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Assael Architecture kept intervention to a minimum at Century Buildings, breathing new life into a conversion of two central Manchester offices to create luxury flats
Harry Fairhurst could not have anticipated the chain of events he began when he designed the National Building as the headquarters of the National Boiler and General Insurance Company. A terracotta-faced masonry building completed in 1909, it sits to the north of central Manchester on the bank of the River Irwell. In 1971 his practice, Fairhursts, completed a curtain-walled office block on the adjacent site - more tower-like than the National Building, but no taller. And now Assael Architecture has converted both buildings to combined residential use.
Renamed Century Buildings, they are part of Manchester's boom in central apartments for owner occupation and investment letting and boast the city's first £1 million-plus penthouse.All the flats have been sold or are under offer, with a local property paper advertising one-bedroom flats for £195,000 - almost twice the price of a purpose-built one-bedroom flat in Glen Howells' Timber Wharf (AJ 6.2.03), a couple of miles away at Castlefield in Salford. Location, location, location.
Assael's approach to the differing period pieces of the 1909 (listed Grade II) and 1971 buildings has been to respect them and touch as lightly as possible with any new interventions. This was far easier to achieve with the 1909 building than with the 1971 one, whose curtain walling, advanced at the time, would have been interesting to save but could not be upgraded to current standards in an afforable way. The building was stripped to the frame, reclad and replanned, but some original features remain, such as the stair cores and, very noticeably, the deep parapet to the front.
Century Buildings has two facades addressing two very different contexts. To the front (south-east) is Parsonage Gardens, an off-square square enclosed by similar-height offices - one of Manchester's few central urban green spaces. Immediately along the back is the Irwell, here channelled like a canal.
Assael began by adding a floor to each building. On the 1909 structure, this top floor pulled back respectfully from the rooftop towers at either end. (The addition is two stories high at the rear, forming duplexes. ) Project architect Ben Jones reflects that this simple lining through of building heights was perhaps partly a reaction to previous experience in London, where permission to add to a building's height is hard to negotiate.
But in Manchester, it was the planners who encouraged the idea of extending the 1971 building by three stories. Both buildings were substantial enough to support upward extension in steelwork.
The result on the Parsonage Gardens side is ambiguous, with different cladding above and below the parapet on the 1971 building.
Below the parapet the main cladding has some horizontality, corresponding with the 1909 building. The use of timber, besides adding a domestic note in a commercial area, chimes with the colour of the 1909 terracotta.
Above the parapet, the cladding, though set back in penthouse style, reaches up more as if the building were a separate tower. This effect of separation has been accentuated by setting back the new cladding for a bay between this and the 1909 building in a slightly darker colour, and through a more angular rooftop treatment. The cladding itself sits well enough with its heterogeneous neighbours.
The terracotta of the 1909 building was generally in good condition, needing a little local repair. The Crittal steel-framed windows were replaced.
On the riverside, ambiguities disappear and the buildings read separately as two of several along that stretch of the river. The floors of the 1971 building have been cantilevered out at each level and the parapet has been removed; it reads as a tower. The brick character of the 1909 building on the riverside has been respected - the new suspended balconies are shallow planes with unobtrusive clear-glass balustrades. The two new stories stand back from the brick facade beneath an oversailing roof.
This steeply sloping site down to the river edge leaves both buildings high and dry above the water. The older building looks warehouse-like, but it has always been an office;
neither building has ever needed physical connection with the water. Assael added a propped broadwalk wide enough for a potential restaurant tenant in the 1909 building to put out tables, as well as for people to walk past.Manchester City Council sees the potential for a high-level riverside walk here, between Blackfriars Bridge to the east and Calatrava's Trinity Bridge to the west. Waterside paths have been a successful feature of Manchester and Salford's recent renewal.
While the 1971 building exhibits the greatest external change, the 1909 building has changed most dramatically inside. In its former life as an office, spaces were lit back and front, from the street and the atrium. One space was accessed through the next, working out from the core. This dual-aspect daylighting has been retained but individual front doors have been provided by the dramatic device of bridging across the two atria. To avoid making new openings in this listed building, the bridges enter the building via existing window openings (made possible by generous floor-to-ceiling heights), feeding into a lobby to two or three flats. Within the flats, you step down to the original floor level.
(Assael planned the flats, with an interior designer adding further detail. ) The need to reconcile different levels led to some of the bridges being sloped, but this feels entirely fitting. The bridges' tubular steel and cable structure at each level (which also carries some service facilities) is a single, self-supporting framework in each atrium, independent of the existing masonry structure. Thus the bridge-ends simply rest on the floors - you step up onto them. Not surprisingly, fire engineering was needed to make the case for this whole approach.
The atria are unheated, providing natural ventilation for the flats (with fire closers on the windows). The rooftop extension features new glass atrium roofs, set off by uplighters.
Perhaps surprisingly, Century Buildings has just one entrance - the original main entrance of the 1909 building. Assael initially planned another entrance for the 1971 building. The cost of manning a second entrance would have been high, but an electronic entry system might have been used. As it is, occupants of the 1971 building have a long walk to their front door. The circulation space around the original staircase also feels a bit cramped and enclosed, particularly compared with the daylit atrium leading to it.
But such compromises always come when working on existing buildings, and should not detract from the impressive ingenuity Assael has exercised here, breathing vibrant new life into these two buildings - a sensitive response.
