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HAPPY EARTH DAY! I'm really into Earth Day this year. I think it's because I've made strides over the past year to be more eco-friendly. I take my reusable bags everywhere. When I do get plastic or paper bags, I reuse them for litter boxes or housing potatoes. I wash 75% of laundry in cold water and have even cut down my time in the shower (partially to get more sleep but it still counts!). I am currently switching my cleaning products to natural ones. I am more mindful of leaving unnecessary lights on. It's all these little things that really can make a difference...you don't have to buy a solar powered house to help! :)
Vegan Oatmeal Pancakes
makes 8 pancakes
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup almond or soy milk (approx)
- 1 Tb. apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 Tb. flax seeds
- 1 Tb. brown sugar
- 2 Tb. Earth Balance, melted
Add 1 Tb. vinegar to a large measuring cup. Fill with almond milk until it reaches 1 cup. Stir well. Soak oats in 3/4 cup of milk, reserving the rest. Let sit for 5 minutes.
Grind 1 Tb. flax seed in a coffee or spice grinder. In a small bowl, combine ground flax seed with 2 Tb. cold water. Let sit until 2-3 minutes. Add melted Earth Balance and brown sugar and combine.
Combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon in a large bowl. Add oats, the reserved milk, and the flax mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.
The batter should be lumpy but well combined.
Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-heat and spray with cooking spray. Pour 1/3 cup of batter onto skillet and let cook for 2-3 minutes or until edges set up.
Flip pancake and cook for 1-2 minutes, or until fully cooked. Serve hot with banana syrup.
Nutritional information (per pancake): 123 calories, 4g fat (0.5g sat), 16g carbs (1.6g fiber), 3g protein
Banana Syrup
makes 1/2 cup syrup
- 1 ripe banana
- 3/4 cup unsifted powdered sugar
- 1 Tb. lemon juice
Blend ingredients together until well combined. You may have to adjust the sugar to your sweetness, but keep in mind that more sugar increases the calories and carbs.
Nutritional information (for 2 Tb. syrup): 115 calories, 0.1g fat (0g sat), 30g carbs (1g fiber), 0.4g protein
I adore these pancakes. I really think you should try them this weekend. :) And the banana syrup is one of my childhood favorites. The original recipe calls for more than double the sugar though! It's crazy how much my taste buds have changed to where that would have been wayyyy too sweet for me.
I shared them earlier on the blog but I really wanted to try them vegan. There's something so fascinating about vegan baking to me. I guess because it hasn't been normal to me during my life. Plus, I wanted pancakes, I was out of eggs, and was currently trying to find less gross ways to use up the almond milk. I've been trying out different soy milks and almond milk lately. The almond milk added a nice flavor to the pancakes but I hated it in cereal and in smoothies. And if you're wondering, I've fallen. in. love. with unsweetened soy milk! I love how becoming a vegetarian has made me so open to trying new foods. Because you have to get creative or vegetarianism could be really boring, I'm always looking for new things to try.
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Adrian Rew: Slow Machine Music (Ergot Records, 2013/reissued Hanson Records, 2014)January 23, 2015 at 9:54 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Similar to Andy Hofle's "Arcade Ambience" project (which consists of field recordings of early '80s video game arcades), and the Golding Institute 7″s from the mid '90s (field recordings of fast food restaurants, adult book stores and airport restrooms), this is another unusual, crazy, weird recording of American culture in action. This is what Midwestern casinos sound like. At any given point on this record, you're hearing the sounds of dozens of slot machines, along with conversation, whistling, and whatever music is playing over the loudspeaker (there is most definitely some Def Leppard during side A of this record). It's quite a hypnotic din, and listening to it could give you the urge to gamble your life savings away. You hear plenty of dinging and bleeping video poker and slot machines, lots of coins clinking, and even a few excited cheers of winners, but a lot of the time, conversations aren't easily audible. It seems like everyone's entranced by all the lights and sounds and just keeps compulsively gambling. On the first part of side B there's a long stretch where a machine keeps dinging the same note rapidly, which makes you think that either it's broken or someone's winning a ton of money, but you don't seem to hear anyone cheering about it. The final track doesn't sound like a casino at all, but an outdoor recording of a train passing by very closely, with crickets chirping in the background. Only at the end do you hear some slot machine melodies, along with someone asking Rew what he's doing, and him explaining that he's recording the sounds. The liner notes explain that these casinos have strict security, and that these recordings are clandestine (usually the tape recorder is hidden in his pocket), so maybe it's a guard questioning his act of recording. This was originally a limited CD-r release, but Hanson Records has released an amazing-looking picture disc LP of it. You can order it and listen to side A here.
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There is a surprise at the end of this post to show you the miracle of birth and hopefully make you smile. B
I wanted to show you #5. Fifteen minutes after being born at 3:30 PM Thursday evening he is still being cleaned off by Mom and has already found his way to the dinner table. This makes me smile I do hope it works for you.


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The Internal Revenue Service, along with the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services, have issued interim final regulations that address at what point changes to a group health plan in existence on March 23, 2010, are significant enough to cause the plan to cease to be a "grandfathered health plan" for purposes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the "Act"). Grandfathered plans are exempt from certain insurance market reform provisions of the Act, including requirements related to preventive care, internal and external review, nondiscrimination based on income, choice of providers, emergency care, clinical trials, cost sharing and deductibles, guaranteed issue/renewal, and rating restrictions. However, grandfathered plans are not exempt from requirements related to annual and lifetime limits, dependent coverage to age 26, rescission, pre-existing condition exclusions, waiting periods, employer mandates, and tax provisions.
The regulations provide that certain changes will not result in a loss of grandfathered status:
• A plan will not lose its status as a grandfathered plan by adding new enrollees.
• Plan changes adopted before March 23, 2010, with an effective date after that date, will not affect the status of a grandfathered plan. If an employer has made changes to a health plan after March 23, 2010, and those changes would cause the plan to cease to be a grandfathered plan, the employer may reverse those changes before the first plan year beginning on or after September 23, 2010 and maintain the plan's status as a grandfathered plan.
• A plan will not lose its status as a grandfathered plan by making changes required to comply with federal or state law.
• A plan will not lose its status as a grandfathered plan by making changes to voluntarily comply with provisions of the Act or to increase benefits.
Collectively bargained health plans that are subject to a collective bargaining agreement in effect on the date the Act was signed are deemed to be grandfathered plans through the end of that agreement and are subject to the health care reform changes that apply to other grandfathered health plans.
Employers need to be aware that the analysis of whether a plan is grandfathered applies separately to each benefit package available under a plan. This means that if one benefit package is modified in a manner that would cause it to lose grandfathered status while others remain unmodified, the modified benefit package option will cease to be grandfathered. Unfortunately, the regulations do not offer guidance as to what constitutes a "benefit package." The interim final regulations detail the changes that will cause a health plan to lose its status as a grandfathered plan. The changes that will adversely affect a plan's grandfathered status include: the substantial elimination of benefits; increases in deductibles or out-of-pocket expenses by more than 15% over the medical inflation rate as measured from March 23, 2010; any decrease of more than 5% in the employer's contribution rate for coverage; increases in a copayment for any service by more than the greater of: (1) $5 (adjusted for medical inflation), or (2) medical inflation plus 15%, as measured from March 23, 2010; and changes to lifetime and annual benefit limits that would adversely impact participants.
Any changes that are not specifically prohibited will not affect a plan's grandfathered status. The regulations require that the plan document include a statement that the plan is a grandfathered plan.
Employers and plan sponsors should carefully consider whether (i) plans currently are "grandfathered," (ii) changes previously made or proposed will result in loss of grandfathered status; (iii) changes previously implemented should be reversed to preserve grandfathered status, and (iv) the relief afforded to grandfathered plans is worth the loss of flexibility and control over plan terms.
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Senior Data Scientist, T.Rowe Price
James Hedges, PhD, is a Senior Data Scientist whose mission in life is to extract actionable insights from messy datasets. He believes that the best decision-making is data-driven and that the path to success is paved in predictive models. James has worked at the New York Technology Development Center at T. Rowe Price on the development of persona models to facilitate personalized marketing at scale. As an R programmer, James has spent a good portion of his life living in the Hadleyverse, but appreciates all technologies in the data science space. He has recently served as a guest lecturer in the Applied Analytics program at Columbia University and commutes to Gramercy Park from Williamsburg, Brooklyn by ferry. James holds a PhD in Neural Science from New York University where he studied Bayesian inference models of perceptual ambiguity in the Laboratory for Computational Vision.
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by José Pedro Cortes
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We believe that in a multicultural, globalized world the photo book is one of the privileged mediums. The language of sequential images is, perhaps, today's most international language, understood by the large majority of the world population. Photo books don't need translation, they need world distribution. Internet provides an efficient, accessible way for books to reach global audiences.
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Lawyer and longtime cannabis activist Thomas Howard is back with another instalment of his perception of the up and coming cannabis industry with witty banter and insight. The following is a summary of his video along with the video. After you read the review or watch his video, I added another video that reinforces his point where a BuzzFeed producer decided to take cannabis to treat her chronic pain.
I'm Tom, and you've probably never heard of me. You can see me up there on youtube, and it would be super sweet if you subscribed because then you'll get exclusive access to all the video blogs on operating a cannabis business in America. This one is what I think is the biggest market opportunity in the Industry.
Now, you may be asking yourself who that schmo is wearing a suit and sitting in his home office before work one day. Well, that's cool. It means you're sceptical. Great. If you want to know more about me, just Google "Tom Howard marijuana" or "Tom Howard opioids".
I got a pretty simple mission, to make sure that the cannabis industry grows into a completely legal sector all across the globe – it may take a minute. So tune in each week. And check out the recaps here.
Here's the takeaway of why cannabis can grow into a humongous business by taking away market share from opioid-based painkillers.
- Cannabis can help dent the 60 plus billion dollar pain management market.
- Cannabis is not nearly as addictive as opioids at all
- Cannabis does not cause overdose-related deaths
- Cannabis has way few harmful side effects than opioids.
- Reduction in rates of opioid addiction
- The rich jerks addicting us to painkillers will suffer financially?
- Jazz music may suffer because "no junk – no soul"/
- Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III will cry into his pillow at night because there will be more bad people using marijuana instead of good pharmaceutical grade opioids??
- These are all jokes, and bad ones because people are dying, but I think you should still address the other side of the issue — even if there isn't one.
I do not think there is any downside to using cannabis for treating pain BEFORE prescribing opioid-based pain management drugs. I do not feel cannabis will completely replace opioid drugs, but the point of it is to reduce rates of addiction and accidental overdose deaths.
Currently, tens of thousands of Americans are dying from opioids, and the studies were done in states where marijuana is available to treat pain have all seen reduction in rates of opioid-related deaths. It's time for doctors to have a safer alternative to the management of pain.
If you have any topics related to operating a marijuana business, please click over to the youtube and leave it in the comments – and don't forget to subscribe. Until next week, keep it legal because you deserve the best!


