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Las Vegas: 72 holes in 72 hours
By Mike McAllister
Jack Nicklaus has recreated 18 of his favorite holes at Bear's Best in Las Vegas.
Bear's Best Golf Club: Yardage/Par: 7,194/72. Greens fees: $185-$235. 866-385-8500. http://www.bearsbest.com
Cascata: Yardage/Par: 7,137/72. Greens fees: $500. 702-294-2000. http://www.golfcascata.com
Shadow Creek: Yardage/Par: 7,239/72. Greens fees: $500. 702-399-7111. http://www.shadowcreek.com
Wolf Creek Golf Club: Yardage/Par: 7,034/72. Greens fees: $250. 866-252-4653. http://www.golfwolfcreek.com
Alternate Courses: Lake Las Vegas, Bali Hai, Las Vegas National, Painted Desert, Primm Valley, Badlands
Next week we'll travel to Long Island, New York.
(CNN) -- What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas ... especially if you can't break 90.
That's one way to look at a golfing vacation in Sin City. Another way to look at it? You'll be shelling out big dough to play the high-end Vegas courses, so bragging about it to your friends back home not only is expected, it's a good way to justify the costs.
Most Vegas courses, you see, are much like the city itself -- lots of flash and glitz.
Oh, to be sure, there are no neon lights on the courses, no leggy showgirls waiting to carry your bags (at least we don't think so). But the courses, taking advantage of the desert terrain, are a show all their own.
Add the exclusivity factor and the cost factor -- hey, if you're out playing golf, then you're not out gambling, so that's costing the casinos money -- and a long golfing weekend in Vegas can be just as memorable as an all-night binge at the poker tables.
Heck, if you're successful in the casinos, you might even break even against all those outrageous greens fees.
After flying into McCarran International Airport, here's how we'd play it the rest of the weekend.
Friday afternoon
Wolf Creek: Unlike our other choices, this course is not exactly location friendly. It's an hour north of Vegas, but don't worry, it's worth the drive from the airport. Wolf Creek, ranked among the top 30 public courses by Golf Digest, will provide you some relief from the glitter and frenzy of the Strip. Set amid the canyons and cliffs of the breathtaking terrain, Wolf Creek is one of those courses in which you'll enjoy the scenery as much as you do the holes. One of the tee boxes, by the way, is 11 stories high.
Saturday morning
Bear's Best Golf Club: Jack Nicklaus has seen a few golf holes in his day. And now he's taken 18 of his favorites and recreated them in Vegas. It's not unlike the Tour 18 concept, but with a Golden Bear flavor. You won't be familiar with all the holes (some of which are from New Mexico, Montana and even Mexico), but expect to have fun. To enhance the experience, which has drawn rave reviews, you'll even get a forecaddie to help you out.
Saturday afternoon
Shadow Creek: Two questions about this celebrated and exclusive Tom Fazio course, ranked among the top 10 public courses in the country. Is it worth it? And are you worthy of it? You'll need big money just to get one of the limited tee times. But if you're rich (and lucky), you may spend your 18 holes wondering if that's a Hollywood actor shanking his four-iron in the group ahead of you. As for the course itself, the pine trees and streams will captivate you. For the golfer on a budget, it's totally non-practical. But then, so is Vegas.
Sunday morning
Cascata: In Italian, cascata means "waterfall." Certainly that fits at this Rees Jones-designed course in Boulder City, about 30-45 minutes away from the Strip. A 418-foot waterfall roars down from a mountain, with the resulting river flowing through the 37,000-square foot clubhouse. The course is equally impressive, with golfers looking up to find a 3,600-foot peak at Red Mountain. Be forewarned, though -- like Shadow Creek, Cascata comes at a steep cost.
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Recently, I was delighted to be invited to contribute to Hootsuite's blog as part of an effort they're making to provide more nonprofit-specific tips and resources. Here's my first entry (the original can be found here).
Did you know 73% of first-time donors never give again? They don't feel a part of the organization, they don't feel appreciated—often they don't even get a thank-you note—so they leave. That means the vast majority of what your fundraiser does will actually just be plugging holes, rather than growing your donor base.
But here's another stat: if you get even a 10% higher donor retention rate, your donations go up by 50%. Immediately. Think about that for a minute. Your $1 million budget could become $1.5 million, if you just got a few dozen more of your donors to stick around. And social media can play a huge role in making that happen.
The first trick is building a thank-you culture that extends to your social media. Supporting a nonprofit is usually a social act. Mega-philanthropists put their names on art galleries so that other people will see it. 67% of people who like a nonprofit's Facebook page say they do so because they want their friends to know they support the organization.
Here are 5 tips to help you build a Thank-You culture on social media:
1. Make sure your social media team and development team are well connected. You need to know what's going on in the fundraising calendar so you can be of value to it, but it works the other way too—you're going to be learning things about your donors and their trending interests that are gold for your development director. Get a CRM that helps with this, and preferably one that integrates easily with your social relationship platform.
2. Follow your donors and talk to them a lot. The easiest place to do this is Twitter, by creating lists and adding them to your dashboard. Monitor it daily and talk to your donors about what interests them. Let them know you're listening. Consider doing this on both staff individual profiles and the corporate one. When a chat involves John from development, the organization, and the donor, suddenly you're working as a community on a shared project. You can talk about your organization, but only a small percentage of the time, and only after you've figured out what elements of your work interest them most.
3. Connect the social to the real. For example, if you have events, use tools (EventBrite is one) that allow people to see which of their Facebook friends are going, and after they sign up, have a confirmation page that invites them to share the event with their friends. If you can, set up automated emails afterwards for people to share it, and thank them for helping. Take photos of the event, and post them on social media afterwards and tag your donors, thanking them for coming.
4. Tell your donors' stories. There's an art to telling your donors' stories. (Learn more about how to do it here.) Why do they support your organization? Why do they care about this kind of work more broadly? What personal stories do they have that illustrate why it's important to them, or how your organization's work has touched them? Regularly write brief blog posts (with photos if possible) sharing their stories, tagging them, and telling the world how special your supporters are!
5. And… say thank you! The obvious one. When somebody donates, post on social media saying "thank you" and tag them. Link it to the donor's story or a brief reference to something you know about them, or to what that amount of money allowed you to do. "Thanks to Joe Ross for his donation this week! We provided water for four more kids in Africa with your dollars!" or "Megan Carter, you are the best! Thanks for all the help licking envelopes (and talking Star Trek!)."
Not only do these public thank-yous make the donor feel appreciated; if these kinds of things happen regularly, they can create a culture of giving on your social profiles. Other people who don't give see this stuff and start to imagine themselves being thanked like that; or at the least, think of giving to you as something that people like them do. If they see giving to you as a normal part of membership in that community, rather than as a big jump, you can help your donor acquisition as well as your donor retention!

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SinC National provides a set budget amount for annual chapter grants at the beginning of each calendar year. These grants are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. Once the budget is exhausted, no matter what month, no more grants will be awarded for that calendar year. We recommend chapters plan to apply as early as possible.
If funds are available, the SinC Board considers and discusses grant proposals before voting to approve, modify, or decline the application.
Please use the following as a guide when planning your application. The Board uses all of the factors to determine suitability of the grant. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Grant events must meet the core requirement: three equally important objectives:
Acceptable Event Types
Festivals, conferences, workshops, special guest speakers/presentations, library events
Events with special restrictions
Anthology launch parties: grant limit of $250 and the anthology must be a SinC approved publication with SinC member contributions.
Acceptable Use of Funds
Booth/table rental fees, entry fees, booth/table décor (signage, banners), speaker fees/travel, facility rental, event insurance, pre-event marketing materials, advertising (event-specific)
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Food & beverage, chapter marketing materials (bookmarks, flyers, pins), chapter promotional materials (chapter totes, pens, note pads)
Must be open to every member of SinC and members of the public. Any author who benefits from the event (i.e., signs and sells books, reads from her work) must be a member of national SinC. Exception: authors who are invited workshop speakers.
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Prepare a detailed budget for the event.
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Include all PR avenues of outreach such as print, social media, and local awareness. The application must describe Chapter PR efforts and other Event PR efforts. A PR announcement suitable for sharing (the SinC National website, periodic email blasts, and/or our newsletter, InSinC) is required on the application, along with an event contact person.
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The Palace Museum in Beijing is hosting a special exhibition of Mysterious-color Porcelain (秘色瓷)", a time period coined in the late Tang dynasty to consult with Yue ware celedons of the highest high quality at the time. Sotheby's and Christie's act as main market platforms for classical Chinese porcelain art pieces to be sold, together with Ming dynasty, Xuande mark and interval (1426-35) Blue and White jar (Five-Clawed Dragon Print), which was auctioned for Approx. Portrait painting additionally had this ethical function, depicting not the options of the subject a lot as his or her character and function in society.
