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No, that sound you heard this evening was not actually the wail of cats being repeatedly tortured for a prolonged period of time. That was me, trying to see if I could re-discover one of my hobbies.
With my apologies, NFAH
Long-time readers of this blog will know that, aside from being a science-y type, I have long had musical aspirations on the side. This started with piano lessons, ages 5-17. There was a hiatus, ages 17-25, and then I decided to take up the violin. Half on a challenge (someone told me once that as a piano player I was not suited to do it). Half on a desire stemming from having played keys with a string orchestra in high school. Took violin lessons for four years ages 25-29, but then when I finished my PhD things slowed down again. Darned jobs and all that. I managed a year and a half of singing in a semi-pro choir when I came to England ages 31-32.5 before my job got too busy for three nights a week, and in that time recorded two "real" classical-choral CDs, which was fun. (Note to commenters who asked about my CDs on a previous post–email me and I can send you details! I believe those who asked all know my email or if not drop a comment and I'll send you the links.) It was sort of an opportunistic thing. I sang in a choir in high school, and did musical theater, but mostly because I also played the piano for the choir and did piano accompaniment for theater stuff. I never really wanted to sing the way I wanted to play the piano, or later, the way I wanted to learn to play the violin.
But then, last week, jet-lagged and fresh off the plane from America, back all of ~20 hours, I got a mass email looking for amateurs for an orchestra. And I started drooling. Because I took up the violin in graduate school, I did not have the history with the instrument that most people, who take it up in primary school, have. I have played songs by myself and duets with my teachers. I have never played in an orchestra. And man, do I want to!
Problem number one then arose immediately. My original violin is in my parents' basement in Minnesota. I'm here. My second (!) violin is here, but it's electric!
There are two reasons for my having moved the electric violin to England and having left the 'analog' version at home. One, I live in a one-bedroom flat in a densely populated town (this is England, is there any other kind?) The "silent" violin is brilliant and much less of a guilty thing for me to play in such circumstances–what noise they hear is nothing compared to the richness of what I hear through the headphones. Two, and most peculiarly, the thing was always more comfortable for me to play compared with my "real" instrument, which I had first and for several years before I got the Yamaha. It has an integrated shoulder rest, and I even tried to buy the same brand of shoulder rest for my "real" instrument and it still did not feel as good. And my teachers hated the bow that came with my "student violin kit" and loved the bow that came with the Yamaha. (Geeky engineer in me says: Go Carbon Fibre Technology!) And let me note that mine was NOT a cheap student violin, the thing cost me a fortune and was paid for in installments when I was in grad school doing my PhD, at a time when I did not have lots of money but was still splashing out for the instrument and for lessons. ANYWAYS, I digress. I moved, I brought the electric violin with me. I played it occasionally in the first few months that I was here, but then joined the choir and got really busy. Used my digital piano a fair bit during that time to learn my alto parts, since I was a bit rusty at the singing thing, having not done much of it since high school.
(Um, yes, in addition to the violin, I also moved an 88-key digital Kawai piano to England. These things always sound reasonable in my head but when I write them on the screen they start to look funny… maybe this is not a good time to mention that in addition to the electric violin and digital piano I also brought over my Grandmother's vintage Tenor Banjo that she played in the 1939 World's Fair… now I really digress. There is clearly much here in the category of "a story for another day".)
The electric violin had not been getting much use until today, when I had the chance to go to the orchestra's first rehearsal to try and decide if there was any chance that I could join in. I got the instrument tuned up this afternoon in the most geeky manner possible (fitting, of course) using a tuning app that I have on my iPhone. (I bought the app on the recommendation of a fellow violin player at work, even though I had not been doing any violin playing. But hey, today I needed it and was so glad that I had bought it!) I played around with the violin, went to the first hour of the orchestra rehearsal, and then came back and tortured my poor neighbors with said violin for another 45 minutes. It's really not actually "silent" although it's much quieter than my student violin kit ever was.
The verdict: perhaps unsurprisingly, given the fact that it's been 4.5 years since I was in lessons, my violin playing is rusty. Really rusty. Cat torture rusty. I am lacking the callouses on my fingers and the strength in my arms that I had developed when playing the thing most days. I also have to be realistic about the fact that, since I took the instrument up as an adult, I will never have the natural feel for it that a kid who started Suzuki method classes at age 3 would have. I am also realistic about the fact that I have never been the most gifted musician ever, I have been more in the mold of "hard work, practice, practice, practice" (much to the chagrin of my very gifted, plays the piano by ear, father). BUT, all of that said, I had a fun time playing the violin today, and I think I might have to do that more often. So apologies to my neighbors, the tortured cat noises are likely to continue. I may not be sufficiently gifted or practiced to join up with the orchestra now, but I'm unlikely to stop trying, and planning for next year. I may try and find a teacher here, and acquire another "real" student violin kit (and sell the one sitting in my parents' basement gathering even more dust than my electric had been gathering in my flat here). I got a new music stand today, and it's set up in my living room, next to the nicely tuned electric instrument in its case (until tomorrow, when I'll have another go at the books I was playing from in my first year as a student of the instrument–that's how far back I had to go today!) It's just too nice to have something interesting to do at the end of a long, boring technical day spent in front of a computer, and dealing with the endless administration and paperwork associated with having a grown-up job.


text: With downtown campus funding in budget, UCF hopes it has satisfied Rick Scott Scott Powers 03/07/2016 Our Politics The University of Central Florida has walked a careful path to line up support for what had been a controversial plan for a downtown Orlando campus, and now the university has everything but the governor's signature. No one is taking that for granted though. Over the weekend, with pushes from Senate President Andy Gardiner of Orlando and House Speaker Steve Crisafulli of Merritt Island, the Florida Legislature's budget conference included the $20 million UCF needs. That came a few days after the Florida Board of Governors signed off, even as key members of that board stated flatly they would not have done so based on how the plan had first been presented. Last month the city of Orlando pushed all its chips onto the table, signing a memorandum of understanding that it would provide $68 million worth of land, buildings and infrastructure. And civic leaders and organizations in Orlando have chipped in on their own, raising $16 million in private donations over the past four months toward a promised goal of $20 million. But it all hinges on a critical set of promises and concessions that the university agreed to in January after UCF officials and officials of Gov. Rick Scott met in December to sort out what the university could do to change his mind. Scott vetoed money last summer for the campus. He still has not made any statements about whether he'll change his mind this time. That's where the UCF memorandum of understanding, approved by the UCF Board of Trustees in January, becomes critical. UCF Senior Vice President for University Relations Dan Holsenbeck called the budget appropriation a "huge relief," but not the final releif. "Honestly, it would not be possible without, first and foremost, the real support and tenacity of the speaker and the president," Holsenbeck said. "But we also have to recognize that we worked with the governor and his staff over the holidays and addressed most of his issues," he added. "I'm not speculating that he is gong to sign it or not veto it, But we worked out the issues of concern to him." Those issues included UCF promises to focus the academic offerings on majors that would address the downtown workforce needs; to review progress and weed out any programs that have low student demand; to pursue the goal of 100 percent job placement in the two most popular degree programs within a year of graduation; to set up an instructional model that would involve about 46 percent of instruction coming from traditional classroom lectures, 38 percent from hybrid methods and 16 percent as on-line studies; to not build its own student dormitories downtown, but to allow private developers to offer private student housing; to not seek any more state money until after the campus opens for the 2018-'19 year. The downtown campus was not the only major UCF project to get funding in the conference budget. UCF also is getting $14 million for continued development of a joint-use set of facilities for military research in the university's research park. It also got more than $3 million to finish renovations of a UCF engineering building, and more than $4 million for a multi-disciplinary lab building on campus. Next up for UCF, and for the University of South Florida: anticipation that they could get money and recognition as universities of "emerging preeminence." Both universities are hoping the new category is created as a notch below the current universities of preeminence category that brings the University of Florida and Florida State University additional funding. Bills are alive in both houses to create the new category, and the universities are hoping the money will appear in the budget. They expect $20 million to be set aside for UF and FSU to split, and an amount equal to half of what the preeminent universities get — $10 million this year — for UCF and USF to split. Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.

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I love to sew things. It all begins with the fabric, or with the 2 lace dresses I just made and listed.... it begins with vintage Quaker Lace tablecloths.
A beach wedding, even indoors! for a non-traditional bride, these 2 dresses have a bohemian vibe.
when I was in High School in Napa, I made dresses (and tops and skirts and bags and hats...) just like these for a "head shop" that was a few blocks from Napa High.
Back in the day, us hippies and flower children and those who wanted to be like us, shopped for cool threads, incense, black light posters, hippie bead necklaces and so on...... at Head shops.
