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This unit explores health from a social view and in doing so examines the link between policy and health. The unit is designed to provide insight to contemporary notions of health and highlight how health and wellbeing of individuals, communities and society can be impacted by social factors. Students explore policy development and procedures in an Australian context. Policy analysis skills are introduced to allow students to critically examine policies that promote health. Topics to be addressed in this unit include: contemporary health from a social determinants perspective; the policy process; theory and policy; healthy public policy; and policy analysis.
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And to continue...
I've found that "left brain"/"right brain"and "conscious"/"subconscious" qualities or activities are best not viewed as competing polarities, but as aspects of a complex mechanism that harmoniously uses apparently opposing components toward a practical, creative end. It's not one or the other but
. For example, it's not "technique" vs. "just dance", but both working constructively together in a way that is appropriate for the learner. And one great way to summarize how they work together in that mechanism is "IDEA --> NO IDEA".
This approach requires consciously using both left & right brain, conscious mind & subconscious mind, to 1) create a clear and accurate IDEA of what one wants to achieve, and then 2) release that idea, without judgment or emotional/ego interference, to a state of NO IDEA, where there is expectation that the "mechanism" will "go and manifest that IDEA". This taps into the massive creative potential of the brain-slash-human consciousness. Continuing to "use the mechanism" and confidently alternate "IDEA --> NO IDEA --> IDEA --> NO IDEA --> IDEA --> NO IDEA" is what allows the "quantal" shift to occur and become REAL. In any area of life.
However, you have to have the right IDEA to begin with, and that can be a tricky business to identify what it should be so that we aren't tying ourselves up in knots or even working at cross-purposes against what we desire as the end product.
How to get the right IDEA?
For a dancer, the idea may be a technique concept, it might be an image, an evocative word or phrase, an exercise, a drill idea intended to give an experience of something or to build toward the
for an experience. This is where the power of technique comes in...it factors in with having the right IDEA.
And if you don't know what the right IDEA is for you in your unique circumstances (for example, if you want to be a World Champion but have never been one, then how do you know what a World Champion feels like, and how to achieve that feeling?...as DF's dancepro put it in the original thread)...then it makes sense to allow someone who DOES know the "right" idea to be your source.
In that case, a "master" can give the IDEA, with the student trusting & suspending disbelief with NO IDEA ("giving up the ego" and choosing not to judge the idea as right or wrong), and this enables Ye Old Reptilian Brain to accept and give access to the subconscious to run wild with making whatever shifts are necessary to make the idea REAL. In the meantime, the student must keep maintaining the IDEA --> NO IDEA rhythm and not sabotage it with egoic hissy fits, resistances & panics, judging that "it's not happening fast enough" or "I'll never get this I'm such an idiot", etc. The arc that one is endeavoring to make REAL might be larger than the timeline we think in our little conscious minds suits us best. It requires FAITH and the ability to straddle paradox and be comfortable with a lack of control as to when & how the IDEA will show up.
But what if...
The responsibility for the dancer in the above approach is to purposefully identify the right IDEA(s) -- get an instructor who has them, if you don't -- and then faithfully act on that idea with the blankness of NO IDEA so that the idea has a place to show up in REAL experience. But...what about when there isn't an instructor who has the right idea that you need? What if there isn't an external source you can turn to for an accurate diagnosis of what ails you and what its correlating "cure" should be?
This is the challenge of us older or late-starting dancers. IME it is rare for an instructor to have the wherewithal to give the IDEAs I've needed to puzzle out my biggest challenges, which have been physical limitations. They just don't know, they haven't been exposed to (and overcome) these particular challenges, and their "vehicles" have tended to work without the impinging limitations that accrue over time in an older body. Master teachers are great for ballroom-related IDEAs, but may be effectively worthless (to not mince words...) when it comes to what an older dancer needs. In fact, trying to implement an instructor's best IDEAs could, for an older dancer, actually lead to significant injury & frustration.
This line of thought is the entry to a lot of consideration & experimentation in my own dance journey, so I thought I'd share...and see where it goes in this thread.
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Hans laxholm said:The learning sequences are from knowing nothing - To knowing everrything - To knowing nothing, He also said: To hear is to forget,to listen is to recall,to read is to learn, to do is to know, to FORGET is to MASTER!
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Quote from: mayoz on April 16, 2012, 03:06:50 AM
Hans laxholm said:The learning sequences are from knowing nothing - To knowing everrything - To knowing nothing, He also said: To hear is to forget,to listen is to recall,to read is to learn, to do is to know, to FORGET is to MASTER!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE that quote!!! Sorry, my "Love" key was stuck.
