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Some people ignore me without actually ignoring me and it makes me upset.
As more days pass
and nights drag on
I can’t help but feel
avoided and ignored.
you said it might not happen
I said I didn’t understand
you said I’ll tell you later
and you never did.
you are avoiding things
avoiding me, avoiding the truth
you are ignoring things
ignoring me, ignoring the truth.
so why don’t you just stay
and I promise you won’t regret it
all the memories replay
and you won’t admit it.
you will miss me
this I know
one can only hope
that you will show. | http://143untiltheend.tumblr.com/tagged/ignored | 2013-05-18T10:52:03 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
New Siegen retail planned
Kevin Nguyen has purchased a site on Siegen Lane, just north of Industriplex Boulevard, to develop a retail shopping center. This will be Nguyen's third retail shopping center on Siegen Lane. The success of the other two centers led him to purchase the site and continue developing retail in that area.
The new center, which will be known as Siegen Place Shopping Center, is currently under construction. The first phase of the center will encompass approximately 12,573 square feet, and currently has commitments from Mattress First for about 3,700 square feet and a New Orleans restaurant owner for 1,600 square feet.
Arkel is the contractor and is currently clearing the site. The property should be completed by December of this year.
According to Charlie Colvin with Beau Box Commercial Real Estate, who is marketing the center for lease, there are three 1,600-square-foot spaces available and one end-cap space of 1,800 square feet available.
Colvin has had strong interest at rental rates quoted at $27.00 per square foot and up. “Over 50% is occupied and we haven't even finished clearing the site,” he says. “The traffic counts on Siegen Lane and the high visibility of the center should allow us to fill the space quickly. We have significant excess parking. Parking requirements for retail use mandate three spaces for every 1,000 square feet, and we have six spaces for every 1,000 square feet.”
The construction of the center is unique among shopping centers.
“We have two large towers, and the majority of the center will be masonry construction,” Colvin says. “It will be similar to what Kevin [Nguyen] developed just south of this site, in front of the Target Center, which is occupied by Verizon and Federal Express. The center will be similar in design, only better. With the calls I'm getting, we expect to be fully leased quickly.”
Building brings high price
Scot Guidry and Grey Hammett with Mike Falgoust & Associates brokered the sale of an office warehouse building at 15555 Airline Highway.
The 10,000-square-foot office/warehouse building sold for $1,025,000, or $102.50 per square foot.
According to Scot, the interior office finish was significantly better than average. The interior had hardwood flooring, a kitchen with granite countertops, stainless-steel appliances, and 18 offices.
The building is about 50% office space and 50% warehouse space. The facade is a Mediterranean style with a clay tile roof.
The seller was Garcia Management Group. The purchaser was Jefferson Street Partners. Scot Guidry and Grey Hammett with Mike Falgoust & Associates represented the seller.
Phil Foster with Jerry del Rio Real Estate represented the purchaser.
The sale closed June 19.
Tract on Bluebonnet sells
A 1.07-acre tract on the west side of Bluebonnet Boulevard has sold.
The property was owned by Oceania Mae Cuny Scardina, who sold it to Foothold II. The sale closed on June 19, with the property selling for $450,000, or $10.16 per square foot.
The site offers more than 200 feet of frontage on Bluebonnet Boulevard and is influenced by the overlay district. The site will most likely be developed with an owner-occupied medical office building. Representatives of Foothold II did not reveal their immediate plans for the site.
MidSouth buys two sites
When Hancock Bank merged with Whitney Bank, they were left with several duplicate branch site locations.
MidSouth Bank has purchased two of the branch bank sites, one on South Sherwood Forest Boulevard and the other on Jones Creek Road.
The South Sherwood Forest Boulevard building is at the corner of South Sherwood Forest Boulevard and Bricksome Avenue, and it sold for a total price of $650,000, or $216 per square foot. The 1.8-acre property included the branch bank containing about 3,000 square feet and a drive-thru facility that added another 1,500 square feet.
That sale closed June 6.
In a related transaction that same day, MidSouth Bank also bought a branch bank site on Jones Creek Road previously occupied by Whitney Bank. Sale price was $350,000. This branch bank contained about 3,200 square feet, so the sale price calculates to a little over $109 per square foot.
Matt Laborde and Branon Pesnell of Beau Box Commercial Real Estate represented Whitney/Hancock Bank, and MidSouth Bank was represented by Austin Earhart of Beau Box Commercial Real Estate on both sales.
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Buying a home involves many stages but it is highly important to get complete procedure of buying property smoothly. In difficult steps, one is Rolling hills Estates real estate inspection. When buying a property, you should make sure that you will be getting nice on investment made if there is necessity to sale it.
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Rolling hills Estates real estate inspection is most important part of process and you have to make sure that you are calling experienced Rolling hills Estates Certified Home Inspector. A reliable home inspector would be able to present best analysis of house. To help you in finding a right Rolling hills Estates Home Inspector Service, below mentioned are the tips and queries one should enquire from that home inspector while hiring them:
Coverage of home inspection:
Confirm that home inspection will be touching all necessary points that property will need to be evaluated. Another thing to confirm is analysis should be compliant with default codes and ethics. You can ask Rolling hills Estates Home Inspector Service to prepare list of Rolling hills Estates property inspection checklists which will be analyzed. If one feels that vital area is left, you can ask Rolling hills Estates Certified Home Inspector for adding it.
Experience of home inspection service:
All always seek reliable home inspector having a formidable history. If that home inspector can provide list of his past home inspection, you can contact them clients to have their feedback on standard of their home inspection service. Though keep in mind new home inspector too and lay stress that they must be accompanied with reliable home inspector.
Upkeeps by home inspection service:
One may enquire if home inspection you are going to hire, offer repairs if required on that home which you are purchasing. Many of home inspector do offer repair services as well if not they would assist you in selecting best person for undertaking upkeeps.
Longevity for home inspection:
When single home inspector would be turning up for home inspection, chances are there that home inspection would take 4 hours for single family house. Therefore it is better to have a team from home inspection service so that Rolling hills Estates property inspection can be carried out swiftly. If they need more duration than mentioned above, one can expect an exhaustive analysis.
With above questions one will make sure that you are getting professional home inspector who carry out up to mark home inspection service.
Get excellent Rolling hills Estates Home Inspector Service from on reasonable prices. | http://247articledepot.com/home-inspectors/real-estate-home-inspectors/best-rolling-hills-estates-home-inspector-service-for-home-inspection | 2013-05-18T10:41:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Interests
Timeline
Feb 6
2/6/2013: Jahmere Irvin-Sills signs letter of intent to Mississippi State
Feb 6
2/6/2013: Jahmere Irvin-Sills commits to Mississippi State
Jan 13
1/13/2013: Jahmere Irvin-Sills names Mississippi State leader
Jan 11
1/11/2013: Jahmere Irvin-Sills officially visits Mississippi State
Dec 10
12/10/2012: John Jancek and Tommy Thigpen from Tennessee Volunteers visit Jahmere Irvin-Sills
Dec 10
12/10/2012: Tennessee Volunteers offer Jahmere Irvin-Sills
Dec 10
12/10/2012: Jahmere Irvin-Sills decommits from Auburn Tigers
Oct 20
10/20/2012: Jahmere Irvin-Sills unofficially visits West Virginia Mountaineers
Sep 22
9/22/2012: Jahmere Irvin-Sills unofficially visits West Virginia Mountaineers
Jun 10
6/10/2012: Jahmere Irvin-Sills attends Auburn Tigers camp More
Jun 9
6/9/2012: Jahmere Irvin-Sills unofficially visits Auburn Tigers More
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RT @joestate: Mississippi State officially added DB Jahmere Irvin-Sills from Elkton, Md. to the 2013 signing class today. #HailState
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2013 prospect Jahmere Irvin-Sills talks of MSU decision #NSD via @247Sports
- PJ247Sports Paul Jones
2013 MSU commit Jahmere Irvin-Sills tells Bulldogs247 he is headed home now to sign papers to send back to MSU #SigningDay
- kristenkenney kristen kenney
@1blondefish broke Jahmere Irvin-Sills commitment to miss state #MissState !!!!!! @foxsportsnext for full story
- PJ247Sports Paul Jones
New 2013 MSU commit Jahmere Irvin-Sills is a former Auburn commit #NSD
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Jahmere Irvin-Sills makes the call and commits @1BlondeFish reports :
- PJ247Sports Paul Jones
New addition to MSU's 2013 class - cb Jahmere Irvin-Sills of Eastern Christian (Md.)
- PJ247Sports Paul Jones
MSU still has a pair of 2013 targets still on the board in cb Jahmere Irvin-Sills and juco dtackle Toby Johnson. #NSD
- PJ247Sports Paul Jones
The latest with 2013 cb prospect Jahmere Irvin-Sills via @247Sports
- PJ247Sports Paul Jones
2013 prospect Jahmere Irvin-Sills may not sign Wednesday via @247Sports
- ScoutSteveR Steve Robertson
RT @BrianDohnScout: Update on CB Jahmere Irvin-Sills and #MississippiState
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Update on CB Jahmere Irvin-Sills and #MississippiState
- kristenkenney kristen kenney
What you guys think? Recruit Jahmere Irvin-Sills will visit #clemson ? #msstate
- CAnderson247WVU Chris Anderson
Recruiting Trail Updates on Jahmere Irvin-Sills and Shelton Gibson! #WVU (VIP).......
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Recruiting Trail Updates on Jahmere Irvin-Sills and Shelton Gibson! #WVU (VIP).......
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2013 prospect Jahmere Irvin-Sills planning BCS official visits via @247Sports
- PJ247Sports Paul Jones
2013 prospect Jahmere Irvin-Sills planning BCS official visits via @247Sports
- BrianDohnScout BDohnFoxSportsNext
CB Jahmere Irvin-Sills looking at several
- aldotcomSports al.com sports dep.
Report: Cornerback Jahmere Irvin-Sills decommits from Auburn
- shaneyoungblood Shane Youngblood
RT @aldotcomTigers: Report: Cornerback Jahmere Irvin-Sills decommits from Auburn
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Bio
Jahmere Irvin-Sills is a Cornerback from Bear, DE.
Legend:
- Early Enrollee
- Walk-On
- Gray Shirt
- Video Highlights
- Medical Redshirt
- Primary
- Secondary
- Keeper
- Primary (Inactive)
- Secondary (Inactive)
- Keeper (Inactive) | http://247sports.com/Player/Jahmere-Irvin-Sills-18339?pi=29502 | 2013-05-18T10:44:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Possible clinchings for Sunday April 22, 2012:
CHICAGO clinches best record in East with a Miami loss.
LA LAKERS clinch division title with a win AND a LA Clippers loss.
We are 6 days away from the start of the 2012 playoffs!
Possible clinchings for Sunday April 22, 2012:
CHICAGO clinches best record in East with a Miami loss.
LA LAKERS clinch division title with a win AND a LA Clippers loss.
We are 6 days away from the start of the 2012 playoffs!
On Sunday February 5, 2012 the New York Giants and New England Patriots battled for the most coveted trophy in professional football, the Lombardi Trophy. After the first quarter seemed to be dominated by the Giants, the Patriots bounced back in the second quarter to take a 10-9 lead at the half. After another touchdown put the Pats up 17-9, the Giants were able to tack on two field goals to make the score 15-17 in favor of New England at the end of three quarters. After some stops from each team in the first half of the fourth quarter, Eli Manning got the ball back on his own 12 yard line with 3:46 left in the game. He then led his team on what would be the game winning drive that was capped off on a 6 yard touchdown run by Ahmad Bradshaw. Eli Manning was named the games MVP and finished with 296 yards, one touchdown and went 30 for 40(75% completion) on passes.
The NBA has been taken over by a new phenomenon by the name of Jeremy Lin. “Linning” is a new phrase being thrown around a lot lately and it is great for the game. A kid that bounced around from team to team may have just found himself a home in New York with the Knicks. The hottest selling jersey in New York is not Carmelo Anthony, A’mare Stoudemire or Tyson Chandler, but that of Jeremy Lin. They can’t print them fast enough! I am interested to see how Lins game will be once a healthy Carmelo returns to the line up. He sure is something special to watch and I for one can not wait to see more!
Below are the current standings for each conference almost halfway through the season.
If you are a fan of basketball like myself, then you have been treated to some great college games early this season. Some great players that are emerging to become superstars are Austin Rivers, Seth Curry, Anthony Davis, Tyler Zeller, Thomas Robinson and Jared Sullinger just to name a few. We were treated to a game that came down to a Austin Rivers buzzer beating shot to win it this week by North Carolina and Duke. Coach K and Roy Williams have always been two coaches who I look forward to seeing on the sidelines. This is an exciting time for college basketball and I am looking forward to the March Madness tourney this year more than I have in the past few years! Below are the most current rankings.
MLB quick hits……The pitchers and catchers are set to return by February 22nd……..Jose Canseco has announced that he will give it a shot in a Mexican League…..Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers had another relapse episode in his alcohol addiction battle…..AJ Burnett may be on the move to Pittsburg if the Yankees and Pirates can work out all of the numbers money wise……The Texas Rangers and catcher Mike Napoli reached a one year 9.2 million dollar deal to avoid arbitration……Boston Redsox 3rd baseman Kevin Youkillis is now engaged to Patriots quarterback Tom Bradys sister……Asdrubal Cabrera and the Cleveland Indians agreed to a one year 4.55 million dollar deal to avoid arbitration, Cabrera was easily the Indians best player last year so this is a win-win for both sides. Until next week, stay classy KnuckleHeadz!
This morning, Mr(s). David Stern and the owners blocked a potential trade that would have sent Chris Paul to the Lakers in a three team deal. I first learned of this blockbuster deal last night, only to wake up to hear that it was blocked by said commish. What really made me irate (ground my gears) was hearing that Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cavaliers, wrote a letter to the league stating that the proposed trade was “a travesty” and that it would be a simply be another case of a superstar demanding to be traded. In other words, the small market v. big market dichotomy.
Well Mr(s). Stern and Mr(s). Gilbert, I assume you fail to recognize the rise of the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder. Let’s not forget that the Spurs, a small makret team that gets no love from any of the major sports networks, have won four (count them) championships since 1999. Furthermore, that Oklahoma City has rising stars Durant, Westbrook, et al., who gave the current champs (still won’t give them credit!) a run for their money. The small market/big market dilemma in this case is null & void. The trade would have made ALL of the teams involved better. Bottom line.
Does Mr(s). Stern & Co. actually believe that they can block this deal simply for “basketball reasons?” The backlash has been fierce and CP3 is considering legal action. What really bugs me is that Dell Demps, the Hornets manager, was given the green light to make this deal and when they presented it to the league office, it was shut down immediately. What repercussions will this have for the rest of the league? Will Stern shut down a Howard trade or Tyson Chandler signing? Highly doubtful. Where is the justification? What will the Hornets get in return will CP3 ultimately leaves after this truncated season?
Nothing.
…and that’s what I think of Mr(s). Stern, Mr(s). Gilbert.
The date was June 19th, 1988. I can remember it like it was yesterday. My dad had some family and friends over to watch game 6 of the finals that featured the western conference champions, the Los Angeles Lakers, against the eastern conference champions, the Detroit Pistons.
I had been watching the entire series with my dad and his pals, who were all Lakers fans and was forced to hear about how great they were all series long. Which indeed was true, let’s face it, a team that featured hall of famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and James Worthy. Not to mention key contributors Byron Scott, A.C. Green, Michael Cooper and who could forget Kurt Rambis?! Now that is one tough line up to deal with night in and night out without a doubt, but I was fed up with my dad and his pals bragging about this team! So just to spite them, I decided to root for Isiah Thomas, Bill Laimbeer, Dennis Rodman, Joe Dumars and the rest of the “Bad Boys”.
The Pistons were up 3 games to 2 in the best of seven series, so this was an elimination game for Magic Johnson and company. Like I said, I had been watching the entire series but I did not really start paying attention until this game. I am not going to sit here and bore you with all the stats and what happened quarter by quarter. But what I will mention is what everyone mentions when they talk about game 6 of this series: Isiah Thomas’ sprained ankle. The one quarter that I do want to talk about is the 3rd one, where Thomas put on a classic performance. Oh and I must mention he did this with one severely sprained ankle for the last four minutes or so!
Despite playing with a sprained ankle, Thomas managed to score a NBA finals record 25 points in the 3rd quarter, a record that still stands to this day. The sprain came with a little under five minutes to go in the 3rd quarter when Thomas was making a pass to teammate Joe Dumars. Thomas had scored 14 points up until this moment but immediately after spraining the ankle, he could not even walk much less put pressure on the ankle. After sitting out for a minute(game time not real time) or so, Isiah checked back into the game and managed to score 11 of the Pistons last 15 points to give them a two point lead after trailing by eight points just a couple minutes earlier in the game.
It was then when I was amazed at how a man could play on basically one leg and still dominate the game and help his team come back after trailing for most of the game. Naturally, with the team that I was rooting for leading after the 3rd quarter, I began to rub it in my dad’s face. This began a face off that his friends did not hesitate to join in on! The rest of the game was back and forth with everyone yelling when each team would score a basket. It was official, I fell in LOVE with the game of basketball that night and haven’t fallen out of love ever since.
The next day I remember going to our back yard and pretending I was Isiah Thomas, shooting the ball on one leg and limping around as if I had sprained my ankle. Being young and blind I also thought that Earvin’s real name was “Magic” and thought that this was the coolest thing ever! I would imitate Kareem’s sky hook and shoot 3′s from the corner and yell “Michaellllll Cooooooooper”, just as the announcer would yell every time he hit a 3 pointer. I was hooked on this game and could not get enough! Every year, 95% of my friends and family anticipate the start of the NFL and NCAA football seasons, not I. I ALWAYS look forward to the start of the NBA season year after year, so it pains me to see this lockout continue to go on day after day with the chance of it ending growing smaller and smaller as the days go by.
So this was the moment that I fell in love with the game of basketball, what was yours?
What a perfect time for a new blog. 100 (+) degree weather. Casey Anthony found not guilty and a NBA lockout.
Here’s a quick recap of how we arrived at this particular juncture. Unlike the NFL & NHL, the National Basketball Association utilizes a “soft cap” which allows owners to exceed their cap space for special exceptions. The owners are now pushing for a “hard cap” or a fixed cap because of their reckless spending under the “soft cap” model. With a fixed cap they claim that they can promote a “more competitive and balanced league”. On the other side, certain players will be hurt financially by this new “hard cap” system. All of the exceptions (i.e. mid-level, Larry Bird & c.) have benefited from the “soft cap” system that has been in place since the 1983-4 season.
In the 1998 collective bargaining agreement, the owners essentially got what they wanted: 1) they received 43% of the overall revenue 2) the “soft cap” was implemented 3) mid-level exceptions and 4) maximum contracts were put into place under their assumption that they would keep costs down. However, here we are 13 years later with the owners complaining about the situation they put themselves (and us) in. Can we reasonably believe that they will have a better solution this time around?
The owners are not even able to convey a consistent message. At certain times they claim that they want to promote a “more balanced and competitive league” (i.e. the small v. big market dichotomy) and other times they claim that they want to simply increase overall revenues. These positions are contradictory. It has been proven that to increase revenue marketing muscle and talent should be filtered through big market teams (i.e. Lakers, Celtics, Knicks & c.), which would be able to support the entire league. In other words, if the owners wanted more balance among the league, it would take money away from these same big market teams and thus from the league as a whole.
Although the players have been silent for the most part, the owners, meanwhile, have been spewing out figures of how much they are losing. This has been the owners only consistent message and if this is all fans hear, they are liable to believe it (see politics). The players should either a) call them out and settle on a revenue sharing model, which would promote a more competitive league. If the owners don’t agree with that model, it would show that all they care about is revenue and taking all they can from the players or b) the players could also agree to a 50/50 split, which would negate the maximum individual contracts and hard cap. This extra money should be enough for the owners to manage their expenditures (if not then they probably shouldn’t be owners at all!)
It is a shame that what has been the highest rated NBA playoffs in the cable era will end with another NBA lockout. It’s unfortunate that the league is high in it’s popularity around the globe and yet not structured well financially. Although the league always seems to get what it wants, the players and the fans are the ones suffer from the owners imprudent ways. This is a repeat of 1998 (not the kind of repeats we want!) in that the league ended on a high note only to go into a lockout that same summer. What should trouble fans is that professional basketballs reputation is once again on the verge of being tarnished. It seems like if we keep following these owners advice we will be heading down this same path in the near future. Oh yeah, the leagues television contract expires in 2016…
A couple of surprises. A lot of foreigners. An impending lockout. A few highlights.
Everyone speculated that Cleveland was going to pick Kyrie Irving (Duke) as this years numero uno draft pick and they were correct. The Cavs acquired this pick from their trade with the LA Clippers. The Clippers felt that it was in their best interest to let Baron Davis go (along with his 2 year/28 million dollar contract), get Mo Williams [sic] in return and resign Jordan and Gordon. It will be interesting to see how this situation with Irving, Davis, Sessions and Gibson at the point plays out. As previously mentioned, please, no more comparisons to the “anointed one,” I just don’t have the strength to hear people complain!
However, what surprised a lot of people was that the Cavs chose Tristan Thompson (Texas) as their #4 pick. Irving seemed happy that Big XII Freshmen of the Year would be joining him in Ohio. Although he does need to develop his game, in the meantime, his 7’1″ wingspan, great foot work and ability to block a couple shots will surely suffice.
With the second pick, the Timberwolves chose Derrick Williams (Arizona) to join the Love Train. He was the obvious choice for number 2 and is probably the most NBA ready player in this years draft class (you probably already heard that one before). Minnesota will finally get Ricky Rubio at the point to play alongside Williams and Love. The problem with this acquisition is that the Wolves are already to committed to Milicic and are not giving up on Love (pun very much intended) after his streak of double-doubles. Will Minnesota try to move Beasley or keep Williams? It seems they are adamant on keeping their pick, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
Kemba Walker (UConn) was chosen by the Charlotte Bobcats as their 9th pick. The former Huskie point guard will join #7 draft pick in Biyombo (Congo) in Charlotte. The Bobcats acquired Biyombo from a trade that sent Stephen Jackson to the Bucks. Kemba is explosive around the net and his team first attitude is probably what got him drafted over Brandon Knight (Kentucky).
This draft day is a culmination of Jordan’s (Michael that is) new approach as majority owner. Charlotte recently let go of Tyson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Gerald Wallace and now Jackson. This new strategy of clearing the deck and going for a younger core of players has been happening for the past couple years, albeit he faced much criticism. It seems like Jordan is clearing cap space to make a move in the summer of 2012. I hope he knows what he’s doing.
Jim Jam (for fans of Weeds). Jimmer Fredette (BYU), the National Player of the Year and most talked about player of the season went to the Kings (via Milwaukee) at #10. He was exciting to watch at the college level and should continue to garner interest at the pro level. He has Tiger Woods range (not girl wise but shot wise, yes that was his teammate) and has the ability to finish in the paint. Although he has been criticized for his lack of defensive prowess, I think he will develop that aspect and it will come with time. He joins Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins in Sac-Town and should bring some money to the Maloof’s. Let’s just hope he’s still as exciting as he was in Brigham Young.
However, this all seems bitter sweet because there is an impending lock-out. Twenty-two out of the thirty teams are losing money (lots) and it seems that the players association and owners cannot see eye to eye. After hearing Derek Fisher saying the player’s union won’t back down to avoid a lock-out does not comfort me at all. I hope that they are able to come to an agreement, otherwise, these rookies will have plenty of time to practice!
Whether you’re a Spurs fan or not, it’s hard to argue the heart and passion that Fabricio Oberto has for the game of basketball. Oberto was forced to retire from the game due to a heart condition and I can personally say that it sad to hear. However, luck may have turned in his favor just in time for the Olympic Qualifiers taking place in Mar de Plata, Argentina. The tournament will begin August 30th and end September 11th and according to Ole.com, a statement was made that Oberto has been medically cleared to play.
Here is the statement (translated from original site)*
Finally the moment that we’ve all be waiting to announce, according to the results of many studies I have received medical discharge and consequently I am able to resume the practice of sport safely.
So from today I put myself at the mercy of the Technical Corps of the national team so that I may achieve peak physical condition and according to the Basketball Tournament in which we participate and the rank and prestige of our Selection that it requires.
In this regard, and because of the long downtime, it should be made clear that I will try every effort to arrive at suitable conditions to participate in the international tournament like the one we have before us, and maybe not achieve it; I will be the first to leave my place of respect that is required by the National Team and out of the love I have for my colleagues and friends.
We greatly appreciate all the continuing concern you have shown me and the affection and support constantly received.
I hope we meet in Mar del Plata.
It would be great to be able to watch Oberto play the sport that he loves once again. It was a bitter sweet day when he announced his retirement and I hope he can represent his country once again.
Argentina is seeded in Group B which also includes Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Panama and Paraguay. Group A includes Canada, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba. For more information please visit FIBA Americas.
In other news surrounding Argentina, according to Leandro Ginobili’s twitter account, Manu Ginobili may be in doubt:
“Manu Ginobili in doubt, medical diagnosis? Hyperextension of the nasal septum! It seems he has suffered this from the age of 12.”*
It will be interesting to see how this latest development plays a role. If we’ve learned anything about Manu Ginobili, it’s that it takes a lot to stop him from playing.
*I have attempted to make sure that my translation is as accurate as I could make it. Please visit the original websites in which these comments were posted if you would like to see the original Spanish text.
From all of us here at 2 KnuckleHeadz, we would like to say Happy Father’s Day to the fathers around the world. For your enjoyment we leave you with a memorial staple in the legacy of one of, if not the greatest, to ever play the game of basketball, Michael Jeffrey Jordan.
Michael Jordan wins 4th NBA Championship on Father\’s Day
This is a different type of post.
I wanted to wait a couple days before I followed up on my weekly post. Mainly because a) I didn’t want to overreact and speak from an emotional stance b) I wanted to see what other people had to say on the situation and c) I am still waiting to wake up from this nightmare of a season.
Okay, I will give THAT team credit. Happy? They swept the Lakers and ruined my prediction, which I would still make! However, let’s get one thing straight. I never claimed to be a Miami Heat fan, I just dislike the M@$%&!#s that much. Which means it could have been ANY other team in the Eastern conference. What really makes me sick is frequenting the various “hot-spots” in and around San Antonio and hearing people actually cheering for the M@$%&!#s (projectile-vomit). So spoiled rich boy Mark Cuban decides to shut his mouth for once and all of a sudden he’s likable? Okay fair weather fans, when the M@$%&!#s visit the AT&T Center next year you need to STFU [noobs]. That’s right, I don’t care what the media says about the Heat or whatever antics LeBron or Wade are involved in (at least they didn’t hit their wives or get a bro-ner everytime Hasselhoff hits a high note), rivalry trumps everything! So I emoted, sue me.
This is what boggles my mind. After attending several games vs. the M@$%&!#s at the AT&T Center, I distinctly remember an all encompassing hatred of said team. Every sign I saw succinctly reflected this and every fan from this alien town looked genuinely frightened. Although it’s all in good fun, it’s simply part of the rivalry aspect. I’ll say it one more time, rye-vul-ree. It’s okay not to forget that there is a rivalry regardless of what the pretty shiny screen says in front of you!
If you want listen to the media and hear them constantly compare LeBron to Jordan, that’s just to draw up hatred (and/or ratings) and simply put, silly. Face it though, when someone is dubbed “The One” from what seems like infancy, that has to do something to your psyche. By no means am I giving any excuses for LeBron’s poor play (which was very poor!). I am talking about something deeper in regards to people searching for the “next Jordan.”
It seems awkward to say but deep down inside, we all want to see someone who is Jordan-esque (or better). Someone who simply transcends our understanding of the game of basketball and dominates in every way imaginable. It’s entertaining, inspiring and frankly, the reason we love the game! Believe me, there will be a day, when someone surpasses the likes of Jordan (blasphemy!). It’s inevitable. The law of the land. Records were made to be broken. However, will that person actually make it out of eight grade without a camera in his (or her) face and his (or her) high school games made available only on pay-per-view? Whether you admit it or not, if you are a fan of the game, then like me, you kept an eye on the young LeBron James. We like to raise people up but what we really love, is to watch them fall.
Just to be clear, I am not comparing James to Jordan or vice versa success wise. I am saying that we want our athletes to be great and have great character as well. LeBron clearly lacks character, sure, but there are dozens of people in the NBA who do as well. He just happens to be in the limelight although the masses came to him and paid for his high school games & c. (i.e. watched his every move since). If we are talking about off court antics, Jordan is no saint himself. If Jordan didn’t exist, the game wouldn’t be the same as it is today. However what gets me thinking is if the media exists as it does today would Jordan still be the same Jordan? In other words, if he were dubbed the second coming of Magic or Dr. J from HS would that change anything?
All in all, I’m glad that this nightmare is finally over! I’m looking forward to next season and forgetting this one altogether. It was an interesting year to say the least. Although, we were given this horror to try to wipe from our memory, I still love the sport of it and will be at the AT&T Center next season in a M@$%&!#s jersey!
Prior to Game 5, LeBron and Wade were seen mocking Dirk Nowitzki. Specifically, they coughed and giggled like a couple of school girls. Wade begins by coughing and saying, “Did ya’ll hear me cough? I think I’m sick…” LeBron then says, “Man, this weather man. It’s hard going from 85 degree weather then go to 90…”
Now, I’m not stupid. I realize in a competitive atmosphere, players will poke fun at the other team and (often) themselves to make light of a situation and ease the tension. But let’s be smart about this fellas. In front of a Dallas News TV camera?! Seriously? How stupid can you be? And of all the people to poke fun at on LIVE television, you choose to make fun of Dirk? The guy that is averaging 25 and 7 a game? The guy that has scored 52 points in the 4th quarter against you? Not to mention Dirk is one of the most humble superstars in the NBA. Great decision guys. You already know you’re the most scrutinized team on the planet so why give the media more ammo?
I think what really shocks me is Wade. I honestly would expect a childish antic like this from Baby Bron Bron, but not from Wade. I guess that confiden…whoops, I mean COCKINESS is going to be their achilles heel. One would think they would’ve learned their lesson after Game 2′s epic meltdown. Dancing around in front of the Mavs bench like you’re P. Diddy. Just to end up hopping on the plane with a big fat L.
Their antic blew up in there face as they lost by 9 in Game 5. *cough cough* still think you’re sick? *cough cough* Where are you LeBron? Are you sick too? You must be with that disappearing act you’ve been pulling. If you’re supposed to be the next Jordan, then act like it. Jordan never scored below 22 points in the Finals. Because I’m a fan of the game I realize LeBron leads in 4th quarter assists, which is an incredible stat, but when the pressure is on it should be YOU scoring the buckets to carry your team into victory. Wade said earlier in the Playoffs that this was YOUR team LeBron, so how about you stop acting like a 16 year-old school girl and man up.
Game 6 is tonight and I’m confident the Mavs’ defensive schemes and ball movement will continue to cause problems for the Heat in the 4th quarter. This has been an excellent series and one of the best NBA Finals match ups I’ve seen in a long time. When the Mavs win, I hope the Heat will learn a lesson in humility. If they don’t, well, have fun getting raped by the media with no lube.
I almost forgot. Hey LeBron, tell Rashard Lewis I said hey. He’s such a great guy isn’t he? *cough cough* | http://2knuckleheadz.com/?cat=8 | 2013-05-18T10:52:03 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Evolution of the 350Z
350Z from the house of Nissan motors is designed to be the perfect sports car model – a 2-seater with strong engine characters, and sharp handling.
Overview
Nissan 350Z is the 5th generation “Z” sports car model introduced from the Japanese car manufacturer.
It made its debut in 2003, and was able to bring back the spirit of performance as well as fun, which was lost after the discontinuation of the legendary 300ZX model.
This vehicle was made available in both coupe and roadster body styles. In 2008, the coupe model was discontinued; so, in 2009, it was developed only in roadster body form.
Models and Power-Trains
The coupe was made available mainly in 5-trim levels that included Base, Performance, Enthusiast, Track, and Touring. The roadster was introduced only in Limited, Touring, and Enthusiast trim levels.
The entry level model was propelled by a standard 3.5 litre V6 power-train that was capable of generating an engine output of around 287 hp and torque of around 274 lb-feet. The power-transmission in all the model variants was made possible using a standard 6-speed manual and an optional 5-speed auto transmission system.
Most Recent 350Z
For the 2009 model year, the coupe model was dropped and it was replaced by an advanced 370Z model, and the 350Z roadster was kept almost unchanged.
It was available only with the rear-wheel drive-train configuration, and was equipped with a 3.5 litre V6 standard engine, which was capable of pumping out 306 horsepower and torque of about 268 lb-feet. The same transmission systems have been used with this 2009 model to send the generated power to the wheels.
The EPA fuel economy estimate of 350Z is around 17 mpg in city limits, and 23 mpg on highways. The used 2009 Nissan 350Z can be purchased with a price tag of $27,729, and it may vary for the top-end model.
New Nissan 350Z and Its Successors
We did not quite see a new Nissan 350z after its last production model for 2009 when it came only as a convertible. It for sure was one of the best performance sports cars, which offered vibrant handling and top class V6 power plant. The successor of 350z was also launched in 2009 only, which was marketed as NISMO and coupe. From 2010 onwards, a convertible also joined the line.
Today, the latest 2012 Nissan 370z is second to none when it comes to high performance sports cars. The vehicle demonstrates top class braking and handling. The manual gearbox is one of the smoothest in the segment. The vehicle is marketed as base and Touring variants and its starting MSRP is fixed at $40,050.
The 3.7liter V6 engine churns out 332 hp @ 7000 rpm and 270 ft-lbs. @ 5200 rpm. It offers decent gas economy figures of 18mpg within city limits and 25mpg on highways. | http://350zaddict.com/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:12 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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The that beneath the surface there are many questions that need answering. As a family we have reached the conclusion that small steps are important and that the best solutions for us need not be ones we cannot afford. For example, a simple homemade draft excluder will retain the heat in the winter, curtains over the doors will similarly retain heat.
There is a lot more we need to do, but I am a firm believer that knowledge is power and the 360 project has ensured that I have looked again at the issues I believed I knew about, only to learn that there is more to each issue than the news headline solutions.
The community garden is coming along, some bad weather meant that crops were late, and it’s only now that we can buy our vegetables from there, they currently have some great strawberries and we are busy consuming as many as possible.
I have also learned a lot about the Island that I now call home. I have looked at projects on the Island, both large and small that are designed to create green energy or save water, and they have inspired me to think about what I would eventually like for my own home.
Today was a good example: I went to see the owner of The Islay Hotel in Port Ellen. The building is still under construction (the first brand-new purpose built hotel on the Island for 100 years), and it was a great opportunity to look at the bare bones of a visionary project.
The hotel owner has taken a plot of land within the biggest village on the Island, where many types of green energy would be inappropriate and has, using imagination, not too much money and some great green technology, built a quirky and stylish hotel (green does not mean boring) that will heat its water and its rooms using geothermal energy.
If you were to sit in the sunny garden (picture on the left) of the hotel, you would be sitting on 7 bore holes 120 metres deep that provide the thermal energy, which will mean that the hotel is effectively a carbon neutral building. I suspect this is first for a Scottish hotel. As well as that, the building will also harvest all its rainwater (see the picture at the top of the page) into two large tanks which will provide the water for the toilets (40% of all water used in a hotel is flushed down the toilet!)
There are other projects; the local swimming baths are located in an old warehouse of Bowmore Distillery, a gift to the Island. The heat for the pool is waste heat from the nearby distilling process, a green project using innovative technology and one that has provided a small island with a great facility.
There are other innovative distilleries. Bruichladdich has a green energy project to generate the entire distillery’s power from whisky waste using anaerobic digestion to digest the waste material from distilling known as pot ale. This is now up and running, and so far so good.
There are inspiring individuals like Jeremy and Tink Hastings at Wildwood Wisdom, who practice what they preach and are quite happy to teach wood skills to young children (my seven-year-old with a knife and a piece of wood), who promote skills like Scything and woodland management that might be lost in the haste to modernise the Island, or an eco-house architect, Rachel MacNiell, who takes tourists out cutting peat and offers them stays in an eco-friendly Tepee (and was the one who suggested that I do this diet).
There are those who design their homes to be eco-friendly, putting in small wind turbines or geo thermal systems, there are numerous examples of small scale rain harvesting. On two islands, joint population somewhere around 3,500, we have wave energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, small-scale hydro and at Port Ellen Primary School; a solar panel – we are working as a community towards a sustainable future.
In terms of some of the things we set out to change on the diet, we have stopped collecting bags from the co-op (that’s the only supermarket on Islay) and we are now down to a few that we are using for garbage that can not be recycled. Water was a problem, as we do not have a meter — in the end we decided that the most important thing was that we did not buy bottled water and that we concentrated on not wasting water, using the economy setting on the washing machine. At school, which finished here two weeks ago, students did quite well at monitoring me. I am pretty good at switching off the lights and improved in my not leaving the computer on when not in the room! Numbers are difficult when you do not have a meter, so we measured success by an increase in personal knowledge.
I am not prepared to give up all my comforts and I don’t like hair shirts, but as someone said to me this week, “Everyone can do something small,” and we can’t rely on governments to do it for us. I am a great believer in a bright green future; technologies exist. We need to get governments to invest in them and we need to make the small changes that will give the next generation a bright green future. | http://360energydiet.com/2011/07/11/the-heat-beneath-your-feet/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
You see, right now I'm taking a psychology class, and we're looking at gender issues. To take a "unique" slant to the paper I'm writing, instead of writing about gender relations at a bus stop or who drives faster or how people interact while waiting in a line, I thought I would tackle the mightily broad subject of gender relations in WoW.
