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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...These inexpensive noodles have quickly become a family favorite. I found the recipe in Diana Kuan's, Chinese Takeout Cookbook last winter and first made the noodles in February, working from a copy of the book I borrowed from the library here in town. My introduction to most cookbooks begins in the library stacks and, to be truthful, very few of them end up in my personal collection. This book was an exception and I have yet to find a dish in it that I don't like. While the original recipe appears below, I wanted to tell you about a few of the changes I make when I prepare these noodles for my own family. I view this recipe as a no-fuss pantry creation, so rather than use fresh mushrooms, I rehydrate shiitakes that I store in bulk for use in the dish. I cover a large handful of the mushrooms with boiling water and let them sit for an hour before proceeding with the recipe. I also thin slice and stir-fry 2 or 3 pork chops rather than use Chinese barbecue pork that's called for in the recipe. Chinese pork is not readily available here, so I've learned to use what I have on hand when we want these noodles for dinner. The Silver Fox and I can make a meal of them, but if all the chairs at the table were occupied, the noodles would be just one part of a multi-course meal. The noodles are delicious and I must admit that, despite their simplicity, they make my socks go up and down. While you may not share my enthusiasm for the noodles, I guarantee you'll like them. It really is hard to resist a dish that is fast easy and cheap and has near universal appeal. I hope you'll give these noodles a try. You will not regret it. Here is how they are made.
Roast Pork Lo Mein...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Diana Kuan and The Chinese Takeout Cookbook
12 ounces, thin dried Chinese egg noodles or thin spaghetti
2 tablespoons dark sesame oil
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1-1/2 tablespoons oyster sauce
1-1/2 tablespoons Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
1-1/2 teaspoons honey
Pork and Aromatics
1 tablespoon peanut or vegetable oil
1-1/2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon minced or grated fresh ginger
3 scallions, cut into 2-inch lengths
4 or 5 fresh shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced
1/2 pound Chinese barbecued pork, store-bought or homemade, cut into small, bite-sized pieces
1) Cook noodles according to package directions until al dente. Drain noodles, rinse under cold water, and drain again, shaking well to remove excess water. Return noodles to pot, toss with sesame oil until noodles are well coated, and set aside.
2) Prepare sauce: In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, oyster sauce, rice wine, and honey. Set aside.
3) Heat a wok or large skillet over high heat. Add peanut oil and swirl to coat bottom. Add garlic, ginger, and scallions and stir-fry until aromatic, about 30 seconds. Add mushrooms and cook until softened, 1 to 2 minutes.
4) Add noodles and pork. Pour in sauce mixture and toss with tongs or chopsticks until noodles and pork are heated through and well coated with sauce. Transfer to a platter and serve. Yield: 4 servings.
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I've actually got quite a few to upload this time. I do hope they're not bothering you.
Regular readers of the blog might be a bit disappointed that I haven't produced any silly Target book covers or adverts for impossible Doctor Who collectors's items or absurdly branded packets of sweet cigarettes. I've not forgotten them. To be honest, I'm waiting for some decent ideas to surface. When you've done so many of a certain type of gag, you begin to feel that you really just telling the joke over and over again.
Speaking of which, here's another thirteen issues of Whovians in Love. (And DC Comics still haven't sued me yet...!)


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I am not really a big Olympics fan. I used to be, but then they started letting pro athletes play, and the "pageantry" became ridiculous, and now China is hosting them and using them as a political tool in a way that strongly reminds me of 1938 1936. I thought it couldn't sink much lower. But I was wrong, of course. Because, it turns out, astrology rules the Olympics! At least, it does according to a totally credulous article posted by Reuters, which parrots a bunch of silly claims by "statistician" Kenneth Mitchell -- that's in quotation marks, because his statistics are very, very suspect. This kind of article steams me pretty well. It is written slightly tongue-in-cheek, but it still simply repeats without any rebuttal the Mitchell's statements, which are easily shown to be false. I'd go into details, but happily Josh Giersch already has, and quite well. From Mitchell's bad math to the cherry-picking of data, Josh slams him pretty hard. There is one thing I want to mention, though. In the article, Mitchell says something totally bogus:
Explaining his eureka moment with all the zeal of a statistical crusader, he concluded: "Did you know that the distribution of Olympic swimming medallists against the tropical astrological zodiac signs can be almost exactly mapped by a polynomial function of the third degree? "That's one to shut people up at a pub."
Actually, I'm sure it would, since most people don't know what a polynomial is, and thus can be bamboozled by such a falacious use of math. A polynomial is a function (like y = 8x^3 - x^2 + 3x + 6) that can be used to plot points on a graph. It can also be used backwards, so to speak, using the points from a series of measurements to derive the equation. So you can measure some series of events -- like the astrological signs of Olympic winners -- and then find a polynomial equation that best describes them. The thing is, in general the higher the order of the polynomial (the biggest exponent of x), the easier it is to fit the points. A third degree polynomial (like the one above) can be fiddled with easily to fit a series like that very well, no matter what the points really are. In other words, whether or not astrology is correct (and it ain't), if you plot the birth signs of the athletes, you are very apt to find a third-degree polynomial that'll fit the points. You can swap around the dates, pick the losers instead of winners, or measure the athlete's hair length and still find some polynomial that describes them pretty well. So what Mitchell said is meaningless; it only sounds cool. It's an empty claim, just like all of astrology. I'm not surprised he said it, but what really irks me is that the Reuters reporter swallowed it wholesale. I dream of a world when journalists actually do some research for their articles. I'll be dreaming a long, long time. Too bad these are the summer games. Otherwise, I could make a joke about astro-luge-y.


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Before I leave for a well-deserved vacation and before I dive right into the holiday madness, I'm going to leave you ladies something to ponder about. It's kinda out of season to have a color mood with a seaside feel but the good thing about color palettes is that you can still make it work anytime of the year with the right materials.
Obviously, I was thinking of vacation when I was doing this.
Okay, so wish me luck on finding something inspirational from my trip! Bon Voyage everyone!