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This lot was supplied in High quality Chinese Paintings on 14 March 2017 at Christie's in New York and offered for $23,750. Landscape Portray in Chinese Art." In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. What's conceived of and studied as Chinese language art" has modified dramatically because the inception of Western scholarship on the art and artists of China during the mid-nineteenth century.
The mastery of brushwork was directly related to calligraphy , historically regarded by the Chinese language as the best artwork form. Formal analyses of Fu Shan's works, resembling his use of arcane complicated characters, are clearly demonstrated. A number of monographs supply completely different interpretative frameworks for understanding key Chinese painters.
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The wild ramp, AKA wild leek, botanical name Allium tricoccum, is a flowering perennial plant that grows in clusters. It is a member of the Allium family along with onions and leeks
Calamondin Limes
The Calamondin lime is a cross between a sour, loose skinned mandarin and a kumquat, therefore technically making it an orangequat.
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Salanova® lettuce is a full-sized variety developed for the baby lettuce market. Botanically these varieties are scientifically known as Lactuca sativa.
Scotch Bonnets Chile Peppers
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Scotch Bonnet chile peppers ripen from green when immature to varying shades of yellow, orange and red when fully mature. A petite pepper the Scotch Bonnet is short and squat with an irregular shape. Its name is a descriptor of this unique shape that resembles a traditional Scottish men's bonnet also known as a Tam o' Shanter. Their skin is glossy and thin with slight exterior wrinkling. Known as one of the hottest peppers in the world the Scotch Bonnet offers a smoky pepper flavor with floral and tropical fruit aromatics. It's Scoville heat range is 100,000 to 350,000 units.
Scotch Bonnet chile peppers are available year-round in specific growing regions.
Current Facts
The Scotch Bonnet chile pepper also known as Jamaican pepper, Martinique pepper, Boabs Bonnet and Scotty Bons is botanically part of Capsicum chinense. Predominately the Scotch Bonnet is found today in the Caribbean and Maldives islands and best known for its use both there and outside of the islands in traditional Jamaican jerk seasoning, sauces, mash and packaged spices. A close relative of the Habanero they are sold at varying stages of ripeness ranging from green and yellow to orange and red. Jamaica is believed by pepper enthusiasts to produce the highest quality Scotch Bonnet peppers. Recently though there has been a struggle for Jamaica to meet the high demand for Scotch Bonnets around the globe. Agriculture and scientific organizations in Jamaica are working to find a solution to problems such as fumigation requirements for import and inferior seeds in the market to ensure the Scotch Bonnet industry in the country is able to survive.
Scotch Bonnet chile peppers are utilized to add heat and a spicy flavor to foods. Add whole pods to stews, curries, rice dishes and stewed preparations such as oxtail soup or fricasseed chicken. Use caution though not to let Scotch Bonnet chile pods burst or you run the risk of adding too much heat to the dish. Their flavor is well known for use in Caribbean seasoning, most specifically in jerk sauces and spice mixes. They are also a popular pepper for processing to make liquid hot sauces. In Jamaica and Puerto Rico the peppers are made into an escabeche or vinegar based marinade and sauce for making the popular dish, escoveitch fish. Their spice and flavor marries well with mango, papaya, tomato, onion, cilantro, lime juice, seafood such as shrimp, scallops and white fish, vinegar based sauces, pimento and roasted meats such as chicken, pork and goat. To store fresh peppers keep refrigerated and use within one to two weeks.
Ethnic/Cultural Info
The Scotch Bonnet is a staple in Caribbean cuisine, specifically Jamaican, Haitian, Trinidadian and Grenadian. One of the most common uses for the peppers throughout time has been making hot sauces. Before knowledge had been gained on how to extract salt from the sea for seasoning, foods were seasoned with a form of hot sauce known as coui, a combination of peppers and cassava juice. Later on Scotch Bonnets would be soaked in vinegar to make an early form of hot sauce or fiery vinegar. Today the Scotch Bonnet pepper is classically combined with allspice and other ingredients to create Jamaican jerk seasonings and sauces.
The Chinense species originated in the Amazon Basin and from there made its way around the West Indies via Native Americans who took seeds with them when they traveled to explore neighboring islands. Eventually each island would be growing their own pod type that would in time become specifically adapted to that island. These pods are called "land races of the species", all related but varying slightly in shape, color and spice. The most common peppers of the species are known as habanero, rocotillo, Jamaican hot and of course Scotch Bonnet. They are grown mainly in the Caribbean and Maldives islands. The bulk of Scotch Bonnet production comes out of Jamaica, it is one of the country's main agricultural exports as the pepper thrives in the tropical climate in all fourteen parishes of the country. From there the Scotch Bonnet is distributed around the world both in their whole pepper form and in the form of sauces, pepper mash and dried spices.
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Year in Review: Top Stories of 2010
I was reminded that it is time to take a look back when Marietta College posted their own Top 10 Stories list, so here they are…the 10 stories that received the most traffic on Writing on the Mall in 2010.
10 – Looking Back At Campus Flooding
This was the only story submitted by Tom Perry's writing classes to make it to the Top 10. Stacy Frederick did a great retrospective piece on the 2004 and 2005 floods. The Ohio River went over its banks twice that year, flooding Marietta and the College in the process. Frederick's article had some great interviews with alumni and College officials, and shows the improvements made to the College's flooding preparedness plans.
You can read that article here.
9 – Student Speak Out Coverage
Our Student Speak Out coverage was so popular this Fall that it actually crashed the site, which I was impressed by. If you want to take a look back, here is the Spring 2010 and Fall 2010 live blog pages. We will actually have our Top Questions from the Fall Student Speak Out here this week.
8 – Student Senate Posters Get Defaced
Maybe when I originally ran this story, it was a bit "Fox News"-ish. But apparently readers wanted to hear about Student Senate candidate posters getting defaced. The original story ran here.
7 – The Front Street Fire
A lot of students found out about the fire just by waking up to the tell-tale scent of fire, which floated across campus from Front Street. In what we now know, the fire was an arson set by burglars trying to cover their tracks. Their decision caused the loss of the former Goodwill building, which housed the Marietta Wine Cellar. An adjacent building was also burned, which included the Front Street Deli and the Riverside Gallery.
You can find the photo gallery we posted here.
Here is some video we took, and a package we made to cover the fire.
6 – Movie and Game Rental Options
A smaller filler article we ran to talk about new movie and video game rental options was apparently a big hit, as it makes the list. The article makes even more sense now that the Marietta Movie Gallery has closed. Blockbuster's new movie and game rental service was featured in the piece, along with Netflix's announcement about adding more movies to their online streaming service. Also, Hulu now has their Hulu Plus service, which adds to the list of shows and seasons available to viewers on their website, and allows shows to be watched on devices other than their computer.
5 – 4/20 Mall Chalking & Cleaning
We never found out who the culprits of the 4/20 Mall Chalking were, but their "artwork" gave those heading to class something new to look at. Of course, it also gave Physical Plant a headache. While we had originally reported that chalk in appropriate areas would be left, Physical Plant brought out water pumps and cleaned the entire mall of their messages. Well, that and all the chalk on buildings, curbs, and benches.
You can check out the photos right here.
4 – The Fake Senior Week Flyer
You know somebody pulled a good April Fool's Day joke when the College has to send out an e-mail to make sure everybody knows it is a fake. A flyer was posted around campus that included Senior Week events, and how Seniors could go about registering for the week of activities. It looked pretty legitimate. Except instead of things like "Strawberries and Creme" or "Senior Picnic", we saw fictional events like "Hobo Train Ride" and "Degree Auction". I was personally looking forward to the "Million Dollar Bonfire", but that's just me. No word if the official (unofficial) bar crawl happened or not.
You can see the flyer at the link here.
3 – Norovirus Week Of Hell
I got it. I know countless others that got it. I know people that had to go to the hospital because of it. And I even know a few souls that almost activated their Z-Day Apocolypse plans because of it.
I'm referring to the norovirus that swept its way across campus early in the Spring 2010 semester. We never heard the official numbers, but over 30 students had to be admitted to Marietta Memorial Hospital at some point. I think it would be easy to venture to guess that hundreds of Marietta College students got the norovirus.
Almost comicly, the College and Chartwells went into disinfection mode. They shut down all food service locations, and contained all food operations to Gilman. Silverware and plates were replaces with plastic and styrofoam. Cans of pop and bottles of water were handed to students. And to top it all off, they wrapped individual fruit, like bananas, to protect them and us. Hopefully we don't see a repeat of this come January.
You can read about the story here.
2 – Greek Week Lip Sync
What more can be said other than that the Greek Week Lip Sync videos were some of the most-watched videos Writing on the Mall has ever had. And the page where you could view all five (ATO didn't have one this year) on one page. The most popular video was Delta Tau Delta's lip sync, which won the competition. That video actually has a chance of breaking the 1,000 view barrier, a first for Writing on the Mall.
Click on the link here to view all five lip sync videos.