We made our own stuff, and we made our own economy.
Both of these lace dresses, are for a medium to large size gal. I
figured that tall skinny girls will have a million dresses to choose
from.... I wanted to make something bohemian with a vintage flair.....
so I drew on my years of design, and the kinds of dresses I used to
These are new vintage!
I was very inspired to use the lace patterns to show off the intricate patterns.
Not only for a wedding.... these are lovely to wear to any special event, to the beach, the cabin and to all those summer festivals.
I show them with pearls, or with more bohemian accessories, and you can wear them with moccasins, cowboy boots or sandals.....
It has vintage lace collars and the view from the back is as enchanting as the front (very important for a wedding)
This one is Tea Length, about calf length with amazing full sleeves! They are split from the drop shoulder seam, and then are gathered at the wrist with a band and satin ribbons to tie in a bow or to let the tails fly. clicky here.
When you plan your wedding, I hope you'll avoid the "wedding
industry complex". No you don't have to buy millions of pounds of commercial food, buy expensive invites and all the $$$$, that wedding planners want you to spend on stuff you don't really need or want.
If you love flea markets,
estate sales, and borrowing cute decor and details for your wedding decor, then you can have a gorgeous wedding..... a wedding that makes you happy. And you can and should do a beautiful wedding without going into debt.
Your friends and family will be so happy to help you create the lovely day you want, and buying from artistic and talented
people and small and tiny business, and even making stuff yourself, will make your day that much more memorable and much more cheap! and you will be thankful you saved money and put it in a savings account.
This longer dress is 20s in style, very Gatsby era with it dropped waist effect and lots of lavish lace. It has a higher neckline and a vintage zipper on the back, concealed with a satin ribbon decorated with vintage shell buttons.
It has bell sleeves and can be worn with its wrap sash of lace or not....... and of course, you can wear it styled very bohemian with leather and long necklaces. clicky here.
The back neckline has a concealed vintage metal zipper covered with a satin ribbon and tiny shell buttons..... vintage, of course!
Monday, June 23, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Living the Full Time Vintage Camping Life. 1.
This here's the first in a long long series of posts about living full-time in a 1973 Vintage Winnebago Brave. To see more, when we first bought it and some of our trips for the first 3 years we had it while living in a real House... just click over there on the right side, the Winnie posts, and you'll see them all line up.
(don't know where that pic came from, but it is so cool)
On Pinterest, and all over the interwebs you see lots of trailers and rvs, those cute vintage ones, with pretty pretty adorably accessorized staged sets. Glamping is what the kids call it.
All those pots of geraniums, those tables and chairs, those teapots, saddles, vintage crinolines, umbrellas, coolers, lounge chairs, rugs, banners and so on, have to be packed in the trailer, and then set up for the pretty pictures.
Here's a cute Sisters on the Fly photo:
So for a 3 day camping trip, you would spend a half-day just loading that stuff in ... never mind the food! and then at least 2 or 3 hours packing it outside, setting it up and then you do it again before you head home. Inside a vintage camper (I'm gonna call all RVs, 5th wheels, tiny houses built on towing frames, and trailers, just campers, for brevity), it is small. That's half the charm!
That refrigerator is 1/3 the size of a normal home refrigerator and holds about 1/3 of a weeks food. The cute stove/oven is darling and boy does it work, but it is hard to cook for a lot of people, or to bake or boil a large pan of anything. and. Counterspace!
See that 7" space between the stovetop and the tiny sink? yup. That and the cover over the sink is your counter space. The sink in most small campers is exactly the size of a little bar sink you might have in the basement rumpus room. Small. 10" x 13" is the inside measurement. Just large enough for a dinner plate.
Yes, you can use the table but if anyone is doing anything there..... it becomes difficult. They have to move, or you have to use another space. So...
Doing anything in a camper that resembles doing something in a real bricks and sticks house, requires thought, cleverness, skill and a different way of thinking about routine chores.
Not to say you can't have the perfect life (We do), and super-excellent delicious meals...
because you can. And do. It just changes. And part of the point of going camping.... in a teeny tiny house, is to change your life, at least for a few days.
It's Great! it refreshes the mind, and hopefully, you get to relax and just sit. Or hike, or fish, or just sleep ;-)
The first change you have to make if you are gonna live in a camper full time, is to get rid of Stuff! Campers have a small amount of storage (at least vintage ones do!).
This is actually a very good thing. I mean really, what do you need? Why do you have thousands of place settings? Do you entertain all the time? Have a large family? Well, then full-time living in a smallll space may not work for you.
Just things to think about.
We entertain outside in the patio, and use paper plates and real silverware. We keep service for 6 in the Winnie. That's too much really, but we do want to have a few friends and family over, so that seems the right amount. We ended up using all the damn dishes just for ourselves, and then have to wash service for 6. That's stupid! We decided we need to be washing dishes more often.... and using them again and again during the day, rather than reaching for a new dish or glass or spoon all day long.
Here's the arrangement for washing dishes we worked out. Once a day! And getting in the habit of washing as you use a dish or glass, is getting easier.
And even this arrangement is different now. Trial and Error, my friends! here's the current look.....
We bought the smallest drain tray that Rubbermaid makes.... made in the USA! and set our vintage wire dish rack on it, and clipped it securely with clothespins. We use clothes pins a lot.... so handy!
We added a white wire rack to get things off the counter, and we hang the dish brushes up on the curtain rack. Gosh, we've moved the fire extinguisher too!
Mostly we wash with a soapy sponge after letting them sit in some soapy water for a few minutes to loosen whatever.... and then drain the sink, wash 'em and stack 'em. On a hot day, they'll be dry in an hour, but sometimes we'll just dry them with a dishtowel and put them away immediately. Then just hang the rack on the wall. Works for us! We do have a small plastic bin that sits in the sink perfectly, but we don't use it often (it lives outside under the Winnie in the "basement" aka, under the Winnie).
A note about the coffee pot maker. Yes, that's a 4 cup machine that's missing its glass coffeepot. When we were driving around before we "landed" we stopped for lunch, and someone forgot to secure the coffee maker. That meant, putting it inside the sink so it wouldn't roll around. And fall. And break.
Well, as Mark was driving the Winnie, and I was following in the car, the pot went flying, crashed on the floor, busting the glass pot into a million pieces of tiny sharp shards of glass.
Going around a corner, trying to not get caught by the Red Light Camera (grrrrr) to have the pot Smash on the Floor and KaBoom! was frightful.
I spent a half hour cleaning up that mess. It was my fault, because as navigator and security agent, I didn't do all I needed to. Lesson Learned. Now we have a perfect use for this sweet little vintage pot. So, it turned out OK.
Let's start in the beginning when we first arrived at our sweet little trailer park. First we just set up our folding table and chairs outside for breaky in the sun! I think it's really important to use tablecloths or placemats, and to set a lovely table, because Art adds to Life!
So this is where our full time life started. The spot in our trailer park, the Winnie, and one vintage Volvo.
We drove the Winnie down to Cali, then took a rental car home. Loaded up a big U-Haul, and towed this vintage Volvo. When we arrived a month later, we put a lot of stuff in a storage space, and moved into the Winnie.
A friend drove our Vintage Volvo wagon down the next week, and so we entertained and put up our friend in the upstairs bunk.
Like this....... Guest quarters.
We've added a lot of important stuff to our life..... a pop-up patio, a metal shed for my sewing room, and lots of pots of vegetables and flowers. You can take the girl out of the country garden, but you can't take the country garden out of the girl...... oh, yes, we live in the perfect neighborhood. A nursery is One block away!
What did we do for the first month? We arranged and rearranged the inside and outside.
We had to get rid of more stuff, and maximize our room and our lot. There was the buying of a million things...... the right size poop hose, shower curtains, water hose, pots and potting soil, plants plants plants, and tomatoes, hooks, nails, screws, finding of pallets for steps and other stuff, we moved and removed, we bought lots of small stuff a person usually keeps in the junk drawer and out in the garage.
We found we got rid of the right stuff and the wrong stuff when we were packing to move. Oh well, and more details on that in a later post, if you are interested.
We miss only our family and friends. We don't miss Washington at all, ever.
See ya next post about Living the Full Time Camping Life. 2.
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Tan and Refreshed
California! summertime... all the time!
And this, my friends, is what California looks like all the damn time.
We're dancing fools.
We're dressed in the hippest clothes.
California is a planet that only circles in the same orbit as the Planet Earth, but I'm here to testify, that California is a planet. All by itself.
