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What My Child Is Reading–March 31, 2012
Smarty's Kindergarten teacher certainly knows her well. Smarty absolutely loved the first book in Mrs Piggle-Wiggle series and was sad to return it to Mrs J, but she was very happy to discover that there are more books to read. We now read together Hello, Mrs Piggle-Wiggle, and Smarty is very upset on the nights when we don't have time to read through 20-25 pages of one chapter. I liked the first book better, but it's still a good, light-hearted read with a clear message of right and wrong behavior.
I discovered Rebecca's Passover last week in the library and brought it back this year. Passover coincides with Easter this year, so I figured that we will read Passover book this week and Easter books that actually tell the story of Christ and not of bunnies and eggs next week. I like Rebecca's Passover, because it gives both the background for a celebration and explains celebration itself through the eyes of a young girl. Age - 4+
I read The Bunny Who Found Easter by Charlotte Zolotow/Helen Craig to Smarty on the night when I was not in the mood to read a long chapter from Mrs Piggle Wiggle. She was pouting but gradually started to enjoy this simple story for younger kids. It has little to do with Easter and a lot more to do with seasonal changes in nature. This book is written in rich descriptive language and might be useful for a lesson on adjectives or on seasons. Age - 3+
I wonder sometimes what is the design principle behind Smarty's K reading program. Mostly the books are good, but they have widely different reading levels and age targets. This week it was The Very Busy Spider that she read when she was 2. No wonder she wrote This book is boring in her required one sentence book report. Age – under 5 years old


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On Transmedia and Transformative Politics: An Interview with MIT's Sasha Costanza-Chock (Part One)/
I have had a chance to get to know Sasha Costanza-Chock through the years -- first as a PhD candidate at USC Annenberg, finishing up his degree as I was arriving here, and now, more recently, as a faculty member at the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, where he has been active in the Center for Civic Media. I have developed enormous respect for Costanza-Chock's skills as a scholar and commitment as an activist. He is someone whose work contributes much to our understanding of emerging forms of political activism, which he has variously characterized as Transmedia or Transformative Mobilization. His earliest work centered around the immigrant rights movement in Los Angles and has culminated in Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement, published earlier this year by MIT Press. More recently, he has expanded his focus to deal with the Occupy movement and even more recently, to do work on GLBT activism.
Costanza-Chock's work is deeply grounded in the life of the communities he is researching -- we might think of his approach as being as much about collaboration, researching with, as it is investigating, researching about, and in this interview, he has much to say about the ethical principles he thinks should govern academic researchers doing work on and with oppressed peoples. I was lucky enough to have been able to read his original dissertation and we drew extensively on his work for the section on activism in Spreadable Media and it has been an important influence on our thinking as we developed By Any Media Necessary, my team's forthcoming book on contemporary youth and the civic imagination.
I was delighted, then, when he agreed to do this interview, and even more pleased when I read his substantive, thoughtful, and challenging responses to my questions. You are in for a treat.
You describe this project as emerging from a process of participatory research. In this case, what shape did this participatory research take? How would you characterize your relationship to the movements you discuss here?
Thank you so much for inviting me to your blog! I really appreciate the opportunity. I should start by making clear that while I'm informed by Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a research stance, Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! isn't itself a participatory research project. I say that because the research agenda and questions that the book addresses are mine, as are the instruments, the analytical process, the conclusions and recommendations. The questions I explore in the book, about the relationship between social movements and the rapidly changing media ecology, are not questions that first and foremost came from the immigrant rights movement groups I worked with and researched.
In PAR, joint inquiry centers the research agenda of the community. The community partner defines the area of investigation, and, if there is an outside researcher at all, they work together to develop the research questions, choose methods, develop instruments, collect observations, and analyze the findings together, in order to inform the next stage of action. This is the iterative cycle of reflection and action, built around situated and contingent knowledge, that Dewey talked about as joint inquiry, and that Freire described in terms of praxis.
That said, during the time I worked on the book (2006-2014), I did take part in a number of participatory research and participatory design processes with immigrant rights organizations. For example, while I was a doctoral student at USC Anneberg I had the good fortune to take Sandra Ball-Rokeach's course on engaged scholarship (Comm 653, Research, Practice, and Social Change), a course that she co-teaches with Barbara Osborn from the Liberty Hill Foundation. That course provided a crucial space for me to learn about the underpinnings, history, theory, and challenges of engaged research, while working closely with the Garment Worker Center to co-develop the Radio Tijera project.
Radio Tijera was an audio production workshop, pirate radio station, and CD series that mixed popular music with personal stories, history, and know your rights PSAs. It was produced by garment workers from the Garment Worker Center in LA's Fashion District, with support from simmi gandi, Amanda Garces, and myself. Audio pieces from Radio Tijeras are still available online.
It was participatory design that felt really grounded in the needs of the community and the organization: hundreds of the CDs we produced were handed out and passed from person to person in the garment sweatshops in downtown LA, where many people listen to music all day, in part because in some shops they are told by the boss that they're not allowed to talk to one another. The CDs (we called them Discos Volantes, a Spanish language double pun on 'Discs,' 'Flyers,' as in an event flyer, and 'Flying Saucers') were used as an organizing tool to bring a number of new workers into the orbit of GWC, where they got involved in struggles for higher wages, safer working conditions, and human dignity in the garment industry. Steve Anderson from the Institute for Multimedia Literacy and the Cinema school also guided an independent study with me that gave me space to do community based multimedia work.
And while at Annenberg I had the chance to work with the Mobile Voices project, with all of the folks from the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA) and the team from USC, led by Francois Bar, which used participatory research and design to build the award-winning VozMob project . All of this work, and other participatory research, design, and media-making projects that I describe in more detail in the book, informed my understanding of the immigrant rights movement, grounded my research in real world experience as an active ally, and helped me build trust and credibility with many of the immigrant rights activists I later interviewed.
But I'm emphasizing that the book itself is not PAR, because it seems like a lot of researchers from the academy pay lip service to participatory research (and participatory design). Many are honestly excited by the idea, and that's an important shift that should be supported. Unfortunately, there's also sometimes a tendency to run a workshop or two with a community based partner and start calling the process participatory.
In the worst cases, this can actually end up masking an extractive process, where knowledge, ideas, design possibilities, and so on are generated by community members, whose 'participation' is limited to particular stages of the process (for example, brainstorming or taking part in a design charette). Participation in this mode produces 'raw materials' that are taken away by outside researchers and designers to be reworked and synthesized in ways that generate benefits (publications, products, attribution for concepts, and so on) that accrue primarily to the research or design professionals. The extractive process is usually not intentional (although occasionally it is, that's another conversation), but it does do damage, not least in terms of the time and energy it takes up from people with scarce resources.
Happily, that's the worst case :) There is also a growing community of people who are working to advance strong, grounded, meaningful approaches to participatory research in a wide range of fields. For example, the UCLA Labor Center does an incredible job at this, as does the Public Science Project at CUNY. There are vibrant spaces outside of the academy, such as the Research Justice track at the Allied Media Conference, that are hubs for community based researchers. My partner Chris Schweidler has been working with this network for years, and is now developing and sharing concrete tools for participatory research through the worker-owned cooperative Research Action Design (RAD), of which I'm proud to be a founding member and worker/owner.
You suggest you want to move us beyond current debates about social movements and social media. What do you think partisans in those debates get wrong and what does your book offer as an alternative?
If I had to boil it down I'd say there are at least three places where most of the current debates go wrong. The 'offline/online' distinction, the 'clicktivism' conversation, and the technocentrism of most analysis of social movements and ICTs. There's also the failure to focus on the transformative power of media making in a social movement context, where one of the most important outcomes is that people, through making media, become personally, deeply transformed in the process.
As for the first point, the 'online/offline' debate seems to be finally (if slowly) dying. As the net becomes fully integrated into everyday life, and as internet enabled mobile devices become more widespread, it's become increasingly clear that people who participate in social movements do so both 'offline' and 'online,' and don't tend to think about their own participation in these terms at all. If you care about something, and take part in a social movement, you aren't sitting there as you share something on social media 'Oh, now I'm an online activist!' When you go to a 'face to face' rally or protest action, you're not thinking 'I'm taking part in offline social movement activity!' You're probably taking pictures at the 'offline' action and sharing them via social media, or sending SMS to friends about it. Since I'm a fan of grounded theory that draws from, reflects, and is useful to the ways people think about their own activity, I've never thought the online/offline debates were very interesting.
More recently, analyses of survey data are increasingly supportive of the idea that the distinction doesn't hold much water. Most (but not all!) people who are politically active are active both 'online' and 'off,' (whatever 'offline' means for most people today). I'm not articulating this well; I'd recommend Paulo Gerbaudo's excellent book Tweets and the Streets for a more lucid breakdown of the point.
For a counterargument, check out Oser, Hooghe, and Marien, 2013, who review the 2008 Pew data that was analyzed by Schlozman et al in 2010; they use latent class factor analysis of 5 offline and 5 online measures of political participation, and find that there are clusters of people who are politically active both online and offline, a cluster of people who are politically active just offline (they don't have much internet access), and a (majority) cluster of people who aren't politically active at all (online or offline). They do identify a small cluster who are more politically active according to online measures than offline measures, and they take that finding to imply that there is indeed a useful distinction between online and offline activists.
However, I read their findings to primarily indicate that most people are politically active or they're not, both online and off, unless they don't have much internet access. Hirzalla and Zoonen find that for young people, distinguishing between online/offline may not make much sense (Hirzalla, F and Van Zoonen, EA (2011). "Beyond the Online/Offline Divide: How Youth's Online and Offline Civic Activities Converge", Social Science Computer Review, online first December 4, Social Science Computer Review, 29(4), pp.481-498.)
Gibson and Cantijoch (2013) draw similar conclusions from a factor analysis of a 2010 UK survey with 18 questions about online and offline political participation (Rachel Gibson and Marta Cantijoch. "Conceptualizing and measuring participation in the age of the internet: Is online political engagement really different to offline?" Journal of Politics 75, no. 3(2013) : 707-716. eScholarID:178410 | DOI:10.1017/S0022381613000431). Here I'm summarizing a longer discussion of this literature in soon-to-be-published work by Benjamin Bowyer and Joseph Kahn.
For the second point, I also think we can move beyond the so-called 'clicktivism' or 'slacktivism' question, most famously raised by Malcolm Gladwell, of whether the internet weakens social movements because it allows people to think they have done something meaningful with a mouse click. This mistaken debate is easily sidestepped by talking to a few real world organizers and activists, who learned quickly and early on about the ladder of engagement, where your job is to connect with people who take a small action (say, clicking 'share'), find the subset of those people who are willing to take a slightly larger action, then identify the subset of those people who might be interested in themselves becoming organizers, and so on. The more sophisticated version of this argument is about whether people are now abandoning social movement organizations and political parties, which had staying power, in favor of networked activism, which can move quickly but is often a 'flash in the pan.'
That's interesting. If it's true that people are abandoning deeper engagement in political, civic, and social movement activity, and focusing primarily on networked forms of participation, then for the most part, institutional actors just need to learn how to weather the storm - not a good outcome for democracy. On the other hand, how do we reconcile the argument that people no longer want to participate in 'real world' organizations, with the continued mushrooming of those organizations? Just look at figures for the long term growth in the number and size of 501(c)3s over time, for example (there are around 250,000 in the US, according to the Urban Institute.
It's also arguable that we're entering a 'golden age' of movement activity, where people participate in networked activism, get politicized quickly, and later join the ever more diverse array of movement organizations, where they connect and stay for the long haul of institutional change.
How about the question about whether ICTs make social movements 'more participatory?' To me, in this frame technology adoption is conflated with forms of democratic participation. In other words, an alternate hypothesis might run as follows: there are strong or weak, top down or bottom up, institutional or participatory, forms of democracy. Any particular institution, organization, or network may be evaluated along these lines, independently of the communication technologies that are popular (widespread) at a given moment. It still seems to me to be an understudied question: what, if any, is the relationship between the dominant forms of technology and the strength or weakness of participation in democratic institutions?
For one thing, some indicators of democratic participation (voting rates, for example) imply that widespread adoption of the internet produce a steady decline in democratic participation, although I believe that's correlation, not causation. In fact the height of democratic participation may have been during the age when newspapers and radio (top down, broadcast, one way, for the most part, although not entirely) were dominant!
For another, we now know that networked ICTs are quite excellent tools for top down communicative processes, like political parties, corporations, or military organizations. For example, the Obama campaign's masterful use of the net and social media incorporated participatory elements, but was ultimately a top down show that was shut down as soon as he won the election.
More broadly, I just don't know why there is so much writing that is platform-centric. This goes as follows: pick a platform, then study whether activists are using it for something. Then, when you find that they are, write about how the affordances of the platform are so enabling for a new generation of activists. Really?
To me, it makes so much more sense to start with social movements. Start with the activists. Pick a movement, connect with it, engage with it, and then ask questions about how the activists, organizers, and everyday people in that movement are using media and ICTs. What do people do with these tools? They use them to create and circulate narratives, ideas, proposals, and demands, to invite and incite, to get people out in the streets and onto the net, to build the power of their movement.
Real world social movements aren't platform specific. They aren't making a 'Twitter Revolution.' They're using any media necessary. They're engaged in transmedia organizing.
Sasha Costanza-Chock is Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. He's a scholar, activist, and media-maker who works on co-design and media justice. Sasha is Co-Principal Investigator at the MIT Center for Civic Media, creator of the MIT Codesign Studio, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. His book Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement was published by the MIT Press, 2014. Sasha is a board member of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based nonprofit that cultivates media strategies for a more just, creative, and collaborative world. He's also a worker/owner at Research Action Design, a worker-owned cooperative that uses community-led research, transformative media organizing, technology development, and collaborative design to build the power of grassroots social movements.

