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Dreaming and scheming: Upcoming projects
The other night I was looking through my patterns and thinking about what to try next.
When I choose the fabric first I become far too indecisive, so to make it easier I thought, after I complete the first set of upcoming projects, what patterns am I itching to try? This made it easier to decide
All these plans are subject to change of course!
Above: I finally decided on the right dress of this fabulous drill, that has vintage sewing pattern ladies on it.
The vintage pattern envelope print will be the pleated skirt part of a fit and flare dress!
I wanted to make a shift dress out of this cool print, but I figured it might be too overwhelming covering an entire dress (plus I dont have much of it). I like the idea of doing the bodice of this dress in a plain blue drill, perhaps it would be a bit more balanced. Plus I really want to try this pattern (simplicity 1418). I L O V E box pleats (do I get extra sewing-nerd cred for that? heh)!
Above: I really want to try this pattern out! The envelope front was a little overly 'crafty' looking, but looking at the line drawing it's a really nice A-line baby-doll 60s style dress.
Julia Bobbin has already used this pattern to make a gorgeous Betty-inspired dress some time ago.
The fabric I selected here is just 'Meh' to me. I like feminine florals, but this ones just a quilting cotton that creases like crazy, so just a good fabric for trying a new pattern out with.
Above: So I have already used this pattern before, but I need more shift dresses in my life! I never seem to get enough of them!
I was keeping this polka dot poplin for a 50s style dress, but now I think it would be cute as a shift dress! I adore navy! Which is funny because as a girl/teen I though navy was boring/not my thing, now I'm in love with it.
Navy blue seems to be the colour that suits my skin/hair the best and it looks killer with orange (which is my favorite colour, but one that suits me less)
Above: I really want to make something sweet and feminine! Especially now that I have such short hair, I have days where I really want to wear a ladylike dress!
Fabric is another cotton/poly poplin that has some weight to it.
I didn't realize how sweet this pattern looked made up till I saw this lovely dress.
I would be making the plainer bodice (view c) because it's a busy print I would want to keep the dress pretty simple.
Not sure if I would use the skirt from this pattern perhaps I would franken-pattern it up with a skirt that flared out (simplicity 1418 with the two pleats front perhaps)?!
Above:So…pants and shorts- And yes I am crazy enough to consider those very short tartan things 'shorts'.
I have only ever made one pair of shorts years ago, and I don't even remember how you construct them.
I figure it's probably easier to copy pants or shorts you already own, rather than try and make a commercial pants or shorts pattern fit right, I could be wrong, but I'm game to try!
I want to try and copy these hot pants and these really fitted black and white checkered ones ones because I love the fit of both!
And finally here are some other patterns I really want to try. I know I have issues (pattern hoarding issues), I hope you guys understand….
Did you spot the stay threads on my floor? that would be a boring game, but I sew in my living room and I feel as if there is no point in vacuuming because I'm always sewing!
Anyway that concludes the sewing plans that may or may not eventuate, depending on my whims.
I have been working on a cute shift dress and I am adding scallops to them hem, something I have never tried before.
Has anyone tried any of the aforementioned sewing patterns? Let me know in the comments!


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I used a Die'sire petite dots folder to emboss the base card and a magazine freebie folder for the snippet of gold card. No prizes for guessing the image is a LOTV stamp coloured with Promarkers and the snowflake is a Tattered Lace die cut from another of those snippets with a gem added to the centre. The metallic red card is a snippet and the baker's twine is from The Ribbon Girl.
I shall enter this in the following challenges
Pixie's Snippets Playground challenge 'use snippets'
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge 'use some gold'
Passion For Promarkers challenge 'sketch'
Winter Wonderland challenge 'carols / songs' ~ O Christmas Tree
Papertake Weekly challenge 'to die for' (my 2nd entry)
Sparkles Christmas challenge 'no designer papers'
Tuesday Throwdown challenge 'texture'
I'm off to do a spot of housework now. I love the sun but when it shines through the window it really shows up the dust! Enjoy the rest of your weekend whatever you're up to.

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'Diwali is the five-day festival of lights, celebrated by millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains across the world. The festival, which coincides with the Hindu New Year, celebrates new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness.'
I got my first taste of Diwali in the chaotic city of Jaipur. Here, gold tinsel hung from the lamp posts and huge LED displays were erected down the main bazaar. Even in the days before the festival began, crackling explosions burst sporadically on the streets. Each one followed by the fluttering of child's laughter. I could see that in a city this size, this chaos had the possibility to become mayhem, and so the day before the festival I chose to travel three hours West to the holy city of Pushkar.
Like Varanasi, Pushkar is one of India's most sacred towns, filled with temples and pilgrims who flock to the town to bathe in the Holy waters of Pushkar Lake. The town is set around a series of ghats, each painted an off white, and each with steep stone steps leading down to the huge open pools of Holy water for bathers. As well as religious pilgrims, the town has become a bit of a magnet for spiritual backpackers, who have merged a laid back hippie culture into the mix, creating something that has become very unique to Pushkar. Walk down the main bazaar and you will see cafe's named 'The Laughing Buddha', or 'Funky Monkey'. Quicken your step a little too much and a shop keeper will tell you, 'Shanti, shanti', (slowly slowly), for life moves at a different pace here. And that was just what I needed.
It was dusk when the first signs of the Diwali celebrations began. The Festival of Lights is now celebrated all over the world, through firework displays, street parades and the lighting of candles. I was interested to see how the festival was celebrated in it's home country, especially in a town so deeply rooted in Hindu tradition.
Walking down towards the ghats, I spotted women in red and gold sari's wandering barefoot through the bazaar and towards the lake. Each carried a clay pot and a lit candle, each was silent and steady, and the streets unusually quiet. Along the shop fronts and closed coffee shop doors, tea lights flickered in the shallow breeze and the sound of prayer came from each open doorway and temple entrance.
Stalls selling marigold and fuchsia pink flower trains, boxes of milk coloured sweets and fragrant saffron lassi's were placed along the roadside, but the streets of Pushkar were silent in a way they probably only are once each year. Far from the lavish displays of modern lighting in Jaipur, Pushkar's celebrations appeared to be deeply personal and spiritual, mostly involving a single candle lighting, the soft whispering of prayers, and the journeying back home to celebrate privately with their families.
I walk through the winding streets, past a white cow wearing a necklace of marigolds and through the maze of flickering candles to the ghats. The same barefoot women who had floated along the bazaar with clay candles now crouched at the waters edge, caressing their faces in holy water and setting light to a single candle which then drifted along the still waters of the lake.
As a foreigner watching these simple acts of faith, it can feel somewhat intrusive, but often I am handed a candle of my own, and at one point a women places a flower behind my ear with a soft and pleasant smile. It's still early when the streets are almost empty and most of the celebrations continue behind closed doors.
I find an unlit candle and carry it slowly down to the waters edge, placing it in the rippling lake and watching it drift alongside the others. I've been in India only a few days, but this simple act has settled me in a way it is supposed to. I see that the meaning of Diwali, and the lighting of an inner candle to protect from spiritual darkness, transcends its religious foundations, which is maybe why this festival has been spread so globally. It is a blessing for a new year and new beginnings.
Information: Diwali is celebrated once a year in October or November. The 2016 festival begins on October 30th. The festival lasts for 5 days however I noticed few celebrations after the first two days. The festival is celebrated across India, Nepal and in other parts of Asia.
Annapurna Mellor is a travel photographer, writer and co-founder of Roam Magazine. She fell in love with Asia shortly after graduating and has since spent extensive periods travelling and photographing in India, Nepal, Myanmar and many more. She shoots regularly for brands and publications and her work can be found in National Geographic Traveller Magazine, Lonely Planet, Suitcase and The Guardian. When not on the road, she is based in Manchester, UK.


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The Seven-fold Path to Enlightened Emergency Management
If I hadn't known better before I clicked on the link that led me to the following list on Monday morning, I would have wondered whether the author was a homeland security or emergency management practitioner:
- Replace expectations with plans.
