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Mary Courtney Kennedy Hill (known as Courtney, born September 9, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts), is the fifth of the eleven children of Robert Francis Kennedy and Ethel Skakel.
It was through her work at the Children's Television Workshop that she met ABC sports producer Jeffrey Robert Ruhe (b. 1952), son of Robert Ruhe and Elva Buckingham. The couple married on June 14, 1980, in Washington, D.C. and were divorced in 1990.
She then married Paul Michael Hill (b. August 13, 1954)[1] on June 26, 1993, on a boat in the Aegean Sea. Hill is an Irishman who was wrongly imprisoned for 15 years after being convicted of several bombings carried out by the IRA. However, he was later found to have been convicted unjustly; no evidence linked him to either the bombings or to involvement with the IRA. Further investigation revealed that the confessions of himself and three others (collectively called "The Guildford Four") were coerced after many days in detention without charge, and the purported notes from the interrogations were fabricated by the police some time later, so that the notes would reflect the case the police had decided to build. (The film In the Name of the Father (1993) was based on this case.)
Kennedy and Hill were reportedly introduced by her mother. They had one child, a daughter named Saoirse Roisin Hill (born 1997 in Washington D.C.). The couple lived in Ireland from 2002 to 2006. In February 2006, they legally separated.[2] Hill currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Courtney Hill was formerly a representative for the United Nations AIDS Foundation.
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So I am going on holidays today, and will be flying to London later on tonight and then be heading to Iceland and Norway! When I hit Norway, I will be meeting again with my lady G in Alesund on my stop there!
However, in the meantime I have a bit to share… The Challenge for Designers is back again and this month the theme is Colorful. In addition, I am sharing some of the items you will be able to try your luck for at The Arcade. This lovely new hair from Exile and this new skin from Glam Affair.
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Fifteen thousand years ago, the New World was wild and unfettered by civilization. Forests reached the skies in unbroken ranks facing the glacier onslaught. Bison thundered on the plains, feeding on lush grasses. Ferocious carnivores rivaled the mighty wolf pack,stalking the herds. Flocks of birds blackened the Sun during their migration to the glacier fed lakes. Salmon choked rivers and streams. Wildflowers covered meadows in bright dazzling colors. Tribes of people hunting Nature's bounty wandered free and exuberant in the glory of Earth and Sky. Back in the 21st century, Tim and Phil journeyed into the wilds of Oregon. Being experienced outdoorsmen, they thought they knew about the nature of hunting and fishing in the fields and streams of America. Until one fateful day their conception of the Wilderness would change forever.
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CJ Wishart is a hardworking country girl with a heart of gold but a life that can be tough. Her job as a wool classer is back-breaking, her family life is a disaster and, after a string of dating debacles, she's put men in the too-hard basket.
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Isabelle Simpson longs to take over the family farm, but her ailing father is locked in a tragedy of the past and won't give her the chance she deserves. The stand-off between them threatens to tear the family apart.
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When your life is at a crossroads, how do you find the road home?
Lara Turner has a boyfriend, a nice house in the city and a chance at a big promotion. So when her brother calls asking her to come home, she hesitates.
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Indianna Wilson is a country girl through and through. She'll do anything she can to save her beloved home town from disappearing off the map – even if she has to die trying. She brings Troy Mitchell to her tiny outback town, with hopes that he can bring a breath of fresh air to the Saints football club and lift the wider farming community.
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From one of Australia's favourite storytellers comes a heartwarming story spanning three generations about when to fight and when to surrender – and how new love can heal old wounds.
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Cat's in Eugene for Pac-10s
May 15, 2009
The UA men's and women's track and field programs will head to Eugene, Ore. this weekend to compete for their first ever conference titles as they take part in the 2009 Pacific-10 Conference Championships at Hayward Field hosted by the University of Oregon.
The UA men, in their 20th year of competition in the Pac-10 Conference, will look to make it their most successful with their first ever title. Too date, the men's best performance in the annual meet has been 3rd place at the 2006, 1998 and 1989 Conference Championships. This year's team brings with it a fair share of athletes who can put up big points and take down many individual conference titles.
Senior thrower Zack Lloyd is the returning conference champion in the shot put, setting a school record at the meet last season with a winning mark of 21.03m (69-0). Lloyd enters this weekend ranked second in the conference in the event in addition to being one of the top throwers entering the discus event as well.
He'll be joined by senior Luis Rivera-Morales who has erupted on the scene this year in the long jump events sweeping the conference titles at the Mount Pacific Sports Federation Championships indoors. He is currently ranked among the top 15 athletes nationally in both the long and triple jumps this season and will look to build upon that ranking this weekend.
Other athletes who could make a splash include senior Nick Mossberg in the pole vault, freshman Tomaz Bogovic in the hammer throw, All-American long jumper Jordan Powell, freshman 1500--meter school record holder Abdi Hassan and the 4 x 100-meter relay squad. All these athletes bring some of the highest ranked conference marks on the season to Eugene this weekend.
The women are led by two former Pac-10 Champions. Junior Liz Patterson is the returning champion and the returning NCAA National Champion and is still looking for her first monstrous jump of the outdoor season. She is joined by fellow junior Gabriella Duclos in the pole vault, the Pac-10 champion two years ago and indoor All-American this season.
The UA throwers will also be pivotal this weekend as five women have earned a NCAA regional qualification, some of which in multiple events. All-American seniors Nicole Lloyd and Megan Howard lead the way and are joined by Taylor Freeman, Kendra Walworth, and Kelsey Jessup.
Both teams will kick of the meet with two points thanks to the performance of their multi-event athletes in last week's Pac-10 Combined Event Championships. Senior Shevell Quinley and Sophomore Chris McGovern both took home sixth place finishes in Eugene last weekend McGovern doing so in decathlon personal record fashion while Quinley earned an NCAA provisional qualification in the heptathlon.
Events will begin Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Hayward Field with the 4 x 100-meter relay preliminary rounds. Field events start at 1:35 with the javelin throw.
Come On Irine
Senior distance runner Irine Lagat is looking to make the best of her final season as a Wildcat and has already put herself in position to do so with her performances this year.
Lagat has qualified in both the 1500-meters and 5000-meters for the NCAA West Regional meet, a combination that many might find similar to her brother Bernard who became the first athlete ever to win both events at the 2007 World Championships.
Lagat enters the weekend ranked just outside the top-10 in the conference in both events but the level of her competition could be all it takes to push her over the top and into a point-scoring performance for Arizona.
The UA has its own particular athletes who compete in the combined events week in and week out. But they have a set of multi-eventers of a different sort as well in those athletes who have earned regional qualifications in multiple events.
So far Irine Lagat (1500m, 5000m), Maggie Callahan (steeple, 5000m), Megan Howard (shot put, hammer), Nicole Lloyd (shot put, discus), Taylor Freeman (shot put, discus), Kyle Alston (200-meters, 4x100-meters), Xuehan Xiong (200-meters, 4x100-meters), Luis Rivera-Morales (long jump, triple jump) and Zack Lloyd (shot put, discus) have all earned regional qualifications in multiple events.
A number of Wildcats will compete in several events this weekend and it would not be surprising to see event more add themselves to the aforementioned list.
XX Racks Up Another One
During his tenure as a Wildcat, Xuehan Xiong has been to two national championships and earned All-Conference, All-Region and All-American honors. What's more impressive, however, has been his performance off the track where he has remained a model student throughout his entire career.
Xiong was recently named by the Arizona Athletic Department as the co-valedictorian of the graduating class of seniors after maintaining a 4.0 GPA in computer science for the entirety of his schooling.
Xiong was also recent accepted in the prestigious Carnegie Melon School of Robotics where he will continue with his post graduate career.
Xiong has qualified in the 200-meters and the 4x100 meter relay so far this season and will look to impress in both of those events as he rounds out his career as arguably one of the most impressive student-athletes in Arizona history.
Year of the Freshman
Nothing may be so impressive this season as the performance of the Arizona freshmen. Of the UA's 38 regional qualifiers, seven of them involve freshmen.
Abdi Hassan has already set a freshman record in the 1500-meter dash this season and Hannah Moen has done the same in the 3000-meter steeplechase.
Taylor Freeman has already earned two regional qualifications this season in both the shot put and discus throws and Dahlys Marshall has had a very impressive season in her opening year as a hurdler as she heads up the depth chart with her consistent performances under the required regional time.
James Eichberger earned a regional qualification in the 800-meters at the Double Dual meet in just his first season and Chris McSwain rounds out the regional qualifiers by being a part of the 4 x 100-meter relay squad that has also qualified.
The showing of the freshman has been pivotal not only to replacing the myriad of successful seniors that left the program after last season, but also giving everyone a glimpse of the future as these kids can only go up from here.
Mags-Nificent Callahan
Sophomore Maggie Callahan started a tear of personal records dating back to last season and has not looked back since. With the exception of the UA-ASU-NAU Double Dual two weekends ago, Callahan has set a personal record in at least one event at each meet she has competed at since arriving at the UA as a freshman last season.
This streak includes her qualification and then-personal best performance at the NCAA West Regional Championships in the 3000-meter steeple last year. Callahan has again qualified for the same event this year in personal record fashion while also adding the 5000-meter run to her regional repertoire for this year.
Callahan will look to keep the streak alive this weekend in Tempe.
Hot Hassan
The fact of having to reshirt his freshman year last season seems to have little impact on Abdi Hassan's performances this year. It appears that year break did little to stifle the talent of the former high school All-American, especially after witnessing his most recent performance at the Mt. Sac Relays where he posted a blistering time of 3:43.54 in the 1500-meters.
The mark was the fastest any UA freshman athlete has run the event in history and is one of the top times posted nationally this season. He followed up this performance with a consistent 3:43.95 at the UA-ASU-NAU Double Dual two weekends ago, setting a meet record in the process. Hassan has been one of the UA's hottest performers and the team will expect to see another impressive performance from him against some top competition this weekend.
Jumpin' Rivera
Senior Luis Rivera-Morales has been a one-man headline this season for the Wildcats between his regional qualifications, conference championships and gradually climb up the UA record book ladder. His performance at the Mt. Sac relays was just the most recent of many impressive ones throughout the season.
Rivera-Morales dominated the triple jump by posting the third best jump in UA history at 15.97m. The jump is one of the top 10 best marks in the country this season and the first time a UA athlete has cleared 52-feet in nearly a decade.
Rivera-Morales qualified for the long jump event in the NCAA National Championships last year and will look to add the triple jump to his repertoire at this year's NCAA West Regional Championships with a qualification for nationals.
Big Mac
Brian MacArthur may have one of the UA's most surprising stories of the year after shaving over fifteen seconds from his personal record in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the Sun Angel Classic to earn the first regional qualification of his career.
The junior has been a consistent performer for the UA distance team all season and will look to join fellow distance runner Abdi Hassan at the Big Dance in June.
Throwin' Out of Their Minds
If anyone had any doubts about the UA's reputation as a throwers' school, they need look no further than the NCAA Regional Qualification List.
Of the ten full-time throwers on this year's UA squad, nine of them have earned a regional qualification in at least one event with several posting multiple qualifications early in the season.
Zack Lloyd leads the men's squad this year, as he has top-fifteen throws in both the shot put and discus events. Lloyd is the returning conference champion in the shot put and one of the UA's most decorated athletes with three All-American awards to his name.
Sophomore Korion Morris has also qualified in the shot put while freshmen Tyler Johnson and Tomaz Bogovic have qualified in the men's hammer throw.
For the women, All-Americans Megan Howard (shot put, hammer throw) and Nicole Lloyd (shot put, discus) lead the way with two qualifications a piece. Freshman Taylor Freeman is also a pleasant surprise as she, too, has qualified in both the discus and shot put events.
Juniors Kendra Walworth (hammer) and Kelsey Jessup (shot put) have also earned regional qualifiers this season.
Regional Madness
To date this season, 38 UA athletes have earned qualifications for the NCAA West Regional Championships. This is just one shy of last year's 39, an accomplishment considering the loss of seniors from last years squad that were regional qualifiers.
With the amount of competition in the field this weekend, many more athletes have the potential to go over the hump while others who have already cleared the qualification may see even better times or marks as they aim for their respective individual conference championships.
Nick of Time
Senior Nick Mossberg has been one of the UA's most impressive pole vaulters in recent memory and at the UA-ASU-NAU Dual two weekends ago he added another reason why.
Mossberg set an all-time person best as he won the event with a mark of 5.41m. Mossberg now sits alone in fourth place on the UA's all-time list and is one of the top-ten ranked athletes in the event nationally this season.
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- Ph.D. Instructional Psychology and Technology (December 2003), University of Oklahoma
- M.Ed. Secondary Administration (May 1995), University of Central Oklahoma
- B.A.Ed. English Education (May 1991), University of Central Oklahoma
General Information
Dr. Bryan L. Duke is the Assistant Dean & Director of Educator Preparation and Professor of Educational Sciences, Foundations & Research at the College of Education and Professional Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma. He has been in education for twenty-one years, serving his first eleven as a junior high and high school English teacher, as well as an administrator. In 2002, he was selected as Moore Public Schools' (Moore, OK) District Teacher of the Year. Currently, he teaches graduate courses in advanced educational psychology, advanced developmental psychology and managing secondary classrooms at the University. He served as president of the Oklahoma Association of Teacher Educators and as the Third Vice President of the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of English. Currently, he is the historian for the Oklahoma Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development. He has been a researcher with the Oklahoma A+ Schools research team for seven years. Additionally, he has written curriculum and participated in national institutes for teaching Shakespeare with the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.), Shakespeare and Company (Lenox, MA), and the Globe Theatre (London, England).
- 2009 Young Educator Award from the Jeannine, Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
- 2008 College of Education & Professional Studies' Award for Collaborative Team Work, University of Central Oklahoma
- 2006 Vanderford Distinguished Teacher Award for the College of Education and Professional Studies, University of Central Oklahoma
- 2006 College of Education & Professional Studies' Emergent Faculty Award for Professional Contributions, University of Central Oklahoma
- 2002 Masonic Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2001-2002 Moore Public Schools' District Teacher of the Year
- 2001-2002 Westmoore High School Teacher of the Year (Moore Public Schools)
Refereed Journal Publications
- Kauffman, D. F., Yilmaz Soylu, M., & Duke, B. L. (2011). Validation of the motivation to teach scale. Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 40, 279-290.
- Duke, B. L., & Nelson, R. M. (2007). Using rubrics as a cognitive tool: Developing metacognition in the process of writing. Oklahoma English Journal, 20(2), 45-52.
- Greene, B. A., Miller, R. B., Crowson, H. M., Duke, B. L., & Akey, K. L. (2004). Predicting high school students' cognitive engagement and achievement: Contributions of classroom perceptions and motivation. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 29(4), 462-482.
- Duke, B.L., & Green, M.H. (1999). Getting students "hooked": Using theatrics to encourage student investment in learning. Journal of the Oklahoma Association of Teacher Educators, 3, 14-22.
Published Book Chapter
- Duke, B. L. (2008). Approaches to meaningful learning. In J. Corwin, E. G. Overrocker, W. McCormick, & S. Rahm-Barnett, College talk: Conversations for Central Success. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.
Published Research Reports
- Raiber, M. A., Duke, B. L., Dell, C. E., & Jackson, D. H. (2010). OKA+ Research Impact Study.
- Duke, B. L. (2010). Composite narratives. Research Report Volume 1 Reflecting Longitudinal Findings (2002-2007). Edmond, OK: Oklahoma A+ Schools® & U of Central Oklahoma.
- Raiber, M. A., Duke, B. L., Barry, N. H., Dell, C. E., & Jackson, D. H. (2010). Recognizably different: A meta-analysis of Oklahoma A+ Schools. Research Report Volume 5 Reflecting Longitudinal Findings (2002-2007). Edmond, OK: Oklahoma A+ Schools & U of Central Oklahoma.
- Raiber, M. A., Duke, B. L., Barry, N. H., Dell, C. E., & Jackson, D. H. (2009). A brief summary of the Oklahoma A+ Schools® framework implementation in schools 2002-2007.
- Raiber, M. A., Dell, C. E., Duke, B. L., Jackson, D. H., & Barry, N. H., (2008). Oklahoma A+ Schools 2002-2007 cumulative research report: Executive summary.
- Barry, N. H., Raiber, M. A., Dell, C. E., Jackson, D. H., & Duke, B. L. (2006). Oklahoma A+ Schools research report: 2005-2006 academic year.