The same sun shines on us all, the same moon is in the same sky, but California goes round and round and round on its own journey.
so, where were blue denim jeans invented?? California.
Where was surfing a pop phenomenon? California.
Skateboard culture? California.
Movie stars, Swimming pools, California is the place you wanna be.
What is the California look? Levis, cut-off jeans, plaid shirts, wide stripe t shirts and t shirts with anything and everything printed on them.
Sandals, flip-flops, and sunglasses.
Kinda like this!
funkomavintage is back to selling the West Coast cool stuff...... here in our etsy store, and here at our website.
Vintage Levis, t shirts, vintage boots and all manner of Western Americana.
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If you're familiar with Citrix Online, you know they've got a suite of SaaS and cloud-based applications that enable companies to do things like arrange on-the-spot meetings online (GoToMeeting). Another example: Consumers and business travelers can use Citrix Online to access their home or office computers (GoToMyPC).
Now, it looks like Citrix has a new service, GoToManage. In January, it bought Menlo Park, CA-based IT management vendor Paglo Labs, which offers a cloud search engine for IT and logs. This enables users and managed service providers to capture and store logs and search and analyze them in the cloud by collecting data from networked devices.
While I don't usually write about competitors (Paglo lets businesses monitor servers and applications in real time and manage network usage and track configuration changes), I think it's interesting that Citrix Online continues to recognize the growing need among companies to monitor and manage their cloud databases, apps, servers and networks.
Citrix Online introduced GoToAssist, Web-based remote support, about 10 years ago. To cater to individuals and small businesses, it created GoToAssist Express last year. But GoToManage gives GoToAssist customers new capabilities.
"This is exactly what is needed if you have distributed infrastructure," said Brian de Haaff, Paglo's CEO, in a story about the new service. With GoToManage, "MSPs and IT consultants can get a unified view of multiple companies' IT infrastructures and offer proactive monitoring and alerting, while also offering remote access, file transfer capabilities and customer branding and reports."
I also found it interesting that Citrix Online surveyed its customers and more than 60% wanted some form of monitoring solution.


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There's two kind of people in this world; those who talk and those who do. We all want a lot of things in this thing we call life but what sets others apart from the rest is actually achieving them. As you know by now, it takes a lot of hard work and determination to get things that we want. Nothing worth having comes easy and ultimately that is going to be what weeds out the people who are willing to do anything to achieve success. You see, a want is started with a simple idea of having something. We start by aspiring and next comes action. We take certain actions to get us closer to our goals. However, this part isn't all one straight road; there's going to be obstacles, objections, and battles that we might have to face. But what's going to keep us going is our determination. Although some people will give up along the way.
This road to success is where we're tested. Are we worthy of having such a thing? Are we up for the challenges we will face? Do you want it that bad to be willing to endure the hardships? What sets you apart from the rest is your discipline. Your discipline to keep going. Your will to continue even after you felt like giving up. You're going to have to keep telling yourself that you're worthy and remember why you started. Be a person of action and one who not only talks the talk but walks the walk. These kind of people end up a lot more happy in life. Success is granted to those who are worthy of having it, and that is shown by discipline and action. You have to put in what you want out. So be a person of doing this week!


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Nate Dogg, or if you didn't grow up during the eighties and nineties, Nathaniel Hale, passed away last night at the age of 41. No information has been released as to the official cause of death, but Hale had some pretty sticky health situations for the past few years and suffered some pretty serious ailments, including recent strokes.
I fondly remember Nate Dogg from my 6th grade year in school, as 'Regulate' had just been released, and naturally, had become popular. All of my friends and I would go to the local skating rink, request the song, and skate around like we were the trendiest, baddest of the badasses. Yup. Fond, fond memories of pretending to know it all at the tender age of eleven, when in reality, we didn't even know what the song was alluding to. Isn't it just like that a lot of times?
RIP Nate Dogg, and I hope you're finally at peace.


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The bird's flyway conservation family
Champions of the Flyway 2018
Once a year birdwatcher from all over the world meet up in Eilat (Israel). All of them trying to protect the migratory flyway from Africa to Europe and Asia.
The event is a birding race to collect money for campaigns against illegal killing of birds on the flyway.more


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Are we bike friendly?
Winston Salem has many signs of being a bike-friendly community with competitive cycling races, recreational bike rides on roads and greenways and even biking commuters pedaling to and from work.
Biking falls into three categories: competition, recreation and transportation. When I was about nine or ten, my dad got me my first serious bike, a Schwinn Tiger sold then by the Harley Davidson dealer on Brookstown Avenue. You could say it was for recreation, but at that age, it was my freedom machine and my main form of transportation. But back in those days, I didn't think of a bike as something adults would use. Now, adults are on bikes are everywhere.
As far back as 1978, competitive cycling was in Winston Salem. The Hanes Park Criterium began that year and became an exciting day of racing each summer. Bike racing teams continued to use Winston as a stop on their seasons expanding into exciting nighttime races downtown. The most recent evolution is the Winston Salem Classic, a part of the US Cycling championship races. Additionally, a national olympic cycling training site is setting up facilities in our downtown.
Each Sunday evening (during summer months and afternoon the rest of the year) a community bike ride group supported by the City of Winston Salem heads out on a relaxed 10 to 15 mile ride around the city. Also, area bike shops lead after work rides on other days. On meetup.com you can find our Clip In & Ride roadbike group and a mountain bike group. A rail to trail initiative will be complete by the end of 2016 to convert the old Norfolk & Western tracks that run through downtown into a multi-use greenway to connect to the Salem Lake greenway and trail.
I feel like our community shines in biking for the first two categories. But transportation–as in commuting to work and shopping–clearly lags. Other than the constraints practically any place would have–weather and transporting items (groceries and other purchases)–Winston Salem has one issue that, while not unique, many urban areas are not as plagued: hills. Closer to the foothills than about three-quarters of the state, we have some very steep hills to traverse. Hills are great for exercise but a bit of a drawback in starting your work day perspiring and with achy muscles.
However that can be ameliorated in two ways: New construction needed to upgrade Business I-40 has led to the Creative Corridors initiative. It has been very bike and pedestrian conscious in its designs and will lead to practical biking solutions for a number of urban routes in the next few years. The other way is by having a community that advocates for bikes. Individuals in Winston Salem have formed our own bicycle advocacy group Beers 'n Gears. Also the Winston Salem City Council authorized and filled a position for a pedestrian and cycling traffic planner in 2009.


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Councils that improve their performance in the second round of the Comprehensive Performance Assessment, due to be published in December, will get recognition from the Audit Commission, even though they do not move up to a higher category. The Commission recognizes that a 'poor' or 'failing' assessment is demoralizing for staff, but failure to acknowledge progress, even though it does not result in a higher rating, could have a devastating result on morale. Audit Commission relationship managers will report annually on the 'direction of councils' and the reports will be published at the same time as the performance assessments. The reports will also highlight weaknesses in councils that are not improving.This move by the Commission has resulted from consultation on the next steps for comprehensive performance assessment. Other decisions include maintaining the current CPA framework for 2003/4 and 2004/5 and adopting a more flexible approach that will allow movement between categories.Consultation will start shortly on the CPA arrangements for 2005/06 to 2009/10. There will be discussion forums involving local council members and officers to test out emerging proposals on the policy framework, information needs and the assessment framework. The Commission will put forward a programme for these forums and invite councils to volunteer to participate. One of the aims for the new arrangements will be to develop a framework that gives a more rounded judgement by bringing together performance on services with the ability of the council. This will need to recognize the influential role that local government has in its locality. Features to be incorporated in the revised framework include the impact of deprivation on outcomes, assessment of citizen/user experience, measuring cost effectiveness and value for money and addressing race equality and diversity issues.
