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To my Mighty community,
I have felt so supported and loved by you always, but especially these last 2+ weeks. And I want you to know that your notes, letters, intentions and energy are felt deeply within my heart and soul every day, almost constantly.
It is such an honor to be a yoga teacher because in this capacity I get to observe you and collect your energy. And so often I have felt as though you are my teachers – healing me when I needed it. And now you are so much more. You are rays of sunlight breaking through the clouds, you are colors of the rainbow embracing my weaknesses, you are coals of a fire sharing your heat, you are newly bloomed flowers offering vitality.
I am beginning to realize that this hardship is actually a gift. Getting sick has already taught me to see with bigger eyes, to love with a bigger heart and to let myself be vulnerable both to this illness and to my community of family and friends. Since the surgery I have had to learn to breathe fully again without fear of pain. I have been pricked and I have been cut and my practice now is to learn love – and use – and move a body a little different than the one I knew. And perhaps one of the hardest lessons is learning to receive – realizing thatI – strong, stable, independent ME – actually need your gifts, your compassion, and your strength is not easy at first.
In the end, this will be a short chapter of my life – of our lives. I know I will be fine. I am healthy, young, strong and have so many people (dogs, birds, sheep, plants, sunshine, winds and more!) on my team to get through this. And I won't let you down!
This poem came my way and it's resonating deeply, so I'll share it with you:
Blessing the Boats
by Lucille Clifton
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back
may you open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this
to that.


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Entombment in a Mausoleum
An alternative to burial
In contemporary North America , mausoleums are small buildings bought by a community or large organization to house the bodies of the deceased after a funeral. Entombed bodies remain above the ground in crypts. The word mausoleum comes from King Mausolus, an Egyptian monarch, who was the first person memorialized in this manner (around 350 BC). The world's most famous mausoleum is the Taj Mahal.
Mausoleums can be an expensive method for handling remains. However in some cases, the communal sharing of costs and the large number of interments in one mausoleum can make costs competitive with other kinds of interment.
How it Works
Mausoleum crypts are designed to withstand weather and protect remains. After a casket is entombed, a granite or marble front seals the crypt. You might choose entombment in a mausoleum for several reasons:
- Dry and clean. A mausoleum 'burial' is above ground. Some people do not like the idea of interring remains in the ground.
- The cost is comparable to traditional burial, especially when the expense of a monument is taken into consideration.
- A mausoleum also saves on ground use.
The cost of a mausoleum crypt generally averages at about $4,000. Some can be had for less than $2,000. This is equal to the average cost of a burial plots and grave markers.
Crypt Types
Single crypts are designed for one entombment. Most mausoleums are built six or seven crypts high, with some accommodating double crypts. Double crypts come in three basic kinds:
- Tandem crypts accommodate two entombments lengthwise in one crypt.
- Companion crypts provide two entombments side by side.
- Westminster crypts are a special design with one entombment above ground and another below.
If you decide on interment in a mausoleum there are some considerations you need to be aware of. Caskets have been known to explode in a mausoleum, just as they may in a ground burial. The difference is there can be extensive damage to the mausoleum. Protective seals or liners (including those with 'burp valves') will do nothing to stop this. Whether choosing a mausoleum or sticking with a ground burial, don't bother buying a protective sealer or liner. Some mausoleums may not be as waterproof as you think and water can actually get into the caskets and cause damage.
You also need to remember that there is nothing that will protect the remains of the deceased from decomposition.
If you choose cremation over a traditional funeral, cremated remains can be entombed in an urn called a columbarium.

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In 2013, Lee Hi was one of K-pop's breakout sensations with her debut album First Love boasting three No. 1 hits: the brass-pop confections "1, 2, 3, 4" and "It's Over," along with the melancholy mid-tempo track "Rose." For her first release in three years, Seoulite, the 19-year-old focuses on her strengths for her new singles, but also showcases new maturity in other album tracks.
"Breathe" is the first single from Seoulite, and it displays the star's impassioned vocal technique on a ballad that should be an instant reminder to listeners who initially fell in love with Lee Hi. "Breathe" is nicely paired with a simple music video featuring the singer in the cityscapes of Seoul as the sun sets, creating gorgeous colors and moods to accompany the tender track.
Album track "Hold Your Hand" also gets a new music video, which plays more to the side we saw from Lee Hi back in 2013. With a funk-pop beat that would make Meghan Trainor smile, the cut is a little more breezy than past Lee Hi tracks but just as feel-good. It's accompanied by a fun visual of Lee Hi and her adorable outfits interspersed in a Gameboy-inspired world of 8bit cartoons. Watch below:
Along with "Breathe" and "Hold My Hand," Seoulite also boasts a standout collaboration with Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music crew with the jazz-hip-hop mash "Fxxk Wit Us" featuring underground rapper Dok2, plus the Gang-Starr-meets-Fetty Wap cut "Official." You can stream the EP, which will see its second half released in a few weeks, below:


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The Nightly Show
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Lights, 3D Camera, Action!
Liquid created London's streets and Cochrane theatre in 3D CGI to create the zoom into the theatre doors of the pre-titles. The title sequence uses footage from all around the UK to create a vibrant sense of the night arriving, packed with showbiz glamour!


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It took me a couple of Googles to work this out... I have a Belkin f5u103v USB-to-Serial adapter and needed a console connection to a Cisco switch.
To get started install this driver from apple (I think it needed a reboot).
If this was successful when you connect the USB-to-Serial you'll be asked if you want to setup a modem / network connection... say no. From a terminal you should now see a new device similar to mine...
NickBook:~ nick$ ls /dev/cu*
/dev/cu.Bluetooth-Modem /dev/cu.PL2303-00001004 /dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync
NickBook:~ nick$
The PL device disappears when I unplug the USB adapter. Next you then
need a copy of minicom, I
installed macports and did
port install minicom.
Since I don't want to re-invent the wheel now go to http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040521145713551 and Start at STEP 3 to configure minicom (Obviously you'll replace /dev/cu.USA19QI191P1.1 with something similar to /dev/cu.PL2303-00001004 ) once finished you'll be set.. happy terminal session!


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The US grand prix faces an uncertain future. Tony George, chief executive of the Indianapolis circuit which hosts the race, blamed uncertainty within the sport after renewing its contract for only one event.
George has signed a one-year, $20m (£10.6m) deal with Bernie Ecclestone, the formula one commercial rights holder.
"It seemed appropriate to see how things shake out," said George, referring to the expiry next year of the Concorde agreement which regulates formula one.
"There are too many unanswered questions to commit any longer than that."
The US grand prix has been under scrutiny since 2005 when tyre concerns turned it into a six-car procession.


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Discover the indulgent SoSPA concept — which combines French cosmetology with Thailand's beauty secrets — and the SoFIT program with a top of the range equipment and classes to whip you into shape.
Whether on business or holiday, no visit to Thailand is complete without a professional spa treatment to ease tension, soothe overworked muscles, heal the body, and feel fresh both during and after the service. Our specially-trained massage therapists and healing specialists will put your body on the path to wellness and bliss, through a wide selection of treatments to purify the mind, body and spirit.
Every comfort is provided for guests in the tranquil atmosphere of our luxury spa in Bangkok. Our treatments blend natural ingredients with both Thai and French tradition, giving you the best of both worlds every time you visit.
As the premier spa hotel in Bangkok, SO Sofitel Bangkok offers an excellent choice of beauty treatments in addition to our signature massages and traditional body scrubs. A single visit will revitalize you after a long day, while frequent visitors can receive superb discounts by becoming SoSPA members.
If you're looking for a luxury spa in Bangkok that's a destination in itself, you've come to the right place. Inspired by the Asian folklore of the mythical Himmapan forest, SoSPA is an urban spa retreat where...Read more
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it's defined as sufficient,
and, most of my life, I have struggled with being
But, in 2016, I decided to embrace who God made me to be…
Making that decision,
that's easy.
But, living it out,
that's a whole other story.
Several times a day,
I hear the wee small voice in my head
telling me I am not enough.
And instead of heading to Facebook or Instagram
to see how many likes or comments I have,
I have been opening my bible app
and looking for my worth there.
A few nights ago,
when I was hearing that voice,
this verse came to me…
the same God who knows the stars,
who named them all,
He knows me,
He created me…
how can that mean I am not enough?