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TCT Magazine reports on Airwolf 3D's launch of its innovative desktop 3D printer, the EVO Additive Manufacturing Center. The EVO was announced at CES 2018.
"The EVO AMC marks Airwolf 3D's fifth generation 3D printing system. Its name derives from its apparent superior technology, design, and construction to rival desktop machines on the market: a company press release [boasts] how EVO is not 'merely an industrial 3D printer, but a fully-fledged Additive Manufacturing Center.'"
The EVO AMC comes with your standard Airwolf features "such as auto-levelling, large build size, high temperature multi-material printing, and compatibility with water-soluble Hydrofill support material. But it also delivers…PartSave [which] is a feature enabling the printer to carry on with the print it is working on after a power outage or the machine getting unplugged. Once power is restored, manufacturing resumes. Another [feature of EVO AMC] is FailSafe. This comes into action when a jam occurs, or the user runs out of filament. By placing the print head at the height it was at prior to the interruption, FailSafe will get the printer back to work and finishing the job."
Erik Wolf, Airwolf 3D's Co-Founder and CEO, concludes: "the EVO AMC is completely new and it's unlike anything out there. We took the technology we perfected with our prosumer line of 3D printer and leveraged it to develop a machine light years beyond anything else on the market. The EVO AMC is faster, stronger, and more accurate than any other desktop 3D printer – it delivers a premium 3D manufacturing experience at less than half the cost of machines offering equivalent performances. Plus, it's packed with new technology dramatically changing the way we manufacture, including the ability to work in metals. The EVO AMC far surpasses the capabilities of a traditional desktop 3D printer. It's a true desktop Additive Manufacturing Center."
The EVO AMC is shipping this month. Pricing starts at $6,995.
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Curtiss C46
|C46 N7848B, named Dumbo, is one of two used by Everts Air Cargo for freight haulage in Alaska, with sister company Everts Air Fuel using a further two for fuel transportation.
Curtiss C46 Commando originated as the CW20
airliner which was envisaged as a competitor to the Douglas DC3.
The prototype, the CW20T, flew for the first time on March 26, 1940 but by then American thoughts were already turning to Second World War production and in July that year the US Army ordered 40 unpressurised cargo versions, designating them the C46 and naming them Commando. The Army also bought the prototype CW20 as the C55 but this was soon passed on the British Overseas Aircraft Corporation.
Both the CW20 and C46 were distinguished by a double bubble fuselage and a streamlined nose. The CW20 could carry 36 passengers in the upper lobe and 3,719kg (8,200lb) of cargo in the lower. Two Wright Cyclone R-2600 radial engines were installed, each developing 1,700hp.
The first C46 was delivered to the US Army in July 1942 and was little different to the CW20, only a reduction in cabin windows being immediately obvious. The C46A had a reinforced fuselage to enable a heavier cargo load. It also introduced a larger cargo door on the port side.
A total of 3,182 C46s were delivered to the US Army, with the type serving in all theatres. It became particularly important on the so-called "hump" route over the Himalayas between India and China.
When peace returned Curtiss tried to market a new passenger verison, the CW20E, but the thousands of war surplus transports on the market snuffed out this project. Indeed, even war surplus C46s did not prove very popular and the majority found employment as freighters.
Nonetheless, the tough airframe found particular favour in Latin America, where more than 600 were still operating in 1959.
Today the type continues to fly as a freighter and fuel transporter in small numbers in Alaska, in the United States, and Canada.


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258 The Saint's Volvo P1800 with cast wheels
The Saint's Volvo P1800 with the late edition cast spoke effect wheels. This was advertised for sale as a #201 Whizzwheels version! I guess the person selling it thought that's what the different wheels were.
As it happens both the Whizzwheels version and this #258 with cast wheels are quite difficult to find so I was happy with whatever arrived.
It is very good condition with clean original paintwork and nice windows and jewelled lights. There is a chip both front and rear and the usual wear along those risen side strips.
The suspension, as is thankfully almost always the case on this model, excellent. I do wish they'd kept that system for other models.
The red 'Saint' panel on the bonnet is very new-looking and I reckon that is a replacement for the red-orange papery sort that originals were sold with. It will peel off easily, though, should you wish to remove it and the bonnet is clean and undamaged beneath.