Of course, I have my own experiences and have already started writing the paper, so it's not like I'm grilling you for information to do my work for me. But I thought, if anyone would have interesting stories to relate, it would be readers of my blog. So, if you have free time (like any of us have that anymore), just write to me about your experiences that relate specifically with sexuality and gender in WoW.
Do you notice any trends in what gender fills what role while playing (healer, dps, tank, etc.)? Who talks more in Guild Chat or Vent? Who brings up what subjects? How is loot distribution handled? Are there favorites? Problems with gender? What about gender and sexuality differences? Unfair treatment? Harassment? Do people ignore sexuality and gender prejudices when they exist? Do they perpetuate or welcome it?
It's important to mention this goes for all forms of gender and sex, not just the silly and arbitrary dichotomy of "men" and "women."
Part of this was spurred on by having experienced, this weekend, some of the worst sexist behavior I've ever been subjected to in WoW. It's also always been a big interest to me; I've written a bit about age and gender in WoW before.
If you want to share your ideas and experiences, but aren't comfortable writing in the comments, you can always send me an e-mail. And, hey, if you're a blogger and are starting to write a wall, feel free to post an answer on your blog. I do request that people please keep it relatively clean and understand this is a public forum; not only can it be viewed by people of all ages, but it will also be viewable by people of all different walks of life.
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Hm... our guild relations are actually good. I'm in a female-run guild and the officer corp is a 50-50 split in sexes, including our two-headed GL monster. All 3 of the female types are in the 40+ mature category. The 3 guys are all in their early 20's... hm, I wonder if thats odd... :)
The only sexism I've experienced is a bit of immaturity and that I'm sure was influenced by the armor my toon had on at the time, which was quite revealing... Glad its gone now...
I'm now leveling a rogue who is a female human. I recieved a whisper yesterday:
Random male gnome: Hey cutie, want to go out?
Random male gnome: In game I mean.
None of my male chars have been asked out yet, but it's probably because most are intimidated by their sexyness.
That's a really great blog post idea. Check out my blog tomorrow or the next day, and I'll have something up. =)
Hm. For some reason I think I wrote a post about this (most likely only THOUGHT about writing a post about this) but of course not in a seriously analytical way. Just... thoughts. (That's my style, as we know.) But I'm sure that my comment would turn into a WoT, so I will post on my blog soon. Tomorrow, probably. Check in then! :)
In my experience, most of the best tanks I've raided with are male, and most of the best healers I've raided with are female. This can perhaps be explained by men feeling the need to be the protector, and women being the nurturers. I've also found that not many female players choose melee classes, but the same doesn't go for not many guys playing casters.
I've been a healing class officer in a casual raiding guild, and my being a girl definitely influenced other guild members, especially the male population, in their ability to listen to me and follow assignments.
You're always going to get the guys who haven't spoken to a girl since high school and immediately cling to any female association they can find. These guys are generally very over emotional (EEEMMMOOO) and enjoy pouring their hearts out to you because, as a girl, you obviously understand.
I'm sure I'll think of more examples later, but this is it for now.
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I think GamerDNA has a gender breakdown for classes you could use in your paper. In my guild healers tend to be female, tanks male. The kids tend to play DPS specs, and the adults tend to take on the tanking and healing roles.
All i've really noticed is that 85% of female blood elves are guys...and definitely tanks usually arent female. The one tank i know IS female has a very bad rep. I do know quite a few female casters/healers, and some females playing male characters too.
'In my guild healers tend to be female, tanks male. The kids tend to play DPS specs, and the adults tend to take on the tanking and healing roles.'
That's exactly the same in my guild. I'm the healing officer in my guild (pre wrath druid officer) and have been for about three years now. At the beginning of wrath we had four resto druids and they were all female. In the time i've spent in the guild we have had a large number of girls come and go, mostly playing healers or mages & hunters. For a time in tbc one of our main tanks was female and we do now have a female rogue.
As for being a female officer mostly everyone treats me the same as the guys (though that took a while), ofc as Belle said you get the odd 'clingon' but they tend to erm leave *coughgetkickedcough* pretty quickly. I still have a screenshot one of the guys mailed me of their party chat the first time I logged onto vent which is quite amusing :)
I could chat in depth about it if you wanted to so drop me a mail with any specific questions that you want answering :)
River x
Our guild is a little different. We have 4 healers who regularly run. Three of them are men & only one is a woman. We have 4 tanks split evenly, 2 men and 2 women.
My guildies are almost all mature adults (25-55) with a few of their children.
The few examples of sexism in the game tend to be perpetrated by me (female) and some guildies. We like to hang out in big cities and comment on passersby, sometime whistling or gesturing if we see a particularily sweet set of armor or an unusual pet/mount. =)
Mostly we're two females online in my guild, with 10-15 males. There's a tradition in the guild (being that small) that we use given names in chat, both Gchat and PChat - so we quickly learn who are female and who are male - never had any trouble/comments/fuss/anything really.almost boring...It's the two of us that are the most.. explicit in our comments when the fun start rolling :D
However - my first sexist moment in WoW came yesterday when one of our newest members suddenly exclaimed "Oh. Blue and Dotie (we females), do you wanna chat on MSN after raid?" ... this being a guy we hardly know, never really talked to and still...it just felt silly.
I'm gonna mess the usual train of thought all to smithereens. I'm an almost 30 year old female and play almost entirely male characters. I had female toons (even leveled one up to 70), but got really tired of getting hit on - not to mention the occasional crude/lewd comments I'd hear. I found that leveling male toons, I didn't have that problem.
My two mains are a ranged dps and a tank. And nearly all of the guilds usual raid healers are male.
An interesting note: I'm looking over at my priest links and notice out of the 24 healers I have linked,only 7 are guys and of the 3 shadow priests, only one is a girl (altthough I know that's a small sample). I think that's a little telling in and of itself.
A few things I've noticed.
-Women do tend to be healers more so than anything else
-If not, women are more likely to be DPS than a tank
-Of the women who play DPS, most of the ones I know play hunters
I also attracted more than my fair share of "hangers on" in the form of gusy who would not. Leave. Me. Alone.
I don't think guys end up with harems on WoW.
What a fascinating study, I hope you publish your conclusions here.
What I've observed on my server is that people tend to behave in their gender-typical ways regardless of the gender of their character. It is a gross generalisation to say (but I stand by it) that most ninja-looting, node and mob-stealing, trade-spamming manner-less players are male. I'm not saying all males are like that, or that females can't be like that too, I'm just saying it seems to be the norm. Similarly, the raid leaders of the guilds I know tend to be male, while the 'social' leaders are more often female. (Family dynamics anyone?) By social, I mean taking an interest in players' welfare being active in helping players, recruiting, farming for guild mats etc. Again, just generalisations, and of course, there are fewer women in percentage terms playing wow than there are in real life, so you won't always find women fulfilling these functions in a guild.
For myself, of nine characters, two are female, but I don't play them any differently to my male characters (I'm male, btw). They are simply a different skin, as much as armor or hairstyle is. I have never played on a role-playing server but I would be interested to know if people manage to break out of their gender behaviours more successfully there.
I once considered blogging about the dynamics of night elf society, even though I am a die-hard Horde player, because I am really impressed by the gender role reversal where females traditionally fulfil warrior and hunter roles, while males take up more spiritual occupations. I think it's absolutely brilliant that Blizzard would put females in the position of protecting and providing for their communities and leave males to take care of the more nurturing roles. There is a very interesting contrast here with the Age of Conan "bug" that meant females dealt less damage. But I'm not sure this example of equality is seen to the same extent in the wider World of Warcraft. How many faction leaders are female? What proportion of dungeon bosses are female, and how many of those are predominantly physical, melee damage dealers? I don't know why that should bother me, but it does.
I have droned on too long. Brilliant subject, and good luck with the paper!
in my guild, as most others, females are the healers, males are the tanks. in fact, i don't think we have any females that are, or have tried tanking. Also, i am the only female that is melee dps - represent! casters and healers make up our female population. i've noticed while raiding, when it's the female officers time to explain a fight, there's a lot more laughter and chatter as compared to when a male officer speaks.
as for personally, throughout the years i've experienced my share of sexist remarks. from "hey sexy, what do you look like?" to "you're not female, females don't play wow - get in vent and prove it."
I must say though, the wow community is a million times better than, lets say, xbox live. it's guaranteed that every time i get into a party on xbox live there's someone saying "ARE YOU A GIRL?!" followed by a belittling remark. with that said, i believe wow has a much more respected view of female gamers than any other game i've played.
couple things:
I have noticed a lot of women pick up healing roles or play druids. I rarely (only one exception) have seen a female tank that was not a druid, and I have only seen a handful of female mages, locks, rogues etc. The rarest classes I've seen women play is Shamans and Paladins
also this could provide some fodder (I'm not a member of this guild but I did apply once):
The guild is called No Chicks Allowed
I can't believe that guild, that's really mad. Most of the best healers I know are female.
Ah well some guys just don't like to be beaten ;)
When I applied they gave me the impression it was for drama reasons
In my latest guild there are alot of females and they play all kind of different speccs so i don't rly see a big difference there.
But i do notice that in my guild now the chit chat is more mature then in my other guilds where there were mostly guys.
on a side note: my gf also plays wow and it drives her nuts that everybody keeps calling her "dude" or "mate" although she has a female char. Even when i casually mention she's a she they keep calling her dude.
I think there's a large chunk of ppl who think pretty much every female char around is actually a guy
I tend to notice a lot of sexism towards female players, with people thinking that we're generally awful and not as good as male players. I keep telling the guys that it's just a percentage thing - there are less "good" women players because there are less women overall but that detail tends to get lost on them because it isn't what they want to hear.
I have noticed that most of the healers (and players in general) that I've run into in my various raiding guilds tend to be male. Tanks and melee also tend to be male - In the 4 years that I've been playing I've known one female rogue, one female warrior and two female bear tanks(one of which was me). Women seem to prefer warlocks, mages and shadow priests.
Also guys tend to talk more in vent.
I (female) was GM of a medium sized guild for 2 years, and when I left, passed on the position to another female officer. The officer corps was a 50/50 mix of both genders and all aged 30+ except for one guy in his mid 20's.
I do see more female players in healer roles, then ranged dps (hunters, mages, locks). I've only known one female druid tank.
Because my character name appears gender neutral, people who do not know tend to assume I'm male. One time back in my 20's in Ashenvale, I organized a PUG group for a quest. Since I was group leader, I gave instructions on who I want to do what when. The mission went off successfully. Afterward I was talking with one of the PUG members and mentioned that I was female. He said he thought for sure I was a guy since I took charge and spoke/acted with authority and command.
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Hi everyone!!
Sorry I've been absent. I've been trying to catch up with my homework, but it's slow going. We got back from Forks Sunday night and yesterday we were both wasted. Me thinks we are getting to old to partay??
Anyway, I have lots of stuff to share about our weekend, lots of photos and inside information that I am excited to let you in on, but I am still working on organizing it all.
So, for today, as promised last week...it's The Glamour Shots Party hosted by Lori at Family Trees May Contain Nuts.
These
horrible beautiful pictures are not the only ones that are now posted on the interwebz for all the world to view. Oh no. If you visit Lori you can see hers and others who linked up. I bet they're not as horrifying purty as mine!!
See, back in the 90's I was a biker:
But there were times that I wanted to go out to the balls and I would get
hussied gussied up in my ball gown. I was even loaned some jewelry from some skanky photographers Harry Winston.
There were times I was a
shit kicker cowgirl. I loved my cowboys, you know.
And sometimes?? I channeled Marylin Monroe. You know I am that fabulous.
Last but not least...there were times I would get...well...friskay. Rawr.
(srsly just vomited a little bit in my mouth)
Is it weird that I went through all of these phases in a ninety minute session in 1997 and they were never to be seen again??
Yeah. I kinda thought so.
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Oh Mimi you are such a great sport. Thanks for joining in with us. The idea did come from you after all.
I love all of them but I think the biker chicka is my fav.
Ummm whose hand is that on your shoulder in your getting friskay photo?
LOVE these! And yes - I'm with Lori - who's hand is that?
You would have to be some kind of contortionist to get your hand there girl. I'm not buying that story. C'mon who was there?
Gorgeous photos! I love all your persona's. I think all of us gals should get together for a Glamour Shots Party now. Lori can be the hostess up in Vancouver!!
xoxo
Janie
I think their very cute! I love all the different looks you have.
Love your post too, very funny!
Cindy
I bet CJ goes RAWR when he sees these pics. Isn't your anniversary coming up?
The disembodied hand is scaring me!!
thanks for sharing...fortunately I never did jump on this trend so no pix to share
Sorry, cant participate. Never did a glamour shot session. But I liked looking at yours! Are they still around?
The biker one is a fave. I like the gloved hand one too.
Makes me dig you even more!
I'm dye-ying!
I do have to say I like your blonde hair. Ever thought about going blonde again?
I am a totally cheese ball, but I always wanted to go do this...but I never did. frown. You're amazing!!! Can't wait to hear about your trip!!
Oh my gosh - I'm dying laughing over these!!! You just made my day so much better. HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
-->I LOVE IT! Thanks for making me chuckle.
~deb
LOVE IT! even though they're dated you are still HAWT!
Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cute pics, macey!
Those are AMAZING. Just add a couple more looks in there and you could have had all of the Village People covered!
I think you look beautiful! I'm just jealous because I always wanted to have Glamour Shots and didn't.
You look fabulous!!! I so wanted to do glamour shots when I was young but I couldn't get anyone to pay for it.
Love it! I wish I had some old glamor shots.
You appear to enjoy life -- my kind of person!
Fun photos -- thanks for sharing.
This was a great post, thanks for taking time to share it with us!
So sadly I never did glamour shots, my mom didn't want to spend the money...hmmm or maybe she was very smart.
LMFAO peeing in my pants.. Awesome.
OH man, I LOVE these pics! LOL> Fantastic! I've got a huge pile of glamour shots laying around somewhere. If I find them, I'll post them!
Tess♥
I am insanely jealous that I never got any glamour shots taken. Insanely Jealous. Seriously. I always wanted them and my dad was always like, "I'm not paying 100 dollars for someone to slather makeup on you and dress you up like a barbie doll." and I was all, 'But, Daddy!!!!!"
And in the end...he and his tightwad checkbook won.
I know. Sad story. Huh
PS...Can I just point out...you were blonde? Blonde? This I feel is something I should have already known about you, being that we are twins and all.
Yes, the disembodied hand must be explained . . .
I am embarrassed to say I had glam shots with my sister back in about '91. What?! No, no, I totally didn't say that, I mean I didn't mean I had glam shots. I was just kidding, of course. Totally. Forget I said anything at all. Please.
Those are great pictures!
Great pictures! You rock!
That is FABLOUS! Seriously, that was the highlight of my day!!!
xox
Jen
I believe I wore that same "Leather" jacket when I had mine done.
You are quite a pretty lady!
Thankfully or maybe sadly I do not have my own cover shots to reveal. ;-)
Whatever...that's so not you. Did you steal those?
Don't feel bad. I've never EVER seen a good glamour shot. ;)
Aww shucks! I meant to join the party and I totally forgot. I thought you looked great in your photos. :)
bwahhaa!! YES!! these are AWESOME!! seriously i'm beyond jealous that i don't have any glamour shots of my own....so not fair....
Fab shots, so you're the gal responsible for the whole Glamor Shots party idea?
I think I had that same denim jacket for one of my "lost shots" too.
What a fun thing this was to take part in.
Maggie
LOVE IT!
I LOVE the black gloves! Gorgeous!
OMG - I SO wish I had some of these of my own! You look fab!
But wait - that can't possible be YOUR hand in the last shot - is it? Does you hand detach? WTH?
Too. Much. Awesome.
How's come I never had any Glamour Shots? This was a big deal, right? I feel like I missed out!
My friend has some recent cheesy pics of her with a cowboy hat. She's so serious about them and all I can think of is...GLAMOUR SHOTS!
PS. HELLO GORGEOUS.
Well, well, well, model material hanging out in France. Love the cowgirl hat.
I always wanted to have one of these sessions, but never did. I'm thinking it's a good thing now.
Okay, I totally read this ON THE DAY YOU POSTED...yet there's no comment from me!
What kind of jerk am I?
I think you look fabulous in all!
My favorite is BY FAR the "frisky" one! I laughed so hard, I was in tears! Rawr is right...watch out world, MiMi's on the prowl!!!
Those are too funny. Looks like you had a great tine though.
I remember wanting these so badly as a kid and my parents would never shell out.
Clearly, I still haven't completely forgiven them.
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Time Travel in Emeryville: The Factory Party
By Carlos Davalos
Photos by Howard Hsu.
More than 60 artists showed their paintings, sculptures, installations, films, photographs and other mediums/works. And yes, there were also the Velvet Underground look-alikes, playing classic songs like Venus in Furs, Heroin, and Pale Blue Eyes in a huge, cold-concrete wing of the place, evoking the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Warhol’s multimedia road show.
It was still early; the labyrinthian depot was staring to get packed, seven or eight rooms transformed into galleries, food and beverage flowing and Christa Päffgen’s (Nico) voice in the background; like a sonorous fog covering everyone. The atmosphere conjured an artistic scene known for exploding in a promiscuous, heroin-nourished creative feast. And it was all very similar, except there were no needles passing around.
Later on, when the Nihilist Outlook & Grace (one of the two Velvet Underground cover bands that performed) was playing, the art show became a secondary thing; the Velvet Underground’s covers were flooding the main room, a bunch of eyes were closed and everyone singing.
“I guess that I’ll be the closest I’ll get to Andy Warhol’s idea of a party and his 1960s New York City Factory,” said one of the attendees, who had Fando & Lis’ (the first feature-length film by Alejandro Jodorowsky) spider woman tattooed in his chest. Very impressive.
One of the installations, the proliferation of fungal mycelia, created by Bruce Anderson, Dale Sophiea and Curtis Tamm, was a small tunnel made out of plastic garbage bags that finished in a warmed little room with natural grass and small tree stumps to sit on. The front wall had two screens just spitting nature images, 10 or more per second, very experimental. Grass disco balls hung from the ceiling — a fixture of intertwined ideas about nature and technology through art.
Amoeba Music, the East Bay Express, OFFSpace and contributing sponsor the de Young Museum teamed up to create a Peel Slowly and See session of art, music, and the artistic spirit of a character that defined a good part of today’s pop culture.
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fun. Deliver Energetic ‘Some Nights’ Performance on ‘SNL’
fun. appeared on ‘Saturday Night Live’ over the weekend, treating viewers to a performance of their latest hit, ‘Some Nights.’ Singer Nate Ruess, who apparently forgot to remove his trench coat, bounced around the stage as the band cranked up the energy factor for the late-night audience.
Ruess sang the opening two lines a cappella, in contrast to the studio version of the track, which features a wall of voices backing up Ruess. The rest of the group finally joined in on vocals when the Lion King-style beat kicked in before the next verse.
We’re still not sure what Ruess means with those lyrics about his lips building a castle, finding martyrs in his bed, and people coming to jack his style, but he seemed passionately behind them during his intense performance. During the band’s second performance slot on the show, the guys opted to play their next single, ‘Carry On‘ rather than their months-old No. 1 hit ‘We Are Young.’
Both the ‘Some Nights’ single and the album of the same name got to No. 3 on the charts. fun. have extended their current concert tour into early 2013.
Next: Check Out the Top Songs of 2012 | http://92moose.fm/fun-deliver-energetic-some-nights-performance-on-snl/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:42 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Miguel + Wiz Khalifa Team Up to Perform ‘Adorn’ at 2013 Grammys
Color-coordinated duo Miguel and Wiz Khalifa delivered a hot performance at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where they joined up to sing ‘Adorn,’ which had earlier captured the Grammy for Best R&B Song.
These guys clearly called each other before the show, because they both wore black-and-white striped suits. The song opened with Miguel playing keyboards in the middle of the audience as he began ‘Adorn,’ a throwback soul tune reminiscent of another past Grammy winner, Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing.’
The performance was a showcase for Miguel’s effortless vocals, especially when he made his way to the stage and offered a few falsetto yelps. For the first half of the song, Khalifa did little more than awkwardly yell “Yeah!” to punctuate Miguel’s words, but then he added a new verse about sipping red wine, rolling one up, and spoiling his girl.
Miguel had a huge year in 2012, a fact that was largely overshadowed by the big year his fellow R&B star Frank Ocean had. Miguel is a nominee for five Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year. His win for R&B Song of the Year was the first Grammy of the singer’s career.
Next: Watch All of the 2013 Grammy Performances | http://92moose.fm/miguel-wiz-khalifa-team-adorn-2013-grammys/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Smile! Google Street View Camera Car May be Taking Your Picture in the St. Cloud Area
Say Cheese! Google Map’s Street View Camera Car is in the St. Cloud area, snapping pictures of neighborhoods and landmarks again.
We spotted the Google Maps Camera Car in the Hidden Oaks neighborhood in south St. Cloud mid-day today.
The driver says he’s not supposed to talk to media, but did say he’ll be working in the St. Cloud area for a couple weeks after spending time recently in the Twin Cities doing the same.
See Some Amazing Places Google Street View Has Been
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Study: Men at Higher Risk for Mild Memory Loss Than Women
Men may be at greater risk of developing mild cognitive impairment than women, according to a new study published in the journal Neurology.
The study followed about 1,450 residents of Olmsted County, Minn., between the ages of 70 and 89 that were dementia free. For three years participants took a memory test every 15 months. At the end of the study 296 of the subjects developed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) – the stage between normal memory loss associated with age and dementia.
“These results are surprising, given that women generally have higher rates of dementia than men,” said lead study author Rosebud Roberts, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in a statement. “This is disturbing given that people are living longer, and MCI may have a large impact on health care costs if increased efforts at prevention are not used to reduce the risk.”
The average number of new cases of dementia each year was found to be higher in men — presenting in 72 per 1,000 men in comparison to 57 in 1,000 women. It was also found that MCI was more common at a rate of 38 per 1,000 people when accompanied by memory loss than those that developed MCI without memory loss, which was found in 15 per 1,000 people.
Participants who were unmarried and had a lower level of education had higher rates of MCI as well.
“Men need to make efforts to reduce their chances of havign risk factors for MCI starting at an early age; these risk factors include obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels,” she said in an email statement to the TheCheckup. “If they already have these conditions, they should see their doctor on a regular basis to ensure that the conditions are adequately controlled. They should also exercise on a regular basis.”
Roberts found that 12 percent of the newly diagnosed MCI cases every year were tested and found to be free of MCI at least once. Some were even found to be “cognitively normal.” Roberts, however, found that 88 percent of people who received a MCI diagnosis will continue to have MCI and often develop dementia.
“There is no single test for MCI, but if a person is concerned about early memory loss, they should talk to their doctor to make sure what they are experiencing is beyond what is normal for their age and level of education,” she said.
“The doctor may then refer them for further tests of their memory and thinking skills,” she added.
There is currently no established medical treatment for MCI. However, it is best for a person to discuss options with their family doctor or a neurologist for strategies to prevent further decline.
“There are suggestions that being socially involved in such interactions with friends and family like going to church, movies, keeping your brain stimulated through reading and using the computer may be beneficial,” Roberts said. “A healthy diet has also been suggested to be beneficial in preventing MCI, but we do not have evidence on whether it may prevent further decline or improve symptoms in people who already have MCI.”
Individuals concerned about mild cognitive impairment should look out for:
- early memory loss
- poor judgment and decision making
- problems making financial decisions
- forgetting appointments and names of close relatives
- decreased interest in social activities
- problems finding words during conversations
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Admission free, Photo ID required for entrance
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One West 4th Street (between Broadway and Mercer Street)
New York City
Too Smart, Too Loud, Too JAPpy: Moving Beyond Stereotypes will be an evening
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This is my five hundredth post.
Huh. I've been doing this blogging thing for a while.
To celebrate, I made some cookies. But then I ate them, so you'll have to make your own. I'll share the recipe, though, because it is, quite simply, the best chocolate chip cookie recipe out there. Promise you'll make it, okay?
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in the History of Ever
barely adapted at all from Smitten Kitchen
2 Cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt, plus more for sprinkling
3/4 cup salted butter, melted
1 cup packed brown sugar (I usually use 1/2 a cup and double the regular sugar)
1/2 cup white sugar (unless I halve the brown sugar, in which case I use a whole cup of white sugar)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 egg yolk
1 egg
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Sift together dry ingredients. Set aside. (True confession: I rarely do this. The cookies do turn out better if you do, though. Sift at your own discretion.)
3. Cream together melted butter and sugars.
4. Add egg and vanilla, beat until pale and fluffy.
5. Mix in sifted ingredients until just blended. Mix in chocolate chips.
6. Scoop dough into cookie-sized chunks, and roll into balls with your hands. Sprinkle with salt (this step is key to chocolate chip cookie nirvana). Bake- 10-12 minutes for small cookies, 15-17 for larger ones.
i love smitten kitchen they have the best recipes!
i've been in a cookie baking mood for some time now. just may have to indulge.
One word, YUM!
These look wonderful, and sound simple enough! I'll certainly give them a go! Thanks for sharing! xxxx
alwaysxbeing.blogspot.com
I have been lucky enough for Abbie to bake these for me in my apartment, sprinkle them with fleur de sel, and sandwich them around icecream. Two words: HOLY MOLY. I spent most of the rest of the night twitching ecstatically :)
They look delicious!! MMM!
I've never made a Smitten Kitchen recipe that didn't turn out totally divine, definitely trying these bad boys soon! You had me at sprinkle with salt. Well actually you had me at cookie, but the salt trick brought me over the edge!
mmmm cookies!
cookies!!! nom, nom, nom! oh, pardon me. i let my inner cookie monster out for a second. congrats on 500 posts!
Mmmm...yummy! Congrats on 500!
I promise! I want one (or five) right now.
can't go wrong with smitten kitchen. ever!
how awesome r u - i want cookie now tho!
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These look and sound divine! Happy 500th post and have a great weekend!
Mmmm, thanks for the recipe! And Happy 500th post. Enjoy your weekend, Abbie!
500th post! Wow! I just posted my 100th post! :)
these look delicious! Yeay for 500 posts :)
A few days ago, Berko made these cookies for me (amongst other people, because the two of us can't eat the WHOLE batch of cookies). There's nothing quite like someone you love making you cookies from the recipe of another someone you love. Miss you! | http://abbiebabble.blogspot.com/2011/03/i-made-you-some-cookies.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:26 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
It turns out that the Mayans weren't alone in prepping for our last days to hit in 2012. In his Tuesday, October 9, release, Songs For the End Of The World, GENERAL HOSPITAL's Rick Springfield (ex-Noah) shares his sardonic view of life and also offers hope. While there are plenty of the sing-along songs that fans expect, listeners might be surprised to hear heavier rock anthems like "I Hate Myself" and "Love Screws Me Up." "I'm not the shiny, happy guy people think I am from my role in GENERAL HOSPITAL," Springfield confesses. "I tend to put that angst into my music." But which of the catchier tunes could be a hit by the ominous month of December? "That's a very good question. I'm never a good judge of [that]," he laughs. "I never thought 'Jesse's Girl' would be a single, let alone a hit, so what do I know?" However, with four album covers to choose from (each CD containing unique bonus material), there's sure to be something for everyone.
Keep 'Em Laughing Although he remains grateful to GH for helping to catapult his career back in the 80s ("I'll always go back if it makes sense for the story," he maintains), Springfield's most recent return (to comfort a grieving Patrick) had to be brief. The busy guy's been on a nationwide tour with a film crew in tow! Releasing on Wednesday, October 10, is the result: the entertaining documentary, An Affair Of The Heart. "We just had an industry screening, and then it's going to film festivals," he reveals. Viewers will no-doubt see that it's while he's on stage that the legend's sense of humor is revealed. "I think it comes across when I perform," he grins. "I tell stories and it's fun, and then I rock out!"
It was a smart writer who showcased Springfield's quirky side with a guest role on TV Land's HOT IN CLEVELAND last season ("They reached out to me recently to check my availability to return," he confides). When he's not working on also producing his own comedy show ("I can't talk about it yet," he teases), Springfield is touting what promises to be the event of the fall: Sun Dazed & Star-Filled Nights: Rick Springfield & Friends, Destination: Cancun. "We're inviting everyone to join us at Club Med from November 8 to 12. It should be a good party!" he relates. Joining the Mexican fiesta will be the performer's pals: Doug Davidson (Paul, THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS), TV and radio host Mark Goodman, and two of GH's other singing sensations, Brandon Barash (Johnny) and Bradford Anderson (Spinelli). Yep, with all he's got going on, it looks like it'll be a while before the senior Dr. Drake is paged back to Port Charles. | http://abc.soapsindepth.com/2012/10/springfield-rocks-on.html | 2013-05-18T10:21:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Appendix 1: Major theories supporting the evolution of population specific difference in cognition
Appendix 1: Major theories supporting the evolution of population specific difference in cognition
Selection due to differences in Population Density
Cochran and Harpending, 2009. The 10,000-year explosion: How civilization accelerated human evolution (Here’s a decent review: Gorelik and Shackelford, 2010. A review of Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution.
Wade, 2007. Selection Spurred Recent Evolution, Researchers Say
Hawks, et al., 2007. Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution).
Selection due to paleoclimate
Ash and Gordon. Brain Size, Intelligence, and Paleoclimatic Variation. (See note 77).
Jensen, 1998. Population Differences In Intelligence: Causal Hypotheses. In: The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability
Jensen, 2006. Comments on correlations of IQ with skin color and geographic–demographic variables. Intelligence
Kanazawa, 2008. Temperature and evolutionary novelty as forces behind the evolution of general intelligence
Lynn, 1991. The evolution of race differences in intelligence
Lynn and Vanhanen, 2006. IQ and global inequality
Rushton, 2000. Race, evolution, and behavior: A life history perspective
Templer and Arikawa, 2006. Temperature, skin color, per capita income, and IQ: An international perspective
Both Rushton (1995, 1997, 2000) and Lynn (1991) have pointed out that ethnic groups in colder climates score higher on intelligence tests than ethnic groups in warmer climates. They contend that greater intelligence is needed to adapt to a colder climate so that, over many generations, the more intelligent members of a population are more likely to survive and reproduce. Their temperature and IQ analyses have been descriptive rather than quantitative, however. In the present quantitative study, we predicted a negative correlation between IQ and temperature. We hypothesized that correlations would be higher for mean winter temperatures (January in the Northern Hemisphere and July in the Southern Hemisphere) than for mean summer temperatures. Skin color was conceptualized as a variable closely related to temperature. It is viewed by the present authors as a multigenerational reflection of the climates one’s ancestors have lived in for thousands of years. Another reason to predict correlations of IQ with temperature and skin color is the product–moment correlation reported by Beals, Smith, and Dodd (1984) of 0.62 between cranial capacity and distance from the equator. Beals et al. based on findings from every continent and representing 122 ethnically
distinguishable populations. Jensen (1998) reasoned that natural selection would favor a smaller head with a less spherical shape because of better heat dissipation in hot climates. Natural selection in colder climates would favor a more spherical head to accommodate a larger brain and to have better heat conservation.
Implausible? Refer here: Roth, et al., 2010. Learning capabilities enhanced in harsh environments: a common garden approach
“We found that birds from the harsh northern population, where selection for cognitive abilities is expected to be high, significantly out performed conspecifics from the mild southern population…our results support the idea that environmental severity may be an important factor in shaping certain aspects of cognition.”
Selection due to geographic novelty
Jensen, 1998. Population Differences In Intelligence: Causal Hypotheses. In: The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability
Kanazawa, 2004a. The Savanna Principle. Managerial and Decision Economics
Kanazawa, 2004b. General intelligence as a domain-specific adaptation
In a recent book, IQ and the Wealth of Nations, Lynn and Vanhanen (2002) compile a comprehensive list of “national IQs” (the mean IQ of populations) of 185 nations in the world. One striking feature of their data is that the national IQs in sub-Saharan Africa are significantly lower than those in the rest of the world (68.8 vs. 89.1), t(183) 15.88, p .001. This, of course, makes perfect sense from my perspective of general intelligence as a domain-specific adaptation for evolutionary novelty., then it follows that it should evolve more rapidly in the rest of the world than in the ancestral environment of the sub-Saharan Africa…. In contrast, I offer a different evolutionary psychological explanation for the evolution of general intelligence as a domain specific adaptation in the sphere of evolutionary novelty. If there were a sufficient number of novel, non recurrent problems throughout human evolutionary history, any genetic mutation that allows its carrier to think and reason logically would have been selected for. Given the extraordinary constancy and continuity of the EEA, general intelligence in its evolutionary origin was not general at all, and its importance was limited to occasional problems that other evolved psychological mechanisms could not solve. Its universal and enormous importance today reflects the fact that we now live in an evolutionarily novel world.
Selection due to continuous disease burden/lack of continuous disease burden
Eppig, et al., 2010. Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability.
Gene-cultural selection
Miller. Are Pleiotropic Mutations and Holocene Selective Sweeps the Only Evolutionary-genetic Processes Left for Explaining Heritable Variation in Human Psychological Traits? The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences. Buss and Hawley, ed.
“Selection pressure cannot have remained the same after human dispersals out of Africa and the Upper Paleolithic revolution, especially since the rise of agriculture, domestication, money, and institutionalized monogamy, These changes may not have had enough time to produce complex, new, cross-culturally universal psychological adaptations …but they could have had dramatic effects on the patters of genetic variations underlying personality, psychopathology, and cognitive traits.
…
New mutations that happen to have beneficial effects on one trait are likely to have pleiotropic effects on other traits that reduce their net fitness benefits by a factor of two, on average (Otto, 2004). For example, if selection in favor of general intelligence suddenly became more intense in some popultations, this could have favored the spread of new IQ-boosting alleles even if those alleles have a range of harmful side-effects on physical or mental health that … p.385-387
Kanazawa, 2007. The g-culture coevolution
Cochran and Harpending, 2009. The 10,000-year explosion: How civilization accelerated human evolution
Laland, Odling-Smee, and Myles, 2010. How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together
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Acquisition of useful genes via interbreeding
Cochran and Harpending, 2009. The 10,000-year explosion: How civilization
accelerated human evolution
The key point here is that it would take only a very limited amount of interbreeding for modern humans to have picked up almost every Neanderthal allele with any significant advantage. Limited interbreeding would mean that neutral genes in hu- mans today would look almost entirely African—which they do—while at the same time we might carry a number of func- tional alleles that originated in Neanderthals.Those alleles would be ones that mattered, ones that made a difference…
…And yet, European Neanderthals probably faced many of the same life problems that African humans did.To some de- gree, big brains may have been solving the same problems in both populations. Even if that is the case, though, we can be certain that those problems were not solved in exactly the same way.
Increased cognitive complexity due to technological innovations
Gottfredson, 2007. Innovation, fatal accidents, and the evolution of general intelligence
Although migrating to new climates (or climate change in situ) may have sparked much innovation, it was these innovations that made daily life more cognitively complex. Each technological advance in taming adversity (e.g. hearths for cooking and heating inside closed shelters) could increase the need to anticipate, recognize, prioritize, and quickly mitigate its potential side-effects. Migration into successively less hospitable climes spurred new technologies that, individually or collectively, could ratchet up the g-related risk gradients for accidental death. A migration ratchet effect comports with the pattern of genetic divergence among certain human populations who have ancestral origins in different regions of the world [.]
Ecological Harshness
Hart, 2007. Understanding Human History:
Section 1 – The effects of cold climates
The genetic differences that affect the average intelligence of the various races arose in the same fashion — natural selection — that physical differences between the races did.
In tropical regions, groups with an average IQ of 70 or less can survive. We know this because there are such groups living today in sub-Saharan Africa (see Table 15-2). However, surviving in a cold climate (such as Siberia) poses much greater difficulties. Human beings cannot survive in such climates without:
1) Warm clothing.
2) Sewing needles, to make that clothing with. (These were not invented until
about 30 kya.)
3) Warm, sturdy housing capable of keeping out rain, wind, and cold.
4) Methods for accumulating food and storing it for the winter months.
Section 2 – Selection for high intelligence
Each of the items on that list — and many others needed to survive in a harsh, cold environment — required considerable intelligence. Since individuals with low IQs had poor prospects of surviving in Siberia, those genes which helped to create high intelligence were more likely to reach succeeding generations, while those which tended to result in lower intelligence were eliminated from the gene pool.
Furthermore, this selective process would also operate on groups. If the average intelligence of the members of a band was low, it was likely that the entire band would die out, including those individuals who were of high enough intelligence to have survived and reproduced if they had been members of a more capable group. This selection process began as soon as HSS moved out of Africa into regions where there were cold winters, and it became increasingly powerful as human groups moved into colder and colder climates.1 The process continued for tens of thousands of years, gradually resulting (in regions with very harsh climates) in groups evolving with average IQs of 100 or higher.
Section 3 – Why wasn’t higher IQ an advantage in all regions?
Higher intelligence would be an advantage everywhere if there were no costs accompanying it. But what matters are not merely the positive benefits of a trait, but also the costs involved. The changes in human anatomy and physiology that lead to higher intelligence do not come cost free. For example, one way for a subgroup of human beings to develop higher intelligence is for that group to evolve larger brains. However, larger brains impose at least three important costs:
1) Larger brains require larger amounts of energy. Since its neurons must be repeatedly recharged, the brain requires an amount of energy that is far out of proportion to its size. (A typical human brain contains only about 2% of the body’s mass, but uses about 20% of a resting person’s energy.) Larger brains, of course, require more energy than smaller ones.