1 – The Sexual Assault Case
Undoubtedly the most viewed story of 2010, the stories related to this received a ton of attention.
In February of 2009, a woman was allegedly raped in her room in Parsons Hall. Over a year later, police allegedly matched DNA evidence to Brandon Marino, who had been sitting in a Hamilton County jail for unrelated charges. Things went quiet for a while, until the Fall election season rolled around, and then-candidate for Attorney General Mike DeWine began using the Marietta College Rape in political ads.
His point was that it took too long to process the rape kit and related DNA samples. The claim was that it was normal for the Bureau of Criminal Investigation in the state of Ohio to take up to six months or longer to process samples.. It picked up so much attention that even Politifact decided to weigh in on the claims. They found that a majority of DNA samples were being processed in 70 days, but that about 8% of cases took longer than six months to process.


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Our boxing classes are run by State, National & Commonwealth Boxing champion Mick O'Malley, or by one of our instructors who has been taught and skilled by Mick. Technique is a huge emphasis in our boxing training for both injury prevention and intensity, and we pride ourselves on this instruction.
Boxing training is very beneficial for both men and women of all ages. Training sessions stimulate all muscle groups and provide the perfect combination of aerobic (with oxygen) and anaerobic (without oxygen) exercise. As well as a complete physical workout, boxing stimulates the mind. As a level one Boxing Trainer and with access to some of the region's best boxing gymnasiums come and see for yourself just how much fun boxing can be!
Boxing Classes
Boxing is a high intensity full-body workout that will make you physically stronger as well as aerobically and an-aerobically fitter. It is a complete workout for your cardiovascular and endurance systems as well as training upper body, lower body and core strength. Calorie expenditure and fat burning are elevated during boxing as it is such a high intensity workout utilising large muscle groups and constantly keeps you moving. Boxing does not tend to add muscle bulk, rather adding tone and defining muscles because it involves such high repetitions. Boxing is a workout that can accommodate for all levels of strength and fitness and can be enjoyed by beginner to advanced participants. Drills can easily be modified to increase or decrease intensity and complexity of the workout.
The benefits of boxing training are:
Increased agility
Improved balance
Weight loss/fat loss
Improved muscle tone
Increased in personal confidence
Improved co-ordination
Greater core strength
Increase in mental strength
Improve self defence
Increased speed
High level of fitness
The following muscles are worked during a boxing training session:
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I picked up my American clients from their hotel at 6:30am and headed direct for the Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve for our safari day tour. Traffic was really light so we made good time to Nylazi gate. As usual, I had to make a decision to head south into the Imfolozi section, or north into the Hluhluwe section, a choice that isn't easy to make at all! A mention of lions sighted early in the morning in the south made my mind up for me, so Imfolozi section it was.
Safari Day Tour
Unfortunately although the lions may have been spotted early in the day, by the time we had arrives, there were no sign of them at all. Though as luck would have it, they apparently re-appeared some time after we had left and made a buffalo kill in the same are! Unfortunately when you're on a just a day tour, there's very limited time, so sometimes you just got take your lumps.
The day wasn't a washout though that's for sure. We saw water buck, beautiful male kudu's, elephant, nyala, impala, vervet monkey, chacma baboon, giraffe and of course white rhino. I'm pretty sure I'm missing a few off the tick list (yup, forgot buffalo) so it a really successful day.
Elephant and Buffalo
After having spent the entire day in Imfolozi, by group decision it was decided to head north to the Hluhluwe section and leave through Memorial gate, and perhaps see something there. What a great decision that turned out to be! We were soon surrounded by 40 buffalo as they nonchalantly grazed all about the vehicle
And then, not 1km down the road, we happened on a herd, or rather a "parade" of Elephant crossing the road. At least 30 strong, with very new calves in tow. Was quite simply a fantastic ending to a productive, hot and beautiful day!


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Persons of Indian Origin Card PIO Card was a form of identification issued to a Person of Indian Origin who held a passport in a country other than Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
On 9 January 2015, the Person of Indian Origin card scheme was withdrawn by the Government of India and was merged with the Overseas Citizen of India card scheme1 All currently held PIO cards are treated as OCI cards PIO card holders will get a special stamp in their existing PIO card, saying "lifelong validity" and "registration not required", thus making them equal to existing OCI cards2 An extended deadline was given where the card could be converted for free to an OCI before 30 June 20173
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The conditions for issuing a PIO card to a person were:4
- Any person who has ever held an Indian passport, or
- The person's parents, grandparents or great grandparents were born in and were permanent residents of India and never moved to ie, were never nationals of Bangladesh and Pakistan, or
- The person is the spouse of a citizen of India or of a PIO and has been so for two years or more, and
- The person and his/her parents, grandparents or great grandparents must not have been a national of Bangladesh or Pakistan at any point of time
The PIO Card programme came into effect on 15 September 2002
The various benefits available to a PIO cardholders were:
- Visa-free entry into India during the period of validity of PIO Card
- Exemption from the requirement of registration if stay in India does not exceed six months Should the continuous stay exceed six months, registration is not required even if their visit exceeds 180 days
- Parity with non-resident Indians in respect of facilities available to the latter in economic, financial and educational fields
- All facilities in the matter of acquisition, holding, transfer and disposal of immovable properties in India except in matters relating to the acquisition of agricultural/plantation properties
- Facilities available to children of Non-Resident Indians for getting admission to educational institutions in India including medical colleges, engineering colleges, Institutes of Technology, Institutes of Management etc under the general categories
- Facilities available under the various housing schemes of LIC, State Governments and other Government agencies
Persons with a PIO were not:
- eligible to vote
- eligible for an Inner Line Permit They had to apply for a Protected area permit
Registration/Residential Permitedit
PIO card holders needed to with the appropriate FRRO Foreigner Regional Registration Office if they are planning to stay in India for more than 180 days This requirement is not applicable for minors5 However, in November 2014, this requirement was removed
The FRRO will issue a "Residential Permit For PIO" which is typically valid till the expiry of the PIO card holder's passport On 28 September 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced at Madison Square Garden New York that PIO card holders would be granted lifelong visas6 This became a reality in November
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- India portal
- Law portal
- Indian nationality law
- Overseas Citizen of India
- ^ "Website of Consulate General of India" Retrieved 9 January 2015
- ^ http://indembassybernch/eoiphpid=PIO
- ^ "Person Of Indian Origin PIO" boigovin Bureau of immigration India, Government of India Retrieved 22 April 2017
- ^ "IHC Visa Information - Australia - Home - Persons of Indian OriginPIO" vfs-in-aunet Retrieved 10 January 2012
- ^ "Last sentence of 2nd point under registration" http://boigovin Retrieved 2 July 2014 External link in |work= help
- ^ "PMO India on Twitter" Retrieved 28 Sep 2014
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
Soap Pot
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Cherry "Cinnamon" Rolls
I wanted to try something different the other day and I had seen a Cherry roll at a local tea shop and had to give it a try. I used my regular cinnamon roll dough recipe (whole wheat) and added my own home canned cherry pie filling (recipe to come). It was fabulous! So here is what I did.
Cherry Rolls
2 Tbsp dry yeast
6 Cup whole wheat flour
2 Tbsp Gluten
2 tsp salt
6 Tbsp (non-instant) dry milk (1 cup instant)
1/2 cup instant potato flakes
2 Tbsp lecithin (optional)
2 cups hot water
1/3 cup honey
1/2 cup butter
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 eggs
Dissolve the yeast in the water. Add the honey, eggs, milk, salt, lemon juice, butter, potato flakes, and lecithin and 1/2 the flour. (mix the gluten with the flour or it will clump). Beat well and let rise. Add the remaining flour and kneed for 8-10 minutes. Let rise for 1 hour.
1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup butter
1 can cherry pie filling
Mix honey and butter together.
Roll out the dough into a large rectangle. Spread with honey and butter mixture. Top this with cherry pie filling.
Roll into a "classic cinnamon roll". Cut with dental floss or a heavy thread. Makes 12 very large or 24 small cinnamon rolls. Place on a buttered pan or cookie sheet, cover and let rise for 20 minutes.
Bake at 375 deg F for 18-20 minutes.
1/4 cup butter
4 oz cream cheese
2 cups (maybe a bit more) Powdered sugar
vanilla extract
Milk if needed
Mix the butter and cheese together. Add the sugar and vanilla. Whip into frosting. Add more sugar or milk if needed.
Frost the rolls when the come out of the oven, this melts the frosting all over the place and it is gooey, sweet and warm.
Tips and Tricks I have learned:
*non-instant powdered milk is tricky to work with. If you don't mix it in just right, it clumps. I have found that you either need to whisk it in carefully (not something I ever remember) OR mix it with your flour. This spreads it out and there is no clumping. The same goes for the gluten. It clumps something terrible, however, mixed with the flour there is no problem.
