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http://www.funstockretro.co.uk/hyperkin-smart-boyThe Smart Boy will feature an eight-way D-pad; two action buttons; a start and select button; and an included battery that can be charged through the phone itself providing 5 hours of gameplay. It will be compatible with Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges.
With over 1600 Game Boy and Game Boy Color games in the market such as Tetris, Pokemon Series, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, Donkey Kong, Metal Gear Solid, Mega Man V, Super Mario Land and more, you're bound to have endless fun with the Smart Boy!
What The Press Are Saying
"Easily one of the coolest little gadgets we found on the floor this year at E3" - Nerdist
"... it's likely the closest you'll get to reviving your childhood short of dragging the original hardware out of storage" - Engadget
"... this is as good a reason as any for iOS devotees to jump ship to Android" - Gizmodo
"I so, so weirdly love it" - The Verge
Compatible with PAL/NTSC cartridges
Plays GB and GBC colour games
Classic-style tactile button set
Designed for Samsung's S8 line and up (other Android device compatability may vary)
Phone sizes: 5.2 - 6 inches
Upscales to phones resolution
USB Type-C port
Does not require batteries
* The smart boy is compatible with other apps and games including GBA apps from Google Play. Configuration for such apps may apply.
Compatible Devices list:
Samsung Galaxy S8 line ** featured**
LG Nexus 5x
Huawei Nexus 6p
Google Pixel
Google Pixel XL
OnePlus 3T
OnePlus 3
OnePlus 2
Huawei Honor 8
ASUS ZenFone 3 Ultra
ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe
Lenovo ZUK Z1
Lenovo ZUK Edge
Google Pixel
Google Pixel XL
Meizu Pro 6 Plus
Moto Z Force
LeEco Le 2
LeEco Le 2 Pro
Gionee Marathon M5 Plus
Xiaomi Mi 5
Motorola Moto Z
Vivo Xplay5 Elite
ZTE Axon 7
Nextbit Robin
ZOPO Speed 8
Huawei P9 Plus
Huawei Nova
Samsung Note 7
Samsung Note 8
Note: This item is not compatible with iPhone or iOS. It is for use with Android devices (USB Type-C) and compatability is guaranteed with the devices above.
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I deadheaded all my marigolds last year and have planted them in seedling trays by the color of their blossoms. All but one have sprouted. Can some varieties take much longer than others? It looks like I'll have lots of yellow, small and large orange flowers, but may not get any of the bi-color dark orange.
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It may be that some of the varieties you harvested were hybrids, which will not germinate. Bi-color marigolds especially tend to be hybrids. These need to be propagated by other methods.
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Mana College is fully equipped to meet the information explosion and harness all its powers for our "new generation" of students.
We have three computer rooms providing 24 desktops, 24 powerful All-in-one computers and 24 of the latest laptops between them. We also have 7 pods of 10 netbooks situated in almost every block. These resources will soon be boosted with 35 more brand new machines comprising a mix of net books, i-pads and laptops. We are wireless enabled and fully fibre cabled to take maximum advantage of ultrafast broadband.
All staff have completed a 3 year programme entitled Information Communication Technology Professional Development (ICTPD). It means that all our staff are able to use and give access to the new learning available through using the tools provided by the internet.
Our commitment to technology has seen us become just one of four schools to receive Microsoft IT Academy Accreditation – further demonstration of the progressive change occurring at Mana College.


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Perhaps we can summarize our discussion of parenthood and its tougher dimensions by answering a question posed to me recently by a puzzled mother. It went something like this:
"Tell me why it is that some kids with every advantage and opportunity seem to turn out bad, while others raised in terrible homes become pillars in the community? I know one young man, for example, who grew up in squalid circumstances, yet he is such a fine person today. How did his parents manage to raise such a responsible son when they didn't even seem to care?"
Curious cases of this type are not so uncommon around us. As we have seen, environmental influences in themselves will not account for the behavior we observe in our fellowman. There is something else there--something from within that also operates to make us who we are. Some behavior is caused and some plainly isn't.
Just last month, for example, I had dinner with two parents who have unofficially "adopted" a thirteen-year-old boy. This youngster followed their son home one afternoon, and then asked if he could spend the night. As it turned out, he stayed with them for almost a week without so much as a phone call coming from his mother. It was later learned that she works sixteen hours a day and has no interest in her son. Her alcoholic husband divorced her several years ago and left town without a trace. The boy had been abused, unloved and ignored through much of his life.
Given this background, what kind of kid do you think he is today--a druggie? A foul-mouthed delinquent? A lazy, insolent bum? No. He is polite to adults; he is a hard worker; he makes good grades in school and he enjoys helping around the house. This boy is like a lost puppy who desperately wants a good home. He has begged the family to adopt him officially so he could have a real father and a loving mother. His own mom couldn't care less.
How is it that this teenager could be so well-disciplined and polished despite his lack of training? I don't know. It is simply within him. He reminds me of my wonderful friend, David Hernandez. David and his parents came to America illegally from Mexico more than forty years ago and nearly starved to death before they found work. They eventually survived by helping to harvest the potato crop throughout the state of California. During this era, David lived under trees or in the open fields. His father made a stove out of an oil drum half-filled with dirt. The open campfire was their home.
David never had a roof over his head until his parents finally moved into an abandoned chicken coop. His mother covered the boarded walls with cheap wallpaper and David thought they were living in luxury. Then one day, the city of San Jose condemned the area and David's "house" was torn down. He couldn't understand why the community would destroy so fine a place.
Given this beginning, how can we explain the man that Dave Hernandez became? He graduated near the top of his class in high school and was granted a scholarship to college. Again, he earned high marks and four years later entered Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Once more, he scored in the top 10 percent of his class and continued in a residency in obstetrics and gynecology. Eventually, he served as a professor of OB/GYN at both Loma Linda University and the University of Southern California Medical Schools. Then at the peak of his career, his life began to unravel.
I'll never forget the day Dr. Hernandez called me on the telephone. He had just been released from hospital care following a battery of laboratory tests. The diagnosis? Sclerosing cholangitis, a liver disorder that is invariably fatal. We lost this fine husband, father and friend six years later at the age of forty-three. I loved him like a brother and I still miss him today.
Again, I ask, how could such discipline and genius come from these infertile circumstances? Who would have thought that this deprived Mexican boy sitting out there in the dirt would someday become one the most loved and respected surgeons of his era? Where did the motivation originate? From what bubbling spring did his ambition and thirst for knowledge flow? He had no books, took no educational trips, knew no scholars. Yet he reached for the sky. Why did it happen to David Hernandez and not the youngster with every advantage and opportunity? Why have so many children of prominent and loving parents grown up in ideal circumstances, only to reject it all for the streets of San Francisco or New York? Good answers are simply not available. It apparently comes down to this: God chooses to use some individuals in unique ways. Beyond that mysterious relationship, we must simply conclude that some kids seem born to make it and others are determined to fail. Someone reminded me recently that the same boiling water that softens the carrot also hardens the egg. Likewise, some individuals react positively to certain circumstances and others negatively. We don't know why.
One thing is clear to me: behavioral scientists have been far too simplistic in their explanation of human behavior. We are more than the aggregate of our experiences. We are more than the quality of our nutrition. We are more than our genetic heritage. We are more than our biochemistry. And certainly, we are more than our parents' influence. God has created us as unique individuals, capable of independent and rational thought that is not attributable to any source. That is what makes the task of parenting so challenging and rewarding. Just when you think you have your kids figured out, you had better brace yourself! Something new is coming your way.
I've spent more than half my life studying children, yet my own kids continue to surprise and fascinate me. I remember calling home some years ago from a city in Georgia where I had traveled for a speaking engagement. Danae, who was then thirteen years of age, picked up the phone and we had a warm father-daughter chat. Then she said, "Oh, by the way, Dad, I'm going to be running in a track meet next Saturday."
"Really?" I said. "What distance have you chosen?"
"The 880," she replied.
I gasped. "Danae, that is a very grueling race. Do you know how far 880 yards is?"
"Yes," she said. "It's a half mile."
"Have you ever run that far before?" I asked.
She said that she hadn't, even in practice. I continued to probe for information and learned that nine schools would be competing in the meet, which was only three days away. My daughter intended to compete against a field of other runners who presumably had been training for weeks. I was concerned.
"Danae," I said, "you've made a big mistake. You're about to embarrass yourself and I want you to think it over. You should go to your coach and ask to run a shorter race. At that speed 880 yards will kill you!"
"No, Dad," she said with determination. "No one else signed up for the 880 and I want to run it."
"Okay," I replied, "but you're doing it against my better judgment."
I thought about that beloved kid the rest of the week and wondered what humiliation was in store for her. I called again on Saturday afternoon.
"Guess what, Dad!" Danae said cheerfully. "I won the race today!" She had indeed finished in first place, several yards ahead of her nearest competitor. The following year, also without training, she won the same race by 50 yards and set a school record that may still be standing.
Wow! I said to myself. The kid has talent. She'll be a great runner someday. Wrong again. She ran and won two races in the ninth grade, came in second in the next, and then lost interest in track. End of story.
So much for fatherly wisdom in all its glory.
Obviously, I am deeply respectful of the human personality and the stunning complexity of even our youngest members. In a sense, this has been a testimony to them and to those of you as parents who are dedicated to their care. I admire each of you greatly and I hope we have been of assistance in fulfilling your awesome responsibility. Now in these concluding paragraphs, I would like to express two or three final thoughts directly to the mothers and fathers of very rebellious kids. I am especially concerned about you.
First, I know your task is difficult and there are times when you feel like throwing in the towel. But you must remain steady. Someday, you will look back on this difficult period of conflict and be thankful that you stayed on course--that you continued to do what was right for those children whom God loaned to you for a season. This era will pass so quickly, and the present stresses will seem insignificant and remote. What will matter to you then will be the loving relationships you built with your family, even when other parents ran away or buried themselves in work. You will also have the knowledge of a job well done in the eyes of the Creator Himself.
Therefore, I hope you will resist the temptation to feel cheated or deprived because of the difficult temperament of your son or daughter. You are certainly not alone. In an earlier survey of 3,000 parents, we found that 85 percent of families had at least one strong-willed child. So, you are not an exception or the butt of some cruel cosmic joke. This is parenthood. This is human nature. Most of us who have raised two or more kids have gone through some of the same stresses you are experiencing. We survived, and you will too. You can handle the assignment.
Let me review the concepts we have considered in our meandering discussion of children:
1. You are not to blame for the temperament with which your child was born. He is simply a tough kid to handle and your task is to rise to the challenge.
2. He is in greater danger because of his inclination to test the limits and scale the walls. Your utmost diligence and wisdom will be required to deal with him.
3. If you fail to understand his lust for power and independence, you can exhaust your resources and bog down in guilt. It will benefit no one.
4. If it is not already too late, by all means, take charge of your babies. Hold tightly to the reins of authority in the early days, and build an attitude of respect during your brief window of opportunity. You will need every ounce of "awe" you can get during the years to come. Once you have established your right to lead, begin to let go systematically, year by year.
5. Don't panic, even during the storms of adolescence. Better times are ahead. A radical turnaround usually occurs in the early twenties.
6. Stay on your child's team, even when it appears to be a losing team. You'll have the rest of your life to enjoy mutual fellowship if you don't overreact to frustration now.
7. Give him time to find himself, even if he appears not to be searching.
8. Most importantly, I urge you to hold your children before the Lord in fervent prayer throughout their years at home. I am convinced that there is no other source of confidence and wisdom in parenting. There is not enough knowledge in the books, mine or anyone else's, to counteract the evil that surrounds our kids today. Our teenagers are confronted by drugs, alcohol, sex and foul language wherever they turn. And, of course, the peer pressure on them is enormous. We must bathe them in prayer every day of their lives. The God who made your children will hear your petitions. He has promised to do so. After all, He loves them more than you do.
From Parenting Isn't for Cowards, by Dr. James Dobson