2) Larger brains require larger heads, which creates strains on the muscular and skeletal structure. Standing on two legs is a complex problem in balancing, and weight situated near the top of our structure is particularly hard to balance. Larger brains and heads make this problem even greater.
3) Larger brains (and heads) require wider female pelvises, and the wider pelvises result in less efficiency in walking and running. The large size of the human head creates serious difficulties in childbirth (which is why human females typically have far more difficulty in delivering their young than do females of most other species). As brains and heads became larger, wider female pelvises were required to accommodate them. Since it was difficult for such a change to be confined to one sex only, the male members of those groups also wound up with wider pelvises. But wider pelvises and hips result in lower running speeds (see section 14-7) and less efficiency in both walking and running.
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When Florida violated the Republican National Committee’s rules and moved its primary to Jan. 31, and made the contest winner take-all for delegates, its reasoning was pretty simple. Officials wanted the state to play a prominent role in the primary process.
The state was penalized for its actions but achieved its goal. Tuesday’s primary falls at a crucial time, and will be a significant victory for the candidate who wins. With three contests yielding three different victors so far, Florida offers GOP candidates a chance to break the tie, and gain 50 delegates in the process.
The latest polling shows Romney with a double-digit lead going into Tuesday’s contest. While Sen. John McCain won Florida in 2008 with 36 percent of the vote, Romney did well, coming in second place with 31 percent.
Florida’s primary will be different from the previous primaries from a procedural and a demographic viewpoint.
On the procedural front, the primary is a closed contest, meaning that only registered Republicans can participate. In order to participate, voters must have been registered as a Republican by Jan. 3, 2012.
This is the first closed contest of the 2012 primary season. The state boasts a voting-eligible population of 13,088,171. Of that group, 11,241,022 – nearly 86 percent - are registered to vote. There are 4,063,853 registered Republicans in the state, about 36 percent of the registered voting population.
The polls open choose. The Florida Division of Elections allows counties to hold early voting beginning 10 days before an election, and ending on the third day before the election is scheduled. The Florida Division of Elections estimates the Republican early turnout at 293,760 votes.
Nine candidates will appear on the ballot in Tuesday’s primary, but only four of them – Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul- are still in the race.
On the demographic front, Florida’s population is more ethnically diverse than, say, Iowa and New Hampshire. Latino voters make up 11.1 percent of the state’s registered Republican voters, according to data compiled by the Pew Hispanic Center. Romney, Gingrich and Santorum have each been trying to court the Latino vote. Ron Paul is not actively campaigning in the Sunshine state. He’s focusing his attention on the next state, Nevada.: mortgages.
The South Central region of Florida is an area that has been hit particularly hard by the mortgage crisis, one of the hardest hit areas in the country. Romney and Gingrich have been campaigning hard in the region, exchanging blows at each stop along the way about their opponents’ respective ties to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
While Gingrich has attempted to tie Romney to the toxic companies by pointing out that he held stock in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the majority of the mortgage-related attacks have come from Romney, who has continuously highlighted the $1.6 million the Gingrich Group, Gingrich’s consulting firm, was paid by Freddie Mac between 1999 and 2007. If Romney wins this region, it will be yet another reminder that negative ads and attacks work..
The first congressional district, which is located in the western most part of the panhandle, boasts a higher number of military retirees than any other district in the country. Unsurprisingly, McCain received the most votes in the first congressional district in 2008, but Romney actually received the highest percentage of the vote in the North/Panhandle region overall, 34 percent to McCain’s 32 percent and Mike Huckabee’s 19 percent.
If Romney can withstand the “Massachusetts moderate” attacks that Newt Gingrich has thrown at him in this region, it is a good sign for his chances of sweeping the state.
February will see a slew of caucus events in Colorado, Minnesota, and the next state on the 2012 primary calendar: Nevada. | http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/florida-primary-how-it-works-why-it-matters-and-what-to-watch/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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With a new heart, Dick Cheney is back.
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Cheney reflects on the “miracle” that a heart transplant promises to give him years of added life. And Cheney.
He,” Cheney.”
“You can’t be judged, and shouldn’t judge, people in those senior levels by the polls,” he told ABC News.
He does not spare his fellow Republicans, calling Sen. John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice president running mate a “mistake.”
Cheney said Palin had been governor of Alaska for two years at the time and “did not pass the test” of being ready to be president.
He also wryly described how the list of vice presidential candidates is used by officials up for reelection.
“I had a couple of calls from politicians who’d say, ‘You know, it’d really help me in my race back home, Dick, if I was on the list.’ Done. You’re on the list,” said Cheney. “Then somebody could go leak the fact that they were on the list.”
Cheney helped vet candidates for Gerald Ford in 1976 and George W. Bush in 2000 that ultimately settled on Cheney.
“But that was the big list. It was easy to get on the big list. The tough part is the small list, the one that’s really under active consideration,” he said.. | http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/dick-cheney-recalls-knowing-his-heart-was-at-an-end/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
WWII Carrier Pigeon Finally Delivers Secret Message
Win McNamee/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Secrets from World War II may have been found in a coded message attached to the skeleton of a carrier pigeon found in an English chimney.
The bird was found when David Martin in Bletchingly, Surrey, was renovating his fireplace.
Martin told the BBC that he began “pulling it down, pulling it down…then the pigeon bones began appearing one by one by one. Down came the leg with the red capsule on with a message inside.”
Martin called the discovery unbelievable and his wife was so delighted with the 70-year-old surprise she said it was like “Christmas.”
Theories suggest the bird was making its way from behind enemy lines, perhaps from Nazi occupied France during the D Day invasions heading toward Bletchley Park, which was Britain’s main decryption establishment during World War II.
Others say the bird likely got lost, disorientated in bad weather or was simply exhausted after its trip across the English Channel and landed in the Martin’s chimney.
More than 250,000 carrier pigeons were used in World War II. They were called the National Pigeon Service and were relied on heavily to transport secret messages.
During the war the Dickin Medal, which is the highest possible animal’s decoration for valor, was awarded to 32 pigeons, including the United States Army Pigeon Service’s G.I. Joe and the Irish pigeon Paddy.
Government code breakers are working to read the message found in Martin’s chimney.
Colin Hill from the Bletchley Park pigeon exhibition told BBC, “I thought no way on earth can I work this one out.”
They have determined so far that the message is from a Sgt. W. Stott and that it was written 70 years ago. | http://abcnewsradioonline.com/world-news/wwii-carrier-pigeon-finally-delivers-secret-message.html | 2013-05-18T10:53:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The Properties of Identity
Thu, 02/09/2012 - 13:03's; as such, it might be more accurate to say this work was simply recovered.
Disjointed and scatterbrained though it might seem, this series is connected by at least one thread of genuine consistency—that it's not the product of the standard design tools of the noughties, but the output of a camera that points back towards the eye of the user, one lens against the other, extracting with each sizzling flash another interlaced glimpse of times, places, colors and shapes that make even less sense now than they did at the moment of their original recording. What this camera lacks in fidelity it resolutely makes up for in contradiction; its dimensionless images feature depth without distance, saturation without color, shape without form and conviction without meaning.
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. Or your mister's outfit. What? You think that might be just a little over-the-top. Well... maybe you're right. xo. emma and elsie
This is amazing!
Posted by: GlamB0t | April 17, 2012 at 05:50 PM
I'm glad to see someone else had the same idea - it's so simple and fun! I posted an iPhone case DIY last summer:
xo
Posted by: Lesley Myrick | April 17, 2012 at 05:51 PM
Great idea! Making this over the weekend...thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Essie | April 17, 2012 at 05:52 PM
Cute!
Val
Posted by: Val | April 17, 2012 at 05:53 PM
I like this idea a lot. My phone has a curve at the bottom so idk if it would work the same but i can still try it :]
Posted by: brittanyp | April 17, 2012 at 06:03 PM
These are awesome guys, but first things first....gotta get an iPhone. :)
xoxo
Posted by: Natasha Fatah | April 17, 2012 at 06:04 PM
YES THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA! i love how you can update it whenever! Thanks for a fabulous idea, Elsie!
Posted by: rory | April 17, 2012 at 06:10 PM
So awesome! I was actually just browsing iphone cases earlier today... These are perfect!
xo Heather
Posted by: Heather | April 17, 2012 at 06:13 PM
This is so cool and easy. Thank you for posting. I have a Samsung phone and one bummer about it is that there is such a limited selection of cases. Now I can't wait to commit to a clear case and customize it myself!
Faith Wall
Posted by: Stephanie | April 17, 2012 at 06:17 PM
Cute idea! I've never thought about decorating clear ones... My phone may be getting a makeover soon (although I don't have n iPhone)!
Posted by: Christen DeGonzague | April 17, 2012 at 06:22 PM
I don't have and don't wanna have an iphone, but this is cases look really cute, so if I have one.. I'll definetely buy such a clear case and put some nice paper in it. Pinky swear!
Posted by: Karolina | April 17, 2012 at 06:27 PM
Yep you girls are both geniuses! This is my FAVORITE DIY of yours to date! I love love love this. So simple too..keep up the awesome ideas ladies!!
Posted by: Lindsay @ Delighted Momma | April 17, 2012 at 06:29 PM
ooh my students will love this i may just order some and do this with them in homeroom!
Posted by: Monique | April 17, 2012 at 06:32 PM
Oh, this is so cool! You can update your case whenever you want, however you want.
Posted by: Miss Peregrin | April 17, 2012 at 06:33 PM
Such a great idea! So creative. Love them!
xx
Posted by: Allison | April 17, 2012 at 06:56 PM
These are adorable thank you for sharing! I can't wait to try it.
Amanda Rose
Posted by: Amanda Rose | April 17, 2012 at 06:56 PM
Paper ones wont last very long in anyone's bag!
Posted by: Robyn | April 17, 2012 at 07:00 PM
Robyn, the paper is enclosed in the plastic case. :D XO!
Posted by: elsie | April 17, 2012 at 07:03 PM
What an awesome idea! This is so perfect for a cute gift.
Posted by: Carla | April 17, 2012 at 07:03 PM
Decorative cases are crazy expensive! I did the same for my iPod Touch but with printed paper. Love it. It's true that paper won't last long. Gotta try out the fabric notion.
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Happier without Hope
Sometimes hope messes things up. Sometimes hope is the source of discontentment. Sometimes I wish I didn’t have hope. I realize that the previous three sentences are ridiculously pessimistic, but sometimes that’s just how I feel.
Because really, what is hope? Hope is that belief that regardless of current circumstances life could or will be different, ironically it’s the opposite of pessimism (my current state). The problem with hope is that it’s sneaky and while it may be small, a little goes a long way. It’s like that Prince of Egypt song that says, “Though hope is frail, it’s hard to kill”. And I couldn’t agree more. Hope is like a parasite that can lay dormant for years living off the slightest sources of nourishment.
I guess my frustration with hope at the moment is that I was resigned in my lot, I was moving on (or trying to) when hope reared it’s
ugly little head and messed me up. Ugh. Sometimes it’s much easier to be happier without hope.
Though, to be fair, how great can resigned happiness really be? I guess the answer to that varies depending on the situation. Perhaps hope isn’t so much meant to make us look for the unattainable but rather spurs us on to hold out for the better? Maybe that discontentment that hope brings is purposely designed to push us to work harder and longer toward the goal? Maybe hope is good, but it doesn’t feel like it today.
What I think the root question here is, what is realistic hope? Is there such a thing? Are there things that we base our hope in that are simply out of our reach, and by doing so are we setting ourselves up for perpetual disappointment? And if so, how do we know which hope is which?
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PS. Ironically, within about 5 minutes of posting this I read these two updates (one on Twitter the other on Facebook) 1. “Hope is never lost…” 2. “It is irresponsible to be pessimistic in the field of endless possibilities.” Ok, I get it.
PSS. For my more positive thoughts on hope, check out THIS post. It’s much more encouraging.
I can completely relate to this. Sometimes hope feels desperately cruel when that hope burned brightly against all odds and then the hoped for thing was just snuffed out in the end anyway. At that point, you can end up resenting the former hope itself almost as much as you resent the catastrophic destruction of the thing that you had hoped for.
I have to think that this is because hope is only rightly understood through Christ. We can hope in him and that will never fail. Everything else hoped for has the potential to make fools of us if it was simply not “meant to be” and all of our hoping was just a heartbreaking waste of time. | http://abigailcristo.com/happier-without-hope/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Thursday, January 27, 2011
My new favorite program: Food Corps
My latest love affair is with Food Corps -- an AmeriCorps program focusing on school garden building, nutrition education, local farm sourcing for school food, and community outreach -- which will be launching the first 10 pilot projects around the country later this year. I've been following the program's development for a number of months now and I recently heard through the grapevine that they're starting to recruit a small staff and there will be a call for applications in February for the first round of Food Corps service workers....
Don't think I didn't have my eye on the pilots in Jackson, Mississippi (I love The South) and central Iowa (ditto) for awhile there, but since I've recently -- and delightedly -- been hired by Arcadia to develop a mobile farmers' market, I'm trying to stay focused on the District, at least for the next few years.
Man, oh, man I wish I could link up with some of this exciting work. Hmmm. Maybe I can figure out a way to link their work with what we're doing at Arcadia, but it looks like I'll have to wait until next year, as the DC area is not home to a Food Corps pilot site. Keeping my fingers crossed....
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Walmart??
When founder Sam Walton opened the first Walmart store in 1962, it was with the belief that he could help people stretch their dollars further. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. He was a businessman who dreamed of helping his fellow Americans get what they needed and not going broke in the process. Sure, I can see why this might seem to align with the work that Mrs. Obama is doing to make affordable, healthy food more widely available, but....
Okay, maybe the company has done some good things, like demanding that manufacturers use less packaging. This was a measure put in place to cut costs, mind you, not because of any environmental concern, but it did cut down on millions of tons of waste that would've ended up in landfills. And the measure did, in fact, cut down on cost and the savings were passed on to consumers. (It also cut down on packaging at non-Walmarts, as competitors struggled to keep up with consumer expectations for cost and waste.) There are probably other positive changes that the chain brought about, but I never managed to make it more than 50 pages into The Walmart Effect. What can I say, it started to get a bit redundant. (Like my lecture about wearing bike helmets. But still: wear a helmet!)
Considering the disproportionate percentage of the market that it controls, the sheer volume of stuff that it moves, and all of the locations it maintains, Walmart has been a major game-changer for a few years now, selling bajillions of dollars worth of (often unnecessary) stuff to people across the country (and via affiliates abroad -- like the "Bodega" grocery chain that I used to unwittingly support during my time in Mexico, though the yellow smiley face signs should've tipped me off). There is potential for good, but I just don't see Walmart executives doing ANYTHING simply out of the goodness of their hearts. (Do they even have hearts? The treatment of employees and cutthroat pricing schemes would suggest otherwise.) A number of months ago, I mentioned the superstore's decision to begin carrying organic food items. Well, that seemed to be a step in the right direction, even if the motive was profit or PR. Considering the purchasing power of this corporate giant, the supply required for even a small amount of organic produce or dairy in each store had the potential to support a large number of organic producers across the country, thereby making organics more available to consumers and creating a steady, paying market for producers. And Industrial Organics were born.
I'm sure Mrs. Obama is trying to focus on Walmart's potential to get more (somewhat) healthy food to more places, perhaps including the five stores the company is hoping to open in the District in coming months. Because it seems that "D.C. residents can't access some resources that suburban residents take for granted." Such as...? That must-have 46" flat screen TV? Adequate parking? A yard? A voting member of Congress? Oh, like more pesticide-laden, under-priced bell peppers imported from a country that most Americans probably can't identify on a world map. Thanks, Walmart.
[Note to readers: because I strive to maintain a G-rated blog that former students may peruse, I am refraining from unleashing a torrent of expletives here.]
While Mrs. Obama points to Walmart's potential as a major food supplier to bring healthier, cheaper, more clearly labeled food products to their expansive empire of stores in poorer parts of the country, I can only just barely resist the temptation to point out Walmart's propensity for preying on the selfsame poor they claim to be helping with their "everyday low prices." It makes my skin crawl. If there were a possibility of a reverse endorsement, I would urge the First Lady to make one immediately.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Handle with care
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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Monday, January 17, 2011
After School Special: Brainfood. Mentoring had been my favorite part of teaching, back in the day, and it felt amazing to be back in such a role. After only a couple of months, the students and adults I work with feel like an integral part of my life, and I find myself especially looking forward to Tuesdays. And then there are special events like the holiday party: so much fun!
(I guess they like me well enough, too, including me among the group's compiled affirmations and thank you notes posted on the wall at the holiday party last month. I almost cried when I happened upon the yellow sign with my name on it while wandering around with Carina's camera to snap pics of students decorating gingerbread houses or enjoying food that they'd prepared with friends and family, it was so unexpected and sweet.)!
I'm missing them this week. It feels a little funny not meeting -- school's out for the MLK holiday -- but I'm looking forward to next week when we dive back into the kitchen. Soon we'll be wrapping up the segment on chicken and starting to dabble with sauces and seafood. Mmmm.
Enticed yet? Should you be interested in helping out at Brainfood, they welcome volunteers. There are long-term opportunities (they ask weekly volunteers to commit to coming in once each week from September through May), concentrated stints (like the summer program), and one-time events (for guest chefs/speakers). It's time well spent. And they even feed you at the end.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Food for all....)
Sunday, January 9, 2011
After School Special: Common Threads
Anyway. A few months ago I learned of a Chicago-based program that works with 8-12-year-olds on basic cooking skills while touching on nutrition principles and building an awareness of other cultures around the world. As fate would have it, I had an opportunity to meet with Common Threads' culinary program manager for a cup of coffee while visiting my cousin Brooke in Evanston, IL this past September. (I have a lot of cousins, yes.) The fall term had already begun, but I was so captivated by the program that Courtney suggested that I help out at a few classes at DC locations to see if I might want to be a chef instructor during a later session. So a few evenings this fall I volunteered as a food education assistant to Chef Sam at an elementary school in Southeast DC -- not far from where I used to teach, actually.
Each class during the 12-week session begins with a brainstorm to see what students already know about a particular country. It's interesting to see what people's associations are: the kids' own knowledge of Haiti, for instance, centered around the recent earthquake, where my own impressions were largely informed by conversations with my Haitian students back in Brooklyn, the book Krik? Krak! and a former boyfriend's time in the Peace Corps there. After the warm-up discussion, kids work in groups -- with an adult, or sometimes two per group (they are using real chef knives, after all) -- to prepare three or four native dishes. Then it's time for cleaning up and sharing the meal together. It's good food, too. The evenings that I helped out, we made traditional Brazilian and Haitian fare. The recipes were no joke, requiring garlic mincing and marinade concocting and dessert tasting along the way.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Dream a little dream job
Faithful....
Monday, January 3, 2011
Mind your peas and queues
[It was quite a journey this year, with a bus from DC's Chinatown to NYC's Penn Station, then a subway ride to John's apartment on the Upper West Side, where a day later I caught a ride up to Burlington, then the reverse series of cars, trains, and buses to get home tonight. Boy am I ready for some quality time with Ollie after all of this time sitting and standing in queues!]
This year, in addition to the usual crowd of exceptional Vermonters, I had the extra good fortune to meet a few more inspiring kindred spirits, including my friend John's girlfriend Christine, an amazing cook, triathlete, and life coach. (I'm not just saying that because of our shared love for all things food, bicycling, and LOST, but they are additional signs of quality people in my book....) As we feasted on her vegetarian version of Hoppin' John, I learned as much about life possibilities -- Christine's an independent nutritional counselor and personal chef -- as I did about food traditions like the Southern practice of leaving three black-eyed peas on one's plate to ensure good luck, fortune, and romance in the coming year. (You'd better believe I pre-counted and scooted three peas to the edge of my plate right from the start, lest in my distracted conversational state I accidentally eat my way to an ill-fated 2011.)
It got me thinking about new, creative ways to share the joy of healthy, well-prepared, sustainable food. Stay tuned for more developments as we move forward into this new year....
(Oh, come on, those of you who also watched LOST are used to cliff-hangers.)
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Posts tagged Zion National Park
Posts tagged Zion National Park
Winter Summit. Somewhere up there, grace. Scout’s Lookout on the trail to Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park, Utah.
Grace in a Winter Sky. Approaching Zion National Park from Kanab, Utah.
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.” - Khalil Gibran
Winter sky over Kolob Canyon in Zion National Park, Utah.
There is a sacredness of light and feeling in moments and places that transcend what the mind struggles to comprehend and control. Sometimes the full extent of the meaning of these experiences aren’t fully appreciated until days, months or even years afterwards, but the heart never lets go of the purity of beauty. In those moments are distant glimpses and echoes of where we come from and where we will eventually return. The struggles of today are suddenly meaningless. All else eventually falls to the wayside. What remains is eternal. The heart opened is the heart that connects with something wonderful beyond ourselves.
Crashing Through A Thousand Fears
Suddenly a single flame reignites from beneath the layers of ashen, wrecked remnants of so many signal fires.
To come to life again when all was nearly lost, hope arrives in the newfound strength coaxed forward by the promise of the eternal.
“Try again, try again. Rise.”
Where so many have long receded in the dust of earthly ages, prone and broken in their dispirited mourning of lost youth and passion. But here - here on this mountain and here upon the drowning waves of the dark sea - the whisper of a single heart, aged and damaged, responds. “I still believe and what can be.”
When the heart wants to run, let it race. When it wants to fly, let it soar.
To crash through decades of a thousand fears. Icarus with new wings and now wisdom gracefully follows the lead of a tracking sun, this time going above and beyond all those previous flights that were aimed at the fire center.
The canyon walls bellow are lined with a million ghosts of failed attempts. Echoes from the shadows call from behind, “no, no … you will fall too.”
But fins become wings. Feet break clay. Lift is gained on the rising breath that is the promise of dawn. A forgotten dance is once again performed amongst the clouds of the midday sun. And then the drifting waltz on the edges of golden light retreating below the horizon.
Stars, a million or more lead the way now. The arms of Orion bid Aquila to follow as he leads the way along a Milky Way path of shimmering dust.
“Keep flying. Keep flying. No fear. No fear.”
Soon all the wrecked remnants below are lost to shadow. The calls of warning fall to silence. Now nothing but a single voice from above, and from within.
In quiet and stillness, grace of forgiveness. Fears become distant memories. And on the wings of renewed courage peace arrives.
“I am home.”
Begin again in thankfulness. Texture and form in Zion National Park, Ut
Journey in the glow of the canyon @ Zion National Park, Utah
Frozen Light. Ice details in black and white. Zion National Park, Utah.
“Go now and seek to be God’s breath and face and hands to a world in need of grace, knowing that when you lose yourself in the Spirit, you will find yourself indeed.” by Estelene Boratenski
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Online Psychology Degrees …Read more ↓ for work in fields such as social work, probation and corrections, caregiving and recreational therapy, to name a few.
Online Bachelor’s Degree
- The Bachelor of Science in Psychology provides an opportunity to study the application of psychology in the workplace and places a stronger emphasis on business courses so that you can pursue a career in human resource, organizational culture etc.
- The Bachelor of Arts in Psychology provides a broad education in the arts, humanities, and social sciences for students who are more inclined towards the caregiving and social work aspects of psychology.
Online Master’s Degree
- This two year graduate program is ideal for professionals looking to advance their career, specialize in a specific area or simply looking to gain more knowledge. With a master’s degree, you are one step closer to getting a clinical psychologist’s license. You can choose from sports psychology, chemical dependency, industrial psychology, pastoral counseling, or general psychology etc.
Online Doctorate Degree
- This post graduate degree is the highest qualification that one can attempt in the field, though this is not the same as the professional licensure exams for counselors, etc. The doctorate allows you to customize your study plan and focus on researching elements that most interest you.
Specializations Available
Psychology degrees are usually divided into a number of specializations. Students can opt to do a general degree with focus on a specific area of study within it or they can opt for a specialized degree all on its own, in the following fields:
- Child Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Forensics
- Sports Psychology
- Executive Coaching
- Research Psychology
You can choose to focus your studies on children and assist them in assimilating better, or help mentally ill patients lead better lives through clinical studies. The options are vast and interesting.
Career Outlook
The profession as a whole is expected to grow faster than the average, at about twenty two percent. The median income for psychologists is $68,640, though this would differ according to state, specialization, qualification and position.
The demand for trained psychologists in various fields is expected to grow due to increased demand for psychological services in hospitals, schools, social service agencies, mental health centers, substance abuse treatment clinics and private companies. Those with doctoral degrees in counseling and health psychology are expected to see the greatest demand and returns.
Individuals who have higher qualifications, coupled with research and technology skills will have the greatest advantage. Associate’s or bachelor’s degrees will count towards entry level jobs, which is why it is essential to pursue higher education in conjunction with work experience and get the relevant license to really be successful in this field.
An Online Degree in Psychology is the answer if you are looking to pursue a career in this field. Start with a certificate program or an associate’s degree, and then work your way up from there. Choose an area that appeals to you the most and build your strengths in that area.Read Less ↑ | http://aboutonlinedegrees.org/onlinedegree-subjects/psychology.php | 2013-05-18T11:03:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
For or ill.”
And it’s not just associates. Last night we received an email from John Quinn, the “legal titan” and “known litigation genius” who founded Quinn Emanuel. In his long and detailed email, Mr. Quinn addresses several of the criticisms of QE that have surfaced on ATL. This was our favorite part:.
Check out his complete email — in which he addresses a whole host of topics, including billables, bonuses, partnership decisions, partner compensation, and even office supplies — after the jump.
We thank John Quinn for taking the time to compose and send in this highly informative and thoughtful email. No senior partner at a top firm has ever sent in such a detailed response to criticisms of his or her firm on ATL.
As one of the firm’s defenders previously noted in these pages, Quinn Emanuel is committed to “open and honest communication.” Such transparency is commendable. It suggests that the firm has little to hide, and much to be proud of. We wish that more leading law firms were as transparent and accessible as Quinn.
EMAIL MESSAGE FROM JOHN B. QUINN OF QUINN EMANUEL TO ABOVE THE LAW
someone called my attention to the postings on this site and i wanted to respond to some of them. we love our firm and what the lawyers at our firm have accomplished. we welcome discussion about us, but we want people to have accurate information..
some thought it was unfair that the bonus cut offs were determined at the end of the year (or that there were bonus cutoffs at all). we have in fact tried calculating bonuses different ways, including paying everyone the same bonus. it did not seem fair to us, or to many associates, to pay the same bonus to an associate who worked 1900 or 2000 hours as one who worked hundreds more. for that reason, we draw distinctions. in the past it has been our practice to determine cutoffs at the end of the year. it is clear that this was very unpopular with some associates this year. so – this year, for the first time, we will announce what the cutoffs are before the end of this month. as i have also said, i do believe that the associates who joined us as laterals had a legitimate gripe the way their bonuses were calculated and we are going to redo the calculations.
it has been said that we are “cheap.” maybe we are; i would like to think thrifty is a better word. we try to spend money on the things that help win cases. our furniture, for example, is (i hope) tasteful but i’m sure you can find better and more expensive furniture at many other places. in los angeles on the 10th floor we do not even have a ceiling – the pipes are all exposed. most people seem to like it that way. it is probably true that those who seek the trappings of a traditional “wall street” firm would be disappointed by some things at our firm. we are not for everybody, i am sure. i will say that we are not adverse to spending money on good parties!
there have been complaints about desks without drawers, office supplies, bulletin boards, and late expense checks. i really cannot believe that someone got a desk without drawers. if this is true, i would like to know about it. when it comes to office supplies, i likewise do not know what is referred to. i have talked to peter calamari (the managing partner of our new york office for you non-qe’ers) and he does not know what is referred to either. anyone who has difficulty getting office supplies should let dave henri in la know. checks to reimburse expense reports are cut twice per month. anyone who is not reimbursed within 15 days of submitting an expense report should tell dave henri.
one person is adamant that quinn emanuel does not pay the “top rate” in new york. any associate who billed 2100 hours at our firm last year made as much as anyone at any major firm in new york, so far as i am aware (with the possible exception of wachtell). obviously i am taking into account the full special bonus – which less than 10 firms in the universe paid – qe being the only such firm based outside nyc – and in which qe raised cravath $5k – half of which will be paid in june. it is true that those who billed less than 2100 hours did not receive a full bonus and those who billed less than 1900 hours received no bonus at all. if that is what is referred to, we plead guilty.
one other possible exception is for some senior associates and of counsel. associates at our firm are up for partner after six years. we try to compensate associates and of counsel more than six years out of law school based on our assessment of their contribution to the firm. the compensation for such people ranges quite a bit. so, as to those senior people, we do not necessarily pay “scale.”
some said that the only reason we were able to make all eight associates partner who were up this year is because we told some to withdraw their names. so far as i am aware, this did not happen. no doubt some associates assessed their chances and decided to withdraw their names or to postpone their candidacy. we try to avoid the indignity of an associate coming up for partner and being passed over. in the past, associates have withdrawn their names in one year, only to make it in a later year. that we were able to make eight out of eight this year shows that our system works. we are really proud of these fantastic young partners.
someone said i was a “dictator.” in the context of a law firm i am not sure what that means. if you make the right decisions about who you practice law with, lawyers do not need to be governed; you just need to see that they have adequate help and stay out of their way. at our firm we have very little governance. we have only one committee (the contingent fee committee). the partners only meet to elect new partners. for matters such as recruiting or real estate, where someone needs to be in charge, we designate someone and let them do the job. we have probably two dozen partners who joined us laterally from other firms. none of them miss committee or partnership meetings. they love it here. and, anyone who knows our partners knows they are not the kind of people who can be “dictated” to.
i do have a central role in determining partner compensation. i solicit input from all partners, publish a proposed distribution schedule and then work out any differences (never more than three or four) with the partners who have issues (and i generally find that they are right – that i have overlooked something). i do not know if this is the best system, but it works. recently, the partnership voted, using a website that permits anonymous voting, to determine whether we should continue deciding compensation this way or whether we should investigate alternatives. only 6 partners voted to examine other methods. so – as long as my partners want me to continue doing what i am doing, i will. when they do not want me to, we will try something else. but the fact is our system has worked. we have never had any controversy among our partners about compensation. i do not know another firm anywhere that can say that.
there has also been speculation about whether we have adopted a “two-tier, non-equity” partnership. the answer is we have not. all partners in our firm sign the very same partnership agreement which has the exact same terms that apply equally to all of them. the partnership agreement makes no distinction at all among partners. all partners have one vote. what may be referred to is our recent decision to give partners in their first three years guarantees (which are a minimum, not a maximum) of what they will make. this has always been true for first year partners. we recently extended it to the second and third years.
i’m not a blogger and don’t expect to become one, but it is interesting to look in and respond. for those interested in the firm, the information on the qe web site is meant seriously. we are obviously very proud of our firm. we believe that the emergence of our firm as a major player in the business litigation world over the last years is – dare i say it – unparalleled and transformative. our verdicts speak for themselves. no firm tries as many business cases as we do or wins as many. and, we have no intention of letting up.
John B. Quinn
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP
865 South Figueroa Street, 10th Floor
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James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine
Standards of Care
- All patients have the right to receive treatment without discrimination as to race,religion, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, or source of payment.
- All patients must be registered by the College of Dental Medicine before they are admitted for treatment. All patients must fill out and sign a comprehensive Health History Form, a Consent Form that includes possible risks, benefits, and treatment alternatives, an Acknowledgement of Receipts of Privacy Practices Form (HIPAA), and the Treatment Policy Sheet. The legal guardian must complete these forms for minors and patients unable to give their own legal consent.
- A patient dental record is established and maintained to include the legal documentation of all demographic data, medical history, consents, consultation reports, charting, radiographs, diagnostic and treatment procedures.
- All dental records are housed in the Record Room (BSB 250) on the second floor of the College of Dental Medicine with the exception of new patient records kept in Oral Medicine until the admission process is completed. Pediatric/Orthodontic, AEGD, and Periodontal resident patient records are maintained in their respective clinics. According to South Carolina law, dental records are to be maintained within the physical confines of the College of Dental Medicine.
- As treatment progresses, progress notes will reflect the following: date, Division name, full description of treatment rendered including materials, any changes in medical history, consultations, signatures and of attending faculty and student, and any post operative instructions.
- At the patient’s request, a copy of the dental record and radiographs will be given to the patient or legal guardian after completion of an Authorization To Disclose Protected Health Information Form (HIPAA). A minimal fee is charged for these services and is coordinated through the Office of Clinical Affairs. If a third party requests information from the College of Dental Medicine, where the patient is not informed, an MUSC Medical Center Accounting of Disclosures Form must be completed.
- Medical alert stickers will be posted on the outside of the patient record and further described in the medical history for those medical conditions that may require alteration of routine dental treatment due to a medically compromising condition.
- Patients of record and walk in emergencies will have access to dental emergency services on the following basis: 1) Monday through Friday – 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in the College of Dental Medicine, Oral Medicine Clinic. 2) Evenings, Weekends, and Holidays – Medical University Hospital Dental Resident on call. Whenever possible, the patient’s assigned student will provide emergency care. Additionally, Limited Endodontics and Operative (Caries Management Clinic) care is available in the College Of Dental Medicne.
- Medical emergency procedures for the College of Dental Medicine are in place during normal hours of operation. The MUSC Medical Center On-Campus Emergency Response Plan is initiated in response to a medical emergency. This plan referred to as the “May Day” procedure is posted in all clinic and next to all clinic phones. Emergency carts with oxygen and appropriate equipment are located at various areas throughout the dental school.
- All clinical faculty, staff, and students will be certified in Basic Life Support and have AED training. All medical emergencies are documented in the patient’s dental record to include the date, nature of the emergency, vital signs, and any treatment performed as well as the resolution of the emergency. All medical emergencies require the completion of an Incident Report.
- Universal precautions for infection control will be utilized for all patient care. In clinical areas where there is a likelihood of exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials, eating and drinking is prohibit and food/drink will not be kept in refrigerators, shelves, cabinets, or countertops.
- The Hazard Communication Program manual contains a list of all hazardous materials used in the College of Dental Medicine. A material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) will be kept for each hazardous chemical known to be present in the workplace. Eye wash stations are accessible in or near all clinical and laboratory areas where potentially hazardous materials are handled. An ongoing compliance assessment program will monitor that the standards for infection and biohazard control are met.
- All patients seeking acceptance to the College of Dental Medicine Comprehensive Care Program will be screened by faculty members. Patient needs are matched with student needs via continual feedback from the Patient Care Coordinator. Not all who seek care will be accepted.
- Request for radiographs is made by the attending faculty member with due consideration to the patient’s medical history, dental needs, and history of exposure. The request and number of radiographs is recorded in the Patient Radiation Exposure Record found in the back of the dental record. The requesting faculty member signs this record.
- Radiographs will be identified with the examination date, patient’s name, and Doctor’s name. The patient will be protected with a lead apron that includes a thyroid collar unless prohibited by the technique. The College of Dental Medicine Ionizing Radiation Control Policy is to be strictly followed by all clinical faculty, staff, and students.
- All patients accepted to the College of Dental Medicine Comprehensive Care Program will receive a complete clinical and radiographic examination in the Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning Clinic. A treatment plan is developed for each patient which will include the following: 1) Sequential treatment which prioritizes care (Urgent vs. Routine), 2) Patient needs, 3) Logical order of treatment, 4) Alternative treatment, 5) Risks of treatment, and 6) Financial responsibilities of treatment. Patients will sign the informed consent section of the Treatment Plan Form after a thorough written and verbal explanation of the proposed treatment.
- Patients will be assigned to students for comprehensive care by the College of Dental Medicne Patient Care Coordinator. Assignment will take place in a timely manner.
- Comprehensive treatment will take place in the respective clinical specialty areas with strict adherence to the Clinical Division Standards of Care.
- The Patient Care Coordinator will conduct quality assurance patient record reviews for junior and senior students. Faculty on the Quality Assurance Committee will conduct biannual quality assurance audits.
- All patients must have an exit examination before they can be released from the College of Dental Medicine. This process assures quality of care, timeliness of treatment, and proper closure. Eligibility for an exit examination includes completion of the actual treatment, a radiographic review, an administrative review from the Patient Care Coordinator, completion of periodontal recall, and assessment of prosthodontic recall status. | http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/dentistry/patient_care/standards_care.htm | 2013-05-18T10:30:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
(ARA) - Hunger pangs between breakfast, lunch and dinner can strike even those with the most nutritious meal regimens. In fact, snacking has increased in popularity; 97 percent of Americans snack daily, up from 71 percent four decades ago, according to a recent study from the Journal of Nutrition. That makes for a lot of snacking.
For those who believe snacks are off-limits, here's a pleasant surprise - snacking can actually benefit a diet. In addition to curbing hunger, The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics notes that healthy snacks help keep your metabolism on track, stabilize blood sugar and provide the opportunity for supplementary nutrient intake. The Academy recommends consuming snacks with less than 200 calories.
Try these tips below for guidance on how to snack smart, while not sacrificing great taste.
* Mix 'n match. Choose versatile snack options to keep up your new snacking habit. Wasa's new Crisp 'N Light Wholesome Wheat Crackerbread offers fewer calories and portion control. Its versatility allows it to be enjoyed by itself, with a variety of toppings or as a bread substitute. One slice of bread is about 100 calories while three Crackerbread slices total only 70 calories.
When a savory craving kicks in, pair two slices of Wasa Crisp 'N Light Wholesome Wheat with a thin layer of low-fat cream cheese, a slice of smoked salmon and sprinkle capers and chives on top. The salmon provides omega-3 fatty acids, which have been linked to heart health, and the crunch of the Crackerbread offers a feeling of satiety.