- Prepare for different possibilities.
- Become a feeling observer.
- Get confident about your coping and adapting skills.
- Utilize stress reduction techniques preemptively.
- Focus on what you can control.
- Practice mindfulness.
These seven steps do not appear in the National Response Framework or National Incident Management System guidance. But maybe they should. No, these steps were written as a guide to stress-free living in an uncertain future for followers of a website that bases its advice on Buddhist philosophy.
So, how would this advice apply if we accepted it in our practice?
Replace expectations with plans. Our expectations tend to be rather pessimistic assessments of the future state of affairs. All this negativity makes it difficult for people to engage our message, much less respond creatively or enthusiastically to the challenge posed by some of the threats we face. We cannot do much about some of these hazards, but we can choose to reduce our vulnerability one step at a time. We can start by making a plan with those affected by hazards that outlines our shared understanding of the problems we face and the process that will get us to a better place.
Prepare for different possibilities. This advice goes beyond applying an all-hazards approach. For each hazard we should consider the full-range of possibilities from different perspectives. Sometimes the worst-case scenario involves less complex trade-offs or less intense competition for resources than less severe scenarios. Really overwhelming incidents can limit our options in ways less intense events do not. How much more difficult is it to manage a response when lots of resources are available before you really understand what's happening? Developing scenarios that reflect the range of interactions between major drivers and major uncertainties allows us to consider a number of plausible scenarios without worrying which is more likely or most taxing. This approach also allows us to look more carefully at how each element of our capability affects outcomes by interacting with the identified drivers and uncertainties.
Become a feeling observer. To protect ourselves we often seek to adopt a detached perspective and often argue that the best options are those that pass some sort of technical, rational litmus test. But disasters are experienced by people in very personal ways. Why not recognize and respond to the personal suffering we're witnessing with understanding and compassion? This is, after all, exactly how most people respond when confronted with disaster. When confronted with the ambiguity and anxiety arising from disaster, people often respond in very adaptive even altruistic ways. Explicitly acknowledging the tendency of people to engage one another to alleviate suffering allows us to look to survivors as resources to be engaged rather than obstacles to be pushed aside so the "professionals" can get in to do the job. This is less about allowing them to share the burden than it is about letting them own the solution. After all, it is their problem.
Get confident about your coping and adapting skills. Perhaps the most important but undervalued coping and adapting skills are a high tolerance for ambiguity and a willingness to get started without knowing where you will end up. Disasters do not wait for decision-makers to gather all the information they think they need. People in need don't wait for us to know what's wrong or what to do about it. We don't need detailed plans or stacks of standard operating procedures to tell us how to act with compassion, humility and integrity. We can alleviate a lot of suffering by doing something as simple as holding a dying man's hand, and that never appears in our plans anyway.
Utilize stress reduction techniques preemptively. If effective homeland security and emergency management are more about doing than saying, then they are also as much about reflecting upon what we have done as what we said we would do. We can do everyone a lot more good if we take time to relax, reflect and renew ourselves at regular intervals. Removing ourselves from the distractions and preoccupations of the work environment frees our minds to see hidden connections between our work and the wider world in which we live. When we realize that life is not a race, we learn to make the most of the little time we do have.
Focus on what you can control. For a discipline preoccupied with command and control thinking, we often fail to recognize that most of the things that need to happen and many of those that matter the most to the outcome of a disaster are beyond our control. We cannot control the weather or the timing of an event. We cannot improve preparedness after an incident occurs. We cannot change the past. But we can use the people and resources we have wisely. This often means employing people in ways that add the most value to their experience of the event, which means engaging them in decisions and actions that give them the opportunity to develop a sense of shared purpose and commitment to the end result. The most powerful and profound form of control involves knowing when to let go. When we make others our partners, we can achieve much more.
Practice mindfulness. It would be nice if we could maintain the distinction between intention and action. So much of what we do in homeland security and emergency management is misunderstood by policy-makers and the general public. We don't do ourselves any favors by assuming their inability to understand what we do reflects an unwillingness to put themselves in our shoes. They will judge us by what we do or fail to do no matter how carefully we might tread. Practicing mindfulness means making ourselves truly present to others and opening ourselves and our processes to their positive involvement. People are less liable to criticize decisions and actions in which they shared a part. And they often contribute new perspectives we miss when we treat our problems and process as if they were our personal property.


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Darmanto, Seno and Rahmat, Rahmat (2001) REKALKULASI PENGARUH BEBAN DAN KECEPATAN TERHADAP KONSUMSI BAHAN BAKAR PADA BEMO T200T. Gema Teknologi, 12 (2). pp. 100-104. ISSN 0852-0232
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Enviropod - 33 Litre
The Envirpod is a compact, modern, stylish recycling bin, suitable for indoor use they are designed to either be used as a standalone unit or to compliment the Envirocup Collector to complete a cup recycling station or Envirosplit to add more elements to your bin. Manufactured from medium density polyethylene for durability these units are easily wiped clean and maintained. With options to recycle paper sleeves and plastic lids these bins are a popular choice for locations in which disposable cups are used such as, cafes, lesiure complexes, offices and canteens or where a cup recycling bin is already in place.
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Before I discovered my hair was low porosity, I was all about closing my cuticles with low Ph products or cold water and locking in moisture with heavy oils such as shea butter and coconut oil. Coconut oil has many health benefits and I really wanted my hair to enjoy being coated in it, but it just did nothing for my hair but exacerbate its dryness. Just imagine low porosity hair as a spong covered in cling wrap, if I proceed to cover the cling wrap in oils, the moisture is just not going to reach my hair, no matter how hard I try. After I realized this, I made some major adjustments to my regimen.
1. I stopped using Kimmaytube leave-in. The original recipe, which comes from famed Youtube personality Kim Love, contains:2 tablespoons of Kinky Curly Knot Today + 2 tablespoons of aloe vera juice + 2 teaspoons of castor oil +2 teaspoons of jojoba oil.
This leave-in left me with frizz, white residue and dry hair. My hair felt coated and tacky. Once I removed the oils and the aloe from the mixture, essentially leaving me with just leave-in, I saw an immediate improvement. Again, I've tried to make my hair love aloe, because it's such a wonderful natural hair product, however, my hair just despises it!
2. I stopped doing vinegar rinses/cold water rinses. Again, great all natural products and techniques to enhance shine and seal the cuticle. For my low porosity hair not so great. My story would start like this, I'd wash and condition. After my conditioner, my hair would feel nice and detangled and soft. I'd then pour my vinegar rinse or freezing cold water over my head and my hair would instantly shrink up and frizz up. I'd then spend the next hour trying to apply creams and serums to regain the moisture.
3. After my cold water/vinegar rinses, I'd follow by sealing with shea butter or coconut oil. My hair would shine like a new penny for the first day. The second day it was both dry and oily. It was like I was suffocating my hair, any hope of moisture was ruled out by the fortress of oil I'd applied. It took me a long time to accept that my hair doesn't always need oil. It was only until one day when I spent hours trying to wash out layers and layers of shea butter– not fun! I know that coconut oil is one of few select oils that can penetrate the hair shaft. That's fine and dandy, but my hair just wasn't having it.
Eliminating these three stages, has not only saved me a lot on time, but also money. It takes a lot of trial and error to figure out what works best. Now I know my hair:
- doesn't mind some light oils like jojoba and sweet almond.
- loves water based creams for leave-ins (if it's not water based, I add water to it).
- can handle a small amount of aloe or shea butter on the ends. I think this is because this part of our hair is the oldest and most susceptible to damage.
- hates to be rinsed in cold water and is not a friend of vinegar.
I attribute eliminating these products from my hair regimen to contributing to fast and healthy growth. Believe me, I've had set backs and had to cut and trim here and there, however, after I started figuring out what worked for me, that's when my hair started to flourish. I've included pictures below of my hair, one year after going natural in 2012 and this month, two years after going natural.
Did you use any products or techniques for a long time, only to discover they did more harm than help your hair?


