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Lourdes Duque Barons debut album is a tribute to classic music artists and is a personal retrospective experience, embracing lessons learned through heartache and spiritual renewal.
Los Angeles, Calif. (PRWEB) July 09, 2014
Classic music is back! Multi-platinum and Billboard Award-winning music mogul, Andrew Lane, CEO Drew Right Music, will create a red carpet experience to celebrate the roll out of new music artist, Lourdes Duque Baron (Lourdes Duque Baron Official Website). The event will be held at the Glendale Hilltop Mansion in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 1 p.m. Baron will perform several songs from her debut album entitled Feeling Good At Any Age, which includes tributes to Amy Winehouse, John Lennon, Nina Simone, and Bob Marley, as well as many others.
Many celebrities who will walk the red carpet beginning at 1 p.m will attend the event. Some of the celebrities expected to be in attendance include:
About Lourdes Duque Baron:
Baron is a 67-year-old, award-winning author and singer. Barons singular ability to blend tradition with contemporary color comes to the fore on this set of beguiling cover songs, which simultaneously capture the vintage, sepia-toned feel of her experiences with smoky and sultry sophistication of smooth jazz and retro arrangements. With the official release of the Filipino-singers album, others will discover what Lane calls an amalgam of sound that is genuinely fresh to the ears. Barons CD will be available on iTunes and is already available on MTV at Lourdes Duque Baron MTV Artist Page.
About Andrew Lane:
Lane is a pop/hip-hop/R&B songwriter and music producer who has worked with artists such as the Backstreet Boys and Irene Cara. As a producer and songwriter, Lane has received gold and platinum accreditation for his work with R&B artists Keith Sweat, Speech, and Mary J. Blige. He was also a major contributor to the platinum-accredited records High School Musical, Hannah Montana, and Disneymania. Lane also won a Billboard Award in 2012. For more information on Andrew Lane, please visit Drew Right Music Official Website.
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WALLER -- On Main Street in Waller and in communities around the nation, people are asking themselves the same question about Friday's school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
"How somebody could be so insane to do it," said Ron Rudloff, a customer having lunch at the Varsity Grill.
Here at the Varsity, it's difficult to tell whether they're talking about Adam Lanza, who killed 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary s in Connecticut, or one of Waller's very own. Trey Sesler, 23, is currently spending life in prison without parole for murdering his mother, brother and father last March.
"It's still very painful, said restaurant owner Diana Ross. "It's still just so unbelievable. This kind of tragedy can happen in any town."
It's what could have happened at Waller Junior High School that haunts Waller Police Chief Phil Rehak to this day.
"He actually loaded his weapons and went to the school and waited on the children to exit the building," said Rehak. "And as they started exiting, he had a change of heart. That's about as close as you can get without firing a first shot."
A sentiment perhaps reflected in a taped confession Sesler made to Texas Rangers after his arrest.
"Maybe it was that what happened was too real," Sesler told investigators.
"I just think there was a higher power that was deterring him from doing that," said Ross. "I have a 13-year-old grandson that was in that school."


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Jagex headlines
Try out Transformers Universe this weekend
Transformers Universe opens its doors to all comers this weekend.2
This is what the "average" Runescape gamer looks like
This is kind of cool and kind of silly; Runescape developer Jagex photographed a whole bunch of players in order to generate an "average Runescape gamer" image.2
Transformers Universe clips introduce Meltdown and Duststorm
Transformers Universe, the free-to-play MOTA from Runescape developer Jagex, has two new videos available today. The clips feature Autobot Meltdown and Decepticon Duststorm. The massively online, tactical action game is set for release sometime in northern summer.0
Transformers Universe rejigs from MMO to "MOTA", coming northern summer 2014
Transformers Universe, the long awaited and suspiciously silent MMO project from Runescape developer Jagex, has been reworked as a "MOTA".1
Runescape players raise $90,000 for charity
Runescape 3 players raised over $90,000 to various charities using the free-to-play MMO's Well of Goodwill during the month of November. Jagex said "many tens of thousands" of players chipped in in-game wealth and Bonds to secure $90,838 in donations for the Willow Foundation, SpecialEffect, Action For Kids, Games Aid, Internet Watch Foundation, HART and […]0
RuneScape Old School claims 1 million users, adds God Wars Dungeon
While Jagex launched RuneScape 3 this year, they also launched RuneScape Old School, an older version of the immensely popular browser-based MMORPG. It's now had over 1 million players, and to celebrate Jagex will release the God Wars Dungeon.0
Finale to long-running Runescape quest includes player-voted content
Rise of the Red Axe, an iterated questline in Runescape, is now reaching its conclusion in Birthright of the Dwarves, and Jagex says the finale includes "some story content, rewards, activates, and enemies" that players in the Runescape community designed/voted on in a competition earlier this year. Birthright is subscriber-only, and is out now.0