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Anahata (n. Sanskrit: अनाहत, ) Heart Chakra
Asana (n. Sanskrit: आसन ) 'sitting down', physical position or pose as in yoga
Anahasana— The Pose of the Heart
Anahasana Village brings awareness to a fully embodied knowing of the power and the wisdom of our own hearts.
The heart is the hub of all sacred places; go there and roam.
–Bhagavan Nityananda
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.
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PureLoad Software is a Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with sales and support offices in US, Canada and Sweden.
PureLoad Software Group AB (PSG) was founded in 1998 as a privately held company dedicated to developing and selling load test software products.
PureLoad Software Inc. is a privately held company owned by PSG. PureLoad Software Inc. was created in 2009 to support and market load testing products to the American markets.
PureLoad Software Canada Inc. is a privately held company owned by PSG. PureLoad Software Canada Inc. was created in 2014 to support and market load testing products to the Canadian market.
PureLoad Software AB is a privately held company owned by PSG. PureLoad Software AB was created in 2012 to support and market load testing products to the European and Asian markets.
Our core business is providing Performance Test Solutions that are simple to build, learn, and maintain. Our products are built and proven for highly intensive traffic demands using a distributed and platform independent solution based on Java.
We have cutting edge competence and broad experience in application traffic simulation and Java based solutions.
The majority of the PureLoad team has worked with us since start.
Chief Technology Officer - Michael Rohdin
|Michael Rohdin is the CTO and co-founder of PureLoad Software with previous senior development experience at Ericsson and Sun Microsystems. Since start Michael has been involved in both product development and direct customer engagements - focusing on tools and solutions for performance test of IP-based systems. Michael has experience putting performance test solutions together for R&D and assisting with test. On a strategic level, he has introduced valuable solutions for performance benchmarking, performance SLA measurements and tuning/dimensioning of IP-based network solutions.
Chairman of the Board - Henrik Holm
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Plenty of folks have been talking about how Batman: Arkham City handled (or mishandled) the character of Catwoman, but fewer have addressed the character of Harley Quinn.
In a thoughtful post on his personal blog, Girl Parts author John M. Cusick looks at her character, identity, and the possible reasons she acts the way she does.
Cusick points out that there are aspects of Harley's character that aren't often touched on in the Batman lore, (and aren't really addressed by the game), primarily the way that she came to be as crazy as she is. "I don't think the Arkham game creators quite knew what they had with Harley," Cusick writes, "and like Christopher Nolan, I think they've missed a great opportunity."
He goes on:
What is interesting to me about Harley, I guess, is that she isn't empowered. This makes her a terrible role model (in addition to, you know, all the wanton killing), but a wonderful character. As the battle for Gotham rages around her, Harley seems like a confused little kid amidst feuding adults. To me, this makes her, on the surface, oddly sympathetic: this poor, fractured woman who followed a man into maddness, and got little in return.
But there's another layer here. Remember, Harley was a doctor when she met the Joker, which means her "aww-shucks B-Man" shtick is all an act. While Cat Woman's sexuality is empowered, Harley chooses to disempower herself, becoming a (dangerous) child. Just as, I think, allowing oneself to "go crazy" is at once empowering and disempowering, i.e. seizing control by losing it.
It's an interesting take on a tragic, broken character, and as he points out, Quinn is certainly one of the more subversive characters in the Batman ouvre.
"My stance is we writers have a responsibility," Cusick concludes. "not necessarily to create empowered characters– but layered ones, to investigate and nuance both our muscly chunkheads, and our scantily clad vixens."
Sounds like Mr. Cusick wonders about why the chicken crossed the road, too.
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let's say I want to improve my application's performances.And I want to use an Opcode cache tool such as APC or eaccelerator and apply variable caching using Memcached. Let's say then I'm a beginner and I have built a working-app using the above specifications.
When I need to publish my site (remote) and I'm looking around for the best "hosting solution" which host-parameters should I care about when it comes to install php extensions such those for my caching tools?Is it even possible to do that using a shared host?
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23rd Annual Valmont Charity Golf Tournament
Support the fight against juvenile diabetes at the 24th Annual Valmont Charity Golf Tournament.
REGISTER: To register, download, print, and return your completed entry form.
WHEN: Saturday, August 11th, 2017 – 7:30 AM
WHAT: Shotgun Start – 4 Man Scramble; proceeds benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
COST: $100 per Player includes: Green fees, carts, a bucket of range balls and lunch after the tournament.
WHERE: Twin Peaks Golf Course, 1200 Cornell Drive Longmont, CO 80503. Telephone - 303-651-8401
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text: This last weekend I was in Victoria, BC celebrating my birthday. The last time I'd visited was in high school – I was in marching band & jazz band and every so often we got to take trips to participate in parades and such. This time I got to explore this lovely city with my husband. We went to afternoon tea at the Empress (ooh la la!), visited Munro's Books, squeezed through Fan Tan Alley (above), enjoyed Foo Asian Street Food, and befriended some goats (and watched them stampede!) at Beacon Hill Children's Farm. I shared a few more photos on instagram, too, if you'd like to see.


