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Silk Heart Health Soy Milk Giveaway!
Vegans and lactose intolerant peeps have been enjoying soy milk for many decades. Why is soy milk the bomb? It's überly delicious, it's not loaded with hormones, fat or cholesterol and it's way healthier for you in general. By drinking soy milk instead of cow's milk (which is intended for fattening up baby cows) you decrease your chances of getting heart disease, cancer and osteoporosis. Also, it'll help you keep that lean, sexy figure of yours.
One of my favorite soy milk companies is Silk. They are wind powered, they use non-GMO soybeans, their soy milk contains complete proteins and you can get it plain, vanilla or chocolate flavored. Silk's new Heart Health Soy Milk combines the heart-health benefits of soy protein and plant sterols which have both been proven to reduce the risk of cholesterol and heart disease… and it's super yummy! I personally love using vanilla Silk Heart Health on my breakfast cereal!
I'm going to be giving away 4 half gallons of Heart Health Soymilk to one of my lucky readers. All you have to do is leave a comment. Feel free to tell me how much you like soy milk or which flavor is your favorite (but your comment doesn't have to be be soy milk related at all). A winner will be announced Oct. 21. Good luck!
If you're new to soy milk, keep in mind you can use it any way you'd normally use "traditional" milk (i.e. in cereal, baked goods, milkshakes, straight out of the carton, etc.)
You can even use soy milk in facials! Yup! I had to tie vegan beauty in here somehow. 😉 I came up with my own beauty recipe.
Blend up 1/3 cup of oats (which are exfoliating and moisturizing) in a food processor, add one teaspoon of raw agave nectar (which is bacteria inhibiting) and add enough (~ a couple teaspoons) soy milk until it gets the consistency of a paste. Make it as thick or as watery as you like. Apply it on your face and leave it on for about 5-10 minutes and then rinse it off. Voilá! You just saved yourself a ton of money with a homemade facial.
After you're done with your facial, try making this smoothie. I borrowed the recipe from Silk's website:
Raspberry Mint Chocolate Silk Smoothie
- 2 cups Raspberries, frozen
- 2 cups Silk Original
- 2 Tablespoons Almonds
- 4 Tablespoons Maple syrup
- 2 Tablespoons Chocolate chips
Blend all ingredients in a food processor and serve. Garnish with 4 mint leaves. (serves 4)
For more info: Silk Heart Health Soy Milk
Coupon for 55 cents off any Silk Soy Milk Half Gallon
*UPDATE* Winner of the Silk Heart Health Giveaway is Aleta! Congrats!
Winner was chosen using random.org
About Sunny (Sunny's Profile)Longtime vegan, hardcore compassionate beauty junkie, serious cake aficionado, and lover of all things floofy and sparkly! If there's something in particular you'd like me to review, drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Google +.
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my sister has lactose intolerance and she can't stand drinking too much milk;:;
i also have lactose intolerance that is why i always avoid dairy products.`:~
Haven't tried it yet. Would love the chance!
I'm a vegan, and I never liked cow milk, so hurray for when I discovered soy milk!!
Sunbun Delicious! Hook me up!
i love vanilla and my daughter does too!! crossing fingers!!
I love new smoothie recipes.
I usually use water or almond milk in my smoothies
as am not a soy person.
To Your Health!
James Reno
sweeeet = )
Silk is excellent – best soy milk on the market and widely available.
Gotta go with Silk Lite. Never lets me down.
Growing up severely lactose intolerant, I never really enjoyed things like cereal or a glass of milk with a cookie. I always felt like I was missing out. But with soy milk, I get to enjoy all those things for the first time in my life. From what I remember of milk, soy milk tastes pretty much the same and even better for me 'cause I don't get sick. I REALLY like the vanilla and chocolate. Its a sweet treat I enjoy in the afternoon!
My favorite go-to soy milk is Silk, preferably vanilla. Also love their french vanilla coffee creamer. And oh yes Silk Nog!
I'll I dink is Silk I enjoy the plain Silk in my coffee, cereal you name it. I also drink the lite chocolate silk. It's so yummy and even taste good warm. Around the holidays I look forward to eggnog and pumpkin spice Silk. It's better for you and your helping animals at the same time. Like Silk says it's Nature's Perfect Protein!!!!
i love silk. fuck the haters.
