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Everything in your life can have a positive spin. Your exercise routine, your disposition – and even your diet.
Positivity is something that we could all use more of in life, but it doesn't have to stop at smiling throughout the day and being an optimist. Your diet could play a large part in how positive you truly are. When you eat foods that weigh you down, upset your stomach and decrease your health, you aren't actually boosting positivity in your life, no matter how wide your smile gets.
In order to promote health and create a positive platform with which to build your optimism upon, you have to treat your body to foods that instill positivity within. Is there such a thing as a positivity food? Yes. In fact, these four foods should be added into your life diet to ensure you're as positive as possible.
You might read this and think this gives you permission to swallow a few Hershey bars whole, but that's not the case. Instead of milk chocolates, chocolate syrups or chocolate cake, the real mood-booster here is dark chocolate. If you aren't a fan, try acquiring a taste if you want a more positive diet.
Studies show that eating 1.4 ounces of dark chocolate every day for two weeks lead to a reduce in stressor hormones found naturally in the body. The downside to all this chocolate is that consuming your daily almost-ounce and a half is about 1/6 of your regular calorie intake if you're going off of a 1200 calorie diet.
What is the positivity-inducing ingredient in dark chocolate? According to Swiss scientists, the culprit is the high quantity of antioxidants.
Do you like fish? If not, you might want to skip this one – or learn to like it. There are enough fish out there that you should be able to find one variety that you like, cooked in some form or fashion.
Why do you need to love fish? Because of fish's high concentration of Omega-3s. Your body doesn't naturally produce these chemicals, but they occur naturally in fish – and they just so happen to alter your brain chemistry in a positive way. They improve your secretion of serotonin, a hormone that is linked to depression if you have low enough levels.
In a study from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, scientists gave 50 women who experienced PMS two saffron capsules or a placebo daily over the course of two menstrual cycles. Those who took the saffron capsules reported that their PMS disappeared or severely declined.
This isn't the only way saffron can boost positivity. Another study done likens the effects of saffron to drugs like Prozac – making it a great natural anti-depressant.
It might seem a little cliché, but tea is a drink that can definitely mellow you out and improve your mood. Studies have shown that tea illicit an alert, at ease mind through the amino acid theanine that's been proven to increase attention. It also helps drinkers relax and boosts their mood – and different varieties of tea give drinkers different benefits.


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John Irvine was an enthusiastic amateur photographer, active in the period ca.1895 to ca.1905. His views of Halifax and several nearby communities (Fall River, Purcell Cove, Waverley), plus the area around Annapolis Royal (Bear River, Clementsport, Granville Ferry, Smiths Cove) include buildings, street-scapes, picnics and outdoor activities, railways, farm scenes and informal portraits.
The following selected digitized archival photographs have been chosen as representative of the J.A. Irvine fonds; 101 images are available online.
This project was made possible in part through the Canadian Culture Online Program of Canadian Heritage, Library and Archives of Canada and the Canadian Council of Archives.
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Back in June we broke the news that Robert Groden, perhaps the most familiar (and certainly the most respected) of all the Dealey Plaza vendors peddling JFK assassination materials, had been arrested and detained by Dallas Police officers on the clean-up crackdown. Groden filed a federal suit claiming, among other things, the DPD violated his First Amendment rights and falsely imprisoned him. As the Oliver Stone consultant and co-author of High Treason: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy & the Case for Conspiracy told Unfair Park this summer, "If they can do it to me, they can do it to anyone."
A few weeks ago, we noted that Brad Kizzia, the attorney repping Groden, had asked Dallas Municipal Judge Carrie Chavez to dismiss the city's charges; he did so in advance of a hearing that was set for this morning, at which time Chavez would rule whether the city could proceed with its case against Groden or dismiss the whole thing. The ruling -- much of which deals with issues of jurisdiction and a close reading of the Dallas City Code -- is in, and long story short: Case dismissed. Kizzia and I exchanged a few e-mails about the ramifications of the ruling, and the lawyer writes:
Unless the City appeals, that's the end of the criminal case, and the basis for the Municipal Court's ruling indicates that no future charges, arrests, or prosecutions of Groden should occur. The end to police harassment of Groden in Dealey Plaza! Hallelujah!!
I think that this ruling should provide a substantial boost to Groden's civil suit against the City. It establishes that the charge, arrest, and prosecution were without any valid legal basis. The federal court was waiting on this ruling and can now address Groden's civil rights' claims, i.e. were Groden's due process rights, his First Amendment rights, and/or his rights to liberty and property, violated when the City charged, arrested, jailed him, and confiscated his property without any legal basis for doing so? If so, what were his damages (e.g. attorney's fees, lost sales, etc.)?
Chavez's ruling, an interesting read, follows.
Update at 4:47 p.m.: First Assistant City Attorney Chris Bowers sends this response to the judge's ruling: "The City is studying the judge's order dismissing the complaint against Mr. Groden, and is considering its options."
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When you are working on a topic that has a beginning and an end. I think it is valuable to show how progress looks vs time elapsed.
Attach three files: orgin, suggestion, mark. i think it should be an option. A similar solution is in applications that monitor data transfer in cellphones (data vs time elapsed).
Goalscape without it is great, with that would be perfect :)
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Attend all 13 TCP workshops.
Read and write reports on each book on the comprehensive required reading list.
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Attend 2 breastfeeding support groups and complete a breastfeeding support group/La Leche League report.
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Game publisher Little Orbit is currently in the process of publishing a party game for Nintendo Wii and 3DS called Cartoon Network Backlot Party. The game will feature popular characters from the channel and will be distributed by Namco Bandai Games in Europe.
Little Orbit has also published Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL and Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom is also coming out in November 2014.
At present, there is no further information regarding Cartoon Network Backlot Party.


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Out of all the talk and hyperbole dished by Wolff, on how newspapers will cease to exist in 18-months, one thing stood out: ode to the mighty fact-checker. Craig (I refuse to refer to him by his last name -- he gave us Craigslist!) said he would pay for fact-checkers, so yes, he would continue to pay for his news, as long as it's fact-checked. His answer resonates with this growing fear that, with newspapers slowly disappearing, we might have to, God forbid, rely on the blogosphere for information, and the strict standards of the fact-checking department will be gone.
This is obviously a frightening scenario. I have worked at a magazine and have seen the tenacity of fact-checkers first hand. Their paranoia and eye-for-detail drives them to confirm the slightest descriptions in a story -- was it really raining that day? Without them we'd have a lot more Jayson Blair's and Walter Duranty's, reporters who just make stuff up. (By the way, both of these men reported for the New York Times, so even the "paper of record" can let a bad egg get by).
It's sad to think that journalistic standards, and reliability, is slipping away as magazines and newspapers shut down. But this is creating a great Hollywood close-up for the humble fact-checker. With all the websites and blogs continuously sprouting up, promising you your news in pill-form, as Wolff's Newser does, there's a marketing opportunity to get one up on the competition: Oh yeah? We have fact-checkers!!! That, my friend, will be the marketing edge in the future of news.
Future news: Not only does some great new news site have pithy writers who put the big stories of the day into snark-filled context that represents the political side that you believe in, but it has fact-checkers: two recent college grads from Harvard, who did nothing but read big thick books all through college, checking stories to make sure the facts are in their purest form. It's not only genius marketing but material for the next Devil Wears Prada.
So move over, abused editorial assistants! The fact checker will get a moment in the pop culture spotlight as these jobs become a must-have for any site that wants to differentiate itself in the coming all-digital world. We can't all be aggregate sites, there has to be someone still reporting the news, and if that site wants to make money, it has a shot at it. As long as there's a fact-checker on the payroll, people will pay. Craig will, and he should know -- his Craigslist helped destroy newspapers by taking away the revenue of their automotive, real estate, and employment ads by posting them for free on his site. Now as karma, or rather, in the spirit of preserving the best of journalism, he'll continue to pay to get news, as long as its been verified.
For more on the doom and gloom in the media discussed in last night's panel, check out this post from PaidContent.org (yes, fitting name). And another interesting observation from last night: Craig said that Craigslist has seen a rise in traffic for the barter category, the free category, people looking to sell their stuff category, and a drop in job postings.


