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A huge hit for us: spicy, sour, sweet, and herbaceous. This is among the greatest noodle dishes ever.
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- 1 1/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons grape seed, corn, or other neutral oil
- 10 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 3/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 cups fresh basil leaves, preferably Thai
- 1 1/2 cups fresh mint leaves
- 3/4 cup white sesame seeds, plus more for garnish
- 1 tablespoon salt, plus more as needed
- About 1/2 pound assorted vegetables: carrots, parsnips, broccoli (stems are fine), bell peppers, etc., peeled and julienned
- 1 pound 1/4-inch-wide dried rice noodles, soaked in hot water until softened and drained
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1. Put 3 tablespoons of the oil in a medium skillet over medium-low heat. Add the garlic and cook, stirring occasionally,until the garlic turns golden, about 10 minutes; set aside.
- 2. Meanwhile, combine the lime juice and sugar in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Set aside.
- 3. Fill a large bowl with water and ice and set aside.
- Bring a small pot of water to a boil and add the basil and mint leaves. As soon as the water returns to a boil, drain the leaves and transfer to the ice water. When cold, drain again and squeeze dry. Purée in a blender with the sesame seeds, garlic, salt, and 1 cup of the oil. (This herb paste will keep, refrigerated, for 2 days.)
- 4. Heat the remaining 3 tablespoons oil in a skillet over high heat. Add the vegetables and some salt and cook, tossing, just until brightly colored. Keep warm.
- 5. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and salt it. Cook the noodles until tender, 30 seconds. Drain and transfer to a large skillet set over high heat with the butter and lime syrup; add salt to taste and cook, tossing, until well mixed and creamy. Put the noodles in a warmed serving bowl; drizzle liberally with the basil-mint paste, top with the vegetables, garnish with the sesame seeds, and serve.
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From Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges by Jean-Georges Vongerichten Copyright (c) 2007 by Jean-Georges Vongerichten Published by Broadway Books.
JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN became a culinary star when he first began cooking at Lafayette in New York City. He went on to establish the charming bistro JoJo in New York; introduced "fusion" cooking at Vong (three stars from the New York Times), which now has an outpost in Chicago; created the four-star Jean-Georges and hugely successful Spice Market and 66 in New York; opened Rama (Spice Market meets Vong) in London; and opened several acclaimed restaurants in cities from Shanghai to Las Vegas. He lives in New York City, when he is not traveling to oversee his existing restaurants or open a new one.


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It's galaxy season, so you better be careful for any darting out in front of you. Did I mean to say deer season? No, galaxy season. According to prognosticating astronomers, the Andromeda Galaxy is heading right for us and will collide with the Milky Way Galaxy in a number of years.
It's galaxy season, so you better be careful for any darting out in front of you. Did I mean to say deer season? No, galaxy season. According to prognosticating astronomers, the Andromeda Galaxy is heading right for us and will collide with the Milky Way Galaxy in a number of years. Although discussed in the June Astronomy Magazine as well as many other sources, most haven't heard of this purported accident waiting to happen. It's just as well, for there are always some people who get uptight about anything. Also known as M31, the Andromeda spiral galaxy and the Milky Way's spiral -- with Earth included -- are hurtling toward each other at 270,000 mph (or so). Even at this incredible speed, however, you needn't stay awake at nights worried over it (but if you do, you may as well get some stargazing in!). Given the immense distance -- 2.5 million light years -- separating the two galaxies, they would not collide until two to five BILLION years from now. As I said, a "number of years." Of course a lot can happen before then. M31 is the most easily visible galaxy beyond the Milky Way and is visible to the unaided eyes as a fourth magnitude, fuzzy oval. The best time for evening viewing is in the autumn. In early June, you can start to see it about 1 a.m., low in the northeast, but to see anything in the universe more clearly, you should wait for it to rise farther. A dark night is needed, and you need a spot where light pollution isn't a problem in that direction. Binoculars will give a better view. It is a wonder to realize that even as you gaze at M31, it is gaining in brightness as it is coming toward you. Because of the great distance, the brightening is not detectable in anyone's life span. We call springtime "galaxy season" not because of M31, but because of the vast host of distant galaxies occupying a large part of the evening sky. They make up the "Virgo Cluster," which actually overlaps a few constellations. This fantastic mass of galaxies travels space together, bound by gravity. Users of even small telescopes can find some of them rather quickly just by slowly scanning the general area where they are most dense, in eastern Virgo and western Leo, two prominent spring constellations. Most of them appear as dim, small fuzzy spots. Long exposure photographs reveal much more. Larger backyard telescopes can pick out spiral structure on a "handful" of galaxies, and many will show a brighter center -- the galactic hub from which the outer spiral arms of stars, cosmic dust and gas extend. Many galaxies are observed in collision. They actually merge. Few stars would actually hit each other but would pass by one another; nebulae (cosmic clouds) do collide and interact. The merger takes a very long time. The results are disheveled, misshapen galaxies, and bursts of star formation as nebulae are compressed. Some stars are thrown out into long, curving tails formed by tidal forces. Can you imagine how starry the sky would be? The Milky Way is part of a small galaxy cluster as well, called the "Local Group." Our "neighborhood" includes more than 30 galaxies, several of them being small satellites of larger ones. The Milky Way is one of the three largest in the group, the others being M31 and another spiral galaxy, M33, easily seen with binoculars in the autumn evening sky. M31 is the largest; the Milky Way comes in second. We have several small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. Only two are visible to unaided eyes -- the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Too bad for Northerners, they are only visible from far southern latitudes. Astronomers deduce the relative motion of M31 and other galaxies by the shifting of lines in the galaxy light's spectrum of colors. These lines denote elements making up the billions of stars in the galaxy, mostly due to hydrogen. M31's spectral lines are shifted toward the blue end of the spectrum, meaning it is coming toward us. Most galaxies are speeding away from us and are red-shifted. The shifting is caused by the "Doppler effect," which also applies to the shifting frequency of sound that you hear as a vehicle with a bad muffler races past you breaking the speed limit with hopefully a police car behind it. The noise of the engine rises and falls in pitch as it goes by. New moon is June 3. Keep looking up! Peter W. Becker is managing editor at The Wayne Independent in Honesdale, Pa. He has been an amateur astronomer since the age of 12, in 1969. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I had fun playing along with this challenge. It was to make a shadowbox or layout to put in a shadowbox either 12x12 or and 8x8. I used an 12x12 layout for this challenge. It took me a while to make because I kept changing up things. I used Peachy Keen Princess stamp set for the little flower at the top and Critter faces for my little caterpillar face.I used my white gel pen from Peachy Keen stamps for my doodling. I hope you guys enjoy:)
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge
Hello everyone I wanted to enter Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge. I came up with this cute little bunny from Everyday Paperdoll's Cart. I welded the little bunny with my Gypsy and I wanted her to be a little tag you hang on a gift,so I made her small. I used the Critter face stamps from Peachy Keen Stamps for the bunny's face.I put pink glitter all over her and tied a white bow around her neck. Everyone go check Emma's blog out at My creative time, I love all of her projects!
