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Reading Town FC
Scours Lane
0118 9453555
Ground Number: 397
Saturday 9th August 2014
Reading Town 1-3 Highworth Town
Hellenic League Premier Division
As soon as the fixtures came out, I'd decided that I didn't fancy going to Newport with Wycombe. For a long time I was all set to go to Whitehawk v Staines, mainly due to the fact that former Wanderers hero Sergio Torres was turning out for the Brighton based club. But the opponents Staines Town meant it would be just a run of the mill Conference South match, with no potential meets. Then I looked at my pub guide, and with nothing amazing nearby, I decided to save my money and go to one of the nearer games to my home in Reading Town v Highworth Town. This had the added bonus of a decent pub in town, plus a few shops worthy of investigation.
The club were formed in 1966 in the midst of the fever surrounding England's World Cup win. Known as Lower Burghfield in their early days, and then various other guises throughout the late 80's, they finally settled on Reading Town in 1991. They were champions of the Chiltonian League in 1995, earning themselves promotion to the Combined Counties League in the process. They were runners up of that league a few years later, and stayed there until 2008. That was the year that they transferred to the Hellenic League, where they had a best ever finish of 3rd in 2010. Last season saw an 11th placed finish. They have not progressed much in the FA Cup, only ever making the 1st Qualifying Round and without a victory for 4 years, so room for improvement there. The FA Vase has been much happier hunting ground with the 4th Round being reached on 2 occasions, most recently in 2012 when they lost 3-2 to Larkhall Athletic. They have won a fair few local trophies, most recently the Berks & Bucks Senior Trophy in 2009. They can count former England international Neil Webb amongst their former managers, while Stuart Beavon, father of the former Wycombe player of the same name appeared for the club as a player
Highworth Town meanwhile were doing really well in the league. They were sitting 5th after the weekend's games, but looked unlikely to beat their best ever finish of 1st which they managed in the 2004-05 season. Whatever happened, they didn't get promotion to the Southern League though, despite a great effort from the players. In the FA Cup last season they went out at the first hurdle to Wessex League side Bournemouth, not to be confused with Championship side AFC Bournemouth. Their best season in the FA Cup was in 2003-04 season when they got to the 3rd qualifying round, beating this seasons cup giantkillers Shortwood United along the way. That was also the season of their best ever FA Vase finish, reaching the 2nd round, though they have matched that on 3 further occasions. Thery have also won a plethora of local cups and leagues over the years.
I didn't have a huge amount of sleep on the Friday night, but at least I had some,which is more than usual. I woke up just before 8 and watched TV and had a bath until 11. Just as I was leaving,my long awaited cable to connect my Mac mini to my TV arrived and I was annoyed not to have time to test it. The journey to Scours Lane took just under an hour. I got to Reading Town FC at around midday.
I walked to the local bus stop and waited around 10 minutes for the first bus into town. It turned out they were accepting exact change only, as was the daft case with many bus companies nowadays. I was allowed on anyway, and it actually turned out to be a bonus, as you will find out later. The journey took around 15 minutes and so by 12.30 I was in Reading. First shop was the Alehouse, where I had a couple of ciders - Polgoon Cornish Cider and Lulworth Skipper Cognac Cask. They were highly enjoyable, but I was running out of time quickly, and so after a brief look around a couple of shops, managing to get some of my favourite Chocolate bars from Poundland. I'd not seen them for ages that cheap, so I was well pleased. I got a dinner of Chicken wrap and chips and made my way to the bus stop. After a couple of minutes the bus was there, and I only ended up paying a £2 single fare to near the ground.
I was in the vicinity by about 2.10, and still hungry, went to the local takeaway for some chips. I then made my way to the ground, arriving just before 2.30. I paid a very reasonable £6 (including programme) to get in, this was the perfect price in my mind, a fiver for entry and a quid for a programme. I went round the ground taking pictures and it was a strange one with a few caravans around the pitch. Overall it was a decent step 5 ground though, and after taking pictures I took a seat in the stand and started typing my blog.
I was most delighted when my mate Tom from Grimsby text me to let me know that Wycombe were 2-0 up thanks to goals from Peter Murphy and Paris Cowan Hall. This was brilliant, as a trip to Newport is not the easiest and it was a great place to be in. The second half at my game continued in the same fashion and it was 3-0 on 56 minutes when a good ball was put into the box and number 9 finished into the roof of the net. 'Fuc*ing waste of my Saturday this sh*t' and with the home side's apparent lack of interest in getting stuck in, I tend to agree. His side did pull one back around 20 minutes before time, but it didn't look like changing the outcome of the game. To add to their woes Reading had a second player sent off, and it wasn't a happy day at the office for them. I'd enjoyed my visit though, a nice ground and a good value day out
That was how it stayed in the case of the game I watched, and the Wycombe game. I was pleased, it had been a really good day out, plus an excellent result for Wycombe, and long may it continue, as last season was terrible. I stopped briefly at Morrisons, but I was home just after 6. I tested my lead on my Mac Mini, all fine, but I still needed to order a longer one, as a metre was a lot shorter than I'd expected. I ordered a new one on eBay, and sat and watched the Ipswich Town v Fulham game (2-1 to the tractor boys) and then Only Fools and Horses. I hoped to have an earlier night than last Saturday, when I only got 2 hours sleep.
SCOURS LANE is a decent ground for step 5 level and not much should,be needed to make it good enough for the next level up. There are 3 areas of cover, firstly stand along the side holding around 100 with a further 30 seats behind the goal, which also has standing area for around 200. With another 100 covered spaces along the other side, you should stay dry when you come here. The bar is your usual clubhouse with small range of drinks and I didn't see a tea bar or club shop. There are a range of takeaways near the ground, or you can get a bus into Reading, around 15 minutes away.


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Welcome to our tour of Australia. During the month of April we are going to visit our favourite spots in Australia. Come join us on our walkabout through the land down under.
Yesterday we were hanging out in the heart of Sydney. Click here if you missed that post. Today we head up the east coast about 850km/525 miles to the Gold Coast to spend some times on Australia's wildest rides.
The Gold Coast is home to several of Australia's theme parks, very similar to the Orlando area in Florida. In fact two of the Orlando parks (Seaworld and Wet 'n' Wild) are also here but our tour stop will visit the other two, Warner Bros. Movie World and Dreamworld. Both parks are worth spending a day or two at as they have plenty to see and do even if you aren't a big roller coaster fan.
Warner Bros. Movie World:
Movie world has several attractions that will keep the whole family entertained. There are rides for the young ones, thrill rides and rollercoasters for the thrill seekers and plenty of shows for those who want something a little less thrilling. One day is often not enough so consider spending a few days here to see all that Movie World has to offer.
What I loved: It has a similar feel as Universal Studios but without the long lines and with unique shows and rides. It had plenty to keep the whole family entertained, even for the ones who didn't ride very much.
Cost: (All prices are in Australian Dollars)
Single day admission is $79. Multi park passes and season passes are $99.
More Info:
Movie World Web Site
Dreamworld has some of Australia's fastest and tallest rides along with shows, rides for the little ones and much more. It is also home to the Big Brother house and you can race a virtual V8 Supercar. If the going gets too hot, you can cool down in the water park next door!
What I loved: The park has a distinct Australian feel to it and is unlike any other park open today. The big 8 Challenge was a fun way to ride all of the big thrill rides (Read that post here) and the tiger show and wildlife section was a nice extra as well. My only complaint is that one day is not nearly enough!
Cost: (All prices are in Australian Dollars)
Single day admission is $74.99. Multi day and Multi park passes start at $84.99.
More Info:
Dreamworld Web Site
Getting There.
Car: Movie World and Dreamworld are just a few kilometres apart and are just of the M1 Motorway. It is about 1 hour south of Brisbane and 9-10 hours north of Sydney.
Air: Brisbane airport and the Gold Coast airport are closest to the parks (Both airports are about a 1.5 hour flight from Sydney). It is about a 30-60 minute drive from either airport to the parks.
Train: Coomera and Helensvale railway stations are the closest stations to the theme parks and are about an hour's ride from Brisbane.


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Although I didn't really expect much in this tour, I was alittle excited to see one of my riders get 10th in the second stage and was in 11th overall after the third stage, but it all went badly from there and it ended just like I thought it would. Nice job SCycling, your team made a nice jump in the division standings !
I'm very happy with Derek Benson, 22 years old, and a nice result. Nr 8 in Tirreno Adriatico and nr 3th in climb-sprint and 4th in pure climb
42th... It's so difficult for us. Perhaps Giro will be better.
Well, we're finally out of the cobbles and into some nice hill races now, which I thought was my strength, yet I can't break the top 50! I have a rider that has an 88 in hills, a 66 flat, an 82 sprint with solid secondary numbers, and he hasn't gotten past 60th in the last two hill races. I can only imagine the numbers the riders of the top teams have here! I havn't scored a point in quite awhile now and I was hoping to show well in these hill races, but no dice so far. There are a couple of good hill races still coming up that should be favorable to my team, so there is still some hope I guess, but if this keeps up I might have to have to stop racing and just train I guess....