Summary based on tender sum Cost per m 2Percentage (£) of total DEMOLITION 17.35 2.09 SUBSTRUCTURE 4.80 0.58 SUPERSTRUCTURE Frame 36.81 Upper floors 14.90 1.80 Roof 30.12 Staircases 10.77 Atria bridges 37.29 4.50 External walls, balconies 170.38 20.54 Windows, external doors 27.70 3.34 Internal walls 40.61 4.90 Internal doors 39.22 4.73 Group element total 407.80 49.16 INTERNAL FINISHES Wall finishes 21.33 2.57 Floor finishes 43.90 5.29 Ceiling finishes 15.07 1.82 Group element total 80.30 9.68 FITTINGS AND FURNITURE 68.59 8.27 SERVICES Plumbing, sanitary, disposal, heating, electrical 120.84 Lifts 33.25 Group element total 154.09 18.58 EXTERNAL WORKS 8.57 1.03 PRELIMINARIES, INSURANCE 71.90 8.67 CONTINGENCIES 16.11 1.94 TOTAL 829.52 Cost data provided by Assael Architecture CREDITS TENDER DATE February 1999 START ON SITE DATE March 1999 CONTRACT DURATION 33 months GROSS EXTERNAL FLOOR AREA 18,168m 2PROCUREMENT Design and build TOTAL COST £12,099,322 CLIENT Nicholson Estates ARCHITECT Assael Architecture: John Assael, Russell Pedley, Phil Bangs, Ruiridh Hogg, Ben Jones, Gary Stanesby, Adrian Waters, John Desaleux, Tim Ashcroft, Jaimie Watler QUANTITY SURVEYOR, PROJECT MANAGER GTMS STRUCTURAL AND SERVICES ENGINEER WSP FIRE ENGINEERING Fire Safety Consultants ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT Hann Tucker CLADDING CONSULTANT Wintech INTERIOR DESIGNERS Mary Fox Linton, Tegerdine Associates LIGHTING CONSULTANT Isometrix PLANNING CONSULTANT Drivers Jonas MAIN CONTRACTOR CH Pearce SUBCONTRACTORS Cladding Parry Bowen;
frame steelwork LM Engineering; atrium bridge steelwork TP Aspinall & Sons; fireresistant windows Fireshield Glazing; balustrades Sovereign Stainless Fabrications; fire protection Fire Protection Service; mechanical Lorne Stewart; roof, external soffits Briggs Roofing; electrical Yates & Reece; terracotta repair Maysand; lifts Rubax Lifts SUPPLIERS Cables Norseman Gibb; metal decking Alusuisse; rrazzo Quiligotti; rubber flooring Dalsouple; single-ply roofing Sarnafil
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On a tuesday that happens to be Earth Day, the world falls away as the Cessna lifts into a fat blue sky. Megan Kimble of Edible Baja Arizona and Seth Cothrun of the Sonoran Institute sit in back, offering me the copilot seat. We're flying today with LightHawk, a nonprofit environmental organization that uses volunteer pilots and their aircraft for conservation—today, our goal is to trace the length of the Santa Cruz River. Our pilot, Will Worthington, is a former chief civil engineer for the Central Arizona Project. He knows water. And he knows history. Today, he's our guide at the controls as we fly the river of the Holy Cross, 200 miles from its headwaters in the San Rafael Valley to the Gila River, in two hours. The last time I made this trip, it took eight years.
This will be a celebration. When I traveled the Santa Cruz for my book Dry River, I did it by car, by foot, and by horseback. This will be a perspective without the inconsistency of roads, without climbing barbed wire fences and steel-walled borders, without navigating the political boundaries of three separate nations the river runs through. It will be from the perspective of continuity, of the connection we all have with water in a desert land.
From Canelo Pass, the San Rafael Valley drops away to the south. Ropes of green, where oak and juniper mark every wrinkled drainage, crisscross a broad rolling plain. Mountains shoulder the valley—the Huachucas on the east, Patagonias on the west—their peaks blue-gray above a brown world. Seventy-five miles from Tucson, we fly over the headwaters of the Santa Cruz River. Like the veins of a giant cottonwood leaf, these tributaries gather a river that spills into Mexico.
Between one and two million years ago, shallow runoff poured into these intermountain basins, charging aquifers and depositing gravel and sand from the eroded aprons of the mountains. This was the time of the great inland seas, like Lake Cochise. In this valley, as sediments moved among previously isolated basins, a "proto" Santa Cruz River formed, flowing only south. Over time, the river continued to join basin after basin, raising terraces in one place, only to redistribute them elsewhere. Eventually, the river took its present shape, surging across this land, connecting basins like threading beads on a string until finally the beads slipped the necklace to join a young Gila River on its way to the Colorado River and the Sea of Cortez. Ebb and flow, the recurrent pattern of life, gave birth to the Santa Cruz River.
"Looks like a scene from the Pleistocene," I say into my headset over the roar of the engine.
"They've found mammoth kill sites on the San Pedro River in the next valley," Seth adds.
I imagine the first people who trickled into the San Rafael Valley between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, Paleo-Indians following the trails of mammoth and bison. As the Ice Age drew to a close and the land relaxed under warmer skies, this valley may have helped nomadic people settle into communities and become hunter-gatherers.
At the Lone Mountain Ranch, 10 miles east of us in the Huachuca Mountains, archaeologists have uncovered human occupations spanning more than 11,000 years. Today, a gerrymander of oak woodlands and grasslands drapes hills cut by riparian drainages, ephemeral streams reduced in the dry season to chains of pools. Lone Mountain is littered with prehistory: boulders etched with human figures; fire-cracked rocks circling roasting pits; grinding stones resting among flakes of obsidian, pottery shards, and small, triangular projectile points.