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Cricut Cardz Challenge #27
Hi guys I am taking the Cricut Cardz Challenge. The challenge is to make a Father's Day card using any cart.,colors you like. I made a Father's Day Card for my husband. I used Create A Critter for the Peanut, embossed him with the cuttlebug.I used the critter faces from Peachy Keen Stamps (love them) and used My Pink Stamper Stamps (love them too). Hope everyone likes it!
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Hollywood said goodbye to an archetype Friday.
Linda Christian, the first woman to play what would later be known as the ubiquitous "Bond girl," passed away at the age of 87 after a battle with colon cancer, her daughter told media outlets. Christian was born in Mexico in 1923 but moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Born Blanca Rose Welter, Christian was a child of prominence and wealth and followed her oil-tycoon father around the world. She eventually was able to speak seven languages. She won beauty contests and later would be known in Hollywood as the "anatomic bomb" because of her curves.
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Christian played the first love interest of James Bond, in the first James Bond film ever, an adaptation of the first James Bond book ever, Casino Royale in 1954. She starred as Valerie Mathis, a combination of two characters from the book: Vesper Lynd and Rene Mathis. Her counterpart was Barry Nelson, the only American to portray Bond - this was also the only Bond film to not include a consummated affair.
It was her marriage to Hollywood's a-lister Tyrone Power in 1949 that helped to launch her career. They had two daughters, Taryn and Romina Power, both actresses.


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(DGIwire) — Researchers from the University of Michigan collected data suggesting a correlation between the number of fast food restaurants and obesity rates. This may sound like old news but scope of the data they analyzed is impressive and their conclusions compelling.
In the study, they looked at 26 wealthy nations. It is the wealthy countries that have experienced a proliferation of fast food restaurants. Fast food restaurants are defined as places that serve food with preheated or precooked ingredients and are served in a packaged form. In general, fast food is usually higher in fat, sugar, salt and calories.
The researchers found that countries with a higher density of fast food restaurants per capita had much higher obesity rates compared to countries with a lower density of fast food restaurants per capita. Among wealthy nations, the United States has more fast food restaurants than any other nation with 7.52 fast food restaurants per 100,000 people and we also lead the way with an obesity rate exceeding 31 percent. Our closest neighbor, Canada has 7.43 fast food restaurants per 100,000 people and their obesity rate is about 23 percent. As the per capita number of fast food restaurants declines, so do obesity rates. This pattern was consistent across all the countries in the study.
The researchers were of the opinion that obesity research largely overlooks the global market forces behind the epidemic. They thought that public debate is focusing too much on individual genetics and other individual factors and overlooking the global forces in society that are shaping behaviors worldwide.
"The cause of the epidemic rise in obesity, chronic diseases and other modern metabolic disorders is not genetics. No one is genetically destined to be sick or fat. These trends can be directly tied to an individual's poor diet and lifestyle choices. We are bombarded with slick manufacturer marketing and general misinformation about the importance of diet and lifestyle and its effect on our health and we are suffering the consequences", according to Tom Griesel co-author of TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust (BSH 2011).
Griesel adds, "Avoiding the man-made, refined and processed, unnatural combinations so often found in fast food restaurants and on supermarket shelves today is the first step to better health and a smaller waistline. Replacing these "fake foods" and focusing on a diet of fresh and freshly prepared fruits, vegetables, tubers, nuts, seeds, eggs, wild fish and quality meats as provided by Mother Nature will vastly improve your weight and health in a very short period of time."
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You probably know that Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. But that guy in all the pictures from the first moon landing? That's Buzz Aldrin. So here's a lesson for you all: It doesn't matter if you're the first guy out of the spaceship, just as long as you make the other guy hold the camera.
So sure, Aldrin has been to the moon, but what does he know about mooning? We've invited him to play a game called "Drop your pants and take a bow" — three questions about exposing one's buttocks.
And now the game where we reward a lifetime of preparation with a quiz that you simply cannot prepare for. You know that Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. But that guy in all the pictures from the first moon landing? That's Buzz Aldrin. So here's a lesson for you all: it doesn't matter if you're the first guy out of the spaceship just as long as you make the other guy hold the camera.
SAGAL: Buzz Aldrin was the second human being to stand on the surface of the moon. We are so honored to welcome him to WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME! Hello, Buzz, how are you?
BUZZ ALDRIN: I'm fine. I'm fine, thanks.
SAGAL: I'm glad to hear it. So we just - I mean, obviously we want to start by talking to you about that experience coming - you know, it's 1969, landing on the moon with Neil Armstrong. You stepped onto the lunar surface, second human being in the history to do so. What was the first thing you did when you set foot on the moon?
ALDRIN: Well, I've told some people this, but we had just prepared for a longer stay, so we had emptied out the urine bags that we had around our waist.
SAGAL: Yeah?
ALDRIN: And so I felt pretty confident in relieving myself, since I had the urge.
SAGAL: Sure. So the first thing you did...
BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT: On the moon...
SAGAL: ...was have a tinkle?
ALDRIN: Pretty close to that.
SAGAL: Yeah.
SAGAL: No, no. So I have to ask you about this because this was a famous thing. You and some of the other Apollo astronauts have been dogged by these people who are convinced that you faked it somehow. And there's a famous video of you actually being sort of entrapped by one of these guys. Can you tell us what happened?
ALDRIN: Well, he wanted me to sign his big Bible and swear on it that we did go to the moon or we didn't go to the moon. I wasn't sure what he really wanted. But when I refused to do this because he was just playing around, he started calling me a liar and a cheat. I didn't really care for that.
ALDRIN: So we went back and talked about it a little bit, and I looked for the right moment, and I popped him one in the jaw.
SAGAL: I mean, I've seen this video, and I always assumed it was an act of passion, for which I will not blame you that you just, like, punched this guy. But you actually said to yourself: I'm going to punch him in the jaw as soon as I get a moment? OK, now.
ALDRIN: No, no, it was a lot more instantaneous urge to do that.