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Samsung ATIV S Phone Will be Delayed
Samsung's ATIV S will be delayed it may not be subscribed in January. A missed opportunity will allow greater challenge to take advantage in holiday season. Nokia and HTC has marketed Windows Phone 8 handsets in the current month. The reason for Samsung's delay is unknown.
Like Galaxy S3 Ativ S is is having an amazing peculiarities it consists of 4.8 inch AMOLED HD display having an 8 megapixel snapper which shoots at 1080p HD and a 1.5 GHz dual-core chip thus enables clicking. A 16/32 GB is also available in the market which can be further extendable to 32 GB. It is the first launch to Windows Phone device.


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About LinkedCT
The Linked Clinical Trials (LinkedCT) project aims at publishing the first open Semantic Web data source for clinical trials data. The data exposed by LinkedCT is generated by (1) transforming existing data sources of clinical trials into RDF, and (2) discovering links between the records in the trials data and several other data sources. Refer to the stats for the latest statistics about the data.
The LinkedCT data space is published according to the principles of publishing Linked Data. These principles greatly enhance adaptability and usability of data on the web. Each entity in LinkedCT is identified by a unique HTTP dereferenceable Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). When the URI is looked up, related RDF statements about the entity is returned in HTML or RDF/XML based on the user's agent. Moreover, a SPARQL endpoint is provided as the standard access method for RDF data.
If you use the data or just would like to refer to this work in a publication, we kindly ask you to use the following citation:
Hassanzadeh, Oktie, and Renée J. Miller. "Automatic Curation of Clinical Trials Data in LinkedCT." ISWC 2015. 270-278. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-25010-6_16
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Although the Internet appears to be edging out traditional broadcasting and by extension, the ubiquitous television as the center piece of home entertainment, the need for viable content will keep multimedia platforms interdependent in the evolutionary arena of technology.
Delivery systems, content and advertising are the three factors that television industry stakeholders are grappling with in an increasingly convergent media world where hitherto monopolistic structures of broadcasting are crumbling owing to the rise of multi-platform media and aggressively interactive media consumers who are dictating what they want to watch, when they want to watch and most importantly, how they want to watch.
Convergence of media itself is not a new concept and media observers have talked of it since the 1980s. Nevertheless, the availability of sophisticated communication and viewing devices and better Internet connectivity in recent years has made the convergence a more layered and complex concept that involves the understanding of the technology and economics of content delivery.
New media theorists (Holmes, 2012), however, feel competition from non-broadcast systems of content delivery will not necessarily spell the end of television; rather, with hunger for diverse content driving creativity, there is room for everyone to co-exist in a mutually profitable world.
Theoretical Framework
This review takes off from the pedestal of Marshal McLuhan's theories of media and his understanding of technology, wherein he famously equated the medium with the message.
Also, against the evolving foreground of media convergence, this review seeks to understand the new media theories propounded in the second electronic new media age (Holmes, 2012) by such theorists as George Gilder, Mark Poster and Sherry Turkle, each of whom declared the end of broadcast and the rise of interactive networks.
In his revolutionary yet controversial book Understanding Media (McLuhan, 1964) Marshal McLuhan wrote: "Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned."
McLuhan foresaw that with electricity and automation, the technology of fragmented processes makes "men nomadic gatherers of knowledge, nomadic as never before, informed as never before, free from fragmentary specialism as never before –but also involved in the total social process as never before."
That observation could not have been truer today than ever before when media consumers are greedily accessing information and entertainment through interconnectivity and aggressive interactivity.
That paradigmatic shift in consumer behavior bolstered as it is by new media directly challenges the cultural imperialism of the television. In Life After Television (Gilder, 1994), George Gilder, who practically pronounced that the death of the television, talks of an age where the "master-slave architecture of television" would be overthrown by networked media where everyone can be a broadcaster.
In The Second Media Age (Poster, 1995), Mark Poster declared that the Internet would be the medium to provide an alternative to the severe technical constraints of the broadcast model, enabling a system of multiple producers, distributors, and consumers.
Poster talks of a post-broadcast age where the traditional audience emerges into an audience that seeks personalization of content, whether through interactive television or bookmarking of Web pages. Thus replacing the mass culture of broadcast and shaking off the built-in passivity of television watching.
In his book The Internet Challenge to Television (Owen, 1999), Bruce Owens made a prophecy of convergence – that through digitization, television, telephone and computers will all converge on the Internet.
What is Convergence?
Although convergence has become a buzz word for the media industry in the last couple of years, the concept was established as early as the early 1980s.
In his book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Jenkins, 2006) Henry Jenkins, describes the late MIT political scientist Ithiel de Sola Pool as the prophet of media convergence. Pool's Technologies of Freedom (1983) was probably the first book to lay out the concept of convergence as a force of change within the media industries (Jenkins, 2006).
Jenkins himself defines convergence as the "flow of content across multiple media platforms, the cooperation between multiple media industries, and the migratory behavior of media audiences who will go almost anywhere in search of the kinds of entertainment experiences they want."
Convergence refers to a process, not an endpoint, Jenkins writes; convergence involves both a change in the way media is produced and a change in the way media is consumed.
The Technology of Convergence
Equally concerned with rapid convergence are those in the field of technology itself. In a discursive paper (Adams, 2011), Michael Adams, head of software strategy for Ericsson Solution Area Media talks about the inevitability of HTTP and adaptive streaming becoming the dominant mode of video delivery in cable networks.
Adaptive streaming was developed to provide the best user experience for streaming of content over an unmanaged network, like the Internet. However, such streaming cannot provide a service delivery quality that matches that of MPEG-2 transport systems, that which we see in broadcasting.
Still, Adams says, adaptive streaming is here to stay because of the appearance of popular client devices – tablets, smart phones and PCs – that support only adaptive streaming. Given this reality, cable operators are already moving rapidly to add adaptive streaming capabilities to their content delivery infrastructure, which means, newer set-top boxes in the network will be designed to accept adaptive streaming formats as they become standardized. Eventually, an optimized future version of adaptive streaming will become the dominant mode of video delivery in cable networks.
The path towards convergence was led mainly by the increasing digitization of content, the shift towards Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks, the diffusion of high-speed broadband access, and the availability of multi-media communication and computing devices (Claudia Sarrocco, 2008), according to a report prepared for a Ministerial meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.
The OECD paper elaborates that convergence is taking place at different levels: Network convergence – that includes fixed-mobile convergence and 'three-screen convergence' (mobile, TV and computer); Service convergence – stemming from network convergence and innovative handsets; Industry/market convergence – that brings together in the same field industries such as information technology, telecommunication, and media, formerly operating in separate markets; Legislative, institutional and regulatory convergence; Device convergence – most devices include today a microprocessor, a screen, storage, input device and some kind of network connection; and converged user experience: unique interface between end-users and telecommunications, new media, and computer technologies.
Content Convergence
In the UK television industry, migration to multi-platform has been characterized by the introduction of '360-degree commissioning' and by the development of websites and other digital offerings capitalizing on popular content brands (Doyle, 2010).
A 360-degree strategy implies that, from the earliest stages of conceptualization, content decisions are shaped by the potential to generate consumer value and returns through multiple forms of expression of that content and via a number of distributive outlets (e.g. online, mobile, interactive games and so on) of which conventional television is just one, albeit still a very important one.
A comScore study points out that the need to stay relevant across multiple platforms, gives content creators huge opportunities.
"Content is king. But it doesn't come in singular form anymore," the study findings say. Therefore, it is important to stay story-centric and to build content not just for one platform, but develop it with multi-platform distribution in mind; and the best way to optimize content and assets is "to break down the publishing walls."
Quite dramatically, the study says: "No one wants to have to run down the hall to hear the breaking news, so get rid of the halls."
The comScore study concludes that at the end of the day, it's about improving business, about considering production, distribution and business processes in a holistic way.
In a combined research 'Researching Diversity of Content in a Multi-platform Context' Katherine Champion, Gillian Doyle and Philip Schlesinger of University of Glasgow (Katherine Champion, and others) say that expansion in distribution capacity, improved search functions and the introduction of a digital return path have created unprecedented opportunities for exploitation of the value within any given universe of media content. Citing different studies, they say that the sheer space available online and via new platforms has led to an exponential increase in the accessibility of content.
New technology is allowing suppliers unprecedented opportunities to get to know their audiences and to match up content more closely to their needs and desires, they say. Because of improved signalling of audience preferences, the ability of content suppliers to trace and cater more effectively to shifting and specific tastes and interests amongst audiences has vastly increased.
Web 2.0 and interactive consumption of media
The development of Web 2.0 as a platform has transformed the nature of interactivity on the Web and opened up a universe of user-generated media (comScore, 2012). Moving away from the passivity induced by television and the one-way downloading of information of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 applications now allow users to become autonomous producers. Blogs, YouTube, Wikipedia, eBay, Flickr, Second Life, and other such online social networking sites enable media users to have a broadcast experience of their own.
The significance of Web 2.0 is that, whereas broadcast generates an instant national or international context of social connection, there are few ways in which individuals can achieve meaningful interaction to make these global connections tangible. The fact that users can now work with the materials of broadcast media as a way of communicating expands the idea that media make possible a public sphere.
Jenkins writes that old media never die and that they don't even necessarily fade away. "What dies are simply the tools we use to access media content, what media scholars call delivery technologies," he says.
While industry insiders are frantically redesigning their core content development structures, to cope with changing consumer demands, academics and technology experts understand the challenges in mapping the convergences between the three main domains involved – computerization, media and telecommunications (Holmes, 2012) .
Newer technological entrants to the market every day make it difficult to wrap strategies around holistic approaches, leaving the market in perpetual infancy (Holmes, 2012).
The McPillips and Merlo Media coverage and evolving media business model (McPhillips, Merlo 2008) argues that there would be no revolution or "industry stampede" as many have predicted. Rather, the study says, the industry will experience an evolution as the old and new models first learn to co-exist, until they ultimately converge.
As such, the concept of convergence itself is evolving, with multiple media platforms democratically co-existing in an arena where content still is king.
Adams, M. (2011, April). Will HTTP Adaptive Streaming Become the Dominant Mode of Video Delivery in Cable Networks? Ericsson Review.
Claudia Sarrocco, D. Y. (2008). The Future of the Internet Economy. Seoul, Korea: OECD Secretariat.
comScore. (2012, August 28). Presentations and Whitepapers. Retrieved January 2013, from comScore.com: http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Presentations_and_Whitepapers/2012/How_Multi-Screen_Consumers_Are_Changing_Media_Dynamics
Doyle, G. (2010). From Television to Multi-Platform Less from More or More for Less? Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies , 1-19.
Gilder, G. (1994). Life After Television. Forbes ASAP.
Holmes, D. (2012, June 29). "New Media Theory". Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. Retrieved Janaury 2013, from http://www.sagepub.com/edwards/study/materials/reference/77593_10.2ref.pdf
Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture Where Old and New Media Collide. New York, London: New York University Press.
Katherine Champion, G. D. (n.d.). Researching Diversity of Content in a Multi-platform Context. Quality, Diversity and Innovation: Their Role in the Economic Functioning of the Media Industries . United Kingdom.
McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man.
Owen, B. (1999). The Internet Challenge to Television. Harvard University Press.
Poster, M. (1995). The Second Media Age. Sage Publications.
McPhillips, Merlo (2008). Media Convergence and the evolving media business model: An overview and strategic opportunities. The Marketing Review, 2008, Vol.8, No.3 Westburn Publishers.
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Interested in Language
1. I want to be a doctor and a musician.
2. I want to be a doctor and musician.
3. I want to be a singer and an actor.
4. I want to be a singer and actor.
In written English, is it correct to use ellipsis as in sentences 2 and 4 i.e leave out "a" and "an" before musician and actor?
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Yes, though the first sounds slightly odd to me without the article as they are such different jobs.