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Ultrasound is part of our daily lives and used in many applicationsCygnus Instruments Ltd21, Dorchester, United Kingdom
In the marine and shipping industry, where steel corrosion is a constant challenge, Cygnus ultrasonic thickness gauges play a major role in providing a solution to this challenge.
The Cygnus Multiple-Echo technique has been recommended and endorsed by the world's leading classification societies for measuring the remaining metal thickness through protective coatings. The Multiple-Echo technique provides accurate and reliable measurements, this measuring technique can sometimes be difficult to achieve when measuring on, extreme front face and back wall corrosion and round bars such as anchor chain links. This is why Cygnus has introduced Single-Echo, using twin-crystal probes, into their product range - providing users with the flexibility to alternate between the two, starting with Cygnus DIVE...
Underwater Thickness Measurements
Cygnus DIVE is a wrist-mountable underwater thickness gauge providing an invaluable free-hand while performing remaining metal thickness measurements. Originally launched two years ago, the DIVE now has a number of key new features:
Cygnus DIVE Underwater Thickness Gauge used to inspect the hull of the A7 Submarine
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The ability of the diver to wear Cygnus DIVE on his arm or wrist is a big advantage says Graham Haines, Sales Director for Cygnus. Having a free-hand when diving offers obvious advantages and together with the AMOLED display, makes viewing so much easier by both the diver and support engineers on the surface via the diver's camera. The AMOLED display not only gives much better viewing, especially in poor visibility, it also offers an A-Scan display which helps verify true back wall readings in difficult measuring applications. In data-logging mode Cygnus DIVE can store up to 5,000 measurements together with each measurement A-Scan for future analysis, should the need arise.
Ultrasound can also be used for checking the weather tightness of hatch cover seals on bulk carriers...
Cygnus Hatch Sure ultrasonic hatch cover leak detection system comprises a powerful ultrasonic transmitter with 19 x 40 KHz elements which is placed within the ships hold. This fills the hold with ultrasound and any that escapes (through gaps in damaged areas of the seals) can be detected by the operator on deck using a sensitive receiver/listening device, locating areas that might leak in heavy seas or rain.
Cygnus Hatch Sure Leak Detector used to inspect leaks in the seals of a German Panamax
This offers many advantages over the conventional technique of hose testing which uses large volumes of water sprayed at the rubber seals. Ultrasound can be used in sub zero temperatures, identifies the precise damaged area of seals, is repeatable and avoids pollution of harbours due to contaminated water.
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Remember when you were a kid, and all you had to do was slap some crayon on construction paper and you were done with your holiday gifting? Well, those days are gone, and if you're anything like us here at The Escapist, holiday shopping has since become an ordeal on par with killing Algalon the Observer or beating the 257th level of Pac-Man. That's why we're here to take the burden off your shoulders with our Holiday Buyer's Guide, which contains gift ideas guaranteed to please the geek on your shopping list. Why not pick up something for yourself while you're at it? You haven't been too naughty this year, right?
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything," is a book about, well, everything. Starting from the Big Bang, he accomplishes the daunting task of summarizing exactly how we, as humans, went from a primordial soup to where we are now. He covers it all: evolution, chemistry, geology. From Newton to Darwin and Einstein, Bryson explains each of the major scientific advances of our short tenure on the planet and does it with style and wit. At no point in the book does a scientific theory become too muddled or wordy to understand - Bryson is able to successfully communicate complex theories and laws, and you don't need a degree in science to understand the concepts. It's a quick and painless way to acquaint yourself with every important scientific theory and discovery since the conception of Earth.
Plush Squid
I'm obsessed with cephalopods. Show me anything that has a cuttlefish, giant squid, nautilus or octopus on it, and you'll have a girl squealing with glee like she's at a Miley Cyrus concert. My favorite ceph is the Architeuthis dux, a species of giant squid that has remained elusive for years. It was only in 2004 that the first photographs of one in the wild were taken, and in 2006, the first live video of an adult was recorded. Amongst all of my cephalopodic paraphernalia, my favorite has to be my giant squid stuffed animal. I purchased mine at the Washington D.C. aquarium, but there's one available at Amazon, too. Next on my list is a Vampire squid plushie, but I'm afraid that one will probably be harder to track down.
Finis SwiMP3 Underwater MP3 Player
I've been swimming nearly all my life. I was on various swim teams and let me tell you - competing to get the best times was a real rush. But, with the complete lack of non-college adult swim teams around, I'm pretty much relegated to swimming back and forth at the local YMCA pool, dodging children who don't "get" lane ropes and always dreading having to share the lane with one of those "water aerobics" folks. Even though I love it, swimming laps for an hour can get pretty boring. Thankfully, there's the Finis SwiMP3 underwater MP3 player. These headphones attach directly to your goggles and transmit sound through your cheekbones. Instead of getting the muffled noise that most underwater headphones provide, the SwiMP3 sends the sound vibrations straight through to your inner ear, and I can listen to Bloc Party and Hot Hot Heat as clear as if they had taken a Magic School Bus ride into my brain and were now playing inside it.


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By Amber Seitz
Between products like mobile and online banking, ATMs, fintech solutions and digital wallets like PayPal, it's no wonder some people are questioning whether brick-and-mortar bank branches are still relevant. However, consumers still crave the trust and assurance that comes with human interaction, especially when it comes to their finances. Bank branches aren't on the brink of extinction; they're evolving. Here are five key actions banks can take to transform their branch networks and enhance their value.
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Fuego Grills
Description: The 2016 Fuego Element F21C Grill is a genuine consolidation of innovation, contemporary design and powerful performance. The Fuego Element gas grill comes loaded with impressive features, making it as functional as it is aesthetically pleasing for anyone. The streamlined 21" x 21" square footprint is perfect for the small apartment patio or balcony, and packs a performance punch by heating up to 500F in just five minutes. It's features include a hinged door for concealed propane tank storage, 360 degree cooking capabilities, easy to clean residue tray, push button electronic ignition, recessed thermometer, and heat reflective lid.
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"HOLLYWOOD GLAMCLOCK" By JOSH JOHNSON HOME
Description: 16"X16" CHUNKY MIRRORED CLOCK FOR WALL OR TABLETOP ACCESSORIZING- THE UTLIMATE IN HIGH GLAM DECOR AND GIFT-GIVING! As one of the latest product designs from Josh Johnson Home, the signature HOLLYWOOD GLAMCLOCK launched alongside the JJHOME holiday collection in Fall, 2016. As a highly acclaimed and recognized interior designer by countless Hollywood A-listers for the last several years, Josh has exclusively gifted and designed for the entertainment industry's elite on a large scale.
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Multi-Wick Handmade Saxon Candle By FlashPoint Candle
Description: The Saxon candle by FlashPoint Candle is 2lbs of wax and sprinkled with 6 cotton wicks for maximum glow and light cast. Each Saxon vessel is made from Earthenware clay and handmade into a low bowl pottery styling. Each pottery piece is of exceptional quality with beautiful reactive glazing and hand dipped interior glaze of the FlashPoint Candle signature sky blue. Every piece is one-of-a-kind and will vary slightly as with any truly handmade artisan product. Give a Saxon candle as a special gift to place on a dining table, coffee table or bed-side stand. At 9" diameter this stunning candle can be used almost anywhere in the home and will add a finishing touch to any room.
Price: $58.00 Visit the Website
Trendy Cookbook Benefits Orangutans, Elephants And Other Wildlife
Description: The best holiday gift for foodies this year is Back to Basics, a beautiful international cookbook featuring trendy Malaysian cuisine. Infused with culinary influences from China, India and Southeast Asia, these recipes compiled by editors Ryan Khang and Dr. Kalyana Sundram range from Crispy Spiced Chicken to Coconut Biscuits. Featuring stories about 16 amazing and passionate chefs, each dish is easy to prepare and will take the family on a culinary vacation. Most use quick-cooking techniques to retain more of the food's nutrients and beautiful colors. "Malaysia is a melting pot of cuisines from many frontiers, each dish steeped in culture and tradition," writes sustainability advocate Chef Gerard Viverito in the book's forward. All proceeds from Back to Basics support the Malaysian Wildlife Conservation Fund, which provides funding for Malaysia's conservation and wildlife biodiversity initiatives including those helping to protect orangutans and pygmy elephants.