The San Rafael Valley holds a long, nearly continuous presence of humans. Ten thousand years ago, people of the Cochise culture shared the grasslands with fantastic animals like lions and camels, and long-fanged dire wolves. They camped here to harvest wild grains and parch them in hearths of incandescent coals. Three thousand years ago, the area was home to people who roasted agaves and feasted on the dark, sweet, molasses-like cores.
For thousands of years, this place has drawn people, the latest being 19th century homesteads and cattle ranches. What they all have in common is their connection to the valley, to the resources it provides, and to the river that sustains them. The entire Santa Cruz River, from the headwaters in this valley to the Tucson basin and beyond, braids together the footpaths of humans dating from prehistory forward. The river has made it possible for people to find their way in the world.
"There's the border," says Will. "Comes up quickly—we're in Mexico. Can you see water in the river?"
"Yes," Seth says. "There's water. And fields—what are they growing? Alfalfa?"
At the bottom of the San Rafael Valley, we trace an undivided ribbon of trees. Cottonwoods rise out of the riverbanks like dark smudges among polygons of bright green. A river in the service of agriculture. Orchards and alfalfa fields signal the region's principal economies: cattle ranching and apples.
"And here's the town of Santa Cruz," I say, pointing ahead. "The town that gave the river its name."
The bell tower of a church with its eggshell dome and simple cross rises out of a crowd of metal rooftops. This is where Father Eusebio Francisco Kino founded a Jesuit mission in 1693. Kino named it "Santa María de Suamca," combining in his usual way both the Spanish and native tongues (suamca is an O'odham word meaning "immaculate"). The river and the town were named for a wandering Spanish fort, Santa Cruz de Terrenate, which began on the San Pedro River but moved and remained here until the end of Spanish rule. Eventually, Santa María de Suamca became the town of Santa Cruz, and the Rio de Santa María became known only as the Santa Cruz River.
Soon, we fly above the town named for a man raised from the grave, San Lázaro. Here, the Santa Cruz River renews itself, beginning its trademark U-turn to loop around the south-pointing finger of the Sierra San Antonio before flowing northwest back toward Arizona.
San Lázaro, like the village of Santa Cruz, is a ranching and agricultural community, whose 900 residents depend on the perennial flow of the river. One way that the river's importance to the community has manifested itself is in a conservation program called Los Halcones, the Falcons.
A decade ago, Los Halcones rose out of the inspiration of Joaquin Murrieta, who was then the culture and conservation director of the Sonoran Institute's Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Program. The Tucson-based Sonoran Institute works to help communities make decisions and policies that respect both the land and its people. Joaquin, who grew up in northern Sonora and received his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona, believes that the way to help preserve the Santa Cruz is to engage people on both sides of the border. In San Lázaro, Joaquin began meeting with local ranchers and farmers, but soon realized that better progress could be made by involving the town's youth. Los Halcones was born when the Sonoran Institute rehabilitated an old clinic building, giving the teenagers a place to meet and organize cleanup campaigns and fieldtrips for restoration work and surveying bird life.
One of the goals of Los Halcones is to work with ranchers around San Lázaro to find alternative sources of water for cattle, excluding them from the riparian area where they trample banks and graze on young cottonwoods and willows that would otherwise provide food and shelter for wildlife.
Today, Los Halcones continues with the help of the regional, cross-border conservation organization, Sky Island Alliance, also based in Tucson. "Last year," says SIA's Christopher Morris, "we installed just over five kilometers of fencing [to keep cattle out of the river] with the goal of being able to revegetate the riparian gallery. We also installed about 575 willow pole plantings with help from the residents."
"The environment doesn't have borders," says Sergio Avila, SIA's program manager. "People from both the U.S. and Mexico share a closeness to it."
As we turn toward Arizona again, I look toward the Sierra de Pinitos whose upwelling flanks bend the river from south to north, and the distant Sierra Azul, land of ocelots and jaguars. The people of San Lázaro, following after the town's namesake, are resurrecting a river.
"I've heard that the river never flowed its entire length," says Will.
"Only in flood," I say. "Historically, the Santa Cruz only came to the surface in about five or six reaches, or stretches of the river, one of them right here near Kino Springs. These are the places where people lived, where Padre Kino established his missions and visitas: Guevavi, Calabasas, Tumacácori, and San Xavier. The water was life."
I search the mesquite-smudged banks of the dry riverbed near Rio Rico for the mud walls of Guevavi, Kino's first mission in what is now Arizona. Megan taps my shoulder and points to a sudden bloom of green in the channel. "Outflow from the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant," I say. "The cottonwoods start here and the gallery stretches north all the way beyond Tubac. A river reborn from flushing toilets."
Seth reminds us of the cottonwood die-off from 2005, how scientists learned that inadequately treated effluent from the facility was growing algae that choked off the trees' water and nutrients. "Caught us completely unawares," he says. "So the Sonoran Institute began tracking the health of the river and publishing a 'Living River Report.'"
The facility, which has served both sides of the border since the 1940s was due for an upgrade, especially since between 1990 and 2000 the population on the Mexican side grew to more than 200,000 people. A $60 million expansion came online in 2009, and the difference in water quality was astounding. In just three years, the Institute's sample survey from Rio Rico to Tubac showed the population of native longfin dace and nonnative mosquitofish increase from two to nearly 2,000.
North of Tubac, the river channel begins to change, broadening and deepening into high-walled chocolate banks. "See where the cottonwoods disappear? We're over the Tohono O'odham Reservation. I say. The river retreats underground where it flows into these deep intermountain regions with thousands of feet of valley fill. It always has. In 1852, despite a wet summer monsoon season, U.S. Boundary Commissioner John Russell Bartlett noted that about nine miles north of Tubac, the Santa Cruz River went dry.