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2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
Chevy recently announced a new ZR1 variant of the C7 Corvette. It is claimed to be the fastest Corvette ever made. The ZR1 is scheduled to go on sale in Spring 2018.
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Legacies: High School Visits is the only program of its kind in New England. A cohort of 9th-12th graders learn about the Holocaust by meeting with a survivor three times over the course of the year and creating a meaningful project together.
Hannah and Aviva instantly connected with Leon Rubinstein, a Holocaust survivor who at age 12 was forced to live in a ghetto after his older brother and younger sister were killed. While in the ghetto, he had to dig mass graves. Leon's father found a Christian family who would hide him but conditions were so scary he had to live underground. When his eldest sister found him after the war, he learned that his parents and their other five siblings had perished. In 1951, Leon immigrated to Israel and served in the army. During the Legacies: High School Visits graduation, Leon said, "It's hard to describe what it was like at the age of 85 to have contact with these two beautiful girls, but it makes me feel good at the end of my life to see children like this, so giving, so kind."
Hannah and Aviva were inspired to capture Leon's memories in a time capsule that included several of the inventions Leon created after the war (along with the patents and instructions), photos, a flash drive of the audio of their first meeting, and a book Leon wrote about his experiences during the war.
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Shawna Renee Barretto, 39, a bookkeeper and office manager, has been charged with embezzling more than 1.4 million from two law firms and issuing her husband, Roberto Nilo Barretto, 53, unauthorized checks. Barretto is accused of performing fraudulent bookkeeping from 2005-2012 while employed as an office manager and bookkeeper at two law firms. Baretto allegedly used the law firms' money to make unauthorized payments to her personal credit card accounts, opened new lines of credit for credit cards under the law firms' names and hid the fraudulent embezzling in the businesses' computer-based accounting records.
Among the expenses the law firms incurred were private school tuition for Baretto's children and golf club memberships. Roberto Barretto allegedly accepted five fraudulent checks issued by his wife between 2005 and 2008 totaling $10,825. Another employee from the law firms was checking past bank records in May 2012 and discovered discrepancies in the financial records, which were reported to the Irvine Police Department.
Shawna Barretto is charged with 22 felony counts of computer access fraud, 21 felony counts of falsifying records, seven felony counts of grand theft, two felony counts of identity theft, one felony count of theft from elder, with sentencing enhancements for aggravated white collar crime over $100,000, aggravated white collar crime over $500,000, property damage or loss over $65,000, property loss over $200,000, property damage over $1.3 million, money laundering over $50,000 and money laundering over $150,000. Barretto was arrested and was released on a 1.4 million bail. If convicted, Barretto faces 32 years in state prison.