Price: $45.00 to $46.00 Visit the Website
"SPARKLICIOUS PILLOW" By JOSH JOHNSON HOME
Description: As the latest original product design from Josh Johnson Home, the signature "Sparklicious Pillow" line launches worldwide in Fall, 2016. Highly acclaimed and recognized by countless Hollywood A-listers over the last year, both backstage or on camera, these super-plush, ultra-elegant cushions are certainly the perfect, glitzy addition to any living or event space. Each Sparklicious Pillow is totally reversible in style, giving the savvy "designer" in you a useful " two-pillows-in-one" feature, with one side liquid sequin and the other luxurious velvet- simply flip it over for a fresh, revitalized look in your space. This exclusive line of soft home decor is truly versatile, whether adding to an existing home design or planning an enitre revamp of your sanctuary, and are available in all neutral, metallic, and matte hues to coordinate in both warm and cool palates. - Size: 24" X 24" or 18" X 18" - Pillow Front: Reversible Liquid Sequin - Pillow Back: Luxe Eminence® Velvet - Poly/Cotton Pillow Insert Included - Custom Construction in the USA - Zipper Enclosure - Non-Machine Washable
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Magisso Cooling Ceramic: Cool-ID Tumbler
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Did Google Pac-Man Cost The World Nearly 5 Million Productive Hours?
You must recall that this Friday past Google put Pac-Man into their logo. It was fun, and with an unlimited number of plays and the ability to game with a friend it was a hit across the world.
After all, why work when you can play Pac-Man, right? Just how much time was spent that day on something so small and trivial was anyone's guess. That remained true until someone with access to some solid data decided to do the math.
According to RescueTime, the average Google.com user spent some 36 seconds longer than normal on Google this past Friday. Now, the average Google user racks up some 4.5 minutes a day on Google executing searches, so the total average percent rise was only 6.67%. Not too much.
But when that rise in total time is aggregated all around the world, the magnitude of Google and their little game comes to light. Google has some 500 million daily unique visitors, at least according to WolframAlpha. Assume that each one of those is an average user, thus spending the average amount of time on Google and therefore racking up that extra 36 seconds, and you can calcuate that Google Pac-Man burned some 4,819,352 hours last Friday.
Now that number is high for any number of reasons. Firstly Google's unique daily visitor count is in no way representative of its average user base; many of those visitors are casual once search a week people. Secondly, not everyone actually managed to play Pac-Man, and any number of factors could have contributed to the bump in Friday usership.
Still, the number is in the millions of hours, possibly around two. Once you factor in the above objections, a 60% or so reduction seems fair. Even with two million consumed hours in a single day, it's hard not to think that Google Pac-Man became a top five most played game literally overnight, until the next day.
If you want, you can still play Google Pac-Man if you know where to look.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Classical music has a cult following
Classical music and an "evil cult" are unlikely bedfellows. But my fun story Stockhausen, chaotic music and communism about the oboeist of the Divine Performing Arts Orchestra proved to be a bit more serious than I thought. Several readers have pointed out that the orchestra and The Epoch Times newspaper which ran the story are closely connected with Falun Gong.
A BBC website is headed 'Falun Gong - an evil cult?' and goes on to say 'Claiming to be an ancient technique of self-development, Falun Gong is an eclectic mixture of Taoist and Buddhist principles with a sprinkling of extraterrestrials ... On 22 July, 1999, Falun Gong was declared an 'evil cult' by the Beijing authorities, and totally banned, meriting 'a serious ideological and political struggle that would have a bearing on the future of the Communist Party and the State ... in terms of typical cult techniques, Falun Gong is given a 50:50 Yes/No rating by Time Asia. While it is led by a charismatic leader, fosters an 'us versus them' attitude, and uses jargon that outsiders don't understand, it does not exert pressure on people to join, its believers do not remove themselves from society, nor are they required to donate large sums of money, their homes, jobs, and so on, to a central organisation.'
An unconnected bit of trivia is that I was in Guyana shortly before the dreadful Jonestown mass suicides in 1978. On a much more positive note Georgetown, Guyana, which we were visiting, was the birthplace of the Berlin Philharmonic's first black conductor.
Header image showing Falun Gong members is from a useful article in The Johnsonian, newspaper of Winthrop University. Report broken links, missing images and errors to - overgrownpath at hotmail dot co dot uk
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- Rose said...
I am unsure if this is supporting the idea of Falun Gong being a cult or not.
So I would like to clarify some facts for people who read this.
Firstly, I would like to tell you that Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is not "evil", nor is it a "cult". It is a cultivation practice which is part of the Buddha school, it's guiding principals are "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" which are universal in meaning, the practice works on the mind and the body consisting of 5 basic exercises.
Falun Gong is now practised in over 100 countries world wide. We ask for no money and are happy to teach anyone who would like to learn, we do not fight back when attached but will clarify the truth about things, like what I am doing now.
Secondly, in China, July 1999 practitioners peaceful protested (They sat meditating and holding banners that read 'Falun Dafa is Good' or 'Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance is Good' ) asking for their right to practise Falun Gong. In response the Chinese Communist Party sent out their arm to arrest the practitioners, this was the start of the suppression of Falun Gong. Over the last 13 years police have illegally arrested and jailed people who have either practised, sheltered or opposed the CCP, they have then beaten, raped, induced forced miscarriages, and sent people to brainwashing centres for rehabilitation. Many families have been torn apparent, children have been orphaned and made homeless due to this persecution.
Many innocent people have suffered due to lies from the CCP, but also the people of China have been lied to, the world has been lied to by the Chinese Communist Party. With the events now unfolding in China the truth about what the CCP has been doing is coming to light.
Please do not believe what the CCP has been saying about Falun Gong.
For more information on Falun Gong and the persecution visit: http://en.minghui.org/
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When I first started my financial overhaul several years ago, I made a lot of of lifestyle changes. I quit going to Starbucks for overpriced lattes, I temporarily quit traveling (this was painful), cut coupons, (hated this) and started thrifting for my clothes. Though I'd never been reckless with money, I was certainly guilty of being thoughtless, especially when it came to my spending habits at the mall. I ultimately determined that changing my shopping habits was a necessary step and would save thousands of dollars every year.
Looking back, instituting a travel ban to the mall was the best thing I ever did for myself. Though thrifting is certainly more time consuming, the ultimate result is no different. I have a closet full of clothes that I love. But I paid thousands of dollars less.
In financial speak, clothes depreciate. They wear out and go out of style, and if you're like me, they'll endure too many spills. They are not a good investment! On the contrary, thinking about the ways I could build wealth with the thousands of dollars I could save every year was transformational. (Compound interest is magic)!
With our spending choices, we essentially throw away money or pave opportunities to create more of it. Sometimes "throwing away money" can be justified. For instance, travel is still one of the few things for which I am willing to "lose money." To me, the benefits outweigh the "loss." Personally, I couldn't say the same for expensive clothes.
Ultimately, we all have to weigh our individual priorities and live accordingly. But the reality is that every time we're at a cash register, we are charting our financial future. Choose wisely!


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What is the TDI Full Cave Diver Course?
The Full Cave Diver course is for divers interested in continuing with their education in overhead environments diving, expanding their diving techniques and capabilities. It is the third course of the series where divers learn to deal with complicated navigation dives, restrictions, and fine-tune all the previously acquired skills.
Why is Divers UnderGround the best TDI dive center to do your Cave Diver course?
At Divers UnderGround we believe that Cave Diving, and Technical Diving in general, is a sport that has to be taken seriously. Sure, it is fun and is very enjoyable but we have to remember, we are getting into one of human's most inhospitable places on earth. We need to foresee and be prepared to deal with any situation we may encounter, and even more, we need to learn how to avoid getting into dangerous situations.