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Home Office Deduction - Simplified Method vs Actual-Cost Method - Houston Business CPA
The IRS permits self-employed individuals and some employees who work out of their home to deduct business expenses relating to the part of their home that is used for business purposes. The IRS has two ways you can deduct these expenses - you can choose between a Simplified Method or an Actual-Cost Method, similar to the Auto Expense Deduction. Each tax year you can choose which method will work best for you - unlike with auto expenses which forces you to stick with the method you chose initially.
However, before you can claim the home office deduction you must meet two major requirements:
- Regular and Exclusive Use - Regularly means you use it often - not necessarily every day, but occasional or incidental use doesn't qualify, even if the room is used solely for business. Exclusively means that you must use the space you designate as your home office for work only - any non-business usage of the room will disqualify the home office deduction.
- Principal Place of Business - The second requirement is that your home office be used either as a place of business to meet with clients, customers or patients in the normal course of business or as your administrative office where you pay bills, set appointments, and invoice customers.
Now, let's discuss the differences between the two methods...
Simplified Home Office Deduction
With the simplified deduction, you will not calculate your deduction based on actual expenses, instead you multiply the square footage of your home office by $5 (for 2013-2014). The maximum footage for this method is 300 square feet, limiting your deduction to $1,500 each year. So, if you have a 200 square feet home office, your home office deduction will be $1,000 (200 x $5).
You will still be able to deduct other qualified home expenses, such as mortgage interest and property taxes in full on Schedule A. You are not able to deduct depreciation on the business portion of the home. Also, if using this method and it causes a loss from the related business, the loss may not be carried over to future years.
Actual Expense Method
With the actual expense method, deductions for your home office are based on the percentage of your home devoted to business use. Deductible expenses can include mortgage interest, insurance, utilities, repairs, and depreciation. This method requires quite a bit more record keeping and cost allocation, but could result in quite a bit of tax savings.
If using the Actual-Cost Method and claiming depreciation, you will need to watch out for depreciation recapture when it comes time to sell the residence. The gain on the amount depreciated will be taxed up to 25%.
Should I Use the Simplified Method or Actual-Cost Method?
While each individual case is different, there are some situations where it will almost always be beneficial to use one method over the other.
When to Use the Simplified Method:
- If the cost of your home is less than $200,000;
- If you have a low marginal tax rate.
- If you are a renter.
When to Use the Actual-Cost Method:
- When the cost of your home is more than $300,000;
- If you have a high marginal tax rate;
- If your office space is more than 300 square feet;
- If there has been an increase in the amount of repairs to the residence during the year;
- If you will be reporting a loss.
Gray Area:
If the cost of your home is between $200,000-$300,000 the best option will depend on your marginal tax rate and the business use percentage.
As I mentioned, each case is different and there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to anything related to taxes. I recommend record-keeping as if you are going to use the Actual-Cost Method, then it when it comes tax time we can decide which option is best.