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Spring at Hill Farm
In early spring, the plainspoken architecture of simpler times stands out against the emerging landscape
Rondeau Sentries
Nestled beneath towering watchmen, this log cottage finds strength by keeping its back to the lake.
Cabin with Green Door
The timeless simplicity of white clapboards keep their appeal even while the days grow short and seasons end.
Barbara Jane Jack has enjoyed moving to oil painting after many years of experimenting with other artistic pursuits. Oil paints allow freedom of expression with their rich hues and malleable texture. Concentrating on landscapes is not limiting because of the endless choices of locations and seasons. The addition of architecture and figures allows the viewer to identify the time and locale, making each scene more personal.


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GPS Beer
Ambient advertisement created by BBDO, Brazil for Antarctica Beer, within the category: Alcoholic Drinks.
Creative Directors: Marcello Serpa, Luis Sanches, Renato Fernandez
Copywriters: Pedro Paes, Fábio Ozório
Art Directors: Denis Peralta, Tiago Pinho
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That's the genius. It's just a sigh. Not fancy digital crap. Just a sign. Clever.
How exactly is a sign clever or case-worthy? It's not simple, it's obvious and irrelevant. How is this any different from those guys in festivals carrying around a backpack filled with beer and a flag with a light on it? In that it says "GPS?
Come on, really???
It's not because it's a sign or there is GPS written. The cleverness is about solving a problem. They needed to sell beers during carnival time, so instead of taking the product to the consumer (wich is hard when you have to dig your way in such crowds), they made the consumer go for it. And of course, they made the brand a significant presence in the event. This strategy is totally eye catching, specially in an event where people have too much to look at. ;)
I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm just saying it's the oldest trick in the book. Actually, it probably doesn't even count as a trick. You're selling something amidst a large crowd, you get a large sign, a flag or whatever. It's like making a case study for an "OPEN/CLOSED" sign on the front of a store. It works, sure, but it's not precisely news...
Old is the new New.
Don't you get it?
It's not about being fresh. It's about selling beer.
Almap did it again.
Ok, so in the end what you're saying is that advertising is useless. No need for anything clever, original or enganging. Actually, this would probably be a lot better if the sign read "BEER" with the price in really large print underneath.
Seriously, this is depressing.


