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By now you would have probably heard me talk about acupuncture and the amazing benefits I've had after bringing it into my life. If not, go here and here. Today I've got a great guest post to share with you from my acupuncture guru, David Haynes, all about supporting your body with the right foods through Spring. If you're in the Northern hemisphere keep this post on file, but you might find this post more helpful for your current season.
When Kate asked me to write a guest post for her, I thought, how am I going to choose what to share? I am known as a 'show bag' by my friends - I have a lot of random information running around in my head which I like to share! Kate suggested I talk about spring and its relation to the body, I jumped at the chance as there is so much great info for this time of year. Use this as a guide not the be all and end all of end health.
Spring is the time to get up and do. It is the season of activity. A time of stirring after the cold of winter. Spring is the season to eat foods with upward energies, such as young, green, sprouting, above ground vegetables.
With the onset of spring, we start to loosen up as energy in the body begins to move up. Appetite eases as the body shakes off the need to store energy as it did over the colder months. With the environments subtle support as the weather changes, people who want to lose weight can take advantage of the natural trends of spring to help them do more and eat less.
The liver and the gallbladder are the internal organs that are in the spotlight during spring. If the liver and gallbladder are supported and balanced during spring, the entire body will benefit immensely and be set up with the best possible health foundation to be strong in the seasons to come.
Sour flavour is associated with the liver. It is also astringent and contracting, gathering fluid and protecting the blood. Unhealthy eating habits, strong emotions such as aggression, anger and rage, and a hectic and stressful lifestyle produce liver heat and impair liver function.
Spring is a great time to detox, but be aware if you have been over indulging over winter all of those toxins are going to be angry and floating around the body. This will increase your unwanted detox symptoms like headaches, nausea and fatigue. I suggest cleaning your eating up for a few weeks before hitting a hard detox, this will allow your liver to slowly get rid of those toxins, and encourages a healthier lifestyle change, rather than a fleeting moment of 'clarity'.
So, what should I eat?
To thrive through Spring, you should incorporate foods that get the energy up and moving, that support the liver, remove heat and toxins, and support the spleen.
In general, foods that are good for spring are warm ascending sweet foods. In early spring, try cabbage, sweet potato, carrot and beetroot. As the weather changes, move to mint, sweet rice, shiitake mushrooms, peas, sunflower seeds, pine nuts and in late spring, cherries.
Gently warming and pungent foods are particularly good for spring. These include fennel, oregano, rosemary, caraway, dill, bay leaf, grains, legumes and seeds. Pungent flavoured foods stimulate circulation of qi (chee) and blood, moving energy up and out.
Spring is a great time to start to new exercise routines, eat healthily and get out of that cave you have been in all winter. Enjoy the new growth and flowering plants, and maybe take the time to have a good look at your health!


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When you walk into a fabric store and run into a friend who says to you "Hey, I'm about to get coffee with Denyse Schmidt, do you want to come along?" it's pretty much the stuff that modern quilting dreams are made of.
Now I've chatted with Denyse before, we waited for an elevator together at QuiltCon 2013 and she was sweet and engaging, but that's nothing compared to waiting in line at Starbucks together, you know?!? (yes I'm a total quilt geek, guilty as charged)
We chatted about sewing tank tops with knits and how hard it is to find the perfect wallet (she showed me hers, it was a gift from Heather Ross, nice!) and we swapped stories about travel and security nightmares. And before we knew it, it was time to get back to the classroom to start the workshop she was teaching that day.
The topic was improvisational quilting which is a wide open subject, but a look through a handful of popular quilting blogs yielded recaps of this exact workshop, so I knew the format. I knew that we'd be making the Shoeman's Puzzle block, and then riffing on it from there.
We started by making the first block with a pattern and I knew right then and there I was in trouble. But it wasn't the pattern that caused me problems, it was my fabrics.
See, we had to bring 3 yards each of two different, yet coordinating, fabrics and I kind of went the cheapskate route. I found the colors I wanted at JoAnns and got the less expensive choice, which was a cotton/polyester blend, knowing full well that any polyester is the bane of a quilter's existence. But I saved $18 by going the cheaper route, which seemed worth it at the time (it was totally not worth it).
After sewing the first seam on my first block, my machine was moaning and wailing. It was making this ungodly rubbing/squeaking/high-pitched humming sound that I'd never heard before. Now I've sewn polyesters before while making clothes, but never in a quilt, and I think my machine was calling me on the transgression (or maybe I just have a guilty conscience?).
It took me a good 10 minutes to reason with my machine, talk it off the ledge, and clean out all the lint random threads jamming up the works before it would speak to me again in its usual kitteny purr. Finally, with a promise that I wouldn't try any poly bait-and-switch in the future, I was back in business.
I sewed a couple of blocks and stuck them up on the design wall next to me. Denyse came by and I commented that I wasn't sure if I was happy with my fabric choices. She replied with "OH! Let me press them for you!"
Really? Denyse Schmidt is doing my pressing for me? What alternate universe am I living in?
These are the question that were on my mind at that moment.
She brought back my blocks from the ironing station and put them back up on my design wall.
"So much better, right?" Denyse chirped. And she was right.
That's what makes Denyse Schmidt, well, the one and only Denyse Schmidt.
She showed us how to alter the pattern and make up our own individual, yet related blocks.
We sewed and pressed and sewed and pressed some more.
The fact that I bought the sketchy poly blend did not help one bit though, as I melted a block or two with an iron heated up to the cotton setting. Not my finest moment as a Denyse Schmidt protégé, you know?
I solved the melting problem by using a pressing cloth on top of the poly blocks, which slowed me down a bit but it enabled me to continue. As one point I returned to my machine after pressing only to find my blocks had been rearranged on my design wall. I was confused. How did that happen?
Denyse was how it happened, of course. She'd come in to each of our design walls, size up our progress, then artfully rearrange our blocks to make them even better, sometimes when we weren't even looking.
There's something a little magical about that, you know?
I still wasn't convinced that I'd made good color choices (my fabrics felt too similar, with not enough contrast between them) and I mentioned this to Denyce later in the afternoon. She proceeded to carefully arrange my blocks, one by one, moving them closer to one another and eliminating any gaps between them so the full effect of my colors and patterns could be seen.
It made all the difference in the world, again, which is why Denyse Schmidt is Denyse Schmidt, of course.
We stopped sewing with about half an hour left to the workshop, so we could have a group critique. This was my favorite part of the day, hearing about others' thought processes, what they thought out their progress so far, what they would have done differently, and of course, getting Denyse's take on everyone's work in progress.
The difference in the quilts on the walls was astounding! The whole interplay between color, tone, value and shape was incredible to see, and it seeing the individual twists that people put in was very inspirational.
Even after having my blocks pressed and rearranged and compressed by Denyse herself, I still wasn't totally sold on my color choices. I love both colors, I just wasn't sure there was enough contrast between them.
After I presented my quilt and voiced my hesitations, one of the participants commented that she really loved my color combination – she thought it had a very soothing effect, almost mystical.
Hmm, mystical. I liked that. I really liked that. That was definitely an effect I could get behind.
I have plans to remake this quilt, but next time in 100% cotton fabrics, and maybe I'll put just a smidge more range in between my blue and my green fabrics. And I have a plan to integrate a bit of natural tan, too.
Denyse left me with something to really think about. She talked about a quilt block needing to be "a complete thought" and a whole quilt as having a message. These are ideas that I sometimes integrate into my work, but probably not nearly enough. They're excellent points to ponder as I try to push my work forward.
I definitely did get one complete thought, loud and clear, about staying away from cheap fabrics. Thank you quilting universe (and Denyse Schmidt, though she was too diplomatic to say a word about my crappy fabric), I will mend my ways in the future.
Because really, if you're trying to get your quilts to communicate in beautifully complete thoughts like Denyse Schmidt does, the least you can do is start with quality fragments, right?!?