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Always love SST's stuff.
That's the one I had my eye on and the one I picked up today.
I picked up a copy of Joshua Hoffine's Horror Photography Book. I have wanted it for quite awhile but just could never pull the trigger on it. They got me today! First purchase directly through them.
Probably in the Suntup pipeline :)
That's hilarious, Jason about Katie. Glad you were about to score the mallet! You need to have her read the book now. So much better than the movie.
I bet you could. Supposed to start getting chilly here as well.
And pretty fitting, buddy since it looks like you guys got your first snowfall already. Be true to the book while walking at lunch and carry a croquet mallet :)
Still haven't managed to watch it yet. Been caught up in baseball playoffs when I get the chance to watch TV.
Off topic: The new season of Castle Rock starts tomorrow and it looks so much better...
I have yet to watch it but a co-worker said it goes off the rails pretty quick vs. the story.
Still quite a ways to got til the finish but I'm liking it so far. A little bored at the moment so hopefully it'll pick back up soon.
I agree about Tim Jamieson being interesting. I'm sure the...
Very cool!
Great adds, Martin and glad you got to see Joe again as well!
This looks to be the UK cover:
Pretty hefty book judging by the page count. Wonder if H&S is going to go nuts with the variants of this one too.
Book great books!
Just finished up The Road and loved it.
On to The Institute. Didn't take King long to get to Trumpp.
[QUOTE=Marmaduke Grigsby;99815]This review copy was sent out to Brian's level three and higher Patreon supporters. Being a level two supporter I did not get one. Does anyone have a copy they would...
You mean you have a squiggly line LOL.
Nice adds, Martin! That ARC is huge.
Ugh. I'll be listening to it next. Hopefully that narrator doesn't blow for me.
Are you reading or listening, Martin?
It was probably more the narrator than anything.
I was pretty bored with the first 75% of Brother but it was all part of the plan for a literally killer ending.
On to The Road now and enjoying it so far.
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I've been getting some fabulous awards from some fabulous bloggers and have neglected to pass them around!! I must make amends, and quickly! I believe I have eight of them that I've stacked up, so I'm just going to tackle them in parts.
Today's awards are:
I'm passing this pretty award along to:
Muse in the Fog - Following this blog has introduced me to a genre I hadn't read much of in the past, but am now learning more about: Historical Fiction! Her reviews are must reads.
Abby Annis - Her blog is fun, full of great advice, and she often highlights a lot of the YA books we love so much! She also has a great 100 follower contest going on right now.
Next up is the Blogger Buddie Award, given to me by Amelia and Amber! Be sure to check out their fabulous blogs!
I am passing this award along to:
Jen at Unedited - She's a pretty cool chick with a pretty cool blog, and recently celebrated 200 followers! Congrats on that!
Nicole Ducleroir at One Significant Moment at a Time - Great discussions, great teasers, just an all around great lady!
Next up is the Circle of Friends Award, given to me by fellow Team Gale supporter Katie!
I am passing this along to:
Kim Franklin - Kim has become a good friend, and to top it off, her blog is hysterical and full of great advice, not to mention her very helpful book reviews!
Kristi Chestnutt - Also a new and dear friend, Kristi's debut novel comes out THURSDAY!
(Read my interview with Kristi here)
Last for today, but not least, The Superior Scribbler Award given to me by Tiana Lei!
I'm passing this one along to:
DL Hammons at Cruising Altitude - DL is just an all around cool guy. He has great advice, is a good writer, and always leaves encouraging comments. He's a superior scribbler!
Kayeleen at Kayeleen's Creations - Kayeleen is a super-sweet, young adult writer, with a lovely blog that everyone should follow!
WHEEW! Stay tuned for the second part of this award ceremony at a date TBD!
Now, most of these blog awards come with the rule of spilling a little bit about yourself, so, spillage part 1:
1. Every birthday of mine that I can remember, it's rained. Yesterday was my birthday, and this year was no exception. Although, it had never snowed on my b-day before... Living in Houston, we're lucky to see it every 5 years. But yesterday... it snowed (the second time in 3 months!). Happy Birthday To Me! :)
2. Someone once told me, "Hate is a waste of emotion." Ever since, I've tried not to hate anyone or anything. I even try not to ever say "I hate you!" even playfully. It just sounds ugly. But I will say this: I just scrubbed our guest bathtub... and I was pretty close to hating that.
3. I have a hard time buying someone else's artwork because I have this weird personal..what's the word...it's like a feeling...not really a "bet"...argh. Can't think. Anyway, I feel like I'm supposed to create all the artwork for the walls in our house myself. Like I will have failed if I don't. I'm slowly getting over it - mostly because our walls have been bare for 2 years because I don't have confidence in my own art to even display it! - and I bought a couple of watercolor paintings from some locals while we were in Italy (and a couple from Hawaii). I'm also slowly cluttering my walls with photos I took on vacations, too.
4. I freak out when my feet feel the slightest bit dirty. It's vital to wear flip flops here in Houston in the summer when it's 100+ and you feel like you're constantly in a sauna, but wow do your feet get dirty!! I'm the queen of the quick fix of a lightly soaped and damp paper towel swipe of the feet in public restrooms, and I give them a good thorough wash cloth cleanse as soon as I get home.
5. I LOVE gift cards. Some people think these as gifts are impersonal, but you know what I say to that? Let ME pick out what you want to buy me, because no one knows me better. I think people are catching on, because yesterday for my birthday I got the most gift cards I've EVER gotten. iTunes, Borders, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, World Market!!! Add that to the Barnes and Noble gift card I won last week from Clevery Inked and I'd say I have a FULL day of shopping in the near future!!!
If you haven't entered my contest for a signed copy of Heist Society by Ally Carter or a $10 Amazon Gift Card, you can do so on this thread!
Felice Mercoledi! (Happy Wednesday!)


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I just wanna share this layout that I made.
I got some freebies from SHABBYPRINCESS and made this whole page from scrap.
At first I wasn't sure if i'm gonna enjoy doing digital scrapbooking because it's a lot of work.
I mean it's not as easy as it looks. Crop here, paste there. You need to have at least a little knowledge in photoshop if you want to do scrapbooking.
But, I enjoyed it, and I think this will be another hobby added in my long list.


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Improve job retraining programs
"We have to train ourselves for the jobs that are going to come. Because we're not just going to be stuck here in manufacturing, and we'll do manufacturing as best as we can, but we also have to be involved in bio technology and computer information technology. We've got to retrain Ohioans and we need a whole new system to do that."
Executive order creates office that will streamline job training programs
Gov. John Kasich came into his job focused on jobs.
His campaign touted the need to get Ohioans back to work. Over his first year and one-half in office, his attention to the job market hasn't waned.
In fact, Kasich has said work-force training — not his mid-cycle budget or promoting exploration of underground shale in eastern Ohio to unearth natural gas and oil — will be his administration"s biggest issue of 2012.
The governor says that employers across Ohio have had a common lament; that as more skilled-labor jobs become available, there are too few Ohioans adequately trained to fill those slots.
It's not a new problem. During his campaign the governor pledged to improve the state"s job retraining programs to better meet the needs of businesses in a changing economy.
"We have to train ourselves for the jobs that are going to come," he told a gathering in Mount Vernon while on the campaign trail. "... we"re not just going to be stuck here in manufacturing. We'll do manufacturing as best as we can, but we also have to be involved in bio technology and computer information technology. We've got to retrain Ohioans and we need a whole new system to do that."
Toward that end, Kasich ordered the creation of the Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation. He signed the executive order Feb. 9 at an appearance in Batavia.
The office is charged with coordinating workforce policies and programs across state government. The goal is to streamline a system which consisted of 77 different programs across 13 state agencies. Kasich hired Richard Frederick as executive director of the new office.
"If you have 77 and 13 it means you have zero. That's how I add that up," Kasich said in January when he met with some editors and reporters at The Plain Dealer. Kasich said. "Nobody knows what anyone's doing."
It will be Frederick's job to eliminate some of those 77 programs, merge others and settle on a single cohesive training plan linking high school education to community colleges and four-year universities, and to the business community.
That will be no small task, said Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols. "The 77 and 13, that was 45 years in the making," he said.
The administration previously has cited figures for the number of jobs that sit empty for lack of qualified applicants. In mid January, the state said there are 72,341 open positions across Ohio which had gone unfilled as employers claim that the labor pool is too shallow and unqualified.
Nichols said that's a concern that's been voiced all around the state by employers who say they "can't find workers with the skill set needed to fill jobs."
Kasich has said the business world itself has been part of the problem.
State officials said employers are quick to tell the state what type of workers they need for today but terrible about projecting forward. Forecasting is critical, Kasich"s office said, so that students can be encouraged to seek certain career paths on the promise that jobs will be available at the completion of their training or education.
"We have a mismatch. This is a huge problem," Kasich said at the newspaper gathering. "We've got people who have jobs, and we've got people who they say don't have the skills to fit the jobs. So we're not matching them."
Kasich's office says Ohio had a net gain of 43,000 jobs in 2011, his first year in office. The type of jobs the administration thinks will be most in demand in Ohio over the next few years are engineers, computer scientists, machinists, long-distance truck drivers, diesel mechanics and welders.
Based on his executive order, we can set the Kasich-O-Meter for progress on this promise at In the Works.
Interviews with Rob Nichols, spokesman for Gov. John Kasich, March 29 and April 19, 2012
The Plain Dealer via Cleveland.com, "Too few Ohioans have adequate job training, employers say," by Reginald Fields, Jan. 15, 2012
Office of the Governor, Executive Order 2012-02K Creating the Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation and the Governor's Executive Workforce Board, Feb. 9, 2012
Office of the Governor, Factsheet for Executive Order 2012-02K


