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We are turning 100!
The Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University will be a hundred years old in 2020. During this very special year, we will host a number of special events to celebrate this grand milestone, culminating in a weekend of celebration in October. Please visit the centenary website to travel through a hundred years of history with us, and for more information on the year's activities.
We are one of the oldest Economics departments on the continent and one of the largest in the university. We are dedicated to quality research and teaching, with a focus on economic issues pertaining to South Africa and Africa. For any information not on this site, please contact the [protected email address] .
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Cobus Burger wins international data science challenge
Dr Cobus Burger, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Economics, was named the winner of an international data science challenge aimed at helping the South African government reduce road accident fatalities.
The competition – from October 2019 to early February 2020 – attracted 738 data scientists from across the continent and the world. Its objective was to build a machine learning model that accurately predicts when and where the next road incident will occur in Cape Town, using historic road incident data as well as traffic data from the Uber platform.
Read more about this story on the university's news page
Interdisciplinary collaboration considers road safety and social vulnerability
A workshop recently held at STIAS, Road Safety, Public Health and Social Vulnerability, brought together specialists in micro-behaviour, road design, urban planning and public policy, as well as representatives of the traffic authorities in South Africa, to discuss research aimed at promoting a comprehensive and integral approach to road safety. A key theme integrating the interdisciplinary approach is the linkage between road safety and social vulnerability, a hitherto under-researched theme in South Africa.
The workshop was hosted by the Department of Economics in collaboration with colleages from Civil Engineering and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz in Germany.
Chancellor's Award awarded to Departmental Chair
The Economic Department's Chair, Prof Andrie Schoombee, was honoured during a December graduation ceremony by being awarded a Chancellor's Award for professional services rendered to the university. This award recognises in particular an important milestone, namely that Prof Schoombe has been heading the Department of Economics for twenty years (out of the hundred years it has been in existence) and the excellent management of the department during this period, as widely admired and appreciated by the staff in the department and colleagues in the faculty. His leadership enabled the Department to play a pre-eminent role in high quality research, teaching and community service, while also undergoing significant transformation in terms of its race and gender composition.
Economics Department in partnership to offer free coding in Cape Schools
WeCode24, a fun computer programming platform founded by Prof Rachel Jafta of the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economic Management and Sciences was launched at the Media24 Centre in Cape Town recently. The programme is a partnership between the Economics Department, Naspers (funder) and Media24 (digital internships and media partner). Opportunities to volunteer and learn on the programme also exist for all Economic and Management Sciences students at Stellenbosch University.
WeCode24 launched as a pilot project in 2017 at four historically disadvantaged Western Cape schools to give learners from Grade 8 to Grade 11, who had little or no maths skills, a chance to learn to write code. It is now expanding to more such schools and aims to reach more than 500 Western Cape learners in 2020. Learners who participate in the programme will engage with lesson material and with each other through an online platform and community, as well as at workshops and coding clubs. Some of the topics covered in the programme are graphics, animation, games and physical computing with programmable electronics.
More information, including the launch video is available at the project website. Also read more about the launch on the university's blog and on fin24.com.
Trade Wars break out at faculty teambuilding day
Continuing in the tradition of participating enthusiastically in the EMS faculty's annual teambuilding day volleyball competition, the Economics department managed to win third place out of ten teams this year. Pictured at the event are (left to right) Prof Andrie Schoombee (HoD), the team ("Trade Wars") consisting of Kara Dimitruk ("Yoda"), Nico Katzke ("Darth Vader"), Debra Shepherd ("Rogue One"), Hylton Hollander ("Han Solo"), Prince Changole ("The Force"), Dawie van Lill ("Kylo Ren") and Gideon du Rand ("#1 supporter"). Congratulations to the team, particularly for winning a hard-fought 3rd/4th place playoff match against #4 team, team "Unbalanced" from the accounting department.
Young Economist 2019
Congratulations to Gabriella Neilon and Colenso Holder ("Wolves of Wallstreet") from Stellenbosch University who placed as the top SU team, and second overall, in this year's Young Economist Competition (pictured above with lecturers Carina Smit, Rebecca Selkirk and Hylton Hollander). Each year, the Die Burger Young Economist Competition puts first-year economics students head-to-head with the aim to predict economic variables such as CPI inflation, real GDP growth, commodity prices, and exchange rates. The enthusiasm and insight shown by the students amidst a challenging and uncertain economic environment was indeed inspiring. In first place were Mpfuno Bilankulu, Mfumo Hatlane, and Lamine Diane ("Econ Agents") from the University of Cape Town, and, in third place, were Alistair Pyle, Anjali Jivan, and Caleb Matthews ("Yonks") from Stellenbosch University. Many thanks to our sponsor, Die Burger, for hosting a fun and lively awards ceremony at the Media24 Centre in Cape Town. To all of the remaining teams who placed in the top 10, well done on a fantastic effort - we were impressed with your insight and grit! Thank you all for being a part of the competition, and all the best as you continue forward in your studies, and in forging a deeper understanding of Economics!
(Thanks to Hylton Hollander for contributing this article and Natalie Gabriels for the photo.)
International Finance 4th Annual FNB Securities Trading Game
The winning SU team. From left to right: Hylton Hollander (Lecturer), Richard Levesque (FNB Securities), Luzaan Lesch, Mila Tshaka, Garikai Zvinavashe, Grant Rossiter (FNB Securities). Absent: Bruce Rouillard.
This year's International Finance FNB Securities Trading Game saw twenty postgraduate teams from Stellenbosch University, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Western Cape go head-to-head on a three-month trading simulation challenge utilising a demo trading platform. Teams invested a hypothetical USD 100 000 in real-time foreign exchange and global stock markets, with the goal of achieving the highest return. The SU winning team members received an FNB Securities stock broking account at zero cost plus R4 000 worth of FirstRand shares. They placed second overall, losing by a slim USD 688 margin to a UCT-based team. The objective of the exercise was for the students to test economic theory in the real world, understand international macro-developments, and encourage an investment mind-set.
Two Stellenbosch students awarded ESSA Founder's Medal Awards
Two of the Department's students were each co-winners in their categories of the Economic Society of South Africa's Founder's Medal competition.
Timothy Köhler was the co-winner of the prize awarded for the best Honours research paper in South Africa completed in the 2018/2019 year. His research project was entitled "Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation: Investigating the Existence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve for Local and Global Pollutants in South Africa" and was supervised by Martin de Wit. In this work, Köhler investigated the dominant claim in the environmental economic literature that continued economic growth will eventually be beneficial for the environment, with specific reference to global and local air pollutants. Using OLS and ARDL regression techniques he tested 24 different models and could not find any evidence for such a claim for any of the selected pollutants. The implication is that environmental problems cannot be dealt with by relying on an economic policy focussed on growth alone, but would need specific environmental policy interventions.
In the Master's category, the prize was awarded to Reid Falconer for his work, entitled "Using satellite data to predict food security: a case study of Malawi", which was supervised by Dieter von Fintel. Reid adopted an interdisciplinary approach, adapting techniques originally developed by computer scientists at Stanford University and utilising transfer learning (a type of machine learning) to produce small area maps of food security indicators in Malawi. His modelling also takes spatial dependence in the data into account – a problem which is rarely addressed in existing literature. The maps can be used to identify food insecurity hotspots in Malawi and to assist in targeting input subsidies to the areas where they are most necessary - Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world and has implemented one of the largest agricultural input subsidy programmes in the world to support smallholder production. With further development of the paper and the methods, the tools can be implemented to provide "real time" alerts to food insecurity in Malawi and other countries.
Three Economics professors deliver inaugural lectures
Not one or two, but three Economics professors delivered inaugural lectures during the month of August this year. The first was by the faculty dean, Prof Ingrid Woolard (right in picture), on the topic, "Mind the gap: income inequality in post-apartheid South Africa", followed by Prof Guangling Liu (middle in picture), titled "Macro-prudential policy and financial stability: generic versus sector-specific rules". The final lecture was by Prof Ronelle Burger (left in picture) on "Amplifying the voices of our communities".
(Click on the individual titles for further details, including abstracts, bios and full video recordings.)
Department hosts first ever Economics PhD conference
The recently held two-day Economics PhD conference hosted by the Department and the Stellenbosch branch of the Economic Society of SA (ESSA) saw 23 PhD candidates from eight universities around the country presenting their doctoral research at Stellenbosch University. The program (available here, with downloadable papers) included presentations on a wide range of topics including a number of trade issues, rational altruism, risk preferences and job mobility, foreign demand and house prices, financial stress indicators and the effect of hyperinflation on asset poverty, to name but a few. Candidates who presented will have the further opportunity to submit their papers to the Studies in Economics and Econometrics journal for consideration for a special conference edition to be published in 2020.
The conference featured a keynote address by Dr Nara Monkam, Director of Research at the African Tax Administration Forum. Dr Monkam presented on her work around property tax and the potential it presents for African countries. We thank the sponsors, the Dean's office, ReSEP and ESSA. Next year's conference is set to take place during the Department's Centenary celebrations in October 2020 and promises to be a highlight on the calendar.
