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Unbundled ISPs are more popular than ever with Sky announcing rapid growth of its broadband service. What they don't tell you is that you could be stung with a £125 charge if you opt for a fully unbundled service. In some cases, if a customer wants to switch back to a BT reseller ISP, or to another fully unbundled ISP*, BT …
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I'm emigrating to NZ and dreading the broadband situation. There is no LLu out there and you have to pay through the nose £15 a month for 1Gb total upload and download !! For 80gb it is £75 every month
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Rock climbing has restarted full bore after a spell of rain. We finally had a few days with a proper circuit warm-up on dry boulders! It was amazing! For the first two weeks we didn't have a 24 hour period without some type of precipitation so it feels great to finally have multiple days with sunny skies!
The climbing here is great, the rock is awesome and there are so many boulders it's unreal. Warming up at Isatis is a blast. There are so many easy problems that you can get a good flow on the rock and try to maintain that fluid movement as you start working on harder climbs. When it's cold and dry, the rock is very sticky but not nearly as grippy as the rock in the southeast, especially the feet. Pof has been used extensively here for quite some time which has done a number on the rock. Pof is a resin that climbers have used here to help their feet stick to the rock. From what I hear it works well in the short term, unfortunately the long term result is slippery black rock that is very hard for your rubber to stick to.
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Alex has switched into full crush mode… He's too modest to tell you so I will. Every problem he gets on gets done with the quickness, unless it's a 6a warmup at Isatis.
Like Alex said earlier, the weather has switched from relentless and crappy to beautiful and inspiring. Conditions could not be better. The rock glitters in the sun as if it is begging to be climb.
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Bison Meatloaf
Karen Averitt, Ted Turner's personal chef, shared this hearty yet lean bison meatloaf recipe.
- Servings: 10
Source: The Martha Stewart Show
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for baking dish
- 2 pounds ground bison
- 1 yellow bell pepper, stemmed, quartered, seeded, and ribs removed
- 1 red bell pepper, stemmed, quartered, seeded, and ribs removed
- 1 large sweet onion, peeled and cut into quarters
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh sage
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano
- 2 cloves garlic, halved
- Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 cups homemade or low-sodium store-bought chicken stock
- 2 cups red wine
- 1 cup sundried tomatoes, julienned
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly oil a large baking dish; set aside.
Place 1/2 pound ground bison, 1 piece of yellow pepper, 1 piece of red pepper, 1 piece of onion, 1 1/2 teaspoons rosemary, 1 1/2 teaspoons sage, 1 1/2 teaspoons oregano, and 1/2 clove garlic in the bowl of a food processor; process until well combined. Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Repeat process three more times with remaining bison, peppers, onion, rosemary, sage, oregano, and garlic.
Add 2 tablespoons olive oil to bowl with bison mixture and season with salt and pepper; mix until well combined. Using your hands, form bison mixture into a loaf and place in prepared baking dish. Transfer to oven and bake for 30 minutes.
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Meredith Davidson 25 Jul, 2013
Delicious! We just moved so I hadn't unpacked my food processor yet, chopped everything REALLY finely and it worked well. I suggest just slightly less than the 2 tbs of each herb and cook in a wide enough pan that the juices reduce enough. We made a gravy out of the pan juices and that seemed to be more satisfying than straight pan juices.
Definitely make this though!! Really good flavors.Reply
monalh 27 Feb, 2010
If this is the same recipe used at Ted's Montana Grill, you're in for a treat!! It's the best meatloaf ever... Thanks for sharing this recipe.Reply
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If this is the same recipe used at Ted's Montana Grill, you're in for a treat!! It's the best meatloaf ever... Thanks for sharing this recipe.Reply
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Thanks for putting this on the website. I loved the show and wanted an easy way to cut and paste the recipe. I'm very impressed with Ted Turner's conservation works. Another great episdoe.Reply


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In 2013 I was in the process of launching the Construct Foundation. I was looking for the right professional development opportunity to help me form the building blocks of a new kind of education foundation. I researched everything from MBA programs with a social mission to weekend workshops for non-profit leaders. Throughout my search I kept returning to Portland State University's Business of Social Innovation, a new online certificate delivered by Impact Entrepreneurs in the School of Business Administration. The new program prepares changemakers to tackle the world's most challenging social and environmental problems.
