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David Freese trade: Cardinals add to young talent in Angels deal
David Freese is 30, and that's just too old to be part of the St. Louis Cardinals' infield these days.
Freese, the third baseman who was the MVP of the 2011 NLCS and World Series, was traded to the Los Angeles Angels on Friday along with right-handed pitcher Fernando Salas. The Cardinals acquired center fielder Peter Bourjos and outfield prospect Randal Grichuk.
The move means that the Cardinals' oldest current starting infielder is 29-year-old first baseman Allen Craig, and maybe he has to watch out because slugging Matt Adams is 23. Matt Carpenter, who played second base this season and celebrates his 28th birthday next week, can now go back to his natural position of third base, while 23-year-old Kolten Wong slots in at second base. Though likely to be replaced this winter, incumbent shortstop Pete Kozma is 25.
The Cardinals' youth is only augmented by the addition of the 26-year-old Bourjos, and it is a sobering thought to the rest of the National League that the team's oldest regulars are catcher Yadier Molina, who is 31, and the relatively ancient 33-year-old Matt Holliday. Meanwhile, 21-year-old top outfield prospect Oscar Taveras was added to the 40-man roster this week and might be ready to play in the majors.
If that's not enough fun for everyone, the Cardinals also now have the 22-year-old Grichuk as part of their prospect stable, and all he did this season was hit 22 home runs in Double-A. The Angels drafted Grichuk one spot ahead of Mike Trout in 2009, and the Cardinals' own first-round pick from that draft, right-hander Shelby Miller, just finished third in the National League Rookie of the Year balloting.
So, the Cardinals have been good, are good, and will remain good, with no end in sight to the pattern because they continue to be so effective not only at developing their own players, but at making trades that fit in with their general philosophy.
The Angels, meanwhile, are coming off their worst season since 2003 and have not been to the playoffs since 2009. They used Alberto Callaspo, Luis Jimenez, Chris Nelson, Andrew Romine, Brendan Harris, Thomas Field and Mark Trumbo at third base, and combined to get a .263/.293/.376 line out of the hot corner, with nine homers and 61 RBI.
Freese hit nine homers with 60 RBI for the Cardinals, but with a .262/.340/.381 line, and it was very much a down year for him — he hit 30 homers over the previous two seasons, with a combined .295/.363/.457 line. That is the kind of production that the Angels are counting on.
MORE: St. Louis views Freese deal | Angels hope trade is a good start
Giving up Bourjos clears up something of an outfield logjam for the Angels, with Trout, Josh Hamilton, Kole Calhoun and J.B. Shuck all there, not to mention Trumbo, who likely goes to first base or DH on a full-time basis, depending what Albert Pujols is doing on any given day.
Bourjos' speed is what makes him special as an outfielder, but with their roster set up the way it is, the Angels could afford to part with him in order to buy low on Freese.
At least, the Angels have to hope they are buying low on Freese, and that major league pitchers have not simply figured him out. As impressive as Freese's stats were in 2011 and 2012, those were his first two years playing more than half the games in a major league season.
One other question mark for the Angels is whether this was a trade that had to be made now. With the evolution of their infield, there was at least a chance the Cardinals would have non-tendered Freese rather than go to arbitration with him. In that case, the Angels could have gotten their man as a free agent — although other teams surely would have been interested, and the Angels would not have gotten Salas, a 28-year-old reliever who has 186 strikeouts in 192 1/3 career innings.

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NZ MP apologises for anti-Muslim slur
By New Zealand correspondent Dominique Schwartz, wires
A New Zealand MP has apologised for anti-Muslim comments which sparked condemnation across the political spectrum.
In a magazine column, Richard Prosser said that young men who were Muslim, looked like Muslims, or came from Muslim countries, should be banned from flying on Western airlines because they posed a terrorist threat.
Today Mr Prosser said he had gone too far, and that the vast majority of Muslims were peaceful and law-abiding.
"I realise that's caused offence to those people unjustifiably and unnecessarily and I'm apologising to them unreservedly," he said.
But the New Zealand First MP says there needs to be a debate about the merits of targeted profiling of air passengers.
"I shouldn't have called for a blanket ban, I should have called for an investigation into the merits of targeted profiling," he told Radio New Zealand, without elaborating.
"That was something I shouldn't have done and I'm apologising for that."
However, he said he had no regrets about calling Islam a "stone-age religion" in a column published in the conservative current affairs magazine Investigate.
"I was talking about Islam and I make no apology for the fact that I don't have any time for people who denigrate women, and I don't have any time for institutions, whatever they might be, that suppress people's human rights," he said.
Mr Prosser also denied that a reference to people's rights being "denigrated by a sorry pack of misogynist troglodytes from Wogistan" was racist, saying "there are probably some people who get upset too easily".


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Kenneth Gale Miller
Kenneth Gale Miller passed away peacefully on February 9, 2018 at the age of 90. He lived a rich, full, globe-spanning life, and his generous and witty spirit will forever be treasured by his family and all those fortunate to have known him.
Ken was born in Flint, MI to Clarence and Ida Mae Miller, and grew up alongside nearby Lake Fenton. He graduated in 1945 from Fenton High School and, after serving in the Army Air Corps, earned a degree in engineering in 1951 from Michigan State University, where he was a member of the Tau Beta Pi honor society.
In 1953, while working as a chemical engineer in New York City for the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco), he married Marguerite ("Marge") Gloria Bell. Shortly thereafter, they moved to Holland and, eight years later, moved to Saudi Arabia. In 1966, when Ken decided to retire from Aramco and return back to the USA, he moved his family to Walnut Creek, CA and began working for Bechtel in San Francisco. He continued to enjoy traveling and, in his spare time, mentored young non-English-speaking students and drove the Walnut Creek Senior Citizens bus. He also founded the Walnut Creek Seniors bicycling club, "Folks on Spokes", was a member of SIRS and Rotary, and was very active with his church, St. John Vianney.
Ken will be lovingly remembered by his daughter, Patricia and son-in-law, Robert Berthold; his son, Michael; his son, Robert and daughter-in-law, Mariko; his son, James and daughter-in-law, Suzanne; his grandchildren, Kristopher, Ryan, Scott, Daniel and Benjamin, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his beloved wife, Marge, who passed away in 2003; his sisters, Elaine and Janet; and his brothers, Claremont and Jack.
Ken will also be greatly missed by his very dear friend, Katie Seitz—they were constant companions over the past 14 years, traveling the world and sharing many happy times together.
We would like to thank the doctors and family members who have been so supportive of Ken over the past year, as well as the wonderful people at Guided HealthCare, Hillendale Home Care, Hospice East Bay and the Bruns House. Contributions in memory of Ken may be made to Hospice East Bay.
A memorial Mass will be held at 10:30 AM, Tuesday, Feb. 27, at St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Walnut Creek, followed by a burial at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Lafayette, CA.