SAGAL: Yeah, I can imagine.
ALDRIN: He just kind of pissed me off.
LUKE BURBANK: Do you know, Mr. Aldrin, do you know if this man you punched, if he filled his urine bag?
SAGAL: Now, what's interesting is you - one of the dozen men who've walked on the surface of the moon, and according to your new book, you're in no particular hurry to go back?
ALDRIN: Who says that?
SAGAL: Well, I thought you did.
ALDRIN: Oh, you mean to go back to the moon?
SAGAL: Right.
ALDRIN: Well, no, I've done that once. Why would anyone want do that again?
SAGAL: But one of the things that you're - I've notice you're a fan of in your plan in your book is you actually like the idea of space tourism.
ALDRIN: Well, I do because that gets the interest of the public up so that they're paying attention to things that take a long time to develop. They're...
SAGAL: But won't - go ahead.
ALDRIN: There are a lot of people that evidently want to do that.
SAGAL: Won't space, though, get ruined with all the tourists?
ALDRIN: I don't think so. There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that's why I had quite an interest in the lottery because you'd interest a lot of people, and then just a few would win a chance to do something.
But the Unilever company Axe has come up with a scheme where they acquired 22 flights in a suborbital company called XCore, and they've distributed those internationally to thousands of people.
SAGAL: So you're telling me...
FAITH SALIE: Axe the body wash?
SAGAL: Yeah.
ALDRIN: That's right.
SAGAL: That the next step in our exploration of space will be led by Axe body spray. Have you ever - Buzz, you're going to - have you ever met anybody who would knowingly buy and use Axe body spray? And are these the kids we want to be sending into space?
ALDRIN: Yeah.
SAGAL: You think?
ALDRIN: Yeah, a lot of people are familiar with it, sure. They like for it to attract young ladies to them.
SAGAL: You realize that they're going to get up there, and they're going to try to open the window so they can wave back. You know that, right?
ALDRIN: Well, they may try to do that. That probably wouldn't be a good idea. (Unintelligible)
SAGAL: Well, Buzz Aldrin, we are honored to talk to you, and we've asked you here to play a game we're calling...
BILL KURTIS: Drop Your Pants and Take A Bow.
SAGAL: You've been to the moon, and we believe you when you say that, but what do you know about mooning?
SAGAL: We're going to ask you three questions about exposing one's buttocks for entertainment or political purposes. If you get two right, you'll win our prize for one of our listeners, Carl Kasell's voice on their home answering device, whatever it may be. Bill, who is astronaut Buzz Aldrin playing for?
KURTIS: Valerie Williams of Gorham, Maine.
SAGAL: All right, Buzz, you ready to do this?
ALDRIN: I'll give it a try.
SAGAL: OK. The first recorded instance, recorded instance, of mooning happened when: A, the year 1120, when 40,000 Chinese warriors mooned their enemies in perfect unison.
SAGAL: B, the year 1460, when the French crown prince responded to an offer of marriage he did not favor; or C, the year 80 A.D., when a Roman soldier in Rome did as Romans had never done before?
ALDRIN: I think it was the Roman soldier that wanted to do something that had never been done before.
SAGAL: You are right.
SAGAL: It was the Roman soldier, 80 A.D. According to the historian Josephus Flavius, the Roman soldier mooned a Jewish pilgrim. The other pilgrims got upset, and a riot ensued.
SAGAL: Next question, that was very good. Sometimes mooning is a terrible idea, as in which of these incidents: A, when a protester at President Nixon's inauguration passed gas at the wrong moment and was charged with trying to poison the president.
SAGAL: B, when defenders at the medieval battle of Crecy mooned the British and forgot about the archers.
SAGAL: Or C, when scientists at the South Pole posed for a group moon shot, and four ended up with frostbite.
ALDRIN: I would think that the folks at the South Pole did a pretty stupid thing.
ALDRIN: I'm not surprised that they got a little frostbite.
SAGAL: So you're going to go for the scientists at the South Pole?
ALDRIN: I think so. Why not?
SAGAL: No, actually the answer was B, the great arrows in the butt incident at the Battle of Crecy. That was recreated, kind of, in the movie "Braveheart," you may remember.
All right, this is your last question. One of the great mooning performances of all time took place in October, 2011, when what happened? A, the entire MIT football team arranged themselves so their bare buttocks spelled out the symbol for PI, as seen from above.
SAGAL: B, when a protester ran pantsless alongside Queen Elizabeth's motorcade, clutching an Australian flag in his buttocks for 50 meters.
SAGAL: Or C, Pennsylvania High School Debate Team's reenactment of the Lincoln-Douglas debates went quite differently than the original?
ALDRIN: I'd have to go for the Stephen Douglas debates going differently.
SAGAL: I do like that idea. So the idea is that they staged the Lincoln-Douglas debate, and instead of eloquent discussions of the problem of slavery, they just turned their backs to each other and lowered their pantaloons and said aha.
ALDRIN: Yeah, that sounds like high school kids, what they'd do.
SAGAL: I would believe you, but sadly it was in fact B, the protester who ran for 50 meters next to Queen Elizabeth's car in Australia clutching the Australian flag in his buttocks.
ALDRIN: You can't run that far with a flag between your buttocks.
SALIE: Have you tried?
SAGAL: Have you tried?
BURBANK: That was the first place for the flag on the moon.
SAGAL: Bill, how did Buzz Aldrin do on our quiz?
KURTIS: You know, I think we should give Buzz all three, don't you?
SAGAL: Who am I to argue?
ALDRIN: Yeah, I'm all for that.
SAGAL: Buzz Aldrin, of course, is one of the 12 human beings to walk on the moon. His new book, his program for future of space exploration, is called "Mission to Mars." Buzz Aldrin, thank you so much for joining us. What an honor to talk to you.
ALDRIN: Thank you very much. It's been a pile of laughs.
SAGAL: It really have.
KURTIS: Thank you, Buzz. You've been great.
SAGAL: Thank you so much.
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Rachel Maddow added some reality-based journalism to the discourse yesterday. In her segment, she successfully debunked the fallacy of the true electoral clout of the NRA.
Make no mistake; the political clout of the NRA is immense. They control many politicians and continue to instill the fear in them via the gun lobby's seemingly inexhaustible supply of money.
What Maddow was able to do is dispel the notion that the political clout of the NRA is based on their electoral prowess. This prowess is not based on the numbers. It is simply not based on facts. They are however powerful because of something every middle class American should become aware of. Just like corporations have preferred stock and common stock, there are preferred voters and then the rest.