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Find Your Inner Hammer Thrower; A Call to Struggle
By Cindy Cooper, Co-Founder and Director of Impact Entrepreneurs
Sometimes I get stuck on a problem. I am not sure how to proceed, and I get scared I will choose the wrong path. Sometimes, I let that uncertainty stop me, and that can feel like this: Phew.
I feel relief that I've saved myself the embarrassment and pain of making a mistake. I can simply focus on what I know and feel good about my past successes, rather than attempt something that makes me feel naïve or dumb.
But other times, I keep trying, turning over rocks, and puzzling through it. My proudest accomplishments have been those that did not come easily. Reading "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" by Dr. Carol Dweck, I understand why venturing into discomfort can build confidence whereas reveling in the easy zone diminishes self-esteem.
Dr. Dweck's research shows we have enormous capacity to grow our intelligence and abilities in every realm: art, business, sports, love and anywhere in between. A growth mindset not only builds our brains and brawn, but it also builds resilience, and who can't use more of that.
In college, I got my fair share of good grades. I graduated a semester early, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. I also avoided classes based on difficulty. I was perfectionistic in most of my activities. Fortunately, I also tested myself. This was easier to do in areas that were less tied to my sense of self worth, such as sports. I wanted to be as good as I could be, but I had unburdened myself of the pressure of being great. So, after illness and injury, I was willing to give up being a sprinter and try my hand at hammer throwing, despite lacking all requisite talent and size to be any good. I was awful. I cried a lot after practices. I think Coach Goldhammer (yes, his real name) was teasing me when he told me to quit. His advice was, "Stop thinking!" I had no idea how to do that.
The truth is I could use my physical limitations and lack of experience as excuses, but this time my weaknesses made me lift more weights and stay out on the field long after most people had left. And at some point, something changed. I started to improve, and gosh was it ever fun! But, don't get too excited. This isn't a Cinderella story. I never did throw anywhere near as well as my teammates. Still, I felt self-respect and self-esteem that I didn't get from earning As in Psychology and Spanish, which came much more easily than spinning around and pitching a hammer across a field. And that's a key lesson in Mindset: It's not the easy route that makes you feel good about yourself, it is the process of striving out of your reach until you get there.
At our final intercollegiate meet, the SCIAC competition, I threw a personal best. In his last note to me of the season, I received the best compliment from Coach ever: "Nice SCIAC meet! You are a come-through performer."
With time, I've become braver. I have gotten better at giving myself permission to reach into uncertainty, despite not knowing how things would turn out. I have been willing to switch careers to seek more purpose in my work. I have worked with partners and teams to start businesses and programs in uncharted territories. That doesn't mean I am reckless, or that I am not ever afraid. I am careful when my choices impact others, and pretty much all of them do. I still find myself answering questions like: "What's the worst that can happen?" The answers are important.
I am applying similar dedication to my personal development. I pay attention to choices and behaviors. I seek out different perspectives when I am stuck. I (usually) believe that being a work in progress is a good thing. I truly believe I can be more fulfilled, purposeful and happy. I have learned I can have more positive impact by learning to be a better me.
As the new school year begins, it seems appropriate to celebrate the growth mindset by trying something new and challenging. I can't make up for the times I've shied away from challenges, but I can approach the future with greater courage. I've never written an article like this before. I am an educator, after all, shouldn't I have the answers? How will it look to admit publicly that I struggle with not knowing? I'm going to find out. This time, I am excited to learn from the experience. My heart is actually pounding right now, but I know that excitement and fear can both trigger this physical response. I choose: excitement.
How about you? How will you celebrate your wonderful, grow-able brain?
PSU Graduates First Class of Social Innovation Certificate Participants
Portland State University's Impact Entrepreneurs recently completed the pilot year of the new Business of Social Innovation Certificate, a professional and academic certificate delivered from within the School of Business.
The program's goal, audacious from the start, was to greatly enhance an individual's likelihood of transforming world-changing ideas into reality, whether working within an established organization or launching their own.
Aside from the ambitious mission, even getting the program up and running seemed like it would require some magic. The Impact Entrepreneurs team had only a few months to run design sessions for the program; tackle online learning tools; recruit instructors; record lectures; attract and register students; and move through the local, state, and regional accreditation processes.
Each term of the first year of the certificate was as much a challenge for the team delivering the content as it was for the cohort executing the coursework. Everyone involved was working hard, from the instructors to the diverse cohort of undergraduate and graduate students, nonprofit executives and for-profit business managers. Students completed three intensive online courses, attended site visits with twelve local social enterprises, and a developed a full business plan. What was the result of this collective marathon? Outstanding emerging ideas to address social problems and invaluable feedback based in experience to drive the program into year two.