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Not really a commission, this is the contest lottery prize. the character is *BlueUndine's moon lady luna. MOON LEADING DUSK INTO NIGHT GET IT LOLS I SO WITTY \(°vo)/
Voltron's Princess Allura?
i love the way you drew her legs and also the lighting in that area.
Gorgous piece! Luna is awesome!
woooooooooow *-* is so Amazing
wonderful colors **
This is so lovely ! Beautifully made !
beautiful !!
Amazing !!
Lovely divine light!
very captivating, she is truly a goddess
Beautiful done...wow
simply mind blowing...luv this 1
Very beautiful, I love the lighting!
This is very beautiful. ^_^
it's all so beautifully done
let me just say: awesome. if only i could find a picture like this every day : )
what. did. you. use.
cool pic, love how you colored it.. great work
I love her ears, face, and the colors
I love her ears, face, and the colors
.so beautiful!.colouring is amazing!!!
i like the light~~~
so beautiful
so beautiful
Thats beautiful. It reminds me of a character I have. Awkwardly enough her name is Lunar. Her lover calls her Luna.... -giggles- I like your drawing she's lovely!
this is very well composed, especially color... I really like this one!
Ohh Mii Gawsshhhh!
Just woahsers
Just woahsers
beautiful picture the colors are done really well
What a light in this!
love the pic and colors you picked out
i love your style its hot.
Gorgeous, it's so life-like and pretty I love you art, tho, and I like blackbird :3
Waaaaah !! Its Wonderful !!splendid! ( favorites )
i generally don't go in for fantasy or fantasy-esque art but this is bar-none, mighty fine!
What a beautiful glow.
Very beautiful.
cool. this is awesome.
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14 Jun GrandCanals Introduces Fulfillment Intelligence Cloud for 3PLs
GrandCanals Introduces Fulfillment Intelligence Cloud for 3PLs
First Purpose-Built Analytics Platform That Helps 3PLs and their Customers Optimize their Shipping and Fulfillment on Display at 3PL & Supply Chain Summit
Los Gatos, Calif., June 14, 2017 — GrandCanals, the market leader in analytics-driven fulfillment, today announced the immediate availability of the Fulfillment Intelligence Cloud for 3PLs. The solution is the first purpose-built analytics platform that helps third-party logistics (3PLs) providers manage and optimize their fulfillment and shipping across all modes, including small-parcel, less-than-truckload (LTL), truckload, airfreight, and ocean. Further, 3PLs can extend the solution and provide the intelligence derived from the Fulfillment Intelligence Cloud to their customers as a strategic, value-added service.
eCommerce represented about 42% of all retail sales growth in 2016 and 3PLs have had to evolve their business models to support an increase in their customers' direct-to-consumer shipments. With the new Fulfillment Intelligence Cloud for 3PLs, 3PLs can immediately plug into the new and growing direct-to-consumer trend powered by eCommerce, help differentiate their services by delivering direct-to-consumer intelligence to customers, and optimize their own direct-to-consumer services by increasing margins, optimizing pricing, reducing their cash-to-cash cycle, and automating billing. As a result, 3PLs can capture new market share and deepen relationships with existing customers.
"In this brave new world of eCommerce, 3PLs recognize the opportunity that direct-to-consumer shipping presents and are struggling to adapt to their customers' increasing demand for greater innovation and more robust intelligence," said Sean Wilcox, Vice President of Marketing, GrandCanals. "With the Fulfillment Intelligence Cloud for 3PLs, 3PLs can immediately plug into the growing eCommerce market and stand out from the crowd by proactively delivering strategic insights to their customers."
Fulfillment Intelligence Cloud for 3PLs is a SaaS application that enables analytics-driven fulfillment. The solution was purposely built to improve direct-to-customer fulfillment, by a focused team of supply chain experts, data scientists and technologists with more than a century of combined experience in fulfillment. Key features of the Fulfillment Intelligence Cloud for 3PLs include:
- Fulfillment analytics and modeling of shipping modes, powered by data science
- Fulfillment and carrier data normalization technology with FD-Mapper™
- Robust customer management for 3PLs to provide value-added fulfillment intelligence to their customers
"Given the rise in eCommerce, and the growth of our business, deeper intelligence of small-parcel and LTL is a requirement both for us and our customers," said Brian Bourke, Vice President, Marketing, SEKO Logistics. "GrandCanals enables us to manage our 3PL business more effectively and deliver more value to our customers."
GrandCanals will be showcasing the Fulfillment Intelligence Cloud for 3PLs at the 3PL & Supply Chain Summit which will be held on June 14-16, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois. The event is North America's highest-level gathering of logistics executives and their manufacturer and retailer supply chain counterparts. Attendees are invited to stop by the GrandCanals booth (#104) to learn how the company can help 3PLs take advantage of today's eCommerce world – without huge investments in IT or months of development. For more information on the event, please visit https://events.eft.com/3pl/ and join the event conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #3PLUS17.
For more information on GrandCanals and the Fulfillment Intelligence Cloud for 3PLs, please visit https://www.grandcanals.com/ and follow the company on Twitter at @GrandCanalS and on LinkedIn.
About GrandCanals
Based in the Silicon Valley, GrandCanals is the market leader in analytics-driven fulfillment. Leveraging more than a century in fulfillment experience, and decades of deep knowledge in analytics software, GrandCanals delivers the capability for companies to fulfill with confidence and delight their customers. As a result, GrandCanals helps businesses of all sizes profitably meet customer expectations in a rapidly transforming eCommerce world. For more information, go to https://www.grandcanals.com/ and follow GrandCanals on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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A friend of mine is going in tomorrow morning to be induced, and welcome her third daughter into the world. I called her today: How was she feeling? Anxious? Excited? Scared? Calm? (After all, it IS her third!). But her answer surprised me: She was feeling guilty.
Guilty that she was choosing to accept induction, rather than wait to go into labor naturally, though her baby is is an unfortunate "stuck" position. Guilty that her discomfort and agonizing is not the chipper mood she wanted to set for her two little girls before their sister arrives. So much guilt. It made me want to give her a hug, and then go shake some sense into her! What an unfortunate way to be feeling, the day before welcoming a new little baby into the world.
But then I realized that I had been beating myself up just the day before, because I hadn't spent time doing the prescribed physical therapy moves with my own four-month-old. The day was busy and time just got away from us, and that night I kicked myself for not taking just 15 minutes to practice the moves that will help with her strength.
I doubt any of us, when we made that momentous decision to become a mother, thought to ourselves, "I can't wait to have someone to nuzzle, someone to influence, someone to laugh with, someone with the ability to make me feel completely inadequate as a human being."
No, the reason we do what we do, why we are who we are, is based solely on one terrific and resounding truthful emotion: pure, sheer, ridiculous LOVE.
Will my Mirabel grow up not ever being able to hold up her head? Will Dee's daughters be forever traumatized because she wasn't skipping through the park with them the day before their sister's arrival? No. Our children are so very fortunate to have us as their mothers, to guide them and fill them with this true love. What we need to remember to do is take the time to love ourselves!
And that is reason # 746 I love Stroller Strides (reasons 1 through 745 have to do with the camaraderie, the wonderful example I'm setting for my child, and the overall feeling of accomplishment I have after completing a class). Reason 746 is that, with the help of Stroller Strides, I love ME. I feel strong in my body, clear in my mind, and content in my soul knowing that I am doing something so good for myself, and, in turn, so good for my babies.
And that makes the guilt a lot more manageable. It's still there, but I don't lose as much sleep when, say, my three-year-old pulls down her pants and goes peepee on the lawn at her own birthday party. She's a happy, thriving little girl, and it's my goal to be the same.
Go hug your kids, and then give yourself a pat on the back. You're doing a great job, and you're a wonderful mommy.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
On Guilt
A friend of mine is going in tomorrow morning to be induced, and welcome her third daughter into the world. I called her today: How was she feeling? Anxious? Excited? Scared? Calm? (After all, it IS her third!). But her answer surprised me: She was feeling guilty.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
2010 Healthy Momma Challenge!
For the third year in a row, we started off the year with the Healthy Momma Challenge. Six teams of three got involved in some *healthy* competition for a 12-week challenge that earned each mama points for taking steps to focus on their Mind, Body, and Spirit.
Mamas earned points for things like taking a bath by themselves, eating fruits and vegetables, meditating, and, of course, coming to Stroller Strides classes! The end totals were in the THOUSANDS. I am so impressed with these strong, healthy, lovely women!
I'm already looking forward to next year!
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Monday, January 4, 2010
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City Auto Sales above is a great mystery for you folks who like to figure them out. Prince George's County Fire/EMS sooner or later were involved in operations at the Pentagon. I also realized that the sources of the Northern Virginia and District of Columbia Fire Departments were committed to the Pentagon, and we would be utilized if the incident escalated or extra attacks had been encountered. Maybe the autonomous automobiles will be in a position to hyperlink up into a train that saves time and power. When the diverse markets such as taxis, car pooling, deliveries, lengthy distance trucking and so forth raise the demand for such vehicles it will also lead to more funds flowing into the autonomous car market, which in turn leads to improvement into making them more affordable, more reliably and therefore producing them reasonably priced for the average household… which signifies even much more autonomous cars in the streets.
It is the traditional automobile businesses that are, gradually but surely, coming to the recognition that Tesla has changed their long-standing enterprise. I believe mass transit systems like buses would be far better suited to move peak hour traffic… Significantly less vehicles and far more buses… People may well care much less about private space when in a hurry. Regulations on fuel economy and CO2 emissions are forcing carmakers to make engines a lot more effective. If the site visitors got also poor they could switch to utilizing sidewalks or other pedestrian walkways as viable alternate paths, keeping to walking speed to mix with the handful of men and women nevertheless walking.
A Columbia University study recommended that with a fleet of just 9,000 autonomous cars, Uber could replace every taxi cab in New York City 13 – passengers would wait an typical of 36 seconds for a ride that expenses about $.50 per mile. Official academic organ of WKM, The Scientific Society for Automotive and Engine Technologies. They did, nonetheless, think it wise to spend $250( on every single car, except the Mercedes), getting a metal plate fitted underneath every single Trabbi engine, to defend the engines from stones and debris.
More importantly, the winding Italian roads and narrow ancient streets of its medieval towns have been built with pedestrians and horse carts in sort, not wide-bodied luxury wind in your hair, the autostrada stretching just before you, the freedom to discover at will, the fact that speed limits are relatively optional… A car is the only way to see all of Italy's nooks and crannies. Search your auto manufacturer 's internet internet site to discover out, by using your vehicle's 17-digit vehicle identification quantity (VIN), if your vehicle is affected by a safety recall.
Other companies are continuing to improve electric Vehicle variety and battery performance and life. Autonomous vehicles will be more affordable to operate – no purpose we can't have a fleet a lot larger than the existing taxi fleet. We'll likely see autonomous buses/shuttles coming online in about the very same timeframe. You say its poor maths" but there is no mistake that the best way to establish efficiency, in all its complexity as it already is on a permutation basis, would be to take the Quite Standard AND INCONTROVERTIBLE PHYSICS thinking about power in/out, motor load, energy loss, and then you have to account for overall production of supplies and upkeep and forecasting in accounting for future production efficiency, and so on.