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Green Luxury Home | Arlington Heights, Illinois
- HERS/Energy Star 5+ (44 score)
This classically proportioned home's design combines a number of green techniques and technologies to reduce its energy usage and associated carbon footprint. The key design element is the use of a three-story stair tower that acts as a ventilation shaft when the remote controlled skylights at the top are opened. The open floor plan on the first floor provides great 'flow'.
Located down a hallway between the stairs is an octagonal office, complete with a separate client entry. The backyard has a remotely operable screened porch that provides insect control. Opposite of the porch is an outdoor kitchen.
Solar thermal panels with hot water and HVAC assist
Mechanically assisted whole house ventilation
Integrated roll down screens at covered porch
Low and no-VOC finishes and materials
Closed-cell foam insulation system
Recycled tire decking material
Recycled content countertops
Zoned radiant floor system
Cement fiberboard siding
Air-to-air heat exchanger
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A bit untethered from its own plot and naturalistic dialogue, Pro Rata's performance of Rocket Man is a bit more like a space oddity.
Rocket Man feels like it was written to make English, Theatre, and Philosophy majors underline every other sentence with a contemplative sigh at the deep thoughts of the author, prolific script writer Steven Dietz. Donny (Matt Wall), our protagonist, is a middle-aged land surveyor and a failed landscape architect. He opens the show by skittering around his attic and divulging Truths to the audience. By way of introduction to the play and its themes, Donny bemoans the fact that throughout his whole life he has trusted in the Pedestrian button and traffic light logic. With a flourish, he reveals a stolen Pedestrian Button that reveals the sad truth: his trust has been in vain, for there are no wires to connect the Pedestrian Button to the larger lighting systems. This useless button exists because humans, he cries, "demand the illusion of involvement," and our world offers placating measures to fill that need. As a starting monologue, it is unearned, but helps sets the stage for the plot and its larger problems to come. See, every page or so in Rocket Man every character has such a pronouncement—a Truth that is seemingly given from on high. But because Rocket Man never gives us any reason to care about these characters or their individual plights, these declarations start to fall like so many drops of rain on an audience that is already unpleasantly soaked.
The trajectory of Rocket Man, while not entirely predictable, is populated by a few stock characters: the buffoony and mentally unstable best friend, Buck (Lanny Langston), the nagging ex-wife, Rita (Rachel Austin), the disillusioned teenaged daughter, Trisha (Anna Beth Baker), and the coworker/potential love interest who has friendzoned Donny, Louise (Shana Eisenberg). These characters buzz around Donny, seeing and talking to him, but failing to listen to him because they are too involved with themselves. At first they show moderate concern that he is trying to sell his whole life on his front lawn with the sign – "Here's my life. Make an offer"—but they seem to get over this shock and its clear implications fairly quickly. Perhaps cleaning out his attic has made more room for their neuroses as well as Donny's? None of them listens to each other long enough to understand that Donny's life-shedding home cleaning is a cry for help and attention.
Austin and Eisenberg do their best with Rita and Louise, respectfully, but Dietz' script gives them no room to breathe much life or truth into their roles. In the first half, Rita is perfunctorily shrewish without the malice that might make her more interesting (her excuse about a year of truth just feels tired to this reviewer). Eisenberg tries to lean into the pain of divorce and rejection that must lurk just under Louise's brash exterior, but given that almost every three lines she must once again reference the fact that she doesn't sleep, the character ends up falling flat. Langston's Buck has the most naturalistic and compassionate dialogue of the piece, but this sits poorly with the other characters and their more stilted, formal lines. While overall this works for him, it feels strange next to the rest of the cast, who appear to be trying to do the book as-is. Wall undoubtedly has the hardest job of the evening, trying to make us care about Donny's unrealized dreams of being a landscape architect, while attempting to carve space for the audience to discover the beauty and tragedy of someone who works so closely with the earth constantly yearning for the stars. Elements of the stagecraft point to this unresolved tension as well—the many lamps littering the stage are like so many constellations. The skylight which goes to the ceiling instead of to the heavens juxtaposes the mundane uncomfortably with the vastness of space.
Act I passes predictably enough in a flurry of monologues, Deep Pronouncements, and general obtuseness on the part of the characters. Act II, however, takes a more radical turn.
Just before leaving, Donny tells his daughter Trisha that there may be other worlds where time moves in the opposite direction to how we experience it. Donny doesn't go much further than that, but in Act II, the audience is transported to just such a mirrored world. There, our full cast of characters resumes their lives, but instead of growing older, they grow younger and younger. In this other world, their milestones become more bittersweet, yet otherwise (here I think Dietz wants us to marvel at his irony) not much changes. For Trisha, her 16th birthday means the end of her driving privileges, her last beer, and the knowledge that she will soon be embraced by the optimism and simplicity of youth (and then death); for the seemingly happily married Donny and Rita, getting younger means the loss of Rita's beautiful wrinkles, and the knowledge that they will soon have to go on their honeymoon. Here, in this backwards world, the honeymoon is the last trip a couple make together before being carried off by their exuberance of youth. This act yields the best acting of the play, with the now matronly Trisha imploring her parents and her parents' friends to take more risks and do more with their lives. Baker does this strange scene justice, taking care to make Trisha's mannerisms and speech connote an old soul trapped in a vivacious form.
Rocket Man misses out on the power of a lot of speculative fiction and magical realism by constantly explaining and reinforcing things that are plainly evident to the audience throughout; we all know what the blue light cue at the end of Act I means, and we don't really care about how Trisha "picked" her parents in this culture that grows ever younger. In an attempt to continue to spoon-feed us its larger Message, small, self-indulgent monologues by characters in the real world of Act I punctuate the activities of the alternative world of Act II. These monologues make it clear to the audience that real-world Donny has chosen to abandon them forever, and robs the reverse-world of Act II its potency. Instead of letting go of the characters in Act I or being forced to compare the pros and cons of both worlds, these monologues reinforce that we should care more about the real world of Act I, and allow the audience to belay and disregard the strangeness of this ever-reversing mirror world.
In this reviewer's analysis, Pro Rata has done a fine job with a fairly weak script. Perhaps I am jaded, but I could have done with more showing, and less perfunctory monologuing. Perhaps, however, you will disagree. As Donny and Louise both mention, in any timeline there is a small window of opportunity to have or experience something -- once you miss the moment, it can never be recovered. Your window of time to catch this play closes soon – the last performance is on April 1 (unless you too are capable of traveling backwards in time).
Editor's Note: After discussion with the actor, we learned that Langston did not add anything to Buck's lines that were not in the script. It is a testament to how much more naturalistic his lines and Langston's characterization was. We apologize for any concern caused to Langston, whose performance was enjoyed. This article orginally implied that the actor was ad-libbing. It has been updated accordingly.