I love just soymilk- it tastes so much healthier. Once you try soymilk, why ever go back to regular milk?
Soy milk tastes AMAAZING with special K cereal.
I like the plain 'ol Original flavor for my cereal but LOVE the chocolate for protein shakes.
Sometimes, you read something that says what you want to say better than you could say it yourself. I completely concur with Avistrange's entire comment above, particularly this:
"Now let's all start thinking big picture instead of nitpicking our fellow Vegans. We should be spending our time and energy working to open meat eating people's eyes to the value of a Vegan lifestyle in ANY WAY WE CAN!"
Could not agree more!
I love soymilk!!! My favorite is the vanilla flavor, YUM!!!
Soy milk rocks.
i am sooo making that facial! thanks 😀
Silk yogurt is the best non-dairy yogurt I've tried!
I try to find Silk with added DHA, though it's not always in the supermarket.
Hm…my husband and I usually just by the Silk Light Vanilla. We use it in our coffee, in our cereal, and I ESPECIALLY use it for baking all of my super delicious treats!! I love how it tastes and I feel good drinking it and knowing that no animals were harmed in the making of the product 😉
Very Vanilla Silk! It's for kids but holy crap, it is magical! It's like a melted milkshake. You can eat it with even the healthiest hi-fiber cereal and it tastes like magic!
I love chocolate soy milk!!! yum yum yum!
very vanilla is my fave. I freeze it sometimes. Or add alcohol, like rum, Midori, and/or vodka.
chocolate silk is good with Malibu rum.
I'm looking forward to Silk nog, it tastes a lot like eggnog. i like to put rum in it.
I love the way Soy Milk taste- especially the chocolate version! Anyways, I have never been able to drink cow milk since I have the lactose intolerance thing- so for many years I just didn't drink anything. It wasn't until 2 years ago when I was in Austin, Tx that I discovered Silk Soy Milk and loved it. I like that it is healthy for you, it doesn't have all that sugar cow milk has, and you get many variaties!
I love Silk Organic Vanilla – totally addicted to it! It's great right out of the carton but what I really love to do is make a pot of strong chai tea, put it in the refrigerator so it gets really cold, then use it to make chai soy milk. I make is roughly 50/50 tea and soy milk but it's SO good.
I always been very health conscious but recently went vegetarian/bordeline vegan and love that Silk soy milk takes care of the B12, calcium, and vitamin D issues
mmmmmm soy milk!
I love all the grain milks: soy, rice, oat, almond, hemp, multi-; and I love that it's available plain or vanilla flavored…and the nog (don't get me started!) is a seasonal sensation I look forward to all year. I especailly love the vegan creamers available, including Silk's (I'm so happy that So Delicious now also has a coconut milk creamer, yum), and that they're available in plain, hazelnut and French vanilla.
I enjoy Silk milk in recipes, on cereal and all by itself, although some vegan cookies are a delightful complement, or maybe some Silk pie (vegan, of course), or perhaps a piece of vegan cake. It's great in smoothies or even in a glass with a dollop of some vegan ice cream; I enjoy drizzling it over my oatmeal, too.
Silk milk is one more reason it's so easy to be vegan!
i love soy milk! vanilla flavor yum!
I thought we'd hate it, but when we switched over to soymilk, we barely noticed. You'll never get me on the soy cheese bandwagon, but Silk is pretty darn good.
We drink original Plain.
I love soymilk because it's is just sweet enough to make my coffee perfect and gives me a few extra grams of protein on my all veg diet! I usually drink plain but every once in a while I spring for Chocolate or Vanilla.
Silk is by far the best soy milk I have found on the market! It's smooth, not too thick, not too watery, and the flavors are excellent! I usually purchase Chocolate, and have found Very Vanilla to be excellent on cereal. The Nog flavor available through the holidays is excellent also!
Oh, I would love to try this! I think I probably will even if I don't win. I only started drinking soy milk last year, but I'm so glad I did. My allergies aren't nearly as bad (dairy + allergies = no no) and it tastes so nummy! 😛 I've got my mom hooked too. Thanks for getting this out there!