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Newly created role places McNulty at lead of international business growth for agency network
NEW YORK – March 15, 2013: Today, Momentum Worldwide CEO/Chairman Chris Weil has appointed Kevin McNulty to the newly created position of President, International. The role places McNulty – a member of the Momentum team since 1995 – at the forefront of the agency network's business growth, product, strategy, development and marketing across EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
Prior, McNulty served as Momentum's global Chief Marketing Officer and will manage the responsibilities of that role until they are transitioned in the near future. McNulty reports to Weil as does Donnalyn Smith, head of Momentum's North America operations.
"Kevin's passion for our agency, his great global relationships and his untiring commitment to our clients' business make Kevin the perfect individual to lead our continued growth across our international markets," said Weil.
As CMO, he directed all communications, branding, marketing and new business activities for the company's offices in 50+ countries. During his tenure at Momentum, McNulty has built international experience with previous leadership positions managing the network's Asia Pacific and EMEA regional operations. One of the original purveyors of "experiential branding," Kevin formed ad:vent in 1992, which was subsequently acquired by McCann-Erickson and folded into Momentum in 1996. Kevin started his career at J. Walter Thompson, working in the Los Angeles and New York offices.
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How I Avoided Getting Taken by Scammers
This message is a warning to all business owners, especially solopreneurs: there are bad people out there and they are always coming up with new ways to take you.
This message is a warning to all business owners, especially solopreneurs: there are bad people out there and they are always coming up with new ways to take you.
Unpacking and talking about Iblazr2 WIRELESS LED Flash.
I May Have Left The Photo Retail Business, But I Still Love Photography It was exactly on my birthday in August, two years ago, that I signed the papers that allowed me to exit the photo retail business. I found a sense of irony that it happened by […]
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Matt Sweetwood, a LUMIX sponsored photographer, introduces you to the new LUMIX DMC LX10.
Please enjoy this video where I discuss the re-invention of the camera store and photography business I operated for 28 years and my new role as US CEO of the new social media platform, beBee.com – and why personal branding is a crucial part of being successful in today's connected world.
If you are running a photo retail store, I don't have to tell you 2016 was a difficult year for photo retailers. If natural disasters killing camera production and supply wasn't bad enough, we had Amazon adding same-day delivery to major markets—trying to compete directly with the instant gratification one gets from buying locally.
Communicating in an entertaining and informative way is key to making it all work. So in "Profit from Education III," we'll look at the 15 steps necessary to effectively market your education program and turn that classroom into a profit maker.
In Profit from Education II, I address the steps, tricks and techniques a photo retailer should take to build an effective and winning education curriculum.
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Last night, i got word that Fresno County, long a bastion of conservative Republicans, had officially turned blue for the first time in a quarter century. Fresno County now officially has more registered Democrats than Republicans!
I grew up in the city of Visalia in neighboring Tulare County and am very happy and excited that our northern neighbor is a nice light blue. Having grown up as a Latino and openly gay, it wasn't easy. At the time when i was going to school there, there was still evidence of lingering racism and much more animosity towards the LGBT community. But the fact that Fresno County is now more Democrat gives me hope that future young people in similar situations as i was will not feel as constrained by the views of their community.
Democrats have long been allies of the Latino and LGBT community and will continue to be so for a long time. With an increasing number of Democrats registering in these conservative areas, we can hope to elect more moderate and liberal Democrats who will work to protect these communities and make it easier and more comfortable for them to be proud of who they are and what they want to accomplish.
Of course, while Fresno County now has around 200+ advantage in Democrat voter registration, Tulare County is still solidly Republican both in registration and voting record. Similarly, Fresno County has still voted Republican in the last election and many before. But what this means is that the trend is upward towards a blue region. Enthusiasm and hope are never forsaken commodities.


