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A death spiral for Obamacare: Some numbers that point to big Obamacare insurance premium increases
A fast-growing, short-term alternative to ObamaCare that allows customers to get cheap, one-year policies could put the government-subsidized plan into a death spiral.
The plans, the only ones allowed for sale outside of ObamaCare exchanges, generally cost less than half of what similar ObamaCare policies cost, and are increasing in popularity as uninsured Americans learn they are required to get health coverage. The catch -- that the policies only last for a year -- is not much of a deterrent, given that customers can always sign up for ObamaCare if their short-term coverage is not renewed.
"Applications rose 30 percent compared to last year," eHealthInsurance.com Enrollment Specialist Carrie McLean told FoxNews.com.
Other providers said they also see rapid growth in the plans, which have a typical monthly premium of just over $100, compared to traditional plans that cost an average of $271.
"It's because the product is typically half the cost of ACA plans, and you can chose any doctor or hospital," Health Insurance Innovations CEO Mike Kosloske told FoxNews.com. . . .This article was written by my son, Maxim.
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Owned by Mynci!
Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Don't mind me, just passing through.

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Western Wear or cowboy dress is recognized around the world as a symbol of the independence and strength of the people of the American West. The Western style evolved from the environment and the traditions of the vaqueros. Those early Mexican cowboys worked in thorny vegetation in a hot dry climate. Their leather leg coverings and a wide brim hat became the Levi jeans and Stetson hat of the American cowboy. The bandanna, a working man's kerchief, added shade for the neck and protection for the mouth and nose during dusty cattle drives. Those cattle drives started around the end of the Civil War. Thousands of Texas longhorns were trailed north to Kansas City with its vast stockyards and rail head. Novels, movies and Wild West shows featured the clothing of the actual cowboy dolled up for dramatic appeal
Teddy Roosevelt's love of the Western lifestyle, the novel, The Virginian, by Owen Wister along with the illustrations by Frederick Remington for Harper's Weekly all polished the image of the American cowboy. Wealthy easterners began visiting working ranches in the 1920s and soon adopted the clothing of the wranglers: cowboy hats, western style shirts, blue jeans and boots.
Posters by the Union Pacific also helped to romanticize the image of the West...and encouraged middle class vacationers to ride the train to a dude ranch location.
My friend Patrica from the G-M Ranch in Clyde Park, MT has told me how her family got into the dude ranch business. In 1934, the railroad contacted the ranches around Big Timber Montana...offering to send them paying guests. At that time, the ranch had just one cabin, Patricia's in laws actually moved into the barn that summer so those first guests could stay in the cabin. The business has grown to numerous cabins and a lodge with a commerical kitchen but the guests still help with the ranch work and enjoy daily horse back rides.
ps The trip to Havre was a delight! The area has some great quilters.


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Fire dept. staffs shift with all female firefighter crew
Spokane Fire District 10 hit a milestone by organizing the all-female crew, which was the first time it had been done in the city
By Will Campbell
The Spokesman-Review
SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane Fire District 10 has been trying to organize an all-female crew for months. Last week, they pulled it off.
The district hit a milestone on July 3, staffing a shift with only female firefighters—the first time such a thing has been done in Spokane, they said. Rachel Rademacher, McKenna Jimno, Kelsey Wardsworth, Amanda Pastian, Shyann Morton, Tiffany Pope and Brittany Wuesthoff made up the crew.
"I just think it's a super empowering thing," said Wuesthoff, a volunteer firefighter on the shift that night. She said the reasoning behind the move wasn't to make a statement, but to give the crew a chance to hang out together. The women are already friends outside of work, she said.
Fire District 10 employs 12 women out of about 80 firefighters, District 10 Deputy Chief Orlando Sandoval said. That's about double the national average. About 7.3 percent of firefighters in the U.S. are women, according to the National Fire Protection Association.
"It's rare to see this many women in a district," Wardsworth said.
The shift started at 5 p.m., with the firefighters cooking a hearty dinner of brisket and twice-baked potatoes for themselves. They did chores and watched a movie, Magic Mike.
The crew got one call that night, for chest pain, at 4 a.m. When the six arrived on scene, the EMT noticed they were all women.
"The EMT said that it was pretty cool," Wardsworth said. "We were able to get on scene and handle it like any other shift."
Sandoval said that the shift is already staffed with majority women, and it was up to them to rearrange their schedules to achieve the all-female crew. He said he's been happy to promote and raise awareness of female firefighters.
"From our standpoint," Sandoval said, "there's no difference between them and the men."
Wardsworth echoed that idea that there isn't much of a difference between the genders.
"It's not really different from having guys on the crew," she said. "We did the same thing with our daily routine of chores and training."
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There's no set plans to do another all-female shift, Wuesthoff said, but it's something that they want to do again.
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text: Carl Fredrich Baur (fl. c. 1850 - 1900) was a German map publisher active in Stuttgart during the mid to late 19th century. Baur was little known outside of Germany but nonetheless produced a number of important map most of which had a thematic or historic context. His most notable work is most likely the 1857 Atlas fur Handel und Industrie fur Kaufleute, Fabrikanten und Gewerbetreibende, one of the first industrial and commercial atlases of the 19th century.


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Welcome to Day 7 as you
Take the Missional Challenge!
Take the Missional Challenge is a 31 Day experience designed to help align believers with Jesus' mission. Each day's post includes missional concepts and activities. For more information - click here.
The gospel is primary to missional activity. It's important to know the gospel, to live the gospel, and to share the gospel.
Christianity is a faith that was meant to be spread--but not through coercion. God's love was intended to be demonstrated, not dictated. Our job is not to manipulate or induce others to agree with us or to leave their religion and embrace Christianity. Our charge is to both proclaim and embody the gospel so that others can see, hear, and feel God's love in tangible ways. When we are living out our faith with integrity and compassion in the world, God can use us to give others a glimpse of His love and character. It is God--not us--who works in the hearts of men and women to forgive and redeem. Coercion is not necessary or even particularly helpful. God is responsible for the harvest--but we must plant, water, and cultivate the seeds. (Richard Stearns, The Hole in Our Gospel)To live out the gospel - you must first internalize the gospel. It has to be real to you personally. You have to experience God's grace in your life first, then you can bring God's grace to those around you.
What is the Gospel?
Read my post on The Priority of the Gospel. It is one event and three questions. The event is the Cross! (Eph 1:10; 1 Cor 1:23). And here are the three questions:
- Who was there? (Who is Jesus?)
- What happened there? (What is the meaning of the Cross?)
- How can it apply to us? (How is it applied?)
Nobody needs the gospel more than you!
Faith and repentance aren't confined to the beginning of our life in Christ; we need the gospel every day. As you experience the riches of God's grace daily, you can then extend God's grace in tangible ways to your neighbors, co-workers, friends and family, as well as to the poor, disenfranchised, and people on the margins.
Don't just memorize, internalize the gospel.
Don't just memorize, internalize the gospel.
It's vital to know the basic message of salvation to effectively proclaim the gospel. However, just memorizing verses or an outline isn't enough; you need to practically live out the gospel in your daily life. Be the gospel in action.
1. Consider how you'd answer these three questions.
- Who was there? (Who is Jesus?)
- What happened there? (What is the meaning of the Cross?)
- How can it apply to us? (How is it applied?)