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Understanding and Feeling Music and Time in Lourenço
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The Taebaek Mountains are one of the coldest places in South Korea, pummeled by Siberian winds that numb exposed skin and knife through multiple layers of clothing.
That wind has thrown the Alpine skiing events at the Pyeongchang Olympics into disarray.
As gusts ripped hats off heads and shook the enormous tents housing media at venues Monday, they also forced the postponement of the women's giant slalom at the Yongpyong Alpine Center. That meant U.S. star Mikaela Shiffrin's first event of the Games, one of the marquee attractions, will be delayed two days.
It was all set up for a coronation as Germany's Felix Loch was in the lead heading into the final run of the luge late Sunday night.
But Loch clipped the wall midway down the track and his goal of a third consecutive gold medal ended in the arms of his father and coach who tried to console him after he crossed the line with the fifth best time of the night.
Loch's mistake opened the door for David Gleirscher of Austria, who started the final run in third place. Gleirscher, who had one of the fastest times of the night in his first run, beat out American Chris Mazdzer by two one hundredths of a second to capture Austria's first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Games.
Sunday's Winter Olympics TV schedule. All times Pacific.
10:30 a.m.: Luge (men's singles final two rounds). NBCSN
11:30 a.m.: Curling (mixed doubles tiebreaker, if necessary). NBCSN
The U.S. women's hockey team began its quest to end a 20-year Olympic gold medal drought by defeating Finland 3-1 on Sunday at Kwandong Hockey Center in the preliminary round tournament opener for both teams.
The top-seeded Americans gave up a goal to Finland forward Venla Hovi — who lives in Winnipeg, Canada, and plays for the University of Manitoba — with only 5.8 seconds remaining in the first period. However, the U.S. team pulled even at 8:58 of the second period, when Monique Lamoureux-Morando showed great persistence around the net and converted her own rebound. Kendall Coyne gave the U.S. the lead when she scored on a one-timer during a power play, off assists from Hilary Knight and Brianna Decker.
Dani Camaranesi clinched it with an empty-net goal late in the third period.
Nineteen new cases of norovirus were diagnosed Saturday at the Pyeongchang Olympics, according to organizers.
That brings the weeklong total to 158 cases, largely among security personnel.
Organizers said no athletes have come down with the highly contagious illness.
Nerves don't usually bother Red Gerard.
The mop-haired snowboarder from Colorado is known for his relaxed demeanor, even during his first trip to the Winter Olympics.
That changed Sunday,as subzero winds ripped through the slopestyle course at the Phoenix Snow Park and Gerard faced his final run.
In a historic moment whose impact reverberated far beyond the happily noisy confines of Kwandong Hockey Center, diplomacy took the unusual form of ponytailed hockey players and a squadron of identically dressed cheerleaders who sang and swayed and clapped while a unique occasion unfolded on the ice below them.
The unified women's hockey team of players from North and South Korea took to the ice amid waving flags and smiles of politicians who have long been bitter opponents. Long after the details of Korea's 8-0 loss to a sound Swiss team are forgotten, the fact that North and South banded together and wore jerseys depicting a joined Korean Peninsula will be remembered as a landmark occasion.
"It definitely was a special moment, debuting as a unified team," said Korea defenseman Marissa Brandt, who was born in South Korea but was adopted and raised by a couple in Minnesota. She's known here by her birth name, Park Yoonjung.
Organizers for the Pyeongchang Olympics confirmed Sunday they suffered a cyberattack during the opening ceremony two days ago.
Mark Adams, spokesman for the International Olympic Committee, wouldn't identify the source of the attack.
"At the moment we're making sure our systems our secure, which they are," he said. "Discussing details of it are not helpful."
Before these Winter Games get too old, it seems as if the mystery of the capital letter needs to be explained. The Games are being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, according to most American news outlets — except the region decided to change the "c" to an uppercase letter, making it PyeongChang.
Why? Because it wants to be further distinguished from Pyongyang, which is the home of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he of nuclear arsenal fame.
It would be like Altadena changing its name to AltaDena because the city is embarrassed that sister city Pasadena continually sets up police traps to catch people prematurely crossing the yellow turn line onto Arroyo Parkway.


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The Department of Education has applied changes in this year's league tables catching many schools unaware of the shift of the qualifications. Because of this, several top private secondaries in England are expected to be at the bottom of the school league tables.
Richard Harman, chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), which represents many leading independent schools, said the decision to drop IGCSEs made "nonsense" of the league tables.
"Several of the UK's most highly performing independent schools and others offering this excellent qualification will now appear to be bottom of the class in the government's rankings.
"This obviously absurd situation creates further confusion for parents as they cannot compare schools' performance accurately and transparently.
"Many HMC schools will continue to offer the IGCSE, as experience tells us it is rigorous and offers a good basis for sixth form study."
But Graham Stuart, chair of the Commons Education Select Committee, said: "They're not designed to serve independent schools. They are designed to create a benchmark for state schools."


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Gather round, glitter sisters…Mama Thrift wishes to impart some pearls from her thrift store lore. If you want anything that shimmers, shines, sparkles, dangles or otherwise says, "I'm sexy and I know it" Family Thrift Center is your glitterati headquarters!
Just a half block south of Ben White on 1st Street, Family Thrift Center should be a mandatory shop stop for every teen in south Austin bent on dancing, dating or just chillaxin with friends. Moms and dads may find some deals among the crowded racks for themselves or other members of the family but Family Thrift caters spectacularly to the fashion conscious teen and young adult. No surprise since the gently worn (and sometimes never worn) merchandise is purchased straight from local customers for resale.
Store staffers do an amazing job keeping similar items together for easier browsing and if you're young and a size medium or smaller, there's a ton to look at. There are enough long-sleeve, psychedelic print tops to warrant their own rack, not to be confused with the rack that holds only silky, "not-to-school-you-won't" tops with spaghetti straps. Miles of cocktail dresses are segregated by style – strapless, spaghetti, sleeveless, puff sleeve, short sleeve – you get the thrift drift…we're talking a lot of clothes! So much, in fact, that the Diva of Discount can disclose that Family Thrift Store has probably the only rack devoted entirely to muumuus in all of Austin!
Teenage fashion noobs will get a lesson in dressin' with oodles of popular brands like BCBGMaxazria, L.E.I. and Material Girl. The Thrifty Snicker found an authentic Missoni skirt and a tempting Nancy Bolin City Girl fringe jacket at bargain basement prices. Although she might have been able to fit into it during the Reagan administration, your bargain blogger sighed over the beautiful Adrianna Papell fish scale dress marked at $15.99. More casual tops and bottoms are in the $4.99 to $7.99 range with evening attire around $19.99. All manner of shoes are displayed at eye level throughout the store but most are guaranteed ankle breakers for anyone over the age of consent. Pretty though they were, some were a little pricey for brands carried by Target and Payless. A modest selection of handbags included a great Alfani hobo bag for $8.99. Her Thriftiness couldn't help but be charmed by the beautiful christening gowns which hung next to the rack of clothes for the wee ones in the family.
Guys can get in on the fashion fun too. While Your Thriftstress tends to give men's clothes a short shrift, a quick look at the shirt rack revealed a nice selection of 100% cotton button downs by Chaps, Polo, Nordstrom's, J.Crew, and Land's End. A dozen black leather / pleather jackets put the "bargain" in bad boy as they ranged from $30 to $40.
On her last visit white and purple tags were 50% off and summer shorts on sale. Also signaling the end of summer is a nice section of fall / Halloween decorations and décor. In its own area is house-wares, electronics and small appliances, the latter unusually clean for a thrift store. A few toys, videotapes and books round out store inventory. Shoppers looking for furniture and large appliances can visit the Family Thrift Center warehouse at South Congress and St. Elmo.
Thrifters need to know that this place flies well under the Google radar. There's no website and an internet search brings up shops with similar names. The Snicker was unsuccessful in her repeated efforts to track down the store owner, Jose. But if you're headed south on 1st Street, just cross over Ben White and look to your left / east to 4101 South 1st. It's the first strip past Ben White. Shop for new-to-you Monday through Saturday, 9-6. If you want to sell you can bring your fashions in any day they're open but before 2:00. The parking lot's a bit small and it's a busy intersection but definitely worth a stop. Phone is 512.804.2665.
,As much as it pains the Discount Diva to admit it, she doesn't know everything thrift. What are your favorite places and best bargains?
Until the next find!
The Thrifty Snicker


