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Corolla Coolant Change Guide - Radiator Drain & Refill
How to change the engine coolant (antifreeze) in a 2003 to 2008 Toyota Corolla by draining and refilling the radiator.
Allow the engine to cool off completely before removing the radiator cap!
Toyota Corolla 1.8L I4 Engine
Radiator Cap & Overflow Tank
Cold Engine! - Remove Cap
automotive "how-to" maintenance guide was specifically written to
assist owners of the 9th generation (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, &
2008) Toyota Corolla in changing the engine coolant by draining and
refilling the radiator.
Owners of other Toyota, Scion and Lexus vehicles with similar cooling systems such as the Camry, Matrix, Yaris, Avalon, Venza, RAV4, FJ Cruiser, Prius, Sienna, Tacoma, tC, xA, xB, xD, and IS 250 may also find this guide to be helpful.
The Corolla comes equipped with Toyota's pink SLLC (Super Long Life Coolant) that is supposed to last 10 years or 100,000 miles.
Rather than wait that long, I decided to replace about half of the 6.9 quarts of coolant in the system after just 6 years and 85,000 miles by performing a simple radiator drain and refill.
To complete this procedure, you'll need the following items: a gallon of Toyota SLLC or Zerex Asian Vehicle coolant (both of them are pink & 50/50 pre-mixed with distilled water), an automotive funnel, a catch container and a pair of pliers.
Radiator Cap Removed
Remove Overflow Tank Cap
Coolant Overflow Tank Removed
|I purchased a
gallon of the Zerex Asian Vehicle coolant with free shipping
on Amazon.com.
The Toyota SLLC coolant costs anywhere from about $20 to $30 at your local Toyota dealership's parts department or online at Amazon.
Some people would recommend draining the entire cooling system and flushing it out with distilled water. This is not recommended when using the pink pre-mixed super long life coolant since it will be very difficult to achieve a 50/50 mixture of coolant and water in the system without using a cost prohibitive amount of new coolant.
Simply draining the radiator and refilling it with new pre-mixed 50/50 coolant every 3-5 years or after about 50,000 miles is more than enough preventative maintenance to keep the cooling system working at optimum efficiency.
Another important reason for renewing the cooling system with fresh coolant is to restore the water pump lubricants and rust inhibitors that wear out over time.
Step # 1 - Allow the engine to cool down for at least a few hours before removing the radiator cap. Opening the radiator cap while the engine is still hot could cause hot coolant to spray out and result in skin or eye injuries. Also remove the cap from the white plastic radiator overflow tank in preparation for topping it off with new coolant later on.
Remove Plastic Pop Rivets
Lower Radiator Hose
Spring Hose Clamp
|Move to below the
front of the engine and remove the black plastic fasteners or "pop rivets"
that hold the lower plastic engine bay covers in place.
Attached to the bottom of the radiator on the passenger side, you'll see a large rubber hose held in place by a spring hose clamp.
Zerex Asian Vehicle 50/50
Automotive Catch Container
Radiator Hose Clamp
|Place an automotive
fluids catch container or a bucket below the point where the lower radiator
hose is attached to the radiator.
Some people prefer to drain the radiator by unscrewing the plastic drain plug or "petcock valve" located on the bottom of the radiator.
Draining the radiator by using the drain plug is not recommended since a radiator plug that has been stuck in place for several years tends to leak coolant after it is removed.
This happens because the old or dried out rubber o-ring or gasket on the drain plug can rip or tear when the plug is unscrewed for the first time in years.
The method preferred by professional automotive mechanics is to loosen the hose clamp on the lower radiator hose.
Then drain out as much coolant as possible from the radiator and also the engine block.
Pliers - Loosen Hose Clamp
Move Clamp Off Radiator
Pull Off Lower Radiator Hose
|Use some regular
pliers or the special "spring hose clamp pliers" if you have them, to loosen
the spring hose clamp and slide it backwards on the hose until it is off the
spout on the radiator.
Carefully and slowly pull off the lower radiator hose from the spout on the radiator.
If you have trouble removing it, try wiggling the hose while pulling on it.
Some old coolant will splash out so be prepared to move out of the way and aim the hose down towards the catch container.
Allow Old Coolant To Drain
~ 3.5 Quarts Old Coolant
Point Radiator Hose Down
|Let the old engine
coolant drain out of the radiator and out of the engine block from the open
end of the lower radiator hose.
I found that I could allow the open end of the hose to rest in the raised position and then turn it down towards the catch container every 5-10 seconds to remove another splash of old coolant from the engine block.
Still Draining From Hose
|When you're
satisfied that enough old coolant has been removed, push the lower radiator
hose back on to the spout on the radiator until it is flush against the
Then reattach the spring hose clamp.
I chose to replace the spring hose clamp with a traditional steel metal hose clamp with hex head bolt since it seemed much easier to work with than the spring hose clamp.
Spring Clamp - Regular Clamp
Steel Hose Clamp Installed
Funnel In Radiator Fill Hole
|Double check that
the lower radiator hose is attached securely to the radiator by pulling on
it firmly to see if it moves.
If it does move, you may want to add an additional hose clamp or replace the old spring clamp with a new one.
Pour In New Coolant
Pink Zerex Asian 50/50
Turn On Car - Blast Heat
|Move to the engine
bay and place the automotive funnel into the radiator's fill hole.
Slowly pour in the new Toyota SLLC or the Zerex Asian vehicle coolant into the funnel.
When the coolant reaches the very top of the radiator fill hole, stop pouring and take out the funnel.
Engine Running - Cap Off
Bring To Operating Temperature
Less Than 1 Quart Left
|Start the Corolla's engine, move the HVAC system's temperature knob to the maximum heat setting and turn the blower motor setting knob to "HI".
Coolant Level Dropping
Engine Almost Warmed Up
Top Off With More Coolant
|Watch the coolant
level in the radiator fill hole as the engine heats up.
When you see the level begin to drop down out of sight, use the funnel to add a little bit more new coolant into the radiator.
You may need to add more coolant two or three times as the engine reaches operating temperature.
Then turn off the engine, remove the funnel, and replace the radiator cap.
If the rubber seals on the radiator cap look worn or damaged, replace the cap with a new one.
You can purchase a new radiator cap at any auto parts store for about $10.
Coolant Filled To Top
Fill Overflow With Coolant
Replace Radiator & Overflow Caps
|The Toyota Corolla
has an "open" cooling system that can vent trapped air bubbles to the
So it's important that you remember to fill up the radiator overflow bottle with coolant to the "Full" line when the engine is hot.
If the system vents out some air, it will suck in fluid from the overflow tank and you may notice the level drop.
A tiny amount of coolant will also evaporate out of the overflow tank each month so you should check it at least once a year and top it off with new coolant.
Replace the coolant overflow cap, close the hood, and take the car for a short test drive to make sure that the cooling system is working properly.
The temperature gauge's needle on this 2005 Corolla tends to always stay exactly in the middle of the range between "H" and "C".
If you spilled any coolant while draining the radiator or re-filling it, rinse it away with a garden hose or a bucket filled with water.
Automotive coolant/antifreeze is toxic to animals and they are attracted to its sweet taste.
Keep an eye on your Corolla's temperature gauge for the next few days and do not continue driving if you see the needle start to quickly rise towards the "H".
You can also double check the coolant level in the radiator and/or coolant overflow tank a few days later but only when the engine is cold.
For more, check out my other Corolla DIY tutorials at the links below -
2003-2008 Toyota Corolla Repair & Maintenance Guides
|For more of my
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Toyota Corolla Engine Oil Change,
Toyota Corolla Front Brake Pads Replacement Guide,
Toyota Corolla Cabin Air Filter Replacement Guide,
Toyota Corolla Headlight Bulbs Replacement Guide,
Toyota Corolla Tail Light
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Toyota Corolla Dome Light Bulb Replacement Guide,
Toyota Corolla Overhead
Map Light Bulbs Replacement Guide,
Toyota Corolla Fog Light Bulbs Replacement Guide,
Toyota Corolla Key Fob Remote Battery Replacement Guide,
Meguiar's Headlight Buffing & Restoration
Kit Review,
K&N Air Filter Cleaning Guide,
WeatherTech FloorLiner Interior Mats Review,
Tail Light & Headlight Condensation Repair Guide,
Garmin Nuvi 260W GPS Review,
Buffing Old Faded Headlights, and
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In this term's blog, Lisa A invites parents to consider if our child's attention seeking behaviour may be an expression of their need to seek connection?
We are frequently told in parenting advice books and on the internet that attention seeking is bad and we must ignore the 'behaviour' because otherwise the child will learn that all they have to do is scream to get our attention.