3. Start living out the good news that Jesus restores relationship with God. Look for ways to show God's love to others every day.
Day 7 Missional Challenge: Start gospel habits, practices and behaviors. Demonstrate God's love in your actions to those who are unemployed, homeless, bereaved, sick and abandoned; and to addicts, alcoholics, minorities, prisoners, orphans and single parents.
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Incarnating the Gospel: Practice Jesus
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Primary topics are Newcomb, Childerston, Romann, McFaull, Sabarte and Lecuona surnames. This is a work in progress. I've been working hard to document my work and remove undocumented lines. I know this database has errors and inconsistencies. Where I know of them, they are commented. If you find yourself listed in here, except as a source or unless you are famous, please contact me ASAP. I've tried to privatize all living persons, except the famous ones. I apologize to any centenarians. Unless I learn otherwise once you're past 101 years, I presume you're deceased. (R.I.P.) Please let me know if the rumors of your death have been exaggerated. This is my first attempt to use GEDsite to create a website. Information is current as of 6/4/2018.
When I don't know the maiden name of a married woman, I often prepend an asterisk to the husband's surname (e.g. Jane *Smith). I'm currently converting this to brackets (e.g. [Smith]). This is done to avoid confusing her with every other woman in the database with the same given name. People and lines with known issues are shown in red (Beware). A family history is only as good as its sources. Information with no sources may have been just copied off the net and can be viewed as suspect, at best.
I have been finding new information based on my recent DNA test. DNA is a powerful but poorly understood and under-utilized tool. Too many people get a DNA test simply to learn their ethnicity, which is probably the least accurate thing one can do with his DNA. If your DNA has been tested by one lab you should seriously consider uploading the raw DNA file to the other sites that allow it, particularly GEDmatch.com.
Please don't get upset over anything you find here. Genealogy is like stamp collecting; history viewed through a microscope. It's harmless as long as you don't take it too seriously.
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A tiny bit of personal background on this one: this movie is part of the reason I tracked down the Howling movies at all (well, aside from the first one anyway). I probably would have done so eventually anyway because, as a fan of werewolf movies, I try to track films in the genre down when I can. However, The Howling: Reborn kickstarted this series for me when I saw a hilariously silly clip of 2 werewolves fighting like pro-wrestlers on Bloody Disgusting. Then, a couple weeks later, I was with a friend at Wal-Mart and saw the movie on DVD. These two incidents renewed interest in the series for me and caused me to go through the whole series (umm... thanks?).
Anyway, in the latter-half of the 2000s, there was renewed interest in werewolves and other monsters. Underworld had laid some of the groundwork, making werewolves vs vampires a very stylish and cool idea. Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers also proved to be the best werewolf movie since An American Werewolf in London, although its influence was more localized than widespread (although it would allow Marshall to make the fantastic The Descent). However, it was the wretched Twilight series which brought the werewolf back into popular consciousness. Despite turning werewolves into romantic, misunderstood hunks, Hollywood still tried to remain faithful to the creature's origins, releasing a remake of The Wolfman to mixed reaction. Personally, I quite liked the movie (especially the superior director's cut), but the popular consensus was unfortunately negative. Whatever the case, with werewolves now on people's minds, it was finally time for enterprising studio executives to reboot the Howling series. Luckily for them, a Twilight-esque script had been floating around long before the Twilight craze actually caught on, and so Anchor Bay Studios picked it up and put it into production. The Howling had officially been reborn.
The movie was written and directed by Joe Nimziki, who was apparently a (former?) studio executive. He had directed an episode of The Outer Limits, but The Howling: Reborn was to be his first full-length feature film. Unlike many modern werewolf movies, due to the lower budget the film would rely almost exclusively on practical effects rather than CGI. This is actually a very good thing - ask any werewolf aficionado and they'll tell you that CGI has seriously cheapened the werewolf in cinema (for proof, watch An American Werewolf in Paris). While it looked like the series was finally going to return to theaters after a long hiatus, it eventually ended up going straight-to-DVD like all the other Howling sequels post-The Marsupials.
While The Howling: Reborn might have predated Twilight on the script-level, when you watch the movie it's pretty obvious that the only reason it even exists is because of the popularity of Twilight. Yes, The Howling: Reborn is Twilight with werewolves... er, well, only werewolves. That is to say that it is a teen romance movie featuring werewolves. While this is consistent with The Howling series overall (and good franchises, such as James Bond, intentionally reinvent themselves based on what's popular at the time), the teen romance angle is totally overplayed at the moment and it makes the movie feel like nothing more than a cash-in. Basically, the movie barely feels like any other Howling movie. However, given how bad previous movies in the franchise have been, that may not be an entirely bad thing.
Unlike most Howling movies, I can't really complain about the acting. Lindsey Shaw (a former Nikelodian star) is pretty good as the wild-child Eliana, enough-so that you wonder if she might be a werewolf herself (which was clearly the intention). Landon Liboiron also does a fairly decent job as protagonist Will Kidman, although the script basically forces him into being a whiny, emo kid. Of course, once he nuts-up and shuts-up, he's far more likable. In any case, he's better than Kristen Stewart's Bella Swan... *ahem*. Anyway, I also quite liked Will's best friend, Sachin, even if he is relegated to exposition and plot device (which I'll get to later). The only major character I disliked was Ivana Milicevic (Le Chiffre's girlfriend in Casino Royale), who plays Will's mom, the big, bad werewolf. Milicevic just really hams it up and is just generally annoying... in a lot of respects, she reminds me of a less-skanky Stirba (not a good thing). However, overall the acting is far above that of the majority of the Howling movies.
The plot feels like a cross between Twilight and (strangely) Spider-man. Will's mother, Kay, is attacked and apparently dies giving birth to her child. 18 years later, Will is a nerdy loser who loves the exotic Eliana, but isn't able to do much about it until he has an encounter with a werewolf. He soon strikes up a relationship with Eliana, but his mom comes back to bring Will into her pack. Will refuses and he and Eliana fight off Kay and her wolf pack inside of their high school and try to stop her from creating an army of werewolves. All-in-all, it's fairly simple and hits the beats that a teenage romance movie would be expected to. However, the twist that Kay is still alive makes no sense. For one thing, was she a werewolf before she got attacked by a werewolf? And if not, then how did she become an alpha wolf and give birth to Will? Does being a werewolf give you eternal youth now? The twist just causes a lot of plot holes which are given no answers.
Despite apparently predating Twilight, The Howling: Reborn seems to have a fairly substantial debt to it and other teen romance movies. For one thing, the movie follows the high school stereotypes formula I mentioned in my Final Destination 3 retrospective (nerds, popular girl, bully, jocks, etc). Will's a whiny emo kid whose voice overs feature grating pseudo-philosophy which is nothing more than garbled bullshit. I want to puke every time his voice overs spout crap like: "I know how to take an exam. I know the periodic elements. I know how to do school. Do I have any idea how to survive the real world?" Ugh, shut up emo. The movie also clearly acknowledges its teen audience in the most obnoxious manner possible:
Sachin: "That's what studios get for casting geezers in their lead roles. If I want to see people in their forties, I'll just go home and look at my parents."
