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It is difficult for us Norwegians and even Europeans to comprehend the role of sport in the US society. Until Sarah Palin entered the political stage, the hockey mams were an unknown force, with or without lip stick. I did not know any hockey mams (or dads), before my cousin came out of the closet as one of the community. I had one of the most charming encounters with this clan, as I attended a cookout in a large garden in Scituate MA.
I have attended a few US garden parties during the last 20 years. Informality is the keyword. Relaxed around a large gas grill preparing steaks and hamburgers, large bowls of salad, snacks and dips, and large quantities of beer and wine. The Scituate Hockey cookout was no exception.
It was a beautiful property close to a large golfing ground. Being in New England in September you are struck by the intense late summer heat and the intense green vegetation. The cookout was preceeded by intense planning of the coming season, tactics, program, and money, and all participated, mums, dads, sons and daughters.
Then we assembled around the table, and it was intriguing to see what was served, as these crostinis served with a sour cream dip and chili salsa.
Another interesting dish was inspired by one of my favourites, the Buffalo wings, the Buffalo wings dip.
Exploring the net I found a recipe for this scrumptious treat, a mix of cream cheese, boneless chicken breast, chunky blue cheese dressing, hot wings sauce and shredded Monterrey Jack cheese, served with nachos.
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And as one of the hockey dads took over by the gas grill, cheeseburgers and hot dogs appeared at the table. It was accompanied by fresh salad, pasta salad, a delicious potato and red onion salad.
I am not particularly fond of hockey mums as Sarah Palin, but these hockey parents were no pitbulls. I had a great time in a very sympathetic crowd of parents struggling to give their kids a good time.
So this was another of many garden parties enjoyed on the other side of the herring pond. I am very happy that I stay with my family when being there. If not, I would hardly have known the breed of parents the governor of Alaska referred to, but now I know.
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We traveled to Florida in November for the Breaking the Silence breast cancer conference. I shared my story there, and the story of our project. We connected with so many inspirational survivors, and welcomed many to our growing project.
At the sea, we connected deeply with one another, with the water, the sand, the sun, and the stillness within. We were joined by dance teacher and choreographer, Dale Andree, who shared a water-based movement workshop.
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One of my best friends just got married, and about two months ago, I was able to surprise her in Troy, AL, and take engagement pictures of her as her wedding gift from me! She was staying with the sweetest couple who she had been close with while she was in college, and they owned all of this beautiful land that we were able to drive around and take pictures at! I was truly amazed at how beautiful these pictures turned out. I had also never met Kyle, but to see how much he loved Erika made my heart so happy! They truly are the sweetest couple!


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When veteran traveler Thursday Bram journeys by train, her packing list includes: food and motion sickness pills. Before a trip, Bram purchases simple snacks to avoid pricey club car dining. She also carries motion sickness tablets in two formulas: non-drowsy tablets for short trips and regular formula to rest comfortably on overnight rides, which save her the cost of an additional hotel stay. Bottom line? Train travel can be a serious savings resource for the budget traveler.
Resources: Many cities in the U.S. and abroad offer budget passes for residents and tourists. Check out Eurails website for pricing and travel options on train passes valid across multiple countries in Europe. Similarly, Amtrak offers rail route service throughout the United States
We enjoyed value and comfort during a high-end bus ride from Ecuador to Peru. Perks included cushioned reclining seats with foot rests, on-bus restrooms, staff to guide us through international border-crossing procedures and a beverage service. A hot meal of chicken, rice and vegetables was also included, along with movie showings. But theres also value in budget rides. In Thailand, we traveled from Ayutthaya to Korat with minimal perks. We shared a train car with locals and a few chickens to save money, and enjoyed a great view, plenty of leg room and breezes from open windows.
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Chef Dylan Benoit and his brother Lucas took a summer eating adventure through Southeast Asia. This is part four of his five part series.
By Chef Dylan Benoit
We arrived in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, after a relatively short, but arduous bus ride. The main transport routes between Ho Chi Minh and Phnom Penh are heavily traveled dirt roads filled with mopeds carrying coconuts and buses full of chickens. They simultaneously weave to dodge pot holes and massive puddles at speeds unfit for the road conditions.
We finally reached the bus stop in Phnom Penh, grabbed our mud-covered bags, and hopped on a tuk yuk to take us straight to the hostel. Not surprisingly, we were very hungry and eager to try some authentic Cambodian Khmer food. The Khmer regional cuisine focuses on freshness and simplicity, using whatever is available and seasonal.
During the tuk tuk ride we spotted a restaurant called Tom Yum Kung, named after a very famous spicy shrimp soup flavored with galangal (a ginger root), kaffir lime leaves, mushroom and lemongrass. As luck would have it, the restaurant was around the corner from our hostel. I was eager to try an authentic version of this delicious soup that we serve at Mizu, one of my restaurants in Grand Cayman. When we sat down we were presented with a menu that was a combination of half Thai and half Khamer cuisines.
We perused the menu and picked a couple of surefire winners for an appetizer: tom yum kung soup, and the pomelo salad with poached prawns. For our main course we decided to be more adventurous with fish amok and stir fried beef with lemongrass and wood ants (yes, ants). We joked about ordering the fried tarantulas with coconut rice, but decided against it... for the welfare of the spiders.
It was 3:30pm and the place was still busy with a lunch crowd. We were the only westerners in the joint, so we knew right away we were in a good spot. The small 40-seat restaurant wasn't much to write home about in decor, but the food was something else.
The aroma of the tom yum kung soup was divine. It was unlike any other tom yum I had ever eaten. The creaminess of the coconut milk coated my mouth and balanced out the spicy broth. The lemongrass and kaffir lime were fresh and vibrant, and when mixed with culantro (a close cousin of cilantro) and oyster mushrooms it created a perfect balance of hot, fresh, and sour.
For the pomelo salad, the pulp was tossed with fish sauce, sugar and lime and mixed with poached prawns, fresh herbs, chilies and crushed peanuts. Pomelo is like a grapefruit, but quite a bit bigger, with larger pulp that is slightly less sweet.
Amok is a very traditional Khmer dish with a thick coconut curry steamed in banana leaf. Any number of ingredients can be the main component of amok, including chicken, egg, tofu, fish, pork and shrimp. It was presented in three banana leaf cups with finely shredded cabbage on the bottom. The fish was light, flaky and incredibly moist, with a rich coconut and light curry taste.
The stir-fried lemongrass beef with wood ants arrived shortly after we tucked into the curry and wasn't nearly as intimidating as I had expected. It looked like a normal beef stir fry with chunks of bell pepper, onion, and fried basil. However, it was also studded with large tree ants just shy of an inch long. Their segmented bodies, legs and antennae all still intact, like brown sprinkles on an ice cream sundae. Lucas was dissecting the dish with his eyes, then shrugged his shoulders and said, "When in Cambodia!" and proceeded to dig in.
I watched his expression for a few seconds while he chewed away, trying to avoid eye contact. I was half expecting him to gag, or spit it out and gargle his beer as if it were Listerine, but he didn't. He didn't even flinch. He finished chewing, had a sip of beer and declared, "It's actually pretty good! The ants are a bit crunchy." I was not stoked about this, but hey, one can't do a food tour through Southeast Asia and not expect to eat a few insects. So I took a big bite. As it turned out he wasn't kidding, it was pretty good.
The lemongrass was definitely a dominant flavor, with beef and garlic following right behind. The ants didn't have any flavor, or if they did it was overpowered by the lemongrass, but they certainly had a texture. I was having trouble with the first bite, but by bite three and four, I forgot they were even in the dish.
By the time we finished the meal, we were ready to be rolled out of the restaurant. We paid our check, which came to the equivalent of about $12 CI/ $14 US for both of us, including half a dozen beers. We wandered back into the afternoon sun, our bellies full, ready to explore this exciting new city.
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Butcher unhappy with Tansey red
Inverness manager Terry Butcher took issue with the dismissal of Greg Tansey after Saturday's 2-0 defeat at the hands of Celtic.
Tansey was controversially sent off in the 36th minute of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League match by referee Stevie O'Reilly as he jumped for the ball with Georgios Samaras. The visitors went on to win the game with two second-half goals from Anthony Stokes to leave Butcher frustrated afterwards.
He said: "I've just seen the incident. The ref said to Greg he led with elbow - it's actually illegal use of the fingernail. Samaras has gone down like he's been hit by a sniper. It's definitely not a red card."
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Freddy Is Ready For A 3D Sequel! Warner Rakes in $32m Opening Weekend
Jim here. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is going 3D according to Warner Bros. (via The Wrap). Based on the outstanding numbers from the opening weekend with the newly rebooted franchise, the New Line property (now Warners) will have a 3D sequel prepped.
NIGHTMARE has done an estimated $32.2m this weekend.
"We don't have a story yet, but this is the largest horror opening in the April-May corridor, and it just proves there's a lot left in the franchise," said Warner distribution president Dan Fellman.
NIGHTMARE is being shown on 4,700 screens at 3,332 locations (the numbers include a midnight opening of around $1.6 million).
I saw it last night and there is no question they are making Freddy out to be a seriously bad villain. Seriously bad. Jackie Earle Haley did a half decent job of pulling off Freddy - hard shoes to fill. The quality of the shots were good and in some places quite imaginative. It did drag a bit at times and could have used some better pacing. I won't give any spoilers though - see it for yourself. The only big thing missing? 3D of course!