RuneScape players accumulate one million years worth of gameplay, other stats
RuneScape 3 launched last month, and to help celebrate the third iteration along with the MMO turning 13 years old in January 2014, Jagex as sent over an infographic detailing some rather impressive stats for the franchise.3
RuneScape 3 launches -MMORPG now available in HMTL5
RuneScape 3, the HTML5 version of the once Java-based MMORPG, is live.1
RuneScape 3 will launch in Spanish
Jagex wants to do right by its Latin American fans, and has announced that RuneScape 3 will launch in Spanish when it comes to Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela – among other territories. The localised release comes courtesy of axeso5, which will also provide support and community events. The Spanish-language announce follows on […]0
Runescape 3 will launch around the end of the month
Runescape 3 will launch around the end of the month, Jagex has announced.1
Jagex sales pass $50 million as company deems 2012 as best year to date
Runescape developer Jagex has posted sales of $50 million, marking its most successful year to date. The company now plans to invest its spoils back into its expansion, and to double the size of its development team.1
RuneScape 3: colour your world
More than a decade on from its launch as one of the first browser-based MMOs, RuneScape is heading for big changes. Dave Owen checks in with the apparently immortal "Netflix of gaming" as it prepares to ditch Java.2
Runescape headed to tablets and maybe Smart TVs
Jagex has even bigger plans for its long-running browser-based MMO beyond the upcoming launch of Runescape 3, including branching out to other platforms.0
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Try out Transformers Universe this weekend
This is what the "average" Runescape gamer looks like
Transformers Universe clips introduce Meltdown and Duststorm
Transformers Universe rejigs from MMO to "MOTA", coming northern summer 2014
Runescape players raise $90,000 for charity
RuneScape Old School claims 1 million users, adds God Wars Dungeon
Finale to long-running Runescape quest includes player-voted content
RuneScape players accumulate one million years worth of gameplay, other stats
RuneScape 3 launches -MMORPG now available in HMTL5
RuneScape 3 will launch in Spanish
Runescape 3 will launch around the end of the month
Jagex sales pass $50 million as company deems 2012 as best year to date
RuneScape 3: colour your world
Runescape headed to tablets and maybe Smart TVs
RuneScape 3 announced, launching this summer
Transformers Universe developer discusses PvP-focused gameplay
RuneScape old school server support confirmed
Runescape offers chance to play 2007-era release
RuneScape turns 12, celebrations and new content plans for 2013
Transformers Universe website relaunches, sign up for the beta
Ace of Spades launches tomorrow, 500,000 users have pre-registered
Ace of Spades launches next week for PC, new video introduces the Rocketeer
Carnage Racing speeds onto Facebook
Ace of Spades is the next game from RuneScape developer Jagex
Transformers Universe trailer confirms it's still a thing
Jagex opens US studio, announces Carnage Racing for Facebook
Runescape robber charged with grand larceny
RuneScape has 200 million registered users
Rumour: 8Realms to close, Jagex to cut jobs as result
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When Team U.S.A. walks into London's 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, Friday, July 27, they'll be dressed in an outfit made entirely in China, reports ABC World News.
The news agency took a closer look at the outfit — created by famous American designer, Ralph Lauren — during their "Made in America" segment recently and found every piece was manufactured in China.
In response, Congressional leaders in both houses and both parties expressed outrage at the news.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said that the U.S. Olympic committee should be "ashamed of themselves," according to ABC. Similarly, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-OH. said, "You'd think they know better."
Several leaders have already called upon the U.S. Olympic Committee to ensure that all future U.S. team's uniforms be made in America. Others have asked that they scrap current uniforms and have them remade by an American manufacturer over the next two weeks.
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The cabin is in the middle of nowhere which is just what we wanted. The surroundings are beautifully bleak, and very icelandic, and it is by a little lake with a seating area and some other cabins which were empty when we were there (may). It is warm and cosy and I would recommend it. However, we never saw the owner who said he was too busy to come and collect the cash payment, and ended up taking our payment from my card. This meant we had hundreds of euros we didn't need, and had the inconvenience of carrying them around. The place itself was clean enough although they could do with a visit to Ikea for new bed linen. However the hot tub needed emptying and thoroughly cleaning rather than just adding endless chlorine. As a swimming pool owner I know what I am taking about, but won't go into detail as I don't want to put people off... overall a bargain, and providing you have a car and want to self cater, I would recommend it. Kids loved it too.
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The Cynical Motives of a 'Department of Peace'
Members of Congress still act like they can propose spending on frivolous projects and the taxpayer will foot the bill.