Seth mentions the former mesquite bosque that once blanketed the desert south of Martinez Hill where the Santa Cruz once resurfaced. "It's all gone," he says, "with the river."
"The O'odham have created a restoration site at Martinez Hill," I say. "Using Colorado River water, the tribe has a forest of cottonwoods and willows on the dry banks of the Santa Cruz. Temperature drops 15 degrees when you walk into it."
I point out the gleaming San Xavier del Bac Mission off to the left. "The river originally flowed closer to the mission. Sam Hughes, one of Tucson's pioneers, caused the big ditch we now call the Santa Cruz River after his irrigation works went awry in the 1890s. All this was farmland before then."
"By the 1980s," Will adds, "the farms in the San Xavier district were largely fallow, primarily due to lack of water." Will explains that the O'odham sued Tucson and others for taking water for which they had prior rights. The case resulted in the Water Rights Settlement Act, which stipulated the tribe would get 27,000 acre-feet of CAP water within 10 years. "The Bureau of Reclamation completed the aqueduct and had water delivery as promised, though the O'odham were not ready to take delivery immediately. Looks like the San Xavier farms are doing well."
I chew on the irony and it's like biting on aluminum foil. We have our own river, yet we must import another one—the Colorado—from 300 miles away and lift it 2,400 feet through pumping plants, inverted siphons, canals, and pipelines for the spigots of Phoenix and Tucson. Nature undone. Gravity overcome by coal.
As Seth points out, the Santa Cruz has sustained people for 13,000 years, sustained agriculture for over 4,000 years. It is why Tucson is here after all. "We must reconnect with the river," he says. "It's not simply a flash flood basin running through our town that is empty 10 months a year. If we want to build a movement that focuses on growing appropriate crops, that supports local farmers and ranchers, and restaurants that support those farmers and ranchers, then we can't ignore the river that runs right through our heart."
The peak called A Mountain comes into view and beneath it, the dry swath of river that is the birthplace of Tucson. Adobe walls, made from the dirt beneath them, enclose an orchard: Mission Gardens. The four-acre plot is where friars once tended fruit trees and vegetables. I recall a recent visit to the 200-year-old Franciscan church at Tumacácori, where work has begun to re-establish historical fruit trees at the mission's original orchards and gardens. As part of the Kino Heritage Fruit Trees Project, researchers combed Father Kino's journals and other early accounts. They searched mission communities, ranches, and abandoned farms in Sonora as well as ghost towns and the backyards of 19th century homes in southern Arizona. After locating colonial period trees, they collected seeds and cuttings and grew them at nurseries like Tucson's Desert Survivors.
Park Ranger Vicki Wolfe had given me a tour of the Tumacácori orchard. "We are planting fruit trees from stocks introduced in the region by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th and early 18th centuries," she explained. "Apple, pomegranate, fig, quince, pear, and others, as identified by the project." The trees were small, but I pictured in a few years walking along shaded paths beneath spreading branches of ripening fruit. I imagined tasting the sweet flavor of Spanish history.
As part of the Tucson Origins Heritage Park, the newly reconstructed Mission Gardens under A Mountain has become another home of the Kino fruit trees. But the gardens will do more than represent some monk's quiet retreat. This is becoming a one-of-a-kind living museum. From the Hohokam and Tohono O'odham to the Spanish, Mexican, Chinese, and territorial Anglo-Americans, Tucson's first farmers will be honored by interpretation of the longest known history of cultivation in the United States.
Will asks permission from the tower at Tucson International Airport to fly into their airspace. "We're on a reconnaissance mission of the Santa Cruz River," he says.
"We'll try to keep traffic away from you," says a voice on the radio.
Picacho Peak lifts its dark head in the distance. Near Avra Valley Road, we fly over a straight line of green. "That's the CAP aqueduct," Will says. "It goes underground as a siphon to get beneath the railroad, I-10, and the Santa Cruz River before reappearing as an open canal again."
Tucson, Will explains, had been the largest city in North America entirely dependent on groundwater. "With alarming rates of groundwater overdraft, Tucson was destined for traumatic changes in lifestyle. The CAP was basically their salvation."
I think about how a thousand years ago, the Hohokam built their canals in this same place to irrigate their fields of corn and squash. I imagine circular pit houses of brush and mud among the irregular geometry of green, crowding a river of cottonwoods. The Santa Cruz River, more the dry aftermath of water than a flowing desert river, connects more than a landscape. It connects the past with the present.
We can't go back, even a hundred years, in terms of the way we use the river. But we can get better. I grew up with Beat the Peak, Tucson Water's public education effort to address summer shortfalls before the arrival of the Colorado River. The program has led to an awareness of the importance of saving water all year. Today, Tucson Water focuses on being water-smart with programs like Conserve to Enhance (C2E), which links individual water conservation directly to restoration of urban washes and riparian areas. By tracking how much water they save at home, participants can donate their savings to environmental restoration projects. In southern Arizona, participants have already banked more than 3.2 million gallons of water for the environment.
The Sonoran Institute's vision for the Santa Cruz River includes enhancing water infiltration, securing river flows, and protecting and raising groundwater levels. The Institute's annual Living River Report and water quality monitoring at Rio Rico are just two examples of their ongoing work. "What's exciting to us," says Emily Brott, SI's project manager, "is that it's about engaging the community."
She sees a future where communities work for land and water policies that support the conservation of our natural and cultural resources, where people look for a return of the river.