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Happy 50th Birthday Australian Institute of Horticulture!
Celebrating today with cake and a tree planting, the Australian Insitute of Horticulture gets ready to turn 50 (on 22 November 2010). Five months younger than me and 144 years and five months younger than Sydney's Botanic Gardens, it's a youngster really.
Jonathan Garner (an M of the AIH) spoke passionately (can he speak otherwise!) about growing the perfect plant. In the beautiful surrounds of the Maiden Theatre at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Jonathan derided the poor attention given to tree plantings.
Jonathan showed examples of trees planted too deep, in compacted soil, too close to one another (or when deliberatedly planted close for an early impact, a lack of will later on to remove every second tree) and pruned poorly. He argues that in cultivation we have the chance to allow a plant to "grow to its genetic potential" but seldom encourage this to happen.
As always, Jonathan had some nice lines, such as "planting trees is a gift for the future", and some nice advice, such as care for a tree well over the first three months (including good watering) and you'll set it up for life.
Following the talk and cake-cutting, NSW President of the Australian Institute of Horticulture, Richard May, planted a Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apetalum) in our new Australian Palm Garden. This garden is to the north-west of the Palm Grove and will be part of our replanting of 200 different species of palm (from Australia and overseas) in this area when our flying fox friends leave the Gardens.
At the request of the Institute, the roots of the Coachwood were soaked in molasses and seaweed solution. While the Botanic Gardens Trust doesn't 'endorse' molasses as a planting pre-treatment we understand it might encourage microbial growth and we don't think it does anything bad to the tree. There is a little bit of testing going on at the moment and we look forward to hearing that it proves to be a good technique.
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Lost boy found with dogs keeping him warm
A massive search for a missing 6-year-old southwest Missouri boy ends well after rescuers find him huddled in a ditch with his two dogs lying on top of him to keep him warm.
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His parents reported him missing shortly before 6 p.m. Friday after he didn't return from playing near the house. Several area emergency crews took part in the search.
Ryle was found at 10 p.m. and checked out at a Joplin hospital, where he was found to have no injuries.
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Before Michelle Duggar spoke at the Gonzalez Convention Center, four of her sweet daughters got up to sing a sweet song of Jesus and being saved by the blood of the Lamb!
On the video notes on Vimeo, we placed the following explanation:
For years we had always wanted to go to one of Vision Forum's conferences including the Baby Conference and their San Antonio Independent Film Festival. Due to lack of funds or living overseas we haven't been able to until recently. What a blessing it was for our family to attend their wonderful Reformation of Food and Family Conference!
May this video be a blessing to all who hear it and give praise to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!
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Dan Aykroyd Remembers John Belushi 30 Years After His Death (Video)
On the 30th anniversary of John Belushi's death, Dan Aykroyd is speaking out about his close friend and Blues Brothers co-star.
"What John leaves behind is his legacy of laughter and fun," Aykroyd tells HLN's Showbiz Tonight in an interview, adding: "He was my brother."
In a clip of the segment, slated to air Monday night at 11 p.m., Aykroyd reminisces about staying overnight with Belushi and his wife (although not in the same room). He and his Saturday Night Live co-hort shared a love of the blues, and hatched the concept for The Blues Brothers after meeting at Second City's Toronto outpost in the early 1970s.
Belushi was found dead at L.A.'s Chateau Marmont on March 5, 1982 after taking a speedball of cocaine and heroin during a night of partying that included Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.
Penny Marshall told THR of his drug use, "I swear, you'd walk down the street with him, and people would hand him drugs. And then he'd do all of them -- be the kind of character he played in sketches or Animal House."
The Blues Brothers premiered in 1980, melding Aykroyd and Belushi's complementary comic sensibilities and love of music to result in a hit movie and soundtrack. The comedians first debuted the characters on SNL in 1978.
Aykroyd said he misses Belushi each time he pays a visit to the House of Blues, the music-and-restaurant chain he founded.
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1. Saturday, 16 and 23 May, at 10am – Postcard Teas School: Shades of Green (16 May) and Blues (23 May), £20, ADAVNCED BOOKING is ESSENTIAL! Every Saturday between 10-11am, they will host a relaxed one-hour tasting of teas from areas he has visited complete with illustrated tasting notes.
2. Sunday, 17 May, 3-5pm - Chinese Tea Tasting Workshop in Waterloo, £20, in English
I have never been to one of these before, and it seems to be organised by the Chinese descendants from Hong Kong, who are passionate about maintaining and promoting chinese culture in the West. Looks lovely! I spoke once with Selina, who organises it, and she seemed really lovely.
3. Sunday, 17 May, at 4pm (and every Sunday) – Chinese Tea Ceremony in Hyde Park, £15, in RUSSIAN
This tea ceremony takes place every Sunday! Tasting four great teas and learning lots about them in the beautiful surroundings of Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park. The following teas will be tasted: Silver Needle white tea, Huo Shan Huang Ya Premium extra yellow tea, Lao Tie Guan Yin oolong tea and Tie Luo Han oolong tea. Your guide into the world of tea here is the Daoist master with decades of practice and experience!!!!
4. Monday, 18 May, at 3pm - A Tea Odyssey at Asia House in Central London, £8 I will be there increasing my education in the world of Darjeeling teas!!!!!!
Tea fanatics abound, and its fans are fierce in their interest and loyalty to this very special variety of brewed beverage. Jeff Koehler tells the intriguing and spectacular story of Darjeeling, the world's most celebrated tea. This is a tale of how Darjeeling developed its prodigious tea industry under Imperial British rule and eventually came to produce some of the highest-quality leaves in the world. It is a fascinating portrait of the region from the days of the Raj to that of the 'voodoo farmers' of the present day, who get world-record prices for their fine teas, all set against the backdrop of the looming Himalayas and drenching monsoons. Jeff Koehler, writer and cook, will launch his new book Darjeeling: A History of the World's Greatest Tea at this event, which is supported by Ahmad Tea, whose distinguished teas will be enjoyed throughout.
5. Friday, 22 May, at 14.00 and 15.00 at British Museum – Japanese Tea Ceremony demonstration by Urasenke Institute. FREE.
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6. Thursday, 28 May at 19.00 in Notting Hill – Tea and Cheese Tasting with Whittington's Tea Emporium. £20
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7. Saturday, 30 May at 2-4pm in Brixton - Summer Chinese Tea Ceremony + Qigong Session with Alex. £15
I would like to tell you a little bit about the host of this event, Alex. I have not met him in person yet (I am sure I will soon), but I met his girlfriend at Vipassana meditation retreat, and a friend and colleague of his. And what I heard about him is amazing. A young man, a traveller, an adventurer, a talented musician in a band called Gentle Mystics, a meditator and a qi gong practitioner - he is a free spirit, who has such an amazing energy that, no doubt, will be shared with your through tea.
What amazes me is that being relatively young and being also a part of the music industry, he doesn't drink alcohol or take drugs, but is fully dedicated to tea, meditation and qi gong/tai chi. I wish I was like this at his age…. So yes, a recommended event in Brixton that I am sure will be deep and transformative in many ways. It's limited to 6 people only, so booking in advance is highly recommended!
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Goodnight Zune
By Mark Horowitz, contributor
Dear Zune:
I gave you the best years of my life, and this is how you repay me, by breaking up? And I had to read about it online. You didn't even have the decency to Skype.
But who am I kidding, Zune, I'll always forgive you, because I always have before.
I remember when you launched, way back in 2006. Sure I was skeptical. But I liked your style, and your "all-you-can-eat" subscription model. iTunes looked like an old spreadsheet program, but your interface was sophisticated, and your recommendation algorithms really got my taste in music. Apple (AAPL) never really understood me, Zune. Together, we were going to teach those smug little Apple fanboys a lesson, because a Mac version was just around the corner. (That turned out to be your first broken promise, but not your last.)
Still, I stood by you during those difficult early years: You weren't the prettiest piece of hardware, at first, and your software was a little bloated and slow. But you slimmed down and sped up eventually, and I never doubted that given more time you might someday have stopped crashing all the time.
I swelled with pride when you finally figured out how to work with my Xbox. You promised and promised, and I was patient and I forgave that it took forever. Why should Microsoft (MSFT) products work well together right out of the box? These things take time. Until you were ready, I worked around the problem by hooking up an extra PC to my Xbox and running Windows Media Center. Boy, setting that up took days, and eventually I was able to stream the music in my Zune folders through my Xbox, unless it was music I'd bought with my Zune subscription. Windows Media Center couldn't play them. It seemed strange, but I knew you had your reasons. Didn't you?
I know what you're saying. Just the Zune hardware is being deep-sixed, not the software. You're just killing the Zune HD, the very model that proved Microsoft could occasionally get it right. But even without the actual Zune, the Zune Marketplace will live on in PCs, Windows phones and Xboxes everywhere.
But how dumb do you think I am? Some people might still be willing to keep eating the "dog food," as Steve likes to say (Ballmer, not that other Steve) but let's face it, why would people stick with Zune software when they can use Rhapsody or iTunes or (eventually, I hope) Spotify? Microsoft never really believed in Zune, so why should we any more?
I need a new brand to call my own, so I've been thinking about replacing you with a tablet. In fact, I've already got my eye on one. You've probably heard of it. She's a real beauty. So goodbye, Microsoft Zune. And hello, Motorola Xoom…
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Clay Matthews, Jr. - An All-Time Underrated Cleveland Browns Great
Paul Eckert resides in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where he operates Family Financial Centers as its founder and CEO. The company stands out for holding an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. Outside of work, Paul Eckert is an avid fan of the Cleveland Browns.
The Cleveland Browns are one of the oldest franchises of the National Football League, with many storied players having donned the uniform throughout the years. Names such as Jim Brown and Bernie Kosar often spring to mind in conversations about all-time great Browns, but there are other players who have made significant contributions, even though they are sometimes overlooked by the public. Clay Matthews, Jr., is one of them.
For 16 seasons, Matthews was a mainstay on the Browns' defense as a linebacker and defensive end. The fact that he lasted for so long in one of football's most physically demanding positions is alone worthy of praise, but that he did so as a relatively undersized athlete makes the feat even more impressive. He lined up at nearly every linebacker position and racked up more than 1,400 tackles, 62 sacks, and 14 interceptions during his career in Cleveland.
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Are you in Madison WI this weekend? This is a great family event that will not only get you all out on your bikes but will introduce you to some beautiful community gardens. Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin, Inc. and the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin are joining together in hosting the 8th annual Community Gardens Bike Tour with Mayor Dave Cieslewicz. This is the kind of event that makes us love living in the Madison area over and over again!
Saturday, July 24, 2010 from 9am to 1pm. Meet at the East High Youth Farm.
This event is a free, family-friendly bike tour of four Madison and Monona community and food pantry gardens. Here is an overview of the tour site visits: - The bike tour will begin at the East High Youth farm (off Milwaukee Street on Lamplighter Way), then - The Glendale School garden and - Monona United Methodist Church community and food pantry garden and the tour ends with - Lunch at noon at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church community and food pantry garden.
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Popping into life from a script that was never meant to be made into a film, produced by Steven Spielberg and helmed by a rising horror director, Gremlins made a giant splash in the summer of 1984. Which is odd since it's a Christmas movie.
Colin hosts this week as he feeds the regular crew, sans Jaime, after midnight. The unlikely origins of the film, it's cast, and production challenges are all discussed as well as that crazy 'why I don't celebrate Christmas anymore' monologue that creeps us all out.
As always, we close the show out with Cryptogeekology: 20 Questions. Heather joins us again and the gang struggles with a new topic: Actor. See if you can guess who it is before they do.
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We know it is easy to be the smart guy in the room and say "I will take US$500,000 in smart money."
But are we really that smart?
Or should we just take US$5 million in dumb money — say, for argument's sake, raised through crowdfunding?
That is 10 times the amount!
I ask this because a startup founder in Southeast Asia asked me this question privately. Honestly, I have no clue how best to advise him on this.
If you were to be asked the same question, what would you advise?
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SK-II Beauty Consultant
Across Singapore (Female & Male)
P &G is its people and the values by which we live. We attract and recruit the finest people in the world. We build our organization from within, promoting and rewarding people without regard to any difference unrelated to performance. We act on the conviction that the men and women of Procter & Gamble will always be our most important asset.
Come grow with us! We are looking for enthusiastic and talented individuals to join us as Beauty Consultants.
Attractive rewards and good employment benefits. Exciting career progression growth awaits the successful candidate. Interested candidates are invited to apply via email with an updated resume.
Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. Thank you for applying.
The Metropolis, 11 North Buona Vista Drive,
#21-07, The Metropolis Tower 2
Singapore 138589
Email: email@example.com
- Demonstrate excellent customer service.
- Provide professional skincare counseling to customers.
- Achieve sales and other key business targets.
- Ensure best-in-class counter operations.
- Ensure merchandise and display counters are in line with SK-II equity and deployment.
- Undertake all administrative tasks assigned by group leader.
- Ensure proper stock checking and placement of orders.
- Strong selling skills. Candidate takes ownership of goals and has a service-oriented mindset.
- Pleasant disposition. Candidate is well-groomed and customer-focused.
- Good communication skills.
- Flexibility to work shift hours. Willing to work retail hours.