text: Ayatollah Seyyed Mohsen Kharrazi was born on 1937 (1316) in Tehran to a religious family which was the favorite of religious people and great scholars of Tehran. His father was Seyyed Mahdi Kharrazi and they are from Isfahan originally which immigrated to Tehran and they are the honorable Sa'adat of Isfahan and Tehran and their parentage is from Imam Sajjad (AS) and Imam Hassan (AS).He passed primary school in Borhan Cultural Center in Tehran, and then trained by Agha Sheikh Mohammad Hussein Zahed the Imam of Amin Al-Doleh Mosque and General Mosque of Tehran, he trained adolescents and he influenced deeply on their hearts. When he died Master Kharrazi started business in Bazaar of Tehran for a while, but he left Bazaar soon and attended the Ayatollah Mojtahedi's lesson and became his favorite student.After learning primary lessons he decided to go to Qom Seminary to complete his education under distinguished masters of that seminary and of course Ayatollah Rafi'e advised him to make that decision too. So he alongside Ayatollah Ostadi went to Qom in 1957 (1336), lived in the same place with him and began his education.He completed the rest of Literature Lessons in Qom then learned Lessons of Level Period in Jurisprudence, Principles, Philosophy, and Kalam (Language), and he attended the Extra Lesson of Masters and Scholars since 1962 (1341). He was benefited by Ethic Lessons of cultured and virtuous masters of seminary.Ayatollah Kharrazi studied under many masters and scholars, in Tehran he was the favorite student of Agha Sheikh Mohammad Hussein Zahed, and after his death went to Ayatollah Mojtahedi and got his love.He was learned the rest of primary lessons by Ayatollah Fesharaki, and attended Sharh-e Lam'e of Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Taghi Sotudeh. He studied Rasael under Ayatollah Sheikh Mustafa Etemadi , and Ayatollah Hajj Sheikh Mohammad Shah Abadi, and Makaseb under Ayatollah Mirza Ali Meshkini, Kyfaiat Al-Osul under Ayatollah Hajj Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Soltani and Hajj Sheikh Mohammad Shah Abadi, and Hajj Sheikh Ali Tonkaboni Falsafi. Also he was learned Philosophy, Language and Believes by Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Shah Abadi.He attended the Extra Lesson of Ayatollah Golpaiegani, Ayatollah Mohaghegh Damad, AyatollahSeyyed Hassan Farid Araki since 1962 (1341), and the Extra Lesson of Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammad Ali Araki till the last days of this Master's life.During the years of learning the levels he discussed and kept companionship with Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Mamduhi, Gholam Hussein Haghani, Seyyed Mojtaba Zanjaniand Seyyed Jamal Al-Din Parvar, and while he learned Extra Lessons discussed with Ayatollah Ostadi, Moslehi, and Gholam Reza Soltani, and was the friend of Ayatollah Mazaheri, Mesbah, and Seyyed Mohammad Khamenei, but Ayatollah Reza Ostadi is his friend from the first day till now.Compilations:1. Ehia Al-Amvat2. Al-Amr Be Maruf va Al-Nahi Az Monkar3. Bedaiat Al-Ma'aref Elahiat4. Omdat Al-Osul5. Ghiamat (Resurrection)6. Kalemat Hol Hadis Saghalain7. Fi Rehab Al- Taghva8. Kalemat Hol Tavasol9. Ma'alam Laylat Al-Ghadr10. Ers Al-Zojat11. Tahdi Al-Kar12. Bohuth Hamat13. Ashkal va Ana'e Defa'e Moghadas (Forms and types of Sacred Defense)14. Ta'lighat Bar Makaseb15. Rozanehaei Az Alame Gheib (Eyelets of Spiritual world)16. Ketab Al-Jahad17. Tah'arat Dar Ghoram (Clearness in Quran)18. Man La Yahzarah Al-TafsilPolitical Activities:Ayatollah Seyyed Mohsen Kharrazi has been the supporter of Revolution before and after the victory, and he always emphasized the Leadership of Imam and after him the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Kamenei. He has important activities during the years before Revolution like participating in protests and connecting to some Mara'je to release some imprisoned people who were in danger.He became a member of Jam'e Modaresin (Teachers Society) of Qom seminary by invitation of the other members in 1981 (1359), and he had an important role in development of seminary, and also he became a member of Majlis Khobregan (Assembly of Experts) in second and third period from Tehran.Ayatollah Seyyed Mohsen Kharrazi is in Qom now and he is teaching and training talented and young students.


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Certificate 12A, 120 minutes
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake
The Social Network is the story of Facebook from its' creation in Mark Zuckerberg's (Jesse Eisenberg, American Ultra, Now You See Me, Zombieland) dorm room at Harvard in 2004. Together with his best friend at the time Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) who fronted much of the original investment, together with Zuckerberg's room mates Dustin Moskovitz (Joseph Mazzello) and Chris Hughes (Patrick Mapel). The film doesn't cover the entire history of Facebook, only telling the bits from just prior to its founding as thefacebook.com and for about the first year afterwards.
The film itself is told in retrospect, mostly from the points of view of Zuckerberg and Saverin although occasionally parts are told from the points of the Winklevoss brothers and Sean Parker., during two court cases that are being fought; the first between Cameron Winklevoss (Armie Hammer, Mirror Mirror), Tyler Winklevoss (Armie Hammer, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and Josh Pence), and Divya Narendra (Max Minghella, Horns, The Internship), three Harvard students who claimed that Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them whilst he was supposed to be working on their own similar project, HarvardConnection.com (later called ConnectU).
Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Social_network_film_poster.jpgThe second lawsuit was with Zuckerberg's former friend, Eduardo Saverin, Facebook's initial Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and business manager, who felt he had been forced out of Facebook, at least partly because of the influence of Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake, Bad Teacher, In Time, Runner, Runner) a co-founder of Napster who became interested in Facebook and was its first president.
Neither Zuckerberg nor Parker come across in the film as particularly likeable, although in Zuckerberg's case this appears to be mostly unintentional and down more to an inability to focus or pay attention to things that don't interest him as well as being a ner who is socially awkward. Sean Parker comes across as a bit of an arrogant, not very pleasant jerk.
The Social Network is based on the book The Accidental Millionaires by Ben Mezrich. As with any film based on real life events, it's hard to know just how much is true and how much has been altered to make a better story. Although Eduardo Saverin consulted for the book, none of the people in the film or who worked for Facebook were involved in the film and Zuckerberg, amongst others, were critical of the film for having many inaccuracies. Jeff Jarvis who authored the book Public Parts after an interview with Zuckerberg stated that Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the screenplay, made up too much of the story[1].
Although The Social Network is quite an enjoyable film it is spoiled by what do appear to be factual inaccuracies. Mark Zuckerberg in particular seems to be portrayed as a much crueller person than he actually is, according to a number of interviews, where it was stated he would never have behaved in the way he is shown to have in the film. This is always the problem with films based on true stories; many adjustments may be made to make it seem more interesting at the expense of telling the truth.[2]
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"Over the years I have been drawn to different modalities that have brought me greater freedom in my daily life. The language and perspective of human design has had enormous impact on me. I love to connect to the unique life inherent in each person's reading. For me there is no greater joy than living closely aligned with the truth of one's Being. That is what I hope to offer to clients through these human design and energy sessions." -VGB
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vanessa's family moved to the US when she was 9. Vanessa graduated from Yale University with majors in anthropology and economics. As a young woman wanting to understand her Jewish roots, she studied for five years at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College of Pennsylvania, receiving her rabbinic ordination in 2008. Vanessa is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and is able to provide a Human Design reading in any of these languages. Vanessa resides in Ashland, Oregon with her partner and their daughter.
Charts and Sessions
The chart is a map for you to use in your journey. I will never tell you what to do, but I can give you tools to expand your awareness and ease your decision making.
If you are interested in human design but not sure you want to invest in a session, you are invited to be in touch.
I can tell you more about the modality and give you a free 15-minute consultation.
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Opening the door to yourself...
Simply receiving the information about your unique design can grant you enormous relief from the tribulations of the egoic mind.
An initial reading will introduce you to the language of human design. This is the beginning of your experiment. You will leave the reading with the two most important pieces of information about your design: your strategy and your authority. Regardless, please remember that YOU are the ultimate authority to determine what resonates with you and what doesn't.
Your Human Design chart is based on the date, time, and location of your birth. A chart reading will begin to describe what energies easily come across through your very being, that is, without any effort. Are you someone who needs a longer time and process to make a decision? Are you a networker? Are you conscious of your emotional wave, or are you taking in the emotions of other people around you? Are you primarily designed to do physical work in the world? Are you meant to be an observer who gives counsel when asked?
Each session will give you much more information than can be digested in one sitting. A recording of your reading will allow you to listen to it again and again, for deeper understanding.
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Resting in the True Self - Support and empowerment
I offer conversations that are supportive for my clients wherever they are. We can have one session, or one session weekly for as long as you need. Regardless, my goal is to empower you to see your life clearly, to make your own decisions from a sense of clarity, and to help you connect with the natural joy of being you.
If you'd like, we can use your human design strategy and authority is a way to empower you, a path to more peace, more relaxation, and more acceptance of who you are for now. If not, we can work with listening, "The Work" of Byron Katie, contemplation, and other tools to help you reach a new place of clarity and presence.
You can peacefully abide in and move from a place of truth--a place that was yours all along.
In our sessions, I will listen and learn from you. I will bring my combination of meditation practice, rabbinic training, energy work, and human design wisdom, to help us understand what is happening for you. I have a natural desire to correct stuff so that you can move toward your own sense of joyful living, whatever that means for you. Human design is all about you finding your own answers, your own direction, your own wisdom.
Your session can be in person in my Ashland work location, or over the phone.
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Parenting each child according to who they are.
Ra Uru Hu, the founder of human design, used to say, "human design is for the children." Ra understood that children are "conditioned," that is, taught to be what society expects them to be, instead of who they naturally are. Parents and caretakers are in the unique role of helping children trust who they are, while at the same time guiding them according to the caretaker's wisdom.
Sessions are by phone or in person with parent/guardian, for 50 min.
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"So much of what you said resonated and has given me much to think about! I wanted to let you know how impressed I was with your ability to describe my design without judgment. What could have easily been cast as weaknesses, were instead described as differences or uniqueness, which put me at ease. Because I never felt defensive, I was able to really listen to what you were saying."
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"My session with Vanessa was extraordinary and illuminating. Several insights came forward in her reading that, though unexpected, seem almost obvious in hindsight, but I wouldn't have become aware of them on my own. It has altogether proven very helpful in increasing my self-awareness and my ability to make informed personal decisions."
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The applications have had a powerful impact on me in my professional work as a psychologist, and even more it has positively impacted me in my personal work with myself. Vanessa truly has a gift, a way of articulating herself, and an incredible talent for connecting with people in a meaningful way that has invaluable positive ripples into the world. I could not recommend her, and Design of the Self, more highly!
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The readings were nothing short of awe-inspiring in their nuanced accuracy—a veritable blueprint of our unique deep-seated inclinations and aversions. My personal design provided insight into the hows and whys of the paths I've chosen and affirmed a plethora of gut-based decisions I'd questioned in the past. As a parent, I feel my son's design provided me with invaluable tools to help guide him as he grows.
I highly recommend a Human Design session with Vanessa. This amazing system, delivered with her empathy, insight and intuition, is a wonderful gift for one's self.
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Isn't it amazing how our tastes in people, fashion, books and movies change, as we move from childhood to the world of adults? We look back at some of our sartorial choices or the films we liked then and can't help suppress a shudder.I remember being enamoured of the dresses a friend in school - one of the many I attended during our nomadic army way of living - wore on Saturdays when we were allowed to wear 'civvies' to school. They were shiny and came in resplendent colours, the kind that hurt the eye, but they were the epitome of loveliness and sophistication to me. I longed for just one such terrycot dress, but no amount of persuasion would convince my mother that I had to have a frock in this particular material. According to her, sensible cotton was what suited a child the most. Of course, she was also of the opinion that frills were frivolous and bows were impractical.What made my envy grow by leaps and bounds was the claim of this friend, who said she had a cupboard full of these dresses. However, whenever I went over to play, that mysterious cupboard was always locked or she didn't have the permission to display her wardrobe as her mother was busy and couldn't be disturbed. And gullible me believed every smokescreen she threw my way, refusing to even entertain the thought that one could lie to a friend. Of course, my siblings saw through her right from the beginning, but I sprang to her defence each time they teased me for being so 'green'. No one was allowed to criticise my taste in friends.Our concept of physical beauty also undergoes a sea change. What we considered beautiful or handsome was coloured by our limited experience and, as we grew up, we realised there was a whole new world out there that we hadn't experienced yet. And to think we laughed at the questionable taste of our parents when it came to the screen idols or singers they swooned over in their youth. Never did we dream that what we classed as a complete lack of taste on their part would come back to haunt us one day.Another characteristic peculiar to humans and which also undergoes a transformation or maturing process is a sense of humour. Thankfully, we outgrow the slapstick variety although someone slipping on a banana peel can still make us laugh as long as it's someone else. Of course, we might be more discreet about concealing our amusement, instead of guffawing as a child is wont to do.Then there is the first crush. In that first flush of feeling, that face is like a magnet, making us move towards it as if held in a spell. Seen through the eyes of love or mild lust, every feature is picture perfect. We refuse to listen to any criticism and defend our choice like a warrior. Years later, a faded photograph is all that is left and, gazing at it, one can't help but wonder what was it that held one spellbound all those aeons ago. For many of us, as children, our mother's face held all the beauty in the world. She was the centre of our universe and every line and curve of her face was beloved to us. Then we metamorphosed into teenagers and suddenly what we beheld was an elderly woman, although she might have only been in her early thirties at the time. Hard as we tried, we couldn't imagine this person ever being our age. It seemed all mothers were born old.When we became mothers and our children cast upon us the same critical gaze and questioned our every decision, we knew life had come full cycle.
The writer is a freelance columnist. This article has been reproduced from the Gulf News.