Last week, Democratic California Rep. Barbara Lee introduced the Peace and Nonviolence Act—a bill to create a cabinet-level department dedicated to these laudable goals. And that's where the Washington fun begins.
The congresswoman's office got to issue high-minded, pious-sounding press releases and declarations about how this initiative is needed to address not only wars and conflict abroad but every sort of violence—criminal, gang, domestic, mass murderers—here at home.
Fox News Channel got to run a morning show segment decrying the expense and waste that would be involved—a cabinet secretary and under secretary, seven assistant secretaries, plus other officials and staff. Its commentators could mock the hopeless idealism of supposing that world and domestic peace, no less, can be brought about by the advising, educating, and policy-kibbitzing activities of a federal department.
[See a collection of political cartoons on Congress.]
Presiden Obama's antiwar constituency can be appeased; conservatives can be appalled. But what's really appalling is the cynicism of all this.
First of all, the idea is not new. It's old. Ultra-liberal Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich has introduced this bill in every Congress since two months before the 9/11 attacks. (He was lucky, in 2001, to get it in under the wire; if he'd waited another eight or 10 weeks to introduce it, he'd have looked like a cross between the biggest squish imaginable and an active protector of Osama bin Laden—at the moment when the entire country was screaming for retaliation.)
Second, the idea is completely redundant. For 30 years, we've had an almost entirely federally-funded U.S. Institute of Peace. It occupies a shiny new building next door to the State Department on the National Mall. Originally dreamed up as a counterweight to the Pentagon's War Colleges and defense think tanks, studying how to make war (instead of peace), it's programs have long since expanded beyond interstate conflict to research, teaching, and training on sources of and antidotes for societal violence— including forays into more effective approaches to policing. Practically everything Representative Lee's new federal department would do, the institute already does. But the proposal isn't to elevate the institute to cabinet rank; it's to build something new on top of it. Just the thing to do in a time of out-of-control deficits and run-away debt.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the Democratic Party.]
And then there's the fact that we already have a "Department of Peace." It's called the State Department. Ask anyone who works there—or ever has. They'll tell you: It's their professional mission to keep the United States at peace and to achieve its aims in the world peacefully.
Finally, of course, there's the recognition by everyone in this little Washington footnote drama that there is virtually zero chance of Ms. Lee's bill becoming law at all—at least for now. It's well-known that only 2 percent or so of bills submitted by our 535 enterprising legislators ever get enacted. (After all, that's how the U.S. Institute of Peace got started—a 1976 Senate bill to create a "Peace Academy" that went nowhere until it became a 1979 Carter-era study and, finally, a law acceded to by President Reagan in the midst of the Soviet's election-year-long boycott of the START nuclear arms talks.) So tossing this little feel-good bone to the antiwar left is costless.
[See a collection of political cartoons on defense spending.]
But is it costless? Our nation remains in crisis: over four years of unemployment hovering between 7.5 and 8 percent; sluggish economic growth; run-away deficits, ballooning national debt; a federal government operating without a formal budget for four years, and near gridlock in Congress and between the executive and legislative branches. At such a time, that Rep. Lee apparently felt no inhibitions about introducing a transparently frivolous, wastefully duplicative piece of legislation during the run-up to last Friday's sequester deadline underscores that attitudes in Washington really haven't changed. Members of Congress still act like they can propose spending on anything from a vanity project back home to a symbolic fillip to a core constituency and the taxpayer will foot the bill.
Lofty goals proffered from the most cynical of motives. Sacred cow projects that nicely provide fodder for the 24-hour news channels' outrage mills—whether of Fox or MSNBC. No wonder the American public is alienated and cynical about Washington. It's hard to find a starting point to address such a profound and wide-spread … dare we say malaise?. But one small step might be for congressional leaders to drive a stake through the heart of Rep. Lee's proposed new federal department.


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Availability: Hotel Kyriad Orly - Rungis
Double RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)
Twin RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)
Rungis hotel with a restaurant
Situated near the airport, in Rungis, this hotel is close to Rungis International Market and Portes de l'Essonne Aquatic Centre. Area attractions also include Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art and Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Hotel Kyriad Orly - Rungis features complimentary wireless Internet access. Other amenities include a rooftop terrace and a porter/bellhop.
Room Amenities
Televisions come with cable channels. Guestrooms also feature complimentary wireless Internet access, air conditioning, and climate control.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Kyriad Orly - Rungis Amenities
- General
The hotel offers a restaurant. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. Event facilities measure 592 square feet (55 square meters). A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests at scheduled times. This Rungis hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, a garden, and laundry facilities. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Conference space size (feet) - 592
- Conference space size (meters) - 55
- Total number of rooms - 77
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Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces)
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
Hotel Kyriad Orly - Rungis has a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Check-in time starts at noon
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- Breakfast fee: EUR 9.50 per person (approximately)
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This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
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People come here to fish from their small boats or from the breakwater. The beach is surrounded by low hills. You can park you car on the beach.