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My {much needed} hormone fix... a room full of Incredible Women and one Baby./
I am not going to lie folks. It has been a rough couple of days for me.
I have been "capital G" grouchy!
Just ask my kids. (Poor babies!)
And not just grouchy. I have been irrationally irritable, I have had absolutely NO patience for anything or anyone and I am grinding my teeth almost to the point of lock-jaw.
And I am bloated.
It was this last thing that tipped me off as to what the heck is wrong with me....
I am totally PMS'ing!
Now you maybe wondering why this is making the cut as a blog topic, but to be honest, this realization kind of shocked me. You see, I am not, nor have I ever been a very pre-menstrual kind of gal. No cramps, no crazy moods, no nothing (don't hate me)! And with my current form of birth control (Mirena) I rarely even get a visit from dear Aunt Flo.
So what is a girl to do to get out of this PMS funk??
Why drink some red raspberry tea and then get out of the house and into a room full of amazing women of course!
Which is exactly what I did.
Tonight I attended the first Social Circlet event in Edmonton. This local networking event was arranged by the lovely ladies of Bibagogo and was a great opportunity to meet with a lot of great businesses and business women (and a few men) that I have up until now only "met" online. The setting was perfect, the food and wine was great (props to my girl Amanda from D'lish Wine Bar for the amazing Truffle Mac & Cheese and Leah from The Art of Macaroons for the spectacularly sweet, melt in your mouth macaroons) and the company I was in was simply fantastic.
A room full of women making it on their own terms, doing what they love and living their passions is a powerful drug and it was just what I needed tonight.
Well, that and some smooshy cuddles from Maureen from Tangible Moments almost two week old daughter!! I love me some new baby pheromones and a sweet little oxytocin fix!!
Thank you so much everyone!
Summer Blog Challenge posts for August 25, 2011
- Peter presents, from his newly tuned camera, Iron Man: Crazy Wookie Cookies
- Shaun knows a wooden nickel when he sees it: Expedition of Truths
- Earl defends and explains his taste in movies: My Name is Earl (J. Woods)
- Zita's night on the town: Ignite Strategic Solutions
- Brad is Steamed: Kick Me Out Soon
- Natasha's night on the town: Natural Urban Mamas
- Kim's night on the town: Nature Baby Bloggings
- Cliff saves some money in feeding his addiction: Peer Pressure Works
- Tammy develops an addiction of her own: Tam I Am
- Vlad : Analog Coast
- Chad reflects on the challenge: The Daily Grind
- Liam on the glory and the shame of writing software: In The Now


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Boulevard Bistro
Monica began her career at the age of 18 for the prestigious Cafe Annie in Houston. In 1992 she opened The Quilted Toque to great critical acclaim. She opened Boulevard Bistrot in 1994 and was named Food & Wine Magazine's Top 10 Best New Chefs in 1996.
After a fire damaged the entire dining room in 1998, Roberto Cervantes (owner or ARCHI-ARTS) was asked to bring the space back from the ashes with new murals & finishes. Sculptural chalkboards echo the organic shapes and rendered textures of the wall paintings. After 10 years at this Montrose location, Monica took the opportunity to start from scratch and create a new concept in an up-and-coming part of Houston, Midtown. She opened T'afia and again worked with Roberto Cervantes to bring her new vision to reality.


