing colourful monopoly money.
Adding to the exposed content, in a blooper video, Kris Jenner uses fowl language when the music is turned off.
The major part was taken in the Dominican Republic, with a few scenes of Khloe and her husband Lamar Odom in Los Angeles and Kendall and Kylie at a photoshoot.
Kim posted the video on a Twitter along with a message. "U[sic] better believe the whole family shot a new music video while in the Dominican!!! Its our new family tradition! Can't wait to share it soon," she tweeted.
Kim credits her teenager sisters, Kendall and Kylie for direction and editing.
This is not the first music video from the Kardashian sisters - a video featuring Kim, Khloe and Kourtney, mother Kris Jenner and sister Kylie Jenner miming and dancing to Lady Marmalade was released in April.


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Hedera helix berries, watercolour (I'm painting again)
Don't worry... This will not be a long post. Just to wish you all a merry Christmas and to thank you for all your kindness these last couple of months. I hope next year will be a very good one for all of you. Happy holidays to all of you :-)


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wow - that's gorgeous and i LOVE the color!
Looks great!! I LOVE bright orange...can I have it ????LOL
great color choice!!! Aren't you glad it's finally done??? ;)
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Sonata for violin and piano in A major, K. 526
About the WorkComposer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Mozart's final sonata for violin, the Sonata in A major, K.526 (1787) is, like the "Strinasacchi" sonata, a work standing by itself, not part of any larger sets. By far the most technically demanding of the sonatas, it appears in the Köchel catalog immediately before Don Giovanni (K.527). The outer movements are characterized by a level of rhythmic energy rarely seen in Mozart. The opening theme of the first movement has only fast notes (eighths) in it, and it is not long before even faster sixteenth-notes appear in both the violin and the piano parts. Once they do, they remain a constant component in the lively musical texture, except in the development section, which maintains the momentum in a different way: the eighth-notes of the main theme are developed in imitation, which means that there is not a single moment when we don't hear that insistent pulse.
The second-movement Andante offers a brief respite. It is an exquisitely lyrical dialog between the two instruments, lavishly ornamented and full of emotionally charged harmonic changes. Dutch musicologist Marius Flothuis sensed "a strong foretaste of the world of Franz Schubert" in this music.
In the Presto finale, the mad rush starts all over again. The piano part is virtually a perpetual motion, but the violin doesn't stay idle either. There is a wealth of gorgeous melodies, but the violin theme of the central episode stands out by its noble passion and intense character. Then the virtuoso runs return and dominate the music to the end.
According to Neal Zaslaw, one of the leading Mozart authorities of our time, this finale was based on a sonata by Carl Friedrich Abel, a composer and gamba player famous in his own day, whom Mozart had met as a child in London. Zaslaw thinks it could be a tribute to the older man, who died on June 20, 1787, two months before this sonata was written.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Cowboy Blob
Cowboy blob was an entry for a drawing comp, subject - Unusual Cowboy- It was derived from a previous piece i did - the monster trio. I was looking at them and challenged myself to draw the same creatures but with much more interest. More character, more interesting anatomy and more movement. The intial story behind Cowboy blob..hes justa gun happy sheriff in some odd planet.
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Monsters Trio
Monsters revisited.Here's a a piece i did that was inspired by seen some old drawings i did when i was about 10-12yrs. It crossed my mind how they would look if i was to draw them again knowing what i know now. It was originally meant to be a speedpaint /loose strokes piece but i ended up rendering them in more detail. I tried to show a different textures with all three of them. I wonder what kind of adventures Fuzzclaw, Pudgee and Dohgo wil get up to today? ...:/
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In the Shadows of Giants
Wherever We May Roam
By Steven Moore
Nature has the ability to humble us, to make us feel small, and cause us to reflect on how fragile and short our human lives can be. A couple of years ago, on a trip to the magnificent Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks in California, never were these feelings so evident as when we walked in the shadows of giants.
By volume, the other-worldly sequoia trees are the largest living things on Earth. They can tower to heights of over three-hundred feet and have an unbelievable diameter of as much as sixty feet. To put that measurement into context, it's the equivalent of ten adult men joining hands and reaching around the trunk.
Arguably, the greatest empire the world has ever seen was that of the Romans, who managed to cling to power for a paltry 1,470 years. To give you just a little more humbling context, sequoias have been known to live for 3,500 years. That's a figure I can barely get my head around, let alone my arms. I'm not old, but when I stood next to a sequoia I felt positively young, amid such regal and dignified age.
To say that Leslie and I were in awe at the monolithic size and ancient splendor of the trees, not to mention the marvelous surrounding beauty of California's national parks, is an understatement of the highest order. Those trees, whose strong gargantuan arms seemed to hold up the vast and vaulted sky, soared to unimaginable heights. Their rich red bark, so rough and yet so striking, dazzled, as the late afternoon sun cast an ethereal glow all about the natural cathedral of light, even where one of the graceful giants had fallen. New and beautiful life could often be found among such tragic death.
"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature," said famed naturalist John Muir more than one hundred years ago. I doubt even Muir, the environmental philosopher and advocate of wilderness preservation in the United States, believed his pessimistic words could have been so prophetic. Indeed, we humans are certainly trying our best to destroy this amazing world, hacking and fracking our way through rain forests and jungles and river systems across several continents, with barely a thought in regard to the loss of habitat for plants and animals, and indeed, to the ultimate cost of all future life on planet Earth.
So, my friends, and readers of Atención, I recommend we see as much of this world as we can before it's too late. As the great man Muir also said:
"The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
And by dark, I'm sure he meant destroyed!
Steven can be found at his blog: twentyfirstcenturynomad.com
Leslie can be found at her blog: chicadventures.wordpress.com


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- FlyLady is one of my favorites. I'm a list maker and a list follower, so it helps when I have a list to go by when I clean. They also having lists for vacation packing, packing to move, and getting ready for holidays! Another part I have used before on the website is the Cleaning for Kids. Again, my kids like lists so this has been good for them, especially during the summer when we have plenty of time to work on it.
- unclutterer is another one I look at regularly. The difference here is that more is discussed as far as lifestyle and complete organization..from your office to your home.
- Organized Home is another whole life decluttering website. They offer Checklists for things like winter preparedness, Recipes for homemade cleaners, and even Freezer Cooking.
- Once a Month Cooking is the go to place if you are able to do all that cooking and freezing! I would give anything for a deep freezer (even a small one!) so I could get my husband to help me cook on weekends...casseroles, meats, soups, etc. That way, when he is on the road, traveling, it would be much easier on me for dinners and leftover lunches.
There are many, many others...please leave me the name of your favorite go-to website for organizational help so I can try those, too!