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St. Timon and Assisting the World
On the occasion of the Sunday of St. Timon and his congregation's ongoing support of its sister parish in Bosra-Hauran, Syria, Fr. Philip LeMasters encourages us to avoid despair and work to alleviate the suffering of our neighbors wherever they are in the world.
Fr. John Jillions On The Psalms
Dr. Al Rossi welcomes Fr. John Jillions, Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America, to talk about the healing nature of the Psalms.
How to Combat Apathy in the Church (Rom 15:1-7)
Jesus issued a stern warning in the book of Revelation for the church which was lukewarm and apathetic: "I will spit you out of my mouth." Fr. Tom Soroka reminds us that every Divine Service we attend at church, we have an opportunity "practice" the unity and care that we're called to manifest every day of the week.
St. Katherine University!
On a new "Ancient Faith Presents," Bobby Maddex interviews Dr. Frank Papatheofanis, the founder and president of St. Katherine Orthodox College, about the school's new online graduate course offerings.
A New Christendom
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9:00am Monday 3rd December 2012 in Sport By Ed Mezzetti, Sports reporter specialising in Rugby, Cricket and Athletics. Call me on 01865 425456
GORDON Ross refused to take much credit for London Welsh's vital victory over London Irish, writes ED MEZZETTI.
The Scottish fly half had a 100 per cent success rate from the kicking tee in the 15-9 win, but he was not getting carried away.
"The goal-kicking was good, but I think that was the only positive in a pretty scrappy performance both personally, and from the team," said Ross "When they went down to 14, we maybe expected things to happen and didn't work as hard as we have done previously.
"But we won't be too bothered (by that). We have got the victory on the board and that is the most important thing."
Welsh failed to score a try and have played better, but Ross knows they must play within their means.
"We are not daft," said Ross. "We know we are not going to win games by 20 or 30 points like Harlequins, Leicester and Saracens.
"We have got to dog it out every week and scrap for any point, never mind the victory.
"There was probably a better satisfaction in the changing room at Northampton last week when we lost because we played better.
"We wanted to improve this week in certain areas of the game. "We did in one or two, but a lot of them, we lost our shape a little bit and couldn't build too much momentum going forward."
Ross added: "We have got a couple of things we are good at and we will stick at them, but we have got to try and improve our all-round game.
"That's two home games in a row where we have not conceded tries, so that is good.
"We can't fault the effort they are putting in in the front row.
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In separate incidents last week, two motorists were charged with impaired driving after losing control of their cars and colliding with property, Nutley police said.
On Dec. 10 at 2:26 pm, police responded to Jefferson Street on a call of a motor vehicle accident. A car had crossed four lawns before hitting a tree. The driver, 38-year-old Kamillah Corbitt, had watery, bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol, police said.
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An argument between two residents of a Clarksville home Tuesday resulted in a man being jailed on battery charges.
Joshua Johnson, 38, of 204 N. Marshall Ave. No. 5, has been charged with felony strangulation and several misdemeanors.
Clarksville police responded to the area of Johnson's home, after a neighbor had reported a domestic disturbance involving Johnson and a woman.
Police located Johnson and the woman, and reported the two were standing in the doorway of their apartment building in an apparent verbal altercation.
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What I Ate Wednesday Goes Green! [Party #59]
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- Sprint2theTableWednesday, March 07, 2012
Damn... that reminds me I'm out of green tea at work. I was supposed to get more today. *sigh*ReplyDelete
LOVE the green theme!!!!! xoxoxoxoxo
More green tea is a great idea! I'm in!ReplyDelete
Love your Quinoa recipe. How could I forget about green tea?! It's GREEN and I have it every single morning!ReplyDelete
That Quinoa looks so good! I don't think I had quite enough green food...I'll have to try harder next week!ReplyDelete
I love you quinoa - quinoa is one of my favourite carbs so I'm always looking for new ways to eat it!ReplyDelete
All but one of the things I ate for WIAW was green, haha, I do tend to get a bit carried away with themes, but it's a good thing when it means I eat lots of extra veg! Thanks for organising it! :)
falafel balls. enough said.ReplyDelete
Maybe you mentioned and I missed it but what is that photo next to the Falafel balls? It looks like a pasta salad?ReplyDelete
I've got to get on that quinoa like (white on) rice. [Heehee..get it? Maybe? To me that was funny...at 4:30 in the morning. ;)]ReplyDelete
But seriously, I love using quinoa with spaghetti sauce instead of pasta...so why not use it with ASIAN sauce? [And the more vinegar the better...]