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TAP 006 - How to overcome Social Anxiety when Attending Events/
In the weeks episode of Anxiety Variety I tell a story of someone I've been working with. They were anxious about attending a social gathering and I gave them a few tips as to how they could make the evening a success.
I discuss taking the focus away from ourselves which is very common with Anxiety and using that energy towards serving others.
In this particular episode you will learn:
The 3 key points I discuss are:
1 - Engage with people, start the conversation, make eye contact, give them a hug (I often hug people that were just expecting a hand shake and in most cases they love it)
2 - Look around and see who isn't getting much attention and give them some. Hey, how are you? May I get you a drink? Wanna dance?
3 - Take care of yourself, make sure you're hydrated, engage belly breathing when necessary
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Accessible and Useful Apps
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - website providing a valuable resource of educational web tools and mobile applications for teachers and educators. There are apps listed for Android and iPad users.
Speak It! App
Cost for the app: $2.79
Speak It! is a text-to-speech app that can help your learner read or speak. You simply copy and paste the selected text and the app reads the words out loud.
Speak It! highlights each spoken word so that kids can more easily follow along with the text.
The app gives a non-verbal child a voice so that he or she can interact with classmates.
Just type what you want to say and Speak It! does the rest.
Read2Go App
Cost for the app: $27.99
Read2Go corresponds with a digital library company called Bookshare that makes books available to students with reading-related disabilities such as dyslexia and vision issues.
From within Read2Go, you can browse, search, download, and read books directly from Bookshare using your Bookshare membership, as well as read DAISY books from other sources. The app gives you full control over visual choices for font size and color, background and highlighting color, and text-to-speech preferences. Read2Go features word-by-word highlighting for multi-modal reading.
Dragon Dictation
Cost of the app: Free
Students who have difficulty writing due to disabilities can benefit from the free Dragon Dictation app. This voice recognition technology app enables a student's iPad or iPhone to capture and document what the child says.
Cost of the app: $13.99
Powerful, yet wonderfully simple note-taking and annotation. Apple's Mac App of The Year! Apple Editors' Choice on iPad, iPhone, and Mac! Recognized by Apple as the Best Selling Paid Productivity app in 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013!
Students, teachers, and business professionals use Notability daily to take notes, sketch ideas, annotate PDFs, mark-up photos, record lectures, provide audio feedback and more. It is uniquely designed for each device to provide the best note taking experience at school, at home, and at work. And with iCloud, your notes are always up to date.
Talking Calculator
Cost of the app: $2.79
If a visual disability makes using a calculator difficult for your child or student, the Talking Calculator app could become your ideal solution. Talking Calculator features large colorful buttons, creating an easy-to-use interface. Plus, as the app's name suggests, the calculator talks. Put your finger on the screen and Talking Calculator tells you what button your finger hovers over. Perform a calculation and the calculator vocalizes the answer.
Virtual Manipulatives
Cost of the app: FREE
Another math-related app, Virtual Manipulatives! uses visuals to effectively teach fractions, decimals and percentages. Virtual Manipulatives! ranks among the top 50 free educational apps and received honours as an Apple staff favourite.
Cost of the app: FREE
When a school project entails an artistic element, consider Draw Free for iPad. General education teacher and Learn It In Five website creator Mark Barnes specifically notes that the Draw Free for iPad works well for students with fine motor skills challenges. Barnes has personally seen students with disabilities succeed inside his mainstream classroom using this free app.
Assistive Devices
Innovative assistive devices to make it easier for people with disabilities.
AAC & Communication
For children and adults who are unable or reluctant to use their voices, we offer a complete line of user-friendly Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) tools and systems that encourage social interaction while fostering greater independence in virtually any environment. Over the years, we've helped parents, guardians, caregivers, educators, therapists, and AAC professionals in schools, rehabilitation hospitals, and acute care facilities understand the wide-ranging benefits of AAC products, while assisting them in selecting a single product, or suite of products, that will be most beneficial to the user. From children with developmental language disorders, to individuals with severe physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy, to persons who are living with the affects of a stroke, we have a wide array of options.
Keys-U-See® Keyboard
Have a hard time seeing the letters on the keyboard? The Keys-U-See alternative keyboards are the perfect special needs low vision computer aid. "Keys-U-See is a large print keyboard from AbleNet that has been designed specifically for those with conditions that cause visual impairment or low vision, such as: Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy, Cataracts, Age related vision loss. With a bigger and bolder typeface, the keys are easier to see."
Rock Adapted Joystick
Allow special needs users to control the cursor with minimal hand movement and without fatigue with the Rock Adapted Joystick mouse alternative computer aid. All the functionality of a traditional mouse, including left/right click and double-click, in a joystick that requires minimal hand movement for precise cursor control without fatigue. Includes three interchangeable joystick handles - a straight stem, a T-bar and large soft ball.
Blue2 Bluetooth Switch
The AbleNet Blue2 Bluetooth Switch provides single or dual switch access via Bluetooth connection to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac. Quick and easy to set up, the Blue2 features multiple modes of operation for compatibility to all switch accessible apps or software running iOS 7 or later. Includes an integrated rechargeable battery, two external switch jacks and tactile feedback.
Big Grips iPad Frames
Big grips are a protective iPad case cover that is accessorize for the iPad. They are safe and secure, made out of non-toxic material that is free of BPA, PVC, latex. Phthalates, and lead. They are lightweight and easy to clean. There are covers for the iPad, iPad mini, and the iPad Pro 12.9".
Hover IDevice Mounting Kit
Hover is the newest mounting system from AbleNet and is made from ultralight and super strong carbon fiber. At 1.1 pounds, Hover is 60% lighter than our popular Friction Knob or Lever Universal Mounting Systems and 50% lighter than the Latitude Arm Mount. Select from a variety of options to mount your switch, iDevice, or just about anything else that is compatible with an AbleNet mounting plate.
Table Top IDevice Suction Mount
This dual suction cup base provides strong and stable mounting for your iPad 4, 3, 2, 1 in either portrait or landscape orientation.
Microsoft Technology
Guide for People who have Low Mobility or Dexterity
HeadMouse replaces the standard computer mouse for people who cannot use or have limited use of their hands. The HeadMouse translates natural movements of a user's head into directly proportional mouse pointer movement – move your head and the mouse pointer moves as well. The HeadMouse has a wireless optical sensor which tracks a tiny disposable target worn by the user on his/her forehead, glasses, or even a hat. It works just like a computer mouse, with the mouse pointer being controlled by head movement
SofType is a software utility which replaces the functionality of a desktop keyboard with a full featured, on-screen keyboard. SofType can be accessed using a mouse or mouse emulator such as the HeadMouse® Nano. SofType works by generating an image of a keyboard on the computer screen. When a key is selected or clicked, the character represented by that key is sent to the Windows application with focus.
Dragger and AutoClick
Dragger is a software utility for manipulating the left, right and middle mouse buttons of a standard mouse or mouse emulator, like the HeadMouse® often utilized by people who have physical motor challenges. Dragger can be used to enter mouse clicks via direct selection (often with an adaptive switch) and by holding the mouse pointer motionless which is commonly referred to as "dwell". The dwell selection function in Dragger is called AutoClick™. When enabled, AutoClick monitors the pointer and clicks the left mouse button when the pointer is brought to rest for the programmable dwell time. If the pointer remains motionless it will not click again. Using the Dragger toolbar this single left click can be turned into a Double Click, Right Click, Middle Click, or Left, Right and Middle Drag.
Sip and Puff Switch Solutions
A gentle sip or puff on a tube may be easier and more suitable for some than a more traditional adaptive switch. Like a traditional switch, our sip puff switches can be used to access all manner of switch activated devices - speech generating devices, computers, tablets, mobile phones, environmental control systems, and other devices designed for switch scanning.
Apple Technology
Apple Watch Accessibility Features
Is a gesture-based screen reader that tells you exactly what's happening on your Apple Watch, and helps you navigate it, without the need to see the screen.
Font Adjustment
Activate Larger Dynamic Type to increase the text size for a range of Apple Watch apps, including Mail, Messages and Settings, to make it easier to read. You can also choose Bold Text to make the text heavier across built-in apps.
It's easy to zoom in on your content by using the Digital Crown to move across the screen by rows. With magnification up to 15 times the native size, Zoom helps you enjoy all that Apple Watch has to offer.
If it's easier to see the screen without colour, Apple Watch lets you enable greyscale onscreen. Once you set the filter, the settings apply system wide, so you'll see only shades of grey on the Home screen, in apps and more.
Extra-Large Watch Face
Apple Watch has many different faces that you can change and customize. One of them has numbers that take up the entire screen to make it easier to view the time.
Reduce Transparency
For features like alerts, Siri and Glances, you can increase the contrast on your Apple Watch screen by reducing the background transparency.
Activity App
The Activity app provides a snapshot of your daily activity, with the goal of closing each of the three rings every day. For wheelchair users, the rings are Roll, Exercise and Move. Instead of a Stand goal, the Roll goal encourages you to roll or stretch every hour. For your Exercise and Move goals, Activity measures pushes, so active calories are calculated more accurately. Sensors are configured to address different surface types, inclines and transition moments, such as moving from a wheelchair to a seat at your desk, or from your chair to your car.
Workout App
The Workout app lets you accurately measure your movement in specific exercise routines and set goals based on time, distance or calories. For wheelchair users, there are two unique workouts — Outdoor Wheelchair Walk Pace and Outdoor Wheelchair Run Pace. Just choose a workout and Apple Watch turns on the appropriate sensors.
FaceTime lets you video call others, whether you use sign language, gestures or facial expressions.
Speak Selection
Speak Selection helps with speech development by speaking the words you're reading, or you can compose your own text and have your iPad speak for you. There are also more than 100 third-party speech apps that can turn your iPad into a powerful augmentative communication device.
Mac & Ipad Accessibility Features
Switch Control
Create amazing things with your Mac without touching a mouse or keyboard. With Switch Control, you can navigate through onscreen keyboards, menus and the Dock using a variety of switch options.
Siri, the intelligent assistant from Apple, helps you do the things you do every day. All you have to do is ask. Say something like "Tell Lucy I'm running late" or "Remind me to make reservations for Saturday." Siri can send messages, place phone calls, schedule meetings and more. And Siri is integrated with Switch Control, so you can use it even when "Hey Siri" isn't active. You can even use Siri to turn on Invert Colors and Guided Access.
Dictation lets you talk wherever you would type. Tap the microphone button on the keyboard, say what you want to write, and your iPad converts your words (and numbers and characters) into text. So it's easy to type an email, note or web address — without typing at all.
iPad is remarkably intuitive and easy to use. AssistiveTouch lets you adapt the Multi-Touch screen to your physical needs. So if you need to change some gestures, like pinch, you can make them accessible with just a tap of a finger. You can create your own gestures and even customize the layout of the AssistiveTouch menu. And if you want an alternative to pressing the Home button, you can activate it with an onscreen tap. Gestures like rotate and shake are available even when your iPad is mounted on a wheelchair. And iOS devices support a number of third-party assistive devices that help you interact with your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Touch Accommodations
With Touch Accommodations you can adjust how the screen responds to your touch. Control how long you touch before it's recognized or whether repeat touches are ignored. So you can put your finger down anywhere on the screen and move to the item you want without mistakenly performing an action.
Physical Keyboard
When using a physical keyboard, you can turn on Sticky Keys to combine your keystrokes, allowing you to press one key at a time instead of pressing them together. Or use Slow Keys to adjust the amount of time between when a key is pressed and when it is activated — so your iPad processes only the keystrokes you mean to make.
Auditory options
If you learn better when you can hear what you're reading or writing, features like: Speak Screen, Speak Selection, Typing Feedback and Predictive Text can help by adding an auditory component to text. Turn on Speak Screen and swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers, or just tell Siri to Speak Screen, to have all the content on pages read back to you. Or use Speak Selection to highlight the specific range of text you want to hear. Then follow along as highlighted words, sentences or words within each sentence are read aloud. And with Typing Feedback activated, each letter you type on the keyboard is spoken aloud as well. You can also use Predictive Text, which suggests word options that you can listen to and choose from to get help with spelling.
FaceTime lets you video call others, whether you use sign language, gestures or facial expressions.
Speak Selection
Speak Selection helps with speech development by speaking the words you're reading, or you can compose your own text and have your iPad speak for you. There are also more than 100 third-party speech apps that can turn your iPad into a powerful augmentative communication device.