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Ever since I started Craft Passion, I have been wanting to do some basic knowledge on sewing. Today I'm honored to have Toyota Home Sewing to guest post in Craft Passion to introduce the basic sewing foot.
There are vast varieties of sewing machine foot in today's sewing technology that make sewing easy and convenient. Among the basic and the most common use are buttonhole, zipper, zigzag, straight stitch, embroidery or darning and blind hem foot. Other specialty foot include walking foot, piecing foot, roll hemming foot, ruffle foot, pin tuck foot, cording foot, pearl & sequin foot, concealed zipper foot, binding foot etc…. Get the basic sewing foot introduction & some sewing tips after this jump.
Toyota sewing machine has been one of the longest sewing machines I've ever used before I bought my recent sewing machine. In the early 1990's, my sister bought her first electric Toyota sewing machine which changed the whole sewing experience in the family. It is so easy to use compare to the antique foot paddle type, fast and neat, not to mention the built-in embroidery pattern available to make embellishment easy & beautiful. That time, my mom still preferred her old sewing machine because she thinks that the electrical one is too fast for her handicapped eye. With my passion in sewing and handicraft, I became the most frequent user of this sewing machine. Till today, it is still in working condition, with my mom, yes, the one who complaint that it is too fast but now she is the one who is using it for mending clothes and some simple sewing.


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Low-cost program.Taber Public Library has partnered with local fitness instructor Jessica Leishman for low-cost High Fitness classes offered to adults!
Classes are $2.00 each, which can be paid directly to the instructor.
To learn more about High Fitness with Jessica visit:
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/highfitjessica/
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LISTEN: "So Money" Interview with Farnoosh Torabi 11.2.15
Listen to my one-on-one with my old boss, personal finance expert Farnoosh Torabi. When I was just out of journalism school, Farnoosh gave me a break. I worked as her editorial assistant, helping her with her stories covering the world of personal finance. Years later, Farnoosh and I caught up for her hit "So Money" podcast. We discussed the best career advice I ever got, the lesson I learned from growing up poor and why I'm "so money."


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Ankeny Students Invited to Youth Institute
Each student attending had written a research paper on a key issue; such as environmental volatility, soil degradation, nutrition, water scarcity or gender inequality, impacting hunger in a developing country. During the Youth Institute, the students proposed their solutions in small-group roundtable discussions facilitated by academic and industry experts. Students also engaged in interactive immersion sessions, covering topics like plant genetics, human nutrition, food insecurity in Iowa, sustainability, and the environment.
The World Food Prize Youth Programs were started by Norman Borlaug and John Ruan Sr. to inspire the next generation to become involved in our food system. Other World Food Prize youth programs also include the Global Youth Institute, the Borlaug-Ruan International Internship and the USDA Wallace-Carver Fellowship.
Ankeny Students in attendance:
Raina Paeper
Kathryn Vortherms
Morgan Severseike
Natalie Long
Kiran Bhat
Amanda Bendezu
Jordan Su
Volta Adovor
Alison Lundberg
Gracie Valerio-Garsow
Lauren Playle
Sophia Patron
Grace Meador
Natalia Portal-Figueroa
Zeynep Oghan
Allison Su
Lucy Brooner
Samantha Dean
Savannah Edwards
Kamaura Kim
Sophia Parker
Jocelyn Pocernich
Kaitlyn Richards
Christopher Martin
Grace Meter
Jessica Wyman
Madi Peterson
Megan Dao
Sharon Mamuya
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The Murky Future of Nuclear Power in the United States
This was supposed to be America's nuclear century.
The Three Mile Island meltdown was two generations ago. Since then, engineers had developed innovative designs to avoid the kinds of failures that devastated Fukushima in Japan. The United States government was earmarking billions of dollars for a new atomic age, in part to help tame a warming global climate.
But a remarkable confluence of events is bringing that to an end, capped in recent days by Toshiba's decision to take a $6 billion loss and pull Westinghouse, its American nuclear power subsidiary, out of the construction business.
The reasons are wide-ranging. Against expectations, demand for electricity has slowed. Natural-gas prices have tumbled, eroding nuclear power's economic rationale. Alternative-energy sources like wind and solar power have come into their own.
And, perhaps most significantly, attempts to square two often-conflicting forces — the desire for greater safety, and the need to contain costs — while bringing to life complex new designs have blocked or delayed nearly all of the projects planned in the United States.
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This week's Fabulous Phi is our very own Vice President of membership recruitment Jennifer Daniel. Jen Dan has been an active member of Eta Lambda since she joined her freshman year in 2013. Read below to get to know her a little better and why she is so deserving for this week's Fabulous Phi!
1. What is your major?
My major is Communications: Public Relations. I'm not a math or science chick at all but I love interacting with people and my strong suits are reading and writing so it just made sense. I think it would be so cool to work as a public relations specialist for a large hospital.
2. What's your favorite thing about Alpha Phi?
The support system. Last year was a crazy year for me and it is absolutely incredible to have so many women who genuinely care about your well being and want to be there for you through the good and the bad.
3. What actress would play you if your life was turned into a movie?
Kristen wiig
4. Favorite Alpha Phi Event/Experience and why?
Bid day is honestly the most rewarding and fun day! It's great to see all of our new members and everyone so excited about Alpha Phi!
5. Life Motto?
"Take criticism in stride, it means people expect things from you"
6. Why did you join Alpha Phi?
I knew I wanted to be Alpha Phi from the get go: the Aphis that I met were all so naturally cool and fun so it was an easy decision for me. And the Philanthropy was just an added bonus!
7. Best College Advice you can give?
Get involved. It is so cliche but college goes by soooo fast and you only have 4 years! Take advantage of every opportunity that presents itself and never say no to a random adventure because those will be the nights that you'll never regret.


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Donate to the Team
Join our team and assist in our goal of winning competitions across the country and world. Any support through financial resources, production capacity, or knowledge can help. Sponsors gain the benefit of having their logo featured on our car and website, as well as aiding team members in expanding their education beyond the classroom. If you'd like to donate to the team you can do so through the University of Michigan Leaders and Best website.


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Transitional Living
The Transitional Living Program provides housing options for homeless youth that are in a transitional living situation. This program provides youth ages 16-22 with safe housing, and the independent living skills that the youth will need to become productive, self-supporting members of our community. Youth will learn budgeting, banking, job maintenance and housekeeping skills, and will participate in community volunteer activities.
Independent Living
Youth 14-21 are provided training to help them be better equipped for adulthood in this program. With one-to-one mentoring, facilitated groups and case-management the youth are actively thinking and learning about what it will take to live successfully as an adult. The large range of subjects they learn include personal social skills to accessing community resources to car maintenance, etc.
Summer Youth Employment
Youth 14-21 years old learn job search, job skills and job maintenance in this program. With the cooperation and partnership of various community partners IYS provides from 3-5 summer work crews for 8-week work projects. These projects give youth the opportunity to learn how to obtain and keep a job, from the application process through to the final evaluation for summer.
Right The Wrong
Adjudicated youth are referred by the local Juvenile Justice System to this program when community service hours are part of their sentence. These youth are 14-17 years old. Youth work at various jobs around their community. These jobs can be for local non-profit and public sector organizations only.


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Sabella & La Torre still a family affair
This is part of a series exploring the Port of San Francisco restaurants. These waterfront spots embrace and reflect the city's oldest - and newest - culinary traditions, and they have plenty of stories to tell. Previous articles are at www.sfgate.com/food and www.sfchronicle.com/food.
The story of Sabella & La Torre begins with the Sabellas in 1927, when Luciano Sabella and his son, Antone, opened a small seafood stand at Fisherman's Wharf.
After World War II, Antone sold the stand to his brothers, Frank and Michael, and his nephews, Tony and Louis La Torre, and though the business eventually expanded into a sit-down restaurant, not much has changed in the time since.
"We still cater to a lot of locals and longshoremen, we're still doing the fresh crabs and fresh fish, and we still take pride in the business," says general manager Don McFarland.
Frank Sabella is still going strong - he turns 101 in October - and the same goes for his family's bread-and-butter.
Sabella & La Torre, one of Fisherman's Wharf's original occupants, now spans two outdoor crab stands, a full-service restaurant and bar, and even a crab-shipping business.
McFarland, who is married to Frank Sabella's granddaughter Kristina, helps run the show for Frank Jr. and Tom La Torre. Both McFarland and La Torre learned the trade from the ground up, bussing tables and working the crab stands, and to this day, either he or Tom is usually on duty. Call it familial pride: Frank Jr. worked until he was 70, only retiring about a year ago.
A visit to Sabella & La Torre's - look for the blue-and-white awning - is an exercise in decision-making. Eat inside or outside? Clam chowder or seafood cocktail? Crab cakes or crab Louis?
The food is classic Fisherman's Wharf fare, from the seafood specials to Italian pasta plates. Popular items, aside from the usual seafood cocktails, whole crabs and raw oysters, include the marinated calamari, which features boiled squid in a Sicilian-style dressing of olive oil, garlic, onion, and red pepper flakes.
Venture indoors, and you'll find a charming, old-school atmosphere with dark banquettes and booths and granite countertops. The menu is large and the portions even larger. Best of all, meals are served with a side of hospitality. Children are welcomed with paper placemets and crayons, and the staff is cheery.
"Our No. 1 thing is customer service," McFarland says. "We know there are a lot of tourists here, but we don't want that attitude where we feed you one time and that's it. We want you to return because everyone's friendly."
Sabella & La Torre
2809 Taylor St. (near Jefferson Street)
(415) 673-2824. www.sabellalatorre.com.
Open daily from 10 a.m. Validated parking.
Entrees: $13.25-$46.25
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Recovery inpatient units
The Recovery inpatient units are open 24 hours a day and are based at Honeybourne and Laurel House in Gloucestershire.
The units are used by working age adults who have a serious mental illness, predominantly psychosis.
How we help
The aim of the Recovery inpatient units is to work in partnership with service users to help them to achieve their optimum level of functioning.
The outcome is for patients to establish the best possible quality of life and to enable them to live as independently as their individual abilities allow.
Staff promote service users' recovery by engaging in a wide range of activities towards independence including health management, education, training, work experience and other activities to develop their skills and confidence.
These include community-based activities that help promote social inclusion, group holidays and outward bound activities which also serve to inject some fun into the recovery process.
Service users have also joined a community football group and exhibited and successfully sold their work at the annual 'Recovery in Art' exhibition.
We help service users return to paid employment thanks to partnerships with a range of organisations including Gloucestershire County Council and Scout Enterprise. Inpatients have also gained skills needed to return to work or study by completing a 12-week Journey 2 Work course run jointly by ²gether and Jobcentre Plus.
Service users have also undertaken voluntary work which built on their interests or previous experience. They have worked with employers including an animal shelter, guitar shop, furniture recycling project and the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.
Our team
The Recovery inpatient units are headed by a matron and each unit also has a manager.
The matron and manager are supported by a dedicated team of staff who work in partnership with service users towards their recovery. The team comprises of a variety of professionals and support staff including psychiatrists, nurses and health care assistants, allied health professionals and hotel service personnel.
The teams work closely with service user representatives and carers.