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The SDFLA Blog is dedicated to providing news and notes regarding federal practice in the Southern District of Florida. The New Times calls the blog "the definitive source on South Florida's federal court system." All tips on court happenings are welcome and will remain anonymous. Please email David Markus at email@example.com
Monday, November 01, 2010
What's new on this rainy Monday? Well, the Supreme Court took a bunch of cases, including one concerning Miranda warnings and minors. In the District, Judge Middlebrooks and Judge Graham both started mortgage fraud trials this morning. A bunch of those cases are now starting to go and there have been a bunch of acquittals for straw buyers. What else?
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We are enjoying a peaceful Saturday. It has been a wonderful rest after our long haul with remodeling and getting ready for Thanksgiving. Steve is out cutting and splitting wood today, and I am making Turkey Broth out of our Turkey Carcasses. We had two turkeys this year. We were a group of 14 friends and family and had a wonderful time together. I made 2 turkeys, because I always like to have enough for dinner and left overs; thus 2 turkey carcasses. Steve cut all the meat off the bones for me yesterday, and we put the bones into my biggest stock pot for broth. It cooked all day long and cooled out in the carport last night, where the freezing temperatures went to work for us. Today I deboned and put up 6 quarts of meat and broth. The broth was loaded with gelatin, after so many bones cooking for so many hours. It was almost a solid. I bagged up 4 quarts of meat and gelatin and put 2 quarts of broth and meat into jars. Now I have a nice store for the next month or two, and can make up some wonderful soups and casseroles.
This pot has been cooking all day.
When I put the bones and meat into the colander to strain, it didn't move; it was molded with gelatin.
This makes a wonderful nutritious addition to your healthy meals. It is actually a success when
your broth turns to gelatin after it is cooled. It means you have extracted the collagen, from the bones, as well as glucosamine, chondroitin, msm and many minerals all of which are far better utilized in your body through a broth like this than by taking supplements.
I usually have quite a bit more broth than this; but because of the gelatin factor as I said above, I made chicken and gelatin concentrate, and diluted the last of the gelatin into broth. I included the meat in my broth, although you could also strain all the meat and just keep the broth for when you need stock. It is always good to have stock and broth in the freezer ready when you need it.
Turkey Broth/Stock
1 turkey carcass
Optional veggies:
2 or 3 stalks of celery
1 medium onion,
2 or 3 small carrots
1 small handful of parsley
3-4 cloves of garlic
salt and pepper to taste
1. Place carcass in a large stock pot.
2. Fill with water until the carcass is covered.
3. Add remaining ingredients
4. Bring pot to a boil, and then turn down to simmer.
6. Cool and skim excess fat.
7. Strain bones and meat.
8. Place broth/stock into jars and freeze.
9. If desired, de-bone the meat, and add to the broth, or freeze separately.
Use for:Turkey Noodle Soup
Turkey and Rice Soup
White Turkey Chili
Turkey Pot Pie
Turkey and Dumplings
Gravies and sauces
Turkey Casseroles


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Jean Muteba Rahier, director of the FIU African and African Diaspora Studies Program, has published a book, Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival.
The ethnography examines the racial, sexual and social complexities of Afro-Ecuadorian culture, as revealed through their annual celebration Festival of the Kings. In Roman Catholicism, the Festival of the Kings celebrates the Epiphany, or the visit of the Magi to Baby Jesus.
The people of the coastal province of Esmeraldas – whose population is 70 percent black and mulatto and is most associated with blackness – wear masks and portray themselves as blacks, whites and indigenous peoples as a reference to the origins of the three Magi and the three most prominent racial groups in Latin America In his book, Rahier studied two towns within the province: Santo Domingo de Onzole, an isolated village in the Ecuadorian jungle, and La Tola, a coastal village. He found the festivities in Santo Domingo de Onzole, where race mixing is not common, emphasize gender relations. In La Tola, a village whose population is heavily multiracial, the villagers emphasize race relations by critiquing white and light-mulatto elites.
"A given cultural ceremony can take different shapes and have different meanings in different locations or communities, even within the same cultural area. I hope that this study will help people to stay away from facile generalizations and essentializations of people and their cultural practices," Rahier said. "The specific geographic and socio-economic contexts in which people live are very important because they inform what people think and do. This book calls for a detailed and sophisticated understanding of human beings and their cultural productions."
The book was published May 1, 2013, by the University of Illinois Press.
Rahier is an associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies in the School of International and Public Affairs. A member of the African diaspora himself, he was born in the Republic of Congo to a Congolese mother and Belgian father. Educated in Belgium and France, he developed an interest in the African diaspora as an undergraduate at Université Libre de Bruxelles. Chance took him to Ecuador in 1984 where he discovered African communities there and dedicated his dissertation to them, staying in the country and studying these groups until 1991. Rahier has a Ph.D. in sociology from the Université de Paris X in Nanterre, France.


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So first up, let's meet Rachel! {you're adorable, Rachel!!!}
Next, let's Meet Melanie! {also utterly adorable!!!}
Thanks, Rachel & Melanie! You both make me want to try harder - thanks for sharing!
THANK YOU SO MUCH again for hosting the challenge! It was fun to meet up with someone new and work through the holidays to stay healthy!
So excited to buy a new outfit and sign up for zumba with my winnings!! :)
These two gals were just the encouragement I needed today to stay on track with my own healthy goals. Thanks for sharing! (Oh, and I am all over the thai coconut curry shrimp recipe!) :)
These women rock! Good for them! I really wish I head joined for the second round! Darn it!!! K maybe if you do another round!
Thank you for hosting this fun challenge!! It was the perfect thing to get me going:) Good luck to all of who are involoved in the challenge now!!
Great job ladies! Love inspirational stories! Coincidentally I love LOVE and follow Sister's Cafe for all the great recipes..thanks for that too!