Once you are a certified cave diver, you will be ready to go cave diving without the supervision of an instructor. However, is not the certification card that keeps you safe, is your ability to plan and execute safe cave dives appropriately and we make sure you are ready to do just that when we sign that certification card. During training, you will encounter almost all possible scenarios, and we treat them as the worst case. By training in this way, divers are prepared to confront any situation in the cave with the confidence necessary to always come out of the dives unhurt.
Course structure:
Water Execution:
The course requires eight Cave Dives at three different sites and at least six different caves
For divers entering the program without Cavern Diver and Intro to Cave certifications, the requierment is 16 dives
The course must be taught in no less than 5 days.
When combined with Cavern and Intro to Cave a minimum of eight days are required.
Qualifications of graduates:
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A maximum diving depth of 40 Metres / 130 feet
No removal of equipment in the cave
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Adequate use of cave diving gear
Cave Dives must be within the no-decompression limits unless adequately trained.
Complex navigation dives planning and execution.
Course Prerequisites:
Minimum age 18.
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After completing this course, divers may plan and execute dives without supervision, adhering to the following limits:
Diving activities are approximate to those of training
Plan dives according to your level of comfort and training
Execute cave dives using the rule of thirds conservatively
Cave diving within a maximum depth of 40 meters / 130 feet unless properly trained to go deeper
Always maintain a continuous guideline
Use proper Cave Diving equipment
Some of the skills you will learn and/or practice during the course include:
Aduquate reel work and line deployment.
Use of directional and non-directional line markers
Follow the cave line simulating visibility loss
Share gas while following the permanent system line
Air sharing without lights using touch contact communication and following the exiting line
Replace mask while keeping contact with the guideline
Conservation, awareness and referencing techniques
Light/hand signals and touch contact communication
Anti-silting and propulsion techniques
Primary light failure simulation and proper deployment of backup lights to exit the cave
Lost diver protocols and line recovery procedures
Adequate use of spools and reels to perform jumps and gaps
Perfect buoyancy control and trim
Proper stress analysis (detection and management)
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Each summer over 21,000 members don the iconic red and yellow uniforms at beaches across the state. Every single patrol member is trained to the highest possible standard and dedicates countless hours each season to protecting the coastline.
Coordinated through the SLSNSW State Operations Centre on Sydney's Northern Beaches, the system has been responsible for saving over 1000 lives since 2008. Manned 24 hours/365 days this network of dedicated volunteers has become an indispensable part of coastal safety with a key focus on developing a relationship with other emergency stakeholders.
With 30 years' experience, the Australian Lifeguard Service (ALS) NSW is one of the largest providers of lifeguard services in the Southern Hemisphere. Currently our network provides services to over 90 individual locations, 15 local government authorities, 1 resort, 2 national parks, and with ongoing expansion we employ seasonally in excess of 330 lifeguards each year.
Surf sports are a great way to not only improve your lifesaving skills but also to actively participate in a healthy lifestyle. Each season there is an opportunity for our members to participate at a club, branch, state, national and even international level. Athletes can compete in a full range of beach and water events, pool rescue events, surf boats, surf board riding events, and in winter in the inflatable rescue boat (IRB) series.
Two of the key events held each summer are the Country Championships; open to athletes living outside the Hunter-Sydney-Central Coast-Illawarra corridor, and the State Titles that caters for competitors aged 9 to 65+. All carnivals are held on a rotating place and are among the biggest of its type in NSW with in excess of 7000 people participating over the course of the State Championships.
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text: A lawsuit filed today with the Tel Aviv District Court against Israel Corporation (TASE: ILCO), controlled by Idan Ofer, claims that the company could have saved $33.5 million by not making its last investment in electric car venture Better Place. The lawsuit was filed before any derivative lawsuit has been filed against the company. Better Place crashed last year, with the motion for liquidation filed in May 2013. The liquidation meant that Israel Corp.'s $293 million investment in the venture went down the drain. The motion for the disclosure of documents filed by Israel Corp. shareholders, Boaz Yifat, CPA, asks the court to order the company to disclose all its investment documents in Better Place, all Better Place reports and data in Israel Corp.'s position before the decision to invest $33.5 million in the venture, and all the minutes and decisions by Israel Corp.'s board of directors, audit committee, and management related to this investment. The motion states that the motion is intended to clarify Israel Corp.'s investment in Better Place in February 2013. It says that, on October 31, 2012, and November 1, 2012, Israel Corp. made immediate notifications to the TASE stating that it promised to invest $67 million in Better Place, out of a total investment of $100 million, in two tranches, and invested $33.5 million shortly after signing the investment agreement. The petitioner asks why Israel Corp. made the second payment, just 24 days before publishing its financial report for 2012, which stated that there were serious doubts about Better Place's ability to continue as a going concern. The petition states that if Israel Corp. was unaware of Better Place's shape at the time of the second tranche, the petitioner wants to know whether the company was misled, and if Israel Corp. knew that it could not save Better Place, why did it make the investment, "throwing good money after bad." Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on April 27, 2014 � Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2014


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Posts tagged 'probiotics'
Cooking Strike and Probiotics Work
I've been having strange dreams about ready made food and lamenting the ability that others have to just eat what they want whenever they want. With more get to gethers and being away from the home lately I've gotten mildly glutened on several occasions. Boy, what I'd do for a Stouffers lasagna or a cup of noodle that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. As a result I've been on a cooking strike. Not really, but my creative energy, my small bit of determination (when it comes to meals) is "gone with the wind". I wish I had started out with a love of all things kitchen and then discovered the celiac. Unfortunately the kitchen, on most days, is the last place I want to be.
What have you been eating lately? Rice cakes are myfaithful friend. So are nacho's and Tinkyada pasta. How about you. What do you do when you want a TV dinner or frozen hash browns?
As a small aside I did re-discover that probiotics can help reduce the negative effects of getting glutened. Twice in the last couple weeks I've had to rush home and take a couple tablets loaded with healthy bacteria and then guzzle tons of water. It seems to speed up the digestion process and while it doesn't stop the discomfort it definitely helps!
I got gluten-ed!
I hate it when that happens and these days I am much better at knowing ingredients so I rarely have problems with accidentally gluten-izing myself.
Yesterday Matt and I got to go out with Little Sis (Callie) and her husband Jason so we jumped at the chance to get away once as adults! Don't get me wrong, we love to hang out with our kids, but we haven't taken time together, alone, since a month before Pee Wee was born and she is now 9 mo old. Not to mention Cal and Jason are a couple of pretty cool "kids" (ha JK) themselves.
We started off the night racing through downtown Spokane in their sporty little Scion while I told a story that should have taken 2min but I managed to stretch it out at least a half an hour. I'm the queen of making a short story long! I can't help myself. To further illustrate that point, we skidded into the parkade and dashed up the elevator just in time to watch the last trailer and sat our little rumps down for Transformers 2. I'm trying to think of the last movie I saw in the theatre and I can't think of a single one. Not to mention, I'm sure it has been even longer since I've actually made it for the opening scene!
A quick note on the movie. While it was enjoyable for us I have two sons at home waiting anxiously for the word on when they get to go. My answer… "when you are 20!" It had more language and provocative scenes than the 1st one. There were also a couple pretty, might I say, greusome (alien speaking, hard to discribe) scenes as well. Mikaela (Megan Fox) wore the same boob job flaunting top and clean white pants almost the entire show and had quite a few pin up shots just for the ratings. Quite a few, as in every 5 minutes Little Sis and I were exchanging glances as Mikaela posed with pouty lips or long legs contorted in strange positions. Ya, she pretty much lost the tough girl act in this one and turned into the trophy girlfriend.
So, for the kids- NO, not on your lives, for us- okay I had fun but then as I said before it has been nearly a year since they've "let us out of the house" so we aren't hard to please. Action, laughs, some sort of story… it works for me.
Sorry, that was more than a quick note.
About the gluten…
After the movie we walked over to PF Changs. I was pleasantly surprised by a full page gluten free menu. Had I not been warned, I would have also been surprised by the high prices but then, we are use to Wendy's being a big splurge.