Ursula Wanza completes PLUS course
The Department of Economics is proud of their departmental assistant, Mrs Ursula Wanza, who attended and successfully completed a Professional Learnerships University Stellenbosch (PLUS) Programme Level 4 course in Business Administration. The PLUS programme is aimed at utilizing learnerships to enhance skills levels among Stellenbosch University personnel. The course is accredited by the Education, Training and Development Practices (ETDP) SETA and includes modules such as Self Management, Administration, Finance, Media Relationships and Business Ethics. The picture shows Ursula (left) at the certificate awarding ceremony held recently at the Devon Valley Hotel.
Stellenbosch team reaches finals of Econometric Games
Every year, 30 top universities around the world participate in the Econometric Games hosted by the University of Amsterdam's study association for Actuarial Science, Econometrics & Operational Research (VSAE). The participating universities send delegations of four students who are presented with a technically challenging case study to solve in a limited time period. This year, Martin Mwale, Petro van Eck, Roan Minnie and Willem Wilken (pictured left to right) represented Stellenbosch University, the only African university at the event. They were supported by Gideon du Rand from the Department of Economics.
The team did extremely well by being selected into the top 10 and participating in a final round, effectively winning out over participating teams from a number of very highly acclaimed international universities (including Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford Universities). This is a first for Stellenbosch.
While the team prepared intensively beforehand, the specific case to be addressed always comes as a surprise, and teams have to work on very technically demanding problems under tight deadlines before presenting their results in a written report. The theme of this year's Games was "Climate Econometrics". In the first round, stretching over two days, teams had to employ the global carbon budget and data from the Global Carbon Project to forecast the growth of global atmospheric carbon concentration until the year 2100. For the finals, teams were presented with an extension of the first case and expected to deliver a full report and a presentation later on the same day. This time, teams had to disaggregate the growth in global atmospheric carbon concentration and allow for anthropogenic emissions by different countries or groups of countries. The model also had to be extended to capture the relationship between emissions and an indicator of economic activity.
Martina Mchenga wins ODI international fellowship
Stellenbosch PhD student Martina Mchenga is the winner of this year's Overseas Development Institute (ODI) international fellowship. Winners receive a two-year employment tenure in the public sector of various low and middle-income countries across the Pacific, Asia and Africa.
The ODI fellowship accepts applications from candidates across the world and sought after among candidates from top universities. This, according to Mchenga, makes the selection process competitive.
Since the fellowship places postgraduate economists and statisticians at the heart of policy-making, she explains that one experiences first-hand challenges and frustrations in policy-making. Mchenga has always wanted to be in a position where her research is used to inform policy and create targeted and effective interventions.
She is a health economist and a researcher with a passion in maternal health. Her award affords her the space to contribute to Malawi's ailing health system.
Read more.
Two Stellenbosch economists appointed to ministerial task team
Ronelle Burger and Kholekile Malindi have recently been appointed to serve on the ministerial task team on Human Resources planning. The previous human resource plan for health has lapsed so there is an urgent need to develop a new plan. Due to short time lines, pending NHI reforms and fiscal constraints, this will be challenging but important work. Ronelle and Kholekile are both in the needs and costs work stream, tasked with estimating the required size and skill composition of our country's health workforce over the next 10 years.
Top performing Economics students recognized
The Department recently celebrated the achievements of its top students of the previous year by awarding a number of prizes at a function held at the US Museum.
Top prizes for honours degree students went to Grace Bridgman for first place, while the second place prize was shared by four students, Euné Coetzee, Tiaan Meiring, Alex O'Riordan and Natalie Luyt. For Master's degree students, the first prize went to Reid Falconer(*) and second prize to Felix Stips. The Sampie Terreblanche prize for the best essay about inequality was also awarded to Grace Bridgman.
In the undergraduate category, prizes were awarded for best students in first year to Lauren Tsafandakis and Bradley Moorcroft, for best students in second year to Emma Dachs and Elizza Frey, and for best students in third year to Joshua Peebles(*) and Olivia Bernstein. (* These students also won the Cloete medals for best student in postgraduate and undergraduate categories.)
Nedbank and Old Mutual Budget Speech Competition 2018 Finalists
We congratulate four Stellenbosch students who have been selected as finalists in the Nedbank and Old Mutual 2018 Budget Speech Competition (details on the competition available here):
Mr Schalk Willem Bothma (undergraduate)
Mr Diagoras Stathoussis (undergraduate)
Mr Marcel Bovijn (postgraduate)
Mr Remert Erasmus (postgraduate)
The winners will be announced at the gala event on the evening of the 20 February Budget Speech.
(2019 essay topics to follow after the event.) SU liaison: Hylton Hollander ([protected email address] )
Prof Sampie voted as Faculty's best lecturer during previous century
In celebration of the University's centenary, the Faculty of Economic and Management sciences invited its alumni earlier this year to nominate the best lecturer during the course of their studies. Almost 500 alumni participated and the vast majority voted for Prof Sampie Terreblanche as their best lecturer.
This one-off Alumni Best Lecturer award for the period 1929 to 2010 formed part of the Faculty's annual top lecturer competition this year, a competition that has been sponsored by Die Burger since 2011.
The name of Professor Sampie Terreblanche, who passed earlier this year, has become synonymous with the history of the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University. When he finally retired in 2006 (officially already in 1996), Prof Sampie concluded an uninterrupted career of some five decades as lecturer in economics.
Prof Stan du Plessis, former Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and now SU's Chief Operating Officer, once remarked, "Professor Sampie Terreblanche is a towering figure in the 90-year history of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University. One calculation shows that if you added up all the students in every lecture he gave during his career, the grand total would be about one million. It is, however, the quality of these lectures rather than their quantity which made such a lasting impression on generations of students."
Three of Prof Terreblanche's five children, Carine and Christelle Terreblanche and Dr Marié Kirsten, attended the top lecturers' prize-winning function last week.
In a tribute to Prof Sampie, Prof Andrie Schoombee, Chair of the Department of Economics, referred to the motivations given by alumni who voted for Prof Terreblanche. "These focussed on Prof Sampie's passion and enthusiasm, the fact that he challenged his students and made them think, his deep knowledge of his subject, and his interest in his students," he said.
"In my opinion his ability to teach his students critical thinking, was the one factor that made him stand out from many other top lecturers."
A website has been created to celebrate the life of prof Sampie Terreblanche.
Two economists recognised for effective media communication
The university recently paid tribute to a number of academics who have been particularly effective in media communication in their fields of expertise. In the Economics Department, two of our colleagues received Media Thought Leaders 2018 Awards, awarded to those who either commented, took part in interviews, and/or wrote opinion editorials and in some way shaped thinking in our country via their contributions in the media.
Prof Johan Fourie publishes regularly in Finweek and Rapport, on a diverse range of topics, such as the South African economy, development, markets and economic history. A recent article dealt with the costs of crime and pointed out that too little is understood about its causes and consequences in the South African context. A selection of his articles are available on his blog.
Dr Nic Spaull has become an authoratitive commentator on the South African education system, with recent articles pointing out that funding for basic education has declined in real terms, with devastating effects, and that none of the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution could be realised by children lacking basic literacy skills, a pressing concern in South Africa. His articles can be read here.
Economics department hosts alumni events in New York and Boston
The Department will host two events for Stellenbosch alumni in July. The first will be held on 26 July at the ING office in New York. The second, on 30 July, will be held at the Residence Inn Cambridge in Boston. Prof Johan Fourie will deliver a short presentation on 'The data revolution in African economic history', showcasing some of the latest research contributions of members of the department. Several members and former students of the department will be present at both events, and we invite alumni and friends of the Department and Stellenbosch University to join us for either of the two evenings. Please send an email to Reanne Olivier to register.
Sampie Terreblanche's documents now online
A new website – www.sampieterreblanche.org – now provides access to many of the late professor Sampie Terreblanche's documents. The prolific writings of prof Terreblanche, a legendary professor of Economics in the department who died on 17 February, has now been electronically preserved thanks to the efforts of his family and the department. The website includes links to media articles, books and hundreds of his unpublished monographs. More items will also be added over the next few months, including class notes and photographs. Plans for a bursary in his name are also in the final stages of development.
Professor Basil Moore dies at 84
Basil Moore, prominent Post-Keynesian economist, who had a more than 30 year involvement with Stellenbosch Economics, passed away peacefully on Thursday, 8 March on his farm Moore's End in the Banghoek Valley outside of Stellenbosch. As professor of Economics at Wesleyan University in the US, Basil visited Stellenbosch University in the mid-1980s and since then taught mainly on our postgraduate programmes up until 2012. He moved to South Africa (Stellenbosch) in 1992 and was appointed professor extraordinary in the department in January 2004. He taught macroeconomics and his favourite course was a postgraduate elective module on Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics. He was an enthusiastic lecturer who did his utmost to convince his students of the Post-Keynesian view of how the world functions.
Basil Moore's major contribution to Post-Keynesian macroeconomics was on endogenous money theory and more specifically his 1988 book Horizontalists and Verticalists: The Macroeconomics of Credit Money. This book has been particularly influential in advocating a "horizontalist" view of monetary policy, which is that in a credit-based economy, the money supply is endogenous and determined by demand, and not by central bank supply of high-powered money, as the "verticalists" believe.