Wow. I like Sachin, but he sounds like a massive asshole there. The line was an obvious dig at Benicio Del Toro in The Wolfman, but it just comes across as ignorant. I also couldn't help but notice that the movie features Echo & The Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon", which is probably best known for being used in the opening of (the amazing) Donnie Darko. Donnie Darko is, of course, a teenage romance movie with some horror elements, so I kind of wonder if its use was meant to be an homage or if Nimziki was drawing from a well of typical teenage romance songs or something. Whatever the case, it's something I found worth pondering. Finally, and most damningly, the movie even has a bloody wolf pack who are allergic to shirts...
And yet, Ivana Milicevic keeps her shirt on... double standard!
Unfortunately, The Howling: Reborn suffers quite a bit due to its script. Nimziki's script is just so damn convenient, in that it doesn't feel "natural" at all. Basically everything that happens just feels like the characters are acting because the script said that they should, and not because they're acting believably. The script is just loaded with Chekov's Guns and various other things which exist just to advance the plot in a very transparent manner. One of the most egregious examples which I mentioned earlier is the character Sachin. Sachin just happens to be a horror buff who's filming werewolf movies and has hacked the town computers or something to broadcast his movies (guess how the movie ends?). Sure, his exposition is not that bad when he sticks to standard werewolf lore, but it really gets egregious when he states that there are "Alpha Werewolves" who can only be killed by other werewolves. Like, how the hell does he know that? It's conceptually on the same level as the possession werewolves from New Moon Rising. On top of that, having Alphas doesn't make a lot of sense. How does one become an alpha? Are you born that way? Or do you become one, but if that's the case then why do you magically become immune to silver/fire? It's just too damn convenient a concept, and is really obviously used to make Kay more powerful without having to prove herself at all.
There are just so many plot conveniences that I can't even list them all... but just to give you a sense, I'm going to point out some of the sillier ones. First off, Will and Eliana's school has an insane security system - like, it has metal doors to lock the whole place down after a certain time. Maybe I just had lax schools, but that seems ridiculously excessive to me (and is only really going to lock school shooters inside the school). However, despite this, the school apparently has no security guards inside, and in fact is quite empty unless the characters are eating in the cafeteria or at their lockers. Like literally, there are almost never any student extras in the backgrounds of the scenes, so it makes the school feel very empty. Back to the terrible security though, it's apparently lax enough that one of the characters sneaks a freaking handgun in the front of his pants, which he fires off in the stairwells without anyone even noticing. Holy shit!!! And then, even more conveniently, Will finds it later and *surprise, surprise* it's still loaded (despite having fired it at an attacking werewolf earlier)! Also, the film's voice over states that Will and Eliana learned how to make FREAKING FLAMETHROWERS in chemistry class. Like, literally, that's what they say (and the flamethrowers don't even look makeshift, they look like military-grade weapons). Will and Eliana are also running away from the werewolves when suddenly they decide that it's the perfect time for them to have sex. I mean, sure they're horny teenagers, but it hardly seems like an appropriate time for them to get it on. Another extremely silly example is that the school nurses leave scalpels lying around, which Will uses to cut his wrist like the emo kid he is.
Werewolf healing powers. Must be emo.
The only really clever Chekov's Gun in the whole movie is when Will mentions off-hand that he won 2nd place for the debate team. It's just a subtle thing, but comes into play because, since he won the silver, he's able to use the trophy to stab a werewolf to death. It's quite a funny moment and a good example of how to work in foreshadowing cleverly rather than lazily as Nimziki tends to in this film.
While the script is a cliched mess, the movie does feature some good practical effects. There werewolves actually look half-decent this time around... not as good as the original movie, but they're definitely a huge step above the majority of the sequels (one looks like a were-poodle though). Unfortunately, these effects are hamstrung by some other decisions in the film. For example, the wolf sounds are (I shit you not) lion roars. Seriously. Who the hell thought that werewolves should sound like lions? That shouldn't even be a freaking consideration for the sound editing department. Furthermore, the werewolves generally show up on camera like this:
The werewolf scenes are mostly shot with extreme close-ups, shaky cam and rapid-fire editing. This is odd since most of the movie is well shot (more than any other Howling movie). I think they did the Bourne approach to cover up the costumes, but it just doesn't work (in fact, most movies that have tried to emulate Bourne have failed spectacularly). The effects look good enough to stand on their own, but shaking the shit out of the camera just cheapens their impact. As I mentioned in the preamble, the movie also features a werewolf fight, but it looks like very silly pro-wrestling footage while the actors struggle to move around in their costumes. It's quite a laughable showdown, and its made all the worse by the terrible editing. Oh, and then there's the transformation scenes. Remember the transformation clip I showed from New Moon Rising? In a total face-palm of a move, The Howling: Reborn uses the exact same effect.
All-in-all, I've really ragged on The Howling: Reborn, but the movie isn't all that bad. In fact, it's definitely one of the better Howling movies. Its only real problems are that its script sucks and the teen romance angle is far too overplayed at the moment. Still, it's a fairly enjoyable movie and worth a viewing. And besides, at the very least...
I'm not sure how well The Howling: Reborn did on DVD, but I'd be surprised if the series was dead yet. Monsters are still big business at the moment (particularly zombies), and considering the low-budget sensibility of the series, the profitability threshold isn't particularly high. I'm always up for a new werewolf movie, so if they make another Howling then I'll be sure to see it... even if I haven't particularly liked any of the movies in the series. Here's my series breakdown:
1. The Howling - 5.5/10
2. Howling V: The Rebirth - 5/10
3. Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch - 1/10 (Technically 2nd worst, but it's hilarious enough to earn this spot)
4. The Howling: Reborn - 4.5/10
5. Howling VI: The Freaks - 4/10
6. Howling IV: The Original Nightmare - 3/10
7. Howling III: The Marsupials - 1.5/10
8. The Howling: New Moon Rising - 0/10
Aaaand that does it for my second retrospective! If you have any comments on this series, I'd welcome them! Also, if you have any suggestions - be it for future retrospective series, or how I can improve my current style - then I'd welcome those as well. If I don't get any suggestions, then I've got a couple retrospective franchises I'd like to tackle soon enough. Finally, if you liked this, then I'd appreciate if you'd "Follow" the blog - I get ~50-250 views a day, but it's always good knowing that you're amassing an audience (wow, my views have really shot up since the Final Destination retrospective). Thanks for reading!
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November goal review and December goal setting
I can't believe it's already December 1st! I think I say this to myself every time we enter a new month. Mostly, I can't believe that 2011 is coming to an end. It's been an interesting year, but I feel like I'm ending it on a high note and I feel very blessed.
Anyway, a month ago today I posted my November goals. I'm glad I only set a few because it ended up being another busy month, but let's see how I did.
My November 2011 Goals
- Get at least one more room of our house "finished" – Um, sort of? I did put a lot of stuff away when I thought someone was coming to clean our house (remind me not to buy anymore Groupons for cleaning companies) and I've also gotten a good start on Christmas decorating. Nothing is really ever "finished" right?
- Send out some handwritten cards – YES! I sent out the two cards I mentioned last time and I've also been trying to send encouraging messages to people on Facebook and via text. It's been good and people really seem to appreciate it.
- Bake, bake, bake – I have taken this one to a whole new level. I've baked desserts, enchiladas, vegan meatloaf for Thanksgiving, cinnamon rolls from scratch (first time ever), and a lot more that I'm sure I'm leaving out (plus some no bake things too). Very happy with this one and want to continue.