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Let's be frank – periods happen. In fact, they happen about once a month to approximately 50% of the 7.5 billion people on earth. Which means, in short: periods aren't a big deal and we shouldn't be ashamed to talk about them!
While there are menstrual products available in washrooms across campus for 25 cents, we know we don't all carry quarters around at all times just in case. That's why you can now find COMPLIMENTARY tampons and pads across the Humber and Guelph-Humber campuses (for full list of locations check below). No more freaking out when that time of the month sneaks up on you or you don't have any change in your wallet.
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Wrinkles on the cheeks can take many forms. Some wrinkles extend from the crow's feet down and out over the cheek bone. Other wrinkles extend up from around the jaw line over the cheek hollow area of the face. While other wrinkles can emanate from several areas and cross hatch on the cheek hollow. The cross hatching of numerous wrinkles can also create a creping affect, similar to crêpe paper.
Wrinkles on the cheeks are typically treated with FDA-approved advanced dermal fillers, non surgically. Healthcare professionals treat these conditions with fillers, such as Juvederm® Ultra, Juvederm® Ultra Plus, Radiesse®, Restylane®, Perlane®, and Sculptra®.
Before dermal fillers are applied, most healthcare providers will numb the areas to be treated with a topical anesthetic, local anesthetic or nerve block, depending upon the area to be treated and medical practitioner's preference. Also, ice is often used during and after the procedure to help control any swelling.
Upper Cheek Wrinkles
Crow's feet wrinkles in some individuals can elongate over the cheek bone and onto the cheek hollow. These lines are generally superficial and relatively shallow. To treat these lines, dermal fillers
such as JUVEDERM® Ultra and Restylane® are typically combined with BOTOX® to fill and relax the wrinkles.
BOTOX® is usually injected with a fine needle in the depressor muscles somewhat above and outside of the eyes and out along cheek bone area. Dermal fillers are placed beneath the wrinkles, usually in the mid dermis of the skin.
In this area of the face, the wrinkle reduction will typically endure longer than some other facial areas because there is less movement. Some healthcare professionals report that over time with touch up treatments, patients have seen these wrinkles disappear for significant amounts of time.
Lower Cheek Wrinkles
Some individuals have wrinkles that arch up the cheek hollow from around the jaw line. Wrinkles in this area are commonly treated with a dermal filler such as JUVEDERM® Ultra or Radiesse®.
For more shallow wrinkles, a product like JUVEDERM® Ultra is an effective product that may last up to a year, particularly in this part of the face. Radiesse® is an excellent product for deeper wrinkles as it not only helps initially fill & lift deeper wrinkles, but it works to stimulate the body's own collagen for some enduring results. Some healthcare providers will use Sculptra® in the cheek hollows as well. Sculptra® is FDA approved for areas that have lost volume or atrophied. It does not fill, but over time stimulates collagen growth. This in turn can have a positive effect on diminishing wrinkles. Depending upon the origin and placement of the wrinkle, some lower cheek wrinkles may be treated with BOTOX® as well. Some medical practitioners use a combination of these products, depending upon the patient's needs and goals.
Cheek Crêping
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Dermal fillers cannot only diminish or eliminate the wrinkles, but often work to smooth the skin as well. Over time, most patients will notice a marked improvement of the skin's texture in the treated areas. Maintaining the correction, over time with periodic treatments, will likely cause the patient to need lesser amounts of filler as the body responds by creating collagen.
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What a difference a day makes!
Yesterday, we were talking about record-heat, today, it was all about the fall-like temperatures filtering in from the northwest.
The showers that lingered along the Outer Cape and Islands along with the storms that moved through New Hampshire and Maine into the early morning hours were associated with the cold air clashing with the air mass that gave us record-breaking heat and humidity -- this boundary is the cold front where these air masses meet.
In-depth news coverage of the Greater Boston Area.
This front has now rolled off the coastline, leaving clear skies, cooler and breezy conditions. High surf still remains along the southward facing beaches as Tropical Storm Maria remains out to sea as the cold front boots her even farther out and away from New England.
Swells through tomorrow remain between 5-10 feet, which is why a High Surf Advisory is in effect for coastal Rhode Island, southeastern Massachusetts and the Cape and the Islands, along with Downeast Maine.
This evening, temperatures will quickly drop after sunset, under clear skies, lows slip into the lower 50s in far southern New England, 40s west and north, farther away from the coastline.
Friday brings a chilly start, and temperatures will only rise into the upper 60s south, lower 60s north, and the cool-down continues into the first half of the weekend, thanks to a weak clipper system, originating from Canada.
This system will usher in more clouds by Friday night, with rain sliding in from west to east for southern New England by early Saturday morning. Clouds and showers stick around into the afternoon, only allowing highs to top out into the upper 50s.
The clipper slides out to sea by the evening, allowing room for a dome of high pressure to salvage the second half of the weekend for any of those outdoor plans. Sunday, after a cold start, temperatures will rebound back into the upper 60s under plenty of sunshine -- great to catch a peek of the fall foliage. We start off the first full week of the month of October with highs into the 60s with a slight warm-up by midweek, back into the mid to upper 70s. Stay tuned for the latest updates on the air, online, and receive updates on-the-go with our NBC Boston / NECN app.