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Saturday, 8 January 2011
Why London?
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Yes, a city like London (or Berlin in my case) is like a "palimpsest" that has to be deciphered and to be read in a new way - we have to de-tect its different, various layers to understand the 'soul' of a city of that dimension, that biography, and history. I like very much to combine different media, pictures and words - and I find your discoveries interesting and moving - sometimes a closer look were my wish in order to read the words ("Christus ... mors mihi incertum"?)- but it is our task to decode...-I bought Ackroyd's book "London...", tr. in German, some times ago and I have to study it with fresh eyes. I am convinced that we might see more if know more ..., but the serendipities are also some wonderful keys to open some doors!ReplyDelete
I found via google: "In the city of London. The (St. Olave's) churchyard was used as a burial place for large numbers of plague victims in 1665. Writes Sir Samuel Pepsy: "I was much troubled at it and do not think to go through it again a good while."ReplyDelete
Christus vivere mors mihi lucrum
"For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." 1 Philippians 21"
Samual Pepsy's "Die geheimen Tagebücher" have been just published in a new German edition that makes some fury, completed by a lot of notes - would you like to follow him?
Oh, sorry, I forgot to enlarge the photo by clicking -I have a close look at them- very fine! The most intriguing picture is nr. 1! I personally were interested in a short footnote en petit about location/day of the photograph- but maybe, this doesn't suit your intention?ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comments Philine - yes, you can click on any image to enlarge. I prefer to keep them this size on the blog for consistency. I'm not sure I want to go down the route of labelling all the locations and times as it is not my intention to be making a historical or factual tour but rather to give a flavour of the place and to make my own interpretations of other people's words and impressions. I look upon it as a sort of journey of discovery with literature and art as my guide. Of course, if you are especially interested in a particular photograph, I would of course give you the information!ReplyDelete
I hope you enjoy Samuel Pepys. I have not read the entire diary, but have read the abridged version and am currently listening to an excellent audiobook of the Diaries read by English actor Kenneth Brannagh - he really brings them to life.


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Alveda King, niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., came to the University of Missouri on Monday night with an anti-abortion message tailored to college students.
King, a pastoral associate at Priests for Life in Atlanta, spoke to a crowd of about 100 people — about 50 of whom were college age — in Jesse Auditorium, sharing her personal experiences after having two abortions and how her own past and her family's past have shaped her beliefs and advocacy.
"I believe colleges are special," she said during a news conference. "That's where you get the energy for transforming society. When people don't have the information they need, they can't make the right decisions or the best decisions."
King said abortion shouldn't be an option even if a woman is impregnated because of rape or incest because "two wrongs can never make a right." To her, women should seek alternatives. College-age women make up a third of those who have abortions, she said.
"We are beginning to discover that women don't want abortions," she said. "Women want love and support."
King advocates for adoption but also spoke about communities being supportive of pregnant women. She talked about the importance of clinics that help teach "family planning," including teaching women how to parent as well as other life skills such as balancing a checkbook and how to obtain an education and a job.
King said she's a feminist. "I believe the woman has the right to choose what to do with her body, but that baby is not her body," she said.
Her discussion was rescheduled from February, Black History Month. King said her talk was broader this time than she had planned for the scheduled February appearance, which was concentrated on her belief that abortion is a form of genocide for the black community.
King said large crowds at events such as last night's show her that people "are looking for answers."
"College students are so intelligent, but nobody is giving them good information," she said.
MU's Students for Life chapter sponsored King's talk.
Reagan Nielsen, former Students for Life president, said she wanted to bring King to campus because she thinks students and the community can benefit from her message.
"We want to expose the truth," she said. "When they know the truth, they can make decisions for themselves."
This article was published in the Tuesday, April 29, 2014 edition of the Columbia Daily Tribune with the headline "Abortion topic of MU talk; MLK's niece has 'pro-life' views."
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
A story Tuesday made mention of Alveda King's previously scheduled talk at the University of Missouri being set to coincide with Black History Month in February. The event was an MU Black History Month Committee-sanctioned event but was organized by Students for Life during Black History Month and later rescheduled.


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Huggies Don't Hug My Baby!Reviewing: Huggies Newborn Gentle Care | Rating:
At my baby shower, I was given several packs of diapers, including Huggies Newborn Gentle Care diapers and a few other brands. Since I had heard wonderful things about Huggies from some experienced moms, I decided to try the Huggies first.
The Newborn Gentle Care diapers have a u-shaped front. This supposedly prevents the diaper from rubbing against the newborn's tender cord stump. This was about the only part of the diaper that worked. I realize that babies are shaped differently, and different diapers will fit differently, but these diapers were a horrible fit for my baby! My son was not born small or big...just an average 8.1 pounds, 22 inches. However, the Huggies gapped around his legs, and his waist was swallowed by the size one diaper.
Within minutes of putting the diaper on, we were both drenched in pee. Not fun when you are recovering from a c-section! We tried the Huggies again, and the same thing happened, only the second time I had more than just pee to deal with. After a third time of these diapers doing nothing to contain the flow, we switched to the diapers they had at the hospital, Pampers Swaddlers. We've stayed with Pampers and haven't had more than a handful of blow-outs since!
Perhaps my boy's legs were just too thin, but shouldn't newborn diapers take thin legs into account? My suggestion is to skip the cheap Huggies and spend more on the Pampers....believe me, you get what you pay for!!


