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What is Qigong? It is a graceful, moving Chinese meditation that uses inner focus, affirmations, visualizations, and breathing in order to enhance the flow of chi (life energy) in the body and improve mental and physical health. It is considered a branch of Chinese medicine and there are many different forms of qigong. It is closely connected to and has many similarities to Tai Chi, although Tai Chi is rooted in the martial arts. Qigong is easier to learn and our consciousness is as important as the movements.
How can Qigong help people with ADD? It is a moving meditation which can be easier for the restless body. It includes visualizations which fit with creative, bright minds. It promotes focus, deep relaxation, and anchors us to our bodies, which is so important when our thoughts are all over the place. And it balances and modulates our organs – including the brain.
A University of Miami School of Medicine study showed that Tai Chi/Qigong helped reduce ADHD symptoms in adolescents. According to the research, thirteen adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) participated in Tai Chi classes twice a week for 5 weeks. Teachers rated the children's behaviour on the Conners Scale during the baseline period, after the 5 week Tai Chi session period and 2 weeks later. After the 10 Tai Chi sessions the adolescents displayed less anxiety, improved conduct, less daydreaming behaviours, less inappropriate emotions, and less hyperactivity. These improved scores persisted over the 2-week follow up (no Tai Chi period).
[Hernandez-Reif, M., Field, T.M., & Thimas, E. (2001). Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: benefits from Tai Chi. Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies, 5(2):120-3, 2001 Apr, 5(23 ref), 120-123.]
I've been practicing and studying Qigong for almost 12 years. It literally saved my life. If you want to know more, email me! If you have experience with Qigong, feel free to post a comment. I'd love to hear from you.


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With summer holiday season well under way, office chat turns to sunshine, beaches and pina coladas. But the truth is that it's getting harder and harder for us to switch off from work once we are away.
The latest survey by the Institute of Leadership & Management shows that many managers dream of holidays in remote corners of the world where they can escape the "always on" culture.
Our poll of 200 business leaders and managers found that 56% say taking a holiday in a remote location without wi-fi connection would leave them feeling relieved. What we also found was that the holiday season is actually a time of additional stress for many managers:
- 78% of managers identified staff holiday clashes as the hardest aspect of managing staff over the summer;
- 46% of managers say they stay late at work the night before going on holiday;
- 37% say they check their work emails every day during their holiday to avoid a backlog of work when they return.
When it comes to going on holiday, managers need a break as much anybody else. The ability to switch off from work is never easy but it is crucial for managers to take uninterrupted time off during the busy year.
Checking emails daily may bring relief and lessen the burden of returning to a huge backlog, but we need to be mindful of how long we take to do this - is it really necessary to open every single email?
Staff wellbeing
Stress and burnout are workplace issues that can happen to any member of staff, so time off to spend with family, friends or even a solo adventure is beneficial to the wellbeing of both the individual and the company.
Managers can also lead by example and ensure they and their staff don't come back from holiday to an unmanageable workload, quickly negating the renewed energy and enthusiasm the holiday has helped to generate.
Build in a day to catch up on emails - 32% of managers we polled said that would help. It's also worth delegating responsibility for decision-making in someone's absence - create a culture where colleagues support each other's time off knowing it will be reciprocated and allow increased flexibility around the holiday season. All this can help you maximise the benefits of taking holidays, creating a happier and refreshed team.
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How to Make Sugar Paste to Decorate a Perfect Cake
If you're planning on making a fantastic cake for that someone special, you're going to want to go all out. Nothing could be more awesome than a giant cake, decorated with thought and care that you have made yourself. Far from being daunting, it's actually really easy to do it yourself. If you've never baked before, check out this course on fun cake decorating and learn how easy it is.
Once you've got your canvas, a cake to decorate, you are going to need decorations. The easiest way to build tiny sculptures for a cake is to use sugar paste. Using this mixture that looks a little bit like plaster-of-paris, you can create almost anything imaginable for the cake, whether it's flowers, bows or leaves – or even a set of miniature zombies! You could even use them to top cupcakes, cookies – really any sweet dessert that needs a little pizzazz! If you're wanting to try cookies, Chef Marco Ropke offers the best course and a ton of different ideas that are all delicious.
In the cake decorating industry, sugar paste is sometimes called rolled fondant, or ready to roll icing. Most supermarkets will have it pre-made for you, or you can definitely find it in cake decorating stores. Sometimes though, it just doesn't taste right – or you may not want to eat something that you haven't made yourself. Luckily its easy to make at home, saving you the trouble of finding it in the store.
This recipe will make you over a kilogram of sugar paste, and getting you ready to decorate the cake of your dreams!
You will need:
- Half a cup of glucose syrup (125 ml)
- A tablespoon of gelatin
- A tablespoon of glycerin
- A tablespoon of cold water
- 900 grams of pure icing sugar
You may need to add another one or two tablespoons of cold water at the end of all of the steps to get the consistency perfect for your sugar paste.
- Put the gelatin in a bowl with the water, and leave the mixture for 3-5 minutes so that the gelatin can soften and "bloom". Using your microwave heat the gelatin mixture for 30 seconds on the medium setting. Bring it out and check if all the gelatin has dissolved. You may need to stir it a couple of times, or even pop it back in the microwave for a second time. On a stove top just place the bowl over a pan filled with hot water, continuously stirring until the gelatin has dissolved. You need to be careful that you doing bring the gelatin mix to a boil.
- Pour the glucose syrup and the glycerin into the gelatin mix, and combine it with either an electric blender or a spoon until it is thoroughly mixed.
- Use a sieve to get out any lumps in your icing sugar, running all of it through into a large mixing bowl.
- Allow the heated mixture of glucose that you just prepared to cool, and then it can be added to the icing sugar.
- Slowly pour the glucose mixture on top of all of the icing sugar, stirring continuously to ensure its mixed through.
- You can also use an electric mixer for this step, simply combine everything on a low speed (if you have a dough hook this is
the best accessory to use here).
- You may need to add a tablespoon or two of water to get the consistency perfect.
- After the mix forms into a rough ball, it will be too thick to stir. Dust your bench with icing sugar, and knead the mix by hand on your bench. It may take some time until you have it smooth and consistent, and you might even need to add additional icing sugar if the mix is too sticky.
If you want to add any colors this is the time to do it, but never use normal food coloring. They make the sugar paste too sticky to work with properly, so always buy the correct products from a cake making supplier. You can find them at a local store or online very easily.
Once it's smooth the sugar paste is ready to use! Sculpt, create and design any different shapes that you need to make your cake perfect. If you're feeling like a challenge see if you can create the decorations from the wedding cake in this course, and you'll also learn how to mount them on your cake so they stay put!
If anyone in your family is allergic to gelatin you can substitute the gelatin in this recipe for agar agar flakes. It's a vegetarian thickening product that is produced from seaweed, and will produce the same effects as gelatin. Simply swap it out one-for-one with the gelatin in step one, it might just take a little bit more heat to activate the product – it's OK if the agar agar flakes boil.
Storing Sugar Paste
After you have made the mixture, and unused sugar paste can be stored. The biggest enemy of food storage is moisture, heat and sunlight, so dig out some high quality zip-lock bags and try to remove as much air from the inside as you can, before storing the sugar paste in an airtight container. It doesn't matter if it has been colored already or not, and make sure that there are no leaks in the zip-lock bags, and you have a good airtight seal in the container you're storing it in.
Sugar paste attracts moisture, so store it in a cool dry environment that's away from sunlight. Never store it in your fridge because this will ruin your mix, but you can effectively freeze the sealed mix in your freezer.
If you've already created items out of the sugar paste you can store them in the same fashion. Just give them a little more protection against any knocks or damage, which is simple to do by adding additional layers of paper towel or bubble wrap before storing them away. Completed sugar paste creations can be kept almost indefinitely if they are stored in an airtight container in the right environment. Don't put them in your fridge as the moisture will cause the colors to bleed and droop and collapse your creations.
If you've used sugar paste to cover an entire cake then you need to store it a little differently. Store the finished cake in a cardboard cake box and keep it somewhere cool and dry. Your cake will keep up to 5 days like this. It is possible to freeze a cake for up to two months, but the problems come when you try to defrost. The condensation that forms can ruin any icing, leaving permanent marks in the colors. Best to simply eat it fast!
Now you know how to make the perfect sugar paste, why don't you show it off! Learn how to create fantastic cooking videos in this course, so you can amaze your friends and family with great YouTube videos as you make the cake. They'll love seeing how it was done, while they enjoy a delicious slice. So get baking today!
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Share Your Expertise at the NBF's "Reading Without Boundaries" Conference
Posted on March 02, 2018
How can literature help us to "bridge divides, create new connections, and deepen understandings"? This year, the National Book Foundation's "Why Reading Matters" conference brings together educators, librarians, writers, and scholars to seek answers to that question. The conference, entitled "Reading Without Boundaries," seems like a particularly good fit for readers of this website.
The deadline for presenters' applications is March 14, and the conference takes place in New York City on June 7th.
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Ruinsara Tal is a high altitude lake surrounded by lush green meadow and bhojpatra trees. Located at the foot of Swargarohini Peak, Ruinsara Tal is a blessed lake and unlike any other.
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- Stay at Meraki Triangle Sankri
- Culturally rich villages with wooden architecture
- Verdant meadow with bhojpatra trees
- Surreal Ruinsara Lake.
- Splendid views of Kala Nag, Swargarohini & Banderpoonch Peak.
Arrive at Sankri Village, meet our host at Meraki Triangle, Homestay. If time permits you can explore this beautiful village or just walk around Sankri. Sankri is 200 kms from Dehradun.
There is a 12kms jeepable road connecting Sankri with Taluka.
The trail goes through dense forest of chestnut, walnut and chinars. Taluka village is situated at an altitude of 2,410mts above sea level. The trekking route from Taluka to Seema stays on the right side of Supin River. You'll need to cross wooden bridges over streams and do occasional climbs which doesn't last for long.
While trekking you will encounter couple of alternative routes that leads to different Jaunsari villages of that region, avoid them and stick to the route. After 8kms of trekking you will see a beautiful village with unique wooden houses on the left side of the river, Gangad Village. It takes another 2 hours from this point to reach Seema. There is a GMVN Guest House at Seema along with couple of shops and houses.
If you prefer Homestay Accommodation then we will cross the bridge and hike to Osla Village. Satellite Phone is available at Osla Village.
Note: If there is a blockage due to landslide then you must cover the remaining distance by trekking because jeep can only drop you as far as the route is open. It is an easy walk which can be done in just 3hrs. This trekking stretch won't tire you up but rather prepare your legs for the journey ahead.
Start off early for a long day of trekking. Follow the trail on right after walking past Seema. Do not take the bridge over Supin River on left, that route leads to Har ki Doon Valley. After gradually climbing for 2hours Dev Thatch meadow comes into view. Dev Thatch is a beautiful meadow 2kms in length but not that wide. It is a delight to walk on this meadow mainly because the route turns out demanding from the end of Dev Thatch meadow.
After crossing Dev Thatch you will have to cross couple of wooden bridges over the gushing Ruinsara Gad. Ruinsara forest area is rich in vegetation but it keeps on receding as you climb up.
Ruinsara Tal is one of the most scenic lakes of Garhwal Himalayas overlooking lofty Himalayan peaks. Surrounded by birch trees, Ruinsara Tal (3630mts) makes a perfect campsite but this region is exposed to cold winds.
The lake is surrounded by bhojpatra trees which adds to the lake's beauty. The trek to Ruinsara Tal from Rainbasera is a pleasant walk and not tiring.
Downhill trek to Seema from Rusinara Tal will take around 6-7 hours to complete.
Trek 14kms to Taluka and drive to Sankri Village.
- Purola is the last city where you'll find 3G network. So you can make all your important calls, mails before leaving Purola. After Purola only BSNL network will work, that too in limited areas.
- Purola has the last petrol pump, so make sure you fill your vehicle if the fuel is low.
- The last ATM on the route is at Purola. Make sure you withdraw cash if needed.
- Do keep photocopies of your photo id, as it will be required at hotel check in and during the forest check post as Sankri lies in Govind Ballabh Pant National Park.
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Meraki Triangle, Sankri is located at Saur Village, just 500 mts from Sankri market/bus stop. If you are coming by taxi/car then you can come directly to our homestay. You can park your vehicle on the roadside.
By Bus: You can take direct bus from Dehradun (early in the morning around 5:30 am) to Sankri. It takes around 11 hours to reach Sankri by bus. Just in case you have missed that bus, then you can take bus till Purola and hire a cab shared or on full booking to Sankri.
By Car/Taxi: You can easily drive your car or hire a taxi from Dehradun to reach Sankri, it takes around 8-10 hours to reach Sankri. Contact Us for Cab Booking or you can also opt for Ex-Dehradun Package.