Emeritus professor Sampie Terreblanche dies at 84
Stellenbosch emeritus professor Johannes "Sampie" Terreblanche, 84, passed away on Saturday, 17 February, following a brief battle with brain cancer.
To sum up Sampie Terreblanche simply as a 'maverick' intellectual would perhaps be unfair. His progression from an Afrikaner nationalist to an advocate of its demise to an ANC supporter to a fierce critic of the ruling party was certainly spectacular and often dramatic. But each step in his fifty years as public intellectual and political economist was preceded by deep soul-searching and intense discussions with his close friends and family about how to best serve the common good.
Prof Terreblanche may ultimately be remembered for his fearlessness in speaking truth to power, and a public intellectual who constantly reminded apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa of the injustice inherent in economic inequality. It did not matter whether it was the apartheid government during the era of turbulent clashes under former presidents John Vorster and PW Botha or the ANC government whom he accused of selling out its own marginalised constituency. His harsh judgement came fifteen years after he eagerly participated in unofficial "talks about talks" with the then banned ANC in exile, paving the way for formal negotiations and a political settlement.
Prof Terreblanche never really saw himself as a research professor, but rather as a lecturing one. Because of the relatively large volume of lectures that he presented to large classes, he received the dubious distinction of probably having more total "student points" (calculated as the amount of lectures given multiplied by the number of students present in every lecture) over the course of his term as lecturer and professor than any other lecturer in the history of the University. Roughly estimating, his student points should have reached one million if all students attended all of their lectures. Unfortunately a "leakage" of 150 000 to 200 000 points took place, and Prof Terreblanche stated that it was not in his power to solve the problem.
Many of the lectures given by Prof Terreblanche were controversial and therefore the Afrikaans students decided that the acronym SAMPIE could be applied to "Suid-Afrika se Mal Professor In Ekonomie" (South Africa's crazy Economics professor). Fortunately rumour also has it that a small group of students instead called him "Suid-Afrika se Meester Professor In Ekonomie" (South Africa's master Economics professor). In one famous incident, Prof Terreblanche, after a heated ,monologue, asked the students rhetorically 'Is julle kapitaliste of kommuniste?'. From the back, a lone voice responded: 'Ons is sampioene!'
Like all his professorial predecessors in Economics at Stellenbosch, Prof Terreblanche also got involved with processes of policy formulation. Between 1973 and 1976 he was a member of the Erika Theron Commission that investigated issues related to the coloured population of South Africa. From 1979 until 1985 he was a member the Prime Minister's Council for Economic Advice. Terreblanche's involvement in the Theron Commission triggered his interest in the nature and causes of poverty.
The collection of books that Prof Terreblanche has published comprise mainly textbooks for the History of Economics and History of Economic Thought. Also, besides about twenty articles in academic journals and several chapters in books, his strong involvement in party politics is reflected in the hundreds of articles that he has written for local and foreign newspapers on political and economic issues in South Africa. For such political involvement he has received a great deal of criticism. Since retiring at the end of 1995, he has concentrated on studying the political and economical history of South Africa while still working as a part-time lecturer in the Department until 2011. He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Free State, Pretoria and Stellenbosch.
Prof Terreblanche fell ill a year ago, shortly after his wife Ina (neé Smuts) of 58 years passed away. He was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in September 2017.
He is survived by four daughters, Christelle Terreblanche, Marié Kirsten, Louise van Zyl and Carine Terreblanche, and a son, Sampie Terreblanche. He also have five grandchildren, Nina and Gerhard Kirsten, Willem and SJ van Zyl and Sam Dupper.
Centre for Competition Law and Economics
The newly established Centre for Competition Law and Economics within the Department of Economics has recently launched its own website - click here to visit it.
Why you need to do a postgraduate degree in Economics at Stellenbosch University
Current students give their perspective on a postgraduate degree at Stellenbosch University.
Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past (LEAP) launched at Stellenbosch
South African research into economic history has gained momentum with the launch of the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past (LEAP) at Stellenbosch University on Wednesday, 27 May.
"LEAP brings together scholars and students interested in understanding and explaining the long-term economic development of Africa's diverse societies," says Dr Johan Fourie of the Department of Economics.
"Studying the historical development of an economy provides a context for existing challenges and a source of hypotheses to explain the trajectory of its evolution."
Read the full article here, visit the LEAP website, or like the LEAP Facebook page.
ReSEP website launched
The Research on Socio-Economic Policy (ReSEP) group at the Department of Economics today launched a new website which will serve as a resource for researchers and policy-makers interested in issues surrounding socio-economic development in Southern Africa. Spearheaded by Professor Servaas van der Berg, the ReSEP group consists of members of the Department of Economics, contract research staff and graduate students, and developed around a long term research focus on issues of poverty, income distribution, social mobility, economic development and social policy. The new website contains information on ReSEP's involvement in various research projects, provides access to downloadable working papers, policy briefs, and other research reports produced by members of the ReSEP team, and will in time also provide access to further learning and training materials for policy-makers, researchers, students and others interested in policy debates. Visit the new website at http://resep.sun.ac.za/.
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BER Weekly30 March 2020
Late Friday night, Moody's downgraded SA's foreign and local currency sovereign credit rating to Ba1 - one notch below investment grade - following a scheduled ratings review. Tragically, SA also recorded its first COVID-19 deaths and cases surged to over 1 200 during the week.In financial markets, the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) announced it would start...
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BER Weekly30 March 2020
Late Friday night, Moody's downgraded SA's foreign and local currency sovereign credit rating to Ba1 - one notch below investment grade - following a scheduled ratings review. Tragically, SA also recorded its first COVID-19 deaths and cases surged to over 1 200 during the week.In financial markets, the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) announced it would start...
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Out Of The Wild: An Alaskan's Adventure To Find America
My name is John. I was born and raised in Alaska. I have been hearing how the American Dream is no longer possible for my generation; how the pursuit of a college education will leave my peers and me in crippling debt; and America is no longer the beacon of hope it once was. Too many of my generation believe what they are hearing. I am not going to surrender to such news.
Using my bicycle, a tent, and a camera I will tell this story in a documentary I call "Finding My America". I will begin in my hometown of Kodiak, Alaska on May 22, 2012. I am partnering with small businesses that will sponsor this trip. I am working with many Subway restaurant owners who are sponsoring me in exchange for a commercial I will make and post on the Internet.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Down By The Sea
5 comments:
- Jill Yrjana said...
Congratulations John! You deserve it. You worked hard and have a special gift. I look forward to watching the blog this summer as we settle in in Valdez. We are going to miss your family a ton and it will help fill the void.
Keep it up!
- May 4, 2012 at 11:25 PM
- Jill Yrjana said...
- May 4, 2012 at 11:28 PM
I want to see your bike and trailer!
What are you using?
How heavy are you packing?
How are you eating and hydrating?
Panniers vs trailer?
How do you know what to choose?
Who is giving you advice?
I might plan a much shorter trip like this.
What are your thoughts?
- May 5, 2012 at 3:53 PM
- kodiakbiker said...
Future bike tour planner!
I am using the extra wheel trailer. I am packing about 40 pounds of luggage. I am eating lots of peanut butter and drinking lots of water for the most part. I personally prefer trailer, especially the extra wheel. It keeps the weight low to the ground and trails really well. I am seeking advice online and through local cyclists. A tour is a great way to see the world! I think it is a great idea for you to plan a trip!
- May 8, 2012 at 12:55 PM
- the angry developer said...
Hey man, I saw your story on Full Sail's home page. I've been a student here for game development for almost a year now. You'll love it here. I wish the best of luck to your ride.
- May 22, 2012 at 10:08 AM

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Tuesday 05. November 2019
The main library of the DAQ-source templates is finished in the forming and applied the new conception of forming the DAQ-violations
The library was created to provide main templates of the DAQ-sources processing and related services.
The template's names and their parameters are available in languages: English, Ukrainian and Russian. Their source code wrote in human language independent mode with calls for the translations by function tr() and the message's translation also allowed for English, Ukrainian and Russian.
Forming of the library was finished by forming the related document by appending the PID-templates: "PID signal (unified, violation statuses)" and "Impulse PID signal (unified, violation statuses)".
In the library completion, there was applied the new conception of forming DAQ-violations by the function DAQ.alarmSet()![more]
Tuesday 05. November 2019
DDoS on the OpenSCADA server (blacklisted) !!!
Attention, the server of the project OpenSCADA is again under influence of a continuous DDoS attack, which renewed at 14.10.2019, so there may be short lacks of response!
The attack have current the 166000 registered zombie hosts of the attacking botnet!
It's stopped now by blacklisting!!![more]
Wednesday 23. October 2019
The main library of the DAQ-source templates appended for a template of the initiative connections processing for assigned output transports
The template of processing input initiative connections was created to provide the latest chain of implementation and support for conception of data acquisition in the passive mode and the initiative connection, that is — the control of associative connections, created by the input transport at each connection.
The function of creation associative output transports at connections is currently only supported by the module "Sockets" and for TCP-sockets.
Sponsored by: BLUE STAR GROUP Ltd
Wednesday 23. October 2019
The main library of the DAQ-source templates appended for a template of the notification by SMS, EMail(SMTP)
The complex template of the notification contains of parts of the dispatcher and the output user protocol of notification by EMail(SMTP) and SMS.