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Whatever his intentions, the former veep has benefited America's enemies.
By Robert Zubrin
Recently, it was reported that former vice president Al Gore had managed to sell his financially troubled Current TV network to the Al Jazeera company, owned by the Qatar government, for $500 million, netting himself about $100 million in the process.
There is something unsettling about this transaction. I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government. If I were to take a NASA middle manager out to dinner and pick up the tab, the inspector general would be all over both of us in a heartbeat. Yet here is Al Gore, a former congressman, senator, and vice president of the United States, receiving $100 million from a foreign government — and not just any foreign government, but one involved in extremely damaging economic warfare against the United States and the promotion of terrorism worldwide — and yet the attorney general takes no action. What gives?
To be sure, Al Gore is not the first high-level U.S.-government official, or even the first in his family, to obtain a payoff from a foreign government opposed to the United States. For example, his father, then-congressman Al Gore Sr., received a herd of prize cattle from Armand Hammer, which he was able to sell repeatedly at grossly inflated prices to lobbyists who never bothered to pick them up. When Gore retired from the Senate, he took up a $500,000-per-year (in 1970s money) position as CEO of the American coal subsidiary of Hammer's Occidental Petroleum. Edward Jay Epstein extensively documented in his book Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer, based on KGB files that became public after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that Hammer was in fact — as had been widely suspected before the release of said documents — a top-level paymaster of the Soviet foreign-intelligence services from 1922 onward. According to Epstein, Gore Sr. received his payoff in return for his help in preventing prosecution of Hammer by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as well as for his key role in encouraging King Idris of Libya to transfer control of his country's oilfields to Occidental — a move that no doubt facilitated the subsequent transfer of control of Libya itself to the Soviet camp.
So there is no doubt that Al Gore Sr. deserved his payoff from Armand Hammer. But what has Al Gore Jr. ever done for Qatar? Isn't he, after all, the foremost champion of the worldwide environmentalist movement, which is bitterly opposed to oil production, the very lifeblood of the Qatari regime? Yes, he is, but there is a little catch, because while opposed in principle to oil production everywhere, the environmentalist movement has been effective in reality only in impeding it in the United States.
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On August 23, Ottawa, Kansas police shot Joseph Jennings 16 times, even as his aunt and uncle begged them not to. According to KCTV in Ottawa, Jennings was suicidal. He had taken an overdose August 21, and two police officers helped to save his life. Both of those officers were involved in gunning down the teen, two days later.
Jennings was released from Ransom Memorial Hospital two days after the suicide attempt, on August 23. His Aunt, Brandy Smith, told KCTV that he left the house just a few hours after returning home, apparently on a suicide mission. Smith said that she looked out her window and saw Jennings outside, as well as six police officers. She and her husband ran to the scene.
"I told them it is Joseph Jennings. He is suicidal. He is upset, don't shoot him,"
Smith said.
"And I told them, if he has a gun, it's a BB gun. But we don't know that… He knew that if he acted like he had a gun that they would shoot him, and I told them that."
Joseph Jennings' uncle also attempted to intervene.
"My husband was going to tackle him. He was within arms reach. They said to get back or they were going to shoot him,"
Smith told reporters with KCTV.
"It was like six — six officers, and one cop yelled, 'Bag him!' And they bagged him, and he kind of puffed up a little bit, and then they bagged him two more times, and then like 16 shots rang out, and they shot him. And he fell to the ground."
She went on to say:
"And that's what I don't understand is, why did it take them shooting him 16 times at least for them to bring him down? Why didn't they bag him, knock him down, and then go and take care of whatever they needed to take care of?"
In response to the shooting, Ottawa Police Chief Dennis Butler said the officers were doing what they are trained to do.
"They reacted based upon the training that they've been given from the academy. We were thankful that no officer was injured from protecting themselves from risk of great bodily harm."
This is what cops are being trained to do at the academy? Shoot teenagers with BB guns dead while their family members beg them not to? Can 'the academy' start training them to use tasers? How about training them to think about what they would do if it was their own child? Or maybe start teaching them some non violent self defense tactics?
Six officers and 16 bullets, for one unarmed, mentally ill kid? This is a fail. This is a case of officers having the real opportunity to do something good, to help a young man that obviously need help, but choosing to end his life by firing squad instead.
As a country we have to come together and find some kind of solution to this growing threat to the public. The police are no longer serving and protecting, they are killing our children in cold blood, without so much as an ounce of remorse.
Here's the news report and interview with Joseph Jennings Aunt, Brandy Smith.
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On March 13th 2013, Representatives of the Glasgow University Society and Mimosa Life attended the International Students Fashion Show hosted by Jake Mood at Sugar Cube Glasgow. The Merchant city based nightclub was given a contemporary makeover that exuded ambiance, atmosphere and attitude. The ISFS kicked off in high spirits and was complemented with the glow of stage lights, red carpet runway and a turntablist/ percussionist who played the bongos between intervals . The atmosphere was electric and amused the anticipating audience at large. The bold, innovative and quirky fashion designs that were on display on that evening included collections from – M.A.D. Clothing • Nothing • The Pokey Hat • Animinimal • Joanna Chomicz • IvyKiss Ltd • 21st Century Kilts • The Roosevelt Hundred Bow Ties • Rebecca Riddick
Importantly, each individual collection were worn to their full potential by all of the models, each of which had their own style of working the catwalk. The event was indeed a fantastic celebration of innovative and bold fashion and was a great opportunity to meet influential members of Glasgow's thriving fashion scene.
Favourite pieces from the collections included – the quirky, oversized bow ties of The Roosevelt Hundred Bow Ties, Joanna Chomicz's bold yet elegant pieces, Animinimal's summer ready screen printed T-shirt apparel and Rebecca Riddick's beautiful couture pieces.
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So much has already been written about Apple's WWDC and their iOS 6 announcement… and I too will pile on a couple short (and late) reactions. This one really has nothing to do with the hardware or the software… but rather the store page Apple created to showcase iOS 6. I tweeted about it last night:
Having reflected a little more on it – and the many discussions I have had over great product / merchandising pages (from eBay to portfolio to here on the blog) – I think it is worth showcasing this page once more.
A couple quick notes, which will essentially just expand on my 100 character tweet:
1. The page is entirely on-brand for Apple. Familiar.
2. It's a single page. Yet it is very easy to navigate. The icons atop the page move you throughout.
3. It is content heavy… but you wouldn't know it. Secondary elements are tucked away within each feature – for instance, the Facebook section has three sub-bullets which navigate horizontally – meanwhile, the core features navigate vertically.
4. It reads like a newspaper. The headlines are atop. The supporting content is ordered by importance. And the tertiary content (smaller features, developer kits, compatibility) are tucked at the bottom and formatted differently.
5. It's visual. Great looking and easy to consume.
And it's applicable beyond products. This page (it's layout, characteristics, etc) is relevant for merchandise (ie physical product), services (ie subscriptions, SaaS), about-us (ie informational content) and beyond.
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It" is the mysterious quality of absolute attraction. If we say a person has "it," we usually mean that, in addition to any easily identifiable charms, there's a little something extra, some ineffable bonus that makes an "it" person stand out, even among the outstanding. Ekundayo Bandele, the Hattiloo Theatre's tireless founding director, has that ineffable something. He's had it since he was a dreadlocked 20-something pounding the pavement, slipping fliers for his original play, If Scrooge Was a Brother, under the windshield wipers of parked cars. He still had it as a 30-something, when he opened Threads, a short-lived vintage clothing store on Madison Avenue that turned into the Curtain Theatre, a tiny in-the-round performance space at night.
Now, as the 40-year-old artist turned producer prepares to launch a capital campaign to create Memphis' first fully endowed performing arts space dedicated primarily to staging works that reflect the African-American experience, other people are finally starting to recognize "it."
Late last year, Bandele brought more than 100 supporters to City Hall to back a proposal put forward by city council members Shea Flinn and Jim Strickland to build a $16 million parking garage and floodwater-detention pond in Overton Square. If approved, the city-funded project would simultaneously address flooding concerns in the Lick Creek basin and trigger a $19 million rehabilitation and development plan devised by Loeb Properties that promises to transform the languishing Overton Square into a spruced-up theater district populated by restaurants, shops, and bars. That development, inspired in part by Playhouse on the Square's impressive new facility at the northeast corner of Cooper and Union, will in turn facilitate the six-year-old Hattiloo Theatre's move from its current location in a converted shop front on Marshall Avenue into a custom-built $4 million playhouse in Midtown.
After the measure passed and the reality of what had just happened settled in, Bandele turned to Flinn for advice, asking the councilman if he had any suggestions for helping move the project forward.
"Yeah," Flinn answered. "Don't get hit by a bus."
Flinn, who majored in theater at Rhodes College before going to law school, thinks Bandele brings something special to the table and that any plan for remaking the Hattiloo in an Overton Square theater district would be less attractive without him.
A recently completed feasibility study showing it would be possible to raise between $3.5 million and $4 million for a new theater in Overton Square pegged Bandele's extreme hands-on management style as both a strength and as a potential weakness.
"I really do need to staff up," Bandele says, agreeing with the report's findings. "I know I can't do everything by myself." Ironically, he says this while standing behind the Hattiloo's lobby bar (which he built), only a few feet away from the set for August Wilson's play Two Trains Running, which he's currently building. Bandele's used to doing too many things at once and doing them all well.
The Meeting, a one-act play about a fictional encounter between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., had played for a small preview audience the night before, and, as the curtain speech was being delivered, water started pouring into the Hattiloo's smaller studio theater from a pipe that had burst in a neighboring apartment. In accordance with tradition, the show went on, but the morning after found furniture piled on top of furniture, wet vacs howling, and Bandele, in the center of the chaos, orchestrating an emergency response while single-handedly manning the theater's box office, giving an interview, and preparing to meet with a group of architects who would pitch their competing visions for the new theater.
No matter how hectic things became, every caller ordering advance tickets to Two Trains Running received a thorough description of the play, a brief rundown on the author, and guarantees they would enjoy the experience.
"It's that hands-on approach that makes Ekundayo and the Hattiloo different," says Jackie Nichols, recalling previous efforts to launch a black repertory company in Memphis.
The joy Bandele takes in scenic construction and general day-to-day maintenance makes for easy comparisons to Nichols, Playhouse on the Square's founding executive. Nichols opened his new $12.5 million flagship theater in January 2009 and has been coaching his soon-to-be-neighbor through the process of building a theater from the ground up.
"I just want to share what I learned and help make his process as smooth for Ekundayo as possible," Nichols says.
The new Hattiloo will be modeled after Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre, in the same way Playhouse on the Square was modeled after the Steppenwolf Theatre. The Lookingglass is a uniquely versatile black box designed for a minimalist company that's known for creating strikingly visual productions. Bandele was impressed by the Lookingglass' ability to transform itself based on the needs of a given play.
"It can be set up as a proscenium, tennis court, or in the round," he says. "I told the architects I wanted the whole theater to be like that too, not just the stage. I want to be able to move walls in the lobby. You know, I'll go crazy if I can't completely change things every now and then."
Nichols also admires the Lookingglass model but offers a bit of practical advice: "It's great to be able to have so much control over the playing space, but I reminded Ekundayo that the Lookingglass has professional crews whose job it is to change the seating from show to show." This, he says, is just one example of how some design choices may be more expensive than they initially seem.
Bandele and Nichols aren't waiting for the completion of the new Hattiloo to give Memphians a taste of the new neighborhood dynamic. Playhouse on the Square and the Hattiloo are partnering for the regional premiere of The Mountaintop, an acclaimed play by Memphis native Katori Hall. The Mountaintop, which is scheduled to open at Circuit Playhouse in February 2013, won the Olivier Award for best new play, following its 2010 world premiere in London. The fictionalized account of Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night on earth opened on Broadway in September 2011, starring Samuel L. Jackson as King and Angela Bassett as a mysterious woman who brings him coffee and strange news.
Bandele isn't a typical Memphis arts administrator. He didn't major in theater or arts management. He didn't even graduate from college, and in spite of his many successes, this sometimes bothers him. "If you don't have a degree or technical learning, then you haven't been approved," he says. Having grown up in a broken home and splitting time between Memphis and Brooklyn's Fort Green neighborhood, he has been plagued by issues of identity and authenticity.
Before opening the Hattiloo and discovering his purpose, Bandele kept his head above water and later supported a family by working a variety of what he describes as "hustles." He sold home-made incense sticks on the street. He loaded his grandfather's old pickup truck with trash cans full of soapy water and started a mobile car-detailing business. Eventually, he would add art dealer to his resume. Throughout it all he was an obsessive reader, who continued to write original plays and try to produce them whenever, wherever, and however he could.
"But back then, the whole play thing was just another hustle," Bandele says of his early work.
"I think the street smarts Ekundayo picked up doing all of that has a lot to do with his success," says Memphis actor Jonathan Underwood, who has appeared in several Hattiloo shows, including Spunk, The Colored Museum, and a beautifully adapted production of Moliere's Tartuffe. Underwood, who also took a lead role in Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts at Circuit Playhouse and received glowing reviews for his performance as Jacob the butler/housemaid in Theatre Memphis' La Cage aux Folles, also admits that, while intrigued, he initially underestimated the value of a black theater company.
"I was always pretty color-blind about it all," he says. "I never did exclusively black plays or exclusively gay plays. Even my first show at the Hattiloo was Macbeth, which was a collaboration with Rhodes College and had some diversity to it."
What Underwood soon realized, however, was that whenever he worked at the Hattiloo, he came into contact with more African-American performers that he'd never seen before.
"I realized I'd never met any of these people, because they hadn't been cast in this season's 'black' play at Playhouse or Theatre Memphis. And if you don't get cast, you may have to wait another year to try again," he says.
This uniting of what has been a fragmented community has always been one of Bandele's primary goals.
Underwood's views are echoed by Leslie Reddick, a Memphis-area theater professional who is currently developing original works for the Black Arts Alliance. Reddick describes the Hattiloo's move to Overton Square as "one of the best things that could happen."
"The other theaters will benefit as well," she says. "The actors, designers, and techies will have access to one another in a way that has not happened here in Memphis. We can be an example of how the people of Memphis can move beyond the stigma of racism and truly enjoy working and living together."
Reddick's description of what the Hattiloo's move to Midtown might foster is more than a useful quote to include with grant applications. Bandele knows what it's like to struggle in what has been described as post-racial America. He knows what it feels like to be the only person of color in a room full of arts executives. Now he's in a position to give back by redefining the mainstream and nurturing artists whose work might otherwise fall through the cracks.
The Hattiloo experience is often described as "intimate." That is sometimes nothing more than a flowery way of saying that the repurposed performance space is cozy but cramped. But size is a relative concept, and there are other perspectives.
"For me, the Hattiloo is a big theater," says Gio Lopez, who founded Cazateatro in 2006, after moving to Memphis from Costa Rica, where she had been employed as an actor and director. She contacted other actors and artists by taking out ads in a Spanish-language newspaper, and with no facility of its own, the group started rehearsing plays outdoors at Shelby Farms.
"Then winter came, and it was too cold to stay outdoors," Lopez recalls. So they rehearsed and performed in apartments, living rooms, and in spaces provided by Latino-owned businesses. The bilingual company's name — a play on the words theater, house, and hunting — reflected its challenges. In October 2011, Cazateatro will celebrate Day of the Dead with performances at the Hattiloo. It is the beginning of what Lopez hopes to be a mutually beneficial relationship that will only strengthen with time and the move to Overton Square.
"You know, if you put enough minorities together, you have the majority," Bandele says. "It's important for me to help Gio in the same way that people like Jackie Nichols and Dorothy Gunther Pugh of Ballet Memphis have helped me. And hopefully, on down the road, Gio will be able to help somebody else the way I've reached out to her."
Bandele says the new Hattiloo is slated to open in early 2014 but characteristically adds that, given his way, it will be open by the end of 2013. The renovation of Overton Square is slated to begin in April.
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After multiple seasons of incredible competition and growth, the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) has matured into one of the world's most entertaining and respected motorsport series.
2017 promised to deliver another spectacular season of racing, with 28 top-class international entries across the four categories of competition (LMP1, LMP2, LMGTE Pro and LMGTE Am) racing plus a stable calendar which features nine races held across Europe, Latin and North America, Asia and the Middle East. For 2018-2019 though we have the "Super-Season" As we transition to a new calendar where the final round will be a Le Mans.
The WEC includes manufacturer teams from current World Champions Porsche (in both LMP1 and LMGTE Pro), Toyota, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Ford, with BMW already committed to join the GTE ranks in 2018.
All the entrants, factory and privateer teams across the categories, join together to battle it out at historic and evocative circuits such as Silverstone, Spa-Francorchamps, Nürburgring, Fuji Speedway and, of course, the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans which is the cornerstone of the championship.
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To make radical system changes that focus on the strengths of all rather than the weaknesses of those living in poverty, we need the active participation of all stakeholders – Families, Individuals, Private Capital, Philanthropy, Government, and Technology. Traditional command and control programs neither encourage nor reward initiative and ignore the innate human desire for self-sufficiency. Dignity and self-respect are often stripped away. Only when there is true collaboration between and among all stakeholders will the war against poverty be won.
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Age of Conan-faithful, but I'm a hopeless film trailer junkie. I collect them. I watch (and re-watch) them on my computer, my phone, my television, and of course, at the cinema proper. A lot of the time, trailers are substantially better than the full-length films they're meant to sell, and I've even been known to pay full price for a ticket only to walk out after the preview (particularly when said preview concerned a long-awaited prequel and was inexplicably tacked on to the front of Meet Joe Black).
Given that Conan already plays a significant role in my gaming life, I think deconstructing the recently released trailer for the upcoming film franchise reboot makes a certain sort of sense. Sadly, Massively isn't a haven for film criticism, but I'd like to get around that by doing a bit of theorizing on how the new flick could conceivably affect our favorite MMORPG.