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Late to the party, but I brought bottles
I'd been procrastinating at looking at Dist::Zilla, but I thought I'd have a go with it this week.
And as usual I found some yaks to shave on my travels.
First off I had to port over Module::Install::GithubMeta to Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GithubMeta.
Flush with the success of this I decided to try converting some other of my Module::Install extensions, starting with Module::Install::AssertOS.
After much gnashing of teeth and hair-pulling I've eventually released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::AssertOS to CPAN.
Closely followed by Dist::Zilla::Plugin::NoAutomatedTesting.
Both these demonstrate a slightly dubious mechanism for manipulating the dzil generated Makefile.PL. You might want Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::Awesome instead.


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Point and Click Games are kind of lovely games. Use your mouse to find lost items and solve puzzles. Use mouse to click on the items and characters in the correct order to advance. If you want to play more, be sure to visit us every day. Good luck.
Online escape games with walkthrough for you. There are unlimited free escape the room games. Play best point and click games, house escape and mystery escape game. New and popular room escape games to our site is loaded everyday. Enjoy. Total online games: 900+. If you want to play online escape games. Stay with us.


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- Sterilizations. The core of our work consists of free sterilizations for homeless and owned companion animals in order to prevent subsequent abandonment and suffering. In April we could provide a total of 71 sterilizations for companion animals of Ploiesti and surroundings. The ones who made these 71 sterilizations possible are: HondenBrokkenMakers, Dog's Wish NL, Claudia H, Ulrike, Toni, Vivi Ann, Claudia K, Beverly, Satu, Christina, Zoe, Maureen, Lin, Angela, Silvia K, Gaby, Margot, Silvia C, Caroline, BrittMarie, Samsur, Andra, Jose, Imko, Irene, Kathi, Paola, Edurne, Radana, Pat, Jeanne, Deborah, Barbel, Linda, Drahomira, Aurelia, Dorothy, and Kelly. April was marked by many donations towards sterilizations from people who donated as little as the cost of one coffee in order to help needy animals. To all of you, many thanks! Thank you for caring!
- Veterinary needs. In April we cared for one puppy in appalling condition, sweet Gia. For her, it was a long way to come around. But the way Gia has thrived and flourished is absolutely breathtaking. Thank you dearly, HondenBrokkenMakers, for covering her vet expenses and for giving her the chance to be the happy and healthy dog she is today in Holland! In April we also needed to provide vet care and accommodation at the vet clinic for ill dogs like Dolly; provide dozens of vaccines for the many pups in our care; pay for treatment for mange for several dogs; and buy vitamins and calcium supplements, tick and flea treatment for dozens of dogs and pups. Our thanks go to Claudia V., Mariel, Donna and BrittMarie for helping towards these expenses!
- Dog food. In April we purchased a whooping 290 kilos dry dog food plus many cans of wet food for the stray dogs and pups we're looking after. Very many thanks to HondenBrokkenMakers, Ingela, Heather from Pure Puppy Inc, and Gabriele. Our doggies with their bellies full are very thankful to you!
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On World Humanitarian Day (19 August), the IKEA Foundation is calling on businesses and foundations to support global and local efforts to help refugee families.
Next month, US President Obama will host the Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis during the high-level week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. With more than 65 million people forced to flee their homes, the summit will call for all countries and sections of society to work together to tackle this issue.
The IKEA Foundation believes that businesses and foundations have an important role to play in strengthening the global response to refugee crises worldwide.
Per Heggenes, CEO of the IKEA Foundation, said: "The corporate sector must come together to support those caught up in one of the biggest displacements of people in history. It's not just up to governments and aid agencies. Businesses also have a responsibility to respond in their own way. We believe businesses have much more to offer. Their expertise and ability to innovate can help make life better for refugees, and they can use their influence to galvanise others to help."
The Foundation supports refugee children and their families around the world through UNHCR and other leading international organisations. On the other hand, the IKEA business makes good use of its creativity and problem-solving skills to find practical ways to help refugees.
Together with social enterprise Better Shelter and UNHCR, the Foundation has created a flat-pack shelter, which is safer and more durable than a tent. UNHCR has already ordered thousands of shelters to house refugee families in Greece, Iraq, Serbia, Chad and Djibouti.
The IKEA Foundation also recently teamed up with Amsterdam-based design platform What Design Can Do and UNHCR to harness the creative power of the design community. The What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge called on designers and creative thinkers to come up with new concepts to make life better for refugee families living in urban areas.
"We're really proud of how we are able to support our partners in times of disasters and conflict," says Jonathan Spampinato, Head of Communications at the IKEA Foundation.
"On World Humanitarian Day, we'd like to say a huge thank you to our humanitarian partners, especially to their staff and volunteers who work on the frontline in emergencies."
To support refugee children and families living in Iraq, the Foundation has donated 400,000 mattresses, quilts and blankets to UNHCR over three years. Since 2013, it has also been donating IKEA children's products to UNICEF for its Early Childhood Development Kits, which support the well-being of children, including those affected by conflicts and emergencies.
Earlier this year, the Foundation gave grants worth a total of €9.4 million to Save the Children and Médicins Sans Frontières. The money is supporting children and families affected by the Syrian conflict, in Syria and neighbouring countries. Moreover, the Foundation partnered up with War Child to provide quality education to 10,000 Syrian and Sudanese refugee children through the Can't Wait to Learn e-learning programme. The Foundation has also helped to strengthen local humanitarian organisations in Bangladesh and Uganda.
Our Brighter Lives for Refugees campaign raised €30.8 million to help (UNHCR) bring renewable energy and education to refugee camps in parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. For example, in the Azraq camp in Jordan where, at first, thousands of Syrian refugees had no streetlights or lighting, the campaign has lit up the camp, bringing a sense of safety and security, and making the camp better place for children and families. As well as providing streetlights and solar lanterns, it is paying for a six megawatt solar farm in Azraq refugee camp, home to over 30,000 Syrians.
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
"Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."


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I used the Christmas Jar image and colored it up with Spectrum Noir markers and die cut it with Gina Marie Designs Cross Stitch Rectangles. The sentiment is a retired Gina K set called Blessed is the Season. I die cut that and it's background with MFT Pierced Fishtail Flags. The background paper is a green glitter paper and I embellished with gold and diamond Stickles. This card really sparkles! I also added some candy cane Doodle Twine.
I am entering these challenges:
- Catch the Bug Christmas in July Day 1: make it sparkle
- Sketch Saturday: sketch
- Crafty Hazelnut Christmas challenge: Anything goes; use a die cut
- Crafty Hazelnut Christmas Extra challenge: anything goes Christmas
- Outlawz Friday challenge: Christmas
- Hiding in my Craft Room: Christmas in July