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Opportunities in the breakfast daypart continue to drive innovation. The NPD Group tells us that U.S. consumers made more than 12.5 billion breakfast visits in 2013—a 3 percent gain over 2012. Total morning meal visits are predicted to grow by 7 percent over the next nine years. So what do all of these consumers want for breakfast? Convenience, speed and portability are the holy trinity, but flavor, as usual, trumps everything. Brash, bold flavors are pushing their way into breakfast from street food mash-ups and from both Latin American and Asian pantries. Better-for-you finds a seat at the breakfast table through both whole grains and fresh produce. And like every other part of foodservice, successful breakfast menus are reinterpreting familiar flavors and forms into craveable, memorable and flavor-forward dishes.
1. Asian Inspired
As with most areas of the menu, Asian flavors are seeping into breakfast, too. But here more than elsewhere, they're expressed through accents and finishes rather than authentic replications. Perhaps on the coattails of the hot oatmeal trend, congee (Asian porridge) is hovering on the fringe: Ba Bar in Seattle lists a breakfast offering of Pork Belly Congee with mushroom, ginger, soft-boiled egg and housemade devil doughnut. The Malaysian kaya toast is also making inroads on the West Coast—at Mud Hen Tavern in Los Angeles, diners can order Coconut Kaya with a soft egg and dark soy. Korean kimchi extends into breakfast with offerings like Bib Im Bop at Tweet in Chicago, which combines steamed organic brown rice, sautéed spinach, steamed bean sprouts, kimchi and two Amish eggs. On the side? A trio of hoisin, soy sauce and housemade guajillo sauce.
- Japanese Breakfast with poached eggs, miso dashi, sweet potato, greens, sesame salt — Boulettes Larder, San Francisco
- Bim Bop Bacon & Eggs "Stir Like Crazy" —Tasty n Alder, Portland, Ore.
2. Savory Oats
Are we really moving away from brown sugar and maple syrup in our breakfast grains? Mark Bittman stirred the pot in 2009 when he spoke in hushed tones about scallion and soy sauce oatmeal on NPR. Indeed, grains like oatmeal, grits and polenta offer a savory breakfast canvas. Leave it to New York to blaze the trail here with its single-themed concept oatmeal bar called OatMeals. With an extensive menu of sweet, savory and build-your-own bowls, offerings like The Canadian bridge the gap between sweet and savory with cinnamon roasted apples, sharp cheddar cheese, bacon, maple syrup and sea salt. The Croque Monsieur commits fully to savory with diced ham, shaved Gruyère, nutmeg, sea salt, cracked pepper and steamed milk.
- Savory Oats with yellow onion, mushrooms, winter squash, basil and kale with an egg or tofu, ricotta salata and sliced almonds — City o' City, Denver
- Banana Curry Oatmeal with caramelized onions and red carrots — Spread, San Diego
3. Artisanal Meats
We've seen the embrace of charcuterie plates, mostly at the bar and on the appetizer menu, but spinning off from that is a closer look at meats across the board. Breakfast sausage gets a flavor focus, maybe as a snappy chicken and pistachio link or a turkey and cranberry variety. A tie to provenance also resonates—from an Irish sausage to Spanish-style smoked chorizo to a Portuguese linguiça. And finally, artisanal cues work well here, expressed through in-house sausage making or meat curing, as well as call-outs to local purveyors.
- Housemade Baffoni Farm honey & sage chicken sausage — Nick's on Broadway, Providence
- Eggs Meat Bread: Two Yard eggs, housemade meats, artisan breads
— Restaurant R'evolution, New Orleans
4. Breakfast Sandwich Bravado
The sandwich format is always a great place for innovation because consumers are more likely to close their eyes and leap when they're dealing with such a familiar entity. Street food influence shows its audacity at breakfast with bold and beautiful global mash-ups like Egg Slut's The Fairfax: chive and gray salt-dusted soft scrambled organic eggs, caramelized onion, Tillamook cheddar in a brioche bun with sriracha mayo. Deep, complex flavors shine in the breakfast sandwich, too, like in the Sandwich I Am offering from Snooze, with units in California, Arizona and Colorado. It stars a soft pretzel roll filled with scrambled eggs, cheddar and a sausage patty, served with a side of smoked cheddar hollandaise and house hash browns.
- Falafel Dog with spiced chickpea bratwurst on housemade pita with olive aïoli, roasted tomato, marinated eggplant and peppers, arugula and tahini hot sauce — Mud Hen Tavern, Los Angeles
- Olive Oil Fried Egg Sandwich with two fried eggs, boccalone pancetta, aged provolone and sweet onion butter — Il Cane Rosso, San Francisco
5. Wondrous Waffles
Waffles are the hip starch at breakfast today. Items like chicken and waffles give them a Southern edge, and there's endless innovation within that dish across foodservice segments. Waffles are also moving away from the stack and into carriers, showing off their versatility on the sandwich board. Taco Bell's version, the Waffle Taco, houses a sausage patty and scrambled eggs in a folded waffle with a side of maple syrup. We're also seeing a tinkering with the batter—at Hell's Kitchen in Minneapolis, the plate-sized Cornmeal Waffle sports cornmeal batter and is served with pure maple syrup, and at Skillet Diner in Seattle, a maple-braised pork belly is served with a cornmeal waffle and two eggs.
- Fried Chicken Waffle with mizuna, homemade pickled vegetables, katsu aïoli — Restaurant Anzu, San Francisco
- Chicken, Bacon and Waffle Croquettes with spicy maple sauce, braised greens and fried eggs — Mud Hen Tavern, Los Angeles
6. Europe's New World
When we think of global flavors, we tend to think about Filipino, Thai, Peruvian … . But European countries, obviously, have vibrant, delicious breakfast pantries from which to pull. We're seeing a move away from a generalized Mediterranean call-out into more localized flavor pockets, like the Sicilian Hash with braised pancetta, arrabbiata and over-easy egg at Tasty n Alder in Portland, Ore. Such pinpointing helps build the authentic flavor story diners crave—any time of day. We're also seeing the gastropub trend push into breakfast, with a renewed admiration of British breakfast staples like English sausage, grilled field mushrooms and Irish thick-cut bacon.
- Full English Breakfast of fried eggs, pork sausage, blood pudding, bacon, tomato and mushroom
— The Breslin, New York
- Pan de Cristal con Salmon Anumado y Huevo Duro: Smoked salmon on crystal bread with hard-boiled egg, goat cheese and capers
— Jaleo, Washington, D.C.
7. New Sides on the Block
A side of bacon is a beautiful thing, but your breakfast guest might just want a little more variety. How about chicken bacon, found at Papermoon Diner in Baltimore? Indeed, adding unique, flavor-forward sides might just help raise the check average. They're also a great way to extend your brand into more adventurous territory—look at the side dish here as breakfast's answer to the small plate trend. Egg in Brooklyn offers Caramelized Grapefruit with Mint. Sautéed kale and sweet potato cakes add interest at Ria's Bluebird in Atlanta.
- Turmeric Rice — Hugo's, Agoura Hills, Calif.
- Pan Fried Apples — Lynn's Paradise Café, Louisville, Ky.
8. Pancakes: Far from Flat
Pancakes are breakfast's ultimate comfort food, built on simplicity and homeyness. They're also an opportunity for menu distinction. Especially true for weekend breakfast crowds—if you land on a unique and craveable recipe—pancakes can be your lighthouse, guiding them in week after week for safe harbor. Look beyond the short stack: At Snooze in California, Arizona and Colorado, diners can order a Pancake Flight, choosing three pancake flavors. Perhaps it's the Molten Chocolate Lava Pancakes that boast chocolatey buttermilk pancakes stuffed with chocolate custard and finished with tangerine cream frosting. Another choice is the Pineapple Upside Down Pancakes with caramelized pineapple, housemade crème anglaise and cinnamon butter. Or turn them to the healthy side with just a touch of whole grains, like LYFE Kitchen's Quinoa Buttermilk Pancakes served with fresh berries, Greek yogurt and pure maple syrup.
- Bacon Pancakes with crispy bits of bacon in the batter, served with whipped butter and syrup — Walker Bros., Chicago-area locations
- Red & Blue Velvet Pancakes topped with a cream cheese spread and housemade whipped cream, garnished with candied walnuts and maple syrup — Larchmont Bungalow, Los Angeles
9. Cutting-edge Condiments
Remember when the arsenal of breakfast condiments was simply jam, jelly, ketchup and maple syrup? Maybe a bottle of hot sauce. Now, condiments are yet another opportunity to turn up the flavor volume during breakfast. So, maple syrup becomes smoked maple syrup with a haunting, lingering flavor. Or perhaps it's a hazelnut syrup. Raspberry jam gives way to housemade fig preserves. Orange marmalade upgrades to thick-cut orange marmalade scented with 10-year malt whisky. Condiments are also a natural extension of global breakfast builds—sriracha, gochujang, guajillo, soy sauce, hoisin, harissa—all finding real estate on the modern breakfast table.
- Monte Cristo with spiced maple — Tasty n Alder, Portland, Ore.
- Pastrami Hash with sautéed potatoes, roasted sweet peppers, harissa, pastrami and two organic eggs — Be'wiched Sandwiches & Deli, Minneapolis
10. Latin Moves
Latin flavors have found favor at breakfast for awhile now, but we're seeing a delicious move beyond burritos, where the zesty, bright profiles inherent to this cuisine shine through. And within what are now familiar standbys, like chilaquiles and burritos, bolder mash-ups are showing up. As an example, look to the Pork Belly Chilaquiles sporting crunchy tortilla, scrambled egg, tomatillo-serrano sauce, Samuel's cheese and tatume squash at Chicago's Xoco. Consumers are responding because they understand these flavor profiles and are willing to take a small step deeper into Latin flavors and forms. We're also seeing a push down into South America with dishes like the Corn Arepas at Tweet in Chicago: three fresh corn arepas, two organic eggs, housemade guajillo, crème fraîche, avocado, cilantro and organic black beans.
- Huevos O'Groats: Tortilla made from biscuit dough topped with black beans, sautéed onions and peppers, two eggs over medium, shredded cheese, sour cream and salsa — John O'Groats, Los Angeles
- Breakfast Taco with chorizo, potato, egg and cheese in a flour tortilla — Fuzzy's Taco Shop, locations in and around Texas
11. Alternate Grains
Whether motivated by health and wellness messaging or looking to add points of differentiation to your menu, considering the wide world of whole grains is a smart move at breakfast. Quinoa is making the biggest strides here as its neutral flavor and healthfulness appeal to consumers, while its quick cook time makes it appealing on the back end. Other grains—like farro, amaranth, chia and barley—are making headway, sometimes as finishes or subtle add-ins, but always adding heft to the sought after health halo. At Protein Bar in Chicago, the Chia Berry folds organic chia seeds into Greek yogurt, along with strawberries, organic granola and organic agave nectar. At Il Canne Rosso in San Francisco, Broken Farro Porridge features raisins, brown sugar and toasted almonds.
- Organic Quinoa Breakfast Bowl with red and white quinoa, fresh blueberries, bananas and cinnamon topped with candied walnuts and served with steamed almond milk and honey on the side — Larchmont Bungalow, Los Angeles
- Chia Muffin — Le Pain Quotidien, locations nationwide
12. Breakfast Beverages
There's so much to talk about in this space, where consumers are now seeking out exotic tea blends, pedigreed coffees, immunity boosting smoothies, freshly made juice concoctions and creative hand-mixed shakes. With each of these, you get a tie to both premium and artisanal values. Tea is a universe unto itself—from Green Apple Milk Tea from Bambu to White Tea Acai Squeeze at Argo Tea (both with units across the country). And juicing continues its move from home kitchens, juice boutiques and fitness clubs to mainstream foodservice. Red Mango, the national frozen yogurt chain, just added fresh-squeezed juice blends like Sweet Green Zing and Cool Pineapple Zen.
- Bucktown Green Tea with vanilla protein, choice of milk, Matcha green tea, banana — Protein Bar, Chicago
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CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Changes to a popular government student loan are making it difficult for thousands of students to afford college this school year.
That's according to a new report about making the requirements to the federal PLUS loan program more stringent.
Adam Miller, a freshman at a local college, says it was a struggle to find the money to pay for his education.
"Very frustrating," he recalled. "I was lucky with what I had. Now next year, I don't know if it will look to good."
The more stringent requirements have hit historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) hard since more of their students come from low income families.
But Bobby Henderson, an alum of Fayetteville State University and parent of high school junior, says it's not just low-income families that are affected.
"It's going to be very hard for our youth of today especially those youth that come from families that's middle income and upper income," he said.
In fact, Henderson isn't sure how he'll help his son pay for college in a couple of years.
"Basically you only really have two avenues: either you gotta be a heck of an athlete or you gotta be a very outstanding student," he said.
Still, Henderson is committed to helping his son find a way.
"Still send your child to school," he pointed out. "Cause that's what it's all about -- higher education. But the method in terms of how it's going to be paid for is going to be much harder now."
The U.S. Department of Education made the changes to the PLUS loan program in an effort to make sure government loans line up with industry standards to decrease the rate at which students default on the loans.
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The book launch of essays, art and projects inspired by ecosopher Joanna Macy, that are all about creativity and sustainability, was in Bristol on 17 April, 2013.
Alastair McIntosh has written in his review 'these essays show how people are digging where they stand, deepening inwardly where there might be little latitude outwardly'.
You can now get your copy of 'Stories of the Great Turning' from Amazon, The Book Depository (I think Book Dep. mail rates might be cheaper) etc http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Great-Turning-Joanna-Macy/dp/190836...
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Published on September 28, 2011 | by LawNews
Prof. James Sample Comments on Carl Landicino's Nomination for State Supreme Court Judge
How A Brooklyn Democratic Functionary Becomes A Brooklyn Judge
By The New York World
City Hall News
September 27, 2011
"The issue is that party bosses still have the power to exclude qualified persons from the [ballot] line itself," said James Sample, an attorney who served in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice and has sued unsuccessfully to reform New York's judicial selection process. "Rest assured the bosses use that power for patronage at expense of quality.
"Whoever controls the judicial convention controls everything."
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Covering February 24th - March 2nd, 2017
This week we interview the fabulous Miss Placed from her home in Canada and geek out about all manner of things. From Lego obsessions and troll psychology to programming in Python and the terror of Edward Scissorhands. Find out where her love of science comes from, why she wants to be Orko for a day, the prospect of teaming up with Slartibartfast, and more!
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For a 5th year I was asked to deliver a seminar to approximately 200 coaches attending a recruiting conference. This conference brings in coaches from every single level in college athletics, from every sport of every gender. The coaches who attend are given a steady dose of Experts in the fields of recruiting, coaching, leadership and technology.