Every politician on Capitol Hill knows the facts. This is only news to the lay person … but it shouldn't be a surprise. Did Americans not re-elect President Obama on the premise that tax rates would be increased for the two percent that benefitted the most from the 30 year pilfer of the middle class? Yet, the Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to acquiesce even as they lost the popular vote (they held on to the House because of gerrymandering, not because of popular consent).
Inasmuch as all of Rachel's numbers are correct and the NRA is really not as powerful as the media would have one believe, Americans must be educated on the realities and not politically driven journalism. That is the only way the middle class and poor can realistically join the governance of this country.
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The Millennium Crystal is a purple crystal which holds the Legendary Pokémon Jirachi whilst it is in stasis.
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The Millennium Crystal resembles a purplish crystal with many various segments jutting out of it. Jirachi is able to communicate telepathically from within the Crystal, in which it can seek out the one person with whom it will accompany as a friend. The Crystal was showcased by Butler and Diane at his magic performance, in which they unveiled it to the crowd after a trick. This was where Max first heard Jirachi's voice emanating from within the Crystal.
The Crystal can also release an illuminating light, which was shown when Diane presented it to the audience of Butler's magic show. The Millennium Crystal stays in its hibernation state until the first day of the Millennium Comet, whereupon it glows brilliantly with a bright light. The Millennium Crystal seems to have a connection with the Millennium Comet, as shown when Jirachi states that the star is calling to it. Whilst the Crystal is preparing to awaken Jirachi, the cave structures in Forina fluctuate similarly.
The Millennium Crystal was discovered by Butler and Diane in Forina, where it was hidden deep under the ground. After the seventh night of the Millennium Comet, Jirachi reverts back to its hibernation state, with purple wisps of energy enveloping it. The Millennium Crystal then completely forms around Jirachi, whereupon it phases through the ground to its resting place below Forina. As the Millennium Crystal makes contact with the ground, the ripple extends throughout all of Forina.
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- The title Millennium Crystal is entirely conjectural, due to the fact that it was never named during the course of the movie.


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Such a busy week! Here are some pictures I got from last week's Sr Night to start off.
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So of course our camera didn't work very well this weekend, so I'll have to post pictures as soon as I get them from other people!
This weekend we had our last regular season home games. And they were huge games. The games this weekend would determine our seeding for the conference tournament and where the games are to be held.
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That's right my friends, BYU as moved up to #2! Pretty exciting! This week they hosted Cal Baptist. They aren't a NCAA team, but they always have a pretty good team. Our Cougars swept them both Friday and Saturday night! It was so fun and Evan loved not having to stay out quite as late.
He likes to be upside down and with Dad
And he likes to be outside in the sun...with as little clothes on as possible! (Don't worry, he is wearing a diaper and shortly after this was taken we put a shirt and sunscreen on him)This upcoming weekend is the last conference home matches of the season! I can't even believe it. That means that Saturday is Reed's senior night. I'll probably be a wreck. We have loved being a part of this team and will really miss it. But anyways, if you're in Provo, come to the games. They are so fun and it would be awesome to send the seniors off with a good crowd. And they are playing #3 CSUN-it's going to be so exciting! So if you're in the area, we'll see you Friday and/or Saturday night at 7pm in the Fieldhouse!
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Quick volleyball update:
Thursday night the Cougars won in 4. It was another one of those night's where they should've won in 3, but whatever. Reed dominated on serving-he even had an ace!
Friday night was a much better night. They won in 4 and they played awesome! Robb Stowell in particular had a great night-he hit over .900 in the first set! Reed had 63 sets and 7 digs and the team hit .460. These were big wins for the team and they are guaranteed a spot in the conference playoffs. Few more wins and they will be able to host the first round and be around for graduation.
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In the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade, puree the pesto, spinach, and lemon juice. Add the mayonnaise and puree. Add the pesto mixture to the cooled pasta and then add the Parmesan cheese, peas, pignolis, salt, and pepper. Mix well, season to taste, and serve at room temperature.
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Did the slowdown in the fourth quarter of 2013 impact hiring in the first quarter of 2014? The first two jobs reports of the year certainly support that conclusion, but the latest ADP estimate of job creation suggests that the job freeze may have thawed — a bit. ADP estimates that the private sector added 191,000 jobs to the US economy in March:
Private sector employment increased by 191,000 jobs from February to March according to the March ADP National Employment Report®. Broadly distributed to the public each month, free of charge, the ADP National Employment Report is produced by ADP®, a leading global provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, in collaboration with Moody's Analytics. The report, which is derived from ADP's actual payroll data, measures the change in total nonfarm private employment each month on a seasonally-adjusted basis. …
Goods-producing employment rose by 28,000 jobs in March, slightly faster than an upwardly revised pace of 25,000 in February. Most of the gains came from the construction industry which added 20,000 jobs over the month; compared to an average of 16,000 during the prior three months. Manufacturers added 5,000 jobs in March, the same as February.
Service-providing employment rose by 164,000 jobs in March, up from the upwardly revised 153,000 in February. The ADP National Employment Report indicates that professional/ business services contributed the most to growth in service-providing industries, adding 53,000 jobs, slightly more than the 49,000 in February. Expansion in trade/transportation/utilities grew by 36,000, about equal to the 37,000 jobs added in February. The 5,000 new jobs in financial activities mark the strongest pace of growth in the industry since November 2013.
"The 191,000 U.S. private sector jobs added in March is slightly above the twelve-month average," said Carlos Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer of ADP. "Hopefully, this could be a sign there is more growth to come."
ADP originally undershot the February report, estimating 139,000 when the BLS found 175,000 jobs added to the economy. Usually, though, ADP overshoots the eventual BLS figure, as they did in January's original projection of 175K while the BLS found only 119K. ADP is not a solidly reliable indicator, but does tend to set the expectations for the upcoming jobs report, due on Friday.
U.S. companies picked up the pace of hiring in March, signaling the dampening effects of harsh winter weather on job growth may be fading, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.
Domestic private employers added 191,000 workers in March, slightly below economists' expectations, while gains in the prior month were revised higher, the ADP National Employment Report showed.
"It was a nice spring rebound and we had an upward revision for February," said Yelena Shulyatyeva, an economist with BNP Paribas in New York.
CNN Money says not so fast, almost literally:
The job market is slowly perking up after a winter lull.
Private sector employers added 191,000 jobs in March, according to payroll processing firm ADP (ADP, Fortune 500). While it was the strongest job growth in three months, it's not much to write home about.