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Mumbai, Sep 15 (IANS) A day after the Bombay High Court rejected the anticipatory transit bail plea of Ryan International Schools' trustees, an NGO fighting for students said on Friday that "the trustees must be put behind bars to set an example".
Mithilalok Foundation Chairman Birbal Jha, which is providing legal assistance to the family of the seven-year-old student who was murdered on September 8 in the school's Gurugram branch, said legal teams were ready in New Delhi and Chandigarh to challenge the anticipatory bail applications of the trustees, likely to come up later on Friday.
"The Bombay High Court has given interim stay on their arrests till 5 p.m. today. Hence, the trustees may approach the Supreme Court or the Chandigarh High Court for relief.
"Our lawyers are stationed at both the courts. We shall spare no efforts to ensure the trustees go behind bars to set an example," Jha told IANS.
The Bombay High Court had on Thursday dismissed the anticipatory transit bail plea of the school trustees but granted a conditional interim stay on their arrest till Friday 5 p.m.
The trustees — Augustine F. Pinto, his wife Grace and their son Ryan — were ordered by Justice A.S. Gadkari to deposit their passports with the Mumbai Police by 9 p.m. on Thursday, failing which the interim protection would not be given.
They complied with the order, deposited their passports with Mumbai Police and left for New Delhi.
According to the school sources, Augustine F. Pinto, 73, is reportedly ill with multiple ailments, including Alzheimer's disease.
This is the first time the trustees have suffered a major setback in the murder case of Pradhuman Thakur. The child was found with his throat slit inside the school washroom last week within an hour after his father dropped him.
However, independent legal experts opine that in case they fail to get relief, the Pintos would be required to surrender before the police by 5 p.m. or face arrest.
Besides, the victim's father, Barun Chandra Thakur, who intervened through his lawyers Sushil K. Tekriwal and Mamta Tekriwal, the Parents Group for Students Welfare lawyer Manoj Dhall and the Ambedkar Students Association through lawyer Gunratan Sadavarte also strongly opposed the Pintos' anticipatory transit bail application.
Earlier this week, a Haryana Police team questioned several staffers and managers at the school headquarters here in Kandivali and examined documents and records.
The case has snowballed into a major national issue concerning safety and security of children in private schools, with vociferous protests by parents and activists outside the Ryan schools in several states including Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.
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Ahh (happy sigh)… it's Sunday & I am in TOTAL relaxation mode. My plans for today have consisted of laying on the couch & eating whatever my little heart desires because, well, it's cheat day. I feel no remorse whatsoever for taking a total of 20 steps today (shooting for a total of 40-50). & so they say: a Sunday well spent brings a week of content—- and a lazy, obligation-free day is my definition of "well spent".
Chad literally wouldn't stop talking about these lemon ricotta pancakes he had on vacation weeks ago so I shut him up by whipping up some of my own. And let's just say we were soooo super happy with how they turned out. I don't think we stopped smiling while we were eating them.
{ THE INGREDS – makes 8 medium sized pancakes }
► 1/2 cup ricotta cheese
► 1/2 cup 2% milk
► 2 eggs (separate whites & yolks)
► 1/8 cup sugar
► zest + juice of 1/2 lemon
► 3/4 cup white flour (don't sub coconut flour- it isn't an equivalant in this recipe)
► 1/2 tbsp baking powder
► 1/8 tsp salt
► all natural maple syrup
► In a large bowl, whisk together ricotta, milk, yolks, sugar, & lemon juice + zest
► Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt over the ricotta mixture
► Stir with a spoon until just combined
► In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites until frothy
► Fold egg whites into other batter
► Brown each side on medium heat
► Top with fresh ricotta, lemon, & raspberries
These babies are so fresh & they lit-er-ally melt in your mouth. I've never had a better textured/tasting pancake in all of my 24 years of life….so I'm allowed to brag. Try them.. they won't disappoint.
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The Welcoming Committee is launching a year-long initiative to raise funds and generate volunteer hours for nonprofits. We're hosting LGBTQ-centric events that will span nightlife, culture, and a day of service. The goal of each event is to raise awareness and generate impact for organizations that support and encourage communities—fun for a cause.
We're kicking things off on February 6 with our signature nightlife event, the First Friday Takeover. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Lost N Found, a local nonprofit dedicated to taking homeless LGBT youth off the street. Are you bursting with excitement for this philanthropic Friday night? If you haven't already, sign up as a member for more details on where we're headed.
About Lost n' Found:
Lost-n-Found Youth is an Atlanta-based nonprofit corporation whose mission is to take homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youths up to age 26 off the street and transition them into more permanent housing.
They operate a 24/7 hotline at 678-856-7825, a Youth Center, a 6-bed 90 day housing facility, and 3-6 month host home program.
Lost-n-Found Youth is Atlanta's only nonprofit agency actively working to take homeless LGBTQ youth off the street.
If you can't make it to the event but are interested in donating, just head here.
What Else Is Coming Up?
Glad you asked. During the summer of 2015, we'll be gathering the gays to pull off a major service takeover. Imagine hundreds of LGBTQ hands joining forces for their community on the same day. Whether it's volunteering at a local shelter, preparing meals at a local food bank, or cleaning up the city—TWC Atlanta will be pitching in, big time! Want to make sure you hear about it first? Just sign up here so we can send you all of the details.
In the winter months we'll be cutting the chill by throwing a cultural event for our members, with proceeds going to a nonprofit in need. Art, culture, philanthropy, and gays. #winning
The Beneficiaries
So, this is kind of exciting. TWC is teaming up with The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Who are the Sisters, you ask? Combine drag, performance art, and charity. Rinse and repeat. If you haven't already met/loved/hugged the Sisters, you should. They're major supporters of all kinds of LGBTQ-friendly nonprofits. That's why we've asked them to help us select the organizations benefiting from our service work and fundraising efforts.
How to Help
Are you a community, social, or employee resource group that's interested in getting involved? Give Ashley a shout: email@example.com. She'd love to chat with you about partnering with the Sisters and TWC!