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The Short North's Best Happy Hours
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To even the most tenacious of students, completing assignments, more so in the comfort of one's own home, becomes a really tedious task. Assignments are an integral section of our curriculum, not only because it is extremely handy tool in self-assessment, but also tests our real life application of the subjects along with gathering titbits of knowledge as we go on.
Assignments can be additional pressure
It is a bit of healthy pressure when such assignments are to be completed inside the school or college campuses itself. However, when idling under awning in the comfort of our own home we rarely feel the urge or pressure to gleefully complete these assignments in a whole hearted manner. The end result is a half-baked, disorganized consortium of information that would much more malign your final preparation, than benefit it. The key to acing the finals lies in the core management of one's assignment efficiently.
Having said that, assignments can be overwhelming at times as well. With so much pressure of academics and other extra-curricular activities, it is only understandable if you find assignments to be an additional yet unwanted pressure. In such situations, it common for students to experience stress of some sort. If your child is experiencing stress due to academic pressure, try reading through 'Know about the health troubles your child can face due to study pressure'.
Tips for completing perfect assignment
- The first step to ace assignments lies in staying up to date with the notes provided by the teacher in their lectures. This involves a quite hectic step of coercing an individual to drag his sleep-deprived self into most, if not each and every one, lectures provided through the course of curriculum.
But as we know, knowledge lies in every nook and corner of this vast world, and every note would add some value to topics in scope of our syllabus, collective of which will result in much more well-rehearsed assignments. It is also advisable staying up to date with the scope of syllabus as new breakthroughs are being made every other day, regarding subjects being studied.
- Pre-lecture cognitive reading of the subject at hand also helps a lot in understanding parts of lecture that go much more in depth, into the subject. If an altogether new topic is going to be introduced by the teacher, it is beneficial to look it up, whether in a book or on the internet, for further reference, beforehand, than stare blankly at the board in awe of the same. Understanding is the key essence of these mental exercises.
- The more learned we become about the topic beforehand, the more doubts will start forming in our subconscious, which is altogether a good thing. Coming to lectures without preparation of any kind would not halt our minds at points which are not fully comprehensible by us.
Instead we would amble through the apparent rambling by the lecturer, not paying attention, and going home, only to flip the pages and get stuck in a convoluted maze of riddles at every other page. Doubts formed at the time of the lecture would be cleared the session itself by the teacher, and would further our understanding in the topic. As stated before, Understanding is the basic principle upon which assignments are set.
- As important pre-lecture referencing is, importance of post-lecture review of the notes taken during the lecture can never be ignored. In this age of technology, reminders are the app that clutches together the strings of everyone's everyday lives. However, keeping hold of all the information just by the sheer power of hearing is an altogether different issue- Not available in the app store. Reviewing the lecture notes, if possible, on the very same day, so that most of the concepts get engraved in the crevices of out brain. Continuous follow up of the same also helps greatly in the long-term, to improve your assignments.
- Reading through pages and pages of books, is a good exercise, if one is willing to learn more, but it is certainly not an advisable one in a high pressure situation, as it is not only tedious, but also extra unnecessary information can clog or complicate the important information already memorized. Thus it is always advisable to breakdown the important notes into concrete and concise points, sub headed into the topics mentioned into the syllabus. In a pressure situation, clarity is paramount, and designing notes in an organized manner, will always be helpful to the individual.
- A disorganized person will be pegged back quite a while, just trying to get all his important study material together on his or her study table. Hours and hours of rummaging may ensue to find the important notes and PowerPoint presentations key to completing an urgent assignment. Precious time may be lost while trying to set up the study area, the time in which other competitions may have already devised a probable concept. One needs to keep his desk and textbooks in an organized and in an efficient fashion, so as to easily find the material under every subhead, when needed, at hand.
- Once at home it is advisable to start compiling notes fairly quickly, because as one lets the heat from classes, cool down, laziness sets in, and desire to slump on bed, doing nothing, takes over. If motivating oneself to do the same seems too much of a problem, then he or she can opt to invest in online assignment help, through which a professional will help you in compiling your daily assignments and important notes. There are essentially writers with experience in writing many subjects, who can help you designate important points, and create a small, useful note on the topic itself. They can also help your understanding of the topic in the assignments in a much clearer manner, enhance your concepts and get you much better results at assignments.
Be Intuitive
Finally, human mind is an inquisitive one, and its daily fodder would be a healthy dose of information. Even better than human help, would be self-help, and to keep one's mind charged up, it is always better to inquire into healthy discussions. Taking part in quizzes and joining a study group would fulfill the same. This would open our minds, to even higher concepts, as we interact with more intellectuals like us. This would help us understand our concepts clearer and quicker and would go a long way in helping us reach absolute pinnacle in assignments.