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Whoops! You've just pulled your favorite top out of the delicate cycle and it's inside out – fresh and loveable, but not quite ready to turn heads. With one quick adjustment you're all set.
We've discovered companies that develop and reinforce a collaborative, fit culture from within are better positioned to pay it forward. Their approach internally allows them to turn what they do inside out, too, to reach customers—engaging them more memorably—because it is rather effortless to do so.
Aligning events with your values and the type of culture you have (or would like to have) means employees leave proud of what they do, who they do it with, and what they do it for. Values become more than a quip on a mug. Culture becomes real, such that employees often will share their company experience with others – hint: your (potential) customers.
Internal events then are also external, whether intrinsically or more deliberately (in terms of your guest list).
Let's take a growing tech company in Boston for example.
Despite finding an exciting new space to relocate their operations, the custom buildout was faced with myriad challenges. What was set to be a late spring move-in became an autumnal hope. The leadership team tasked their support staff with reimagining their holiday party. Rather than taking things off-site to a well-vetted (aka trusted, surprise-free) venue, they embraced their core values of innovation and experimentation:
1. The event would be hosted in-house, no matter how finished, in the new space.
2. Rather than keeping their invite list internal, the company leveraged the event as an Open House celebration that included customers, prospects and partners as well as employees.
3. They embraced the (on-going) element of surprise, making that core to the event. Invited to help, we proposed curating a truly unique, experimentation-rich wine tasting experience that not only underscored their event goals, but showcased their culture in a hands-on, unforgettable way. [Ask us how.]
How can you dial things so that your event can't help but WOW?
Be Deliberate.
Just like an architect builds from the ground up, so should your event. If your employees are sharing their day-to-day worklife experience, make your event a reflection of that experience, too.
Be Subtle.
Events that maximize the opportunity to pay themselves forward, are authentic – culture-infused and value-based, but not overworked. Don't be creative for creativity's sake. Find natural ways to reinforce your culture through your event. In our experience, less is often more.
Get Personal.
Creating an experience that can be personalized is a technique we use to help folks engage on a meaningful level. An attendee's event experience should be organic and seamless, or about them. Customers or prospects included in your events shouldn't feel like they are being sold – whether a specific product, or your brand as a whole. And if it's an employee event innately (not necessarily directly) celebrate your team first, their work and their accomplishments. This is not a time to promote the company.
All those who participate are simply along for the ride, and it should feel that way. Later, folks (continue to) invest in you/your brand because it feels natural; employees offer their best because they want to.
In other words, shared experiences are a wonderful way to dial things in personally, and leave a winning impression.
Certainly events are a wonderful way to celebrate, boost company culture, and reinforce camaraderie – and there is value in this alone. But why have the value end there or the impact expire with the evening? Let what you stand for become your muse, your WOW factor. Then invite folks in to experience organically why your company is unique.
Remember, attendees should leave the event feeling connected to the experience – and your team and your brand – in their own way. By setting the tone with subtle reflections of your culture, you can then create organic opportunities for people to connect. In so doing, your event will go from a single time, day and place on your guests' calendar, to a memorable experience that leaves them wanting to participate and engage again and again.


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This would be fun, oh yes it would be. Welcome to trade season everyone. Let the panicking (and fun) begin!
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NHL Superstar's Valentine's Day Plans Revealed
Ahhhh, Valentine's Day. The day when single people pretend they're not suffering from crippling loneliness, when obnoxious in-love couples PDA up in your grill, when regular couples fight about having shitty plans (if they have any at all), when married couples continue to be miserable, and last but not least, when blogs use this made up Hallmark holiday to churn out themed posts.
And with that glorious intro, once again, the Dry Island Castaways sources have come through in spades. Our sources have infiltrated several NHL franchises in order to find out what your favorite NHL stars are doing for their loved ones / defensive partners this year during Valentine's Day.
Tyler Seguin: Tyler plans on wooing his current fling by doing her laundry for her.
Ondrej Pavelec: Will continue his newfound yearly tradition of picking up single chicks using the pickup line "Hey baby, what if I told you I inexplicably make $3.9 million every year?"
Tim Thomas: The Islander's goalie (I still LOL every time I say that) romantically lures his sweetheart into his panic room and then watches Moonshiners while snuggling.
Greg Zanon: Greg and the family of squirrels that live in his beard are planning on a relaxing night of whittling baskets at home.
Kris Versteeg: Steeger's…interesting new look and his galpal will hire a film crew to re-enact scenes from their favorite 70's cop dramas.
Columbus Blue Jackets: Oh wait, the title of this post mentions "NHL Superstars." Nevermind.
Patrick Kane: Stopping at Walgreen's to get cards for each of his…errrrm…"friends."
Jarome Iginla: Iggy continues to beg his lady to go on a "trip" to another NHL city, just like the last three years.
Roberto Luongo: Lu and his bestie will continue to do what they do every day: Make up the goaltending tandem for the Vancouver Canucks.
The Sedin Brothers: Buy a six foot tall picture frame, then stand on opposite sides of the frame in the middle of Vancouver pretending it was a mirror.
Dave Bolland: Wakes up Valentine's Day morning, and tells the love of his life "I've never had any woman make me so incredibly happy and fulfilled" while making this face. What? That's his happy and in love face.
Erik Karlsson: Is going to show his girl how special she is by getting the closest handicapped parking spot at the fancy restaurant tonight.