From a distance, all things look small. Like the planet looks small from the distance of the moon. Small, as in NASA's image of Earth, known as "the blue marble," from Apollo 17 that has adorned Earth Day flags since the 1970s. From this perspective, you see how connected we all are, and how this place that connects us is all we have in the black emptiness of space. It doesn't take much imagination to unwind our long history here in this very valley—hunter, forager, farmer, consumer—and see how we all have relied on one pale blue thread in a vast desert place. The Santa Cruz River, our home. ✜
Sonoran Institute. 44 E. Broadway Blvd., Suite 350. 520.290.0828. SonoranInstitute.org.
Visit LightHawk.org to learn about how volunteer pilots donate flights to elevate conservation.
Ken Lamberton's latest book is Dry River: Stories of Life, Death, and Redemption on the Santa Cruz (University of Arizona Press, 2011). His next book, Chasing Arizona: One Man's Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State, is forthcoming from UA Press.


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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Maple Oat Scones
If you are a maple fan, get ready for a party in your mouth. This recipe is similar to Starbuck's version. I found the original recipe through pinterest, changed a few things to make it gluten free and egg free and now I'm having a hard time saving any for the rest of my family.
1 1/2 cups Natalie's Gluten Free Flour mix
1/2 cup oats, finely ground OR oat flour
1/2 cup oats, coarsely ground
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup chilled butter
1/4 c coconut oil (be sure to melt before measuring)
2 Tablespoons maple syrup
1/2 cup heavy cream
3/4 white chocolate chips
Scone wash:
2 T coconut oil
1 Tablespoon heavy cream
Maple Glaze:
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2 Tablespoons heavy cream
1 Tablespoon maple syrup
1 teaspoon maple extract
1. In a large bowl, combine the scone dry ingredients. Using a pastry blender, cut the butter in until pieces are smaller than the size of peas. Stir in the chopped pecans or white chocolate chips.
2. In a small bowl, stir together the cream, coconut oil, and maple syrup. Add this to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Do not overmix.
3. Remove dough from bowl and knead until it holds together. Pat the dough in to a 7″ circle that is 1 1/2″ thick and cut into 8 wedges. Use a spatula to carefully place scones onto a greased cookie sheet or parchment paper covered cookie sheet. Brush tops and sides with scone wash. Bake at 375F for 20 minutes.
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Thank you Cybele Pascal @ Allergy Friendly Fridays, Gluten Free Fridays and Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays for allowing me to share this recipe with your readers.
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I am truly becoming a huge fan of maple. Its only been recently in the last year that we'd used it so much more in our baking and cooking! YUM. This looks great! Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! :)ReplyDelete
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A weight-loss plateau occurs when you no longer lose weight despite continuing with your exercise and healthy-eating habits. Being stuck at a weight-loss plateau eventually happens to everyone who is trying to lose weight. At that point, losing additional weight becomes more difficult. Although hitting a plateau is common, most people are surprised when it happens to them, believing that if they just maintain a reduced-calorie diet, they should continue to lose weight. The frustrating reality is that even well-planned weight-loss efforts can become stalled.
What causes a weight-loss plateau?
The progression from initial weight loss to a weight-loss plateau follows a typical pattern. During the first few weeks of losing weight, a rapid drop in pounds is normal. When calories from food are reduced, the body gets needed energy by releasing its stores of glycogen, a type of carbohydrate found in the muscles and liver. Glycogen holds onto water, so when glycogen is burned for energy, it also releases the water — about 4 grams of water for every gram of glycogen — resulting in substantial weight loss that's mostly water.
A plateau occurs because your metabolism — the process of burning calories for energy — slows as you lose lean tissue (muscle). When you lose weight, you lose both fat and lean tissue. (The notion that overweight people have a slower metabolism is a myth. In general, the higher a person's weight, the higher the body's metabolic rate.) Your weight-loss efforts result in a new equilibrium with your now slower metabolism. This means that in order to lose more weight, you need to increase activity or decrease the calories you eat. Using the same approach that worked initially will maintain your weight loss, but it won't lead to more weight loss.
How can you overcome a weight-loss plateau?
If you're at a plateau, you may have lost all of the weight you will given the number of calories you're eating each day and the time you spend exercising. At this point, you need to ask yourself if you're satisfied with your current weight or if you want to lose more, in which case you'll need to adjust your weight-loss program. If you're committed to losing more weight, try these tips for getting past the plateau:
Don't let a weight-loss plateau lead to an avalanche
If your efforts to get past a weight-loss plateau aren't working, talk with your doctor or a dietitian about other tactics you can try. You may also want to revisit your weight-loss goal. Maybe the weight you're striving for is unrealistic for you. If you've improved your diet and increased your exercise, you've already improved your health even without further weight loss. For those who are overweight or obese, even modest weight loss improves chronic health conditions related to being overweight.
Whatever you do, don't revert back to your old eating and exercise habits. That may cause you to regain the weight that you've already lost.
Source – Mayo Clinic
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When I went searching for images of pain and suffering online, I was surprised to see that many of those images had to do with tears, oppression and isolation. Others, more disability-oriented, had to do with wheelchairs, crutches and braces. My own takeaway was that everyone can feel the effects of depression, isolation and oppression and attribute both pain and suffering to these conditions, but only some know the like of physical loss that renders them confined to chairs, braces or crutches. The image above is an illustration from "Guinevere's Jealousy" by Tennyson. It offers to us the idea of secret suffering as a kind of etiquette of pain's expression. What the lady is in pain from, we cannot know and I do not know the image maker. I will include credit if one of you readers can supply me with the information I need... But, the notion of "suffering silently" for the sake of those around you, is not new. And it has been a burden particularly for those of us with "invisible complaints" that has been difficult for us to shake and even more difficult for others to accept. Once an individual begins to speak aloud about epilepsy or any other ailment, there is a powerful inner voice suggesting it was not a good idea to bring it up at all.