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Senators-Maple Leafs PreviewNHL.com @NHLdotcom
The road has been good to the Ottawa Senators so far this season. They'll try for their third straight win away from Scotiabank Place when they open their second home-and-home series of the season with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday night.
Ottawa (3-4-0) has won both of its road games, including a 4-1 victory over the Maple Leafs to open the season Oct. 4. The Leafs earned a split of that home-and-home set with a 6-0 victory the next day.
While the Senators have done well so far on the road, they got their first home win in five tries Saturday, 8-1 over New Jersey. Ottawa finally broke out offensively after scoring only 11 goals in the first six games.
Ottawa led the league with 314 goals last season.
"We know it's just one game and we have to keep working," captain Daniel Alfredsson said. "Right now it feels great, especially to win at home and the way we played."
Dean McAmmond and Antoine Vermette each scored twice Saturday for the Senators, who had a season-high 38 shots on goal.
"We relaxed a little bit and started making the plays that people are used to seeing us make," center Jason Spezza said. "To get everybody in on it allows you to grip the stick a little less tightly from now on."
After beating the Leafs in the season opener, the Senators dropped their next three games - all at home - before winning 3-2 in a shootout at Montreal on Oct. 14.
Martin Gerber (1-3-0, 3.31 GAA) will be in goal for the Sens on Tuesday as he continues to alternate starts with Ray Emery (2-1-0, 1.48 GAA). Gerber hasn't won since the season opener and was pulled after allowing five goals in two periods against the Maple Leafs the next night, but made 34 saves in a 2-1 home defeat to Colorado on Thursday.
The Maple Leafs (4-2-3) lost 5-4 to the New York Rangers in a shootout Saturday. Five of the Leafs' nine games have gone to overtime, with four going to shootouts.
"We're too early in this campaign to look at trends," Toronto coach Paul Maurice said.
While the Leafs haven't done well in shootouts so far, they know it's not for lack of effort.
"I'm really happy. We shouldn't be discouraged about this game," center Mats Sundin said. "I thought we really worked hard. In the third period we were the better team and we almost found a way to win in regulation, but we'll take the point."
The Maple Leafs have yet to win consecutive games this season despite getting solid production from forwards Darcy Tucker (seven goals), Kyle Wellwood (10 points) and Sundin (nine points).
Tucker scored twice in the Leafs' win over the Senators on Oct. 5, and Andrew Raycroft made 34 saves to post his first shutout since Jan. 31, 2004.
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In Reply to: It aint over till the fat lady sings posted by Baceseras on May 08, 2010 at 20:24:
: : : : : A phrase used all the time now is 'it aint over till the fat lady sings.'
: : : : : This makes no sense in operatic terms since the fat lady usually sang in the first act. I heard the phrase originally as: it 'aint over till the fat lady dies'. This is more usual in opera and makes sense. Does anyone else remember the original?
: : : : I can picture Moe waking Curly up with a sharp elbow to the ribs, saying "All right, the fat lady's dead; let's scram" but I'm having a hard time picturing a scenario where someone would teach a budding opera buff that the way you know when it's over is when the fat lady dies. Then again I don't know any opera buffs and maybe they're more earthy than I thought.
: : : [It doesn't have to make sense to a wise opera-goer, but it makes perfect sense to the boyfriend or husband dragged along and just willing to put up with a couple of hours of such entetainment. Picture it through his eyes: curtain up, the whole company marches onto the stage, outlandishly costumed; he marks one, a fat lady in a white bathrobe with a gold rope around the equator; he doesn't know the word "supernumerary"; she's wearing a horned helmet and carrying a spear: she looks important; moreover she fits his image of an opera star. Everyone on stage is singing; he waits for her to step forward and go into her solo - but instead, the chorus ending, another cast of characters enter and start batting tunes back and forth. The chorus springs back to life, but only for a moment; then the fat lady scoots off and her pals with her. These other characters make eyes at each other; they have a lot to sing about, supposedly; sometimes they wave swords or pose on the picturesque rocks. The poor gentleman in the audience settles in for the duration; a blurry lifetime later, girlfriend or wife elbows him into alertness: he focuses on the stage. Is it over yet? No. "It ain't over till the fat lady sings." - Bac.]
: : There seems to be some disagreement as to WHAT is over when the fat lady sings. Michael Quinion, in "Wolrd Wide Words," offers a suggestion I hadn't heard. See:
: : http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ita1.htm
: : It seems that more than one writer remembers hearing the expression, "Church ain't out 'til the fat lady sings," which has been described as an old Southern saying.
: : Michael Quinion's article concludes:
: : "...Church ain't out 'till the fat lady sings.
: : "This last version appears in a 1976 booklet by Fabia Rue Smith and Charles Rayford Smith entitled Southern Words and Sayings. Ralph Keyes wrote a book with the title Nice Guys Finish Seventh in 1992 in which he says that several informants recalled hearing the expression for decades before it suddenly became nationally known in 1978. The use of church here suggests that its origin didn't lie either in opera or sport. It may even be a proverbial Southern expression."
: [Michael Quinion's article is a good one, but one should read it carefully to avoid misapprehension. Although the saying REFERS TO either opera or curch-singing, it didn't ORIGINATE IN either of those places. Rather, it's a piece of folk-wit; and its meaning is, "Every thing you'd expect to happen must happen before this thing can end." (It doesn't matter whether that's generally true or not; it's the speaker's opinion, tartly stated.) And the place where wit of this kind is usually expressed, and where it's heard by enough people to get it into wide circulation, is any sporting meet. All the earliest attributions point to a sporting occasion, and they're probably right. - B.]
I'm not sure I get Baceceras' drift. The saying is a "piece of folk wit," which borrows the fat-lady-singing image from . . . ? Let's say that the folk wit was a single person who thought up this clever way of expressing his point, that is, as Yogi Berra put it, "It ain't over till it's over." That's very plausible. Still, what did he mean with his image of the fat lady singing--and why did he think his acquaintances or audience would understand his meaning?
I'm not sure, either, about "sporting occasion," although it is true that sportswriters are constantly on the lookout for colorful images with which to spice up their somewhat over-written paragraphs. But they almost always borrow their more interesting metaphors from someone or somewhere.
It's also true that the fat lady in the opera sings somewhere in the first act, and does not wait until the finale to open her throat. On the other hand, a Protestant church service normally has one big musical number besides the congregational singing of hymns. That's not to say that the wag who coined the phrase necessarily knew this. But he got his idea somewhere, and we still, I think, are not sure where.


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When Alex and her family move to Golden Bay, she wants to stay well away from the weird department store, Franklin's Emporium. But, with a new kitten in the house, Alex can't avoid the pet shop and soon goes home with a bit more than she bargained for...
I opened the door, feeling honoured, and stared at the structure rearing halfway up to the ceiling... Sam was up a stepladder adjusting the mirrors.
The invisicat sprang. It couldn't get a grip on the polished surface, skidded right across the top and flew off the other end. On the way it knocked off the pudding, the dishes and the spoons. everyone span round and stared as, one by one, things cascaded to the floor.
In the middle of the display was a portrait of Eli and his family. I recognized him easily from his picture in the pamphlets. Next to him was his tired-looking wife, and in front, three small girls, posing stiffly in frilly dresses. At the back, one on either side of Eli and his wife, stood two tall, thin, dapper young men. Arthur and Walter.