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Making Hornbooks is a sideline for Paper Wren Press. We make them because we love History, and we love and appreciate historical processes.
I have already posted several articles about the Hornbook on the "G. Johanson, Printer" blog, it's background, how ours are made, why we choose the materials we do, &c., and as you read this, if you wish to delve into these articles, click here.
What I am doing here is sharing photos of our latest "publication". These are real books in every sense of the word. They are just, well, one page books. They are bound a little differently than multiple page books. And I guess by strict definition, they are not multipage sewn and bound books - but "Book" is what they are called, and "Books" is how we treat them at the Paper Wren. Thus, when we make them, we "publish" them.
The above Hornbook is our most recent, going out to Mr. Blewster. It's our most recent, and one of the very few we have ever done as an individual order. It has about eight sanded coats of Shellac, the wood is stained Walnut, and the page sports real copper nails. It has taken about two weeks for the coatings to cure.
Following some photos I posted on Instagram (you are following us on Instagram, right?), I began to receive an above normal number of inquires regarding these items, and as such, I decided it's time to release another publication of our Hornbooks. Perhaps we will make these available via our Etsy shop. We'll know come Thanksgiving.
James Moore, 18th Century Bookbinder Extraordinaire, has asked me to share some of my most recent Instagram photos with his FB group "18th Century Bibles". I wanted to share better quality shots of the process as we undergo this most recent publication, hence this blog entry. I have not been successful doing direct share with the 18th Century Bibles FB group from the Paper Wren page, and have been unable to create an album on that group's page, so I am providing there a link to this article instead. James, let me know if there is anything I need to know or do regarding sharing with your group. I am not the brightest bulb in the bunch when it comes to FaceBook, I'm afraid.
So, here are some shots of the beginning phases of the making, or "publishing" of our latest round of HBs.
Hornbooks start life as a board : I try to use Hardwoods as I can, or at very least, clear pine. Sometimes I can get great vintage salvage, but this set of books will come from a finish cut length of Tulip Poplar, a standard "inside" furniture wood used for drawer boxes. Poplar is an interesting wood. You really never know quite what the finished product will look because it never takes stain or sealant quite the same way twice. It is a dense wood.
I use a Chop Saw at first to make the individual squares that will be cut, in turn, into the traditional "Battledore" paddle shaped blanks.
Squares are cut by hand. At this part of the process, I use power tools just to speed things along. The handle cut-outs are marked in pencil, and cut with a hand held jig saw. An old one. I would prefer to use a glider saw, but I seem not to be able to locate a new blade for mine. So my old jig saw will have to do. It's only a rough cut, anyway.
Next comes the sanding of the faces, sides, top, bottom, and cut outs around the handles. For this I use my hand crank rotary sander which I normally use to true up miters on picture frames. (yes, I make frame moulding and finish frames as well. Forgot to mention that.) I prefer whenever possible to use hand tools for two reasons: FAR more control, and MUCH less sawdust. Power tools are a noisy mess. Long Live the Yankee Woodshop. I'd have one, but I already have a Dixie Letterpress Shop!
Here's a little bit closer look at a blank on the sander. Not much really to say that you cannot see by the photo. I will have to change out that sandpaper, however. It's 110 grit, and must be cut with scissors and adhered to the heavy iron wheel with either rubber cement or two-way framing tape. I use the latter. Takes about half an hour to change the paper. Takes about twenty minutes to sand each blank properly, plus another ten to fifteen minutes to fine sand by hand after this "rough" sanding by the wheel.
Poplar sands to an almost white colour. What is amazing is that if you use 220 grit on it, you can actually fine a polish on this wood. I take advantage of this phenom later in the process.
Another shot of the finish "rough" sand. The end-grain is pretty unpredictable as to how it will take stain when staining process begins. Some parts of the grain will totally resist, some parts of grain suck stain like pine.
And here we go with what we were able to sand up to this point. There are still five more blanks awaiting sanding. I have the letterpress printed "slip sheet" laying atop the uppermost paddle as you can see. I wanted to get an idea of proportions at this point because for the first time since we started making Hornbooks some nineteen years ago, we are going to use a brass latten frame on two of these, and there will be a faux-horn covering . . . we hope. It will be an experiment. If successful, we will re-set type and print a new series using a different Printer's Cross for the "cross-row", and a different 18th century border. It is the border type which we use to distinguish one series from another. We are on our second series, the "Scottish Thistle" series. We have been running the Thistle for about seven years. Prior to that, we were on our first series, the English Rose.
This photo is from day two. We have eight sanded blanks, two more awaiting sanding, and we have started the finishing of the paddle blanks. From left to right: Honey, Cherry, Walnut, Dark Walnut. When set side by side, it's amazing the colour differences. This all gets modified during the shellac process, owing to the tendency for shellac to add a bit of an amber cast.
As the stained wood dries, the short fibres on the surface will raise. We call this the "hackle". The Hackle is sanded and the wood re-stained. Then re-sanded until no more Hackle is raised. After this, the layering of shellac. We may try spar-varnish on two of these books in this publication.
This is the "Honey" blank, which in actually, does not receive stain at all. This one goes direct to shellac, which in itself creates an amber colour against the natural white of the Poplar, creating a pleasingly soft amber tone. Some folks like the look of the paper on this colour wood. Others like the higher contrast provided by the darker stains, which is why we make a variety of colours. Just a bit of trivia: we began using only Honey and Cherry. Walnut was introduced by a client who needed to match his American Colonial room decor. We liked it so much we decided to keep it in our line-up. I myself happen to like blonde woods, so now we have four colours, and we may add more, like Jacobean.
For the last photo, I thought I might include a close-up of the Blewster Hornbook. This one is going to Arkansas. It is "frame-less", using copper nails to hold the page (the slip sheets are also glued on to the wood using PVA bookbinder's glue before the sealing process.) The copper nail-heads are sanded bare, and level to the layered coatings of shellac. This is a form of the 18th century "Decoupage" process. Decoupage was not used on the original Hornbooks, I wish it was. More would be alive today. As it is, the originals were totally untreated, and the slip sheets were covered with transparent horn, which warps and rots with the years, unless you take care of it. These were dispensable "children's'; books", and were not meant to last a life-time. And they sure didn't. One day, I may make one with real horn, just to say I have one.
A brief word about the slip-sheets we print: the type used is a latter-era variety although still authentic: Caslon. It is the original face, with tall "s" and "below the rule" figures. Our founders also supply Colonial Williamsburg with this very same font. Indeed, Caslon O.S. 337 is the house-"fount" of the Colonial Williamsburg Printery. Each letter is handset, and printed in as close to the authentic black ink as I can find. It is linseed oil based, and I am informed that the pigments are very close to it's 18th century counterparts. That would be Lampblack. Paper is a vintage faux vellum, chosen for it's authentic tinge. Originals used Book sheet, a "laid" paper. I have used it as well. Under sealant, you cannot tell the difference, and honestly, my vintage supply of Vellum behaves much better. We have no idea how old this paper is: it was vintage when I lucked into the unopened ream over ten years ago. Having worked with calf skin vellum as a calligrapher, I can attest to it's impressive replication of the weight and feel of the real thing. Oh, and it's "flesh-side" . . . on both sides!
Prices are listed in detail on former blog entries, but I can say here that the unframed versions such as the Blewster Hornbook sells for $50.00, plus $6.00 for boxing and shipping. We do not know at this time how much the brass latten framed versions will sell for. That would be "TBA". If you find that you cannot live without an Early American Hornbook, or at least, our interpretation of one (which we think are pretty nice!), you can order one by contacting the Paper Wren at: firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also contact me through our website listed below.
Thanks for reading, y'all! Comments invited, and don't forget to visit our site at www.paperwrenpress.com, and also our educational blog at www.gjohanson.blogspot.com. As the process continues, there will be more blog entries. Stay Tuned!


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Knowing how to teach is an art. Knowing what to teach is a science. Before 1998, teachers were involved in something known as the "Reading Wars", debating the value of whole language instruction versus phonics instruction. Then came the release of the National Research Council's report, "Preventing Reading Difficulties" (1998), which changed forever the delivery of reading instruction. It was now clear there was a prescriptive path towards literacy that became known as strategic Balanced Literacy.
Likewise, math instruction has evolved from filling out worksheets and following set algorithms to a subject of creativity and rigor. Every day, research into the brain, into classrooms, into childhood as a whole, gives us better insight into the science that is teaching and the best practices that are required for academic development.
However, it hardly matters how well we understand the pathway that we are walking, if we don't have a sense of where each child we are teaching, as a unique individual, is on that path. Strategic assessments are the tool that help us learn about children as the amazing, wonderful, and special developing people they are. Through assessment we can learn their strengths and weaknesses. By monitoring individuals, our teaching becomes continually purposeful, targeted, and empowering.
Three types of assessments are especially informative in the teaching of young children: Formal assessments, informal observation, and portfolio assessments.
Formal Assessments
Formal assessments include written documentation of skills. It is important to use assessments that are reliable, follow the reading continuum, and are based upon important standards and research. Another important component, is to use an assessment that compares apples to apples; an assessment that measures accurate growth in skills from the beginning to the end of the year. This assessment should be a mix of oral and written assessments that are easy to administer, score, and easily provide important data that will allow the teacher to strategically target student learning.
Observation is an important way to determine how a child implements learning into daily life. Observing and documenting a child's actions in different settings provides important information on the learner's ability to put learning into action. Watching a child's behavior as he/she reads or completes a math problem quickly shows the observer how a the learner is using important strategies. Observations can be completed using a clipboard, with simple notes, a checklist, or can be taken digitally.
A portfolio is an authentic sampling of information relating to a child's developmental progress in a school or homeschool setting. Portfolios contain work samples that are representative of where a child is at a particular time, and shows progression of development throughout time. A teacher uses that information to scaffold the learner to greater heights. For example, when looking closely at a student's writing sample, one can easily determine the child's understanding of phonics rules. Instruction can then be determined to move the learner to deeper understanding.
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Thanks to ESGI, the Amazing Online Assessment Essential, orally assessing each of my kindergartners to prepare for our end of trimester report cards have been a snap! Usually I use this assessment on my iPad, and call students over to my teacher table, but because I have had a student teacher, each have been able to come up to teachers computer, quite an exciting event for a 5 year old!