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First Impressions of Samsung Moment (Android Phone)/
I attended CTIA last week, and was at the Sprint event, where they announced their first Android phone. It is made by Samsung, and will be called the "Moment". I was very impressed with my initial impressions of it. At the event, they were not allowing people to handle the phone, and hired pretty women to demo the phones. The women clearly didn't know anything about the phones, but were accommodating to the attendees, and would press any buttons, and show us whatever we wanted. I apologize for the poor quality of the images, I took them with my G1, which has less than stellar photo performance.
The form factor of this phone is the classic slider design. I found it well executed. The phone was large enough to be useful, but still thin enough to easily fit in a pocket. There were also some nice chrome accents on the phone, for a little bling.
I made sure to test the keyboard, as this is super important to me. I did some typing on it (again, while the pretty girl made sure she kept an iron grip on the device), and found the keyboard great. The keys were spaced well, and had good response. An interesting feature that the Moment had, was haptic feedback when keys were pressed (ie. the phone vibrated slightly when keys were activated). While I personally would probably turn this off, this is an innovation.
Another interesting feature of the Moment, is that it is the first Android phone to use a different a chip than the Qualcomm MSM7201A. Samsung is using their own ARM11 chipset clocked at 800 MHz. I would expect this will result in improved performance.
The phone does have an AMOLED screen, but quite frankly, it didn't look any better to me than the screen on my G1 (maybe the lighting in the hall was bad or something).
Samsung and Sprint are releasing the phone without any custom skinning, or other significant features on top of Android. I asked the girl to navigate to the about screen, and noticed that the demo phone was running the 1.5 release of the OS (even though Eclair - ie. 1.6, had dropped already). Following up on this on the intrawebs, it does sound like they will be updating this before they officially release the phone.
The last compelling feature of this phone worth mentioning, is that the camera has a flash (which you may be able to see in my blurry picture). This is a great inclusion, and not something I have seen on any of the other currently released Android phones (but a feature I think should be on all phones).
Overall, on first impression, I really liked this phone. The form factor and keyboard were great. Samsung has included some advanced features (AMOLED screen, faster processor, camera flash, haptic feedback) that should make this phone standout from the other Android phones. It is a compelling device, and a great first Android phone for both Samsung and Sprint.