THE DISPATCHER can be performed for pointed messages of the message buffer of OpenSCADA and applied on the Logical level or the controller object of the module JavaLikeCalc.
THE OUTPUT USER PROTOCOL PART "SMS" provides operations with SMS by a GSM-modem connected as serial device. For now, there supported only sending SMS messages to a number of remote cell phone or GSM-modem. For sending there are supported: ECHO disable, PIN check and set, sending in PDU and the Text mode.
THE OUTPUT USER PROTOCOL PART "SMTP" provides operations with a SMTP-server for delivering EMails by their sending through TCP-Socket or SSL. For now, there are supported: TCP, SSL, AUTH, topic encoding for UTF-8.
Sponsored by: SVItoVYR LTD
Tuesday 01. October 2019
The complex objects conception in the DAQ is formed and documented
In some cases where an object is only a part of a common automated system and does not require deep detailing to the level of signals and parameters (complex tag) around them, including without the need for archiving, it is convenient to unify them in one representative object of the data source OpenSCADA with appropriate consolidated view and object control as a set of simple attributes with violation elements.
The conception is represented currently by the two direct DAQ-templates "SNMP", "UPS" and the representative widget "Object properties" of the "Main elements library of the user interface".
Friday 20. September 2019
The main elements library of the user interface appended for the extended alarms control frames
The alarm frames serves:
The violations are obtained from the buffer of current-active violations of OpenSCADA and archive(s). In fact, the element implements the primitive "Protocol" functions for violations and extension opportunities.
The main user extension is the ability to define visible table fields from a list of options: atm, qttm, nrmtm, lev, cat, mess, prm, dscr, dscrCust{N}, alrm, cmnt.
Tuesday 20. August 2019
The main elements library of the user interface appended for the "Users manager" frame
The element-frame serves to control users from the user interface itself. That is, typically this feature is provided to the SCADA programmer at the Security subsystem configuration, but sometimes there is a need to provide this capability from the user interface and with a few restrictions on controlled users and their groups that this frame performs and generally provides:
Thursday 15. August 2019
The root page frame of the main elements library of the user interface is significantly expanded and documented
The frame "Root page" is a base element of most interfaces built in OpenSCADA and it was completely documented and significantly expanded for:
Monday 12. August 2019
Analysis of the memory consumption and efficiency of the UI module WebVision in the busy environments
The module UI.WebVision was observed in extra memory consumption on a real big task working on Debian 9.
There were performed several actions of measuring about this module work on different Debian versions: 7, 8, 9, 10; where we have seen the clear degradation of effectivity of the memory allocation on Debian versions from 8.
Contacting the Debian community we revealed this problem as a disadvantage of GLibC in implementing memory arenas, which can be highly fragmentated in program environments what actively recreating the threads, due to linking the arenas to threads.
So, to fix this behaviour, we need to set the environment variable MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=1, what was be done for all live disks of the automation Linux distributive.
Monday 12. August 2019
The graphics group frames of the main elements library of the user interface appended for the graphic parameter calculation
The element implements a dialog of user calculation of the selected graph parameter for the graphically visible data. The user is given an option to select calculations from the built-in library, the privileged user ("root" or in the "ITW" group) has the opportunity to edit or write their own calculation procedure.
In general, the built-in library currently contains the following functions of the user calculation:
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Cricket News - 12/10/02
State Cricket Associations have received record financial distributions over the past 12 months, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) recently announced.
Figures from the ACB's 2001-02 Annual Report, adopted at today's Annual General Meeting of Board Directors, reveal the States shared in the order of $32 million of funding from 1 July 2001 to 30 June 2002. The distribution total was an increase of $9 million on the previous financial year, and an 111 per cent rise since 1997-98.
ACB Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland, said the level of distribution and year-end financial results were pleasing outcomes for Australian cricket, given the general downturn in the Australian economy, which affected commercial and sponsorship opportunities.
"Cricket as a business has experienced significant growth in recent years, reflected by its ability to draw large crowds, major sponsors and media partners," Mr Sutherland said.
"That Australian cricket could continue this trend over the past 12 months is pleasing, especially considering the financial challenges it faced following the demise of Ansett Australia, the ACB's naming-rights sponsor for home Test series.
"As a non-profit organisation, the ACB channels all revenues back through the game and the year's strong financial performance has helped the states and territories continue to develop the game from the grassroots through to first-class level," he said.
The ACB generated $70.8 million in total revenue, up $13.6 million from last year.
Other key indicators of cricket's health - match attendance, sponsorship and media rights revenue - were also positive. The 2001-02 season saw more than 890,000 people pass through the gates at international fixtures, up 90,000 from 1997-98 - the last time New Zealand and South Africa travelled to Australian shores.
The signing of new commercial partnerships with Hutchison 3G Australia, Travelex, Qantas Airways and Gatorade highlighted how attractive cricket is as a product.
At the grassroots level, more than 490,000 Australians played organised cricket and close to 500,000 children participated in MILO Cricket development programs.
Non-financial highlights of 2001-02 include:
* Australia claiming and retaining the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test Championship Trophy;
* Australia winning the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup;
* a new strategic plan being adopted;
* Women's Cricket Australia integrating with the ACB; and
* Darwin and Cairns being announced as hosts of international cricket during the Australian winter.
Mr Sutherland said Australian cricket's performance is particularly pleasing given a number of major changes over the past 12 months.
"The ACB has a new Chairman, a new Chief Executive Officer, new headquarters, a new strategic plan and a new one-day international captain following Steve Waugh's outstanding tenure," he said.
"On a broader scale, Australian cricket has lived in an increasingly challenging international environment. Issues of global significance, such as the social and political climate in Zimbabwe and terrorism strikes in Pakistan, impacted heavily on the cricket world and the ACB."
"Nonetheless, in this complex and evolving period the game has built on its solid foundations. The challenge now is to build on this platform by ensuring that Australians continue to show their passion for the game."
Source: ACB
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Tech Tip #8 - PodcastsWhat is it?
The first 7 tools I've highlighted have been for students, but it's time to switch gears and highlight one for teachers. I have found that listening to podcasts while I drive or work around the house is a way for me to continue to be a learner. I love hearing new ideas and feeling empowered to try new things. The best thing about podcasts, they're free PD and many of them have Facebook or Twitter communities to connect with the hosts or other listeners.
How do I get started?
- Download a podcast app. I have a Pixel 3 so I used Pocket Casts, but there are loads of options.
- Subscribe to a few to get started. Not sure where to start? My favorites are the Google Teacher Tribe hosted by Kasey Bell and Matt Miller and the House of EdTech by Chris Nesi.
- Still not sure where to start? Many of these awesome podcasts are members of the Education Podcast Network. Their site does a great job pointing you in the right direction depending on your interests.


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Briancon is a commune located in the Hautes-Alpes department in France. Briancon is the highest city in the European Union. Its population numbers approximately 11,600 inhabitants. Its history is fascinating and the attractions are also incredible. Briancon is a great city for a vacation.
Top Attractions within Briancon
Serre Chevalier is a ski resort located near Briancon where a lot of people come here during the winter season. Tourists who choose it, have to book their accommodation in advance as the number of tourists triples in this period. The skiing area is large and people of all ages have a lot of fun. The resort provides gondolas, slopes, cable cars, as well as chairs, drag lifts and timber lines. In the summer, this spot is great for walking, cycling, climbing, mountain biking, as well as kayaking, rock climbing, paragliding and sledding. It is also the place where many culinary events take place. The spot was also used in 2011 in the Tour de France.
Ecrins National Park is also located near Briancon and is one of the most beautiful places in the area. The park is in a mountainous region, so the landscape is great. Each year, this attraction near Briancon is visited by approximately 800,000 tourists. Tourists will love this place and its amazing views and beauties. The air is fresh, there are many fun and recreation opportunities, as well as tranquillity, so visitors will relax completely. They have the possibility to climb mountains, to walk, to take photos and have a lot of fun. This breathtaking attraction must not be omitted at all.
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People who haven't stepped out of their house will never understand the terms of travel and the joys that it brings to life. As an individual, you might have learnt a lot in classes and other such places, but there is another way through which you learn more about the world. Well, we are talking about travelling, and we are also going to lay some reasons to justify our stance.
It's Practical and not Theory
By now, we are all aware of the main difference between practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge and the kind of impact that they leave on us. Learning things by physically doing them is way better than reading them from a book. As you travel, you get to experience world cultures, and that is way better than reading it from your history books. When you read them, you create a vision in your mind based on your perspectives. But when you practically see them, you are bound to experience them in the purest forms, and that will never leave your mind.
Experience Makes a Difference
As mentioned above, we end up creating experiences as we travel, and these new ventures mark a huge difference in our lives. Our analysis becomes better, and our thought process takes shape into something better and different. These experiences can never be felt through any other method, as only you can understand them and acknowledge them. Hence, experience moulds your character, as you tend to be another person.
A Different Take
There are certain boundaries that the classroom needs to follow, and you will learn only based on them. But while you travel, you are exposing yourself to unexpected situations and instances that require to act immediately. They maneuver your mind differently, as you go about solving situations. Hence you learn a lesson or two about life and reality that has a bigger impact than any other subject in the world.