All four of us decided to eat gluten free to make things easier. We had Egg Drop Soup, Chicken Lettuce Wraps (which were my favorite), Changs Spicy Chicken, Lemon Chicken and a shrimp and snap pea dish I can't remember the name of. For dessert the guys each had a gluten infested mini shot glass pie but they were exceptionally careful to wash hands, guard their forks and all the standard things that husbands who've had to live with food allergic wives know how to do. Sis and I shared a Chocolate Truffle Dome beautifully presented with various berries.
We stuffed ourselves and happily made it home to round up the kids and sleep off all the goodness.
This morning though, I knew I'd been gluten-ed. I texted my sis with a sad face "I got gluten!" She wrote back and confirmed that she too had not felt well.
It's a sad thing because they have a great menu. I won't say that I'm never eating there again because, after all, it is an "at your own risk" adventure any time you eat in an unfamiliar kitchen but I was really hoping to make it out of there with a new favorite. It's just as well since at $20 a plate I can only expect it to be a once a year event. Next year (ha ha) I'll be sure to remind them that gluten free for me is an allergy not just a preference. Maybe I can write them a better review next time.
I did learn something today in my discomfort, probiotics actually do help the symptoms. I had never tried taking anything besides calcium, Tums type antacids (which are only a placebo for me) and today I tried 1/4 teaspoon of probiotics in water on an empty stomach. That wasn't difficult since I haven't been able to eat anything. After only about 15min I wanted to eat and have had better luck since taking it.
I also heard that taking probiotics before eating out may help with accidental cross contamination issues. I think I will start taking them all the time. I do give some to my littlest for her digestion but I hadn't gotten around to getting myself in that habit. For the best results find a brand that is milk free as well as gluten and soy free.
To sum it up, beward of women with perfectly white pants during alien battles and definately try probiotics if you get gluten-ed.


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Tonight's episode of "Revenge" is called "Infamy," but judging from the clips above, it could be subtitled "Amanda does 'Coyote Ugly.'"
And poor Jack (Nick Wechsler) doesn't look too happy about it. Amanda (Margarita Levieva) not only does the "Coyote Ugly" dance and tongue wrestle, but she shows Jack a mean jealous streak as well.
Will Amanda facilitate her own exit from the Hamptons? Or will Emily (Emily VanCamp) still have to run her out of town? (For those of you just joining the show, Emily Thorne is the real Amanda Clarke, while Amanda is the real Emily. That help?)
Don't think girl-on-girl kisses and the battle of the gals who switched identities are the only action in "Infamy," which airs at 9 p.m. Jan. 11 on ABC. Emily gets a new target when author Mason Treadwell (guest star Roger Bart) comes to town to promote the book he wrote about Emily's father, David Clarke, and his downfall orchestrated by the Graysons.
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Apparently it's all fiction—dictated by Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) and Conrad Grayson (Henry Czerny). Emily and Nolan (Gabriel Mann) are setting Mason up for a fall, if the previews are any indication. But will their plan play out before Victoria's? She's demanding that he find out why Amanda has returned to the Hamptons.
Speaking of the Graysons, they're divorce is moving forward and it's going to get ugly (but probably not Coyote Ugly).
Finally, ABC teases that a "stunning revelation is unveiled and becomes a game changer for Emily and the Graysons." Mix up your
and get ready for another bumpy night.


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TEAR Australia National Conference and Festival at Stanwell Tops, just south of Sydney, this last weekend was a wonderful event. The conference organisers were almost overwhelmed by a conference attendance of 500 people - probably over half under 35 years of age.
Whatever is happening in the decline of the Christendom model of the church a socially engaged faith inspired by a range of influences from nineteenth century Evangelical reformers such as Wilberforce, through contemporary anabaptism to the new monasticism, is well and truly alive in Australia.
In the local TEAR groups, lobbying activities and community engagement many people are finding a faith community experience that is more coherent and in touch with everyday life than traditional forms of churching. This form of social/faith movement is characterised by leadership that is not constrained by denominational politics and is moved forward by the energy, gifts and skills of ordinary biblically and theologically literate people who are not waiting for clerical permission.
Your Kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven - the conference theme was underpinned by enlivening biblical studies by activist Ched Myers who drew our attention to the social, economic and political reality against which the prophets of Israel proclaimed God's critique and the realities of the empire against which Jesus' ministry was set.


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Yes,crossing the line is not advisable.So what exactly does "crossing the line" mean.Simply that one needn't go to the wild extent of doing a nose job just to have a better nasal sound in her voice. Ah..my indian audience should know whom I'm talking about *wink*wink*. But pampering yourself is great! The word pampering itself creates waves of optimism. But that nasal thingy,I think that goes right under "spoiling thyself" category.
Here are some obvious ways you'd like pampering yourself!
Body pampering
1)Go for long walks every morning! Really helps the blood circulating generously all over your body.
2)Go for your regular regime of parlour vistits( I know how women feel everytime they get a new haircut.The happiness just glows all over their faces! I'm not yet sure about guys.)
3) Hit the spa once in three months or anytime you wish. Thai massages are supposed to be the world's renowned massage technique! So make that nearest spa your second home!
4)Change hairstyles or haircolor. Did you know that hair-do/hair color determines the kind of person you are? Interesting ,ain't it? Go get that flaming red hair and your lovely mane gorgeously layered! It's Upto you.
5)Keep changing your wardrobe.The same wardrobe filled with the same clothes ,same colors cites a melancholic life and maybe you could pep up your wardrobe today?
Mind-wise/Soul-wise pampering
This is the most important part. The better your mind is set and free of clutter ,your soul sings with joy! So your soul-pampering depends on your mind pampering.
Whenever you are in doubt regarding what somebody did to you was mean or whatever- Clarify,go up and confront the person or if you are not comfortable with the confronting session just sit tight and practise patience! Just bring your mind to PEACE.And your soul will rejoice!
And for those with subtle souls ,MEDITATE.It's a real breather.For those who don't find the need to meditate,simply go jogging/play with your pet/talk to somebody you can just unwind yourself to,at any given situation.
So guys,Thanks for following me through uptil here.Now comes the actual beat!
Always remember : When your mind is rightly pampered ,so is your soul and eventually so will be your body. How one moulds oneself , indulging in loving oneself and believing in oneself follows the way you pamper your mind , soul and your body.
The order you pamper yourself in:
1.Mind 2.Soul 3.Body
Before bidding adieu,just a mention about how one should never forget the lines blurring between spoiling oneself and pampering oneself today.
Always,Keep your head on your shoulders and Set your heart in the right place. I'm sure you will never fail yourself!


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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Mogador Macarons
10 comments:
i love the color of your macarons!! looks really yummy!ReplyDelete
OMG! it looks really pretty and yummy! i wish my upcoming attempts will look as good as yours (:ReplyDelete
@Jess: Haha they are pretty bright aren't they? :)ReplyDelete
@Sweetylicious: Thanks! I'm sure they will! Post them up soon :)
Happy 2011. These macaroons are lovely. I'm not too sure if I have the correct answer for you. This is just purely my opinion...I would think the butter make the ganache thicker. I think if you would apply the ganache when it cool and harden, it wouldn't create too much oil for absorption.ReplyDelete
Stunning photography.. love those colours.. great blog.. will definitely be following :)ReplyDelete
Happy 2011
La Roquette
Your macarons are just gorgeous, Allie!ReplyDelete
Enjoy the new camera! :)
@Zoe: Hmmm...that's possible. I refrigerated my ganache before filling the macs though, any idea how I can avoid the oily result?ReplyDelete
@La Roquette: Thank you! Happy 2011 to you too :)
@thecoffeesnob: Thanks sweetie :). I will! Haha :)
I love passionfruit and milk chocolate, been wanting to make this for the longest time ever.. Hrmm hopefully soon with the leftover egg whites from the kek lapis..ReplyDelete
Your passionfruit macaron lovely !ReplyDelete
Just wanna know any difference in texture in passionfruit ganache the 1st time and the 2 nd time. I notice you mention increase of 50g passionfruit juice in the 2nd time, presumable the est of the ingredients the same. Wouldn't the ganache in 2nd time more runny ?