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Many Veterans and their families are unaware of the various benefits available to them for both service and non-service related injuries and disabilities. Service-connected compensation is paid to Veterans who are determined by the VA to be disabled due to an injury or illness sustained or aggravated during active military service. The much lesser known "Pension" benefit is available to many Veterans who do not have a service-related injury or disability (or their survivors) but who have medical or long term care expenses and need help with the cost of care. Compensation is also available to the surviving spouses of veterans, both for service and non-service connected disabilities. The requirements for eligibility are straightforward, but understanding the way the VA evaluates your particular case is not. We have clients who have been told by the VA that they were not eligible when in fact they were, or they could easily become eligible.
Applying for VA benefits is a complex process which requires considerable documentation and medical evidence. The VA will require proof of military service, marriage and/or divorce (if applicable), income, medical expenses, and proof of costs of in-home or facility care in addition to very specific medical findings.
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Join us for the most holy day of the year! To celebrate this special day, and to accommodate our growing congregation, we are having two Easter Worship Services.
Easter Egg Hunt
Remember to bring some filled Easter Eggs! Our Youth Group will hide the eggs during service for our Easter Egg Hunt immediately following worship.
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DA Candidates Talking Treatment
It's good to hear that diversion and treatment are being discussed on both sides of the aisle.
DA candidates meet in forumJuvenile-diversion programs popular
July 24, 2008| Herald Staff Writer
With less than a month until the Democratic primary, candidates for district attorney for the 6th Judicial District have been civil and largely in accord on most prosecutorial issues.
The two Democrats and one Republican vying for the job support giving first-time young offenders a second chance to stay out of jail. But their level of support and methods for doing so vary - slightly.
The candidates shared their views Wednesday at Durango City Hall during a one-hour candidates forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of La Plata County. The 6th Judicial District includes Archuleta, San Juan and La Plata counties.
Democrat Todd Risberg expressed the strongest support for diversion programs such as drug court, DUI court, restorative justice and victim-offender mediation. Such programs are designed to keep low-level offenders out of jail and change an offender's behavior.
"What I want to do is use approaches that actually work to deal with the problems," Risberg said. "What we can't do is keep doing what we're doing - old-school traditional prosecution."
David Duncan, also a Democrat who supports diversion programs, said for mediation programs to work, both the victim and the offender must be willing to participate.
"What I believe we need to do is take a look at the programs you already have in place, enhance those programs and get more support for them and do everything you can to keep the juveniles out of the criminal-justice system," he said.
Russell Wasley, the sole Republican seeking the district attorney's position, said diversion programs in Archuleta County are under-funded, and he is committed to finding more resources to bolster them. Sending juveniles to detention centers is a last resort, he said.
"What we try to do with juveniles is find alternative-treatment methods and ways to educate the young person out of the behavior that got them into trouble in the first place," Wasley said.
Duncan and Risberg will face each other in the Democratic Party primary Aug. 12. The winner will take on Wasley in the November general election.
Risberg earned a spot on the ballot in March after Democratic Party delegates voted for him by a margin of more than two-to-one over Sarah Law, who served as district attorney from 1996 through 2004.
Duncan will appear on the Democratic ballot after collecting about 1,600 signatures.
District Attorney Craig Westberg, a Republican who faces charges of careless driving and driving under the influence of sleeping medication, is not seeking re-election.Other issues discussed at Wednesday's forum included the methamphetamine epidemic, term limits for judges and the death penalty.
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CO is a by-product of combustion and is normally removed from your home through ventilation pipes. CO is unhealthy and can kill you if the toxic gas builds up in your home by way of a faulty ventilation system or if the combustion process malfunctions. CO can be generated by burning wood in your fireplace and wood burning stoves, furnace, water heater and cooking appliances.
CO is inhaled and will displace oxygen in your blood cells. When this occurs your vital organs are receiving toxic gas instead of oxygen which will make you sick. If the CO levels are high enough, the CO will kill you.
A Prince George's County law that went into effect this year requires every home that has a fireplace, natural gas service and/or an attached garage have a working CO detector installed on every level of your home. Firefighters highly recommend the use of 10-year CO detectors that will not require changing the battery twice a year.
There are two ways a homeowner can detect the presence of CO in their home:
1. Feeling sick inside their home with a sudden relief of flu symptoms once outdoors. This could go on for days until the CO will make you sick enough to go unconscious and possibly die.
2. A CO detector will detect the presence of CO; a toxic gas which is invisible and has no smell. A CO detector will emit an audible warning before the levels of CO reach unhealthy levels.
These images are of a HVAC technician visually inspecting the ventilation of a furnace and water heater.


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We have designed all of the activities in the Gladiator Programme around fun physical activity, regardless of the target children's age group.
On the day of any event, the Gladiator programme staff deliver, set up and operate the equipment. At no time do staff leave the equipment and leave the customer to operate it themselves.
This makes sure customers are fully covered both in terms of the insurances for the equipment itself and anything relating to operating the equipment. Some providers may show insurance cover but fail to inform you that if you operate the equipment yourself you will not be covered if an accident happens due the lack of supervision. We will not cut corners when it comes to safe supervision of equipment, and will always have at least two trained members of staff to supervise each piece of equipment.
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Each piece of equipment undergoes periodic testing and gets the relevant safety certificates (the equivalent to an MOT test certificate for vehicles). All electrical equipment is PAT tested, and equipment is covered by public liabilities to a limit of £5 million.
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Updated: Windows 8 Coming to Phones
Steve Ballmer:
We've got broad initiatives driving Windows down to the phone with Windows 8.
Just when I was starting to feel positive about Microsoft's chances with Windows Phone 7.5 and its mobile future, Ballmer drops a bombshell like this.
I can barely even begin to articulate my upset with the flawed thinking in this decision. Simply ridiculous.
Paul Miller sums it up effectively:
The choice of words is incredibly (if unintentionally) telling. Like with tablets, Microsoft would rather cram a desktop OS "down" into mobile form, than build off of a simple mobile platform into something more complex.
Updated: Microsoft has clarified to Business Insider that Steve Ballmer did not, in fact, say that Windows 8 is coming to phones (although there appears to still be some question over this). Here's the official transcript from Microsoft:
We've got broad Windows initiatives driving Windows down to the phone. With Windows 8, you'll see incredible new form factors powered by Windows from tablets, small, large, pens, smaller, bigger, room-sized displays.