I'm with you on the tea (and veggies). I just started experimenting with loose tea, my new obsession. I have my own bags, a tea strainer. Fun. Still have to make that quinoa, I'm thinking Thursday. WIAT ha ha.ReplyDelete
- BeatricelovecatsWednesday, March 07, 2012
how to add backlink to post WIAW?ReplyDelete
More green tea is a great idea. I had a recipe for green tea from the Carb lovers diet. I'll have to find that again, make some and post it. It's supposed to help you lose weight. Hmmm...what did I do with that?!?ReplyDelete
I was a major failure in the greens department yesterday, but I'll make up for it next week. :)ReplyDelete
I posted a pic of quinoa stir fry that I had. Completely delicious and so much better than with rice.ReplyDelete
As for green tea consumption I am with you, and I love the stuff. I got some green tea's from Yogi and have been drinking about 3 cups a day due to how good it tastes.
I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!
I should really keep green tea in my desk at work. I stick to the vanilla comoro though. Any tea is good tea! :) YUM! You had a good week of eats! I need to make sure I consume more greens this week :)ReplyDelete
Love the pressed sandwich. I really need to get more creative with sandwiches- I feel I"m in a rut yet again!ReplyDelete
- lisa@thedailyrundownWednesday, March 07, 2012
I love falafel... did you make them?ReplyDelete
I've never made them at home, but I would like to try bc at a restaurant they are deep fried and I would love a healthified recipe for them!
I LOVE cheese & Triscuits. especially with a thinly sliced green apple. But I really jealous of your habanero cheddar! Need to find me some of that! thx.ReplyDelete
I love the green theme. I try to get Green Tea in my days, too. Doesn't always happen, but it's so soothing. Thanks for hosting, I'm glad I finally got my act together and linked up. Happy WIAW!ReplyDelete
I definitely want to try drinking some green tea too ... what kind are you getting? LOVE the quinoa fried race re-mix. All your food looks so yummy! Can't wait to see you soon!ReplyDelete
hoooorray! i am back in the USA for this. I shall hop in again soon. Just wanted to say hi friend. xoxoReplyDelete
Love that quinoa dish!!ReplyDelete
Falafels were my go.to meal in college... I need more of them in my life!
Go Lucy!!!! Glad you had fun with the theme! Off to read your post! <3 xoxoReplyDelete
Hey Jan! It's tortellini with arugula pesto! should I post the recipe? I didn't know if arugula pesto would weird people out! haha =)ReplyDelete
My greens quota was low too! We'll rock next week! =)ReplyDelete
Hiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get settled soon! love you!!!!ReplyDelete
I buy Yogi Green Tea w. Kombucha and Bigelow's mango green tea! love them so!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
- Traci BlanchardWednesday, March 07, 2012
I LOVE green tea!!The unsweetened iced green tea at Starbuck's is my fave!ReplyDelete
- Kyria_WWednesday, March 07, 2012
I will have to try that quinoa recipe. I love quinoa. I have been eating it almost every day latReplyDelete
Yum - that Falafel Pita looks delicious!! Nada (onearabvegan) had a Falafel #WIAW today too - you ladies are both making me hungry!!ReplyDelete
My WIAW goes green post is up too :DReplyDelete
Thanks for the idea and thanks for collecting everything
Best greetings from Vienna, Austria
Love the theme and I think it's perfect for St. Pattys day too! Have you ever tried Green tea lattes? I think I may switch out my skinny vanillas for one of those!ReplyDelete
Ooh I haven't! I haven't even moved over to iced yet -- still drinking it hot hot hot! <3ReplyDelete
Everything looks so yummy, I drink green tea at work. Trying to drop the coffee for green tea. It is still a work in progress. Hope to be back and post a WIAW next week.ReplyDelete
Whoohoo!! My first WIAW is up! :)ReplyDelete
Girl, do you realize you have almost 200 bloggers (and it's not even the end of the day!) posting their eats on your page? That's pretty darn cool. ;) You rock!ReplyDelete
P.S. You'd be proud of me ... I actually included something green and healthy in my post this week haha! ;)
Looks like a delicious day! Thanks for sharing that recipe!ReplyDelete
I'm a newbie to your blog, but this idea is great! I follow a few blogs that participate in this and was thinking of joining? :o Haha, but all of your food looks great (love your photography!!)ReplyDelete
Good call on the green tea! I think I'll have some right now. This makes me miss the summer days of snacking on peas and carrots in the garden all summer. aaaahhhh almost there!ReplyDelete
Arugula pesto sounds peppery good... if that makes any sense. I don't think it's weird at all. If you don't mind sharing the recipe it would be greatly appreciate by me :)ReplyDelete


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The Phaidon Design Classics iPad Edition and the essence of good design
Emilia Terragni talks through this slideshow of classic designs
Dieter Rams is one of the most influential product designers of the twentieth century and as head of design for 34 years at Braun, he produced a vast array of well-formed products. The extensive Braun Archive and the house of Dieter Rams in Kronberg, Germany, contain the world's most complete collection of Rams' work and designs for Braun. Photographer Florian Böhm was invited to document the archive, providing a previously unseen look at the world of Dieter Rams.