However what if we challenged that idea and told you that our children are not 'attention seeking', but rather they are 'seeking connection' with us?
Let's first look at this concept called "attachment". Attachment is a motivational behavioural system whose purpose is to seek proximity to a caregiver. The attachment system includes both exploration, where the function is for learning/playing; and it also includes protection, where the function is for safety. Children use their caregiver as a 'secure base' from which to go out and explore the world. When the threat of danger is present, exploration is inhibited, and the child turns to the caregiver for safety and security. This is a really important point to understand and observe in children, as the "proximity seeking" behaviours look different in different children. For some it is them asking for help, others it may be to cry, for others we may experience them as being "whiny" or "clingy", and some children become explosive and aggressive. We also need to keep an eye out on the ones who retreat away and are the quietest.
It is important to understand what 'danger' might mean to a child. It could be saying goodbye to their caregiver; going to sleep by themselves; or the new person that they are unsure how to interact with them. It could also be as simple as an unexpected noise or a new food they are trying for the first time. When a child experiences something as a danger, they will stop exploring/playing and being independent and return back to their caregiver for safety. Is this attention seeking or seeking a connection with someone who they trust to validate their emotions and provide reassurance, supporting them to feel safe enough to go back and tackle the same situation?
The research now suggests that if children haven't yet mastered the skill of emotional regulation, they are likely to find other, insecure ways to bring their caregivers and attachment figures closer. Often this makes it confusing for caregivers to know whether or not their child needs comfort or support. Because of this, we often mistake children's behaviour as 'attention seeking' or 'being naughty or silly'. Often these are the times are when our children are struggling emotionally and not knowing how to cope or how to get help from their caregiver.
Indeed children can be skilful in getting our attention in all sorts of ways (i.e. kicking the back of our chair, screaming, saying they need our help when we know they can do the task themselves, withdrawing etc). However there is a need that underlies these 'attention seeking' behaviours. To be able to support our children to gain our attention in more secure ways we need to look past the behaviour and discover the underlying need for connection and emotional organisation and address that. For children to be able to self-regulate and calm themselves down, they first have to experience this calming down with someone.
Here at Inside Out OT, we look further past the behaviour, to look at what the underlying emotional needs of our children are, and support families to address those needs. Programs such as the Circle of Security and reflective based discussions with our Occupational Therapists can help support you to be with your children when they are upset. Through this, we can support your relationship with your child which enables enhanced emotional regulation and self esteem.


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Episode 35: Imagination To Burn
451 Media is a company co-founded by director Michael Bay ("Transformers"), Doug Nunes and two men who are responsible for creating a certain Nintendo accessory. Recently, 451 has established an interactive publishing division, releasing graphic novels and digital content. The creators for 451's graphic novels include Scott Rosenberg ("Con Air"), Skip Woods ("Wolverine"), George Pelecanos ("The Wire"), Mark Mallouk ("Black Mass"), Clay McLeod Chapman ("The Avengers") and Peter and Paul Williams (vfx for "Avatar," "The Avengers").
Today's episode features two guests: Stephen Francis, 451's Director of New Media and Innovation and Creative Coordinator, James Emmett (also a guest on Episode 15). Stephen and James discuss the company's flagship titles, their unique brand of digital videos and content and the endurance of print comics.
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'Mr Shepherd', my examiners asked, 'are you married?' The context was the examination of my thesis on portrayals of independent women on the early-modern stage. I replied that I wasn't. 'Ah well' they said, smiling knowledgeably, 'if you were married you would know that whatever is said by and about women, in practice it makes very little difference to the way life is lived.' The thesis was then failed on grounds of being unscholarly.
This little episode confirmed me in my sense that, beyond any local academic project, the main goal in my career should be to attempt to change institutions, or at least those bits of them where I had influence. I was already working at the University of Nottingham as their first ever lecturer in English drama, with a brief to direct student shows as well as teach English literature (everything since 1500) and drama (everything). Over the years we carved out a clear drama pathway as part of the degree, with some sort of affirmation when I became their first Professor of Drama in 1994. Meanwhile I continued to teach students about gender in the early-modern period (and of course published the benighted thesis). This was in turn part of the widespread upheaval in literary studies caused by those of us who were Marxists, feminists and/or gay activists chucking out the old courses, with their assumptions about the way life was really lived.
That general need to change disciplines, if not institutions, together with my own local circumstances, made me interested in the assumptions we make about how we work and what we study, the distinction between doing drama and literature, for example, and what's at stake in that distinction. So I got interested in researching and writing books that tried to tell large historical stories and identified the rise and fall of academic values and assumptions. This was not necessarily very sensible since it had become intellectually fashionable to scorn the production of so-called grand narratives. But anyone who has inspected my wardrobe will know that fashion is not a big player in my life, so on I went: the history of English drama and how we know it; the formative intellectual shapes in drama and theatre studies; a poetics of the dramatic text. These huge projects were all collaborative and I gained enormously by working with people much cleverer than me.
After a bit of time trying to sort out the drama department at Goldsmiths, as Professor of Drama between 1996 and 2001, I ended up at Central, more or less by accident. But it rapidly became clear that here too was an institution ready for change. What made it attractive as a task was that it was like a return, on much bigger scale, to my early battles with the introduction of drama as a practice into a book-based university department. Here, though, the project was to make a conservatoire into a university college without losing the specificity of the conservatoire work. The opposition from sections of the so-called theatre industry was reassuring confirmation that I was once again offending those who saw themselves as guardians of the way life is really lived. The community of Central has shown, far beyond my own efforts, how this tense and productive combination of conservatoire and university college is actually a good thing, an engine which can generate huge energy and even delight.
Looking back, I seem to be in neither one discipline nor another. Among literary folk I was the one who did embarrassing things that involved waving arms around; among drama folk I was told, with a knowledgeable smile of course, that I was not 'A Practitioner'. But I quite like this sense of being – well – I suppose – undisciplined.
I no longer supervise doctoral students, but I'll try to answer questions on my work where relevant.
2018 (forthcoming). The Great European Stage Directors, eight volumes. Series editor. (London: Bloomsbury)
2018. Studying Plays: 4th edition (with new material on testimony, monodrama and the post-dramatic), with Mick Wallis (London: Bloomsbury)
2017. '9 August 1967/The Pyjamas', Studies in Theatre and Performance 37: 2 (Orton-Halliwell anniversary issue), pp. 173-183
2016. The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
2012. Direction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
2009. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
2009. On Training, edited with Richard Gough (Performance Research 14.2)
2006. Theatre, Body and Pleasure (London: Routledge)
2004. Drama/Theatre/Performance, with Mick Wallis (London: Routledge) (published in Korean 2015)
2004. 'Drama and Politics 1970-2002', in The Cambridge History of English Literature, edited by Laura Marcus and Peter Nichols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 635-652
2003. 'Lolo's Breasts, Cyborgism, and a Wooden Christ', in Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and History, edited by Helen Thomas and Jamilah Ahmed (Oxford: Blackwell)
2002. 'A Coloured Girl Reading Proust', in Joe Orton: A Casebook, edited by Francesca Coppa (London: Routledge), pp. 141-154
2002. 'Revels End, and the Gentle Body Starts', Shakespeare Survey 55, pp. 237-256
2000. 'A Bit of Ruff: Criticism, Fantasy, Marlowe', in Constructing Christopher Marlowe, edited by J.A. Downie and J.T. Parnell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 102-115
1999. 'Blood, Thunder and Theory: The Arrival of English Melodrama', Theatre Research International 24: 2, pp. 145-151
1998. Studying Plays (reprinted 2002, 2010), with Mick Wallis (London: Arnold)
1996. English Drama: A Cultural History, with Peter Womack (Oxford: Blackwell)
1996. 'Melodrama as Avant-Garde: Enacting a New Subjectivity', Textual Practice 10: 3, pp. 507-522
1994. 'Pauses of Mutual Agitation', in Melodrama: Stage Picture Screen, edited by Jacky Bratton, Jim Cook and Christine Gledhill (London: British Film Institute)
1992. 'What's so Funny about Ladies' Tailors? A Survey of some Male (Homo)sexual Types in the Renaissance', Textual Practice 6: 1, pp. 17-30
1991. 'Acting Against Bardom: Some Utopian Thoughts on Workshops', in Shakespeare and the Changing Curriculum, edited by Lesley Aers and Nigel Wheale (London: Routledge), pp. 88-107 (reprinted in 2000. Shakespeare in Performance, edited by Robert Shaughnessy, Basingstoke: Macmillan)
1990. A Biographical Dictionary of English Women Writers 1580-1720, with Maureen Bell and George Parfitt (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Press)
1989. Coming on Strong: Gay Culture and Politics, edited with Mick Wallis (London: Unwin Hyman)
1988. Because We're Queers: The Life and Crimes of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton (reprinted 1989) (London: Gay Men's Press)
1988. 'Shakespeare's Private Drawer: Shakespeare and Homosexuality', In The Shakespeare Myth, edited by Graham Holderness (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp. 96-110
1986. Marlowe and the Politics of Elizabethan Theatre (reprinted 1993) (Brighton: Harvester Press)
1985. The Women's Sharp Revenge: Five Women's Pamphlets from the Renaissance (London: Fourth Estate)
1981. Amazons and Warrior Women: Varieties of Feminism in Seventeenth Century Drama (Brighton: Harvester Press)
I spent twenty years directing about two plays a year, but no longer, to my regret. This was the laboratory producing the evidence underpinning my published analysis and theorisation of a range of different modes of dramaturgy and performance. Alongside that I consider teaching and writing themselves to be practices, with failure to regard them thus leading to horrible, if not deadly, results. But also, now, I am interested in the ideological standing of 'practice' as a concept.