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Day 2 – Notice Your Breathing Throughout Your Day
"Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space." – Eckhart Tolle
Day 2-Notice Your Breathing Throughout Your Day
In Day 1 you've experienced how it feels to be sitting in silence for one minute. This helps You set a good vibe, a centered, grounded space for the day about to begin. The next step is to insert these moments of stillness as often as You can in the middle of your busy, agitated life. The easiest way to do this is to notice your breathing.
How to do this: Today is all about giving yourself seconds of stillness as You go about your chores. The easiest way to do this is to stop for a few seconds and notice your breathing. Do this as often as you remember, especially when you feel overwhelmed by the many things you have to do.
You can practice this anytime. I suggest to try it in the moments when You are usually rushing off to get somewhere:
-when getting in your car stop and notice your breathing before stepping on the acceleration
-before getting out of the car once at your destination
-while doing the "smallest" actions: pouring a glass of water or drinking your coffee
-while waiting: in the elevator, for the bus, for a friend to arrive and so on.
My experience with it: ever since I've read Eckhart Tolle's book The Power of Now, I've took this simple advice and started applying it as often as I remembered. I've found this to be like a magic trick that helps me:
- reduce stress
- deal with the moments of feeling overwhelmed when facing "too many things to do and I don't know where to start!"
- center myself when I talk in front of a group
- get back in the now when I notice my mind going around like a crazy monkey
- stop me from re-acting when faced with intense negative emotions
Because my aim is to be feeling centered and grounded most of the time and not only in the morning, or when doing Yoga or when meditating.
And also to have an easy to do, efficient "magic " trick to apply in the moments when I am most inclined to lose myself: during stressful, challenging situations or dealing with negative emotions, mine or someone else's.
This exercise proved to be very efficient for me. I am so looking forward to be hearing how it worked for You. Let me know in the comments bellow.
If you liked this article, feel free to share it with your friends. Sharing is caring because it is learning from each other and helping us grow together.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's exercise! 🙂
With all my love,
PS: Thank you for being part of this, I really appreciate it! 🙂
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I like that the first things you decided to write about are in fact strong, foundation building habits.
As of today's exercise, I experimented this a while ago. I'll write about it in the hope that it further inspires people who read Raluca's blog.
It was a 55 days documented experiment, with the end purpose of cultivating breath awareness, that would ideally be kept through the hole day. I was inspired to do this after reading that "one cannot be truly aware of the breath and aware of his thoughts at the same time, as mind can only focus on one thing at a time".
It ended up to be more difficult than I imagined it would, but with some interesting results. As a measuring tool I used a bracelet very similar to the knitting abacus you find online (http://knittingabacus.com/ablet-knitting-abacus-orange-wood/) for keeping track of how often I was … losing track of my breathing through the day. The bracelet was very useful, and looked good as well. 🙂
In the beginning I was forgetting about my breathing 90+ times a day, with periods of up to one hour of totally doing something else. On the short occasions when I was aware, this lasted no more than a few minutes tops. Yet by the 50th day, I was "only" forgetting to consciously breathe about 10 to 15 times a day, and reaching up to half an hour sessions of constant breath awareness and a lot more silence on the inside, while doing regular activity with relative ease.
The benefits of doing this include enhancing emotional awareness, an increased sense of well-being and much better communication.
Thank you and have a wonderful day!
Day 2. Although it was hard to focus on breathing because of my active mind, the exercise was so easy and effortless that focusing and refocusing were natural. It surprised me. Thank you for this second day, Raluca.
This beats millions of guided meditations. Let breathing permeates the day.


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51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc. As usual the La Mission is more charming and more approachable at this stage than its stablemate. Very suave nose of pure dark fruits, flowers and rocks. Beautiful cool black fruit attack. Very fresh and pure with stunning length. Extremely good, restrained, structured La Mission with a suave, chocolatey finish.
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Haut Brion's sister property has a habit of trumping its more illustrious sibling. Owned by Domaine Clarence Dillon S.A., La Mission's vineyards lie in the same suburbs as those of Haut Brion on deep gravel croupes interspersed with clay. The cepage is not dissimilar in the red wine (48% Cabernet, 45% Merlot and 7% Cabernet Franc) although the Haut Brion Blanc (formally Laville Haut Brion) has a lot more Semillon in the blend than Haut Brion Blanc.
Stylistically, La Mission Haut Brion rouges is more accessible and open than the deeply mineral and slightly introverted Haut Brion when young, but given time the Haut Brion will begin to show its power. Both wines reward long term aging to be at their best.
The region has one first growth, Château Haut-Brion, whilst other renowned Chateaux currently doing well are La Mission-Haut-Brion, Pape-Clément, Smith-Haut-Lafitte and Haut-Bailly. Soils are gravely and well-drained and the plantations are similar in proportion to those of the Médoc, consisting mostly of Cabernet Sauvignon with some Merlot and Cabernet Franc. The region is also well known for its long-lived whites that can be varying blends of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon oaked or unoaked. The most lauded are Domaine de Chevalier, Haut-Brion, Pape-Clement, De Fieuzal, and Laville-Haut-Brion.
Three of the classic Bordeaux varieties. A relatively rare blend for the right bank, where Cabernet Sauvignon plays a greater role than Cabernet Franc (Figeac being one of the few examples), while on the left bank this is most likely to crop up in the communes with cooler, damper soils such as St Estèphe.
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Thanks to a grant from the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) and national support, Magnus Wallenborg, a member of the IOF MTBO Commission, crossed the USA with Orienteering USA VP of Clubs & MTBO leader Greg Lennon. The goal of the Tour was to promote club and race director interest in MTBO, identify areas with high MTBO potential, and increase the visibility of the sport to potential participants and sponsors.
The Tour took place Sept. 20-28, 2014, and it included events and clinics, in addition to presentations and site (terrain) visits. Whether or not Magnus and Greg planned a stop in your area, any time you have a suggestion for a great place to ride or an idea to help promote the sport, send an e-mail to MTBO Coordinator Greg Lennon at greg_lennon [at] OrienteeringUSA [dot] org.
2014 Tour Schedule
Sept. 20, Saturday: MTBO Event & Clinic, hosted by Joe Brautigam, Western Connecticut Orienteering Club (WCOC), Huntington State Park, Redding, CT
Sept. 21, Sunday: MTBO Event & Clinic, hosted by Dave Ashley, Quantico Orienteering Club (QOC), Lake Accotink Park, VA
Sept. 21, Sunday: site visit, Pocahontas State Park, near Richmond, VA
Sept. 22, Monday: site visits in Ohio (OCIN) and Kentucky (OLOU) areas
Sept. 23, Tuesday: Presentation at the Alpine Shop, Kirkwood, MO, hosted by St. Louis Orientering Club (SLOC)
Sept. 24, Wednesday: Presentation at Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop, Lawrence KS, hosted by Mike Eglinski, Orienteering Kansas (OK)
Sept. 25, Thursday: Get-together, hosted by Rocky Mountain Orienteering Club, Denver, CO
Sept. 26, Friday: Site visit, hosted by City of Trees Orienteering Club, Boise, ID
Sept. 27, Saturday: MTBO Event & Clinic, hosted by Sue Grandjean and Abra McNair, Columbia River Orienteering Club (CROC), Mount Tabor Park, Portland, OR
The event was great! Magnus and I put on a clinic which took people through the steps of what happens during an MTBO race, for example: starting, punching, planning ahead, and the sprint to the finish from the GO control! We also showed different techniques of how to "punch" a control while on the bike and also discussed the different rules pertaining to MTBO that may differ from other Orienteering disciplines.
After the clinic, attendees set off to do their own race with actual interval starts and with no preview of the map beforehand, just like a true competition. The feedback was amazing and route choices were discussed after everyone had races. Everyone was looking forward to future MTBO events held by CROC and hopefully surrounding areas.
Thanks John [Godino] and CROC for helping me make this event happen on such short notice, it's a big step in getting MTBO "rolling" on US turf! — Sue Grandjean (10/10/2014)
Sept. 28, Sunday: site visit, hosted by Convention & Visitors Bureau, Bend, OR
Sept. 28, Sunday: MTBO Event, Minnesota Orienteering Club (MNOC), Timberland Hills, Cumberland, WI
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Setting yogic intent is a creative process of personal adjustment. Kumar used to say, "Learn how to adjust yourself, man!" He was referring not only to my body in asanas, he was referring to my attitude and outlook. He was referring to how I guided my awareness. To set one's intention is a conscious adjustment of oneself which, in yoga, begins in stillness.Read More
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Santosha, or "contentment." to practice contentment can be contemptible when you are not satisfied with your current conditions! to practice contentment is difficult, indeed, and can spur us toward clarity of intent.Read More