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An improbable meat nirvana in a BBQ wasteland
August 5, 2007 in BBQ, beef, cooking, Food Porn, grilling, interview, pork
Today I am going to share an interview I had with Brian Treitman, a CIA trained chef who has started a Southern Style BBQ place, called B.T's Smokehouse. He has set this mobile BBQ joint up in the most improbable place, in the parking lot of a seasonal campground at the side of a road here in sleepy south central Massachusetts.
When I noticed the sign for his mobile smoker and food stand that said "Southern Style BBQ" my first cynical reaction was, "Sure there are rednecks in Massachusetts but does this one know about southern BBQ and what exactly is "southern-style"" and my next thought was, "Ok, now I need some Southern Style BBQ, no matter which state this person might have in mind!" Remember, I have lived in the south a long time and have been exposed to quasi-grilling in the mid-west, the dry rub beef-a-rama that is Texas, the hot heaven that is New Orleans, and the curious hodgepodge that is Georgia.
I am SO guilty of assuming anything and I am so fantastically thankful I stopped in to check it out.
Turns out, this modest shack at the roadside was conceived and is run by a CIA trained chef who just moved back home from his time working in some great kitchens in Napa Valley and Boston, MA.
Brian Treitman is immediately likable because he lacks all pretense. You walk up wondering what its all about, this crazy idea of a BBQ shack in rural New England and as soon as you meet Brian its absolutely all about the food. Its a great experience.
In a sneaky, subversive way that I completely approve of, the smoker sits on the back of this custom made smoker-mobile shack thing, pumping out divine BBQ pheromones.
If you stop and get out of your car, you are drawn in like June bugs to a porch light, buying BBQ is a forgone conclusion.
Its primeval, its instinctual, its almost painful if you can't eat the BBQ right there.
Let me tell you, spending time there doing a photo shoot and chatting without stuffing my mouth full of juicy smoky pork butt, chicken, and beef brisket hurt me bad.
Needless to say, we had a feast of it when I brought my haul home after the shoot. We ate so much, well, I could smell it's woodsy, smoky siren lurking about the kitchen for days afterward. We had some extra sauce so we did smell it days afterward as we used it to cook some other things we had at home.
What follows is our interview, conducted both in person and by email. I can not thank Brian enough for his patience in taking time away from his busy day and his expecting wife, who is just too nice to not get to know better some time soon!
I hope you get a sense for how neat these two people are and the hard work it has taken to make this place a reality. If you can make it out to south central MA or if you are coming up here for the Brimfield Antique Show (where he sets up BBQ chiefdom too), DO come on over and visit his smoker-mobile.
You will NOT be disappointed.
In this interview you will learn:
- How Brian came to be a BBQ dude in a smoker-mobile in the middle of New England
- His background
- That he worked for Ming Tsai
- What its like to work for Ming Tsai
- A vignette of how 9/11 skewed the world of Ming Tsai, Blue Ginger, and the Food Network
- What kinds of BBQ Brian does
- His vision for the smoky future
Could you tell me about some of the great restaurants that you have cooked at?
My first cooking job was at Bertucci's in North Andover, MA. This is where I got my first taste of cooking with wood. I was a pizza and pasta cook there in high school. Next I went to Olympia, WA, to go to college at The Evergreen State College where I got a degree in Evolutionary Science. I also ran the restaurant there that serviced the housing community. I went to Evergreen to get an education. I knew I wanted to cook, but I wanted an education first. From Evergreen I moved to Florida where I was a sous-chef at a high-end country club. It was my first taste of fine dining. My responsibilities there ranged from breakfast cook to banquets to running the evening dining room kitchen. There were weeks where I would get there at 5:30 in the morning to set up breakfast cook breakfast and lunch, then run upstairs to prep dinner banquets, then go back downstairs to put out dinner service for 100 people, taking a small break in between to put out a banquet for 250 people back upstairs. After a year of doing this, working under three different executive chefs, I decided to go to culinary school so that I didn't get stuck in country club fare.
I applied to the CIA in Hyde Park and started there in October of 2000. I loved it there. I went to class from 5 am till 4 pm, and then worked at the on-campus bar during the night my first year and Hobbnobin Pub across the street my second year, running their kitchen. For my externship I went to Wellsley, MA, and worked at Blue Ginger with Ming Tsai. The Executive sous chef at the time was Tom Berry. It was a great experience. I spent most of my day doing prep, and then spent an the last couple hours of my day on the line helping where I could.
After culinary school I went to work in Napa Valley for Jan Birnbaum at his restaurant Catahoula. Jan was a favorite chef of mine that I had met at his other restaurant, Sazerac, in Seattle. Jan had spent his formative years working with Paul Prudhomme in New Orleans. Jan quickly took me under his wing and become a strong mentor for me. His food, high end comfort food, was right up my alley. There we took southern classic cuisine and put a fine dining spin on it. His food was all about love. From signature dishes of Pork porterhouse with pickled cabbage red eye gravy and soft sexy grits to the ever popular crispy catfish with Mardi Gras slaw and a spicy lemon butter sauce, the flavors never stopped. I was the sous chef at Catahoula working under chef de cuisine Chris Aken.
When Catahoula closed in 2003, Chris and I were asked to become part of a new restaurant in the same space called Stomp, like crushing grapes. The owner Robert Simon had another restaurant in Pasadena, CA, called Bistro 45. Chris and I got the opportunity to run the restaurant, both front and back of the house. We had full menu control and Chris got to show off his food. We did things like lamb chops with a black pepper waffle cone filled with fresh spring vegetables and a port fig sauce or scallops with an apricot crepe lasagna and apricot reduction.
Before I left we were starting to do some very cool food based on the types of things that are doing at El Bulli in Spain and Clio in Boston, MA. We had a 25 course tasting menu that began with a golden egg, a quail egg wrapped in a caramelized inverted sugar shell, and ending with blue cheese cotton candy accompanied by honey comb crisps.
After getting married in October 2006, with Chris as my best man, I moved to Brimfield, MA, and got a job in Boston at Spire Restaurant as interim [[Chef]]. My job there was to hold down the fort for six months until the restaurant could be re-concepted with Ken Oringer from Clio as the Chef. It is now called "KO Prime". While there, I got to help run it, with the help of two other sous chefs; a very popular upscale fine dining restaurant. By the end of Spire, I had helped reshape the kitchen staff and policies and also updated most of the menu. I was asked to stay on with Chef Ken and Chef de Cuisine Jamie Bissonette, from Eastern Standard, but declined to open my smokehouse and be closer to my wife Marni and soon-to-be daughter Lilli.
What was it like working for Ming Tsai?
At first working for Ming was a little intimidating. He would walk in, give a little nod, and rush off to the next thing he had to do. It didn't last long though. Pretty soon after I started, so did football season. We would all meet up at a field in Wellsley,MA, and play two hand touch and then Chef would take us out for wings and beer. When I started, I was deemed the "Kitchen Bitch". The sous chefs would change the menus and come up with these lists for me that felt like I would never get through them in a week, let alone every day. I plugged away at them everyday, never really seeing sunlight until they were done. I remember I cut my hand one day on the slicer and needed to see the doctor. The exec sous chef took over my list that day and found a whole new respect for me. He only got through about a quarter of it. When I left, they actually brought in two externs to cover what I had done solo.
It was good working for Ming. I got to work with him one-on-one a handful of times, either putting out a benefit dinner (just the two of us from the prep kitchen), to working on a test recipe he would hand me for his bottled products.
I was working for him during 9/11 when he had gotten stuck in Fiji, where he had been filming one of his food network shows. I remember listening to him on the speaker phone and the concern in his voice for us as he told us how and what he wanted to do with the restaurant on the days following the attack.
That was the week he quit the food network.
It took Ming two weeks to be able to get home from Fiji, finally flying into Canada and renting a car to drive back to Boston. The week he got back, he was supposed to go to New York to film East meets West for two weeks. He told them he needed to be with his family and restaurant and that these were more important. In the end, he had to leave the Food Network to be able to stay with his family.
I have a lot of respect for his values and the way he does business. If he couldn't be at the restaurant every night he would call or his wife would stop by. His staff has been with him almost since the beginning. There is very little turnover there, with the exception of the line cooks who move on to learn more somewhere else.
How is it that you decided to move from the fine dining restaurant world to the sole proprietorship of your BBQ business? (how did you get the idea? Were you always into BBQ?)
I have been cooking fine dining in different restaurants for different chefs for the past 12 years. I enjoy this kind of food on occasion, when I go out to eat. Most of the time, I want something that isn't going to satisfy just my eyes and mouth, I want something that will satisfy my soul.
I want there to be love in the food.
I try to cook my BBQ the way you think BBQ should taste. When you think about a pork rib, in your mind it is tender, succulent, ready to fall off the bone with a little smoke and glazed with a flavorful, spiced, sweet sauce. You want to lick your fingers – no need for a napkin. You want to dip the bone into the drippings that are left and then suck it dry. That's the way I try to cook. I have always been the guy at gatherings that slowly walks over to the person manning the grill and works his way into taking over. No matter where I have cooked, I have always been the guy at the backyard party manning the grill. But BBQ isn't the same as grilling.
BBQ takes time.
It is a process. Smoke is involved and wood is involved. BBQ, unlike grilling, happens by way of indirect heat at temperatures of 140F to 225F.
I got started doing real BBQ a couple of years ago when I was living in Napa Valley. I bought a little Charbroil Smoker at Home Depot and started to experiment for my roommates and friends. When I first moved back to Brimfield, my parents and their friends put the idea in my head to do something at the Brimfield Antique Show. Over then next couple months, I started to formulate ideas of how I would bring it all together. I started searching the internet for concession trailers and smokers. I found some stuff that I liked and then started to look into how I would ever afford to buy a trailer and smoker that cost upwards of $35,000.
In discussing this with family and friends, I started to get offers of what can I do to help. I also know this guy who welds. Pretty soon, I was ordering trailer parts and pieces of steel. My first order arrived as a set of axles and tires in February and I slowly watched as it started to come together. Every morning, as I drove off to Boston to go to work, I would look at the progress that was being made.
Visit the gallery of photos which shows how the trailer was made!
As things started to change at the restaurant and when I found out my wife was pregnant, my priorities also started to change. I felt I had a decent resume and didn't want to go back to being just another sous chef. It was time for me to run the show. With the trailer almost ready and the transition at the restaurant happening at just the right time, it was easy for me to walk away and start out on my own. Not really on my own, I have a lot of support from my wife parents and family friends who really made it all possible.
Building the trailer was really an amazing thing. Looking back on it, it had all the parts of a really good movie… It all started with my dad, who is a general contractor and who was supposed to help me do most of the actual building and finish work, but he fell on a job and shattered his shoulder. A metal plate and seven pins kinda put the nix on any major building help from him although he was great moral support. After that happened it was kinda like watching a movie where a town comes together to make something happen. The last couple days were really tough. It was four days before the first Brimfield Antique Show
I had been out of work for two weeks with no income and the trailer was just a shell no inside walls, no plumbing, no floor, and minimal wiring done.
All of a sudden extra people just started showing up to lend a hand. The main person that had really been a huge help who I most everything to, Mitch Fraizier, lost his brother to cancer the morning of the day we were going to finish the trailer. That was when I really felt everyone pitch in. I couldn't be there to help finish building because I had to cook, but about ten people, including Mitch, spent most of their day pitching in. It was rough, but after the first night of cooking, we had a little party at the trailer with ribs and bourbon to celebrate getting it done.
How and where did you learn about "southern style" BBQ? (did you go on a que-vision-quest? Find a que-guru? Grow up with a que-dad/mom?)
Mostly I learned about BBQ by reading books, tasting food as we moved around the country, and watching competitions on TV. I have always had a decent palate and used to do all the marinades and sauces for grilling and BBQ growing up. I have plans, when time permits, to travel and explore the South, searching out the finest BBQ joints around.
Could you describe the different types of BBQ you offer? (sorts of brine, rub, aging, period of soaking, period of marination, period of smoking – don't give any secrets away, just generalities)
I mostly do a dry style of BBQ. I start by rubbing the meat with a dry rub that I had custom blended. Then, the meat gets placed in the smoker and sits there without being moved for up to 14 hrs. The chickens go for 3 hrs, ribs for six, pork butt – for pulled pork – is 8-10 hrs, and the beef brisket is 12-14 hrs. The pork ribs are the only thing I do moist. When they come out of the smoker they go into a flavorful liquid I make and simmer until you come buy to eat them. The other meats don't see anything wet, besides their own juices and love, until I sauce them when you order them.
Hows business?
It started a little slow the first two weeks. I was a little nervous that maybe I might have to go get a real job before long, but it has steadily gotten better over the last 5 weeks. Each week is better than the last and things look good. I have a lot of repeat business and people are starting to talk about me, sending their friends to come see me from neighboring towns.
Do you have many competitors in this area?
Not really. I think the closest BBQ place to me is 20-30 miles away. The cool thing about BBQ is that lovers of it will drive to get it. There was a little tragedy in the BBQ world recently when Holy Smokes in West Hatfield burned down. It was a BBQ joint that had been built in an old church.
What made you choose this area specifically?
I moved here to be closer to my family. My parents moved to Brimfield, MA, about 8 years ago and I haven't lived near them since high school. California also got very expensive. Since being here and getting all the help and encouragement I have from those around me, I know I made a great choice.
Do you have plans to remain in this location long? (as in winter, etc)
Eventually I would like to find a more permanent location. Somewhere where I don't have to worry about when my water supply will freeze in the hose that brings it into my trailer. But for now, I have a good relationship with Lester, the owner of Village Green Campground, and I plan on taking a little time off this winter to enjoy my new baby, who is due to arrive Thanksgiving Day. I am hoping to still do some catering this winter to keep myself busy and If I can keep my water supply from freezing, you'll find me around.
Do you do any unusual BBQ items? (BBQ salt, BBQ fish, BBQ gator, BBQ quail, BBQ opossum, what ever it might be? If not, would you do them on request?
We did a moose this past winter. It was gooood. I'll cook just about anything. I cured and smoked a salmon this past week and may start running it as a special every now and then. For the most part, I am still getting my feet wet at this and want to make sure I am doing it right before I start to venture, but if someone asks I am game. We do have some ducks roaming around the campground.
Do you cater?
I do. I have some requests to roast some pigs and a couple of parties of chicken and ribs coming up. I am working on building another more portable smoker that would make catering a little easier. But I am available for any even you may have. With the fine dining background I can also do fine dining plated events. As I say in my brochure, "Pretty much anything your heart desires. Just ask and I will do all I can to make it right."
Do you ship items? If so, which ones?
For right now, just my spice rub. I am going to work on getting my sauce in a bottle when I slow down going into the winter. There are a lot of regulations about shipping prepared foods that make it hard for me to do much else at the moment. We'll see what happens down the road if and when I get a permanent home. I am also having hats, shirts, and sweatshirts made up with my logo that I will be selling and would be happy to ship.