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Panasonic unveiled at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas its vision for smart venue solutions in sports that are expected for 2025-30, and the fan experience in a future stadium looks fantastic.
According to the company, the easy entry into the stadium, immersive entertainment, and everything that's delivered to your seat — from content to the souvenirs via drone — will create a "richer user experience" at a venue like Florida State's Doak Campbell Stadium.
The sports stadium of 2025 envisioned by Panasonic at #CES2018. Featuring #AI #AR #Drones and more pic.twitter.com/dibh9ONNXa
— Ben Smith (@benasmith) January 9, 2018
How realistic is all this? It's not as far away as you might think. Here are four of features in a future sports venue that Panasonic envisions and some of the companies and teams already looking to make it happen:
Facial recognition technology
Of course there be paperless entry to venues as more leagues and events move toward mobile ticketing, but Panasonic sees that these gates will be able to be unmanned also because face recognition technology will be used to authenticate identity using high-resolution, wide-angle cameras.
Already, Panasonic has been involved in at least one face matching pilot to optimize safety for FC Groningen in the Netherlands, with four HD security cameras with facial recognition software at the turnstiles matching images with those in the database who are banned from the stadium.
The LPGA in March tested the use of NEC's facial recognition for enabling media members and those with credentials to gain entry into secured environments at a major championship.
Augmented reality
The expectation from Panasonic is that the form factor of AR devices will ultimately change to resemble a pair of glasses, making them more popular among consumers.
That would open up numerous possibilities for using augmented reality to entertain fans. Special AR performances before kickoff and during halftime that us the actual football field as a canvas could be used to fire up those in attendance. Augmented reality content for the phone could allow fans to take selfies with players anywhere in the stadium. And last year, Panasonic showed how its AR projection could be used to transform the windows of a luxury suite into yet another screen for fans to experience interactive content.
Current, augmented reality is progressing to the point where it's being incorporated more in live sports. Major League Baseball will enable fans at the stadium this season to hold up an Apple mobile device to get more information on players and situations in augmented reality.
FC Bayern Munich has itself used ARKit to enable fans to take photos with augmented reality players while also using Canadian company ARHT (Augmented Reality Holographic Telepresence) to delivered a live press conference using holograms of coaches.
Drone delivery
In Panasonic's vision, not only can a smart guide system analyze your ticket information and know to suggest your favorite foods, but once you've ordered souvenirs, they can be delivered to your seat by a drone that knows your current location.
While the FAA along with leagues and teams wary of malicious drones will have something to say about this, could attitudes change in the future? Food deliveries by drones aren't new, and there are signs that drone deliveries could happen. In fact, drone deliveries are expected to be part of the tech innovation for fans in PyeongChang next month.
In Argentina, one soccer team even had its own drone flying around in-stadium before it was brought down by a fan who threw a roll of cash register paper. So while this vision could be achieved, there are plenty of downsides.
Personalized instant replay
Panasonic can see fans having an interactive system that allows them to replay the action from different angles of any play that just finished, and it's easy to see why because the company has already tested the use of VOGO Sport in golf and soccer. The French startup enables replays in real-time as fans are able to control the camera angle while in-venue.
Another company to watch in this space is Kiswe, which has enabled the Monumental Sports Network to test ways in which it can engage fans with multi-angle streaming and replays.
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Control specialist CAREL will focus on natural refrigerants, energy efficiency and connectivity at Euroshop 2017 in Dusseldorf next month.
Visitors to the CAREL stand will see the company's latest solutions for refrigeration units, featuring both high performance and low GWP, monitored using a mobile ready supervision system, designed especially for commercial refrigeration.
"It was previously thought that for certain systems or at certain latitudes the use of natural fluids entailed increased energy consumption; now this is no longer the case, and indeed at our stand we will be presenting fully operational units featuring the latest technologies that enable what we call 'natural efficiency', for all different food retail store formats".
Around 110,000 visitors are expected at Euroshop 2017 from 5-9 March, with more than 2,000 exhibitors from 60 countries.


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New Billionaire Watch: Three Things To Know About Bob Duggan's Philanthropy/
Yes, it's true: We're a bit obsessed with billionaires at Inside Philanthropy, especially billionaires you've never heard of. And why is that? Because it's pretty hard for billionaires to spend all their money on themselves, and while many of these fortunes will be passed down to heirs, a good number of billionaires will eventually turn to philanthropy at a significant level. Indeed, more do so every year, and often, giving today is merely a prelude to bigger things in the future.
That's why it pays to get bead on these billionaires now, especially newcomers to great wealth who are already showing an interest in philanthropy.
A case in point is venture capitalist Robert "Bob" Duggan, who recently joined the ranks of the Forbes billionaire list as the former CEO of cancer drug maker Pharmacyclics, which has enjoyed enormous success with its drug Imbruvica. Duggan's career has been marked by smart bets in tech and beyond, and he's served as CEO of Computer Motion and Metropolis Media, among others. He's now worth over $3 billion.
Duggan and his wife Patricia have also been engaged in philanthropy, particularly at their alma mater, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and recently came to our attention when he joined a group of funders supporting a Forbes initiative to identify and support social entrepreneurs around the world.
Related: These Power Players Just Joined Forces to Cultivate Next-Gen Change Makers
We wondered: What else is Duggan interested in?
Well, for starters, he and wife do have a philanthropic vehicle, the Bob and Trish Duggan Foundation, though the outfit seems to be newly founded, and is not yet a conduit for much money that we can see. Here's what else you need to know about the couple's philanthropy:
1. UCSB is Strongly Supported
Both Duggan and Patricia attended UCSB, where they met. Duggan has served on the board of trustees of the UC Santa Barbara Foundation since 1989. It's unclear exactly how much money the couple has given the school over the years, but UCSB is the site of, among other things, the Robert and Patricia Duggan Chair in Organic Chemistry Chemistry. The couple has also supported athletic scholarships, and supported the creation of a Tibetan Buddhist chair. Additionally, the family funded a dedicated room with 5,000 Buddhist sutras at the UCSB library.
2. The Couple Also Supports Health
The Duggans have supported the Foundation for a Drug Free World, a group established by the Church of Scientology, which provides "youths and adults with information so they can make informed decisions and live free of harmful drugs." It's worth noting that the Duggans' son died of brain cancer.
3. Duggan is a Top Backer of Scientology
Duggan has given the Church of Scientology, of which he is a member, some $20 million over the years, making him the church's largest financial supporter as of 2013, according to Mark Rathbun, former inspector general of Scientology. To the extent that Duggan is well known, it's because of his connection to this controversial church.
It's worth noting that Duggan is 71, and appears only recently to have created a proper charitable vehicle. But now that he's become a billionaire, the couple may increase their giving down the line.
Related: Bob Duggan Profile