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New Music: N.O.R.E. Feat. Lil Wayne, Ja Rule And Birdman 'She Tried' (Remix)
N.O.R.E., aka P.A.P.I., beefs up his grown and sexy cut "She Tried" with assists from Birdman, a post-prison verse from Ja Rule and Lil Wayne on hook duty. While Noreaga teases that a sequel to Student of the Game and a compilation tape from his Good Belt Gang/Militainment label are coming soon, he gives Billboard the debuting rights to this new after hours soundtracker, where they try to make sense of a special head case. Bump it below.


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Hybrid – Soft Top/Hard Bottom
The Channel Islands X INT Shaper's Series surfboards represent the latest evolution in hybrid soft board design and construction. We began with a complete rethinking of the fabrication of these boards, from the blank up. The core is 100% recyclable, American-made Marko foam; specifically designed for optimum strength and performance in a soft board application. We opted for sustainable bamboo stringers for their favorable strength to weight characteristics, allowing for a solid board feel on a soft deck. The epoxy resin used on the board bottom is formulated for maximum strength, responsiveness, and durability. While the board outlines and rockers are precision-cut on CNC machines, the rail foil and final concave are hand-shaped on each and every board. By combining proven Channel Islands designs and unparalleled INT soft board construction technology, these boards will redefine what a soft board is and what they can do. Available now with orange or white deck, starting at $499.
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Reign of Evil.
Ochse, Weston (Author)
Oct 2014. 336 p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, hardcover, $26.99. (9781250056009). St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, e-book, (9781466859586).
"The latest in the SEAL Team 666 series, which craftily blends horror with elite military action, opens with an absolute shocker. A reenactment at Stonehenge turns into murder when the "fake" sacrifice becomes all too real. For one of the team, the death is personal, and he is willing to sacrifice the mission and his life for revenge. Will his loyalty keep him from going rogue? Will his colleagues be able to trust him to do the right thing? Throw in creepy beasts and King Arthur, and the end result is another winner from Ochse. The military action is first rate, and the horror is tight and scary. Readers who enjoy Brad Taylor's and Brad Thor's military thrillers, but who don't mind stories that add to the military mix some over-the-top terror in the manner of Jonathan Maberry, will find this the perfect diversion. The ending screams for a sequel, which would be most welcome. - Jeff Ayers"


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Perry Romanowski has over 18 years experience formulating products to solve consumer problems in the personal care and cosmetic industry. His primary focus has been on hair & hair related products. He is also an author who has published extensively about the field of cosmetic science. He is currently Vice President of Brains Publishing which specializes in science education.
Perry received his B.S. in Chemistry from DePaul University. He has written and edited numerous articles and books, teaches Society of Cosmetic Chemists continuing education classes in cosmetic science, and is the primary author at ChemistsCorner.com a website dedicated to training current and future cosmetic scientists. His latest book project is the third edition of Beginning Cosmetic Chemistry published by Allured. Perry can be reached thorough his website ChemistsCorner where he is available for consulting about cosmetic formulating, testing, and Internet solutions.


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She hummed as she chopped the carrots. Sometimes nonsense notes, sometimes the melodies to hymns of which she had long since forgotten the words. The knife made a gentle 'thwap, thwap' against the cutting board, soothing in its regularity. She used the edge of her palm to push the diced carrots back up onto the blade, then scraped them off into the pot of slowly simmering soup. There was something comforting, something calming about making soup. Taking the small bits and pieces and leftovers of meals and dropping into a bit of water, or, if she'd thought ahead, some stock, somehow produced a thing greater than the sum of its meager parts. She often longed to do this in the summer months, to hear the soup bubbling merrily away on the stove, her calmly chopping whatever she found at the farmer's market, or, on occasion, in her garden. She couldn't bear the stifling heat of the kitchen, and the feverish warmth of the soup on those days. Now though, in fall, her favorite time of year, there was just enough chill in the air that she knew the time was finally right.
She tasted the soup. Something was missing…ah! The tomatoes, the ones that had begun to sag at their edges on her counter, begging to be used, had been forgotten again. She reached for the most dismal of the bunch, an old craggy fellow who'd split open just slightly on the vine, and whose skin bore the two tone colors of green-brown and purple-red. He was large enough that he'd probably be more than necessary, but she took a few more small, bruised reds, just because. She sliced them thinly, squeezing them gently every so often to expel the seeds, and then deposited the trim bits into the soup, watching the broth turn from a thin brownish hue to robustly orangey-red. She tasted the soup again. Perfect.