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This 1st class construction is located just 400 meters from the sea in the northern part of Alanya, Konakli, beautifully landscaped in several plateaus at a unique view plot with private beach that ensures all houses with 180 degree views of the Mediterranean. Within less 400 meters are child friendly beach, restaurants, shopping malls, water park, football, tennis and basketball courts, beautiful public parklands, Turkish bath and wellness center. Moreover, the new luxury marina of Alanya is reachable within a 5 minute drive. The location at the beach side of the main road that winds throughout Alanya minimizes all possible traffic noise and establishes a private and peaceful atmosphere.
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Oasis Club II Villas II covers an area of 30.000 m2, consist of 4 different villa types and 72 units of luxury villas. Besides own private villa with garden and pool, this complex offers a multitude of luxurious common facilities, such as:
● 330 m2 large communal pool with separate children's pool and outdoor Jacuzzi
● Bar, waterfall and DJ desk
● Beautiful cabanas for a relaxing time around the pool
● Sauna, hot tub and professionally equipped fitness built into the beautiful surrounding masonry of the complex
● Private beach with bar and restaurant.
● Golf cars for internal transport
● A' la Carte restaurant open all year – just a phone call away!
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● Kids playground
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● Team of administrator, receptionist, caretaker, gardener and security guards employed to manage the daily operations at the complex
● Private road system, planting, good outdoor lighting, caretaker housing, etc
● Clean water system and the emergency generator
Oasis Club II is the second complex in the line of the Oasis concept. The first complex is located in the mountains and consists of 32 residential units – here; the vision has already been transformed into practice to everyone's full satisfaction.
The villas:
The 4 different types of villas are each distinguished with different floor plans, details and subtleties, but common for all is the conducted design and the use of quality materials. All villas are easily reachable by feet as well as by car.