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Didier Schmitt is a member of the space Task Force at the European External Action Service. He is a regular opinion writer in major newspapers and magazines and has published a book on foresight. He will be contributing to this blog during his visit to Concordia – we join him at the coastal station Dumont d'Urville:
We walked on the sea-ice with an expert as it started melting around the island were the station is. It was fascinating, although I was a bit anxious. Under the first ice crust that can break – and it did – there is 20-30 cm freezing-cold water and then soft ice (locally called 'sorbet'…). We took survival equipment and radios to call for help and helicopters are never far away…
The landscape was marvellous as we walked between icebergs caught in ice-sheets of various textures. A few noises remind us that the glacier is very active and that we cannot go close to it – it advances by 2 m a day on average!
Penguins look for fishing openings; they are curious and wonder what we are doing here. A seal was spotted by marine biologists. They first checked to see if it was already electronically marked ( with an RFID device) before immobilising it and tagging it under the skin to how territorial they are. Like penguins, seals are not afraid of humans.
Having sea-ice at this time a year is like having snow in July in Belgium. Sea-ice does not melt away but is broken apart by waves and higher tides created by storms. The wind then blows the fragments away in a matter of days, sometimes even overnight. This has not happened this year, it may still occur but the cold season will kick in again in a few weeks and that will stabilise the crust for the rest of the year.
It explains the 'zero year' for penguins. Even if some Adélie chicks are still alive – I saw a few that seem in good health – ornithologists tell me they will not survive as they cannot walk to the open sea which is about 80 km away. All Emperor penguins have now left, the few chicks that survived will not make it either. Yesterday I saw three, from very close, they seemed lost. Today I found two dead ones on the ice only 2 km from the shore.
Other consequences of the unusual weather is that up to now the diving team could not recover devices left on the sea bottom a few years ago for marine biologists. I did watch a dive to repair a tide gauge. To dive here you need the water to be ice-free or hard ice to drill through to enter. A small 'sea truck' boat could also be used either for marine sampling along the shore. I accompanied a group using traps and standard fishing techniques instead.
On another day we also did ice-shelf coring to sample zooplankton and algae. They study the food chain through natural stable isotopes measurements.
The nice weather here is beneficial for outside construction work. Life in and outside Dumont d'Urville is buzzing like a beehive as most activities can only be done between October and February: it is a race against time. I discover new aspects of life in Antarctica on a daily basis.