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Role: Provider Education Consultant Assignment: Senior Medicare Products / MRA
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Assignment Capsule
Humana is seeking a Provider Education Consultant who will take ownership of Medicare Risk Adjustment (MRA) programs that fit best with our providers by identifying operational and clinical best practices in the risk adjustment methodology, understanding clinical suspects and monitoring of appropriate clinical documentation and quality coding. This role reports to the MRA Manager and as a member of the MRA team will work closely with market operations, finance and clinical teams to effectively match the right program to providers, put together an action plan, effectively engage providers, implement plans and monitor. The Provider Education Consultant will also coordinate implementation of programs designed to ensure all diagnoses are coded according to CMS and risk adjustment coding guidelines and conditions are properly supported by appropriate documentation in the patient chart. Work will require 30% travel.
Key Role Objectives/Responsibilities
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of Humana's risk adjustment programs and the resources required for successful implementation
- Develop and apply keen insight of our providers and our KPIs, and be able to strategically assess where risk adjustment improvements can be made in the most effective way with available resources
- Build a strong collaborative relationship with our providers to set the stage for successful engagement with risk adjustment programs
- Successfully implement identified course of action to effectively impact risk adjustment deadlines and report on progress regularly; possess the ability to fill gaps between actual situations and desired ones
- Facilitate and/or perform an audit of the providers medical chart to ensure appropriate documentation exists to support the diagnoses submitted appropriately and also to identify trends in documentation for use in provider education and feedback on a regularly scheduled basis
- Assist providers in understanding the CMS - HCC Risk Adjustment program as a payment methodology and the importance of proper chart documentation
- Monitor KPIs through analytics and identify providers for Medicare Risk Adjustment training, programs and documentation/coding resources
- Consult with medical providers to clarify missing or inadequate record information and to determine appropriate diagnostic codes; query providers to obtain additional medical record documentation or to clarify documentation to ensure accurate and appropriate coding
- Provide
- ICD10 - HCC coding training to providers and appropriate staff
- Facilitate coding presentations and training to large and small groups of clinicians, practice managers and certified coders developing training to fit specific provider's needs
- Train physicians and other staff regarding documentation, billing and coding and provide feedback to physicians regarding documentation practices and compliance with state and federal regulations
- Provide measurable, actionable solutions to providers that will result in improved accuracy for documentation and coding practices and adopt CMS best practices
- Cultivate effective partnerships in a matrix environment of coding educators, medical director, finance, clinical and market operations
- Achieve client satisfaction and loyalty
Role Essentials
- Certified Professional Coder & CPC-I
- Experience in HCC risk adjustment in the following areas: provider relations, education and training of providers and medical office staff, and HCC coding from a payer perspective at least
- Experience in successfully engaging with providers to participate in performance
- improvement programs
- Associates working in the state of Arizona must comply with the Tobacco Free Hiring Policy (see details below under Additional Information) and upon offer will be subjected to nicotine testing as part of a 10-panel drug test
- Familiarity with key performance metrics in HCC risk adjustment
- Prior experience working in a cross-functional team
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and quickly adapt to change
- Ability to effectively manage projects simultaneously
- Strong facilitation, presentation skills and Microsoft office skills
- Knowledge of EMR
Role Desirables
- Bachelor Degree
Reporting Relationship
You will report to a MRA Manager.
Additional Information
Humana is committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment and to promoting the health and well-being of its associates. Effective July 1, 2011, Humana has adopted a tobacco-free hiring policy that will promote a healthier workplace and will not hire users of tobacco and nicotine products. If you have any questions, please consult with your recruiter.
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The Inner City 100
Michael Sherman is no fan of check-cashing establishments. "They charge usury rates," declares the founder and CEO of Sherman Assembly Systems (#95), in San Antonio. And, of course, people who have recently cashed checks are catnip to muggers. "One of our employees was robbed, and it got us thinking, 'Why don't they have bank accounts?" says Sherman. "And it dawned on us that some of these people didn't know about having bank accounts."
The workers in question are generally unskilled laborers who do hand assembly and other tasks for Sherman's company, a contract manufacturer of electronic cable assemblies. Many are former welfare recipients who were channeled to the company through Goodwill Industries, which tutors them in job skills -- such as managing their duties -- but not necessarily in life skills such as managing their money. So several years ago a concerned Sherman approached his own bank about setting up special checking accounts with reduced minimum balances for his employees. Bank reps visit the manufacturer periodically to "hold their hands through the application process," says Sherman.
But financial education isn't the only thing that Sherman's employees lack. About half of the workers don't have a high school diploma. To improve the situation, Sherman has arranged for a local Catholic college to supply a Web-based GED program to all interested staffers. The software will run on a pair of dedicated computers in the company's conference room. "We're not a very big company, and our profits aren't very deep," says Sherman. "But we do what we can to make their lives better."
The Inner City 100
City Lights
There are a million stories in the inner cities. These are some of them.
Winnebago Take All Team 2000 Staffing Services (#62)
Visible Signs of Relief Robinwood Inc. (#29)
In the Bank Sherman Assembly Systems (#95)
The English Impatient Crystal Window & Door Systems Ltd. (#86)
Fish Fry Clearwater Fisheries (#21)
Border Fulfillment Miratek Corp. (#22)
My Customer's Customer, Myself Integrated Packaging Corp. (#75)
Take My Franchise, Please Candy Bouquet International Inc. (#37)
After-School Special GreatAmerica Leasing Corp. (#27)
All About Eaves Aztec Roofing & Sheetmetal Corp. (#58)
Comeback Markets
Most companies have taken a pass on the huge inner-city service market. Some smart CEOs are eagerly filling the void.
Who Wants to be a Milliner?
The story of this year's #1 Inner City 100 company.
The Inner City 100 Almanac
Fast facts about the Inner City 100 CEOs and their businesses.
The List
The fastest-growing private inner-city companies.
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Gorge Unveiled
Hood River, Oregon
Gorge Unveiled is a collective of some of the most talented wedding and event professionals of the Columbia Gorge. The group works together to provide wedding services of the most exceptional quality and service in the mid-Columbia Gorge area. bydesign was hired to design marketing collateral for Gorge Unveiled, which included business cards, event invitations, stickers, and more.
Client: Gorge Unveiled
Tags: Marketing Collateral, Stationery