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Curridabat Master Plan
Dover-Kohl collaborated with lead firm Castillo Arquitectos to produce a vision for a reimagined city focused on urbanism and walkability, and resulting in the adoption of the first Form-Based Code in Costa Rica. Curridabat is a town on the outskirts of the Costa Rican captial of San José that has been struggling with uncontrolled suburban expansion for decades. A hands-on session fully open to the public was held in December of 2011. The standing-room only session was a big success and broke barriers for Latin American planning. The design team then took the ideas gathered from the community, and synthesized them into a vision for the future. The ideas gathered during the week-long charrette formed the basis for the form-based code focused on increasing walkability and decreasing congestion resulting from aimless suburban growth.
The Curridabat Master Plan and Form-Based Code was awarded a Charter Award of Excellence for "Best City Plan" by the Congress for the New Urbanism in 2014.


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BA, California State University, Chico
JD, Loyola of Los Angeles
Professor of Lawyering Skills Melissa Brown has devoted her entire career to advocating for the rights of the elderly and the disabled. Beginning in college and throughout law school, she worked in legal aid programs. Later, as a practicing attorney, she continued to represent elder, injured and disabled clients. For private clients at her firm, Fraulob • Brown, she has litigated cases in state and federal administrative law courts, state trial and appellate courts and Federal District and Appellate Courts.
Listed among "Sacramento's 40 Top Lawyers" from The Best Lawyers in America for more than ten years, and featured in Sacramento Magazine, Los Angeles Daily Journal and the Daily Recorder, Professor Brown has lectured extensively and provided legislative testimony and recommendations on behalf of injured workers, and the aging and disabled. This advocacy work has contributed to the development of the probate court's investigator system, nursing home citation system, durable powers of attorney, alternative dispute resolution statutes and Medicare supplemental insurance protection for consumers.
Professor Brown's book, Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client, with co-author Lawrence Frolik, is used by attorneys and law students as a desk reference and elder law guide. Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client, Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 1992, ISBN 0-7811-0028 3, Library of Congress Card Catalog No. 91066903, and semiannual supplements.
At McGeorge School of Law, Professor Brown teaches Elder Law & Social Policy, is the Director of the McGeorge Legal Clinics, and supervises the Elder & Health Law Clinic. She serves as the faculty advisor for the McGeorge Health Law Association and is the Co-Director of the law school's Health Law Certificate of Concentration.
Professor Brown's students are involved in direct representation of clients, including court room advocacy. Her Elder & Health Law students also participate in a unique and innovative interdisciplinary class with UC Davis third-year medical students, where they explore medical and legal issues addressing mutual professional, ethical and legal issues.
Professor Brown has produced film, video and written material for attorneys and lay advocates for the elderly and disabled in the states of Alaska, Arkansas, California and Texas, and for such organizations as the American Association of Retired Persons, the Presbyterian Church, the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California, and the California Continuing Education of the Bar.
She has served as an expert witness for the NFL Players Association regarding injury claims, and as an arbitrator and mediator for collective bargaining agreements dealing with work injuries. She is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and a board member of the International Association for Indigenous Aging. Professor Brown also serves on the editorial board of Lexis-Nexis.
Elder and Health Law Clinic
Elder Law and Social Policy
Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client (with Lawrence A. Frolik, Warren Gorham & Lamont 2d ed. 2004 - ) (also available electronically by Thomson Reuters/RIA Group).
Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client, Thomson Reuters/Warren, Gorham & Lamont. (1992)