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Weather Blog: A break in the rain & cooler days near
Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 blog! We get a chance to dry out today, but more showers are looming. In today's blog we recap the heavy rain, look ahead to the next round of showers, and talk about cooler and less humid days ahead.
Torrential downpours led to flash flooding in parts of southeast Wisconsin over the last 24 hours. Here is a list of some of the rain totals we received. The official total for Milwaukee taken at Mitchell Airport was around 1.56".
Areas hardest hit were Mayville in Dodge county, along with central and southern Milwaukee county, and southeast Waukesha county. One thing I can't stress enough...if you see standing water in the road, please turn around if at all possible and do not drive through it.
Many viewers sent in photos of their rain gauges...including Brian in West Bend. This one shows around 3.50" of rain. Many of your photos and videos were featured on WISN 12 News! If you would like to share your photos in the future please tweet them to me @jnelsonweather or email to firstname.lastname@example.com
Overall dry weather rules today with sticky highs in the mid 80s. The break from rain may not last too long. A cold front approaches the area Friday into early Saturday. This will push another round of showers and thunderstorms across southern Wisconsin.
The WPC surface map below is valid at 7pm Friday. Rain chances increase the later we get into the day on Friday. This may mean some rain around for high school football games Friday evening. Hopefully lightning stays away.
Any rain on Saturday should wrap up by mid-morning. The RPM computer model below is valid at 7am Saturday. This shows the back edge of rain approaching Milwaukee. Any outdoor plans early Saturday may include some rain. By afternoon breezy and dry weather should rule.
Cooler and less humid weather takes hold on Saturday and Sunday. Sunday looks great with sunshine and highs in the mid-70s.
Even cooler weather is possible by the middle of next week. Highs may dip to the 60s by next Wednesday. If that occurs it would be an early touch of fall.
For the latest weather information watch WISN 12 News, and for additional weather updates follow me on Twitter, Instagram, & Snapchat @jnelsonweather
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The Difference between Cacao and Cocoa
Cacao is the Spanish word for cocoa, while cocoa is the English word for cacao.
One of the major points of confusion in the chocolate world is the difference between "cocoa" and "cacao." With only one letter different, it's easy to understand how some might think this is just a simple misspelling. So, what's the truth? Are cocoa and cacao the same thing? Can they be used interchangeably?
CACAO is used only for unprocessed products (raw food and superfoods industry). Raw cacao powder is not roasted, relatively unprocessed, and contains no sugar or cocoa butter. Cacao refers to the raw form of chocolate, including the tree and bean.
COCOA is used for processed products, this powder has been roasted, ground, and sometimes mixed with a sweetener and cocoa butter. Cocoa is the type of powder we more commonly see on the grocery store shelves and use in our baked goods.


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Member for Burleigh Michael Hart is reminding all sport and recreation clubs that time is almost up to apply for funding in the first round of the Newman Government's Get in the Game initiative.
Member for Burleigh, Michael Hart is encouraging people to help bring a smile to the face of an abused or neglected child living away from home by donating towards the Kids in Care Christmas Appeal.
State Member for Burleigh Michael Hart will be actively promoting positive attitudes toward women as he leads the White Ribbon Day 'Oath' at the Palm Beach Parklands event this weekend.
A big congratulations goes out to Oakley Warren for being the winner of Michael's 2012 Christmas Card Competition.
Member for Currumbin and Minister for Small Business, Jann Stuckey MP and Member for Burleigh, Michael Hart MP are challenging residents to participate in the 100% Local Christmas Challenge.


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I got lost in the Internet. A dangerous place, I know. But I found a thing that I never knew was missing from my life, and now I'm in love.
Jess Rona dog grooming does some pretty awesome grooming. But beyond that, also puts up addicting and wonderful little Instagram videos of dogs while getting blow-dried in slow motion. And yes, it is what has been missing from your life. You're welcome.
The instagram is here
Not an Instagram fan? Here's a YouTube video someone put together with a bunch of clips from the Instagram feed. I've watched it 3 times. I'm in love with these puppies. I might be a little crazy.


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Flourishing in not knowing the answers, and being bold enough to find out.
Sometimes in a coaching session, as a coach, we might 'get the feeling' that the client is grappling with something in their thoughts – we can see it in their body language and we can hear it in their words and/or tone of voice, breath, pace. And yet, we gloss over it . Why do we do that?
This workshop we will spend time talking through what is going on for us as coaches when this happens and then move to how to strengthen being bold, curious and ask questions.
Moving ourselves to the state of flow and flourish in our coaching.
We'll talk about
- • How to reflect what you observe
- • Asking permission
- • How to deal when clients are upset
- • How not to get lost
- • Empathy …or compassion?
The focus is predominantly around Core competencies of Listening and Coaching presence.
Please come along prepared to take a deeper dive into 'not knowing' and being bold.
Bring your own experiences and lessons learned and any tools that you'd like to share.
If you have a short coaching issue around this topic and you'd like to be coached in front of the group, please email Gai direct on email@example.com
Event Host: GAI FOSKETT, MCC
About Gai
Professionalism, flair and focus to achieve are just a few words many clients have used to describe Gai's coaching and training. Gai works mainly with senior managers, government, business owners, professionals and entrepreneurs in NZ, Australia, Asia, UK and Canada. Gai brings to the coaching table a deep understanding of business and corporate life. Her intuition, knowledge and skills make a difference to coaching clients and trainees alike.
Gai is passionate about helping coaches achieve their highlest levels of coaching competency and impact. Increasing numbers of coaches in NZ with ICF credentials is high on her list of priorities ain her role as NZ Director for ICF Australasia..
Credentials and Qualifications
- Delivered over 5,000 hours of coaching
- Achieved Master Certified Coach Credential (ICF) in 2010
- Master Business Administration MacQuarie University, Sydney
- Diploma in Business (Marketing) Victoria University, Wellington
- Master NLP Practitioner
- Senior trainer facilitator for Coaching Pacific
- RCS Certificate of Advanced coaching Skills
- Trained practitioner in VIA Character Strengths
- Conversational Intellgence coach (current training)
Business experience and highlights
- Almost 20 years in financial services, sales and senior management in Australia and New Zealand specialising in marketing, sales and change management.
- Significant change process working within McKinsey Task force.
- Experienced developer and presenter of personal development workshops.
- Powerful trainer and motivational speaker/presenter in the workplace
- Facilitator for teams, boards, senior management groups
- Lead trainer and mentor for Results Coaching Systems (now NLI) 2001-2012


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Please join Attorney/Author Tiffany Simmons for her special Sip & Read from the 1st series of Trap Novels "The Plug's Lawyer," and you will be in for a treat! Joining her will be Model/Author Karras Jordan reading excepts from his two books "Mind of a Maniac" and "My Beautiful Ugly Life" Reloaded.
From 5-7pm at Tees & Quotes located 244 Peters Street you can sip on courtesy cocktails from Courvoisier and listen to these two beautiful minds and hear how they actually got their books published. If you have ever wanted to publish a book and didn't know how to go about getting started I'm sure these two can give you some helpful tips.
Tiffany Simmons is an accomplished attorney who just completed her 4th novel "The Plug's Lawyer." She has won every case that's gone to trial. Simmons is from Michigan and she is a real stand up type of girl/young lady. Come out to meet her and see for yourself.
Karras Jordan has been seen in music videos, and is a three time Cover Model for Zane's Chronicles books. He is also an aspiring artist and actor. Find out the motivation behind his book titles as well. We hope to see you tomorrow for a couple of hours. Kick of the weekend the right way by Sipping and Reading with us at Tees and Quotes.
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The blogging fates are conspiring to get me writing more posts. Just when I decided I was going to try participating in MMGM, thinking maybe I'd manage once a month (I'm sorry, the alliteration just happens, I have nothing to do with it!), I read a whole slew of really good middle-grade books that need blog posts. So, two MMGMs in a row. Don't get used to it, folks, it won't last!
"The princess stood at her window," the queen said . . . "longing for someone to come and save her, for the evil enchanter had bound her by his magic."
"Why didn't she break the spell?"
"She couldn't," Queen Istilda said gently. "Margaret, don't pick your nose."
Meg dropped her hand to the lap of her white satin nightgown. "Then what happened?"
"A handsome prince rode up to the castle gates."
"What did his horse look like?"(I love that last line!) Six year old Meg doesn't get why princesses can't rescue themselves. When she grows up and her father decides to have a contest for her hand in marriage, Meg decides she wants no part of it. In fact:
"Don't you see?" Meg asked, suddenly inspired. "We must save them."
"Save who?"
"The dragon. The witch. The bandits. We must save them from the evil princes."
So we're set up for the ever-popular fairy-tale turned upside-down. But again, Runaway Princess is more than it appears. I loved irrepressible Meg and her loyal friends, Cam the gardener's boy and Dilly the maid. I loved reluctant Nort. In fact, I loved all the characters in this book, villains and parents and bumblers and schemers all. They are all real people who pick their noses and whine and keep secrets and make unwise decisions. That's what I liked so much about this book: it's a fairy-tale send-up, but it's got the gritty texture of reality. And it isn't the least bit predictable. Plus it's really, really funny, in both overt, slapstick-y ways and subtle, might-miss-it-if-you-blink ways (like the line about the horse). You get a lot of bang for your buck with this one. I want to get my hands on the sequel now, The Runaway Dragon.
The Runaway Princess reminds me of the breakfast sandwich I had at this little place in Seattle: it looked like your typical ham 'n egg 'n cheese sandwich, but when I bit into it I had never tasted anything so entirely delicious, each flavour deep and authentic and all the components mingling to create something greater than the sum of the parts. (I need to go back to Seattle and have another one!)
Oh, and don't forget to go to Shannon Messenger's blog (every Monday) to find lots of other marvelous middle-grade books!