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Natalie Portman brings energy to the last SNL before the Olympics start up.
Natalie Portman last hosted SNL in the mid 2000s, back in the height of the "SNL Digital Short" era. A lot has changed since then! Like almost, if not all of, the cast, and the writing team, etc., etc. She's got a new movie out though, so it's time to see if she's still got it when it comes to live sketch comedy.
What You Missed
Fox And Friends
"We love the show, it's playing at full volume every meeting."
I miss Bobby Moynihan's Brian Kilmeade. I wish I missed Alec's Trump.
Riffing on the upcoming Olympics was a smart move here!
Revolutionary War
RACHEL DRATCH IS HERE and amazing. Also the Dunkin Donuts man's pink vest was a nice touch.
TINA FEY as head of Philadelphia is also nicely cast here
Stranger Things 3
This was a one-joke sketch that was mostly meh but the chili joke was good and so was Leslie Jones
Natalie's 2nd Rap
This was great and references about 5 things at once, rap-wise.
Weekend Update
- Michael Che running down the memo was great
- "Aw, look, he's doing human stuff"
- Cecily and Kate as Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot was delightful
- Pete Davidson got a little ramble-y this time around
- No one has ever used the phrase "oh good, a bird's inside"
- It's Willie! I do not understand how this character is still a recurring bit!
Alien Lover
This is a very dumb idea executed to perfection by Beck and Natalie.
Kids Choice Awards Orange Carpet
There are a lot of wonderful, small moments in this sketch. And a very silly vocal effect.
First Lady Chat
This kind of went nowhere?
Aidy had me at "I'm doing a whiskey milk, neat", but the rest was kind of meh
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After tasting the Barkan Beta Series Rosé I felt sort of hopeful that things were indeed in turnaround at Barkan which is currently the number 1 wine producer (sales wise) in Israel. Sure, conceptually I knew that the more established lines within the Barkan brand would need to take more minor shifts forward. Still, as Rosés typically do vary from year to year, I figured the biggest improvements/shifts can be made there without really impacting brand loyalty. Keeping that in mind I decided to go out and purchase the 2017 Barkan Reserve Pink Muscat Rosé.
As the name would indicate, the wine is a blend of the white muscat grape and and undisclosed red wine. The wine clocks in at 12.5% ABV. The bottle also mentions that this is an off-dry wine. (Spoiler alert – it's not).
Oy vey. Yup that's how I felt when smelling this. The nose is bubble gum through and through. Things only got worse from there. In the mouth candied strawberry, cotton candy and more bubble gum with some stone fruit buried deep. The cloying sweetness overwhelms whatever acidity is detectable. The finish is short as well – but that is merciful in this case – . I just wanted the experience to be over – though there is a bit of pith there that tries to make amends – it's just not enough.
IMHO, mark the wine for what it is – a semi-sweet wine. Sweet sells as desert or kiddush wine here – and while I think that is appropriate, I guess it technically doesn't fall in to that category – but off dry? The word dry should be kept as far away from this wine as possible.
I do hope that things improve at Barkan – clearly they have the ability and they just need to let the winemaker do what he does best, and make good wine. This isn't it.
Bottom Line:
- Price: NIS 30-40
- For Aging: No
- Would I Buy Again: No
- QPR Rating: Average –
- Taste/Depth/Quality: Poor
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Mark Chernin needs to make a few phone calls, he says, to the seven or so other surviving members of the Congregation Sons of Israel Synagogue in Glace Bay, N.S., who don't always agree on everything but agreed on one thing in 2010. They needed to close the doors of their synagogue — founded in 1902, and the oldest in the Maritimes — for good, because there was no point in staying open and paying the bills when there weren't enough male worshippers left to perform prayer services in the Orthodox tradition during the High Holidays.
Shuttering Sons of Israel marked an end for the congregation — the synagogue has since been demolished — but also the beginning of a new problem for its ever-dwindling (and aging) membership: what to do with the Torah scrolls? Worn old parchments, weighing as much as 20-kilograms each, that were once the bedrock of their religious ceremonies but, for the past eight years, have resided in a box in a spare room at the Temple Sons of Israel Synagogue in nearby Sydney.
"We originally talked about selling all the scrolls," Chernin says. "And we did sell one to a buyer in Toronto, but it was a lot of work — like a two-year process. I am president of our congregation, because no else wants to be the president, and I am also probably the youngest member left — and I am 61.
We did sell one to a buyer in Toronto, but it was a lot of work
"And what we really need to do is get together and talk about the two scrolls we do have left, because selling them is a lot of work, but if we want to give them away there is 10,000 people out there that would want them, and so…."
And so Mark Chernin has a problem.
Yitzhak Winer is a certified scribe. He apprenticed in Israel, and now lives in New York, where he receives commissions to create new scrolls — scrolls are handwritten — and approached to buy used ones in need of repair, and a new synagogue to call home.
"It is a very narrow market," Winer says. "Depending on the size and condition of the scroll — if it is repairable, or not repairable — it could be worth anywhere from $500 to $10,000."
A new scroll sells for about $30,000. (You can find them on eBay). The scroll the Sons of Israel sold to the Toronto buyer netted $8,000; money earmarked for the upkeep of Glace Bay's Jewish cemetery. Every scroll, meanwhile, reveals the story of the Old Testament. But the parchment it is written upon also has a yarn to tell, about Jewish community life — and history — in a particular time and place.
It sounds odd, somehow: Cape Breton, that scrappy Canadian island, with the deep-sunk Scottish roots, was once a thriving Jewish hub; a destination for refugees fleeing the Russian pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th century. Coal mining companies would advertise in the European papers, offering able-bodied men free passage to Canada in exchange for a job on the Cape Breton coal shelves beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Mining towns, such as Glace Bay, New Waterford, Old Dominion and Sydney, became melting pots. And synagogues sprouted, including the Sons of Israel, the oldest of the bunch. The Russian Jews would save their pennies, and many quit the mines as soon as they could to open a business above ground, selling wares — clothes, cooking utensils, assorted baubles — to community residents.
"The Jews were a one-generation phenomenon," Irving Abella, a Jewish historian at York University said. "People worked and slaved so their children didn't need to do what they did, and the kids went off to school and became professionals and never came back.
It is a lot of hassle trying to sell the scrolls, but if we decide to give them away, I want to give them away to people that we know
"It is the professionalization of the Jewish community that doomed the Cape Breton settlements."
The last underground coal mine in Cape Breton closed in 2001. Nine years later the Sons of Israel followed suit. Packing up its menorahs — switching off an Eternal Light that had burned for 109 years — and boxing and moving its three Torah scrolls into a spare room of the dwindling-but-not-dead synagogue nearby, where two scrolls reside to this day.
They are insured, along with the other artifacts, at a $300 annual rate.
"It is a lot of hassle trying to sell the scrolls, but if we decide to give them away, I want to give them away to people that we know — or have some connection to Glace Bay — not just somebody that sends me an email from Timbuktu and asks us to donate a Torah," Chernin says. "When they are gone, they are gone. So it would be nice to imagine them being used somewhere by someone with a connection to this place."
If you are that someone, or you know that someone, Mark Chernin is looking forward to your call.
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There are not a lot of times in life when you're given something so large without any expectation. Her wish was a selfless gift.
Kristie, Avery's mom
Ten days before her first day of middle school, Avery was diagnosed with brain cancer. She knew it was going to be difficult, but Avery also knew she would fight really hard to beat it.
During her year-long battle with cancer, Avery spent over 100 nights in the hospital. She didn't want to miss a moment of school and tried her hardest to make class during the day and have radiation treatments at night. Still, she missed many days of school and the day-to-day experiences of being a kid.
Her perseverance and unwavering love of life spread to her family during her treatment.
"Avery is by far the strongest, most impressive person I've ever met," said her mom, Kristie. "She has always been such a positive kid in a way that I'm not. I've always loved and looked up to her in that way. It's a gift to have that person be my daughter."
It was during treatment that Avery found out she would receive a wish. "Her wish served as a beacon of light through so many nights of darkness," said Kristie.
Wishes provide hope and so much more. Research shows, and physicians agree, a wish can help improve a child's quality of life and produce better health outcomes. These life-changing wishes replace fear with confidence, sadness with joy, and anxiety with hope.
Through all of their worry-filled nights, Avery and her family would dream about what she could do or see or be with the support of Make-A-Wish. Ultimately, Avery followed her love of theater and decided she wanted to see a play on Broadway.
Avery and her family had a whirlwind week in New York. They saw the Museum of Natural History, went on a tour of the city, rode a carriage through Central Park, saw sweeping views of the city from the top of the Empire State Building, and most importantly, saw a show on Broadway.
"My wish was an amazing end to an incredibly rough chapter in our lives and an even better start to this new one," said Avery.
Avery and her family are ever grateful for all that you have done for them."It's really special for us to know that we are so loved and that there is a light even when it seems so dark; and there are people supporting us and holding us up. It's truly amazing," she said.
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A beautiful collection of ladies skirt sewing patterns. The bundle includes the Hayley, the Stevie, the Paige, the Peggy, and the Arabella skirt patterns.
Each skirt is lovely and has something different to offer your style goals. They are versatile with many different options to make skirts with different looks that are truly your own. Get sewing and add a selection of gorgeous, and wonderfully practical, skirts to your wardrobe! You can dress them up or down to take you from office to wedding to street chic.
The Skirt Collection
– See images from Instagram below. Or view our full tester galleries on our Facebook page here: Skirt Collection
Skill Level
– Each pattern in this collection is perfect for beginner to intermediate sewistas
– Pattern includes ladies' sizes XXS to 5XL. See the size chart in the gallery above.
– Five different ladies skirt sewing patterns with an array of options for each. You have varying lengths, pocket options, and extra detailing, from which to choose.
– Consider making up each pattern in the similar colour ways and finishings, for five different style skirts to form a capsule wardrobe base in a fabric you love!
– The Hayley, Paige, and Arabella skirts are suitable for almost nearly any light or medium weight woven fabric, however, your fabric choice will be critical in how the garment fits and moves. Please choose your fabric with your end look in mind. The Peggy and Stevie skirts are suitable for medium weight knits.
See the fabric requirements in the gallery above for yardage. A serger/ overlocker is optional but NOT required.
– This trim-free pattern is a downloadable PDF and comes in A4 or US letter printable sizes. An A0 format (pattern pieces only) is also included should you wish to have your pattern printed professionally. PDF Layers allow you to select and print only the size/s you want.
– Please join the Rebecca Page Sewing group should you require any assistance at any point throughout your RP sewing experience. This wonderful community of sewistas is friendly, knowledgeable, and always willing to help! It's also just a happy place to be where you can share photos of your RP sews, enter giveaways, get sales information, and new-release updates.