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There are a handful of things we do that truly define our business and separate us from other IT providers. One is our Monthly Maintenance Process. Another is our Quarterly Roadmap Meetings.
Roadmap meetings actually start with prospects before they become clients. Many of the questions are the same. Basically, you want to get a sense of where the client's business is today and where they expect it to be in the next year or so. If you can, you should try to find out where they hope to be in five years.
Basically, the Roadmap is a rough plan for the client's technology "department" (even though most do not have such a department). The Roadmap meeting is an opportunity to sit down with the client and talk about their future.
Is the client growing or shrinking? How dependent are they on technology? Do they have a budget? Do they have a technology budget? It is quite amazing how easy it is to get clients to tell you their plans, hopes and dreams. We've gotten responses like these:
This is great stuff. You only get this stuff by asking.
But you can't casually ask. You need to have a process and procedure in which they've agreed to participate, and these are just a few questions in a longer list.
We use our own "Roadmap" process, but many of the questions are similar to the original Microsoft Business and Technology Assessment Toolkit. The best place to get this is from an old MSDN or Technet CD from at least five years ago. That's because the assessment was just a Word document and was easy to customize.
To my knowledge, there is no current version of this questionnaire at Microsoft. The last version they produced required InfoPath, a program they have ceased to produce. Note that this is not the same as the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, which is for evaluating client technology so you can give advice on upgrades and migrations.
We print out our questions on blue paper with a cover sheet so it looks like a set of forms. That way prospects and clients see that there really is a standardized process here.
When clients are growing, you can give them the big heads up that technology spending will increase. No "sales" necessary. Just say things like "You know you can't add three people and all their data in that old server. So you don't need a new server today, but you know you will."
There's no sales here, so they'll just nod their head and say "I know, I know."
But not everyone is growing. We have had to help several clients manage the shrinking of their business; that includes using the best machines as some are taken out of service. In two cases it meant helping the clients shut down their physical office and move to virtual offices (and to the cloud). In one case, we managed technology as our client was purchased by their competition.
Our company provides free planning meetings for our clients under contract. Our definition of "managed services" focuses heavily on being the outsourced IT department for our clients. As such, we try to help develop the budget, the policies, and the 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year plans for the "IT Department." Basically, if they have a big business plan or binder, we provide the IT section that slips into place.
Here are some examples of activities we promote through Roadmap meetings:
As you can see, all of these decisions are interrelated. And they all involve lots of money and labor. And timing matters. MOST small businesses make these decisions one at a time, trying to save the most money on each purchase. The result is that they spend more money as time goes on.
And we don't push upgrades just to push upgrades. If Microsoft gave these folks everything they wanted for free, they would still have the costs of our labor plus downtime per desktop and potential downtime for servers just to install it all. So we don't push every update that comes down the road.
We call these "Quarterly" Roadmap Meetings. But that almost never happens. Basically, we schedule them with all clients. Our office manager knows that we have certain slots open in our calendar, so she can fill those with Roadmap meetings and she knows they won't conflict with anything else. It also means that we spread out the meetings so we're not taken off tech support or other tasks for large chunks of the week.
Once we've completed a round of Roadmap Meetings, she starts scheduling them again. Some clients delay and delay. So overall, most clients end up having 1-3 meetings a year. But that's enough. It keeps us in touch and keeps the conversation going.
Meetings are generally one or two hours. This is not a time to address individual service ticket issues, but it IS a time to discuss service overall. If clients have concerns about nagging issues or overall service, this is a great opportunity for them to bring that up.
So if I had to summarise three take-aways from this blog, it would be the following:
(Used with permission of Karl W. Palachuk, SmallBizThoughts.com)
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Style: Philosophy
In this section we offer interviews, readings and expositions that explore the fascinating realm of yoga philosophy. Yoga philosophy is thousands of years old and based on first-hand experience. Yoga is considered a science. Explore the ideas and dimensions of thought that spring from this ancient art.
Sujantra explains the basic principles of meditation in just 90 seconds. The key is to begin.
Interview with Sujantra McKeever about various spiritual teachers, their purpose and how to use them.
Sri Chinmoy draws on personal experience to describe the deepest levels of meditation.
Explore the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle with Teekhnata. She is very knowledgeable and passionate about nutrition and health.
Yoga teacher Lena Schmidt discusses her journey in discovering yoga and how it has changed her life.
Sujantra interviews Astika who has practiced meditation for over 40 years. He discusses various traditions and his own personal practice.
Science is discovering what sages have said for thousands of years. Yoga works! Find out how.
Connect with the ever increasing life energy and learn how emotion is the fuel or energy that renews and revitalizes our inner being.
In this interview, Heather discusses her yoga journey, her trips to India and how yoga philosophy augments her life.
Tom has lead weekly kirtan at the yoga studio for five years. Discover your own voice in this ancient, heart centered practice. GO TO the 'Music' tab for detailed chant tutorials.
Explore the inner dimensions of music and creativity with composer, musician and PR genius Shambhu.
Jamie shares her experience with major health issues and how yoga helped bring about remission. Her story is both inspiring and amazing… with Blair Hartwell
Step into a new dimension of self and learn how the spiritual journey is a process, not a destination. Readings taken from the book "Paths are Many, Truth is One".
Join Sujantra McKeever and Salil Wilson, Executive Director of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, for a discussion and recommendations on the connections between running and meditation.
Sujantra and Astika review and discuss the fascinating book, My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. (Plume)
Connect to the energy of the universe in this brief video taken from the book "Paths are Many, Truth is One".
Explore the principle of non-violence as applied to daily life and the yogic journey.
Sujantra interviews Lauren on, "The Seeker's Journey."
Join Sujantra and Salil as they explore meditation through their own experiences and the book "Meditation" by Sri Chinmoy.
In Part 2 of this Seekers Journey, the historical and personal roots of meditation are explored.
The yogic journey calls for purity and intensity. Explore the principle of brahmacharya and how it can apply to your life.
Gain insight into the opening of your heart through this ongoing discussion of the different aspects of meditation.
In Part 4 of this series, Sujantra and Salil discuss the issue of evaluating your meditation practice in positive ways that are non-judgemental.
Part 5 of this series addresses the issue of seeking a spiritual leader or teacher and what to look for.
Sujantra and Salil deal with practical issues surrounding meditation like having time, where to meditate and for how long.
In this last part of the Seekers Journey, practical, real life benefits of meditation are discussed.
Tom's yoga journey spans 25 years, from a slow beginning to a way of life. He encourages the study of yoga and participation in your yoga community.
Salil talks about "going beyond your own limitations" during a 6 day ultra marathon where he runs up to 40 miles/day.
Tap into the ancient tradition of seeking a spiritual teacher to help you meditate and contemplate. From the writings of Sri Chinmoy.
Happiness! A reading by Sujantra from the writings of spiritual teacher Ramana Maharshi.
A reading by Sujantra from the book "Yoga and the Spiritual Life", written by Sri Chinmoy.
Sujantra interviews Lauren McLaren on Pranayama.
Salil has practiced meditation for over 20 years. He explores integrating dedication with daily living and his practice. He discusses sincerity and the higher-self.
It's essential to create a 'space' for your meditation practice. Tom Warner describes his meditation space and gives practical tips for all.
The essence of yoga philosophy and practice was codified over 2000 years ago by Patanjali. This overview educates and informs.
It is always good to be able to laugh at oneself…so here we go!
Sujantra interviews Pilgrimage Yoga Studio teacher, Lauren McLaren.
Яшудеви прошла курс обучения для преподавателей йоги в нашей студии, и она является переводчиком видеоуроков В настоящее время она преподает йогу в Украине.
Social media sensation Aubry Marie shares her yoga and inspirations on Instagram with over 200,000 followers.
Sujantra, interviewed by Shashanka, talks about meditation, creativity, business and continuing his spiritual life…
Amy Caldwell, co-founder of Yoga One studio in downtown San Diego talks about her experiences in yoga…