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This is a 1/2 plate ambrotype I made last fall in the Center For Alternative Photography Workshop, which was led by Eric Taubman and assisted by Keliy Anderston-Staley. After shooting a few portraits, during the first day of the workshop, I moved outside and worked for a while.
Visible on this ambrotype are what is known as "lines of pouring," ridges that form as the collodion is flowed onto the plate and begins to dry. As this was one of my first ambrotypes, I wasn't in the habit of rocking the plate or tapping it gently as I poured off the excess collodion. In later plates, I had the technique down and was able to avoid these lines forming. Quinn Jacobson demonstrates proper pouring of collodion in the YouTube video below.
The Center for Alternative Photography has examples of images from their previous workshops on the alumnae gallery. One of my images from Eric's workshop is included on that page.
Historical Comparison of Glass Plate Lines of Flow
Above: 1865 view of Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River near Savannah, Georgia (half of a glass-plate stereograph by Samuel Cooley). Below: detailed section of Cooley's image with lines of flow from his plate plainly visible – similar to those on my CAP Workshop ambrotype. The technical challenges of wet plate photography have not changed in the intervening 143 years.
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Our strategic process has 4 clearly defined stages:
This stage includes understanding existing and potential customers as well as what technology and platform mix is ideal to reach and interact with them. This enables us to gain a better understanding of how to convert existing and potential customers and engage them over time to ensure a highly active client base.
The goal here is to develop an in depth analysis of the market place inclusive of audience and existing customers, industry benchmarking, competitor analysis and a full study of existing digital assets.
At this stage we´re ready to develop a clearly defined roadmap. This will include defining the business ambition and vision as well as setting clear goals and key performance indicators. This will lead to a well-defined return on investment strategy.
Finally we have a comprehensive strategy that will enable us to work alongside our client to deliver a wholesome, integrated and fully customized solution. The strategy will clearly define the segmentation, targeting and customer profiles as well as ensuring highly relevant content customization in an integrated multi-platform digital environment.
This phase starts with a precise and well-studied information architecture plan that is a direct result of the strategic analysis.
Consequently, our team of designers and interface experts conceptualize several creative prototypes. These prototypes are then developed to varying levels of detail based on extensive testing to ensure maximum effectiveness when it comes to user interface and experience.
After several iterations an ideal final concept is created and polished resulting in a well-crafted and unique end product.
Our industry specific experts morph the creative concepts into digital assets. Our team of innovators are also creators in the way they manipulate code and maintain global best practice and standards to ensure that technology does not hinder neither the strategic approach nor the creative process.
This development is individually tailored to meet specific business and brand objectives and to ensure optimal and seamless functionality across multiple platforms.
The end result is a finely tuned engine that, when coupled with the user interface, allows for a meticulous front end user experience.
Implementing the most appropriate content management system (CMS) is essential in future-proofing the overall digital solution. The right CMS will allow for future scalability, simplicity in updating content and ensuring an easy and efficient integrated tool to manage all content on multiple platforms.
Our team is well versed in all available solutions be it programming language (PHP or .NET) or be it open source (Umbraco, Drupal, Joomla, etc) or our own customized solution, WMS. Belong Interactive will advise on the most appropriate CMS solution based on specific business needs, not only today, but as per the growth requirements in the future.
Belong Interactive has proudly developed an innovative proprietary CMS solution, WMS. One of the most distinct and unique features of WMS is the ability to manage all content be it web, mobile or social media through a single, easy-to-use interface. Your entire content management needs are accessible through a single sign on!
Brands today implement a variety of digital communication tools creating an array of interconnected media. As your partner, we ensure seamless integration after launch and also help our clients grow through responsive, engaging and customized services.
Building the platform(s) and launching is just the start of the adventure. Managing content, continuously engaging clients with new and original experiences and keeping up with the latest innovations in technology and emerging platforms then becomes essential to ensure the solution evolves to constantly engage the end user.
The performance of all digital mediums are dissected and analyzed, creating data that presents clear insights. These insights are then used to streamline and enhance the performance of all digital assets.
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It's not often that a recipe calls for every part of the vegetable. This soup uses the whole radish, "tip to tail." The soup is creamy and rich without being heavy, and the contrast of flavors and textures keeps it interesting. No one will even notice it's vegan.
You can hear Chef Arlyn Llewellyn walk through all the steps on this episode of the Earth Eats Podcast .
- Garlic Poppy Seed Crouton Garnish:
- 4 slices stale whole wheat bread, torn into bite size pieces
- ½ cup peeled garlic cloves, minced
- ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tsp fine sea salt
- ½ cup poppy seeds
- Radish Garnish:
- 1 cup (approx ½ lb) of radishes, cut into quarters
- Soup:
- 1 large red onion, diced
- 3 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- ½ cup hot peppers, diced
- 3 lbs radishes (cut into quarters)
- 3 cups of diced potato
- 4 cups radish greens (cleaned and chopped)
- 4 cups water
- 6 Tbsp miso
- 1 ½ Tbsp rice vinegar
- sea salt to taste
- Preheat oven to 325.
- In the bowl of a food processor, pulse the radishes until finely minced. Place in a covered container in the fridge until ready to serve.
- Wipe out food processor well, and then place stale bread pieces into it. Pulse until crumbs are formed. Add the minced garlic and pulse until well combined and as small as possible. Transfer mix to a baking sheet. Add oil and salt to mixture and toss until well combined. Bake, stirring every 5 minutes, until mixture starts to brown and become crisp (approx 15-20minutes). Once cool, stir in poppy seeds and transfer mixture to an airtight container until ready to serve.
- In a medium to large pot, saute onions and hot peppers in oil until beginning to soften and onions become translucent. Add radishes, potatoes, greens, water, and miso to pot and bring to a boil. Turn heat down to medium low and maintain a simmer. Periodically stir and add more water if needed to maintain the same level. Simmer until vegetables are very fork tender. Removed from heat and allow to cool slightly. Blend soup (either with an immersion blender or in batches in a traditional blender). Stir in vinegar and salt to taste.
- Serve warm soup topped with a full layer of cold minced radishes and a generous sprinkling of garlic poppy seed bread crumbs.