*Oven proofing - I have found that if I "proof" or raise my cut rolls in the oven, they get much bigger and fluffier. This is quite an accomplishment with 100% whole wheat. What I do is heat the oven to 200 deg. F and then TURN IT OFF. While that is heating, I boil a kettle of water. When the rolls are cut and in the pan, I our the boiling water into a baking dish in the oven and slip my rolls right in there. I let that set for 20 minutes. I remove the rolls and the water, heat the oven to temperature and bake as usually. The buns get really big. Because of this, I space them well on the pan so they are NOT touching when I put them in, they will be when I pull them out to bake.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Happy Halloween
Monday, October 25, 2010
Yarn Dyetorial
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
New Projects
At any rate, I am going to enjoy this and by blogging it, MAYBE, I will be able to keep the ADD factors in check and actually finish it. We will see.
Here is the first picture.
It actually took me all day to put this yarn into hanks. Horrors. I had no idea how long it would take or that it would make the muscles in my arm pit hurt either. :o) Now I have 3 or so shopping bags full of these loopy hanks of yarn, ready for step 2.
Dyetorial - Basic Scrunched Folds
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Dyetorial - Dye Solutions
First off I am listing the recommended reading.
Color by Accident: Low-Water Immersion Dyeing by Ann Johnston
This book has taught me a lot about how dye moves through fabric and has helped me develop my own recipes for dye. There are many other dye books out here you can get but this one is a great starting point. It really helps you wrap your head around dye concepts.
Now for your basic recipes. I start with dye concentrates from which I mix all my colors. Then I add water when I put them in the bottle.
Dye solution:
- this is what you mix your dyes in it is urea water and it helps the dye move through the fabric. You will not have good results if you leave this out.
1 cup water
2 Tbsp Urea
1-2 tsp dye powder (darker colors like black may need more but I have been happy with 2)
Use warm water to dissolve the urea first. ( The urea will lower the water temperature while dissolving.)
Add the dye powder and mix thoroughly (it likes to clump so it requires a lot of stirring to make sure it is all dissolved and not just sticking to the spoon or cup). **Do Not dissolve the dye in water over 95 deg. F. because it will seriously reduce the reactivity (sticking ability to the fibers) of the dye. NOT a good thing.
Makes 1 cup + dye concentrate. For most at home projects (a couple of shirt or yards of fabric) you will need a lot less of each concentrate so adjust the recipe accordingly.
How long will this last?
It is said that it will last up to 1 week at room temperature and longer if refrigerated. I however haven't had much luck with it lasting more than a day or so. I sadly found the colors to be dull after 2 days. So it is better to make less and have to mix up a bit more than to make more and waste it. Sad day!
What colors to mix?
I use lemon yellow, fuchsia red, turquoise, and better black. I usually need 2 of the yellow to 1 each of the red and blue. I also use about 1/4 to 1/2 the amount of the black so make a lot less of that.
Now What ?
I have given you recipes for concentrates. You are going to want to dilute these. I mix these half and half with water. BUT First! I mix the colors. I mix them right in the squeeze bottle and then add an equal amount of water. (Basically I fill the bottle half full with color and then fill the rest with plain water. )
Mixing Colors
When I am dying I usually the the muse take over and do colors by my mood. However there are some basics that I do.
I love fuchsia and turquoise but sometimes I want a true red and a true blue.
To get this here is what I do.
True Blue = 7 parts turquoise and 1 part fuchsia
True Red = 7 parts fuchsia and 1 part yellow
Now for the other colors - well I wing them, but here is what I have found. I swirl what I am mixing in the bottle (before I add the extra water) and try a drop on a white paper towel (the really fluffy ones work best) and see if I like what it does.
Orange - mostly yellow with a bit of fuchsia. I swirl the bottle and will test a drop to see if I like it
Vermilion - more like 3/4 yellow to 1/4 fuchsia maybe a bit more
lime green - mostly yellow and a little bit of turquoise till you like it
grass green - mostly yellow with a bit more turquoise
Purple - about 3/4 turquoise and 1/4 fuchsia but test it and see what you like
Wine - about 3/4 fuchsia and about 1/4 turquoise and test
Golden yellow - almost all lemon yellow with a few drops of fuchsia - this is a warmer yellow
Pink - mostly water (might want to use plain urea water here) and a few drops to 1 tsp fuchsia or your true red
Light Blue - same as for pink but use the turquoise or true blue
The Magic of ADDING BLACK
-adding black to any color you make turns it into a jewel tone. It is lovely to see what it does.
Add it to your:
- reds and you have wine, Burgundy, and maroons
-Blues and you get peacock, teal, and such - gorgeous colors
-Greens and you get emeralds and some mosses
Moss and Earthy Greens - experiment here but adding golden yellow instead of lemon yellow makes more mossy, earthy greens. So.... try adding a drop or two a few of red to your greens. The results are really gorgeous.
Browns -- These are hard to predict. I just mess with oranges and blues or greens and reds to get a color I like. I have ordered brown dye right from dharma trading co. and loved them. I have tried chocolate brown and golden brown and love the fun of them both when mixed with other colors like yellows, oranges, reds and even greens.
Dye Fixer
I almost forgot but this is just as important as the rest.
9 Tbsp Soda Ash
1 gallon water
Mix the soda ash in hot water till dissolved. This is used either before or after the dye is applied to your fabric. Without this chemical your dye WON'T work. In the tutorials to come, I will tell you how to use this solution for each project.
This will keep for a very long time. In fact, I have never had it go bad.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Dyetorial - Tye Dye Tutorials
I get my dye supplies from Dharma Trading Co. I trust them and have been getting my shirts, fabrics, dyes, and dye chemicals from them for well over 20 years. They are easy to work with and prompt in their shipping. They also have lots of helpful ideas.
If you have never dyed before I suggest you get yourself a starter kit, here. It has everything you need to get started and has step by step instructions for mixing and using your dyes. It is a very thorough and affordable way to get started.
What I use:
My favorite dye colors are
Procion Fiber Reactive Dyes
I recommend starting with the 4 basic colors. These are the pure colors from which all other colors are mixed.
They are:
Lemon Yellow
Fuchsia Red
Better Black
Later I will post a chart for mixing that I use and maybe it will help you too.
Chemicals you need:
Urea - makes water wetter so it goes into the fabric better and takes the dye with it.
Soda Ash - Dye Fixer - kills the dye and permanently bonds the color to the fibers of the fabric
Synthrapol - Dye suspender (?) It catches the used dye and gets it out of the wash when washing out the dyed shirts - this comes with a heave duty warning so please read before choosing to buy - I have used Dawn dish soap in a pinch and it works too but results may vary.
Mixing cups, spoons, etc...
Squirt bottles - I have found these to be a must and these here last for years
Top loading washing machine - front loaders don't have enough water - if you don't have one, find a friend that does and will let you use it, Make them a Shirt in return. :o)
Plastic sheeting to cover you work surface
GLOVES - A must for your hands. This stuff is messy and makes explanations in public less awkward.
Dust mask - a must when mixing the dye - you don't want that stuff up your nose, it isn't toxic but exposure can make you allergic and hey that would be tragic! No dye would make me a very sad girl and maybe you too.
Well I have to run off to Girl's Day out. I will start posting Dytorials tomorrow!
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Meet Mortimer
I NEEDED to make a tortoise the other day and so I did.
My little boy took off with him and named him Thomas. Thomas is his new snugly buddy at bed time and his run through the muck friend during the day. (Shout Hurray for Totally Washable toys!)
Then I had to make a smaller one. I wanted one to have in my sewing room. I NEEDED my own.
Meet Mortimer. He is a very quiet little friend and just the right size to sit on my self.
I couldn't then just make one so I made a couple of each and had some fun in the yard with them.
First Thomas found a friend. Her name is Tiffany.
Mortimer now has a sister named Matilda.
We have a whole little Tortoise family.
And they are off on the own grand adventures... maybe to meet the Hare family.
You can make Mortimer and his whole family yourself.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Yes Your Blueness!
I found this Buffet at a local City Wide yard sale. I got it for $50. It was it really bad shape. It had been left out on a porch for years in the rain and had been chewed by some animal. So... We sanded it down and painted it this lovely aqua blue color.
I found these quilt squares at the flea market. The colors chosen are simply fabulous. Don't know what I will do with them (am open to ideas), but for now I will enjoy they colorfulness.
This project wasn't exactly a yard sale or flea market find. My Bro-in-law, works in a custodial position and, as such, comes across discarded items and shares them. Well a couple of years ago he got a ton (I mean ton!) and gave them to everyone he knew. We had about a dozen. They were great because a.) they were free, b.) they were sturdy, and c.) they were stack able. Well they also had a down side. They were covered in a loosely woven brown cloth. This was not so great with lots of little kids. After a few months they looked like they were covered in yarsh because of spilled food. They were not easy to clean.
Well this summer I was going to burn them and then I thought maybe I could cover them with something very kid friendly, cute and easy to clean..... Oil Cloth. Now, a few coats of white paint later, and some very fun fabrics from etsy, and I have a set of very fun kitchen chairs.