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ABS brakes
EBD (electronic brake force distribution)
Variable power steering
Headlamp height adjustment
Immobiliser with rolling code
Radio/CD/MP3 player
Steering wheel controls for Radio/CD (not available with automatic gearbox option)
Driver and passenger seats with:
o Position, height and rake adjustment
o Swivels
o Two armrests
o Full upholstered covers
Adjustable steering wheel position
Cab carpet (removable)
Two DIN sockets
NEW 12V exterior power point for pump filling of water tank (pump not supplied)
LED side entrance light
Gas bottle capacity 2 x 7Kg; butane/propane regulator and butane hose fitted
Body insulated with high performance 3Ms 'Thinsulate'
NEW 'Traffic' heavy duty durable floor vinyl
Removable carpets over vinyl flooring
Gas strut lounge seat lid support
Mini Heki clear rooflight with flyscreen and blind
3 burner hob with combination oven/grill
Stainless steel sink with glass lid
Waste bin
Chrome finish crockery rack
Mirrored vanity cupboard and fold-away washbasin
Shower mixer with riser bar
Thetford cassette toilet with electric flush
Multi-directional rooflight with flyscreen
Heating and Plumbing
Insulated fresh water tank capacity 66 litres
Waste water tank capacity 50 litres
High capacity internal water pump
Chrome finish brass taps
Fully protected mains electric system
3 x 230V sockets
25A charger/transformer
NEW Larger, easier to read 12V control panel for:
o Vehicle/Leisure battery selection
o Water pump
o Tank levels
o Vehicle and leisure battery state
100Ah accommodation battery
TV station with aerial, 230V and 12V sockets
25 metre mains hook-up cable
2013 Auto-Cruise Peugeot RhythmAuto-Cruise Key Features:
* 120bhp engine with 6-speed gearbox
* Silver metallic paintwork with colour coded front bumper
* Height adjustable and swivelling driver and passenger seats
* Pleated windscreen blind with insulated side screens
* Electric windows and electric adjusting & heated door mirrors
* Remote central locking
* Driver and passenger airbag
* Energy saving, high output soft white LED lighting
* Truma Combi 4 gas & electric blown air heating & hot water
* Waeco 72 litre 230V/12V compressor fridge/freezer
* TV cupboard and extending mounting bracket for 15 Flat-screen TV
* Status 315 omni-directional TV aerial
* Heki Panoramic roof light
* Electric side entrance step
* Rear speakers
* Double glazed windows with cassette blinds & flyscreens
* Push-button positive catches on overhead locker doors
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This Motorhome is no longer available and has now been sold.
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Incubator helps health companies in Mission Bay
San Francisco hopes to develop the commercial zone around UCSF's Mission Bay campus with help from biotech firm FibroGen, which is participating in an incubator to help medical startups become companies.
FibroGen, which moved to San Francisco last year and now has 250 employees, has devoted some unused space at its Mission Bay headquarters to the incubator, which has signed up five startups and has room for more, company officials said Tuesday.
The effort, which will be announced today, follows last week's revelation that New York drug giant Pfizer has canceled its plans to open a research center near Mission Bay.
Mayor Gavin Newsom said that while the city will continue to woo large clients like Pfizer, this initiative "makes it easier for new companies to start and grow in San Francisco."
Big drug companies tend to locate near hospitals, which Mission Bay lacks, but startups cluster around scientific facilities, said Regis Kelly, director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, or QB3, which is located on the Mission Bay campus and is the prime sponsor of the incubator program.
"We're trying to make it possible for entry-level startups to get going at the lowest possible cost," Kelly said.
Gemmus Pharma, a five-person startup that is developing drugs to treat the flu, is one of the companies subleasing space from FibroGen. Gemmus chief executive Daryl Faulds said being part of the incubator allows his young company to rent access to state-of-the-art instruments at the nearby QB3 facility.
FibroGen has set aside 10,000 square feet for the incubator and has used 1,500 square feet of that space so far. This new effort to hatch companies greatly expands a program that UCSF set in motion three years ago when it created a 2,500-square-foot "garage" inside QB3.
So far, about 20 people are set to work at the startups in the FibroGen incubator, and about 15 researchers are housed at the QB3 garage, according to FibroGen and UCSF.
The hope is that some of these startups will succeed and remain in San Francisco.


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Sharepoint 2010/ 2013 – One or more column references are not allowed, because the columns are defined as a data type that is not supported in formulas
I can confirm that a Data Type Column cannot be used in a Formula. But there is an easy workaround using Workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010/2013 without any coding required
- Create an additional Column in your list (DataTypeColumn01) as type Single Line Text
- In SharePoint Designer, open the List from the specific website and click New on the Worflows tab
- Give the Workflow an appropriate name and select the Platform; either SharePoint 2010 /2013 Workflow
- From Workflow Tab select Action – List Actions – Set Field in Current Item
- Set DataTypeColumn01 to CurrentItem:DataTypeColumn
- Use the lookup button next to the Action to achieve this
- Save the Workflow
- Enable the Start Options for the Workflow as per your requirement
- Publish the Workflow
- You can now use the DataTypeColumn01 Column with any SharePoint Formula
SQL Database 'SharePoint_Config' on SQL Server instance not found
SQL Database 'SharePoint_Config' on SQL Server instance 'GDFS' not found. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.
Cannot open database "SharePoint_Config" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'GOLTENSDXB\SP_Farm'.
Before you go about making any drastic changes to the database; it would be wise to check the Status of the Sharepoint_Config database within the SQL Server Management Studio
Is your Sharepoint_Config Database set to Single User Login?
If yes, we require the trace and kill the session that is connected to this database before we enable multi user
Step 1 – Trace the Session ID connected to the Sharepoint_Config Database
select * from master.sys.sysprocesses msp,master.sys.sysdatabases msd where msp.spid>50 and msd.name='SharePoint_Config' and msp.dbid=msd.dbid
Step 2 – Kill the Session and set the Sharepoint_Config Database database to offline mode
kill <spid> [eg: kill 62] alter database Sharepoint_Config set offline with rollback immediate;
Step 3 – Switch back the Database to Online Mode and set it for Multi-User login
alter database Sharepoint_Config set online,multi_user with rollback immediate;
If your Sharepoint_Config database was not in Single User Login Mode and are still faced with this error; I would recommend below post
Unable to shrink Sharepoint_Config_Log file in Sharepoint 2010
Is your Sharepoint_Config_Log file reaching enormous GB size of data and nearing your full drive space utilization?
Shrinking a Log File in your SQL Database may seem very straightforward when accessing SQL Server Management Studio
You may have already tried the below and still not seen any change in the file size
If the above scenario is true, it is most likely that you have set your DB in Full Recovery Mode and hence will not allow you to shrink the log file
Please note that in my illustration I have made an assumption that the default dbname Sharepoint_Config has been changed; if changed please make revisions to the script accordingly
To confirm this further, run the shrink operating using the SQL Query.
From the SQL Server Management Studio
- Click New Query and type below command
DBCC SHRINKFILE (Sharepoint_Config_LOG);
- Execute the command
- Click the Messages tab at the bottom and take note of the error
Your are most likely to get the below error
"Cannot shrink log file 2 because the logical log file located at the end of the file is in use"
In SQL Server Management Studio; run below commands use master; alter database Sharepoint_Config set recovery simple;
DBCC SHRINKFILE (Sharepoint_Config_LOG);
This will shrink the log file to its default size.
Opening PDF files in a browser from Sharepoint 2010
If you are facing an issue wherein your Sharepoint users are having to download PDF files onto their local machines to view the files; the below post has got just the solution you are looking for.
Below Step by Step Powershell commands can be run to get the functionality working
From your Sharepoint Application Server; proceed to Start – All Programs – Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Products – Sharepoint 2010 Management Shell and type below commands
$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication("http://yourwebapplicationurl") $webApp.AllowedInlineDownloadedMimeTypes.Add("application/pdf") $webApp.Update()
Once the above commands have been successfully run, you can confirm that the PDF application has been added to the MIME Type list using below command
The result is immediate and you can test the solution right away.
The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold
Sharepoint 2010 – Changing the List View Threshold
Reason for Error : The Web Application Settings of your Sharepoint Site has been configured to allow list content below the number that you wish to store in it
If you are the Sharepoint Administrator; the below settings will get you through
1. Open Central Administration from your Sharepoint Server
2. Proceed to Application Management – Manage Web Application and click on your web application to select it.
3. From the top Ribbon, click on General Settings drop-down and choose Resource Throttling
4. In the List View Threshold field, increase the value to the desired amount and click OK.
5. Try to replicate the error. If the error persists, increase the value again until the error goes away.
Migrate Sharepoint 2007 List to Sharepoint 2010
Lets say you have a List in Sharepoint 2007 with Large Content and Views which you would want to replicate in Sharepoint 2010.
You can achieve this with Powershell Commands; but I will illustrate in the most simplest manner to achieve desired result
- From your Sharepoint 2007 List; Click Settings – List Settings
- Save your list as a template (.stp); ensure that you select the Include Content Checkbox
- From the Parent Site; proceed to Site Actions – Site Settings – List Templates and download the new template to local machine folder
- Change the extension of the downloaded file from .STP to .CAB
- Extract the content of the CAB file (manifest.xml) to a local folder; lets call it c:\sp2007_template\
- Edit the manifest.xml file; search for the ProductVersion element. This should have a value of 3; change its value to 4 and save the file
- Repackage the manifest.xml into a .CAB by using makecab.exe in the C:\Windows\System32 folder
Syntax: makecab.exe c:\sp2007_template\manifest.xml c:\sp2007_template\{template-name}.cab
- Change the newly generated cabinet file extension from .CAB to .STP
- From the parent site of your Sharepoint 2010 Site; proceed to Site Actions – Site Settings – List Templates
- Upload the newly created .STP file to the List Template directory
- When creating a new list in Sharepoint 2010; the new template will show up for selection.
Sharepoint 2010 Backup – Automated Backup with Powershell
You can run powershell commands directly from the Sharepoint 2010 Management Shell window; but that does not suit the purpose when you require a daily backup
Start - All Programs - Sharepoint 2010 Management Shell
Its' surprising why Sharepoint themselves could not come out with an easy automated tool. Nevertheless; the below post would guide you through
Firstly, we need to define a backup location.
- Is your Sharepoint Farm and SQL Server on different Servers? If yes, kindly ensure that the Backup Location that you define is a Share Drive (\\sharedrive\backupfolder) and has full Write Access for both the Sharefoint Farm Admin Account and SQL Server Account
Farm Backup is best done as both a Full and subsequent Incremental Backups
Full Backup
Create a File with the extension ps1 (denotes a powershell command file)
Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell Backup-SPFarm -Directory \\sharedrive\backupfolder -BackupMethod Full
Setting up a Windows Task Schedule for the Farm Backup
Start – All Programs – Administrative Tools – Task Scheduler – Create Task
Give an appropriate name and under Actions tab; click New
Type powershell under Program field and state the ps1 file that you created above under the Add Arguments field
Specify an appropriate time under the Trigger tab for your task to run. Since its a full backup its best to set a time after regular office hours
Incremental Backup (Daily backup of changed data since the last backup)
Create a File with the extension ps1 (denotes a powershell command file)
Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell Backup-SPFarm -Directory \\sharedrive\backupfolder -BackupMethod Differential
Use the Task Scheduler as illustrated earlier to define the daily backup
Alerts: Someone changes an item that appears in the following view is missing
Remembering Sharepoint Password in Internet Explorer
How do I avoid SharePoint from asking for my password?
Use the below steps to save the password in Internet Explorer
- From Internet Explorer Menu – Select Internet Options
- Security – Custom Level
- Scroll to the bottom and check 'Automatic logon with current user name and password'
- Click Ok and close Internet Options