After a slowdown in hiring, job growth is merely back to where it was prior to the winter. …
The report was slightly disappointing to other economists, who had anticipated an even bigger bounce back after the weak winter. Those surveyed by Briefing.com expected the report to show companies added 215,000 jobs in March.
Even 215,000 would not be cause for breaking open the bubbly. These are stagnation numbers, not any indication of explosive growth. The US economy needs to add 150,000 jobs each month just to keep pace with population growth at current workforce-participation levels (which are at generational lows anyway). Adding 191,000 barely puts a dent in the unemployment crisis, and it's doubtful that the final BLS number will be even that high.
For the last five years, the media has calculated their reaction to these numbers by comparing it to their low expectations. No one's talking about the kind of growth that's needed to put the millions sidelined in the stagnant economy back to work. That doesn't make the problem go away, however, and it won't until we put pro-growth policies in place in the tax and regulatory spheres that unlock capital and create work.


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It didn't take long for Pilates to play a big role in programming at the Rockwell Collins Recreation Center in Cedar Rapids, IA. Seven years ago, Michael Duffy, director of the facility, purchased six reformers for the center and started reformer classes with mat classes soon following. The Pilates classes proved so popular that the center soon ran out of space and had to build a second Pilates studio. Now, the center has two Pilates studios with a total of 16 reformers.
"Our Pilates program continues to grow. In fact, we have 11 instructors getting their last of three levels of certifications completed in April. At completion, they will be increasing the number of classes to over the 50 classes per week they are already doing," he says. "We do not plan to add another studio. However, we may need to expand the current facility to accommodate the number of new hires at Rockwell Collins."
The growth of Pilates at Rockwell Collins Rec Center isn't unusual. Pilates is arguably one of the fastest growing forms of exercise in the world. Developed 50 years ago, Pilates has seen a 500 percent increase in participants in the last six years, growing from 1.7 million participants in 2000 to 10.6 million in 2006.
Many of those Pilates devotees take their classes at fitness facilities around the country. Finding space for Pilates classes isn't always easy for club owners. To fit Pilates into their facilities, some club owners are purchasing smaller equipment, building or expanding locations for dedicated Pilates spaces, or maximizing unused real estate.
Several clubs and recreation centers recognized the popularity of Pilates early and built dedicated Pilates studios. Six years ago, The San Francisco Bay Club (a part of the Western Athletic Clubs) opened an 11,000-square-foot mind/ body center. Sports Club LA followed a few years later with dedicated Pilates spaces in multiple clubs. Recently, Midtown Athletic Club Weston (FL) completed the first phase of a multimillion dollar upgrade that includes a new Pilates reformer studio and expansion of its mind/body studios that will host Pilates mat classes.
"It's now considered standard when building a club to include space for a dedicated Pilates studio," says Elizabeth Larkam, director of the Pilates and Beyond program at Western Athletic Clubs. "But clubs are also finding ways to incorporate Pilates in spaces that already exist."
Where o' Where?
Despite the popularity of Pilates, space constraints are one of the main issues club owners face when considering investing in a Pilates studio.
"We were talking to one of the architecture firms that works with health clubs, and they specifically asked us to give them a heads up about spaces, dimensions and basic layout stuff," says Nora St. John, co-owner of Turning Point Studios in Walnut Creek, CA, and education program director for a Pilates equipment and certification company. "They are having a lot of customers ask them to put in Pilates studios, but they don't know what that means in terms of space and shape."
When space is not readily available, club owners are using inventive ways to find space. At Rockwell Collins Recreation Center, the second Pilates studio is located in the outside perimeter of its indoor track. Almaden Valley Athletic Club in San Jose, CA, created a mezzanine over its free weight fitness center to house its Pilates studio.
"We created a new floor and enclosed it with glass, so it would be quiet," says Deb Buglewicz, fitness and Pilates director at the club. "A year or two prior we created a mezzanine for functional instruction and decided we could do the same thing on the other end of the fitness floor for Pilates."
The owners of the Denver Athletic Club and Flatiron Club in Boulder, CO, converted racquetball courts into Pilates studios, something that Larkam says is increasingly popular because Pilates classes generate revenue.
Gillespie says it would cost about $2,000 to convert a squash court into a Pilates studio. All a club owner would have to do is tint the glass, put some carpet on the floor and change out the lights.
No Space of Their Own
Not all club owners are interested in creating or building dedicated Pilates spaces. And those who either can't afford to put in a new studio or don't have the room are improving their Pilates programs by purchasing smaller equipment, such as floor-based reformers, that can be stacked on top of each other.
"We, at VIDA Fitness, were going to build a dedicated space, but we decided that it would be more financially acceptable if we didn't dedicate that space, that we had the ability to stack the reformers and move them out of the way," says Adriane Morgan, a Pilates specialist at VIDA Fitness, Washington, DC.
Most reformers are designed to stack on top of each other and come with legs, so you can lift them off the ground a little, Gillespie says. They are very mobile, even with the legs in place, and can be moved by one person.
However, Buglewicz isn't convinced this is the best way to go.
"We actually had the stackable reformers about five years ago, and they were such an inconvenience that we sold them, and we created our own separate Pilates space," she says.
Although the evolution of smaller equipment has been ongoing since Pilates started, it recently heated up, Larkam says. To diversify and increase the number of people they were reaching, certain Pilates equipment manufacturers recognized that they needed to make the equipment smaller, more accessible and easily configured for a variety of body types. These Pilates manufacturers are interested in capturing the group exercise and personal fitness training markets in addition to the Pilates niche, St. John says.
Morgan says, "I think [the smaller equipment] was created for home use, but the gyms were able to use that equipment because it's just as sturdy, just as usable. They haven't modified the equipment where you can't do the exercises the way they are supposed to be performed; they've just modified how much space it takes by making the equipment lighter and thinner and, in some cases, foldable."
The purchasing of this smaller equipment will continue to grow because the equipment provides an athletic workout in a small footprint for about a third of the cost of the reformer and about a third of the space, St. John says.
But St. John says it's too early to tell how the purchasing trend of smaller equipment compares to the purchasing trends of larger pieces of Pilates equipment.
"It's not that the market is saturated with the Pilates reformers, but those pieces of equipment are well known now and are considered standard," Larkam says. "Now, the manufacturers are looking to grow their stable of small equipment options."
Storage space is the main objection to purchasing smaller equipment for nondedicated Pilates spaces. That is an area of concern for Terry Clark, wellness services director and Pilates instructor at HealthWorks Fitness Center in El Dorado, AR.