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This was our first SOM trip and we had a wonderful time. We had a great welcome from church leaders when we arrived, and we were grateful for their support throughout the trip.
Everyone worked very hard in the two centres, Wa and Kumasi, studying Acts and the Epistles for 5 mornings, followed by prayer workshops each afternoon.
There were many highlights; challenging questions about New Testament teaching, praying for family members to be healed and to give their lives to Christ, praying for baptism in the Holy Spirit and praying for each other's churches.
There was such a breakthrough in praise, worship and dance, it was a real joy.
Rob & Cath Lee
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About a week ago, I started working my way through the first in the Renovare Spiritual Formation Guides, called "Connecting With God." The first section began with these quotes from Frank Laubach's Letters of a Modern Mystic:
This morning I started out fresh, by finding a rich experience of God in the sunrise. Then I tried to let Him control my hands while I was shaving and dressing and eating breakfast. Now I am trying to let God control my hands as I pound the typewriter keys… There is nothing that we can do excepting to throw ourselves open to God. There is, there must be, so much more in Him than He can give us… It ought to be tremendously helpful to be able to acquire the habit of reaching out strongly after God's thoughts, and to ask, "God, what have you to put into my mind now if only I can be large enough?" That waiting, eager attitude ought to give God the chance he needs.
Then, about a month later, he writes:
Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across. It is working. I cannot do it even half a day – not yet, but I believe I shall be doing it some day for the entire day. It is a matter of acquiring a new habit of thought. Now I like God's presence so much that when for a half hour or so he slips out of mind – as he does many times a day – I feel as though I had deserted him, and as though I had lost something very precious in my life.
The thought of this practice inspired me. I wanted this life of living in constant touch with God. I wanted to be constantly aware of God's presence, to yield constantly to God's will. I went to bed asking God to remind me first thing in the morning that He was present with me. He did.
For the first time in months, I awoke the next morning before my alarm went off. Usually, I wake up to my alarm, and often times so groggy that it takes me a second to remember where I am. Not on this morning, though. God did as I had asked, and I was reminded immediately of God's presence with me. Wanting (or at least thinking I wanted) to surrender to His will, I asked/prayed, "God what should I do?"
I 'heard' a voice respond, "Get up and pray."
I politely asked for a new assignment, perhaps going back to sleep. But the voice was persistent, "Get up and pray."
Finally, I got up and looked at my cell phone. It was still turned off; it's set to turn off automatically at midnight and turn back on at 6am. I didn't know what time it was, but I knew it was before 6. "Why would God want me to be up so early?" I asked myself.
Almost immediately I heard the voice again, "I want you to pray."
The call to pray was so vivid that I fully expected to come out of my bedroom, turn the corner into my living room and see Jesus sitting on the love-seat… and this thought terrified me. Fully awake and out of bed, I still actually hesitated to leave my bedroom for fear of what Who might be out there. I finally mustered the courage to go into my living room, and was both relieved and disappointed to find that there wasn't a first century Jew waiting for me. (At least not that I could see.)
I went on with my prayer time, which was better than usual, though frankly not as profound as what I was anticipating. I remember little of the Scripture I read that morning or the prayers that I prayed. What I do remember is the fear. I had a profound sense of God being presence, and I was seized more with fear than anything else. Why? This bothered me for much of the rest of the week.
I continued the week trying to practice this consciousness of and submissiveness to God's presence and will. Thursday night finally brought resolution to my sense of fear. I had just returned from the Upper Room's Bible study and sat down in my living room for some personal devotion and close-of-day prayer. I began with the evening psalm appointed for the day by the lectionary I follow. It was the second half of Psalm 18 (the first half was appointed for that morning). As I was praying this Psalm, I slipped out of awareness of God's presence and was simply reading the words of the Psalm rather unconsciously, to the point of having no comprehension of what I was actually reading. I caught myself towards the end, and entered back into an awareness of God's presence. I heard the same voice I heard at the beginning of the week. Only this time, the voice said, "Read it again."
I responded, "But God, I'm tired."
Again, the voice said, "Read it again. And this time start at verse 1."
Somewhat begrudgingly, I turned to Psalm 18:1 and read, "I love you, O Lord, my strength."
I was floored. The words, "I love you." convicted me in a way that they never had before. I knew immediately that I hadn't prayed them with any sincerity, that behind my declaration of love to God was no sense of heartfelt devotion. I immediately asked God to teach me how to declare my love to him with sincerity. The voice responded, "Keep reading."
I read on in Psalm 18, and after each verse I added the "chorus" of "I love you." I began to read of God's saving work done for the psalmist, knowing that he did them also for me. My "I love you"s became more heartfelt with each verse. I then began to notice not only the things God's done for me, but also the attributes of God mentioned in the psalm. I remember reading the beginning of verse 8: "Smoke rose from his nostrils," and I immediately responded, "You breath fire?!?!?! I LOVE YOU!" My chorus of "I love you" then moved from thanksgiving for what God had done for me to words of adoration to someone I deeply admire.
And then it got better. God had something else to tell me. I finished the Psalm and went on to the final Scripture reading in that days lectionary. I saw the reading listed in my calendar: "John 3:16-21." I immediately knew what God wanted to say to me. As I read the familiar words, "Go so loved the world…" I felt in my heart God speaking back to me "I love you," with the same passion and devotion as I had offered to God by the end of my reading Psalm 18.
And then finally, I turned to the Prayer at Close of Day Liturgy, which included these words from 1 John: "There is no fear in love…" My experience of walking with and submitting to God had gone full circle. I was immediately reminded of my early-morning experience at the beginning of the week. I had wondered and sought an explanation as to why I was so afraid that morning. God offered no answer to that question. He simply told me that fear is not the proper attitude to take in walking with God. Reverence, yes. But not fear. Walking with God and submitting to God is to be a practice and experience of love. Perfect love that casts out fear.


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432 Clermont Ave
432 Clermont Ave, Brooklyn
This Italianate rowhouse is on the southern edge of the Fort Greene Historic District, a few doors away from Fulton Street. This building and its neighbor at 434 Clermont were built as a pair around 1857 for developer John Halsey. Its first owner was James Cole, an auctioneer.
Unfortunately, 432 Clermont has lost some of the detailing that was intact at the time of designation, and it is sealed and vacant. The Department of Buildings cited the owner for 'Failure to maintain' in 2002 and declared the building to be in hazardous condition.
Fort Greene
Building use type: Single Family
Condition: Poor
Year built: 1857
Style: Italianate
Predominant materials: Masonry
NYC Designation Status: Historic District
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Lot width: 21
Lot depth: 100
Building width: 21
Building depth: 42
Zoning: R6
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Robin Burgess
Robin began working with UNEP in 1997, supporting the Division of Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Liaison Office, located in Washington, DC. Since 2002, she has been providing support on office administration and programmatic matters to the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Besides providing local administrative and financial support, she works collaboratively with colleagues at UNEP Headquarters and UNOPS to manage the contracting, financial, and procurement needs of STAP and organizes logistical arrangements for global STAP meetings. Prior to joining UNEP, Robin supported a large team of commercial real estate brokers in the DC area. She has more than 20 years of experience in office administration, logistical arrangements, and finance.