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The soles of these are cut in three places for the best adjustable anchor on altered surfaces and terrains, abnormally walking on an incline. The cool bendable covering fits to the bottom like a glove, they and come in bristles altered shades, including this adorable anemic pink.
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Finding a stylish, breathable and adequate cowboy cossack sounds like a adamantine task, but Geox – specialists in hi-tech t for shoes and jackets – has absurd it. These 100 per cent leather boots are not alone fabricated with a patented perforated body to accumulate anxiety dry, they've got a anamnesis cream insole for comfort.
Add to that the advanced fit and anxiety could not be happier. Walking about in these shoes all day, there was no ache or overheating. Accessible in white or atramentous leather, they are a able accession to any autumn/winter outfit.
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Evening shoes, abnormally if they're strappy and stiletto, consistently prove to be an affair for women with advanced feet. But Dorothy Perkins has an all-encompassing alternative of advanced fit atramentous shoes that are account a browse. These Stella sandals in red are decidedly absorbing and bear on a advanced sole, so no adventitious of that irritating foot discharge over the edges.
Add this to the abate band and distinct toe band for support, while still giving a adapted 3.5 inches of height, and we've begin ourselves dancing all atramentous continued with ease.
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The Joey from Vionic, specialists in biomechanically-designed footwear, are an absurd trainer for anyone that not alone needs a advanced fit shoe, but additionally requires orthotic support. The black trainers add a cool beautiful blow to any outfit, while actuality adapted with a anamnesis cream footbed and abundant amplitude allowance to ensure anxiety are not squashed or rubbing.
We begin that it wasn't aloof the amplitude that accepted to be added comfortable, but the shoe's podiatrist-designed FMT technology absolutely helped us to airing bigger and bargain heel pain.
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JD Williams are accepted for their all-encompassing ambit of wide, added advanced and ultra advanced shoes – but these stunning, on-trend diamante catch shoes, fabricated in E amplitude and added advanced EEE, are a must-buy this season. These pumps accord abounding allowance for acicular shoes, which are awfully afflictive for bodies with advanced feet.
A heel barometer one inch makes these shoes accessible to airing in all day with absolutely no discomfort. These look abundant with jeans to add a account detail to a accidental look, as able-bodied as a clothing or an atramentous dress. A abundant buy for the fashion-conscious who don't appetite to breach the bank, as these are acceptable amount for money.
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There is a acumen why this archetypal sandal by the German shoemakers has been about unrivalled for about four decades. Naturally added than best shoes and sandals, the scientifically-crafted contoured cork-latex footbed allows the bottom to aggrandize during the day.
The adjustable straps beggarly that added and beyond anxiety accept added allowance to breathe while still actuality supported. Birko-Flor is the patented name for the advantageous constructed actual of the straps, which appear in a cardinal of altered colours, but you can additionally opt for a hardly added big-ticket covering option.
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The Bendable 8 from the Danish shoe aggregation ECCO, founded in 1963, has to be our favourite range. Fabricated from aerial affection trento leather, these white trainers are a abundant advantage for advanced feet. Although it does not specify a wide-foot option, the ample appearance as able-bodied as the disposable applique sole create added allowance central the shoe.
The added account of bendable covering is that it breathes and moulds to the accustomed appearance of the bottom over time. Walking in these shoes all day is fabricated added adequate with the anatomically advised inner, which is absorptive and supportive. Additionally accessible in both atramentous and grey, and for men and women, this is a able shoe that can be beat with any cardinal of outfits.
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British shoemakers Hotter has been authoritative abundance shoes back 1959. Dedicated to accouterment shoes for anxiety of all sizes, their online armpit alike has a advanced fit tab, with a adapted alms of specialist footwear. One of the key styles this season, which is additionally the absolute assignment shoe, is the Dorset.
Made in a advanced EE and accessible in three added colourways, this ia a light, able shoe that can be beat with all your workwear. A angishore can generally be afflictive for added feet, but these are absorptive on the central acknowledgment to the avant-garde sole technology. They're abundant for accustomed in accoutrements and the amount point for an all-leather shoe is accomplished value.
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Made in England back 1936, Van Dal has a advanced fit tab on the website, with E, EE and EEE options. You cannot go amiss with the Remington for a winter boot, which can be commutual with about every outfit. This cossack comes in the added advanced EE fit, but would calmly fit a advanced foot, and is absolutely a bigger admeasurement advantage if beat with blubbery socks.
The lace-up is aloof for added abutment as this cossack is attached by a zip, so they are accessible to blooper on and off. They additionally accept an base cushioning, which is why they feel so bendable to airing in. Fabricated of atramentous apparent covering and suede, the accent is a archetypal appearance that will never go out of fashion. We would acclaim for bodies who like to acquisition one account brace of boots, as these will aftermost division afterwards season.
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British shoemakers Sargasso & Blah use a bespoke mould, which has a added applicable toe box, in all their shoes. Specialising in women's assignment and atramentous footwear, the Camilla is allotment of the Autumn/Winter collection, and fabricated in a blithe bittersweet velvet. The adorableness of this aggregation is that they hand-make a abridged accumulating of shoes in a baby alternative of colours, so you apperceive they are going to be of superb quality.
The Camilla has a hardly thicker heel and the insole has accomplished support, which makes the shoe accessible to abrasion all day. The heels of Sargasso & Blah are either 5cm, like these, so applied for appointment wear, or a 10cm stiletto, added adapted for an atramentous event.
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Not aloof because the Tri Clara are beautiful and comfortable, but for the all-encompassing ambit of advanced fit shoes and barometer casework they provide, it has to be Clarks. If you're on a absolute budget, analysis out the alternative at Dorothy Perkins, you'll be abundantly afraid with the alternative available, from boots to pumps and heels, but the red Stella sandals absolutely will clothing any outfit.
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This is the most valuable thing you will ever have.
You are probably asking yourself if the thing I am talking about is covered in gold or if it has diamonds all over it. The answer is NO!
What I am talking about it is the incredible emotional value that you get from family pictures! I started doing it myself every time I visit my family in Brazil. I make everyone pick an outfit, make their hair (including my dad LOL), I pick a nice spot at our beach house, find seats for everyone, get my tripod, set up the camera, walk my grandma to the best seat, call everyone, do test shots, and after taking 15 different frames I finally have something to work with!
I load the photos and edit all the requests from all family members including my own. It is a lot of work but no word describes it better than "PRICELESS". To photograph the whole family together in the same photo over and over is really something I cherish and have no intention to stop doing.
When I get home I order my 8x10 print and put in my pretty white frame in a spot I see every single day. Once I open the back of the picture frame I can see the older photos, I can see what is different, who is different, I get to see and remember what was going on at that time. I get to remember, relive and feel that warm feeling that that moment is frozen in time for me to go back anytime I want.
After all, what can be more important than the people you love? What can be more important that your relationships with your mom, dad, sister, kids? For me that is the real richness in life.
So I challenge you to think about this and really make sure that you are making these memories as well! Please send me a message here and it will be a pleasure for me to help you have the same wonderful memories in your life!
In the mean while you get to see my newest family photo that was taken this August! Enjoy!


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Meditation & Compassion
The ultimate "purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness which underlies the whole of life and death."
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
By training in mindfulness and calm abiding (shamatha) meditation, we pacify our scattered minds, defuse our powerful emotions and overcome distraction.
The first & basic practice of meditation is to allow the mind to settle into a state of 'calm abiding', where it will find peace & stability. It is a practice through which we rest the mind naturally in a state of relaxed awareness, in order to allow the nature of mind to reveal itself.
The ancient method of meditation has come to be seen as a powerful support for modern life—something that can be practised anywhere, by anyone, of any age or background.
Moreover, there is growing scientific evidence that meditation has a positive effect on our health and wellbeing.
Learn more about meditation through these online videos, online courses, courses in a centre near you, or deepen your meditation experience by doing a personal retreat.
The practice of compassion has for centuries been a guiding principle in the world's major religious and ethical traditions, but it has never been more urgently needed than it is today.
By developing compassion and loving kindness both for ourselves and others, we discover a stable sense of self-esteem and a healthy, nourishing love for ourselves. This supplies the basis from which we can begin to direct our minds to relieving the suffering of all beings.
Compassion is not simply a sense of sympathy or caring for someone who is suffering, not simply a warmth of heart toward the person before you, or a sharp clarity of recognition of their needs and pain. It is also a sustained and practical determination to do whatever is possible and necessary to help alleviate their suffering.
The particular strength of the Buddhist teaching is that it shows the 'logic' of compassion, as well as the damage that a lack of compassion has done to us.
When studying and practising compassion, we develop a more wholesome, less selfish way of being. We gain knowledge and awareness by looking at compassion from Buddhist, personal and modern scientific points of view and then deepen it through personal analysis and reflection.
Learn more about compassion through these online videos, online courses, courses in a centre near you, or deepen your experience by doing a personal retreat.


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Samsung Galaxy S Lightray 4G Pictures
What the Samsung Galaxy S Lightray 4G has to offer is a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, the resolution of which has not been revealed. There is an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash on its back, and a 1.3MP front-facing shooter is located above its display. For all of the user's storage needs, a 16GB microSD card has been thrown in the set. As far as connectivity goes, the smartphone has all the basics covered, including HDMI-out and Mobile Hotspot. The Galaxy S Lightray 4G supports 4G LTE, as indicated in its FCC filing.


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Blue Knob ResortBlue Knob State ParkGallitzin State ForestHighland ParkLaurel Mountain, Forbes State ForestOhiopyle State ParkQuebec Run Wild AreaRaystown LakeRoaring Run, ApolloShawnee State ParkYellow Creek State Park
Our goal is to raise enough money each year for an adaptive bicycle for a special needs child in our area, in conjunction with Variety – the Children's Charity "My Bike" program. The cost per bicycle is $1800. LHORBA's first donation in December 2015 went to a young girl from Northern Cambria.
To cover costs for tools, fuel, signage, materials for bridges and drainage, and most importantly to match money requirements for grants received to construct trail projects, such as the Quemahoning Reservoir mountain bike trails.


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Time for an Adventure/
Oh wow, I almost forgot. I was actually thinking that something outside myself would make me feel whole, content, happy. Maybe a boyfriend would do it, or a trip to another continent for a while. How do we find the discernment of knowing when we are escaping and knowing when we are just choosing a thought or an action that makes us feel better? How do we know that feeling amazing is actually what we should be reaching for at all times? How do we get to that pure and true divine guidance so that we are clear on what is the highest choice?
Sometimes the holidays can shrink me to my lowest common denominator. I seem to land in the densest version of myself, kind of believing what I hear, think and see instead of what I know, feel and align with. I start living in the world instead of creating the world moment to moment.
Well, whether I get on a plane and leave or not, it is still time for an adventure, both inner and outer.