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Recent Visitors to Gather
- 3/28/2014
An Eclectic food lover from Dallas, TX tried it, liked it, and rated it . They liked the food, liked the service, and liked the ambiance.
Editorial Review
- Rating:
- 14 / 20
- Price:
- $$$$$
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2 reviews of Gather, first by ashleyapple.
local inspiration
Since it was our last night, we decided to stay in Berkeley for dinner. Another restaurant recommendation from my boss was Gather. Gather offers a distinctive approach to California cuisine. They design their menus with an even balance of vegetable and omnivore dishes, and cook with both old-world/rustic and modern culinary techniques. The vision started in 2001 with Eric Fenster and Ari Derfel and Gather opened on December 15, 2009. It is located across the street from UC Berkeley on Oxford Street. The interior is very natural and you get the "farm to fork" feeling once inside. The one line that kept running through my head was, "There is this guy that invented a car that runs on water, man!" from That 70's Show.
Dishes Tried:
Kale Salad
Kale Salad is served with carrots, pumpkin seeds, capers, and Fiscalini cheese. The kale was braised a little and almost tasted like cooked spinach, but still very fibrous. I think it might be better with chopped raw kale inside. The capers added a little salty and pickle-like flavor to the kale. The cheese was a little too light in flavor for me. The kale completely overpowers it. The carrots added a natural sweetness to balance to the dish.
Pork Belly
Pork Belly served with beluga lentils, fried Felton Acres egg, and Treviso chili. This was a fantastic combination of flavors – tender and slightly salty pork belly; bright orange, creamy egg yolk, and starchy lentils. I called it a re-invented "Pork and Beans" or "Bacon and Eggs". Every ingredient played a perfect balancing act with each other.
Roasted Half Chicken
Roasted Half Chicken served with buttermilk polenta, greens, and heirloom tomato panzanella. Chicken was perfectly cooked – tender and juicy. The polenta was more like home-cooked grits but a little unrefined. The hulls were incorporated into the polenta which gave it an almost "cream of wheat" flavor. The panzanella should be served on the side so that it is not sandwiched between the hot chicken and warm polenta. It would help to keep the salad from getting soggy.
Lindencroft Farm's Mint Chip Ice Cream
Lindencroft Farm's Mint Chip Ice Cream with spring press olive oil was fantastic! It was creamy and velvety. You can feel the fresh cream coat your tongue with rich, decadent flavor. The mint is not artificial. The flavor and scent are as fresh as if you picked it from the garden. The chocolate is subtle but added with finesse to the ice cream.
Thanksgiving Coffee from Fort Bragg, CA made the base for my Macchiato. It's strong and will definitely perk you up. Caramel -like flavors are imparted for a foamy smoothness on the palate. It is almost like a coffee liqueur with just the essence of espresso.
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Amore Pizza Taste of Chicago
Been here twice so far. First time, we got the deep dish pizza here and man is it deep! The slices are actually heavy, and the pizza is great. Between two people we couldn't even finish one large pizza. If you haven't experienced deep dish chicago style pizza definitely checkout Amore sometime. I'm curious to check out their thin crust sometime don't know if would be as good but judging from the deep dish I'm guessing it will be.
The second time I got the italian sausage sandwich which was pretty lame, kind of dry and not very filling, and the fries were also not too good, so maybe they're just good at pizza... but the pizza is good!
Stuffed crust is amazing. Best Chicago style you will find in Vegas for sure!
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They have the best deep dish pizza that I have found in Vegas. It is delicious.