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Planning a wedding can be daunting, with lots of decisions and pressure to do things a certain way. When we got engaged we were sure of two things: 1 – that we wanted our wedding to be one big party; and 2 – that we wanted Emma involved. From being our eyes and ears on venue scouting when we were still in Australia; to helping us decide on florists and bands; to the styling, organisation and setup on the day itself… Emma was calm, creative and considerate at every stage. She is a wedding planning angel. – Lizzy & Jack, Crickhowell 2016
Words can't express how grateful we are to you Emma for your amazing creativity, ideas, help and support for our magical wedding day. There are no words to explain what a special, special day we had and it will stay in our hearts forever. You were AMAZING! From the outset, so patient yet able to read our minds, even if I wasn't so great at expressing myself initially.There is no way we could have pulled it off without you. Having you there enabled me to be calm. The flowers were amazing, the decorations you did just so so beautiful and in-keeping, so many people said it took their breathe away and this is all thanks to you. You're a special lady and anyone who chooses to use Sylvie and Joan in the future, will be very, very lucky. With our heartfelt thanks, deep gratitude and love – Emma & Mark, Abergavenny, 2015
Having seen examples of weddings on the Sylvie & Joan website we had complete faith in Emma to interpret our own ideas. Emma exuded warmth and enthusiasm right from the start and really listened to everything we wanted to incorporate.Emma has such a calming influence which really put our minds at rest, she kept us up to date throughout the process and made lots of suggestions for how we could achieve what we wanted on our budget. Emma's contribution to our day was invaluable; we were thrilled to have her on-board and received so many wonderful comments from our all guests. As a result we have beautiful photographs and wonderful memories that we will cherish forever. – Jade & Alex, Brecon, 2015
I cannot recommend Emma highly enough. Emma provided us with 'On the Day Coordination' but it was really much more than this. She answered my calls for help and provided a presence of calm among the choas for months before the big day. Having Emma on board helped me to totally relax and enjoy the big day. She made sure everything run like clockwork. She is so incredibly organised and her attention to detail is remarkable. On the day Emma was there from sunrise to long after sunset – she was an absolute superstar. The morning after the wedding many of our guests commented on how wonderful Emma was – she is so friendly and likeable. Our guests also said they had never been to a wedding like ours….we both feel Emma was the key to the success of our wedding day. – Samantha & Greig, The Gower, 2014
Emma is an absolute joy to work with. We were bursting with ideas for our wedding and needed a trusted someone to put them into action on the day. Emma made sure everything ran incredibly smoothly – meaning we could both get on with enjoying a fantastic wedding day without having to worry about the details. She puts care and thought into everything she does, as well as adding so much of her own creativity and style, from bringing along her own props to making sure I was well stocked with (much needed) tissues. I would not hesitate to recommend her work to brides and grooms to be who need an extra hand.- Ros & Joe, St Donats, 2014
Emma was incredibly supportive, imaginative, organized and calm – everything you want from someone helping you plan your special day. The wedding looked beautiful and the atmosphere was relaxed, thanks to her stylistic flair, organization and time keeping. We enjoyed every minute with our friends and family because we could completely trust Emma with the details and management of the day. With her kind and friendly manner, she kept everyone relaxed and briefed them on their roles, taking away any stress from us. We cannot recommend Emma highly enough. – Lals & Mark, Pembrokeshire, 2013
Emma was absolutely fantastic on the day – we had never considered having a wedding planner, but hosting the wedding at our own place meant she was a great asset and we couldn't have managed without her! Emma is charming, helpful, creative and hard-working. We can't speak highly enough of her. – Lucy & Will, Lampeter, 2012
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Where Our Amber Comes From
Amanda's Story
Where our Amber Comes From
The largest and most famous deposits of Amber are found in the Baltic Sea region. These deposits represent approximately 80% of the amber found in the world.
All Amber at Amber by Amanda is specifically from the Baltic Sea region of Lithuania. I do not deal with international trades, African Amber, Mexican Amber, Polish Amber, Russian Amber, or Amber from anywhere other than those found among the coast of Lithuania. Narrowing my Amber down to a specific location helps me to ensure my customers exactly where their Amber is coming from.
I have experienced Amber from this region to be the most medicinally beneficial, and I maintain a great rapport with each of my suppliers in this area. These Lithuanian suppliers are not jewelry stores. In fact, they are the Amber hunters and manufacturers, themselves, and only deal with large quantity customers. They find the amber, clean it, carve and shape the amber, smooth it, polish the amber (if necessary), and drill holes in the loose Amber beads.
Do I make my Amber healing jewelry at Amber by Amanda? Yes and no. My Lithuanian manufactures make Amber jewelry and sell loose Amber beads, as well. It depends on the current costs of Amber, my time, and the demand from my customers. Usually, it is more cost-effective for me to receive already strung Amber items. Yet, there are times when the costs of loose, pre-drilled Amber beads are priced to be worth my time.
Regardless of who actually makes the Amber jewelry, each item is always handmade with attention to detail…and always made with Baltic Amber precisely from the Baltic Sea shoreline of Lithuania.
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As a mother of two, I have a passion of raising my children with the safest, most organic products possible. Our raw lifestyle requires extensive research on natural healing, and I do my best to avoid unnecessary medications when nature-made remedies are available. I believe in and trust nature to the fullest. We are a vegan family, and our kids are raised vegan from conception.
I started Amber by Amanda after discovering the healing benefits of amber with my first son while he was teething. A simple necklace did so many wonders for him, from teething to the overall wellness of his immune system, so I had to get one for myself. My own amber necklace helped improve my thyroid, which allowed my physician to gradually wean me off my (homeopathic) thyroid medicine. After routine blood work checks, she informed me my amber was too strong for medicine and I had to choose to either (a) continue wearing the necklace or (b) go back to medicine, but not both. Of course, I chose my amber necklace.
It was the process of searching for amber necklaces for my son and I that made me realize how scarce this remarkable product is in our country. I wanted to help bring the amber healing benefits closer to us at the most convenient price. Something so natural and readily available should be easily accessible to everyone. After all, amber is very common in European countries, so common, in fact, they can purchase amber healing jewelry at any pharmaceutical store. Forget the 2-6 week waiting time for your amber to arrive from the Baltic Sea. When we think of amber, we want it NOW.
My goal is to share the healing benefits of amber at the most affordable price and get it to your door in a small fraction of the time. Thank you for experiencing the strength of amber with me!
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The Getaway Collection
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The Getaway Collection
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This wrinkle-free dark grey shirt is the perfect look for your summer plans.
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Difficulty finding suitable care for her disabled son inspired Rose Walden to start her own facility in Louisville
Seviche is one of those favorite restaurants that I do not visit nearly enough. They are, however, giving me a great reason to visit on Sunday with their New Years Day brunch buffet and...get ready for it...Bloody Mary bar!
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(A re-do of a 4th of July post I did for Nashville style blog, Stella Shops.)
In a long list of French fashion standouts, the striped sailor's shirt hasn't changed much in over 150 years. And like so many French classics, we have the independent style revolutionary Coco Chanel to thank. In 1917, she started carrying these striped shirts in her shop in the elegant seaside resort of Deauville—popularizing the French navy's uniform item as de rigueur apparel for the vacationing chic.
I've love all the recent derivations of this striped wonder. But really, the original is where it's at. After all, it was good enough for Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Bridget Bardot, Andy Warhol and the Ramones….
Since 1871, these striped classics have been manufactured by a small French company that shares the name of the Normandy town where it's based—Saint James. The original Saint James contract was with the Marine Nationale, the French navy. A government act degreed that sailors all wear striped shirts as part of their uniforms—the better to spot the unfortunate guy who fell overboard. The earliest version had exactly 21 stripes, one for each of Napoleon's naval victories against the British (or so it's said).
Saint James now produces a dizzying array of these classics, in varied weights, colors and styles (including some pretty swank collaborations like the one launched last year on Bastille Day with nightlife impresario André and The Standard—and completely sold out, btw).
I vote for the original model, though. Along with red lipstick, ballet flats, a cigarette, and an independent point of view.


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Central hub for our social media and community outreach, this is the spot to hear news the minute it happens. Don't forget to stop by the 'tavern' and see our photo gallery with friends of Norsfell!
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How fast can you backpedal?
The bigger issue is blogging and the rules are still being written on the relationship between blogging and journalism. Dr. Mary Lou Sheffer and I just completed a survey study of sports journalist-bloggers at TV, radio and newspaper outlets across the country, and there's still a lot of confusion out there regarding how to blog, why to blog and what benefit the blogging has for the media outlet.
Another interesting issue is how old institutions react to new media. By dropping all its advertisements a few years ago the Masters tournament showed us that an old dog can learn new tricks. Hopefully the NCAA is willing to learn a few as well.


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Comedian Artie Lange Arrested
Funnyman Artie Lange is facing drug possession charges following an arrest last Sunday (12Mar17) outside his home in New Jersey.
The comedian, who stars in new HBO show Crashing, was busted after police in Hoboken found cocaine, heroin and drug paraphernalia both on him and in his car.
He was taken into custody and booked on three separate charges before he was released, reports TMZ.com.
Lange, who has a long history of substance abuse and reportedly tried to commit suicide in 2010, took to Twitter shortly after the news hit headlines on Friday (17Mar17), and assured fans he was doing well.
"Hey guys. I was arrested. I'm doing great. Physically too!," he posted, before praising the "professional" arresting officers for treating him so well during the incident.