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The Department of Homeland Security will release "harmless particle materials" in the city's subway system next week.
The "non-toxic, safe gas material" will be released at subway stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens in order to understand where hazardous material would travel in the event of a biological terrorist attack.
"This is important information to help local authorities to enhance their emergency preparedness," DHS Program Manager Dr. Donald Bansleben said Friday.
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Too Long; Didn't Read Summary: So, you probably just want to know, "How much better is the new Gray Plastic offering?" In a word, immensely better. OK, that's technically two words. The new plastic offering from Shapeways means that the Hero Forge Gray Plastic miniatures are an order of magnitude more durable than the previous Ultra Detail figures. The detail of the Gray Plastic is also much better in my estimation than Ultra Detail (now somewhat ironically named). In summary, buy Gray Plastic. Avoid Ultra Detail.
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A little over a year ago, I came down hard on Hero Forge miniatures (rightfully so). I had ordered 2 "Ultra Detail" miniatures ($50) as a gift for my wife and myself... a gnome and half orc. After receiving the figures, I immediately noted issues with the detail. While the detail was not considered a show stopper, the fragility of the figures absolutely was. The Ultra Detail printing process creates a very stiff and brittle plastic which breaks under even the most minor pressure. My gnome's sword blade broke off during light handling while painting, and later a drop of a few inches fractured the ankles separating the base from the figure. Both breaks could be re-glued, but it illustrated that the figures would not be durable enough for play.
Fast forward a year later, Hero Forge contacted me to try out their new "Gray Plastic" material as well as their metal offerings, Steel and Bronze, to see how they compare. They have also added some new items and features to their figure creation software, I will touch upon those later as I know everyone wants to know about the new plastic.
Full Disclosure: Hero Forge provided me vouchers to print 3 miniatures for the purpose of evaluation. There were no strings attached to provide a positive review. I hope I have provided an unbiased view of the results.


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- Disaster terms, including decimate, under the bus, perfect storm, post-9/11, and Black Friday. Apocalyptic hyperbole would seem to be so 2007.
- Overused phrases, such as it is what it is, back in the day, and X is the new Y (as in, "pink is the new black"). The list authors include commentswith examplesof these trite phrases taken to the extreme--for example, using "back in the day" in a sentence about Blackberries.
- Vague and overused adjectives, including emotional, random, sweet, and organic. Since your coach wants you to cut back on your adjectives, we can hardly disagree with this point.
- Vague and awkward verbs, such as pop, give back, surge, author/authored, and wordsmith/wordsmithing. If you have authored or wordsmithed any of these, please stop, for reasons we hope are obvious.
- Overworked nouns and gerunds, such as waterboarding and webinar.
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
weekly writing coach: ban these words
Now in its fourth decade, Lake superior State University's annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness has been issued. It's up to your editor to decide whether these choice gems are off your personal writing list, but it's worth noting the patterns in this year's list:
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"Do as God would do. Much-loved children want to do as their fathers do. Live with love as Christ loved you. He gave Himself for us, a gift on the altar to God which was as a sweet smell to God." Ephesians 5:1-2 (New Life Version)
Often the first person we imitate is our parents or guardian. This happens the first few months of life. A baby recognizes the parents face and learns gestures and facial expressions from them. A baby learns to smile because the parent smiles at the child. To imitate means to follow as a pattern or to be or appear like the person copied. The Latin root of the word comes from the word image.
As we grow up and become teenagers, we strive to imitate celebrities, peers, and people we think are cool. Even as adults, we look to imitate other people who work alongside us or seem to have things we want. Who should we be imitating though? We should be imitating God. He is the image we should strive to be like. It makes sense doesn't it? We are made in His image and He is our Father. So, ask yourself this week as you go about your life, who are you imitating? Strive to do as God would do. Live a week following after Him and imitating His actions.