text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXVRHUE-3IAShare October 10, 2018 #BirchallsBritainLobster & Monkfish With Lemongrass & Ginger Infused Consommé RecipeNew Customer Offer Enjoy a 10% discount on Birchall Lemongrass & Ginger for all new customers. Simply enter the promotional code LOBSTER10 on the basket page and a 10% discount will be applied. This offer can only be redeemed once per user and not in conjunction with our Pre-Pay credit offer. Enjoy your 10% discount now Michael Dutnall, Executive Chef at The Royal Air Force Club in Mayfair, created this beautiful recipe for Lobster & Monkfish with Birchall Lemongrass & Ginger Tea infused consommé. Serves 2For the consommé/broth: • 200ml brown chicken stock • 20g Birchall Lemongrass & Ginger Tea • 1/2 red chilli • 10g fresh ginger • 1/2 stick lemongrassFor the dish: • 2 native lobster tail, blanched for 2 minutes • 1 loin of monkfish • 500g sea beet or wild spinach • Diced carrot, swede and courgette • Oil, butter • Salt and pepper • Garnish – coriander, cress, radish slicesFor the coriander oil: • 1/2 bunch coriander • 100ml rapeseed oil • 100ml olive oil • Pinch of saltMethod For the consommé: place all the ingredients in a pan, bring to a simmer on the simmering plate and cook for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and cover. Leave to infuse and strain through a sieve.For the main dish: cut the vegetables into a very small dice, julienne (cut into long, thin strips) the sea beet. Bring the consommé/broth to the boil and blanch both the vegetables and sea beet for 1-2 minutes, drain and set to one side.Heat a tablespoon of oil in a medium frying pan on the boiling plate and sear the monkfish; just before turning add butter and the portioned lobster tail. Baste the fish and lobster until cooked, moving to the simmering plate if necessary, about 5-6 minutes in total. Season with salt and pepper to taste.For the coriander oil: quickly blanch the coriander in boiling water and refresh in iced water. Squeeze out the excess water, blitz with salt, olive oil and rapeseed oil.To serve: Serve the lobster tail and monkfish in the centre of the plate, add the vegetables, drizzle with the coriander oil and garnish with coriander, cress and radish slices.


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Tanglewood Garden Club is excited by the addition of Sub Clubs. A great way to get to know your neighbors, expand your mind, and have fun. This is our inaugural year for Sub Clubs so they are definitely a work in progress! We welcome new ideas and new groups! We would love to have bunco, craft, bridge and more. Please contact Kristine Solberg email@example.com (713-306-1950) to get started. All of the groups will work under the direction of each group chair.
Boulevard Book Club-Chair Holly Haire
Join your friends finding the best reads every month. Learn what they are thinking too. We will meet monthly. Contact Holly Haire firstname.lastname@example.com (713-249-1747)
CHINESE MAHJONG-Chair Alison Frey
Have you wanted to learn to play the tile game featured in "Crazy Rich Asians"? If so, come learn Chinese Mahjong! This game is similar to gin rummy, but played with tiles, is easy to learn, and a lot of fun. The event is limited to 16 people, and is not played with the National Mah Jongg League, Inc. card. For information or to be added to the group, please contact Alison Frey, email@example.com or 571-529-0927.
New Lunch Group Chairs-Ann Ford and Vivian Darling
Join us as we visit a variety of new and favorite luncheon venues. We are planning on meeting @ 11:30 a.m. on the third Wednesday of the months to be determined. Please contact Ann Ford, email@example.com (775-832-6919) or Vivian Darling, email@example.com,(832-567-0560)
Tanglewood Park Patrol-Chair Gail Branca
As the continued committment of the Garden Club members and Tanglewood residents appreciation for our community park on Woodway and Bering-we ask that join us to "walk" the park to check it for trash and help maintain it for all to use. To help please contact Gail Branca firstname.lastname@example.com
Tanglewood Moms-Chair Erin Slosburg
When you're juggling the chaos of young children in a big city, life can sometimes get to crazy to even step out and meet your neighbors. Introducing Tanglewood Moms, a mom's group that is part of the Tanglewood Garden Club and brings together mothers and children (aged birth through elementary) at a variety of events that are sure to create great friends, not only for the mothers who are members, but their kids too… And we're all just a few blocks away to meet up for that last minute dinner. Exciting Events include:Party in the Party, Boulevard Sips and Strollers (monthly), Yappy hour at Barnabys, Backyard playtime/play groups (divided by age), Holiday get together. Contact Erin for more information email@example.com
Tanglewood Boulevard Walkers-Chair Kristine Solberg
Meet at 7:30 at Tanglewood Boulevard and Fieldwood every Thursday. The miles go quickly when walking with friends. Contact Kristine Solberg email@example.com 713-306-1950 with questions.
Wine Time -Chair Laura Winslow
Come join us for an evening of wine and cheese. This may include restaurants, bars or homes. Date to be determined by the group. Please contact Laura Winslow firstname.lastname@example.com (832-715-0873)


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News of the miracle reunion has swept across China
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Miracles do happen - An incredible story about a Chinese couple reuniting with their daughter nearly 24 years after she went missing is sweeping across the word. Wang Mingqing and his wife Liu Dengying's daughter disappeared in 1994, when the couple was selling fruit in the city of Chengdu. Wang and Liu searched tirelessly for their daughter, with Wang even becoming a taxi driver and handing out more than 10,000 leaflets to find her. Their hard work came to fruition when he and Liu met their daughter, who they named Qifeng but was renamed Kang Ying by her adoptive parents. Kang Ying, now in her late twenties, travelled with her husband and children to Chengdu Tuesday, where she was greeted by her long-lost family. The family cried, with Kang telling his daughter, 'daddy loves you.'
Spy poisoning - The European Union has said during an emergency session with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that Russia must cooperate with the global chemical weapons watchdog's investigation into the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Salisbury. 'It is imperative that the Russian Federation responds to the British government's legitimate questions, begins to cooperate with the OPCW secretariat, and provides full and complete disclosure to the OPCW,' it said.
Further strains - Donald Trump's snap announcement about the withdrawal of US troops from Syria has raised alarm among officials involved in the war against Islamic State, who say at least 2,200 fighters remain entrenched in the east. Donald Trump's surprise announcement last week that US troops would be 'coming out of Syria … very soon' has placed further stress on ties between Washington and a Kurdish-led force it had assembled to push Isis from north-east Syria.
A rare apology - North Korea has issued a rare apology to a group of South Korean journalists over access to a K-pop concert attended by Kim Jong-un. The reporters had travelled to Pyongyang to cover a K-pop performance when they were blocked from attending Sunday's show, after which the South Korean government lodged an official protest. Kim Yong-chol, a North Korean general and former spymaster, then went to their hotel to apologise. 'It was wrong to hinder the free media coverage and filming,' South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported him as saying. 'We're obliged to help reporters from the South side engage in free coverage and convenient filming.'
No coalition - Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement has ruled out joining a coalition with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, a day before formal government consultations begin.
Actor in hospital - Austin Powers star Verne Troyer has been admitted to hospital in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Fire Department was called to the actor's Hollywood home on Monday evening. The 49-year-old's team posted on Instagram to assure fans Troye was well and recovering, but the cause has not yet been disclosed.