Many of us are keenly aware of a kind of barrier that persists, keeping us from excising at least some of the crushing pain and suffering we feel through the act of sharing. While it has long been thought that secret pain is the rule, we have learned that secret pain can twist and warp personalities, leaving some of us more vulnerable to others.
In the image below is a good articulation of the landscape the artist imagines of secret pain.
The individual expressed by the central human head, is in agony, the crushing pressure of two screws working to compress his head. Tryng to relieve the pain, He opens his mouth to speak, but finds only a grimace at his disposal. The clock tells us that the individual has endured this condition, and will endure this condition over time. That it will end and begin again, interminably. The artist (who, again, I cannot know..) communicates at the top of the work that there is a barrier at the edge of this territory of pain that cannot be crossed. He even suggests, by the prominent placement of a Death's Head, that the barrier could represent thoughts of death as an escape from pain like this. As you examine the piece, you see other smaller images and note that the shape overall is like a cloud, or a fog of pain.
This image is no fairytale representation. It is edgier, to be sure, But instead of suggesting "silence as etiquette", it suggests fear of pain and suffering and a yearning to end it by any means. That this is the modern etiquette of the already invisible disabled, to suffer silently, then when it becomes too much, yearn to die.
David Brooks, in his New York Times op-ed, "Death and Budgets", suggests that one way to cut Medicare costs is to impute to the disabled a sense of a "duty to die", for the good of the nation, rather than to go on existing as a mere "bag of skin" costing millions to sustain. Granted, Brooks was inspired by a friend with ALS whose stated desire is to die before his condition renders him incapable of doing the things he considers significant to living life, and then apparently Brooks coupled this inspiration with the thought that if more folks would think like this, it could be a budgetary windfall for the nation's health care systems. His intention seems to be that we could lighten the load for everyone else if we encouraged the thought that the ill should consider dying more quickly when it is clear that they cannot be cured.
So, referring back to the second image, this becomes a pressure, like the screws represent, on the invisibly disabled. Epileptics have been keen to keep their condition secret for generations. Many of us still will not speak about it, and with pressure like this suggestion that we have a "duty to die when we cannot be cured" the freedom to speak out becomes more difficult.
Rhead, George Wooliscroft & Louis. "Guinevere's Jealousy" from Tennyson, Alfred. Idylls of the King: Vivien, Elaine, Enid, Guinevere. New York: R. H. Russell, 1898.


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AND in recent times that obstetricians delivered babies. From time
immemorial, midwifes and the mothers themselves delivered their babies, and
this was quite a different scenario from the "doctor in stark white" and
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reporting of the figure in white, and bright lights etc exists in all
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At the Threshold of an Era
"Chou Sai Gei"
Tim : Gallen Lo
Biu: Sunny Chan
Keong: Roger Kwok
Yen: Kenix Kwok
Hing: Flora Chan
Wai: Maggie Siu
Ning: Ada Choi
Hang: Nicky Wu
Kan (Tim's father): Chow Chung
Lei (Hang's father): Chan Pui
Ping (Hing's mother): Liza Wong
Leung (Hing's father): Kwok Fung
Mun (Tim's sister): Grace Yip
Chan (Tim's mother): Cheng Ho Wai
Po: Lei's eldest son
Teng: Worker's head
Episode 1
Yip Weng Tim (Gallen) is into import/export trading. He is great old buddy and ex-classmates of Biu (Sunny) and Keong (Roger). Biu and Tim are also members of a 'Preparatory Arrangements Committee' helping in the re-structure of their mother school. As an architect, Biu is put in-charge of the architect design of the building. Tim's Trading Company designed a new game product "The Tamagotchi", he is hopping for his new product to strike famous at the Toy Exhibition. Unfortunately, one of his worker cheated the company's money and left him in great debts. In order to settle this urgent matter, he has no choice but to cheat the 'Preparatory Committee's money". His other friend Keong is working in the bank and when Keong knew about Tim cheating, he help to cover it. But when Biu knew about it, he go straight to Tim and hit him with his fist. He even warn Tim that he is going to expose him. At this time, one of the buyer Chan Wing Yen (Kenix)come to look for Tim, she complain about his product and demand for a return of money. While they were struggling in the argument, Yen drop her purse accidentally. Tim chase Biu to their mother school while trying to stop Biu from exposing him. Biu couldn't bear to see Tim's future get ruin because of this, he asked Tim to settle the money fast.