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He's a good man, and he's in my blog roll.
All right, I am from the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti metroplex. I am about forty miles away from the strife and angst of Detroit metro. Still, Wayne county is the heart of my state. I am three kinds of pissed off at the mayor of Detroit, and I can't do jack or shit about it.
Or can I?
Joe Cwik is a real Detroiter. He pays the income tax, and he cares about his city. However, he is fighting against decades of corruption and mismanagement. I want to help him. Ever hear about Jacksonville, Florida? Yeah, I thought as much. It just happens to be the largest municipality by area in the country. New York City is 468.9 square miles, Jacksonville is 885 square miles.
It also merged the operations of Duval county into the city operations in 1968. This essentially expanded the city into covering almost the entire county. Why am I telling you this?
When was the last time you heard of Jacksonville being on the "most miserable cities" list? Or the "most dangerous cities" list? When was the last time you heard of Jacksonville?
Look, I know it's a long shot, but if the county operations were merged with Detroit, and any Wayne county resident could vote for mayor of Detroit, things would begin to change in Wayne county. The whole city versus suburbs false argument would go up in a puff of irrelevancy.
Still not sold? There are still three cities unaffiliated with Jacksonville in Duval county. The citizens of these cities can (and do) vote for the mayor of Jacksonville. Indeed, someone who LIVES in one of those cities is currently mayor of Jacksonville.
Proud cities like Dearborn and Wayne could maintain their independence, but at the same time, have a stake and a say in what goes on in Detroit. The mayor of Detroit could attack city problems in a more holistic way, not really worrying about the old "eight mile" boundaries.
It makes sense to me. I mean, we are going to have medical marijuana on the ballot this November, why can't we have a measure that will fundamentally change the way Wayne county works next November?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Joe Cwik
He's a good man, and he's in my blog roll.
4 comments:
- Rev said...
While it certainly makes sense, I'd much rather turn Detroit into a John Carpenter-like prison colony.
Really, all it needs is the walls at this point.
Sure....Joe gets a post named after him....
- joe said...
So going to a Tigers game is like a conjugal visit?
I'll have to move before the wall goes up, though.
- Drunken Chud said...
i've been saying this for years. but, to my real point, why are wayne and dearborn proud cities? i've never met anyone proud to be from either and when i think of both i think of sewage and poor people, and waaaaaaaay too many union assholes. proud my ass.
- Scooter said...
See, that's the whole issue, Chud. It's not the message, it's how it is presented. Sure, I realize you hate unions, but the only way to restore the balance is to end the balkanization of Wayne county. The UAW doesn't care where a plant is in the Detroit metroplex. All it cares is keeping them open, and keeping membership high.
If you pitch it correctly, you could get the unions to support the measure.
As for equating Wayne and Dearborn with sewage, it has to be processed somewhere. Tact and kissing a little ass goes a long way.
The only way to get the suburbs and city to agree to something like this is to accentuate the positive aspects of both communities, and not piss off the unions.