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NCAA Power 16 Rankings
We've had our fill of turkey and all of the dressings, but our appetite for college hoops is growing by the week. Feast week usually provides a few surprises and this year was no exception. Very few expected UConn to defeat two top ten teams en route to the Maui Invitational championship and not many predicted Tennessee to handle Villanova in the Garden to win the NIT. However, that's what makes this time of year so much fun. The tip-off tournaments are behind us and the various conference challenges highlight the upcoming week. On to the third edition of the Power 16…
Rank (Last Week)
1. Duke (1)
|Coach K earned his 800th career win in a dominant performance by his Blue Devils against a very good Kansas State team. Kyrie Irving and Seth Curry have been huge additions to the defending national champions, as Irving provides elite playmaking ability and Curry stretches the floor with his 47.6% three-point shooting. Duke faces a huge upcoming week as two 2010 Final Four teams come calling in Michigan State and Butler.
2. Ohio State (2)
|Ohio State has been on a roll defensively by holding its last three opponents under 45 points. Thad Matta's club picked up two wins this week despite modest production from Jared Sullinger. His freshman running mate, Deshaun Thomas picked up the slack by averaging 15.5 pts and 6 rebs for the week. An interesting match up at Florida State looms for the Buckeyes Tuesday night.
3. Pitsburgh (4)
|The biggest concern for Jamie Dixon after seven games is his rotation. That's a good problem, because he currently has ten players averaging ten or more minutes per game and they have all been productive. This team's depth will serve it well in the Big East. As will as its efficiency on the offensive glass. Pitt currently leads the nation with an astounding 49.1% offensive rebounding rate.
4. Michigan State (3)
|Sparty ran into a buzzsaw by the name of Kemba Walker in the Maui Invitational, but they bounced back with a strong second-half effort to down a solid Washington team in the consolation game. Tom Izzo's teams have traditionally started a bit slow, as evident by their 13-year drought in early-season tournaments. They have a chance to make a big statement Wednesday night as they travel to Cameron Indoor to challenge the defending national champion Duke Blue Devils.
5. Kansas (8)
|KU is off to an impressive start as it leads the nation in offensive and defensive efficiency after six games. After seeing limited playing time last season, Sophomore Thomas Robinson is contributing early for the Jayhawks. His 10.7 pts and 6.3 rebs per game provide important frontcourt production for a team that lost its all-American center to the NBA Draft.
6. Kansas State (7)
|While very disappointing in a loss to Duke, Frank Martin's club is still a legitimate Final Four threat. However, they must cut down the turnovers and start hitting some free throws. K-State ranks 342nd in the country in free throw shooting percentage. They won in spite of those woes last year, but it's going to cost them games sooner or later.
7. UConn (NR)
|It seems like every year some team defies the pre-season prognostications and makes a huge leap in the polls. Last year it was Syracuse, this year it's UConn. Kemba Walker was a man on fire in Hawaii, averaging 30 pts and 4 assists while leading his team to victories over two top ten opponents. Balance may be an issue going forward as Alex Oriakhi is the only other Husky averaging double figures. Despite that concern, Jim Calhoun's club will likely be 10-0 when they travel to Pittsburgh on December 27th.
8. Baylor (10)
|Baylor is an extremely dangerous team with the return of last year's leading scorer LaceDarius Dunn, following a suspension. However, we may not get a real read on this team until Big 12 play due to their weak non-conference schedule.
|9. Kentucky (6)
|Coach Cal's young Wildcats suffered a letdown after its impressive win over Washington. Kentucky was run out of the gym early by a hot UConn squad in the final of the Maui Invitational. Terrance Jones continued his torrid start with 24 points in the defeat. We're excited to see three potential top 10 picks in action next Saturday as Jones and Brandon Knight travel to Chapel Hill for a battle with Harrison Barnes.
10. Minnesota (12)
|The Golden Gophers are off to a tremendous start and they've added more fuel to the argument that the Big Ten is the best conference in the country. They will have an opportunity to start the conference on the right foot as they face Virginia in the first game of the Big Ten – ACC Challenge Monday night. Al Nolen and Rodney Williams will likely miss that game and possibly a few more, due to injuries. Will Tubby Smith reinstate Devoe Joseph given their absence?
11. Missouri (14)
|Mizzou's bench is averaging over 30 points per game and that depth feeds right into coach Mike Anderson's style. The Tigers employ a frenetic pace and their ability to run ten guys at you causes teams to wear down. One example of their depth was their ability to survive the championship game of the Cancun Challenge against LaSalle despite last year's leading scorer, Kim English, being held scoreless. The Tigers face a big test against Georgetown Tuesday night.
12. Tennessee (NR)
|Give credit to the Tennessee players for responding to all of the off-season controversy with a strong start. They posted two quality wins over VCU and Villanova to win the Pre-Season NIT and they did it with strong defensive effort. Scott Hopson was named tournament MVP, but the Vols also received a big contribution from freshman Tobias Harris who is averaging 15.8 pts and 5.8 rebs per game.
13. Villanova (5)
|Nova took one on the chin at Madison Square Garden Friday night at the hands of Tennessee. A major point of concern for Jay Wright's club has been its outside shooting. They currently rank 281st in the country in three-point shooting percentage. Is it an early season slump or a sign of things to come?
14. Syracuse (13)
|The Orange remain undefeated and in our Power 16, but not without some angst. They survived three close games against teams that may struggle to make the NCAA Tournament, as the Cuse found a way to win the Legends Classic. Heralded recruit Fab Melo has been a major disappointment thus far, but Rick Jackson is picking up the slack in the frontcourt.
15. San Diego State (15)
|The Aztecs face a couple of interesting challenges this week as they play host to fellow mid-majors, St. Mary's and Wichita State. Continue to keep your eye on Sophomore forward Kawhi Leonard, as he has posted five double-doubles in six games.
16. Georgetown (16)
|The Hoyas have been lighting it up from the outside as they currently rank 6th in the country with a 44.4% three-point shooting percentage. Austin Freeman is shooting a blistering 57.6% on 5.5 three-point attempts per game. Jason Clark and Chris Wright also average over 5 three-point attempts per game and they're shooting an equally impressive 45%. Coach Thompson's club needs that production due to their thin frontcourt, but can they rely upon hot outside shooting for the balance of the season?
Email questions or opinions to Josh at [email protected].
you shouldnt quit on washington too soon. Washnigton had leads against both kentucky and michigan state at halftime and both games were decided in the finl minute of play. Even after the second loss, the espn announcers said there are not 10 teams in america better then washington. I think washington would be favored against half the teams on this list.
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In 1976, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to regulate the handling of hazardous waste "from cradle to grave". Since then other regulations have followed, including OSHA's 29 CFR 1910.120, also known as HAZWOPER. As part of these regulations, there are varying requirements for employee training, depending on an employee's specific level of involvement with hazardous materials.
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Help us gather nonperishable food to support local families in the community. You can make an impact in the life of others today. Drop off donations at the Deer Park Physical Therapy & Fitness Center office. All donations stay in the area.
Photos with Santa
On December the 11th from 5-7pm have your picture taken with Santa Claus when you donate 4 or more cans of food.
When you donate 8 or more cans you can enter into a raffle to win a massage, a month long fitness center membership, or a fitness basket filled with goodies. You can enter once for each 8 cans of food donated. Deadline for entries is Dec 19th. Drawing will be held on Dec 22nd.


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And The Adventure Begins
We are all here! For the sake of catching up, let me start from the beginning!