Understanding You
If you some asks you to lay down some of your characteristics, you might not be able to jot them down immediately. Because situations are the ones that bring out your true self and you will understand that by the way you act in these instances. So if you are a traveller and someone asks you sum up your characteristics, you will be able to write them down in a matter of no time, as life has taught you all that you need to know.
Advanced Social Skills
We all know the reason why we never attend gatherings and meetings due to our poor social skills. But all this can be solved by travelling, as you are bound to communicate for various reasons. Hence, such occurrences help develop an advanced set of skills that will enable you to achieve anything in life.


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Tsunami Soaker a Watery Blast of Fun
Each amusement or theme park is different. They each "need" attractions based on their audience and climate.
Many park fans (and even general public guests) have argued that one ride Six Flags Discovery Kingdom was desperately missing was another water ride. The park had two Intamin water rides (both debuted in 1999), a standard 20-person splashwater and rapids flume. But that was it. With temperatures easily pushing above 90 during the summer heat waves, the park needed something more – something new.
For many years, a rumored "log flume" was on the books, designed to interact with the animal exhibits already in the park. Consider it a "Water Safari," but for whatever reason, the ride never materialized.
So, it was with great anticipation that I rolled up to the park last week to test drive the new Tsumani Soaker – a Mack built "Aqua Twist."
The ride is deceptively simple: Four turntables (one large, three small) sink down into water when the ride begins and slowly rotate. Riders are seated in "barrels" that actually float, as they "battle" other riders, those waiting in line and would be passerby's with water guns attached to their barrels.
As soon as the ride cycle starts, the entire platform sinks, revealing the water though the grated platform. From there – the best I can describe it is this: ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE. Water is flying literally everywhere – even the ride operator's booth isn't out of the firing line.
Part of the cool interactivity of the ride is the fact that you can still cool off – even if you never go on the ride. Five water guns are stationed outside of the ride's fence, allowing non-riders to soak those on the ride. Just remember, you're in range of the guns on the ride, too. You can even nail people waiting in line – which should be interesting to watch if people begin stampeding to try and stay dry.
And don't let the small streams of water fool you – you will get soaked on this ride, there is no "wet."
That being said, there are some minor flaws. All of the Great American Thrills team that day noticed a lack of a "long enough" queue line for the ride, which is bound to spill would-be riders into the midway.
I also imagine it's a matter of time before the ride is modified, to include some form of seatbelt or restraint. Many riders on Media Day were seen standing up or switching seats to avoid the watery blasts. While riders were always safe and secure inside their barrels – most parks would rather you be COMPLETELY secured…in your seat.
The ride cycle is also quite long (this is a complaint?!?) but there's a reason why this point ends up here. You see, all of the ride's "guns" are built for right-handed people. We found that we had tired out from the one arm firing about halfway through the cycle (as did many of the other riders).
That being said, the long ride time also ensures no one will leave the ride dry. Scratch that – the ride's cycle length ensures no one leaves the ride that isn't drenched. Even with only one-fourth of the seats occupied, the entire Great American Thrills team was soaked to the bone. I can't imagine how quickly you'll be drenched when this ride is operating at full capacity.
Despite my qualms (and I'm a picky person), Tsunami Soaker is the perfect "family flat ride" that Discovery Kingdom desperately needed. It will be a welcome relief during the summer and if you bring an extra set of clothes. (You can always use the air dryer that's now conveniently located at the ride exit too – though it'll cost you $5.00 for three minutes).
WORD OF WARNING: Get a locker before going on this ride. Any electronic device is NOT safe from the inevitable drenching in your pocket, or in a backpack or other bay lying on the side of the ride.
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KGO Interview
KGO 810 AM here in the Bay Area interviewed me this past Friday on the "Lost Parks" series. Hopefully, it's the start of people discovering my little series!
For those who missed it – check it out!
Lost Parks, Episode 1 – San Mateo's "Pacific City"
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you, episode one of, "The Lost Parks of Northern California," featuring San Mateo's "Pacific City."
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Why Buy New – When You Can Buy USED?
Fans of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk should recognize this coaster "under construction."
Yep, it's the former Hurricane, with a new coat of paint and in a MUCH LESS salty environment (Not to mention drier, too!)
When old roller coaster or thrill ride eventually gets retired (Woodies are the lone exception – as they're constantly being replaced) many of them are actually sold to smaller, "mom and pop" parks where they're appreciated for many years after their first installation.
There's even websites, such as this one, which could be considered the "Craiglist" of the Coaster – where all sorts of new and used rides are bought, sold and traded between parks.
So unless your favorite ride was completely torn down…
…there's a good possibility that it was just "re-located."
Now, the thrill of the chase is on!
The art of the on-ride photo
In a way, they've become more than just part of the amusement park experience – they have become attractions in their own right…
The on-ride photo – a way for parks to make more money off you – and a way to prove to Grandma and your friends that you really did ride "The Comet" after all…
The magnum opus of these cameras is surely mounted upon Disney's Splash Mountain. Just about everyone has heard of "Flash Mountain" a place where fans (and even Disney employees) would post photos of ladies showing off their "Zip a Dee Doo Dahs" during the climactic final plunge on the flume.
Sadly, showing your "Briar Patches," – while hilarious – can get you kicked out of the park. And the photo it took? Deleted forever before anyone could see or print it.
Unfortunately, some of these stunts (as funny as they can be) are also quite dangerous. Loose objects in the past decade have contributed to significant injuries or even malfunctions of rides. Plus, parks' aren't huge fans of saddling more liability insurance because you and your dumb little buddies decided to sneak a RAZOR aboard the ride…
So, here now are some of the best (SAFE) on-ride photos from around the web:
Why not get the whole family involved?
Space Mountain never looked so…interesting?
Ah yes – the singular "group" pose – always a classic!
The eyes tell the story!
Now if only they were on Ghostrider – this would be totally in theme with the ride!
I really don't know where to start with this one – it's perfect in every way! DeNiro battles the Russians on his namesake, with press and fans behind them! (Even the ref has GLOVES on!)
Don't you wish your girlfriend was as awesome as her?
No, this is NOT photoshopped – talk about timing!
Well, the Beast IS the longest roller coaster in the US – over 30 years after it opened. Is it really that boring, though?
(I certainly don't think so!)
Continuing with the "boring" theme – here's my good pals the LaPutka's doing their best on-ride pose via Splash Mountain!
"Dad, whatever you do – please don't embarrass me in front of my friends!"
"Just catching up on the news while we plummet down to the Briar patch…"
And finally – what better way to finish this post than with a Tebow Tower of Terror!
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If you've gone around the site lately, you've noticed our new, spruced up banners.
Which one is your favorite? Be sure to comment below!
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Consumer Groups Push Back on Martin Cross-Ownership Plan
Looking to try to head off Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin's plan to loosen the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rules, the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union and Free Press were pushing their market-level analysis that they said shows that cross-ownership leads to less and more slanted news.
In a filing with the commission Wednesday, the three groups argued that their studies show that:
• Cross-ownership crowds out the competition. The presence of a cross-owned station leads the other stations in the market to collectively curtail their news output by about 25%;
• Cross-owned stations -- and markets with cross-owned stations -- don't produce more local news; and
• Cross-owned stations produce slanted news in line with the editorial position of the co-owned newspaper.
They argued that Martin's plan to lift the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership in the top 20 markets, and only for stations not among the top-four rated, was a gutting of the rules, particularly given what they saw as a more liberal waiver policy for stations below that threshold.
Martin described it as a moderate approach and one prompted by a changing media marketplace and struggling newspapers.


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Horse of the Year 2014
HOY 2014 Warmblood Grand Champion in Hand was the young mare Ordep Silhoutte (Sir Oldenburg) out of Ulivia (Olivi/ Rohdiamante). Congratulations to Farm Inn and the Michaelatos family. (Photo Yvonne McCarthy)
HOY 2014 Warmblood Reserve Grand Champion in Hand was the stallion Compton House Quantico (Quarterback/ Salieri) owned by Michael Peiser.
HOY 2014 Warmblood Gelding Champion in Hand was Midas Touch Jabari owned by Jackie Supra
HOY 2014 Warmblood Gelding Reserve Champion in Hand was Taba Divine Dancer owned by Shaun West
HOY 2014 Potential Dressage Horse was Dontaire (Valdez/ Voltaire) owned and ridden by Megan Fick
HOY 2014 Potential Dressage Horse Reserve Champion was Eeh Jazz (Jazz/ Kennedy) owned and ridden by Jean van Deventer.