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Hello out there my lovlies! And Happy New Year! I truly hope you are all doing well. It's been waaaay too long since I wrote a blog. But I thought what a perfect time to do it! Pantone recently announced their Color of the Year for 2017 and it also happens to be my 2nd anniversary since I started blogging. YAY!
Pantone went with an earthy yellow green this year called "Geenery" (which is funny because that's the name of a restaurant I worked at for 10 years lol)
Now I do think it is a pretty shade for sure…But… I have to be honest, Green is not very high on my list of favorite colors. And out of the 2 greens that Pantone listed in the top 10 of 2017, I liked Kale better.
Like I said, Greenery is a pretty color. Just not my fav. I can see it making for some seriously Gorgeous weddings for sure! Here is the rest of the Top 10 for you.
As you can see, the trend definitely seems to be leaning towards earthy, muted & dusty colors. Even the "brighter" shades are muted. Which I have been seeing this trend for a few months now, especially in the beauty industry. I think I'm going to officially say 2017 is the year of the "Ugly Pretty Colors"!! Yep! That describes it perfectly 💚💚💚👍💯 According to Pantone the top 10 is "A Mixture of Vitality, Relaxation and the Great Outdoors" and Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute said, "One of the things that we saw this year, was a renewed sense of imagination in which color was appearing in context that was different than the traditional". And to me this makes a lot of sense. The last decade we as humans have really come full circle for the most part when looking at how we see our environment. Earth day, going "green", recycling and trying to consume more organically. Makes perfect sense for the color of the year to be Greenery.
Honestly my personal favorites are Lapis Blue, Island Paradise, Hazelnut and Niagara.
What are your favorites? What do you think of the color of the year? I'd love to hear from you. Hope y'all have a great day. And remember to always add a lil dapper to your everyday!
🌻Lorie Lee🌻


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18 April 2016
Indonesia has selected a Chinese-made close-in weapon system for two of its three KCR-60M-class ships. Contract signals a growing adoption of Chinese-made weapons on Indonesian naval platforms (photo : RAN)
The Indonesian Navy (Tentara Nasional Indonesia - Angkatan Laut, or TNI-AL) has selected the Chinese-developed Type 730 close-in weapon system (CIWS) for the first two of three KCR-60M-class missile attack craft, an industry source told IHS Jane's at the DSA 2016 exhibition in Kuala Lumpur on 18 April and this was corroborated with TNI-AL contacts that are close to the matter.
The vessels, KRI Sampari (628) and KRI Tombak (629) will each be fitted with one stern-facing Type 730 turret that will replace two 20 mm guns currently mounted on the platforms. Sampari and Tombak are currently scheduled to undergo a refit, which will include the installation of these weapons, at PT PAL's premises in Surabaya in September 2016.
The Type 730 CIWS is a radar-guided, seven-barrelled Gatling gun-style system that provides a defensive capability against anti-ship missiles and precision-guided munitions. Variants of the weapons are currently in use with a number of People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) warships including the Type 051C (Luzhou), Type 052B (Luyang I), and Type 052C (Luyang II) destroyer classes, and the Type 054A Jiangkai II-class guided-missile frigates.
Also scheduled for the refit in September is the installation of a Chinese-developed combat management system (CMS) that will be linked to the platform's 57 mm main gun, CIWS and missile launcher systems. The TNI-AL has decided to deploy the Chinese-made C-705 surface-to-surface missiles on the service's KCR-60M platform.
18 April 2016
Indonesia Selects Type 730 CIWS for KCR-60M Attack Craft
Label: ANGKATAN LAUT, INDONESIA, Kapal Cepat, TNI-AL
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Keputusan yg cukup bijak, sementara kelas pkr di atasnya di isi oerlikon/barang eropa.. type 730 ini termasuk barang high profile karena di pakai juga oleh tiongkok utk melengkapi jajaran fregat dan destroyer baru mereka, jd harusnya secara kualitas sejajar dg barang aslinya.BalasHapus
Muarif jangan komen, tar ngerusak suasana di blog ini soalnya.
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Vegetarian Thai Recipes
1. Spicy Coconut Noodles
(Real Simple – image: Beatriz da Costa)
Scrumptious noodles and copious amounts of coconut. This is my idea of comfort food. It's simple and light but incredibly satisfying!
2. Thai Squash and Pineapple Curry
(Good Food)
Sweeten up your curry repertoire with some juicy pineapple. Combined with squash, green beans and spicy Thai red curry paste, this will undoubtedly become a favourite in your house.
3. Vegetable Summer Rolls
(Gourmet, Epicurious – image: Romulo Yanes)
Wrap a delicious selection of vegetables and noodles in rice-paper and dunk into a divine peanut sauce made with hot red pepper flakes, garlic and onion.
4. Spicy Sesame Noodles with Chopped Peanuts and Thai Basil
(Bon Appetit, Epicurious – image: Pornchai Mittongtare)
Vegans can substitute the egg noodles for angel hair pasta and then carry on cooking with vegan-friendly ingredients. This dish calls for drizzles and dashes of wonderful oils and sauces such as hot chili oil, sesame oil and balsamic vinegar which creates a delectable coating for the noodles.
5. Iceberg Lettuce with Carrot Ginger Soy Dressing with Cilantro and Red Thai Chiles
(Food Network, Dave Lieberman)
Sometimes a wedge of iceberg lettuce needs a little 'wake-up call' and this recipe will certainly do that courtesy of a red Thai chile, ginger, rice wine vinegar and cilantro garnish.
6. Spicy Sweet Potato and Coconut Soup
(Real Simple, Susie Theodorou – image: Beatriz Da Costa)
When only a bowl of warming soup will do, this spicy recipe is sure to impress. It captures the flavours of Thailand perfectly with red curry paste, coconut milk and fresh ginger.
7. Yellow Coconut Rice
(The Australian Women's Weekly – image: Ian Wallace)
If you are all riced out and crave a little twist on the usual steamed rice, you could try this recipe made with coconut cream, turmeric and saffron.
8. Pumpkin Curry with Chickpeas
(Good Food)
Rather than order in a takeaway curry (which often comes with too much salt, oil and packaging) try making a big batch of this healthy and hearty Thai curry yourself. You can make extra and store in your freezer for a nutritious curry in a hurry.
9. Buckwheat Soba Pad Thai
(Natural Health Magazine)
Trying to find a Pad Thai dish sans eggs and fish sauce can be tricky but here is one delicious and healthy vegan option. It's made with julienne vegetables and a sauce made from creamy peanut butter, honey, ginger and red pepper flakes.
10. Thai Tofu with Zucchini, Red Bell Pepper, and Lime
(Bon Appetit, Epicurious – image: Scott Peterson)
All the well-loved Thai ingredients are in this sublime tofu dish such as coconut milk, red curry paste and ginger. You can enjoy this for lunch served with rice noodles or for dinner, simply serve with hot, fluffy rice.
11. Crisp Tofu Sandwich with Peanut-Ginger Sauce
(Body + Soul – Martha Stewart)
For a unique and flavour packed sandwich, try this one served on a baguette and bursting with Thai-flavoured baked tofu and sauce. Heavenly!
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I've added your site to my Chrome bookmarks. It supposed to be a handy cookbook for me actually 🙂 Thanks for your work.
Tai is one of my favorite cuisines ever.
Thanks for handy recipes and reminding it to me 😉
Thai Squash and Pineapple Curry – I've read this recipe last Sunday and we had it on our table already at night. It was just delicious, highly recommended 😉
Wonderful. I take Pumpkin Curry with Chickpeas and make 5 portions 😉