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(Reuters) - British Formula Two driver Jordan King has made the move over to the IndyCar Series after being named on Thursday as the latest addition to the Ed Carpenter Racing team for the 2018 season.
King, who spent 2017 in F2 with MP Motorsport, will drive Carpenter's No. 20 Fuzzy's Ultra Premium Vodka Chevrolet in the 11 road- and street-course races on this year's Verizon IndyCar Series schedule.
The 23-year-old Briton, who will make his IndyCar debut at the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on March 11, is eager to take on a new challenge.
"I don't want to put blinkers on myself straightaway before I've got in the car," King told reporters.
"I want to be like a sponge, absorb everything I can, try everything I can, and obviously do - certainly if I can win races, perfect, but it's very much going to be a learning year for me, and the longer goal is to become a full-time IndyCar driver and work towards greater things in the future."
King's transition to Indy car racing is the latest step in a young career during which he has risen up the European motorsport ranks.
He was named the FIA Institute's 2015 Driver of the Year and won the 2013 British F3 championship.
After beginning in karts in 2005, King progressed to single-seaters in 2010.
He has spent the last three seasons in F2, previously known as GP2. While serving as a development driver for Manor F1 in 2015 and 2016, he participated in several tests and drove in practice sessions at the 2016 United States and Abu Dhabi grands prix.
King competed for MP Motorsport in the 2017 FIA Formula 2 Championship, collecting top-10 finishes in over half the races.
King said he did plenty of due diligence before making his decision, including a chat with former F2 team mate Alexander Rossi, who made a successful transition to IndyCar by winning the 2016 Indianapolis 500.
"There's always a bit of skepticism changing paths, and obviously for me it's actually moving country and a couple of things like that, and for me someone like Alexander Rossi, he's done it, but the other way around," King said.
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Eli Hallak had always wanted to send the St. Francis High sports medicine program to a national competition, but all the ones he found took place in person and were too expensive with travel and room and board costs.
Hallak, the director of St. Francis' sports medicine program, took matters into his own hands and developed the National High School Sports Medicine Championships, an online competition open to schools across the country, in association with the American Academic Competition Institute and John Meadows of the computer company Meadows and Associates.
"For the students who are really taking [sports medicine] serious, now there's a way to test their knowledge," Hallak said of the competition, which was conducted for the first time on May 21 and is planned to be an annual event. "I started thinking about it 18 months ago and thought, 'Why not take it online?' It costs thousands of dollars to travel with students to those other competitions."


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Thank you for being a reader. Peace for your own journeys!
[All photos in this Green Month series were taken in July of 2005 during a ten-day search for traditional Irish music. Extensive journaling accompanied the exploration, but that material is not for this blog. Now…on to more current ideas and episodes that may serve the purpose of balance.]


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Give Your Home a Touch of Charm with an Eco Electric Radiator/
If you're looking to reinvigorate your dated and tired looking radiators and propel your property into modern day style with a touch of energy saving technology then the latest SlimPro electric radiators from My Electric Radiators will do just that. Eco SlimPro electric radiators showboat a minimalistic all white design complementing interiors of all designs.
Historically electric heating has been tarnished with the 'cost a fortune to run' brush which may be true of older electric heaters. Yet during more recent years a leading class of eco electric radiators have firmly established themselves as the go to heating product over conventional gas central heating.
Low cost DIY installation
You don't need a plumber or electrician, you can easily fit them yourself and very similar to installing a wall mounted television. All you need to do is screw a couple of brackets to your wall ready to hang the radiator on, plug in to your nearest everyday three pin plug socket and you are ready to roll. Yes that is quite literally it.
Cheaper running costs than gas
How are running costs lower than gas you may be wondering? Ok so this is where things get a little interesting. So your eco radiator is now installed, plugged in and ready to use, you decide to set your room temperature to 16 degrees. Each radiator has it's very own built in digital thermostat which monitors and regulates the room temperature with an accuracy of under 0.2 degrees. Once the intelligent thermostat detects that the room temperature is achieved, the radiator turns on to an eco standby mode, consuming no electricity. Furthermore the radiator will only briefly flick back on to maintain the pre set 16 degrees. From an hours worth of heating the radiators might use at most 20 minutes of electricity. Through saving energy you are effectively trimming money from your energy bills as well as a reduction in carbon emissions which is great for the environment.
If you are converting a loft, extension, basement, outbuilding the cost of extending pipes can be outrageously uneconomic. Since there are no pipes it means that there are no expensive tradesman bills! Couple this with cheaper running costs than a gas system why go to the expense?
There is also the added benefit of making the most from the in built program settings which can be finely tuned to set a temperature for each hour of the day on a weekly schedule. Out all day? Save money by programming a lower temperature during the day and a more comfortable temperature for when you return, simple.


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As it turns out, this is shaping up to be my favourite shop update thus far!
(Although this is a very close second.)
As seen on many a stylish individual, the tried & true military style for fall never gets old.
What I love is the unisex, cuts & perfect workwear textures - stiff cotton twill, navy wool, military canvas & worn in denim.
Not quite sure why I'm parting with my favourite pieces?!
Coming very soon to the shop!
Come join us at the Public Garden Flea Market this weekend, 18th & 19th August 1-7pm. Lots of one of a kind vintage up for grabs! And if there are any pieces in the shop you'd like to see in person, drop me an email/tweet/fb message & I'll pack it along! See you there!