"Group exercise studios are just busting at the seams," Clark says. "We have designated a special closet for apparatus and Pilates mats and are quickly running out of room."
Is a Pilates program at a club really complete with just mat classes or the addition of smaller pieces of equipment? Or does a club need the reformer and other larger pieces of Pilates equipment for a full program?
Buglewicz says clubs must have all of the equipment. The reformer adds an additional 500 exercises over the mat and caters to a wide variety of people, she says.
However, Larkam says that although 10 years ago mat classes were enough and today clubs should offer more, it's still not necessary to have a full Pilates studio to provide quality instruction and a quality experience to members.
"The value that Pilates instruction brings lies not in how many square feet of real estate and how many pieces of equipment [a club has] but in the interaction between the instructor and the member. For that, you don't need a four cluster table with six sets of springs," Larkam says.
Cost of It All
Expansion of current Pilates spaces or creation of new Pilates spaces doesn't come cheaply, although costs vary depending on the part of the country in which the facility is located.
"It all depends on how you do it. Retrofitting and remodeling can be more expensive than building from the ground up," says Ian Gillespie, vice president of operations at Oregon Athletic Clubs in Portland, OR. "We have built all of our clubs from the ground up or do total remodels, which has allowed us to create Pilates studios."
According to Rhonda Sayers, group exercise coordinator at HealthWorks Fitness Center, the cost is $115 per square foot in south Arkansas, but in most places it's probably more expensive.
The cost to create Rockwell Collins Recreation Center's Pilates studios was approximately $60,000, but Duffy says that's because the need to offer a first-rate program to the Rockwell Collins employees outweighed the cost.
The cost to create a space for Pilates can be recouped by charging for classes. Few facilities offer equipment-based Pilates classes for free, but most clubs make the mistake of not charging enough for the classes, Gillespie says. He considers the equipment Pilates classes as personal training and charges the same for them as he does for personal training.
Buglewicz says, "The more room you have, the more classes you offer and the more revenue you are generating. If you are getting $30 to $35 a reformer and take four at a time and hold more of those through the day, it can generate a lot more revenue than trying to squeeze it into your group fitness."
In addition to the financial aspect, Buglewicz finds that having a dedicated Pilates space allows club owners to have a lot more offerings and more personalized service.
"We offer about 30 classes a week, and we make our classes small and intimate. Some clubs will offer the mat classes for free, but when you have your separate space, people don't mind paying for the mat classes because it's almost like getting private instruction," says Buglewicz. "That really helps to offset the cost because you are generating revenue from your mat classes as well as your equipment."
Overall, Morgan says that club owners should research their market and look at their club's population to determine if creating a dedicated Pilates space is something their membership will be interested in.
"If you have the market and space, go after the bigger equipment. People like doing Pilates in an environment that is just for Pilates. If you don't have the space and want to have diverse Pilates programs, then do it in the space you have," she says.


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I was not trying to troll Paul Pope at all. It was simply in the long tradition of my forgetting to find things for Paul Pope to sign that I realized I had forgotten my notebook. I had, before buying Life on Mars #2, only a copy of a short, racy biography titled Byron in Love, which I had been reading for class. I figured Pope could sign it. It was not a totally inappropriate thing for Paul Pope to sign as the two men have a few things in common: Paul Pope is a rock star – Byron is the original rock star; Paul Pope makes me want to rip off my shirt – Byron had lots of people ripping off their shirts for him, and frequently; Paul Pope is conscious of his public image – Byron played with his public image. It made sense.
After falling all over my giddy self with an explanation, Paul Pope signed my book while laughing at me, trolling me right back with a signature from Lord Byron. I walked away lightheaded; how Byronic.


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KIPP Academy Houston
|Houston, Texas
|Year First Chartered and Authorizer
|English Learners
|Subsidized Meals
|Special Needs
|Per Pupil Spending
At KIPP Academy Houston, daily chants ring out through the school: All of us will learn. Read, Baby, Read. Hallway banners proclaim The path to success is education. Work Hard. Be Nice. Every teacher and school leader at KIPP, which stands for Knowledge Is Power Program, is on a mission to level the playing field for students who live in neighborhoods troubled by illiteracy, drug abuse, broken homes, gangs, and juvenile crime. KIPP's mission is to "help our students develop academic skills, intellectual habits and qualities of character necessary to succeed in high school, college and the competitive world beyond." Serving predominantly low-income, minority students in grades 5-8, KIPP has forged an academic culture of high expectations, charged with the conviction that every child will learn. The key to this top-performing school is its unrelenting focus on results: teachers and administrators will do whatever it takes to help students learn, which includes being on call via cell phone for homework help at all hours. Everyone in the school is expected to live by its credo: "There are no shortcuts. Success is built through desire, discipline and dedication. The path to success is education."
KIPP Academy Houston is the flagship among the 31 KIPP schools now operating in the United States. It was started in 1994 by two Teach For America teachers, Dave Levin and Michael Feinberg, who recognized that to bridge the academic achievement gap, students needed more time and lots of hard work. Their first agenda was to broaden the concept of a school day to one in which every student worked hard academically from 7:25 in the morning until 5:00 at night. Then, as current principal Elliott Witney explains, "We focus on the pieces students are missing and work to catch them up and prepare them for college. We want disciplined thinkers, in a society where thinking doesn't always get rewarded. And a big key to success here is that we want our kids to believe they have choices in life-that their future is not determined by their past or their status in society or their economic reality or their skin color or for whatever reason-success is defined by the choices they make."
When KIPP Academy began, it was a contract school in the Houston district. The program was immediately successful and co-founder Levin left at the behest of the New York Public Schools to start a KIPP school there. Meanwhile, Feinberg continued to run the Houston campus. By 1998, the district had moved the school five times, so Feinberg applied for and received a charter from the state. In 2000, with a $7 million capital campaign, KIPP Academy Houston moved to its present 37-acre campus and built a multipurpose space for the new middle school.
Of KIPP Academy Houston's 346 students, who are chosen by lottery, 77 percent are Hispanic, 21 percent are African American, and the remaining 2 percent are Asian American and white; 8 percent of KIPP students are English language learners; 5 percent receive special education services; and 86 percent qualify for subsidized meals.