Simonne : Thank you! Yes the ganache was softer even after hardening but the difference in the texture wasn't great. Hence it still turned out alright :).ReplyDelete


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Editor Profiles
Natalie Pafitis, EditorBack to top
Natalie joined BMC after having completed an MSc in Environmental Health at the Cyprus International Institute, in Association with the Harvard School of Public Health, USA where she completed courses including global climate change, environmental epidemiology, sustainable development and exposure assessment. Prior to this, she gained her BSc in Environmental Science at the University of Indianapolis, USA. Natalie is a Senior Editor for the BMC-series and has been Editor of BMC Public Health since 2007. She has a keen interest in the use of research evidence to underpin public health policy and is an Editor of the BMC Series blog where policy implications of BMC Public Health articles are also discussed.
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Ben studied for his BSc in Biomedical Sciences, MRes in Translational Medicine and PhD in Cancer Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK. His doctoral research was focused on the role of osteoblasts in prostate cancer bone metastasis. Ben joined the BMC Series as a Manuscript Editor in April 2020.
Marc AdamsBack to top
Energy balance-related behaviors
Marc Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Exercise Science and Health Promotion program in the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University (Phoenix, Arizona). He is a behavioral scientist with a background in psychology and public health. His research focuses on the influence of place on health behaviors, especially as walking for transport and recreation, for prevention of chronic diseases. Dr. Adams is principal investigator of a NIH-funded grant examining interactions between built environment features and technology-based adaptive interventions. He is also a co-investigator on the International Physical Activity and Built Environment Network (IPEN) studies examining urban form and physical activity across several countries. He has authored more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is a Senior Sustainability Scientist with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.
Noriko CableBack to top
Mental Health
Dr. Noriko Cable is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London. She works on social relationships, alcohol use and mental health from childhood to late adulthood as well as on cross-national examinations of mental health. Her work appears in the booklets Life gets under your skin and Never too early, never too late published by her research group, the International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (ICLS). She currently works on her ESRC funded project, UK-Japan Social relationships and well-being across ageing nations (UK-Japan SWAN) to establish early career researchers' networks between the UK and Japan. Dr. Cable joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health as Section Editor in 2019.
Summer HawkinsBack to top
Health policies, systems and management in high-income countries
Associate Professor Summer Sherburne Hawkins, PhD, MS, joined the Boston College School of Social Work (BCSSW) faculty in 2012. She is a social epidemiologist with an interest in addressing policy-relevant research questions in maternal and child health. Her research examines the impact of policies on health disparities in parents and children, particularly using methodology that integrates epidemiology and economics. Dr. Hawkins has published on the topics of parental and adolescent tobacco use, infant feeding practices, and childhood obesity as well as the impact of state and local policies on disparities in these health behaviors and outcomes. A more recent area of her research focuses on the role of the Affordable Care Act on the uptake of preventive health services. She first joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in 2018 as an Associate Editor.
Jianguang JiBack to top
Chronic disease epidemiology
Associate Professor Jianguang Ji is a Senior Lecturer in Cancer Epidemiology at Lund University. His research has a strong focus on the influence of genetic and environmental factors on chronic diseases, with a main focus on cancer incidence and mortality. Associate Professor Ji has used data from nationwide registers and national and regional surveys to shed new light on potential genetic and environmental factors associated with the development of various types of cancer. Results from his research studies can be found in highly ranked journals, such as The Lancet Oncology, J Clin Oncology, J National Cancer Inst, Gastroenterology, and Circulation. His article "Cancer incidence in patients with polyglutamine diseases: a population-based study in Sweden" (Lancet Oncol, 2012) was reported by Nature Review Clin Oncol as "Research Highlight" and interviewed by BBC news and many other media organisations regarding this study. The article "Increased risks of coronary heart disease and stroke among spousal caregivers of cancer patients" (Circulation, 2012) was selected as Circulation Editors' Picks: Most Read Articles in Epidemiology and Prevention. Associate Professor Ji joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in 2019.
Ariadne KapetanakiBack to top
Health policies, systems and management in low and middle-income countries
Ariadne Beatrice Kapetanaki is a Lecturer at the York Management School, University of York, UK. Her research focuses on food policies that effectively prevent and tackle nutrition-related non-communicable diseases; social marketing for behavior change in relation to healthy eating and alcohol consumption; upstream social marketing and critical marketing. She has worked on research projects related to food policies, food systems and healthy diets funded by the Food Standards Agency, Food Standards Scotland and the Economic and Social Research Council. She earned her PhD in Food Policy from the Centre for Food Policy, City University London, UK. She is also a Fellow of the Lancet Commission on Obesity. Ariadne joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in 2015.
Frances Kay LambkinBack to top
Health behavior, health promotion and society
A/Prof Frances Kay-Lambkin is a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, and the Director of Translation for the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Newcastle. She is also Conjoint Associate Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, and a Visiting Fellow at the Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales. She is internationally recognized for her innovative web-based interventions for mental health and substance use disorders, and is the current President of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions. Frances's research is developing high quality, evidence-based care that is accessible and acceptable to people with mental and physical health comorbidities. She aims to bridge the evidence-practice gap in four key ways: (1) Determining 'what' to disseminate; (2) Deciding 'who' to disseminate it to; (3) Deciding 'how' to disseminate it; and (4) Determining 'when' is best to disseminate it.
Zohra LassiBack to top
Global health
Zohra Lassi is a Perinatal Epidemiologist working as a NHMRC Public Health and Health Services Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Her research work has primarily focused on maternal, child and adolescent health and nutrition issues particularly in marginalised and low resource settings. She has speacial interest in research synthesis, scaling up evidence-based intrventions in community settings and implementation research in health system research. In particular, her work with community health workers and out-reach services has contributed significantly to global integrated maternal and newborn outreach policies and guidelines. Her work with the WHO and PMNCH in developing consensus based essential interventions for women, children and adolescents is the dominant set of agreed interventions guiding global policy. Dr. Lassi joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in April of 2019.
Youcheng LiuBack to top
Occupational Health
Dr. Youcheng Liu is currently an Associate Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine . He trained in medicine and public health with specialties in industrial hygiene, environmental health, occupational health and epidemiology. His research focuses on assessing occupational and environmental exposures to chemical hazards and biological agents, evaluating the resultant health outcomes (asthma, COPD, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes) and identifying effective and feasible measures and strategies to reduce exposures and prevent diseases. Current research projects include dermal exposure to nicotine in migrant tobacco farm workers in Kentucky and the development of a barrier cream and other intervention methods to reduce exposure and green tobacco sickness, isocyanate exposure in neonates and the identification of user barriers of Powered Air-Purifying Respirators (PAPRs) in health care workers. He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in 2010.
Tim MackeyBack to top
Global Health
Prof Tim K. Mackey is Section Editor of the Global Health section of BMC Public Health. He is the Director of the Global Health Policy Institute, an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Global Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and is the Associate Director for the UC San Diego MAS Program in Health Policy & Law. He has an interdisciplinary background and a passion for engaging in research, teaching, and advocacy on global public health policy-related issues. He has co-authored over 100 journal articles, with his work featured in multidisciplinary journals such as Science, JAMA, Nature Biotechnology, The Lancet, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, Clinical Microbiology Reviews and BMC Medicine. His research and expertise has also been featured in major news outlets such as CNN, NPR, and POLITICO Pro. His work focuses on an array of multidisciplinary topics in domestic and global public health.
Carol MaherBack to top
Energy balance-related behaviors
Carol Maher is an Associate Research Professor in the Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA) at the University of South Australia. With a background in physiotherapy, her research focuses on the links between lifestyle behaviors (particularly physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep) and health and obesity in children and adults. She is particularly interested in developing and testing technology-based interventions for improving health behaviours, using platforms such as websites, smartphone apps and online social media. Associate Professor Maher joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in May of 2014.