HOY 2014 Warmblood Riding Horse Champion was Shakira (Sandro Hit/ Argentan ) owned by Suzie Haywood and ridden by Ashlyn Webber
HOY 2014 Warmblood Riding Horse Reserve Champion was Ulivia STV (Olivi/ Rohdiamante) owned by the Farm Inn and Michaelatos family
HOY 2014 winner of Potential Show Jumper: was Collado Christie (Collado/ Caprillie) ridden by James White owned by Nickie Whitfield
SUPREME GELDING IN HAND OF HOY 2014: Saratoga Great Expectations owned by the Heunis family


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7 Foods That Prevent Breast Cancer & Actually Taste Delicious
It's Breast Cancer Awareness month, my friends. Since this is a disease that affects one in eight women, it's not only important to learn about the condition, but it's also crucial to consider what you can do to prevent your risk of developing it. While it's known that breast cancer is caused by damage to a cell's DNA, it's not totally clear what necessarily causes that damage. There's evidence to support that lifestyle factors, genetics, and family history can all play a role in breast cancer, but the reasons why only some women develop it while others don't remain unclear. However, there is evidence showing that there are ways to reduce your risk — some of the obvious ones being to avoid things like smoking and excessive drinking. But another, possibly lesser known preventative measure involves how you eat. While your diet isn't going to cause or cure cancer altogether, there is research to support the notion that there are foods that prevent breast cancer, or can help reduce your risk.
A little research on what your food contains can go a long way in helping you add some nutrients into your diet, and lucky for us, they happen to taste totally delicious.
1. Blueberries
Blueberries are rich with antioxidants, which help maintain the health of the cells in your body. They also inhibit free radicals, which can damage those same cells.
FYI, other berries besides blueberries are good, too! Blackberries, in fact, are shown to reduce the growth of tumors. Add them to smoothies, sprinkle them on your oatmeal, or add some dried ones to your trail mix.
2. Eggs
Eggs are a great source of vitamin D, and according to the American Association for Cancer Research, can reduce the risk of breast cancer by up to 50 percent.
Scramble up a big batch to start your mornings, and while you're at it, go outside and get some sunshine to help you boost those vitamin D levels even more.
3. Beans
Beans, particularly of the black and navy variety, aid in the production of aponins, protease inhibitors, and phytic acid, all of which can help prevent or hinder the growth of cancer.
Work beans into your diet with yummy meals like burritos, rice and beans, or a grain-and-bean bowl filled with some wholesome veggies to top it all off.
4. Tea
The flavonoids found in teas (black, red, and green teas) have been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer, specifically in postmenopausal women.
Psh, as if I needed another excuse to love tea.
5. Broccoli
Broccoli is apparently packed with something called sulforaphane, which is a compound that boosts protective enzymes and cleanses and flushes the body of cancer-causing chemicals, according to Health.com. Studies show that sulforaphane inhibits breast cancer cells in particular.
If you're not much of a broccoli person, pop a few on top of your pizza, or roast some in the oven with olive oil and salt. Trust me, it's absolutely delicious.
6. Garlic
The part of garlic that makes your breath smell, phytochemical allicin, is the same thing that's going to help you fight cancer when you add heaping piles of it to your pasta. It boosts immune response and aids in reducing tumor growth.
Hey, I'll take bad breath any day if it means reducing my risk of developing breast cancer. To me, that's just common sense.
7. Walnuts
Research says that walnuts have actually been shown to slow the growth of tumors. Crazy, right? A little thing called the phytosterols found in these magical tree nuts block estrogen receptors in cancer cells. Have a handful or two as a snack, or add to your oatmeal.
So get cooking guys, and feel free to share this empowering food knowledge with all of the lovely women in your life.


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Happy New Year, everyone! The last few weeks of 2016 came and went in a whirlwind for our team and we were able to be part of SO many amazing celebrations. This week, we are starting TML Stories with Hassan and Anam's grand Shaadi (wedding) event held at the Hilton Marietta Conference Center.
Our day started out with the groom, Hassan. As we were waiting in the lobby, we noticed how all of the furniture/decor in the section we were sitting in had a really unique, almost old fashioned type of look. I opted for us to do the groom's getting ready shots in here versus the hotel room. Any chance that I find a new location for any type of shoot, I instantly take it! I thought this scene along with the groom's traditional Pakistani attire had almost an old-timey feel, something I have always been interested in experimenting more with in my photography
Hassan and Anam decided to go with a first look for their wedding day and it couldn't have turned out any more picture perfect. Everything came together so seamlessly on their big day! From the beautiful pink sunset that the bride spoke into existence (it definitely was a very overcast day up until our first look!) to the grand exit leaving in a helicopter (YES, a helicopter!!), Hassan and Anam's wedding was definitely in my list of favorites from 2016.
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There countless kind of contemporary dolls obtainable; the real world baby dolls, character dolls, style dolls, little child dolls. The center of this article is to check out the dolls made by a few contemporary doll companies to think about just what is provided, as well as to investigate exactly how every organization deciphers the value of "reasonable" in the formation of practical child dolls.
The sex doll in Australia companies discovered were Ashton Drake, Adora, American Lady, Effanbee, Corolle, Middleton Doll, Madame Alexander. An audit of the sex doll in Australia provided by these organizations discovers various selections of dolls. sex doll in Australia furthermore discovers greater than one elucidation of "credibility." Practical child dolls made to engage kids are remarkably various from practical child dolls made to speak to miss.
The greater part of the contemporary real life like dolls companies asked about setting up dolls for young people' play, besides one. Ashton Drake dolls produce a perception of being basically made as collector dolls for miss. The dolls made by the other contemporary doll companies appear to have the very same basic qualities. For a child, "authentic" is greater than just how the doll looks. How the doll can be understood, and also exactly how it talks with different professors is vital. Just how the doll really feels to the touch is crucial, much like the right size. It is fundamental that the sex doll in Australia is delicate and snuggly, particularly the dolls designated for vibrant babies 0+. The feeling of scent is likewise crucial. sex doll in Australia made for young people have the scent of talcum powder included in the vinyl skin. As the child obtains even more well established, sensible child dolls are spoken with by dolls that a younger little child or youngster can manage. The sex doll in Australia can be encouraged, cleaned, as well as wearing a couple of clothing. From the age of eighteen months on, dolls that are the appropriate dimension and weight become necessary. The majority of vital, dolls for youngsters have to be made sufficiently solid.
Just what is understood as practical for children, be that as it may, isn't the same as just what is converted as sex doll in Australia for miss. Realistic child dolls for youngsters are created to bid fundamentally to a youngster's kinesthetic feeling of authenticity. Real life baby dolls for grown-ups are primarily developed to involve the looking like so as to feel of sight a genuine infant. Of the doll organizations checked into, just two deal reasonable dolls created to take after genuine infants.
Drake baby dolls have the look of an authentic baby. Be that as it may, not the greater part of their build-ups talk to a reasonable dimension. Collectible child dolls made by Middleton Doll have the feel and look of a real infant, and speaking with a genuine child's dimension.
The quest for acquiring a youngster's sensible child doll includes 2 crucial considerations. As a matter of initial relevance, is the doll adequately hard to withstand a spit in the sea? Equally as important, is it age proper to address the youngster's concerns.
While selecting a sex doll in Australia for a grown-up, the motivation behind the doll ought to be taken into consideration. If the layout is to have a phenomenal doll to love, it could be less complex to have the doll bought for you, with the goal that it could be as quite a bit of an astonishment as having a real infant. Then again, if the factor for existing is to include an additional phenomenal doll to a celebration, it may likewise be critical to think about the action of the variation build-up. If you require your baby to be exceptionally one-of-a-kind, you might should select a doll that has actually a constrained variation dimension. Though Ashton-Drake dolls are variation dolls which are sensible aside from size, the accumulations typically aren't constrained. In examination, Middleton Doll Antique Artist Collection dolls are significantly constrained– frequently under 1,000 items.
Taking every little thing into account, there are numerous contemporary the real world like dolls organizations that provide a suitable assortment of reasonable infant dolls for doll sweeties of all ages. While picking an uncommon doll, there are numerous points to ponder, definitely, what type of a doll is wanted. Picking a reasonable baby doll for a young person is various from picking a reasonable infant doll for a full-grown.
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Spec Ops Shooting
The .22 Short, Long, and Long Rifle cartridges can be fired in both handguns and rifles. The term "Long Rifle" as it is applied to the most powerful of these three cartridges does not indicate that the cartridge is intended exclusively for rifles.
Rifles and handguns chambered for the .22 Long Rifle cartridge will fire the Short and Long cartridges as well. In the case of semi-automatic weapons, however, the weak recoil generated by the Short and Long cartridges is generally insufficient to work the action. A few semi-automatic rifles can fire .22 Short, Long, and Long Rifles interchangeably.
Repeated firing of .22 Short cartridges in a weapon chambered for the Long Rifle cartridge may cause leading of the firing chamber, with subsequent difficulty in inserting Long Rifle cartridges. Some handguns and rifles are designed to use Shorts only and will not chamber the longer cartridges.
Weapons chambered for the .22 rimfire cartridge have an 0.223-bore diameter with a 1-in/16 in. (1/16) twist. Optimum velocity is said to be obtained from a 14- to 16-in. barrel. No notable reduction in velocity occurs until the barrel reaches 18 in. in length.1 Table 2.1 (see Chapter 2) gives the rifling characteristics of the more commonly available .22 rimfire rifles. Marlin uses Micro-Groove® rifling in the rifles they manufacture. There are 16 lands and grooves in Marlin rifles chambered for the .22 Short, Long, and Long Rifle cartridges and 20 lands and grooves in their .22 Magnum rifles. Recovery of a bullet with Micro-Groove® rifling indicates that the individual was shot with a rifle since such rifling is not found in handguns (Figure 6.2). Jennings Firearms and Phoenix Arms produce semi-automatic pistols chambered for the .22 LR cartridge that have barrels with 16 lands and grooves
with a right twist. Rifling imparted to a bullet fired down such a barrel can be confused with Microgroove® rifling. The difference is that Microgroove® rifling has extremely narrow lands with grooves twice the width of the lands. In contrast, in Jennings weapons the lands and grooves have equal widths while the Phoenix pistols have lands that are only slightly narrower compared to the grooves.