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EDMONTON — A 31-year-old Edmonton woman has been charged with murder after her 11-day-old daughter died from an methamphetamine overdose.
Police got a call on March 29 of a baby not breathing at a residence near 72 Street and 83 Avenue.
The medical examiner's office contacted police on April 6 after autopsy and toxicology tests confirmed the baby died from a lethal dose of methamphetamine.
Police spokesman Scott Pattison said Rice has a young son who is unharmed and staying with his biological father. He added he didn't know if the man was the father of the baby girl as well.
Michelle Rice has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of her baby. (Photo: Facebook)
Pattison said it's not known exactly how the baby ingested the drug, but ruled out breast-feeding.
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Homicide detectives would also like to speak with several other people who visited the residence in the 11 days prior to the baby's death.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Review: Pedro (2015)
A complicated package, this man named Pedro Martinez.
He's part great athlete, part artist, part personality, part angry young man. There's no male equivalent for the word diva, but that would be Pedro - a brilliant talent who always had a little extra baggage surrounding him. He just pitched for a living and instead of singing at the Metropolitan Opera.
The various aspects of Martinez's personality are very much on display in his autobiography, "Pedro." That's what makes the book so interesting. It's hard to look away, even in retirement.
Pedro came out of the Dominican Republic to play baseball, following in the footsteps of brother Ramon. He was the little brother in age as well as size, and always was a little underestimated by scouts along the way. You can understand where that first chip on the shoulder came from. However, as one scout put it, he had a heart as big as a lion, and that gave him the chance to shine at the sport's highest level.
That's not to say that Pedro ever forgot a slight. This book is evidence of that. He felt he didn't get a fair shot with the Dodgers, who traded him to the Expos for a player (Delino DeShields) whose career fell apart in no time at all. The deal is considered one of the worst in Dodger history. Martinez got a chance to be a starter in Montreal, and thrived. By 1997, Martinez was the National League Cy Young winner (18-6 record, 1.74 ERA), and it was obvious to everyone that the financially struggling Expos couldn't afford to keep him.
Pedro went off to Boston in a trade at that point, but he wasn't happy about it. Martinez wanted to cash in on his status as an elite pitcher. Then the Red Sox offered to make him the highest paid pitcher in baseball, and Pedro didn't need to go anywhere. Instead, he put together a couple of the greatest seasons in pitching history. Martinez was beyond brilliant in 1999 and 2000; he didn't play baseball, he put on performances. All of that was done while he was spending some time ignoring and/or hating his pitching coach, Joe Kerrigan, which is at best unusual.
Martinez always found a way to fuel his emotions. Get booed in Boston because of a rare poor outing? He wasn't going to do the fans any favors after that. Opposing players do something wrong in Pedro's eyes? Here comes a fastball at your back, pal. Indeed, he was involved in a lot of incidents over the years, and Pedro seems to remember every detail. Martinez's best-known incident might have been in the time in the 2003 playoffs when Yankees coach Don Zimmer came charging after him in a brawl between the teams, and Martinez gave him a little push - leading to the sight of a 72-year-old man tumbling to the ground. No one looked too good at that moment.
Martinez also had stretches where he became sick of the media for one reason or another and stopped talking to reporters. Those Yankee-Red Sox rivalries were overheated times all the way around, and Pedro's reaction here is at least understandable. Martinez, naturally, reviews the loss to the Yankees in Game Seven in 2003 - taking the blame instead of passing it to manager Grady Little for leaving him in too long - and revels in the World Series championship Boston won a year later.
By then, Martinez's skills had started to diminish, thanks in part to injuries. He wasn't the biggest of men, and he put a lot of abuse on that body over the years. Pedro went to the Mets as a free agent, where he eventually broke down physically. Martinez at least got to leave baseball from a big stage, as he pitched his final game in the 2009 World Series in Yankee Stadium. He's going into the Hall of Fame this summer.
This book works quite well because Martinez is quite honest in his recap of his life to date. It's sort of like him throwing a fastball in his prime - here it is, see if you are good enough to handle it. English may have been a second language for Pedro, but he comes across very well and articulate here. Co-author Michael Silverman also interviewed several people from Pedro's life, and their quotes provide some good perspective about what was going on at a specific time. By the way, there are a few typos of names along the way; let's hope they are fixed for the paperback edition.
Your opinion of Pedro Martinez after reading "Pedro" probably won't change much. The talent was overwhelming, the personality was never boring. All he asks that you accept him on his terms, and that seems like a fair bargain.
Four stars
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Friday, May 22, 2015
Review: Every Town is a Sports Town (2015)
"Every Town is a Sports Town" is billed as appealing to sports fans, business readers, and corporate executives alike. That's a rather diverse group, even for allowing for the fact that the business types have been known to read the sports page first at times. So let's take a look at what we've got here, and see where it fits.
George Bodenheimer wasn't an original at ESPN, but he could more or less see or at least learn about the creation first-hand. He joined the company in 1981, less than two years after it had started. Bodenheimer was employee no. 150, for the record.
ESPN had grown a bit from the first days when no one was too sure what they were doing and where they were going. They were the first to start a 24-hour cable channel dedicated to sports, offering a modest challenge to the status quo in broadcasting. The big three networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, were still in charge, but this at least was an interesting gamble.
Bodenheimer arrived on the scene, doing whatever his boss at the moment thought necessary. One of his first responsibilities was to drive from Bristol, Conn., the corporate headquarters, to the Hartford/Springfield airport to pick up Dick Vitale. You might think that driving Vitale somewhere would be an exercise in silence in the car for everyone but Vitale, but they actually struck up a good relationship in those drives.
Eventually, Bodenheimer moved up from driver to a variety of positions of the business world. The company was small enough at the beginning so that young talent was rewarded pretty quickly, and new ideas were accepted readily. After all, on some level they were making it up as they went along. After some time out in the field, working with affiliates, etc., Bodenheimer eventually came back to Bristol.
It turns out he had a pretty good seat for the development of the company there. The author goes through the highlights, including such events as the addition of Sunday (and later Monday) Night Football, ESPN2, College GameDay, the X Games, the merger with Disney, SportsCentury, 30 for 30, and so on. Viewers - come to think of it, maybe customers would be a better word with all the platforms ESPN uses these days - will remember those developments.
Eventually, Bodenheimer became the president of ESPN. He certainly comes across here as a good boss, taking pride in a personal relationship with all employees and accepting ideas no matter what the source. It's probably not a coincidence that ESPN had a long run of success under his tenure. And when things went a little bad, he rolled up his sleeves and figured out a way to fix them.
Now to the difficult part - what sort of book is it? I'm not so sure sports fans will love this effort. Many of the developments in ESPN mentioned above have been covered in other places, so there's not much new in that sense. Besides, Bodenheimer doesn't have that many stories about the on-air personalities that can draw a sports fan in.
Business types might be able to take a bit more out of this. This is a success story, after all, and it's instructive to see how ESPN reacted to situations over the years. Business books sometimes can get bogged down in anagrams and four-point plans for success. Luckily, Bodenheimer avoids that for the most part. Yes, there are sections devoted to how ESPN came up with a mission statement - my eyes gloss over when I see such things - but mostly it's how he dealt with real-world situations. It's fair to say this is a mostly positive look at the ride at the network. Even the failures seem to be handled properly. The people Bodenheimer encountered along the way come off well here.
"Every Town is a Sports Town," then will work for those seeking the details of an impressive business achievement - how ESPN conquered the sports world. If you are in that narrow classification, you'll enjoy it and maybe get a few good tips along the way.
Three stars
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Friday, May 15, 2015
Review: Ty Cobb - A Terrible Beauty (2015)
Baseball great Ty Cobb never needed much help on the baseball field. This name from a century ago is all over the record book, as he is one of the great hitters and base stealers in history.
What he needed was someone who knew something about public relations and marketing. Somewhere along the way, it became accepted that Cobb was a racist madman who skirted the edge of the rules while compiling such an incredible record.
Author Charles Leerhsen investigated the facts extensively for his new book, "Ty Cobb - A Terrible Beauty." It turns out that Leerhsen is just about as much of a game-changer as Cobb was in his time.
Cobb was raised in Royston, Georgia. His father was William Herschel Cobb, an educator and politician who seems to be an intelligent, rational man and who tried to make sure his family followed the same paths. You can guess his reaction when Cobb announced that he wanted to try his hand at playing baseball for a living. But Ty did it anyway, and stayed with it even though early in his career he heard that news that his mother had shot and killed his father, believing that he was an intruder lurking outside the house.
Cobb always said that the incident drove him for his baseball career, and he did play a certain amount of fire at all times. There were fights and feuds along the way, but these weren't uncommon. In fact, Leerhsen does some of his best work in describing what baseball was like in the first two decades of the 20th century - a time that was not for the faint of heart. Educated players were a rarity at that point, and gambling and hazing surrounded the game. As for baseball itself, it was the so-called "dead ball era," when runs were hard to find. Cobb was a perfect fit for that time, ripping line drives to all fields. Then when he was on base, he drove fielders to distraction as he presented a constant threat to catch the opposition by surprise. But the author couldn't find any evidence that Cobb was a dirty player, the sort who filed his spikes before a game in order to inflict more damage to opponents. Put it this way - it's easy to understand why he was such an attraction.
By the time the 1920s arrived, Babe Ruth had turned baseball into a slugging contest. Cobb was player/manager of the Tigers for a few years, was involved in a vague betting scandal that also affected Hall of Famer Tris Speaker, and ended his career in Philadelphia. His place in history was assured, to the point where he received more votes for the initial Hall of Fame class than Ruth - which pleased Cobb throughout his life.
It's easy to stereotype someone coming out of rural Georgia in the early 1900s as a racist, and Cobb picked up that reputation along the way. Yet there are no signs of that here. Cobb defended Jackie Robinson's right to be a big leaguer, and apparently had good relations with blacks from childhood on. He was fierce when it came to defending himself and opinions, a smart man who didn't suffer fools easily. The picture Leehsen paints of Cobb is more complete and nuanced, and more interesting than we could have imagined.
The only minor complaint that could be made here is that the book qualifies as "revisionist history" and the author isn't subtle about pointing that out. There are a couple of relatively famous books about Cobb that have been printed in the past, and Leehsen found them after investigation to be full of inaccuracies. He points them out with a certain amount of, well, glee. That can be a little uncomfortable to read. But it's probably necessary, since the point of the book is to change minds.
And "Ty Cobb - A Terrible Beauty" does exactly that. Our perception of one of the top 20 baseball players in history, and that might be too liberal an estimate, moves a bit with publication of this book. That makes it more than just another biography; it's almost a public service.
Five stars
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Portland. I've heard many times that Portland is like a spread out Brooklyn, a wanderers play land filled with trees, air and artists, that I'd love it, need it, have to have it, so I went... It was planned, Summer 2012 Portland but I did little research on what to do, where to go and what to expect. I knew one thing, they could eat. I scoured the interwebs for what to fill my belly with, and came up with quite the list, filling all 7 days with spots to hit for breakfast, snacks, desserts, lunch, dinner and cocktails.
If I could always start with dessert, I would, and here I can, so below please enjoy my 5 favorite Portland Sweets and stay tuned for the Food edition coming soon...
St. Jacks Patisserie- 2039 SE Clinton / Greeted by a counter displaying beautiful French sweets under grand bell-shaped glass lids, and the scent of sweet in the air, this quaint space was a perfect spot for a late afternoon sweet tooth. Although I had heard I must have the eclair and the madeline, I walked in at not the greatest time, when the patisserie was beginning to close, but don't fear dear readers, there was still a wonderful selection to choose from. We indulged in Frangipane and Canelé (pictured above). The Frangipane was a perfect little almond treat. The Canelé had a delicious soft custard center and a thick caramelized crust. Perfect. Make sure to go before closing time (4pm) and try the madelines, baked fresh to order, and tell me all about them!
Le Pigon- 738 East Burnside Street / Chef Gabriel Rucker has been bestowed a Food & Wine "
Ruby Jewel Downtown- 3713 North Mississippi Avenue / Ice cream, who doesn't love it? Its creamy, sweet, cold (it was 95 degrees while I was in Portland!) and just delectable. Lisa Herlinger of Ruby Jewel gets ice cream right, filling the gaping hole she saw in Portland in the artisan ice cream section. It is made with Northwest ingredients including Oregon-grown berries, lavender, mint, honey, and vanilla. I decided to go with something more standard as my flavor choice, strawberry, but I sandwiched it between the homemade chocolate chip cookies. If being the perfect ice cream sandwich isn't enough, the reclaimed wood walls, rustic details and candy room alone should send you in to get your scoops.
The Pie Spot- 521 NE 24th Portland / This gem was not something I specifically went looking for, but was overjoyed to find. Somewhere between pasty at St. jacks and dinner at Pok Pok, we found a small food truck "park" called D Street Noshery, with everything from Indian cuisine, to craft beer, to single serving PIES. I have to admit, I have a love for tiny desserts; cupcakes as opposed to cakes, munchkins instead of doughnuts.... so TINY PIES= irresistible. Grab a mouth watering pie (banana cream pictured above), and a cold beer from Captured by Porches and take a seat at the picnic table area. The crust was crumbly and buttery, the filling sweet and fruity and the topping finished it just right. They also have savories, which you should go try and tell me about.
The Parish- 231 Northwest 11th Avenue / Ethan Powell and Tobias Hogan, formerly of EaT: an oyster bar have it right at The Parish. This Creole restaurant and oyster bar is mainly known for, well, the creole cooking and oysters, but having saved The Parish for my last day, as a special goodbye treat, I found myself full and tired, and grouchy and in no need of oysters, although they looked amazing. We kept it simple food-wise (it was of course, AMAZING), but this dessert was a perfect ending to a fantastic trip. Chocolate bouchon with roasted Viridian farm cherries and bourbon caramel sauce, finished with Vanilla ice cream. Take that in for a minute...
ok, now lets talk about it. The warm cake absorbed the ice cream and bourbon caramel sauce. It melted in my mouth, danced on my tongue and warmed up my soul. Go there, get the oysters, but save room for dessert because it is my A#1FAV.