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Women's volleyball no longer undefeated in conference play/
The Seawolves' volleyball team wrapped up an intense weekend of play against the Cal State East Bay Pioneers and the Cal State Monterey Otters. The Seawolves were able to maintain a 2-0 conference record until Saturday, losing their reputation of no losses within their CCAA regular season games.
The Seawolves were able to rise above the Pioneers and beat them at their home gym. The weekend began with a proud win of four sets. During this match the team played very strong the majority of the time but drifted away in the second set when they lost to the Pioneers 25-21. East Bay entered that set maintaining a lead of 5 points, but Sonoma was able to fight back and gain a tie with 11 points each team. There was a continuous battle back and forth but with East Bay's strong aces. This was the beginning of Sonoma's downfall in the second set.
After an unexpected loss of a set, Sonoma immediately readjusted their mentality and were able to leave East Bay with a win. The offensive leaders for the game were Courtney Seda with 45 assists, Rachel Andrews with 15 kills, and Megan Bohorquez led defensively with 31 digs.
The second opponent the Seawolves encountered during this intense games were the Cal State Monterey Bay Otters.
The Seawolves reign was unexpectedly slipped away as they fell to the Otters after only three sets. This loss made the Seawolves have their first conference loss after 22 regular season CCAA matches.
A common theme that occurred during these matches was that the team struggled to continue their strong competitiveness amongst the whole match.
"We need to be mentally tough and learn that we need to compete through the entire match," said by Calan Seltz.
As Sonoma State continues league play, they will adjust to the chemistry of the team and learn their strengths and weaknesses.
The leaders and score builders were Kelsey McEntire and Calan Seitz. McEntire had a total of 13 kills in the game while Calan Seitz helped the Seawolves with eight kills and two blocks.
The girls have the strong potential to earn another CCAA title, and there is no doubt that the team will be able to rise above once again and rebuild their reputation of less losses.
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During the making of Plants and Animals' The End of That, it took a much-needed break for the group before the recording process started to jell. On one of their last scheduled days in the French studio La Frette, the band was stressed, neither communicating nor playing well. A surprising wake-up call from the studio's residential neighbors, however, changed everything for the better.
"We got to work one morning and the neighbors called." said Warren Spicer, guitarist and vocalist for the band. "It was a holiday in France, it was like (France's) labor day where everyone sits in the back yard and has cheese. And the neighbor called and he was insanely mad that we were playing. So we regrouped and we all ended up laughing. We were like, 'Well, let's change our flight, let's book a few more days' and all of a sudden the weight lifted."
The weight Spicer describes wasn't just inner-band turmoil, and the themes—breakups, isolation and growing older—come across through The End of That's frustrated lyrics.
"I went through a relationship and I was not living in my home anymore," Spicer said. "From a band perspective, it's a struggle to continue playing in a band when you live a normal life. People have kids and they're going through this and that. And even communicating on a musical level sometimes can be difficult with people you spend so much time with."
And so the band, tied together with producer/engineer Lionel Darenne's help, started playing better, and The End of That became less of a frustration and more of a living, breathing thing. Inspired by their manor surroundings and their newfound sense of camaraderie, some of the wide-open sounds on the album come from the huge manor itself, which Spicer described as "magical."
"On this record, our gear that we play is the gear we play live," Spicer said. "It has a more cohesive feeling to it. There's some sounds where the drums are a little bigger. Picture a big French castle with doorways leading to hallways, which is a big huge spiral staircase going up four floors. It's a big open place with tiled floors, so the drums from that come from that sound."
The album also features "HC," a track that Spicer said was one of the band's favorites to record. "HC" was recorded on a Studer J37, one of the original four-track recorders used at Abbey Road Studios that Spicer said "was as big as a washing machine."
Plants and Animals' The End of That is out Feb. 28 on Secret City Records. Although you can't buy the album until next week, you can exclusively stream the album here.
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In the last years iRobot has become more and more dependent of the home robot sales that account now for 70% of total revenue. In 2011 iRobot has shipped 1.371 million home robots with an average gross selling price of $207. International sales of home robots has increased with 28 percent, while domestic sales only grew 6 percent. This indicates that it is harder to attract US consumers without a major upgrade or innovation of smarter navigation and cleaning technology for years. iRobot's technology is no longer state-of-the-art compared with competitors and also the product design seems old fashioned.
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In 2011 iRobot unveiled plans to expand into new market segments with its new AVA mobile platform in partnership with Intouch Health, a $ 20 million remote telemedicin robotics business with installations at about 400 hospitals. Februari 1, 2012 iRobot announced the investment of $ 6 million in Intouch Health to build a stronger position in the expanding telepresence robotics market. A takeover of Intouch Health in the future might be a logical step in iRobots growth strategy.
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(The Amagansett Press, 1994)
"A powerful collection of serious poetry which compares favorably to that of Nelly Sachs."
"To paraphrase a passage from one of these densely textured, passionate poems, Carine Topal carries her theatre in her eyes, and her theatre is vast: family origins, her own childhood, feisty relationships with lovers, the births of children, a European sensibility in pogrom and beyond it, high culture, and a keen sense of love as it plays out towards death. Topal writes with great fluency and much verbal and lyrical beauty . . ."
(Black Zinnias, 2008)
Recipient of the 2007 Robert G. Cohn Prose Poetry Award
"The world Carine Topal creates in Bed of Want—or recreates?—is the world in which we all would live, if we could, if we could bear it—a world in which every sense is heightened, every beauty more beautiful, and elusive and shimmering, and even sadness is a kind of rapture. Here, the radio is swooning, there's 'a promise of milk at the door.' Lush and sensual and full of the strangeness and danger of love, these poems are also sassy and savvy and simply unlike any other poems I know."
— CECILIA WOLOCH Author of LATE
In Bed of Want, the language of love and longing moves the poems and prose poems through the real and the imagined world. A strong sense of woman working her way through the world, rediscovering youth, hers and the magical world of others. Topal takes on the persona of mid-20th century travelers in her postcards and 19th-century narrators who journey inside various works of art, bringing the reader along. Topal enters each world and creates magical, surreal, and fabulist work that serves as time machine.
(Moon Tide Press, 2008)
"In one of my favorite poems in In the Heaven of Never Before, Carine Topal writes, 'I am teaching my son how to name things carefully/ so that nothing goes unnoticed' and this is exactly what Carine does in poem after poem. On a visit to her dying mother, she notices 'the only sound was the baby's snowsuit/crinkling as he waved his arms in the air.' On the morning when Lucille Ball dies, she remembers her mother, also a redhead, as she measured a dress she was sewing for her, 'My mother—a rouge shadow cast along her forehead as she sat beneath me—her head bowed . . . as she chalked and pinned, her hair hectic and fiery.' And in a poem where a stranger tries to resuscitate her father (is this right? is it her father?), ripping open his shirt, she notices the buttons fallen to the floor: 'I bent down to find three maverick pearls/ in the carpet, stars of a lost constellation, seeds of the next.' At the heart of this book are poems about family, about birth and dying, and the complicated love that endures. They remind us to pay attention in our lives, to try to notice everything."
"An extraordinary collection of poems . . . Intimate and compelling at every turn . . . Carine Topal's poems are woven with iridescent details as they lead us along her powerful emotional reflections upon what it means to be an adult woman in the world ? a daughter and a sister and a mother."
(Unabridged, 2015)
Winner of the Palettes and Quills Chapbook Contest, judged by Kelly Cherry
"Many, many histories have been written about the Nazis and their victims, but because horror tends to overwhelm attempts at lyricism, the successful Holocaust poem is rare and distinguished. This collection has managed to do the nearly impossible: the poems here are deeply moving, make effective use of metaphor and narrative, retain their integrity by steering clear of sentiment, lay bare the truth, and enlighten. With splendid economy, the poem has placed the reader on death's porch. "Faith is impossible," says a girl or young woman in Auschwitz. The marvelous thing, the unexpected thing, is that the poet puts us in touch with those irreplaceable human beings. There is no false hope. What there is, is life. We see it slaughtered, burned, torn, poisoned, but still it is life because the poet has made it so. This brave book is crucial."
-KELLY CHERRY, author of We Can Still Be Friends
"Through at-the-ready empathy and unflinching art, Carine Topal makes familiar wartime episodes immediate and crisp, shockingly close to us again. Her invaluable and cogent chapbook is a reminder that there are as many ways to grasping and conveying the crucible of the Holocaust as there are individual human stories. Where others have often foundered in conveying the complexity and enormity of the Shoah, Topal succeeds—with unerring tact, startling juxtapositions, and unexpected music. Moving and utterly commanding, this is deft and impressive poetry of great moral power: a triumph of boundless imagination and compassion."
-CYRUS CASSELLS, author of The Crossed-Out Swastika
Political art exists, not simply to answer injustice, but to mark barbarism with a countering ferocious creative will, to bring beauty back into the moral equation. That is precisely what Carine Topal does in Tattooed. Deploying a lyricism too insistent to be haunted, she explores the 20th Century's most notorious campaign of human treachery not as fixed history, but as a fluid and present condition that must continually be met, marked, assayed, and survived--and the cost of that survival measured against our own imperfect understanding. As she cautions in "Auschwitz: (The Orchestra)," "Whose twisted theater, whose music, this sudden ictus / when the orchestra plays for time, while we tally such / grotesqueries--the walking dead honoring nothing--into the song of what?"
- DOROTHY BARRESI, author of American Fanatics
Tattoo, by Carine Topal, is an achingly beautiful suite of poems on a most painful subject. It is history made present and personal, and given voices, faces and names. It is a document of witness, but more importantly, a work of art that illuminates the darkness and touches the reader. May it take its place on the shelf of classic literature of the Shoah.
-RICHARD GARCIA, author of The Other Odyssey
"First, Chrystal Night. Then trains. Then gas chambers. We know the story—or think we do—but familiarity can numb us, even to incomprehensible atrocities. In this collection, Carine Topal looks yet again into history—at the green ink of a number needled into a wrist, at the cork-soled child's shoes added to the pile, at the seasons flowing through the camps, impossibly beautiful with lavender moths tangled in the vines outside and a willow next to the guard house. These poems don't so much as remember the Holocaust as they attempt to un-remember it in order to make it new, and painfully—quite necessarily—make us see it again. Aching with language that refuses to turn away from horror or beauty, Tattoed is a stunning addition to the literature that grieves the lives taken, the remains that were brought to ash in those ovens—'And there's the din of the slow giving in of wishbones, / millions deep.'"—--
—NICKOLE BROWN, author of Fanny Says
"This is a brilliant book, by a fearless poet. The reader, male or female, must be tough enough to get through poems about small children brutally murdered by Mengele. Why read it? Because we cannot pretend not to know the past. Because the poems are beautiful and elegant, written with authority and care. Because it revives a community and a generation lost to us. Topal brings them bac to life: the composer and conductor Viktor Ullmann, the author's brothers, others. You must read this book."
-KELLY CHERRY, author of Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Poem
"In Order of Disappearance is a breathtaking meditation on death, injustice, and the lyric memory's power to name what survives when everything is stripped away. Topal's poems awaken under her hand; they live in the present, asking with their fierce beauty if we are paying attention to the world, if we are ready to tell the truth."
--DOROTHY BARRESI, author of American Fanatics
"These poems move between the real, the perceived and the imaginary, exploring the world of history, delving into the unspeakable acts of the Holocaust and the personal. They ask questions for which perhaps there are no satisfactory answers. Topal's most urgent question: "Is what we believe in enough?" That is for each reader of this powerful book to decide."
"Carine Topal's heart-wrenching collection of poems, is steeped in loss: personal, private loss, as well as loss on the Holocaust's unimaginable scale. But Topal's book is, at its heart, about finding a way out of despair and beyond bitterness into the beauty of remembering and memorializing. In lucid and luminous lines, Topal celebrates lives and ways of life that have been lost; and in the reader's mind, at least. She brings them back."