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The Chinese maintain long lists of things to do and not to do on specific days of the year.
Whether you believe in good luck, bad luck, helpful or harmful spirits, there is a rationale for the New Year tradition of "sweeping the dust." The actions are based on the belief that one's surroundings affect well-being. Cleaning encourages people to get rid of old baggage, old energy and resentments that hold us back. Doing this allows us to focus on setting new intentions and moving forward in a positive way, whether one follows the Western or lunar calendar.
I believe that starting with a clean slate, a clear mind and tidy work and living spaces allows my energy and creativity to soar. Whether you're aware of it or not, a cluttered, unsafe environment represents a psychological burden. That is why people feel lighter, more focused and energized in a clear space.
It's in this ideal state of balance and intention—which Deepak Chopra calls the starting point of every dream—that prosperity, health, happiness and many other good things can flow.
Here are things to do before Feb. 4, to have a prosperous & good health in the Lunar New Year.
3 must do's before the 4th of February 2018
- New wallet or new bag to bring new wealth, business, prosperity for the new year
- New shoes so each step will stop gossip, backstabbing and bring in only positive intentions
- Last, your element you need to carry with you this year to bring balance and good luck to you this year
- Make sure your living and work spaces are clean from top to bottom to welcome good fortune in the coming year. Open all doors and windows to bring in luck and energy.
- Switch on all the lights. Bright lights are said to scare evil spirits.
- Check all light bulbs and smoke alarms to make sure they all work.
- Clean all blinds, curtains and ceiling fans. Clear out cobwebs. Wipe down everything.
- Focus on the positive. Do not think or talk negatively because your actions set the tone for the rest of the year.
- Buy a new pair of shoes or slippers to prevent people from gossiping about you. Maintaining a good reputation is important.
- Wash down the patio.
- Make sure all the grass is cut and trees are trimmed. Remove all weeds, garbage, broken furniture and broken planters.
- Clean the outside of your windows and touch up chipped paint.
- Wash out all your recycling and trash bins.
- If you have a swimming pool or sauna, make sure they are clean.
- Check all your security and outside lights.
- Water your plants.
- Make sure your tool closet or shed is tidy.
- Clean the barbecue grill and doormats.
- Mop the floors.
- Clean your refrigerator and freezer; throw out old food.
- Clean your drains, sink and tub. Replace your water filters.
- Place a fresh fruit bowl in the center of your kitchen, particularly oranges that represent wealth.
- Avoid using knives and scissors on New Year's Day. Do not cut your hair or nails on Chinese New Year; do this earlier. Otherwise, it is believed you will bring pain to your relationships.
- Organize your drawers. Throw away clutter and get rid of clothes you no longer wear.
- Donate items to those in need. Wash your clothes prior to the new year.
- Rotate your mattress, wash your sheets and clean your bed frame.
- Check your tire pressure, oil and other fluid levels.
- Wash your car, and clean the interior. Replace air freshener.
- Fill your gas tank.
By doing as much of this as you can, you will be opening your life to more prosperity and spiritual joy.


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In the midterm elections of 2014, according to a Tufts University survey, only 17 percent of Pomona College students cast a vote. Four years later, a group of concerned Pomona students turned to an online voting support site to give those numbers a boost.
Student leaders Michaela Shelton '21 and Lucas Carmel '19 led the outreach effort, encouraging their fellow students to sign up with TurboVote, an online tool that helps users take the first steps to register to vote or to request an absentee ballot.
"A recent Pew study revealed that about 75 percent of nonvoters are not voting due to logistical concerns, confusion," says Carmel. "Where to get a stamp? How to request an absentee ballot? Where's their polling place? The same thing is true for college kids—but if you're concrete with people and help them with the process, you can eliminate many of those barriers."
President G. Gabrielle Starr joined in encouraging students to get out and vote, not only on our own campus but across the nation. In an op-ed titled "Dear College Students: My grandmother waited 70 years for the right to vote. Don't ignore this chance," published in The Washington Post in late October, Starr told the story of her grandmother, Ethel Starr, who was nearly 70 when the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. "As a child in the 1970s and '80s, I always knew when it was Election Day," she wrote. "My grandma got dressed in her Sunday best, put on her black shoes, hoisted her hard, black pocketbook, adjusted her hat and waited by the door for my father to drive her to the polls. She never missed an election. …"
"Do something no one else can do for you," Starr concluded. "The students I've worked with know I love a good dare. And I send one back. I dare you."
The efforts at Pomona seem to have succeeded in stimulating greater interest in voting, as TurboVote reports that about 40 percent of all Pomona students—703 to be exact—signed up for the service prior to Election Day.


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Round table ocean council to help shape EU funding calls
The European Technology and Innovation Platform for Ocean Energy (ETIP Ocean) will host the European Commission at its final annual workshop whose findings will form the basis of a strategy set to adapt the future funding calls to the ocean energy industry's needs.
In the presence of European Commission officials, the ETIP Ocean secretariat will present the findings from the events and webinars at a workshop that will take place a day before Ocean Energy Europe 2018 Conference & Exhibition – set to kick off on October 30, 2018 in Edinburgh.
During the workshop, thematic round tables will be set up from a broad variety of participants that will focus on specific topics, such as grant funding for early-stage ocean energy technologies, market pull-revenue support for the sector, as well as knowledge transfer and collaboration activities – all discussed during the previously held webinars as part of ETIP Ocean program.
Recommendations and actions will be presented during the free-to-attend event which requires registration, and, according to ETIP Ocean, they will form the basis of the final Integrated Strategy.
Ahead of the final workshop, ETIP Ocean has organized another webinar to stress the increasing importance of common standards and certification for the ocean energy industry, as the sector grows and matures.
The webinar, set for September 27, 2018, will look into the work at the international level to settle on the standards, and will also highlight the benefits of standardization for ensuring quality, and reducing costs and risks of ocean energy technologies and projects.
Following the conclusion of scheduled activities, the ETIP Ocean Integrated Strategy will be presented to the European Commission and national research and funding bodies in December 2018.
The aim of the strategy to ensure that future call for proposals address ocean energy's priority challenges and best fit the industry's needs, according to ETIP Ocean – an initiative regarded as an advisory body to the European Commission.
It is managed by Ocean Energy Europe and the University of Edinburgh, bringing together 250 experts from 150 organizations covering the entire European ocean energy sector.


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The new year is upon us and a common trend is to create New Year's Resolutions. If you are like countless others, you begin the year with a full head of steam ready to take on the world, but easily get derailed, distracted and discouraged leaving the resolutions by the wayside. Often this is a result of not having a clear plan or trying to make too many changes all at once.
This year, let's get S.M.A.R.T. about our resolutions and goals and actually achieve what we set out to do. Here is how:
S – first we need to set Specific goals, getting very clear on what it is we want to do, why we want to do it, who is involved, what obstacles we may encounter and where we will do this.
M – next we need to make sure that this goal is Measurable – how will we track progress and measure the outcome? How will we know when the goal is achieved?
A – we need to make sure our goal is Achievable, that it fits within reasonable expectations without undershooting our potential.
R – is this goal Relevant to and consistent with the other goals and plans you have for yourself? Will this goal fit your wants and needs? Does it coincide with who you want to be?
T – lastly, we need to be Timely with our goal – within what time frame will we accomplish it (day, month, year)? Be realistic with your end date, but be sure to set one in order to create a sense of urgency and importance.
Once you have your S.M.A.R.T. goals established, it is important to be really clear on how you will accomplish them. You may find that you need to create smaller goals within a larger one to make it more attainable. If you decide to run a marathon, never having run regularly, you will not simply get up and go out and run 26.2 miles. With something like this we understand the physical and more importantly psychological limitations. We understand the need to progressively work up to 26.2 miles over time. When we look at changing our eating habits or quitting smoking, however, we forget that we need to start small and work our way up to the large change.
If you are looking to make drastic changes, think of the large, end goal as the marathon and break it into smaller, more attainable chunks that will eventually add up to the full change. This combined with S.M.A.R.T. goals will put you in a much better position to achieve this year's resolutions.