The .22 Short, Long, and Long Rifle cartridges are available in either standard-velocity loadings designed for target shooting, short-range hunting, and plinking or high-velocity cartridges containing the same bullet that is loaded in standard velocity cartridges but loaded to a higher velocity. All three cartridges are loaded with unjacketed lead bullets. A small number of full metal-jacketed, .22 rimfire bullets were produced for the military during World War II. These are rare. Tracer Long Rifle rimfire cartridges have been manufactured by the French.
There are four major manufacturers of .22 rimfire ammunition in the United States and probably hundreds in the world. The major manufacturers in the United States are:
CCI (Blount Industries)
The head stamp imprinted on the flat base of every .22-caliber rimfire cartridge made in the U.S. will identify the manufacturer. Representative symbols used by the manufacturers are shown in Figure 6.3. All Remington ammunition now has the inscription "Rem" on the base. These four ammunition companies sell their ammunition not only under the company name but also under secondary brand names. Thus, ammunition manufactured by Remington-Peters has been sold under the Remington, Peters, Thunderbolt, Cyclone, and Mohawk brands; Federal under the Federal, American Eagle, and Lightning brands and Winchester-Western under the names Winchester, Western, and Wildcat. Some large chain stores have sold ammunition under a house brand. The head stamps on these cartridges may show who the manufacturer is. In addition to American manufactures, increasing quantities of .22 rimfire ammunition are being imported from throughout the world. The author has seen ammunition from the Philippines, Korea, China, Russia, Serbia, Mexico, etc.
.22 Rimfire ammunition, like all other ammunition, is made in batches called "lots." A lot is a large quantity of one type of ammunition that is manufactured under the same conditions and with materials as nearly identical as possible. Each lot is assigned a number, which is stamped on the box.
.22 Short Cartridge
The .22 Short cartridge is available in both standard and high-velocity loadings. The cartridge is generally loaded with either a solid-lead, round-nose, 29-gr. bullet or a 27-gr. hollow-point bullet. The high-velocity bullets generally have a thin copper plating or in the case of Remington ammunition, a "gold" coat (copper and zinc). High-velocity ammunition sold under secondary brand names; standard velocity loadings and target ammunition do not, as a rule, have a copper coat. .22 caliber high-velocity and hollow-point bullets manufactured by CCI have a thick layer of electroplated copper on all surfaces. On initial appearance, they appear jacketed. Manufacturing of .22 Short ammunition appears to be decreasing.
.22 Long Ammunition
The .22 Long round serves no useful purpose and is obsolete. .22 Long Rifle Ammunition
The .22 Long Rifle cartridge is available in either standard or high-velocity loadings. It is manufactured by all four major companies and is the most popular of the rimfire cartridges. The cartridge is usually loaded with either a 40 gr., lead round-nose bullet or a hollow-point bullet. The weight of the hollow-point bullet varies, depending on the manufacturer. CCI and Remington load 36 gr. hollow-point bullets; Winchester 37 gr. and Federal 38 gr. Remington also loads a 38 gr. subsonic hollowpoint. Winchester manufactured a special Long Rifle cartridge loaded with a 40-gr. hollow-point bullet called the "Dynapoint." This round had a very shallow cavity at the tip of the bullet. It is no longer manufactured.
The high-velocity loadings, whether hollow-point or solid, have a thin copper coating when manufactured by Federal and Winchester and a "gold" (copper zinc) coat when manufactured by Remington. High-velocity ammunition sold under secondary brand names, e.g., Mohawk and Wildcat, does not have the copper coat. Bullets manufactured by CCI, except target and standard velocity loadings, are electroplated with copper on all surfaces. On initial appearance, they appear jacketed and can be confused with .25 ACP bullets.
Winchester manufactures a silhouette round loaded with a 42 gr. lead truncated cone bullet. The bullet is not copper coated. Muzzle velocity is 1220 ft/s in a rifle. CCI makes a 38 gr. truncated cone small-game cartridge that is not electroplated and a 36 gr. high velocity round that is electroplated.
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Rice flour starter August 26, 2007Posted by live2cook in Breakfast, Sour dough.
All of us who write food blogs cannot deny a fact that cooking a dish is easier than writing a post about the dish. Those days when we are brimming with energy, words pour and ease the flow of writing. The write up will be satisfactory. On other not so energetic days, we feel the lack of such flow.
"I know I can cook. But am I able to write about it aptly?" is one among the doubts that stops newbies like me to enter the food blog world. But yet another undeniable fact is, we will find some or the other reason for writing a post, during the course of blogging.
Similar to this, we all agree upon a thing that, a good routine, started for fun will turn into addiction that we find no reason to stop it.
Well! Coming to the point, I started the "Sourdough Starter" with Rice flour and was waiting for a reason to write about it. As most of my recent posts are about Sourdough starter and Idly, I was little hesitant to write about the "Rice Starter". But when sharmi of Neivedyam announced "Rice" as the ingredient for the event Jihva For Ingredients, I couldn't resist writing about it. 😀
So this is it! My entry for this month's JFI is "Rice Starter".
Why I established a rice starter? During my trial and error process of Bread baking, I came to know about celiac disease. I decided that some day I will explore "Gluten Free Baking" and create some recipes that will help those in need. As the first step towards that decision, I established the Rice starter.
1 Cup rice flour
1 cup water
1. Mix the flour and the water in a non metallic bowl.
2. Cover with a towel or plastic wrap and keep in a warm, dry place.
3. Keep undisturbed until few bubbles appear on the surface of the batter which tells the start of the fermentation process.
4. when the flour mixture started fermenting, remove half cup from the mixture and mix in 1/2 cup of flour and 1/2 cup water
5. Continue the process for every 6 – 8 hours depending upon the time it takes to ferment again.
6. After 3 days of this process the starter will be ready and we can store it in the fridge.
Coffee from the spice cafe asked me why we remove 1/2 cup of the mixture and add the same amount of flour and water, while we establish a sourdough starter?
A starter gets the ability to raise the dough or batter, through aging. An aged starter means, it is well fermented and there are lots of living cultures in it which help the leavening process. We call the process of adding and removing of flour, water mixture as "Feeding". To make a stater aged, we have to feed it frequently.
While learning to bake with gluten free flours, I thought of using the starter in recipes that I am confident about and that would never fail me. The wonder recipe is Idly 😉 . I prepared "Sago Idly" with the rice starter.
1 cup Active Rice starter
1 cup Tapioca Pearls (Javvarisi, sago, sabudhana)
1/2 cup warm water
2-3 green chillies, chopped
5-6 Curry leaves, chopped
3 teaspoons Salt
1. Mix the Starter, Tapioca Pearls and the half cup water.
2. Allow to ferment for 3 hours or doubled in volume (The time depends upon the age of the starter. For example, a year old starter takes less time than few days old starter)
3. Add the Green chilli, Curry leaves and Salt. Mix well.
4. Spoon to Greased Idly plates
5. Steam for 10 minutes. Allow to cool for few minutes and Serve.
This is yet another "No dal, No Grind" idly. I have tried Rice flakes, Sooji, Ragi idly with the rice starter and all of them turned out good. Establishing the starter is the time consuming task. But once we have the starter in hand, lots of options open up like this.
I thank Sharmi for giving me the opportunity to write about my Rice Starter. Please click the logo for more details about the JFI event hosted by her.
- 1. Smita - August 26, 2007
Super creative! What an excellent idea!!
- 2. Rajitha - August 26, 2007
that idly looks good and the 'no grind' option…….sweet 🙂
- 3. sharmi - August 26, 2007
this is such a lovely recipe. thanks for the tips and the entry.
- 4. bee - August 26, 2007
this is a great idea. love your innovations and trials.
- 5. Raaga - August 27, 2007
Lovely idea… 🙂 Thanks
- 6. Zlamushka - August 27, 2007
this is a wonderful idea, priya. it looks very very healthy. I know fermentation of any kind helps digestion. Do you think regular flour or wholegrain spelt flour would work, too?
I could use this to make a rice bread….hm.. Could I ? Instead of sourdough….
- 7. Asha - August 27, 2007
Ooh! This is new!! No ferment Idlis looks so white and gorgeous.I am a little scared to try the starter but got to be brave and try one day:)
- 8. coffee - August 27, 2007
hmmm got it…… whatever one cup we remove, can be used immediately in any bread/nan making dough right? Or do you just throw it away?
- 9. Roopa (Kitchenaromas) - August 27, 2007
That's ingenious!! Have you used the rice starter in any baked stuff yet? I'd love to hear about it!