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Central Banksters Make the Best Terrorists
By Richard (Rick) Mills
Friday, 19 July 2013
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
From the minutes of the Federal Reserve meeting April 30th – May 1st 2013…
"Many participants indicated that continued (job market) progress, more confidence in the outlook, or diminished downside risks would be required before slowing the pace of purchases."
On May 22nd Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress that a decision could be made, at any of the next few Fed meetings, to scale back the $85 billion in bonds the Fed is buying each month if the economy looked set to maintain momentum. The S&P 500 closed 0.8% lower, the dollar hit a three year high and the bond market sold off with yields on the 10 year Treasury notes jumping above 2%.
Speaking at a Boston economic conference Bernanke backtracked saying the Fed would continue to pour stimulus into the US economy, so long as inflation stays low, below 2.5% and until unemployment improves to below 6.5%.
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Managing the consulting engagement
Participants explore the vital behaviours and skills for the engagement manager as the project progresses
through the critical stages of the consulting process and develop an effective engagement framework
through planning, process and performance.
Learning outcomes
- Managing the scope of different engagements
- Handling the relationships of those involved in the project
- Attending to quality management
- Managing the tasks, processes and people in different stages of the engagement
- Leading the thinking
- Developing effective communication approaches
- Managing risk
- Meeting project challenges
Learning modules
- Introduction to key elements of the assignment
- Building an effective team
Participant level: New entrant to Manager
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United Methodist Men
The United Methodist Men (UMM) is a fellowship of men who seek to know Christ, are willing to help others and to do God's will.
The UMM at St. Andrews Parish UMC is active in all church activities and sponsors youth participation in Salkehatchie Summer Service through annual fundraisers. Meetings are held at the church on the second Monday of each month, and men of all ages are encouraged to attend.
United Methodist Women
The United Methodist Women (UMW) at St. Andrews Parish UMC is a wonderful group of caring women. The group is open to all women and offers opportunities for spiritual growth, fellowship and community service. Members of the UMW seek to know God and participate in both local and global missions.
The UMW group hosts several fundraisers each year including a Soup Sale, Lenton Luncheon and Bake Sales. Proceeds support the Bethlehem Centers of Columbia and Spartanburg, the Killingsworth Home in Columbia, the Wallace Family Life Center in Bennettsville and Rural Mission in Johns Island. The UMW also contributes to Vacation Bible School, Crisis Ministry, Red Bird Mission, Marion Mission Storehouse and many more. UMW scholarships are also awarded to deserving students who are enrolled in continuing education.
Two circles meet each month, excluding July and August. The Joy Circle meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:00 AM, and the Genesis Circle meets on the second Thursday evening at 7:00 PM.
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Introducing ICICLES, the first ever card game for dating!
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I tasted some delicious butters in Sweden!
I visited a few markets, Coop, ICA and Urban Deli. I wasn't sure where to go to find good butter. I need to improve my search for artisanal products. I don't want to only taste restaurant or grocery store brand butters.
As always when on vacation, I purchase new brands of butter to bring home. I store them in the hotel room freezer. (More about this later)


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A kite is a quadrilateral but not a parallelogram. Kites have two pairs of equal-length adjacent sides, with one pair shorter than the other. Parallelograms also have two pairs of equal-length sides, but their pairs are opposite and parallel to each other rather than adjacent.
Most simple quadrilaterals are parallelograms, although not all fulfill the criteria. To be a parallelogram, a simple quadrilateral must have two pairs of equal, opposite sides and angles, bisecting diagonal lines, one pair of parallel sides (which kites lack) and supplementary adjacent angles. The shape must also fulfill the Parallelogram Law. Additionally, all parallelograms must be diagonally divisible into two congruent triangles, which kites are not.


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If you go shopping in a market you'll find lots of bargains, low cost clothes, bags and shoes. If you're paying only a few pounds for a shirt or a pair of shoes, you don't expect to get designer quality. But when you put on a shirt that's poorly made and cheap material it doesn't make you feel good.
It may be relegated to use only for working on jobs where your clothes may get damaged (painting the lounge?) or dirty (cleaning the car?). You wouldn't dream of wearing it to a business meeting because you'd be conscious that other people in the meeting would notice the poor quality and fit and make judgments about you.
Cheap clothes can equate with a cheap and cheerful approach to business. Even if your business colleagues don't consciously judge you, something in their subconscious will register and your reputation will be affected.
If you invest in a really good suit and a well-fitted shirt in good material the effect will be completely different. Your clothes say classy and professional.
So why should your website and your marketing material be any different?
Localisation of your website is one of your very first steps when you go international with your business. Yes, English may be the language of business, but if potential customers who are based in Germany, for example, have to struggle to read the English, the chances of them choosing to buy from you are less.
Yes, there are many options for translating your website that fall into three main categories:
If you've just received a letter in a foreign language automated tools are a great way to get a rough overview of what it's about. However, although these tools are evolving, they still aren't great at dealing with phrases in common usage in one country that don't translate directly into another language.
Let's look at an example:
In English 'Pull your socks up' translates into French as 'Tirez vos chaussettes', which doesn't convey the real meaning, it's just a literal translation and would completely confuse the reader who was instructed to pull up their socks instead of being encouraged to do better.
Maybe a low-cost translator would provide a better solution. That depends on whether the translator is familiar with idioms in both the origin language AND the target language.
For instance, in an airline magazine, we spotted translation of 'immerse yourself in blue waters' as 'lose yourself in blue waters' and, 'if you want to try something different you can go paragliding' became 'if you want to try something new, you can go hang-gliding from the cliffs'. Not only are paragliding and hang-gliding two different sports, but this was an example of a family holiday – not guaranteed to put most parents' minds at ease!
It's easy to end up as one of those jokey emails featuring strange translations – for example:
For your convenience an elevator is located in China (hotel guest information)
A sports jacket may be worn to dinner, but not trousers (Paris Hotel)
Go away! (Barcelona travel agent)
This is almost always the result of a non-native speaker of the target language carrying out a translation.
This is why it really is worth investing in a professional translation service. The translators are fluent in the origin language – and native speakers of the target language. This means that they can convert the idioms of one language into an equivalent that makes good sense to the native language reader.
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People are putting themselves at risk of an early death by failing to act on the early signs of rheumatoid arthritis, a doctor warned today.
The crippling condition causes swelling and pain in the joints, but these symptoms are often dismissed as an inevitable consequence of ageing or too minor to trouble a GP with.
A study into patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis found that on average, they went untreated for more than six months, and that most of this delay was due to people failing to raise the issue with their GP.
Dr Karim Raza, a consultant rheumatologist at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Hospitals, said that acting on the first signs of rhemuatoid arthritis was crucial because it can be treated successfully if caught within three months.
"The condition does not just affect the joints. People with rheumatoid arthritis typically die 10 years younger from premature heart disease," Dr Raza said.
Rheumatoid arthritis is an immune disorder that targets the joints, but also damages other parts of the body. The condition affects 350,000 people in Britain and usually appears between the ages of 30 and 50. Three times as many women are affected as men.
"The data suggests that if you intervene within the first three months you can very rapidly slow progression of the disease and in some cases halt it," Dr Raza said. "There is also a suggestion that if you intervene aggressively you might in a small proportion of people actually switch off the disease."
The disease begins with swelling across the knuckles and possibly the toe joints. The joints become stiff and painful to move and eventually become badly swollen. The condition is different from other forms of arthritis in that the stiffness and pain is worst in the morning and eases through the day.
"We need to raise awareness of the seriousness of the condition among the general public so they get quick access to the care they need, and which can make such a difference to the outcome of their disease," Raza said.