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Teresa is currently the face of Jeep as well as Wendys nationwide.
Teresa was first thrown into the spotlight in her early teens touring with Country Legend Kenny Rogers. After studying drama with Susan Handleman and Randy Buscher in Illinois, Teresa developed and honed her skills with the Second City Conservatory program. Her improv skills came in handy soon after when Teresa became Mancow Mullers sidekick "Trixie" on his radio show as well as the critically acclaimed Fox TV show Mancow in the morning. Teresa currently resides in Miami and Chicago enjoying the best of both theatrical opportunities.


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1. Protect an EggThis engineering project is great for Easter time. Last year, my daughter devised several methods to protect an egg from being dropped from the height using materials from our recyclables bin.
2. Engineer a BoatDo you have access to a pool or a creek? Try to construct boats from different materials and test them for their sea worthiness. From KC Edventures.
3. Build a BridgeAdventures in Mommydom skillfully combined engineering and history by rebuilding Hellespont bridge
4. Experiment With Funnels and TubesMake your own waterworks in the backyard and experiment with tubes and funnels. From Two Big Two Little.
5. Design Your Own "Kid Wash"OK, this is certainly for parents and big kids, but this looks so much fun! Kid wash tutorial is from Six Sisters Stuff
6. Launch a Soda Bottle RocketCan baking soda and vinegar serve as a rocket fuel? Apparently they can, even when it's cold outside. A soda bottle rocket from Lemon Lime Adventures.
7. Try Another Way to Launch RocketsIn this design, the rocket is launched by a bike pump! If you have a good seal, this rocket can fly really high! Bottle rocket from Science Sparks.
8. Why Launch a Rocket? Launch a Car!Build this amazing rocket-powered Lego car with a tutorial from Frugal Fun for Boys
9. Build Ramps and RoadsAnother activity for car enthusiasts: design ramps and roads with this tutorial from Buggy and Buddy.
10. Make a Backyard Ball RunTurn your backyard into a giant ball run with this idea from And Next Comes L.
11. Build a FortTry three summer fort building ideas from Tinkerlab. If you have way too many milk jugs, you might even build an igloo!
12. Grow a FortStart early in spring and watch this tepee turn into a green fort that also doubles as a healthy snack bar! Green bean teepee tutorial from Happiness is Homemade.
More Engineering For Kids?
- Lego Egg Racers
- Build a Leprechaun Trap
- Build a Roller Coaster
- Build a Candy Climbing Structure
- Build a Boat that Floats
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Derek Dickey stops by with his second article on the Reds this month.
Archive for May, 2007
The Good – The Bad and the Ugly – DefenseThursday, May 31st, 2007
Picking at the Bones – The Memorial Day Blues for the RedsTuesday, May 29th, 2007
The Reds ended their home stand and exited Memorial Day with a .365 winning percentage. As they head to Houston and then on to Colorado this will only be the 15th time in the last 100 years that on Memorial Day (or as I dated it 5-28 for continuity) the Reds have had a sub .400 winning percentage. 15% of the time they were about to enter June and the final 4 months of the season with a slim chance already chopped up even smaller by a losing record, only once in those times did the Reds end up with a winning percentage of at least .490.
Results such as the aforementioned cause people (in this case "fans") to exercise their voices, in the case of the 2007 Reds many are calling for the head of the architects of the team, that being Wayne Krivsky (GM for 213 games and one off season) and Jerry Narron, the stoic manager who stands at the helm of the club as the poundings take place nightly, he too arrived a short while ago (2005) and was recently awarded a contract extension.
So here we sit, adrift under 20 wins and with the worst record in the National League, the only team beneath .400 in the winning percentage column. Thank gawd for the Rangers and Devil Rays, without them the Reds would be the Browns, the Senators, the Bee's, something that well ain't what most bargained for when the season began.
When looking back at the prior times that this franchise was in the same boat we'd find a major hunk of the incidents prior to the expansion era (13 of the 15 to be exact)there are two sets of date ranges that encompass the only two eras that the Reds stunk worse then they have in the recent years of their existence. Between 1927 and 1931 only the 1928 team didn't sink below a .400 winning percentage once the calendar turned to the June portion. This run added to the three prior times that the Reds had achieved the dubious feat during the Garry Herrmann era, (1907, 1913, 1921)
The game has evolved, all these eras have reasons why certain franchises floundered while others surged, instead of exploring this sort of aspect I'm finding that what interests me the most is the last seven times that the Reds have entered June with a sub .400 winning percentage. Gazing hard at the seasons we'll see that each has a unique story attached to that particular campaign, and it's these rich little moments that most often get washed away in the history of the franchise, a little digging around helps find patterns and threads of yesterday and today, looking at these incidents we can see that some threads from the past look familiar and similar to the current teams plight.
We have already mentioned the 1931 team and the ones prior to their disappointing season, instead we are going to look at the last seven times the Reds left the Memorial Day weekend below .400 in winning percentage.


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Earlier in the week, we managed to get the tomatoes and peppers planted and caged. We had to make six more tomato cages, and had to use some cucumber cages for a couple of the peppers. But everything is in and that makes me feel good! Especially because we had rain shortly after.
Of course, since then we have had chilly nightly temps, dipping down into the low 40's, so I didn't feel ok leaving the plants exposed. I couldn't cover them, with those cages. So I decided to swaddle them in towels and blankets. It looks mighty strange, but seems to be doing the job.
I also managed to get one potato crop planted. We made this cage out of hardware cloth (wire mesh) last year, and the potatoes did wonderfully in it, until the deer got to them. So, I'm using it again. Half of our seed potatoes are layered in the bottom with some of the good soil we had delivered last week.
The basket needs to be lined with newspaper (or burlap) so the dirt stays put, and as the potato vines grow, we'll add more dirt, until finally the entire thing is filled. We'll make another cage for the remaining potatoes, this weekend.
I pulled out the chard, as it was starting to look pretty peaked. This was the "Bright Lights" variety from Renee's Garden.
It sure was pretty, and also tasty, and fed us through the winter and into April. So we'll definitely plant that variety again! This weekend, I'll get some romaine in, where the chard used to be. It's supposed to be warm during the days, but still in the 40's at night for the next week, so I'll probably hold off on everything else until later in April.
Today as I was checking on the chickens, I noticed this interesting guy perched on the dead branch of a sunrose:
Isn't he beautiful? Looks to me like a male Flame Skimmer. Of course we have water in the yard, in the form of a water feature, and also some shallow water and mud pits for bees and butterflies, but I never expected to see dragonflies here. But in researching it, I found that only the dragonfly larvae feed on water bugs. The adults feed on moths, flies, and ants, all of which are in great supply at Poppy Corners. I gotta say, when we increased our plant production, we also increased our insect population, which has increased all kinds of other populations. First I noticed lizards and salamanders everywhere, now dragonflies? Pretty cool. I'd say we've got habitat going, for sure. Are snakes next?
Speaking of habitat, I'm already thinking about fall projects. I know, our spring projects aren't even completed yet, but I've got an idea and I can't shake it. I'd like to replace the tiny bit of lawn we have left with a meadow full of native grasses, flowers, and bulbs. This caused me to get out the books. You know, the BOOKS. Do you have a pile of books like this? The ones you consult when you get a bee in your bonnet? These are my favorite resources:
And this time I went right for "The American Meadow Garden," by John Greenlee. I've spent some time over the last few days re-reading this book and figuring out how it will all work. I'm very excited to try this experiment. But - like I said - this is a fall project, because fall is the best time to plant in Northern CA. The ground is still warm and the rains are coming. (At least we hope they are.)
Speaking of rain, I suppose you've heard of California's mandatory water restrictions. Our new drip system is basically going to take us down the required 25%. We're thrilled. Of course we'll also continue to use the rain barrel when it's full (as it is right now, hooray!) and cut down our use in the house. We won't water that tiny lawn at all, and I'll let it die in preparation for the fall meadow planting - it couldn't be more perfect.
I think that's all I have to share with you for the moment. I'll leave you with a beautiful flower I found while hiking in Shell Ridge the other day. It took me a long time to identify it - finally I asked East Bay Regional Parks to help me, and they sent me the greatest resource! A website with all the wildflowers of the parks listed by color. And there it was - this purple salsify. A European transplant - but lovely all the same!


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