- Homemade Christmas presents – I'm working on this one too. I didn't get started until the week of Thanksgiving but I've already got one gift nearly finished and just a few more to do before December 25th, let's hope I can buckle down!
- Rest – I haven't taken a nap in a few weeks so I definitely need to get on this. I also didn't do enough fun shopping/browsing but hopefully I can find some small local shops to visit this month (no malls or Target for me this time of year, too much stress). But I have been spending more time at home during the week and I'm learning to say no to things from time to time when I just don't have the energy to be somewhere.
So, in review, even though they each required a little explanation, I would say I was fairly successful at meeting my goals for November. I could have done better but at least I made some intentions and followed through on all of them to some extent.
Now, what to do for December? Hmm…
My December 2011 goals
- Stay active during the holidays – The colder it gets outside, the harder it is for me to stay motivated to go out, get in the car and go to the gym. It's easy when I'm at work because the gym is here, but we get a little over a week off after Christmas and being away from work (hence, off my normal "schedule") can make staying active more difficult. But I have plenty of options to use over the break, including a temporary membership to the YMCA and a Groupon for Zumba/Yoga classes, so no excuses. Staying active to me means getting in some sort of movement outside of your normal daily activities at least a few days a week and resting when you need to as well (it's important to recognize resting needs vs. wants, ha ha).
- Keep up with reading/listening – I see a theme here. Keeping up with the things I'm already doing now while I'm off work. In the past few months I have discovered audio books and it helped me reach my goal of reading 12 books in 2011, I'm actually on #13 right now. I buy them at a used bookstore and then sell them back to buy more, but I also live down the street from a public library, so I need to utilize that more. This will be easy to do for most of the month but I think this one will be challenging at home because I won't be at my desk with headphones on able to listen. Perhaps I will be able to read a "real" book that week! Ha ha. Maybe that's the real goal here, read one "paper" book. If you are interested in what I read or want to swap book ideas, find me on Goodreads. I have decided to up my goal to 24 books in 2012, eek!
- Stay happy – This one is not just for me but for all of you as well. It's so easy to get bogged down by this time of year. The changing weather and less sunlight can be depressing, or maybe you are just stressed out by the holidays in general, or by your family and friends. Things can get kind of crazy this time of year. My friend Rob wrote a post around Thanksgiving called GrAttitude where he talked about how we "ramp up into higher gear. Guests coming over, visiting relatives, dinners to cook, houses to clean, games to watch, presents to buy, etc. The purpose of the holiday gets lost, stress increases, relationships strain…" I agree with him that our attitude really determines how things go. We can make a choice to be angry or stressed out for whatever reason or we can choose to put it all aside and give thanks to God for all our blessings. We can choose to be grateful and happy. (Disclaimer: I know this "choice" doesn't apply to everyone, some of you are probably dealing with some very tough emotions right now, maybe you lost a loved one recently or you are just going through a difficult time in life. I just pray you are able to find joy and happiness.)
- Send Christmas cards – This is something I haven't done in years, believe it or not. I just sort of got out of the habit and now that we know so many people I was always afraid that we wouldn't be able to do one for everybody and then someone would get offended and so on. Another one of my goals for 2012 is to care less about what people think or at least don't invent what I think people will think because I'm probably wrong anyway. But I plan to send a few or some, as many as I can and to write thoughtful messages in them and not just sign my name to a stack of cards (not that there's anything wrong with that, ha ha).
- See November's goals – I want to keep up with what I started last month. They were all good goals that I believe can apply all year long.
So what about you? What do you want to accomplish in December and the final month of 2011?
Guess who?
Thanks so much you lovely people who left comments on my last post. I'm so glad I took a break for myself because I really, really learned a lot about stress the past week or so. I feel like I'm breaking some new ground 🙂
I'm not back 100% yet but I had such a good night that I couldn't help but want to share it with you guys. First, a new vino!
I picked up this Bubo Pinot Grigio at Whole Foods yesterday along with a red of another brand I will try at a later date. I love trying new wines and this one stood out to me because of the cute owl on the label.
Did you know that "Bubo" means "owl" in Latin? 😉
I tend to prefer reds over whites because I don't like anything real sweet, but this one wasn't at all. And it also wasn't as "strong" like a chardonnay. I'm no wine expert so I hope my little "review" made sense!
For dinner, I made roasted chickpeas, mixed veggies and this whole wheat couscous. It does exist!!
I love couscous but one of the things that bothered me was the low fiber and not being a "whole grain" so I'm glad to have found this variety. It packs several grams of fiber and protein. Woo hoo!
Since I had a gift card to use at Whole Foods, I decided to try a new dessert as a celebration for finding my happy balance and a pre-celebration for the half marathon on Saturday!
When I still ate dairy, one of my favorite flavors of ice cream was coffee, so I was hoping this would be a good replacement!
The best part about last night was that I felt totally in tune with my body. I waited to eat dinner until I was hungry (even though I hadn't had anything in five hours), I only had one glass of wine and one serving of ice cream. It was all I needed and my full stomach and happy heart let me know.
It's amazing how when I'm not incredibly stressed out, bored, tired, etc. I don't "need" that second glass or cup. Instead, I treated myself to a nice hot bath with relaxing music.
Looking forward to more nights like this!
Getting out of my own head
Yesterday, I was ready to run. It had been five days since I had last and I wasn't sure how it was going to go. You see, I've been pretty stressed out lately and not handling it so well. But I do love to run and always feel better after I do, if I can get myself out the door.
I decided to keep it simple. I would wear a watch but not look at it. No iPod. A 3 mile course I am familiar with. No plans to run intervals or not. Just go. Run.
- Time: 29:05
- Distance: 3 miles
- Avg. pace: 9:42/mile
It was one of the best runs ever. At the start, my legs felt a little stiff so I said a few things to myself:
"What is good about this run? Well, I'm out here. The weather is perfect. I can breathe fine. I look good."
"And what is bad? My legs feel weird. I'm doubting myself. And…Is that all? Well then, I GOT THIS!"
I managed to work through some stress and negativity on this run which made it that much better. I enjoyed working up a sweat and the long stretches I did afterwards. And I am going to enjoy this half marathon on Saturday, rain or shine.
Because I can 🙂
Thank you all for your sweet and supportive comments. I'm a work in progress but I have hope that I can get back to a more balanced life soon!
Pound for Pound: Week 5
I can't believe we are five weeks into this challenge already! We still have a long way to go (ends June 30th) but I'm sure it will fly by.
If you've missed any of my weekly updates along the way, check out my Pound for Pound Challenge page.
Last week, I felt like I had finally overcome emotional eating and I still feel like I am in control of that. I don't think it's something you get over permanently but I've definitely made a step in the right direction.
I also wanted to focus more on what makes me happy and stress less. I feel like I worked on that this week but I've still got a ways to go. Going to a conference with my husband and some really great Christian friends definitely boosted my spirits though!
I also challenged myself to get in two days of weight training, which I am proud to say I managed to complete!
And I journaled every day but had to break the 9:00 rule a couple of times while I was out of town just due to scheduling. But I only ate if I was hungry, so I am proud of that.
Overall, even though I was out of town Thursday-Saturday, I felt like I did pretty good with my eating and exercise. I wrote down everything and exercised in the hotel gym Thursday (ran 2 miles) and Friday (morning-elliptical and weight training, evening-ran 3 miles).