Here are a few more. Sorry I can't give you better pictures. The kitchen is being re-done right now.
Monday, August 02, 2010
Cheezy Onion Rolls
My sister shared this recipe with us and it is now a new favorite. Will be subbing my roll dough recipe so I can make this Whole Wheat ASAP!
Cheezy Onion Rolls
1/3 cup dried minced onions
1/3 cup hot water
1 tablespoon Pizza Seasoning
1/2 cup Cheddar cheese powder (can sub Parmesan cheese if you don't have powdered cheese)
1 tablespoon soft butter
1 large egg
3/4 cup warm water
2 teaspoons instant yeast
3 tablespoons soft butter
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
3 cups Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1/4 cup Dry Milk
2 to 3 tablespoons shredded mozzarella or Parmesan cheese
To make the filling:
Soak the minced onions in 1/3 cup hot water while making the dough.
Stir in the Pizza Seasoning, cheese powder, and butter just before you're ready to shape the dough.
To make the dough:
Whisk together the egg and warm water.
Add the yeast, butter, salt, flour, and dry milk.
Stir to combine, then knead the dough until it's smooth and elastic, 5 to 10 minutes.
Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl, turning to coat all sides; cover it and let the dough rise until it's doubled in bulk.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly greased work surface.
Roll the dough into an 18" x 10" rectangle.
Spread with the onion mixture, leaving 1" free of filling
Roll the dough into a log, pinching the seam closed.
Cut the log into 12 slices using string or dental floss.
Place the rolls on a greased baking sheet, leaving about 1" between them.
Cover and allow to rise for until puffy.
Sprinkle with additional cheese, if desired.
Towards the end of the rising time, preheat the oven to 350°F.
Bake the rolls for 22 to 26 minutes, or until golden brown.
Remove them from the oven, and cool on a rack.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Blueberry Cheesecake Pie
2 (8 oz pkg) Cream cheese (room temperature)
1 1/2 tsp grated lemon rind
2/3 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
3 large eggs
Blueberries (at least 4 cups)
Graham Cracker Crust (recipe below or use a purchased crust)
Whipped Cream
Crust - Mix 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs, 1 Tbsp sugar. Butter a 9" pie pan generously. Press crumbs on bottom and sides.
Let cream cheese stand at room temperature for 1 1/2 hours Then beat with rind until creamy. Add sugar and beat, add eggs one at a time. Beat for 5 minutes until smooth and creamy. Fold in 1 cup blueberries. Pour into the crumb lined pan.
Bake at 350 deg. F for 30 minutes or until set. Cool
Top with 1 pint fresh berries. Spoon Glaze over the top and garnish with whipped cream.
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp cornstarch
dash of salt
1/2 cup water
1 cup blue berries
1 Tbsp lemon juice
Mix sugar, cornstarch and salt. Add berries and water, bring to a boil, stirring. Cook, stirring for a few minutes or until thickened and clear. Strain and add lemon juice. Cool.
Top pie with 1 to 1 1/2 cup sour cream and 1 pint blueberries.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Strawberry Glace Pie
Now I am less stressed, spot free, and ready to post some more fun that has been going on in the background.
This is my favorite fresh berry pie recipe. My mom has made it for years. It is now comfort food for me. It is great with any berry. I have made it with strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries.
Strawberry Glace Pie
Baked 9" pie shell
1 1/2 quarts strawberries
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp corn starch
1/2 cup water
1 Tbsp butter
1 Cup whipping cream, whipped
2 Tbsp powdered sugar (optional)
3 oz cream cheese (room temp.)
1 Tbsp milk
*Wash, hull, and drain berries. Mash enough of them to make 1 cup.
*Combine sugar and cornstarch. Add crushed berries and water. Cook over med heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Mixture will be thickened and translucent. Remove from heat and stir in butter. Cool.
*Mix the cream cheese with the milk and spread in the bottom of the pie shell.
*Place whole berries in pie shell with points up. Pour cooled berry mixture over the berries and chill for at least 2 hours.
*Serve topped with whipped cream sweetened with the powdered sugar if desired. Garnish with extra berries.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
My Best Friend
Fresh Blueberry Muffins
1 cup unbleached flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup + 1 1/2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 to 2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
- Pre-heat oven to 425 deg F. Butter muffin tins.
- Combine dry ingredients, except 1 1/2 Tbsp sugar, in a bowl and blend well.
- In a separate bowl, toss 1 Tbsp of the dry stuff with the blueberries and set aside.
- After butter has cooled slightly, stir in milk, eggs and vanilla. Blend well.
- Add egg mixture to dry ingredients and stir until well moistened. Stir in berries.
- Spoon batter into muffin tins. Sprinkle tops with reserved sugar.
- Bake 15 min until golden brown. Let muffins stand 5 minutes before removing from tins.
There are a few more lovely Blueberry recipes to come, IF, I can get pictures of them before my family snarfs them all.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
It's in the Pudding
Well now I make pudding for my children. They like it hot and cold and anywhere in between.
Sunday afternoon we were all wanting a treat and none of the usuals really sounded like they would do. Then we thought of good old vanilla pudding and we knew that was just the thing.
The recipe I use now is a combination of my dad's quickly recipe and my mom's cream pie filling recipe she got from her mom. It has all the flavor and texture I want in a pudding and the speed of my dad's "get it done" kind of cooking.
So for our Sunday evening treat we had vanilla pudding with fresh straberries, blueberries, and sliced banana. It was heaven!
5 egg yolks
3 cups milk
1/2 cup sugar OR 1/4 to 1/3 cup agave nectar (love it!)
1/4 cup corn starch
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 Tbsp butter (option - I usually forget to add this)
I put the milk and egg yolks in the blender and blend well. This makes it so you don't have to strain the hot pudding for "egg boogers" later. Pour this into a good heavy sauce pan. Then add the sugar, salt, and corn starch. Mix well with a whisk. Turn on to med to med-hi heat on your stove top and cook, stirring constantly until it thickens. Remove from heat and add the butter if you are using it. Then add the vanilla extract. Serve now or pour it into a covered dish and cool in the fridge.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Blueberries for Me
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Breakfast Shakes
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Simple Breakfast
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Carb Plan
This diet is set for a preganant or lactating woman. For my regular diet I just cut back on the fat and carbs some or have 3 cups of veggies be one of two carb choices at a meal. That gives you lots of food, lots of fiber, still has carbs for good blood sugar levels, fills me up .... etc.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
From My Files
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Hollandaise Happiness
I have to admit that I haven't always loved this sauce. As a child I didn't trust it but knew that something had to be up because of the fuss the adults made about it. I have had it in many forms, some of which I think must be aberrations. (nasty things)
I have now made it a few times myself with varied success. This past week though I found a fast, and fabulous recipe for it. It is made in the blender. Here is the recipe.
Fast & Fabulous Hollandaise Sauce
3 egg yolks
2 Tbsp Lemon Juice
1/2 tsp Salt
Dash of hot sauce
1/2 cup melted butter
Blend the egg yolks, lemon juice, salt and hot sauce in the blender. Melt the butter and bring to a boil on the stove top. You want to boil it until it start to brown (like an light tan) this starts to caramelize the flavor of the butter and really opens it up.
Turn on the blender with your egg mixture in it. Start gradually pouring the boiling butter into the running blender in a steady stream. It will thicken quickly.
Serve immediately with your steamed vegetables or on eggs Benedict. (that sounds so yummy, I might have to get some fixing for that tomorrow!)
If that doesn't "feel" cooked enough for you, you can place it in a double boiler over hot water. You really have to watch it though. It can curdle which isn't cool. (you can fix that though by adding a table spoon of boiling water to it and mixing it well.
You have to serve this immediately. It is not something that is meant to last a long time so fix it very last before serving your food.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Dad's Amazing Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream
Well with the plethora of strawberries DH purchased for me this past week, I HAD to break out the old recipe and introduce my children to it. I am also going to share it with you because I promised some nieces and nephews that I would post it so they too could carry on Grandpa's tradition. (my mother also made this ice cream and I highly suspect her influence in the recipe)
My Dad's Amazing Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream
3 pints fresh strawberries
1 (3 oz) pkg. strawberry gelatin
1/2 cup hot water
3/4 cup lemon juice (fresh, frozen or bottled)
1/2 (6 oz) can can frozen orange juice concentrate
1 quart milk
1 pint half and half
1 pint heavy cream
3 1/4 cup sugar
Clean and wash the strawberries and whirl in blender until liquid. Strain out the seeds if desired. Dissolve the gelatin in hot water, then combine with the remaining ingredients. Freeze in a 6 quart ice cream freezer according to manufacturers directions. Pack to ripen. Serve the same day.
You can also use fresh black berries and raspberries and substitute raspberry jello for the strawberry jello.