The program participants developed:
Construct Foundation's new Citywide Design Challenge for students, to be announced during Design Week Portland.
A new learning center at Universidad Catolica del Norte in Chile to improve retention and graduation rates.
A childcare facility for homeless families that offers fees on a sliding scale and flexible hours.
A cause marketing campaign to enable local breweries to support the Oregon Food Bank through competitions and seasonal beers.
New ways for NGO Lanyi Fan's programs to support sustainable entrepreneurship in West Africa.
… and more.
What they thought:
The Social Innovation Certificate program was an inspiring, positively challenging, practical experience that provided tools, insights and resources to convert ideas to sustainable actions that drive change. It supported my professional and personal goals in a meaningful, invaluable way, and facilitated a stronger network of passionate individuals of diverse backgrounds, committed to addressing systemic issues and opportunities in our community. - Rhian Rotz, Director of Corporate Citizenship, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, Portland
The program not only taught me how to start a business with a social mission, it also changed my ideology about the business world and gave me direction for after graduation. It was hard work but the benefits that I gained from the program are countless. I am so happy to have been a part of this experience and consider it an important milestone in my education as well as my personal life. - Patrick Ditty, Heavy Equipment Technician at Peterson Machinery, Portland
The program has been an amazing experience for me next to my doctoral studies in education at PSU. The classes, online discussions and assignments have provided me different skills I can use as I think and develop ideas as an entrepreneur. The framework in which the content is developed is flexible and inclusive. You will experience, in a close-to-the-real setting, how to develop your idea step by step with excellent feedback from your peers and instructors. I totally recommend taking this program. - Paulina Gutierrez Zepeda, Assistant Professor at Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile
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How to Map Your Career on One (Big) Page
How often do you apply the same level of planning and strategy to your own career decisions that you do to your business decisions? Tim Clark, author of Business Model You, does it all the time. If a business model is the logic we use to create value for our enterprise, he considered, why note try the same for our professional lives?
Today Tim Clark is seen as the leader of the global personal business model movement. A trainer, teacher, and entrepreneur, Clark has authored and edited five books on business and personal development. Among these was the handbook Business Model Generation, which introduced the Business Model Canvas to the world, led to the creation of Business Model You, and is now used by over a million people across the globe.
This summer Tim Clark joined Impact Entrepreneurs to take participants of the social innovation certificate program through a powerful four-step method to draw their "personal business models."
The exercise started with a recognition that our world is changing fast, in ways no one can predict, and that any plan should be flexible and ready to adapt.
At this point Clark introduced the Business Model Canvas, which is a visual tool built for simplifying complex ideas, and for revealing unspoken assumptions. It looks like this:
After the introduction to the business model canvas, Clark asked participants to get personal and begin reflected on their own interests, skills, abilities, personalities, and assets. Then Clark introduced the Business Model You Canvas, which looks like this:
At this point students were encouraged to use piles of Post-Its to come up with just one word about what they do. This was generally focused on what they do at their job, but extended into their personal lives.
Then they figured out the value of their activity – and not just in terms of deliverables, or ways that they do the activity – but the actual value that is realized through the work they do.
Next they had to think of whom they help. As Clark defines them, customers are anyone for whom you're creating value.
Once the value and the customers were identified, listing the key channels was next. In this context the channels would be the means through which people would be made aware of the value offered.
After those were dialed in, participants rapidly filled in the rest of the canvas.
In the second part Tim Clark asked students to look at their canvasses and say, "ok – that's where I am, but where do I want to go?" And then, in a flurry of new sticky notes, students explored their futures.
Parts three and four were about perspectives – participants organized into groups to share feedback and suggestions. The canvas-creator was challenged to listen without "defending or debating."
The Business Model You exercise is something anyone can do, and it goes far deeper than this three-minute summary. You can use the tool to help identify purpose, tell your story, and to turn your ideas into action. You can find a ton of information about it on the Business Model You website, and you can pick up the book there. Think of it as a "one-page method for reinventing your career".
Hacking Social Impact, for Gaza Sky Geeks, for Humanitarian Response, for Impact at Scale
Last week, Northwest Social Venture Fund co-hosted a series of 7 brownbag talks in support of Gaza Sky Geeks, a Mercy Corps + Google for Entrepreneurs founded accelerator, which aims to generate a spirit of empowerment and a homebase for tech entrepreneurs in Gaza, who are creating new businesses and developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem, in some very difficult conditions.