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Fred99:UncleArk:Fred99: I see The Press is quoting the CCC now calling it a "100 year event".
I doubt it - the impact might be one in 100 year, but that's because some land had sunk, stormwater systems are damaged etc.
Describing the storm event as a 100yr event is simply a a function of event duration and rainfall intensity measured in mm/h.
In other words, the amount of rain that has fallen in ChCh per hour over the last 24 hours is the equivalent of an event which has an annualised probability of occuring being 1% (or 1 in 100).
In actuality at times the storm event was about a 120yr return period event.
Not according to data I'm looking at.
Just over 70mm of rain in 48 hours. Highest in 1 hour was 4.8mm.
It was nothing out of the ordinary - only slightly above mean annual recorded maximums.
See page 7.
See also page 20, where in 1986 floods, more rainfall was recorded in 24 hours (Chch Gardens) than the 48 hour recording for this latest event.
I don't believe it was a "100 year event" at all.
Since you mention the Botanic Gardens site.... I can report that site 325616 (ChCh Botanical Gardens) logged 141.2mm in 1440 minutes (24 hours) for the 24 hour period ending 9:05am 5th March. The data logging interval was 5 minutes.
This is equivalent to 5.88mm/h over 24 hours equivalent to a return period of 119.9 years.


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We are a family owned canine training and boarding facility in Tualatin, Oregon with over 40 years experience training and caring for dogs and multiple dog packs. This has given us the unique opportunity to develop a training philosophy and program based on "The Dog Way" instead of our human way.
WE DON'T USE CLICKERS, CHOKE CHAINS, TREATS, or TRAINING DEVICES.
With the proper use of these philosophies we will create an unquestionable position of trust, respect, and authority with your dog giving you the right to make all rules, modify any unwanted behaviors, and perpetuate desired behaviors. Just some of the benefits of establishing and maintaining yourself as a leader with your dog is a significant reduction in confusion, stress, and anxiety resulting in the happiest, healthiest and best behaved dog.
The Dog Way Method
"The Dog Way" is so effective because it goes to the core of how dogs are instinctively designed, which is to live in packs as part of one hierarchal unit.
As dog owners, we are our dogs' pack and need to be their leader, because every dog instinctively knows there must be a strong, clear leader for the entire pack to survive. When there is no clear leader our dogs will be instinctively forced to 1) question our ability to lead, 2) assume a lead piston, resulting in many unwanted and often dangerous behaviors.
The Big Question Is: Do you want your dog leading your pack, telling you what to do, making all the important survival and pack decisions?
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Painting With Oils - Part Four/
This is the fourth in a series about painting with oils, sharing what I have learned so far. You can read the first, second, and third posts here.
Applying Paint
In this post I want to write about the best part of painting – applying the paint! I usually don't start with a white canvas, instead, I mix a background color (usually in the pinkish family) and dip my brush in mineral spirits to get it nice and thin. Then I brush this all over the canvas. Sometimes I mix a warm and cooler color and apply one for land and one for sky, it just depends. Drips happen sometimes, and I really like that, but I usually take a tissue and wipe everything fairly dry so my actual paint doesn't mix with the mineral spirity paint.
Next, I mix a darker version of the background wash and sketch in the outline of the composition. Sometimes, I fill in the sketch a little as pictured below.
After I'm satisfied with the sketch, I wipe the puddle of paint off so the palette is clean for mixing paint.
Mixing and Graying Down Your Paint
Now to mix paint. I look at my reference photo and start mixing the colors I see and want to use.
Most mixtures are too "hot" right out of the tube, so I will usually gray down the color so it appears more natural and realistic. There are a couple of ways to do this.
- You can mix a complement into your color. For example if you are mixing a green and it looks too green, you can mix a little red into it, or if you are mixing a yellow and it's too bright, mix a little purple in with it. I always keep a color wheel within sight to help me with this. I like the Quiller Color Wheel because it names the paint colors.
- The other way I have been graying down colors is a method I learned from Don Finkeldei in his DVD, Painting Large From a Field Study (excellent), and that is to mix three values of a neutral gray that can be added to any paint mixture on your palette. To make the neutral gray, mix ultramarine blue and orange for your dark, then add white to make a middle value gray and a light gray. I have to say, I have been really liking this method and have been using it with most of my recent paintings.
Now, it's time to paint. The first layers should go on smoothly and easily by dipping the edge of your brush in walnut oil or the medium of your choice and then dipping into the pile of paint. The paint should be thin enough to spread very easily and a little bit will go a long way. Before I learned this, I applied way too much paint because I didn't understand how to make the paint thin in the first layers. It makes such a difference to use thin paint!
Sometimes I start with the sky and work my way down, remembering that all the values are relative. I usually want the biggest contrast to be at the horizon line, so when I get there with my lightest sky color, I can place my dark next to it and see if it is working and make adjustments from there. Then, I just keep working my way through the painting keeping in mind the colors that are next to each other and testing the values as I go.
The other way I have started many pieces is by painting all the darks first, then working my way to the middle values, then the lightest. This is fine, too. Whatever works for you.
I usually let my first pass of the painting dry a little over night, then I come in the next day with a palette knife and thicker paint on my brush to add texture and more interest. I rarely finish a painting in one day, usually it takes two or three.
Next up, cleaning your brushes and storing paint. Thanks for following along and please let me know if you ever have questions. Happy painting to you!


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Pre-Event Screening: Tuesday Feb. 23rd, 7 pm/ Loyola University/Damen Cinema (Gentile Arena) 6511 N. Sheridan Rd/ Tickets
Stay after the film for refreshments and a rich discussion questioning our definition of "waste" and the potential rethinking of how we use materials to benefit humans and the environment. Concrete action opportunities will be provided, including examples from Loyola University student entrepreneurs, The Rebuilding Exchange, and other local organizations that are turning waste into profit. Facilitator: Aaron Durnbaugh, Sustainability Director, Loyola University Chicago.
Sat. March 5th, 3 pm (following YFC Awards)/ Columbia College/ Tickets
High school and college students! Arrive up to an hour early (2 pm) to obtain feedback on your film ideas or portfolio from Columbia Cinema Art + Science faculty member and filmmaker, Jeff Spitz. Program will begin at 3 pm, with a brief awards ceremony for One Earth Film Festival's Young Filmmakers Contest High School winners. Acclaimed film, Landfill Harmonic, will be featured immediately following. Post-film program includes discussion on making social and environmental change through the arts. Paul Teruel, Director of Community Partnerships at Columbia's Center for Community Arts Partnerships will share local engagement ideas and opportunities. Facilitator: Sue Crothers Gee, River Forest Parks Foundation; River Forest Sustainability Commission.
Brad Allgood, Alejandra Amarilla/ 2015/ 84 min/ Waste, Recycling
FILM DESCRIPTION: Landfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a paraguayan musical youth group of kids that live next to one of South America's largest landfills. This unlikely orchestra plays music from instruments made entirely out of garbage. When their story goes viral, the orchestra is catapulted into the global spotlight. With the guidance of their music director, they must navigate this new world of arenas and sold out concerts. However, when a natural disaster devastates their community, the orchestra provides a source of hope for the town. The film is a testament to the transformative power of music and the resilience of the human spirit.