'It was exciting to browse through the densely preserved collection of Braun design history - which is mostly Dieter Rams',' enthuses Böhm. 'Larger objects in the archive stood out, corridors of TVs for example, but a lot of the archived products were concealed in boxes or in shelves, and often in closed storage units. Only a small amount was easily accessible with the camera, more or less by chance, when openly placed, in transition from one place to another or more visibly wrapped in clear plastic.'
Rams is famous for his design principles in the sometimes messy and out-of-control world we inhabit, which are succinctly summarised in the maxim: 'good design is as little design as possible'.
Böhm continues: 'My interest was the condition of the archive, the site itself and the kind of mutated nature these objects seem to have developed within the archive arrangements and their new purpose in this context. I am fascinated with the reality of a physical archive and the analog logistics involved - the labelling, shelving, lighting, protection and accessibility. The preserved objects remain unused and seem to convert to pure information, as carriers of cultural identity.'
Rams' house - his only piece of architecture - is remarkable for the detail and the design principles applied to it. 'One idea was to follow Rams through the house while he was telling personal anecdotes about objects that are meaningful to him,' Böhm explains of his approach to photographing the house. 'A zoom into the higher resolution of the space, a macro view on the personal arrangement of things, beyond the ridged functional first impression of the space, for example, the workshop in the basement of his house, is full of interesting objects and traces of Rams.'
These especially commissioned photographs for Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible explore the Braun archive and Rams' house, focussing on the details which would otherwise be overlooked.
As Little Design As Possible
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In a gutted-out industrial building west of Stockyards City, a squad of men crouched in the shadows, their rifles trained on a stairwell. Soft footsteps approached; someone shouted "Contact!" and was answered with a swarm of gunfire. The first casualty stumbled backward and retreated, blood dripping from his nose.


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Independent Presbyterian Church
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Children's Fresh Air Farm (CFAF)
Click here to read the article in Hoover's Magazine on the IPC Summer Learning Program at the Children's Fresh Air Farm.
2014: Children's Fresh Air Farm receives grant from SAIL Partnership to prevent summer learning loss.
Summer Learning Program
IPC Window issue highlighting the STAIR program (Start The Adventure In Reading) and The Summer Learning Program at the Children's Fresh Air Farm.
We received the following note through our website. It is from a former Children's Fresh Air Farm Camper. The note tells the story through the memory of one who has experienced the love at the Farm.
Honoring the Past-- Meeting the Needs
of the Future
The six-week Summer Learning Program day-camp held at our Children's Fresh Air Farm (CFAF) is one way we seek to share as partners in Christ's service.
Since 1923 our church has operated the Children's Fresh Air Farm for underserved children in our area. After detailed study of the program, we decided in 2010 to add an important educational component. Now the children have six weeks of reading, writing and mathematics in the mornings, and in the afternoons they enjoy art, music, drama, science and recreational activities, including swimming and tennis. The children are those from our STAIR program (Start The Adventure in Reading).
The Summer Learning Program also has Christian-focused bible study and worship with a daily service in the outdoor chapel. The children have responded eagerly to the safe, fun and loving surroundings of the camp filled with many volunteers of all ages, including many of our youth. The children have also made significant strides in their academic studies. Our next goal is to encourage other organizations to form summer learning programs of their own as we all seek to partner in Christ's service.
Thank you for joining us in prayer for this exciting ministry at CFAF. It is a new program for a new day at Children's Fresh Air Farm, and we give thanks to God for this opportunity. We trust God will bless this new meaningful, life-changing and joyful work at the Farm. Join us as we change the lives of children in our community!
The Summer Learning Program:
An outreach mission of Independent Presbyterian Church.
Here are some of the many activities the children enjoy during the Summer Learning Program:
• Science enrichment provided at the CFAF by the McWane Center + a field trip to McWane and an IMAX movie
• "Too Good for Drugs" provided by UAB
• Field trips to the Birmingham Zoo, the American Village, Vulcan Park, the Railroad Park, Birmingham-Southern's Ecoscape and museum, and The Living River Retreat on the Cahaba.
• Tennis lessons with Terry Hamilton
• Swimming lessons
• Clay Creations with Laura and Bill Squires
• Library cards and visits to the Avondale Library
• A special program with singer Roger Day
• Rejoicing Rhythms with Walker Wright
• DISCO Creative Writing workshops
• Music lessons with Susie Bagwell
• Archery with Lily and Britt
• Chapel
• Guest readers
• Singing, games, crafts and fun provided by our IPC Youth
• Two healthy meals and a snack!