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Why I Believe in the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch gets a lot of criticism for being slow, for having a weird interface, and a mess of other things, but I still love mine. The fact that I love my Apple Watch doesn't mean that the criticisms are wrong, however. There are plenty of tech products out there are are viewed as underwhelming by the majority of people, but are loved by a group of avid users. So that's not why I feel bullish about the Apple Watch and smart watches like it in the future.
It's hard to judge a first generation anything, because the first generation is never the best version of that thing. Technology isn't like the movies where they really nail it on the first try and the sequels never quite live up to the original. Technology is iterative, and things generally get better with time. So when we're talking about the Apple Watch, let's remember that this is as bad as it's ever going to be.
And still, in its current state, the Apple Watch is better than my iPhone at doing some tasks. I much prefer it as a workout companion with apps like Strava and Apple's own Workouts apps being more convenient than pulling my phone out doing a run or bike ride to check my status. It's faster and better at setting timers than my iPhone. It's better at delivering my notifications in a subtle and silent way so I can only use my phone if I absolutely need to. It's better at getting the weather for me, as it's instant with a watch face compilation, and nearly as fast when going into the Dark Sky or Carrot apps. And when I go to pay at a store that supports Apple Pay, you had better believe I'm paying with my wrist, not my phone.
The Apple Watch can do a lot more, but I find most other things slower or less reliable than doing on my phone. Overcast for example, is an Apple Watch app that I don't use because it's not very capable and it just makes me want to pull out my phone every time I use it. If it had the ability to be better, I'd move most of my Overcast usage to the Watch. There are plenty of apps like that, where it's just a matter of being a little more capable, a little faster, and a little more reliable, between me moving their entire workflows to my wrist.
The Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is in 2 weeks, and they'll almost certainly be showing off the new Apple Watch along with watchOS 3. If Apple can address the (sometimes serious) shortcomings of the current Apple Watch, I think you'll see a lot more people singing its praises in 2016 than you did last year. By iterating again and again moving forward, smart watches will only get better over time.
Today the number one reason people (iPhone owners specifically) don't own an Apple Watch is because they don't see the value it provides. As they keep improving the platform in the coming years, we'll soon get to a point where the top reason people don't own one is simply because they don't like wearing a watch.


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Saturday, December 07, 2019
A church family who loves you
Kairos Prison Ministry
The Kairos Prison Ministry Team takes the message of Jesus Christ into California State Prison (CSP) Folsom. These Spirit-filled weekends have made a huge difference in the morale and recidivism rates in prisons all over the world.
The Kairos Prison Ministry has as its purpose the establishment of a Christian Community within prison institutions. This process starts with a three-day Short Course in Christianity presented by a group of laity and clergy. Homemade cookies and hands are for the course being presented at the weekend in California State Prison (CSP) Folsom. The hands are strung around the Community Room in which the Short Course is presented.
Kairos Cookies
It's that time again when we take God's love into the prisons and you can help by making cookies! Homemade cookies are a tangible expression of Christian love and an indication of God's concern for a group of people who seldom encounter either in the course of their daily lives. Your loving sacrifice will provide "bread" that shines the Light of God's Grace into the darkest corners of a prison unit. May God bless you for the gift of baking!
However, there are certain regulations and requirements for the cookies, so here they are if you are interested in helping out this very worthwhile ministry:
Cookie Preparation:
• The types of cookies that are generally acceptable are: Oatmeal, Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip.
• Cookies should be between 2 inches to 2 1/2 inches in diameter and not more than 1/2 inch thick.
• It is VERY IMPORTANT TO NOT to use icing, sugar, sprinkles, or any other type of coating on the outside of the cookie.
The Key Ingredient: Prayer
• Pray individually or as a family over the ingredients before and during mixing.
• Pray over the cookies as you drop them onto the cookie sheets and bake them.
• Ask God to use your cookies as a source of His love to shine on the prisoners and staff on the Kairos weekend.
• Pray that each cookie brings the inmate, officer and warden who eats it closer to God. We want every person to become part of the family of God.
Packing the Cookies:
• Bag completely cooled cookies in a quart sized zip lock bag with one dozen cookies to each bag. Use only zip lock bags, NO SLIDING LOCKS are allowed.
• Label each bag with the type of cookie inside.
• Freeze all cookies if not using within 3 days.
If you have any questions, please contact Bert.
Kairos "Hands of Love"
Share your love with a resident of KAIROS in CSP Folsom. These hands will be strung around the Community Room in which the Short Course is being presented.
Here's how you can help!
1. Draw the outline of your hand on a piece of colored construction paper.
2. Write a brief, one sentence expression of love within the outline of the hand and write your first name only.
3. Cut out the hand.
4. Bring it to the church by the deadline, please!
Examples of expressions of love:
♥ "I love you."
♥ "Jesus loves you and so do I."
♥ "My prayer is for Jesus to fill your heart with love."
♥ A favorite scripture passage.
♥ Any prayerful, joyful, sincere expression of love.
Thank you for your help!
The mission of the Kairos Prison Ministry is to share the transforming love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ to impact the hearts and lives of incarcerated men, women and youth, as well as their families, to become loving and productive citizens of their communities.
Kairos is an international ministry with over 36,000 volunteers donating more than three million hours of service every single year! These volunteers are bringing the love of Christ to more than 400 institutions and fifty-five Kairos Outside ministries in 32 states and 9 countries including Costa Rica, Australia, South Africa, England, Canada, Northern Ireland, Dominican Republic and Peru.