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I just finished reading an excellent Rolling Stone article (entitled "The Machinery of Hope") on how the Obama campaign is using social media to build a grassroots movement and I got to thinking that we should maybe spend a little more time on the subject of social media and political campaigning than we have thus far. This is after all an election year and all these new technologies are changing political campaigns right in front of our eyes.
What I would like us to do the week after spring break, is blog about how you think these technologies are affecting the way political campaigns are run. You can pick any candidate you like, or compare and contrast what different candidates have done in the social media arena. Just to clarify, these blog posts will NOT be in addition to your 2 weekly blog posts, but will replace them.
Check out these resources for an overview of the issue:
Check out these resources for an overview of the issue:
- Wired story "Start a Nonprofit and Join Election '08 YouTube Free-For-All"
- New York Times article "Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On"
- Brave New Films use of viral video to expose Fox News' agenda setting powers:
- News story on the use of social networking in political campaigns:


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Part of the reason that I decided to blog about my journey through depression is that it would serve as a way of expressing the creative side of my personality. The only problem is that it seems like the good ideas come at the most inopportune times. I can't tell you how many times a twist of phrase, or an idea for a photo, or a song melody has popped into my head in the middle of the work day, or while I'm lying in bed or even sitting in the "oval office".
I needed to get out of the house yesterday, so I made my way to the local Barnes and Noble. There I found the perfect tool: a pocket-sized journal.
Remember Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Indy and his dad were looking for the Holy Grail. When I watch that movie, I can't help but think that although the Grail served as a good McGuffin, it wasn't the most interesting treasure of the movie. Sure, it would be a find of enormous historical and religious significance. But if you did find it, who would really believe you? No, the coolest (albeit fictional) artifact of the movie was Henry Jones Sr's Grail Diary. Here was a journal of history, legend, faith, art, and adventure.
So when I saw the little pocket-sized journal at B&N, I couldn't resist. It was manufactured by ecosystem out of recycled materials. While I can't say that I am a true environmentalist, I do try my best to at least honor the idea of conservationism. Ecosystem also puts a serial number in the back of their journals, which serves a cool double purpose: you can enter it in on their website to learn the origin of your humble tome, and also register it for lost and found.
I hope to be able to use mine for drawings, musings, blog ideas, and notes on photos that I have taken. Hopefully it will help my creativity as much as I think it will.
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MONDAY FUN: The World According to Little Guy
We generally have the radio on in the car while we are driving. I tend to listen to either country or the local blues/oldies station, while Lovely Wife favors the local Christian music station. The other day I was driving the kids to meet Lovely Wife somewhere. The radio was off and both of the kiddos were pretty cranky. I asked them if they wanted to listen to some tunes, to which Little Guy emphatically answered "Yeah!". So I turned on the radio. He listened for a few seconds before saying, "No, Daddy! I want the Jesus one!"


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Staying Filled With The Holy Spirit
In this sixth message on the Holy Spirit I teach on HOW to stay filled with the Spirit. We are given the injunction by Paul in Ephesians 5:17 to "be filled with the spirit" a truer rendering is to "let the Spirit continually fill you"
I talk about the power of proper position. Get in the way of where the Holy Spirit IS and what the Holy Spirit is DOING. Create a rhythm and momentum for a life of discipleship and devotion that allows the Spirit to continually fill you.
I cover some key practices including the primacy of the Bible, a desire for obedience to God's will, a passion for God's presence and perhaps counter intuitively a grace filled perspective on failure. Move TOWARD God in failure not away.
Enjoy practicing the power of proper position, it makes a HUGE difference. Remember, staying filled leads to being fruitful.


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A Stradivarius is among the most coveted items in the world, considered to be the best-stringed instrument ever created. The violins, violas and cellos produced by the Stradivari family during the 17th and 18th centuries are prized for their remarkable sound and incredible craftsmanship, and a new study explores the possible techniques used by Antonio Stradivari.
A Stradivarius in pristine condition can fetch millions of dollars. In 2011, a Stradivarius violin made in 1721, named Lady Blunt after Lord Byron's granddaughter, Lady Ann Blunt, was sold at a charity auction for $15.9 million. The money collected during the auction went to Japanese earthquake relief funds.
Approximately 600 string instruments made by Stradivari are still known to exist, according to the Wall Street Journal, and a new study using several diagnostic techniques examined a Stradivarius to unlock the mystery of what techniques and materials were used to create the world's best violins.
Led by Marco Malagodi, from the Università degli Studi di Pavia in Italy, the study used different techniques to examine the wood, types of varnishes used and decorations of the top plate of a 17th-century Stradivarius. The techniques were nondestructive, and the researchers were able to discover what dyes were used in the making of the violin, as well as noting the lack of varnish on the top plate, a result of excessive restoration, the press release notes. The researchers were able to identify the type of dye used in the purflings, the decorative edge inlay found on the top plate, while also identifying other aspects of the wood that indicate Stradivari used ancient wood coloring techniques, according to the release. The study was published in the journal Applied Physics A - Materials Science & Processing.
"Our investigations have provided several important insights about the manufacturing techniques of Antonio Stradivari and allowed us to hypothesize about the recipes used by this violin master, or by his suppliers, to decorate his instruments," the study notes. While the researchers may have been able to unlock some mysteries surrounding the techniques used by Stradivari, previous studies have dispelled some of the myths surround the legend of the violin. Past research has concluded that most cannot tell the difference between a Stradivarius and a high-quality modern violin, but that has done little to dispel the legacy of Stradivari, the craftsmanship of his stringed instruments or the incredible prices they fetch.