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Pathways: Step Out of Your Pew and Onto a Path
Pathways is our approach to faith formation and spiritual growth for adults at Paradise Valley United Methodist Church. Whether Christianity is new to you, or whether you are a lifelong Christian, there's a pathway for you.
This fall, we invite you to step out of your pew and onto a path. Walk with others as you take a spiritual journey. Allow the Holy Spirit to ignite your faith and transform your life as you create community with others. Let Christ shape and enrich your heart, mind, soul and strength, in all the fullness of God's love and grace.
Click here to download your copy of the Fall 2016 Pathways Guidebook.
Introduction to Pathways
If you don't know where to begin, you're invited to join Senior Pastor Dave Summers and his wife, Kim Summers, for Journey of Faith: An Introduction to Pathways. The class meets for three consecutive Mondays, October 10-24, 6:30-8:30 pm in the Fireside Room, F8. The class includes an introduction to the Bible and the United Methodist Church, and information on how to discover your spiritual gifts. They will also share devotional practices to help you enrich your life of faith and better discern where God may be leading you.
No registration is necessary for any of the Pathways classes, unless where noted.
Some of the "HEART" pathways classes include new material and expanded programming, such as:
Modern Family and Caring Kids
Leaders: Erin Zeller and
Rev. Brenda Smith
Sundays, Sept 11-Dec 4
10:45-11:45am, H5
Last fall, Rev. Andrea Andress led this group of parents with young children in a Love and Logic parenting curriculum. This fall, the parents will continue to learn "Parenting the Love and Logic Way" using bonus DVDs and specific scenarios to help illustrate parenting using Love and Logic principles. The curriculum will lead up to and follow our special guest, the President of the Love and Logic Insititute Dr. Charles Fay, who will be on campus Sunday, September 18. Register for the afternoon workshops by clicking here.
New this year for Modern Family is a children's missions program, "Caring Kids," led by Rev. Brenda Smith. Children in first grade and up are invited to participate. For a full schedule, which lists weekly mission and service projects, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Leaders: Marnie Marquardt
and Rayme Ellett
Wednesdays, Sept 2016-May 2017
4:15-5:30pm, Library, G2
This women's group meets while Music Makers, the afterschool children's music program, is in session. They are studying "Parenting with Love and Logic" led by Rev. Andrea Andress during the month of September. In October, they'll offer yoga on October 5, and focus on spiritual gifts for the rest of the month. They plan to do the Advent study, Sent, to finish out the year. They'll restart in January, following Music Makers' schedule.
Church-wide Advent Study: Sent
Many of our weekly classes will opt to follow the Advent study called "Sent," this year. Watch the video below to get an idea about the church-wide study which focuses on experiences, storytelling and discussion:
Some new "MIND" pathways classes on Wednesdays include:
Growing Together in Our Walk
Leader: Kim Summers
Wednesdays, beginning Sept 21
6-7:30pm, Fireside Room, F8
This book and DVD study group begins with a five-week study based on the book, Half Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn't Say by Adam Hamilton. Books will be available at the first meeting, or in the church office. This was formally "After the Feast," but the Community Feast will not be offered this fall, so the name was changed.
The Ridiculous Journey:
Following a Nobody
from Nowhere
Leader: Rev. Eve Williams
Wednesdays, 10/5-11/9/16
6-7:30pm, H5
A Middle Eastern homeless man who walked the earth centuries ago still stirs the souls and imaginations of so many. This 6-session series on Jesus' invitation to follow him includes with films by progressives Nadia Bolz-Weber, Greg Boyle, Brene Brown, Rachel Held Evans, Richard Rohr, and Rowan Williams, and visual liturgies from Kelly Stewart Hall, Thomas Merton, Travis Reed, and Ann Voscamp and reflections by Rich Nelson.
Many "SOUL" Classes meet on Transformation Thursdays
Many of the "Soul" classes under the Transformational Living Ministry Team fall under "Transformation Thursdays." Every week, there is a different offering, and Lunch Conversations meets weekly. From prayer to the enneagram, you can find rest, conversation, relationship and connection at PVUMC. Click here to read more.
"STRENGTH" Opportunities abound under Missions and Church & Society
The Church & Society Ministry Team hosts civic academies about important issues in our community and works with VIP, Valley Interfaith Project, and other faith communities to encourage civic engagement.
The Missions Ministry Team offers numerous opportunities to join others in serving our community and world throughout the year. Opportunities include international mission trips (like Costa Rica and Guatemala) as well as monthly workdays and seasonal projects for these organizations:
- Feed My Starving Children
- Habitat for Humanity
- Project Cure
- St Mary's Food Bank
- UMOM & Watkins Center
- Wesley Community Center
Our largest strength-based Pathway is our "Change the World Day" event on Sunday, November 13. Stay tuned to learn more about the organizations we'll serve, and how you can sign up to help be Jesus' hands and feet in our own community.
Our Mission: Alive with the Spirit, we bring God's love into action, by igniting faith, transforming lives and creating community.
Our Vision: Love that crosses all barriers and embraces all people.


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Pastoral Care
We have small group pastors all over the city
It's easy in a large church to feel lost or not connected. We aim to make a large church feel like a small church. We highly encourage every person who attends Without Walls to attend a small group. Our small groups compliment our two monthly Celebration Services by running on the off Sundays. So we have two Celebrations services per month and at least two small group meetings per month.
We have a variety of groups with various flavors to suit every age and life stage. This is the best way to make friends and receive the support you need. Our small group leaders also make up our pastoral care team. Find someone near you.
Small Groups Pastors
We have a new pastoral care initiative for our Without Walls community. We have equipped each of our small groups, which are located around the city, with pastoral care leaders. Our of small group leaders are responsible for pastoring our flock. We encourage you to find a small group and connect with the
Cafe Base Pastors
The Café-Based pastor ministry is available to respond to people who call or stop by the Little Bird on Lake needing counsel with a pastor. The Café-Based Pastors work in close partnership with other ministries at Without Walls referring, as required, people to the Healing Rooms or further counselling support.
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What an unbelievable night beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. Easy to say that I put down somewhere between 10-15 burgers last night! In all honesty quality was great all around, but a couple stood out above the rest. Congrats to Spike Mendelsohn for his second straight win. Personally, I credit his cheerleaders.
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- Spike Mendelsohn's Marshmallow Shake
- The caramelized onions from Minetta Tavern
- The shortest line you'll ever see at Shake Shack
- The Bacon wrapped, avocado topped, Crif Dog
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- Meeting Giada De Laurentiis, Tyler Florence and Nick Mangold
- Watching Martha Stewart pound burgers and Rocco Dispirito pound a beer on his way out
- Getting pushed out-of-the-way by one of Rachael Ray's six security guards. Enough already… if Martha Stewart is just hanging around by herself, you don't need an armed entourage.
A great culinary event for a great cause! Looking forward to 2010… for now though, I'm off to eat a salad.


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It's a virtual arms race among Web-based photo editors. Each one is trying to partner with as many third-party services as possible in an attempt to gain mass appeal. This morning Picnik, which has already begun to get some traction as the primary editing tool for Flickr has teamed up with Photobox, another large photo host in the United Kingdom.
Photobox is about a fifth of the size of Flickr in active users, and the two have very different services. Photobox provides 1,000MB of storage and gives users more space each time they order prints while Flickr operates on a paid premium membership that requires a yearly subscription of $25.
Also starting today Picnik users will be able to print their shots using QOOP which lets you print your photos on items such as coffee mugs, posters, and T-shirts. Users of Flickr and Picnik won't find this very useful since Flickr's offered QOOP integration since mid-2005. However, folks who are using Picnik as a standalone editor and replacement for desktop software will find that it's an important partnership. In my chat with Picnik CEO Jonathan Sposato back in February, he had noted that a good deal of Picnik users fit that demographic, and that they simply take the edited shots back to their hard drives instead of to other services.