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What You Should Know About the Flu
Flu activity in New York State (NYS)
The New York State Flu Tracker is now available
The New York State Flu Tracker tracks laboratory-confirmed influenza cases each week across New York, in each region and county, and compares trends between seasons.
The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) collects, compiles, and analyzes information on flu activity year-round in New York State (NYS), and produces a weekly report during the flu season (October through the following May). Weekly reports are posted on our website at: Flu Activity, Surveillance, and Reports.
Flu symptoms
The flu is not just a really bad cold. The flu is a contagious illness that affects the nose, throat, lungs, and other parts of the body. It can spread quickly from one person to another. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death.
Unlike a cold, flu symptoms start suddenly. They appear about 1 to 4 days after a person is exposed to the flu.
Flu symptoms may include:
The best way to prevent the flu is by getting a flu vaccine.
Everyone 6 months or older should get a flu vaccine every year.
Flu Vaccine Finder
To find pharmacies and clinics offering flu vaccine near you visit the HealthMap Vaccine Finder
For information about flu vaccine clinics in your county, contact your local health department.
People at high risk of flu complications
Anyone can get the flu and serious complications from the flu can happen at any age.
Some people are at high risk for serious complications from the flu. This includes: older people, pregnant women, young children and people with certain health conditions. This year for the first time, three of the nation's leading, non-profit health organizations – the American Lung Association, the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association - are urging adults living with chronic disease to prioritize getting an annual flu vaccine and are also calling on health care professionals to advocate for and support flu immunization in their practices. Infants under 6 months of age have a higher risk of flu complications than children of any other age. Yet they are too young for the flu vaccine.
Those who live or work with people who are at high risk of flu complications should get a flu vaccine to keep from spreading the flu to them.
Getting a flu vaccine has many benefits
- The flu vaccine can keep you from getting the flu.
- The flu vaccine can help make your illness less severe if you do get sick with the flu.
- The flu vaccine can reduce the risk of being hospitalized with the flu for children and adults.
- The flu vaccine protects pregnant women during and after pregnancy from flu complications. It also protects their newborn children for several months after birth.
- The flu vaccine reduces the risk of a heart attack in people with heart disease.
- The flu vaccine can reduce the risk of a child dying from the flu.
- The flu vaccine can reduce the risk of adults dying from the flu.
- Getting a flu vaccine can also help protect the people around you from getting the flu, especially people at high risk for serious complications from the flu.
- For more information see the fact sheet: Why Get a Flu Vaccine
You can't get the flu from getting the flu vaccine
The flu vaccine does not give you the flu. It stimulates your body to produce antibodies. These antibodies protect you from flu viruses. Once you get the flu vaccine, it takes about two weeks for it to be fully effective. You should not wait to get vaccinated.
How the virus is spread
The flu usually spreads from person to person when someone with the flu coughs or sneezes. Sometimes people get the flu because they touch an object or surface with flu virus on it -- and then touch their eyes, nose, or mouth.


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Editor's Note: If you're new to this series, make sure to check out History of the Drum Set Part II: Snare Drums Through the Years and Part III: The Shape–Shifting Bass Drum.
Devoid of any modern contraptions like foot–operated beaters or strainer mechanisms, the tom–tom is a drum as simple as they come: a cylindrical shell with two tensioned drumheads. Its deep, melodic tones have been integral to the development of modern popular music and can be heard anchoring famous tunes across all genres, from Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing!" and The Sufaris' "Wipeout" to "Come Together" by the Beatles and "Run To the Hills" by Iron Maiden.
Despite its humble beginnings, the development of the tom has been inextricably linked with the evolution of recording technology and pop trends through the 20th century. It is perhaps the one piece of the drum kit most indicative of its era.
It's a Trap!
As the drum kit was coalescing into a complete unit during early 20th century, drummers looked for trebly, staccato sounds that would translate well onto the primitive recording media of the time. Bass drums were too bass–heavy, and snare drums were just overpowering.
Woodblocks, bells, and small cymbals (referred to collectively as "traps," short for "contraptions") would be mounted on a small rail or table atop the bass drum. Many of these new sounds had their origins in Europe and Asia, including curiously ornate small drums called tom toms.
Usually 8 to 14 inches in diameter and rarely more than a few inches deep, these exotic drums had bowed wooden shells with two tacked–on drumheads often adorned with traditional Chinese painted scenes. American drum companies like Ludwig and Slingerland would soon begin importing the instruments from China and incorporating them into their outfits.
As the volume and size of the big bands grew and recording technology improved throughout the 1920s, drummers began to favor larger drums. Traps were playing a less pivotal role in the music, and manufacturers were now supplementing their basic kits with one–, two–, and three–tom setups mounted on elaborate metal rail systems called "consoles."
But instead of Chinese–style drums, these were deeper (7x12," 9x13," or 12x14") and featured the same shell layup and finish options as their bass and snare drum counterparts. Most importantly, the top heads now featured T–rods or key screws to enable the batter head to be tuned, while the bottom head retained its primitive tacked–on design.
The Tom Becomes Integral
In the 1930s, an up–and–coming Chicago–born drummer named Gene Krupa signed with the Slingerland Drum Company as an endorser and began working with the firm to introduce some innovations into their products. Krupa insisted that his toms be fully tunable, with both the batter and resonant heads featuring metal hoops, lugs, and tension rods.
The smaller drums were mounted on the bass drum via a small "consolette," while the larger models came with their own floor–standing baskets, as was typical for the time. Within a few years, the baskets had been replaced with individual height–adjustable legs, and the modern floor tom was born.
Dubbed the Radio King series, these "Krupa–style" kits would become the model by which all drum makers would design their products, though Chinese toms, tacked heads, and baskets could still be found on certain outfits from Ludwig, Gretsch, and Slingerland all the way up until the late '40s.
Standardization and Expansion
Post–World War II saw the size of the standard drum kit shrink once again, as radio and recording tech continued to advance. By now, configurations had become somewhat standardized into basic 3– and 4–piece kits. For the first time, noticeable distinctions along genre lines began to appear.
While big band and straight ahead rock 'n' roll drummers still favored the now–standard 9x13" and 16x16" setup, bop and small–group jazz players migrated towards 8x12" and 14x14" models, often tuning them up higher to produce a more melodic tone.
But by the 1960s, players had begun experimenting with expanded setups once again. As guitar rigs continued to get louder, drummers added larger drums (and more of them) to compensate. Nick Mason, Ginger Baker, and Keith Moon led the charge, all playing double–bass kits with upwards of four or five toms.
The music reflected this, too. Gone were the simple backbeat rhythms of the previous decade, as Jazz, African, and Latin influences began to creep into the mainstream. Manufacturers responded in kind, offering triple and quad–tom double bass kits (such as the Ludwig Rock Duo and Gretsch Avant Garde) and outfits incorporating timbales, cowbells, and other "world" instruments (like the Rogers Timbale Twin and Ludwig Carioca) — almost a modern throwback to the "traps" of old.
A Devolutionary Evolution
Once again, developments in recording technology would spur changes in the drum kit as the '60s came to a close. Up until now, most drum recording setups were comparatively crude, with one or two mics placed at a distance from the drumheads and cymbals.
As microphones became more robust and could handle the high–SPL environment of close–micing, the tom was thrust into the sonic spotlight. Engineers were now unable to rely on the natural dissipation of less–pleasing overtones over the distance from the drum to the diaphragm of the mic, so tunable bottom heads — once a revelation gifted to the world by Slingerland and Krupa — were now being removed.
Muffling was often applied to the batter head to further deaden the sustain, often in the form of a taped–on cigarette pack, or copious amounts of tea towels (as made famous by Ringo Starr, Geoff Emerick, and George Martin during The Beatles' late–60s recording sessions).
Pretty soon, the tom would begin losing its resonant head and hardware altogether. Top L.A. session man and "Wrecking Crew" member Hal Blaine ordered a set of seven single–headed fiberglass toms from drum maker A.F. Blaemire. Their distinctive pale green finish was in stark contrast to the Sparkling Blue Pearl Ludwig Super Classic kit he normally toted to his recording dates.
The hollow, brittle snap of these "melodic" or "concert" toms was music to producers' ears, and Blaine ordered a second set to cut down on the cost of constantly shipping the drums to studios across the U.S. Eventually, Ludwig sat up and began to take notice.
Ludwig, like most manufacturers, had been producing single–headed concert toms for band and orchestra settings for some years. By combining sets of these drums with standard kicks and snares, the company could produce an entirely new line of kits catered toward the modern pop musician at very low R&D cost. Thus, the massive Octa–Plus outfit was born.
Built around a complete eight–drum set of 6"–16" concert toms, the kit also featured twin 22" or 24" kicks, an 18" floor tom, and the ubiquitous LM400 snare. Along with its half–sized counterpart, the Quadra–Plus, these new kits set the standard for modern recording setups. Soon Rogers, Slingerland, Premier and other major drum makers debuted similar multi–concert tom offerings.
More Power
Thankfully, the concert tom craze came and went, and the tom regrew its resonant appendage. This was due in part to stalwarts like John Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, and Buddy Rich — all of whom continued to use double–headed drums tuned up high, like the big band kits of old while the rest of the world was duct–taping and tea–toweling their tone to oblivion.
Still, as rock gave way to heavy metal in the 1980s and amps continued to get louder, drummers were still left searching for ways to increase the sonic presence of their playing. The answer, according to drum makers, was the extended–depth "power tom."
Up until now, the depth of the tom had been anywhere between half to two–thirds the size of the drum's diameter, allowing the resonant head to react quickly and forcefully when the batter was struck. With the advent of the power tom, the depth grew two to four inches, resulting in a deeper, punchier attack and significantly reduced sustain from the resonant head.
But this increase in size meant that positioning and mounting was now somewhat difficult. What was once a compact 9x13" rack tom became a cumbersome 11" or 12" deep. Companies like Sonor and Slingerland took the concept to further extremes (with their Phonic Plus and Magnum lines, respectively), producing "square"–sized drums (10x10", 12x12").
Mounting hardware was beefed up to accommodate the additional mass of the shells, and the traditional bracket and L–arm design gave way to large tubing, producing some impressive, albeit over–engineered rigs (see: Ludwig's Modular system and Rogers' Memriloc hardware).
Heavier drummers like Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain, Metallica's Lars Ulrich, and Slayer's Dave Lombardo embraced the power tom, along with many fusion and session musicians (most notably, Billy Cobham). But the dull thud of these cannon–like drums often required extensive post–production to achieve the desired tone.
Spoiled for Choice
As the 20th century gave way to the 21st, advancements in drum mounting technology — like the Gauger RIMS system and Tama's Starcast mount — helped solve the sustain issues inherent in larger toms with heavy mounts by suspending the drum from its own hardware instead of penetrating the shell.
Meanwhile, popular music continued to diversify, reflected in the increasingly vast array of popular setup choices from manufacturers — from retro big band–style kits with large, traditional–depth drums to smaller fusion kits with shorter, "fast"–sized toms.
Thanks to this proliferation of new sub–genres, influences, and sounds, today's drummers enjoy an endless array of options when putting together a kit. Most major drum companies offer toms in sizes between 8" to 18" in a variety of depths, from thunderous power toms to ultra–resonant "short–stack" models.
In many cases, what's old is new again, and most manufacturers are now offering traditionally sized kits modeled on the classics of the '50s and '60s, such as the Ludwig Legacy Classic and Sonor's Vintage Series. Companies like Ludwig, C&C, and Pearl are even building concert tom kits again (albeit on a custom–order basis), and power toms can still be had in most high–end lines, like DW's Collectors Series and Gretsch's USA Custom.
In the end, the tom tom — once a novelty relegated to the occasional ensemble hit or sound effect — has become an absolutely essential part of the musical fabric of the modern age. Though the drum kit as we know it wouldn't exist without the snare drum and bass drum pedal (which we'll cover in future installments of this series), it owes much to this humble little drum once imported from the far East.