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Global stocks saw red Wednesday as investors awaited a congressional testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Experts told CNBC that cash and fixed income assets will be the big losers over the next 10 years and that investors should buy soft commodities in the meantime.
Sidestep Cash & Fixed Income Assets
Cash and fixed income assets are going to be the losers over the next decade, believes Puru Saxena, chief executive at Puru Saxena Wealth Management. He reveals where he is parking his money, in this installment of "Protect Your Wealth."
Euro Finds Support at $1.35
Thio Chin Loo, senior currency strategist at BNP Paribas tells CNBC that the euro has support at $1.35 given the extremely short positioning in the currency.
Good Time to Buy Into Grains
Fundamentals are leading prices of soft commodities, says Wayne Gordon, senior commodities analyst at Rabobank. He tells CNBC that grains offer good buying opportunities now and high sugar prices could moderate.
Deflation Still A Key Risk
Policy errors could derail the early stages of recovery and lead an economy towards deflation, says PK Basu, MD & chief economist at Daiwa Capital Markets.
Protectionism A Risk to Growth
Peter Elston, chief strategist at Aberdeen Asset Management Asia is cautiously optimistic about Asian markets this year. He tells CNBC that trade protectionism remains a key risk for the region.
Overweight Asia
Greg Bundy, vice chairman at AIMS Finance is overweight Asia, especially China and Australian banks.
Toyota Looks Attractive
Toyota looks attractive the the current price levels, says Hans Goetti, CIO at LGT Bank, barring any other skeletons in the closet.
Bullish on Australia's Healthcare Sector
Steve O'Hanna, investment manager at Fat Prophets Funds Management tells CNBC he likes the Australian healthcare sector, particularly Healthscope.
Trend Micro Sees Stronger Security Market
The global security software market is set to do better in 2010 than the year before, says Mahendra Negi, CFO and COO at Trend Micro. He tells CNBC what factors will drive growth this year.


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Winter is well and truly here. Personally, my shorts and tank tops have been replaced with my winter running kit. Think bright colours, plenty of reflective bits and a few hidden tips and tricks, to help you keep warm but also cool down when you need it! I am always freezing to start with, but 1 or 2 miles in and I am forever too hot!
Thumbholes and Zips
You know as soon as you starting trying clothes on in a shop with heating, you start to sweat. Running is really no different. Thumbholes are a brilliant invention, they cover your wrists and keep your top pulled fairly taut. They can also act as makeshift gloves if you don't have a pair! Once you do start heating up, you can roll up the thumb hole and pull the sleeve up, genius.
Similarly, a half-zip top allows you to be all zipped up and wrapped up when you start. You can then unzip as you heat up! The Nike Element Half-Zip tops are my personal favourite.
Neon for Nights
It's dark outside. So guess what, cars, other pedesterians and cyclists can't see you. At all. How to combat this? Add plenty of neon or reflective clothing into your winter running kit. If you look like a human highlighter, you are spot on. A lot of tops and leggings have small silver dots, which are reflective and will shine bright in headlights, making you visible.
I have lots of neon yellow and pink clothing! An other must have is a jacket, especially in the dead of winter when it's 6:15 and -2. The jacket gives you another layer which can easily be taken off but is useful for storage.
I nabbed the pictured pair of thermal running leggings in a Sweaty Betty sale a few years ago. They are still as warm as day 1. They are great for running as well as the all important post winter race wrap up. If you have ever done a race in winter, you will know just how quickly you want to get back into something warm.
Thermal 3/4 capris are also a personal favourite. I tend to wear them if I am racing, or if I have an interval running session, e.g. my heartrate is going up fast but it is still cold!
One of my favourite bits of winter running kit, is a Karrimor Running Headband. It's thermal and keeps my ears nice and toasty. It is one of the first pieces of kit to be removed when I do start to overhes t so it just gets wrapped around my wrist. Again, it's got reflective elements on the reverse, so you can be seen by cars!
Do you have any other pieces of must have winter running kit? Running kit is an investment, look out for sales in all the shops. My kit has been accumulated over the past 3 years and I found buying Nike or Sweaty Betty has definitely survived many washes!


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Brandon Hopper / Daily Record
Brandon Hopper / Daily Record
Brandon Hopper / Daily Record
Brandon Hopper / Daily Record
FLORENCE — Monday's game resulted in a loss on the Huskies' record and a loss of words for their head coach.
It took head coach Bill Vinelli a bit of time before he could find right the word to describe the way his Huskies soccer team played Monday.
The sixth-year head coach was visually and verbally displeased throughout the game as the Pueblo Central Wildcats dropped Florence 2-1 in overtime in a non-league game at Huskies Stadium.
"They're a 4A school but we've faced better and we played absolutely — the word escapes me," Vinelli said after his team dropped to 7-3 this season. "We were so lethargic it was like the win was going to come automatically because we'd been doing so well and it just showed the girls it doesn't come automatic — you've got to fight every game."
Before Monday's match, the Huskies were on a three-match winning streak in which they had outscored opponents 15-1. The Huskies' most recent win was a 5-1 defeat of Trinidad on Saturday. Earlier this year, Trinidad and Pueblo Central played to a 4-4 tie.
Florence got on the board first when Maddie Medina scored on a cross from Rysa Lancaster to beat Central goalkeeper Ashleigh Espinoza in the 35th minute.
Caitlyn Wyatt tied the game six minutes into the second half when she beat Florence goalkeeper Kaycee Franklin. She was assisted on the play by Harlee Quintana.
About 10 minutes later, the Wildcats had another chance but their shot beaned the post.
Lancaster and Medina almost hooked up for a second goal with 11:15 left on the clock. Then, Lancaster took a hard shot with 8:15 left but Espinoza was able to snare it.
The Central goalkeeper was able to make another nice play off a cornerkick from Madelyn Hobgood with 4:15 left in the second half.
Juliana Torres scored the game winner less than one minute into overtime. Her shot was tipped by Franklin but had enough heat on it to reach the far upper-90 of the goal.
Pueblo Central moved to 4-4-1 on the season with the win.
"We played hard, but the girls are definitely better than this," senior Ryan Dundes said. "We need to learn as a team and get better from this."
They'll need to do it quickly. The Huskies will host Salida in a Region 2 showdown at 4 p.m. today. The winner of the match will have a stronghold on the third spot in the league.
The Spartans are currently 9-2 overall and 2-0 in league play, but they haven't played powers Colorado Springs Christian School and Manitou Springs yet. Florence's record sits at 7-3 and 2-2, having lost to CSCS and Manitou Springs.
The top two spots in the league get automatic berths into the Class 3A state field, and Vinelli said he thinks the team must win its final five games to have a chance at an at-large bid.
"I know that if we play like this (Tuesday) against Salida for our league game, with the way Salida's playing, we can kiss everything good bye," Vinelli said. "We had a chance to go 13-2 maybe 12-3 and get an at-large bid. If we lose again, there's no chance at that."
Brandon Hopper: 719-276-7644, email@example.com


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You Are Your Diction – Revision
Revision of You're Only As Deep As Your Diction
An exchange of words doesn't mean a conversation has commenced.
Sometimes people communicate better in silence.
You'll be surprised with what Silence can say
And disgusted with what a thousand words can not.
The timing of holding your tongue
Perfects your mastery on wielding the words you've got.
Diction is action.
Action is one of those things that we truly own.
Yet, it's one of those things most people die to give away.
Action is Life.
Live your own short Life and love it.
For we were all made not to last in this precious form,
A hymn of envy that fallen angels have sung…
As they attempt to battle Eternity contained within our dying selves.
These are underrated statements.
A good man lives in God's time.
The non-inquisitive are confounded.
Have you seen a deeper soul than one that has settled
Its confounded passions for diversities unrelented?
Do not risk falling asleep and waking up
With things you can not wake up to. Forgive.
Do not risk falling asleep and waking up
With things your soul aches not to die with. Live.
These are scarcely practiced values.
You have not been hired to make an appearance on Earth,
You were gladly brought into it and invited
To savor the glory of the fullest of Life and what isn't.
To not merely scratch the surface of Heaven and Hell and finish untainted.
While favorites are fine, how would you know there are better things in Life
If you've shut your ears exclusive to just one genre of music?
Find all your assets a glass half full or a glass half empty –
Inevitably you always have something and that is terrific!
These are inceptions to tell you what 'Difference' means.
PRESERVATION is the name of a false god.
Reservation, one of his forms;
Should you check if you've descended towards being a god,
See if you enviously live within self-righteous norms…
Then one need not tell you how awful you've been,
With all your lame deceit.
Vanity will wear your soul as its crown
An you would seem very proud of it.
These are some of the willful deadly sins…
A willing man is moved by his desire
To achieve and not by his desire to please;
Thus, you'll perceive nothing mundane from a willing man
And his gestures with good intentions shall always give ease.
Those who always say they want to die
Usually mean they are dying to live
Those who are closely incapable of tears
Usually suffer greater than those who did…
These are a flow of flaws so common.
Don't use your mouth for the deaf.
Don't use visuals for the blind.
Don't bother to touch the numb.
Find the functional or leave it behind…
Most often, a curse is a gift you just don't understand
Or a gift you know not how to use.
It's too strange not to be strange…
Deepen your prayers and you'll know not to abuse.
These are the neglected obvious.
Seeing the wrongs is a chance to make things better.
So smile when you see one, and multiply those smiles when you do.
If you can see the disasters of others and find the light amidst your own
Then you won't question your heart when it tells you who are you…
He who despairs to keep what's beautiful
By wasting off every bit of beauty it bares
He had never had and will never have
But the aftersense of Asmodeus glares.
These, like pride, are just but other forms of insecurity.
Your temptations are not only meant to destroy you,
But to make you a means to destroy
Something bigger and brighter than you.
Look outside your self and furthermore enjoy…
You can never understand something real
When you're listening with a fake ear.
A good listener knows when and how
To make someone shut up and tame his falsified ear.
These are some aspects of proper co-existence.
It's not a relationship if one can not relate.
You can not cut a bridge that you're still crossing unless you want to fall in vain.
The less you are in a prayerful life, the more sick you'll become..
Begging your dawns and brief nights be spared by chaotic rain.
There's no such shallowness to which real depth can not compensate;
So kiss with your ears when your lips have failed. Yes, kiss…
Look with your eyes closed when you can't find while they're wide open
There's quite a gain you'd get for life's every haunting miss.
This could be but a circus of words, should you chose to make it.