Episode 2
Keong try to return the purse to Yen, and realised that Yen's mother is suffering from cancer, and is in need of money. The Toy Exhibition is round the corner, Tim than realised something has gone wrong with his "Tamagotchi" products, he has to hurry to China to settle it, at this moment, Yen came to settle money with him. When Yen knew that Tim's mother Chan ever get her cancer treated and cured in China, Yen asked Tim about the address to Doctor Fai. However, too bad, Doctor Fai has already shifted place. Yen went to ask Tim for help again. Tim is impressed by Yen's great determination and he offer to accompany her to find the doctor. However, the doctor had pass away. Yen has no choice but to return to Hong Kong in dissapointment. During the exhibition, Tim's whole family came to help. Yen came too to do some charity work. However no body seems to be interested in the new game. Tim feels depress. In order not to get Biu into trouble, he has no choice but to sell the copyright of the "Tamagotchi" game to the Japanese. He than settle the money he own the school. In this process, he met a lawyer Hin (Flora). Biu change his job to work in "Ming Tai". The big boss of "Ming Tai" has a son Yip Weng Hang (Nicky)who treat his staffs to dinner, he than met Tim, Biu realise that Tim and Hang are actually cousin. Tim reveal that Hang's father Lei framed his father to jail many years ago. Tim warned Biu to be careful of Lei and his son. Later Tim realise that "Ming Tai' is going to buy over the building he and his family is staying. He purposely asked for a higher price, but he gets something in reverse, later on, the window of Tim house was cover by big huge posters
Episode 3
Tim was so mad with Lei that he went to ask Hing to sue Lei. In between Yen's mother passed away, Keong stay by Yen and
give her all the supports, he even offered Yen to stay at his place tentatively. Hing and her mother Fong Kien Ping (Liza) went shopping in branded shops and meet Hing's father Fok Geng Leung's 'rumours' girl-friend Hong. Hong's attitude is arrogant and so Ping take this opportunity to teach her some lessons. Hang (Nicky) meet Hing and is captivated by her beauty. Tim's office building's electricity and water supply was cut-off by somebody, the reporters knew about it and come for the news, they camera Tim leading the people fighting for the welfare of the neighbourhood. Tim took this opportunity to reveal that her father Kan (Chow Chung) once went to jail because of an illegal case - (short-cut workmanship)in a construction case. Hang asked Biu for help to be the peacemaker, to ask Tim to rest the conflicts arise from selling of the building. Right at this moment, the
police investigated and found out that the mastermind who cut-off the electricity and water supply was none other but Tim. Biu thinks that Tim has gone too far and beside bringing harm to others, he would harm himself, Biu go and see Kan, Kan is also worried about Tim getting into trouble, so he went to "Meng Tai" to see Lei. When Tim knew about this, he angrily went to "Meng Tai" . Kan asks Lei not to harm Tim, in return Lei wants Kan to place an announcement ad in the newspaper claiming that the 'illegal construction' case was none of Lei's business. At this moment, Tim bang into the room and spilt liquor at Lei.
Episode 4
Kan angrily slap Tim, at the same time promise to do what Lei said. Tim decided to close-down his company and to start
afresh. Biu thought that Lei would be unplease with him because of Tim, but Lei told Biu that he is only concern about his work performance and that he can differenciate between work and private matters. Biu is embarrass. Wai (Maggie) wants to set up a PR company, and asked Hang to invest. Hang agreed immediately. Tim was lost about his future, after listening to some words from Kan, he decided to venture into the Real Estate. He starts off by working as a Property Agent. Because of the lacking of knowledge about building, Tim was mock by his client. When Biu knows about it, he ask Tim to starts from the basic, Biu introduce Tim to work in the construction site. During Tim's first day at work, he is discriminate by the head worker Teng. Tim make use of the soup Yen cook for him to please Teng, and he succeeded in getting into Teng's circle of people.
Episode 5
Yen wins a prize of 2 air-tickets to Taiwan. Keong wholeheartly expecting Yen to invite him along. Keong met Tim's sister Mun dating a guy. Mun ask Keong not to tell her brother Tim. Yen is secretly in love with Tim, she invited him to Taiwan together. Tim rejected her because of work. Keong knew that Yen's heart is with Tim, he pretend to be alright but in his heart, he feel so sad. Tim gets himself drunk and Yen send him back home, their eyes met each others and both are moved in feelings. But Tim try hard to suppress his feeling and left alone. Yen watch Tim went up a yellow car and feel dissapointed. Tim re-encounter Ting Ning's (Ada) uncle and aunt, it brings back some of his memory with Ning last time. Tim ask Keong to look up for Ning when Keong goes to Taiwan. Keong found Ning at a disco in Taiwan. Ning recall her encounter with Tim in Macau 3 years ago, and how he dumped her in Taiwan, she ask Keong to bring back a parcel to Tim. After Tim listened to the tape Ning sent him and saw her picture, he feel guilty. Yen saw that and she immediately understand that Tim is afraid to let her down. Keong has a client Foon Poh (old lady) who has 3 village houses but in big mess, Tim decided to take this project.
Episode 6
Tim succeeded in persuading the worker's head to return to work (from the strike) and he also persuaded Foon Poh (the old lady) to sell him half of her properties. Tim than set up his own Construction Company. He slowly trick Biu into helping him with the architect design. Wai's PR Company is having its open house ceremony, Hing found out that Yen actually speak fluent French, she sincerely invites Yen to join her in the Law-firm she works. Wai is busy with her PR job and neglected Biu, Biu is unplease. Biu is working on an environmental architect project but Lei criticize it. Lei than asks Po (Lei's eldest son)'s assitant Peter to work together with Biu on the alteration. Biu is unhappy. Ping is surprise about Hang going after Hing vigorously. Ping found out that Leung has an affair with her good friend Bo Ee, Ping is deeply hurt and decided to divorce Leung. Lei take this opportunity to go after Ping when he help her to look for a new house.
Episode 7
Wai hold her company dinner at a hotel. The hotel suddently caught fire and left Wai in
big mess. Biu help her to look for another places, but he get scolded by Peter for not
attending their meeting. Biu is angry of being accussed by Peter. Biu pointed out that Yun
paid too high a price for construction materials. Yun is not happy with Biu for giving his
comments, Tim is actually glad about this secretly. Hang help Wai to solve problem in
getting to rent a place in the hotel. Wai's mother take this opportunity to please Hang.