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Listen up if you are one of tens of thousands of California students who withdrew from Heald, WyoTech
or Everest for-profit colleges owned by the bankrupt Corinthian company since June 20, 2014.
California's attorney general unveiled a new interactive web tool on Friday to help you figure out what kind of debt relief you might qualify for, learn about free legal help, and find affordable education options.
The web tool comes days after the U.S. Department of Education announced it would help ease student loan debt of former Corinthian students whose schools have closed or who believe they were victims of fraud "regardless of whether their school closed." (Some were sold to other operators.)
The Education Department has already determined there was fraud at most programs at Heald Colleges and will facilitate loan forgiveness and refunds for those former students. A separate process will be created for WyoTech and Everest students and has set up a toll-free hotline for questions: 855-279-6207. The Education Department has an information page for former Corinthian students and is expected to set up a more specific process by the end of June.
Of the 30 eligible schools, 26 were in California — including in San Francisco, Concord, Fremont and Hayward.
The new web tool from Attorney General Kamala Harris, who sued Corinthian in 2013, asks a series of questions, such as what school you attended and whether you graduated. Depending on your answer, it asks new questions.
An e-mail address is required, and the state will send you a "personalized resource sheet" with information tailored to your situation. Although the tool does not require students to give their name, it gives them the option of answering personal questions and telling their personal experience with Corinthian.


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A Talent of Multiple Hughes
Posted by Mike Finnegan on Jul 16th 2018
Even a marvelously down-to-earth, multimedia-favorite character actor like the beloved Barnard Hughes (1915-2006), who would have turned 103 today, could be prone to occasional exaggeration. Always a valuable ensemble player, he was quoted thusly in The New York Times's obituary that ran when the actor died a few days short of his birthday in 2006: "Speaking of the early years, when he was playing mostly minor parts in film and theater, Mr. Hughes said in a 1978 interview in The New York Times that he could have played the roles 'without pants.' 'I was always sitting behind something like a desk,' he said. 'I was a judge or a businessman or a lawyer or a doctor. Nobody saw my bottom half.'" As someone with a warm memory of his terrific Broadway performances in Neil Simon's 1973 The Good Doctor and Hugh Leonard's 1978 Da (the actor's signature Tony®-winning stage and screen role), I can attest that he was fully clothed and decidedly well vested and appropriately full-body-costumed in his roles. Recent Blu-ray releases like Criterion's Midnight Cowboy(1969, as the gay man brutalized by Jon Voight) and Olive's Cold Turkey (1971, as the chosen Iowa town's nicotine-fiend medico) are reminders of his range and skill, just as perennial favorites like The Lost Boys (1987) and Doc Hollywood (1991) offer his indelibly funny portraits of irascible and underestimated seniors. A couple of Twilight Time titles offer Hughes in distinctive wardrobe choices.
In the Paddy Chayefsky-written/Arthur Hiller-directed black comedy The Hospital (1971), Hughes is glimpsed mostly in either a patient gown or doctor's scrubs, depending upon his momentary state of mind as the calculating andunhinged Edmund Drummond (aka the self-proclaimed "the Fool for Christ and the Paraclete of Caborca"), an elderly admittee who sets some shocking staff and patient deaths in motion as a "divinely inspired" response to the institution's bureaucractic indifference to humane medical practice. As the old man describes (to Diana Rigg as his daughter Barbara and George C. Scott as the center's emotionally drained chief resident Dr. Herbert Bock) a his plan to exact retribution on three doctors who diagnosed him and a dialysis nurse whose negligence caused him to go into a coma: "God clearly intended a measure of irony here. The hospital was to do all the killing for me. All I need do is arrange for the doctors to become patients in their own hospital." Hughes also once told an interviewer that it was his nonsinging small role in the 1967 Broadway musical How Now, Dow Jones that brought him to director John Schlesinger's attention for his above-mentioned breakthrough movie role in Midnight Cowboy. After more than a decade of stage and screen success, Hughes came back to the musical form – still nonsinging but definitely well-cast – as the forlornly grandiose, broken but unbowed Shakespearean actor Henry Robertson in director Michael Ritchie's sprightly film translation of the Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt favorite The Fantasticks (1995/2000). Here, as a motley crew member of El Gallo's travelling carnival, Hughes first appears emerging from a trunk in raggedy flannel nightwear, then proceeds to don a procession of ratty robes, clown faces and satiny schmatta to help in the troupe's gauche if gallant efforts to school the gossamer piece's young lovers (appealingly played by Jean Louisa Kelly and Joe McIntyre) in the rituals of romance. And, in all-too-brief moments of Falstaffian grandeur, we also get Hughes' poignant delivery of snatches and semblances of the Bard's vibrant verse, perfectly served-up ham done wry.
All one need say in tribute to birthday honoree Hughes is: Try to Remember The Hospital and The Fantasticks, respectfully offered here – https://www1.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/34866/THE-HOSPITAL-1971/– and here – http://screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/28830/THE-FANTASTICKS-1995-2000/– on lovely TT hi-def Blu-rays, without him.