The girls, along with Tanya and the Donyes headed out on Wednesday morning. We had a great schedule of flights with short layovers and short walks gate to gate. Our final flight left Newark, New Jersey around 9:30 eastern time. We flew through the night and landed in Belfast at 9am….or 3am "in real life" as the girls started calling it. You could hear the girls' "Ooohs and Aaahs" and "Oh my goodness we are here!" as we came through the clouds and saw the morning sun shining on the most GREEN country I have ever seen. It was breathtaking!
When we landed early Thursday morning, it was cold. We breezed through the baggage claim without any luggage issues…an answer to prayer traveling with 15 people. Our bus driver met us at the door and took us to "our bus" that we will get to use for the whole trip. (thank goodness…staff was not very excited about potentially driving standard vehicles on the wrong side of the road AND car.) A quick trip to get pounds, some international phones and a few other amenities and we headed to Lakeside Manor. This place overlooks the lake, is homey, extremely comfortable, and not to mention gorgeous. See the picture below, words do not do the view justice.
Under strict orders not to sleep in order to help with jetlag (crazy concept), the girls took a trip to Victorian Square to get out of the sleep inviting manor and do some shopping. While shopping was the intention, after walking through a few stores, Starbucks was a hit because it had chairs. While drinking caffeinated drinks, the girls were falling asleep. (Meanwhile, the guys were loading up to leave Missouri) We ate a dinner of fresh salmon at the manor, played a little Wii, and were in bed by 8:00pm.
After following the girls' same travel schedule on Thursday, our guys and remaining staff arrived today, Friday, around noon just in time for lunch. As expected, they were just as exhausted as the girls the previous day. Once they got moved in an a little unpacked, we followed the same idea as with girls and got out of the manor! Within three hours of the guys being in Ireland, Link Year loaded up and headed out to visit our first site, Giant's Ring. Our student responsible for this location has explained this part of our day below.
Hi, I'm Jackie! After months of waiting and preparing, we finally made it to Ireland! The boys arrived today which was fun. Even though they were extremely exhausted we got the opportunity see the Giant's Ring! I was the first one to present, so I was a little nervous, but the group was really respectful and great so it was easy! The Giant's Ring is significant because archeologists just found out that the whole patch of grass was dug up! That is a lot of land to dig up without any bulldozers in their time. It used to be used for pagan worship site. There is a set of 5 stones in the middle that is considered a stonehenge…not to be confused with the actual Stonehenge in Scotland. It was a lot more land in person than I thought it would be by looking at the pictures. It was a wonderful opportunity to hang out, walk around and take some time to pray and thank the Lord for even getting us to Ireland. It's only day one but I am so excited for the rest of this trip. If today has been this fun, I can only imagine what the rest of this month is going to be like!
We all had dinner together this evening followed by a sweet time of journaling about out day in great journals that JBU provided for us to document this trip! Thank you for your continued prayers and support! We will keep this information coming every few days. It has already been an absolute blast being here and all of us feel so blessed to have this opportunity!


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Once again join us Down the Hatch for fun & games for a good cause! Come Down the Hatch, bring your donation for the Maui Food Bank & compete in the CONNECT FOUR TOURNAMENT, Saturday, September 23rd! Maui Food Bank teams with 99.9 KISS FM September 4 – 24, 2017 for BATTLE OF THE BUSINESSES & we are bringing our game! Down the Hatch is participating in the Food & Fund Drive by collecting non-perishable food now through the 24th, and we want to support by helping to reach their Goal: 6000 lbs of food or $6000!!! Cash donations can be made to Maui Food Bank. https://mauifoodbank.org/
Accepting Food Donations at the Door for the Maui Food Bank - No Covers / DTH CASH Prizes for the Tournament Winner & for the Largest Food Donation
Saturday, September 22nd / 9pm Registration / 10pm Tournament Begins / DJ Quick
Mahalo for joining us & supporting our community! The Maui Food Bank - To Help Feed the Hungry on Maui 2017


text: I'll be down in New York this week for the opening of a group show I'm a part of with artists Rachel Bone, Benrei Huang and Alex Paik. I'm looking forward to seeing their work. I've created 6 new pieces for the show which are inline with my recent explorations into architectural redundancy so if you are in the area please stop on in. The opening is Thursday, February 14th at 6:00 pm at Nancy Margolis Gallery (523 West 25th) but will run through March 23rd. Though I'll concede that my work is not the most ideal for a romantic evening, I'll try to offset this by bringing an assortment of Hershey's kisses -- and maybe a bag of chips.


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vibrant cranberries,
one drop of water
holds on
–Deborah Finkelstein
Just in time for Christmas, The Sound of Poets Cooking, the wonderful poetry anthology/cookbook, is available from Amazon.com for Kindle as well as for Kobo (both with free apps for reading on the iPad) and will make the perfect gift for the poetry or food lover in your life. Like the heartiest of stews, this collection will nourish you, warm you, and feed your spirit.
"This is the most delicious book on my bookshelf. The poems will make you laugh, cry andwax nostalgic. And the recipes will make your mouth water. No wonder the little stone Buddha on the cover has such a satisfied smile on his face." — Cathy Smith Bowers, North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2010-June 2012.
Featuring work by five dozen poets, including NC Poet Laureates Fred Chappell and Kathryn Stripling Byer, and dozens of other nationally celebrated writers, the poems alternate with recipes written by the poets, their family members, lovers and friends. The writing is at turns sensuous, hilarious, elegant, and playful. The recipes range from Asian to European to Middle Eastern dishes, as well as regional favorites from across the U.S.–tiramisu, homemade curry, vegetarian meals, exotic seafood, some simple, some complex. There is something here for every palate, literary and culinary.
And just like all best dishes, this book is an act of love and generosity. Proceeds from the sales of this book will be used to fund writing workshops in excluded communities. Jacar Press is a Community Active literary press, dedicated to both publishing fine writing and being a positive force in local communities by sharing our proceeds with those in need. Proceeds from the sales of The Sound of Poets Cooking will become small stipends for poets to conduct free writing workshops in their communities. Poets with an idea for a workshop can complete a proposal form at the back of the book.
Recipes include:
Sea Bass with Cherry-Mango-Tomatillo Sauce
Peach Mango Plum Pork Chops
Rosehip Curry
Balsamic Mango
Irish Soda Bread
Brussels Sprouts and Goat Cheese Risotto
Onion Pie
Fig Tart with a Cornmeal Crust
and many more … plus poetry about these dishes or others, or memories of dishes, or times when there was not enough to eat.
Written about The Sound of Poets Cooking
From Scott Owens' Musings: "The Sound of Poets Cooking is a new, 172-page anthology of poems about food accompanied by related recipes, from Krawiec's fledgling press, Jacar Press. And it is an impressive debut, featuring wonderful work from poets both familiar and new, including two NC Poets Laureate, Fred Chappell and Kathryn Stripling Byer, and numerous other standards: Joseph Bathanti, Kelly Cherry, Jaki Shelton Green, Susan Ludvigson, Joanna Catherine Scott, Shelby Stephenson, and more, wrapped in a clever cover with an image of Buddha cradling a pomegranate, eggplant, carrots, tomatoes,sweet potato, chef's knife and some spiky yellow fruit I'm not familiar with, appealingly conveying the mixture of spirituality and whimsy one might expect from poetry about food."
From the Independent Weekly: "The Sound of Poets Cooking, a combined cookbook and poetry anthology, embodies this coming together of the literary and culinary arts. More than 60 poets, many of whom have North Carolina connections, such as Andrea Selch, Paul Jones, Jaki Shelton Green, Scott Owens, Al Maginnes and Mark Smith-Soto, ladle out enticing recipes and crafted verse, woven thematically together. The brainchild of Richard Krawiec, a longtime local teacher, writer, publisher and activist, the book also marks the debut of Jacar Press as a full-fledged literary publisher."
The sudden smell of wine finds you
dressing flowers, their points
moist with a white as sweet as milk.
A pleasure, the way you fill the distance
with pastures, select the blackest cows
for cream. This is more than imagination:
the aroma of bread rising
about the kitchen, the Brie's
smooth skin gently darkening.
from Gifts, by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, found in The Sound of Poets Cooking
Please read more about Richard Krawiec.
Featuring the work of …
Malaika King Albrecht * Joseph Bathanti * Kathryn Stripling Byer * Fred Chappell * Kelly Cherry * * Jaki Shelton Green * John Hoppenthaler * Sarah Lindsay * Susan Ludvigson * Al Maginnes * Susan Meyers * Lenard D. Moore * Marty Silverthorne * Mark Smith-Soto * Shelby Stephenson * Myrna Stone * Julie Suk * and many more
Vibrant Cranberries, from The Sound of Poets Cooking and originally published in The Asahi Haikuist Network, August 15, 2008.