Silk is owned by Dean Foods, the largest dairy producer in the US. With all the options we have, I think vegans can do better!
To Alex and anyone else hating on this contest here or on Twitter:
If you're planning to boycott Silk (the only non-dairy milk option in most of the U.S.), you should commit your logic to all aspects of your shopping habits:
1. No more Follow Your Heart products like Vegenaise because they serve dairy in their restaurant and sell dairy and other animal products in their market.
2. No more shopping at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's because they sell meat and other animal products.
3. No more buying clothes at ANY store that sells leather, wool, silk, etc.
4. Better drop out of any university with a medical research department because they likely take part in the cruel and unscientific practice of vivisection.
5. No more eating at Vegan friendly omni restaurants because they serve animal products.
You get the idea… If you're not planning on committing to all of these and many more lifestyle changes, please consider focusing on spreading the Vegan message to non-Vegans rather than spending time criticizing fellow Vegans for not being "Vegan enough".
Another point is the sheer reality of Capitalism and how promoting Silk is actually good for our cause of alleviating the suffering of dairy cows. I'll explain: If this contest or any other promotion increases the sales of Silk products, Dean/White Wave Foods would be foolish not to respond to the increased demand with anything but increased supply. This means as Silk sales rise, so will the marketing budgets that get spent to promote "Natures Perfect Protein" (their marketing tag line) on television and other mass marketing platforms. The sad reality is that most people will never respond to the ethical argument, so the more large corporate dollars that are spent telling the masses that soy is healthier than dairy, the better!
Now let's all start thinking big picture instead of nitpicking our fellow Vegans. We should be spending our time and energy working to open meat eating people's eyes to the value of a Vegan lifestyle in ANY WAY WE CAN!
I agree, Sunny. Silk is the best. I usually get Vanilla. I'm going to make a Raspberry Mint Chocolate Silk Smoothie, and then rub it on my face to see what happens. 🙂
I love Silk Vanilla for a sweet after dinner treat, or just to go with some cereal in the morning. ABSOLUTE HEAVEN. And I didn't know they were powered by wind! How cool!
Ooo… soymilk! I love soymilk! It doesn't make my tummy upset, tastes awesome, and for some reason choco soymilk tastes 80 times better than real choco milk!
My husband and I recent switched to being vegetarian and we're trying to get away from most animal products. I'm hoping to get him to like this stuff so we can use it more often in cooking!
You are my favorite blogger in the universe! I'm actually going to try that facial… and I'm a dude!
I luv SILK chocolate milk minis! They're a great snack! =)
The recipe you posted looks so tasty, thanks! I'll spread the word on this giveaway.
My favorite is Vanilla soymilk, for sure! It's amazing with cereal.
Yeah! Soy!
Unflavored for me! Or at least, the unsweetened kind. I get enough sugar elsewhere. =)
My favorite is also Silk Nog. I never even liked regular egg nog, but their version is so yummy!
ME ME ME MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! i like chocolate!
Love Silk Soy Milk! It's a staple in our house, kids love chocolate, DH and I love vanilla flavor!
I love using soymilk in making creamy pasta sauce.
Ok, so who else is stoked for soy nog with nutmeg?! Because I am.
I love Soy Milk. My favorite is the holiday Silk Nog. It is best with some Jameson Whiskey (which is also vegan). Thanks for the rockin' giveaway.
I absoultely love drinking chocolate soy milk, but lately I have been using plain soymilk to make a lot of breakfast foods like pancakes and waffles.
I'm in! I am a sucker for the Silk Soy Nog. Mmmmm
My fave: Silk Vanilla Light.
Chocolate soy milk sounds soooooooooo yummy!
I really love soy milk. I've been drinking Silk Soy Milk since before I was even a vegan! I've replaced all my recipes that call for milk with soy milk. I also just love to drink it by itself. In my eyes, soy milk tastes better, and is healthier for you than an animal's milk.