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We are coming up to New Year. A time of making promises to ourselves. Of goals we would like to accomplish and challenges we would like to meet. They maybe goals you have had for the last 5 years and they have turned into a real challenge for you to accomplish. They maybe new goals that you want to accomplished based on your successes in an area. Some favourite goals are losing weight, getting a new job or finding a…..
The space In-Between. It is the season to enjoy our friends and family. A time to regenerate and recuperate getting ready for the next year and adventure ahead. A desire to back off from this whirlwind of activity is a call from Spirit to balance yourself. Give yourself a few minutes of quiet to step off the merry-go-round and let any intuition come to you in the peace of meditation or not-doing. You will feel rested and rejuvenated.
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There is a saying that love makes the world go around. On a personal level it makes your world go around! There are movies and books about love. Love has been seen as being connected with the highest frequencies and God energy. There are many forms and many beliefs associated with love. How does it fit in with our physical reality and modern lifestyle? One way to look at it is through the results of what happens with love. The…..


text: Home > Medical > Sleep Disorders > News Updated 24 November 2014 The link between sleep and suicide A study has found that poor sleep is more common in people that commit suicide than those who don't. 0 In a new study, people age 65 and older who reported trouble sleeping were more likely to commit suicide over the next ten years than those who slept well.Doctors who treat patients with depression or a history of suicide attempts should consider sleep problems a further warning sign, experts say.Read: Too little sleep can make you fat"The majority of individuals who die by suicide visit their doctor in the months preceding, and these are missed opportunities to enhance detection and intervene," said lead author Rebecca A. Bernert of the Stanford Mood Disorders Centre at Stanford University School of Medicine in California.Sleep can stand alone as a risk factor for death by suicide, even when depression is accounted for, Bernert told Reuters Health, though sleep problems are common for many people who should not be alarmed by this news.Of the 14,456 people researchers followed over 10 years, 20 died by suicide.Comparing answersThe study team compared the answers those 20 people gave in a series of interviews to questions about symptoms of depression, and mental and physical functioning to the answers of 400 others similar in age, sex and location.Those who went on to commit suicide tended to rate their sleep poorer at the start of the study than the comparison group, which was true even when researchers took symptoms of clinical depression into account.With depression accounted for, poor sleep quality was associated with a 20 percent higher risk of death by suicide, Bernert explained. Since only 20 out of nearly 15,000 people in this study died by suicide, even with a 20 percent increase in risk the absolute chance of dying by suicide would still be less than two tenths of one percent.Read: Less sleep may speed brain ageingGlobally, suicide accounts for more than half of violent deaths, according to the World Health Organisation. And whereas suicide attempts and depression are socially stigmatised, patients usually speak freely about trouble sleeping, since it doesn't carry that stigma, Bernert said.Of all the sleep problems described, difficulty falling asleep and not feeling like sleep was restorative were both particularly linked to increased risk of suicide, according to the results in JAMA Psychiatry.Some experts believe that sleep problems are due to underlying depression, which then increases suicide risk, so the fact that sleep problems were linked in this study to suicide even without symptoms of depression is important, said Wilfred R. Pigeon, who directs the VA Centre of Excellence for Suicide Prevention Research and the University of Rochester Sleep Research Lab."What is even more interesting is that the risk imparted by poor sleep is even stronger than that imparted by depression," he told Reuters Health by email.Having both poor sleep and depression conferred the biggest risk, noted Pigeon, who was not involved in the new study.Lack of sleep causes distressIn general, not sleeping well causes physical and emotional stress, and could tip the balance for someone with suicidal thoughts, he said.Read: Relaxation exercises that work"Poor sleep is associated with difficulties regulating emotion as well as cognitive deficits, both of which increase the risk of suicidal behaviours," said Amy Fiske, who researches depression and suicidal behaviour in late life at West Virginia University in Morgantown."Thus, it is conceivable that sleep problems could lead to suicide by reducing a person's ability to cope with stressors and by impairing their judgment and thinking ability," said Fiske, who was not part of the new study.We cannot say that poor sleep causes suicide based on this study, since there could have been factors other than depression that could have caused both disturbed sleep and death by suicide, Fiske told Reuters Health by email."Many of us are prepared to say that some sleep disturbances such as insomnia have a causative role in the development of new onset depression, but I don't think we are there yet with respect to sleep and suicide," Pigeon said.Though many other studies have found a similar link between sleep and suicide, most clinicians don't give sleep problems the weight they deserve, according to Dr. William Vaughn McCall, professor and Case Distinguished Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behaviour at Georgia Regents University in Augusta."We need to continue to increase awareness among doctors," he told Reuters Health.Recognizing sleep complaintsRead: Heavy snoring may up stroke riskDoctors and psychiatrists should recognize that sleep complaints along with depression indicate elevated suicide risk and require treatment, he said. Prescription sleep aids work immediately, but carry risk of dependence and tolerance, and behavioural therapy can work but takes a few weeks to be effective.Experts agree: the vast majority of older people who suffer from sleep problems are not suicidal."We don't want to create needless panic for older people who are otherwise psychologically healthy and can't sleep," McCall said. "For them it's not time to ring the alarm.""If someone has a mental disorder diagnosis, then the additional burden of insomnia should be the warning sign," he said.Read more:No apparent link between sleep apnoea and cancerDrugs may not help shift workers stay awakeSleep deprivation serious threat for astronautsImage: Old woman from Shutterstock Read Health24's Comments Policy Comment on this story 0 comments Comments have been closed for this article. Logout Comment 0 characters remaining Share on Facebook Loading comments... 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Microsoft Edge is a "trusted" UI App and a core part of the Windows 10 Operating System it sets itself to not only be the default browser, but the default PDF reader too it is deeply integrated in Windows 10, Edge is clearly the application that Microsoft wants you to use by any means. And yet, there are many reasons to stay away from Edge and continue using Internet Explorer or other Browsers . There is no option to block it but sometimes it can be necessary, for example:
One of our followers has emailed us and asked a way to block Edge because his child use it in restricted Account , his Windows version was Windows 10 Home and he said that he tried all possibilities to block the EDGE but no luck , we coded this App for him and realized many people need it.
What is new : (November 1, Friday 2019)
[ Added ] – Cmd parameter support (Use /? to see available parameters)
[ Added ] – Default Browser Shortcut
[ Added ] – 64 bit support
[ Added ] – Automatically closes Ms Edge if it is open during blocking process
[ Added ] – Some minor code improvements and Another block mechanism
Edge Blocker is a Portable Freeware , the app starts up right away after you download and unpack it , (it works only on windows 10). The interface is pretty basic, so no super skills are required to work with it.
To block Microsoft EDGE use "Block" button and to unblock it click "Unblock" button , once you've blocked the browser, it won't load even if you – or an app – tries to launch , we recommend to change the default browser firs if you have no other browser installed (use defult browser link).Edge icon on the GUI will show the status of the Microsoft Edge , if it is grayed out mean it is blocked.
If you use I.E Shortcut box , Edge blocker will create a internet explorer shortcut on desktop.
In a command prompt, running "EdgeBlock_x64.exe /?" or "EdgeBlock.exe /?" (no quotes) will list all available parameters.
if your Windows user account has administrator privileges, the restriction takes place at the system level, so all users are impacted. On the other hand, standard user accounts can only block Edge on their own account.
NOTE: Before you Block Microsoft EDGE , please not forget to change your default browser – Here
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 10
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Ask A Chef: Parmigiano Soup With Shallots, Bacon And BreadcrumbsRecipe By: Ryan Hotchkiss
Chef Ryan Hotchkiss of Bündok shares his recipe for Parmigiano Soup With Shallots, Bacon And Breadcrumbs.
Q: I ate the most amazing Parmesan soup at Bündok when I was in Edmonton. It was like an elevated spaghetti carbonara but without all the distraction of pasta. What makes it so delicious? — Emma, Toronto
A: This decadent dish is easy to make and perfect for a special occasion. Crisp bacon and breadcrumbs combine with sweet peas to offset the soup's rich, over-the-top cheese and cream base. We recommend serving very small portions!
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1⁄2 cup sliced shallots
- 3⁄4 cup low-sodium chicken stock or Parmigiano stock
- 2 cups whipping cream
- 350 g Parmigiano cheese, coarsely grated (about 4 cups)
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1⁄2 cup fresh or frozen green peas
- 200 g bacon, cut into lardons (about 2 cups)
- 1⁄2 cup panko bread crumbs
Ryan makes a Parmigiano stock by gently simmering cut-off rinds of the cheese in about 3 cups of water for 45 minutes, or until water is very flavorful and reduced to about three quarters of a cup.
Make Soup
- In medium pot over medium heat, melt butter. Add shallots and cook for 4 minutes, or until translucent. Add stock and cream, and bring to a boil.
- Add cheese a handful at a time, turn heat to medium-low and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes, or until cheese has melted. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
- Transfer to blender, or use immersion blender, and blend on high until smooth and emulsified. Pour through strainer and season with salt and pepper to taste. Return to pot and keep warm.
- Bring small pot of salted water to a boil. Add peas and boil for 1 minute, or until tender-crisp. Drain and rinse with cold water to halt cooking, and set aside.
- In frying pan over medium heat, cook bacon for 5 minutes, or until crispy. Transfer bacon to paper towel–lined plate. Drain all but 2 tbsp of bacon fat from pan.
- To frying pan add panko. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute, until bacon fat is absorbed and panko is deeply golden.
- Divide bacon, peas and breadcrumbs between serving bowls and pour soup over top. Serve immediately.