Biu is depress. Yen resign her job from Hing in order to help Tim in his re-establish
Episode 8
After Biu completed the Environmental Project, he tended his resignation. However Wai didn't support him in his move. Biu feels the difference of themselves in their relationship. Biu decided to join Tim in his company. Tim is overjoy. Hing is depress and moody because of her parent's divorce. Hang is at her side giving her the console. With Teng's help, Tim employ some illegal refugee workers. Yen sense that Tim's company needs money so she use her own money to buy materials for the company. She even runs around many places trying to bargain for a good price for the materials. Tim feels guilty when he knows that. Biu and Keong take out their saving, and Tim suggested that they use the money for promotions. Biu and Keong didn't know whether that's the right move. Lei give Ping an antique watch for present. He tell her that he had bought this watch for 20 years and waiting all his while for this moment to give it to her. Ping is touch. Hang and Hing's relationship develop fast. When Hing realise that Ping is dating Lei, she is troubled, however Hang takes this lightly. Hing is angry and left. Wai went with Hang to a ball party and was camera by the reporters, they even reported that Wai plays her PR tricks on the rich and famous. Biu read the paper and he is unhappy with Wai. Tim has no money to pay his staffs, so he call the police to arrest refugee workers. Biu etc lecture him for been cruel. The air-conditioner at Tim's construction site was stolen by Siew Mo. Tim and Yen decided to take it back, but they accidentally bump into Siew Mo while taking it back. Tim and Yen managed to 'defeat' Siew Mo and take back the air-con. Tim than go to Macau to ask Sor Gor to settle this case. Tim didn't expect Sor Gor to side with Siew Mo instead. Tim is injured and try to run away, he escape to Ning's old resident place and meet Yen there. Yen takes care of him.
**NOTE: Summaries provided by Dale of the Kenix Kwok Forum. The picture above belongs to the TVB.


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The Pros and Cons of Nintendo Wii
Investing in a new games console can be a difficult task – with about three main players on the field, it's hard to determine which is best for your preferences. Typically the Nintendo Wii Console is one of the major consoles and is a favourite for a lot of households. However , is it just about all great? There are a couple of conditions that make it a second choice regarding Play station fans and Xbox fans – exploring your entire options and considering the advantages and disadvantages of the Nintendo Wii Console will surely help you make a decision as to whether not really or not you should buy it. The thing is adverts on tv nearly daily for the Nintendo Wii console. Since among the UK's most well-liked consoles, it's not surprising that most people you meet will both own a Wii or have at the very minimum played on one before. Regardless of its various flaws, the particular Nintendo Wii has a fantastic capacity to bring families together, plus more than anything else; bring a working aspect to video gaming.
For many years, playing video games was considered as something that lazy folks did – and it ended up being frequently associated with causes of weight problems. Prior to the Nintendo Wii, playing computer games was also known as an anti-social activity. Together with numerous hardcore gamers wasting hours and hours in front of consoles or perhaps computers, it wasn't cannot be entirely true. However , in a world where technology seemed to be (and still is) growing, the Nintendo Wii console is the very first of the main unit providers to provide a completely new way of gaming. Wireless technology has already been obtainable, but Nintendo delivered it to a new stage when they released the Nintendo wii console console in late 2006.
About Nintendo Wii
The Nintendo wii gaming console was the 7th generation gaming system from Nintendo and was the replacement, beneficiary to the Nintendo Game-cube which usually hit retail stores in 2002. Having a gap of practically four years, the Psp 3000 console was certainly very anticipated. Because its discharge, the Nintendo Wii has busted numerous sales records across the globe and in Japan is currently the class leading console in terms of total income. In Australia, the Wii console beat the Xbox 360 console for being the fastest selling video gaming system system in Australian background. With hugely effective gross sales figures, came a slight issue with availability. In 2007, Designers announced that there may be several issues with availability because of these kinds of high demand. Despite reportedly creating in excess of 1 . 8 thousand units per month, the Nintendo wii console was still a tough item to have hold of – selling out there almost as soon as it struck the shelves in stores just like Game and Argos.
Nintendo's Objective:
Nintendo as a business have usually been concerning promoting the fun side regarding gaming. With the Nintendo Wii they will wanted to bring this forwards even further. In December 2006, Satoru Iwata (President and BOSS of Nintendo) insisted "We're not thinking about fighting Fiat, but about how numerous people we can make to play games. The aspect we're thinking about most certainly is not portable systems, consoles, etc, but that we wish to acquire new people playing games. " The Nintendo Wii was The primary console to bring about a fresh way of playing video games. Often the game-play utilised the action sensitive controller, permitting a lot more active game-play style. However, as the very first console plan to bring about this alter, certainly there were a few teething troubles. Later fixed by the "motion plus accessory" these difficulties weren't a big problem. Still other consoles had started out work on their competing goods (Play station Move and Ps3 Kinect). So as you can see, the truly amazing issues about the Wii can cause some poor. But we need to weigh it up properly using a great old fashioned pros and cons record.
The Pros:
- Fantastic Enjoyable
- Easy to Play
- Great Range of Online games
- Online Game-play using Net Wi-Fi Access
- Active Games Style
- Lack of DVD MOVIE Player (again, when comparing in opposition to competitors)
- Poor Internal Storage area Size
As you can see from the collection above, the pros do outbalance the cons. However, Don't really think this tells the complete story. Deciding whether or not to get the Nintendo Wii console is focused on preference. In the event you like serious shoot 'em ups, amazing graphics, massive hard drive potential etc. then the Nintendo Wii may disappoint you. However , an advanced00 casual gamer and you just like the enjoyable side of games (believe Mario and Yoshi! ) and are not also fussed about graphics and so forth then the Nintendo Wii will definitely preserve you happy.