Lange, who rose to fame as Howard Stern's sidekick, then insisted he was doing his best to stay healthy: "I wish I could tell u how my story ends," he tweeted. "I hope it's being old & smiling cuz of unique memories. But I'm such a flawed person guys. Tryin (sic)!"


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"When I am grown up I will still want Mommy Cuddles but I won't NEED them anymore"
Its that time again – Here we have come full circle once again to another Thanksgiving.
This has been an insanely busy year for me. As much as I love all of the people and thing in my life it is not very often that I get much time to reflect upon that which I am thankful for.
I do often think in spare moments that I am thankful for my Home, my family, my husband, and my boys. But these moments are fleeting and overwhelmed by the hectic flow of my life. Today I would truly like to take some time to pause and reflect upon the people and things which I am thankful for. I am working om creating a list on pinterest for some of these things.
What It Means to be Southernrecent
This word cloud was created using a compilation of writings on what the south means to a group of random southern raised people.
I thought that it was an interesting reflection of the southern cultural identity. The Identity of Southern America is not so much a concrete thing but as shifting collection of ideas, collective experiences, and a shared past.
Waiting Gameart
Only a couple of weeks before the day. We are moving into the time where the baby can come any week or any day. Time is going fast and so I know he will be here in the blink of an eye.
I am so excited at this point to hold him, nurse him, rock him, and love him. However, I am not without total concern. I am worried that Tristan may be jealous of his baby brother. I really want him to have a positive relationship/ experience with his baby brother and also with being a big brother. I have no doubt that he will be an amazing big brother because he is a kind and affectionate kid. I just want him to be happy, after all he is my heart.
It also seems so strange to me that I am going to have another baby who I will love just as much. It doesn't even seem possible to fit that much love into one place, but I trust that it is possible and that it will happen.
Having a Baby!art
Having another baby!
Filled with both excitement and worry.
More responsibility, more love, more vulnerability!
A Thanks Givingrecent
There are those reflective moments in life, when I take a step back to survey my life. It is in these quiet moments when I feel a true joy. I know in these moments, surrounded by those who I hold dear, that I am truly blessed.
I am so thankful to have food. There have been times when I have not had a table with food or food in my pantry. I believe to be thankful for this most basic essential one must go without first.
I am thankful for my loving family. There have been moments in my life where I was truly alone.
These were the darkest times. The love provided by friends and family feeds ones spirit in dark hours.
I am thankful to be alive. I am thankful to be able to experience these blessings and feel the warmth of spirit known as gratitude.
The return of joyart, recent
Winter is gone , the dreary cold bleak days have subsided giving way to the electric buzz of a sun filled florida spring . The world is being reborn and you can feel the fresh new energy. I can feel my energy returning with the warmth of this new season. Every year it is the same I become spiritually dormat in the winter. I feel as though my soul falls into a deep slumber but with the spring a joy returns and my I am ecstatic.
This is a time to start many projects. Time to create, plant, sew, love!
Closerart, recent
I was driving down the road the other day, and it dawned on me that my child and any child for that matter is as close as we can get to ourselves without being ourselves. As the progenitors of another life we are the originators and the closest to those little beings. Obvious, I know, but this is why we care so much. If they were any closer they would just be us and then we would not care at all. They are at that very special point, an apex. They are the us that breathes outside our bodies. The beating, living, breathing parts of ourselves over which we have no control. This is scary, being a parent is to risk losing something more valuable than yourself.


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7 oz. pancetta, chopped, cooked until slightly browned, drained
8 Smart Chicken boneless, skinless chicken thighs
6 medium shallots, sliced
12 oz. petite carrots (or 3 large carrots, sliced into coins)
1 small bulb fennel, trimmed, cored, and sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups white wine
3 cups chicken broth
4 sprigs thyme
1 bay leaf
Slurry made from 1/2 cup water and 2 Tbs. cornstarch
2 Tbs. flat leaf Italian parsley, minced
DirectionsCook pancetta in open pressure cooker over medium heat until pancetta is crispy and browned, approx. 3-4 minutes. Remove pancetta from pan and drain on paper towels; reserve.
Add 1 Tbs. olive oil to open pressure cooker over medium high heat. When oil is hot, add chicken thighs, a few at a time, and cook until golden brown on all sides; removing from pressure cooker as you go along, keeping drippings in pressure cooker. Reserve browned chicken thighs with pancetta.
Place shallots, carrots, and fennel into drippings in open pressure cooker and cook over medium heat until vegetables are softened and golden brown, approx. 6-8 minutes; add garlic and cook an additional 30 seconds, just until fragrant.
Place chicken on top of cooked vegetables; add wine and broth to pressure cooker, along with thyme and bay leaf; cover pressure cooker and lock lid into place. Bring to 15 psi over high heat, then immediately reduce the heat to the lowest possible setting to stabilize and maintain that pressure, and cook for 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and let pressure cooker depressurize slowly, carefully removing the lid after the pressure drops. Transfer the chicken from pressure cooker to a platter, using a slotted spoon. Stir prepared slurry into sauce and bring to a boil; reduce heat to a simmer and cook until mixture thickens, whisking constantly, approx. 2-3 minutes.
To serve, place chicken on a platter, pour thickened sauced over the top, then garnish with reserved cooked pancetta and freshly minced Italian parsley.


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Year : 2017
Style : Power Metal
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 169 mb
After the end of 'Distorted Perfection', Mathias & Dom decided to form a new band. Only this time it would be based upon their own passion for music. While being fond of quite different bands, they both share the same past. Therefore it seemed only natural to form up an old-school power metal band. Surprisingly, they quickly found a third member much younger than themselves. Alvin (Gallow Sailors) joined the band instantly after hearing about their intentions. To complete the instrumental lineup, the even younger newcomer Max joined the band shortly afterwards. Despite his young age, he instantly became one of the driving forces of writing songs as well as lyrics. Finally, the highly acclaimed Anti (ex-Improved Gods) stepped up to become the charismatic and energetic frontman of 'Don't Drop The Sword'.
DONT DROP THE SWORD is not a cool band name. But that does not matter.The guys are making great music, and just months after the still-fabulous debut EP (which I rated too weak at 8.0 points), they are producing an album with 14 songs and 63 minutes of playing time.For me it is the most eagerly awaited debut album of the year - next to LUNAR SHADOW. The band still sounds like BLIND GUARDIAN 1992, and that's just perfect for me. The biggest plus for me is the vocal color of singer Anti, who in some cases comes very close to what I consider to be the greatest German metal singer: Hansi Kürsch. Despite everything, there is an independent note, and of course like the Instrumentalfraktion. You may already notice that quality work has been delivered here as well.The only exception: The relatively flat cover looks more like a "Prince of Persia" drawing from ten years ago, of course, created on the computer. Since the Middle Earth bowing on the EP was clearly beautiful. Lyrically one uses oneself little creatively with all kinds of typical fantasy literature. And let's face it: what could be better? Tolkien or Martin are just great for good metal.Without an unnecessary intro, it starts with 'Guardians Of Light', a brisk, quite epic number that would also go well with STORMWARRIOR, and the guitar solo could also be found on 'Nightfall In Middle-Earth'. Strong entry. The somewhat dissonant 'Rotten Wings' goes one better and easily reaches the level of EP hits. The chorus would fit on any of the last three BLIND GUARDIAN discs, but the verse is more aggressive.'We Deal In Lead' sounds like a RUNNING WILD title, and indeed, the Pirate Kings are smelling a reference in the chorus. After the first two numbers, the title is quite easy, maybe because it is too similar to the tempo. This is followed by a short break with 'Drums In The Deep' - the orcs come. 'To The Proud A Grave' will continue in earnest. The polyphonic singing at the beginning reminds me of very early RHAPSODY material, but otherwise symphonic elements are omitted. And that's good, of course. Otherwise there's stuffy Metal that would have worked well in the nineties. The text quite obviously quotes the escape of the companions from Moria. For some, the chorus might be too cheesy (HAMMERFALL sends its regards), I like it. After two and a half minutes everyone would probably swear to hear the part of a BLIND GUARDIAN song. It sounds so much more like BLIND GUARDIAN than anything the band released after 1998!Also 'Blood Will Decide' is a fast track that reminds rather of the newer curtains. The kitschy vocals would have been great for the debut EP. It's amazing how many earwigs the boys shake from their sleeves. 'Banished To Nightly Realms' reminds me first of Criss Oliva, the entry would also have fit well with older SAVATAGE stuff. Also the vocals are not quite as fussy (but still strong). Later, we're more likely to be dealing with a stamp-epic mid-tempo track, which is one of the weaker numbers - until three minutes later, the new tempo comes. This faster part is heavily influenced by US Metal, but unfortunately does not last too long.It goes over to the 'Wastelands Of War', and unsurprisingly, the pace is tightened again. I'm thinking of the HAMMERFALL debut right away, or thanks to the song "Somewhere Far Beyond". Quite fine, too, how the guitars soloing here in a double whirring.The 'Siren Song' is a typical European melo speed metal song with a nice, rather quiet chorus. Again, I think of HAMMERFALL. Especially the rather relaxed approach like.What is still missing? An acoustics number. They are then available with 'Jester's Tears', which is atmospheric not too far away from BLIND GUARDIAN Campfire Romance. 'Hero Of All Times' is again an ordinary metal number, but please do not understand the word 'ordinary' here negatively. After all, we are dealing with the BLIND GUARDIAN level. Things get really hot again with 'King Of The Dragon Age'. I love Speed Metal in the style of the very first Krefeld albums.Slowly, the disk tilts towards the end with 'Sapphire Skies'. A rather troubled number, which counts for me to the slightly weaker titles. To the text: Please can somebody ban 'Spread My Wings And Fly' for more Metal songs? Somehow heard too often. The title track, on the other hand, is in a good shape. A setting of the Gilgamesh saga, in a curtain costume called Speed Metal. As a theologian, I would like to study the text now, but hopefully that will work if the pressed CD is there. The song has the best party potential and completes the CD absolutely fitting.The sound is really incredibly transparent for in-house production.