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The 3rd Multilingual content special interest group meetup is around AEM multilingual DAM. About half of the community implemented AEM DAM. But DAM is a popular topic in that people are already asking about best practices around organizing, localizing and searching global assets. So this SIG is gearing towards addressing the need for those who want to know why DAM is needed and how other people are using it, as well as for those who implemented DAM but not sure if the way they use it is the best way. It also turned out to be very useful for our technology partners who are looking for customer use cases to develop DAM connectors. AEM customers from Intel, Xlinx, SAP, SuccessFactors, Sas Institute, Paypal attended, along with partners from Cloudwords, TDC, ClayTablet, etc.
The meeting started with an overview of AEM DAM given by Sr product marketing manager Elliot Sedegah. It was a very informative and interactive session with lots of demos. He demoed some of the AEM5.6.1 and 6.0 features such as collaboration workflow between creative professionals and marketing manager collaborating on asset revision, upload, etc. He also showed the new Scene7 DAM integration feature on dynamic text rendering on an image. Very cool stuff. Nick from Adobe.com later showed a POC on asset localization using this feature OOTB. Elliot also showed Asset Share which is kind of like a portal for asset search and download. This segways into a topic that many SIG attendees are interested in – what's the best practice of organizing DAM assets. Many of them use folders. Elliot mentioned both using folders and using metadata. The advantage of using metadata is that it is part of the asset regardless of where it is. It's also great for search. Most of these demos are on the touch-optimized UI, which is very cool looking.
Then Web Marketing Sr. Manager Gary Gamitian from SuccessFactors presented their DAM use case on SuccessFactors.com. They launched CQ5.5 last December and so far has several language/locale sites. Gary showed us their Resource Center site. It uses both tagging and metadata driven search for their digital assets. They have very strict rules on metadata reinforcement. One thing he mentioned what would be a useful feature is the language copy functionality for DAM assets. That would automate target asset population.
The afternoon session is around asset localization. Sr. Web Production Manager Nick presented how Adobe.com will leverage the new Scene7 feature for asset localization. Basically the integration allows one to select an asset directly from the Scene7 repository through AEM. The text layer on the image is parameterized so you can change the text directly on the website component on the fly, or package it up as translatable content to send to a Translation management system. Sara Lockhart-Sirman, Web Operations Manager at Intel also show cased how they are using the AEM customized component to localize text on an image on CQ 5.4.
Finally, Sr. Product manager Cedric Huesler and Sr. Translation Technology Group Manager Chris Duran gave an update on the MSM issues this community reported. I saw some happy faces in the room on this one.
Great sessions overall, and the refreshment is awesome too!
Mengmeng Niu
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Welcome from the Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research Welcome from the Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research
At UEA we have a tradition of producing creative and innovative research both within and across disciplines that reaches out into the world at large. Ensuring that work in the humanities is original, relevant and dynamic depends on you – the new generation of scholars and thinkers. This is why I am particularly pleased to welcome you to the Graduate School in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities not only as students, but also as research colleagues.
The Graduate School was founded in 2010, and benefits from the energy of its founding students. We are host to a wealth of student-led seminars, reading groups, symposia and conferences, as well as our Interdisciplinary Seminar. I look forward to meeting you at some of these events, and in the meantime warmly wish you well with your research.
I hope that you enjoy your time as a member of the Graduate School.
Dr John Turnpenny, Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research
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So crucify the ego before it's far too late
To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
Just let the light touch you and let the words spill through
Just let them pass right through, bringing out our hope and reason.
Before we pine away.
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So crucify the ego before it's far too late
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When Bret Lang (of Internet development fame) first explained the concept of blogs to Ol' Myrt, I was intrigued. The Internet was just beginning to earn it's place as a tool for genealogists. Back in the 1990s "genealogy" had a few websites of note that contained mostly message boards and transcribed indexes of original records.
Bret was producing DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour in it's original carnation, through live Internet radio streaming. After Hurricane Charlie devastated our offices in Port Charlotte, Florida, things changed radically. I tried valiantly for about 12 months to produce podcasts on my own, and truly learned how much work Bret did on the technical side of the production.
But thanks to Bret's suggestion, blogging seemed the way to go to produce rich, fully searchable "how-to" content and get the word out beyond my usual set of DearREADERS who were primarily from within the AOL environment. (Gosh, that was eons ago, wasn't it?) I had the DearMYRTLE.com domain, but blogging is a lot easier than creating a web page for each post.