If you have a sweet tooth, try this delicious recipe that boasts approximately 110 calories, three grams of protein and only two grams of fat.
Wasa Crisp 'N Light Wholesome Wheat with Fresh Fruit and Yogurt
Ingredients:
1/2 orange, segmented
1/2 kiwi, thinly sliced
1 strawberry, thinly sliced
1/2 lime, zested and juiced
1/2 teaspoon mint, chopped
2 tablespoons Greek yogurt
2 slices Wasa Crisp 'N Light Wholesome Wheat Crackerbread
Directions:
Mix together all fruit and lime zest with lime juice and mint. Spread 2 tablespoons Greek yogurt on each Crackerbead slice. Top with a few tablespoons of the fruit mixture.
* Prepare. Instead of grabbing calorie-laden chips or candy, think of snacks as mini-meals and integrate them into your overall meal plan. By planning ahead and only eating when you are hungry, you will also avoid eating out of boredom or stress, according to The Academy.
The U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend two to three cups of vegetables daily, so as you purchase vegetables for the week, set aside some for snack time. Try spicing up your normal veggie routine of broccoli and carrots by considering bell peppers or jicama, a root vegetable low in calories and high in vitamin C and potassium. Pair your veggies with a hummus dip for a fiber-packed snack.
* Go (a little) nuts. The Academy highlights that, in addition to providing protein, folic acid and zinc, nuts have been linked to a reduced risk for heart disease, diabetes and even some forms of cancer. Two tablespoons of raw or dry roasted slivered almonds, walnuts or pecans offers less than 200 calories and can be a great portable option.
For more snack ideas, visit. | http://acadiaparishtoday.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Keeping+snacks+light%20&id=18456460 | 2013-05-18T10:22:19 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
:-) :-).
I bought my plane tickets for akademy a couple of days ago. I had to resort to phone booking, since bmibaby's website seems to be so broken that it didn't even work in IE. Still, it's done now, so I'll be there in Malaga for the duration of the conference. It should be a lot of fun, and with the experience I gained from last year's conference, I should be able to get a lot done too.
Among the people I hope to meet at akademy is Evangelia Berdou, who, as Thomas Zander wrote, is doing research into aspects of co-operation in open-source, with KDE and GNOME as case studies. I had a telephone interview with Evangelia on Monday, which I was slightly hesitant about, since it was intended to deal mainly with the Quality Teams, and I haven't really been that deeply involved with the Quality Teams. (I follow the mailing list, and try to help where I can, but I haven't done much of the wider co-ordination work). As it turned out, I babbled on for an hour and enjoyed myself a lot more than I was expecting. I think I drifted off the topic a little at times, but I hope some of what I said will be useful for Evangelia's work, and, in the long run, KDE too.
In the world of documentation, I'm trying to make some inroads into our todo list. Rainer Endres' excellent new docs.kde.org front- and back-end for docs.kde.org will help with one item (linking between docs), and I've just started discussions with the author of dblatex, a tool which we plan to use for the creation of PDFs of the documentation. Using an actively maintained system should mean we avoid hitting the brick wall that was eventually going to come our way with db2latex, the system I was experimenting with a few months ago.
And of course, I haven't gone the last few months without a little frisbee: I managed to get onto the university first team, thanks to the loss of a few key players, and played the annual Oxford vs Cambridge varsity match, this year held in Cambridge. In sweltering temperatures, we managed to take the match 14-7, and I even made some nice defensive blocks. I also found out that Sander Koning, of kde.nl fame, is a fellow ultimate frisbee player, so much throwing of discs should take place at akademy :-) | http://accentgrave.blogspot.com/2005/06/its-been-so-long-since-i-last-blogged.html | 2013-05-18T10:22:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Access Copyright is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without regard to gender, national origin, religion, race, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, marital status, or any other criterion that contravenes legislation. | http://accesscopyright.ca/about-us/join-our-team/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Last week I received the latest email newsletter from the Hilton Hotel and Suites Niagara Falls Fallsview.
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The process begins with an appointment with a Housing Financial Advisor and Construction Specialist at your home. At that initial appointment, the Housing Financial Advisor and homeowner complete an application, while the Construction Specialist walks through the property and discusses the needed repairs with the homeowner. After the initial appointment, the Housing Financial Advisor will contact the Anne Arundel County Department of Health and request that an evaluation be performed at your home. This evaluation certifies that you are disabled and details the accessibility modifications needed to meet your needs. Once the Housing Financial Advisor receives the Department of Health’s evaluation, the Housing Financial Advisor and Construction Specialist begin processing your application to determine your eligibility. The process then moves forward with the Construction Specialist preparing a scope of work and the Housing Financial Advisor completing the loan process. then..
4. What type of rehabilitation work is eligible under this program?
The only work eligible through this program is work identified as needed to meet your accessibility requirements in the report prepared by the County Department of Health. This work may include the installation of ramps, widening of hallways and doorways, and modifications to bathrooms and kitchens. | http://acdsinc.org/html/programs_s01.htm | 2013-05-18T10:53:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The kibbutz movement is dying. Assaf Inbari, who grew up on Kibbutz Afikim, has created a monument to the kibbutz movement in his book Habayita (Home) and Be'eri Zimmerman, who grew up on Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuhad, is full of admiration: “The single, private voice, the book's narrative voice, acts as a solitary agent trying to encourage the entire kibbutz community to speak out. A book like this could never have been written by a kibbutz community. The solitariness of that voice is a heroic revolt against the choir as it memorializes the choir in a literary work” | http://acheret.co.il/en/index.php?cmd=articles.392&act=read&id=2283 | 2013-05-18T11:02:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Today’s Podiatrist is the American Podiatric Medical Association’s campaign to increase awareness about the benefits of podiatry among medical professionals, the general public, and students.
Podiatrists are physicians, surgeons, and specialists who are highly trained to diagnose and treat conditions affecting the foot, ankle, and related structures of the leg. Podiatrists complete more than seven years of rigorous foot and ankle training in podiatric medical school (4 years of podiatric medical school and 3 years of residency) and are uniquely qualified to care for this part of the body.
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Justus Lipsius’ Concerning Constancy
2011 | 214 + xxv pp. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-437-9 | MRTS 389
$63 | £45
Justus Lipius’ philosophical dialogue Concerning Constancy stands with Erasmus’ Praise of Folly as one of the signature works of Northern European humanism. The work was an immediate success and was widely read for a century after its initial 1584 publication. There were numerous editions of the original Latin, and it was translated into most European vernacular tongues. Its influence may be traced among English writers from Donne and Jonson to Milton and Marvell, and it was a principal source for the spread of Christian Stoicism throughout Europe. This is the first English translation and new edition of Concerning Constancy since the seventeenth century. | http://acmrs.org/publications/catalog/justus-lipsius%E2%80%99-concerning-constancy | 2013-05-18T10:32:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Food Chemistry Series
Ever wonder what gives your beer its taste? Your wine its flavor? Your cheese its rich, creamy texture or why Texas BBQ is always done just right? (Hint: answers found below!) Whether you prefer beer and barbecue or possess a more refined palette and prefer wine and cheese (or both!), brew, taste, savor, and sizzle, but don’t fizzle – join us for the most delectable webinars this side of the Mississippi! Let’s savor the chemistry!
Click on a date to Register!
- March 31, 2011 – Advanced Beer Chemistry and Brewing
- April 28, 2011 – Cheers! The Chemistry of Wine
- May 26, 2011 – The Chemistry of Cheese and Why We Love It
- June 30, 2011 – Advanced Culinary Chemistry – Sizzles for the Summer
- August 11, 2011 – Advances and Innovations in Wine Chemistry
- November 17, 2011 - The Chemical Keys to Thanksgiving Dinner
- January 19, 2012 - Toast the New Year with Champagne Chemistry
- February 16, 2012 - Top Five Chemistry Tips for the Kitchen
- March 15, 2012 - More Advanced Beer and Brewing – Tips, Tricks, and Tidbits You Wish You Knew
- April 19, 2012 – The Chemistry Magic Behind Popcorn
(Join LIVE to maximize your Q&A opportunity with the experts. ACS Webinars recordings will be available a week after the event. Click on the date to access recordings)
What You Will Learn
- The chemistry that underpins the quality of beer (foam, color, clarity, flavor)
- The “science” of wine appreciation & making – its history and health benefits
- Which compounds form during cheese manufacturing and why
- Protein chemistry and the benefits of long/slow barbeque
- And much more…
Meet Your Experts
Dr. Charlie Bamforth is Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting & Brewing Sciences at UC Davis. He has been part of the brewing industry for over thirty two years. His latest contributions have been The Brewmaster’s Art (A 7-CD recording in The Modern Scholar series) and Beer is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing (FT Press).. He appears regularly on TV and radio to discuss health, environmental and technology issues and has presented numerous science segments for children’s television.
Michael Tunick has been a Research Chemist with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service since 1985. He helped develop a low-fat Mozzarella cheese for the National School Lunch Program, devised methods for detecting mislabeled cheese for US Customs, and is currently comparing fatty acids in milk from cows fed on pasture and on grain.
Kent Kirshenbaum is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at New York University. In 2007, Kent’s collaboration with an assembled group of scholars, scientists, chefs, writers, journalists, performance artists, and food enthusiasts along with Chef Will Goldfarb of WilPowder resulted in the Experiemental Cuisine collective. This group seeks to develop a broad-based and rigorous academic approach that employs techniques and approaches from both the humanities and sciences to examine the properties, boundaries, and conventions of food. Kent is also known as an investigative chemist, has published many articles and once appeared on the Food Network’s “Food Detective” program...
The Fine Print
ACS Webinars™ does not endorse any products or services. The views expressed in these presentations are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the ACS.
I am interesting in food chemistry and cooking science.
I am interested in a cooperation concerning polyphenols utilization in the food chemistry.
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Kindly
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Dear Christer: Please link to each event page and look at the “What you will learn” bullets provided for each event. For example, here is the link for Advanced Wine Chemistry with the bullets (). Thank you.
-ACS Webinars
Will the presentation be available for view on your web site? I know a 10 year old for whom this is perfect, but he is in school at that time. Thank you.
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Welcome back to Active Life Health Clinic's January 2007 newsletter.
The beginning of the year is a great time to
reflect on the past ("Top Health Stories of 2006"), plan for your
future ("Resolve to Make your Resolutions Come True"), make some
changes for the better ("Quick Fix Food"), and get back on track with
your health goals.
If you've been over-indulging over
the holiday season (or perhaps longer than that?), don't forget that
detoxification is important to your body and that the price of the far-infrared sauna sessions will change starting in February of this year.
I'm sure that you've probably heard or read somewhere that one of the
ways to succeed in making a goal come true is to share it with
someone. Once you have told someone, you are held accountable for
making that come true, and you will be more likely to push yourself
when/if you want to give up. Share with me your health goals for this year.
Patient News Announcement: Looking for spiritual inspiration and healing? Check out the new tv series "5 Seekers" starting January 9th. You can also see a clip at.
Resolve to Make Your Resolutions Come True!
Now is a great time to think about your goals for the new year. While tv ads may give the illusion
that people's biggest aspirations are to buy more, take more
medication, and eat more junk food, it seems that the most popular New
Year's Resolutions are health-related: to quit smoking, eat
healthier/lose weight, and exercise more.
What would you like for the year 2007? Why not make it happen
this year? Surprise yourself and/or friends and family with your
successes in keeping those resolutions. Or bring a friend or 2 or
3 or more along for the ride with you while you support each other in
your goals.
1. Quit Smoking
Acupuncture is commonly used for relieving pain, but did you know that
it can also help you to quit smoking? Of course you have to
actually want to quit, but acupuncture and ear seeds (non-needle
stimulus that you press yourself), can greatly reduce cravings and
increase your chances of succeeding. It is recommended that you
do 6 sessions, twice weekly for best results. Herbal teas can
also be helpful, e.g. Stop Smoking Tea.
2. Eat Healthier/Lose Weight
Well, this is a topic that I cover quite often, so all I'll say now is,
isn't it time that you cut back on your coffee intake, drank more water
and less pop, watched out for those hidden and not so hidden sugars and
bad fats, and made veggies a bigger part of your plate coverage?
If you have digestive or other health issues, food allergies or
sensitivities, need help obtaining your healthy weight goal, or would
simply like to make sure that you are getting what you need, come in
for specific nutritional advice. For those who are too busy, too
tired, or too lazy to make an effort, read "Quick Fix Food" below for
ideas.
3. Exercise More
We all have our excuses for why we don't exercise enough (or at
all). I may not be able to make the days longer to give you more
time to work out, but I can help you feel more energetic, be healthier,
and reduce your pain--all things that can make you more likely to be
successful with your exercise goals.
And remember...
"Whether you think you can or can't, you are right"--Henry Ford
Quick Fix Food
Do:
1. Keep healthy "fast food" available
2. Pre-prepare meals
3. Make healthy alternatives to your favourites
4. Choose healthier pre-made food options
Don't:
1. Have junk foods readily available
2. Overdo the treats
3. Skip meals
4. Think that "fat-free", "cholesterol-free", "sugar-free", "diet", and "healthy" on food labels always means healthy
Top Health Stories of 2006
What health topics stand out for you from 2006?
1. Drug Resistant Bacteria
known as MRSA--methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus--is now the
most common skin infection seen in urban hospitals and traditional
antibiotics do not destroy it.
Alternatives? Keep your immune system strong by using preventative medicine, manuka honey, and probiotics
2. "Globesity" is the epidemic of obesity around the world
as the world takes on the American diet. Obviously the Chinese
are no longer following the Traditional Chinese Medicine food cures and
dietary measures of their ancestors as 60 million Chinese in China are
obese.
3. New York city is aiming to ban trans fats
from New York City restaurant fryers by July 2007 and from all
restaurant food by July 2008. At that time, New York will join Tiburon,
California, as the second trans-fat-free city in the United States. Some
experts believe that trans fats are a much greater health risk than
saturated fats. I agree! Remember that trans fats may not
be labelled (smaller companies have until the end of 2007 to have to
label trans fats and quantities less than 0.2% can be lablled as
trans-free), but the ingredients will be, so avoid hydrogenated fats
and oils and limit your store- and restaurant/cafe-bought baked goods.
4. Food safety measures failed when bagged spinach was found to be contaminated with e.coli,
a dangerous bacteria. It's tough to eat healthy when the veggies
are dangerous! Make sure to wash even "pre-washed" bagged
veggies. Add grapefruit seed extract to the water you wash your
food in and you will be more sure to kill any unwanted tag-alongs.
5. Once again we are warned of a devastating flu epidemic to come.
Yes, this was also big news last year, but experts state that it is
inevitable. While there have been human deaths in Indonesia from
the bird flu, there were no additional cases of human-to-human
transmission or evidence that the virus had mutated. In addition, the
infection rate of poultry seems to have slowed. Protect yourself
by strengthening your immune system. Even if you don't get the
bird flu, SARS, or some other such exotic and potentially dangerous
flu, no one likes to be sick. Natural alternatives include
acupuncture, a healthy diet, Flu-X, vitamin C, Chinese herbs, far-infrared sauna, and more.
Everything But The Kitchen Sink Shake
My favourite protein shake recipe:
- 1 scoop (20-25g) of xylitol or stevia sweetened or plain isolate protein powder (e.g. Sisu)
- 1/4 tsp vitamin C powder
- 1/4 tsp maca powder
- 1 scoop probiotics powder or opened capsule
- 2-3 tsp of greens powder
- 1 Tbsp EFAplex essential fats oil
- 1/2-1 ounce of antioxidant-rich juice (my favourites are goji juice and Ageless Xtra)
- 1 Tbsp organic unsulphured blackstrap molasses (rich in minerals)
- frozen fruit (fresh fruit when seasonally available)
- water
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Alberta’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commisioner says a doctor in a Covenant Health hospital emergency room in the province has accessed electronic health records of his girlfriend nurse’s ex-husband and people close to him.
After the nurse’s lawyer asked her ex during divorce proceedings about a personal medical issue, he asked for a log of those who had accessed his records. They found 12 doctors’ names, with neither the first doctor or nurse, having appeared to access that man’s records, his new partner’s and his mother’s.
The names sounded familiar to the man, and further investigation brought out that his ex’s new partner, the doctor, had used other people’s accounts, left open in the busy E-R, to check out the records. The doctor says the nurse was not aware of him doing it, that it is not uncommon for computers to be left logged on by a number of busy physicians.
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ACVP Members
ACVP
American College of Veterinary Pathologists
2424 American Lane
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Telephone: +1-608-443-2466
ACVP members who have retired may request the ACVP Council to grant them emeritus membership. To make this request, email the ACVP Executive Office and provide your name, year of retirement, and request for emeritus membership.
The Constitution of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists defines five types of members. It stipulates that an emeritus member is any member who has retired from the practice or teaching of veterinary pathology. Emeritus members shall be exempt from the payment of dues but shall have all privileges of members, except the right to hold office. Emeritus members may continue to receive Veterinary Pathology at the rate provided for members (currently $55.00 US). Emeritus membership is voted upon and granted by Council at the request of regular members desiring to change their membership status.
Emeritus membership is intended to give our retired members a financial break yet keep them on the membership rolls and potentially active in College affairs. We have many senior members with broad collective experiences that could benefit the development of the College. Continued interaction could provide the opportunity to tap this experience at the same time providing opportunity for interested members to contribute their expertise and remain involved. We recognize that many want to pursue alternate nonscientific activities but remain in touch with College news and colleagues. Emeritus members may engage at the level of their interest.
Council interprets emeritus membership to be appropriate for members who have retired from the practice of pathology and are no longer earning a living, performing the tasks or receiving compensation for pathology-related activities. In the modern world, retirement may have many varied meanings. An individual may retire from a career in one institution and work in another or continue to consult. Council does not consider such individuals to be retired for the purposes of emeritus membership.
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Documents for Students (pdfs)
Field Lab Descriptions (pdfs)
- ED 200 - Perspectives in Teaching & Learning - Lab Design
- ED 220 - Exceptional Learner - Lab Design
- ED 310 - Methods of Teaching Elementary Science - Lab Design
- ED 328 - Methods of Teaching Elementary Math - Lab Design
- ED 404 - Literacy - Lab Design
- ED 414/416 - Classroom Instruction & Management - Lab Design
- ED 424/426 - Practices and Assessment - Lab Design
- ED 429 - Literacy - Lab Design
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Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
NUANPP reviews in the
areas of
new crops, aromatic and medicinal plants and nutraceuticals. Dr.
Simon
leads the Rutgers University program on New Use Agriculture and
Natural
Plant Products Program, and works. Simon's research is
supported by
NIH, USDA, USAID, and BARD as well as other public and private
funding.
Dr.
Wu's area
of expertise is in plant medicine, with a specialization in
natural product
chemistry including bioactive compound isolation, structure
detemination,
analytical method development and validation (HPLC & LC/MS),
and
standardization and quality control of botanicals, and plant
resources,
field investigation and plant taxonomy as well. By now he has
published
more than thirty scientific papers in natural products chemistry
and
medicinal plant analysis. Regarding his extensive expertise in
phytoestrogen analysis (a kind of soy polyphenols for hormone
replacement
therapy for women that alleviates postmenopausal symptoms), he
was invited
as a senior author by Journal Chromtgraphy B to contribute an
annual review
article on analytical assays. His recent research interests have
also
included botanical polyphenols for age-related diseases and
Traditional
Chinese Medicine for treatment/prevention of obesity.
The research of Dr.
Juliani supports the science-based
component
of our national, international development programs, NUANPP,
PFIDNP and
ASNAPP. His research identifies new applications and uses of both
traditional and exotic products, to ultimately assist growers/
collectors,
rural communities and the private sector to increase interest in
their
products. Research interests include chemical diversity of
essential oils,
biological activity of aromatic and medicinal plant components/
extracts,
biotechnology of native aromatic plants, regulaion of essential
oil
accumulation in aromatic plants, analytical techniques and
extraction
methods for essenctial oils, quality assurance and quality
control of
natural plant products, and international development through
sustainable
production of natural products.
Professor Ramu Govindasamy, a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics leads the work in value chain analysis, as well as in consumer, grower and market trends. With expertise in crop budgeting, market analysis and consumer/market survey, Dr. Govindasamy focuses on grower and production profitability and risk management.
Dr.
Adolfina
Koroch has been working in and associated with the Rutgers NUANPP
since
2001. While currently an Assistant Professor at the Borough of
Manhattan
Community College, CUNY, she has remained a visiting scientist at
NUANPP.
Dr. Koroch leads the tissue culture research in our laboratory
and brings
in considerable expertise in botany, plant physiology and plant
biology. As
a consortium member of the USDA/SCRI funded basil initiative,
Adolfina also
leads the BMCC work on this project where she is collaborating on
searching
for the genes associated with disease resistance in basil downy
mildew in
concert with Rutgers.
Chung
works for
the New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program at
Rutgers. He
investigates new aromatic plants and herbs opportunities for new
applications like bioactivity, nutrition, and medicinal
properties. Chung's
research focuses on plant genetics, genetic diversity, plant
breeding and
characterization for sustainable growth when introduced and is
currently
running trials for new crops such as Artemisia, Oregano, Catnip,
Basil and
Ethnic Green Herbs.
Tom
is a Ph.D
student for the Department of Medicinal Chemistry. He is a
natural products
chemist with a specialization in analytical methodology,
structural
elucidation, isolation, and chemical profiling. His current
research
involves investigation into the chemical composition of algal
species
cultured at NJAIC for natural products of interest to human
health. He is
also involved in studying quality control of dietary supplements,
particularly with grape derived products.
Kelsey is a
natural products chemist with a focus on analytical methodology,
isolation,
and structural elucidation. She joined the Food Science Ph.D.
program to do
nutraceutical research and to study aroma and flavor chemistry.
Some of her
current work involves volatile analysis of Commiphora spp., and
bioguided
fractionation and chemical profiling of Sorghum bicolor leaf with
antisickling activity. She also does the authentication and
quality control
of botanicals for the lab, primarily by LC/MS.
Derek
is a PhD
student in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry. His work
focuses on Kombo
Butter. The goal of the project is to evaluate the bio-
availability
of the components responsible for the anti-inflammatory activity
in Kombo
Butter.
After
completing his undergraduate degree at Rutgers University,
William was
accepted into graduate school at Rutgers for his masters in plant
biology.
Starting his research in the New Use Agriculture in Natural Plant
Products
(NUANPP) his focus is on improving the essential oil yield and
nepetalactone concentration in Nepeta cataria. Due to the
increase in
demand for nepetalactone as an insect repellent, information on
how the
plant's physiological processes produce this chemical is needed.
Daniel is a
medicinal chemistry graduate student and is researching the
phytochemistry
and medicinal properties of Griffonia simplicifolia and genus
Capsicum.
Daniel's research interests include synthetic
chemistry
and structural elucidation of natural products. Prior to joining
NUANPP,
Daniel worked as a synthetic chemist in another research group.
David
is a
first-year Plant Biology graduate student studying African
indigenous
vegetables, in particular vegetative Amaranth, a popular, spinach
-like
African leafy green which thrives during the heat of our summer
when
spinach cannot be grown. Studies have shown vegetative Amaranth
to be rich
in vitamins and antioxidants, yet a variety fit for American
popularity and
consumption has yet to be identified.
Robert is
interested in identifying the genes involved in the plant
response to these
abiotic and biotic stresses, as well as their mechanisms of
inheritance and
action. These objectives are being accomplished through classical
breeding
methods coupled with the development of molecular markers for
linkage
mapping and improved selective ability. The ultimate goal of my
research is
to provide a stable source of genetic resistance and
physiological
tolerance in order to develop a superior sweet basil. This
research is
funded by the USDA Special Crops Research Initiative(SCRI).
Claudia is a
Fulbright visiting scholar from Argentina. She graduated in 2009
from
National University of Cordoba, Argentina and received an
Agricultural
Engineering degree. She started her PhD in 2010. The objectives
of her
thesis is to study the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties
of four
different oregano varieties grown in the experimental station of
the
Agronomy College in Argentina and incorporate these essential
oils into
high lipid and humid food (as olive oil and cheese) and evaluate
their
consumers' acceptance.
Jing
received
his Bachelors degree of Pharmacy from China Pharmaceutical
University in
2011. He came to Rutgers University as a graduate student to
study
medicinal chemistry at school of pharmacy. He has some experience
in drug
synthesis and the surface plasmon assay development. Currently he
is
involved with research in Dr.Simon's lab to
plants of medicinal and nutritional values grown in Africa.
Recently, his
focus has been on the identification and quantitation of valuable
chemicals
contained in different parts of plants such as Hibiscus, Moringa,
Acanthosicyos, Ximenia. Instruments like LC/UV/MS and NMR are
frequently in
his research.
Lepolu (Jonathan) Torlon is part of the Excellence in Higher Liberian Education Development (EHELD), a USAID supported program, which seeks to develop a Center of Excellence in Agriculture at Cuttington University, College of Agriculture and Sustainable Development (CASD), Liberia, West Africa. Lepolu was selected by Cuttington University, Rutgers and NCSU to come to Rutgers and pursue graduate studies in soil sciences. Graduated in 2008 with bachelor degree in general Agriculture from Cuttington University in Liberia, he has worked as an extension agent as well as a staff in several administrative positions at Cuttington before joining the College of Agriculture and Integrated Development Studies (now the CASD) as a Research Assistance. Torlon’s studies focus on Soil Fertility with emphasis on plants nutrient management. Currently, he is investigating a greenhouse trial on the impact of silicon uptake by pumpkin as a beneficent substance in Soil fertility against infection of powdery mildew disease. His studies will focus on soils management, organic amendments and plant nutrient uptake. Upon graduation, he will be returning to CASD as a faculty member part of the new Center of Excellence that is being established.
Larry Hwang is part of the Excellence in Higher Liberian Education Development (EHELD), a USAID supported program, which seeks to develop a Center of Excellence in Agriculture at Cuttington University, College of Agriculture and Sustainable Development (CASD), Liberia, West Africa. Larry was selected by Cuttington University, Rutgers and NCSU to come to Rutgers and pursue graduate studies in Natural Resource Management, with a focus on developing indigenous medicinals and Non-Timber Forest Product from the Guinean Rainforest in Liberia using environmental sustainable harvesting models. Larry’s interest is in biological diversity, conservation, and sustainable use. He is interested in NTFPs found in the Liberian rainforest, especially those species that have medicinal, health and nutritional benefits and applications in sub regional and international trade so that economic benefits for local communities can be generated. If NTFP can reduce and/or substitute for timber logging, and other current practices threatening the rainforest these species can serve as part of a larger mitigation plan against deforestation and the conservation and the sustainable use of the biological diversity of the Liberian rainforest. Upon graduation, he will be returning to CASD as a faculty member part of the new Center of Excellence that is being established.
.
Lauren works full time as a scientist at Merck developing analytical test methods on respiratory inhalation products and as a part time PhD medicinal chemistry student, in Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Rutgers School of Pharmacy. Miss Seabrooks primary focus is on synthesizing derivatives of Kombo butter extract and in vitro investigation of the toxicity and bioactivity of promising lead compounds.
Cliff
has been
working in the NUANPP since September, 2012. Mr. Kitto
specializes in the
developing and coordinating programs focusing on international
and
agricultural development as well as issues relating to safety and
security.
Cliff is also coordinating the logistics and events for the 45th
Liberian
Studies Association that will be held April 04-7, 2013 at
Rutgers.
Grant
is a
graduate currently employed as the laboratory's web
developer, programmer, and auxiliary staff member. His efforts
have led to
the development of a LIMS (Laboratory Information Management
System) and
this website, as well as working in conjunction with Dr. Simon,
Dr, Koroch,
and Thomas Villani for product development and internet marketing
for
Visikol™. He is
also a freelance web developer specializing in academic web
design and
professional online product development. If there are any problems seen on the site, please contact him to resolve any issues.
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Where is Archy when you need him? I ask because Current Biology (note, this is a link to the pdf) has an interesting paper on the analysis of mammoth mtDNA from 160 samples – 63 from North America and 97 from Eurasia – from a broad cross-section of time. To give you an idea of what the research was about, here is the first paragraph of the article:
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Date: 11th December 08
Location: Cairo, Egpyt
Weather: Clear blue skies, warm day, chilly night. 26°c
Status: Prepared for a little wait now…
Up at first light and had a good breakfast before I started to do a few jobs which were overdue on the Colonel. One of the rear hub gaskets seals has started to leak so I replaced the gasket, checked the axles oil level and replaced the bolts hopefully leaving everything properly sealed.
I decided to grease the propshafts as they haven’t been done for a while and whist tinkering noticed that one of my front shock absorbers has blown leaving lovely oil all over the axle! Struggled to get the nut undone so decided that with only tarmac to go and no noticeable difference in the handling, I’d replace it when I get back to the UK, lazy I know. Polished Bacchus so he looked all smart and new.
Bre, Kees and I then drove into the centre of Cairo through the hectic, unorganised, chaotic traffic…truly some of the worst so far in Africa. It is one of the overriding things I remember from my trip to the city some 20 years ago! Found the Sultan Hotel where the remainder of the Watkins are staying and even managed to find a parking space outside, paid the card system for the day and went inside.
Bre was trying to find new hair to sort out her braids in time for the trip to the UK but here in Arabic Africa there are no back hairdos which use the same material so a fruitless process which took most of the day, we try again in Alexandria.
Kees and I went out to the market and bought a new set of horns each to compete with the mad traffic and horn-madness which Cairo is. His being the craziest of the two with 6 sound adjustable police sirens! Will fit tomorrow.
After a kofta dinner we went back to the hotel and I had a call from Sami, our Libyan fixer, to say that unfortunately the visas won’t be ready until the 17th so we’ll miss the first of the boats across the Med and will now have to wait until the 21st leaving only a day and a half to drive all the way back to the UK from Italy…..and then run a marathon! Yikes.
Drove back the 22kms to the camp and went to bed.
End of day location: Giza, Cairo, Egypt
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Keep the Faucet Flowing
Summer Learning and Home Environment
The findings in the article that follows are based on the authors’ Baltimore School Study, which began in 1982 and is still in progress. Entwisle, Alexander, and Olson chose twenty schools on the basis of their racial composition (six were predominantly African American, six predominantly white, and eight were integrated) and their socioeconomic status (fourteen were inner-city working class and six were middle class) and then randomly selected 790 first graders from those schools. Although the authors went on to follow these students throughout their school years and beyond, the findings discussed here pertain to the children’s elementary school experiences. In addition to standardized test scores, the authors gathered data from interviews with the students and their parents, questionnaires completed by their teachers, and school records.
–EDITOR
By Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson
In seeking to explain why poor children do worse academically than children from middle-class and wealthy families, analysts have focused on two major topics: differences in schools and differences in home environments.
Because government has more of a handle on schooling than on home environment, public policy has emphasized the former. This has led to a widespread impression that poor children are routinely shortchanged by their schools. In fact, poor and middle-class children make comparable achievement gains during the school year. But while the middle-class children make gains during the summer when they are out of school, poor or disadvantaged children often lose ground academically. So far, one appealing remedy for reducing the achievement gap—summer school—has been disappointing. How to explain this paradox? If summers are the time when differences are established, why does summer school do so little to close the gap?
Seasonal learning
Given all that has been said about the strong correlation between parents’ resources and school performance, it is astonishing that resources of Baltimore parents—both financial and psychological—did not predict how much children learned in winters when school was open. Their resources mattered only for predicting their children’s gains in summer. Many studies1 besides the Baltimore study indicate that when schools are closed for summer vacation, the achievement scores of children from disadvantaged families either stay the same or slip back a little. To see how these seasonal patterns contribute to children’s achievement, we calculated the children’s gains on standardized tests in summer, when schools were closed, separately from school-year scores in winter, when schools were open.
The achievement levels of all children, regardless of their socioeconomic status,2 moved up substantially during the winter of first grade. Between the fall and spring of that first year, poor children in the Baltimore sample gained fifty-seven points in reading and forty-nine points in math, and their more affluent counterparts gained almost exactly the same number of points—sixty-one points in reading and forty-five points in math.
In the summer after first grade, however, more affluent students gained fifteen points in reading and nine points in math, while the less affluent children lost ground. For example, in the summer after first grade, they lost four points in reading and five points in math.
And this pattern continued. In the course of the first five summers in elementary school, the low-SES students gained less than one point total in reading, and they lost eight points in math. At the same time, the higher SES children gained forty-seven points in reading and twenty-five points in math. However, during the winters, when children were in school, both groups gained virtually the same amount (one hundred ninety-three points in reading for low-SES children versus one hundred ninety-one points for higher SES and one hundred eighty-six points for both in math). So the increasing gap in test scores between the two groups of children over the first five years in elementary school accrued entirely from the fact that relatively affluent children continued to gain when school was closed whereas poor children stopped gaining or even lost ground.
A faucet theory
We think a "faucet theory" makes sense of these seasonal patterns. That is, when school was in session, the resource faucet was turned on for all children, and all gained equally; when school was not in session, the school resource faucet was turned off. In summers, poor families could not make up for the resources the school had been providing, and so their children’s achievement reached a plateau or even fell back. Middle-class families could make up for the school’s resources to a considerable extent so their children’s growth continued, though at a slower pace.
This seasonal pattern is not obvious because most schools give standardized tests once a year, and spring-to-spring comparisons convey the distinct, but wrong, impression that middle-class children learn more over the entire year than poorer children. Thus, it looks as though home resources help year round—and as though schools are failing poor children. The seasonal scores, however, show that home resources matter mainly—or only—in summer.
The seasonal data from Baltimore are not a statistical fluke—they agree with seasonal data for children in Atlanta, New Haven, and several other localities. In addition, as the scores demonstrate, poorer children in Baltimore derive just as much benefit from school as their better-off classmates do when school is open in winter. And because they have lower scores when they begin school and gains are usually proportional to starting scores, the progress they make when school is open is quite extraordinary. If we could get poorer children up to speed before they start school, perhaps schools could do even more to close the achievement gap.
Explaining summer gains
What is it that better-off parents and neighborhoods do in summers that poorer parents and neighborhoods do not? To answer this question, we need to step back and consider parental attitudes toward school and learning. First of all, middle-class parents see themselves as partners in the learning process while blue-collar or poorer parents see education as the school’s job.3 Because middle-class parents take an active role, they know more about their children’s school programs than poorer parents do. They understand how schools work, what determines success, how to get along in a complex bureaucracy, and how present actions relate to future interests. Middle-class parents themselves have been successful in school (e.g., they are more highly educated) and in the workplace (e.g., they have higher income and job status), so they are in a position to encourage activities at home that will lead to success in school.
For many poor parents, schools are intimidating—the rules and conventions are foreign and the middle-class professionalism of school personnel, threatening. Poor parents tend to defer to school personnel, they advise their children to "follow the rules," and they rely on "professional authority" to decide what needs to be done for their children rather than deciding themselves.
Higher family income allows expenditures for books, games, computers, and other resources that could promote learning in summer, but more income is far from being the whole story. Parents’ financial capital overlaps their human capital, their social capital, and especially their psychological capital. In the Baltimore study, parents’ psychological capital, as measured by parents’ expectations for children’s school performance even before the children started school, was of about the same importance as family socioeconomic status in predicting cognitive growth.
These expectations continue to be of great importance when children enter school, and for poor families they may be unfairly undercut by the grades poor children get. Researchers do not gauge children’s progress in school by looking at their marks because marking standards vary so much from one school to another and from one teacher to another. Instead, they use standardized test scores. However, most families and children pay much more attention to marks than to test scores, and although many do not understand the significance of test scores, the youngest children and the poorest parents know a low mark when they see one. Further, children come home every day with marks on papers and homework, and they receive report cards several times a year. Parents who see low marks react by believing that their children are not learning very much, but they are often at a loss as to what to do. Children themselves are disappointed and also confused. All of this turns marks into a key dynamic in the link between poverty and learning deficits.
If poor children are progressing as well as their more affluent counterparts, why does this fact not show up in their marks? We found that children’s marks corresponded to the socioeconomic status of their neighborhoods. In schools where 30 percent or fewer children were in poverty, over one-third received a first reading mark of A or B, while in schools with more than 30 percent of children in poverty, only 5 percent received an A or a B. It strains credulity, but in one school where 88 percent of children received meal subsidies, all the students in our study failed reading in the first quarter of first grade.
In other words, poor children were not being marked in terms of how much they advanced during the school year but in terms of where they started—even though, judged by the gains they made on standardized tests, they improved as much as the youngsters from more affluent families. Tragically, the message sent home on report cards was thus that many of these children were already academic failures. This negative picture helps to shape poor parents’ reactions to their children, thus further eroding parents’ valuable psychic capital, which is essential to undergirding children’s long-term academic prospects.
The level of marks, generally, in a school also seemed to affect how teachers viewed their students. At the end of first grade, when asked to predict how their students would perform in grade two, teachers’ predictions shadowed the marking patterns of the school. Teachers in the top ten schools, judged by their economic status, expected their pupils to get more A’s and B’s in reading than C’s or below, while teachers in the bottom ten schools expected nearly all their students to get C’s or below.
And teachers’ ratings of children’s classroom behavior corresponded to these marks. In a school with only 11 percent of children on meal subsidy, teachers rated their pupils significantly higher in general interest and classroom participation than did teachers in a school where 90 percent of children were on subsidy. Actually, the correlation between the meal subsidy level of the school and teachers’ average ratings of their students’ class participation is almost perfect. In schools with high percentages of children on subsidy, some children were rated so low in terms of class participation that they were at the bottom of the scale. In the more affluent schools no student was rated at the bottom of the scale on these qualities.