- 10. Lisa - August 29, 2007
priya…i just wanted to let you know that i am very impressed with your blog. where on earth do you find the time to do this? i have so much to learn from you, little sister!!!
- 11. Suganya - September 14, 2007
Where are you?
- 12. … and these Thy gifts … » Lasang Pinoy 22, Rice to the Challenge: The Puto Experiments - January 1, 2008
[…] Priya's recipe for rice starter, using rice flour instead of rice […]
- 13. excursus - May 30, 2008
Excursus says : I absolutely agree with this !
- 14. adi - August 16, 2008
do you throw away the half cup removed every fermenting process?
- 16. Udpheuhc - December 13, 2008
- 17. Cathy - March 25, 2009
How wonderfully creative and healthy. True artisanship!
- 18. Cathy - April 26, 2009
Hi- I'm trying to make rice sourdough starter and at about 2 1/2 days it turned slightly yellowish – not pure white like yours above. It smells fine – sourdoughish. Do you know if this is OK?
- 19. Suzanne - January 23, 2011
Please explain further the process for the cultured brown rice flour. What do you do with the "1/2 cup from the mixture that gets mixed with 1/2 cup of flour and 1/2 cup of water?" I'm lost on points 4 through 6? Are you putting the "new mixture" in a separate container and adding subsequent "new mixtures"??
- 20. Suzanne - January 23, 2011
AHHH, ok, I think I understand now? Remove 1/2 cup from the mixture, discard it? And then to the original mixture add another 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup water??
What's the reason for that?
- Leanna - August 18, 2015
You have to continue to provide the healthy yeast and bacteria sugar aka starch to feed on.


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Before I get started on this review, I have to disclose that I designed this Miss-Davenport-from-Space-Cases-themed tea myself. I don't get any proceeds from it. Those go to a charity I think the character would have supported.
Making this tea was an adventure. I don't know how to design or proportion a good tea. Adagio doesn't really give guidance; it just lets you jump in there and throw stuff in the pot in whatever ratio you'd like.
I just put some stuff in this blend that felt appropriate to the character. She's English (Earl Grey) and obsessed with waffles (caramel rooibos) and strawberries (strawberry tisane). This is a low-caffeine tea because the character is stressed out pretty much all the time. The last thing she needs is more zing in her fret.
The result smells like CRACK. You should smell this thing. Creamy and Earl-y and rich with berries.
The taste, however… is okay… but not great. I think that all the strawberry I hurled in there might have too much hibiscus lurking in it.
The flavor is, like, tangy? And not in the best way?
When I swallow, it's great. But when it's actively being sipped and in my mouth, it's both bland and a bit much.
This might actually be good iced. Hot, it's meh.
I feel like I might have messed this up a little bit, but you live, you learn. Feel free to try it, though, and all of the other Space Cases themed teas I made. Every single one has proceeds that go to charity. I am not taking your money, which is for the best, because I can't promise any of them are good.
Ah, Adagio. You are the tea world's Willie Wonka factory, and I appreciate you.
Want to Know More About This Tea?
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: Adagio Teas
This tea is a signature blend.
Learn even more about this tea and tea company here!
Tea Rex/Adagio Teas. . .
This tea is designed to "help you roar louder, roam wider and grow up big and strong, just like a real T. Rex." WOW, GUYS. THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PRETTY GREAT PLAN.
You'd think that a tea named "tea rex" would be caffeinated, but nope, which means you can enjoy your transformation to King of the Upper Cretaceous Period at ANY TIME OF DAY. The sweetness of the honeybush mingles nicely with the tea's chocolate & berry notes. It also, for the record, goes nicely with the donut I enjoyed this morning.
If you get a chance, you should go to Adagio Teas' listing for this. It's part of a decaf 3-set that also includes "Rocket Fuel" and "Monster Brew." The packaging for all three of these tins is SO cute. There are tins with lovely, bright illustrations. This would make a great gift for a friend with kids. They can feel like they're having tea like their parents, but without the caffeine. (The only thing scarier than a little T-Rex is a little T-Rex full of energy.) (Is it obvious I don't have children?)
Wishing you all a lovely day full of roaring and conquering!
Want to Know More About This Tea?
Leaf Type: Herbal/Honeybush
Where to Buy: Adagio Teas
A delicious tea to help you roar louder, roam wider and grow up big and strong, just like a real T. Rex.
blended with honeybush tea, apple pieces, cocoa nibs, dark chocolate chips (contains soy lecithin), raspberries, natural chocolate flavor, dried cherries, natural wild cherry flavor & safflower
Learn even more about this tea and tea company here!
Sleeping Dragon Tea/Adagio Teas
Gunpowder green tea was among the first green teas I'd tried as a kid. It's a little nostalgic and is now my go-to drink when I'm having a rough day and just need a pick-me-up. It's also probably responsible for my affinity for smoky-tasting teas and wines.
Sleeping Dragon picks up some of those notes from a good gunpowder tea, especially in the first cup. The first steep is rich, smoky, with subtle hints of fruit. Steep a second time and you get more of a fruity, lightly sweet green with a smoother, well-rounded flavor. (If you don't like smoky tea, you can steep for 1.5 to 2 minutes and cut back on those flavors.)
This is a tea that's fun to watch in a glass teapot—pellets slowly unfurl into long, beautiful green leaves that have a wonderful fragrance. If you're not a fan of really grassy green teas, I highly recommend this one. It's also a great intro to loose-leaf greens for friends who are new to green teas—it's a very mild flavor that won't send curious tea drinkers running the other way.
Want to Know More About This Tea?
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Adagio Teas
Sleeping Dragon green tea is grown at about 3,000 feet in the mountainous Fujian province. The tightly rolled leaves and silvery fuzzy buds give this tea its signature shape and name. In the cup, it delivers a soft, fruity sweetness enfolded by a rich smokey note similar to a gunpowder, but more complex and crisp in the finish. Sleeping Dragon remains a great cup for a green tea novice or those who oppose the grassy character of some varieties.
Learn even more about this tea and tea company here!
Fiery Cinnamon Spice/Adagio Teas. . . .
You always hear that smell is one of the most powerful senses as it is connected to your memory.
The Hot Cinnamon Spice blend from Adagio has a nostalgic aroma to me – it reminds me of red hot candies from my childhood when it's dry, and the aroma makes you think that the flavor will be overpowering.
When brewed, it still keeps that red hot candy aroma, but the flavor is surprisingly mild compared to the aroma. If you try this tea, know that you must like cinnamon in your tea! Also, be sure you drink it hot – when it cools off it taste more like a cinnamon stick.
Want to Know More About This Tea?
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: Adagio Teas
Finally, the wait is over! A long-time customer request, Fiery Cinnamon Spice is here to stay! This tea packs the perfect punch of cinnamon flavor, blended with Ceylon tea, orange peels, and cloves for an amped up, kick-in-the-palate cinnamon experience. Perfect to heat you up on a cold day, or just wake up your palate on an early morning. This tea will bring a smile to any cinnamon lovers face.
Learn even more about this tea and tea company here!
Blueberry White from Adagio Teas. . . .
The Adagio website lists a Blueberry White tea, which is what my package says, and a white blueberry tea, but scrutinizing the website I believe my tea is the Fresh Portions – Single Serve Packet. It is loose tea, and it does say Blueberry White on the packet and not the other way around. I am guessing the two are the same product with different packaging.
There is a LOT of leaf in this package but white tea is lightweight and fluffy, so I trusted them that this is the right amount for one cup. The white tea leaves are broken pieces of green and light brown, so I am guessing this is a Bai Mu Dan. It is similar in appearance to shou mei, but color and flavor seem to say otherwise, so I will stick with Bai Mu Dan.
What you get is a light and smooth cup of white tea with – in my opinion – just the right amount of blueberry flavor. The aroma is very natural. This isn't the super grape-y blueberry flavor that I find a little unbelievable but a more natural, more realistic blueberry flavor. I added no sweeteners and found it to go down quite easily with no astringency or grassiness.
A nice bonus is that I got three steeps out of these leaves with the third having good color and still some light fruit flavor, making the price for the individual Fresh Portions a little more palatable, so keep that in mind as you weigh convenience against cost. Whenever possible, I purchase for the most responsible environmental impact that I can, so I would go for loose leaf in bulk, but if you need to carry good, loose leaf tea with you and want an easy to transport, pre-measured portion, this is a good option. I enjoyed all three steeps.
Here's the scoop!
Leaf Type: White
Where to Buy: Adagio Teas
This tea blends together the taste of juicy blueberries with premium white tea from Fujian province, China. Very fragrant, like freshly harvested 'highbush' blueberries (the aromatic variety). Soft, rounded mouthfeel with a clean, refreshing finish. A customer favorite, this tea is delectable both hot and cold. Full-leaf tea in portable, individually wrapped bags – superior taste and maximum convenience.


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Hi all! This is a card I made for the Featured stamper challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. To see the card I chose to CASE, you can click HERE.
I used an adorable image by Pamela Lehto called Pam's Girl Bear. It's colored with Copic markers. I added a cute flower button and a few blue rain dots on the ends of the flags. This is the last I have of the designer paper in the background - I really loved it because the swirls are all raised dots and gives such a nice texture to cards.
Enjoy your weekend!