Mathias Bass - See also: ex-Distorted Perfection
Dom Drums - See also: ex-Distorted Perfection
Maxi Guitars (lead), Vocals (backing)
Alvin Guitars (rhythm) - See also: Gallow Sailors
Anti Vocals (lead) - See also: Improved Gods
01. Guardians Of Light
02. Rotten Wings
03. We Deal In Lead
04. Drums In The Deep
05. To The Proud A Grave
06. Blood Will Decide
07. Banished To Nightly Realms
08. Wastelands Of War
09. Siren Song
10. Jester's Tears
11. Hero Of All Times
12. King Of The Dragon Age
13. Sapphire Skies
14. Path To Eternity
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Technological advancements in computers and audio software and hardware devices in the twenty-first century have led to the expansion of possibilities for music composition, including works for acoustic instruments and live electronics. Electroacoustic composition is rapidly and continually evolving, and much that has been written about compositional techniques for percussion and live electronics is becoming outdated. Live electronics include performer-triggered events, audio processing, electronic responses to various inputs, and electronic decision-making during live performances. These techniques can be employed in a variety of ways. This project sheds light on how modern composers of different musical and cultural backgrounds reimagine the …
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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
Posted Sept. 14, 2007 -- Shea Butter? Growing up we used Vaseline (known as plain ol' dollar store Petroleum Jelly to some) for everything! Of course we have all used Vaseline for the obvious, but a few have put it on a wound or rash knowing that it has no healing power what-so-ever. It's simply been the old school remedy for almost any and every thing for as long as I can remember. But according to hype, Shea Butter is truly a gift from Mother Nature. It can actually do everything that grandma told you petro-jelly could do. Even daytime diva Tyra Banks, who has given credit to Vaseline for her beautiful skin, may have to rethink her longtime beauty secret.
It seems like all of a sudden it's everywhere and it's in every beauty product! It's being sold "raw" in a plastic container, by my African brother on the corner and it's being crammed into cosmetics and hair care products everywhere. So naturally I had to find out more…
What is Shea Butter?
Shea Butter is found only in the tropics of Africa. That's right, it's from the mother land! It is extracted from the nut of the Shea-Karite tree. The butter that is removed from the Shea Nut is a golden or ivory-colored natural fat that is extracted by crushing and boiling the nuts.
What's in Shea Butter that's so great?
I am sure you could have guessed that there are vitamins found in Shea Butter. Well I did…duh! But to be specific, it is enriched with vitamins A, E and F.
Is all Shea Butter the same?
Not! "Raw" Shea Butter that has not been processed will have more healing properties and therefore be more beneficial. Highly processed Shea Butter that has diluted or mixed with other ingredients will not be as effective.
What can you use Shea Butter for?
Africans have used shea butter for years to protect and rejuvenate their skin. To date, Shea Butter has been effective at treating: dark scars, eczema, burns, rashes, acne, severely dry skin, chapped lips, skin discolorations, chapped lips, stretch marks, arthritis, wrinkles, psoriasis, razor irritation and dry, damaged hair. It even offers protection from UV sun rays. Now you know Vaseline cannot do all of that!
It's all about the butter baby. Get with it!
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
"When my teacher asks me a question thinking I'm not paying attention, but I get it right."


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Outgoing ICMA Executive Director Bob O'Neill will throw out the first pitch at the RoughRiders game.
Even if you aren't going to the UNT MPA Conference (we suggest you do), you can still network with some of the best and brightest of DFW's local government profession.
On April 29, 2016, UMANT and the UNT Public Administration Student Association are hosting TWO post-conference events!
POST CONFERENCE MIXERWhet your palate immediately following the Conference at this FREE EVENT (no registration needed)! Walk over to the Embassy Suites for a drink, a little local government trivia, and some local govie fellowship!
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5 Day Ancient Forests Ancient Wisdom Ancient Water All Inclusive Retreat
- The Homestead Tofino
- 210 Neill St. Tofino, BC
- Jun 4 - 9, 2019 (6 days)
- King with Ocean View - CAD $4,500.00 Queen Room - CAD $3,800.00 Queen with Ocean View - CAD $4,150.00
About This Event
Enjoy trail adventures and "forest bathing" in spectacular old growth forests. Enhance your immune system and feel deep relaxation with yoga and mindfulness classes. Challenge your strength and cardiovascular endurance during playful physical training in a forest gym. Fuel your workouts with delicious whole foods prepared in house. There is always something new to learn from cooking lessons with our chef to practice at home.
Your Package Includes:
Five nights accommodation at the Homestead waterfront lodge overlooking Wickaninnish and Felice Islands.
Three meals per day and snacks to keep you energised for all activities.
Five cooking lessons on how to prepare and cook healthy meals with organic and locally sourced ingredients whenever possible.
Guided canoe and culture excursion with local First Nations to Meares Island.
Daily guided hikes with the breathtaking backdrop of Tofino, BC.
One fitness assessment and three outdoor fitness classes
Daily yoga, meditation or mindfulness classes
One 45 minute Relaxation massage
Wellness guidance based in science
A day at The Homestead Tofino:
6am — Sunrise yoga
7am — Breakfast
8:30am — Canoe excursion to Meares Island and hike along the Big Tree trail.
12 Noon — Lunch
1pm — Guided hike through temperate rainforest
5pm — Cooking lesson
6pm — Dinner
7:30pm — Relaxation massage
8:30pm — Free time, social, hot tub
10pm — Lights out
Venue HighlightsThe Homestead is located in the heart of Tofino, perched high on a rock point over looking Stub Island to the west. This prime location, surrounded by a United Nations World Biosphere Reserve, provides you with a front row view to amazing wildlife and serene sunsets, giving you a sense of being miles away from civilization when in reality the charm and convenience of Tofino is only a few minutes' walk away.
Tofino has recently become one of British Columbia's top vacation destinations for those who revel in unspoiled wilderness. Situated on the Esowista Peninsula on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, its current population is less than 2000 residents but thousands of years ago it is believed that as many as 100,000 First Nations inhabited the area across the water from Tofino on Meares Island.
When visiting The Homestead Tofino, see First Nation's history as well as Canada's surf mecca. Tofino offers boutiques with beautiful local art, restaurants and cafés with many local specialties. The village has a "super chill" vibe where it is easy to let yourself go and connect with all it has to offer.
The Homestead is an all-inclusive retreat center
The South Side offers spacious dining area with cathedral ceiling, it is equipped with a commercial kitchen for our chef's exclusive use.
On the second floor a beautiful storm watch room can be enjoyed with access to a balcony overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Both the storm watch room and dining area have stunning fireplaces.
The North Side provides a lounge area with a third fireplace and kitchen facilities which can be sought out when tea and a good book are what you seek.
Both sides have a large patio equipped with jacuzzi for guests enjoyment.
Bedrooms description:
Meares – King size bed with ocean view, large room with cathedral ceiling located on second floor, South Side. Maximum of 2 guests.
Flores– King size bed with ocean view, large room with cathedral ceiling located on second floor, North Side. Maximum of 2 guests.
Clayoquat - Queen size bed with ocean view – located on the South Side first floor with direct access to a patio equipped with a jacuzzi. Maximum of 2 guests.