The overall picture is one of poor children assigned poor marks, expected by teachers to get poor marks, and perceived as deficient in classroom behaviors known to foster learning. The great inequity is, of course, that during the school year, the poor children learned at a rate equivalent to that of the better-off children in the same school system. Parents and the community as a whole accepted the evaluations with which they were furnished without being aware that the level of these evaluations reflected children’s home addresses rather than children’s progress in reading or math on standardized tests.
The school’s role
School systems and society in general are misinformed about the origins of social difference in children’s school performance. The strong impression that home resources help all year long is mistaken. Instead, family resources make a difference mainly when school is closed. One implication is that schools are doing a far better job than they have been credited with. Another is that middle-class parents’ aspirations, attitudes, activities, and psychic investments in their children are major reasons for the social class differences in children’s cognitive growth when schools are not open.
However, at present, misperceptions about the process of schooling needlessly depress poorer parents’ psychological resources. In addition, this mismatch between children’s actual progress and how that progress is viewed is highly inequitable. When Baltimore children started school, their pre-reading and pre-math skills reflected their uneven family situations, but despite this, children in our study, regardless of socioeconomic level, progressed at the same rate over first grade. In June of first grade, though, the unevenness in test scores present at the start was still there. Poor children started from a lower point than better-off children did, so when school let out for the summer they ended up at a lower point even though both groups made equal gains during the year. In addition, in summer the poor children’s growth just about stopped while better-off children’s continued to rise.
Summer school as a solution
If economically disadvantaged children fall behind their better-off classmates in summer, it seems obvious that attending summer school could, or should, bring poorer children up to speed. Sad to say, this course of action so far does not work. The few careful evaluations that have focused on attending summer school for the purpose of closing the gap between social groups (racial, economic, or both) find just the opposite. The evidence on summer school for this purpose is clearly negative. Summer school increases the gap.
On average, the summer school gain for students of all socioeconomic levels is quite small: about one-seventh of a standard deviation—roughly one month on average or a few test points (out of three or four hundred) on standardized tests like those used in the Baltimore study. This small gain is for rich and poor combined, so the first question is whether disadvantaged students attending summer school make any gains. The literature suggests they do not.
However, the failure of summer school to narrow the learning gap is not really surprising. Many other programs undertaken in the past have also had disappointing results. A major aim of "Sesame Street," for example, was to reduce the knowledge gap between minority (or poor) preschool children and their majority (or better-off) counterparts. But though, on average, it was clearly of benefit to preschoolers, it backfired in terms of decreasing the learning gap, which grew larger rather than smaller.4
The counter-intuitive outcome of summer school, like that of "Sesame Street," is an example of the "Matthew Effect," an often-observed phenomenon that takes its name from the gospel of Matthew 25:29—and that can be roughly paraphrased by the old saw, "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer." Providing add-on services across the board benefits advantaged students more than poor, bright rather than not-so-bright, majority more than minority, and so on. Why? One reason is that higher scoring and better-off children’s parents find out about special programs and see that their children attend them more often than do poorer children’s parents. In Atlanta, where summer school was voluntary, the Atlanta children who chose to attend summer school had higher achievement levels during the school year than those who chose not to attend.5 Similarly, the children least likely to attend preschool programs these days are children from low-income and single-parent families and those whose parents have the least education. For summer school and other programs to close the learning gap, they will have to be designed especially for poor children and provided specifically for them, as has been done with some compensatory education preschool programs.
Proposing a strategy
To determine the content of a summer program that will boost the summer achievement of poorer children, we need to know the kinds of learning experiences they lack and when to offer such programs. An important consideration for timing of programs, which we have not mentioned so far, is that children’s cognitive growth slows down precipitously as they progress upward through the grades. The reading achievement of Baltimore children improved twice as fast in grade one as grade three, for example, and the gap in summer gains between better-off and poorer children shrank over time.
Considering (1) the relatively small gap in children’s test scores associated with family income at the point when they start first grade, (2) the seasonal profiles of achievement growth with better-off children gaining more in summers, and (3) the marked deceleration in the rates of cognitive growth over the early school years, we suggest the following course of action: Provide poor children with high-quality preschools, and then follow up with summer school just for poor children in the summers before and after first grade.
Where to start? A good place would be to provide programs to help bring poorer children up to speed before they start first grade. We already know this can be done, because scientifically impeccable data show that good preschools can improve the early school success of disadvantaged children. A major effect is to reduce the retention rate in first grade,6 which is higher than in any subsequent grade,7 and holding poor children back in first grade mortgages their futures. By age 23, Baltimore students who had been held back in grade one were three times more likely to have dropped out of school, even when family economic status, minority status, and actual school performance were taken into account. Attending a good preschool could be enough to protect economically disadvantaged youngsters against low placements in first-grade reading groups or early retention.8 However, such programs must be specifically targeted at those children. If preschools reach more of the wealthier than the poorer children, or if wealthier children find their way to higher-quality programs, the gap will get bigger rather than smaller.
More disadvantaged children also need to attend kindergarten, which is a kind of preschool. Because kindergarten is not compulsory, a surprisingly large number of children still attend half-day programs, and back when our study children were in the primary grades, many skipped kindergarten altogether. In Baltimore City, for example, which is one of the poorest school districts in Maryland, 10 percent of first-graders in our study had not attended kindergarten, compared to about 1 percent nationwide today. In addition, the Baltimore study children who came from the poorest families were more often enrolled in half-day than full-day sessions. (Of children who attended half-day, 77 percent were on meal subsidy compared to 32 percent of those who attended full days.)
The benefits of full-day as compared to half-day kindergartens for the Baltimore children were striking. With family background and many other variables allowed for, first graders who attended full-day kindergarten were absent fewer days in first grade, were less often retained, and earned higher marks and test scores than the half-day attendees. So in addition to preschools (age four and younger), having poorer children attend high-quality full-day kindergarten (age five) could help close the gap.
Summer school programs
The next logical step after increasing poor children’s attendance in full-day preschool is to develop summer school programs for poor children that add on to preschool. Preschools can reduce the achievement gap when children start first grade, but then we need to keep the faucet open during the summer to give poor children the extra resources that middle-class parents provide for their children.
What should these summer programs consist of? Summer activities related to reading top the list. Low-income children involved in Atlanta’s summer schools tended to read more on their own than did students not attending.9 Likewise, in Baltimore, first- and second-graders who went to the library more often in summer and who took out more books did better than other children. Both math and reading growth benefited from library activities.
Better-off children also did things in summer different from what they did during the school year—they attended day camps, took swimming lessons, went on trips, visited local parks and zoos, and played organized sports, to name a few. These activities provided children with experiences unlike their experiences in school. Probably summer programs for disadvantaged children should feature activities that include a substantial amount of physical activity for both boys and girls, especially games like soccer, field hockey, or softball that require very little equipment but have complicated rule systems and require children to take multiple roles. Adult leaders need to be cast in the role of "coach" rather than teacher.10
Program content is not the only concern, however. Higher-income parents have psychological capital of a kind that summer school coaches could emulate: using positive rather than negative reinforcement, teaching productive problem-solving strategies, encouraging children to be self-directed, having high expectations, and seeing that the means are there for children to meet high expectations. Perhaps most important, coaches need to encourage children to enjoy themselves: Engagement is key to learning, and engagement can be difficult to achieve if summer programs are perceived as punitive.
The logistics of summer programs need careful planning, especially in terms of teachers who can establish strong attachments to students and parents. The programs need to be located near pupils’ homes, so children can get to them easily and so parents can become involved. Changing the summer environment of children in low-income families may require community intervention.
No single approach is likely to close the academic gap between low- and high-income children, but summer programs bracketing first grade could help. It is absolutely essential to be aware that special programs, including summer school, given to children of all income levels would probably enlarge the gap between rich and poor. High-quality preschools and kindergartens can definitely improve the school performance of low-income children. But as they go through the first three grades, these children—especially the most disadvantaged—need additional resources to stay even. Programs mounted in summers before the first and second grades that emphasize voluntary activities—recreational reading, organized sports, and a variety of summer activities that middle-class families often pursue—hold promise. The programs should not be scheduled as "make-up" or billed as being for children who have "failed." The success of these programs, we believe, hinges on their non-school flavor and on providing them specifically for disadvantaged children.
At age six, when children’s cognitive development is proceeding at probably twice the rate it does two or three years later, the trajectory of children’s long-term educational careers is being established. For this reason, it is imperative to concentrate on the pre- and primary schooling of disadvantaged youth.
The larger picture
People who think and talk about inequality often ask why it is perpetuated and how we can get those at the very bottom of the ladder to move up. When social theorists and policymakers propose schools as a solution, they often seem to go along with the notion that education is a sorting device. Thus, students leaving school are channeled into job slots that correspond with how long they have stayed in school and how successful they have been while there. Those who win out in school will win out in the labor market as well.
To us this image of sorting students at the end of their schooling misrepresents the nature of inequality. Families sort themselves by income into neighborhoods. Then schools, which reflect the social strata of their neighborhoods, tend to eliminate any real contest between students from different income levels. Because the unequal distribution of resources across families is the engine that drives the system, tinkering with schools has not, thus far, eliminated this inequity. And, judging from the available research, we believe inequity would be exacerbated by noncompulsory summer schools open to all children.
The good news is that despite poverty and family disruption, young children’s ability to learn during the school year seems little impaired by scarce family resources. In seeking to address the achievement gap between rich and poor, we should begin by recognizing the efficacy of elementary schools in leveling the playing field. Most press coverage of American education today emphasizes the system’s failures, especially its failures vis-a-vis the most disadvantaged students. These negative perceptions often undercut popular support for elementary schools and public education in general, and they miss the extent to which schools make up for the deficits in poor children’s backgrounds. The real tragedy of current educational practice is that schools are organized—and children perceived—as though the more-advantaged groups are better able to benefit from the schooling process. Poor children are assumed to be "slower" learners—less capable of absorbing the curriculum—and these lower expectations color poor parents’ own perceptions about their children’s academic futures. This is especially unfortunate in the early grades when students’ achievement trajectories are being set and their cognitive growth is most rapid.
This recognition of the power of schools to make a difference in the lives of poor students needs to be coupled with efforts to involve parents and communities in the schooling process so that all parents, not just middle-class parents, are active collaborators in the education of their children. Preschool and summer programs, properly organized, can help develop economically disadvantaged parents and their neighborhoods into active supporters of children’s academic endeavors. These parents need to know, for example, that such simple activities as reading aloud to their children can have big academic pay-offs. Neighborhoods need playgrounds and coaches to encourage organized sports and craft activities in summer. Workshops and other outreach efforts could help disadvantaged adults develop some of the psychological and social capital that is so important to undergirding their children’s learning.
Doris R. Entwisle is emeritus professor, Karl L. Alexander is professor, and Linda Steffel Olson is senior research assistant in the Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. This article is adapted from "Summer Learning and Home Environment" in A Notion At Risk, edited by Richard D. Kahlenberg, and it appears with the permission of The Century Foundation Press. A full account of the study and what Entwisle, Alexander, and Olson found appears in Children, Schools, and Inequality (Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1997).
Endnotes
1. As examples, see Barbara Heyns (1978), Summer Learning and the Effects of Schooling (New York: Academic Press), Richard Murnane (1975), The Impact of School Resources on the Learning of Inner-City Children, (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger). Much of this literature is reviewed in Harris Cooper, Barbara Nye, Kelly Charlton, James Lindsay, and Scott Greathouse (Fall 1996), "The Effects of Summer Vacation on Achievement Test Scores: A Narrative and Meta-Analytic Review," Review of Educational Research 66: 227-269.
2. Family socioeconomic status is indexed by information on student participation in the school meal subsidy program, a rough not-low/low-income measure, mother’s and father’s educational levels, and occupational status.
3. Annette Lareau (1987), "Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital," Sociology of Education 60: 73-85.
4. See Thomas D. Cook, Hilary Appleton, Ross F. Conner, Ann Shaffer, Gary Tamkin, and Stephen J. Weber (1975), "Sesame Street" Revisited (New York: Russell Sage), especially Chapter 1. For another example, see Launor F. Carter (1983), "Sustaining Effects Study" (prepared for the Systems Development Corporation). Students who entered Title I programs at near-average achievement levels profited most, whereas those entering at a low level profited only little or not at all. More recently in 1997, the New York State Legislature enacted a universal kindergarten for four-year-olds, but there has been underenrollment in the communities with limited access to quality preschools. See Foundation for Child Development, March 1999 Update (New York: Foundation for Child Development).
5. See Heyns, Summer Learning, p. 128.
6. See Irving Lazar and Richard Darlington (1982), "Lasting Effects of Early Education: A Report from the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies," Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 47, No. 2-3: ix-139; Consortium for Longitudinal Studies (1983), As the Twig Is Bent: Lasting Effect of Preschool Programs (Hilldale, N.J.: Erlbaum). For good general review, see W. Steven Barnett (Winter 1995), "Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Programs on Cognitive and School Outcomes," The Future of Children, Long-term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs, 5 (3), 25-50.
7. Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, and Susan L. Dauber (1994), On the Success of Failure: A Reassessment of the Effects of Retention in the Primary Grades (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University).
8. See Doris R. Entwisle (Winter 1995), "The Role of Schools in Sustaining Benefits of Early Childhood Programs," The Future of Children 5, No. 3: 133-44.
9. Heyns, Summer Learning, p. 191.
10. For a discussion of the link between organized sports and academic progress, see Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson (1994), "The Gender Gap in Math: Its Possible Origins in Neighborhood Effects," American Sociological Review 59: 822-38. | http://aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae/fall2001/entwisle.cfm | 2013-05-18T10:20:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This will be the last opportunity we will have to make an impact on the Governor's May revision to the State budget to include our much needed equalization funding.
Recall that last year, receipt of these equalization funds is what made it possible to pay for our health benefit increases. Without these funds, all District employees (those on Kaiser included) would now be paying a much higher premium toward their medical benefits each month.
Please take the following three actions:
1) Please call the Governor's office in San Diego at 619-525-4641. Tell them: "I'm calling to urge the Governor to include the second installment of $80 million in equalization funding for community colleges in his May revise."
2) Please print out, sign, and fax (619-525-4640) the attached letter to Governor Schwarzenegger calling on him to include the $80 million.
3) Please also spend 37 cents and mail the letter to the Governor's office in Sacramento (address on letter).
Please forward this email to all of your friends, neighbors, and family members.
Your activism does make a difference!
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Monday, May 6, 2013
Nutella Chocolate Chip Pie
Last month, my home community had a "childhood favorites" potluck. The house was filled with mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese with cut-up hot dogs, and Nutella.
Now, I never liked Nutella as a child. We were strictly a peanut butter family, but this "weird" brown spread showed up at friends' houses after school. I thought it was gross.
Thankfully, as I grew up, I came around to this delicious hazelnut chocolate spread. And, even though I didn't like it as a kid, I still deemed a Nutella dessert appropriate for the theme "childhood favorites." I am certain I was the anomaly.
So, here we have Nutella Chocolate Chip Pie. This cream cheese-based pie has a buttery chocolate chip cookie and hazelnut crust and is topped with fresh whipped cream. It's good. It's really good. And I'd like to think that even my 8-year-old self wouldn't have been able to resist it.
Labels: gluten-free, pie
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Maple Banana Nut Muffins
I know that the last post I did was on both breakfast and my love of real maple syrup. But I am a creature of habit. I have an obsessive personality (I am obsessed with a good gluten-free breakfast pastry. I am obsessed with good maple syrup). And this is my blog. But, repetitive nature or not, this recipe is pretty kick-butt.
Packed with butter, maple syrup, pecans, and bananas, these muffins are wonderfully sweet and comforting. With warmer days fast approaching, I suggest you soak up the few rainy April days that remain with these comforting muffins and a good cup of coffee :)
Labels: breakfast, gluten-free
Monday, April 8, 2013
Buckwheat Pancakes (for real maple syrup lovers only)
A couple of months ago, I took a last minute trip home to New York. The weekend was full but we managed to find time on a dreary Sunday morning to go on a road-trip for pancakes . . . an hour-long road-trip.
Now, if you think it sounds absurd to drive an hour for some pancakes, you are not alone. This is what I thought as we drove through the smallest, most desolate towns you can imagine. But people don't drive an hour and wait hours more in line for just any pancakes with just any syrup.
We New Yorkers take our syrup seriously. Vermont gets all of the credit for real maple syrup, but, in my totally-biased opinion, New York maple syrup is even better. Since you can't get in in Utah, my wonderful mother regularly mails me bottles of it to adorn my homemade pancakes and waffles.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Praline Pecans
With these last little (unwelcome) bouts of winter-y weather in the beginning of Spring this year, I've been yearning for anything that reminds me of warmer weather. I grumpily took the dog for walks, stomping on freshly laid snow and cursing myself for getting a pedicure and pulling out my Summer footwear. And then I remembered! Hidden behind way too many jars of honey, and some jams that I had canned, was the final jar of summer peaches, canned at the peak of perfection!
I waffled for awhile, wondering if it was too far from peach season and if I'd be sad if I didn't have any next month by opening them now. But I had to. And, in spite of the cold weather, I drove to the store and bought some of my favorite vanilla bean ice cream--the perfect pairing to Summer peaches. But something else was needed (texturally) to add to this pairing, and thus I decided to make praline pecans.
Dangerously delicious eaten by the handful, these pecans are even better atop some vanilla bean ice cream and fruit. Enjoy :)
Labels: gluten-free
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Gluten-Free Sugar Cookies!
Labels: cookies, gluten-free
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Browned Butter Vanilla Bean Cake with Butterscotch Frosting
This cake is so good that I can't even talk about it.
OK, I'll talk about it so that you guys can feel the same way about it that I do.
You see that box of butterscotch chips in the picture below here? That box, full of 30 pounds of butterscotch chips, was given to me a few months back by my boss, who accidentally ordered much MUCH more than we needed at the bakery. In that time, I've been thinking of creative ways to use them. It takes a lot of brainstorming to use up 30 pounds of butterscotch chips. And, to be quite honest, nothing I've made has impressed me much . . . until now.
Labels: cake, gluten-free
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
White Chocolate Raspberry Crepe Cake
Happy?
Labels: gluten-free, valentine's day
About Me
- Haley Burke
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- As a pastry chef by trade and by hobby, being diagnosed with Celiac Disease has not been easy. But through some experimental baking (both gluten-free and not) and a whole lot of faith, I'm living a full(er) life.
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The circus was a big part of British life in the mid-1800s. Much like the one run by Belinda’s great-uncle, traveling troupes featured side shows, trick riding, acrobats, clowns, and animal taming, along with early carnival rides. Some traveled by train, others by caravan, and my imagination has applied the steampunk elements. For a good article on Victorian circus, you can go here, to an article from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Here’s a tiny taste of what Connor and Belinda find when they go undercover in the circus: (excerpt ©2013 by Cindy Spencer Pape)
The morning of the circus opening was hectic, but Connor couldn’t help a sense of exhilaration. A crowd of people crowded around the fence watched anxiously as Nicky Smith, the owner’s nephew and mechanical army survivor, stoked the calliope, and performers scurried back and forth getting ready. The scents of animals and roasting peanuts filled the air.
Connor, in his role as assistant ringmaster, was meant to patrol the grounds, nominally overseeing all the workers, but mostly watching the crowd for their adversaries. Today’s goal was to establish that the magick in the circus as real and make sure it was impressive enough that word would spread. He’d spoke to Merrick and Fergus about the Builders’ Guild and the Architecture and Arts Association the night before, and Merrick would look into those today while the circus was busy here.
About half an hour before the gates opened, Connor ducked into the fortune-teller’s tent to make sure Belinda was ready to go. Rowan’s tail thumped as Connor walked in and the dog stuck his big head up for Connor’s scratch. Connor rubbed a wiry ear, but he only had eyes for Belinda. He’d grown used to her simple gypsy clothing of bright skirts and a peasant blouse during the last few days, but today she’d added to it, with brassy bangles on both wrists, big hoops in her ears and a red scarf covering the top of her head, while her dark curls spilled out from underneath. Even in layers of mismatched styles and colors, she still looked good enough to eat as she smiled up at him, her grandmother’s tarot cards in her hands.
“All set?” Willow and Rowan, sprawled on either side of her, shifted to make room for Connor.
Belinda nodded. “I remember my lessons on how to fake a reading in the crystal ball, and I’ve memorized what the various lines on a palm are supposed to mean. I practiced this week on most of our co-conspirators, so I think I’m ready.”
He slid into the chair opposite hers. “Show me.”
Belinda lifted an eyebrow. “You want me to read your fortune?”
“Exactly.” He winked.
“Very well, most honored sir.” She slipped into the persona he’d seen her practicing all week. “Would milord prefer the cards, to have his palm read or to plumb the mysteries of the crystal ball?”
“Oh, the crystal ball, by all means.” He settled into his seat, enjoying the show.
Her dark eyes twinkled up at him. “For the spirits to come, you must honor them with silver. Five shillings, if you please.” She held out her palm.
Connor handed her a five-shilling coin.
“You are most gracious, sir, as well as handsome.” Belinda laid both hands on the large quartz globe on a silver-plated stand in front of her and peered into it. “Think of a question, concentrate on the answers you wish the spirits to provide.”
“Very well.” He grinned back. “I have my question.”
He could feel her gaze dart to him when she wasn’t looking into the ball. “I see an image beginning to form,” she said. “A man? No, ’tis a woman. Her hair is dark, ah yes, but it isn’t your wife, no…she’s younger. A sister, perhaps? I see. Her eyes are just like yours—no, not in color, but the expression, the intelligence and humor, those are the same, are they not?”
“Give over,” Connor said, impressed by her acumen. “How did you know I was thinking of Melody?”
*****
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capricorn clearing. aries aeration. 2
high above the pch, on my way to visit my friend valerie, i happened upon our friend gretchen, just as she was receiving a herd of visiting goats (and sheep) for seasonal brush clearing.
new goats checking out the all-you-can-eat hillside buffet.
milo meets his neighbors. learns about electricity later.
many varieties. meet billy.(not his real name..)
ramses, again, not his real name…
the goats are domesticated and while non stop grazing, will also stay near your general vicinity. en masse.
the sheep, not so much. they keep to together. mind their own business.
valerie took me on an all too brief ‘highlight tour’ of a few her favorite hiking spots. note to self: get there – crack-of-dawn earlier next time…so many wonderful trails and views and places to just sit and be.
secret stairs to
a secret spot
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1. The Forecast: Showers, 59
Expect showers with possible thunderstorms and a high near 59, according to the National Weather Service. Tonight, there's a chance of showers and thunderstorms with a low around 42.
2. Ashtanga Yoga at Burn Yoga
Instructor Sara Deegan will lead you through the Ashtanga primary series each Friday at 9 a.m. at . This is an excellent addition to any practice, especially those seeking to go deeper into the roots of yoga in its most ancient forms. Click here for more information.
3. Showcase Performance at Center Stage Agoura
'Join the Band' showcase begins at 7 p.m. at .
4. Karaoke at the Alamo
Every Friday night this local Mexican restaurant transform into a stage for wanna-be rockers and rappers. The show is hosted every Friday by Dee Jay Rainbow at 10 p.m.
5. Dark Star Orchestra at the Canyon Club
This Grateful Dead tribute band performs at 9 p.m. and tickets are $30 at the door. | http://agourahills.patch.com/groups/editors-picks/p/april-13-ashtanga-yoga-dark-star-orchestra | 2013-05-18T10:31:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Tennis & Golf Set & Book (2008-2010) Mar 21, 2008 21:11:52 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by Keri on Mar 21, 2008 21:11:52 GMT -5 As soon as I saw this on the site, I just knew I had to have it. But, whoa, it's not my Beatrice-doll's style at all! Thank goodness I had plans for a new doll who could wear it... There is definitely a 'preppy' feel to this set, because, c'mon, golf and tennis? plaid skirt and polo? psh-yeah right. However, the pieces combine beautifully with so many other items, especially those released this spring and last autumn. Because the skirt is reversible, you get added functionality. White skirt always = awesome matching powers.The blue in the polo shirt is the exact shade of the blue in the Coconut Fun Outfit cropped pants. They go really well together, and you can do either the golf shoes or the sandals from that outfit. Likewise, the purple t-shirt from the Coconut Fun Outfit goes really well with the white side of the skirt.I also really like the striped shirt from the 2-in-1 summer outfit with the white side of the skirt. It's a little more summery than the pants that came with that outfit. The polo can also be worn with the camo shorts from the skateboard outfit, though the camo is a deeper, greyer blue.Polo Shirt: AThis is the same knit fabric that big-people shirts are made from, which makes it just a little bit thin. I don't recommend putting a coloured camisole or anything underneath, because it'll be really visible.The fit is a little close, but not overly so. You'd probably have trouble with a fat PM doll, but the shirt does stretch, so it might not be too bad. It's kind of weird around the shoulders, I'm not sure why, but that might just be due to the trim. It's not a bad weird, just a mild oddness to the fit!The collar is stitched down in the back, so if you put the sweater on top, only the front part of the collar will lie on top of the pink. It's not a huge deal unless you're really particular about the back of your doll.The velcro goes all the way from the top to the bottom, which is fantastic! It's the no-snag kind and rather thin, so there isn't a lot of added bulk.I personally love the blue around the arms and collar and the little star on the left chest. It's a nice fashion detail.V-neck Sweater: BI like this a lot, but it's not my favorite part of the set. It has a cableknit pattern which is a little bulky in some places and loose in others, which meant I did a lot of tweaking and pulling it get it to look right.The velcro in the back is the no-snag kind and goes from the top to the bottom, just like the polo shirt has. The neck in the back is just a little lower than that of the polo, so it ends up lying on TOP of the polo's collar. Since it V's in the front, you can still fold the collar over the sweater.The bottom of the sweater is kind of baggy over the contrasting band, but again, I think that's how it's supposed to be? Mostly I feel the fabric is too thin and too big to really make this style look fantastic, but when you put the whole thing together, it isn't a bad look. This sweater could probably fit a fat PM doll easily, because of the stretch it has.Reversible Wrap Skirt: A-One side is white, the other is a blue/white/pink plaid. It velcros at the waistband of the overlap, so there is absolutely no problems with wearing it one way or the other, unlike the "reversible" blue and red vest from the third (fourth?) JLY meet outfit. There IS an AG tag in the skirt, but it's sewn under the velcro on one of the ends, so you never see it once the skirt is on.The velcro and overlap make the front of the skirt a little bulky to wear under some shirts, but if you tug it down a little, it helps. With this outfit, it's meant to be worn on TOP of the shirt (according to the AG picture), but you could do it either way. Neither the shirt nor the skirt is so tight that it can't be put on top.I found that it's oodles easier to get the skirt to fit if you don't put underwear on the doll. That adds just enough extra bulk and layering to be a pain.I am a little confused about how it's intended to look on the doll. The AG picture has the flap over to the doll's right, but when it arrived here, it had been folded so the flap would be on the left, and that's how the side creases want it to look. I can't see that there'd be much of a difference no matter how I did it, but the shape of the skirt is slightly A-line, so maybe there is? I don't know, but it was a little confusing and is primarily what knocked the grade from an A to an A-.Sun Visor: BThe visor is completely cloth with elastic in the back to help it stay on. It's really easy to put on, but I find that the visor tends to fall low and block my doll's eyes. Also, I had trouble getting it on and keeping the doll's hair neat at the same time. Bah.Overall, it's a good, solid piece that could be used with a lot of other current outfits. It has the light blue detailing to match the polo shirt and the cropped pants from the Coconut Fun Outfit, but that's mostly in the stripes around the edges. I think there's a light blue star on one side of the band, but if so, it's not really obvious!Shoes: BThese are pretty much exactly what you see in AG's picture. They're really cute, but there's nothing outstanding about them. One BIG point is that the copy says "Shoes do double-duty: leave the fringe out for golf, or tuck it in for tennis," but the laces tie on top of the fringe (they actually go through holes that were punched into it) and switching it to the other version is going to be a pain in the neck. I dunno about anyone else, but I hate retying the tiny laces in AG shoes. These'll never have the fringe tucked in, because it's too much trouble.Sports Equipment: BI did NOT get this set for the sports equipment, I tell you what. If you want it, or your kid does, it's not bad stuff, but it's not the reason I'd recommend this set.The golf ball is just a pink whiffle ball. The tennis ball is plastic. The golf club is pretty cute, with "* American Girl" printed on the head of the putter. And the tennis racket is cute, too. There's no way for your doll to hold any of these unless you have rubber bands or putty, which stinks.Hair Bands: CThey did include a bunch of little hair bands for your doll. They're a light blue and very thin and very small. They're a lot like those clear bands you can get at Wal-Greens or someplace for hair (or helping a doll hold stuff ) but these are smaller and skinnier and blue. You do get several, thankfully, rather than the five or six that they used to include. I guess if you lose or break some, you still have others.Book: CThe book is Good Sport and is a list of good sportsmanship, like "smile at your opponents" and "there is always a winner AND a loser" and matching pictures. There's two things per page plus a picture of either a girl doing a sport or equipment for a sport. Some of the pictures are really weird, like the gymnastics girl is wearing a pair of white Keds with socks. But whatever, it's just a little book. Not the best of the mini books included with an outfit, I gotta say.(PS: Polo + plaid skirt + Mia's high top sneakers = awesome.)--- KERI | http://agplaythings.proboards.com/thread/11458 | 2013-05-18T11:03:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Becoming a Physical
Therapist
Some physical therapy education programs offer a master's degree. However, a growing majority of program offer the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree. According to the Association of Physical Therapy Programs (ATPT), close to 200 colleges and universities in the U.S. offer physical therapist education programs: approximately 80% offer the DPT; another 20% are planning to convert to a doctoral program.
Early Preparation
Physican therapy education programs differ in the prerequisite courses that they require, so it is important to study the requirements of programs you would like to attend. The APTA reports that about two-thirds of the PT programs require a baccalaureate degree for admission. More than 50% of the PT programs require applicants to have one or more courses in anatomy and physiology, chemistry, physics, statistics, psychology, general biology and an undergraduate degree. More than 75% of programs require a minimum GPA of 3.0 Applicants are encouraged to have some volunteer experience as a a physical therapy aide.
It is not necessary to go through a physical therapy assistant program before applying to a physical therapy program. In fact the physical therapist assistant curriculum does NOT provide the prerequisites required for physical therapy education. If you already are a physical therapy assistant, you might want to consider a PTA to PT Bridge Program.
Master's and Doctoral Curricula
Professional, entry-level, physical therapist education programs are offered at both the doctoral (DPT) and the master's (MPT, MSPT, MS) levels. By the year 2020 the APTA would like the majority of practicing PTs to have a DPT degree.
All of the certified master's and doctoral programs provide a core curriculum that includes classroom-based courses as well as clinical experiences in acute care, oupatient care, rehabilitation, and other specialty areas. The APTA website is the best source of information about the educational programs.
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Zenith Jet Ups its Delivery Forecast. As a result, the company revised the number of private jet deliveries it had predicted for the next 10 years, from 10,120 earlier in the year to 10,377, representing approximately $220 billion in revenue. Those aircraft deliveries will spawn an additional $37 billion in revenue for engine manufacturers and $8 billion for avionics makers.
Over the life of the forecast, the category accounting for most aircraft deliveries will be the ultra-long-range segment at nearly 1,500 aircraft, testimony to the international market’s preferences, while light jet deliveries are estimated at 1,363, providing optimism for a rebound in this category as well.
In terms of geographic delivery distribution, according to the forecast, North America’s dominance will continue to erode to a ratio of 43 percent versus 57 percent international deliveries predicted over the next decade.
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The Cassini
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NASA Image
On the fifth anniversary of its launch, Cassini had travelled 3.1
billion kilometers and was over 1 billion kilometers from Earth.
NASA estimates that hundreds of thousands of images of Saturn, its
rings, and its moons will be returned by the Cassini orbiter and Titan
probe.
For More Information on The Cassini Mission:
Saturn Facts || View
From Earth || Pioneer at Saturn || Voyager at Saturn
Rings || Atmosphere
|| Magnetic Field || Moons of Saturn
|| Future Exploration
Imagery Index
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Le Maitai Rangiroa, in French Polynesia, is located on one of the largest lagoons in the Southern Hemisphere and is one of the top 5 dive destinations in the world. Just a short 50 minute flight from Papeete, this 3 star resort features 38 traditional Polynesian style rooms and bungalows set amidst exotic gardens and overlooking the beautiful azure lagoon. Other features include a restaurant, bar with local entertainment and a variety of water based leisure activities. | http://airtahitinui-usa.com/hotels/hotel.asp?hotel_id=39 | 2013-05-18T11:01:42 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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NComputing, the leader in accelerating the adoption of desktop virtualization, today announced multiple new offerings for its vSpace Desktop and Application Virtualization Platform. A fully integrated, end-to-end virtualization platform, vSpace brings desktop virtualization within reach for more organizations by reducing typical costs, while simplifying both the initial deployment and ongoing management.
Market pressures and budget constraints continue to drive organizations worldwide to consider desktop virtualization as a computing alternative, but it has often proven too costly and complex. Through a unique combination of simplicity, performance and value, NComputing removes the barriers to desktop virtualization with an integrated solution that supports current high-priority IT initiatives, including mobility, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), and migrating to Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Applying new innovation in its vSpace platform, NComputing introduces vSpace Server version 7, vSpace Management Center for vSpace and vSpace premium support and services.
NComputing Reinforces Leadership in Desktop Virtualization with over 4M vSpace Seats in Production
Today, NComputing also announced that over four million vSpace seats are now in production worldwide, translating to over 20 million users in 140 countries. With impressive market growth and a continued commitment to innovation, NComputing is accelerating the adoption of desktop virtualization faster than any other company in the world, removing the barriers through a unique combination of simplicity, performance and value.
In addition to continued traction in the education, government and SMB markets, NComputing expands its global footprint through strategic channel partners, and earlier this year successfully entered the enterprise market in collaboration with Citrix. New product innovation, including vSpace Client for Windows, which extends the benefits of the vSpace platform to non-NComputing devices, and high-performance HDX thin clients designed for Citrix, also enabled NComputing to answer specific market demand driven by reducing endpoint costs for key IT initiatives including VDI, mobility and BYOD.
vSpace Delivers on the Promise of Desktop Virtualization as a Fully Integrated Platform
The vSpace platform is ideal for organizations that want to take advantage of the benefits of desktop virtualization, without the high costs, complexity or IT staffing requirements typically associated with deploying and maintaining these solutions.
A fully integrated, end to end desktop and application virtualization platform, vSpace delivers features and performance equal to, or better than, a dedicated PC, with the ability to centralize management of desktops and access to applications. The complete vSpace platform delivers everything an organization needs to quickly deploy and easily manage desktop virtualization including vSpace Server software, UXP protocol, thin client devices, vSpace client software, centralized management software, as well as premium support and services.
NComputing's growing momentum in the market was recently highlighted by analyst firm IDC as a "Major Player" in their IDC MarketScape: "Worldwide Client Virtualization 2012 Vendor Analysis," (doc #237753) published November 2012.
New Offerings in NComputing's vSpace Platform
The vSpace platform is designed to give organizations more manageability, scalability and a better user experience, while maximizing technology investments. The platform introduces:
NEW vSpace Server version 7 for Windows - NComputing's patented desktop virtualization software provides multi-user access to desktop computing by dividing a computer's resources into independent virtual workspaces. This provides up to 100 users simultaneous access to a single Windows or Linux operating system instance. The vSpace Server interacts with the NComputing UXP (User eXtension Protocol) and the NComputing hardware and software access clients to deliver an optimized end-to-end desktop virtualization solution.
NEW vSpace Management Center - For organizations deploying NComputing desktop access devices, vSpace Management Center provides a highly scalable, flexible and easy to use single point of enterprise-class management. A web-based console lets IT administrators manage all client devices from anywhere, anytime, reducing the overhead needed to maintain and control an environment, regardless of the size or number of deployment sites.
NEW vSpace Premium Support and Services - Premium support and services provide vSpace customers access to regular software updates and upgrades, online web resources and direct access to dedicated vSpace support engineers.
Availability
The NComputing vSpace virtualization software is available now. In addition to NComputing L-series and M-series thin client devices, vSpace users can access and use centrally hosted and managed Windows desktops and applications on other devices using vSpace software clients, available for Windows devices today with Android and iOS versions to follow. For more information, email sales@ncomputing.com.
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case do not require a VDI model -- NComputing is easier to set up and to maintain, and its platform is showing success in early implementations."
-- Brett Waldman, Research Manager, Client Virtualization, IDC
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Physical well being is such a fickle thing sometimes. All week last week I was feeling like I had really found my stride (sorry for the lame pun) in my running, and also in my physical and emotional well being in general. I was running more than I had run in weeks and I was feeling really good most of the time. I ran 130 miles in an 8 day span and it seemed like my body was responding really well. And more than that it felt like my mind was responding really well. Running was becoming really fun again (for the first time since I was in France) and I was feeling really excited about life in general. And then this Tuesday I went out for a run, intending to do 12-15 miles easy, and my body just felt horrible. I ended up running only 8 miles that day, and have only run 4 miles total since then. I'm still feeling good about life in general but my body is for some reason really worn out right now. I've had some fairly severe pain in my lower back and just today I feel like I'm coming down with another cold or illness of some sort. Luckily I'm running a race in a week since races always seem to cure my ills.