Innovators gather at the Stanford Center for Social Innovation
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Many individuals who attended gatherings in behalf of Gaza Sky Geeks, or who responded through social media, email or other avenues, let us know that they directly have a family, personal, or business connection to Gaza and Israel, that they have been thinking of their ties to the area and not knowing what is occurring on the ground, how to approach discussing the conflict with colleagues, friends and family, or how to absorb the dark, complex topics of the conflict while also maintaining personal motivation to contribute, and to find avenues to supply time, skills, donations, or support to the longterm humanitarian recovery response.
Impact Hub Berkeley, in Berkeley, CA
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For our team at NWSVFund, to feel inspired to contribute to a humanitarian challenge, but to be disconnected from any actionable way to contribute, is heart-wrenching. We are so grateful to have a strong network and community, where we can work together to address challenges in conversation, and in action.
On this particular effort with Gaza Sky Geeks – Tom Sperry, from Rogue Venture Partners and one of the original advocates for Gaza Sky Geeks, Allison Deverman Vietor, founder of Tech4Change, a Mercy Corps partnership with Startup Weekend, and Lynn Le, founder of Society Nine and formerly at Portland Seed Fund, as well as NWSVFund's founding partner Carolynn Duncan, a longtime supporter of Mercy Corps special projects – have independently been championing Gaza Sky Geeks, and through the brownbag series, were able to rally collective local networks to bring a broader, community-level awareness to the work that the Gaza Sky Geeks team has been doing to deploy entrepreneurship as a humanitarian tool to inspire longterm economic vibrancy for local Gazans.
On campus at the UC Berkeley Blum Center
Social entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley's OnRamp program
We'd like to warmly thank our hosts at the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Impact Hub Berkeley, UC Berkeley Blum Center, Mercy Corps, Mercy Corps Action Center, NedSpace, and StarveUps, for facilitating dynamic conversations and sharing Gaza Sky Geeks and Northwest Social Venture Fund's work with their communities.
Mercy Corps Action Center, in Portland, OR
Innovators gather at Mercy Corps Action Center
To continue amplifying the message about Gaza Sky Geeks' important work, we invite folks to get involved by making a pledge to their upcoming Indiegogo campaign to support the accelerator's operational development, and to make a personal contribution in any form, whether via crowdfunding, broadcasting promotional materials about the Indiegogo campaign to your network, working on special projects, or mentoring Gazan tech founders over the long haul as they work to establish sustainable businesses that provide jobs and hope locally.
Lynn Le, Carolynn Duncan and Iliana Montauk, at NedSpace
Innovators gather at NedSpace, in Portland, Oregon
Likewise, Northwest Social Venture Fund will continue to offer opportunities and special projects, that strengthen scalable social entrepreneurship and impact investing as two important tools in our overall mission, to reduce suffering in the world -
Our upcoming unconference, Hacking Social Impact, is a great avenue to connect with our team and work shoulder to shoulder on special projects and learning new skills in tech, finance, and impact, in order to become a more effective practitioner. We will focus this year's unconference on how YOU can engage in scalable social entrepreneurship and impact investing, to make a clear and helpful difference to humanitarian initiatives like Gaza Sky Geeks and other special initiatives that we support and advocate for.
To get involved with Hacking Social Impact as a volunteer, sponsor, partner or speaker, please complete this registration link.
Gaza Sky Geeks' Iliana Montauk speaks to StarveUps founders
Carolynn Duncan, Allison Deverman Vietor, and John Friess at StarveUps
NWSVFund's Carolynn Duncan, and StarveUps' John Friess
We also offer the Impact Investing Education Series, for university students, philanthropists/investors, fund managers and practitioners, who wish to more fully engage in the impact investing space, and bring personal skills in finance + impact up to speed through hands on learning in investment frameworks, impact metrics, analytics, and due diligence. To sign up for our fall IIES programs, based from NWSVFund offices in Portland, Oregon and Boulder, Colorado, and open via Google Hangouts video conferencing to participants anywhere in the world, more info is available here.
Finally, what impresses our team at NWSVF so much on a continuous, ongoing basis as we do our work in the impact community, is how much each of YOU really care, and for that, we are so grateful. If we can assist with something you are working on, we hope that you will reach out to let us know.