Felice - Queen size bed – located on the second floor, South Side. Maximum of 2 guests.
Warne - Queen size bed with ocean view – located on the South Side first floor and direct access to a patio equipped with a jacuzzi. Maximum of 2 guests.
Stubbs - Queen size bed – located on the second floor, South Side. Maximum of 2 guests.
Vargas - Queen size bed with ocean view – located on the North Side first floor with direct access to a patio equipped with a jacuzzi. Maximum of 2 guests.
Bligh - Queen size bed with ocean view – located on the second floor, North Side . Maximum of 2 guests.
South side Bathrooms: 4-piece bathrooms are located on both first and second floor. Both bathrooms have large shower stalls. The second-floor bathroom is equipped with a large soaking tub with jets and vanity with 2 sinks.
North Side Bathrooms: One 4-piece bathroom located on the first equipped with a jacuzzi bath tub and large shower stall. The second floor has two 4-piece bathrooms - one of which is equipped with a double shower stall for taking steam baths, or soak in a large tub with jets while viewing the ocean.
- Free Wifi
- Towels
- Free Parking
- Kitchen
- Hot Tub
- Coffee/Tea
- Cafe
Menu Types
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Pescetarian
- Meat
- Organic
- Gluten Free
- Dairy Free
Menu/CuisineWe serve organic, ethically sourced meals and locally sourced when available. We also offer fresh local seafood with salmon high on the list of favourites. Our nutritionist/chef will share her enthusiasm for healthy eating that has exciting flavour without cumbersome preparation. Watch her work during cooking classes, learn and ask questions - then enjoy her creation.
DirectionsDriving Directions: Tofino is located at the end of the Trans Canada highway on the west side of Vancouver Island. From Vancouver you can take the ferry to Nanaimo and enjoy a three hours spectacular drive through old growth forests. If coming from Victoria the drive would be approximately 4.5 hours. The fastest way to get to us is by flying from Vancouver Airport's South Terminal where you can catch a breathtaking flight between mountain tops to Tofino's municipal airport with either Pacific Coastal or KD Air. A free shuttle is provided between The Homestead and the Tofino airport.
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During his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump promised to build "a big, beautiful, powerful wall" between the United States and Mexico, ostensibly to keep out assorted "bad hombres." Though a deadline for bids has passed and finalists are to be announced in June, the projected cost — an estimated $21.6 billion — and political opposition mean there's a decent chance the wall will not be built soon.
Even so, President Trump's pronouncements have inspired a boom in border projects of a very different sort: documentaries, shorts, cartoons and art installations about the contested area, where barriers and fences already exist along some stretches. In several of these, Mr. Trump is unseen and unheard. In others, he's front and center, overseeing construction of a Berlin Wall-type edifice ("Build That Wall"), or killing Mexicans with missiles fired from his genitals ("M.A.M.O.N.").
Regardless of how large or small Mr. Trump looms in their works, some filmmakers were hesitant to talk about him out of fear of retaliation. One mentioned his own green-card status; another didn't want to jeopardize future plans to visit the United States. Here is a roundup of some of the best and most notable projects of the bunch:
'THROUGH THE REPELLENT FENCE' (2017) The director Sam Wainwright Douglas chronicles the planning and deployment of "Repellent Fence," a two-mile-long art installation from the collective Postcommodity that straddled the border for four days in 2015. Eight years in the making, the work employed a line of 28 hot-air balloons decorated with enormous eyes (modeled after similar, smaller devices used to scare birds away from fruit trees) to create a "metaphorical suture" between the countries and their people.
'LA FRONTERA' (2016) A forestry expert, Mark J. Hainds quit his job at Auburn University in 2014 to walk the length of the Texas-Mexico line, over 1,000 miles in all. Along the way, he met border patrol agents, goat ranchers, cowboys and drug smugglers — nearly all of whom criticize Mr. Trump's plans to beef up the region's existing wall. Find out more about the film here.
'EL MAR LA MAR' (2017) Over three years, Joshua Bonnetta and J. P. Sniadecki traveled the Sonoran desert, which covers parts of California, Arizona and Mexico, filming its desolate landscapes and speaking with residents and migrants about their experiences in this foreboding territory. In one scene, a woman describes how she found a female body in the middle of the desert, collapsed mid-crawl; in another, two men recall being lost in the hills for eight days and explain how some of their party members were left behind when they could no longer walk.
"El Mar" is more art film than traditional documentary, with images of gathering storms, migrant detritus, swarms of ants and eerie fields of razor-sharp cactuses. For people unfamiliar with the area, the place — like the metaphorical sea of its title — can be a deadly crossing zone. "We basically funnel people through that area," Mr. Sniadecki said in an interview. "We've outsourced the violence to the ecological landscape." Read a review of the film here.
Documentary Shorts
'BEST OF LUCK WITH THE WALL' (2016) The director Josh Begley pasted together 200,000 satellite images taken along the United States-Mexico border to create this six-minute short. The result is a high-speed flyover of the 2,000-mile stretch; the snarky title comes from the challenges of building a wall along a border that traverses deserts, wetlands, rivers and mountainous terrain.
'AMERICA'S SOCCER MIGRANTS' (2017) This Guardian documentary opens with Mr. Trump's quote about Mexico "not sending their best," then proceeds to tell the story of American soccer players heading in the opposite direction, lured across the border for better money and a higher level of play. Mexico's love for the game is contrasted with Mr. Trump's rhetoric; in one sequence, thoughtful citizens of both countries respond to his promises and name-calling, point by point. See the short here.
'THINK LIKE A SCIENTIST: BOUNDARIES' (2016) What happens when you stick long stretches of steel walls — at some points, more than 21 feet high — in the middle of a desert ecosystem? Wildlife migration patterns are disrupted, plant diversity diminishes, animals — dependent on border crossing to reach food, water and mates — die.
In this short, the conservation photographer Krista Schlyer and the biologist Jon Beckmann discuss how the Department of Homeland Security waived environmental laws in its rush to secure the southern border. The effect has been disastrous for flora and fauna: Sonoran desert toads, in search of water, butt up against border walls until they die; plants that depend on animals to spread their seeds can't migrate. And if Mr. Trump's wall is built? "I think the first thing that would happen is that jaguars would go extinct in the U.S.," Ms. Schlyer said in an interview. "I think that would happen very quickly." See the short here.
Animated Shorts
'THE WALL' (2017) Motivated by the Syrian refugee crisis and Mr. Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric, the Australian directors Nick Baker and Tristan Klein created this haunting fable about a grandmother and grandson "in a far, foreign place" who flee their country after watching their home burn to the ground. The two endure war and a dangerous sea crossing — only to find their path to sanctuary blocked by a "tall, endless wall."
'M.A.M.O.N.' (2016) In this effects-heavy spectacle from the Uruguayan filmmaker Ale Damiani, Latino doctors, beauty queens and grill cooks are catapulted across the border by the United States. A giant robot piloted by Mr. Trump — and looking quite a bit like him — attacks them, leading to fights with a mariachi, a cowardly diplomat, the Virgin Mary (sort of) and a chicken. See the short here.
'BUILD THAT WALL' (2016) A man goes to sleep and dreams that Mr. Trump has built an enormous wall splitting his town in half, complete with barbed wire, guards and checkpoints. Thankfully, the dream is just that, and the man awakens to find his town undivided.
To create this stop-motion short, the Australian director Gary Friedman wove together elements from a black-and-white documentary about the Berlin Wall, Mr. Trump's own speeches ("if they call it the Trump wall, it has to be beautiful") and a classic 1960 "Twilight Zone" episode about the dangers of Cold War paranoia ("The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"). A puppeteer by trade, Mr. Friedman performed an anti-apartheid puppet show on the streets of South Africa from 1981 to 1987. "I used to get beaten up regularly," he said. As for his latest project, he never figured when he was making the film last year in his Melbourne studio that Mr. Trump might win. "It was supposed to be a dream, a nightmare," he said. "It wasn't supposed to actually come true." See the short here.
Museum Installations
'ONE-WAY MIRROR' (DENVER ART MUSEUM, THROUGH OCT. 22) In this work by the Denver-based artist Jaime Carrejo, a 10-foot scrim splits the gallery in two. Images of a Mexican sunrise are projected on one wall, an American sunset on the other; during rare moments, images from both sides of the border meld and collide in the middle. Find out more about the exhibition here.