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Benefits of Lymphatic Drainage
There are several benefits to Lymphatic Drainage; here is a list. If you feel as though you are suffering from any of these, Lymphatic Drainage is for you! The massage is only 1/2 to 8 ounces of pressure.. So, there is no pain involved.
- Helps stimulate the immune system
- Helps balance fluid and distribute immune cells throughout the body to maintain health and defend against disease.
- Rids tissues of excess proteins and toxins.
- The Main purpose is to protect the body against harmful microorganisms, poisons, and dead or dying cells.
- Lymphatic Drainage can:
- Help improve the appearance and health of the skin and to treat cellulite, such as acne, rosacea, and eczema.
- Before and after surgery; helps speed healing and reduce edema.
- Helps heal soft-tissue injury
– helps speed healing and reduce swelling (such as sports injuries and car accidents)
- Helps with colds and allergies.
- Helps relieves stress and tension.
- Helps with fatigue, mild depression, and chronic soft-tissue pain.
- Travelers edema
- Helps reduce scarring after surgery.
- Lowers blood pressure.
- Patients suffering from, asthma, allergies or cancer.


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Authentic Ayahuasca Retreat in the Peruvian Jungle, Safe Ayahuasca Retreat with Shipibo Shaman
Shakruna Ayahuasca Retreats are delighted to be able to invite you to our Heart of the Jungle 13 day Authentic Ayahuasca Retreat. Ayahuasca is a powerful plant entity whose native home is the Amazon Basin Jungle. In this retreat we shall travel deep into the heart of the jungle, go on a Sacred Medicinal Plant walk, Build camp and sit in 4 Ayahuasca ceremonies, receive individualised plant treatments, fish and swim in clear water lakes and walk the old path of the indigenous peoples of the jungle, the Shipibo tribe. This is an Authentic Jungle Retreat with Shipibo Shamans. We believe healing is our birthright and so all of our retreats are Affordable Ayahuasca Retreats as well as being Authentic and Safe. If you seek a real Jungle Ayahuasca Retreat this is the Retreat for you
Ayahuasca is a very powerful plant entity who is said to be the Mother of all jungle medicine plants and her spirit is strong and present no matter where you have the pleasure of sitting with her. Whether you meet her in a ceremony in the Sacred Valley or At Shakruna Ayahuasca Retreat Centre, whether you're drinking or not drinking, there is an undeniable essence and energy that flows through your being when she enters the space.
The Shipibo Maestros speak of Ayahuasca as a person, a powerful force that flows through all things, a sacred blessing, pure love and deep awareness with a desire to heal all sickness and imbalance in the world. Over recent years we have watched her spread her wisdom with mycelium like tendencies, reaching her tendrils through all countries of the globe. All who know her are humbled by her grace, love and powerful presence.
Whilst she has travelled far and wide to meet us, Shakruna Ayahuasca Retreats honour our great Mother and acknowledge that her greatest power resides in her natural home, the jungle. This is her birthplace and the root from where all of her essence grows forth.
Shakruna Ayahuasca Retreats have always aimed to uphold the old ways of knowing the medicine and intended from the outset to seek to preserve the wisdom and traditions of the authentic Shipibo lineage. Geographically speaking, for us and the Maestros, our ideal would be to serve the medicine as deep in the jungle as possible.
In our time with the Maestros, we have witnessed that times are changing, people are changing and circumstances are definitely changing. With these changes we are conscious that traditions and their spaces have to adapt and grow too. Maestra Lucia is not only here to help us, she is also a mother to three boys, A daughter to an aged father, Maestro Leonardo, whose physical body of 85 no longer carries the same force and power as he holds in ceremonial space and continually active in her community, fighting ardently for the rights of the Shipibo to practice the use of Ayahuasca and maintain their indigenous roots.
As such we made a considered choice to build our retreat centre in the accessible space in which it sits and begin the life force that is Shakruna Ayahuasca Retreats. Accessible to seekers of healing, accessible to the body of Maestro Leonardo until the plants take him from this earth, Accessible for the Maestra Lucia to be Mother and community member. In this space we have begun our mission to change the consciousness of the earth, raising the frequency of one liberated individual at a time. We sit in humble service of the medicine, of our great mother and seek to help you connect with her in varied settings, for a variety of lifestyles whilst bringing with us the same heart, soul and integrity to tradition and healing.
With all this said it brings us an insurmountable amount of joy to be able to finally invite you along once again to our Heart of the Jungle retreat, a 13 day retreat to the birth home of Ayahuasca.


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Kay Park was named the 2016 Florida Blue Duval County Teacher of the Year tonight at the 25th Anniversary of the EDDY Awards. Park, a third grade teacher at Alimacani Elementary, was selected among five exceptional finalists.
Park was recognized for her leadership within and beyond school walls — mentor, educator and volunteer. She has committed to the teaching profession with nearly 30 years of advancing student achievement in Duval County public schools. Park believes that "every child must know that are capable of success through hard work and perseverance."
As an educator, Park strives for her students to "see our role models in action." Parents, community members, law enforcement, first responders and the military are welcome in the classroom to build relationships, trust and mutual respect. Park has a 96 percent rating for the 2014 Collaborative Assessment System for Teachers.
As the 2016 Florida Blue Duval County Teacher of the Year, Park will go on to compete for the statewide title.
The EDDY Awards teacher of the year program is an initiative of the Jacksonville Public Education Fund and it is more than just one day of celebration — it is a year-long effort to celebrate and elevate Duval County's best public school educators. It includes the Wells Fargo Excellence In Teaching Seminar Series, which will make the best practices and live classroom demonstration of outstanding Teachers of the Year accessible to all teachers in Duval County. The Rotary Clubs of Duval County — the organization that founded the EDDY Awards tradition — provides individual cash awards and establishes five funds at the Jacksonville Public Education Fund for each of the finalists to use for a project at their school. For more information about Park and all 170 Teachers of the Year go to www.eddyawardsjax.org.
The event celebrated 25 years of the EDDY Awards, which was originally started by the Rotary Clubs of Duval County. Past Duval County Teachers of the Year were honored at
the ceremony, including winners going back to 1985.
"It was a thrill to share the 25th anniversary of this event with nearly 1,000 educators and public education advocates," said Trey Csar, President of the Jacksonville Public Education Fund. "The EDDY Awards is truly the best day of the year."
Like every Duval County Teacher of the Year, Park will join the Jacksonville Public Education Fund Board of Directors as an ex-officio member for the next year.
"I am inspired by the talented and committed teachers that are working every day in every classroom to help children in our city reach their fullest potential. On behalf of everyone in Duval County Public Schools, congratulations to Kay Park and all of the teachers of the year!" said Dr. Nikolai P. Vitti, Superintendent of Duval County Public Schools.