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Bringing it Home: A Social Innovation Summit for the Pacific Northwest
If the 2013 Elevating Impact Summit in Portland was a wild experiment, the 2014 Summit brought it home. For two years in a row now, hundreds have gathered for a full day of stories, discussions, and activities focused on social innovation across sectors and ages. The annual Elevating Impact Summit has become a touchstone for changemakers in the Pacific Northwest, and its value transcends the conference. Highlights from this summer's event provide us with a social innovation roadmap, a lesson plan for our future, and an unending source of inspiration.
The Elevating Impact Summit will always highlight past experiences and great accomplishments, but it will also reveal insights into rising trends and the innovators who are building our future. The 2014 Pitch Fest was the stage for six local social entrepreneurs presenting their ideas in three minutes each. The audience voted on their favorite, and the winners received cash and legal support. Find out about this year's winner here and watch the rapid-fire event play-by-play.
Kat Taylor's presentation was smart, raucous, and authentic, much like her big idea. Through the verticals of food, energy, and money, Kat Taylor and her husband are disrupting the investment industry. They started by taking management roles in companies and organizations in all three areas to glean insights. What they came up with, in addition to a variety of new ventures, is what they call "beneficial banking." They sought to leverage the great promise of what was previously known as banking, but this time to do it differently. In her morning keynote, Kat Taylor described how.
Marc Freedman's mid-day keynote encapsulated one of the core themes of the 2014 Summit: the massive potential in unleashing the skills of the boomer population for the social change sector. After searching the US for examples of people who weren't satisfied with retirement and who had dedicated themselves to pressing social challenges, Freedman formed Encore.org. The organization supports people who are crafting careers later in life that combine not only continued income but the promise of more meaning – and the chance to do work that means something beyond oneself.
Victoria Hale delivered the final keynote of the day. A quintessential example of the power of social entrepreneurship, Hale created the world's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company. She has set out over the last decade to develop new medicines, and also to address the traps of poverty with collaborations across sectors and around the world. Hear Hale grapple with current challenges, like marketing to the poor, past learnings, like focusing on a great solution rather than trying to address every single problem, and how she has found a way to build precious medicines that belong belong to humanity, not to patent owners.
The first discussion brought together three amazing women with in-depth experience dealing with impact capital. The panel explored impact funding and investments from three distinct angles. This panel included facilitator Carolynn Duncan (TenX, NW Social Venture Fund) and panelists Molly Lindquist (Consano), Melissa Freeman (Oregon Community Foundation), and Gun Denhart (Hanna Andersson).
The next panel continued along the theme Marc Freedman brought to the table in his keynote. The panelists looked at Encore Purpose, or the unique value that people in their "second half of life" bring to the world and to the field of social innovation. This panel included facilitator Erin Flynn (PSU Strategic Partnerships), and panelists Derenda Schubert (Bridge Meadows), Heather McHugh (Caregifted), and Marc Freedman (Encore.org).
The third panel in the series looked not at one specific demographic, but at the great potential of diverse communities. This discussion centered on empowering diverse communities through the lens of design thinking, international development, and inclusive innovation. The panel included facilitator Jennifer Allen (PSU Institute for Sustainable Solutions), and panelists Steve Lee (Ziba), Dwayne Johnson (Center for Inclusive Innovation), and Najia Hyder (Mercy Corps).
The final panel was not a panel. Behind every business, organization, or movement there a story that is as important as any new idea. The second Elevating Impact Summit removed the veil by challenging three changemakers to share their personal stories. They surpassed all expectations. This storytelling session featured Katrina Scotto Di Carlo (Supportland), Tim Carpenter (EngAGE), Deena Pierott (iUrbanTeen), and Pam Campos Palma (PSU)
Before they left for the day, attendees recapped their 2014 Summit in their own words:


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Yet another busy week around our household. Last night, Patrick, my second oldest, had his Western Iowa Conference Middle School Honors Band concert. He plays percussion and loves the variety of instruments available to him. Hubby was able to get off work and we drove out to Audubon to see the show. I was enjoying the time with hubby so much, we missed the turn for Audubon. I forgot it was by Atlantic and made it almost to Adair. Way too many "A" towns to keep track.
We still made it on time and the show was fantastic. It was fun to see a larger band than we normally see at our school.