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The Hollywood Trainer: YogaJeanette Jenkins
Year Released: 2006
Categories: Yoga
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The box describes this yoga practice as "30 minutes of Flow Yoga [followed by] deep static stretches." After introducing some basic yoga breathing, instructor Jeanette Jenkins moves into approximately 33 minutes of standing postures. She begins with the sun salutation, slowly building from the forward bend only to the plank-chaturanga-upward dog-downward dog vinyasa. As she adds standing postures such as crescent lunge and Warriors 1 & 2, she continues to repeat the plank-chaturanga-upward dog-downward dog vinyasa between virtually every pose, even when simply moving to complete the poses on the other side of the body. Additional standing postures included in this flow are triangle, extended side angle, revolved prayer twist, and standing split.
About two-thirds of the way through the standing series, Jeanette performs a wide-legged forward bend that is held for a nice, extended stretch, including twisting to both sides. At first, I thought this was a transition to the static stretching portion of the practice, but instead, Jeanette returns to the standing pose flow, repeating many of the standing postures and adding reverse Warrior. She continued to include the vinyasa between the poses, which I found difficult at this point given that I was getting quite tired--there must have been 20-30 chaturangas included in this segment!
Finally, Jeanette has you transition to the floor with some cat-dog stretches. She then does a bit of abs work, first holding several different variations of boat pose then performing an oblique bicycle move. Following this, there are some nice hip opening forward bends from both a cross-legged and a straddle position, all of which she holds for a good long time. She then moves to a reclined position for hamstring stretches and a spinal twist before ending with a very brief savasana; the entire practice came in at just under 49 minutes.
In general, I thought this was a well-paced practice, as Jeanette does not rush through the vinyasas and holds even the standing postures for a decent amount of time. However, there were so many transition vinyasas that I'm afraid I might develop a bit of dread factor about this practice; also, I would have liked to have seen a greater variety of standing poses, including more balance work. Overall, this video might appeal to someone who is looking for a moderately-paced vinyasa practice and who is an experienced beginner or above.
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Jeanette has a lot of energy, but I thought she was able to contain it enough to make this both a calming and an energizing practice; I think she has a nice, down-to-earth teaching style. She did give some pointers here and there, but not enough for someone who is totally new to yoga.
I bought the Hollywood Trainer set, tried the Pilates DVD, previewed the Yoga DVD, then sold both workouts. Jeanette is very enthusiastic and energetic, but thats not what I look for in yoga. I find Baron Baptiste to be pretty energetic, but in a different way. This is definitely a more athletic workout, rather than having any spiritual or mind/body aspects.
I didnt actually do this workout, just watched it. It seemed to be pretty standard stuffsun salutations, etc. Like the Pilates DVD, I think I have other workouts that accomplish the same thing, but do it better (are more difficult, better instructed, etc.).
The idea behind including this and the Pilates workouts in the set is to cross-train the body. However, you could easily substitute other (shorter or longer) Pilates or yoga and still get the benefits of the cross-training. If traditional yoga workouts arent for you, and you want to avoid the woo-woo aspects, this might be a good one to try. Bear in mind, however, that Jeanette generally doesnt give a lot of the instruction or form pointers a beginner would need to avoid injury and do yoga properly.
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Jeanette is very athletic, enthusiastic, and energetic. Unfortunately, her manner just doesnt work for yoga, in my opinion. I like my yoga to be engaging and challenging, yet relaxing, and her version of it just isnt.


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MidRange Hunter has to be one of those decks that long has been forgotten and finally managed to make a vital comeback. Having hit its peak at the end of the GvG Meta, with various variants succesfully dominating the Meta, there was little hunting to do during the TGT and LoE days.
With sticky minions like Infested Wolf, some early game pressure that can be vital against Aggro decks in the form of Fiery Bat and a phenomenal late game spell with Call of the Wild, MidRange has all the tools necessary to contest the board at all times, create a sticky board and push for lethal when turns 7-9 come around.
Due to the fact that this deck has a lot of slightly favoured matchups, it makes every new match exciting: Yes, you usually are in the favoured position, but slight misplays may easily cost you the game. This genuinely is the deck I enjoy most at the moment, and I highly recommend you try it out sometime soon.


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Why it's important
Did you know that up to 90% of a child's brain development happens in the first 5 years?
Research is now telling us that when babies and children get what they need – it can have a lasting effect on their future.
Sharing stories, rhymes, singing, talking and playing with your child from birth builds a foundation for your child's future development that can last a lifetime.
Why is First 5 Forever important for Queensland families?
We all want Queensland children to have the best opportunities in life and have the greatest chance to succeed. Current research shows the valuable role parents and caregivers' have in supporting their child's early development.
First 5 Forever aims to provide strong emergent literacy foundations and life-long learning capabilities for all Queensland children 0-5 years, by directly supporting parents and primary caregivers as their child's first and most important educator.
Let's work together as a community to support each other and build on the endless opportunities families have daily to interact with their children and provide opportunities for learning. This means spending time in the early years talking, playing and reading with our children so their growing brains get what they need!
About parents' and caregivers' valuable role
Babies and young children learn best by listening and interacting with the important adults in their lives during everyday activities – whether that's talking about what you can see on the way to the park, singing nursery rhymes, pointing out something you both view out the window, or learning new words while shopping for groceries.
That's why First 5 Forever connects parents to a range of resources and ideas for you to try, and links you to your local library for more ideas and information you can use any place, any time.
At free Baby time, Rhyme time and Story time sessions at your local library you can also meet other families and have fun finding old and new favourite rhymes and stories that you can share with your child at home.
What research tells us
- Shared activities at home and out and about in the early years are important in the development of language skills later on, and research highlights the significant role that parents play in helping their babies build a strong foundation for future learning¹.
- In the first few years of life approximately 700 new neural connections in the brain are formed every second. These connections are created partly though genetics and partly through a baby's environment and experiences².
- Children are born ready to learn and some of the best learning comes from nurturing relationships³.
Footnotes / References
- Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs, (2010) Engaging Families in the Early Childhood Development Story
- Center on the Developing Child (2009). Five Numbers to Remember About Early Childhood Development (Brief).
- Australian Institute of Family Studies (2014) Children's early home learning environment and learning outcomes in the early years of school


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I am just going to start by saying that I am obsessed. Completely obsessed. With what you ask? Well, obviously with popsicles. I just got my new popsicle molds and I have been loving them. They have exactly the right size and look really, really cute. The recipe that I'm writing about is actually the first variation of many to come. I fell in love with the combination of strawberries, banana and yogurt immediately. So, I just had to write about these amazing popsicles.
What you'll need:
1/2 banana
1 1/2 cups strawberries
1 cup yogurt
stevia to sweeten
a few drops of vanilla extract
To create the popsicles I first took half a banana and mashed it completely using a fork. I, then, added one cup of yogurt, and just a few drops of vanilla extract. I mixed these ingredients together until I got a smooth texture.
To prepare the strawberries, I went ahead and washed them and cut them into very small pieces. Again, I added these to the yogurt mixture. However, I chose not to mix them in completely to get a kind of marble effect for the end product. The last step is to add stevia to sweeten the mixture. Just add enough depending on how sweet you want your popsicles to be. I chose not to add a lot since the mashed banana already added a lot of sweetness.
Pour the mixture into your popsicle molds and let it freeze for approximately an hour. Then, place your popsicle sticks halfway inside and let the popsicles freeze for a few hours until ready. (Mine took about 4 hours) I always find it a great tip not to put the sticks in immediately, since they often don't stay where they are supposed to. If you let the popsticks cool down and harden a bit first, it becomes a lot easier.
They turned out to be absolutely delicious and are so much healthier than the versions commonly sold at stores. These strawberry banana popsicles are even better than I expected. I am already planning on experimenting with different fruits. So many possibilities to try! Yes, I told you that I am kind of obsessed. Enjoy!
I also had some fun decorating the popsicle sticks while waiting for the mixture to set. But, obviously, his is completely optional. And that's it already for this super easy and fast and not to forget delicious popsicle recipe.
Get inspired!
XO, Sevda


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Real Spaghetti alla Carbonara is a revelation to those of us who've grown up in the lands of Olive Garden and the like. Even when you eat carbonara at a mom and pop type restaurant it's often made to the North American idea of what this dish is. You might be used to seeing carbonara brimming with cream, dotted with peas, chicken and ham or other nonsense. Instead, simple flavours come together in a rustic dish that warms the heart and fills the belly.
I first had a real carbonara in a tiny village in Italy called Corniglia. It was quickly followed by a few more before I left Italy and by the time I was home I was desperate to recreate the dish. Thankfully ages ago 'TheJizzer' added his. Add in the fact that I'd made my own Pancetta recently and this dish has been a fairly regular feature since.
I will note, you CAN make this with (ideally peppery) bacon and still get most of the effect but even if you're not up to making your pancetta I heartily recommend grabbing some from a deli to try the real thing.
- 1 lb. Spaghetti
- 2 tbsp. Olive Oil
- 1/4 lb. Pancetta
- 4 cloves Garlic, minced
- 2 lrg Eggs
- 1/4 lb./1 cup grated real Parmesan
- Italian Parsley (garnish)
- Black Pepper (fresh cracked)
Start your pasta cooking (or later if using fresh)
Heat up your olive oil and add your chopped pancetta, the fat will start to render. Once it does add your garlic and get everything nice and aromatic.
Stir well to combine the cheese and eggs, check that your pasta is finished.
Add your pasta to the pancetta and garlic then toss it together. Once it's mixed up pull it from the heat, then mix in your cheese/egg mixture vigourously (you don't want to scramble the eggs, just have them cook as you mix them in and coat the pasta.
Once everything is top with a ton of fresh ground black pepper then garnish with a bit of chopped parsley.