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Ballard Green Building Talk #6: An Exploration of Green Roofs
As our cities expand and population grows, the need for urban green space is greater than ever. Yet a vast expanse is sitting right above our heads, unused and unloved. By replanting our rooftops, we can reduce the urban heat island effect, sequester rainfall to reduce the strain on drainage sys- tems, scrub the air of pollutants and CO2, and provide respite from city noise.
This talk, presented by Urban Canopy founders Ben Jarvis and China Bolden, will discuss affordable sustainability practices and projects, including rainwater management, hydroponics, and green roof retrofits. The talk will be followed by a guided tour of the Ballard Library's own green roof.
Don't miss this chance to learn how to turn a tarred and shingled dead zone into a lush oasis of life.
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Let's be honest with ourselves for once. Government is run by people who are just like most of corporate America – people will do whatever it takes to please their supervisors to get ahead, and to increase their stature and/or power. The past few weeks has shown that people within the IRS and other agencies are performing actions that will try and win them favors, and damned be the laws or policies that prohibit them from these actions.
In the case of the IRS, it's targeting the opposition of the political party in power. Statistically, the granting of 501c tax-exempt status to groups should be relatively equal if the agency was truly apolitical. When conservative-leaning organizations were delayed or denied this status over liberal-leaning organizations, then there is something definitely rotten in Washington. When "training" videos and seminars of dubious value are costing thousands of tax-payer dollars are exposed to the public, one can only wonder if this agency is truly fair. With the agency being tasked to enforce the ObamaCare premiums, that skepticism only increases.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is also apparently violating the laws. The Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, is soliciting funds from the very industries that her department is regulating. I understand that this is a violation of the laws governing agencies.
The Attorney General Eric Holder has apparently lied or mislead Congress and the American public with his involvement in various actions from his department. The AP scandal, Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal, selective enforcement and/or prosecution of immigration & voter intimidation laws are just a few of the issues concerning this department.
The Benghazi mess with who knew what and was responsible for what non-actions were taken by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and/or President Barack Obama is just an example of how high up the political mess in government reaches. And this cost the lives of an American Ambassador and three more lives.
I can go on with other agencies and scandals, but you should be getting the idea by now.
The issue is that the government is now an obvious political animal. There are many, many people making decisions and performing actions that affect the American citizenry, but no one is apparently held accountable. Why? Apparently, (at least to me) people who toe the political party line are protected and promoted. AG Eric Holder is a prime example of this – anyone in private industry who screwed up as much as he has would have been pink-slipped a long time ago.
What this all means is that the political party in office is using government to further its agenda, suppress opposition, and increase power. If a person stops to think about this seriously in light of the antics of this Administration and its appointees, this should be a cause for increased concern over the direction of this country. The difference between the US and a banana republic becomes very small. The government, not the people, rule the country instead of the vision of this country's Founders. The political party in office now has the full, unlimited resources of the government to do pretty well whatever they want.
People who are in charge have stated that they had no knowledge of the misdeeds of their underlings, or they have been proven to have lied about the knowledge. This means that either they have absolutely no control over their departments (which means they are incompetent), or that they are covering their collective behinds for their misdeeds. In both cases, these people should be removed from their positions of authority along with the people who committed crimes, perjury, and/or violated policy. And yes, criminal prosecutions should occur as well when laws have been broken.
Except that no one is accountable, no one knows nothing, but someone has damn near absolute power without check. Perhaps our country should be run by multiple incarnations of Sargent Schultz – at least he had a good heart unlike a lot of these other narcissistic morons…
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Who would have believed that in 2014 the Martians from The War of the Worlds would be invading Newcastle?
The Arena was packed for this performance on what has been billed the last ever tour of Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation of HG Wells' 1897 novel.
It was an ambitious project, reconstructing on stage Wells's story of Martians attempting to eradicate the human race.
But this adaptation once again captivated its audience through the power of its orchestra and iconic narration, provided by Liam Neeson in the form of a hologram.
All the hits from Wayne's 1978 album were played, including the brilliant Eve of the War, Brave New World and Forever Autumn.
Although the musical featured some high profile names, this show was all about the live band and orchestra, complemented by dramatic visual effects.
Instead of all the action unfolding on stage, the show relies heavily on projections on a 100ft screen. Haunting images of people fleeing Victorian London flashed across it as strobe lighting was fired out over the audience.
The first half of the show had more pace than the second, a particularly impressive moment being when a 35ft Martian tripod came down over the stage, spraying fire out over the audience. I was less convinced by the laser beam that was meant to incinerate people at the beginning.
There were a few familiar faces in the cast, including Jason Donovan as the Parson, Former X Factor winner Shayne Ward as the Artilleryman and Brian McFadden, providing the vocals of Neeson's narrator.
Carrie Hope Fletcher as Beth, the Parson's wife, had by far the most impressive vocals which sent a chill around the Arena.
For this "final" arena tour, Wayne decided to bring HG Wells, played by Callum O'Neill, to life and the audience saw him explaining the context and motives behind his novel.
To bring the show into the present day, it ends on New Year's Eve 2014 with a Nasa scientist losing contact with human space probes on Mars.
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It took me a while to come to terms with my Lymphoedema. For about six years I simply ignored the symptoms, as that seemed the easiest way to deal with it. As far as I was concerned, if I acted normal, I was normal. It was just one leg after all. There was no wheelchair or crutches and I could wear my jeans to hide my "fat leg". Simple. Condition cured. Job done!
Except Lymphoedema doesn't work like that. It requires constant attention, care and treatment, so ignoring it is just about the worst thing you can do. My stint in hospital taught me to accept the disease. It was as much a part of me as my extraordinarily long thumbs, or say, my enchanting brown eyes (don't deny them).
It was ignoring my leg that put me in hospital. The reality is I don't want to go back in there so the choice is clear for me: work with the Lymphoedema and live a healthy life, or work against it and let cellulitis linger around a little longer.
Not too long after I was discharged, I sat down with my leg raised and began to stroke my skin. Watching the trails of white that followed my finger it seemed odd how the rest of my body worked just fine, but I had this one limb that couldn't quite keep up. I found myself looking at my leg and almost feeling sorry for it. Not myself, but my leg, as if it were a separate entity.
It might sound strange but with this mind-set I have found it easier to avoid self-pity. It's enabling me to focus on looking after the condition proactively. You quite literally have to befriend your Lymphoedema. When my leg is sore, I tend to it. When it aches, I rest it. If the skin is tight, I cream it, treating it with the attention it requires.
There's no use in negativity. That's not to say you can't have days where you feel deflated, exhausted or fed up – that comes with life's ups and downs, and ignoring these emotions can be detrimental. But in my experience, you've got to show yourself some love. You haven't asked for this condition but it's not going anywhere too soon so you can't afford to hate yourself for it.
When you enjoy something you're more likely to do it and the same goes for your Lymphoedema. With this approach I now take pride in my routine. I enjoy self-massage, applying wraps and moisturising as it's helping the part of my body that needs it most.
It means I can do the things I love doing. I'm twenty-four and at the peak of my powers, supposedly. So whether it's a drink with friends or travelling the world, Life is for Living. There's no point in dedicating your time to self-care if you can't then enjoy its benefits.


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15 Jan The Sweetest Ways To Say I Love You
Valentine's Day is only a few weeks away, but don't panic! There are many clever ways to show how much you care, whether it's your first love or your forever love. Here are some of my favorites:
1. Choose a dinner from a cookbook together, and then shop for all the ingredients together. Have fun preparing it (and eating it) together! (If you saved room for dessert, we have a fun personalized fondue set, for dipping strawberries.)
2. Make your Valentine a treasure map that they have to follow around the house. Guide them to the dining room table for a special meal, or to the master suite for a bubble bath!
3. Have a picnic at night with lots of candles and a bottle of wine.
4. Go ice skating and then enjoy hot chocolate afterwards!
5. Get a couple's massage at your favorite spa.
6. Blindfold your Valentine and surprise them with a trip to a restaurant, the movies or even a hotel.