I did not eat ONE thing that was not vegan the entire trip, even though keeping it this way was very challenging at times. So I had a clear conscience as well.
Let's see how I did…
Last week's weight: 147.8 lbs
This week's weight: 147.5 lbs (-0.3)
Total pounds lost: 4.1 (5.9 to go)
I am so excited that 5 weeks in, I am getting close to halfway to my goal (of 10 lbs). I definitely feel like I have faced a few challenges along the way so far (like going out of town) and yet have been successful. This is a great feeling!
I'm telling you guys: journaling, exercise and attitude. That is what is working for me. I don't "diet" or restrict my calories, I just eat when I'm hungry and portion control so I don't go crazy. I average 1700-2000 per day depending on my activity (I eat more on long run days).
I exercise about 6 days a week, sometimes running, sometimes weight training and sometimes taking the dog for a nice walk. It doesn't have to be a certain amount of time or a certain intensity to be effective. Every little bit counts, just make sure you do something!
My attitude has to be positive. Even if I had gained weight this week, I would've been okay with it. I also didn't expect to lose a lot, so I didn't set myself up for disappointment that way. Just do the best you can and go with the flow. Be happy and confident!
It felt so good to stock up my refrigerator and pantry yesterday and I'm looking forward to a good week of healthy eating and moving. With the exception of today, the weather should be lovely this week so I am really looking forward to that.
Thanks again to all the ladies who guest posted for me while I was gone. You all rock!
Checking in with Lent
Did you all give up anything for Lent? How's it going? I gave up eating bars for Lent, which seems silly but it has been quite the challenge. Like any good or bad habit though, I feel like a few weeks was all it took to break myself of eating them. I really think I'll go back to eating bars sometimes but mostly Larabars (which have few ingredients) or making them myself.
I would like to get in 2 more days of weight training this week and make that a regular thing. I've been doing my own Body Pump style workout but I think I might change it up and try some heavier weights with less reps this week. Gotta keep the body guessing!
I also want to get outside as much as possible. Spring is finally here and after the long cold winter we had, I must take full advantage 🙂
What are your goals for this week?


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Sometimes we get stuck into patterns and habits around sex that are hard to see, and even harder to break.
An incredibly common one is what Jessa Zimmerman calls the "sexual avoidance cycle".
This is how desire is impacted in the longer term by the quality of the sex that we are (or were) having. So, more information on the cycle below…. do you recognise it?
The Sexual Avoidance Cycle:
1. Sex feels uncomfortable, painful, disappointing, stressful
There are many many reasons why sex might not feel that great. This could be linked to anxiety– e.g. where a struggle to become aroused means sex feels pressured or stressful, or about body image and we're so worried about how we look it's hard to focus on what feels good.
It could be based on past experiences where sex has hurt or felt uncomfortable, or just worries about how it will feel in the future (e.g. after a bout of cystitis or giving birth).
It could be tied to how you feel about being close to your partner, or your expectations about sex and feeling let down- e.g. thinking sex should always be spontaneous and it's all about orgasm.
Whatever the reason, if sex has been leaving you feeling worse off afterwards, it may have become associated with a negative experience in your mind.
2. We start to avoid it
Zimmerman states that it's human nature to avoid what makes us feel bad. And if the quality of sex that we're having just isn't doing it for us, why would we seek it out?
At this point you might begin avoiding each other (including touches or expressions of affection, going to bed at different times), and you might not talk about what is going on….
3. The pressure builds
Sex has become the elephant in the room, and could be causing tension. At this stage, Zimmer states:
"Some of the pressure comes from the idea that you "should" be having sex. Some of it comes from knowing that your partner is unhappy. There is also much more pressure on any sex you do have since it's happening less frequently; it feels like there is much more at stake each time the two of you are intimate. Of course, all this pressure makes it harder for sex to seem to go well, thereby perpetuating the cycle. This pressure can also manifest itself in other ways, like sexual dysfunction. It's not surprising that it's difficult to get aroused in such a state, much less reach an orgasm. So you end up with disappointment, avoidance, and pressure. Rinse and repeat".
So the cycle starts again, and the loss of desire is causing issues in the relationship as well as potentially being caused by them.
Want to know how to break this cycle? Of course you do! How to break out of the sexual avoidance cycle?


text: How do you feel about police/vice deliberately pretending to be gay to arrest someone in a bathroom or bar? When I first moved to Birmingham (AL) from an adjoining state, it was no secret that members of the vice squad visited the bars there in hopes of being "hit" upon then arrested. I even knew one bartender who was arrested because he alerted a customer that the guy sitting next to him was a cop. I had friends that were arrested for either proposition or just rubbing a vice's leg or crotch under the table. For years I was under the impression that if you asked someone suspicious if they were "vice" or a policeman, they had to admit they were, otherwise a charge wouldn't hold up in court. I don't guess that was/is true. Watching "Cops" on Fox, many episodes feature prostitution stings - fortunately mostly females or "drag queens."


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I know there are numerous marathon training schedules but i would like your advice.
About to sign up for the Salisbury marathon at the beginning of August and wondering how much more training I need to do.
Currently cycle 60 miles a week, run 3 times with a total distance of 20 miles though 1 session is hil training or intervals and 1 session down the gym & the latter is all i can manage before bordeom sets in.
My half marathon time is 1:41 and next weekend is the Needles XC half so looking for under 2 hours.
Apart running a decent long run at the weekend what else should i be doing?
Ta muchly
I think that your focus should be on building up your weekly mileage as much as possible. Bear in mind that at the moment you are running 20 miles in a week and your goal is to run 26.2 miles in a few hours.
The biggest week should be 3 weeks before the race so you only have 7 weeks. A slow but constant increase in both your total weekly mileage and the length of your long run is what's required. The best way to do this is probably to ditch the intervals and do more miles at a slower pace instead.
(Why run down the gym in this weather you must be crazy!?)
Ideally you would run more than 3 times a week, but if you don't want to do that then a longish bike ride would help. If your current 60 miles a week cycling is split over 10 commutes then it is not going to help marathon running much but a long ride at the weekend would be of benefit as an addition to your run training.
Thanks for the advice. Time is ticking by and in all honesty i am unsure i will be able to up the distance that quick.
Looking at the New forest marathon on septembr instead, think that should give me more time to train.


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Skipper: Tom Holmes
Player of the Year: Tim Neville
Where did it all go wrong?
A harsh question that. With a comfortable top half finish in the bag and a cup giant killing achieved!
And, though Tom Watkins has probably claimed otherwise, no members of the 9s team have been found in bed with Miss World this season. Still, for those closely involved it is hard to look back on the season without a sense of 'if only'.
It possibly went wrong in about the 75th minute of a tight opening fixture with eventual champions Wilsonians. With the score at 0-0, a drilled cross pinballed around the Poly box and eventually went in off a shinpad to break the deadlock. The Poly then threw everything into getting an equaliser, but as so often happens, the visitors were able to break twice in the last 2 minutes and give themselves an undeserved 3-0 first day win.
Sluggish Start
It started off a poor autumn in the SAL, with a mixture of bad luck and off days meaning the lads got to Christmas with only 3 points on the board from a whipping of the whipping boys, HSBC. So let's skip that for now and talk cups. After easily dispatching a chaotic Old Parms side in the AFA first round, the SAL cup gave us a tough draw away at HSBC 7s, runaway leaders of the division above us.