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The History of Naked Yoga
The soul, like the moon
is new and always new again
and I have seen the ocean
continuously creating.
Since I washed my mind
and my body, I too,
am new, each moment new.
My teacher told me one thing:
Live in the soul.
When that was so,
I began to go naked and dance.
Naked Yoga
Naked yoga, in it's true form, has very little to do with sex and eroticism.
Naked yoga originated with the Naga Sadhus, a sect of Yogis in India, dating back to the 8th Century BC. Their name describes the philosophy and thinking that is central to their approach to yoga and spirituality. The word Naga means "naked," and the word Sadhu, "one who has renounced the world completely."
Nudity on the part of the Sadhus is a symbol of renunciation of all things material; symbolically, by renouncing their clothes, they renounce ambition and any attachment to objects, emotions or desires. There is a sect of the Sadhus that even renounces sex and embraces celibacy and learns to face the harsh elements without concern for physical comfort or satisfying human desires, including the freezing cold of the Himalayas, where many of them reside. These acts are meant to help break the attachment and identification they have with the physical body and sense organs, and allocate energy and attention towards utilizing the body as a means towards reaching enlightenment.
The real meaning behind nudity in the yoga practice, specifically, the Sacred Tantric Practice in Yoga Undressed, in its purest form, describes the resolution of conflicts between the opposites in life--finding the perfect balance between the deepest and most complete connection to the body, while simultaneously cultivating absolute detachment from it, in order to encounter the eternal soul essence, or the pure energy of creation. The purpose of yoga is to create a vibrant, powerful energetic connection to the body, but not as obvious is the goal of detachment from the body, the recognition of the body as a temporary dwelling place for the soul. A true naked yogi, then is one who has shed his coverings, not only his clothing, but his attachment to the myriad and insidious aspects of all human drama and resides in and embraces his pure, untouched, infinite nature.
Naked yoga removes any sense of restriction from clothing, promoting a greater sense of freedom during asana practice and thus, an enhanced awareness of the body. Seeing and feeling the body as you stretch and move from one posture to the next, inspires a more mindful, connected practice. When we consider the role that clothing has played in society, it seems to be in direct opposition to the spirit of yoga, which speaks to "oneness" and union. By design, clothing reminds us of our differences. It serves as a distraction that leads us away from a central yogic principal, the commonality of all living things which inspires peace and compassion.
Naked yoga creates a sense of total physical freedom, but the real freedom that the Sadhus in particular, are seeking from their nakedness, is freedom from inhibitions, opinions of others and any shame about the body. When you are naked, and start to embrace your nakedness and find comfort in its naturalness, a care-free attitude emerges. You forget your own interests, ambitions, and problems, and you lose yourself to the feeling of bliss that is your true and immortal nature.
One of the greatest proponents of naked yoga Lalla, an empowered, naked female mystic, who lived in Northern India during the 14th Century, achieved fame with her exquisitely powerful poetry that made her one of Kashmir's favorite poets, esteemed as much as Rumi and Hafiz.
Adorned by only her long dark hair, Lalla became a legendary figure, with her poetry and her tantric outlook on life. In Sanskrit she is called Lalleshwari, the great yogini – a prophetess and practitioner of yoga. She found a freedom that was impervious to praise or blame, bucking convention and bravely asserting her calling to the Tantric Way.
One of the most famous tales about Lalla goes like this: One morning some children were making fun of her nakedness. A cloth merchant scolded them for their disrespect, and Lalla asked him for two strands of cloth equal in weight. She then flung these over either shoulder, and through the day, whenever someone mocked her she tied a knot in one cloth, and whenever someone praised her she tied a knot in the other. At the end of the day she asked the merchant to weigh both, before all of the villagers and their children. Both sides of the cloth weighed the same, and her point was made: praise and blame have no substance. Lalla was so filled with ecstasy from her revelations, her dedication to ritual-- to her practices and philosophies, that she began wandering and dancing naked in a state of ecstatic clarity, inviting others to let go of their attachments, to live from the soul, and to be free ...
Don't be so quick to condemn my nakedness.
A man is one who trembles in the Presence.
There are very few of those.
Why not go naked?
The ram of experience must be fed
And ripened for the sacrifice.
Then all these customs will disappear like clothing.
There's only the soul.
The word Tantra literally means expansion. A tantra yogi concentrates on expanding all levels of his or her consciousness to unveil and realize the "Supreme Reality," Shakti, or the "Cosmic Mother" that resides in each one of us. The Tantric practice, celebrates and honors what is natural, seeking to unite all dualities in one's own being---shiva and shakti, male and female, cultivating reverence for your highest self in order to awaken the divine.
The origins of Sacred Tantric practice can be traced back at least to the "Indus Valley" civilization that was contemporary with the Sumerian and the Egyptian Old kingdom. The term Tantra first appeared about two thousand years ago, and became prominent in teachings over the past 1,500 years. There are not only Hindu Tantric teachings, but also Jain and Buddhist Tantras. They all have two things in common: teachings for liberation and the celebration and of nature in all forms.
In Tantra, we strive to attune ourselves with Shakti, this dynamic, spiritual energy in order to transform personal limitations and release subconscious blockages. True tantra is a pure path, and treats sexuality as a sacred creative force to be transmuted into higher channels. As humans, our emotions are various cosmic energies limited, broken up and influenced by patterns of attachment, and tantra is the also the alchemy of transmuting human emotions into divine energy, the transformation from sleeping to "wakefulness," the movement toward true consciousness, one's acknowledgment of deleterious patterns in order to change them and rise above them.
Tantra yoga inspires us to see the universe as an expression of the "Cosmic Mother," to experience that all aspects of the universe are parts of our own nature, including not only plants and animals, but inanimate nature and even our own emotions, as forms of Gods and Goddesses or as Divine Powers and presences that command respect. The domain of the Goddess is all forms of beauty, including the world of nature, up to the highest beauty, which is pure consciousness. Nature herself, the flowers, forests, mountain, ocean, and sky is the dance of the goddess. And while sexuality is embodied by The Goddess, it is but one aspect of her power and is meant to be harnessed and transformed into the energy of consciousness; the ultimate purpose of tantra is to awaken and acknowledge the divine feminine, the Goddess of awareness and compassion within ourselves, the feminine qualities of receptivity, loving kindness and compassion, in men and women alike, so that we can experience her ultimate beauty in our own beings and cultivate balance, and love, in turn offering the same to others. The Goddess is literally the bliss of awakening, and being and we can never be content unless we realize this joy within our own hearts so that we can then share it with others-- truly doing our part to make the world a more peaceful, loving place.
Tantra sees the body as a temple for the divine and a mirror of the universe. Engaging in only those activities that are natural and respectful of the body, spirit and mind, we begin to recognize that we are microcosms of the world around us and we start to appreciate and understand it in an entirely new way.
Tantra sees the body as a mystic vessel for our self-discovery. It is our most potent means of gaining experience and enlightenment. Without energy and sensitivity in the body, we cannot go far on the spiritual path. There is a natural intelligence in the body that shows us how to use it productively, and this intelligence, part of the cosmic mind, reveals itself when we no longer use the body to exclusively pursue personal desires, but as an instrument of developing higher awareness. Supreme happiness lies in being who we really are, which is not the body, but what lies within-- pure awareness. Tantra regards the body as a sacred ground for the divine self to manifest, to be realized. In modern terms, Tantra is the search for true balance and non-duality, for oneness, union with oneself, another and the world.
Lalla celebrated this oneness, the true union of opposites within herself and with the world around her, and recognized her own divine nature, timelessly inspiring countless others to do the same ... "I, Lalla, entered the jasmine garden where Shiva and Shakti were making love. I dissolved into them."
The main goal of Tantra is us to recognize and realize our divinity. The only way to the soul is through the body, used as a sacred vehicle for expression and discovery ... And yet, while we revere and celebrate the body, we are not our bodies, but our immortal soul. And the true immortal essence does not cry or crave for attention to the body, and it needs no adornment.
"Rend the veil, the coverings, both metaphorical and literal and truth, no longer obscured, reveals itself."
Tantra and Kundalini
Kundalini is actually a form of Tantra, the divine feminine, the Goddess. The Kundalini exercises in The Goddess Series are intended to help you to recognize your true nature and surrender to your own divine essence.
Kundalini, or "coiled snake" in Sanskrit, is a psycho-spiritual energy of consciousness that exists within each one of us. It is the energy of existence. To awaken it is to manifest pure awareness, love and joy. This unrefined, creative energy lies tightly coiled at the base of the spine. In Yoga Undressed, we learn to unleash this "coiled snake" of energy, our Kundalini shakti, channeling it up through the spine, with the powerful, yet accessible warm up series we do at the beginning of each practice.
You will meet your Kundalini shakti, your sacred, sexual energy, your "secret tool," through the postures and the breath, making you feel more alive, radiant and sensual. Kundalini has the power to transform, manifesting in great health, creativity, and abundance, inspiring you to reach your full potential in every area of your life. Kundalini awakening opens the door-- you have only to walk through it.
Kundalini energy rises up a delicate channel of the spine called the Sushumna, the central channel that runs from the first chakra, the Muladhara, all the way up to the 7th, the Sahasrara. The essence of Tantra itself, it rises up the spine like two snakes intertwined and symbolize the union of the Ida, the feminine energy of the left channel, and Pingala, the masculine energy of the right channel. These are the two subtle pathways of energy that allow the awakened kundalini to ascend from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. One cannot exist without the other and balance cannot exist without both present in the subtle energy body. To achieve self-realization, a yogi must awaken his divine nature, which can only happen if everything in his yoga practice works in concert. Asanas (postures) and pranayama (breathing techniques) awaken the chakras. The chakras in turn activate the nadis, an action that causes the chakras to vibrate. The energy generated from the chakras then flows up through the nadis and circulates in the body. As each chakra uncoils, emotions rooted there arise and transform into divine energy.
Within the yogi's body, Shakti is the Kundalini serpent, which lies asleep at the base of the spine, blocking the door to "final liberation," or Samadhi. The goal of Tantra yoga is to forcibly awaken Shakti, controlling and directing the cosmic energy, the shakti-prana or life-force, so that she will rise up through the Sushumna channel to the Sahasrara chakra at the crown of the head and unite with Shiva-- the divine masculine. This union represents the reunion of all opposites, the union of spirit and nature--the combination of physical sexuality with mental and spiritual transcendence. And it is this joining of sexuality with the spirit of the divine that ultimately, through practice, produces a state of transcendence and indescribable bliss.
In The Goddess Series, we invite you to celebrate sexuality as a spiritual exercise, a means of attaining oneness and aliveness in the body, mind and spirit-- true union, both mystical and energizing.
Your body is a temple. Come inside and pay homage. Honor yourself with love and gratitude.
Feel the freedom of being naked, the natural grace and ease of being completely unfettered, unencumbered by clothing.
Surrender to your natural, authentic being.
Embrace the beauty and simplicity of who you really are.
Return to innocence, a sanctuary for your spirit where you can cultivate strength, grace, intimacy and reverence for your own sacred self.
Awaken your spirit, nourish your life force, and unleash the fullness of your potential!
In Celebration!


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BA (Hons) Visual Arts
You are the next generation of contemporary artists and creative thinkers. The BA (Hons) Visual Arts course will encourage you to combine different media from painting, sculpture and print making, with new media such as computer generated imaging, video, sound performance and installation, to develop your own specialism. A selection of work from students following our BA (Hons) Visual Arts course can be found below.
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Lung Qi Deficiency
Thermal Nature = Warm
Flavor = Sweet, & Sour
Carminative (prevents the formation of gas)
Opens the channels
Moves the Liver Qi
Strengthens the Stomach-Pancreas
Stops cough
Conditions Tangerine can Help Relieve:
Excessive white or clear mucus
Chest tightness & rib pain
Excessive anger
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Jazz After Hours
Monday 12am-6am, Tuesday - Friday 1am - 6am
Hosted by Brian Delp
Brian lights the late night flame with classic and contemporary selections from legends and young lions alike.
Show Archive
- Find the original air date of the program you want to listen to (we can only provide the last two weeks).
- Click the down arrow to expand that days' shows.
- Click the "Play" arrow next to the program name.