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How to Add Php to footer
How to Add Php to footer03101cbf Tuesday 15th May 2018, 04:30:31
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Tried changing 'Powered' in lang file but didn't work. Also tried adding to admin>>config>>footer text but that didn't work either. Any ideas?
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Got it to work adding the php into the footer.tpl.php file. Not sure about future theme updates however.
For each theme change, I recommend duplicating the theme folder and giving it another name.
Select it in the configuration and you will be able to make the desired changes while being able to go back or case!
Then it is the file given by that must be modified.
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Pablo Picasso's well-known painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, considered one of the most important and iconic paintings of the 20th century, is also one of its least understood. This lecture examines this famous 1907 canvas, and several other works of this era, from the vantage of newly discovered sources that offer vital clues into its dating and compositional development, as well as its provocative subject matter and notably variant styles. In the end, this canvas will be seen to speak not only to issues of sex and race but also questions of origins and evolution.
Dr. Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is a Visiting Research Professor of African Art for 2017-2018 at the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at UT Dallas.
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CANTO and CARILEC MOU Supports Sustainable Energy and ICT Goals of the CaribbeanCARILEC - Tuesday, October 31st, 2017 at 12:40 PM
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, October 31, 2017 –From May 2017, discussions have been ongoing between The Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC), an association of electric services, dealers, manufactures and other stakeholders operating in the electricity industry in the Caribbean, Central and South Americas and Globally and CANTO, the leading trade association of the ICT sector for shaping information and communication in the Caribbean. The dialogue concerns the formulation of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which included, among other things, agreement on the joint promotion of the current CARILEC Smart Grid Symposium in Trinidad, October 23-26, 2017.
The MOU articulates the agreement between the parties to explore and implement initiatives focused on the
following areas of common interest and priorities in the energy and information and communications
technology (ICT) sectors: Training and Capacity Building; Conferences and Networking; Smart Grid
Infrastructure and Applications, Business Development and Consulting opportunities.
Secretary General of CANTO, Teresa Wankin welcomed the benefits of the MOU stating that: "At CANTO, we
embody the holistic approach to regional development, and we are excited to add this dynamic and important
sector to our connections."
Executive Director of CARILEC, Dr. Cletus Bertin added: "Increasingly, mission critical, as well as operational
systems in the Energy sector, utilizes ICT. The objective of this MOU is to explore and facilitate initiatives for
the sharing of information and the exchange of knowledge, including activities related to: training and capacity
building; technology and knowledge transfer; and the facilitation of activities which are of mutual interest that
simultaneously support the sustainable energy and ICT goals of the Caribbean."
The MOU sets out a framework for cooperation between CANTO and CARILEC to facilitate liaison, cooperation,
collaboration, assistance and the exchange of information between the parties in accordance with the
relevant outlined provisions.
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A wedding is a very special day for a groom and bride, since it's a union of their love. These suggestions will make sure the ceremony runs well. When the day is planned well, everyone will have fond memories of it into the future.
Before your wedding day be sure to practice walking down the aisle multiple times. Get acquainted with the floor you will be walking on and do this with the same shoes you plan on wearing. This is how you will perfect your flow as you make the big walk.
If you decide to handle the food for your wedding, Costco and other wholesale stores are the way to go. If you shop at a wholesale store, you will get much more for your dollar than the regular supermarket. Think about asking people you know to assist with the food costs.
Use a friend or family member's property for your wedding. If you know anyone with a large enough backyard, you can save a lot of money on your wedding. Offer to pay someone to come in ahead of time and after the event to do the cleaning for them, but that should be your only cost.
If you are assigning any guest to give a speech at your wedding, have him rehearse the speech with you beforehand to ensure that it is appropriate. There will be people of all ages present, and what may seem funny to a younger person may not be humorous to an older crowd.
Getting married soon? Don't even think about crash dieting to fit into your dress. This will only make you lightheaded and dehydrating, and it could even make you ill. You would hate to faint while standing at the altar. Purchase a dress that will hug your curves and fit you well the way you are.
See if you can use a loved one's property for your big day. If someone you know owns a large piece of property, like a farm or a place with a large backyard, you can cut down a major cost. Offer to pay someone to come in ahead of time and after the event to do the cleaning for them, but that should be your only cost.
You can rent jewelery and diamonds if you wish to look at your best but cannot afford to. This gives you that dazzling look you are seeking for a fraction of the cost, which allows you to stay well within your budget.
Pick a reasonable dress that you won't have to starve to get into. All you are going to do is tire very easily and not have the energy to enjoy the big day you have been torturing yourself to plan. You definitely don't want to end up fainting on your big day. You would do better to choose a dress that has a corset back, as this allows you to adjust the fit with out the need for tailoring.
When choosing a cosmetic artist for the big day, look at samples of his or her prior work. Do you like their style? Make sure it's to your liking. You don't want to be stuck with a bad makeup artist.
Add special little decorative touches to all of the element in your wedding. Use the same ribbon that you use for the bouquet in the centerpieces. Your wedding will be perfect when you add in the small details.
Before choosing a photographer for your wedding day, browse around for ones with the most skill and experience. You wouldn't want bad wedding pictures. For advice on great photographers in your area, you can check out reviews online or ask family members if they know of one.
Makeup Artist
If you're a bride that's passionate about fashion and luxury, you can add some pizzazz to your bouquet with crystals, rhinestones, or even diamonds. You can use small pieces of costume jewelry, heat-fixed or adhesive crystals, or perhaps a treasured heirloom. For a consistent look, all of the stones should coordinate in terms of cut, color, and size.
Look at samples of past work before hiring a makeup artist. Do you like their style? So choose a makeup artist carefully and consider having them do your makeup in a test session weeks before the wedding. You don't want to be stuck with a bad makeup artist.
If you conduct your wedding in a vacation spot, have a basketful of themed goodies delivered to each guest's room. This gift basket can include helpful items such as sunscreen, sunglasses, disposable cameras and tourist maps that add a nice touch of flavor to the vacation. One piece that will really make this idea a hit with everyone is to include a restaurant guide so that all your guests are able to find options that they enjoy.
It is a good idea to plan for an even number of guests at each table, since people tend to pair off in conversations. Grouping your tables according to age is one way to seat people with others that they will have things in common with.
Check to make sure that you can alter the lighting of the venue where the wedding reception will take place. While this may appear trivial, you want to have this option, perhaps for your first dance, then brighter for the remainder of your ceremony. Be sure to ask the if the venue has this feature before you commit to it.
You should probably keep your wedding dress at the store until the last minute. The likelihood of something happening to it is much higher than if you leave it at the bridal store! If the bridal shop takes care of it, you can be sure that it is going to be in perfect condition for your wedding.
You can have a special relative or friend become ordained online so that they can perform your wedding vows. This can make your ceremony more personal, and can save you on an officiant. You should check the legality of this option in your area before you make a decision.
Children who are participating in your ceremony should have comfortable clothes. Select loose, soft, natural fabrics that allow children to move around without any discomfort. Break in new shoes first, and make sure they are comfortable. Taking care of these small details will allow children to focus on participation in the wedding instead of fussing with their attire.
For instance, consider a menu of contemporary fusion with popular dishes. You can add personal touches and twists like culture specific desserts and beverages, or even edible wedding favors.
If you are having a wedding outside, you need to have a plan in case it rains. You can rent several tents or look for a location that has a community hall, in addition to an outdoor space. By placing wooden planks onto the ground, your guests can have their footwear protected from the mud.
Remember that you'll be in a different environment than you're used to–you might not be able to find your favorite flowers if your wedding destination's climate is very different than the climate in your home state. Communicate with florist and wedding professionals where you're getting married to discover the flowers that will be blooming and available at that time.
Create a list of what you want to have at your wedding, ranking items by importance. Some people will have the venue as the most important item while others might list the guest list. Put the most important things for you at the top. By creating a budget based on your priorities, you can direct the proper amount of money to what you really need to have a perfect day.
If you do not plan to serve your guests dinner at the reception site, consider foregoing multiple tables in favor of rented furniture. Things like cushy sectional couches, chaises and lounges can provide a great way for your guests to interact. Plush seating arrangements encourages comfort and relaxation among your guests, meaning you can even partition differing lounge environments through your reception site.
You can have beautiful arrangements on a budget by opting to place potted plants throughout your ceremony and at reception sites, instead of ordering expensive floral arrangements. Seek out plants in lovely glazed pots, or make a simple stone look elegant with some ribbons and paint. When the wedding is over, the guests can then take those plants home with them as a favor and have a constant reminder of the new couple.
If you plan to have an outdoor ceremony, be sure to take weather (sun or rain) into account to ensure happy guests. Book a location that also has a inside building or rent some tents. Another thing you can do is install planks, so guests don't get their shoes muddy.
Gift registries are a tradition. To keep things peaceful, be sure guests don't feel obligated to buy you something. Give them a wide range of options and price ranges when it comes to gifts. Your guests should feel that their gifts, no matter how modest, are welcomed and appreciated.
If you plan a destination wedding, consider your guests' travel arrangements. It may be that guests will already have vacations booked for the days, and they need lead time to accommodate your day. Sending out save the date cards or invitations, if possible, at least 8 months in advance, will allow for just about any arrangements your guests will need to make.
You want your photographer to capture your event perfectly. Discuss your photographer's vision of the day with him or her. Be sure you understand the process they use to capture all the important moments. You want their style to mesh with what you have planned and your vision.
When you are beginning your wedding plans, make a list of your priorities. For example, if you care more about where you're having the wedding than who is attending it, put your desired venue ahead of your guest list. By having a plan of what is most important to you, you can set aside funding for each item and ensure you get the wedding of your dreams.
See to it that your tuxedo fits you, if you're the groom. Get other people's opinions when you are attempting to choose a tuxedo. There may be photographs taken, so look your best at your wedding. This will be an event to remember!
If the bride's happiness is the ultimate priority for her big day, it is essential that the wedding meets her standards. If she's stressed about planning, and it's a less than perfect wedding, it can destroy her. Be sure to get the bride's approval for all major arrangements well in advance of the big day to avoid last-minute meltdowns.
When you need to put together a wedding on the cheap, you can! Do not spend more than you can afford on a wedding. You can make some things yourself, such as invitations, and ask loved ones to help. You can also make wedding favors, flower arrangements and save money on the venue by having the affair at someone's home.
Consider your bridesmaids needs when choosing their gowns. You do not want to have disagreements and drama. Pick something affordable that goes with your wedding theme and that all the bridesmaids like. This is part of your wedding making everyone feel important and involved so that things go smoothly.
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It's always a nice touch if you can write your wedding vows yourself. Do not copy these as they should be personal. Composing your own wedding vows makes this ceremony more meaningful and romantic, improving the intimacy between you. This will help your event become very happy and emotional.
When deciding on wedding decorations, and particularly floral arrangements, remember to take into account the location of your wedding. Detailed floral arrangements may be fine for an indoor wedding, but would not be suitable for windy or outdoor ceremonies. You will need to set up special equipment if you are having your wedding on the beach.
Save money on your wedding by using an alternative to flowers. Use a ribbon in place the wreath for the flower girl. Rather than using real flowers for decorations, use silk ones. Silk flowers will last forever and are cheaper. You can also reuse the flowers at the reception, if you have someone that can move them.
If you follow these tips, your wedding will be an event that will impress your guests. Your special day is something that will take careful planning. The groom and bride deserve to have their dream wedding.
Bride should take the time to learn how to pose for pictures without awkwardness and give lots of great looking smiles by practicing in front of a mirror. It also guarantees that others will not notice any nervousness and all of the photographic memories show you beaming from ear to ear. If you practice enough, you can have the perfect smile for the day.