This past 5 weeks is the most I have been challenged in my running in almost 18 months. I'm sure there is a reason for this, and I'm sure there is a lesson in this, but right now I'm too close to it all to see it as clearly as I need to. Maybe I just need an extended break from running, but right now it doesn't feel like that. I've been pretty good in the past (I think) at knowing when I need a break and it just doesn't feel like that right now. I guess time will tell.
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Shake it off. The snow will be coming snow. We are just getting warmed up!
Reading your words and trying not to interpret them too much I'd say you're overtrained. Or, you're sandbagging:)
You have a healthy attitude towards running. I'm sure you'll work things out.
Hope the race cures what ails
You need a break...work on your base and forget the intensity for a while.
Hey Geoff,.
When all else fails... Listen to your mom ;)
I think your and my mom hang out, 'cause they sound identical.
130 miles in 8 days would likely leave anyone feeling tapped. Running like you do is a constant cycle of highs and lows. It'll swing back high soon enough.
Now go eat your spinach and drink oj.
tl!
Wyatt
hi geoff,
was reading "born to run" and i got interested in some fact checking... stumbled across your wikipedia page and thought, "hey, i know this guy!"
wow, geoff, you've really smashed the world of distance running into a million pieces! not that i couldn't imagine it based on your H.S. career... cheers to you!!
anyway, you've got yet another fan and follower...
one of the best skills, i would guess, you acquire as a runner of your caliber is the ability to listen to your body, understand what it's telling you and react accordingly. in your post, it would seem you already know the answer to your issue!
best of luck, geoff. i'll be cheering for you.
cheers,
eric (hodge).
Most endurance athletes cross train, spend time in the weight room, and not always on your feet.
good luck!
careful about being over trained. nagging colds/reoccurring colds and or illness is a sure sign of it. i have full respect for you as a runner. these things are said in light of that.
best of luck on shaking out the bugs.
-jess
I think you need to man up.
Blood tests always help, testing for liver enzymes and kidney function. Doesn't take long to have these levels return to normal with rest. Without rest these numbers will continue to fall, its a hole that could be hard to dig yourself out from.
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This is what i would take along with me if i had to survive in a Zombie Apocalypse.
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Winchester Model 1300 12 Gauge hunting Shotgun
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Alex's Tech Thoughts
Update: Article title was updated because of feedback in the HN thread. It was originally more linkbait-y with “The Next Big Consumer Application Is Most Likely Not Coming From An Accelerator”
What do Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Youtube, Tumblr, Instagram, Google, Spotify, Skype, Zynga all have in common?
Not a single one went through an accelerator program.
Granted some of them came about before accelerators became super popular.
Building a successful consumer app is difficult. It’s a bit of talent, a bit of luck, and a smidgen of timing. Some of the most successful consumer apps don’t come from accelerators because they typically happen by chance. You iterate and iterate and something just clicks with the way people interact with your product. And once you hit, you don’t need an accelerator. Ironically, an accelerator would slow you down.
I think the exception might be Y Combinator. Out of all the accelerators, YC probably has the best chance of producing a successful consumer app. Reddit, Dropbox, and Airbnb are examples of this. It may be how YC is set up. The accelerator’s duration is focused more on building your product, as opposed to scaling your product/business.
Bottom line: If you are trying to build the next killer consumer app, being in an accelerator is probably not the best route to take. I would stay independent, continue iterating, and try to do everything you can to make the luck, timing, and talent converge.
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Dear readers,
I would like to take this opportunity, as a Welsh, to apologize to the people of England for the presence of Dr Rowan Williams in your public life.
Now you know why we disestablished him and his kind back in 1914.
And no, we won't take him back.
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Speaking as a Primitive Methodist, I can but only be appalled by the voluptuousness of this man’s thinking.
I've been wondering who Dr Williams reminded me of and you've lifted the fog from my eyes. If he's really Catweazle, you can't blame him for wanting to appease the Saracens. I mean, they were really kicking ass big time in the 11th century. No bodyguard required for the Archbishop then.
He may be a bumbling idiot, but to para phrase what someone has already said of Abu Hamza, he's our bumbling idiot. ( I have my British hat on of course not my narrow minded English hat)
Gadjo, if you've got to be religious I suppose it's best to be honest and wear the page of primitive proudly.
GB, I wonder whether Dr Williams had the Anglican clergy of Pakistan cross read his article. No, I don't really.
Birdwatcher, we Welsh would like to thank you for taking possession of the archbishop.
Strewth, good point NGB, about the plight of Anglicans etc in Pakistan. Bring back Catweazle, he was definitely a Primitive and would never have given lip-service to laws of any kind.
Dr Williams' remarks are proof that you CAN judge a book by its cover.
Absolutely, MC. To expand on George Orwell, "ivory-cloistered, patronising, befrocked busybodies have the face they deserve at 50".
Having said that, the Anglican Communion would not be able constantly to miss the point with such brio if it weren't for the presence of such wooly luminaries in its upper ranks.
What's Cavafy got to do with it?
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If you are arriving at Alicante Airport on either a domestic or international fight you enter the terminal at ground floor level and can either walk or use a travelator to get to the baggage reclaim area.
At the entrance to the luggage hall you will see TV monitors which will list your flight number and the baggage carousel your luggage will come out of. There are 9 carousels in total – 2 for international and 7 for domestic flights.
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Oh this is great!! If you love feta cheese, you will love this cheese ball. And what a perfect appetizer for any meal.
This recipe was inspired by the A+ Taste of Home Recipe book from Schools Across America. A graduation gift to me from one of my best buds and church family member. She knows exactly what I like and what my favorite things are. Isn't it great to have friends like that?
And just look what my amazing oldest daughter gave me for Mother's Day....An apron with Country Sugar sewn on the front. Another amazing thing when your children know their mother so well.....I can honestly say that I have raised some awesome children.
Don't limit this cheese ball to pretzels or crackers. This cheese ball is awesome stuffed in the well of a celery heart. I know, I tried it.....
Now, how did I create this amazing feta cheese ball appetizer? This is how:
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Feta Cheese Ball
2 pkgs (8 oz.) cream cheese, soft
3 TBS olive oil
1 c. crumbled feta cheese
1/2 of a sweet onion, minced
2 large garlic cloves, minced
1 TBS fresh dill weed, a little more for sprinkling
2 tsp. dried oregano
3/4 tsp. coarsely ground pepper
Pretzels or Bagel chips for dipping
In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and oil until smooth. Stir in the feta cheese, onions, garlic (I minced the onion and garlic together in a mini food chopper), dill, oregano, and pepper. Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour.
Shape cheese mixture into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate for another hour. Plate and sprinkle with fresh dill. Garnish with pretzels or bagel chips.
Feta is BOGO at Publix this week! I might need to make a trip because this looks yummy. Thanks for linking it up at Weekend Potluck!
I am loving the Weekend Potluck....what an awesome linky party.
Feta cheese is my new love. I can't wait to try this delicious looking dip. Thanks so much for linking up to the Weekend Potluck!
~Kim
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So of course I got home and dove into "Magic Strikes," right? Nope. I put it aside and picked up one of the other books. I know I'm going to love the book, so I'm enjoying the anticpation. It's like when you go out to dinner and you are sitting where you can see the dessert tray. The whole time I'm eating I can see it's luscious goodness promising taste bud paradise. Not that I don't enjoy the rest of the meal, I do, but the sheer joy of eating dessert is...special.
I'm that way with books. I did it with "Bone Crossed" and I have and will do it with the next "Sookie Stackhouse" book. I think I waited a month before I read the last Sookie book and I got it on the day it was released.
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Category Archives: Fashion’s Night Out Toronto is finally Happening on September 6!
Fashion’s Night Out is coming to Canada! These confirmed rumours that Vogue and the CFDA are finally bringing their global, after-hours shopping party north of the border are true according to The Backseat Stylers and Toronto Life, Holt Renfrew and a lot of others have signed on.
Mark your calendars, the 4th edition of FNO will be on September 6, 2012! The list of participating retailers will be released in mid-August, so keep watching and checking out info for #FNO_Toronto Bookmark this site:
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MAC VIVA GLAM 25TH FASHION CARES
Fashion Cares is back for it’s 25th anniversary. Tickets can purchased now at Ticketmaster..
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Nicki and Ricky for M∙A∙C Viva Glam
Today is the launch of Nicki Minaj and Ricky Martin’s collaboration with Mac Viva Glam Lipstick and Lip Conditioner. This Collaboration premiered today in North America through to February 2013 (with the international launch on March 2012) at all Mac Locations and online maccosmetics.com. The lipstick is $14.50 U.S/$17.50 CDN and the lip conditioner (tube) is $15.00 U.S/$18.00CDN. Every cent of the selling price supports the MacAids funds which goes to help Women, Men and Children who are living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. These two hotties have teamed up for this great cause and it is Mac’s first time introducing a male celebrity in this campaign. This time instead of only having Nicki Minaj signature on the lipstick they have introduced a lip conditioner that has Ricky Martins. So now is the time to go out there and buy some of this great product and help out a great cause at the same time..
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Annie 50 Fall/Winter 2012
In February of 2005 Annie Chagon and Amelie Gingras-Rioux founded their company. The Label holds up to its name Annie 50, which is inspired by a simpler era gone by, the fifties. The Fall/Winter 2012 collection has a very pin-up style look to its pieces, it included a lot of knits, weeds, and satins. The great blends of Navy, dusty rose, and teal helped show off their great structure and detail, which was showcased in this collection. The Fall/Winter 2012 line also included great floral patterns, great detail and that wonderful pin-up style with that unique 1950s edge.
Photos from Jimmy Hamelin
Martin Lim Fall/Winter 2012
The husband and wife team of Danielle Martin and Pao Lim have proved themselves on the international level. Their successful win last season of the Cross Canada Mercedes Benz start-up has left me very curious to see what they had in store this season.
Their collection showed Femininity, graphic art and the ever changing style of women. With colours ranging from pink, black and whites showcasing girlish figures strutting down the runway. There was a lot of silk from pieces changing from pants to dress suits and evening gowns. This collection was not your everyday women’s wear but something for the woman that lives a little or as I like to say “I’m living on the edge”.
Photos from Jimmy Hamelin
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2011 Epcot
International Food & Wine Festival
September 30 - November 13, 2011
Kitchen Memories
Friday, October 14, 2011
10:00 a.m. - noon
Festival Center
Epcot
Guest Chef
Alan Wong, Alan Wong's Restaurants, Honolulu, HI
Wine Representative
Fred Dame, MS
Shrimp and
Pork Dumplings with Spicy Lemongrass Black Bean Sauce
Beringer Blanc, Knights Valley
Twice-Cooked Short Ribs with Korean Chili Sauce and Gingered Shrimp
Stags Leap Winery Petite Sirah, Napa Valley
Pineapple "Shave Ice" (not
your ordinary "Shave Ice") - Hawaiian Vanilla
Panna Cotta, Coconut Tapioca, Haupia Sorbet, Lilikoi
Sauce, "Shaved" Pineapple
Beringer "Nightingale" Botrytised, Napa Valley
Review by John Bowers
Aloha! Chef Alan Wong is considered a master
of Hawaiian Regional Cuisine, and on Friday, October
14, 2011, he was the guest chef at the Kitchen Memories
event at the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival.
Alan is the owner and head chef of Alan Wong's Restaurants,
based in Honolulu. Coordinating the wine pairings was
Fred Dame. Fred is a Master Sommelier and is
the first American to have served as President of the
Court of Master Sommeliers Worldwide. He is also Cellarmaster
of The Sardine Factory restaurant in Monterey, California.
And our hostess once again was Pam Smith. Pam has hosted
scores of events at the Festival over the years.
Alan started us off with a fun exercise in understanding sweetness. Each of us were given a small Snickers bar, a half cup of Coca-Cola, and a glass of water. It's easy to do at home, so here's how: Drink a little of the water, then a little of the Coke. Note how the Coke tastes sweet. Now take a bite of the Snickers bar, not the whole thing! A bite about the size of your sip of Coke. The Snickers bar will taste sweeter still than the Coke did. Now back to the Coke. After the Snickers bar, the Coke doesn't seem as sweet as it did after the water. Moral of the story: depending on what you are eating before and after other things, your perception of sweetness varies. Alan said many of his cooks are 18-30 years old and come into the kitchen with Cokes, candy bars, Red Bulls (!), etc., and when they start tasting food as they are cooking it, they can make mistakes in their judgment.
Our first
course was Shrimp and Pork Dumplings
with Spicy Black Bean Lemongrass Sauce. This
looks like a dish that might take some practice, and
it was sensational. Chef Alan mentioned the challenge
of featuring local cuisine in Hawaii, where 85% of
the food is imported. It takes a considerable amount
of creativity to feature local and regional cuisine
when such a small amount of food is truly local. Someone
mentioned the difficulty of finding one or two of the
exotic ingredients, and I believe Fred said all you
need to do is jump on the internet, and whatever you
wish for can be on your doorstep tomorrow. Or you can
jump on a plane, fly to Hawaii, and have Alan make
it for you! Either way, this was a wonderful, savory
treat. One of my tablemates said if she were at home,
she would lick the bowl to get every last bit of that
lemongrass sauce. Fred paired a Beringer Blanc with
the dumplings. This white wine is a blend of semillon,
sauvignon blanc, and viognier. Citrusy, toasty, and
aromatic, it provided a delightful complement to the
dumplings.
The main course was Twice-Cooked
Short Ribs with Korean Chili Sauce & Gingered Shrimp. Usually
when you cook short ribs, you sear them first to brown
them, and then braise them real slowly in order to
tenderize them. Alan flips it around, braising the
ribs first, then finishing them on a hot grill for
a few minutes to get some nice grill marks. To serve
them, you use a clean paintbrush to first brush your
serving plate with the Korean Chili Sauce. Then you
center the rib meat on the plate and put a single gingered
shrimp on top of the ribs. That's a small piece of
broccoli and one of cauliflower, plus a few pieces
of eggplant in the photo. Not the most inspired little
sides, and I wish we had a more substantial brushstroke
of that lovely Chili Sauce, but the short ribs and
shrimp were divine. Fred chose a Stag's Leap Winery
Petite Sirah to go with the short ribs. Petite Sirah
wines are bold reds, known for their very dark, inky
color and spicy, peppery, dark berry flavors. They
pair very well with spicy dishes like short ribs with
chili sauce. But Fred said the little piece of broccoli
on the plate was scary. Pairing any wine with broccoli
is, well, forget it.
Alan brought Michelle Karr along
with him. Michelle is Alan's pastry chef, and she showed
us how to prepare the dessert course: Pineapple "Shave
Ice," Hawaiian Vanilla Panna Cotta, Coconut Tapioca,
Haupia Sorbet, Liliko Sauce, "Shaved" Pineapple. Quite a description! I'm not going to even attempt
to describe the dish other than to say it's Hawaii
wrapped in a dessert. Sweet, tropical, rich, smooth,
cold, refreshing. Stunning. If you fly to Hawaii for
the dumplings, go ahead and get the pineapple "shave
ice." Fred paired a Beringer "Nightingale" wine
with Michelle's dessert. Nightingale is made with sauvignon
blanc and semillon grapes, which are picked, laid out
in small trays, and sprayed with the botrytis spores
that cause the grapes to dehydrate, concentrating the
sugars and fruit acids. When the grapes are fermented
into wine, the result is a sweet, intensely flavored
wine often tasting of apricots, peaches, and honeysuckle,
perfect for pairing with a fruit-based dessert. Not
so good with a chocolate dessert, Fred noted. A sweet,
fruity wine and a sweet, fruity dessert are truly a
match made in heaven.
The Kitchen Memories events are not cheap, that's for sure. If you haven't tried one, or if you haven't tried any of the myriad Premium Events, you owe it to yourself to do so. The Food and Wine Festival only happens once a year, and life's short. Aloha!
RECIPES
Shrimp and Pork Dumplings with Spicy Lemongrass
Black Bean Sauce
Serves 6
Shrimp and Pork Dumpling
Mixture:
1/2 pound ground pork
1/2 pound ground shrimp
1/4 cup oyster sauce
1/4 cup fresh water chestnuts, peeled and diced (can substitute with fresh lotus root)
1/2 cup green onion, green part only, thinly sliced
1 egg whole
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pinch freshly cracked black pepper
Wrappers:
12 each won ton pi (dumpling wrappers)
1 egg, beaten
Method:
1. Combine all ingredients
in a bowl and mix thoroughly
2. Place the dumpling wrappers on a dry table and scoop 1 tablespoon of the shrimp and pork mixture onto the middle of the wrapper.
3. Brush edges of the wrapper with the beaten egg and fold in half into a triangular shape. Carefully push out the air and seal the moistened edges completely.
4. Brush the two smaller corners of the triangle with beaten egg and pinch together to form a tortellini shape.
5. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Without crowding the pot, add dumplings to the boiling water and cook for approximately 3-4 minutes or until they float.
6. Remove, drain, and keep warm on a plate.
Spicy Lemongrass Black Bean Sauce:
11 tablespoons
unsalted butter
3 tablespoons lemongrass, sliced thinly
2 each 3-inch pieces of lemongrass, smashed
1/2 tablespoon ginger, minced
1/2 tablespoon garlic, minced
1 tablespoon yellow onion, finely diced
2 tablespoons sherry wine
1/2 tablespoon fish sauce
1-1/2 teaspoons Chinese salted/fermented black beans, divided
3 tablespoons flour
2 cups clam juice (no MSG)
2 cups chicken stock (white)
6 each Kaffir lime leaves (3 chopped)
1-1/2 tablespoons Sriracha (Thai hot sauce), divided
6 each sweet basil leaves, roughly chopped (reserve a pinch to finish)
1 tablespoon cilantro, roughly chopped (reserve a pinch to finish)
1 teaspoon sherry wine
Method:
1. In a large sauce pot, heat 3 tablespoons
of butter, then add 3 tablespoons sliced lemongrass,
1/2 tablespoon ginger, 1/2 tablespoon garlic, and 1
tablespoon onion. Cook for 2 minutes until the onions
are translucent but not browned.
2. Add 2 tablespoons sherry wine, 1/2 tablespoon fish sauce, 1 teaspoon fermented black beans, and 1/2 tablespoon Sriracha; mix well.
3. Add 3 tablespoons flour to create a roux (paste) and cook for 5 minutes, stirring to prevent the flour from burning.
4. Add one-third of the combined clam juice and chicken stock. Mix thoroughly with a whisk and add the next third.
5. Bring to a boil and add 3 chopped Kaffir lime leaves, 5 chopped basil leaves, 1 tablespoon cilantro, and the last third of the clam juice and chicken stock.
6. Simmer for 15 minutes. Strain, discard solids, then place the sauce back into the pot and add 1/2 teaspoon Chinese black beans, 1 tablespoon Sriracha, 8 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon sherry wine, pinch of basil, and pinch of cilantro.
7. For aromatics, add 2 pieces of smashed lemongrass and 3 whole Kaffir lime leaves.
Plating:
12 pieces
of Shrimp and Pork Dumplings
12 ounces Spicy Lemongrass Black Bean Sauce
Method:
1. Place two Shrimp and Pork Dumplings in a small bowl.
2. Ladle 2 ounces of Spicy Lemongrass Black Bean Sauce over the dumplings. (Avoid adding whole lemongrass and Kaffir lime leaves.)
Twice-Cooked Short Ribs with Korean Chili Sauce
and Gingered Shrimp
Serves 6
Korean Chili Sauce:
Korean
Chili Paste:
1/2 cup Korean fine chili powder
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup white wine vinegar
4 tablespoons red Korean miso
1/4 cup honey
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon fish sauce
Method:
1. Combine all ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth.
Korean Sauce:
1 cup Korean Chili
Paste (above)
1 cup sugar
1 cup white wine vinegar
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon unsalted butter (optional)
Method:
1. Combine Korean Chili Paste, sugar, and
vinegar in a saucepan and boil until it becomes glossy
red.
2. Add soy sauce and mix well.
3. Optional: finish with 1 tablespoon unsalted butter to sweeten taste.
Twice-Cooked Short Ribs:
1 pound boneless chuck
short ribs, cut into pieces
2 cups water
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup mirin (sweet Japanese rice wine)
1/2 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and smashed
1/4 garlic (whole/head)
3 each green onion stalks, white bottom portion only, smashed (reserve green portion for Ginger Scallion Shrimp)
1 teaspoon corn starch
1 teaspoon water
Method:
Braising the Short Ribs: 1. Place the short ribs in a large saucepan or Dutch oven and add just enough water to cover them. Bring to a boil over high heat. 2. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook for 1 hour, skimming any impurities off the top. 3. Add the sugar, soy sauce, mirin, ginger, garlic, and green onions. 4. Continue to simmer, skimming the top, for another 2 to 3 hours or until the short ribs are fork tender. 5. Remove the pot from the heat and transfer the meat to a deep pan. Pour the braising liquid through a strainer into the pan, covering the short ribs. Cover and chill the short ribs overnight in the refrigerator. 6. The next day, remove any fat solids from the top.
Thickening the Braising Liquid: 1. Bring one cup of the braising liquid to a boil in a small saucepan. 2. Separately, combine the cornstarch and water into a slurry, then pour into the braising liquid. 3. Stir until sauce is thickened, then turn off the heat, strain, and set aside.
Grilling the Short Ribs: 1. Begin heating a grill. 2. Set the chilled ribs aside. 3. Transfer the remaining unthickened braising liquid to the large saucepan and reheat on the stovetop over medium heat. 4. When the liquid is hot, add the short ribs and reheat thoroughly. 5. Transfer reheated ribs to a plate and brush the meat with the thickened Braising Liquid. 6. To prevent sticking, 'season' the heated grill by wiping it with a towel saturated with canola oil. 7. Grill the ribs 1-2 minutes on both sides over high heat to achieve nice grill marks.
Gingered Shrimp:
6 shrimp, U-15 or 16/20 size, peeled and deveined
1/4 cup peanut oil
1/4 cup fresh ginger, peeled and minced
1/4 cup thinly sliced green onion, green portion only
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sesame oil
Method: 1. Rinse, peel, and devein shrimp. 2. In a stainless steel mixing bowl combine ginger and green onions, then season with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Mix well. 3. In a small pot, heat peanut oil to the smoking point. 4. Carefully ladle the hot peanut oil over the ginger scallion mixture. 5. Add the sesame oil to the hot ginger scallion mixture and stir in, then set aside to cool before use. 6. Heat a small saute pan. Add some oil from the ginger scallion mixture, being careful to use only the oil. Bring to medium heat. 7. Season the cleaned shrimp with salt. Place them all in the heated pan. 8. When the shrimp is almost done (approximately one minute on each side), add about 6 tablespoons of the ginger scallion mixture to the sauce pan. 9. When the shrimp is pink/orange in color, turn off the heat and reserve until needed.
Broccoli and Cauliflower:
6 pieces of 1-inch broccoli florets, rinsed and peeled
6 pieces of 1-inch cauliflower florets, rinsed and peeled
Salt
Method: 1. Fill two medium-sized pots with water and bring to a boil. 2. Add salt (1 teaspoon per cup of water). 3. Add the cauliflower and broccoli florets to separate pots. 4. Blanch the cauliflower for 3 minutes and the broccoli for 2 minutes. 5. Drain and transfer to a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking. 6. Drain and set aside.
Fried Eggplant:
2 long eggplants, partially skinned, cut into 12 2" x 1/2" x 1/2" sticks, towel-dried
4 cups canola oil
salt
Method: 1. Heat oil to 350 degrees F in a medium-size pot. 2. Add the eggplant in batches and fry for 1-2 minutes or until golden brown. 3. Remove from oil and drain on paper towels. 4. Season to taste with salt and keep warm.
Plating:
12 tablespoons Korean Chili
Sauce
6 pieces of Twice-Cooked Short Ribs
6 pieces Gingered Shrimp
6 pieces Broccoli and Cauliflower Florets
12 pieces Fried Eggplant
Method: 1. Spoon 2 tablespoons of Korean Chili Sauce onto the center of plate. 2. Place one grilled short rib in the center of the sauce. 3. Place one Gingered Shrimp on top of the short rib. 4. Place one piece each of Broccoli and Cauliflower Florets 1 inch above the short rib. 5. Place two pieces Fried Eggplant 1 inch below the short rib.
Pineapple "Shave Ice" (not your ordinary "Shave
Ice") Hawaiian Vanilla Panna Cotta Coconut Tapioca
Haupia Sorbet Lilikoi Sauce "Shaved" Pineapple
Serves 6
Hawaiian Vanilla Panna Cotta Yield:
6 servings
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup whole homogenized milk
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 vanilla bean (seeds removed)
1 - 1/4 gelatin sheets bloomed in ice water (or 2 and 1/2 teaspoons Knox powdered gelatin)
Method: 1. Bring cream, milk, sugar, and vanilla to a boil, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. 2. Remove the gelatin sheets from the water and add to the boiled mixture. Stir to dissolve the sheets. Strain. 3. Pour 3 tablespoons into each of 6 martini glasses and let set in the refrigerator for 4 hours.
Lilikoi Sauce:
Yield 14 servings
3/4 cup
water
1 tablespoon clear gel starch
1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons passion fruit puree
1 cup water
1/3 cup sugar
Method: 1. Combine the 3/4 cup water and clear gel starch. Set aside. 2. In a small pot, combine the passion fruit puree, water and sugar; bring to a boil. 3. Add the gel starch mixture to the pot and return to a boil, then remove from the heat and chill until cold.
Coconut
Tapioca:
Yield: 12 servings
8 cups water
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup tapioca pearls
1/2 gallon ice cubes
1 cup + 2 tablespoons coconut milk
1/4 cup sugar
Method: 1. Bring the water and 1 cup sugar to a boil in a large pot. Add tapioca pearls and let simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. 2. Remove from heat, add ice cubes and let sit for 2 hours. Strain and set aside. 3. In a small pot, bring the coconut milk and 1/4 cup sugar to a boil. 4. Remove from heat and cool. 5. Fold the prepared tapioca pearls into the sauce and place in the refrigerator to chill.
Haupia Sorbet:
Yield: 20 servings
2 - 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 - 1/3 cups water
1/2 cup Karo light corn syrup
3 cups extra-rich (25%) coconut milk
1 - 1/2 cups water
(Substitute last two ingredients with 4 and 1/2 cups of canned unsweetened coconut milk if unable to find extra-rich coconut milk)
Method: 1. Bring first three ingredients to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Strain and chill. 2. Once chilled, thoroughly combine it with the coconut milk and remaining water. 3. Transfer to an ice cream machine and freeze according to the manufacturer's directions.
Shaved Pineapple:
Yield: 6 servings
2 whole
pineapples, peeled, quartered, core removed.
Set aside
two quarters for garnish.
1 vanilla bean, seeds removed
1/4 cup ginger root, washed and sliced into 1/8" pieces
Method: 1. Combine all of the ingredients together in a Ziploc bag and set in the freezer for a day.
Plating:
6 martini glasses of Hawaiian Vanilla Panna Cotta (see recipe)
6 tablespoons Lilikoi Sauce (see recipe)
1 and 1/2 cups Coconut Tapioca (see recipe)
6 mint leaves, julienne cut
2 cups of fresh pineapple, diced into 1/2" cubes
1 - 1/2 cups Haupia Sorbet (see recipe)
6 quarters of Shaved Pineapple (see recipe)
1 lime
Plating each serving: 1. Take chilled martini glass of Hawaiian Vanilla Panna Cotta and pour one tablespoon of Lilikoi Sauce on top. 2. Add 1/4 cup of Coconut Tapioca. 3. Place 1 julienned mint leaf on the tapioca along with six cubes of diced pineapple. 4. Place 1 icecream-size scoop (approximately 1/4 cup) of Haupia Sorbet on top. 5. Using a microplane, coarsely shave one quartered frozen pineapple over the sorbet. 6. Grate lime zest lightly over the top. 7. Serve immediately. | http://allears.net/tp/ep/fw11/2011-epcot-food-and-wine-festival-kitchen-memories-3.htm | 2013-05-18T10:12:06 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
if you have been following along since the beginning of the countdown you know I mentioned I have some fun prizes in store. So I am going to kick off the fun today...make sure you read through to find out how you can WIN.
You may have noticed that I have a theme going on here. My absolute favourite colour is green so I am absolutely delighted by PTI's addition of Spring Moss. I hope you are too.
Candle Centre Piece
Candles are so elegant so it makes sense to use as or with your centre piece. Again, my goal for this release is to show you EASY ways to make your own wedding ensembles. The total time to make this project was 10 minutes and that is being generous! And you know what's even better than that? The project cost $1.25 CAD to make. If you add the base tray and the flowers it costs $4.50 CAD.
Step 1
Begin by stamping the large oval on a piece of white tissue paper in spring moss, followed by Wedding Day in black and August 8, 2008 in black too. Note: You only want to stamp on white tissue paper for a white candle.
Step 2
Cut out the image as close as possible.
Step 3
Glue the tissue paper to the candle.
Step 4
Wrap a piece of wax paper around the candle as tightly as possible and heat until the image darkens. Peel back slowly and ensure all areas have melted into the candle.
Tip: When heating do not apply heat directly over top of the image (the wax will run). Rather, heat evenly in a back and forth movement over the entire stamped surface.Step 5
Attach ribbon at the bottom.
Supplies
paper: Stampers Select White Cardstock by Papertrey Ink
ink: Black Palette, Perfect Match Spring Moss by PTI
stamps: Wedding Day (Urban Design) by Papertrey Ink
accessories: Spring Moss Satin Ribbon by Papertrey Ink, prima flowers
tools: scissors
misc: tissue paper
Personalized Wedding Favour
Again, the key to making your wedding favours is making the task quickly reproducible with the least amount of steps.
Step 1
Cut a piece of cardstock into a square 7.25x7.25 and stamp randomnly. I am showcasing white and spring moss but I also added black at the last minute which is not shown in this photo.
Step 2
Next, I turned the cardstock square to form a diamond and folded the right side of the paper across centre (try and avoid creasing). Repeat with the left side forming a cone. Then I adhered the left side (to secure) with double sided sticky tape.
Step 2
Then I filled the cone (I put pebbles to show you the depth etc) but you can put candies, flower seeds, flower bulbs etc of your choice. At this point I folded the tip over the opening (again avoid creasing paper).
Step 3
Now that the main wedding favour is complete I added the final touches. I stamped the flourished circle and cut it out using the nestabilities circle. I punched out Sara and Thomas with the 1 1/4th inch circle punch and adhered it to the centre of the circle with a pop dot.
I also decided to test out Lisa's FAB tutorial and stamp the decorative square image directly onto the twill ribbon to keep with the flourish theme.
Lastly, I formed the ribbon into a loop and placed it onto the wedding favour using a glue dot and secured the label to ribbon with a few pop dots.
Another variation of the flourished circle. I know how some people are LOVING the 08.08.08 date!
Supplies
paper: Stampers Select White Cardstock by Papertrey Ink, Spring Moss Cardstock by Papertrey Ink
ink: Black Palette, Perfect Match Spring Moss by PTI, Whisper White by SU!
stamps: Wedding Day (Urban Design) by Papertrey Ink
accessories: Spring Moss Twill Ribbon by Papertrey Ink,
tools: scissors, Circle die from Nestabilities by Spellbinders, 1 1/4th inch Circle Punch by EK Success
Have you made it this far? Well this is just the beginning of fun. I have two BIG prizes to award leading up to the release. I sure hope you can make it to the release party too. So what's up for grabs today? How about one of those GORGEOUS perfect match Spring Moss ink pads. Afterall green is my fav colour. How do you win? You can answer one of the following questions: 1) When are you getting married/or your sibling/friend/daughter/son etc? 2) What would you like to see for tomorrow's tutorial? 3) If you are getting married on 08/08/08 PLEASE tell me *wink* ...if you can't answer any of those questions just leave me a comment letting me know which of the two tutorials you liked today. Trust me when I say you WANT to leave a comment in the next few days. All I can say is it is to your benefit *smiles*
Make sure you stop by Candice's blog to see her new sneak peaks--her set looks adorable. She finally received it and is revved up to show you all the goods too.
Have a terrific day! Don't forget to check back again tomorrow.
167 comments:
Does the first post EVER win? Sigh. :O)
I loved both tutorials, but I can see myself doing the second one, for sure. I'm always helping out people with their wedding stuff.
I would have loved to get married on 8/8/8, alas, we got married 11/15/07. Nothing cool about the date at all. Just when the Rabbi had time for us. :)
I love BOTH of today's tutorials. The favor cone is adorable, and also great for Easter coming up...and I love to make hand-stamped candles! Unfortunately, we have no weddings come up, but my parents Golden anniversary is just a few years away, so I'm already thinking of what to plan for that!
I love the new Spring Moss color also. I have not tried the candle yet, so I would like to try that technique first. Again, no weddings in my future, but my anniversary is April 20, 1991, which means next month will be our 17th anniversary - time flies when you're having fun :) Thanks for the inspiration. Elizabeth S. in mid-Michigan
Hi Alli,
I just celebrated my 28th anniversary (woohoo) but I do have a wedding coming up; my daughter is the maid of honor in her best freinds wedding on June 14th and her other friend announced that she'll be getting married next September. I love the candle you created and the easy instructions! Thanks!
Kathyc on SCS
Alli, Your projects are gorgeous. I gotta browse down through the rest of them. Your blog is wonderful.
Ali - I love the candle. The wedding set is so elegant. I can't wait to see all of the new releases. Thanks for sharing.
Pattie Brown
pattie-cake@cox.net
Brilliant tutorials Alli, I love the spring moss collection too, it is so classy.
For tomorrow's tutorial I'd love to see save the date cards, wedding menu's or place settings as from what I've seen so far the PTI wedding set is going to be perfect for the whole wedding statioary as well as gifts and decorations.
I'm not getting Married but I may just remarry my husband just for a chance of that candle.
Wonderful tutorials! The embellished candle tutorial puts a new twist on others I have seen by using the tight covering of wax paper. What a wonderful detail to ensure success!
No weddings in sight for me, but I am working on a baby shower for my niece-- invitations are done, and now I have an idea for the favors (just different colors!), thanks to you!
Any ideas for a guest book?-- I'm thinking one that can be passed around and a brief note written rather than just a name.
Thanks!
Mary
I love the spring moss line too - bought almost everything! Now I'm thinking your set will be my first purchase on the 15th because of a wedding shower that I'm giving!
Beautiful tutorials.
debbies on SCS
I have thoroughly enjoyed all of your tutorials. I am new to Papertrey, and have fallen in love with their stamps. I really like the tutorial for the candle. Your new wedding set is so elegant.
I loved the candle tutorial. I have done this several times, but never thought of glueing the tissue paper down first. No weddings, but I celebrate my 17th wedding anniversary on April 6. I haven't tried the new colors yet, but I feel an order coming up.
Karen B in Texas
Since I'm coming up on my 2 year anniversary this June, I'd have to say the 2nd tutorial is my favorite of the two, as I can see myself using the favor cone for occasions other than weddings. Although, thinking about it now, the candle could be stamped with flowers, etc--things other than wedding-theme.
I love the favors tutorials. Thanks for sharing!
Glorie
Hi Alli! Great stuff! I really like your candle tutorial...I have seen them before, but never really knew how people did them. Yours is gorgeous!
oh my gosh, Alli your projects are fantastic. I wish I was getting married but I already am and plan to stay that way :o) I did add my own touch to my wedding invitaions though by adding dry embossing to the vellum overlay and I hand calligraphied all the addresses on the envelopes and the placecards too. I can't wait to see what else you come up with!
Ruth.
Hi Alli - I am getting married on 27th March 2009 - I would love to see a tutorial relating to place cards - I need some exciting ideas as to what I can place on the tables so people know where they are sitting - please help! x Karen x
Love the stamp set and the candle idea! That would work for gifts as well!
Great set and projects!!
I love the favour tutorial. There are so many uses for it. I love how you used the flourish stamp with three different inks. It really added a lot of dimension to the pouch.
My niece is getting married in May 2008.
08.08.08 is definitely a popular wedding date! Both a friend and my boyfriend's mom are getting married that day - guess I have to pick which one to attend!! :)
Hi Alli! Well I am not getting married on 8/8/08 but I am turning 39 that day! I love the candle tutorial! I can not wait to try it! Have a great day! Jessie
Really nice job on both tutorials! I would probably do the candle first myself, it seems a little less labor-intensive and with limited time I tend to go for the quicker projects. I'm loving all of the new PTI ink colors and I'm really looking forward to seeing what else you have in store for us with this release!
I would love to see a wedding scrap page tutorial. May be one that could easily be reproduced to mail with the wedding gift thank-you card.
Kellie
Both tutorials are great. I can use candle decor anytime and what family does not need some sort of favor holder? Thanks again for your ideas. Congrads on your work.
Retired Heather
My nephew is getting married in June and I am in charge of shower invites and favors (for which I used PTI Sweet Love and Piece of Cake!) and the wedding invites. I'm getting some great ideas from you girls! Thanks!
Your candle is so beautiful. Sounds easy enough that I just might have to try it. Thanks for such great tutorials. -Molly B
Beautiful projects! I especially like the candle. I will save that idea for my youngest son's wedding. No date set yet. Just for fun, we are celebrating our 31st anniversary on March 18th...seems like just yesterday! Thanks for the inspiration....love your blog!
I loved the favor box, because even though I am already married and don't plan to do THAT again, I could use that favor box for another type of event. Maybe an anniversary party for my parents! Thanks for the great sneaks!
Lisa K
I personally loved the candle today. And then, I also loved the stamped on twill with the cone project. What is it like to be sooo creative?