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These recipes aren't fancy. They're not parading around as fancy or secretly packing a host of healthy ingredients. They're straight-up bar food of the highest caliber (the only caliber of bar food we know). We realized long ago that fried food couldn't possibly soak up booze, cause it's soaked in hot oil. But it still tastes so right, so there's some of that. Cheese is important, preferably melted. And of course, there's the ever-important "so spicy you have to drink it away" component.
- Baja Fish Nachos
- Bhut Jolokia Wings
- Philly Cheesesteak Jalapeño Poppers
- Pigwich Cookies
- Fried Whitefish with Aioli
- Crunchy Pigskin Popcorn
- Red Wine Sloppy Joe Sliders
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By Matt Purple, April 20, 2016
The South American country, long slapped around by the very visible hand of Hugo Chavez-flavored socialism, is in the midst of a crisis. Inflation there will explode to 720 percent this year, according to the IMF. Supermarket shelves have gone bare, forcing the government to declare a "nutritional emergency" and President Nicolás Maduro to harangue his largely city-dwelling country on the upsides of personal gardening. Essential goods like toilet paper are also in short supply. And last year, Venezuela had the highest homicide rate in the world as residents resorted to crime to stay stocked.
If you haven't been meticulously following Venezuelan news lately (and why haven't you?), then this might come as a surprise. During the 2000s, Venezuela was frequently in the news thanks to the antics of the now-deceased Chavez, who called George W. Bush a "devil" and a "donkey," among other stinging burns. Back then, Venezuela defied the stereotype of the impoverished and authoritarian socialist hellhole, with relative prosperity and a government that was amply supported by its people.
So what happened? Venezuela is largely a petro-state, relying on oil for 95 percent of its export earnings and 25 percent of its GDP. When the price of oil came tumbling down thanks to an American fracking boom that precipitated a worldwide glut, the money that had long funded Venezuela's socialist benefit system dried up.
The government responded by printing more money, but this only served to inflate the currency and deepen the economic pain. These problems were compounded by Venezuela's hostility to foreign investment—especially from the United States, which it's long derided as a rapacious hemispheric colossus—and its own technocratic incompetence. Saudi Arabia is also suffering from (ahem) bottom-of-the-barrel oil prices, but its open attitude to the world has helped it better navigate the crisis. Venezuela, meanwhile, has earned the nickname "the sick man of OPEC."
Venezuelans, long supportive of Chavez who's become tied up in their concept of nationalism, responded late last year in a historic election that swept the United Socialists from power for the first time since 1999. They were replaced by a governing coalition called the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) that consists of centrists, democratic socialists, and even a few conservatives, all of whom are united in their contempt for Chavismo socialism. Maduro, not content to let the leftist dream die, responded by granting himself emergency economic powers, but it may be too late. The MUD has protests planned for this weekend, and is mulling over both a referendum to recall Maduro and a constitutional amendment to abbreviate his term. And while previous attempts to limit socialist power have failed, the anemic economy means this time around could be different. The MUD is determined to privatize certain government services, like the housing mission.
Venezuela is a perfect case study for how economic power backed up by patience for incremental reform can be far more effective than military intervention. It also demonstrates that the best change is derived from within rather than from without. Despite being a constant thorn in our side, the United States didn't invade Venezuela, overthrow its government, or occupy its capital. And despite the constant fulminations from socialists about American "economic warfare," we didn't target Venezuela with economic measures until last year when President Obama imposed some (probably ill-advised) sanctions. Instead, we sat back, managed the threat, enhanced our own economy, and let Caracas suffer the consequences.
Whatever change occurs in Venezuela will likely take decades. But it will also be implemented by Venezuelans, and thus far more durable than anything we've tried to engineer from on high—like, say, in Iraq. As Ronald Reagan proved with the Soviet Union, sometimes pressuring a country yields far better results than blowing it up.
Matt Purple is a fellow at Defense Priorities and deputy editor at Rare Politics.
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One woman got the ride of her life on a recent flight home. She was the lone passenger on the airplane.
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The passenger, identified as Ms. Zhang, was the only passenger on China Southern Airlines Flight 2833 on February 1, 2016. During the 90-minute flight from Wuhan to Guangzhou, Zhang took pictures with the flight crew since she was the only passenger on the flight.
Zhang wrote on her Weibo page that she thought the flight would be cancelled. She was very surprised to find out that she would have the plane all to herself.
The flight had been delayed by 10 hours because of snow, but being the only passenger on that flight has made up for the inconvenience. Everybody else scheduled for the flight had been rerouted or placed on earlier flights, only Zhang stayed on the originally scheduled plane.
The snow storm had stranded 100,000 passengers in Guangzhou Train Station in its busiest travel period, right before Chinese New Year.
This isn't the first time this happened though. Last year, three passengers also had a solo flight experience with Delta, Philippine Airlines, and Air Zimbabwe.
Watch the video below
Here are more amazing stories to come out of China
Toddler Trapped in a Well in China Rescued by Firefighters
China Has a Real-Life Version of the Corpse Bride


text: Epigenetics has emerged recently as an important area of molecular biological studies. Epigenetic modifications are potentially heritable but reversible alterations in gene expression which determine the fate of cells and therefore play a role in diseases, including cancer and neuronal disorders.The great interest in this regulatory system results from the fact that epigenetic, in contrast to genetic, alterations are in principle amenable to pharmacological intervention. A few epigenetically active drugs, for example histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) and DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) inhibitors, are currently undergoing clinical trials. This volume highlights the results of such studies, including the epigenetic control of gene expression and post-transcriptional silencing of genes by RNA interference (RNAi) and microRNAs (miRNSs) as well as new findings from stem cell research which are relevant to pharmacological applications.


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National School Lunch WeekPublished by l.degraffenried on Mon, 10/09/2017 - 10:58
It is National School Lunch Week (Oct 9-13)! OUr fabulous lunch ladies have planned a few contests, including a coloring contest to celebrate! They have fun prizes for the winners (to be announced on Friday).
Parents are invited to choose one day to eat lunch with their student(s) during this week! ($2.00 preschoolers and $4.00 Adults)


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Uber has been selling off its local businesses in big emerging markets like China and Southeast Asia. But the company's India unit isn't going anywhere.
In an email obtained by CNBC, Uber's India head Pradeep Parameswaran told company executives, including CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and CFO Nelson Chai, that Uber India reached an annualized bookings rate of $1.64 billion in the third quarter.
Parameswaran wrote that Uber will close the year in its "strongest position ever — as the ride-sharing leader in India." He said the company doubled its engineering team as of the third quarter and plans to double again next year in its two big hubs of Bangalore and Hyderabad.
India marks Uber's last stand in Asia. The San Francisco-based company spent billions of dollars building its business across the region, before ultimately consolidating with local players. In 2016, Uber sold off its China operations to Didi Chuxing for a 20 percent stake in its former rival, and in March of this year Uber sold its business in eight countries across Southeast Asia for a 27.5 percent stake in regional leader Grab. Uber also merged its Russian business with Yandex in 2017.


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Term: Caesura
A caesura is a strong pause within a line, and is often found alongside enjambment. If all the pauses in the sense of the poem were to occur at the line breaks, this could become dull; moving the pauses so they occur within the line creates a musical interest. A caesura may be marked like this: ||
John Mole's 'Coming Home' has a first stanza that sets off in a very steady rhythm, with the first four sentences the same length as the line, and the same length as each other. The fifth sentence is only half-a-line long, and the pause following that full stop creates a caesura in the line, which draws attention to the important paradox in the fifth line, that "They lie together now. They sleep apart".