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Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has claimed that there's extra to come back after his spectacular debut for the Gunners in opposition to Everton on Saturday night.
It took the Gabon ahead simply 37 minutes to get off the mark for his new membership as he scored his facet's fourth objective within the 5-1 demolition of the Toffees on Saturday, and talking after the sport the striker claimed that there's lots extra to come back from him in an Arsenal equipment, as quoted by the membership's official website.
"In fact I used to be actually comfortable. We received the sport within the first half and the second was a bit completely different. We're all comfortable at this time.
"Is there extra to come back from me? I feel so!"
The Gabon worldwide has a observe file of starting rapidly at a brand new membership, and in 2013 in his first Bundesliga recreation with Borussia Dortmund he scored a hat-trick within the Four-Zero away victory in opposition to Augsburg.
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Willow Glen Poetry Project co-host, Christine Richardson, introduced October's featured poet, Kelly Cressio-Moeller, with these words:
In August 2007, a poet took her seat among the small group of chairs in the back corner of Willow Glen Books. She had never before attended a Willow Glen Poetry reading. To assuage her fears she signed up to read first for Open Mic. When the hostess Jean Emerson called Kelly Cressio-Moeller, those of us lucky enough to be in the audience received our first gift of Kelly's presence, her elegant delivery, and her exceptional poetry. She read a beautiful poem about the artist Ruth Asawa. This well crafted poem, as dozens of other poems, was later published in one of the many fine online journals and printed editions that have accepted her work: Rattle, Poet Lore, Zyzzyva, to name just a few.
Kelly has been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and in one year alone was nominated by three different journals for a Pushcart Prize.
A few months ago she completed her first full length manuscript. It was recently selected as a semifinalist for the Crab Orchard Review First Book Award.
All of Kelly's interests and abilities inform her poetry: from her passion for all kinds of music — she is a drummer — lyric, cadence, and voice, from her knowledge of art history and painting — imagery and allusion, from her endeavors as an artist and photographer — eye for placement and detail, and out of her love for classic fountain pens and ink — simply, words. Tonight Kelly is here to engage us with those words, so carefully chosen, arranged and delivered to us as gifts, as that first gift of her first poem read that August night 8 years ago.
We cannot thank Kelly enough for being such an integral, proficient, contributing member of our Willow Glen Poetry community for all of these years.
It is with deep joy I present this outstanding poet and my friend, Kelly Cressio-Moeller.


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I remember stitching it in the truck during the 2-day drive back to Kenora to organize the moving van. We left our kids with Ned's sister so that they could continue to attend their new schools.
I remember the beautiful views of autumn colour along the north shore of Lake Superior.
I remember quiet time with my husband in the vehicle as we drove back to the house I had loved.
We talked and looked out the window.
The text in the quilt borders is by Diane Ackerman from her book A Natural History of the Senses. It reads:
When you consider something like death, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, and care for one another too deeply, in an effort to know life.
Ralph Beney.
It became part of the permanent Canadian Fibre art collection and has been in the vaults of that gallery for over 20 years. Hard to believe.
the entirety of the collection this winter. The launch is next week and there will be a symposium about the collection in January.
I am so proud that Hold Me is part of this particular collection.
Also, my work is in permanent collections of two other art galleries, both in northern Ontario. Click on their titles for more info. When Asked: She Replied and Canadian Pioneer.