Tonight, I get to travel to Treynor for Mikey's WIC Middle School Honors Choir. He's my oldest. He went last year, so I should remember the way there and I know I need to get there early. Last year's concert was so amazing, I was almost in tears at the end. Four hundred kids singing beautiful classic music and finishing with a patriotic medley. I get so tired of our elem school here in town always singing pop songs. I am really impressed with our Middle/High school music teacher. She is wonderful!
Hopefully, today, I'll find the energy and time to work out. Yesterday I was wiped out from TOM, but also had to sit around for a delivery that needed my signature. Today, I'm free until the road trip. I just need to shake this mild headache. I also need to get back to eating right. Sunday, the kids talked me into a Mexican grill we love. No, I didn't get the salad. Yesterday, Patrick found a Chinese restaurant in Atlantic, and we were celebrating his big night. I missed the salad bar which was tucked back in a corner. I NEED to be good the rest of the week. I've made progress recently, but have also had the set-back of being sick too. I want to stay in the 160's.
Have a great week everyone! Mine gets a little easier after today.
Well, I finally got my first workout done in over a week. I could only manage 2/3 of it. I was hoping to complete 3 sets of my weights and crunches, but I was just too choked up. My sinuses are better, my chest is still a little congested. This cloudy, drizzly weather isn't helping my mood either. I'm trying to get going and stay positive, but I just can't manage as much physical activity since the illness.
This week doesn't seem so busy. Next week we have Honors Band for Patrick, Honors Choir for Mikey, Parent/teacher conferences, and St. Patrick's Day. I see the kids don't have school the day after, so maybe we'll be able to go out for our corned beef and cabbage. Otherwise, I have to cook at least four. They shrink up so much, and the kids love the meat.
I worked this last weekend. It went much better than my previous work weekend. The previous one, I was wondering why I still worked there. It would be great if I could get a job out here in my small town. Less pay, I sure, but also less stress, no commute, and I save a ton on gas. Still working on my Iowa license. I've got to send off the final form and order study materials for the test. Wish me luck.
Hubby and I didn't stay mad at each other too long yesterday. He's been really sweet and understanding about how sick I feel. I'm glad we don't ever stay angry long. That's helped us stay together for over 16 years and raise six kids.
I was stressed about Freshmen registration for my oldest. Some of the high school requirements were getting in the way of his schedule. For Freshmen year, PE was the big problem, required one semester every year in high school. The counselor was fantastic to speak with. She told me he can waiver out of PE with a full academic schedule. Mikey will be able to continue with both band and choir. He's made Honors Choir twice now, and had a superior rating with a solo competition. He has a fantastic deep voice and the choir really needs him. Hopefully, they will add an eighth hour so he can take Spanish too.
So, much less stress today. The morning went smoothly. Patrick wasn't coughing as badly. Hubby didn't holler to me that he couldn't find such-and-such.
Now, if I could only shake this sinus/chest congestion!!!!
Okay, I have to vent. I lost it this morning and snapped at Hubby pretty bad. In my defense, he snapped first.
You moms know how mornings are. I have six kids, seven if you count my husband, to help get out the door on time. This week has been filled with permission slips, scheduling parent/teacher conferences, and now Freshman scheduling for my oldest. My second oldest has missed three days of school due to his asthma acting up and I was trying to remember all his meds and get him to stop coughing so we could get him to school. I was getting breakfast for the twins, cleaning up the kitchen (no one helped clean up after dinner last night and I had to go to a meeting), making lunches for the two kids in elem. school and all before I had even had my coffee, let alone my own breakfast. This is pretty standard for my mornings.
Hubby shouts out from the computer he's been sitting at all morning, "I can't find my Visa card!" I have my own card. I never go in his wallet. He continues questioning me, "Did we get new cards and I haven't activated it?"
He snapped back at me and I continued:
He snapped again like this was my fault.
We never fight. We've both been sick, so I'm sure that didn't help the situation. We hugged and made up, him apologizing first (I wasn't budging). Before he left, I gently pointed out that after our "snapping" he had called out, "Where are my shoes?"
I hope he got my point.
169.2 lbs!!! I'm in the 160s now!! You would think I'd be jumping around hooting and hollering.
The bad news: the reason I know my accurate weight is because I went to the doctor yesterday. I'm so congested and coughing a lot. Both hubby and I are under the weather. Hubby missed three days from work and I haven't done much since Friday. I also haven't slept much in two nights. I can't sleep when I can't breathe through my nose. It's a strange infection. It hit my chest first, then migrated to my sinuses. No sore throat, only congestion, coughing, and plugged sinuses.