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We provide Coaching for Air Force recruitment for 'X' Group. Khunga Academy is the best coaching center for Air Force in India. Indian Air Force carry out selection and enrolment of Airmen Gp 'X' and 'Y' through Airmen Selection Centers spread all over India. Airmen Group 'X' is Technical and Group 'Y' is Non-Technical. Recruitment of Group 'X' and 'Y' is conducted through rallies and selection tests. Advertisements are published in Employment News/RozgarSamachar inviting the applications. Eligible candidates apply in response of advertisement and forward application to the President, Central Airmen Selection Board, Post Box No. 11807, New Delhi – 110 010. The Board sends admit cards to eligible and short-listed candidates to appear in the written Tests. For open rallies, advertisements for open rally are published with all details. For rally recruitment, eligible candidates are to report to the rally venue with the requisite documents. These documents will be scrutinized and verified by the Testing Team.
Eligibility Criteria - Air Force 'X' Group (Technical)
Chest Minimum 75 cm & 5 cm expansion
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We provide complete exam coaching for Air Force 'X' Group (Technical).
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I have done my MBA in Marketing. I love Coke, Nando's, Books & Coffee.
I also love wind chimes and candles. I love the idea of traveling and meeting different people. I won't judge you by the skin color you have or by the dress you wear, I'd judge you only if you won't share your chocolates with me (j/k, i still won't judge you. You can do the honors!).
I like black and white photography. I like to pass random smiles to strangers. I like when people do sweet small gestures. I totally believe that it's the little things that counts.
And that's all for now! (I'd keep updating this place if i could think of anything else which i love.)


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There's a buzz on the streets of on the streets of England. That buzz created by the forthcoming release of what promises to be another amazing, tortuous Dexy's Midnight Runners album, One Day I'm Going to Soar. Except it isn't quite, this time the amazing Kevin Rowland has opted to call the band Dexys, which most people did anyway.
I'm sure that if Kevin Rowland read the title of this post, he would give me a big kick in the shins with his two-tone brogues. But make no mistake, I meant it in the best possible way, I'm comparing him with the Minister of the New, New, Superheavy Funk. The Professor is very happy about this new coming.
The last album was way back 1985. Back then, I don't think I would have understood the cult of Dexy's Midnight Runners. It was only about 12 years ago when I first considered buying some of their music as before that time I had only associated Come on Eileen with shitty nightclubs or tacky DJs. I was heavily into my funk and soul music at the time and kept hearing these rumours that their first album, In Search of the Young Soul Rebels, was actually pretty good. I was curious.
I've always had a light-hearted side and an intense side. The intense side of me is reflected in the types of books, films and a lot of the music I like. After buying the CD in a CD/Record shop (remember them?), I took it home and put it on. I was slightly perplexed because it didn't quite fit into any category I was listening to at the time, it was punky, poppy, soulful and powerful. Above all, it was one of the most intense albums I had ever heard. Like all good albums it just got better and better and better with every play and was permanently in my CD player for months and months and months and months (I could go on but I wasn't actually counting at the time). At one point, I almost felt bad if I couldn't play it or had decided to put on something else. I even took it with me on a trip to Copenhagen and got the barman in a pub to put it on for me. At this point in my life, I hadn't been obsessed with any album for a long, long time. How do you top that? I thought or rather I would have thought if I hadn't been consumed by the music. How do you top that? I say with the benefit of hindsight, this is/was as good as it gets!!
One day I was browsing a charity shop in Trinity Road, Tooting Bec, just up from the Wheatsheaf pub and I flicked through the selection of old Herb Alpert and Tijuana Brass and Top of the Pops 70s records. All of a sudden, I came across a creamy green album cover with what looked like a poor destitute hillbilly on the front cover. It was Too-Rye-Ay and that poor destitute hillbilly man was none other than Kevin Rowland!! Oddly, such was the influence of Come on Eileen upon my subconscious that I still hadn't considered buying this, thinking that it was just a collection of records destined for middle-aged, middle-of-the-road parties or for girls with white handbags. I coughed up my £1, bought it and it must rank as one of my best ever purchases and definitely way above my Hopsack beige Farahs!
From the moment it starting revolving around my turntable I knew it was to be something special. Famously, in the 1986 World Cup TV coverage, co-commentor David Pleat said of Maradona that he believed he had just dethroned Pele. I myself screamed 'I don't believe it, they've just dethroned In Search of the Young Soul Rebels!' It's true there were a few more syllables in my exclamation than David's but I don't think it was any less effective for it, particularly as no one else was in the house at the time.
Now I had even seen (heard) Come on Eileen on its own terms and loved it. I was and still am obsessed with this album. Many times the Profesorette would come down the stairs to find out what all the racket was at 2 am only to find me dancing and singing along to Too-Rye-Ay in me underpants!!! I say singing along but if you've ever heard Kevin Rowland sing then you'll know that there is quite a bit of wailing to be had. It is an all-consuming record for me and was ever difficult not to listen to the album in its entirety.
Dexy's went on to release another quite stunning album in 1985 called Don't Stand Me Down, this was an altogether slower burner for me but equally brilliant. All three of these albums have their own individual character and are pure class. The last was a very mature offering which I like to savour, much like a Thomas Hardy Vintage Ale, opting not to dance to it in my undergarments and preferring instead to listen to it in the bath or when I'm chopping onions (cooking and music are happy bedfellows in my opinion, or in this case, rather intense bedfellows since they both make your eyes water).
In the interests of balance, I should probably point out at this point that all that Kevin Rowland has done has not been perfect and sometime after Dexy's disbanded there was a slightly odd cover album that he did with an 'interesting' choice of songs and a rather unnerving video for the song Concrete and Clay. Watch it for yourself if you dare but don't come running to me if you can't get to sleep tonight.
Dark days indeed for a fallen legend. Nevertheless genius doesn't die, it just has tea and biscuits. And after the calamity of the rich tea falling into the teacup has come a whole new freshly brewed pot of organic fairtrade Lapsan Souchong. Yes, Dexys have been revived by a rejuvenated band leader and by all accounts the new record is every bit a Dexys classic. I'll have to see (hear) about that but the early noises bouncing around the internet are very promising indeed.
So have I whet your appetite or are you still suffering from the prejudices of their past success? Conversely, maybe you just think they are shit? (Idiot)


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Google may have little pod-like driverless cars tootling about the streets of California, but a Chinese company recently sent a massive, self-driving bus packed with passengers on a 20-mile ride through the city of Zhengzhou.
Yutong, the firm that helped build the vehicle, said that on its maiden journey earlier this month the specially adapted bus "successfully completed a series of highly complex driving acts," such as automatically changing lanes, overtaking, and responding to lights.
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HÀ NỘI — The first Thanh Hà litchi festival will be organised in the northern province of Hải Dương on June 10 to promote the local specialty fruit.
This was announced by the organising board at a press conference on Wednesday.
The festival will create opportunities for local farmers to connect with supermarkets as well as processing and export firms while facilitating the signing of contracts and memorandum of understanding on the consumption of litchi and other agricultural products.
An array of activities will be held during the festival, including tours to the ancient litchi tree in Thúy Lâm village in Thanh Sơn Commune, Thanh Hà District; visits to VietGAP litchi gardens; and boat tours to litchi orchards along Hương river, among others. Visitors can also try their hand at picking litchi in gardens in Thanh Hà District and Chí Linh Town.
Hải Dương litchi received the geographical indication from the Ministry of Science and Technology's National Office of Intellectual Property in 2007. The local fruit was listed in the top 10 quality products in 2013 and 2014 and received the Gold Brand prize in 2015.
The Vietnam Association of Food Science and Technology granted a "trustful and safe food brand" certificate to Thanh Hà litchi in 2016. The same year, the ancient litchi tree in Thúy Lâm village was recognised as the oldest of its kind in Việt Nam.
According to Nguyễn Thị Hà, vice director of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade, the province has 10,500ha of litchi cultivation, which are expected to yield 55,000-60,000 tonnes of fruit this year. The harvest time is from May 15 to the end of June.
Currently, 131.68ha of local litchi cultivation are qualified for exports to the United States, European Union and Australia. The province is also home to 334ha of litchi grown in accordance with VietGAP standards.
Besides the domestic market, Thanh Hà litchi has increased its presence outside the country. The fruit has been exported to Australia, Canada, China, France, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. — VNS
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