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Schaumburg, Ill., February 4, 2009 – U.S. consumers show their love for chocolate for Valentine's Day, with Valentine's week ranking number one for chocolate candy sales. According to The Nielsen Company:
"As reports of job losses mount, you can bet that U.S. consumers will be challenged this Valentine's Day," said Todd Hale, senior vice president, Consumer & Shopper Insights, The Nielsen Company. "Look for more at-home celebrations and shifts to value-oriented traditional gifts as consumers look for ways to celebrate the holiday in these economically-challenged times."
2 The week ending 2/16/08 showed $8.6 million in sparkling wine sales and 881,470 bottles of sparkling wine sold in U.S. food, drug and major market liquor stores.


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David F. Doughman became a partner with the firm in 2009. He specializes in land use and public contracting issues and has a solid base of knowledge on a wide array of municipal topics, including development review and appeals before the Land Use Board of Appeals and the Court of Appeals. He devotes a significant portion of his practice to assisting clients with development agreements, infrastructure financing and construction and the provision of public utilities to existing and growing populations. He is the firm's procurement expert and has been recognized as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers® in America.
David was born in Boston, MA and grew up just outside of Minneapolis, MN. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1995, summa cum laude, and having been beaten by the endless winters headed west for mountains and a temperate climate. David arrived in Portland in 1996 and began law school in Eugene in 1997, where he met his (much) better half.
David lives in Portland, and he and his wife have two beautiful children. Betraying his Minnesota and Massachusetts roots, he is a huge hockey fan. Go Winterhawks!
Oregon State Bar, 2000
Washington State Bar, 2010
University of Minnesota, Honors College, B.A. summa cum laude
University of Oregon Law School, J.D.
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Oregon State Bar – Bar Press Broadcasters Council
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About Toni Courtney
Toni drives the results, team development and profitability of every organisation with which she works. Her mission is to empower leaders and teams to lean in and play a bigger game. Toni engages with managers and leaders supporting them to excel, particularly through leadership transitions.
Transition has been a central theme in both Toni's personal and professional life. She has led teams through significant organisational change and has held a range of roles within emerging and mature businesses. She is known for her drive, resilience, and high energy.
Toni is engaged to instigate growth and improve performance. Her conviction is that people are capable of much more than they think—her practice is to help them achieve it.
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I am absolutely delighted to share one of my favourite jobs this year; a collaborative project with Marks and Spencer, where I worked with photographer, Jonathan Gregson to produce an illustrated, food photography story.
Marks and Spencer are renowned for their great food photography, so I was already excited by the brief. But, to make it even better, the team wanted to use real illustrations on paper, rather than adding them into the photographs digitally afterwards. It's not the easiest way of working, but I knew that the results would be amazing. It gave me full control on the composition of the images, and meant that it would have an authentic look.
And, the best bit, I got to go along and take part in the photoshoot with the fantastic team of photographers, photography assistants, editors, chefs, food stylists, prop stylists and productions managers!
Here's some pictures from behind the scenes.
The final pictures, as shown on M&S's website:
I'd love to hear what you think.
x, Willa


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Dr. Stuart Fischbein's (OB/GYN) Perspective/
So begins the long journey home. From Nairobi to Istanbul, then back to Los Angeles, the reverse of a journey that began 15 days ago. Same group of people, same food, the same airline movies and even the same clothing. But we are different. We are changed. We just spent 2 weeks in Kenya working with the people there. Talking with strangers who are now friends. Indelible memories and faces that could not have possibly been imagined before. Traveling in the world opens vistas. Traveling and volunteering in Africa alters lives, theirs and ours. We are not the same.
About two months ago I was a busy home birth obstetrician. Always on call, enjoying my work if not the hours, grumbling about traffic and the cost of living and excited about the upcoming Los Angeles Kings hockey season. Then I received a call from my friend and colleague, Jennifer Lang, MD, asking if I would be interested in going with her team from CureCervicalCancer to Kisii and Nairobi, Kenya to teach trainees about screening for cervical cancer. Founder of CCC and friend, Patricia Gordon, MD, had to cancel and they needed another MD pretty last minute. As a solo practitioner in a personal, midwifery model home birth practice it is not easy for me to get away without placing the burden of stress of some clients for even a weekend, let alone 16 days. Each of us must make our way in life by choosing a path that cannot always be planned. Some days you turn right, some left and sometimes you pause, take a deep breath and realize that life is not an algorithm and decisions made for the right reason cannot be wrong. And so I said yes, expressed my plans to my clients, and was relieved when I found they were almost all supportive.
I had been to Kenya as a tourist 29 years ago with my father. The country holds great memories for us and my 95 year old father was excited to hear I was going back. I think back on the bold decision my father made to do something very out of character for him and fly alone to Nairobi at age 66 to meet his son at the end of a 4 month sojourn after residency. Memories are funny things. I remember the Acacia trees, the smell of diesel, the Masai and the wildlife. But coming to Kenya for tourism and coming to work here are not the same. I did not remember the roads, the traffic, the crazy pedestrians, the speedbumps, the potholes and lack of lanes and at times I just broke out laughing as a way of coping with the chaos.
I had no idea what to expect as the CCC group left Los Angeles and flew for nearly 26 hours to arrive on a bright African Sunday morning only to load up our gear and drive for another 7 ½ hours from Nairobi to Kisii in western Kenya. We then stopped at the Level 6 Hospital in Kisii to drop off our supplies and set up for the next morning. Along with Jennifer, the rest of our team included Caitlin RN, and Yvonne, Jackie & Leila, brilliant and energetic premed students all. We were fortunate to have documentarian, artist and world traveler, Stephen Reynolds along for the journey. His talented eye for photography, his creativity and his sense of humor were much appreciated. And I was glad to have some male energy surrounded as I was by estrogen, as usual.
The ten days we held clinic in 2 counties and 3 locations were a mix of exhaustion and reward. Previous blogs here have noted some of the sadness and success. But we did change the lives of countless people. We screened nearly 2000 women and performed nearly 250 cryotherapies on women with visual signs of cervical dysplasia. The WHO suggests that the single visit method of visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and cryotherapy after consent is successful in curing 90% of disease. In my mind this means that so many of these women who may have died a rather horrible death will now live on to care for their children and families. HPV is a viral disease that with proper attention has no business killing anyone. Kenya has the resources to stop this scourge and in the past has lacked only the political will. But we met some remarkable doctors, county directors and ministers who all seem poised to join in with the initiative of the First Lady of Kenya and make women's health a new priority. Donating to organizations that go to these places is always welcome but we can't always be sure the money or equipment gets used properly. We were told a story by Ruth, one of the local doctors, of donated cryotherapy tanks and equipment from 3 years ago that remain unopened to this day. It's just a tragedy. The CCC model of hands on training can be a big part of this initiative as the 30 plus skilled Kenyan practitioners we graduated will now go on to screen and train more practitioners in an exponential fashion. CCC and the good people that make it happen are changing lives.
After 2 weeks away from my life in Los Angeles I am ready to come home. I miss my family. I miss my practice and my staff. I am tired, I need a shave and I miss driving on the right side of the road and the smell of fresh air. Funny to think that it takes coming back to LA to have fresh air. Was it the reverse in 1986? I don't remember. I may quickly fall back into the habits I had before I left. But, then again, I may not. Africa affects you. I have been asked by many if I would do it again. I think so but I know I cannot say for certain. Life is not an algorithm.
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