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I start every project with a questionnaire, which allows me to gain an understanding of your project and begins the process of establishing goals. I take each inquiry into careful consideration: How passionate you are about the project? Do you have an understanding of your goals?
This review is important because it sets the tone for our professional relationship moving forward and gives me a good understanding of who you are.
Following the questionnaire and before I start any design work, I'll get your approval on
the project and its cost via a simple design agreement and 50% down payment.
Taking the information gathered in the previous step, I set to work on understanding how to approach your needs. This involves familiarizing myself with your goals and taking a deeper look into your target audience as well as any competitors.
I'll do internal discovery and concepting where ideas are explored and a better understanding of the subject matter is established. Once the sketching is complete, I'll take the final concepts and translate those to digital format.
As for revisions, any adjustments that need to be made will happen after finalizing the approved concept.
Once the final invoice has been paid, the deliverables (files ready for print) are emailed to you.
After you've received the project files, I'll answer any questions you may have about putting them to use. We can also discuss any further deliverables or other web and print imagery you might need.
I also like to get project feedback from you – to see how things went and so I can continue to improve my process. I then may use your testimonial to build a project case study – bragging about how awesome we were working together!
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Priority Indicators for Providers
Full Report
This report outlines the process taken to update two sets of priority indicators for PHC: one for policy-makers and health system managers to support population-based policy development, planning and performance reporting; and another for PHC providers to support practice-based measurement and quality improvement initiatives.
The set of priority PHC indicators below can be used within and among practices, organizations and health regions to
- Provide a basis for comparing performance;
- Support quality improvement programs and initiatives by measuring key processes and outcomes over time;
- Support program sharing and performance monitoring; and
- Identify opportunities for improvements in the health and well-being of the practice population.
To access the technical specifications for individual indicators, select the indicator label.
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Screening for modifiable risk factors in adults with coronary artery disease
Screening for modifiable risk factors in adults with hypertension
Unnecessary duplication of medical tests reported by PHC providers
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Hello Gorgeous! It's Party Time!
I was recently invited to an Exclusive Beauty Event at Soteria Face & Nail. The party was awesome!
It was a fun filled day of pampering, meeting fellow bloggers, candle making, sweet treats and deluxe gift bags.
Soteria is an award winning company who won Singapore Brand Award, Asia Pacific Brand Award, SME Asia Award and Queen of Substance Award.
Soteria is a one stop haven for head to toe pampering. They use the highest quality products to serve your every need. Soteria has 2 salons under the same umbrella, called Soteria Face & Nail and Soteria Hair Studio.
Soteria Face & Nail provides facial treatments such as BABOR Facial Treatments, Eyes & Neck Treatments, Machine Treatments & RF Treatments. They also provide other services such as Manicure & Pedicure Services, Manicure & Pedicure Spa, Gel & Acrylic and Waxing.
Soteria Hair Studio provides hair services such as trimming, cutting, coloring, hair spa and other treatments and services.
Upon arrival, I was greeted graciously by a friendly and beautiful lady boss, Engel. She invited me a to help myself to the refreshments and a seat. Shortly after that, she ushered me to the manicure station and invited me to sit in their comfy chair. While settling into my seat, my manicurist came over and handed me a box filled with nail polish colour wheels for me to pick a color. There were so many colors for me to pick from and I ended up with a light hue of lavender (PO82).
After I've picked out the perfect color for my nails, my manicurist washed my feet and proceeded with prepping. My nails were carefully, gently and meticulously filed, trimmed, shaped, buffed and cuticle work. After prepping, she started painting my nails with base coat and sticked and cured under LED lamps for a few seconds. She then continued painting my nails with the nail polish in the colour of my choice and cured under LED lamps for a few seconds. Next, she applied top coat and cured under LED lamps for another few seconds. Lastly, she finished off my gelish pedicure with cuticle oil application. The whole procedure took less than 30 minutes. This Express Gelish Pedicure is absolutely perfect service when you are on the go and need a quick-fix.
So here's the finished look!
Ooh..... What a lovely colour just like me...kikikiki.....
My manicurist did a great job!
After I got my nails done, I joined in the fun making a candle.
It was a great experience!
Tadddaaaaaa................ what do you think guys?
Oh yes, guests were treated to cupcakes, macaroons, cakes in jars and other yummy sweet treats.
I heard from the lady boss that they got the macaroons, cupcakes and the cakes in jars from Stay Home Mum Cafe.
To find out more, check out their site at http://www.shmcafe.com.sg/.
I am pretty sure you will definitely fall in love with their cakes and macaroons. Why? It's because I can't help falling in love with their yummy creations. Nuff said, I'm drooling now.
Yeap, it's me and the lady boss, Engel. She's so friendly, beautiful and gentle.
I like everything about Soteria because this beauty salon provides excellent, beautiful and clean environment, impeccable service and zero snobbish. They are so friendly and helpful.
Thank you Engel for the invite, wonderful pamper party and the deluxe gift bag.
If you are looking to pamper yourself from head to toe, head over to :-
Soteria Face & Nail
Blk 203, Hougang Street 21,
Singapore 530203
6284 0887 / 6284 8870
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Soteria Hair Studio
Blk 203, Hougang Street 21,
Singapore 530203
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6281 6330
Nearest MRT station : Kovan (Only a few minutes walking distance)
Everyone needs a little pampering once in a while. Do you agree with me?
Lots of Love