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Weight loss is usually associated with cutting back on food indulgences and high calorie foods. Allowing cheat days in your weight loss plan can have some positives and negatives. A problem with cheat days could potentially be in the name itself.
Associating foods with guilt, shame or being "bad" on cheat days could lead to emotional eating or over eating out of guilt.
If cheat days' lead to over eating or binging, they may be hampering weight loss efforts.
On the other hand, cheat days, or following something like a 80-20 plan for eating may help you incorporate some treat foods into your eating plan without derailing your efforts.
The thought is allowing space for an occasional treat in your weight loss plan can help satisfy cravings and boost will power for weight loss.
Can using something like cheat days' work with your weight loss plan?
They can as long as they don't lead into a cycle of binging on high calorie foods then feeling guilty the rest of the week.
Whether it's one cheat day a week or something more loosely labeled, adding in some of your favorite foods you enjoy during weight loss can help you feel satisfied and enjoyment.
The key is to enjoy something in moderation, not overdo it.
What you choose to splurge on for a cheat day is up to you. Health experts suggest choosing something you truly enjoy or crave.
Trying to eat something besides what you really want could lead to overeating of other foods.
So, what is a better option, brownie or red wine? They both have their merits, but ultimately what is better option is what would be more satisfying for you.
Red wine
An argument for having red wine as an indulgence on a cheat day is that there is research to suggest some health benefits from drinking in moderation.
Drinking in moderation, which is no more than one drink per day for women and two for men, has been associated with: lowering risk for cardiovascular disease, lowering blood pressure, lowering risk for type 2 diabetes and gallstones (1).
Besides some health benefits, drinking can be considered relaxing and social as well.
Drinking in moderation may help people feel relaxed and able to unwind.
Pairing wine with food may also add an extra dynamic of satisfaction from a meal.
If these are things that you are craving or looking forward to from drinking a glass of red wine, drinking red wine over eating a brownie would be your better option because eating a brownie won't provide the same effect.
A note of caution with red wine: overdoing alcohol is associated with negative health effects.
Drinking 7 glasses of red wine is not the same as drinking one glass of wine for 7 nights.
Don't use a cheat day for over consuming alcohol; it would be better to drink in moderation more frequently.
If a gooey chocolate brownie is what you are craving, there's not much that can substitute for it.
Having a brownie for a cheat day can be a satisfying reward as long as it's a reasonable size.
Traditional brownies are high in calories and sugar, so limiting your cheat day to a moderate size brownie is recommended.
Don't use a cheat day as a green light to eat as many brownies as you want.
Avoid the cycle of eating a large portion of brownies followed by feeling guilty and ashamed.
If you choose to have a brownie, let yourself enjoy and savor it then move on for the rest of your day.
Don't try to eat as many as you can while feeling bad.
A benefit for using brownies as a cheat day is they can be modified to be more nutrient dense and lower in sugar without sacrificing flavor or texture.
There are many recipes available for making brownies healthier by lowering sugar, using beans as a base instead of flour, hemp seeds or other nutrient dense ingredients.
Just keep in mind because you are altering the recipe to be healthier doesn't mean you can increase your amount.
A little of both
If chocolate, not necessarily in brownie form, is what you want, adding a 1-2 ounces of dark chocolate most days of the week can be a way to satisfy your chocolate craving while giving you a source of antioxidants.
A 2011 study (2) found chocolate consumption was inversely associated with risk for coronary heart disease.
The flavanoids in cocoa beans act as a natural vasodilator for the blood vessels which can benefit blood pressure.
Dark chocolate has the highest amount of cocoa flavanoids; milk and white chocolate have very small to no amounts of antioxidants.
Therefore, if you're looking to get the health benefits out of chocolate, choose dark.
Pairing a small piece of dark chocolate with a serving of red wine may offer protective benefit for heart health.
Maybe you could enjoy a little chocolate and red wine instead of larger amounts of one or the other.
What is the best option: Red Wine or Brownie?
What is the best option for a splurge day on your weight loss plan?
Something you will enjoy, get satisfaction out of, not feel guilty about or over eat.
That could be many foods including either a brownie or red wine.
There aren't set rules about what a cheat day has to look like. The only suggestion is to not use it as an excuse for binging on food and trying to make up for it the rest of the week.
That is not the idea for a cheat day. If you are having issues with this, speak to a registered dietitian to help guide you for an eating plan that would best suit your needs.


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3rd Annual Sactown Urban Dash - 5K
When: Saturday, May 11, 2019
Day-of Registration/Bib Pick-up: 8:30am to 9:30amEvent Time/Race Start: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Where: Drake's: The Barn (985 Riverfront Street) in West Sacramento
RACE Information: Calling all runners, joggers, woggers and walkers! The Sactown Urban Dash is a 5K race through West Sacramento,
hosted by The Active 20-30 Club of Greater Sacramento #1032, a non-profit organization of women in the Sacramento area who fundraise and do hands-on work with children and children's charities in the Greater Sacramento area.
The flat course starts and finishes at Drake's: The Barn in West Sacramento and leads runners along the beautiful American River. This race will be official timed by Synergy Race Timing for those interested in clocking their run.
Racers receive a complimentary beer/beverage and a tank top OR t-shirt with the purchase of a ticket! Immediately following the race there will be an after-party which will include music and a raffle! Raffle tickets will be sold onsite so bring cash, check or card to win some amazing prizes! Additional food & drink will be available for purchase!
Ticket Prices: Tickets can be purchased at: https://runsignup.com/Race/CA/WestSacramento/SactownUrbanDash5K
$35 early bird ticket (through Feb 28, 2019)
$45 regular ticket (Feb 28 to May 10, 2019)
$55 day of race ticket (May 11, 2019)
$15 children price (Ages under 10, through May 10, 2019)
$30 virtual racer (unable to attend, you can still 'race'!)
$25 after-party only (includes 12 raffle tickets and beverage ticket)
Beneficiaries: The 2019 Sactown Urban Dash will benefit Runnin' for Rhett's Youth Health and Wellness Program AND Active 20-30 Club #1032's High School Student Scholarship Program!
Runnin' for Rhett: The 2019 Sactown Urban Dash is fundraising for Runnin' for Rhett, a nonprofit that each year funds 60+ Sacramento area schools with a 5-week after school training program that provides a twice weekly coached training program for children. Students participate and complete a race at the end of their training course.
Active 20-30 Club #1032 Scholarship Program: Additionally, the Sactown Urban Dash Event is fundraising for Active 20-30 Club #1032's annual high school scholarship program, which awards ~ $5,000 each year to young women entering college.
All donations are tax deductible: 68-0141695


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Every company has one number that defines its success more than any other. For investors in GoPro (NASDAQ:GPRO), maker of the eponymous and extremely popular action cameras, that number is 14.2%
This is the percentage of GoPro's revenue currently devoted to research and development, and it's perhaps the single largest reason why the company has slipped from strong profitability to a net loss in 2014.
However, my selection of this number comes with a few caveats. GoPro's financial statements are still very much on the thin side, as the company just went public earlier this year and has filed only one quarterly report since. Our understanding of GoPro's financials has also been hurt by the fact that the company's only available quarterly results -- for the first and second quarters of 2013 and 2014 -- record periods that typically show a slowdown in sales following the fourth-quarter spike from its traditional October product launches.
Other metrics, such as GoPro's revenue growth rate or its average revenue per unit, might be more valuable if we had more quarterly data to draw on. But since we can only really compare the first halves of 2013 and 2014, it's difficult to justify selecting these metrics ahead of R&D to revenue, which has grown enormously since 2010 to become nearly as large as the percentage of GoPro's revenue spent on sales and marketing:
The shift in spending is quite remarkable. It tells the story of a company that is becoming more confident in its strong brand to drive sales, while simultaneously becoming less confident in its unique technological edge over a relatively thin field of serious competitors. The size of GoPro's R&D spending relative to its revenue has also grown shockingly large for a straightforward consumer electronics company with a very narrow specialization. For example, here's how GoPro compares to some other consumer electronics manufacturers across various specialties (as well as a couple of huge jack-of-all-trades companies):
R&D Spending to Revenue (latest quarter)
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
LeapFrog (UNKNOWN:LF.DL)
iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT)
None of these companies can serve as a direct comparison to GoPro, but it's incredible to see GoPro, in terms of R&D as a percentage of revenue, outspending two of the world's largest mobile-electronics manufacturers, the maker of the Xbox and Windows Phone, an educational tablet maker, and a company that builds autonomous robots ... to make action cameras!