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It all started when...
Owners Ed & Kelli Kinsley relocated from Southern California and purchased Mohegan Bowl in 2012. Their goal was to renovate the bowling alley originally built in 1958 and bring the sort of entertainment oriented bowling that had become popular in Southern California to Mohegan Bowl. They created packages for Children's Birthdays, Teen Parties, Adult & Corporate Events and Family Bowling Specials. Their goal is to provide "Affordable Family Fun - Close to Home" for the local community. Since the purchase, the center has undergone major renovations including 6 new ten pin lanes and 14 candlepin lanes, a state of the art game room, a pizza and appetizer menu, and an assortment of over 30 beers and wines, with 7 beers on tap. The most recent addition was a 5,000 sq ft laser tag facility that opened last summer! Located just 20 minutes south of Worcester MA, and just minutes from the Connecticut border, Mohegan Bowl is your family hotspot!
With a second major remodel now complete, Mohegan bowl features an all new upscale look, great food and beverage options, an amazing game room and friendly staff. It offers incredible bowling experiences for everyone from the casual bowler to experienced league bowlers.
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McLaren Past Winners
2015 Winner – Good Morning Howard
David Neiman
Chicago, IL
Jennifer is awakened when her former co-worker, Howard, calls her at 3:00 AM. Sad and desperate, Howard convinces Jennifer to let him in her apartment to talk, a decision she almost immediately regrets. Things grow even more bizarre when an upstairs neighbor and a local news anchor are both lured into the apartment. Do not miss the world premiere of this hilarious new comedy. 5 Actors: 3 Women, 2 Men
2014 Winner – FIXIN' UP
John & Jenni Marsh
Unit set
4 men, 5 women – A shy guy is set-up on two blind dates – on the same night! – by well-meaning brother and sister-in-law. Mistaken identities, house renovations, and two dead cats get in the way of getting to know each other.
2013 Winner – MOM'S GIFT
Phil Olson
Unit Set
2 men, 3 women – An older daughter tries to survive a family gathering on the anniversary of her mother's death. Meeting her Dad's new girlfriend doesn't help and neither does being able to see, hear, and speak to her mother.
2012 Winner – WEDDING SECRETS
Joseph Starzyk
Unit set
5 men, 6 women – Newlyweds keep their recent elopement from both sets of parents.
2011 Winner – LARRY'S BEST FRIEND
David C. Hill
Multiple locations
3 men, 2 women – Larry is cursed by an ex-girlfriend and wakes to find his beloved golden retriever transformed into a lovely young woman. He struggles with sanity as "Ginger" navigates her new world.
2010 Winner – THERE'S NO JUSTICE, JUST COURT COSTS
Lawrence B. Fox, Esq.
4 men, 3 women – a memory play
2009 Winner – VIRTUALLY IN LOVE
Bradford Owen
4 men, 3 women – two lonely hearts seek mates via the Internet.
2008 Winner – KNOCK, KNOCK
Patrick S. McLaughlin
Unit set with a strong door.
6 men, 3 women – a young woman locks herself in the bathroom of a master suite during a dinner party and refuses to come out – hilarity ensues as her husband, friends, and local firemen try to coax, trick, and finally bust her out.
2007 Winner – ARTIFICE
Anne Flanagan
Unit Set
4 men, 4 women – At a private art sale, the "deceased" artist returns to claim his wife and his art, only to be thwarted by an art critic that could ruin him, a rumored gangster who might throttle him, a snowstorm that could bury him, and a spurned lover out to kill him – for good this time.
2006 Winner – LAW & DISORDER
Will Radford
Office, apartment, café.
2 men, 3 women – A young attorney and her rival set out to win a prestigious spot at their firm and the respect of their employer. When her nephew arrives from out-of-town they try to curry favor by showing him the sights and ending up longing to ditch him and forget the whole sorry affair.
2005 Winner – WEE CARE
William Payne
Unit Set
2 men, 3 women – A young man is gamely trying to establish a successful daycare, but between his best friend's latest attempt to get rich quick, his harried employee trying to juggle multiple two-year old monsters, and dear-old mom butting in – things aren't running too smoothly, but when the SWAT team arrives it really gets crazy.
2004 Finalist – COLD FEET
Louis Felder
Unit Set – lots of secret entrances
3 men, 3 women – On a dark and stormy night 3 women confess to murder, only to discover themselves haunted and then hunted by their victim.
2003 Finalist – TOO GOOD TO SAY GOODBYE
Jim Gustafsun
Multiple suggested sets.
4-5 men, 4-6 women – (there can be doubling)
A writer of fiction has the characters in his head occupying his home; opinionated, obstinate, and desperate to live their lives on paper as intended. They do enjoy a bit of fun fixing up their creator with a young woman in a bid to rid him of writer's block only to discover they are not alone.
2003 Winner – MIDVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE
Dan D'Amario
Multiple suggested locations
5 men, 4 women, young girl – Playwrights arrive for a Theatre Festival featuring their work and enjoy the home-town appeal, artistic insights, and quirky characters of Midville, Texas.
2001 Winner- WHEN BULLFROGS SING OPERA
Carl L. Williams
Unit set
3 men, 3 women – The down home sister of a socialite wanna-be arrives just minutes before a cocktail party with an elegant couple sure to open doors for a woman desperate to leave the farm far behind her.
1999 Winner – THERE SHOULD BE ROSES
David L. Williams
Multiple suggested locations
4 men, 5-6 women – Two octogenarians escape the drab routine of their nursing home and head off across San Francisco to lay flowers on a beloved's grave. Chased by street thugs and the nursing staff they find a helping hand in a woman left to her own devices by children busy raising the next generation.
1998 Winner – HEAVING BOSOMS, HAIRY CHESTS
Sarah E. Bewley
Unit Set
2 men, 3 women – A writer decides to reduce her contractual obligations by "killing off" one of her many pseudo-nom-de-plumes and try to find time to write the great American novel instead of the romance fiction which has made her rich. No sooner has the ink dried on the death certificate than a fan shows up to profess his undying love for her work.


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After a year and four months of being married, I now, as of tonight, have my very own set of mixing bowls! Thursday I was browsing through the adds on Kijiji.ca and came across a set of 3 vintage Pyrex mixing bowls for $15. Oh boy was I excited! .. but then, I figured they had most likely been sold already.. because adorable vintage bowls just seem to be the rave these days. But I sent an email to the seller anyway. .. Well against my doubts, they had not been sold, and she was even willing to hold them for me {for TWO DAYS} until I could come get them! .. I almost died! How sweet of her! {usually people say "first come first serve"} Then she sent me another email including a photo of two larger bowls that matched right along with the other three, .. just in case I was interested in these too {for another $15}!!! Are you kidding me?!?!?! I love you!!!!! .. okay, that wasn't exactly my reply to her, but it was something close to it!! Anyway, I'll just shut up now and show you the bowls! Who really wants to sit here and listen {er.. read..} my blabbing anyway!?!
I loveth them dearly!
{what's that big ole stack of books doing on my kitchen table?!...
oh yah, my Hubs is preaching tomorrow night so he's been preppin' away for his sermon in Philippians!}
I need to take a break from all this giddiness!


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Although it's important to see people in action in order to know who they really are, you should also note that most people perform better when the action is exciting. At this point in the solar journey, life is a bring-your-own-excitement type of invite. The people who are a delight when there's not much going on — those are the ones to keep close.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Friends who don't agree can be the luckiest relationships you have. Somewhere between your differing points of view lies the elusive answer to a question of recent importance.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You've a choice of solutions today: Should you go for the common fix that's worked for many or the idiosyncratic route that's worked for maybe one person (if her story is to be believed)? Both will work; one will be more fun.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You're involved in a positive and gradual change, which causes you to stretch emotionally. You can expect things to feel a little weird. Being slightly uncomfortable is a good sign, though.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You get to be the favorite. Special responsibilities come with the territory. Tonight, everyone seems to have advice for you, but the best idea will spring from your own imagination.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You'll be as effective as your support system. So choose a good team of helpers — people who are more concerned with seeing the big picture come together than they are with their own egos.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It's a weird social rule: Focus on impressing someone and the opposite tends to happen. Anyway, you're impressive enough without trying. Your attractiveness will have everything to do with how you make other people feel.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It's fun to dream about the future, even as you are fully aware that things happen only in the now. Your superpower today is weaving the unreal with the practical steps that will make it an actuality.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There are people around you who can contribute to your life, but you won't know who those people are until you turn on the radiant energy, which will attract them like bees to honey.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your rebel spirit is even stronger than it was yesterday. Before you go "off script," make sure that what you have to say is necessary or better than the role you were given.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Life is complicated and filled with interesting contradictions. However, many of them do not need to be analyzed right now. Don't let too much thinking ruin the fun.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Someone has opened a conversation that you're not sure you should get into. You could tiptoe around it or confront it. If you choose the latter, tonight will be the best time.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The more you try to make sense of a love relationship, the more complex it becomes. Do you really need to understand why things are how they are to enjoy them? The simple answer might be to accept how things are.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 1). You're extremely talented at risk assessment in all areas of life. It takes you very little time to determine what's worthwhile. You'll put your money behind the metaphorical winning horse or, more likely, be the one in the winner's circle. Your solar return will start with happy news and end with a checked-off goal list. Leo and Cancer adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 20, 3, 33 and 17.
VIRGO SUN CALL TO ACTION: There's a great opportunity to make progress at this point in the Virgo solar journey, which represents one of the most vigorous times of 2018. Ruled by Mercury, Virgo energy is at its best in motion. But it's also an earth sign and connected to the physical world. The omens frown on motion for its own sake this time of year. Satisfaction comes from seeing the plant sprout, the mountain move, the barn raise. To qualify things further, Virgo is an energy of great purpose. Its declaration, "I analyze," suggests that actions taken during the Virgo rule are not only physically verifiable but also serving a purpose. In other words, it's not enough to act; we must also act smart. We've now had time to ease out of the fun, playtime theatrics of the Leo sun and into the busy Virgo mood. But don't worry: Just because the action and thought process kick up a notch doesn't mean we have to completely lose track of the fun. The work we accomplish in this Virgo transit might be even more enjoyable than the playful antics of the last solar phase.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: It's official: Zendaya Coleman has made the leap from Disney darling to full-fledged movie star. Coleman will star in "A White Lie," as Anita Hemmings, a descendant of African-American slaves who passed as white so she could attend Vassar College in the 1890s. Born under a fiery Aries moon, this hardworking Virgo has a seemingly boundless energy supply to apply to every aspect of life.
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USN Protein Dessert Benefits
High in BCAA's
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More than 24g of Protein blend
Container Size: 454g
Serving Size: 2 scoops (35g)
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Energy: 535 kJ / 267 kcal
Protein: 27.2 g
Carbohydrate: 1.9 g
of which sugars (from dairy sources): 1.8 g
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of which saturated: 0.4 g
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Phosphorus: 32 mg
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Quick, Easy and Impressive entertaining
Delicious ideas to allow you to enjoy your guests, but with the WOW factor too!
We always make bread and include at least 2 starters, 2 main courses and 2 desserts. Expect 2 other things such as a simple terrine or a classic risotto.
You will leave inspired and ready to entertain!
Course Dates
General Information
- All equipment and kitchen wear provided by us on the day.
- Also included are all ingredients, drinks (Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic), course folders (If you haven't been before) and course certificate.
- Free use of Wi-Fi connection available on request