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When Reggie Jackson Met MC Hammer
I've been reading Reggie Jackson's recent memoir, Becoming Mr. October, which is proving to be, well, pretty much what you'd expect. Every dozen pages or so, though, Jackson drops a story that grabs your attention and makes the book worth a read, including his look back on the early career of MC Hammer. I had known that Hammer got his start as a clubhouse kid with the A's in the 1970s, but until reading Jackson's account, I had never heard about the future rapper's other duties with the team. As Jackson has it,
"He was just Stanley Burrell then, a poor young kid growing up in Oakland…Stanley was just eleven years old at the time. I was the one who first gave him the name Hammer, because he looked so much like 'Hammerin' Hank" Aaron. Rollie Fingers started calling him Pipeline, because Rollie believed he was a clubhouse snitch for [A's owner] Charlie Finley. Charlie made him executive vice president, this eleven-year-old kid. He was running around with a hat that read 'Ex VP.' You'd see him up in the owner's suite, watching the game while he was on the phone with Finley, who was back in Chicago or somewhere. Finley would call him on the speakerphone and have Hammer tell him what was going on…Hammer would report back on everything he heard in the clubhouse."
Davos Syndrome at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thomas Campbell—director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art—arrived in Davos last week with an unambiguous message for the World Economic Forum. In discussions about "Reshaping the World," the theme of this year's gathering of the world's rich and powerful, Campbell argued that culture and the arts have become little more than an amusing sideshow for the elite. "A major, missing part of the dialogue," Campbell urged, "is cultural sustainability. It feels like an add-on. We're the entertainment." Far from blaming the rich for this state of affairs, however, Campbell cried mea culpa on behalf of culture itself. Any "discussion of the culture industry," he said, "needs to be involved at a deeper socioeconomic level. We need to make our case with metrics, framed in a language that businessmen understand."
That a steward of one of the world's premier institutions of high culture should be touting the virtues of the bottom line is itself unsurprising. The commodification of visual art, nearly as old as art itself, has recently ballooned to a scale unimaginable even thirty years ago. Simply witness the outrageous amounts of money that glitzy conmen like Damien Hirst can fetch for their work, the sales power that third-rate artists like Jeff Koonz command at auction, or the fact that an otherwise unremarkable triptych by Francis Bacon recently sold for $142.4 million dollars at Christie's. (Hirst, incidentally, was one of the artists whose work was showcased at the Davos summit this year.) Museums have responded to these charged market dynamics. The price of admission to many of the museums of most renown, throughout the West especially, has climbed steadily in the past several decades. Take New York, for example. Art enthusiasts there cannot gain entry to places like the Guggenheim, Frick or Whitney for less than $18. MoMA will run you $20.
For the director of the Met, however—a museum in New York, accessible to the entire public, where anyone can get in for as little as a penny—to embrace the values of business over those which animate the arts is dismaying. The reasons are many—including the simple principle of it. Jed Perl put it nicely in the New Republic recently. "The trouble with Campbell is that he imagines the only way to speak truth to power is in a language you're sure the powerbrokers understand. But the great cultural arbiters have always taken an altogether different approach. They have taken it upon themselves to reimagine the nature of power…What the[y] have always done is insist on the power of art in the face of other kinds of power—the power of bottom lines, flow charts, metrics, big data." But this is only part of the problem.
Campbell's rhetorical pivot to the values of the private sector reflects a deeper institutional shift underway at the Met, one that could have profound implications for the public arts. Last fall before leaving office, Michael Bloomberg amended New York City's lease with the Met, which sits on public land. Under the new terms of agreement, the Met was granted powers to charge admission to its holdings, including extra fees for special exhibitions—a radical departure from the original lease that invested the institution with no such rights. The move came after two lawsuits were brought against the museum claiming that the Met's current "suggested" admission structure deliberately misleads visitors into believing that mandatory fees are required for entry.
Leaving aside the issues challenged in court, the Met's newly established right to impose standard admission raises more fundamental concerns about the role of art in public life. At a moment when the barriers to culture and fine arts are prohibitively high across the board—and getting worse—for increasing segments of the population, institutions like the Met have defended the simple proposition that universal access to the arts is necessary for maintaining a healthy polity; that leisure is a right common to everyone by virtue of their being humans. Unlike the majority of other museums across the city, where taking in a show constitutes a form of luxury consumption, the Met opens its world-class collection to anyone interested enough to show up and wander the halls. The possibility of establishing a flat-rate entrance fee, or even instituting admission rates for special exhibitions, undermines the good faith of this proposition, and threatens to extend the capital commodification of art by rendering it the exclusive preserve of the wealthier classes.
For its part, the museum has assured the public that it has no intention of charging mandatory fees, now or in the future. The Met's senior vice president for public affairs, Harold Holzer, told the New York Times that the museum has "no plans to institute" a standard admission, "and no plans to make plans." What the renegotiated lease with the New York City does, Holzer went on, "is preserve the museum's right to do so, which we think crucial in the wake of legal challenges to admissions that pose a threat to a vital part of our operating budget." Campbell himself underscored his institution's commitment "to maintaining—and further widening—public access to the museum" in a public statement issued shortly after news broke of the renegotiated agreement. But all this amounts to cold comfort.
There's no getting around the fact that running a museum is expensive, and economic pressures that have faced Met administrators in the past are no secret. While reaffirming his commitment to the public mission of the Met, Campbell was simultaneously very clear that his museum's policy of "pay what you want" might well be sacrificed in the name of economic necessity. "The effort to broaden and diversify audiences will continue," Campbell wrote. "At the same time, however, faced with perennial uncertainties about future funding sources, the Met and the City concluded that it makes sense now to consecrate our longstanding and wholly legal admissions policies," including the right to "charge such amounts as the museum shall from time to time prescribe."
A Met where standard admissions become the norm is not difficult to imagine. It would almost certainly begin to resemble its counterparts along Fifth Avenue, or MoMA on 53rd. These museums have long abandoned the conceit that art serves to nourish the soul. Instead, they have increasingly organized themselves into precincts of commercial activity for the well-heeled and the hip. What efforts are made to engage with the broader public generally come in the form of corporate-sponsored "free Fridays" and the like—massive advertisement schemes where admission rates are temporarily suspended and galleries are converted into frenzied madhouses of people trying to see everything at once. The big winners, of course, are the captains of industry who, fancying themselves benevolent oligarchs, pick up the tab.
This is no future for the Met, and yet a likely one. When the next economic downturn arrives, the Metropolitan will face tough choices to avoid slipping into the red. It's an easy leap to suppose that charging admission will seem like a no brainer for Met administrators. After all, art lovers pay steep entrance fees up and down Museum Mile, and they will to do so at the Met as well, if required. But institutions like the Met should continue to represent something entirely different. Even as the rest of the art world moves to a place where communion with beauty is attached to a price tag, the Met stands as one of the great monuments to public enjoyment and education. This may not translate easily into "language that businessmen understand." But then, that was never the point.
The Real Misfortunes and Pain of Others
Edmund Burke, on our delight in the pain of others, in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful:
"To examine this point concerning the effect of tragedy in a proper manner, we must previously consider how we are affected by the feelings of our fellow creatures in circumstances of real distress. I am convinced we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others; for let the affection be what it will in appearance, if it does not make us shun such objects, if on the contrary it induces us to approach them, if it makes us dwell upon them, in this case I conceive we must have a delight or pleasure of some species or other in contemplating objects of this kind…There is no spectacle we so eagerly pursue, as that of some uncommon and grievous calamity; so that whether the misfortune is before our eyes, or whether they are turned back to it in history, it always touches with delight."
Some teenage kid at the WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum this evening, encountering a print of Eddie Adams' photograph, Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon, to his friend:
"Oh my god, this picture is awesome! Check it out–what a great shot. So. Cool."
A Walk in the Woods
For the past several years, I've been making semi-regular trips with one of my best friends to the areas in and around Harriman State Park. Harriman sits about thirty miles north of New York City, bordered by West Point to the north and nestled snuggly against Bear Mountain in the east. It's an amazing place, featuring hundreds of miles of trails, some spectacular views, and a good deal of interesting history.
In the late eighteenth century, in the years just before the Revolutionary War, descendants of the Huguenots settled the region, where they established the hamlet of Doodletown in a stretch of valley between Bear Mountain and Dunderberg Mountain, just to the south. The town's funny name likely derives from the Dutch words for "dead" and "valley," "dood" and "ley." Where the "town" part comes from is anyone's guess. What is known, however, is that the village lay directly in the path of advancing British troops as they prepared to attack nearby Fort Montgomery on the Hudson River in late 1777.