As you can see, IPC is providing a dynamic and enriching summer program for our Summer Learning Program scholars. God is blessing your gifts of time, talent, and treasure, and using them to make this summer so very special for these children.
Gini Williams, Director, Children's Fresh Air Farm, Independent Presbyterian Church (since 2010)
It is our great joy and privilege to tell you that we believe we hired the perfect person to serve as Director of the Children's Fresh Air Farm (CFAF). IPC member Gini Williams, wife of Hunter, mother of Hunter and Porter, and daughter of Don and Virginia McCormick, serves as our Director. Gini has worked for many years with Cornerstone Schools, serving as current and founding member of the board and also as Interim Director of Cornerstone Schools when they were between Directors. She comes with excellent experience and credentials and perhaps most important, with deep Christian faith and a passion for making a difference in the lives of low-income children in our community. She knows and loves our congregation and challenges all of us to give of our time, our prayers and our resources to make this program a success at CFAF. Thanks be to God for leading us to Gini and for her willingness to serve in this way! Please pray for her and for the entire staff, volunteers, and children.
Rev. Susan Clayton, IPC Associate Pastor, Director Community Ministries
Please see The Window articles below for all the details.
Window issue June 2012 highlighting the STAIR program (Start The Adventure In Reading) and The Summer Learning Program at the Children's Fresh Air Farm.
YMCA After-School Enrichment Program had Spring Break at the Children's Fresh Air Farm
Who do I contact if I want to help? Contact Gini Williams, Director Children's Fresh Air Farm at firstname.lastname@example.com or 205.822.0150 or
Contact Susan Clayton, Associate Minister, Director of Community Ministries, at firstname.lastname@example.com or (205-933-3709),
One of the windows in the IPC Chapel (above) shows children tending the garden of the Children's Fresh Air Farm. Children and other members continue to tend the gardens of the Fresh Air Farm each year.


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Niagara Gazette
Niagara Gazette — Lisa Mueller wishes she would have had the weight-loss surgery years ago.
Nine months after his surgery, Bill Burkett of North Tonawanda says "I feel like a million dollars."
And Jessica Campbell-Lewis, an nurse supervisor at Summit Family Health in Niagara Falls, is planning to have the surgery as soon as possible. She's living on milkshakes due to a hiatal hernia which causes severe acid reflux and is looking forward to being able to eat regular food, when her hernia is fixed during her gastric sleeve surgery.
She's also looking forward to a more normal life.
"I'm hoping to be able to start to enjoy my children a little bit more, and being able to ride a roller coaster again. I don't fit in the seats."
The three are clients in a new year-old program at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center and all report the weight-loss procedures have put them on a life-changing path to a healthier, more satisfying life.
The program has helped more than 40 patients, who received one of three laser surgeries available, including gastric bypass, gastric bands and gastric sleeves.
Dr. Bala Thatigotla, known as "Dr. Bala" who runs the program with Dr. Dang Tuan Pham, said the life-changing nature of the surgery — which typically also reduces symptoms of diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep apnea — is why its his favorite medical procedure.
"I do a wide range of surgeries," said Thatigotla, who is among the first in the region to perform such complex surgeries by laser with the hospital's new robotic surgery system, called the most comprehensive of its type in Western New York. He said the gastric weight-loss surgery "touches his heart," because it changes lives so dramatically.
"No other surgery can bring this kind of drastic change in personality and quality of life. They have been struggling for 15-20 years and all of a sudden they have a new lease on life," Thatigotla said of his patients.
The new surgical laser systems aids the process because it cuts hospital stays in half, to about 1 1/2 days, and speeds recovery time, he said.
The program, which holds monthly informational sessions for potential patients, along with support for those who have had the surgery, sends patients back out into the community
Campbell-Lewis, a 35 year old mother of two, is not morbidly obese like many of the patients in the program. But, at 266 pounds, her weight has caused a hiatal hernia which is making her life unbearable. She will have a gastric sleeve surgery, where her stomach is trimmed to a shape similar to a banana, a little less severe a procede than a gastric bypass, which converts the stomach into a small pouch that holds about an ounce of food.
As a nurse, employed at a health center operated by the hospital, she's very comfortable with the safety of the procedure. Her initial apprehension was that "I feel like I'm taking the easy way out," but she's on five pills a day for the reflux cause by the hernia, and anxious to feel well again. She's had the pre-tests, including psychiatric consults, nutrition and physical therapy consults, and she is simply waiting to be put on the surgical schedule. "I can't wait," she said.