The wedding date reminds me of the date we adopted our cat from the animal shelter. We picked her up 6-6-06. This is the number for the antichrist...believe me she acts like one sometimes. :)
Thank you for your beautiful projects..they inspire me.
Kristyn
That is the cutest favor box... and you make it look so easy. I am excited to try it out myself. TFS
Julia Diane
I do not have an answer to any of the wedding related questions. I do hope my BFF will be getting engaged sometime this year:)
I love the tutoiral for the wedding favors-love the colors you chose. the black really added to the elegance. Also, the idea behind the cone could be carried over for any event! Thanks.
All your tutoritals are so beautifully detailed and your ideas fresh & fun. I enjoyed the one using the glassine envelopes for give aways. I will be trying that one for sure!
I have a nephew being married 10/25/08, AND I will be making the invitations, so am loving your ideas. Thanks so much, can hardly wait to see the entire set! Tina
My best friend's daughter is getting married July 11, and I will be co-hosting her bridal shower. I have SO many ideas for this set!! How could I possibly choose a favorite tutorial?!? Everything you've done so far is beautiful and elegant! :)
My big brother is getting married 7.12.08- just a few months away! I'd love to see some elegant thank-you cards that the bride & groom can send to thank guests for gifts. A new couple can always use those!
I love the post about the candles and my cousin is getting married on October 3 of this year. How about thank yous for after the wedding. Great stamp set and awesome job on all the projects. TFS!
Love all your projects/cards Alli. You are so talented. Keep em comin'!
I'm getting married in March 2009 (tentatively March 21 but we haven't officially set the date yet). I'm definitely making my own invites, programs, favors, and thank you notes - so thanks so much for the inspiration. I can't wait to see the entire set!
Hmm, as to what I'd like to see for tomorrow's tutorial - how about a wedding program? :-)
FYI, I used your instructions below (well, I resized it a little to create a wedding invite prototype! Thanks so much your sharing all your great ideas!
I've been married for 25 years...does that count? :)
I liked the first post best because we did the candle favors for my Godchild's wedding last year. When I showed her how to do it, the WOW factor was huge. It truly was cool.
Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Love all you have done so far. How about a bridesmaid or flower girl gift for your next tutorial. kim
All of your projects have been great! I really love the elegance of the candle...just beautiful! Thank you for sharing such wonderful ideas!! Tracey :)
My Son is getting married 9/5/08
both tutorials are great. I expecially like the candle one. I've gotta give it a try.
Hi Alli, Loved your candle project! It's just so elegant looking. I wanted to know how you got the lettering on your tissue paper. Do you just happen to have a stamp with the names? Any suggestions if you don't have a stamp.
What i want to see tomorow is anything you want to make, your creativity is better than mine. (I have ben married 17 years and am still happy!)
I'm loving all your sneak peak/tutorials. No upcoming weddings but will celebrate our 12th Anniversary on Aug 7.
Thanks for sharing!
I love both of these! That candle is beautiful -- I will definitely have to give that a try soon! (Maybe for our friends that are getting married on May 23!) But that favor cone is delightful! I'm throwing a baby shower for my sister-in-law in a few weeks, and this would be perfect! Thanks for sharing! (And I am a fan of spring moss, too -- so elegant!)
Oh my, I really really wish I hadn't already gotten married last year! My mom and I handmade all of my wedding invitations, favors, place cards, etc. with stamping suplies but it would have been 1000 times easier with this set! This is just what all the brides and thier moms need!
Both of your tutorials today (and in the days prior) were GREAT! I especially love the candle idea as I wanted to do that at my wedding but we couldn't figure out a good way to do so.
I would like to see you use the new sets to maybe create a save the date card.
Thanks for the great inspiration, now I can only hope that my old college roomate gettting married next summer will ask me for help with her wedding ;)!
Alli, I love all the tutorials you have given us. The one I like best today is the candle. It just seems it is more elegant for the wedding. The other is nice, but I vote for the candle. Alice Roushia
My sister is getting married on May 2nd. I would love to see what you can come up with for place cards. Both tutorials are great! Can't wait to see what you come up with next.
Love the set. I help lots of friends with thier weddings. Next one is coming up in May. Hopefully we will be able to use your set as we get ready! I love the cone shaped favor idea!
Allison
Ok, so ive been married for 8 years, and there's no change coming as far as that is concerned. BUT i do LOVE this favor tutorial and am thinking to use it for our easter party. It would even be great for my DS birthday *(he loves pirates) or thanksgiving (i see cornicopia!) I love how the possibilities are endless
dHi alli!! I am already married and I'm old enough that most of my friends are married but young enough that my neices and nephews are too young to get married yet!!! What would I like to see for tomorrow's tutorial?? Maybe thank you cards for the wedding (but honestly - anything would be great - your projects are all awesome). My favorite item today is the wedding favor - totally amazing. I also really loved the invitation you made yesterday! The Kraft, Spring Moss, and Black were so stunning together!! Thanks for these wonderful sneak peaks!!!
Donelda
LOVE that candle... SO beautiful! Looking forward to seeing the entire set. Congratulations again!
I loved the wedding candle tutorial. I've never done any candles, but have a friend getting married soon & this would be a sweet "extra" gift. Thanks for the idea!
Hey Alli, I'm another lover of the 08.08.08. It's so class. Love that it's dots and not dashes. Well, let's see, I like the candle project best. I love that you stamped the matching liner for the candle tray.
The candle turned out so pretty! I've made these before but I love your tip of wrapping it with waxed before melting it to keep it smooth. It turned out very pretty and classy! Well done!
I loved the candle that you made and its presentation. It is beautiful. I do not know anyone that is getting married this year, but I am going to try this project. Thanks Angelina
I really liked the candle tutorial. I've seen it before, but you made it look so easy and elegant...I think I'll have to try it! If only I knew someone who was getting married!
Thanks for your time and for sharing your talent with us all.
I love your blog and your tutorials! I've been married for 15 years so I don't plan on getting married again anytime soon! I do love the candle tutorial though and plan to use that! BTW, I do love your new PTI set- congratulations!
Gretchen
I don't have any family members getting married at this time but I so enjoy making favors and invitations for friends and can not wait to see this set release! Wooo Hoooo! You sure know how to build up the anticipation. I would also love to see something done using vellum, I've been wondering if the perfect match ink works well with that? And I absolutely LOVE the stamping on the ribbon!!!! Thanks for sharing with us all!! Awesome designs!!!
There are no weddings in my near future, but I was a maid of honor and bridesmaid in two weddings just two months apart last year and could have used these ideas then, LOL! Great stuff!!!
I really like the favor cone today. It can be used for so many occasions! I am not getting married, and all my friends are married, so no weddings for us in the near future...
THanks for sharing :)
Love the candle tutorial - I'll have to try one. Your new set is beautiful.
OMG these are beautiful. My sister is getting married in October, and when I showed her the Spring Moss color she said it was perfect for her wedding. (She is using Green and Brown as her colors). I was going to order some (And now the whole wedding set. Everything is so gorgeous) but before I saw your tutorials, I didn't even think about using it for favors too.!! So pretty.
I don't know anyone getting married this year, but I LOVE both of your projects. The candle looks so easy to make, and it's beautiful!
No close weddings in sight, but lots of baby showers. I really like your candle tutorial. You could do so much with that -- birthday gifts, admin assistants -- endless possibilities.
BTW, my nephew's birthday is 08-08. Unfortunately he turns nine on 08.08.08. That would have been very cool if he had turned 8 this year!
Thanks so much!
I love both tutorials. If I had to pick one and would say the wedding favors. I can easily see myself making these for friends.
I love all your projects, but I like the candle the most. My granddaughter is getting married June 22, 2008 and I really like these ideas.
I love that candle idea. I had no idea how to get the tissue on the candle. Fabulous! Just about everyone I know is already married, so ques. #1 is out. As for ques. #2, you guys come up with things I never would dream of! Thansk for inspiring me.
I'm so excited about this set, well all of them really. My brother is getting married in two weeks, so I should just get this in time to do a wedding card. I'd love to see a very SPECIAL elegant wedding card idea. And guess what, they wedding color is a soft green!!
My brother is getting married Oct. 4th and I'm compiling ideas to show him and his fiance to use as favors, centerpieces, etc. I'm hoping they will "ask" me to make some things!! *wink* So far I'm thinking this is my FAVORITE set! Love it!! ~ Donna M.
Love the tutorials, since my daughter is getting married in August of this year. Not sure if it will 08-08-08 or not, but that would be really cool, wouldn't it? She has to wait for her fiance' to get home from Africa where he is serving in the USN.
1) I don't know if I am ever getting married. I have been with my partner for 6 years, but marriage is not in the immediate future.
2)I would love to see something done with photos. I know lots of people send out thank you cards for the gifts they receive, and they include photos of the couple.
3rd attempt to say I wish your lovely tutorials had been available when we were married 10 yrs ago. I can use the treats holder for my twins' birthday the day before your wedding at least. Thanks!
I love the candle tutorial Alli. No weddings in the future for me that I know of though. Thank you so much for sharing these 2 awesome tutorials with everyone.
-*Linda*-
We got married on Pearl Harbor Day. Who does that? I always love to see tutorials on box-y things. I long to have a Scor-Pal so I can make all of those cool projects.
Thanks!
~Kathy
ktabbers2002@yahoo.com
Awesome tutorials! I liked the candle one best, I've always wanted to know how to do that! :)
I have to say I WISH I wasn't married so I could be getting married and then I'd be CASEing every single one of these projects with your FAB Wedding Day set!! Alli you ROCK and keep up the WONDERFUL work!!
the centerpiece is my fav. They are all fabulous though!
Alli,
You are amazing! I love your work. I especially love your projects this week because after I got married in 2000, I had so much fun designing all of my wedding goodies (invitation, favors, programs, etc.) that I started my own wedding business. I was a vendor at many bridal shows and have designed hundreds of wedding invitations and accessories, so I have an extra soft spot for these projects. Your invitation is my favorite so far!
Since having kiddos, I have had to temporarily stop my wedding biz. (Just not enough hours in the day!) Your projects are really making me miss it!
Thanks for all you do! I check your blog daily and am never disappointed at what I find!!
I think all the wedding day projects are amazing! You do such beautiful work. I am not getting married but I have two friends who are and there dates are not set but are coming to me for idea's thank you for getting the ball rolling with such great idea's!! The Candle is my fav but not by much they are both devine.
Already been married for almost 13 years here. . .but I love the candle tutorial!! That's beautiful! I've been wanting to try the stamping with a candle and I think today may be my day. These new sets just make it all so elegant!!
Thanks for sharing with us. The wedding favors are amazing as well!
I'm not getting married...again...since I already am...but if I was, I'd be making those candles. They're pure genius!
My wedding date is almost as fun....We were married on 8-1-81!! Has made it easy for my hubby to remember!
Did you print the names for the favor on the computer? What font is it?
Awesome projects...love them all, especially the candle.
Stampingly yours,
Pam
beautiful projects - the black really added some pop to that favor cone! Hmmm, what would I like to see tomorrow? I like cute favor ideas as well as cards.
I love your tutorials. I thinking of using them for other uses (baby showers etc) because everyone i know is either already married or will probably never be married:) Did you print the Sara & Thomas on a computer? I just received my first PTI set this week and can't wait to order again! Just so excited to see whats coming!! Love the green too.
I have been married for 6 years on 8/3/02 but my bro and his fiance are getting married August 30 of this year.
I love the tutorial you did about the candle. I have yet to try it out but would love to get the chance. Thanks for sharing your projects and another great stamp set.
I loved both tutorials-and I love that shade of green. I don't have any weddings coming up but we do have our youngest's Quinceañera next year on 08/08 of all days (her actual bithday). My husband and I will be celebrating our 25th anniversary in March.
Olivia M.
My brother is getting married on August 29th an this would be an awesome set to do their favors with. Their main colors are pink and brown and his fiance really wants to try and bring in a spring green as well (like spring moss!).
Thanks Alli! I love your tutorials.
I loved the candle tutorial. It ended up so beautiful and I never would have imagined that it was a stamped image! Amazing!!!
I will be married 5 years on 8/15/08. These would have been great at my wedding. But I still have family I use the candle idea for. I think the candle has to be my favorite. It just looks so personal and elegant. I cannot wait for the release. All of your stuff Alli is amazing PTI is lucky to have you ... keep up the great work !!!!!
I love the candle tutorial. I've never tried to make one but I might have to now. ;) I love this new set. I can't wait to see more.
I have really loved this wedding theme! My friend's daughter is getting married in May, so I've been sending her links. :-) My 18th anniversary will be in April! LOL
--amysings
No weddings coming up, not even our anniversary which isn't until November. I loved both tutorials, but my favorite is the candle. I really want to try that some time.
no wedding coming up but I can see using both of these for anniversary bashes Donna in Fargo ND where is spring????
I just love the font and elegance of these designs. I'd love to see placecards... maybe not wedding, but Thanksgiving??
Alli - your stuff is WONDERFUL! I check your blog every day. Loved the candle technique today especially. No one around here getting married - although after almost 18 years, I'd do it all again with the same guy in a heartbeat! How about some easily reproduceable thank you notes for tomorrow's tutorial??? Thanks for sharing all your lovely work.
My anniversary is actually coming up, 04/02/05 , nothing exciting about that date, except it's not April Fool's. I liked the second tutorial, I can see how it can be used for other occasions not just weddings.
I love the candle. I wish I had seen these projects when my daughter was married. I still have one to get married so I might have the opportunity to make them.
My brother-in-law is getting married on May 2, 2008. Thank you for the candle tutorial, I might just have to make that for them! I'm not even going to suggest a tutorial for tomorrow because whatever you come up with will wow me more than anything I could suggest...
Melissa
Hi Alli!
BOTH tutorials are great! I will be trying the second one SOON! I can see all kinds of applications for that one.
I would love to win the Spring Moss stamp pad, as I was unable to order it last month! For some reason, it wouldn't take when I tried to put it in my "shopping cart". Thanks for the chance to win!
Kathy McDonald,Seattle
My Sister-in-law is getting married on 07-17-08. She had always wanted to get married on 07-07-07, but alas, she didn't have anyone to marry last year. Kind of an important detail, right? She really should have gone with 08-08-08, but I guess decided she didn't want to wait TOO long. As for another tutorial...perhaps something that's not wedding-related so I can see the true versatility of your set...how's that for a challenge?
I loved today's tutorials, especially the Candle Center Piece. It looks so beautiful and elegant. I will definitely try my hand at making them, thanks!
How to choose between those two? I am not getting married, but I have two daughters, not getting married yet, but someday. So all of these great ideas go into a file to be used later. Not only do we love saving money by doing things ourselves, we love the personal, individual look of doing it yourself, plus it is so much FUN! Thanks so much.
My Husband and I were married on Valentine's Day, a few years back. I love the wedding ideas and I will keep them in mind for my two daughter's future weddings!
Both projects are absolutely wonderful. My step-son is getting married on July 19, so I plan on showing these two projects to he and his fiance. This paper looks so fantstic with the black and white accents.
As far as tomorrow goes...how about a tutorial featuring the Something Old, Something New idea of a wedding.
Have a great day - Regina Davis
I love your ideas. My niece is getting married on August 16 so I am really enjoying all the ideas I am getting from you.
Diane D.
I love the candle tutorial! I want to go home and do that after work today...
I got married on 5/7/07 and made all of my own invitations, thank you notes, and favors. The next wedding coming up is my husband's cousin in July.
Thanks for the chance to win!
I love your tutorials! Will have to try the candle idea. I would love to see your version of place cards or programs for the ceremony ! You are really covering all the bases though! Thank you for sharing~
Both tutorials were just beautifull. I think personally I like the candle better. Maybe next you do something cute with the floral arrangments or maybe a card holder.
Marla
Love 'em both, but the favor cone is my fav. The color combo is striking & very elegant looking. Looking forward to anything else you do. Alas, I am already married but hey why not an anniversary party! Placecards would be nice to have something nice & do something different with.
Alli,
I think your candle is absolutely gorgeous!! I just love how stamping allows us to transform something so simple into something so elegant! I wish I knew someone getting married right now, but they are all at the baby stage. I am sure I can make lots of baby shower favors with these lovely stamps though! Thank you. Becky
Beautiful projects! Tomorrow I would love to see a thank you card for the gifts. Can't wait to see what you have up your sleeve :)
Oh wow - I love that candle and am so glad you showed me the proper way to do it. My friends daughter got married a couple months ago and the candle I tried to make for her jsut wasn't right. It was the wax paper step that I missed!!!
Love the candle tutorial. I was married on 11-11-00. My birthday is 08-05-08, just missed the cool date by a few days. ;)
I love both your projects. Green is my favorite color, too. Your live traffic feed is cool; I've never seen it before!
I SOO LOVE the new PTI stamps,inks and paper!!! I'm so excited to start creating, can wait to get my own. I like the second tutorial because the favor can be used for baby showers or other parties as well.
Love the tutorials! They are both the best! So professional looking! I don't know anyone getting married. I know people having babies though, that would be a good theme for a tutorial tomorow, something for baby showers or baby cards. Thanks for the change to win!
thanks for the candle tutorial. I want to try that for sure!
Well I can't realy answer either question. I have been married for 7 years and have 2 kids so I am at a different stage in life....but I love both these projects. I can see making teachers gifts with the candels and birthday party favours instead of wedding favour and much more witht these ideas. Thanks so much for your sharing your excellent talent and knowledge!
Catherine
Thanks for the wonderful tutorials! I love the candle project. I've been wanting to do something like that for a while now. No weddings in sight here, so I would love to see your new set used for something outside of the wedding area. I know the set is "wedding Day", but I'm sure it is very versatile. Show us more!!
Alli I love your site. Both of these tutorials were great today! Especially the candle tutorial, what a great idea. I love green also...I painted my office this color.
Alli--
I just love this new set you created. It is so elegant and I love that it can be used for so much more then weddings!
Amy O. in North Carolina
I'm already married (happily! for 21 years!), and no one I know is getting married soon--but I loved your candle tutorial. It could be easily adapted for many occasions. I love your projects and share your love of green. And from what I've seen of your wedding stamp set, I think I'll love it, even for non-wedding uses.
hi,
loved your candle tutorial. it looks great.
i would love to see any gift ideas in tins, or a double pocket card.
thanks
I am already married, but love the candle tutorial as this would be perfect for an anniversarry dinnner or a gift bag to a friend for a christening.
I love the candle tutorial with pictures. I can seee now how easy they really are....by the way, I was not married on 08-08, but 8-5-95. August is a great month!
Wendi Grant in NH
Hi Alli, I am already married, almost 13 years! My brother and sister-in-law are having a baby on 8-8-08, though!! I wanted my daughter to be born on 8-7-6, but she came in July, stubborn from the beginning!
I loved the candle tutorial. How about stamping on food or chocolate? I don't know if there is any food-safe way to do that, though. Thanks!
I'll be showing both tutorials and ideas to my son's fiancee, as I have offered to help with their wedding in the way of favors. They don't have a date yet, but it will probably be next year, so I should have a little time to make everything. Thanks for both tutorials and a chance at your giveaway!
Well, I must say I haven't been to a wedding in almost 3 years, but just this morning I got an invite to a wedding on April 12, 2008. (Guess you know you're getting old when all your friends and family are already married or NOT getting married. LOL!) I really liked the cone favor tutorial today. For tomorrow's tutorial I would like to see a simple and elegant bridal shower gift - since I now have one to attend this SATURDAY! Talk about short notice! LOL! Love your new set - can't wait to see it all.
Loved the tutorials. The "pebble cone" could also be used for a birthday party! I don't forsee any weddings in my near future, my kids are 11 and 8 , and I am happily married!
My brother in law is getting married on 20 June and I can't wait to get this set to make my wedding present for them. I love both tutorials - I haven't stamped on a candle before so this was very helpful. Have a great day. Heather
I love the candle. I am thinking this would also be a great mom's day gift!!.
noelani
Love that favour cone!!! We are celebrating our 10th anniversary this year but it is on 08/29/08. You continue to drop my jaw with your designing abilities!
Hi Alli..great ideas and made so nice... I really enjoyed the candle..so cool and easy to do..I will have to give it a try!! Thanks for your great ideas...
I'm planning a 90th birthday party for my grandma in July and the candle tutorial would be perfect for centerpieces. Thanks for the idea!!! melissa
Your tutorials are awesome! Question - Why do you glue the tissue paper on first? I did my first candle a few weeks ago but didn't glue mine. As for wedding, no 8/8/08 here but I'm celebrating my 8th anniversary in May! :)
I've just found this website and your products and am in love. I'm going to be ordering some paper and stamps. Have 2 married sons, where were you last year when the both got married 8 months apart? Still have a daughter who might be getting engaged, so I still have hope.
Both of your projects are beautiful. I especially love the candle- that can be used for so many occassions!
peggy lee
Love both ideas...but like the candle idea the best. Nope won't be getting married again anytime soon. My 25th wedding Anniversary is April 9th 2008.
Love your elegant candle, and saving the favor cone idea for maybe a b-day party favor. No weddings coming up but my husband's b-day is on 08/08! Thanks for sharing your talent here.
Sandra
My nephew is getting married June 21, 2008 and my mother and I are helping to make the invitations. We may need to do the favors too so I appreciate any ideas along that line. Love the candle too.
I know of only 1 person getting married at the beginning of next month. They've been together for 8 years and are finally making it official! They're daughter is happy about that, LOL! I loved the candle tutorial today. And how about a tutorial on something for an anniversary? I'm always stumped on a little gift to give for anniversaries.
I love everything you do and especially the wedding favor. I have a dear friend whose son is getting married on 05-03-08.
I can't wait to get some twill ribbon and stamp on it like you did. Such a cleaver idea.
Betty
I've made a candle like that before, but it was good to be reminded of that! I also liked the other cone wedding favor. You do great work! Can't wait to see the set!
Love the candle tutorial! Didn't realize it was so easy :-)
all your projects have been great lately! I love the candle and I have never heard the tip about the wax paper--so clever!
I got married 4-24-4, which is cool, but not nearly as cool as 8-8-8!
WOW, absolutely gorgeous, Alli! I have to say this tutorial was my favorite only because I ADORE that candle on the tray with the primas. . .gorgeous! I've loved EVERYTHING you've created with your new set though! :)
These are fabulous! I'm not getting married but my sister is getting married on April 18. I'd love to see more tutorials for wedding favors. We're still trying to figure out what to do for hers. Thanks!
I love the candle.
(How did you get everything to line up so straight?)
I would love to see a scrapbook page next :)
~Lisa
Love both tutorials. You are a very talented person!! I do not know of anyone getting married at this time. TFS
Cindy C.
cac1957@hotmail.com
Your tutorials are GREAT Alli! THanks for sharing all you do with us. Keep up the great work.
I'm not getting married, but my sister is on Sept. 13, 2008. I loved the candle and know another thing I can make for her now! Thanks!!
I love the little cone favor holder.
Love the treat/favor cone idea. So cool when everything coordinates!
Love the candle tutorial - but then again I like all of what you've done! The wedding set is delightful and elegant. Unfortuately no weddings soon (we just celebrated 29 years) but always lots of events and occasions.
I, too, would like to see elegant thank you cards for bulk use!
I love the candle alot. I wish our date was set for 08-08-08. It is really hard to get my fiance to set a date. Maybe if I show him all these cool thinkgs you are making, or even just start creating and then make him give me a date to put on these projects, LOL!!!!
Tanya
These are both fantastic! I've been wondering how to do the candles, I can't believe how easy it looks. Can't wait to try it out.
I love both projects!
Alas, I have been married for 13 years and we have young children so it will be a long time before any weddings here. I do keep an idea folder and both projects are going in it.
Great job!
well my stepson is getting married 4-26-08. I made 150 invitations for the wedding even though we are not too excited about it as they are so young. But what can you do? Loved both your tutorials...I always love new packaging ideas! deidrelm@hotmail.com
My son is getting married next summer. No date has been set yet. I would like to see a tutorial of different favors that are placed at each place setting at the reception. As the mother of the groom, my place is to wear beige and shut up(no, I was not told that to my face), but being a paper crafter, I will have to do something creative and elegant just so I can say I helped!!
I loved both tutorials! Thanks for the ideas. I don't have anyone getting married too soon, but I do have two daughters, so we'll be paying for a wedding eventually! Congratulations on your new stamps!
My daughter's getting married in Oct. and Nicole already released the perfect color paper last month (we call it Tiffany Blue!)for her wedding invitations. Now I'm ready for the perfect stamp set!!
Alli, I loved both tutorials. I've never done the candle yet, so I definitely want to try that. the 080808 date is awesome...I can't take it tho, I've already taken 070501 nothing special about the numbers, but the date is really special to me! lol
I am amazed at how you make the candle seem so easy & "do-able" to someone who hasn't attempted it as yet. thanks!!!
i'll keep reading your blog, I love it!
Ret
Hi beautiful! I always love seeing what you're up to, you crafty chicky you :)
BTW, I just put up a picture of us on my blog, you should check it out. Great memories :) :)
Hugs
caro
Hi!
Today I posted an entry on my blog with a link to these tutorials.
Would you let me know if that's OK?
Thanks,
Nancy Ward
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I have made this a few times now with perfect results. I read the reviews prior to making it and found it extremely helpful to do the following: 1) instead of using 2 cups of water, use 1 cup of boiling water to dissolve the package of gelatin, then add 3/4 cup strawberry juice/syrup, and then add the strawberries; and 2)put the gelatin/strawberry mixture in the fridge for about an hour or so to thicken a bit before pouring it overtop of the cream cheese mixture (this is very key for the success of the dessert). I really think these changes helped to enhance the texture and flavor of the gelatin layer. I highly recommend trying this. I have taken it to two dinner parties now and cannot tell you how many compliments I received, my friends were thoroughly impressed. Thanks for the fantastic recipe!!!
This was really good! I added some vanilla (1/2 tsp) to the cream cheese layer. I also think the crust should be a bit sweeter- I will try it with white and brown sugar next time. As other readers have warned, this crust will turn to CEMENT if you cook it too long. Take it out after 10 minutes even if you don't think it's cooked. It will get hard as it sits! Roll the side of a drinking glass over the crust in the pan- it makes an easy job of pressing it in.
This is definitely a 5 star recipe that has been around for years. If it was not offered during my family's Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday they would protest in rebellion! Only recommendation I would make is to use butter gold pretzels as this enhances the flavor. PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a recipe that keeps for days... it needs to be eaten within the first 48 hours as the pretzel crust breaks down and softens and it just does not do it justice - Hands down to the crunch in this salad, it's a winner.
Delicious! This a a great dessert! Two suggestions: 1) do not bake the crust any longer than the 10 minutes called for, even if you are adding extra pretzels, butter and sugar to the crust. If the butter/sugar mixture gets too hot it will turn to cement and a chisel will be required for removing it from the dish- I found out the hard way and 2) when choosing your strawberries take note of the amount of juice they are sitting in and reduce the two cups of water by that amount. Enjoy!
I have been making this for at least 15 years and everyone fights over it. They want to get their share. My recipe differs a little. It calls for 2 cups pretzels, marg. instead of butter and 3 tsp.( I use heaping tsps.) sug. for crust. For cheese middle it is the same only it calls for 1- 8 oz cream cheese instead of 2. Top layer is 2 small pkgs. jello,water the same,but use 2-10 oz. cartons frozen strawberries. I like Birdseye brand in syrup. If berries are whole, I chop them up. It really needs to chill several hours. This is my most requested jello recipe ever! It really is like a dessert! When I first made it, no one could figure out what the bottom was made of! You really must try. Thanks Tom!
I've made this several times for work potlucks. I would make it the night before and it always turned out beautifully (it's a big hit!). Once I made it during an afternoon for dinner that night and the pretzel crust was much too hard. I think the trick is letting it sit overnight long enough for the crust to soften. It's definitely my favorite!
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At TED, Susan Cain Tells Business Leaders: Honor Thy Introverts.
“Western societies favor the ‘man of action’ over the ‘man of contemplation,’” Cain said. Over time, she noted, the topics of self-help books have changed from being about building character to teaching the skills of salespeople (winning friends and influencing people, etc.).
Meanwhile, Cain argued, introverts get better grades, are more knowledgeable and can be better leaders because they only step forward to lead out of deep conviction. In a group setting, she said, there is not necessarily a correlation between someone talking the most and having the best ideas.
Cain’s examples of great introverts included Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi, Charles Darwin, Theodor Geisel and Steve Wozniak. She herself just published the book “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking,” which she said took seven years of research, including a year of working on public speaking.
Cain’s talk hit exactly on the personal-story-turned-universal-lesson arc beloved by the TED audience, and her effort to transcend her own introversion received the main TED 2012 program’s first standing ovation.
Though Cain’s talk was highly personal, it had a message for the business leaders in the room. “Stop the madness for constant group work, just stop it,” Cain urged. She also told the audience to honor their introverted sides, and spend time in contemplation — and then share that back with the world. “I wish you the courage to speak softly,” she closed.
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I authored a guest post on the influential blog “PR Meets Marketing”, which explores the intersection of PR and Marketing.
The title of my post is “Go Virtual for your Next Press Event“. I outline the many benefits of a virtual press event:
- Global Reach
- Convenient access to your executives
- Seamlessly include your customers and prospects
- Use activity paths to follow up effectively
I concluded the posting by writing this:
“I believe virtual events can be the definition of ‘PR meets Marketing’. As PR and Marketing look to Web 2.0 to broaden reach and engagement, consider virtual events as one more tool in your arsenal.”
Here’s a link to the full posting:
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Guest opinion: Death penalty only solace for bereaved family
by Frank Merrill
I called Mr. Organ to confirm what I had already suspected — that he had no personal knowledge of or connection with the death penalty. My wife and I, and the rest of our family, can tell a very different story. Our son, Officer Rich May of the East Palo Alto Police Department, was executed by gang member Alberto Alvarez on Jan. 7, 2006, on Weeks Street in East Palo Alto.
In our case, there is absolutely no question of innocence — by his own testimony, the murderer admitted shooting Rich and in fact, after only wounding him with a body shot, of returning to put a bullet directly between Rich's eyes to finish the job.
He had a "who's who" legal defense team, provided by San Mateo County and the state of California, which included two attorneys (Charles Robinson and Eric Lieberman), crime scene reconstruction experts, use of force experts and private investigators. The jury reviewed the "cock and bull story" that the defense presented (a convicted felon, who had a gun illegally, was trying to "defend" himself in a fight) and determined there was not a shred of truth to it. The verdict was unanimous in the guilt phase and the judge saw the heinous crime as sufficient for the death penalty, which was the choice of Steve Wagstaffe, then the deputy district attorney and now DA.
This individual is incapable of rehabilitation and has a long history of violence against society. Instead, he will live (until his execution) in an 8 foot by 12 foot cell, virtually never seeing anything but artificial light.
In addition, he will have repeated appeal reviews, which will begin generally within 10 years of the sentence. These costly reviews will examine every shred of trial testimony to try and discredit the prosecution's presentation and find something that will allow the death penalty opponents an opportunity to save a murderer's life. In addition, for the remainder of his life, the murderer receives medical care, visits from family, correspondence from friends and, of course, "three squares and a cot."
We, the family, are left to pick up the rubble of our lives and go on — eventually, as though nothing has happened. We will have to live with not just the pain of losing Rich but also with the realization that the murderer continues to live and breathe. We have to be allowed to see the punishment fit the crime and in this case, the murderer needs to pay for his actions.
Bringing peace of mind to the victims is the only true consolation that the legal system can provide. In this case, we can only hope it occurs as soon as possible.
To quote famous columnist Mike Royko: "Murder is the most terrible crime there is. Anything less than the death penalty is an insult to the victim and to society." To an individual like Henry Organ, who has never seen the pain and suffering that such a murder creates, I can only say: walk a mile in our shoes before you decide the death penalty is wrong.
Frank Merrill is the stepfather of Officer Rich May and lives on Moulton Drive in Ather. | http://almanacnews.com/story.php?story_id=10705 | 2013-05-18T10:41:12 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Over 3 years ago Friends of Chamber Music in Portland Oregon was presented with an opportunity. Before going any further, full disclosure: I am a member of the Friends of Chamber Music board of directors so treat everything I say as biased in favor of the organization. Anyway… we had an opportunity.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln………. Um….HALL
An Israeli ensemble that had rarely come to the US, and never to Portland, had a mission. You see, Alexander Pavlovsky, Sergei Bresler, Ori Kam, and Kyril Zlotnikov and formulated a plan to come to the US with a 4-day cycle of every one of Demitri Shostakovitch’s 15 string quartets. These 4 guys, together, since 1993, known as the Jerusalem String Quartet agreed to bring their cycle to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. They scheduled their epic performance for 2013.
So why should Portland care? Well, after the Lincoln Center performances were locked and loaded, The Quartet thought it might be a good idea to have one more American “run through” of the complete cycle. Voila! Our opportunity appeared! Friends of Chamber Music was offered the chance to bring the whole event to Oregon.
The Blessing that is Pat and Lori
This opportunity could have simply slipped on by were it not for our visionary executive director, Pat Zagelow and her FOCM partner Lori Fitch. They might have simple taken a pass on it; they might have deemed it to expensive or too risky; they might have made an executive decision that Portland was too small a city for a concert series of this magnitude; they might have looked at our audience demographics and just not believed that the data supported getting people to come to hear 15 20th century chamber works with identical instrumentation; they might have made innumerable decisions that would have stopped the idea before it was ever presented to our artistic committee. But they didn’t. Instead Pat and Lori came to the Artistic Committee with the idea, the estimated financial impact, a clear understanding of the risk, and the preparedness to jump on the offer quickly, should we choose to take it to the full board.
The Three Pillars of Artistic Decision
It’s important to notice that I have twice now used the words “Artistic Committee”. This is a relatively unique concept. Unlike organizations with larger budgets and/or less active boards, we don’t have an Artistic Director. We have an astonishingly well versed ED but artistic decisions are made my a committee of volunteers. There are 3 things that are necessary to make this work. First, you need board members who so deeply love the music that they stay educated and mindful of what makes great performance. Second, you have to have a board that wants to WORK HARD. Third, you need a staff that trusts these volunteers to make practical decisions. Those are the 3 pillars of success if you are going to choose not to have a paid Artistic Director. I’m the first person to admit I’m biased. But to my mind those are also the 3 pillars that fundamentally support our whole organization: Staff/Board teamwork, willingness to engage actively, and TRUST. I think we are unique in having all of those; and, I think that’s why we are going stronger than ever as we enter our SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR.
Deciding to Say “Yes”
Now, if you have never been part of a performing arts organization, you may not know just how expensive it is to bring a chamber ensemble to town. You may also not know how utterly unpredictable the process of ticket sales can be. It is possible, for example, to pay several tens of thousands of dollars to bring a famous vocalist to town while still having difficulty selling seats at 30 to 50 bucks a pop. Why? Well, if I knew the answer I probably would be consulting for the music world instead of building TV stations. Bottom line, nobody really knows. My point is that, even with perfect execution, perfect advertising, and a perfect performance, you don’t always make lots of money. I don’t think that even Nassim Taleb could tell you how to manage the risk of a big black swan stomping on a perfectly planned concert. So, everything artsy is risky.
This means that, saying “yes”, even when you think you are saying yes to a “slam dunk”, is risky. And, when your ticket sales can’t pay all your expenses, and you rely on donors, that risk transfers to your biggest supporters before anything else. Not only do you need to think of the risk relative to your own finances and your own reputation, but you are putting your best friends’ money at risk too. (By the way, it’s only because some of those “best friends” jumped in and committed financial assistance early that we could do this: THANK YOU).
In our particular case, we have an innovative, forward-looking board (note bias!) who decided to take the risk and do something really BIG. Strategically, it was a fit with our mission statement. We hoped the risk would be manageable And, tactically, we thought our bast chance of success was to turn the 4 concerts into a “festival”; not just performances, but lectures, education, and receptions too. The game was on. The clock was ticking. We formed a committee.
Engaged Leadership
I want to take a second to thank this committee. Under the leadership of board member Alice Hardesty we were able to spend a year-and-a-half planning, fostering a free flow of ideas, selecting participants, building partnerships with other organizations, supporting each other when our grand ideas were not always executable, and generally becoming greater and greater Shostakovitch lovers. Thanks to the Alice we have a pretty fun ride!
T-MINUS 18 Months!
Ideas came and ideas went. Personally, I had a vision of making a big splash in the Jewish community with an Israeli ensemble that had never been to Portland. I don’t want to feel like I failed; let’s just say I couldn’t pull off the reception I’d envisioned. Other ideas had to go too – I REALLY wanted that Vodka tasting party. Ah well… I had to settle for simply doing a couple of shots with my friend Lori. The point is that some things couldn’t happen. But what did happen was still far more wonderful than we could even have anticipated.