As William Myles and Daniel Chazin relate in their history of Harriman, "Nine hundred British soldiers…marched through Doodletown" taking the village entirely by surprise, and then proceeded to occupy it. "Twelve hundred more troops arrived and waited in Doodletown," Myles and Chazin write, "until the first division approached Fort Montgomery. Then the second division marched to attack Fort Clinton," immediately to the south.
The British won both battles, though the effort it took ultimately cost them the larger prize of Saratoga further north. As for tiny Doodeltown, some trivia: though likely apocryphal, the village is said to have inspired "Yankee Doodle Dandy," which the royal army supposedly sang to humiliate Doodlers during the period of occupation. Who knows. What's left today is a ghost town littered with graveyards and old building foundations. Heading there makes for a great hike—I recommend it.
In any event, the years following the Revolutionary War saw some of the land parceled off to the continental army and turned into the United States Military Academy at West Point. If I understand the history correctly, the rest was sold to a private investor, and the holding was passed from one group of rich folks to the next before falling into the hands of Edward and Mary Harriman, who owned tens of thousands of acres of forestland north of New York City.
The mountainous terrain was once rich in iron ore, and prospectors began calling in the mid to late nineteenth century. Even Thomas Edison got in on the act, acquiring land to dynamite open for a peek inside. Local protests against the environmental destruction wrought by the mining ultimately brought it to a close, but evidence of the extensive operations remains. Today, the park is pockmarked with tiny mine shafts and exploratory holes, many of which are closed or collapsed, though some are accessible for those that dare to enter.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the State of New York announced plans to build a prison on Bear Mountain. Mary Harriman, who was staunchly opposed to the idea, offered the state a deal. Having already decided to donate the land for public use, Harriman proposed giving 10,000 acres of land to the state and a $1 million of her own money to begin constructing public facilities on the land in exchange for the Albany's agreement that no prison would be built on Bear Mountain. The park became official on October 29, 1910.
We were back this past week to explore a patch of the parklands I've never hiked before, an area in the north of Harriman sitting at the foot of Long Mountain. Here, the Long Path—which runs from Fort Lee Historic Park all the way up to John Boyd Thatcher State Park in Albany—bisects Route 6 before crawling up to the summit of Long Mountain and being forced due west by the southern perimeter of West Point.
We took the trail to the summit of Long Mountain where magnificent views of Turkey Hill Lake, which sits directly below, unfolded, and the brilliant colors of late-autumn leaves stretched to the horizon. There is a lookout point here, and a memorial dedicated to one of the park's earliest enthusiasts, though when we arrived, it was hazy. It didn't matter. Visibility was limited, but the fall colors saturating everything around us were simply astounding. We had a snack, took some photos, and kept on along our way, which soon headed down the mountainside.
About midway through the descent, where the trail begins to snake northeast before taking a sharp turn west, we decided to leave the Long Path altogether and scout our way down to the lake. The slopes here are for the most part gentle and, with some light bushwhacking, fairly easy to navigate. What was most remarkable, though, were the astoundingly yellow leaves matched only by the gigantic sun-yellow mushrooms billowing out high on the tree trunks like psychedelic wall sconces.
Shortly after we reached lakeside, where the ground became boggy and unsure, the crisp blue skies turned gray and threatening. And a remarkable thing happened: as if reacting to the suddenly low light, the oranges, reds and browns of the turning leaves took on a new intensity, buzzing with bruised persimmon. Someone had been camping here and had abandoned the site not long before. A makeshift fire pit still gave off some heat. Defying the threatening skies and biting cold, we decided to drop our gear here ourselves, break out the thermos of coffee and enjoy the view.
Turkey Hill Lake itself is serene, unremarkable. Nestled between Long Mountain to the west and Summer Hill directly to the south, the Lake gives way to a stream that empties into Queensboro Lake to the southeast. Not much happens here, save for the occasional ripple disturbing the mirror images reflecting from the water's surface. Hugging tightly to the water's eastern perimeter runs the old Summer Hill trail which we accessed by looping around the lake's northern lip and continuing on after re-caffeinating. The gray clouds broke here, and blue skies returned.
We had been led to believe that the trail was overgrown and difficult to follow. Not true. The path was distinct along its entire length, canopied here and there by drooping branches scarlet with leaves, and intersecting with the trail-blazed Red Path before terminating a few hundred meters further south at the 1779 trail.
We jumped off on red, and followed the path as it rose above the water's edge at Summer Hill's northern base. From there, it's a little bit of a slog up the hill side and the views become momentarily less interesting (not to mention more depressing—the amount of litter scattered around was upsetting…we even passed an abandoned shopping cart brought into the woods for god-knows-what-reason). Red meets the Anthony Wayne Trail soon enough, though, and ultimately circles north where it joins the Long Path. Thirty minutes later, we were back at the car.
Here's a map of our route. If anyone has suggestions for other Harriman hikes—especially those off the beaten paths–I'd love to hear about them.
The Iron Cage of Western Categories
Pankaj Mishra reviews Perry Anderson's The Indian Ideology in the latest Foreign Affairs. Mishra finds much to admire in the book. But when it comes to Anderson's preoccupation with the intersections between religion and politics in India to the exclusion of everything else, well, Mishra isn't having it. In a nutshell:
The relentless harshness of The Indian Ideology suggests that, as far as Anderson is concerned, "populations as steeped in the supernatural as those of South Asia" may find it impossible to enter Weber's "iron cage"—or "the Golden Straightjacket," in [Thomas] Friedman's phrase—of modernity. It may actually be harder for observers of South Asia to liberate themselves from the iron cage of Western interpretative categories.
Religious beliefs and the fear of losing traditional livelihoods shape the political resistance of many Indians in rural areas to aggressive government projects and profit-driven corporate initiatives. But neither the scientific materialist nor the admirer of enlightened bureaucratic states in Anderson is likely to have much time for the tribal peoples in eastern India who recently refused to open up a mountain they consider sacred to a bauxite-mining corporation. Anderson doesn't seem well placed, either, to grasp that for these irrational folks, who fail to prostrate themselves before the modern gods of economic growth, no entity in their cosmology seems more occult, minatory, and unappeasable than the instrumentally rational states and interconnected markets that threaten their traditions and local economies. Indeed, Anderson's avowal of the left's historical defeat slides too easily into resentment of such people, who have failed to shake off their Eastern superstitions and appreciate the Western virtues of reason and enlightenment. It is as though the Marxist worldview, denuded of its original liberationist energy, can only betray its origins in the commercial society of western Europe and the reflexive credence both Marx and expansionist burghers gave to the all-conquering logic of Homo economicus.
Nixon and Philip Roth
Here's a remarkable exchange I came across this morning while reading Claudia Roth Pierpont's new book on Philip Roth, Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books. Richard Nixon and his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman discuss Our Gang–Roth's Vietnam-inspired turn to political satire–shortly after it was published. Dwight Macdonald thought the book a masterpiece. Nixon's attention was elsewhere:
NIXON: What if anything do you know about the Roth book…
HALDEMAN: Oh, a fair amount.
NIXON: Who is responsible? The Roth thing I notice it's reviewed in Newsweek, which might indicate that they might be very much behind that.
HALDEMAN: Yeah, because they gave it a review way out of proportion to the book. We got advances of it and our people were very disturbed about it. It's a judgment call. I read it, or skimmed through it. It's a ridiculous book. And it's sickening, and it's–
NIXON:What's it about?
HALDEMAN: It's about the president of the United States.
NIXON: I know that! What's the theme?
HALDEMAN: Trick E. Dixon. And the theme is that, uh, he's tied to the abortion thing…It's sick, you know, perverted kind of thing…It ends up with you being assassinated–or with Trick E. Dixon being assassinated, and then he goes to hell and in hell he starts politically organizing down there.
NIXON: Did the New York Times review it favorably, too?
HALDEMAN: I didn't see the Times review, so I don't know that.
NIXON: How big is circulation?
HALDEMAN: The book? It isn't showing up on the sales lists yet. There's no indication of it. But Philip Roth is a very big author, so he's got–
NIXON: What is he? What is he?
NIXON: Roth is of course a Jew.
HALDEMAN: Oh yes…He's brilliant in a sick way.
NIXON: Oh, I know–
HALDEMAN: Everything he's written has been sick…
NIXON: A lot of this can be turned to our advantage…I think the anti-Semite thing can be , I hate to say it, but it can be very helpful to us. I mean you hear a singer even as brilliant as Richard Tucker and he's a Jew.
HALDEMAN: Is he?
NIXON: …He's pushy…
HALDEMAN: There are a lot more anti-Semites than there are Jews, and the anti-Semites are with us generally and the Jews sure aren't.
Petropassions and Privatization in Mexico
Enrique Krauze has an editorial in yesterday's New York Times analyzing the resistance to all-but-a-done-deal oil reforms in Mexico, which will probably be voted through by the country's parliament later this month. It's a strange little piece. While he covers a lot of ground, illustrating in broad strokes the fight over Mexico's energy—and economic—future, the essay is most notable for what Krauze leaves out in his implicit defense of the energy privatization.
Krauze identifies three factors animating resistance to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's proposal to opening the country's oil sector to foreign investment: the average citizen's appalling experiences with previous privatization schemes, nationalism, and fears of increased corruption should the country find itself in another oil boom, as happened in the 1970s.