'BORDER CANTOS' (CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, BENTONVILLE, ARK., THROUGH MONDAY, APRIL 24) A collaboration of the photographer Richard Misrach and the composer Guillermo Galindo, "Border Cantos" documents the human effects of the walls in place now by examining the objects immigrants leave behind. Mr. Misrach captures images of castoff clothes and toys; Mr. Galindo creates musical instruments out of the jetsam, composing scores for them to accompany Mr. Misrach's immense photos. Find out more about the exhibition here.
'A VERY LONG LINE' (Whitney Biennial 2017, through June 11) The collective Postcommodity (Raven Chacon, Cristobál Martínez and Kade L. Twist) placed a cameraman on the hood of its car and filmed while driving along the border. In the gallery installation, viewers are surrounded by four immense screens on which images are projected at varying speeds, as fences and homes rush by.
The title is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the art world's pretentious titles, while also, Mr. Twist said, a pretty decent description of the border wall itself. "That's one of the first things that pop into your mind," he said. "'That is a very, very long line.'" The filmmakers were also intrigued by the patchwork nature of the border barriers — impenetrable in some areas, simple pylons in others. The filmmakers shot from the American side, looking through the border wall's iron bars to capture images of beautiful, middle-class neighborhoods in Mexico. Some viewers figured they had to be seeing neighborhoods in the United States, Mr. Martínez said. "People were like, wow, what a beautiful home," Mr. Martínez said. "How could that be in somebody's front yard?" he said, referring to the wall.


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Soft, fluffy cinnamon rolls stuffed with brown sugar & apples, and generously glazed with homemade caramel.
For the Dough
- 1 package active dry yeast (I prefer Red Star Platinum)
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1/2 cup apple juice or apple cider
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 3 – 3.5 cups all-purpose flour (spoon & leveled)
For the Filling
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 2 medium sized apples, peeled, cored, & thinly sliced (about 1.5 cups)
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 2 Tablespoons ground cinnamon
For the Caramel Sauce
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 2 and 1/2 Tablespoons heavy cream (no substitutions)
- Make the dough: Dissolve the yeast in 1/2 cup warm water for about 1 minute. No need to use a thermometer for the water's temperature, but to be precise: about 105°F (41°C)-115°F (46°C). Stir the yeast/water around. Then add apple juice, sugar, salt, egg, vanilla extract, butter, and 1.5 cups of flour. Beat everything together on low with a handheld mixer, scraping down the sides as needed. (A mixer is definitely needed to break up all the butter and beat everything to the proper consistency.) With a wooden spoon, stir in enough of the remaining flour to make a dough easy to handle – about 1.5 – 2 more cups. You are looking for a dough that is not sticky and will spring back when poked with a finger.
- Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface and knead it with your hands for about 5-6 minutes. Form the dough into a ball and transfer it to a lightly greased bowl. Cover the dough and let sit in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1.5 hours.
- Line the bottom of a 9×13 inch baking dish with parchment paper, leaving room on the sides. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and, using a rolling pin, roll into a 15×9 inch rectangle. I used a ruler for accuracy. Make sure the dough is smooth and evenly thick, even at the corners.
- For the filling: As the dough is rising, melt 2 Tablespoons butter in a saucepan. Add the thinly sliced apples and cook down for about 20 minutes until the apples are very soft. Drain the apples from the butter and juices and place into a small bowl. Stick the apples in the refrigerator to cool down. In another small bowl, mix together brown sugar and cinnamon. Spread the dough rectangle with 2 Tablespoons of softened butter and sprinkle with 1/2 of the cinnamon/brown sugar. Line the apples on top of the cinnamon/brown sugar then sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon/brown sugar. Tightly roll up the dough and cut into 15 even rolls (1 inch in width each) with a very sharp knife. Arrange them in the prepared baking pan, cut sides up. Cover the rolls and let them rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes – 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F (191°C). Cover the rolls with aluminum foil and bake for about 25-30 minutes, until they are lightly golden in color. Transfer the pan to a rack to cool for about 15 minutes.
- Make the caramel sauce: Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Once melted, add brown sugar and heavy cream. Stir constantly over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Allow to bubble for 3-4 full minutes, no more. Remove from heat pour over cinnamon rolls before serving. Caramel sauce will thicken up at room temperature or if cold. You'll have to warm it back up to pour over rolls. Baked rolls can be frozen up to 1 month (without sauce) and warmed up to enjoy at a later date.
- Overnight Instructions: The dough may be made the night before through step 4. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in the refrigerator overnight. The next morning, remove from the refrigerator and let rise, about 1 hour.
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In real-life lingo it means that physically I have a unique and somewhat more complicated past than most.
I have had surgeries, correction for my skeletal form, therapy to manipulate the spine and some of the most inspirational and intriguing experiences of my life.
I have met with special and outstanding surgeons and seen miracles that many thought not possible. I have encountered life-altering examples of people who live beyond the boundaries that many have imposed upon them.
I have also been so gifted as to have a beautiful and loving family, including parents who have given me the basis for a belief in the notion that if you put your aims ahead of your obstacles then you can succeed.
This philosophy has given me the focus and determination to get through multiple operations. It has even inspired my academic achievements, attained while simultaneously having a major medical procedure.
It was while I wore the Halo (a brace that supports the head to allow spinal bones to heal) that I found out how miraculous it had been that doctors had found out about a cervical compression (in a bone in my neck) that could have left me paralysed with one sneeze.
Despite numerous electronic tests firmly stating otherwise, doctors were perplexed to discover I had movement which they could not explain. I knew I would be all right. This conviction came from a series of spiritual encounters and a one-off experience with a miracle man who foretold events that would occur.
Spirit messages have also been given to us when we have needed them the most.
On one occasion, when my mother was waiting for me to be brought out of a particular procedure, she was sitting in a chapel and praying for a positive outcome from the surgery.
At that precise time, my mother felt a gust of wind though she had no explanation for its origin. As she looked about her, a sheet of paper floated down and landed by her feet. On it were written the words: "He is where he is needed".
It was a private experience that meant so much for my mother and it gave hope when she had asked for it.
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A Letter of Commendation from their school and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, will be presented by the principal to these scholastically talented seniors.
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2019 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.6 million students who entered the 2019 competition by taking the 2017 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
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Are you fed up of back pain, want to get rid of it? Well, its not easy to run away from back pain but neither impossible. There are so many techniques, exercise and devices which give you short time to long term benefit in back pain relief. After giving reviews of some of the awesome devices for back pain, here we are talking today about yoga postures. Yes, with certain yoga postures, you can remove or get relief from your back pain. Here are some of the popular yoga postures which you can try to get relief from back pain.
Yoga becomes so popular in short time, that now United Nations too started celebrating International yoga day on 21st June every year. We have studied multiple sources which suggest that if we emphasize the strength, flexibility and stretching of our body, can actually help to relieve back pain. There are some yoga postures which improve your back function with increasing blood circulation, and give more oxygen to your back. Start with below mentioned yoga posture and know if it improves your health or not.
Top 5 Yoga Posture for Back Pain Relief
Just give a try, its easy to do. Just remember that you don't need to push your body much, just go with your capacity, not more than that.
#1 Bhujangasana (Cobra pose)
This one is quite popular for weight loss and for back pain as well. Just go as the above picture instruct, easily. it also helps you to improve your liver, kidney health as well. You can also improve your constipation problem with this yoga posture.
#2 Balasana (Child Pose)
This is another yoga posture, which is quite simple and easy to do. You can do this yoga pose in yoga mat or in your bed as well. This yoga posture helps you to stretch and relax your back muscles and spine as well. Your hips, ankles, thighs, also will improve with this yoga posture.
#3 Matsyendrasana (Spinal Twist)
Just keep your left leg straight, bend your right leg from half and place your left hand on your right leg as shown in the image and right hand on floor for support. Now you can twist your spine easily as tripod. This yoga posture will improve your spine and stretch your back muscles. If you are suffering from cervical spondylitis, spinal problems or diabetes, you can improve your health with this yoga posture.
#4 Garudasana (Eagle pose)
For this yoga posuture, you need to practice hard and need to get balance of your body before you try. But this pose will help you to stretch your entire back and spine. Start with mountain pose, and bent your knees slightly on left, lift your left left leg and reach to your right thigh over your left leg's thigh. You can also reduce fat from your body with this yoga posture.
#5 Chakrasana (Full wheel pose)
This is more advance posture, but recommended to those who really want to remove back pain. You need to make full wheel as shown in the image. You can get healing spine, more stretching to your back and also improves your digestive system.
These are the yoga posture you can try for back pain. Other than that, you can try back traction at home, inversion table exercise, body pillows or far infrared heating pads for back pain relief. You can check other guides as mentioned below, for more updates on back pain or neck pain, keep visiting us.