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My mom arrived to visit for a few weeks and escape the snow and cold of Chicago. For our first weekend trip, I suggested Tombstone and Bisbee. I had briefly visited these towns last winter and really wanted to explore them more this year.
After checking into our RV park in Tombstone, we drove down to Bisbee for some shopping and dinner. Unfortunately, we had gotten a rather late start and there were no dinner reservations left for the place we really wanted to try so we ended up at The Bisbee Grille which actually turned out to be a pretty nice place in it's own right! We discovered a great new wine, a red blend called Primal Roots, that was outstanding. Can't wait to find it again somewhere:
Also enjoyed a great appetizer of mushrooms sautéed in garlic with a light covering of cheese, and some excellent seafood pasta entrées.
The next day, strong winds kept us home at the RV most of the time, but we finally got motivated enough to go explore the town of Tombstone for a few hours in the afternoon. The downtown strip certainly feels more authentic than Boot Hill in Dodge City did, but it was certainly a tourist trap to be sure.
At least in Tombstone, though, the hawkers were all fittingly dressed in their old west attire and tried to look as authentic as possible.
There were cowboys headed towards the O.K. Corral--
The Sheriff keeping the peace:
A tambourine man providing entertainment:
A bar room hussie coming back to work (toting a decidedly unauthentic bag of snack chips!)
And teams of horses pulling stagecoaches (full of 21st century tourists, of course!)
Mom wanted to see the World's Largest Rose Bush, and even after learning there was a $5 fee to see it, she still went in. Of course, after coming out she said it was likely only worth about $2. So, when we rounded the corner to the famous Bird Cage Theatre and learned they wanted a full $10 each to see it, we decided to pass.
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Caucasian Wedding-dress
Dear all,
A bit out of topic for a forum on Oriental textiles, but not completely.
Meet my last ethnographic, Caucasian-related, acquisition.
This is a silk Wedding-dress, probably from the Lak village of Balkhar, Daghestan
( http://www.fallingrain.com/world/RS/17/Balkhar.html )
decorated with silver ornamentations inlayed with niello by Avar craftsmen, late 19th century.
Actually what I just wrote is copied from the caption of the following plate:
from Tchirkov's book "Daghestan Decorative Art". It's so similar that I presume it could apply to mine too.
It seems that the Daghestanis had the tradition of sewing these pendants, belt buckles, earrings and other silver jewels, decorated also with silver coins, corals, cornelians, turquoises and colored glass, on dresses for special occasions.
More views:
And a side view, showing one of the strange diminutive shaving-brushes sewn under the junction of the sleeves.
Any idea of what they were for?
Have you seen anything similar to this dress? I'm referring particularly to our Israeli participants. Here in Jordan I saw in the past several Daghestani dresses decorated in the same way, but none as beautiful and complete as this.
Hi Filiberto
That is a very cool garment.
The design in the region of the neck is vaguely reminiscent of those embroidered on Nigerian men's robes known as agbada. Probably just a coincidence, but it struck me as soon as I saw your photos.
I wonder whether the attachments are put there to distract the evil eye (malocchio in the languages of the Caucasus )
Distracting the evil eye is said to be an important function of various brightly colored motifs on textiles and adornments throughout western and central Asia, and figures prominently in embroideries from Daghestan.
Steve Price
Filiberto -
I like the "dress." The jewelry resembles some Turkmen pieces.
If this is a wedding dress, it might be good to put up in this thread the one image I think we have of a Caucasian wedding yurt.
Christoph Huber offered this once when we were talking about Turkmen engsis.
Probably from a different area. Christoph estimated it to be a North-Caucasian Nogaian wedding-yurt.
R. John Howe
A pretty dramatic door.
Those shaving brushes look like cosmetic applicators. The red stuff - rouge?
Just a guess but your wife or gf should agree.
Hi Filiberto,
I think we need to develop a new smiley for "amicably envious". Congratulations on a really interesting find.
As you noted in your post, it's the quality of the work that makes this item stand out. I think I see some nice niello work on several of those amulets, which remided me of a belt we bought some time ago that was described by the seller as Persian.
However, there is a Cyrillic hallmark on the back of the belt tip and I have always wondered if it is actually Caucasian or Russian. I have little knowledge of old Persian and/or Caucasian silver, and have found very few references.
From the "for-what-it's-worth" department, here are a couple images of the belt. Also, a picture (from about 20 years ago) of a couple 20th century Central Asian chapans with lots of metal. Note the plethora of triangular amulets on the one at the right of the image.
Mabrook on the dress,
Chuck Wagner
Don Ruyle
Hello Filiberto:
That looks like some Find! But looks like a storage and display nightmare. It's hard enough to do the dusting.
Don Ruyle
Thanks guys,
About the malocchio as we say in Caucasian Italy, it could be an explanation. Surely the Muskas, the triangular ornaments, are talismans against the evil eye. We find their design on rugs too. Their origin is Turkmen, I think - Asian for sure. It seems that also the coins have the function of enforcing the anti evil eye effect.
But do not underestimate also the magical power of jewelry on the feminine psyche.
Yes, the jewelry resembles some Turkmen pieces. The photo of the North-Caucasian Nogaian wedding-yurt shows decorations in a very central Asian style. No wonder: the Nogai were people of Turkic language; nomads separated from the Golden Horde in the fourteenth century.
I don't know what is the red color. Henna, perhaps. But I don't think they used henna in Caucasus.
Nice belt. If it has Cyrillic hallmark it's not Persian. It could be either Russian in Caucasian stile or Caucasian.
IMHO it's Russian, for the following reasons: the style of the niello is more bold and rounded of the Daghestani one, I never saw this style of belt, and the back of the Caucasian belt tips are generally less decorated than the front. On the other hand it could be also from another area, like Georgia or Azerbaijan, though. I have no knowledge of their styles.
To give you an idea, this is my Daghestani belt collection – the top and bottom left are men's belts:
And these are examples of Russian hallmarks. I have found some of them on my collection:
Typical Moscow marks up to 1896:
Marks for 1896-1908
Marks for 1908-1917
You are right. Yesterday I had to store the dress, after it spent two weeks on a sofa.
I cannot hang it, either for the dust – this is a very dusty country – and because the ornaments are too heavy, and I'm afraid they will damage the fabric with the time.
I have to find or build a horizontal display, like a table with a drawer and a glass top.
Or a Plexiglas box with legs.
amulettes et porte bonheur
Bonjour Filiberto
Nice dress, well preserved from any negative influence as evil, bad eye and so on.
There is a good book that Sheila Paine wrote recently on this subject. I'll send you bibliographic datas about it.
I have a turkmen dress with non functional sleeves. These sleeves are closed and attached in the back with threads joining a tiny triangular material bag in which there are, I suppose, some magical herbs. I'll send you pictures of it.
Amicales salutations
Here are the datas on the book
author : Sheila Paine
isbn : 1594770255
title : AMULETS,SACRED CHARMS OF POWER AND PROTECTION
Several years ago she had made a book about embroidered textiles (interesting, in spite of a severe critic in Hali !)
An other book on this subject (I have not seen it yet, but amazon recommanded it to me !).
author : Barbara Black Koltuv
title : AMULETS, TALISMANS AND MAGICAL JEWELLERY
Bonne journée
Thank you Louis,
I should learn on the subject, it could be useful (one never knows)...
Re: amulettes et porte bonheur
Originally posted by Louis_dubreuil
I have a turkmen dress with non functional sleeves. These sleeves are closed and attached in the back with threads joining a tiny triangular material bag in which there are, I suppose, some magical herbs.
A Hallmark Moment
Hi Filiberto,
You appear to have some resources available to you that have fairly specific info on hallmarks. So, if you don't mind, would you take a look at this and see if the MA mark appears in your material ?
Chuck Wagner
Hi Chuck,
Here you can find a lot of stuff. I hope it can help.
Regards from a snowy Amman,
Bonjour Filiberto
Here are, as promised , pictures of the Chypry (turkmen wedding dess) with false sleeves attached with an amuletic device.
Uzbeks also use this type of cloth with false sleeves. This is the Parandja, a kind of mantle the women put over their dress for visiting friends. There is all of a ceremonial attached with the use of this cloth, with forbidden uses.
Meilleures salutations à tous
The missing parandja images are now in Louis's post.


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Set in a beautiful 17-acre park, this stunning Renaissance mansion is in the heart of Northern Brittany, near the Pink Granite Coast. With its well-preserved original stone walls and floors, and impressive spiral staircases, Le Manoir du Cleuziou presents an elegant setting that has retained its original charm. The Manoir offers a privileged location from which you can enjoy Brittany's delightful cuisine and magnificent landscape, including the Pink Granite Coast's sandy beaches and the Pointe du Raz headland.


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I love to stream music while at work. My excuse - ipod does not allow me to transfer the music from it. I can only add music to my ipod from a computer not the other way around. So, I can't transfer my favorite music from my home computer to my work computer without burning a cd and bringing it in.
So, I've recently discovered this great site called www.pandora.com. Pandora is site that the Music Genome Project started. I like it because I can create different stations based on my mood. Songs stay in the station by you voting on whether or not you like it. Songs are also suggested by Pandora based on the type of music and other similarities. So, I can have one station with the music my brother would listen to (read previous post - My Recent Music Addiction) and many others based on other preferences.
The other cool thing is that I can go home at the end of the day, go online and pick my station from Pandora to listen to.
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Here are a couple of centerpieces to be produced for upcoming weddings.
This sample centerpiece is for an upcoming wedding at Tower Hill.
We will be creating them in orange, hot pink and lime green!
Coming in June to Charter Oak Country Club in Hudson. Romantic combination of soft pink, green, cream and pale coral.
These will be stunning!


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