And cups draws having a sense of humour, the AFA set us up to face the same opposition at Chiswick 2 weeks later.
At HSBC the lads performed creditably and matched the home side for possession but couldn't find a way past a tight home defence and outstanding keeper, eventually succumbing 0-3 to more late counterattacks.
At home though, facing a different custodian, we smelt the opportunity for revenge. O'Beirne turned home an early Poly corner and a Watkins penalty gave us breathing space soon after, but we then had to battle desperately for what must have been close on 80 minutes to hold on to that lead. But hold it we did and the high-flying visitors, who were to only drop 3 points in their division up until late April, rarely looked like finding a way through. The cup run went no further than a battling surrender to another more highly ranked set of opponents (Old Meads), but it gave us a welcome morale boost at a time when luck, real or manufactured, wasn't going our way.
New Year, New Purpose
To say we 'turned things around', or even 'bounced back' doesn't really do justice to the early part of 2013. A messy, but just about deserved, 2-1 victory over the 8th team in the first game of the year lit the fuse. We then won seven league matches on the spin, with gritty 2-1 and 1-0 victories over Civil Service and BB Eagles the most satisfying, whilst high scoring wins over the division's weaker teams had us doing our sums to see how we might catch the division's top two.
But it was not to be. An off day against the 8s in early March gave them revenge and burst our bubble. More weather interruptions and injuries took the edge off our performances and the season finished with dampness befitting the climate most of it had been played in.
Upbeat Analysis
If we started on a downbeat note, let's finish up on a high. Compared to other Poly sides this season was uneventful. In Premier League 2012-13 terms, we were probably West Brom, never in any real danger at the bottom nor at any risk at the higher end, despite brief flirtations with both. But there are other ways to measure success. The team spirit and bonding was excellent throughout the season.
There was new blood in the form of Grant Paling and Sean O'Beirne, excellent additions to the squad, whilst established players like Barry O'Connor, Tim Neville, Dan Jansepar and Jay Holmes had probably their best seasons. Danny Louki returned, older and tougher from his tour of duty in Mansingh's squad and most hearteningly, former player of the year Rob Holmes Reed reappeared, 2 years after a serious skiing injury threatened to end his football career – and quickly looked like he had never been away. And last but not least, the old dogs – names withheld to spare the guilty – still found they had a bit of footballing life left in them.
So could we make it easier to sex up the 2013-14 writeup by going on to win something next year?
You bet we are going to try. Bring it on!


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An iron-red and gilt decorated powder blue rouleau vase, Kangxi. Estimate £10,000 – 12,000 (€13,000 – 16,000). Photo Bonhams.
The cylindrical body finely enamelled in iron red and black with four large carp swimming amongst seaweed, smaller carp and langoustines, all in gilt, the shoulder with quatrefoil medallions enclosing four of the babao and reserved on a diaper border, the bamboo-trunk neck with formal shou and wan roundels framed by decorative bands above and below. 47cm (18 1/2in) high
Provenance: ex. Mary Burrell (1873-1968) Collection; Mary Burrell was the youngest sister of the famous Glasgow based collector, Sir William Burrell (1861-1958).
Sir William Burrell was a wealthy Glaswegian shipping magnate with a keen interest in art. Over the span of about eighty years he amassed a vast and eclectic collection, seeking out fine craftsmanship in the objects he acquired. The collection, gifted in 1944 to the city of Glasgow, mostly focuses on late medieval and early Renaissance Europe, but it also contains very representative and important examples of Chinese and Islamic art, Ancient Civilisations and French Paintings, including works by Rodin, Degas and Cézanne.
Notes: The combination of powder blue ground with iron red and gilded decoration was one of the most popular amongst the export types produced at Jingdezhen in the 18th century. Wares decorated in this palette were particularly favoured in the Middle East and in Europe, where they would be used as table wares or decorative objects in the residences of the élite.
Powder-blue glazed porcelain was first produced in the late 17th century in Jingdezhen. Its Chinese name, chuiqing, derives from the particular technique required to apply the pigment: the powdered cobalt was blown onto the surface through a bamboo cane whose extremity was covered in a fine gauze.
A similarly decorated vase was sold by Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1752. Another rouleau vase, with differently gilded ground but very similar treatment of the fish and very specifically dated to 1700-1710, is in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection, museum no. C.1347-1910.
Bonhams. ASIAN ART, 25 Feb 2015 10:30 GMT – LONDON, KNIGHTSBRIDGE


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JK8: Mopar's New Build-Your-Own Jeep Pickup Kit
If you're a true Jeep nut, chances are you've longed for a modern Wrangler-based pickup at some time or another. Jeep may not be ready to build such a vehicle, but with some help from Chrysler's Mopar accessories division, you can build your own...
As previewed by the JK8 Independence concept shown here, Mopar plans on rolling out a pickup conversion kit for the JK Wrangler by the end of the year. Patterned after the military-spec J8 Wrangler pickup that's been teased to us over the years (remember the JT and Sarge concepts?), the conversion kit allows anyone to transform a four-door 2007-2011 Wrangler Unlimited into what Mopar calls the JK8: a two-door pickup with a 50-inch long cargo bed.
Each JK8 kit includes a new bulkhead, removable half hard top (you'll need to keep the front panels from the Wrangler's optional Freedom Top), along with steel bed floor, inner and outer panels borrowed from the actual J8. Mopar plans on offering two versions of the kit -- the one shown here requires the installer to actually weld the panels in place.
The other, however, secures the panels and floor with a series of bolts. Mopar reps tell us the bolt-on conversion can easily be accomplished in the span of a weekend, provided you're handy with both a sawzall (you'll need to trim both sheetmetal and the rollbar) and grinder. You won't, however, need to section and lengthen the frame, a tedious task that was required with American Expedition Vehicles' TJ Wrangler pickup conversion.
So, how much does this all cost? Jim Sassarossi, Mopar's director of sales and marketing, insists it's far too early to discuss pricing, but without a doubt, a JK8 conversion will ring in far beneath the $50,000 required to buy an actual J8 through AEV. Look for finalized pricing to be announced this fall, when the kit is formally added to Mopar's catalog.


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The Edinburgh & Leith campaign in the Cities and Counties Championship for the Hamilton Trophy has descended into nightmare proportions with the elite bowlers from the capital city suffering their fourth defeat in six when losing by 18 shots away to Stirling County EastRead More
The East section is the toughest in the land but the 2013 national champions were expected to be among the leading contenders to claim a top two qualifying place however they go into their final fixture stranded in the no mans land position of sixth of eight.
Lack lustre displays from E&L teams is uncommon down the proud history of the 11 times Scottish Champions but their 128-110 defeat at Carron and Carronshore was their second in a row following the previous weeks defeat at home to Midlothian. Wining performances were served up on the rinks skipped by James Hogg and Robert Marshall but Mal Higgenbotham, Paul Veitch, John McDermott, and team captain Paul O'Donnell all suffered the pain of defeat. As the match developed E&L were fighting against the collar at 19 of the 21 ends yet were seldom far of the pace as the picture painted by the phase analysis shows with only a two shot deficit on the first (38-40) and three on the third (39-42) sandwiched by a damaging 11 (35-46 on the second.