The only comparisons that come close are those with LeapFrog and iRobot, which are also leaders in niche electronics. LeapFrog is most similar, as it also generates most of its sales during the fourth quarter, but LeapFrog also has a significant software development operation -- without good apps, its tablets would be useless. GoPro, on the other hand, does not strictly need a deep suite of support software -- image- and video-editing apps are all most GoPro camera owners would ever really use.
Software focus
While GoPro's software development effort helped its R&D spending more than double as a percentage of quarterly revenue over the past year, the company's own apps aren't widely seen as the best apps for its hardware! Start-up BrightSky Labs has received a lot of positive press since September for a video-sharing app that streamlines the video-editing process for GoPro's users, which is something GoPro's native software suite should have focused on to begin with. Livestream, a leader in real-time streaming, has also rolled out a GoPro-friendly app to help its active users share their crazy adventures as they happen. GoPro doesn't do either of these things well, and yet it somehow needed to spend almost $35 million on R&D in the second quarter.
Developing innovative new hardware can be costly, but when you look at the list above, it's striking to see that consumer electronics companies of both massive (Samsung) and modest (iRobot) scale tend to spend less on R&D as a percentage of revenue than GoPro despite needing to overcome larger technical challenges. Samsung not only manufactures smartphones and big TVs, it also makes a wide range of chips and components, which is a notoriously research-intensive business. iRobot regularly develops machines that are supposed to help out around the house without any assistance from you -- autonomous systems are far tougher technical challenges than image capture or video recording, both of which are largely handled by technology GoPro gets from external suppliers.
Foolish thoughts
As GoPro's third- and fourth-quarter numbers come in, we should get a better picture of the company's spending priorities, and its ability to control costs as sales grow. For the time being, however, GoPro's unusually large amount of R&D spending should be a crucial issue for long-term growth investors, as most of the company's other financial metrics have shown the right sort of momentum.


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Armed In Advance (John Carroll) are very excited to announce the release of their debut, full length album 'Change/Evolve' on October 7, 2016.
To celebrate the announcement, the band are releasing a new single. Check out the lyric video for 'Running You Down' which is also out on iTunes and Spotify.
Change/Evolve is 10 tracks - including their most recent singles 'Stay', 'Same Old Story' and the brand new track 'Running You Down' - that have been painstakingly crafted with one goal in mind; to create and showcase the absolute pinnacle of what this band has to offer.
Set for release on 07/10/2016 These songs are the best from over 80 ideas, created and moulded in the two years since the release of the Stitches EP in 2014; and the end result is a devastating combination of thunderous grooves and churning rock riffs, anthemic choruses and energy to burn."


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The Basilica of Saint Peter is located within the Vatican City. It occupies a "unique position" as one of the holiest sites and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom". The Apostolic Palace, also called the Sacred Palace, the Papal Palace or the Palace of the Vatican, is the official residence of the Pope in the Vatican City.
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We all, as humans, look for ways to better ourselves to enrich our lives. When we're embattled by hardship and discontentment, we all look for ways to either adjust our state of mind or change the way we perceive things. Biologically, we had no choice in creating how we look; but, for the most part, we can alter the way we appear and feel if we genuinely aspire to. Now, there's no panacea for perfect health – however, there is myriad ways to fine-tune your physique and psyche. The fastest route to change is ambition and consistency. No change is ever easy. But having an insatiable desire to strive can lead you to a self-fulfilled, prosperous lifestyle.
From a bodily perspective, we all face the burden of shortcomings that visually – seem so easy to modify – yet the going gets tough when you're put to task. Losing weight is such an arduous endeavor because it requires full-on commitment. It's so easy to envy those with a great metabolism. These "blessed" individuals don't have to face the up-hill plight of fretting about how many calories they've consumed throughout a day. Generally speaking, any long-term weight loss is difficult; just from the sheer fact that you have maintain the lost weight. But how far are you willing to go to change your body?
As a person who's lost a good amount of weight I can shed some insight. First thing I tell my clients when I train them is to know your body: pay close attention to what affects you both negatively and positively, reflect on your past and move forward with a mentality that is beneficial to your well-being, and never lose sight of your initial goals. Many people fail by not taking heed to how their body reacts to certain diets and exercises. Becoming cognizant of your actions will make things much easier when you want to enhance your lifestyle.
When it comes to exercise and weight loss, you must be willing to push yourself. We're a species that adapts to its environment in order to sustain survival, and survival (or staying young for the longest possible time) should be at the top of everyone's priority list. When you exert an excess amount of energy and place stress on your body, you'll have no choice but to lose visceral fat. Concomitantly, food is half the battle, though. We've all be inundated with food-hysteria and we continually eat what we want in the form of instant-gratification, which no doubt is accelerating our paths to death – however unknowingly. Remember this (although I have yet to fully employ this): fruits & vegetables have to become appetible to you in order to ensure yourself a better chance at longevity and quality survival.
Lifting weights and doing aerobic exercise will facilitate all weight loss processes. Staying away from sugar and trans fats will not only help you physically, but mentally as well. Ingest foods high in fiber and low in sodium. Getting the 7-8 hours of sleep a night and staving off stress compliment any salubrious task you want to conquer. Find meaning in work and let your mind wander in the simplicity of nature. All these things will benefit you in a plethora of ways.
Stepping outside one's comfort zone is taxing and hard. Effortless change does not exist, at least not on this planet; to see results you must put in work. There's no cheat codes in this life. You want to get something done? Go ahead and get it done the way it's supposed to be done. People who cut-corners tend to find themselves in more deep water than when they first started. Avoid all the rigmarole by completing your goals through dedication and willpower. The brain and body are extremely plastic: we can alter them much more than we think. So, with all that said, go ahead and do something that stimulates you in the form of kinetic energy. You'll find yourself living a life that's worth living.


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I refuse to forget you, Brent./
Tomorrow, we say goodbye to my good friend Brent, who passed away on Saturday night. Brent was one of the first clients I built a friendship with when I came to Rauch a little more than five years ago. Our acquaintance was inevitable, seeing as he was stopping across the hall each day to speak to Lindsey. He would ask her with great enthusiasm, "Are you taking care of it?" The question was about the pocket day planner he wanted for Christmas -- and yes, I started my position in January.
Soon, I became a part of the routine, too. Per Brent's request, I was to buy his roommate David a wall calendar for a Christmas present. Christmas, Santa, and gifts were some of Brent's absolute favorite things. The past few years, I've taken a vacation at the holidays and missed the big celebration we host at Rauch Industries. Brent would always ask if I was coming to the Christmas party, beginning months leading up to the big day. In fact, I'm quite sure I'd already been asked about the status of my attendance at the 2016 event.
When I would explain that I was going on a vacation to Brent, his first question was always "Are you driving or flying?" I found this to be especially amusing the years I went to Spain and Puerto Rico. "Flying" was usually my answer, which would lead to an intense interrogation regarding the airline I would be talking. I loved that Brent seemed to remember every airline that has existed in the past 50 years - "Continental? TWA? Northeast? Northwest?"
Like all of us, Brent certainly had his trying moments, but they almost always seemed to be interspersed with enough humor and uniqueness to make them tolerable, and even secretly fun. I always enjoyed chatting with him, even if he was just going through the motions while he tried to get me to give him a "clicky" pen. I even enjoyed talking to him when he was in the midst of battling against something he should do but was resisting, and giggled a bit to myself at his passionate mantra of "I don't care!! I'm refusing!!"
He would use his cherished clicky pens to write lists of his favorite bands (Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Heart, Journey) and things he wanted to purchase at Walmart or the Dollar Tree (watch, wallet, notebook, planner), and to copy information like the schedule for the Indianapolis Colts.
These were the types of things he loved to talk about, too. Who the musicians were in his favorite bands, what he wanted for Christmas, which IU Basketball players were the best this year. That, and food. Brent loved to eat, especially sugar free ice cream cones from Zesto and sugar free cookies. I loved the tone of his voice, the enthusiasm of his responses to my questions, and his inquisitive and very observant nature. I always said I could chat with him for hours. Now I wish I had.
Brent was one of those people we serve at Rauch who made his undeniable, seemingly larger than life personality known, and helped me understand the true meaning of my job. It was easy to learn who and what he loved, and yes, who and what he didn't love. What a wonderful thing to feel and be so strongly that no one can mistake who you are. Thank you for being you, Brent. We will all miss you tremendously.
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Brianna picked up her first violin when she was 3. And she's played nearly every day since.