“A Shostakovitch Festival” Makes it From Jerusalem to Portland
This event was one of the greatest events in my 24 years watching the Portland classical music scene. This was not one of those things where the ensemble just played a bunch of pieces chronologically. An enormous amount of thought, dare I say emotional-engineering, went into the programming. Here is how it ended up (and, I believe, how New York will also get to experience these quartets):
Concert #1
Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 49 (1938)
Quartet No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 92 (1952)
Quartet No. 6 in G Major, Op. 101 (1956)
Quartet No. 12 in D-flat Major, Op. 133 (1968)
Concert #2
Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 83 (1949)
Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (1960
Quartet No. 10 in A-flat Major, Op. 118 (1964)
Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122 (1966)
Concert #3
Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 (1946)
Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108 (1960)
Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138 (1970)
Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp Major, Op. 142 (1973)
Concert #4
Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 68 (1944)
Quartet No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 117 (1964)
Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144 (1974)
I can’t explain how all the choices were made. What I can, and will say is that after each of the 4 performances the audience members left both overwhelming excited and emotionally exhausted. My wife tells me that in all her years she’s never hears so much excited chatter in the ladies room after the shows (I’ll take her word for it, thank you very much). Each concert on it’s own, and all the concerts together, were stunning. The Oregonian said it better than I could when they stated: “They’re a resounding triumph, easily among the most memorable musical performances in Portland in recent memory.” And, just to give you a feel for the unprecedented skill of the musicians, here’s another àpropos Oregonian quote: “Individually, they were distinctive and supremely flexible. Few quartets achieve the balance they did, each member rising up and falling back within the ensemble to give a natural sense of fluidity and depth.” Thank you James McQuillen – your Oregonian article NAILED IT!
When a Concert Series Becomes a Festival
I want you to remember what I said earlier about the choice to make this a festival. Not only did the quartet play as well as any I have EVER heard, but the week-long event also included these ancillary events: Lectures by Evgenii V. Bershtein and Peter Kupfer, a round-table discussion with the players, and a really amazing educational outreach event where 4 young musicians were privileged to rehearse sections of the very rarely heard Shostakovitch OCTET. I admit that I had to miss the last 2 events I mentioned because I had an insanely busy work week and simply couldn’t do everything. But rumor has it, they rocked as much as everything else.
Coda
To sum it up I need to simply say that the past week was among the most fulfilling weeks in my music-following life. I have to admit I’ve had a few other peak music experiences: Meeting Messiaen, watching Berio and Boulez conduct, having Earle Brown come to my graduation recital and tell me he liked my music, drinking beer at Mel Powell’s piano with Morty Feldman, hanging out at IRCAM, and being at Dawn Upshaw’s first performance after her breast cancer treatments were all peak experiences in my life. But, this week I added a new peak experience to the list because, this week, I was blessed to spend 4 incredible days with 4 amazing young musicians, listening to 15 astonishing pieces of music, and riding the emotional bullet train that is Demitri Shostakovitch.
I am always proud to have been given the chance to serve Friends of Chamber Music. But, this week I am extra proud to have the blessing of being part of an organization which has, arguably I suppose, created the finest music event in the 24 years I’ve been in Portland; and, I’ll be so bold as to propose the possibility that it’s the most significant event in our 74+ year history. | http://almostrational.wordpress.com/category/on-beauty/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
After more delicious food, including lots of mock meats (we had delicious “goose” and fish, complete with nori for the skin), we said goodbye to KL and took a long-distance bus for 6 hours to Mersing, an ocean-side town on the eastern coast of Malaysia.
But this was no long-distance bus ride like any other I’ve taken before. Velour seats, reclining, with full legroom, air conditioning, clean gigantic picture windows, and no smoking! Can you tell I’m loving Malaysia?
The people have been helpful and kind, and it’s quite easy to get around even if you don’t speak any Malaysian, since many of the residents don’t, either. There are three main ethnic groups–Malays, Chinese, and Indians. Most people speak English as well as one or more other languages. In fact, science and math are now taught in schools in English! This is a forward-thinking country in so many ways.
As part of our tour group, our guide hands out laminated cards to help us learn the language. Not so much helpful for me, since I know most of it so far, save for a few words that are different than Indonesian, but the others are enjoying the challenge of learning a new language and trying it out, and I’m helping them with my crazy mnemonics whenever possible.
For example, the Indonesian word for “delicious” is enak. Here they don’t use it so much, although you will find people who understand it, since there is about 20% of the labor force from other countries these days, including many from Indonesia. However, the more commonly used term is sedap.
So my mnemonic to help remember it is, “Shut up, it’s so delicious, shut up, leave me alone, I want to eat it, it’s so delicious.” “Shut up” sounds very similar to sedap, since the “e” isn’t really pronounced.
Another one I was helping another group member learn tonight at dinner is “Good Morning,” which is Selamat Pagi in Malaysian and Indonesian. I told them that if they could remember that selamat means peaceful, and that it is the first half of any greeting, such as good afternoon, goodbye, and welcome, they could remember it by thinking that the opposite of peaceful would be to slam a door. Slam it. Slam-at, pronounced with the “a”s like say “aaaah.”
Then to remember pagi, think that in the morning, you feel tired, you feel like you’re in a fog, you are foggy, you’re in a bog, you’re boggy, boggy, poggy…pagi, which is how it’s pronounced.
My travelmate said, “Well, YOU might wake up in a fog, but I wake up perky and cheerful…so tomorrow morning, I’ll have to think, ‘Alina is waking up in a fog, foggy, boggy…Selamat pagi.” I said, “Yes, you’d be absolutely right, and you’d get the words right, too!”
So while we are off snorkeling with sharks over the next three days, I want you all to practice those two vocabulary items, okay? There will be a test when I get back. ha ha.
Tomorrow we get on a boat for 2 hours and go to Tioman Island, and island 30 miles off the coast, where will we stay in cabanas on the sliver of beach. The rest of the island is jungle, so we will alternate between snorkeling off the balconies and jungle trekking, with leeches smacking their lips, awaiting our tasty foreign blood. Should be fun!
We’ve already been warned to lock our windows and doors when we leave our room, not so much to prevent humans from stealing our things, but to prevent the monkeys from doing so! They will break into your bags looking for food, or worse, get scared and drag it off into the jungle, then leave it there!
We saw some lightning tonight as we headed to dinner, so I’m praying if it storms, it will be over before tomorrow. The idea of being on a boat in a storm, getting tossed around out at sea, with people throwing up all around me, makes for a great story and wonderful adventure, but it’s not a whole lot of fun. If you’ve known me for a while, you’ve already read about adventures like those. Thanks, but this time I’d love a peaceful trip!
Okay, I’ll get back to you in about four days or so. Stay tuned for more fun, and to see if the rubber boots I’ve been hauling will keep the leeches at bay… | http://almostveganinparadise.wordpress.com/2009/04/ | 2013-05-18T11:01:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
One.
I DO have a Bonnie Rait streak in my pubes! I thought for a minute you and I were vaginal twinsies. Alas, you’re twinsies with another pussy.
BLOGOLOGUES!
One grey hair? Pfffffffffff. I have shit-loads. The other day, my girlfriend helpfully pointed out that soon, I won’t need to pay for blonde highlights, as the ‘grey kinda looks blonde anyway’.
Awesome.
If your hair is red at the root and gray at the tip, that means you’re a tabby. Congratulations.
Getting my first gray hair didn’t bother me. Getting my second gray hair didn’t bother me. But the day that I looked in the mirror and was able to see half a dozen gray hairs without having to put any effort into looking for them was very traumatic.
Oh, and my mom taught me long ago what to say to that date-rapist line: if you really loved me, you’d move Blogologues to the west coast.
If you really loved me you’d move it to Australia
Calico! Of course. I should have thought of that. But, uh, it’s kind of important for me to be a tortie. I should probably talk to a vet about this.
i had a LOT of gray in my 30′s. kept the ‘skunk stripe’ up front, left a lot of it all over the rest for a nice salt-n-peppa schtick – and helped my hair stylist buy her first home, for all the money i spent working that shit. turned 40, painted it all back to a semi-natural brown, and haven’t looked back. when the pubes started to turn? i was appalled… and am now helping a lovely young woman finance her wedding through regular visits to her to remove the offending follicles. it’s not gray hair. it’s a life-line for an important subset of the service economy.
You have two grays. I feel so bad for you. NOT! I have like 30, and I’m 30 years old. Sorry for the outburst. I’m just upset because I turn 31 in a few months, and I’m sure that means 31 gray hairs.
Please tell the Blogologues to extend one more day. I’m going up to NYC May 6th.
You guys are amateurs. I’m NOT EVEN 30 yet and I have, like, thousands of grey hair. I have to dye it black to match my cat – who’s slowly stressing herself grey to match me.
Pshaw all you babes! I found my first grey hair at 23. It’s been downhill ever since. I have a “rocking” white stripe–which I didn’t know was rocking until I saw Bonnie Raitt also has one!. I have been sans hair coloring for over a year now and am quite happy. Now the awful terrible no good haircut I got six weeks ago is another story…
Oh, and you are absolutely twinsies with that adorable cat!
ps White eyebrows are worst of all.
I gotta tell you, I started getting those bitch gray hairs pretty early (as far as I was concerned) in my twenties, but now I just see one, pluck it, and verbally abuse it as I toss it into the trash. I’m sure that speaks volumes about my stability and whatnot. And I always wanted to age gracefully, so I feel like the string of obscenities really helps that.
Oh, and “sterling idea”? Well played, ma’am.
My cat Chunks also refuses to drink from his water bowl. He prefers the bottom of the shower, or, when he’s really wanting to prove a point and drive the guilt home, the toilet. I fill the sink for him too.
One of our cats likes to wash her hands [paws?] in one of the water bowls before drinking from the other. She also eats paper. I think she’s got Alzheimers.
I’ve heard that couples start to look alike the longer they’ve been together. I guess that must work for polygomous groupings like yours, too.
two gray hairs? two gray cats? pshaw.
‘Alone’ has a nice ring to it, actually. Better than ‘Cat Lady with a side of Poop’ which is my new working blog title.
Dude, I just had to buy bifocals, Official Eyewear of the Aged. And why the hell don’t your cats have a water fountain? It’s the first thing mine forced me to purchase.
Dude, they had a fountain when they were younger. It was their first Hanukkah present. But the pull of the sink was too strong.
Dude I just got Bifocals too. Holla! Oh, I mean,…Get of my lawn!
Shut up! I have like a million grey hairs and you’re upset about two? Girlllll, two ain’t nothing.
Ps. Isabel needs diet kitty cat food.
I spit my Diet Red Bull through my nose reading this. First off, seriously, cry me a river on the two grey hairs thing. I have an amazing colorist that keeps my strawberry blonde locks intact, but it’s a battle. I gave up on the gravity wars some time back.
Our animals are extensions of us, but really, we exist to pay their mortgage/rent and to pay homage to their greatness. Your cats will be around a long, long time to remind you of this. A much bigger concern for you is why you haven’t bought your cats a water fountain? Other cats have them, so yours should too. On an unrelated note, in considering statistical mortality issues for cats, think you can rule out “starvation” as a risk to Isabel.
I dunno. I feel like if you renamed your blog “Alone… Without Cats,” you might gain a lot of male readers.
This is true. But isn’t it sort of nice knowing for sure that you’re one of only three male readers now? I’d hate to strip you of that honor.
I suppose that WOULD be a bit disappointing…
I really enjoy your wordplay. Very clever and fun! I
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I…would definitely keep reading your blog even it it were just “Alone” but I would never wish that situation on you. In other words, I think you should go with the vampire idea.
I wouldn’t wish it on her either…however, on ME it looks like (to be read in Oprah’s voice) FREEDOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah i think its like a cosmic joke of some kind that you are sad to be alone, and I am gleefully rubbing my palms together at the thought of all the freedom I’ll have once I’m alone.
Alone, sweet aloneness… I am so sad that something I dedicated myself to, someone I loved so hard and well for so long, didn’t end up working out….my ONE consolation is I’M FREE. FREE
GOWHEREIWANTDOWHATIWANT NO MORE INFERNAL NAGGING QUESTIONING SECONDGUESSING FREE! FREE! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAA. AH GOD, The questions, they will not stop. “Well why are you doing that that way?” “Well what if that;s not right” “You’re going outside? But it’s raining outside!”, Did (insert name of some person that is not me) do this, that or the other thing they were supposed to do?”
How the fuck would I know? For the love of all that is holy and the nine hundredth time…ask that fucking person!
“Well gosh you don’t have to get so upset about it!”
FREE! So long passive aggression. So long, emotional neglect. So long, neuroses! See you around, reruns of everybody loves raymond. Mama’s free to roam!
Wow. Thanks for letting me share that in the privacy of your blog comments. I have no other outlet right now.
Oh the days of no white hairs to haunt me… yeah let’s face it, that was in my teens. I hate genes sometimes. My hairdresser loves my genes… and their bank balance. Sigh.
I have an agreement with my vet, my big guy is just big boned (and has a speed dial to the pizzeria or at least that is what the vet is convinced of).
gray hairs are a sign of sophistication. also, you will never be alone. you are loved. also, i know how you feel, my sadie and quincy were the loves of my life. parts of me died when they left this planet. my grays are wiry too. and i pluck them out.
i realize that comment was all over the place, but i’m a little all over the place today. excited to meet the bloggess tonight. without her, i would not have met you.
I’m jealous of your gray hair(s). As a young mom with a lot of things to say, NO ONE TAKES ME SERIOUSLY. If I had gray hairs, anytime someone scoffs at me when I’m blurting out some wisdom, I’d be like, “check out my gray hairs” and they would be SILENCED. At least, that’s how it plays out in my head. And when I picture my first gray hair happening in my bathing suit area, that whole scenario becomes a lot more interesting.
Your hair has simply entered its philosophical stage.
i found my first gray hairs at age 11. or rather, the little jersey bee-otches that sat behind me in hebrew school found them, shouting, “THAT MEANS YOU’RE OLD!” who’s laughing now, biznatches??! oh sorry: that actually had nothing to do with your post. man hebrew school sucked.
I’ve been going grey since 18. After the first 100 you are like…whatever! Over the years I grew it out to see what it would be like as a grey-head. I looked tired. I’m much more rested looking with a good dye job.
Isabel fluffy love. My Vet said my Willow was overweight. He put her on diet dog food…she gained 10 lbs. It’s how she rolls. Cute snuggle rolls.
You had me at “sitting on the toilet.” (Because I can relate, you perv…)
Your ability to incorporate names like “Telly Savalas” into your posts is one of the eleventeen million reasons why your blog should have its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
You have my sympathy. Being of a mature age now I have kowtowed to my grey hairs and gone blonde. . .this is quite clever coz when the greys come in they blend with the blonde. Anyway, I always wanted to be blonde.
Naturally the demise of the feline companions would be devastating but you can then really get some pathos going and call the blog: Alone. . .without cats. (Sob)
My hair is ash blonde… Ash, like, you know, what’s left of you after the funeral. I’d do anything for hair that merely signified getting older. My hair thinks I’m dead already.
That comment sounds much angrier than I actually wanted it to.
PS. I don’t get those Brita Pitchers. My parents have one, and it just seems weird to put water from the tap into a jug, which you then pour into a glass. Brita pitchers are clearly the middle-managers of hydrating refreshments.
okay, i’m just gonna say, wait until you DO find it in the pervy place you might have discovered it whilst using the toilet. that day for me was fairly profound. and it smacked me right into the script for the (bemoaned, cancelled, wonderful) show Bored to Death, wherein i got to be Ted Danson. not bad, really.
Are you sure it was an actual grey hair? One time I thought my hair had betrayed my fun loving youthful self when I found a cluster of grey hairs. I moped around all day until a friend decided she needed to drag me out of the house. After I showered I noticed the grey hairs were gone! Turns out it was just some paint. My friend and I toasted our youth that evening with gin gimlets and hot toddy’s.
I hope that my hair turns a really cool shade of grey/white when I get older. That way, I can fulfill my dream of looking like Storm from X-Men.
Great post, as always!
Yep, I feel ya, sister. My kids make completely innocent remarks all the time the moment any grey starts poking through. I keep hoping that by the time it’s ALL silver, it’s something hip and funky looking…but the little wonky suckers I’ve been seeing are pretty freakin’ ugly no matter which way you look at it
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vucubcaquix: I was honestly a bit at a loss for words for last week’s post. I didn’t dislike it and found it quite funny, but the animation was a bit weak in places and there wasn’t much to visually parse amidst the gags and slapstick. That’s not so for this week. In fact, halfway through I had to remark to my partner how absolutely beautiful some of the compositions for the scenes were. It’s not just the beauty that struck me, but also what’s being communicated through the imagery.
Take for instance the screencap I posted above. The scene from which it was taken has Tabuki and Yuri discussing the Takakura siblings and how it relates to their shared longing for Momoka. They both miss her and she is the light of both of their worlds. The Tokyo Tower that they both gaze at is a symbol of the lengths which Momoka went through to affect their lives. But Momoka is also a source for contention for the both of them, as you see by how the scene is bifurcated by the same Tower that they both venerate. Yuri cannot bring herself to forgive the Takakura children for what their parents did sixteen years ago, and her emotions about the situation are worn quite plainly for us to see. Tabuki on the other hand, deadens himself inside, convincing himself (if he doesn’t already believe it) that he holds no grudge against the children for what their parents executed. It is no small irony that the actress is the half of the pair who has difficulty concealing her emotions and opinions.
Their contrasting attitudes on how to feel about Momoka’s death is represented by the Tower dividing their positions in the room, but I also felt that there was a commonality that the two characters shared that was represented by the bottle itself. They both hurt, they both suffer for being without their friend, but both have kind of supplanted this feeling with the pursuit of the material comforts of wealth, extravagance, hobbies, distractions. They are meant as a sort of self-medication to soothe the ache of their missing purpose, a mindset that is very self-destructive indeed.
ajthefourth: Now that we have a bit more insight into Tabuki’s character, it’s interesting to see how he and Yuri represent two prevailing societal attitudes expressed by the majority of affected interviewees in Haruki Murakami’s Underground: the Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. As mentioned above, in their conversation, Tabuki is the calm, cool, and collected party, while Yuri smoulders with rage, saying that she cannot forgive what the Takakura Family has done. Tabuki expressly reiterates that the sins of the parents are not passed down to the children, which Yuri obviously has a hard time believing. We see Ringo accept a “harmless” invitation to dine with Yuri with emphasis that Ringo should bring Himari in tow. The two are intercepted by Tabuki just as Yuri is intercepted by Masako. On the elevator, Tabuki seemingly eschews his previously-voiced opinion that the sins of the parents are not passed down to the children by saying that he will now enact the punishment that is owed to the Takakura Family. However, I’d disagree that he goes against what he said to Yuri in their apartment. He simply has a different approach to why punishment should be enacted.
Following any sort of catastrophic event such as the 1995 Tokyo Sarin Gas Attacks, the overwhelming and immediate response is to always blame something and subsequently retaliate as quickly as possible (this attitude is what Yuri represents). In a way, Tabuki represents the attitude (which I touched upon in a comment response here) that justice must be served, regardless of any initial emotional response or quick judgment. Seemingly, he seeks punishment for the Takakuras because it is naturally owed to them, not out of any rash, emotional reaction. He tells Yuri that he too has not forgotten Momoka, but that retaliation will hardly bring her back. Interestingly enough, he adds that her life was, “unfairly stolen away” which echoes the sentiments of the Takakura siblings in regards to Himari. The question remains, what is “fair” or “unfair?”
"In the human world, truth and reality aren't always one and the same. Humans just call their desires and ambitions as 'truth.' Humans will even kill other humans if they have 'truth' as an excuse. War, it's war. The war is about to break out."
Sanetoshi echoes these statements in the quote above, and the skewing of “truth” to fit one’s own paradigm of thought is especially interesting when applied to Shouma’s allegory in Episode 12. In a previous comment response, I had expressed my theory that society in general is represented by the Goddess in Mawaru Penguindrum. The episodes following Episode 11 (when it is revealed that the series is directly referencing the Tokyo Sarin Gas Attacks) have only provided fuel for this theory. After all, what is fair and unfair completely relies on the recipient of the gift or punishment, and their hopes and desires. As Sanetoshi would say, we call our desires “truths.” Shouma points out that the Goddess says that punishment must be, “The most unjust.” In addition to this, when Himari is brought back to life, the Goddess is paraphrased as saying that it would be no fun if the punishment ended there. To one listening to Shouma’s point of view, the Goddess is unbearably cruel and toying with their desires and ambitions in a way that seems incredibly unjust. The important thing to remember is that these things are unjust to Shouma, the narrator. Within the realm of one’s own thoughts, it’s near impossible to step outside one’s own skewed point of view made up of multitudes of experiences. This is where one has the tendency to place blame on fate or a whimsical Goddess, instead of becoming more introspective and critical of one’s self (and the people that one chooses to associate with, or society as a whole). Murakami cites a debt to the Japanese people as one of his primary reasons for wanting to write about the attacks. He states that most people, instead of examining the social climate and what could have caused people to turn to such drastic measures, tend to approach Aum with an “us” and “them” mentality. “They” are somehow different than “us” who are not crazy and have right on our side.
“Just where has this ramshackle bandwagon of mass consensus delivered us Japanese with ‘right on our side?’ What have we learned from this shocking incident? One thing is for sure. Some strange malaise, some bitter aftertaste lingers on. We crane our necks and look around us as if to ask: where did all that come from? If only to be rid of this malaise, to cleanse our palettes of the aftertaste, most Japanese seem ready to pack up the whole incident in a trunk labeled THINGS OVER AND DONE WITH.
-Haruki Murakami, Underground: the Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
The sins of the parents may or may not be passed down to the next generation; however, the cyclical nature of our main trio’s personalities and outlooks on the world should hardly be ignored. Yuri, Tabuki, and Momoka is who Kanba, Shouma, and Himari will end up becoming if they each continue down their various paths. It’s a “fate” of a different kind that will be pushed on them if they do not take care to look inwardly at their own actions, and the actions of their predecessors (much like Episode 13 alludes to with its somewhat ominous celebration of the anniversary of the Tokyo Sky Metro). Himari’s preview for the next episode would suggest that she is willing to accept her fate (one could argue that she’s been ready since Episode Nine) as a sacrifice, so it will be very interesting to see where our two trios choose to go. The wild-cards in this have now become Masako and Ringo. Interestingly enough, these are the two characters who have seemingly accepted themselves, good and bad, and are more self-aware and self-assured. Ringo no longer follows in the shadow of her sister, and Masako is bold enough to reject Sanetoshi outright when he suggests that she join his group. Both are now forging their paths on their own terms, an interesting comparison to Tabuki, Yuri, Shouma, and Kanba, who are all still bound by something else (guilt, regret, anger, etc.).
vucubcaquix: The wheel of fate that binds the characters rears itself again in the narrative of the story. Despite the best efforts of a certain character to alter the fates of those who suffer under the yoke of what is “unfair”, the clockwork like nature of the world ultimately manages to manifest itself in a different way. What can the Takakura siblings do to prevent their eventual hardening into the bitter adults we see? The Princess of the Crystal claims that finding the penguindrum is what is necessary to prevent this, but her caginess in divulging the nature of the object they seek speaks volumes as to its nature. I’ve written about it before, but it seems as though the Princess herself is also aware of what the nature of the penguindrum is. In that, it’s not a physical object alone, per se, but also the sincere intention to sacrifice something of the self. To state what it is outright, I feel that the Princess may think it will tarnish the sincerity. Kanba also seems to be vaguely aware of it himself, which is partly why he thinks he can no longer be the one to save Himari since he has partaken in a Faustian bargain with Sanetoshi to artificially and unnaturally lengthen Himari’s life. Kanba is so invested in this that he has been wrapt up in Sanetoshi’s design to “take back the world” in order to pay off this debt that he has accrued with him. If we are to continue on the tack that Himari is channeling Momoka’s spirit during the survival strategies, then Kanba may recognize that what he is doing is in fact in direct opposition to Himari’s/Momoka’s ultimate desire. Similar to how Yuri’s actions right now would contrast and contradict violently with Momoka’s intentions and desires as a child.
Kanba feels that he is no longer able to save Himari for that reason. He’s in too deep. He’s too indebted. He’s too attached to the idea of being with Himari in the temporary physical sense, despite her apparent readiness to pass on. Kanba feels that he is fated to relive and reenact his father Kenzan’s actions, which will in turn create so many more characters who suffer from the uncaring nature of fate. He has become self loathing to a dangerous degree. If the penguindrum isn’t just an object, but also an expression of self-sacrificial love akin to agape that we’ve discussed, then he feels that he may no longer be capable of feeling or executing such things with the sincerity and integrity that is necessary. Hence, his despair during this week’s survival strategy.
But! All is not lost! This is where the convenience of storytelling comes in, in that we know that there is something special about Kanba. Something that both Sanetoshi and the Princess have alluded to as the Scorpion’s Soul. The Scorpion’s Soul in Kenji Miyazawa’s Night on the Galactic Railroad is a fire that the passengers on the railroad see in the night sky. It is representative of a penitent organism whose essence becomes the idea of self-sacrifice. Whether Penguindrum will treat Kanba’s soul as something of a more concrete plot matter or treat it with the same sense of allegory and metaphor that Railroad does remains to be seen, but both of the denizens from the Destination of Fate regard it as something incredibly important and worth scheming and sniping at each other for. Almost as if… it’s a vital component of the idea of the nigh mythical penguindrum itself.
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I swear when this episode ended, all I could think of as I starred at the title screen was like ‘OMFG I have to wait a week to see what happens next?!’ *pulls at hair*
The compositions in this episode were pretty darn outstanding IMO, particularly the scene with Yuri and Tabuki’s conversation. The way they used the Tokyo Tower to frame and bring more depth to their conversation was plain astounding. That framing with the wine bottle too. It really made me feel the isolation each of them felt in that room though they viewed the same scenery, they viewed it with different eyes though they’re technically allies.
Notice how when Yuri and Tabuki both drink from the same type of wine glass, next to Tabuki there is the silver based one which is full and he places his own glass next to it during their interlude. When Yuri denies Momoka’s death, he fingers it and agrees albeit despondently while he takes a drink from the silver glass instead. It seems to me as if Yuri is trying to keep Momoka alive through her words (thus her outright denial) whereas Tabuki is trying to keep her alive through his actions though his words say otherwise. Perhaps this is a reflection of his conflict and an allusion to what may happen in the next episode as to his motivations?
I find Kanba’s role in the story very interesting, especially the part where he tells Shouma that its ok if he stays the way he is. Its been brought up many times how Shouma is the useless brother always following the lead but I’m wondering if Kanba is keeping him as a backup. If Kanba now feels like he is unworthy of obtaining the penguindrum due to being too deep into the mess and going against the Princess of the Crystal’s wants, their conversation hints at a level of innocence required in obtaining the penguindrum. That brought me to the thought that perhaps to USE the penguindrum, one requires the innocence one has as a child and Shouma would obviously have that in truckloads more than Kanba at this point. That or in some ways Kanba is trying to hint to Shouma to ‘do as I say not as I do’. Kanba and the Princess however, changed my perception on his character. I was always under the impression that he was the more forward one when it came to how his incestuous relationship with his sister came about. It feels to me that the Princess seems to be testing him on many levels since it rather more feels and looks like she had been egging him regarding the whole relationship in the first place. Perhaps to get him to realize what it is he has (at this point we’re all assuming its the Scorpion Soul) to what end, I can’t entirely fathom.
Yuri and Masako both pose a really interesting contrast too. One being so modern and the other being so much more old school in so many ways. The mahou shoujo manner of their confrontation sort of further emphasized the very stage-like manner they both have in their speech and conduct. I can’t wait to see the results of that.
Another thing I noticed is that, I wonder if Tabuki actually could be doing this because he feels that the way Yuri wants to ‘punish’ the Takakura family by point blank shooting Himari (as is implied) is far too simple/quick? We’re not actually entirely sure if he and Yuri are on the same page of the dinnner plans, or whether he had been notified of it at all despite his attire. Perhaps his actions is a way for him to underline to Yuri how differently he views the situation and how differently he would have handled it. That or they’re truly partners in crime and Yuri’s battle with Masako is merely a diversion tactic.
That being said, I can’t wait for the next episode TAT I’m practically at the edge of my seat with anticipation TAT I hope I didn’t ramble too much. Late night comments always tend to make me ramble.
ajthefourth: I am of the opinion that Tabuki and Yuri are not on the same page at all, and are simply using each other in order to reach their own separate goals. Yuri wants to bring Momoka back at any cost, while I don’t think that Tabuki does, since he appears to be far more caught up by the idea of punishment. He may not harbor any anger towards the Takakura family; however, he’s definitely not above punishing them regardless. Although it may not bring Momoka back, Tabuki doesn’t care as much about bringing her back (which he may view as fruitless or not, the only indicator is his slight affirmative response to Yuri’s saying that Momoka is not dead) as he does about delivering justice.
Thanks for the comment!
vucubcaquix: The idea of one person relying more on words and the other relying on actions is also a parallel to the relationship between Kanba and Shouma. As to who specifically is the one relying on words and who is the one relying on actions, that is up to debate and interpretation I feel, since if you remember, Yuri was the one to steal the back half of the diary in episode 8 which is a very proactive action on her part. There does indeed seem to be the fuzzy outline of a parallel between the relationships between Yuri, Tabuki, and Momoka with that Kanba, Shouma, and Himari, but it’s in the realm of advanced character speculation at this point as to how hard those comparisons are meant to be taken (though there’s compelling circumstantial evidence to support it).
The idea of innocence is interesting, and it’s not something I thought of during my watch of the episode. I was more concerned with the idea of sincerity in one’s actions, but when we step back to see Momoka’s actions as a child, you can’t deny that she was both sincere and innocent in her actions. Almost to the point of naivete. Innocence and sincerity as concepts seem to have interesting correlation to each other, though I don’t think they’re necessarily wedded to each other either. At least, I don’t think innocence is a necessary prerequisite for sincerity, but innocence itself does indeed seem to be permeated with sincerity.
I hope that made sense. Thanks for the comment.
fufufufu the Tokyo tower in the glass! I totally did not pick up on that very cool! And ya finally we get to see another side of Tabuki! I have to hand it to penguin drum for hiding that so well, other shows that “evil” teachers never hide it…*cough* Yumekui Merry *cough* Anyway I sort of think Tabuki might be doing this stuff with Himari to prove to Yuri he misses Momoka? Or doing her a favor? haha either way great stuff! Maybe Tabuki is secretly a yandere? Fall is full of them maybe it’s related to Halloween.
And for the comical side that octopus! Damn thing was hilarious but distracting well the penguins are usually up to something random and funny, not to mention Himari+Penguin hat+Food = awesome
Now to sit back and see if Ringo stops Tabuki to save Himari or Kanba and Shouma come to her aid! We shall see ;D
NO WATCH OUT MR PRESIDENT!! Still the best line ever from 16 xDD
ajthefourth: I really liked the octopus parts. They made me laugh, and were a good reminder of how Kanba is in ridiculously over his head with whatever he’s doing for Sanetoshi. Fortunately, it looks like the Princess/Himari has confidence in him, so we shall see. Also, Penguin No. 1 and the octopus looking up girls’ skirts with magnifying glasses…hilarious.
As for Tabuki, I think he’s just emotionally dead inside, and although enacting punishment, he doesn’t feel any sort of emotion one way or another. Fortunately, Yuri more than makes up for it with her FABULOUS verbal and physical sparring with Masako. ^ ^
Now, off to buy some FABULOUS curtains.
vucubcaquix: I remember getting into a mini debate with Mystlord over that teacher from Yumekui Merry when he first showed up because I said he gave me the creeps since he had some personal space issues. Myst didn’t see it, but I kept saying that he was bad news by the way he stood really closely to the girls and acted too friendly.
But for Tabuki, I don’t know. I still get the impression that he’s more sad than anything else, despite saying that he’s over it and there’s nothing that needs to be done. Or at least, that it’s nothing to get worked up over emotionally.
But we’ll see!
Hmm, I can’t help but wonder about an element of the penguindrum being “sincere intention to sacrifice something of the self”. Back in episode 2 Princess says Ringo “probably” has it, but there was nothing to suggest she had such intent. Kanba has sacrificed a lot over the course of the show – yet despite what Princess said to him at the end of the survival strategy sequence she still tells both brothers they still need to obtain it.
I wonder if the abstract element could be willpower – an iron will to go against fate and make the future become one more favourable to your ideals. This is what Ringo has attempted throughout the show, and a quality that Momoka also possessed. Kanba has willpower, but he just seeks to hold onto the present state of affairs regardless of cost or consequence. If he can achieve that, he’s content to follow the fate handed to him by Princess or Sanetoshi.
Conversely, Shouma, Tabuki and Yuri all dwell on the past, rather than focus on the present or future. By doing so they bind themselves to their perceived fates to some degree.
ajthefourth: You bring up a really interesting point! Another thing to consider is that, although Kanba has seemingly made a large amount of sacrifices, we don’t know specifically what his intentions were. In episode 13, Kanba banters back and forth with Sanetoshi over Himari’s lifeless body. Sanetoshi asks him if he will use “this” as collateral and points to Kanba’s heart, calling it the hideous charred heart of a Scorpion. Kanba then argues that he wouldn’t dream of doing anything for himself, but then uses the words, “As long as Himari is with me…” an indication that his intentions are a bit more selfish than he himself probably realizes. This is where the sincerity comes into play. In Night on the Galactic Railroad, Scorpio’s Fire represents both an incredibly selfless and selfish act. It’s selfless because the scorpion is giving his life for something wholeheartedly, it’s selfish because it fulfills the scorpion’s desire to be useful to others. I think that this back and forth between what is selfless and selfish (as well as whether one can truly perform a “selfless” act) may come into play later on. I like your idea of willpower, and like that you brought up Ringo, since she, although hardly being selfless, has willpower, confidence, and a better sense of who she is as a person. Perhaps this is what Kanba needs as well.
Thanks for commenting!
vucubcaquix: Hmm, the idea of willpower is an interesting one. The sincerity I spoke of is closely tied to the idea of integrity, in that there’s a certain dishonesty in Kanba’s motivations and actions. He constantly claims that he will do anything and everything for Himari’s sake implying no thought on his part, when in reality there’s the very selfish component of his wanting Himari to exist in some form that’s also being affected by his physical lust for her. If willpower and the demonstration of it is indeed a factor in the manifestation of the penguindrum, then Kanba indeed has much to despair over since he hasn’t shown any indication that he has the ability to let go of the physical and temporary. It’s beginning to remind me of certain Buddhist tenets regarding the idea of suffering being related to desire, specifically that of the physical and temporary realm. One doesn’t reach Nirvana until they can break free of the karma they’ve accrued as a direct result of actions they take as unenlightened beings.
If the penguindrum is Nirvana so to speak, it can also be the end result of an individual whose come to terms with the sincerity and integrity necessary to sacrifice of the self, including attachments to the physical and temporary state of living beings. Being in a state that is unenlightened, before Nirvana, people’s actions build up karma which is a descriptor for the idea of cause and effect. That ties into a lot of the themes I saw into the show from the first episode, like Determinism and Existentialism, and the Clockwork Universe Theory. To use the penguindrum to break the cycle of cause and effect, to break a Deterministic fate, one has to be in a near enlightened state or at least willing to approach that state. I think Kanba is having a crisis because he doesn’t believe he can.
Phew, I don’t know where all that came from all of a sudden.
This episode might have had one of the worst cliffhangers in Penguindrum so far. Part of me knew that the episode would end just before the game-changing stuff, but part of me hoped, and hoped…and then the episode title card came up and I legitimately yelled at the screen. IKUHARAAAAAAAAAA
Otherwise, don’t have much to say about it, although as others have pointed out the composition of visuals here were pretty neat, even though the actual budget itself feels somewhat uneven. Then again next episode has been said to be “action-packed” so maybe all the money’s being poured into next episode? That would be something!
What really did stick out to me were the octopi in the early scenes. I’ve come to take the actions of the penguins in Penguindrum as revealing facets of the characters’s inner workings that they’re trying to ignore/too nervous to express; maybe the octopi laying siege to the penguins is a hint that the Takakura family dynamic is a lot more fractured than they’re willing to admit? Sure, the penguins are chopping the octopi up and turning them into food, but they seem to be having some trouble doing so. Sometimes I wish that Penguindrum was a little more vocal about what the characters were feeling–apparently things are much clearer in the novels, and while you can glean a lot from the background imagery I still wish we got more of a sense of Shouma’s deep-seated inferiority complex or Himari’s loneliness.
Finally, what did Himari mean when she said that the Penguindrum was something that Kanba had yet to give? What are we not privy too?!? ARRRGGHHHHH
“War is about to break out,” says Sanetoshi. SO looking forwards to this.
ajthefourth: Wow, you were posting this comment as we were responding to comments here and I was posting this comment over at Draggle’s Blog, which has a lot to do with what you bring up regarding the octopi and the penguins.
In short: Himari’s is the only penguin effective against the octopi because she has more mental fortitude than her two brothers. If you think about it, it makes sense considering that Himari has seemingly had to deal with adversity (both her sickness and her shameful exit from school) her entire life thanks to her parents. She has also seemingly never complained, choosing instead to cherish the time that she has had with her brothers.
Next episode, it seems like Himari is fully prepared to die, in order to serve the punishment that must be doled out to her family. Perhaps she sees this as setting her brothers free from their guilt/obligation. It will certainly be interesting to find out! Thanks for the comment!
vucubcaquix: I’m with you in saying that the budget is uneven, but I felt like this episode was one of the better looking ones in my opinion. Episode 10 had a lot of issues with characters being off model, and episode 16 also had some issues with characters being off model. It gave us some difficulty in choosing a good screenshot for Himari to open up the post actually, since her eyes were off and it was exacerbated when she opened her mouth.
As for the penguindrum being something that Kanba has yet to give, I’m actually of the opinion that it has more to do with being in the right state of mind for it to be effective or for it to manifest itself to him. I wrote about it at length in my response to Neriya right above here. He needs to be somewhat detached from the idea of holding onto Himari in the physical and temporary sense, in order for him to even have a chance at changing the fates that everyone around him are bound to. Whether or not the show will see fit to “reward” him with more time with Himari, I’m not sure.
This gets into heavy philosophical speculation and the ramifications of it one way or the other will be a river I’ll cross when I get there.
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