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MEBANE � Twin brothers Andy and Zack Page not only play gigs individually at spots throughout the North Carolina mountains, but they also perform as part of The Page Brothers Gypsy Jazz Quartet.
Their interest in music began as teenagers when Andy joked �it was clear we weren�t going to be involved in sports.�
Their grandfather and father were fans of jazz and by beginning to play this music, Andy said they developed a stronger familial bond. Now the two can be found playing �when the gigs come.�
Zack played 260 gigs last year.
�He takes cares of his two kids during the day, while his wife works, and plays at night,� Andy said. Zack performs regularly as well, with the other two members of The Page Brothers Gypsy Jazz Quartet � Steve Trismen on violin and Jim Tanner on guitar. Andy plays guitar and Zack plays bass.
Andy is an adjunct music professor at Appalachian State University in Boone and teaches �History of Rock� and �Jazz Theory� along with private guitar lessons.
The Page Brothers Gypsy Jazz Quartet will kick off the Alamance County Arts Council�s Winter Concert Series from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday at The Winery at Iron Gate Farm, 2540 Lynch Store Road. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.
The concert, as most of the gigs the band plays, will be a �Tribute to Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.� This type of jazz, Andy said, is all acoustic � no horns or drums.
�It�s a very guitar-centric style. It�s very challenging to play,� Andy said. �It�s very honest and raw. We play it with a lot of passion. It�s just a blast professionally and musically to get a chance to share it with audiences.�
There�s a lot of crossover where style is concerned, especially with the bluegrass crowd.
�I listen to bluegrass and I love it, but we don�t play it,� Andy said. �The driving sound resembles bluegrass, however, and our older fans enjoy it.�
David Grisman and the late great Jerry Garcia epitomized the sound, he said. The Page brothers� band also sample songs by Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus.
�We put a twist on the gypsy jazz,� he said.
Members of the group have performed at the Grey Eagle�s annual Djangofest in Asheville since its inaugural concert five years ago, and the quartet has performed multiple times at the Blowing Rock Jazz Society and during a live radio broadcast from WETS in Johnson City, Tenn., which is the region�s NPR station.
For more information on the concert, visit artsalamance.com or irongatevineyards.com or call (336) 226-4495 or (919) 304-9463.


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Petroczi, Andrea, Naughton, Declan P, Pearce, Gemma, Bailey, Richard, Bloodworth, Andrew and McNamee, Michael (2008) Nutritional supplement use by elite young UK athletes: fallacies of advice regarding efficacy. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 5(22), pp. 1-8. ISSN (online) 1550-2783Full text available as:
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BACKGROUND: The objective was to study nutritional supplement use among young elite UK athletes to establish whether a rationale versus practice incongruence exists, and to investigate the sources of information. Survey data were analysed for association between supplements used and motives for using such substances among young athletes along with the sources of advice and literature precedents on supplement effects. METHODS: Participants were elite UK male and female athletes, within the age range between 12 and 21 (n = 403), mean age 17.66 +/- 1.99. Associations between type of supplements and reasons for using supplements were tested by calculating Pearson's chi2 and the strength of these symmetric associations shown by phi association coefficients. RESULTS: Single supplement use was reported by 48.1%, with energy drinks being the most popular, consumed by 41.7% of all athletes and 86.6% of the supplement users in the sample. No agreement was observed between athletes' rationale and behaviour in relation to nutritional supplements except for creatine. Among health professionals, nutritionists and physiotherapists, followed by coaches, were most frequently consulted. Answers regarding reasons and supplements used showed incongruence and suggest widespread misinformation regarding supplements and their effects is an issue for the young athlete. CONCLUSION: Widespread supplement taking behaviour was evidenced in the young elite athlete population with the most notable congruence between rationale and practice among young athletes being performance-related. Young athletes in the present sample appear to be less 'health conscious' and more 'performance focused' than their adult counterparts. Further research, using a full list of supplements, is warranted to test the hypothesis that health consciousness is less dominant in supplement choice by young athletes.
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Academy of Classical Fencing
Our mission is the preservation of fencing techniques taught during the late 19th and early 20th century by the Italian masters.
We offer group and individual lessons, footwork and conditioning exercises, fencing games, and directed bouting (electric and dry).
While classical in our approach to teaching, fencers are trained to be effective in the modern arena.
Our classes are based on the system of instruction developed by the celebrated Military Masters School in Rome (Scuola Magistrale di Scherma) with certain modifications based on the precepts of the earlier Military Fencing Masters schools in Parma (Cesar Enrichetti), Milan (Giuseppe Radailli), and the Livorese school (Eugenio Pini and Beppe Nadi).
We teach proper form, technique and discipline essential for the development of the complete fencer, one with a repertoire of techniques that can be strategically employed effectively in any situation.
Unlike many fencing schools, we recommend that students use a textbook. The Science of Fencing by Maestro William M. Gaugler (Laureate Press, (1-800-946-2727).
The book contains a complete description of the method of instruction used at Accademia di Scherma Classica.
At Accademia di Scherma Classica we believe that fencing should be fun. Bottom line. Whether you are a world-class competitor, or a beginner, if you are not having fun then you're not doing it right. Students are considered part of an extended family and elitist attitudes are not tolerated.


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REV. F. LEWIS, of Granada
EXPLANATION of the TEN COMMANDMENTS.
Q. When, by whom, and upon what occasion, were the ten commandments delivered ?
A. They were delivered by Almighty God to the people of Israel, through the hands of Moses, soon after they were freed from the bondage of Egypt. The occasion was, that they might have a more distinct knowledge of their duty, by several particulars being specified.
Q. Had they no knowledge of their duty before?
A. Yes, but not sufficient for their direction: not only the Jews, but all other nations were provided by the light of nature, to distinguish between good and evil; but the world was become so corrupted, that it was requisite to explain matters more clearly, and recommend, under distinct heads, the obligations they lay under, in regard of God and their neighbor.
Q. Do the ten commandments contain the whole of man's duty ?
A. They express only some general points, yet so, that all particular duties are reducible to them.
Q. As how?
A. This will appear when we come to explain every commandment in particular; meantime, it is sufficient to observe in general, that the worshiping of God, implies all religious duties, that immediately regard the Supreme Being. Honoring father and mother, speaks obedience to all sorts of superiors. The commandments not to kill, steal, commit adultery, etc., extend to all the duties we owe to our neighbor.
Q. Which is the first commandment ?
A. Thou shalt not have strange God's before me. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven thing, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above nor in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth: thou shalt not adore nor worship them.
Q What is imported by this commandment?
A. Some things are commanded, other things are forbidden, other things are not forbidden.
Q. What is commanded?
A. Religion.
Q. What is religion ?
A. It is a worship due to God.
Q. By what methods do we pay this duty?
A. By honor, by oblation, sacrifice, prayer, vows, and oaths, also by erecting altars and Churches,
Q. What do you call honoring, and how is it commonly expressed in our language?
A. Honoring, is giving a testimony or acknowledgment of some excellency or qualification, and is called adoration, worship, respect, reverence, etc.
Q. Which are the excellencies or qualifications to be honored?
A. There are several, some are infinite, belonging only to God; others are the perfections of creatures, whereof some are natural, as wit, beauty, strength, and such like qualifications, either of body or mind: others acquired, as authority, and all arts and sciences; others are supernatural, as grace, virtue, etc.
Q. Is honor equally due to all who are masters of those perfections ?
A. No, not equally, but proportionably to the excellency of the object.
Q. How do you explain this inequality of honor ?
A. Divine honor is paid only to God. Civil honor, to persons who enjoy natural or acquired perfections; and a religious honor betwixt both, to supernatural qualifications. The holy fathers called divine honor latria and religious honor dulia, to which divines add hyperdulia, an honor given, on account of some singular excellency, as that given to the Blessed Virgin Mary, as being the mother of God.
Q. I easily grant, that civil honor is due on account of natural and acquired qualifications: and that persons are to be reverenced and respected on those accounts, and that the same is due to others who possess supernatural perfections. But is it not a harsh expression to say, that creatures are to be adored, or worshiped, or to style that honor religious that is given on that score?
A. Words are to be taken in the sense custom or intention has fixed upon them, I own the word worship or adoration, in the language of the Church of England, is generally taken for divine honor; though the Latin and Greek words ( adoratio) are frequently in the Scriptures applied to creatures; sometimes the word worship, or adoration, signifies bowing or respect, in a more general sense. The Latin word cultus, has a much larger signification, and has been used even by Protestant divines, to comprehend an inferior honor; see Camierus, Tom. ii. L. 18. chap. i. And Junius against Bellarmin, related by Bishop Montague, in his appeal, page 255. So that speaking in the language of the Church of England, it is the greatest calumny in the world, to say, or suppose, that Catholics worship any created being whatever, with the adoration that belongs to God.
Q. I should be glad to be informed, in what manner these matters may be explained, so as not to deprive God of the honor which is proper to him alone?
A. This may be done by distinguishing worship into several branches, viz.: Relative, absolute, external, internal. Relative honor or worship, is when a thing is honored, not on its own account, but for the thing it represents, as that paid to images. Absolute honor is, when a thing is honored for some excellency inherent in the thing itself, as learning, holiness, etc., though all honor may be said to be relative to God, because all excellencies are derived from him, and have a relation to him. External honor or worship, is paid by visible tokens, as kneeling, prostrating, bowing, uncovering, etc. Internal honor, is an acknowledgment of some excellency in a thing without any outward tokens.
Q. Which of these honors do you call religious, and which civil?
A. The honor we pay to God, angels, saints, to their images, pictures, and relics, may be styled religious. The honor we pay to things on account of civil qualifications, we call civil. The reason why the first is called religious, is because they tend towards the good of religion, either absolutely or relatively; absolutely, when they are placed on God, his angels, and saints, who are qualified for it by divine and supernatural perfections inherit in them ; or relatively, as to images, pictures, etc., which, though they have no supernatural perfection inherent in them, yet they promote religion, by being a means of suggesting religious thoughts.