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Man v Horse race: 'No horseshoes' plea by rider Sarah Braithwaite
The organisers of the annual Man versus Horse race in Powys are being urged to change the rules so its four-legged entrants can compete without shoes.
Riders whose horses go "barefoot" claim metal shoes can harm the animals' hooves in the long term.
Sarah Braithwaite, who has written a book about barefoot horses and competes in endurance rides, said rules forcing shod horses were outdated.
A spokesman for the Llanwrtyd Wells event said shoeing protected horses.
Organisers Green Events said a committee was meeting on Thursday night to discuss the issue and would release a statement on Friday.
The spokesman added: "It has always been a rule of Man versus Horse that horses are to be shod because of the course, and because it's a race rather than an endurance ride."
The race has been run since 1980 and takes competitors along farm tracks, footpaths, open moor land and tarmac.
More than 300 solo runners, 111 relay teams of three, and 50 of their four-legged rivals took part in the 22-mile (35km) event around the town last year.
Ms Braithwaite claimed at least four competitors who rode barefoot had entered this year's competition, but had been told that their horses must wear metal shoes.
She was approached by fellow rider Lindsey Bell, who has applied to take part in this year's event. A problem with her horse has prevented her from fitting traditional horseshoes.
'No welfare risk'
"Lindsey got in touch to ask me to try and persuade the organisers to change the rules about horseshoes," said Ms Braithwaite, who is from Mold, Flintshire.
"We believe that metal shoes can have a detrimental effect on horses' hooves in the long term.
"The view that horses need metal shoes to compete or be ridden in any discipline is both outdated and narrow."
Ms Braithwaite, who has ridden her horses barefoot for more than 12 years in many different disciplines, added: "I feel I am ideally situated to tell these organisers that there is no welfare risk to these horses.
"This has been proven again and again by the results that UK riders of barefoot horses are achieving in both Endurance GB and Sport Endurance GB-vetted rides."
Ms Braithwaite said horses competing in the race should also be permitted to wear boots, a type of equine training shoe which is popular in the United States.
The only occasions when men have beaten horses were in 2004 and 2007.


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Agile and the horizon effect
The 1960s saw the first ideological skirmish in computer chess programming (and by extension much of the nascent field of AI) between two schools of thought: 'brute force' and 'selective search'. Brute force methods involved looking at every possible position on the board, whereas selective search advocated pruning the game tree by ignoring moves that looked plain wrong.
With the hindsight of Moore's Law, this was never really a contest. Brute force's superiority was reinforced with each new clock speed, and this is how all chess programs work today. Each move is considered, as is each reply, and so on. A computer will typically analyse ~250 million positions per second, evaluate them all and choose the computationally best branch of play.
Early brute force machines were set to calculate all variations to a fixed depth, such as five moves. However, programmers soon found that this seemingly fool-proof method was still leading to some terrible chess. The cause was a phenomenon dubbed the horizon effect, whereby the losing move lay beyond the point at which the computer stopped calculating. A computer playing to a fixed depth may therefore set out on what seems the best path, unaware of the disaster lurking around the corner. Frustratingly, it even may 'see' the losing move but find a way to delay it by a couple of meaningless forcing moves, thus pushing it beyond the fixed horizon. Out of sight, out of mind.
For humans, the horizon effect isn't much of a problem. Intuition plays a surprisingly large role in chess, and experienced players can vocalise when a position "feels like trouble" even though the fireworks may be a few moves off. Famous studies by Adriaan de Groot show that much of this intuition is based on pattern recognition, so that over time a skilled player builds a pattern library and, with it, an innate early warning system.
Programmers, of course, wished to mimic this intuition in computers, and did so by introducing a concept known as quiescence; in effect, a measure of a position's stability. At the end of each variation, quiescence is calculated. If the position is placid (quiescent), the variation can terminate and work starts on another branch. However, if the position is still deemed to have danger in it, the computer is allowed to look a little further, until it again finds a quiescent state. Quiescence fills the role of the human's alarm bells, and substitutes for the intuition that certain scenarios are going to need a bit more care to solve.
Any system where work is conducted to a fixed depth is susceptible to the same effect, and of course Agile is no exception. As we all know, Agile often doesn't afford us a long discovery phase, and asks us to focus on short, practical iterations. This goes against a designer's natural instincts; one of the more common complaints designers have of Agile is that it rarely gives us the chance to conceive an over-arching 'solution' of the problem space. The horizon effect again. We work on each piece, not knowing whether or not disaster lies around the corner. We have to delay solving potentially tricky problems, and can never be really sure that the site will work until we've completed it.
Although in theory Agile is comfortable with the idea of rework, the real world penalties are high. At worst, we might have to scrap a whole approach because of an unforeseen problem in a future iteration, repeatedly pushed beyond our horizons until it is too late. Try telling your clients that the last £10,000 they paid you were wasted and see how far theory gets you.
As good designers, we therefore need our own quiescence search. Just as the computer develops an intuition for choppy waters ahead, so must we. We build up a box of tricks to handle these scenarios: starting work on tricky stories early (while keeping it secret from Agile dogmatists!), pushing easier user stories up the chart to buy us time, and so on. But these techniques only come with years of experience. As with the chess player, we rely on pattern recognition, experience and skill to act as our early warning system and flag difficult stories in advance.
The more I think about Agile design, the more I'm convinced it needs senior staff. Send a junior IA into the middle of an experienced Agile team and they'll struggle to keep their heads above water. With senior design staff still at a premium, I suspect many companies will have to compromise the integrity of either their user-centred design or their Agile processes. I'll leave it to you to decide which is more likely.


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Arnold Politzer, a practicing attorney for over 42 years, says his practice can be summed up in three simple words: Experience, Integrity, and Professionalism. He brings a wealth of experience to the practice of law, not only from his legal practice but also his many years of experience as a Developer, Landlord, Investor, Mortgage Broker and Licensed Real Estate Broker in Maryland and California.
His focus has always been on the needs of his clients, and how he can best use his ability and training to provide them with the best possible legal services and advice. Often called upon to give speeches and seminars before business, peer groups and the general public, Mr. Politzer is not only a practitioner but a student of the law as well. His common-sense approach to complex problems often resolves difficult issues quickly and effectively. Using a hands-on approach in many instances has enabled him to better understand the needs and concerns of his clients and provide effective solutions to their problems.
Though Mr. Politzer has done and accomplished much in his career, his beliefs and goals have never changed, from his first day in practice to the present.


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Summer Excitement
Meditation in the Junkyard
Between spaces of overgrown weeds and old, piled cars there was a peaceful clearing. And that is where the meditation of this playfully ethereal goddess takes place.
Blessing or a curse...
In the midst of an abandoned concrete factory in northern Washington, this piece was created as a contribution to the eeriness of the surrounding energy. Using both acrylic and spray paint, this "Queen of the Underworld" was painted at the entrance of the space as either a blessing or a curse for all those that walked through.


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Used for centuries because of its ability to withstand all elements , natural stone and brick veneers can enhance the beauty and timelessness of all structures. There are many benefits to brick and stone veneers aside from their aesthetic value. Benefits include:
- A higher resale value from homeowners with brick veneers.
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