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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Code is Go!
Finally! We have managed to get our code signed, downloaded and running on 2 platforms. This is what I call progress. I'll be working on the server side configuration stuff for the next few days so I can stay ahead of my partner. All I have is my money making ventures now that my personal life has imploded, so this is good news. Unfortunately, I have been caught up with these personal issues and didn't get around to filing the Subchapter S election form. Fugg it. Taking venture money would convert us into a C corp anyway so it doesn't matter too much. Along with that, my MacBook Pro is up and running. Guess I'm now 2 for 8 so far this week. Woo woo!
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I'm captivated by these joyfully colorful and playful family photographs. I've looked at them over and over again--each person's face is so expressive and bursting with love and laughter.
I do this often, when I come upon a portraits that are not only beautiful but are brimming with some magic life sauce.
Being transposed into a photograph and feeling compelled to revisit it multiple times is something only a really successful photograph can do.
To make that successful image, a diverse skill set comes into play, and a set that is not only talent, but also a drive to master the art and craft of photographing people and bringing out their personalities, allthewhile working the technical dance of exposure, posing, composition, etc.
From excellent wardrobe and color palette advice, the natural moments of joy captured (in tight, well-composed frames) and all with spot on exposures, one might imagine these gorgeous family photographs were a light-hearted day in the park with a photographer who got lucky.
Luck is good, we all like luck but luck can only take us so far. To create a seamless photographic orchestra, that compells one to look again and again is not the result of a haphazard photographic affair.
Instead, it was the work of a skilled and uber talented, bow-tie-sporting-gentleman-photographer, whose name is Yuri Long.
So with that said, go and enjoy the legacy of Yuri's labors, below.
From Yuri:
"Back in June fellow photographer, Rashmi Pappu had her parents visiting from India. She wanted to have some photos taken of her adorable girls with their grandparents, and fortunately for me we were able to meet near the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria and make it happen. I suggested the adults stick with solids, and the kids could do patterns if they wanted but they should pick out their own outfits because i wanted them to be comfortable and feel good. By chance everyone ended up choosing different colors, but I personally love the way the bright, summery look ended up working out!"
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Are you working to end violence against women and all persons across the gender and sexuality spectrum? Do you identify blame, and justified violence , against persons in the community you engage?
Blank Noise envisions the I Never Ask For It project to be a united call to end any use or justification for sexual violence. To partner with us and build the I Never Ask For It project together please register via this form. Please fill this form by April 29th, 2019.
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Motorcycle Yamaha Motogp Race Leather Suit For Unisex
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Motorcycle Yamaha Motogp Race Leather Suit For Unisex Pre-curved sleeves for proper riding position, Dual stitched main seams for excellent tear resistance, Nylon Stitched, This suit features excellent design & comfort, 100% genuine Cowhide leather, CE approved internal & full ventilated Chest to keep the biker cool while riding. The Specifications and conditions of motorcycle Leather Racing Suits are described Below.
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Every time I visit a new city, I have some of expectations or a personal visual representation of the city (which most of the time is very far from reality). But this time I had none. I boarded the plane to Amsterdam with no expectations and no personal depiction of the city. So as we got to Rotterdam late Thursday night I was ready for anything and everything.
Rotterdam is an architectural city, very modern and very different from history-loaded cities like Paris or Rome.
We walked around, met with Dutch friends of Florence's and went to the discovery of Rotterdam. We walked up to the Erasmusbrug Bridge, and also went inside the Cube House.
Those oddly shaped apartments were surprisingly spacious and comfortable to live in. Then we went to the city of Delft, which is very known for their windmills and the Delftware (which are potteries painted in white and blue which is typical of the city).
Of course we saw some wooden clogs and bought typical Dutch cheese.
We spent the next two days in Amsterdam visiting and walking around. We took the train from Rotterdam to Asmterdam. We were able to see the fields of tulips. They were all blooming and the colors were out of this world. No picture will ever do it justice.
The first thing went to the Heineken Experience. We got a tour of the old brewery, which is now a museum; we participated in a beer tasting. With the bracelet we got from the entrance, we were able to enjoy two free beers and a free gift from the gift shop.
We then walked to the "I Amsterdam" sign and took pictures. We ended up passing through the Red Light District after dark. The streets of the district were so crowded that is was almost impossible to walk. We rapidly went through a couple streets then left.
The next day we walked the streets of Amsterdam, crossed the little bridges over the canals, and even got to enjoy the Vondelpark under a bright sunshine and gardens filled with tulips.
Though the city is very famous for its coffee shops and the Red Light District, my favorite part was our hotel. We booked a room in Rotterdam at the Citizen M hotel. It is a new boutique hotel brand. From what I could see it is oriented towards a younger hype crowd. We did the entire check in process by our self. I had heard about this new method of self check-in several times in class but I had never witnessed it before.
(theses are the computers used to for the check in process).
It took is less than five minutes to get to our room from the moment we walk in the door. Though the room was very small it did not feel like it at all. It was ingeniously distributed with a bathroom, a sink, XL king bed and a desk all fit in the tiny room.
We also had a tablet to control the lighting, the television, the curtain and the music. We had very small interaction with staff but the service was of a very high quality.
Another very interesting concept was in a fast food restaurant that we went in. Instead of having people lined up to order their Bitterballs (a typical Dutch veal croquette), they had individual servings of croquettes in compartments in the wall. The compartments could only be opened if the exact amount of coins were inserted. Behind the wall was the kitchen were the cooks can monitor the temperature or refill the compartments if needed. Just like a vending machine.It is call automatiek vending.
So as interesting as it is to travel around Europe to discover new countries, cultures and sightsee, is it also very interesting to see how the service delivery systems changes from region to region, from country to country.
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Our Hope of Grand Rapids Michigan is an inpatient alcohol and drug residential treatment center for lady despite their ability to pay. Once a female goes through a drug or alcohol detox center or healthcare facility, they may need a longer term residential treatment to conquer their additions. Our Hope is for any female over the age of 18 who needs the defense of continuous tracking until that lady can stay sober by themselves and can preserve their treatment by themselves.
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The Church of Scientology, in addition to others, is really interested in the state of the world, and where drugs are taking us. The leaders of tomorrow, those choice makers, are today's youth, numerous of whom are using drugs now. Over a 3rd of Australians between 14 years middle and old age have utilized illicit drugs. Last year there were over 85,000 illegal drug associated arrests.
The proceedings were begun to collect the security the parents installed given that they co-signed the papers with the NJ bail bond. Heartbroken, the wife walked away as the bail bondsman was telling the dad he would go forward and search for their kid to bring him in as a fugitive and take additional legal actions, something the company would act on.
Private Inpatient Faith Based Drug Rehab
Going to a inpatient rehabilitation centers is an excellent option if you can get the time away and have somebody to look after family pets for you. In rehabilitation you will be provided medication integrated with other kinds of therapy which will help you on your method to healing.
For my coordination and balance was that of a 9 month old. I could not sit unaided, balance, walk or talk well. and was strapped to a darn wheel chair!
As soon as you can confess you have a problem, you can start on the course to recovery. You have to obtain into a treatment center. The advantages of a inpatient drug rehab center can not be overlooked. Not only does it help you leave the drugs, but the specialists there will work to support and assist you, teaching you ways to return on track in life and truly restore your life in basic.
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The expense of treatment is the main reason why patients fail in receiving treatment. Lots of suffering from mental health concerns go un-treated because of the high cost of inpatient rehab. Discovering a federal government subsidized program without downgrading services, possibly a choice.
Today I feel great, and I do not care about having cigarettes. Second hand smoke is a problem for me, because I get my addition back from used smoke. When that takes place, the addiction discomfort is chosen in 2 weeks. The temptation to get a pack of cigarettes comes on me. However I understand that getting cigarettes will make my issue worse, then not smoking cigarettes. Not cigarette smoking is my service to stopping the dependency, and smoking cigarettes will make it worse.
Hopefully the next time one of these job fairs is held, it will seem different from any profession fair held at a college. Likewise, it will hopefully be promoted better and have more businesses with open jobs for disabled people.