To pack the ice cream, remove the dasher, put the lid on and cork it. Then pack more ice around the ice cream canister and wrap blankets around the whole bucket. It is a long wait but so worth it in the end.
My mom and dad would bring this to church socials at the creek with their hand cranked ice cream machine. People would take turns churning while the meal was being prepared and people gathered. Then it would be packed and ripening while we ate and played. Then at the end of the social my dad would break out the ice cream and it was divine.
I have taken this mix and frozen it it solid and then cut it into chunks and sent it through my champion juicer and have instant soft serve ice cream for my family. They love it! I think the flavor it the best when you make ice cream immediately but the frozen stuff was still the best strawberry ice cream ever!
Monday, April 05, 2010
Strawberry Sale
I would post a recipe BUT freezer jam is a tricky beast. You have to follow the recipe on the box exactly or you DON'T get jam and jells. You get runny stuff. Great on ice cream but not great in a sandwich.
However, I will post some tips I have learned over time in making jam.
*Freezer jam is the easiest jam ever. You just mash the fruit, add the sugar, add the pectin and wait and you have scrumptious jam.
*Measure, Measure, Measure. It is very important to measure your jam ingredients precisely. Freezer jam is a science, not an art. That means to measure exactly don't guess and dash. That makes it something that anyone can do. Not talent required. :o)
One pound (or quart) of strawberries will make about 3 pints of jam. We usually freeze it in half pints because that is enough for one meal (usually).
There are several kinds of pectin on the market. The kinds I have tried and liked are Sure*Jell, Ball, and Certo.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Canned Turkey
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Canvolution 2010
One of my NEW favorite blogs is Everyday Food Storage. This girl has it going on. Back in January she did a spot on her local TV about the trend of canning this year. I love the idea of a Canvolution. I am posting this button on my side bar and will start listing what I am canning. I want to keep a record this year of what I have stored for my family. I am recording things I can. I would love to see what you are canning too. And don't forget to go check out Crystal's blog and get some great food storage and canning tips.
Now is the time to be planting your garden and getting ready by gathering supplies, jars, lids, sugar, salt, etc when they go on sale or when you can afford to slip an extra in here and there. I will also try to post recipes for some of my canning treats as I go along.
Check out My Square Foot Garden for simple gardening ideas. This girls gardening abilities are amazing. She has only been at it for 4 years and has done amazing things and taught so many people so much. She has two new e books that really help you get started. Yes I ran out and got both of them and am impressed. I have read them and recommend them to anyone interested in starting a garden but isn't sure where to start.


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Truth vs. Propaganda. The media is trumpeting another fall in unemployment today as the number of jobs created was only 60% of the expected 203,000. If the expectations had been met, unemployment would have stayed level at 8.3%. The media ignores this reality and glorifies this as good news since unemployment fell to 8.2%. Really? Removing people from the workforce denominator to counteract the numerator will produce a lower unemployment rate that will actually be believed by educated Americans? The answer is yes: if it worked in the past, it will continue to work in the future.
An analysis from Zerohedge.com puts this into perspective:
March NFP [non-farm payroll] big miss at just 120K. Unemployment rate declines from 8.3% to 8.2%. Futures slide, for at least a few minutes before the NEW QE TM rumor starts spreading. The household survey actually posted a decline in March from 142,065 to 142,034. And as always, as we predicted when Goldman hiked its NFP forecast yesterday from 175K to 200K saying "if Goldman's recent predictive track record is any indication, tomorrow's NFP will be a disaster", Goldie once again skewers everyone. Finally, Joe LaVorgna's +250,000 forecast was just 100% off… as usual.
But this is only part of the story. The government has "seasonally adjusted" the jobs report due to winter. The bombshell is about to hit:
Yet things finally change in April, when seasonal adjustments hardly have an impact on the NSA number, and then in May things get from bad to worse, when the Seasonal Adjustment will for the first time every year, subtract 670,100 jobs from the NSA number. Appropriately enough, this will come just before the June FOMC meeting. Finally, should the NFP number be a major beat, it merely makes US-based QE that much more unlikely until and unless we get a major disappointment in payrolls.
At this rate, our unemployment rate will be zero if there is a second Obama administration: the workforce will be zero. But if you have trouble comprehending what the administration is doing to solve our economic crisis, just listen to Joe:
David DeGerolamo
US Adds 120,000 Jobs; Unemployment Falls to 8.2%
U.S. payrolls rose far less than expected in March, keeping the door open for further monetary policy support from the Federal Reserve, even as the unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent.
Employers added 120,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, the smallest increase since October.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected nonfarm employment to increase 203,000 and the unemployment rate to hold at 8.3 percent.
The weak employment growth last month likely reflected the fading boost from unseasonably warm winter weather. The payrolls count for January and February was revised to show just 4,000 more jobs created than previously reported.
The drop in the unemployment rate, to the lowest level since January 2009, reflected a drop in the labor force. The separate household survey, from which the jobless rate is derieved also showed a drop in employment.
The weak employment gains could hurt President Barack Obama's chances for re-election in November. The unemployment rate has fallen from 9.1 percent in August.
The painfully slow recovery in the labor market is a concern for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who is keeping open the option of further monetary policy support for the economy if the unemploymnt rate remains stubbornly high.


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Aside from humans, wolves do not have any direct predators and are considered at the top of their food chain. Wolf meat is not normally consumed, although it would be possible for it to be eaten in extreme circumstances.
Wolves themselves are carnivores and eat a varied diet of small and large prey, depending on the area they inhabit. Wolves may eat small game such as rabbits or foxes, but a pack of wolves is capable of taking down a moose or caribou as well. Contrary to popular myth, wolves do not regularly attack humans. They will, however, kill and eat domestic animals such as smaller dogs or livestock.


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What is smudging?
"Smudging" is a powerful cleansing ritual used by many native traditions around the world. The burning of certain herbs such as sage, sweet grass or cedar has been used for centuries for emotional, psychic, and spiritual purification or as a blessing for a person in need. I have been smudged by shamans and friends, but have also smudged myself, the house, and even the chicken coop to shift energies, cleanse the air, and simply create a space of "new beginnings."
The healing properties of sage
Because of its effective purifying energies, sage has been considered sacred by many Native American Indians. Sage can not only be used to cleanse your energy during a smudging ritual, but has also many other powerful healing properties.
Sage is a potent antiseptic, antioxidant, an excellent natural disinfectant, . My mother used to hand me a couple leaves of sage at the onset of a sore throat, chewing on them for several hours would most often relieve the sore throat. I love mixing sage into my osha honey and chew on both throughout the winter. You can brew sage tea, make compresses, and make your own healing salve. Maria Treben, a German herbalist, recommends making sage compresses when suffering from throat infection.
How to make your smudging stick
I feel really blessed since all the ingredients grow right outside my door. I have an abundance of wild sage and the wildflowers are going "wild," so to speak.
To make your own smudging sticks you need
- Sage
- Wildflowers (make sure those are not protected and/or toxic when being burned)
- Cotton Thread
- Scissors
I usually make anywhere between 10 and 30 smudging sticks during the months of June and July when the sage is growing nice and tall. If you are out in the wilderness to gather what you need, I would suggest you bring what you need to make your smudging sticks right there. The sage and flowers will wilt quickly and makes the process more difficult.
- You want to make a little bouquet of flowers so to speak, arranging the wildflowers in front of your sage
- Take your thread and wrap around the bouquet, starting at the bottom. Slowly move your way up and down the smudging stick, as tightly as you can. The thread will loosen as the sage dries.
- Once you have a nicely held together stick, tie the end of the thread.
Place to dry for at least several weeks, depending on the area you live in. I like putting a couple of drops of frankincense on my dried smudging sticks, a tree resin considered to cleanse and protect the soul.
How to smudge
It is beneficial to have some form of a bowl or container in which you can put the smoking smudging stick without having to worry about possibly causing a fire. I have an abalone shell that was given to me many years ago, but a piece of beautiful pottery serves the purpose as well. You might want to get a smudging feather or make your own smudging fan. The cleansing process does not require a feather, but is surely helpful when cleansing a room or space.
To me smudging has a quality of sacredness, presence, and mindfulness. I make time to be mindful during my smudging ritual, create a space of quiet and intention. It is a kind of healing prayer and I try to hold that space during the ritual.
To do a smudging ritual, you want to light the smudging stick at the top until you get a nice little flame going at which point you want to blow it out so that the smudge stick is smoldering, not burning. I like a candle since it can take a little bit for the stick to develop a nice flame.
If you are doing this ritual by yourself you can place the stick into your bowl and gather the smoke, bringing it to your body, rub your hands in the smoke, and be aware of areas that might need special attention (such as an area of physical injury, your tender hear, or your mind). I like gathering the smoke and guiding it up and over my head, bringing clarity to my thoughts, down around my arms, chest and legs.