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A few months ago, I received a pretty interesting Ask Lauren question in my inbox about proposing in an untraditional way. Since May is our Wedding Bells month here on LaurenConrad.com, I figured this was the perfect time to cover this topic. Here's what one reader asked.
"Hey Lauren! I feel like you would have some good advice for a topic that's been on my mind lately. I really want to propose to my boyfriend but I'm not quite sure if it's too untraditional of an approach to take for our engagement. What do you think…Can I pop the question?"
First of all—congrats! It's so exciting to know you're ready to spend the rest of your life with someone. My short answer would be yes, definitely! As for the way in which you pop the question, it really depends on the relationship. One of the most important things to remember is that every couple is different. There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to love. If you're a stickler for tradition, that's totally fine too. But nowadays, plenty of people are rewriting the rules and creating new traditions. There is such a crazy buildup to the proposal, and I kind of like the idea of flipping the switch instead of just waiting around.
I actually have a girlfriend who was about to propose to her boyfriend, and she put out some feelers to see how he felt about it. He ended up telling her that he felt it was really important to him that he was the one who proposed. And after it was all said and done, she was glad they had talked about it. It's all about what you feel is right for the two of you. If you love each other and you know you're entering into a lifelong partnership, I think a girl can totally go ahead and propose if she wants to. Why not? It's 2015, after all. If you feel comfortable with it and you know he's OK taking an untraditional approach too, go for it. Hey, Monica proposed to Chandler in Friends… And look how great that turned out!
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At least 61 people have died and more than 1,000 have been injured as a result of the snowfall, which began last month.
In some of the worst-hit areas the snow is more than three metres (10ft) deep.
Some of the victims lost their lives when their homes collapsed under the pressure of the snow.
"It's frightening," an unnamed elderly women in Akita City on the island of Honshu told Japan's TV Asahi. "There were creaking sounds and I couldn't open the doors because of the weight of the snow."
Others died in falls while trying to clear the snow from their roofs.
Kyodo news agency says 14 areas have been affected across Japan.
Niigata and Nagano prefectures, north-west of Tokyo, are among the hardest-hit.
Local authorities and volunteer groups have appealed for members of the public to help elderly people stricken by the snow.
The Japanese meteorological agency said the snow will continue to blanket northern and western Japan and has warned of possible avalanches.


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Organizers of the umbrella organization contacted the participants a couple of days ago to let us know that the state of Maryland had updated its black power regulations in 2011 … and they weren't compatible with the rules of the umbrella organization. (Yes. They figured this out a week before the event.) They thought they had a work-around, but concluded yesterday that there was no way a compromise could be reached, mostly because one group says aluminum foil cartridges are mandatory for live rounds, and the other group forbids aluminum foil cartridges for live rounds.
So, of course, I put 10 shots on paper at 10 yards today that looked like this:
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4Rx.com is one of the many online pharmaceutical companies that can be found on the internet offering discount medications. 4Rx specializes in bringing cheap medications stateside in both the name brand and generic forms, without needing a prescription. The specialties are in the male sexual dysfunction category, although 4Rx seems to carry over 500 products in several different categories for the treatment of a multitude of illnesses.


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Brexit destabilises our future as we argue over our past
20 March 2017
Steven Agnew has reiterated the Green Party call for a referendum on the final Brexit deal.
The call comes on the day that Downing Street confirmed that Article 50 will be triggered next Wednesday.
The North Down MLA said: "The people should have a final say on the terms of the final Brexit deal.
"Democracy did not end the day after the EU referendum. We have no sense of what Brexit actually means, particularly in the Northern Ireland context.
"I believe that we need to be able to get the best Brexit deal possible and of course a firm resolution on the hard border-soft border issue.
"Crucially, we should have the ability to reject the deal if it doesn't serve our interests.
"Indeed, that is why I am involved in a legal action to ascertain whether Article 50 can be revoked; the so-called "Dublin case".
"Moreover, the Green Party has already submitted an Assembly motion on the same issue.
"While our traditional parties remain deadlocked over our past, our future is destabilised by the UK's exit from the European Union".
Steven Agnew concluded:
"I would call on those parties to find agreement in Stormont so that a budget can be agreed, government provided and our interests represented during Brexit negotiations".
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In general a theorem of Paley-Wiener type gives a relation between the decay of a function and the smoothness of its Fourier transformation, and there are plenty of them since there are many kinds of bound for decay rates of functions and many types of characterizations of smoothness.
However,when the objects are tempered distributions I only know one such theorem, the one given in Wiki page as Schwartz's Paley-Wiener theorem, which deals only with the case of compact support distributions.
I wonder whether there are other Paley-Wiener type theorems for distributions that might be less restrictive.