"Whilst we were never firing up to expectations there was a pulse racing moment on end 16 when we carded thirteen shots for the loss of to get within three shots of them but sadly we were unable to follow through on that", reflected team manager Willie Watson. The final rink scores were; M McCauley 14 James Hogg 26; D Couper 18 Robert Marshall 21; S Thomson 25 Mal Higgenbotham 20; S Williamson 22 Paul Veitch 16; S Hogg 25 Paul O'Donnell 15; C Ross 24 John McDermott 14.
East Lothian made sure of a top two place with the section leaders making it five wins and one peel out of six with an impressive 127-112 win over menacing rivals Borders at Prestongrange allowing West Lothian to step up their challenge for second position.
WL pulverised West Fife with a spectacular 55 shot away victory (146-91) at Crossgates that saw them leapfrog Borders with a points tally of 9 to their 8. Wins on all six rinks saw WL lead from start to finish with a highlight end being the 10th where a massive count of 15-4 accelerated them into a comfort zone lead of 30 shots (72-42). Andy Dunnett led the WL charge to victory having included a full house count of eight at end 10 that inspired him to skip Ewan Shearer, Jordan Pearce, and Walter McDougall to a 32-14 win over D Junor. The other rink scores were, C Wilson 14 Grant Logan 18; P Brown 13 Stevie Fleming 20; A McIntyre 17 Ray Logan 25; JJ Watson 20 Thomas Mann 28; R McFarlane 13 Sandy McDougall 23.
Midlothian made it four wins out of six with a 120-105 win over Fife County at Polton.
Former Water of Leith League king pins Carrick Knowe have taken the Alpha Trophies sponsored Edinburgh Bowling League by storm since transferring their allegiance and attempt to make it eight wins out of eight when the runaway Division 4 leaders visit third placed Dean tonight. Two other former WOL clubs clash tonight with second placed Bainfield visiting fourth placed Colinton while two WOL connections in Division Five features leaders Sighthill at home to Braid, and second placed Gorgie Mills sitting out. The Division One fixtures are, Pilrig v Parkside; Tanfield v Queensberry; Hillside v Craigentinny; Northern v Maitland.
Division Two leaders Postal entertain second placed rivals West End while Divisiom Three table-toppers Whitehouse & Grange are at home to relegation zoned Ardmillan.


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Chartered Surveyor, Land Agent & Auctioneer
I have operated as an independent Rural Practice Chartered Surveyor, Land Agent and Auctioneer in Lichfield since March 2008.
I currently have an exciting letting opportunity at the Thorpe Estate
Land at Statfold Lane, Alrewas, Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire, DE13 7BT
A parcel of land some 1.73 hectares (4.29 acres) or thereabouts with frontage to the River Trent and Mill Stream
TO LET – The Thorpe Estate, Thorpe Constantine, Tamworth, Staffordshire. B79 0LH
High quality rural estate office scheme available for rent on flexible terms
Stablethorpe is an attractive conversion of former stables at Thorpe Hall near Tamworth.
The site is an attractive rural setting some four miles from junction 11 off the M42 motorway and approximately six miles north of Tamworth town centre.
The offices provide quality office space, to ground floor and floor levels, open plan with period features both internally and externally benefitting from high quality communal WC and kitchens and would suit a wide variety of office based uses including alternative occupiers such as gymnasium, yoga studio and similar.
- Biomass boiler providing heating to the estate
- High speed broadband available by contract
- Cat 2 lighting
- Male, female and disabled WC facilities
- Landscaped courtyards
Each party to be responsible for their own legal costs incurred in the transaction.
There is an estate service charge which deals with landscape, maintenance and estate services currently running at £3.50 per ft² per annum, plus VAT.
Local Authority: Lichfield District Council
Period: 2018/2019
Rateable Value: TBC
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I have operated as an independent Royal Practice Chartered Surveyor, Land Agent and Auctioneer in Lichfield since March 2008.
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This violin shoulder rest is perfectly designed for 4/4 and 3/4 size violins. With dense velvet pad, this violin shoulder rest provides a comfortable frame, you will not feel tired or pain during the practice. This strong and durable violin shoulder rest is a great assistant for violin performance.
- A violin shoulder rest designed for protecting your shoulder
- With alloy base and rubber protection ends
- With velvet pad for less tired or painful feeling during playing
- Strong and durable
- Suitable for both 3/4 and 4/4 size violins
- A good assistant for your performance
- Material: Alloy, velvet and rubber
- Main color: Dark red
- Velvet pad size: Approx. 15 x 5.5cm
Package Includes:
- 1 x Violin shoulder rest
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Christmas cookies are so much fun to make! Children love decorating them and they definitely bring the family together. They are a must have on any cookie platter as well.
These Christmas cookies do not need to be chilled because they have less butter and more flour than your usual cut-out cookie. This is great because you do not need to wait to cut them and bake them. These cookies are not chewy. They are crisp and definitely delicious.
When you remove these from the oven they will be a little soft. No worries. They will harden as they cool down so let them sit on the baking sheet for a few minutes before you transfer them to a cooling rack. Once they are completely cooled down you can frost them.
I frosted these Christmas cookies with Royal icing that I make with raw egg whites. If this makes you uncomfortable you will have to use pasteurized or dehydrated egg whites for this. If you are using powdered ones you will have to reconstitute them with some water so please read the instructions well.
Here is what you are going to need for these wonderful and delicious Christmas cookies:
Makes 24 to 30 cookies
1 cup (227 grams) of unsalted, softened butter
1 ½ cups (300 grams) white sugar
1 large egg at room temperature
1 tsp. orange zest
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 ¾ (224 grams) cups all-purpose white flour + more for the counter
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 egg whites at room temperature
A few drops of lemon juice
A pinch of salt
3 cups (384 grams) of powdered or confectioner's sugar
Heat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 C) and line your cookies sheets with parchment paper or silicon mats.
Mix the butter and the sugar until you have a uniform cream – about a minute. Add the egg and mix. Add the orange zest and the vanilla and mix.
In a separate bowl, mix the flour with the baking powder and the salt. Add it to the butter and mix it in. Do not over beat. Use your hands to press the dough together and form two balls of dough.
Sprinkle some flour on a clean counter and roll out your dough. Cut the dough into your preferred shapes using a cookie cutter. Make sure to reuse all left over scraps as you go. Carefully pick up your cut cookie (I use a butter knife) and place it inside the cookie sheets.
Bake your cookies for 8 to 9 minutes until the edges are lightly browned. Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool on the sheets for about 5 minutes. They will continue to be soft but will harden as they cool.
Transfer them to a cooling rack and cool down completely before icing.
Place the egg whites in a bowl and add the lemon juice and salt. Whisk them together to loosen the egg whites up. Start beating them until they are frothy.
Start adding the sugar ½ a cup at a time, beating well after each addition, until you have the desired consistency. The more sugar you add the thicker your icing will be.
If you would like, separate the icing into little bowls and add mix in different food coloring into each one. Mix well and decorate your cookies. You will need to keep a damp paper towel over the icing while you work or it will dry up. I kept my icing white and decorated my cookies with colored sugar that I got at the store.
Wait for the icing to dry up completely before you put these away in an airtight container where they will last you for about two weeks.
1 cookie no icing – CALORIES 123.26; FAT 6.37 grs (sat 3.95; mono 1.65; poly 0.29); PROTEIN 1.02 grs ; FIBER 0.20 grs; CARBS 15.78 grs; CHOLESTEROL 22.48 mg; IRON 0.41 mg; SODIUM 105.19 mg; CALCIUM 26.71 mg


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Friday, March 26, 2010
"Do I Kneel Or Do I Bow?"