If you are doing the ritual with another person, let the other person do the smudging for you. You can start at your feet, slowly moving upwards on your body, paying attention to both, front and back of your body. You might want to ask your partner if there are specific area he/she would like you to pay attention to. Always smudge a person with good intention and blessings in your heart.
If there is an emotion or experience that has been negatively impacting you, visualize the smoke carrying away any anxiety, depression, grief, energetic blockages, negative thought patterns, etc. I have been taught to also offer the healing smoke to the 7 directions – North, South, East, West, Father Sky, Mother Earth and the Great Spirit (or God, universe, consciousness depending on your spiritual tradition). That way I can express gratitude for the gifts given to me and balance the gathering of herbs with giving back healing thoughts to the Mother Nature, Father Sky, and the Great Spirit.
Don't rush the smudging ritual, let yourself be held and healed by nature.


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I loved this book! I can't believe it took me this long to read it. I knew by the very first chapter that it was an absolute classic–the kind of novel Borges would have written if he was old and German and living in Norfolk. Everything is tied together in way that feels so mysterious and obscure and yet makes perfect sense. From the first pages we go from being "cocooned" in a hospital and thinking about poor Gregor Samsa, climbing the armchair with his trembling legs and looking out the window, to epic digressions about the history of silkworms and silk production in China, England and Germany, until we end on the very last page with musings about how once upon a time the only acceptable way for ladies to express grief was through wearing "heavy robes of black silk taffeta." From herring fishing to the Holocaust, from Kafka to Conrad, from apocalyptic visions of death and decay to mourning the things that we've lost–uff, what a journey.
The whole time I was reading I kept thinking how amazing it would be to have an audio version of this book narrated by Werner Herzog. In tribute to the fact that this hasn't happened yet, here is my list of top Herzogian moments in The Rings of Saturn:
– In Chapter II, the narrator is visiting a decaying English manor, where "I was saddened to see, in one of the otherwise deserted aviaries, a solitary Chinese quail, evidently in a state of dementia, running to and fro along the edge of the cage and shaking its head every time it was about to turn, as if it could not comprehend how it had got into this hopeless fix." (pg. 36) It's "a state of dementia" that really gets me here–could there BE a better metaphor for humanity? Sebald in general is fascinated by the act of humans looking at animals throughout this book. I can't help but be reminded of Bad Lieutenant's camera fixing upon the iguana and alligator's unblinking stares.
– Eating lunch in a seaside town: "The tartare sauce that I had had to squeeze out of a plastic sachet was turned grey by the sooty breadcrumbs, and the fish itself, or what feigned to be fish, lay a sorry wreck among the grass-green peas and the remains of soggy chips that gleamed with fat… My plate was a hideous mess once the operation was over." (pg. 43) O, the Humanity!!
– Eating fast food: "No longer able to decide on a place to eat, I bought a carton of chips at McDonalds, where I felt like a criminal wanted worldwide as I stood at the brightly lit counter." (81)
– English motorways, where cars glide "like beads on an abacus designed to calculate infinity." (90)
– The fate of Jewish, Serbian and Bosnian child prisoners in Croatia, following the camps' liberation: "Many of those who were still alive were so hungry that they had eaten the cardboard identity tags they wore about their necks and thus in their extreme desperation had eradicated their own names." (98)
– The Chinese Empress' view of her silkworms: "These pale, almost transparent creatures, which would presently give their lives for the fine thread they were spinning, she saw as her true loyal followers. To her they seemed the ideal subjects, diligent in service, ready to die, capable of multiplying vastly within a short span of time, and fixed on their one sole preordained aim, wholly unlike human beings, on whom there was basically no relying." (151)
– On writing: "If asked, one could not say whether one goes on writing purely out of habit, or a craving for admiration, or because one knows not how to do anything other, or out of sheer wonderment, despair or outrage, any more than one could say whether writing renders one more perceptive or more insane." (181-182)
– Sugar trade and the arts in England: "The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation… One of the most tried and tested ways of legitimizing this kind of money has always been patronage of the arts, the purchase and exhibiting of paintings and sculptures… At times it seems to me… as if all works of art were coated with a sugar glaze or indeed made completely of sugar." (194) Reminds me of Barry Unsworth's Sugar and Rum, another book I would really like to reread soon. Bolaño would have LOVED this passage. Art as complicit in the suffering of others? Oh yeah. This section also made me think of those Mexican & Colombian narcos who are obsessed with collecting expensive artworks.
– Impressions of the family that own another epic, decaying manor where the narrator is staying: "It struck me that all the members of the family were continually wandering hither and thither along the corridors and up and down the stairs. One rarely saw them sitting calm and collected, singly or together. Even their meals they usually ate standing. What work they did always had about it something aimless and meaningless and seemed not so much part of a daily routine as an expression of deeply engrained distress." (211) "Deeply engrained distress"—bwa ha ha ha! Maybe I'm just a really dark and sick person, but this passage reminds me of my family over the Xmas holidays, on the days when no one bothers to prepare lunch or dinner.
– Norwich wool weavers and their tendency to "suffer from melancholy and all the evils associated with it, understandable given the nature of their work, which forced them to sit bent over, day after day, straining to keep their eye on the complex patterns they created. It is difficult to imagine the depths of despair into which those can be driven who, even after the end of the working day, are engrossed in their intricate designs and who are pursued, into their dreams, by the feeling that they have got hold of the wrong thread." (283) Hmm, perhaps a commentary on Sebald's process of writing the book we're now reading?
This last quote especially reminded me of something I've been thinking about recently: in really great works of art, most of them seem to possess a degree of awareness of the medium that they're working with. In mainstream movies, for example, you have the standard Hollywood romantic comedy view of the world, in which the camera holds very still, shots are a standard length, and you follow a cast of smiling gleaming characters throughout. In movies that are ART, though, you have a view of the world in which the camera possesses a degree of awareness about how it is a camera. Think of the blood splattering on the lens during the uprising scene in Children of Men (starting around 1:15), drawing your attention to it. Or that famous shot in Goodfellas that just goes on and on forever, where the camera follows Ray Liotta and his new girlfriend down the stairs, through the kitchen, and into this amazing nightclub world of gangsters and decadence where waiters bring you your own table and set it down in the best place in the house. Or that part in Mean Streets (recently watched over Xmas break) where Harvey Keitel is drunk and the camera seems to be literally inside his head, making the viewer (or at least me) epically nauseous. (A more contemporary example of this technique also happens several times in the film 12 Years a Slave, which I just saw last night and is actually what kicked this whole thought process into action.)
Now, I'm not a film critic or even a media studies person, so I can't like talk on and on about the meaning of shots and the way that cameras are set up and what that's supposed to imply for the position of the viewer or whatever. But the other thing I noticed is that for both the Children of Men and Goodfellas clips, they are considerably long unbroken shots (at least 3-4 minutes). I'd love to figure out a way to compare this technique to the methods that Sebald uses in Saturn, where paragraphs go on for pages, dialogue is unattributed and (perhaps most famously) text is broken up by black and white photographs, inserted with no explanation. I guess on a very basic level, this technique reminds me of what I was saying earlier–in the same way that Children of Men and Goodfellas seem to possess a degree of awareness about how they are movies, literally moving through space as they attempt to look at these characters that they're following, Rings of Saturn also possesses a degree of awareness about how it is a book that's being written. I personally find this technique a lot more honest and interesting than a book, film or painting that is just pretending to be, like, this unfiltered accurate depiction of reality. Maybe that's why so many of my personal favorite books play with this idea–in A Naked Singularity you have that self-commentary on the nature of ambition and failure, you have Hamlet and his at times painful awareness that he's playing a role, the wronged hero who's unable to act, and basically all of Borges. Reality and history has never been straightforward and simple, so great works of art shouldn't try to pretend that it is, you know? That would just be a lie–a fictional delusion.
Rembrandt's painting "The Anatomy Lesson," just one of the many works of art that Sebald (oops, I mean the narrator) is obsessed with throughout Saturn. Sebald notes how the victim's hand is anatomically incorrect, thus turning "this otherwise true-to-life painting into a crass misrepresentation at the exact centre point of its meaning, where the incisions are made. It seems inconceivable that we are faced here with an unfortunate blunder. Rather, I believe that there was deliberate intent behind this flaw in composition. That unshapely hand signifies the violence that has been done to Aris Kindt [the dead body, a thief hanged for his crimes an hour before]. It is with him, the victim, and not the Guild that the painter identifies. (16-17)


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In its 23rd consecutive year the event features the International challenge fiercely contested between Australia, the UK, USA, New Zealand and newcomers for 2016 Ireland along with a points score challenge for the perpetual Phil Irving trophy. This new entry means five national squads will race the International Challenge, with the Irish taking on the four experienced teams - defending champions the UK, Australia who won the title from its inception in 2005 to 2014, the USA and NZ. Champions from past and present converge on the famous Phillip Island Circuit from all over the world for the classic so you never know who you might bump into.