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Tiny snippets of my life in paper crafting, quilting, sewing, organising, DIY, faith, sensory processing disorder, autism, aspergers, chicken raising and gardening.
Thursday, 20 June 2013
A Freckles Stash
No not a fabric stash. An egg stash.
The kids had noticed that the bright white eggs of Freckles were missing from the nesting box the past couple of weeks.
Now Freckles is an escape artist. She flies over the chook run fence which is 6.5' high.
I often find her out by herself in the yard.
This morning she jumped the fence with a determined look on her face.
Then she went missing.
I was calling for her. I heard a little 'cluck' near the side fence but could not find her.
Then she emerged as the other chickens came around the corner.
She started her egg laying song.
I looked into the grasses and found her stash.
13 Freckle eggs and 1 chocolate brown Bluey egg.
Knowing that if I made a rapid destash, Freckles would just find a new nest, I took out 12 and left 2. (While she wasn't looking of course).
Aren't chickens perplexing!
Linking up to Down Home Blog Hop #42 at Tilly's Nest
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Hahaha! Funny story. I can't wait until I get my chickens - maybe next year! Freckles is a beautiful chicken. Thanks for coming over to see my blog - I enjoyed the visit!ReplyDelete
Quite a stash though! I didn't know chooks could fly that high!ReplyDelete
My aunt used to trim the wing feathers to keep hers from flying out the pen.ReplyDelete
Wow, that is a big egg stash! I found a stash similar to this once in our carport. Chickens can be so silly! Freckles is so pretty - I just love her feathers!ReplyDelete
Have you tried clipping Freckles wing/s so she can't fly!ReplyDelete
Sounds cruel - but if done right, you are only clipping dead feather not live stuff.
Hmm, so what are you planning to make with all those eggs?????
Thats a big haul of eggs! Freckles is such a cool chicken!! What breed is she? I recently watched a doco on the ABC about a chicken collector who drives around colllecting different breeds of chickens.ReplyDeleteReplies
I saw that too! It was such an interesting doco covering everything from heirloom breeds to depression. I spotted a few owners with aspergers! Freckles is an Ancona breed.Delete
I don't think I'll ever be involved enough with our chickens to be able to tell who laid which eggs.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful hen, worth hunting for! I guess you don't have a rooster version? They'd be the cutest chicks!ReplyDelete


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Sony active-shutter 3D glasses ship separately
$150 for a set of Sony 3D glasses
By: Shane McGlaun | HT & Movies News | Posted: Jul 1, 2010 5:04 pm
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If you have purchased one of the Sony 3D TV sets that either don't ship with 3D glasses or only had pair of the glasses, you can now get the active-shutter glasses you need alone.
As you can imagine, the Sony glasses are not cheap at $149 per pair. Even high-end Sony 3D TVs like the LX900 only have two sets of glasses so the family of four will need to spend another $300 to let everyone watch 3D.
Another important tidbit is that the lower-end Sony 3D TVs also need additional hardware to work adding to the cost. The glasses are available on Amazon right now.
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What is Google Voice?
Google Voice is a free service open to United States residents that allows them to set up one phone number that automatically forwards to all of their phones. Subscribers can take advantage of a number of advanced features, such as voicemail services and text message forwarding. Since Google Voice numbers are not tied to a particular device, subscribers never have to worry about porting or moving their phone numbers.
When you combine your Google Voice account with your Ooma Telo, you give yourself all of the advantages of a Google Voice account with the convenience of full integration into your home phone. Google Voice Extensions gives you easy access to the features you love from Google Voice, by allowing you to bypass many of Google's menus.
What do I need to get started with Google Voice integration?
Your Ooma Telo can integrate seamlessly with your Google Voice account using an Ooma feature called Google Voice Extensions. With Google Voice
Extensions (GVE), you'll create a phone number dedicated to Google Voice calls, called your Google Voice Virtual Number (GVVN). Whenever someone calls your Google Voice number, Google Voice will forward the call to your GVVN instead of to your main Ooma number. Your Ooma Telo will be preconfigured to handle calls to your GVVN in a special way that gives you integrated access to Google Voice's features.
In order to get started with Google Voice Extensions, you will need the following:
An active Google Voice account
An Ooma personal phone number that will be dedicated for Google Voice calls
An Ooma Telo
IMPORTANT: You should not tell anyone your GVVN. This is a hidden phone number that should only be used to route calls from your Google Voice account to your Ooma device. It is not meant to be used to receive regular phone calls, and will not work properly if it receives direct calls.
How can I turn on and configure Google Voice Extensions?
Once you're ready to turn on and configure Google Voice Extensions, follow these instructions to set up your account:
Log into your My Ooma account and navigate to Google Voice under the Preferences tab.
Do not yet check the "Enable Google Voice Extensions" check-box.
Use the "Use with Virtual Number" drop-down (shown below) and select the number you'll dedicate to your Google Voice account. This will be your Google Voice Virtual Number (GVVN):
Click "Add Number" and follow the instructions. Ooma will automatically configure your Google Voice phone number after you enter the verification code.
Enter your Google Voice voicemail PIN.
Save your changes.
Next, configure your Google Voice account to direct calls to your Ooma Telo's Google Voice Virtual Number:
Browse to the Google Voice Phone Settings page and click on "Add another phone."
Create a meaningful name and enter the Google Voice Virtual Number you chose above.
Choose the an appropriate "Phone Type" (such as "Home" or "Work").
Save your changes. Google Voice will now prompt you to verify the GVVN.
Click Connect and Google Voice will call the GVVN.
Answer the call on the telo and press the digits of the displayed code.
IMPORTANT: If you had previously set up Google Voice to forward to your main Ooma number, disable that now by unchecking the checkbox in front of that number.
Finally, return to your My Ooma account and check the "Enable Google Voice Extensions" check-box.
Save the changes and wait 3-5 minutes for them to take effect.
When you complete these steps, you should have settings on each of your two pages that are the opposite of one another, similar to this:
With this set up, you will have access to the following Google Voice features via your Ooma Telo:
One Touch Voicemail - You can access your Google voicemail right from your Ooma Telo by pressing the Imagekey. See the next FAQ for instructions.
Call Announcement - If you have Google Voice Call Screening turned on, the caller will be prompted to record their name. That recording will be announced through the Telo and Ooma Handset speakers so you'll know who's on the phone without getting up to check the caller-ID.
ListenIn™ - When callers are leaving a voicemail message on Google Voice, you can hear the message playing live on the Telo and Ooma Handset speakers.
Caller-ID Override - Use your Google Voice number as the caller-ID for outgoing calls.
I tried to use my Google Voicemail with my Ooma Telo and it's not working. How can I fix it?
Your Google Voice account must be set up to allow direct access to voicemail from your Ooma Telo. You can do this by following these instructions:
Navigate to the Google Voice Settings page
Look for your Google Voice Virtual Number and click "Edit"
Click on "Show Advanced Settings"
Choose the "Yes" and "PIN required" options for the "Direct access to voicemail when calling your Google number from this phone?" setting, as shown below:
NOTE: If you don't have a PIN set up yet, you will need to configure it on the Voicemail & Text settings page.
NOTE: You also need to enable Caller-ID Override on the My Ooma Google Voice page.
How can I use Google Voicemail with my Ooma setup?
To access your Google Voicemail from the Ooma Telo, press the Image key on the Ooma Telo. The Ooma Telo will call your Google voicemail and enter your PIN number automatically. The Ooma Telo keys are mapped to the choices offered by Google Voicemail, so you can navigate through your voicemail messages just as you would with Ooma voicemail by using the Imageand Image keys. You can also mark messages as "read" using the Image key. You can also access Google Voice directly from your phone or Ooma Handset by dialing *#483 (*#GVE).
NOTE: Google Voice does not allow you to delete messages from a telephone interface.
What are the Call Screening and ListenIn features of Google Voice?
Call Screening is a Google Voice feature that will ask first-time callers to record their name before the call is forwarded to your phone. When you answer a call from Google Voice with Call Screening enabled, the recorded name will be played back and you are given a choice of what you want to do with the call. You can answer the call, send it to voicemail, or ListenIn by pressing the appropriate key. If you choose to ListenIn, you will hear the caller as they leave their voice message. You can choose to intercept the call with another key press. For more information about the Call Screening and ListenIn features of Google Voice, please see their help: Call Screening and ListenIn.
How do Call Screening and ListenIn work with Google Voice Extensions?
With Google Voice Extensions enabled, your Ooma Telo will ring for incoming Google Voice calls and then, after a configurable timeout, automatically answer the call and turn on the speakers on your Ooma Telo and Ooma Handsets. This allows you to hear the Call Screening announcement of who's calling without having to go check the caller-ID on your phone.
Even though the Ooma Telo has answered the call at that point, you are not yet connected to the caller. As Google Voice reads off its standard phone menu (which you can disregard), you have a couple of options:
To answer the call, simply pick up and answer any phone receiver or Ooma Handset. The Ooma Telo will automatically send the appropriate code to connect you to the caller.
To ignore the call or send it to Google Voicemail, simply press the Imagekey and the Ooma Telo will drop the call and send it to Google Voicemail (this works just like Ooma's Send to Voicemail feature). NOTE: You will not be able to use the ListenIn feature if you send a call to Google Voicemail.
If no one answers then, after a configurable timeout, Ooma Telo sends the call to Google Voice voicemail with the ListenIn feature enabled. While the caller is leaving their voice message, you'll be able to hear their message over the speaker of your Ooma Telo and Ooma Handset. You can intercept the call simply by picking up any phone receiver or Ooma Handset. Again, the Ooma Telo will automatically send the appropriate code to connect you to the caller.
IMPORTANT: If you have disabled the Call Screening feature in Google Voice, you must disable "Auto Answer" under Advanced options on the Google Voice Extensions preferences page.
RELATED: If you like ListenIn for your incoming calls on Google Voice, you'll love Ooma's call screening feature.
When my Ooma Telo picks up for Call Screening and ListenIn, what does the person on the other line hear?
The caller will continue to hear the phone ringing until you actually answer the call or the Ooma Telo sends the call to Google Voice voicemail.
The Ooma Telo is automatically answering all of my Google Voice calls before I can answer on my cell phone. How do I make it stop?
When Google Voice Extensions is turned on, your Ooma Telo assumes you are using the Call Screening feature in Google Voice. Call Screening allows you to hear the recorded name of the caller when you answer the phone and decide what you want to do with the call (answer, send to voicemail, ListenIn, etc.). The Ooma Telo is answering the call so that you have the convenience of hearing the call announcement over the speaker of your Telo and Ooma Handsets instead of having to answer the call first. If you are not using the Call Screening feature in Google Voice, you must disable "Auto Answer" under Advanced Options on the Google Voice Extensions preferences page.
Can I send calls from my Google Voice number to my Ooma voicemail?
No. Calls that come in on your Google Voice phone number and go to voicemail will be connected to your Google Voice voicemail.
How can I make my Google Voice number show up on caller-ID when I make calls?
Presenting your Google Voice number as your outbound caller-ID is one of the main benefits of Google Voice Extensions. To do this on a per-call basis, dial "**#" before the destination phone number where # is a shortcut to your Google Voice Virtual Number. For most people, this will be **1 but if you have multiple phone numbers you can find the correct shortcut by visiting your Phone Number preferences and clicking on your Google Voice Virtual Number, as shown below:
To set your outbound caller to your Google Voice phone number for all calls, check the "Use my Google Voice number as my caller-ID for outgoing calls" option on the Google Voice Extensions page.
NOTE: If you make your Google Voice number your default outgoing caller-ID, you can override this on a per-call basis by dialing "**#" before the number, as described above. For example, you can dial **0 to place a call using your main Ooma phone number as your caller-ID.
REFERENCE: You can learn more about using multiple phone numbers on the same Ooma device by reading about personal phone numbers.
What can I do if I'm already using a personal number for my home office or someone else in my family, but I also want to have a Google Voice Virtual Number?
Ooma allows you to purchase monthly subscriptions to up to eight additional numbers. If you want to use Google Voice Extensions and are already using the free personal number that came with your Ooma Premier subscription, you must subscribe to another personal number as described in this FAQ.
Can I use multiple Google Voice accounts with one Ooma Telo?
Multiple Google Voice numbers can be configured with the use of personal devices. You can also share one Google Voice Virtual Number among multiple Google Voice accounts. If you choose to do that, please keep in mind that voicemail speed dial and outgoing caller-ID will only work with one Google Voice account.
What do the "Advanced Options" under Google Voice Extensions settings do?
Ooma lets you fine-tune your Google Voice Extensions so your incoming calls work in a way that's optimal for you. You can configure the following settings by navigating to Google Voice under the Preferences tab in your My Ooma:
Auto Answer Delay
Auto Answer Delay controls how long your Ooma Telo will wait before automatically answering your call to play the Google Voice call announcement. The default is 8 seconds, which means your phone will ring a couple of times and then your Ooma Telo will answer the call to play the Google Voice call announcement over the speaker.
IMPORTANT: If you are not using the "Call Screening" or "Call Announcement" feature in Google Voice, you must set "auto-answer delay" to disabled.
Auto Connect Delay
Auto Connect Delay controls how long your Ooma Telo will wait before signaling to Google Voice that a phone has been picked up to answer their call. The default is 2 seconds.
ListenIn Delay
ListenIn Delay controls the number of seconds before the Ooma Telo signals to Google Voice to transfer an incoming call to voicemail so you can ListenIn. The default is 10 seconds. When changing this delay, please keep in mind that this timing interacts with the Auto Answer Delay. Changing either one of these features without changing the other may cause incoming calls to be transferred to Google voicemail before the ListenIn feature is triggered.
Who can use Google Voice Extensions with Ooma?
Google Voice Extensions is available to Ooma Premier subscribers, as it requires a second phone line and phone number to be fully integrated into your Ooma system.