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This volume is an expositional commentary that extensively explores the epistle of James from the standpoint of the Word, rightly divided. And it takes a new look at the practical teachings of James, singling out those teachings that are applicable today. We also correct the misconception that this epistle is merely an extension of the Pauline epistles.
Don't have time to read? Have trouble reading? Here's your chance to listen to the book instead. Dave Allen of Garland, Texas does a fine job of reading this book for you. Great for those long drives or as a gift to a friend or loved one.


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August Crafts for Fun
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This supportive 'Creative Crafts' course will enable students to try different 'cost effective' crafts to create a variety of decorative items for gifts and pleasure. The course is aimed to improve your wellbeing and confidence through participating in fun and relaxing craft activities. This course will include such crafts as: card/paper crafts, painting on silk and decoupage card making. This friendly and relaxed course caters for everyone who has an interest in crafting, working with their hands, learning new skills and techniques as well as sharing ideas.
Additional information about this course
Course aim
To help individuals design, create and make a range of hand made gifts for friends and family. This course will include such crafts as: card/paper crafts, painting on silk and decoupage card making.
Do I need any particular skills or experience?
- No skills or experience needed
By the end of the course I should be able to:
- Identify existing craft levels, placing and accuracy skills
- Produce a range of projects which reflect your own creativity
- Incorporate different recycled recourses into your projects
- Establish ways that you can craft at home to support your wellbeing
How will I be taught?
- The WEA tutor will use a range of different teaching and learning methods and encourage you and the group to be actively involved in your learning
What kind of feedback can I expect?
- A range of informal activities will be used by the tutor to see what you are learning which may include quizzes, question and answer, small projects and discussion
- You will have opportunities to discuss your progress with your tutor
- You will be encouraged to share your work with the group and discuss your learning
- You will be encouraged to consider other students work and give your opinions and suggestions
What else do I need to know?
- Nothing else is needed
- All materials will be provided
- A selection of materials and basic equipment will be provided but you are welcome to bring additional materials with you
Pre-course work, reading and information sources
- No pre reading or pre course work is required
What can I do next?
- Progress to another WEA course
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- Access the WEA What Next? booklet here http://www.wea.org.uk/learn-wea/what-can-i-do-next
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The girls thought they were "hooking up" with some fraternity brothers.
But the guys called it "Showtime at the Apollo." The game went like this, said one of Vigen Guroian's students, describing in a class assignment what went on at her boyfriend's fraternity at another college. A boy would bring a girl home, then leave the curtain parted on the glass door onto the dual-access balcony. Then his fraternity brothers in the next room could sit outside and watch.
"Now my boyfriend's defense of his brothers is that any girl who will allow you to sleep with her on the first night, and doesn't leave after you begin to do such degrading sexual acts, deserves it," wrote the student. The bottom line: "You only treat a girl like a slut, if she is a slut."
What did the girls think they were doing, auditioning for suburban siren roles in American Pie 3? It's even more sobering to ponder the roles played by the colleges, said Guroian, professor of theology at Loyola College in Baltimore.
"The failure of America's institutions of higher education -- especially that of Christian schools -- is not merely administrative. It is a failure of vision and religious and educational mission," he wrote, at www.Wilberforce.org. "When students are learning all the wrong habits in their daily college life, how can a truly humanistic higher learning occur?
"How can I teach Christian ethics with force and effect in the classroom when my college will not address or remedy the degrading living conditions my students have described?"
Every fall, millions of students go to college. Every fall, faculty, administrators and the parents who pay the bills have another chance to ask: "Do we really want to know what's going on?"
The feisty Independent Women's Forum recently offered an unnerving glimpse into the moral and sexual challenges facing co-eds in a report called "Hooking Up, Hanging Out and Hoping for Mr. Right." It was based on interviews with 62 women on 11 campuses, backed with follow-up telephone work with 1,000 young women.
Courtship is dead and dating is on life support. What has emerged is "hooking up," which most defined as "when a girl and guy get together for a sexual encounter and don't necessarily expect anything further." For young women, this intentionally vague term can refer to anything from kissing to heavy foreplay, from oral sex to intercourse.
More than 90 percent of the women said "hooking up" was common and 40 percent said they had experienced this phenomenon. Some said this made them feel desirable and helped them compete for males in today's overwhelmingly female campus scene. Others said "hooking up" made them feel awkward, ashamed and used. Yet 83 percent said, "Being married is very important to me" and 63 percent expected to meet their mate at college.
Washington Post columnist William Raspberry's reaction was blunt: "These women are out of their minds, and the adults who should be teaching them better ... have pretty much walked away from the job."
Political philosopher J. Budziszewski has watched this trend at the University of Texas and, writing as the fictional "Prof. M.E. Theophilus," he also addresses campus moral dilemmas for www.Boundless.org. Several parts of this study rang true for him, especially the pivotal role that faith played for the women who were trying to live chaste and modest lives.
But no matter what choices they had made, almost all -- 87 percent - stressed that they thought it was wrong to pass judgment on the sexual behavior of anyone, even males who were "hooking up" with scores of women. Many also said they could not lean on their parents. Nearly 40 percent of the girls from homes rocked by divorce reported "hooking up" more than six times, compared with about 20 percent of those from intact homes.
"They have been taught that they must not judge," said Budziszewski. "So when they are hurt, they have no one to blame but themselves. They can't even say the guy is a rat. Young women can't even speak the truth to each other and help protect each other."