"What do you like about playing the violin?" asked CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella.
"It's like a signing voice to me and I love it because it makes me happy and it makes other people listening to me feel really happy, too," Brianna said.
But this isn't a story about another child prodigy. It's a story about a girl with a gift for giving.
Brianna has played for pop star Jordin Sparks to raise money for Miami Children's Hospital. In the past year, this 8-year-old has performed at nearly a dozen charity events from Florida to Nevada, helping to raise more than $5 million.
"She said before she thinks music comes from the soul and it can make the world a better place," said Brianna's mother. "And she really believes that."
So when Brianna learned the massive earthquake in Haiti brought down a music school, and crushed Romel Joseph, a violinist just like her, she wanted to help.
"I was so sad that he got so hurt and that his beautiful music school actually collapsed on him," Brianna said. "For 18 hours he was stuck in there."
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Brianna wrote letters to famous violinists, asking for money to rebuild the school and instruments to fill it. And she made the first donation herself, handing over her old violin.
"I want to bring music back to Haiti and I want to have Mr. Joseph's school rebuilt because I think all people in Haiti were smiling and they need to smile now, too," Brianna said.
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Arab Riots on the Temple Mount
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by Hana Levi Julian and Shimon Cohen
A tourist from France was injured Sunday morning when Arab riots erupted on the Temple Mount after Jewish worshippers arrived to begin preparations for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which begins Sunday at sundown.
The man was treated on the scene by a Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance team.
Police closed the Temple Mount as well as the Western Wall plaza in response to the incident.
Arabs who worship at the mosque located at the site hurled rocks at the police officers stationed there. Two officers were wounded in the melee, including one who was treated for a hand injury by MDA medics before being evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center.
A number of Jewish eyewitnesses present at the scene told Arutz Sheva that minutes after the riot some police officers began cursing the Jews waiting to pray at the site. "It's all because of you religious [Jews]," said one policeman, according to an eyewitness who requested anonymity.
The source said the police officer added insults and curses that could not be published.
In response, the Jerusalem district police spokesman called the claim a "provocation" by some Jewish worshippers and said "if that is what they say about police officers endangering themselves for them, they should be ashamed."
Following the incident, MK Michael Ben-Ari sharply criticized the conduct of the police officers. "Jerusalem police should deal with the Arab rioters and not violate the freedom of Jewish worshippers who want to pray," he said.
Yom Kippur Curfew in Judea, Samaria
A curfew was imposed midnight Saturday in Judea and Samaria, and will be lifted at midnight after the end of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
During that period, Palestinian Authority Arabs will only be allowed to cross the pre-1967 border into areas solely controlled by Israel for unusual medical and humanitarian reasons. Each individual case will require the approval of the Civil Administration.
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About the Definitive Technology Mythos XTR®-60 Wallspeaker
Definitive's leading the way in ultra-thin speakers for flat-panel TVs
Definitive's leading the way in ultra-thin speakers for flat-panel TVs
Big-time performance from a flat speaker? It's possible with Definitive's Mythos XTR-60. You'll be amazed when you hear the rich, realistic detail and wide soundstage that this super-thin speaker can produce. Use one each for your home theater's left, right, and center channels, and enjoy high-performance sound from clean-looking speakers that measure a mere 1-1/2" deep.
State-of-the-art driver design for impressively accurate sound
Using precise computer modeling and years of design experience, Definitive created incredibly thin, space-efficient "XTDD" drivers. These shallow drivers optimize every part of the speaker surface to maintain a high level of performance. The XTR-60 uses four 3-1/2" XTDD drivers, each one pressure-coupled to a low-bass radiator, for big sound from a total of eight dome woofers. And at the center of the baffle is the same pure aluminum dome tweeter used in Definitive's flagship Mythos ST SuperTower® speakers. It produces extended highs, revealing nuance and shimmer without a trace of edginess.
Flexible placement options
The Mythos XTR-60 comes with a wall-mounting bracket that allows for either vertical or horizontal placement, with a total installation depth of just 1-9/16 inches. It also comes with an attractive smoked-glass stand that lets you place it on a shelf or entertainment stand. The specially shaped enclosure is made of black hand-polished aluminum, and uses stiffing ribs and channels to make it rigid and resonance-free.
Building a system
Put together a complete home theater system using XTR-60 speakers for your front three channels. Add on Definitive's Mythos Gem or Mythos Gem XL surround speakers for wraparound sound. And for high-impact bass, check out these Definitive subwoofers.
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Did you know?
Your new speakers will probably sound better after several weeks of use than they do right out of the box. That's because the material surrounding the woofers will loosen up, allowing the drivers to move more fully. Definitive Technology estimates a break-in period of 24 to 48 hours of playback before the speakers will deliver optimum sound quality. For more information and helpful tips, check out this article from Definitive's website about conditioning your speakers.
Product highlights:
- matches ultra-thin TVs 60" and up
- frequency response 70-30,000 Hz
- sensitivity 92 dB
- 8-ohm impedance
- handles up to 200 watts
- one 1" pure aluminum dome tweeter
- four 3-1/2" XTDD aluminum dome midrange/bass drivers
- four 3-1/2" pressure coupled dome low-bass radiators
- one pair of 5-way binding posts
- aircraft-grade extruded aluminum cabinet
- gloss black finish
- includes wall-mounting bracket and glass base table stand
- dimensions: 6"W x 32-1/8"H x 1-1/2"D (without bracket)
- warranty: 5 years
- Our 60-day money-back guarantee
What's in the box:
Definitive Technology Mythos XTR®-60 Wallspeaker owner's manual
- Black table-top/wall-mount loudspeaker (with removable cloth grille)
- Wall-mount bracket
- Pedestal shaft
- Pedestal base
- 2 Metal feet-stabilizers
- Plug-in speaker terminal
- Four 1-1/2" wood-screws
- Two 6mm x 13mm screws
- 6mm x 16mm screw
- 2 Self-adhesive rubber pads
- Owner's Manual
- 2 Templates (Horizontal/Vertical)
- Online Product Registration card
- Definitive magnetic logo (installed)
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Big sound - Tiny speaker
MarkS from Georgia on 12/12/2014
Love the big sound from this small speaker. Very efficient and true sound....looks great, too.
Pros: Size Sound
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Incredibly Spacious Sound
Dave P from Anchorage, AK on 6/29/2013
These speakers are very sleek, stylish and a high quality combination of phenomenal sound and innovative design! I replaced an older set of Polk RTi70's and a CSi40 with these and all I can say is, "Wow! What an amazing experience!" As others have stated, a sub-woofer is absolutely required to maximize this type of speaker, but my older 10" Velodyne has been a superb match. I paired all of this with four smaller bi-polar, wall-mounted surround speakers and the result was a room completely filled with such a spacious sound that you really must experience it, to believe it! No regrets at all about making this purchase.
Pros: Slim Space Saving Wall-Mounted Profile, Elegant Match to most LED HDTV's
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Pleasantly Impressed
troyab13 from Lafayette, LA on 10/4/2012
I was really suprised with the dynamics this speaker. I was going from the Definitive Technology BP 2002TL tower speakers to the Mythos. When paired with the SC4000 subwoofer I was amazed of the sound produced from such a thin speaker. Very vibrant. I sub woofer should definitiely be considered for an overall surround experience. Whether you are hanging them on the wall (like I did) or using the supplied stand or setting on a shelf, you should consider these speakers
Pros: Slim Design, multiple set up options, templates provided for on wall mounting makes it very easy, produces great sound
Cons: Would not say is a con but sub woofer is a must for deep rich bass. Makes since because speaker is so slim
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Definitive Technology Mythos XTR-60 Wallspeaker
John from Philadelphia, PA on 11/3/2011
The cabinet design is very modern and sleek, and fits perfectly with my 55" LED Samsung display. I upgraded to this set from a 10 year old Bose 701 Series II setup that I had, and wow what a difference. The highs and mids are very clear without any raspiness at all. Like other reviews have said, these speakers sound better at higher volumes than at low volumes, which I assume can be attributed to the size of the driver. A by-product of the slim mount is that it is a very tight squeeze to get this thing on the wall with a wire coming in behind it. Also, a sub-woofer is a must with this setup.
Pros: - Slim design - Beautiful cabinet - Sounds great with no shrillness on top
Cons: - Wall bracket leaves something to be desired - Sub woofer is a must
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Unbeleivable sound!