Program and Operations
A standout feature at KIPP Houston is its academic work ethic and how its chartered freedom is used to extend student learning time. The school day is considerably longer than most workdays and the schedule includes two mandatory Saturdays each month, plus summer sessions. The school year begins in June with a three-week kick-off and then school resumes six weeks later in August for the rest of the school year. The summer component for incoming fifth-graders focuses on creating the school culture-making sure students understand the strict code of conduct and learn the chants, songs, and systems that will carry them through the school year. For the sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders, the focus is strictly academic.
|Every teacher and school leader is on a mission to level the playing field for students who live in neighborhoods troubled by illiteracy, drug abuse, broken homes, gangs, and juvenile crime.
Students travel as a class from one subject to the next, working as a team in their 80-minute core classes: language arts, history, science, and math. They also take 45-minute classes, including physical education, art, music, and Spanish. Students eat lunch with their entire grade in the cafeteria, as teachers conduct informal meetings. With 90 students per grade, there are three sections of 30 students each. Teachers are able to handle such large classes because the students are on task and well behaved.
Consequences for misbehavior or not completing homework are serious. Discipline is summed up in the slogan, "If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the Porch." Students who misbehave are "put on the Porch" and are prohibited from socially interacting with anyone except adults, are required to wear their uniform shirts inside out, and must work their way off the Porch through a combination of good behavior, community service, apologies, and goal-setting. Incomplete homework sends students to "Wall Street," the after-school homework center, where they stay until they finish, even if it takes until 8:30 at night. KIPP also uses a schoolwide incentive program, a weekly "paycheck" that rewards good citizenship and good deeds with "KIPP dollars" to purchase items at the school store. Paychecks can also be docked for bad behavior.
The academic focus at KIPP is on making sure that students "know what they need to know," says founder Mike Feinberg. "It is not a race," he adds. This attention to mastery and academic engagement is evident in a visit to a fifth-grade English class. Students conduct themselves in an academic discussion the way college students might engage with a text. Not needing to raise hands, but instead politely waiting to comment on the contributions of the last person, students offer remarkably mature and thoughtful responses. They hold the classwide discussion among themselves rather than always addressing the teacher. Pointing to particular examples in the book Night John by Gary Paulsen, students support their ideas with evidence, whether to make a point or to respectfully disagree. The tone is supportive rather than competitive. After 20 minutes of student discussion, the teacher compliments his students and models the use of supporting detail: "Your ideas are beautiful. I liked the way you grabbed someone else's idea and then extended it." At other points in the lesson, the focus was on grammar, with students learning hand cues to figure out the predicate and the nominative cases in a sentence. In KIPP classrooms, whether students are learning grammar, discussing a novel, singing their math facts, or chanting state capitals, the pace is fast and full of engaging instruction and learning.
KIPP does not track students; everyone takes the accelerated high school preparatory curriculum. The extra hours devoted to instruction and academic learning make it possible for all students to handle more rigorous academics. However, when students are new to KIPP, there is often a steep learning curve as they fill in the gaps and holes in their knowledge.
Continuous Learning
KIPP's first priority in maintaining its demanding program has been to recruit and train outstanding teachers committed to raising achievement for underserved kids. Most KIPP teachers are young and all work long hours. "We hire stallions," says Principal Witney, "give them the race track, and let them run."
Teachers from different grade levels are grouped in teams of four by department. As a team they videotape each other conducting lessons, give feedback, and help to develop a plan of action after viewing the videotape. This is a powerful learning tool for teachers to develop their teaching. Once a month, students have a half-day schedule and teachers convene for a staff meeting and curriculum development. Learning inquiry groups are another form of professional development at KIPP, one that is new enough to be considered a work in progress. Extra support is available to beginning teachers. The school's lead mentor teacher observes new teachers two to three times each week, writes comments, meets with them during their prep periods to provide feedback, and helps with curriculum and lesson planning.
Student learning is assessed in multiple ways, including weekly progress reports to parents, six-week report cards, student writing portfolios, unit tests, projects, and standardized tests. KIPP also considers other measures as valuable indicators of student progress towards achieving their mission, such as number of books read, attendance, and high school and college placement.
Parents and Partners
Parent involvement starts from the first orientation presentations. Entering students, their parents, and their teachers all sign the KIPP Commitment to Excellence Form, their agreement emphasizing a culture of shared expectations. These include making a commitment to the extended school hours, Saturday school and summer school, the school dress code and conduct code, and homework. If parents need help managing their commitments, staff are ready to help. One mother whose son consistently skipped his homework explained to the principal that she could not control the boy's TV viewing. "Would it help for you to bring in the TV?" Witney offered. "And she nearly fell out of the chair. It's sitting here on my floor until her son earns it back."
|"We focus on the pieces students are missing and work to catch them up and prepare them for college."
Parents are involved at KIPP in a myriad of ways: chaperoning end-of-the-year school trips such as visits to boarding schools and high schools across the country, supervising Saturday school, coaching sports, working in the office, serving on the board of directors, supporting students to focus on getting their work done, and providing transportation after school. One parent works in the office and helps other parents to communicate with teachers and administrators in Spanish. Parents serve food in the cafeteria, supervise Wall Street after school, and run fundraisers for the school. Bus transportation is provided to and from school, but parents often pick students up from the extended-day homework center and activities. Surveys find that parents are enthusiastic about the KIPP program and confident that it is making a difference for their children.
Governance and Accountability
KIPP, Inc., holds the charter for KIPP Academy Houston as well as for three other schools in Texas. The 19-member board of directors of KIPP, Inc., oversees the principals of each Texas campus and makes sure each campus adheres to the charter goals and Texas Education Code guidelines. The board also supports each campus for additional fundraising and marketing and holds each principal accountable for his or her school's academic and fiscal performance. Board members include CEOs, accountants, lawyers, educators, a doctor, community volunteers, and one parent.
KIPP Academy Houston operates on an annual budget of about $3 million. The school typically raises about $500,000 a year beyond the $7,400 per pupil provided by state and federal funding. Principal Witney points out that this is about $2,200 per pupil less than in the Houston district. "Even with our fundraising," he says, "we're streamlined. We don't waste money on administrative people. We have to pay for facilities, we have a program for alumni, we pay for out-of-state field trips. And the Saturday school teacher and I pick up the trash."
|Everyone in the school is expected to live by its credo: "There are no shortcuts."
KIPP Academy Houston measures its success with a 99 percent attendance rate, a waiting list larger than its total enrollment, outstanding standardized test scores, and eighth-grade students who have accepted $13.5 million in high school scholarships over the past five years. KIPP Academy Houston has been recognized as a Texas Exemplary School every year since 1996, and, in 2003, was recognized as a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Forbes, and other media have lauded KIPP's remarkable results, and KIPP is widely considered one of the most promising initiatives in public education today. With the backing of the Pisces Foundation, the KIPP national office trains future school leaders to create KIPP schools across the country.