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Every other year, with the Archbishop's approval, a new deacon formation class is formed. The age guideline for men applying to the permanent diaconate is between 32 and 58. He may be single or married. If married, his wife is invited to participate in formation with him, but it is not required. A day care is offered during the formation classes for those who have young children. A man considering the permanent diaconate must be a faithful practicing Catholic, have a committed prayer life, and be acting out his baptismal call to service.
The Office of the Permanent Diaconate is currently accepting applications for another deacon formation class.
For more information about deacons and the formation process, contact Deacon Tom Lang at 800-876-3546 ext. 252.
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A Step-By-Step Guide On Writing A Global Warming Cause And Effect Essay
There is the theory that the overall temperature of the world has increased. And that this increase, global warming, has affected the world in such negative ways as major flooding. Most experts agree this is happening, with a few controversial holdouts.
Because the topic is relevant and timely, you may have to write on the subject. It is a cause and effect event, so this style will probably be the one chosen by the teacher. This mean that the cause is temperature warming, due to a number of reasons such as increased technology, and the effect is the world is hotter, so such things as icy areas may be melting causing flooding.
This can be a complex format for composing papers, so if you are assigned this format n this subject, you should then use our step-by-step guide. It is easy to understand and easy to use.
Step-by Step Guide
- Create your reasons for the warming. You can look at the idea of more cars creating heat, more people creating heat, or other aspects, but to make a firm thesis statement, you need your reasons.
- Then write a strong thesis statement.
- At this point begin to find research that supports your dieas. You may want to look online and to look at the media center. Remember, to use solid academic and very credible sources.
- Now it is time for you to create an outline. Decide how you want to handle the causes and the effects. Do you want them in the same paragraphs or do you want to separate them? Decide before you make the outline.
- The outline will go through several drafts, this is to be expected.
- For each of your main points, look and see that they have support. Add any statistics, data, case studies, quotes, or stories that might be needed.
- It is now time to actually compose the piece. You should take your time, and understand that this first piece is just a rough draft. It makes take several rough drafts to get to he final piece.
- After the draft, and any following drafts, you will want to proof and to edit. If you are not very good at this, then you can hire someone to do it for you. Make sure when you edit after the proof, that you do not make any new errors.
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Today I thought I'd do a post addressing 5 of those questions, in a much shorter format that hopefully may help some of you. Again, these aren't things I'm any type of expert on (not in the nearest), but if my experience can help even one of you then it was worth it!
Before we start- here's a quick list of some of the medical school-related topics I've addressed already in full posts:
1. financing medical school - financing childcare - financing a wedding
I get questions related to this so SO often and have never addressed it because I probably have the worst advice ever. So I'm warning you, if you want to be financially responsible you should probably scroll past this topic to the next one and listen to your financial aid advisor. Still reading? Alriiggghtt...
I'll start by saying I went to undergrad on a full ride (full scholarship) so have absolutely no debt from college. But for medical school, the truth is that you cannot work while in school (some people do during first year), so loans are where all of my money comes from. I was lucky in that I was awarded large scholarships from my undergrad and from Harvard, but everything else is allll loans. I'm looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay back when I'm done. Paying for a nanny? Loan money. Paying for our low-budget wedding? Loan money and my parents. Just keeping it real.
At the end of the day though, none of us are going to be struggling once we're doctors. One of my mentors gave me some of the best advice for those of us already in medical school - right now you might not have the money but you have the time, later when you have the money you might not have the time - so don't put things off because of the money. Maybe not the best advice for everyone (and my financial aid advisor would not approve) but I liked it.
2. mcat
The MCAT was actually the weakest part of my medical school application so I've never felt like I should be giving advice on it - I scored a 30 (not bad, but by no means fantastic either) and wasn't sure how much better I'd do re-taking it - so I didn't. I would say take the test once you've completed all of your pre-reqs (I took it with only one semester of physics and that was definitely my weak area). The best time to take the MCAT is the early spring of your junior year so you can have your score back before the summer and apply right when applications open (if you're going straight through from undergrad). I used ExamKrackers and really liked the format - if I did it again I'd consider the review courses that a lot of my classmates used, but honestly I didn't have the time while being a full-time student and working in lab, a medical office, etc. An important thing not to forget in your mcat prep is practice questions and tests!! This will apply to all of the standardized tests you take throughout your medical career - practice questions like it's your job. I discuss some more pointers in my post on applying to med school.
3. reapplying after getting rejected
I was blessed in that I only had to apply once, but for lots of this stuff it's such a crapshoot that great applicants are having to re-apply after taking some time off all the time. I can't really give too much advice on the subject, but I would say that if you want to reapply, make sure you spend your time off improving your application - if you need to re-take your mcat, re-take it and kill it. If you can, find a position in a research lab and try to get something published. If you have free time shadow some physicians and really confirm that you want to pursue medicine - it will help reassure you and can provide experiences to write about in your new and improved personal statement.
4. volunteer abroad trips
I never did any of these for a few reasons - the biggest one though, was that growing up in an incredibly underserved area I always knew that I wanted to do outreach work, but I wanted to do it here. I volunteered as a medical assistant and counselor in a family planning clinic and worked with spanish-speaking women who received free care. I also just didn't have parents who could pay for me to fly to some country and work for free (or pay to volunteer). I'd say if you can and want to participate in one of these programs, though, make sure it's through a well-established program that actually has a constant presence in whatever country it is. A lot of the people interested in global health here at HMS do work with Partners in Health.
5. couples match
We're just getting to know this baby and we actually are going to have an, uhhhh, interesting time applying for residency. There is such thing as a couples match so that a couple applying to residency at the same time can rank their lists the way they want to to stay together. Unfortunately for us N has decided he wants to go into ophthalmology (which is a really cool specialty), a specialty that for some reason has an early match, which means we can't couples match - n will have to rank his list before I've even interviewed at places. We'll figure it out but we definitely have a bit of a unique situation.


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Fairfield, Conn.—The Sacred Heart Softball Team welcomed back alumni as part of SHU Homecoming Weekend 2012. The current 2012-13 Pioneers took on past players this past Saturday on the new Pioneer Park.
"It was a great event," said Co-Head Coach Elizabeth Luckie. "It was good to see out Alumni come back and play."
This season's squad defeated the alumni 1-0. After being shut out for the first six innings, the 2012-13 Pioneers scored the only run on the game on Kacie Wentworth's (Canton, N.Y.) walk-off single.
Annie Dreher (Saugus, Calif.) led off the inning with a double and advanced to third on Justine Sibthorp's (Santa Clarita, Calif.) single. Dreher held at third as Sibthorp moved to second on Kate Nadler's (Southbury, Conn.) fielder's choice 6-3 out. With both runners in scoring position, Wentworth hit the ball to the gap scoring Dreher to win the game in the bottom of the seventh.


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We've collected some of our favorite useful household tips and tricks and compiled them here. Be sure to follow us on Facebook for our "TUESDAY TIP" each week.
Use a hanging shoe rack to store cleaning supplies
Wrap a wet paper towel around your beverage and put it in the freezer. In about 15 minutes it will be almost completely ice cold.
Take a picture of your fridge, and you'll never struggle to remember what you need to buy at the grocery.
Tired of extension cords unplugging? Tie them together.
Need a free chip clip? Snap off the clips on store hangers that come with your clothes.
Recycle Pringles cans, as they are the perfect height for storing spaghetti noodles to keep them fresh.
To remove the stem from strawberries, use a straw.
Use a clothespin to hold a nail while hammering.
When heating leftovers, space out a circle in the middle, it will heat up much more evenly
Do something unusual when locking the door to remember that you've definitely done it
Carry more grocery or garbage bags in a single trip by using a buckle.
Drill holes in the bottom of your garbage can to make putting in and taking out bags much easier. Also no suction issues…
Need a flathead screwdriver? Basic power plugs usually fit medium and large-sized screws.
Conserve soap and make it last longer by taking the almost-used sliver of old soap and sticking it to a new bar.
Tired of losing your remotes? Velcro them to a table or piece of furniture in the room.
Put your straw through the tab on a can to keep it from rising out of your drink.
Recycle an old squeeze ketchup bottle and put pancake mix in it for a no-mess experience.
Turn on your seat warmer to keep pizza hot while driving home.
Use a muffin tin to serve condiments at a BBQ. It will also help you cut down on amount of dish washing.
Put a stocking over the end of a vacuum to find tiny items like earrings.
To get the built up residue off of your shower head, tie a baggy of vinegar around a shower head. Leave it there over night, and it will clean everything off with no extra work.
Kids fall out of bed? Put a pool noodle under a fitted sheet to create a soft barrier.
Place a rubber band around an open paint can to wipe your brush on, and keep paint off the side of the can.
Use a clean dustpan to fill a container that doesn't fit in the sink.
Need an inexpensive cookbook holder? Try a pants hanger…
Cut open toilet paper rolls and use as a cuff to save your wrapping paper and keep it from unrolling.
Don't burn yourself in those hard to reach candles, light a stick of uncooked spaghetti and light the wick with that.
Put a wooden spoon across a boiling pot of water to keep it form boiling over.
Use toothpaste to clear up hazy car headlights.
Use a stapler remover to save fingernails when trying to add things to your keyring.
Use Peanut Butter to remove sticky labels off of glass.
Use a soda-pop tab to offset hangers and save space in your closet.