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Wishing you and your family a very blessed Christmas!
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Merry Christmas!
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Rudolph Handprints!
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Homemade Christmas Ornaments!
Have I mentioned how much a adore handprint creations? Look at what the girls created...
Handprint snowmen!
Handprint snowmen!
Absolutely love the way they turned out!
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Leaf Printables...ig and ip family words
Raking Leaves -Ig Family
-Ig Family Clipart
Falling Leaves -Ip Family
-Ip Family Pictures
Our favorite books about leaves...
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As you may be aware, there are many reasons why food is wasted in the home, including overbuying, inadequate food storage and cooking oversized portions. Fortunately, with food waste reduction tips and advice from organizations such as WRAP, many of us are beginning to make better choices when it comes to valuing our food, reducing food waste and in turn saving money. In fact according to WRAP there was an estimated 1.1m tonne reduction of food waste between 2006 and 2010.
Great news, I hear you say, but when you consider that 15m tonnes of food is still being wasted per year, with households generating 7.2m tonnes of which 4.4m tonnes is avoidable – it's clear to see there is still quite a way to go.
However, not all food waste is avoidable and it is inevitable some will go to waste, but how can we ensure we keep it out of landfill?
Unfortunately, there is not a simple, one-fits-all solution to this problem for several reasons:
Firstly, there is still a lack of awareness of the environmental impact of food waste, some believing that as food is biodegradable it is okay for it to go to landfill, whilst others do not fully understand or appreciate the consequences of the harmful emissions created by food waste, methane, and the detrimental effect it has on our environment.
Secondly, there is not always a disposal infrastructure in place to enable householders to make a greener choice. For example, not all UK homes have food waste collected by their local authority, others have concerns that is unhygienic to store food waste, some may not have gardens to compost, whilst not all garden owners wish to compost at all.
Fortunately, for the latter, those with gardens who do not wish or have time to compost, there is an eco-friendly solution to dispose of food waste – namely, The Green Cone.
The Green Cone is an innovative food waste disposal unit. A four-part injection moulded unit, it comprises of a lower basket installed below ground and forming the base for an upper assembly consisting of a black inner cone and a green outer lidded plastic cone.
Sited in a sunny, well-drained spot in the garden, above the water table, the Green Cone will effortlessly digest all cooked and uncooked kitchen food waste, including:
Dairy products,
Peelings etc.
So how the Green Cone work?
Using the 5 litre Green Cone caddy (which is supplied with the Green Cone) all organic kitchen waste can be collected, then when convenient, emptied into the Green Cone.
The Green Cone's patented design of the unit utilises a solar heating effect between the inner and outer cones to promote air circulation, which facilitates the growth of beneficial micro-organisms and the desirable aerobic digestion process. The household food waste is converted into water, carbon dioxide and small amount of residue that will only need to be removed every few years in a well operating Green Cone.
That's it!
So, if you are looking for a solution to dispose of your unavoidable food waste, take a look at the Green Cone and don't forget to check if your local council will subsidise your Green Cone purchase at www.foodwasteeater.co.uk
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In another example of the difficulty of obtaining summary judgment in Delaware, district judge Sue L. Robinson has refused to invalidate a network-security patent on the grounds of anticipation and obviousness. By doing so, the Court also highlighted the importance of presenting one's case on summary judgment.
Examining the allegedly anticipating prior art, the Court concluded that "arguabl[e]" differences of scale created an "unclear" record. In a footnote, the Court then equated this lack of clarity with a failure to satisfy the controlling clear-and-convincing standard of review. As a result, the Court declined "to find through a motion practice" that the prior art anticipated the patent-in-suit. For substantially the same reasons, the Court also rejected the obviousness contention.
The import of the decision? When arguing (or defending) invalidity, an essential part of the litigation strategy includes mitigating (or creating) doubts in the Court's mind about the prior art.
SRI Int'l Inc. v. Internet Security Systems, C.A. No. 04-1199-SLR (D. Del. Aug. 21, 2008) (Robinson, J.).


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Good night Irene, evacuation notice ordered to low lying NYC's area's creator giving amber warning of things to come' natural disasters.
Big apple the grand architect of the universe is giving fair warning to earth's destructive changes to us by sending a message to well populated metropolitan American city's of impending disasters? The republicans may get there wish after-all in budget cuts cause these natural disastrous situations that are happening in the u.s are going to get more intense and more frequent it will be financially hard on the pocket book for the american tax payers.
There will be a earth cleanse the world is gasping from our pollutions, people don't realize our planet is a anomaly and our lifeline it is to be respected as like its a unique spirit and apart of us? but we having not been care-taking our planet a civilization as a whole [WHY].
Earthquakes in Washington d.c are's now the big apple [NYC] it seems like we are like deer glaring in the car's head lights? an not knowing that we are about to be road kill?
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The creator gave me a job and that is to relay messages
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Some of you know that I'm trying to improve my film fluency, with the help of my local library. I'm 1/3 of the way through the Criterion Collection right now, and I hope to reach the halfway point before 2010. Just about every movie I've seen so far has something striking about it, but I'd be lying if I said they were all classics. This makes film-screening feel like an obligation at times.
So when I do have a reputed classic in my hands, I get pretty excited. Yesterday it was time for Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi's calling card to Western audiences. This film, which couches three intertwined allegories in medieval Japan, regularly lands on critic top ten lists. But I was disappointed.
The film features many breathtaking set-pieces: a river journey through fog, supernatural outbursts, and superbly blended dissolves. But it failed to bowl me over. Or maybe I should say I failed it.
Let's assume I'm in the wrong*, because that's the most logical explanation. But there are so many different ways I could be wrong! Let's take a look at the possibilities.
*This is one of my Rules To Live By. Sadly, I can't recommend it to anyone else, because I am, after all, In the Wrong.
1. I don't know enough about Japan. This applies to both medieval Japan and the 1953 vintage. It's undoubtedly true that I'm lacking some crucial pieces of information (here are just some of the Japanese things I know I don't know: feudalism, traditional gender relations, the occupation experience post-WWII, ghost stories). The film would definitely be more colorful if I could discern these shades. But I'm pretty sure that the critics in Venice, who awarded the film a Silver Lion, probably lacked most of these contextual clues as well. What did they see that I can't?
A similar problem might be my inability to understand Japanese language, body language, facial expressions, and acting styles–something that may inhibit my appreciation to a much larger degree than it does with films from Europe. Apparently the two leads in Ugetsu are putting in all-time great performances, but I couldn't tell. But I like plenty of other Japanese films and performances, so I doubt this is the problem.
2. The film's influence is so widespread that its innovations are impossible to recognize. I get the impression, from Phillip Lopate's accompanying essay, that Mizoguchi could not possibly be more of an auteur–he convinced his crew to move a house in order to improve a shot's composition. Again, I could see this being the case, but the things I recognize as commonplace in the film–intersecting plots, some of the spoilery details of the ghost story, some flamboyant shooting–seem to have been around in film much earlier.* And again, let me stress, I think several scenes are classic. But the whole doesn't hang together very well for me.
*There's always the possibility, given my incomplete knowledge of film history, that there's some convergent evolution going on here–Japanese filmmakers coming up with the same innovations celebrated in European and American film, without the benefit of having seen those other films, but I would have to know a whole lot more about international distribution to be sure. My guess is that films got to Japan pretty early, but even if they didn't, they certainly would be around by occupation. My second guess is that Japanese film didn't really hit foreign shores until films like this. So some of the initial praise could be of the racist "we didn't know they could do this" variety.
3. I haven't learned yet how to get the most out of watching a film. Just like football statisticians and announcers, I bet professional movie watchers, critics and cinemaniacs, have developed perceptual strategies to help them mine a film for information. It often takes me several viewings to really understand a film. I have a hard time explaining why I love the films I do, which makes me a pretty muddled cineaste. It's weird to say I don't like this film yet because it's too early for me to like it, but that may be the case.
Of course, if I accept this line of thinking, what keeps me from applying it to every movie I don't love? Maybe I just need to give Gigli some more time, a few more viewings, and then it will seem like a genuine cinematic achievement!
4. There's no accounting for taste, and mine just doesn't mesh perfectly with the film canon. This has the air of Occam's Razor about it. Without dipping into Kant, Bourdieu, or Carl Wilson, I have to believe that the effort of accounting for taste is important, even if it is Quixotic. The journey provides.
With some reservations, I'm going to have to choose option #3. I'm sure I'll return to this issue in a later post. For now, though, I'd like to hear from you. What goes through your head when you find yourself on the opposite side of overwhelming critical opinion?