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- CPU Socket Type: LGA 1151 (300 Series)
- Chipset: Intel Z390
- DIMM Slots: 4 DDR4
- Maximum Memory Supported: 64 GB
- VRM: 12 Phases
- M.2 Slots: 3 M.2 Slots
Are you an avid gamer and want to build a gaming PC? Or Are you finding the best motherboard for your gaming PC? If yes, then here is good news for you.
Today I will review the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master gaming motherboard. This motherboard is good for Intel 8th generation and Intel 9th generation processor.
So, if you are building your PC with i7 or i9 processor and if do overclock then this board is for you.
This board overclocking ability is great because of solid VRM. I have tested this board with Intel i7 8700k, and the result is impressive. I would say this would be a good motherboard for i9 9900k as well.
As I said the motherboard supports 8th and 9th generation Intel Core Processors, so if you are building with the 8th generation and if you have plans to upgrade the processor in future then go for this.
It has Dual Channel Non-ECC Unbuffered 4 DIMMs DDR4 slots. Its Intel Optane Memory Ready feature ensures a quicker performance to the user. The motherboard comes in the market with an ESS SABRE reference DAC ES9118 sound card.
It has 1 USB 3.1 Gen 2 type C port, 4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports, 3 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A ports. It also has Front USB of 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C Header. It comes with 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector and 2 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connectors. The best thing I love this mobo is it support dual BIOS.
M.2 Thermal Guard – Thermal Throttling:
Now let me talk about M.2 slots. The board has triple NVMe M.2 slots with thermal guards. So, if you have multiple SSD drive then you don't need to worry about heating. You can check the below image how it helps to maintain the performance same.
It comes with dual 802.11ac wave2 connectivity. Wave2 technology almost 12x faster.
Overall I really love this board because of design, performance, price and great VRM. It also has a USB turbocharging technology. You can charge your phone or any device via USB cable very fast.
- RGB Functionality & Great Design
- High Performance & Good for overclocking
- Uses strengthened PCI Express/memory slots.
- Lowest power consumption.
- Still using USB 2.0 ports
- Price is higher than it's competitors
So, the motherboard is great for i7 8700K, i7 9700k and i9 9900k. It comes with great features and the price is not too high. This is a flagship z390 motherboard by Gigabyte. So, if you love gigabyte board and want to overclock and also don't have any budget issue then you should pick this board for your build.


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Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky is often cited as the greatest cinematic artist of all time. His roster of just seven films – including Andrei Rublev, Ivan's His roster of just seven films – including Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood and Solaris – have made him one of the most lauded directors in history, awarded a Golden Lion, the Grand Prix du Jury at Cannes and, posthumously, the Lenin Prize – the highest accolade in the Soviet Union.
Veneration for Tarkovsky has not dimmed since his premature death in 1986, making the recent discovery of a cache of his polaroids a thrilling find. Taken between 1979 and 1984, in the years before his death from cancer supposedly contracted on the set of Stalker, they span his last months in the Soviet Union and the years he spent researching and filming in Italy. Very much in the spirit of his moving image work, they capture nature, individuals and light in images that shine with the singular humanity which imbues his films. He once pronounced that "the director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen…" In these vignettes from his personal world, populated by his dog, his children, his garden and the view from his window, we are left spellbound by a quiet and captivating insight into the world of a man who rendered dreams reality, creating worlds of wonder and truth that have never been equalled despite all the bombast of modern technology.
"I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it's a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it."
Andrei Tarkovsky
More about the life and work of Andrei Tarkovsky you can find here


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Understanding stops (and how to calculate them) is a very important skill that is becoming all but lost in the age of built in exposure meters. Not that there's anything wrong with letting the camera do the mundane work, but what happens when you're going for a shot that's outside the ability of the camera to calculate? For instance, with night photography or when using a neutral density filter to get that nice cotton candy water effect your camera may not have enough light to figure out what's best and suddenly the weight is on your shoulders. The good news is that it's pretty simple if you know how to multiply and divide by 2.
A Brief Aside on Correct Exposure
Correct exposure is subjective, but when speaking in normal terms, a well exposed image has the shadows just above black and the highlights just short of being blown out. (This post is about figuring out equivalent exposures so I'm going to assume you already know how to identify a good exposure.) When taking a picture we have three things we can adjust: the amount of light we let onto the sensor (Aperture), the length of time that light is allowed in (Shutter Speed), and how sensitive our sensor is to the light hitting it (ISO.) When you combine those three things you get the Exposure.
The Stop
When talking to other photographers you'll hear things like "expose it a stop higher" or "when shooting HDR, shoot a normal exposure and shots a few stops higher and lower." What does that mean? It means make the exposure lighter or darker, but beyond that, it means by a specific amount. A stop is a relative measurement of half or double an amount of light and it's useful for quantifying how much of an adjustment we're talking about. (BTW, you'll sometimes see stops referred to as an Exposure Value or EV.)
The Equation
Here's what you need to know. Doubling any one of the three exposure controls increases the exposure by one stop while halving them decreases the exposure by one stop.
- Shutter speed is easy. If you're shooting 1/100, then 1/200 is a stop darker and 1/50 is a stop lighter.
- ISO is easy too. If you're shooting at ISO400 you can stop down to ISO200 for a darker image or up to ISO800 for a brighter image.
- That leaves us with aperture. Aperture is referring to the size of hole in the lens that the light passes through. If you double the size of that hole, you let in double the light. Halve the size and you halve the light. Easy! Aperture is a simple concept, but can be confusing because of how it's measured. Let's stick with simplicity for the purpose of this post and not dive into why those numbers are measured the way they are (I'll cover that in-depth elsewhere, but the short version is that it's a fraction.) Just know that the bigger number means a smaller opening and a smaller number means a bigger opening (so f/2.8 lets in a lot more light than f/11.) Some of the common numbers you'll see are: f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16. (Each jump in that list represents a stop, so f/2.8 to f/4 is one stop. f/5.6 to f/11 is 2 stops. And if you have trouble with memorizing that list, just remember 2 and 2.8 and you can figure out the rest from there by doubling – 2, 4, 8, 16 and 2.8, 5.6, 11)
So, you're shooting at night and you take a shot at 30 seconds, F/11, and 200ISO. Your image looks okay, but your friend shooting nearby says it'd look great if it were 2 stops brighter. So what can you do?
– Change the shutterspeed by 2 stops. Doubling it once gets you 1 minute. Again gets you 2 minutes.
– You could increase the ISO by 2 stops. From 200 to 400 to 800.
– You could open your aperture by 2 stops. From f/11 to f/8 to f/5.6.
All of those examples will work to brighten the exposure, but you could also make smaller adjustments to multiple settings to get two stops. For example, increase the shutter speed to 1 minute and increase the ISO to 400.
Go Practice!
The math is easy, it just takes a little bit of practice and you'll be calculating stops in your head in no time. One of the best resources I've found for online practice is the DSL Simulator at CameraSim.com. Give it a try!


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The candle holder in pewter with a grey stone (an amethyst), was designed by Josef Frank in 1952. When designing the candle holder, he had Estrid Ericson's thoughts about the light at the dining table in mind. During a radio interview in 1950, she commented that candle holders should be high, shining from above rather than below, so not to cast an unflattering light on the dinner guests.
Read more about Pewter's journey to Strandvägen in Svenskt Tenn's magazine.