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What can be more romantic than dinner overlooking a beach at sunset? Here in Cornwall you're spoilt for choice, especially on the north coast where there's a long sandy beach around every corner.
Top picks for the Summer Holidays
Vitamin Sea
The sea has been part of our lives for thousands of years. For many here in Cornwall it was our main source of transportation and communication until the railway arrived in the 1850s. It provides our food and our livelihoods. In recent years it has become a place of recreation, and also a source of renewable energy.


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Why do we preserve buildings? Why do we care about mute constructions, often old and unused, occasionally in the way or overlooked? We have all walked through great neighborhoods and parts of cities with magnificent old buildings and very few of us would show no concern at all if these places were simply ground down under the wheels of progress. That doesn't mean we save every shack or old shed, but rather we recognize some value in mere continued existence of some portions of our collective past. What is valuable about these old buildings is not necessarily what they look like or how they function, but what they are. The preservation of some older buildings reminds us of what we are by holding on to some portion of who we have been.
All well enough said, but when the desire to preserve runs head long into private property rights, what is to be done? And when the object of preservation is a building not very old, maybe not even as "old" as any one of us, then how do we view the cause for preservation.
Most folks don't readily appreciate the architecture of the recent past. It seems a bit naive and slightly embarrassing, like looking at yourself in old high school yearbooks. Any building that we can remember when it was new can not possibly be of a value akin to the great Architecture of past ages. And yet so many of us can lament the loss of truly great buildings, like Penn Station, that most of an earlier generation held in similar contempt that we place so many buildings constructed in the 1950's and 60's.
The buildings shown here aren't some obscure shacks threatened with demolition. These are significant works by some of the greatest architects of a generation ago - Bertrand Goldberg, Richard Neutra, and Frank Lloyd Wright. You might not like these buildings, but that is not the point. For God's sake, most communities in the US have fashioned a minor economic industry centered on tourism to Wright houses, not the financial benefits of their destruction.
It is disheartening to sit here in 2013, with over 50 years of preservation battles - successes and failures - behind us only to realize that years from now I will have to explain to my daughters why my generation tore down Neutra and Wright buildings.
The case to save Neutra's Cyclorama Building, Goldberg's Prentice Hospital and Wright's Lloyd Wright house can all be linked to here.
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Too many South Carolinians with modest incomes are facing down serious legal issues without a lawyer on their side, because our current legal fee model is split between free legal aid for the very poor, and astronomical hourly rates for everyone else. CLA opened its doors in January 2016 with a half and half model: half of our annual budget covered by donors and grants, and half paid by client fees. This stretches every one of our clients' dollars further and lets us keep our rates low and expand our reach. We are raising money to scale up our operations by adding administrative staff, attorney time, and library resources to expand the number of cases we can take. Please be a part of the solution to the justice gap, and give a hand to someone in trouble who would otherwise go unrepresented for lack of funds.
CLA is a 501(c)(3)organization and all gifts are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law.
Checks can be made payable to Charleston Legal Access and mailed to 1630 Meeting Street, Suite 106, Charleston SC 29405.


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Today Glaitness P5, P6 and P7 pupils took part in the Tag Rugby Festival.
Here area few photos of one of the teams, Glaitness 1, to give a flavour of the event.
|Amy is tagged.
|Surrounded by the greens.
|Nice pass!
There was lots of good teamwork.
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This article was written by Oilprice.com -- the leading provider of energy news in the world. Also check out this recent article:
You can put a solar panel on the roof of your house, but it won't be efficient unless you're willing to pay more. But a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley says that may be a thing of the past.
Ali Javey, a Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, reports finding a far less expensive way to make more powerful semiconductors, which reduces the cost of high-efficiency solar cells, perhaps to the cost level of conventional solar cells.
While solar energy has been attractive as a clean and renewable source of power, it's not economically competitive with fossil fuels. Javey says his research could become a "game changer" in this equation.
More efficient solar cells means fewer are needed. Fewer cells means lower cost per solar panel and for installation. And cutting the costs of the cells' constituent materials would lower those costs even more. The cells Javey is proposing would have an efficiency of about 25 percent, compared with the 18 percent efficiency in conventional low-efficiency solar cells.
A preliminary study of Javey's research by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory indicates that the materials he's using could lead to high-efficiency solar cells that cost about the same as conventional cells.
High-efficiency solar cells are currently made from semiconductors in expensive crystal form. These crystals are exposed to certain vapors that generate the thin film that coats solar cells. Javey has sidestepped the expensive crystals and instead creates the films using materials that are far less expensive: a sheet of metal or even glass.
He reports that he's even managed to use a less expensive vapor to create the film, and uses less of this cheaper vapor by reducing waste.
As promising as the new technology is, it's still in its very early stages, and Javey says he has far more work to do to produce solar cells at an industrial level.
Jessica Adams, a senior engineer at Microlink Devices, which makes high-efficiency solar cells, agrees that a commercial product won't be available for some time, but says Javey's research has "demonstrated a way that we may be able to make solar cells out of indium phosphide relatively cheaply, with the potential to get very high efficiency."


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Columbus Golf Academy was founded in 2011 by
John Ubbing to combine his passion for golf and teaching. John is an enthusiastic teacher and coach and seeks to make his unique brand of golf instruction available to golfers of all levels. John is a serious student of the game of golf – he continues to refine his teaching skills through the avid study of various golf drills, practice methods and through playing on a variety of courses. He integrates these techniques for his students to create a personalized golf instruction program meeting the student at their level of play. John invites you to take advantage of the unique instruction he provides so that you can truly enjoy the game of golf.
Our Approach
At CGA, we understand that every golfer also has different levels of flexibility, body structure and strength. Taking into account these individual differences, we facilitate each golfer's game through easy to understand communication and kinesthetic teaching. The game of golf begins with the grip, body posture and alignment. We examine everything from the mechanics of a student's swing to the all-important short game. Columbus Golf Academy strives to make the game of golf less complicated and more fun! Through a variety of teaching aides and drills, CGA is committed to making the game of golf more enjoyable for all golfers at all levels!
Meet John
John Ubbing is a USGTF certified professional who brings his love of golf and passion for teaching together at Columbus Golf Academy. John is also the creator and owner of the Road Range. The Road Range is a mobile driving range that brings golf directly to individuals, groups or the workplace.
John has coached golf at the varsity high school level for several years. The team won league titles and several of his players received first-team honors. An accomplishment that stands out was that each of his players lowered their average score each year under his tenure. John earned titles of District Coach of the Year and Regional Coach of the Year - awards bestowed upon him by his peers.
John has been an educator at the middle and high school level for the past 15 years. He maintains an active teaching certificate in Ohio. John's background as a classroom teacher qualifies him uniquely to understand that golfers, like students, learn differently. His commitment is to find the right approach for each golfer.
John is a native of Columbus, Ohio and attended The Ohio State University. He earned a B.S. in Education and a Masters degree in Educational Leadership. He lives in Grandview with his family and sweet dog Chelsea.