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Sprinkles was trapped during feral cat trapping early in 2018. She was only about 7-8 weeks old. She doesn't enjoy being handled a lot, but relies on us for care and food. She has the most beautiful gold eyes.
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Highlights of "The Year-End Church Giving Guide"
Reviewed by the Rev. Rosanna Anderson, Associate Director of Stewardship Ministries at Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church
The Year -End Church Giving Guide: Accelerating Your Church's Generosity Culture Through a Successful Year-End Project
by Brad Leeper and Greg Morris, Generis
This helpful guide was written by Brad Leeper and Greg Morris at Generis, an established church generosity consulting organization based in Atlanta. The guide describes a step-by-step process to create an excellent year-end project that your church can create to focus giving for a special ministry or mission. Practical information is packed into this inspiring twenty-four page guide. It is designed to help you and your leadership team discern what God may be calling you to do in your context. The guide features a sequence of steps to help your leadership team determine how to direct your energy to accomplish an awesome goal. The project would launch on the Sunday before or after Thanksgiving and conclude on December 31. The authors suggest you have a team at church with coffee and donuts to receive people's gifts on the last day of the year, or even provide dog biscuits for those walking their dogs, so that they cans drop off their contribution!
Leeper and Morris outline their philosophy about why conducting this type of project should be a high priority (page 3). A year-end project has three key motivations:
It prompts spiritual growth.
It normalizes the giving conversation.
It provides an opportunity to talk about mission and vision.
The Year-End Church Giving Guide raises questions to help your team establish a project goal that is "reasonable, achievable, and incremental" (p. 8). It recommends creating the needed communication tools, such as "a basic print piece, an engaging video, a response mechanism, and a separate webpage on your church's website" (p. 12). Here is a spiritual approach balanced with practical ideas.
The authors also describe steps for creating "multiple on-ramps to give" (p. 13-14). Today we are especially interested in ways to use technology efficiently and encourage people to use online giving. People today may have a smart phone in their pocket, but not cash or a check. Mobile giving is featured, including a link to pushpay, a digital giving platform supplied by echurch (p. 14). This is one of many options that you may want to explore for digital giving.
Through the leadership of the pastor, the church staff and the leadership team, your congregation can see this project as a great way to expand their generosity. The guide includes all the steps along the way, including telling the story through your "impact report," which is similar to a narrative budget but calls people "to even greater levels of generosity" (p. 15). There is also a helpful template for "legal boundaries of receiving gifts" (p. 18). We know that it is essential to thank people graciously, and thoughtful ways to do this in a timely fashion are included (p. 20-21). When it's time to celebrate, we may frame it as joy in growing in faithfulness through what God is doing in people's lives (p. 22). In the spring after Easter, in April or May, is the recommended time to "illustrate the results and impact of the giving" (p. 22). A vivid example of this is a celebration video that shows "the first streams of water being pumped from a well in a region that had previously been without water" (p. 22). It is wonderful to see how our giving can transform lives.
To conclude, Leeper and Morris share their hope that this guide will help you "elevate and accelerate your church's generosity culture, the vision and outreach of the church, and ultimately the spiritual development of everyone involved" (p. 24). May you and your church be encouraged, indeed!
You may download free copies of the 2015 Year-End Church Giving Guide from the Generis.com website.