If you are invited to a service - christening/dedication, wedding, funeral etc- by a relative, colleague or friend who is from a different denomonation or from a non-Christian faith, it can raise a lot of questions.
What should you expect to happen?
What is the place of worship called and what does it look like?
How long will the service last?
What would be appropriate clothing to wear?
Are you expected to make a monetary donation, and if so, how much would be acceptable?
I can certainly imagine all of these questions being asked by a non-OrthodoxChristian invited to attend a wedding service at an Orthodox church, so how much more anxiety might someone feel at the thought of attending an event of a different religious tradition?
For many people, attending any sort of religious event is way outside their "comfort zone". No-one would deliberately wish to cause offence in such situations, and this is where this book absolutely shines. It covers the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist faiths, as well as Roman Catholicism, Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy in a handy, pocket-sized 336 page book which is profusely illustrated throughout.
The tone is always respectful to the varying traditions and shows an honest determination to provide as much information as possible, without ever being terse or trivialising any of the subject matter. I was particularly impressed with the fact that many aspects of a religion's intertwined faith and life are discussed, including fasting, feasting, dietary restrictions etc. Do adherents of all faiths appreciate flowers, gifts or congratulations cards on the birth of a baby or would such actions cause offence? These collateral tangents are also covered, which I appreciated and enjoyed.
It is obviously impossible to do full justice to even one of the religions covered in a book of this size, but the author has provided good basic summaries of belief within the constraints of the size of the book and the needs of the reader. The Orthodox beliefs and customs alone could have would have needed several volumes of this size without even beginning to cover many important areas of doctrine, but this is not what this book is intended to do, and the author has succceeded in presenting a very basic summary of Orthodox belief and a nice amount of information about Orthopraxis.
My eleven year old daughter was working on a school project involving describing a visit to a Sikh temple, and she was able to use this book as an excellent reference tool in completing her assignment. I am sure that we will have cause to refer to it on many more occasions as she covers the beliefs and customs of different religions during her next few years of studying Religious Education in school.
It is possible to have a look inside this book by going here. It is published by Kuperard, at £12.99.
If you are interested in comparative religion, curious about the customs and beliefs of neighbours or friends, or just want to know what to expect when you have been invited to attend a ceremony or function, this book is a good starting place and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
2 comments:
- Bb said...
This sounds splendid. I often have to set people at their ease when they think of coming to us for the first time. The more of this sort of thing is out there, the better. Thank you for sharing.
- 9:13 pm
- Mimi said...
I've browsed through this at the bookstore, I'm glad you got to get a copy!
- 8:55 pm
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In Reply to: Put two and two together posted by pamela on June 02, 2008 at 06:02:
: : : Why 'put two and two together'? Why not 'put one and together' or any other simple number for that matter? Do you know the origin of this idiom and why it is with twos?
: : Interesting question. "Two and two make four" is a traditional choice for illustrating something elementary that everyone ought to know. A person who can't think clearly is described as not knowing that 2 + 2 = 4. A person who uses false logic (faulty arguments) to manipulate people is said to make 2 and 2 add up to 5. I don't know why 2 got the place of honor. Maybe 1 is *too* simple.
: : There's a British saying, "He doesn't know how many beans make five." Why 5?
: : Then there's "C-A-T spells 'cat,'" a similar use of one elementary bit of knowledge to represent elementary knowledge generally. The word could have been anything. T-H-E spells "the." ~rb (U.S.)
: There are about 4,000 google hits for "put 1 and 1 together" and 9,800 for "put one and one together". This is measly compared with the 86,000 for the "2" version and 760,000-odd for the "two" version, but it shows that some people have decided that putiing one and one together is even simpler than two and two. Pamela
How many beans make five? When I was young this was regarded as a trick question! The answer is 'a bean, a bean, a bean and a half, half a bean and a bean'.


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The South African government has announced it will not deport Zimbabwean migrants who can show they have applied to work legally in the country. But it says it will not extend the deadline for applying for the permits, causing concern among civic groups that work with the migrants.
Activists working with Zimbabwean migrants have welcomed South Africa's announcement that it would not begin deporting undocumented Zimbabweans until it has finished a three month-old registration process.
But Home Affairs Minister Nkosozana Dlamini-Zuma reiterated that the migrants still must apply by December 31 . "We will not extend the deadline. That is why we are saying, bring in your form. Even if you do not have fingerprints, bring it in. Even if you do not have a passport, bring it in. So that we know you are here. And then we we will extend the process in time," he said.
The government in September announced it was ending an 18-month moratorium on deportations of undocumented Zimbabweans. At the same time it launched a program to give legal status to those who could prove they were working or studying here.
There are an estimated 1.5-million Zimbabweans in South Africa. Officials say they have received about 100,000 applications and of these 40,000 still remained to be processed.
Civic groups while welcoming the announcement said the registration process had been slow and confusing to some migrants.
Some applicants stand in line for days before being able to apply. Others have been unable to obtain necessary passports or birth certificates from the Zimbabwean embassy.
Activists say many Zimbabwean workers in remote rural areas either do not know about the process or cannot afford to travel to the cities where the program is being conducted.
Attorney Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh of Johannesburg's Lawyers for Human Rights said it is not likely that all eligible Zimbabweans would be processed in time. "The process has been a failure and the only way to remedy the situation is if the deadline is extended to allow more Zimbabweans access to the process and to be able to regularize their situation," Ramjathan-Keogh said.
Dlamini-Zuma said a meeting Tuesday with the activists had raised legitimate concerns and led to the decision to postpone any expulsions. "That is why we are saying there'll be no deportation until we have finished processing everything that we would have received including waiting for those people who are waiting for their passports," he said.
Many of the Zimbabwean migrants apply for political asylum citing political oppression and human rights abuses in their country.
The South African government says 90 percent of these people are actually economic migrants looking for jobs because of Zimbabwe's economic crisis.
The government says the economic and political climate in Zimbabwe has improved since the installation of a unity government nearly two years ago.
But Ramjathan Keogh says the power sharing agreement between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is shaky and notes that Mr. Mugabe has called for elections next year. "The situation is not improving. The national unity government, the agreement will end in February of 2011 before the elections which are scheduled in Zimbabwe. And after the end of that agreement we do not know what will happen and it is likely that we will continue to see an influx of Zimbabweans coming over the border in need of protection," Keogh said.
In addition, activists say an average of 17,000 Zimbabweans are being deported each month despite the moratorium. And they say the thousands of unemployed Zimbabweans in South Africa do not qualify for the permits. As a result, they say the crisis is likely to continue.
South Africa Eases Deportation Threat Against Zimbabweans Seeking Work Permits
The South African government has announced it will not deport Zimbabwean migrants who can show they have applied to work legally in the country. But it says it will not extend the deadline for applying for the permits, causing concern among civic groups that work with the migrants.


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Goal Crazy 90 Day Undated Planner & Journal
Goal Crazy 90 Day Undated Planner & Journal
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Goal Crazy 90 Day Undated Planner & Journal
For those with big goals, but little free time
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Plan Your Month
Set goals every month for the different areas of your life.
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Plan what you want to accomplish, and when you will accomplish it.
Plan Your Day
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