Patrick, my 13 year old asthmatic son, has also been sick. We kept him home for a third day of missed school. He has a horrible cough and has started on Prednisone now. We're even trying to go to the next step in asthma treatment, an Advair diskus.
I look at March on the calendar, and I have no time to be sick, so I'm really taking good care of myself for a speedy recovery. Tonight is Freshman orientation for my oldest. Envision me sobbing as my oldest is growing up too fast. Later this month is the meeting for kindergarten for my twins, the youngest kids in our family. Again, envision me sobbing as my youngest are growing up too fast. We have an Elementary school spring concert for Mary (11) and Stevie(9). Mikey (14) made honor choir for the second year. Patrick (13) made honor band. Both those concerts are out of town. These are Southwest Iowa Middle School events, huge choir and I imagine a huge band. These concerts are also scheduled for the two nights of parent teacher conferences. I guess Hubby and I will have to divide and conquer. This is just a partial list of all our events for the month.
So, I guess if I'm going to be sick, this is the week to do it. I'm resting, drinking lots of fluids, and still eating pretty well. I've got my antibiotics and should be on the mend soon. I'll try not to be so hard on myself about missing workouts. Judging by my latest weight, what I'm doing is working. I just need to take it easy this week, so I can get back to it by next week.
Stay healthy everyone!!


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More upscale cruise lines are crafting short itineraries to give time-starved potential customers a way to move up the luxury ladder.Both Crystal Cruises and Silversea Cruises are offering more voyages of five to 10 days this year.Next year, Celebrity Cruises plans a number of shorter cruises on its European itineraries.The cruise lines say they are trying the shorter trips for several reasons, but chief among them is that younger professionals with the means to take a luxury cruise can't take much time away from work. The classic luxury cruise of 10 to 21 days tends to attract older passengers who are retired and have fewer time constraints.This year, nearly half of Crystal's cruises are 10 days or less, and the number of short cruises in Europe is up 250%. In the fall of 2012, Crystal began offering "Crystal Getaways," which were shorter segments on long cruises packaged as stand-alone vacations.So, for example, Crystal broke off a segment of its 12-day cruise from New York to Reykjavik, Iceland, to form a five-day Getaway itinerary that includes Newport, R.I.; Boston; Bar Harbor, Maine; and Halifax, Nova Scotia."More than 70% of our Getaways guests are new to Crystal and, on average, almost 10 years younger," said Jack Anderson, Crystal's senior vice president of marketing and sales."Some are time-crunched professionals," he said. "Some are combining with land stays. All in all, they've been blending in well with guests on more extended cruise vacations."Crystal's lineup of Getaways includes 35 voyages in Europe, Australia/New Zealand, Alaska, Asia and Canada/New England.In the Baltic this summer, where Crystal has typically offered 11- and 12-day cruises, it will offer three new seven-day itineraries and five 10-day cruises, beginning June 8.At the end of February, Crystal announced that advance bookings were running 38% ahead of the same time a year earlier, partly due to the new Getaway itineraries.Silversea Cruises recently announced eight short cruises in a bid to appeal to busy professionals. They range from a four-day March cruise from Barcelona to Rome to a seven-day May voyage from Athens to Rome."Many travelers today have busy schedules that make it difficult to fit in time for an extended luxury vacation," said Ellen Bettridge, Silversea's president of the Americas. "It's important for us to offer options that cater to these consumers, as well." In 2014, Celebrity Cruises will introduce a series of new itineraries, "particularly seven-night, open-jaw itineraries in Europe," CEO Michael Bayley said recently. That will allow for short cruises to be combined back to back without repeating ports.At SeaDream Yacht Club, CEO Pam Conover said seven-day itineraries predominate in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, where they are more practical than in Asia. "We are firm believers that the seven-day segments are critical for those time-starved professionals who want to get away, and we try and structure them so that the people who have more [vacation] time, like the Europeans, can do back to back," Conover said. Follow Tom Stieghorst on Twitter @tstravelweekly.
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The latest late night family feud came to an end this week when NBC announced that Jimmy Fallon would replace Jay Leno as host of the the Tonight Show early next year. Bill Carter is the television reporter for The New York Times and was the first to break the news. He's also the author of "The Late Shift" and "The War For Late Night", and he's got the backstage story on this most recent late night shuffle.


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