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Lots of plot in these four issues, most of it directed towards upending the team by introducing new players and turning around the personalities of the old ones. With these issues, the book really got into a soap-operatic groove. Who will be the newest Titan? Why is the Brotherhood of Evil after Brother Blood? Is Robin wound too tight/stretched too thin? Will Wally quit? Has Raven turned evil? What of Donna's love for Terry? And will Speedy get to enjoy his lunch?
After opening with 3 1/2 pages of Changeling failing to capture Terra, New Teen Titans #28 (February 1983) begins the plot in earnest with a trip to Zandia, where the Church of Brother Blood is headquartered. The Brotherhood of Evil attacks Blood Central, because (as discussed a couple of issues later, but not until then) it wants Zandia for itself, and Blood runs the place.
Phobia softening up the control-room techies takes about a half a page longer than it should. Perez goes for "creeping horror" when "quick strikes" might have worked better. The sequence does introduce us to Sister Sade, which I don't think is pronounced "Smooth Operator." There's also Sister Soul and Brother Fear, and really, Marv and George, these names make "Darth Maul" sound like it's derived from Tolkien's Elvish.
(Someday I will do a post on the logistics of the Church of Blood, or at least its application for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.)
4 1/2 pages of hallucinations, bad accents ("Ach! I hate vhat I haf become, but I use vhat I now am for der good of der Brotherhood!") and Bloodite death later, we're back in NYC with Donna and Kory. The latter is worried because her man's been all grumpy and tense, and sure enough, when the Teen Wonder appears in Donna's doorway, he looks kind of slacker-stalker creepy.
Indeed, after two pages of Changeling finally defeating Terra, it's nighttime and Dick and Kory have apparently had The Sex. (I don't think this is their first time together, but it is the first the book's acknowledged it.) He apologizes for his attitude and they head off to meet Adrian Chase about Brother Blood.
Over at Titans' Tower, Wally (in the aforementioned squinty scene) wants to talk to Raven about how hard it is to juggle college and superheroics. This echoes, consciously or not, Donna's earlier observation about Dick a) going to college (but didn't he drop out before issue #1?), b) leading the Titans, and c) working with Batman — but the difference here, and the reason Wally comes off all whiny, is that Dick doesn't have superspeed. Wally, I hate to say it, but next to your speed-reading, attention-deficient cousin, you sound like an idiot. Focus, man! It's not like you're going to win the lottery! If you don't watch out, you'll end up fixing cars for the rest of your life!
Then again, Wally does explain his costume ring to Raven (after disclosing "I never really wanted to be Kid Flash" — somewhere, Mark Waid grabs his chest), so maybe he took a bad blow to the head. The two join Gar and Terra in the conference room, but Terra wants no part of Raven, and Raven gets bad vibes from Terra. After a brief escape attempt, and in a somewhat touching scene, Terra tearfully unmasks, explaining how she's being coerced into evil by terrorists holding her parents hostage.
Meanwhile, Donna meets Marcia Long, Terry's ex-wife. Marcia's got razor-sharp cheekbones and an "is this your little chippie?" icy stare. Remember Mark Greene's ex-wife from "ER?" Kind of like that, but if Mark were sleeping with Lucy Knight. Awk-ward!
Although the Titans easily catch Terra's captors, she goes nuts when one of them reveals her parents are already dead. As the issue ends, Gar comforts Terra while Cyborg and Raven worry.
New Teen Titans #29 (March 1983) finds Brother Blood in his Massachusetts church, preparing for the Brotherhood's attack. They've just finished destroying all his churches in Europe, and now they're headed across the big water in a stolen Blood jet, planning to abduct Raven. Unfortunately, they let some blond Bloodite (who looks like a Brother Chip) pilot the plane.
How'd that work, exactly? They storm aboard, threaten to fricasee Chip if he doesn't fly them to New York, and then … adjourn to the passenger cabin? For hijackers, they sure have a lot of trust in the hijacked. As you'd expect, Chip, revealed as a robot when Plasmus finally starts some more threatening, points the plane straight into the ocean. Don't worry, the Brotherhood's OK.
A few pages in Titans' Tower set up the issue's emotional beats: Dick's still pushing himself, Donna's frustrated because she doesn't know her real parents, and Wally's in love with Raven – but Raven tells him to forget it, because if she loses control, Trigon gets out. Donna flies off to be with Terry.
Leading into the big fight at the end of the issue is a genially funny sequence where the main cast parades through the kitchen past Speedy, who's fixed himself a sandwich and some soup. He interacts with each in one way or another, but he just keeps eating.
First, for flirting with Starfire, he gets rebuked by Robin: "Stay away from Kory. She's not yours." Robin and Kory (obviously descended from the House of Enabl'r) leave for another Adrian Chase meeting. Changeling and Terra then recap their own subplots, reminding us that her story doesn't quite add up. Gar tries to play the team-spirit card, but Terra says she's not joining. When Frances Kane (!) lands on Titans Island, everyone heads outside. Frances doesn't want her magnetic powers, and Wally thinks this could be his way out of the group. Speedy, naturally, flirts with Fran, but to no effect. Cyborg, unfazed (as usual) by the angst around him, bounds off over the river.
As Speedy finally finishes his soup, the Brotherhood of Evil teleports in. Phobia puts the whammy on Raven, making her think Trigon's killed Wally. This tricks Raven into attacking Wally, plunging him into worlds of hurt. Frances and Speedy subdue the Brotherhood, and Raven backs off, but too late — Wally's felt Trigon's evil in Raven. He says Raven knew she would have killed him, and what's more, she enjoyed it. Issue #30 (April 1983) picks up right there, with the Brotherhood coming to and taking out Speedy, Wally, and Fran.
Over at the apartment where Terra was held hostage, she shows Changeling her new costume, which she'd only wear when she was free. Although earlier in the day she was telling Gar she wasn't joining, once she gets the new duds on, she asks "Am I Titans material or what?"
Robin, Starfire, and Chase meet with a suddenly-cooperative Bethany Snow, who's actually setting them up but who doesn't fool Robin or Chase. Snow explains the Blood/Brotherhood feud, and further that Blood wants to fix three special elections to insure Congress arms Zandia to fight the Brotherhood. Robin saves Snow from a sniper, but the sniper gets away. Snow, "spooked," swears to be good, and says the Brotherhood's after Raven. Hearing this, Robin and Starfire streak away.
At Sarah Simms' apartment, Cyborg finds nice-guy Mark Wright, her fiancé. She's not there, and Vic leaves frustrated and angry with himself.
When he gets back to Titans' Tower, it marks the first time this arc that most of the Titans (except Wonder Girl and Raven) are in the same room. Gar introduces Terra as the newest member, Robin OKs it perfunctorily, and they strategize about protecting Raven.
Meanwhile, Donna's on a fancy dinner date with Terry, and Raven's at St. Peter's Cathedral looking for guidance. The Brotherhood finds her there, and she's ready to throw down, but Phobia says they shouldn't fight in church. Raven teleports out, the Brotherhood follows, and the priest is left contemplating the bizarre display. A good little scene all around.
It's New Year's in NYC, and Dick Clark's (really!) counting down, when Raven's soul-self flies out of the clock. The Brotherhood teleports into Times Square as well, with the Titans close behind. Plasmus shatters Raven's soul-self, knocking her out with big psychic feedback. Kid Flash tries to speed her away, but they run into one of Warp's portals. Fran traps Phobia in some water pipes, but Phobia turns the crowd against the Titans. Warp reappears, dumping off a dazed Kid Flash, whose thoughts reveal that he still loves Raven. While the Brotherhood escapes, Terry proposes to Donna.
As issue #31 (May 1983) opens, the team picks itself up and heads back to Titans' Tower, with Robin and Kid Flash both thinking about quitting. Somewhat surprising considering his attitude in previous issues, Dick doesn't want the team to break up, recognizes he's got "too much on [his] mind," and thinks maybe Donna should take over. In fact, Donna's waiting for them, in costume, eager to spill her big news. Dick and Roy are supportive, but Wally wants to get back to business. A T-Jet full of grim Titans speeds for Zandia….
… where the Brotherhood tries, one by one, to pry Brother Blood's secrets from her. They think he left something behind (eww) when he stepped through her soul-self in issue #22. Ultimately, Phobia exploits Raven's fear of not being able to handle everyone else's emotions and needs. (Phobia can't play the Trigon card again, because she can only exploit each fear once.) This sends Raven on a weird trip through an orange-tinted hell which, even rendered on decades-old newsprint in slightly faded colors, is still pretty spooky.
First, millions of little souls swarm all over her, stripping her bare and leaving her isolated atop a rocky outcropping, with only their baleful, glowing eyes keeping her company.
When this gets unbearable, she tumbles away, only to see that Trigon and the Brotherhood have brutally murdered the Titans. Now Wally, the only one left alive, refuses to let her heal him, saying he'd rather die first. And die he does, crumbling into dust not unlike Perez would depict his uncle's fate. The Brotherhood sees none of this, only the unconscious Raven. Maybe she don't know nothin'? No, the Brain says, she knows, but shedoesn't know she knows. (An "unknown known," in Rumsfeld-speak.)
On the T-Jet,Gar and Vic talk about Sarah's fiancé, and Dick and Kory do whatever making-up they need to. In Zandia, the Brain plays good cop, and Raven starts remembering a cave. After Mother Mayhem tells the local cops to let the Titans off the T-Jet, both groups find their way to Blood's cave. They fight. Interesting note: during the battle, Terra muses, "How long can [the Titans] keep treating me like I'm a fifth wheel?" Jeez, Terra, it's been what — two days?
Raven watches the combat passively, until "one … by one … by one … the Titans fall … DEFEATED!" This is too much — Raven has seen her nightmare come true, and all bets are off. Her soul-self now has a glowing red four-eyed Trigon face, and demonic Kirby Krackles.
The Brotherhood wets itself. Raven's soul-self descends over them. Fortunately for them, Donna shows up to snap Raven out of her trance. She says "you'll murder all your friends," which is probably true, even though at that moment it's only the Brotherhood in trouble.
Raven screams, her soul-self withdraws, and Wally asks "she tried to kill us … didn't she?"
"No," Donna replies, "… she tried to kill herself!"
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For anyone familiar with the history of the book, these four issues set up some fairly important arcs. Raven's subplot is particularly compelling, because she has always been a pawn of one faction or another, from Trigon's daughter to Azarath's champion, and now as some kind of secret weapon. The fact that the Brotherhood wants her in its war on Blood must be doubly damning, suggesting that she can only be used for evil. Raven herself just wants to be left alone so she can solidify control over her emotions. The triumph over her soul-self in issue #8 might well have been her happiest point in the series, and that was almost two years ago.
Interrupting her constantly, at least in these issues, is Wally West, himself trying to figure out what to do with his life. I know later Flash writers filled in a lot of Wally's rather bland backstory, giving his parents names and personalities and whatnot, and establishing him as the Flash's biggest fan. Although that doesn't jibe with his treatment here, it can still be reconciled by shifting young-adult emotions. That may only go so far, though, considering that Wally decided to retire Kid Flash after his high-school graduation and had to be "coerced" by Raven's emotional nudging to join the new Teen Titans. Now that he's free of her influence, he apparently does love her, but his declarations come off lukewarm. His connection with Frances Kane is far more tangible. It's almost as if Wally's going through the motions with Raven and his Titans membership to convince himself and the readers that he gave them one last, valid shot. I will say that these issues also lay the groundwork for Fran to join the Titans, with Wally as her gateway/guide, so Wally's leaving isn't entirely predetermined.
As for the actual new Titan, Terra's lightning-quick reversal from #29's "I'm not joining" to #30's "get me in" might also be chalked up (charitably, that is) to hormones, if it weren't for Gar — Gar, remember, not Dick the detective — pointing out holes in her story, and Cyborg and Raven's separate concerns. Next to the trouble with Raven, though, questions about Terra look less pressing. Besides, she seems charming enough, what with her wholesome looks and her love-hate relationship with Changeling.
On a more meta note, you'll notice that this is the first time I've actually posted scans of the artwork with one of these recaps. Perez and Tanghal didn't have entirely complementary styles at first, but one or the other, or both, were drawing a lot tighter, and it really shows in these pages. Dick and Wally look appropriately muscular, but wiry, especially in street clothes. Kory is being drawn a lot taller than everyone else, but she, Donna, and Raven all have the bodies of late-teen/young-adult women. Terra, now the youngest cast member, gets the most typically-teenage body, similar to Lizzie, the runaway from last time. It's now easier to believe these characters are the ages they're supposed to be, thanks to the evolving art.
Again, overall these four issues present some pretty meaty melodrama, but I also get the feeling that Marv and George realized just how popular the book had become, and were emboldened by said popularity to take some real chances and pull out some stops. For the most part, these worked, but occasionally a hint of overconfidence would shine through.
Next: Two single-issue sagas, the return of Deathstroke, and New York's newest masked man!