Blogging has become my life, through thick and thin. During hospice caregiving and personal health issues, my posts were less frequent, but the medium was still blogging. Turning on "comments" in a moderated format, brought a new dimension to my posts as reader feedback moved from my in-box to the blog post in question.
Inviting conversation about a genealogy topic means people may actually use the tool, research method or record group being discussed.
I got into Second Life just to keep in touch with how other family historians do their work, and thinking that I'd find a younger crowd. As it is, genealogists are amazingly adaptable to technology and we now have an official Second Life Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists.
On reflection, for several years even before RootsRech 2011's live video streaming, I'd been moving my efforts into demonstrating via the Internet rather than talking about how to do something. It's a natural extension of speaking with interactive PowerPoint screens. Webinar technology has enabled this to extend on a broad basis. I like to see demonstrations of a process rather than read a long blog post with screen shots. I realize reflects my personal preference for audio and visual demonstrations. It's how my brain works.
During a webinar, the interaction with attendees is invigorating, especially when they report back to the group that they just tried what we were talking about and it works! That's real-time learning.
Blogs and webinars each have their place. For instance, a process described in a blog might then lead to a webinar on the same topic. Also, it's probably easier for someone to scan a blog post for interesting content than to listen to a 60 or 90 minute webinar where only 15 minutes might prove useful. For folks like my friend Elsie, having a print-out to follow when learning a new process is the way her brain assimilates information.
Lately, I've been thinking about using Twitter and Facebook on a dedicated basis. Why? To once again, get the word out beyond my usual set of DearREADERS. Just as there are probably thousands of my DearREADERS who don't use Twitter or Facebook, there are probably thousands of Twitter and Facebook users who don't know about DearMYRTLE. Reaching more people fosters conversations among groups with diverse interests. I didn't realize how differently researchers "think" in other countries until my work with the BetterGEDCOM group.
It didn't dawn on me until a week ago to use the #DearMYRTLE to field questions during a webinar, since the Twitter feed can outlive the limits of a 90 minute webinar. That Twitter feed can also invite participation among those who didn't attend the webinar.
Getting people talking is Ol' Myrt's #1 goal. Brainstorming new ways of research, and embracing technology are subsets.
Content development is Ol' Myrt's #2 goal, but thankfully, I don't have to do it all myself. There is much worthwhile content being created every day by others. Ol' Myrt here cross-posts many press releases from the big players in the industry, either on DearMYRTLE or GeneaPress. But it is just plain quicker to send my followers a link via FB or Twitter posts, so they can read posts I consider worthy of their attention. FBing and tweeting are a lot quicker than composing a blog with an enticing quote about that person's post, inserting a link for further reading
Whatever the author wants it to be. It can be public or private. It can be formal, complete with footnotes. Or informal, though always giving credit where credit is due.
Ol' Myrt shall continue to blog, but note that you may also follow me on Facebook and Twitter for content that doesn't make it to my blog, but is no less noteworthy.
My cell phone number, however, remains private so my grandchildren can have immediate access.
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
Your friend in genealogy.
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Twitter: @DearMYRTLE
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The good ship Lollapalooza sailed Saturday night with 135 singers and 47 orchestral musicians on board. By numbers alone, singers could have swamped the San Juan Symphony, but they didnt. So well prepared by their various directors and so confidently conducted by Arthur Post, Mozarts Requiem closed the concert in crystalline splendor.
Composed as a Latin Mass for the Dead, the massive, 55-minute work concluded a stirring concert of unlikely cabinmates J. S. Bach, Canadian Tim Brady and his tribute to Rocker Kurt Cobain, and Mozart himself.
Subtitled Dread, Redemption, Nirvana, the concert delivered on its promise to tie-in familiar classics with popular music. In this case, the Brady work didnt bring rock n roll into the Fort Lewis College Community Concert Hall, but it offered a disturbing meditation on unexpected, youthful death. Three or Four Days After the Death of Kurt Cobain became the intense inner core of a deeply gratifying concert.