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Boston World Partnership is inviting more "Connectors" to participate in their mission to help Boston and the world INFORM AND CONNECT.
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Tuesday (tomorrow 2/8) we are getting social at the next BWP Mixer... Come on out from 6pm-8pm at Battery Park Bar & Lounge. Click here to RSVP.
Since this event is only partially social, let's talk about the professional agenda of bridging connections (hence, my bridge shot of Zakim above) within and between communities and industries. For our conversation, here is a list of the Business specialties of the Hub:
Education - Duh. (go Terriers!)
Banking - Fidelity, Putnam, PerkStreet!
Biotech - Devices, Drugs, Services
Mobile - payments, ad serving, video, and location-based services
CleanTech - Energy, Renewables, Greenies
Cloud - Enable the outsourcing of IT needs for data storage, streaming video, telemedicine.
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In one of the more exciting brand revival to hit the motoring world, the Jensen Interceptor is set to return from oblivion.
In original form, the Interceptor was a two door GT Coupe/hatch/convertible built by Jensen Motors between 1966 and 1976 in the UK. It was powered by Chrysler-sourced V8 engines and matched up its brawny powertrain with hand-built coachwork. The combination won the Interceptor many fans over the years and has set it up nicely for a comeback.
Now Healey Sports Cars Switzerland, which owns the brand rights to Jensen Motors, are planning to re-launch the company with a spanking new car next year. The car will be the modern day version of the Interceptor built as a four-seat GT car. The new Interceptor will use an aluminium chassis and bodywork but little else is known at this stage.
Founder and co-owner of CPP, Brendan O'Toole, said: "The Jensen design team has respected and honoured the great heritage and attributes of the original Interceptor, while injecting a contemporary edge and advanced technologies that will ensure it appeals to the passionate, discerning motoring enthusiast of today.
The new Interceptor GT will be developed in Coventry and built at a new production facility in Browns Lane. It will be revealed at the end of 2012 with deliveries to customers beginning in 2014. Development has already begun.
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As I have been playing for quite some time with my personality and trait system, I decided to update you on the changes I made in game. As always, feel free to borrow/steal/use them in your game and tweak them to suit you. Ask any questions, concerns or comments as well.
Deeper MAXIS Hobbies, Reduex
Based on a sim's one true hobby, I decided that they would have a corresponding skill strength. This means that they will learn that chosen skill faster (mostly through the Thinking Cap from the aspiration rewards and skill bonuses from SimBlender). Some hobbies will also have a boost in talent badges, meaning that they will start with a bronze badge (of thier chosing if multiple badges are available) even without studying.
Skill Bonuses
When a sim with a OTH is studying a skill or participating in their chosen hobby then they get a skill bonus on every third skill. For example, if a sim is painting and they just gained their 3rd creativity skill point, then they get an extra skill point from SimBlender, thus making them have 4 skill points. If a sim is painting and they gain their 7th creativity skill then they don't get a bonus.
Talent Badge Boost
Once a sim has identified their OTH then they automatically get a bronze talent badge of their choice.
Arts & Crafts:
-Skill Strength= Creativity
-Talent Badges= Pottery, Sewing, Flowers, Toys
-Skill Strength= Cooking
-Talent Badges= none
Films & Literature:
-Skill Strength= Charisma
-Talent Badges=Sales
-Skill Strength= Body
-Talent Badges=Restocking
-Skill Strength= Logic
-Talent Badges=Toys
Music & Dance:
-Skill Strength= Creativity
-Talent Badges= none
-Skill Strength= Cleaning
-Talent Badges=Fishing, Gardening
-Skill Strength= Logic
-Talent Badges=Register
-Skill Strength= Body
-Talent Badges=Restocking
-Skill Strength= Mechanical
-Talent Badges=Robots
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Deeper MAXIS Hobbies, Part 2
Posted by Apple Valley at 3:55 AM
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I love your behind the scenes stuff.ReplyDelete
I don't let my Sims earn certain skills any faster but depending on hobby, each of my Sims has a skill that they're allowed to study without restriction. With most skills, I wait until they have a want for it or until they study autonomously. But if it's a Tinkering Sim, they can study mechanical any time I want them to.
I like the idea of giving Sims certain bronze badges based on hobby. Those bronze badges can take forever to earn!
-Carla, Thanks so much ^_^ I haven't thought about letting a sim skill without restriction according to thier hobby. I might steal that from you.ReplyDelete
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Updated, and a shameless plug to this: http://www.camillamonk.com/rd/novelwords.
NovelWords allows you to:
- Identify all the words you've used in your book;
- Know how many times you've used them;
- Search for a specific word;
- Order by number of times used;
- Download an excel report!
This was originally a small tool I coded for myself, to hunt down repeats and get a feeling for the content of my books from a data perspective.
Don't hesitate to comment on this post to give me your impressions, or request new features!
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You, ma'am are a scientist, and I might have a lady-crush on you.
Thank you.
Ha ha, I'm not from a scientific background. I'm actually the scatterbrain artsy type, but I've come to do a lot of coding in my job, and it "centers" me. It helps me order my thoughts, find rational solutions to everyday problems. 🙂


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