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Occupational Health
Isabelle Niedhammer is a Research Director at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM, France). She is currently working at the Research Institute for Environmental and Occupational Health (IRSET-INSERM U1085). Her background is in occupational health epidemiology. Her research topics are related to occupational and social epidemiology and she is particularly interested in job stress, psychosocial work exposures and workplace violence, and their impact on health, as well as in the contribution of these occupational exposures to social inequalities in health. She is the author of more than 100 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and participated in the writing of 8 books. She joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in 2011.
Mahfuzar RahmanBack to top
Environmental Health
Mahfuzar Rahman is physician/epidemiologist by training. He has been with BRAC (NGO) since 2014 and joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in 2015. His main research interests are occupational, environmental and molecular epidemiology, with a focus on the effects of pollutants on health and the interactions between host factors (genetic and acquired susceptibility) and environmental exposures on acute and chronic diseases. Other interests include the evaluation of non-communicable diseases, examining and measuring the underlying causes of chronic disease, morbidity and mortality. His works involve health system research concerning health delivery for women and children, public health implementation research to ensure evidence-based interventions incorporating health human resource issues and leading interventions for improved service quality. While most of his work is related to low income settings, Dr. Rahman has also been involved in The Global Burden of Disease Study in Seattle and Imperial College, London for many years.
David RehkopfBack to top
Health behavior, health promotion and society
Dr. Rehkopf is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, with an appointment in Health Research and Policy, and affiliations with the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Stanford Center for Population Health. He received his Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and his doctorate at the Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Health and Social Behavior. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco. His research focus is on understanding the health effects of income and work policy on health, as well as understanding the biological pathways through which the social and economic environment impacts disease and death. He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in 2016.
Giovanni RezzaBack to top
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Giovanni Rezza (MD) is the Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, Italy. Specialized in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, and in Infectious Diseases, his main background is in infectious disease epidemiology. He has worked for WHO, the Italian Cooperation, and the European Union. His area of expertise includes HIV and other emerging infectious diseases. He is an expert on vaccines and vaccination strategies, and he has been a member of the WHO committee on HIV vaccine research and development. He has been the Director of the AIDS National Research Programme, project leader of several Italian and EU projects, and reviewer for the EU, Pasteur Institute, MRC, and RIVM grant proposals. As an author of more than 400 articles indexed in PubMed, 4 books, and book chapters, his H index is currently 49 (according to Web of Science).
Richard RosenkranzBack to top
Energy balance-related behaviors
Richard Rosenkranz is currently a Professor in the Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics & Health at Kansas State University. With a background in behavioral science, public health nutrition, and physical activity, he has focused his research on the identification of modifiable influences of healthful eating and physical activity toward health promotion and chronic disease prevention. He is particularly interested in developing and testing interventions designed to impact the influences on physical activity and healthful eating, and then employing methods from implementation science to disseminate evidence-based policies and practices at scale within communities. Dr. Rosenkranz joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in May of 2015.
David StiebBack to top
Environmental Health
David Stieb is a public health physician/epidemiologist with the Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau at Health Canada and adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine. His main research interest is application of epidemiology to understanding and managing the public health impacts of air pollution, including primary research, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, risk analysis and risk communication. He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in 2015 and currently serves as a Section Editor of the Environmental Health section.
Janice ThompsonBack to top
Energy balance-related behaviors
Dr. Thompson completed her PhD in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition from Arizona State University in 1991, and post-doctoral training at Stanford University in 1995. She is currently Professor of Public Health Nutrition and Exercise in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. Janice's research interests include working with high-risk communities to develop, implement, and evaluate culturally-tailored diet and physical activity interventions to reduce obesity and subsequent risks for type 2 diabetes. She is a Fellow and past Vice President of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), a Scientific Committee member of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS), and has authored over 100 scientific publications and four nutrition textbooks. In 2015, she was awarded the ACSM Citation Award in recognition of her significant contributions to research and scholarship in exercise science. Janice joined the Editorial Board for BMC Public Health as Section Editor in February 2016.
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Environmental Health
Michelle C Turner is an Assistant Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal, formerly CREAL), Barcelona, Spain as well as Affiliate Scientist at the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Her primary research interest is examining potential environmental and occupational risk factors for cancer and chronic disease focusing on ambient air pollution exposures; ionizing and non-ionizing radiation (radon, extremely low frequency magnetic fields); chemical exposures; and circadian disruption using both epidemiologic and biomarker- based approaches to inform policy making. She currently serves as Section Editor of the Environmental Health section of BMC Public Health. She joined the Editorial Board of the journal in 2013.
Dianne Stanton WardBack to top
Energy balance-related behaviors
Dianne S. Ward, EdD, is an experienced researcher in the area of child health; specifically, obesity prevention. She has published more than 189 research articles, 10 book chapters, and a book about physical activity interventions for children and adolescents. Since 1998, she has been Professor of Nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Research Fellow in the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Ward has been Principal Investigator of co-investigator for more than 20 NIH, CDC, or RWJF funded research projects exploring environmental determinants of obesity and testing home-, school-, and community-based interventions to prevent obesity in children and families through promotion of healthy eating and/or physical activity. Dr. Ward joined the editorial board of BMC Public Health in 2015.
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Dr. Shankar Viswanathan is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. He received his doctoral degree in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His methods research focuses on multivariate survival analysis, longitudinal data, and missing data analysis. His applied area focusses on Global Health, Injury Epidemiology, and Chronic Disease Epidemiology. He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Public Health in 2018.
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Activity Based Costing and Overheads
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Bass Corporation manufactures two products: A and B. The total indirect manufacturing overhead resource costs of $91,700 have been assigned to four activity cost pools that use the attached cost drivers:
a. Compute the unit activity costs for each of the cost drivers listed.
b. Assign the overhead costs to products A and B using activity-based costing.
Solution Summary
The solution explains how to assign overhead costs using activity based costing


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As we near year-end, we thought it would be timely to review the capital gain and loss rules. Any planning must be done before December 31st to be effective for your 2016 income tax returns.
Let's start with a primer. Long-term capital gains apply to assets held MORE than one year. You don't count days, you count months. So, for example, if you bought a security on January 1, 2016, it will become long-term on January 2, 2017. The tax rate on a long-term gain is generally lower than the rate on a short-term gain. Check with your tax advisor to determine the rates that apply to your gains.
Short-term gains apply to assets that you hold for one year or LESS. They are generally taxed at ordinary income rates. Hence, the rate on a short-term gain is generally higher than on a long-term gain.
Don't forget state income taxes. Most states have an income tax system, and capital gains taxes are generally included. Once again, check with your tax advisor to determine if, and at what rates, your capital gains are taxed for state purposes.
Now for the planning. If you have capital gains this year, any losses you have may be used to offset some or all of the gains. Long-term losses are first used to offset long-term gains, and short-term losses are first used to offset short-term gains. Once you have netted long and short-term gains/losses, you can then use any remaining loss to offset any gain not already matched, regardless of the nature of the gain. And, if you have losses that exceed your gains, you can deduct up to $3,000 per year in losses against ordinary income. Any unused losses carryover without limit, until your death. If you own a jointly titled asset , the losses will carryover until the death of the second joint owner.
Stocks and bonds are considered capital assets, but you might own other assets that are eligible for capital gain and loss treatment. For example, investments in real estate would generally be subject to capital gains and loss treatment (but with some tricky rules depending on how you depreciated the property, if you rented it). Your tax advisor can help you identify the assets you hold that are eligible for capital gain and loss treatment.
Determining whether to place trades for the purpose of generating losses to offset gains is not a simple matter. Other factors to consider are whether you may be subject to alternative minimum tax, whether the 3.8% extra tax on gains applies to you (depending on your income level), and whether your tax rate will change from this year to next, just to mention a few. It's best to consult with your tax advisor before selling securities to capture gains or losses.
For informational purposes only. Consult with your tax professional regarding your specific situation.