KIPP Academy Houston will soon embark on a $15 million capital campaign for facilities and an endowment to expand their program so that a child can enter in preschool and continue through high school.


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The New 2018 Jeep Renegade in Monroe, NC puts a spin on the iconic Jeep brand styling you are used to, styled for urban adventure, but ready to boldly go exploring new trails. The interior features smart technology and innovative materials, while the exterior features a stiff body structure, a Trail Rated® badge, and an integrated KONI frequency selective damping front and rear strut system. The 2018 Renegade at Capital CDJR of Indian Trail allows you to experience life the way it was meant to be, amplifying the adventure in your life.
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Below is a website where you can watch every episode of South Park episode for free including last weeks episode: "Canada on Strike".
This political, social, pop culture, Peabody awarding winning satirical cartoon continues to get better and better. This last episode is probably one of the funniest I've seen (the week before left me in tears I was laughing so hard), and this season is one of the sharpest (last season was pretty amazing as well). Unlike Family Guy, which is quickly running out of gas, and The Simpson's, which has lost the genius while remaining funny enough, I see no end to Trey Parker and Matt Stone's brilliance.


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Tuna, the hound so homely he's irresistible, peeks out from beneath his blanket, baring his row of buck teeth in a slapstick smile for the camera.
Courtney Dasher of Los Angeles rescued the Chihuahua-dachshund mix with the bug eyes, big nose and infamous overbite in 2010. Four years later, the dog — dubbed a "Chiweenie" in hashtags — has 837,138 followers as of Tuesday night, when he ranked as the most popular dog on Instagram.
Pet owners are unleashing their pooches on the photo-sharing service, setting up accounts to show Manny the French bulldog sporting spectacles or Tuna poking his schnoz out of a suitcase.
Funny pet photos continue to be a trend on social media. They get plenty of play on Facebook and Twitter, including "muttbombs," a twist on the human-powered photobomb where people Photoshop dogs into snapshots of themselves or celebrities.
Muttbombs and animal Instagram accounts are so popular shelters and others use them to promote adoptions or rescue campaigns. These famous four-legged stars also have been featured in shelter public-service announcements and swarmed by fans in public.
That's because animal lovers eat up shots of dogs doing the darndest things, giving Manny and Tuna insta-fame on Instagram.
Dasher, who says Tuna resembles Mr. Burns from "The Simpsons," started @tunameltsmyheart in 2011.
"You would never hear me call Tuna ugly," Instagram spokeswoman Liz Shepherd said. "He has unconventional beauty. Some people say Tuna is the best part of their day."
"Handsome" is the word Dasher uses. "He's so unique, and I love that and everything about him," she said.
For Manny, the dog once rejected by a breeder is now the world's most followed French bulldog on Instagram, with 502,594 people subscribing to @manny_the_frenchie as of Tuesday night. Amber Chavez of Chicago says her dog looks like a cross between a bunny and a pig, and he is the fourth most-followed canine on the social network.
"He was like a first-born child — we couldn't stop photographing him," said Chavez, who set up the account with a friend in 2012. "We wanted to share pictures with family and friends and saw other animals had their own Instagram pages, so we created his very own."
Manny's owners are among the many who use their dog's account to aid animal charities.
Loni Edwards of New York City follows Manny, who, among other poses, has been positioned like he's sipping a soda and dressed to resemble hip-hop artist Pharrell. She said silly or cute doggie antics put her in a good mood. And there's plenty of that from Manny, who spins on his back legs to a rap song in one short Instagram video.
"I have a thing for Frenchies," Edwards said, explaining why she got her dog, Chloe, who has a showplace of her own, @chloe_theminifrenchie.
Chavez and Dasher say motivation for their posts comes both from their dogs and the fans.
"Every time we turn around, he's doing something cute or funny," Chavez said. Plus, Manny "gets excited when he sees a hoodie or outfit coming his way."
For Dasher, it's the relationship she has had with Tuna's admirers over the years that keeps her going. "Tuna is bringing joy to a global audience, and I enjoy being a catalyst to change someone's day," she said.


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As its name so plainly suggests, a herringbone pattern mimics the bones of a fish such as, well, a herring. We're not so sure that a fish skeleton was our inspiration here, so much as a parqueted French oak floor or an English tweed suit, but whatever herringbone makes you think of, it is undoubtedly a beautiful stitch!
This Mini Herringbone Scarf in Understory is based on a version we made years ago that we called the Men's Mini Herringbone Scarf. What were we thinking? A scarf is a scarf is a scarf is a scarf, and this scarf certainly suits everyone.
A little bit bigger than our original version, this one also gets a yarn update. We knit it up in our unspeakably soft Understory, a baby alpaca, baby yak and silk blend, here in the rich and juicy color Ripe Plum. It also has new selvage stitches, as well as an accompanying all-new Mini Herringbone video tutorial that shows you how it's done!
Seeing how the herringbone pattern take shape, unfold, and blossom is a great knitting thrill. It's a super interesting stitch that is rather easy to learn and fun to knit forever. It's a bit like the Mini Herringbone Scarf itself: a classic that will never, ever go out of style.
This project designed for Purl Soho by Laura Ferguson.
- 3 skeins of Purl Soho's Understory, 50% baby alpaca, 25% baby yak, and 25% silk. We used the color Ripe Plum.
- US 10 straight or circular needles
28 stitches and 20 rows = 4 inches in stitch pattern
Finished Dimensions: 8 inches wide x 68 inches long
Slip all slip stitches purlwise.
You can work this stitch pattern over any odd number greater than 5.
For some extra help figuring out how to work this stitch, check out our video tutorial right here…
Cast on 57 stitches.
Row 1 (wrong side): K1, p1, *p2tog and leave stitches on needle, purl the first stitch again and drop both stitches together from left-hand needle, repeat from * to last stitch, k1.
Row 2 (right side): K2, * slip 1 with yarn in back, k1, then with left-hand needle raise up the slipped stitch as if to bind off but before dropping off right-hand needle, knit it and then drop from needle, repeat from * to last stitch, k1.
Repeat Rows 1 and 2 until piece measures 68 inches from the cast-on row, ending with a wrong-side row.
Bind Off Row (right side): K2, bind the first stitch off by pulling it up and over the second stitch, *k2tog, bind off one, repeat from * to last stitch, k1, bind one off, cut tail and pull through remaining stitch.
Weave in the ends and block as desired.