Lisa Mueller, 51, of the Town of Niagara, who had the surgery in October when she was 400 pounds, also had a hernia repaired during her weight-loss surgery. Because the surgery also impacts messages sent to the brain, she not only eats far less, but she doesn't crave the breads and sweets as she used to.
"It's helped me out a lot. I honestly think I probably would have eaten myself to death," she said. "All I did was eat."
Now, with far more energy, she works out a few days a week at the gym and walks a lot more. She went from a size 32 to a size 12 jeans, "and I haven't worn jeans in 25 years."
Like any medical procedure there are risks and some pain. Both Mueller and Bill Burkett said they woke up after the surgery wondering what they had gotten themselves into.
"It was hell for a few days," said Burkett, who prior to his January procedure had topped out at about 408 pounds. He has since lost about 128 and has none of the knee problems that plagued him from playing athletics in his younger years.
All three patients interviewed said they aren't having many problems with a greatly reduced intake of food. Burkett has two gelatins and two yogurts when he's at work as a truck driver. At dinner, he eats a small portion of protein, such as chicken.
While Mueller confesses that her greatest worry is that the weight will come back, Burkett feels certain he has his diet and his life under control. "The way I feel there's no going back," he said. "I'm very happy with the way I am now."BARIATRIC SURGERY AT NFMMC • For more information on weight loss surgery visit the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center website at www.nfmmc.org • One of many informational seminars is being held 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday at the hospital at 621 10th St. • Sign up online or call 278-4400 for more information.


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Courier Staff Writer
Erica Swanson's jaw dropped when her name was called as this year's Distinguished Young Woman of Iowa.
Joyce Sanchez, chair of Distinguished Young Women of Iowa since 1995, said the statewide program, which has been held in Ottumwa since 1973, benefits Iowa high school seniors "who want to further their education and exemplify that all-around high school girl."
The program provides scholarships for the candidates to use toward their post-secondary education.
"This is a huge honor," Swanson said after winning Saturday. "I'm absolutely surprised. All the other girls here are absolutely amazing and I could see any one of them getting it. I'm really happy."
The program, formerly known as Iowa Junior Miss, changed its name to get away from being known as a "pageant" or the Miss America or Miss USA theme, Sanchez said.
At-large programs were held in Norwalk and Ottumwa last fall, which narrowed down the list of girls to nine: Allisyn Brandenburg of Kellogg, Taylor Hoskins of Walford, Ashlyn Nordyke of Ottumwa, Bridget Anderson of Ottumwa, Mandalyn Martin of Moulton, Tori Caddell of Council Bluffs, Erica Swanson of Ottumwa, Sarah Keith of Ottumwa and Bailey Whitsitt of Urbandale.
Swanson will receive a $1,500 scholarship, raised through funds from Ottumwa's Oktoberfest parade, to go toward her college education. She plans to attend Iowa State University, studying kinesiology and health.
This summer, Swanson will represent Iowa at the national Distinguished Young Woman program in Mobile, Ala., where she will compete against 49 other girls for the top designation.
Each candidate is judged in five categories: self expression, scholastics, talent, fitness and an interview.
Before the event began Saturday night, 45 percent of the candidates' scores had already been decided from their scholastics and their interview on Friday.
The girls put in long hours last week, rehearsing at Bridge View Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, as well as extra rehearsals from 6:30-10 p.m. every night.
They also heard from businesswomen throughout the community, who spoke about being a leader and motivating others.
"It gives the girls self-esteem and interview skills they can take with them forever," Sanchez said.
In 1992, Sanchez's family became a host family for one of the candidates.
"My daughter is an only child, and she thought it would be neat to have a sister for a week," Sanchez said. "It's addictive. Once you get involved, you're hooked."
After an opening number and a song from last year's winner, Rachael Ostrem, the girls completed the self expression portion of the program, where they are asked a question at random and must answer on the spot. Questions ranged from sexting to bullying to obesity.
The Adopt-A-School program is always the candidates' favorite part of the week, Sanchez said. The nine girls were spread throughout the Ottumwa school district at Douma, Eisenhower, Wilson, Wildwood and Horace Mann Elementary Schools. A child from each classroom the girls visited was chosen to go on stage with their "new best friend" Saturday.
Whitsitt was awarded this year's "Be Your Best Self" award after writing an essay about a father figure in her life. While her father was never present in her life growing up, she had two strong male figures to help guide her: her grandfather and her stepfather.
"I was blessed to spend every morning, afternoon and summers with my grandparents," Whitsitt wrote. "I live the way he would have wanted me to."
Her stepfather has also been an important man in her life.
"I'm so incredibly grateful that Mark came into my life and completed our family," she wrote.
The Spirit Award, which is voted on by all nine candidates and goes to the girl who best exemplifies "Be Your Best Self" was awarded to Caddell.