Post opened the evening with a reduced version of Bachs Orchestral Suite No.3, performing the first, second and fifth movements.
A hesitant start quickly shifted into a confident morning fanfare, the brightly written Overture. Marc Reeds trumpet and Jonathan Lattas timpani punched energy into the opening section, and Post didnt hurry the fugue that followed.
The familiar Air for G-string gave the violins an opportunity to sing. The audience seemed to take a deep breath and relax. Leaving the Gavotte and Bourée aside, Post stepped lightly into the final movement, the Gigue, and brought the work to a stately closure.
Bach requires precision, and it was a challenge to include young musicians in the scaffolding. The annual side-by-side performance welcomed fewer students than in the past. Ten student musicians joined professional colleagues for Bachs structural dynamics.
For the new-to-the-ear Brady work, Post wisely asked musicians to play excerpts. Cellist Katherine Jetter played the short, descending half-note motif, the central theme of the piece. The upper strings illustrated pulsating anxiety, and vibraphone, bells, and harp fleshed out other fragile compositional bones.
Originally written for cello and piano, Three or Four Days After the Death of Kurt Cobain has been fully orchestrated allowing the central cello motif to act as a repeated lament.
The title is worth noting as the nine-minute work is not so much a tribute or memorial, as Post suggested, but an emotional record of the composers bewilderment on learning of Cobains suicide.
The rawness of the writing, the cellos insistent sigh, the violins tense agitation, and periodic percussion riffs evoked sadness mixed with disbelief. Bradys unusual work brought something new to the audience a record of grief more than an elegy.
After intermission, Mozarts Requiem set a brilliant contrast to Bradys raw, unfocused mood. Emotion distilled through reason and high classical form, the Requiem received a clear and elegant reading by the orchestra, soloists, and chorus. Cut glass.
Composed to be performed in a church, Mozarts Latin Mass established one musical structure after another with distinct silences between. Post let the music ring then paused with a deep silence before setting forth on a new section. Within movements, Post confidently managed a multitude of tempo and dynamic changes. Cut glass.
Choral writing dominates the long work. Singers from the Durango Choral Society were joined by Farmingtons Caliente and the Telluride Choral Society for a massed choir of 135 voices. Attention to clear articulation, unified vowels, and especially dynamic nuance turned this huge group into a single entity.
The combined choruses responded to the subtlest of Posts directions, and only a few fast tempo changes took a while to focus. On the whole, this was a splendid collaboration.
Soprano Gemma Kavanagh, mezzo Gemma Coma-Alabert, tenor Brian Leatherman, and bass-baritone Peter van de Graaff ably performed, but their overall contribution remained secondary to the masses of sound and fury presented by the chorus.
Near the end, the gorgeous Lacrymosa (full of tears) soared in a lyrical way that the languid beauty of Bachs Air did in the first half.
The concert ended with an energetic rendering of Cum Sancto Spiritu (with the Holy Spirit), a bright fugue set forth by chorus and orchestra to celebrate the triumph of life and the restoration of order.
For all its darkness, this concert had its share of radiant light.
Judith Reynolds is a Durango writer, artist and critic. Reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Play of the Day: Affordable Horror Story
The Obamacare site continues to be a late-night target.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has been caught plagiarizing . It looks like all the late-night comics have taken a leaf out of Paul's book when writing their jokes.
Plus, Toronto Mayor Tom Ford admits to smoking crack while in a drunken stupor-- and his approval ratings are still higher than Obama's.
The president must be doing something wrong. Hint: it might be his lies to the American people about their ability to keep their health insurance plans under Obamacare.


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I live out in the western part of San Francisco, and some mornings we get a lot of fog. "A lot" of fog to a San Franciscan is more fog than most people would even know what to do with.
In the summer, there's often a sort of "burn-off" in the morning hours, when the sun starts frying its way through the morning fog. The results can be… eerie, to say the least.
I took this picture out my window this morning, and more than one person remarked as to how much it looks like Limbo. Believe it or not, it's a color photo. And there are kind of a lot of spiders in my apartment…
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Female Chefs on Being Females in the Biz
Last night, many New York chefs and restaurateurs with double-X chromosomes were honored for their work at the annual At the Table event, sponsored by the Women Chefs & Restaurateurs organization. We went around and asked them about girl power in the kitchen. Strangely, some of the recognizable New York divas (Donatella Arpaia, Anne Burrell) were no-shows.