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Read the SEMrush blog regularly to keep your skills growing!
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India plans Saarc meet for startups, says Nirmala Sitharaman1 min read . Updated: 19 Jun 2017, 05:59 PM IST
Commerce and industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman also sought views of Indian startups to hold the Saarc meet
Commerce and industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman also sought views of Indian startups to hold the Saarc meet
New Delhi: India is planning to organise a meet of startups of the South Asian region for exchange of new ideas and promoting interaction among them. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also sought views of Indian startups to hold this programme.
"I will be working towards having a SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) country meet for startups. There are so many complementarities among us in the South Asian region," she said while launching a startup India hub portal here.
She said the event can act as a platform for exchanging which can be mutually beneficial and can be worked out. She asked startups to give ideas about the people who can be invited for the meet.
If the ministry would get feedback and suggestions in the next couple of months, by December the meet can happen in which SAARC country startups can come to India and share ideas. SAARC members are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Further, to promote the startup ecosystem in the country, Sitharaman would write to all the Member of Parliaments (MPs) to help budding entrepreneurs.
Citing an example, the minister said she used her Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) fund to create a co-working space for startups in Mangalore.
"I will write to all the MPs...(particularly) in districts where people are approaching their MPs saying can we have some space and where there is a demand of startups," he added.
The ministry is also planning to work in certain districts identify schools and help them qualify to get tinkering labs under the Atal Innovation Mission.
She added that the ministry is working on modalities to facilitate exchange of ideas between startups of India and Germany.


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Make a tax-deductible donation online at giving.uw.edu/ThetaXi (click link to go to website) or by mailing a check to the chapter house directly made out to the "UW Foundation" and "Theta Xi Chapter Scholarship" written on the memo line.
In April 2015, the Upsilon Chapter of the Theta Xi Fraternity celebrated its one hundredth year at the University of Washington. For over 100 years, we have embodied the Fraternity's mission to develop leadership, intellectual curiosity, and responsibility to chapter, college, community, and country among its members. Being a brother of Theta Xi has shaped who we are today. Our experiences here have given us the courage and the knowledge to go forth into the world as leaders and innovators.
Recently a group of undergraduate brothers began to think about the next 100 years for Upsilon Chapter. We asked ourselves a simple question: "What is a lasting legacy we can build that will support Theta Xi through the next Centennial and beyond?" Our answer was to focus on recruiting motivated classes of new members who already align with our shared values of academic success, leadership, and responsibility. These men who already have a demonstrated propensity to get involved and stay involved will be best poised to contribute to the common good of the Fraternity. These dedicated brothers will have an outsize influence far beyond their years in the Fraternity. Brothers that are passionate about Theta Xi and its values will recruit more men that share those values, and so on. A virtuous cycle is created.
Towards that end, we set to work in partnership with the UW Foundation to establish an endowment for the Upsilon Chapter of Theta Xi. Together with the Alumni Club we have officially established the "Theta Xi Franklin Scholarship Fund". This Scholarship will be available to all incoming freshmen men entering UW, and will be awarded based on exemplary commitment to their community and academic progress. Students who apply to this Scholarship will be those that we are seeking to recruit, and therefore we will be able to meet a wider variety of people. This Scholarship ensures that the men that are interested in joining Theta Xi are motivated individuals that will make the same life-long commitment to the Fraternity that you have.
We hope that you will join us in establishing this scholarship and creating a living legacy for Upsilon Chapter!


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|"Got a light, big boy?"
[Based on C.E. Brock's Bingley and Sandy from Grease]
That so many writers and readers alike enjoy a "bad Jane" does not surprise me, nor does the dynamic discussion about Jane's relative merits. This hints at a key reason why Austen's Pride and Prejudice remains her most popular and successful novel — the underlying archetypes speak deeply to us, and they communicate successfully. The real mystery is how a single woman could write out a comprehensive ancient mythos using so many archetypes in sync and with such clarity that most readers don't see them yet enjoy the story they tell.
It's important to understand that P&P is not about a single character. It's an ensemble, a system that works well, each of its different components serving a critical purpose.
The novel itself mirrors a portion of the women's mythos — the story we tell each other about what being an adult woman requires, how to become one successfully as we move from maiden to wife/mother. P&P is a women's bildungsroman, in other words.
While most readers follow the Elizabeth-and-Darcy storyline most closely, the other components tell us very deep things about womanhood in an economy of words.
The five daughters are not independent; they are each of them an extension of the uber-mother, telling us what is successful as mother and daughter alike. Each daughter represents a specific model of emerging womanhood, from which we are to learn.
1) Jane — The too-good sister/daughter/mother — In which we see complete investment of the mother and minor investment of the father; this child has learned complete control over herself.
2) Elizabeth — The good-enough sister/daughter/mother — Exemplifies more paternal investment and a more hands-off approach on the part of the mother.
3) Mary — The intellectual abandoned sister/daughter/mother — Parents utterly fail this child, who strives to replace the knowledge and wisdom of parents but without any guidance.
4) Kitty — The incurious abandoned sister/daughter/mother — Again, parents utterly fail this child, but she cannot even see her way to replace missing knowledge and wisdom.
5) Lydia — The animalistic sister/daughter/mother — Father fails grossly, while mother identifies too closely with this child, indulging all the animal urges without restraint.
Each of these models have varying degrees of attachment to their parents. These variations teach us something about the role of parents in their daughters' lives and their respective likely outcomes.
We've seen these models before. They appear again and again in fairy and folk tales, once told by mothers and grandmothers to their daughters in front of the hearth. They were unconscious guides to help guide pre-literate people.


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Honors Summer Fellows will be brought together in an interdisciplinary cohort for ten weeks in Ann Arbor during the summer of 2011, from May 23 to July 30. Fellows will spend most of their summer engaged in regular, sustained pursuit of their thesis project. In addition, all Fellows will meet for a two hour seminar each week with Honors Director Tim McKay. These sessions will be dedicated to regular reports from Fellows on their progress, discussions on the evolving nature of scholarly work, presentations from several UM faculty panels about their research and academic lives, practical training in scholarly writing, academic presentations, and public outreach, and tours of labs and research collections. Fellows will be expected to play an active role in designing these sessions, and to participate electronically even if off campus for short periods.
The Fellows program provides a unique opportunity for a group of juniors and seniors to gather from across all three divisions of LSA; the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Participants learn from one another about the nature of research across this whole range, comparing the modes of work, nature of valid evidence, styles of presentation, and special challenges. Being a Summer Fellow will provide you with space to participate in substantive interdisciplinary interactions at a time in your studies when many influences are pushing you to specialize.
In addition to the intellectual and moral support provided by joining a cohort of Fellows, financial support is available to enable students to remain in Ann Arbor and dedicate substantial time to their thesis projects.
Some Fellows will already be fully supported by departmental or lab research grants. Such students are encouraged to apply to join the program as non-stipendiary Fellows so that they may take advantage of the many benefits provided by participation in this interdisciplinary group. It is expected that most students seeking financial support will receive a summer grant of $2500 for the ten week program. This can be supplemented by half-time support from other sources. In cases of special need, enhanced summer grants of $4000 may be provided.
Fellows may also apply for additional support for research expenses, to attend academic conferences, travel to archives or research sites, or pay publication costs.