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Welcome to my blog! I am currently focusing on paper crafts but I don't limit my blog. You may see cards, scrapbook layouts, jewelry, photography and mixed media projects. I hope you are inspired by what you see here and you are welcome share but please give credit to any ideas you may borrow. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy your visit.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Kiwi Lane Owl Card
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Cute card - love the sequins.ReplyDelete
Thanks for playing along at AGOAC this time.
Good luck.
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Love your owl with all those fun sequins! Such a cute card!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for playing along with us at ATSM this week!
Adorable card, love the owl, great job with the sequins. Wonderful papers and design.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for participating in our embossing challenge at Allsorts this week!ReplyDelete
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Thank you for sharing this stunning creation at SFC.
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Looking for that perfect gift? The Park District of Oak Park now sells gift cards! A Park District gift card makes a great gift for teachers, birthdays, holidays and more!
Gift cards are available in any amount and can be purchased in-person at Customer Service at RCRC or GRC during open hours. They can be used toward activities, passes, rentals, daily visit fees, and food at park district concession stands.
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EY Announces Amber Roads Jim Preuninger is an EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 Award Winner in New Jersey
EY Announces Amber Road's Jim Preuninger is an EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 Award Winner in New Jersey
|Award recognized entrepreneurial excellence in Technology category
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ, June 30, 2014 -- EY today announced that CEO Jim Preuninger of Amber Road (NYSE: AMBR), a leading provider of global trade management (GTM) solutions, received the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2014 Award in the Technology category in New Jersey. The award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Jim Preuninger was selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at a special gala event at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick on Thursday, June 26.
"On behalf of Amber Road, I am very honored to receive EY's prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award," Preuninger said. "To be recognized among the most innovative and successful technology companies in New Jersey is a true honor. I really feel the credit for this award should go to Amber Road's staff, which is comprised of incredibly talented professionals that have shown an unwavering dedication to establishing a new category of technology to manage global trade."
Jim Preuninger co-founded Amber Road and helped to define a new industry - Global Trade Management (GTM). The firm grew from 16 employees in 2002 to well over 500 today, with offices and operations around the world. Amber Road has benefited from an explosion in global trade volumes over the past ten years, and recently completed its initial public offering in March 2014. Today, Amber Road is a leader in cloud-based global trade management software that is integrated with intelligent trade content to help importers and exporters book and track shipments all over the world and comply with country-specific import and export regulations.
Now in its 28th year, the program has honored the inspirational leadership of such entrepreneurs as Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee Company, Pierre Omidyar of eBay, Inc., and Mindy Grossman of HSN. Recent US national winners include Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn; Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of Chobani; and 2013 winner Hamid Moghadam, CEO and Chairman of Prologis.
As a New Jersey award winner, Jim Preuninger is now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2014 national program. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 15, 2014.The awards are the culminating event of the EY Strategic Growth Forum®, the nation's most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.
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General Information About University of Evansville
The University of Evansville is dedicated to active learning and scholarship. We are committed to the liberal arts and sciences as a basis for intellectual and personal growth. The University endeavors to prepare women and men for lives of personal and professional service and leadership. The University is aware of the challenges of living in an international community and therefore adopts a global view in its programs and its vision. The University of Evansville preserves its independent nature and values its ties to the United Methodist Church. It emphasizes undergraduate education and supports an array of liberal arts and sciences and professional programs. The University selects talented and motivated students and faculty. The student-faculty ratio promotes individual attention and optimal learning. The University values learning as a means of attaining freedom from ignorance and prejudice. Because education is a lifelong process of critical inquiry, the University commits resources to continuing education programs in the greater community.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
Institution Type
- 4-year, Private not-for-profit
Special Learning Opportunities
- ROTC (Army)
- Teacher certification
- Study abroad
- Weekend/evening college
Student Services
- General Education Courses
- Career Services available upon completion
Credit Accepted
- Dual credit
- The acceptance of credits for work experience or military experience are subject to review by the school and cannot be guaranteed.Advanced placement (AP) credits
Religious Affiliation
- United Methodist
Federal Aid
- Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans).
Degrees/Certificates offered
- Associate's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
Campus Setting
- City: Midsize
Disability Services Student
- 3% or Less
Admission Total Applicants 3,012 Percent Admitted 86% Men Admitted 83% Women Admitted 88% Full Time Retention Rate 79%
Submitted ACT & SAT Scores
25th Percentile Score 75th Percentile Score Critical Reading 500 620 Math 510 610 Writing 480 590
25th Percentile Score 75th Percentile Score Composite 22 28 English 22 29 Math 21 28 Writing 22 28
Student Demographics Total Enrolled 3,043 Native American 6.0 Asian 25.0 African American 76.0 Hispanic 47.0 Enrolled FullTime Undergraduates 2,497 Enrolled FullTime Graduates 154


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We all share the same vague feeling of confusion when choosing between different types of yoga mats. What's the best way to pick the one that suits our needs and lifestyle? Reading the three following profiles will not only make you smile but the descriptions of the features and attributes of the GLOW, AIR and POSE collection will help you choose the right mat.
"After some time practicing, it is worth investing in a durable mat, one that doesn't need to be tossed away after a while. It's a sacred and personal piece of real estate, where we get to move, breathe and be free. We must love it." — Grace Dubery, ambassador
GLOW (6mm)
The versatile one
"Ready to roll out for all occasions and under any conditions."
You live in the present moment and follow your instincts. The days go by in succession, but each day is unique. You feel comfortable in your own skin, and you don't put much stock in other people's opinions. You are receptive to change and are always discovering new, peace-fostering places. These places speak to you and truly envelop you. You never hesitate to roll out your mat, no matter what.
You love it because… the GLOW mat is reversible. You pick which side to use based on the ground and, as a result, the mat stays clean longer. It is comfortable, and its technical performance is excellent. The mat is the incarnation of LOLË's iconography: the recognizable yellow and grey mat that brings to mind the very first LOLË White Tour.
AIR (5mm)
The one that likes to roam
"Me and my mat go everywhere together."
You go everywhere on foot. You ride your bike to work each morning, even in winter. Your commute includes crossing a bridge, traveling on a dirt road, navigating two construction detours and tackling a 45-degree incline. Once at the office, you choose to take the stairs… all 12 flights of them. Even though you're in the best shape of your life, you need to travel light. You need a yoga mat that's as light as possible.
You love it because… the AIR mat is 30% lighter than its counterparts. It is perforated to provide better aeration. It features an eyelet so it can be hung up to dry. It is 5 mm thick, which strikes an ideal balance and maintaining comfort.
"A light mat can also be used as a second layer, on top of another mat – in the event you rent one with more cushion at a studio or abroad. It's always nice to have something that's yours, personal, and that you're accustomed to that you can use everywhere" — Grace Dubery, ambassador
"Light, good quality yoga mats are so rare yet so necessary! As an independent yoga teacher, I often teach private and corporate classes in several locations during any given week, and a light yoga mat allows me to bring it wherever I go without wreaking havoc on my shoulders" – Dawn Mauricio, ambassador
POSE (7mm)
The one to cozy up with
"One needs a modicum of comfort to make virtue a practice."
Undaunted, you follow your gang regardless of the probable and improbable activities it engages in. But one thing is certain; you don't skimp when it comes to comfort. Faced with a choice, you opt for soft or ergonomic equipment. You want a yoga mat that welcomes and envelops you. You love the pliability and adherence that a thicker mat offers.
You love it because… the POSE mat is the thickest on the market. Its design includes a double-thick core covered by a soft membrane. Its fancy print styling gives it a bold and confident look. Despite its thickness, the mat isn't any heavier than other mats, because TPE is a very light material.
"There is something grounding about a thicker mat. I like to have mine laid out at home, for my daily practice. It doesn't move, and it feels deeply like home. It's years old, and my hands and feet have left their mark. It's a very familiar and comfortable place to come to. Everyone should have one." — Grace Dubery, ambassador
"Over the years I began to appreciate extra cushioning for my wrists and knees. In the past, I've had to carry towels or blankets with me when my yoga mat was not thick, but now I just opt for buying a thick yoga mat." – Dawn Mauricio, ambassador
"A practice that requires greater movement, range of motion, and impact may benefit from a thicker mat. A mat with great dexterity may also benefit hot, vinyasa, or ashtanga vinyasa practices." — Grace Dubery, ambassador
5 minute daily maintenance
1. Spray with clean water
2. Clean with mild soap
3. Wipe with a dry cloth
You can also use this Yoga mat cleaner spray
What is TPE that is part of many yoga mats?
This material gives off very little odor and offers terrific adherence and grip. Moreover, it is recyclable, which means your old mat can be reincarnated. In this fashion, it supports the eco-responsible production market.
By Jacinthe De Guire
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DIY : Yoga mat cleaner
This spray is not only great for cleaning your mat, but it's also a very powerful aromatic tool to enhance your physical and emotional well-being before or after your practice!