Alex Guarnaschelli
"There is a foundation for young females today that wasn't around when I started in the 1990s. We still have a long way to go. We went from Mad Max to a low-budget Disney film, and maybe in ten years, we'll be at the level of a Coen brothers film. "
Jamie Leeds
Hank's Oyster Bar (Washington, D.C.) and former sous chef at Union Square Café
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"Compared to New York, it was easier for me to advance my career in restaurant-owning in D.C., where there's more of a need for neighborhood restaurants. There's also more independent landlords willing to make deals. Of course I love New York, but I am really happy in D.C."
Amy Scherber
"I think New York is finally getting recognized, but we're still behind cities like San Francisco, Boston, and Seattle. There's plenty of women chefs still in baking and pastry roles, but today you're seeing more and more cooks.
Nikki Cascone
"My restaurant is three-years old and pretty small, but I have four females working in the kitchen, and there's only eight on staff. I am proud to employ so many women, especially when the number of women enrolling in culinary schools right now is down. Women naturally make great chefs—it's our nurturing intuitiveness."
Anita Lo
"We're definitely not there yet. We've got a long way to go, but we're making progress. I started in 1988 and worked in French kitchens, where it was all male except the pastry chef."
Ivy Stark
"You really couldn't host an event like this ten years ago. It's a lot easier to be a woman now, than when I started."
Barbara Sibley and Margaritte Malfy
La Palapa and La Palapa Rockola
"We own two restaurants and both have kids. The kids have to come first, though. Even if you feel guilt-tripped to be at the restaurant, the kids come first. It's interesting because all the huge fancy chains (like BLT Steak and the Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurants) have men running the show, and I don't know if that will change. It's just different. When women have kids, they don't necessarily want the phone ringing at 3AM." (-Margaritte Malfy)
Vera Tong
"You have to carry out the same role as the next guy in this business. Everyone's getting paid the same. This isn't a princess role."


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The ICT Essentials Suite encompasses a field of 10 technology areas spanning the three domains of information, communications, and media technologies. ICT Programming and Logic Essentials exam objectives cover demonstrating fundamental knowledge of programming languages and how they are used to communicate with computers, demonstrating the use of logic and problem-solving, and relate these concepts to computer programming, demonstrating the knowledge of fundamental structured programming concepts, demonstrating proficiency in basic programming and working with data.
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Earlier this week, when discussing the Lancia Flaminia based Loewy Loraymo, it was inevitable that we mention the custom BMW 507 that preceded it in Loewy's European trip. The stock 507, however, was the product of a design by Goertz, who also provided BMW with the design for this 1957 BMW 503 that we see for sale on Hemmings.com needing a little bit of TLC. From the seller's description:
BMW ads referred to the 503 as " an elegant luxury travel sports car from the stable of the large BMW eight-cylinder cars." The 'large eight-cylinder cars' was a reference to the Baroque Angels, BMW's mainstay at the time.
BMW introduced the 503 at the Geneva Auto Show in 1955. Like the 502 which preceded it, the 503 featured a OHV 3.2 litre V-8, 2×2 barrel carb setup the most modern engine of its day and Germany's first eight since the war. The engine produced 140 bhp @ 4500 rpm, 4 speed manual transmission and it powered the 503 to a top speed of 118 mph. Accompanied by an elegant all Aluminum Convertible body.
This car has been originally sold in France the 5th of January 1957.
The Serial Number is #69025 ( one of the 129 ever built )
The owner was the founder of a well knows 4 stars Hotel in the South West of France.
The car has been sold by the family when the owner passed away in 1975.
Since 1975 the car is owned by the same owner.
The vehicle has been stored with some restoration project started but never finished.
Now, the car is enough complete to give her a "Second Life", as the vast majority of the parts are there.
Specs were :
• Black Exterior with Red Leather Interior
• Pressured air opening roof system
• Power Steering
• 4 Speeds Manual Gear Box
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