Ray from Chardon, Ohio on 4/8/2011
I was optomistic that these would be good performers but when i got them dialed in i was shocked! This is absolutely incredible sound. I cannot detect any distortion at all even at very high volume levels! I ended up adding a B&W 10" 500W sub to cover the bass and it is a perfect match. Running these speakers straight off a Sonos ZP120 or through my Denon receiver both sound absolutely stunning! They also look incredible on the wall aside my 60" LED TV. The sound is in the air. It does not sound like it comes out of the speakers. Hard to describe. WELL worth the money. I am considering another set for another room.
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More details on the Definitive Technology Mythos XTR®-60 Wallspeaker
Features & specs
|Passive Radiator
|Number of Speakers
|Bipole or Dipole
|Midrange size (inches)
|Woofer size (inches)
|Connector Type
|Power Range
|92 dB
|Impedance (Ohms)
|Height (inches)
|Width (inches)
|Depth (inches)
|Weight (pounds)
|Mounting Bracket Included
|Parts Warranty
|5 Years
|Labor Warranty
|5 Years
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Overview: The Definitive Technology Mythos XTR-60 loudspeaker offers maximum versatility for your home theater and flat-panel entertainment system (perfect size for 55"-65" TV); it can be used as an on-wall or shelf-mounted Front, Center, and Surround speaker. The Mythos XTR-60 features a high-gloss aircraft-grade extruded aluminum enclosure with proprietary damping technologies to ensure total rigidity and perfectly accurate sound. It also features four 3-1/2" XTDD anodized aluminum mid/bass drivers pressure-coupled to four 3-1/2" dome low-bass radiators, and a 1" (25mm) pure aluminum dome tweeter with an acoustically contoured faceplate for excellent high frequency extension, detail, and natural smoothness.
Driver Technology
Enclosure Design
Mounting Options
Driver Technology
Pure Aluminum Dome Tweeter: The center-mounted 1" tweeter is the same hyper-definition pure aluminum dome tweeter found in Definitive's award-winning state-of-the-art Mythos ST SuperTower. The pure aluminum dome tweeter provides clarity, dynamic range, and extended high-frequency response.
XTDD Technology Drivers: The Definitive Technology Mythos XTR-60 loudspeaker utilizes Definitive's patent-pending XTDD technology anodized aluminum dome drivers for extraordinary performance. Using state-of-the-art computer modeling and decades of speaker design experience, Definitive engineers eliminated every inch of wasted space, optimized every part, and maximized the moving surface area of a dynamic driver to shrink it down to a very compact dimension without giving up ultra high performance audio fidelity. The XTDD drivers provide dynamic punch, a wide frequency range, and broad dispersion that flat vibrating membrane panel-type speakers simply cannot match.
Pressure Coupled Design: To extend and deepen the bass response of such a thin speaker, the four 3.5" XTDD drivers are pressure coupled to four anodized aluminum dome bass radiators.
Enclosure Design
Ultra-Thin Aluminum Enclosure: The Definitive Technology Mythos XTR-60 features an ultra-thin (1.5" deep) aircraft-grade aluminum cabinet that fits today's flat-panel televisions perfectly. By specially shaping the enclosure and incorporating stiffing ribs and channels, Definitive made the space-efficient extruded aluminum enclosure ultra-rigid and resonance-free. The magnets of the XTDD drivers protrude through the rear wall of the enclosure to further minimize depth. A thermally conductive gasket seals the enclosure/magnet interface and transfers heat from the driver's rare-earth magnet to the enclosure, making the whole enclosure a giant heat dissipater.
Magnetic Grille: The Mythos XTR-60 LCR speaker features a black cloth magnetic grille which easily attaches and detaches from the speaker.
Speaker Terminals: The Mythos XTR-60 is equipped with a plug-in C-clamp speaker terminal to attach your receiver's speaker wire (up to 14 AWG).
Mounting Options
Applications: The Mythos XTR-60 can be used as left & right main, center, and surround speakers in your home theater audio system. The Mythos XTR-60 can be mounted on the wall or placed on a table-top vertically or horizontally as a left & right main speaker, center speaker, or surround speaker.
Tabletop Placement: The Mythos XTR-60 can be mounted vertically or horizontally on a tabletop or shelf. Two adjustable feet-stabilizers are supplied if you want to place the XTR-60 on a shelf as a center-channel speaker (horizontal orientation). The feet-stabilizers screw into the 1/4"-20 threaded inserts on the back of the speaker's enclosure. For vertical shelf or tabletop placement, the XTR-60 comes with a smoked tempered glass base. The bass assembly attaches to the speaker via the keyhole slots and threaded inserts on back of the enclosure.
Note: The XTR60 measures 35" tall x 9.625" wide x 6.1875" deep when attached to the included pedestal base.
Wall Mounting: The Definitive Technology Mythos XTR-60 can be mounted directly to the wall using the two key-hole slots on the back of the enclosure and the included wall-mount bracket (mounting screws sold separately). The Mythos loudspeaker can be mounted on the wall horizontally or vertically. The speaker measures 1.5625" deep with the wall-mount bracket attached.
Note: A horizontal and vertical template is supplied to help with installation.
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This class is all about new ways to make art and how to rethink the way art is usually created. We will discuss questions such as what is a "straight" line anyway? Do we always need to paint with a brush? Can a drawing be a drawing without any lines?We will then be answering these questions and more through our art and creating pieces that use alternative processes to produce unique and explorative art works.
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Mary Anne hobbs played some of it a few days ago on her BBC6Music show. Murcof x Wagner will open a new chapter of their discograhy in June with the release of EP02.
EP.02 offers up three new interpretations of Philip Glass, Morton Feldman and Arvo Pärt pieces, where analogue explorations and bare piano notes meet the open forms of the minimalist canon. This is the third record in a series following Statea, the album released by Murcof & Vanessa Wagner in September 2016 and EP.01 released a few months earlier, which introduced individually the two protagonists and their respective instruments. EP.02 brings together three unreleased movements whose narrations sound so complementary that they seem to merge into a unique and cosmic stroll.
Preview Milton Feldman - Piano Piece 1952
EP02 will be available in 12" via The Vinyl Factory from June 14th, 2017. Pre-order it here.
The duo will also play a few shows in France including InFiné´s favorite place in Montreuil / Paris and Metz's Arsenal / Ondes Messines , where they performed one their first shows a few years ago.
Art Direction by Les Garçons Sauvages x My Name Is
Design by My Name Is
Photography by Victor Picon
1. Metamorphosis 4
2. Piano Piece 1952
3. Spiegel Im Spiegel
23.06.17 - La Marbrerie. Montreuil (France)
24.06.17 – Noirlac, Abbaye de Noirlac (France)
30.06.17 - Metz, Arsenal, Festival 'Ondes Messines' (France)
08.07.17 - Jardins Efémeros, Viseu (Portugal)
06.10.17 – Centre des Arts, Enghien (France)
04.11.17 - Seine Musicale, Boulogne (France)
22.11.17 - Théâtre de l'Archipel, Perpignan (France)
Praises on Statea ( released in October 2016)
Arvo Pärt, Erik Satie, John Cage, interprétés par un musicien électro et une pianiste : l'accord parfait - Telerama / France
[...] sounding richer and more nuanced with every listen. Resident Advisor
From mournful underwater ambience to simple, floating beauty - Mixmag / UK
Murcof and Wagner rise up and down in terms of prominence with a deft sense of when each is needed—and when both can come together as one. - Bandcamp Daily
Der gemeinsame Grenzgang folgt einem ganz eigenen Weg - Groove / Germany
El Balance Perfecto - DJ Mag / Spain
Quand la sinusoïde du sinter enveloppe le toucher du piano dans une association précieuse et intemporelle - Tsugi / France
Something genuinely new - Q Mag / UK
Poetisch und Spannungsgeladen - Intro / Germany
Le piano minimaliste sublimé par l'électronique - CultureboxVanessa Wagner, pianiste et Murcof, orfèvre de la musique électronique minimale - Radio Classique / France
Where electronic and acoustic music find the perfect balance – which is precisely what Statea represents. Highly recommended! - Headphone Commute
A unique studio album that captures the essence of their concert.- Cyclic Defrost / Australia


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Quirky new style!
I just briefly wanted to share a cute little style I've stumbled on while experimenting with my pixel art a bit. Only a couple of pieces to share for now, but may continue to try to expand on this idea!
It's sort of a cutesy, minimalistic style with a strong focus on silhouette as opposed to colour (my usual detailing method). Not sure if I'll use this in any projects, but it's fun nonetheless!
Apart from pixel art, I've also been learning some design principles and web languages to hopefully branch into web design/development as well. It's not very interesting right now, but as I learn I'll potentially show off some of that too.
If I'm lazy and don't update the blog before Christmas, I hope everyone has a great holiday and look forward to exciting things in the New Year!