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I am reading The Wisdom of the Body Moving: An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering
by Linda Hartley; interesting if a bit heavy going.
"We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things, all of it, all of the time, every day. "
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Quote from: mayoz on April 16, 2012, 03:06:50 AM
Hans laxholm said:The learning sequences are from knowing nothing - To knowing everrything - To knowing nothing, He also said: To hear is to forget,to listen is to recall,to read is to learn, to do is to know, to FORGET is to MASTER!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE that quote!!! Sorry, my "Love" key was stuck.
mayoz - that really is good. Everything we are most capable of - we never think about and a lot of that is very difficult stuff. But in dancing don't we kinda dismiss this as 'muscle memory'? And what happens when we know something at this level - but we were taught it incorrectly? IN other words when we really 'know' a lie? I think this is very common partly because we mislearn and partly because we were badly taught.
The hardest part of learning is not absorbing to forgetting, but relearning something that has been learned to the point of forgetting.
I hope that all makes sense!
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Friday, November 7, 2008
Little Dipper CrockPot Peanut Butter Fondue
Day 312.
Good morning! Thank you so much for all of the nice notes about my back. I'm definitely feeling better this morning. I did end up going to the doctor, which was a good idea. I guess my file still said I taught preschool, so the doctor was a bit concerned about bending and lifting. When I told him that I now write from home, he said, "you'll be able to be pretty creative while taking this stuff!" and wrote me a prescription for muscle relaxers.
All they do is make me fall asleep, so I don't think you're in for any amazing creativity.
But this is good fondue! Happy Fondue Friday, everyone.
The Ingredients.
--3/4 cup peanut butter
--1/4 cup brown sugar
--1/4 cup cream or half and half
--1 tsp vanilla
--4 large marshmallows
The Directions.
Scoop your peanut butter into the Little Dipper. If you don't have a Little Dipper, you can put an oven-safe dish inside your crockpot to create a smaller cooking vessel.
Add the peanut butter, brown sugar, and cream. Push 4 large marshmallows into the mixture. Don't bother to stir now; the peanut butter will just stick to the spoon.
Cover and cook for about an hour. Stir well. Heat some more if it isn't all melty.
Serve with apple slices and celery sticks.
The Verdict.
I ate this in bed yesterday with a heating pad while watching Oprah. It was delightful.
42 comments:
- Melissa said...
MM sounds so good & easy to!
- November 7, 2008 at 7:15 AM
- Kelley with Amy's Angels said...
Normally not a marshmallow person (to many years at summer camp with s'mores. ugh), but mixed with peanut butter and brown sugar--who in the world would notice.
I'm excited to try this! : )
- November 7, 2008 at 7:23 AM
- Emily said...
Hope you're feeling better! Just wanted to say that if your back still hurts without the pills, you might want to ask for a referral to a physical therapist. They can actually diagnose and fix the problem if you did real damage, most doctors don't know ten percent about back pain that PT's do. (my husband is a PT) =) Good luck!
- November 7, 2008 at 8:07 AM
- Jaden Paige said...
This sounds pretty good, I might have to bust it out this weekend.
Do you think fluff would work instead of marshmallows?
- November 7, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- Mandy said...
Wow, this does sound delicious!
- November 7, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- Jody said...
Am I assuming correctly that the 1/4 cream is 1/4 cup? This sound fabulous.
- November 7, 2008 at 8:24 AM
- La Rêveuse said...
Is the peanut butter the no-stir kind or the natural kind? With sugar or no?
I'm a natural, stir kind person, but am always hesitant to make recipes with it because I don't want it to end up an oily mess.
Sounds yummy, but my jeans are too tight at the moment, thanks to those stupid Hershey's peanut butter kisses, so this one will have to wait. I'm making your 16 bean soup today. I won't feel guilty about that.
- November 7, 2008 at 8:42 AM
- Amie said...
Ohhhhhhh girl. Me and a bowl of peanut butter fondue are soul mates. We have chemistry. Destiny. Kismet. Nirvana. Just without all that messy Kurt Cobain stuff. Cuz nobody wants to smell like teen spirit when dipping celery into peanut butter fondue.
- November 7, 2008 at 8:45 AM
- The Bear and The Bug said...
So glad to hear you are feeling better!
- November 7, 2008 at 8:52 AM
- Maricriss said...
Oh this sounds so good, I think I'll have to make this soon. By the way I tried your Mccain Crockpot RIbs, and let me say they were delicious, my son who's a picky eater even liked them.
Thanks for all the great recipes:-)
- November 7, 2008 at 8:57 AM
I agree with Emily about asking to see a physical therapist. My mom actually broke her lower back and went to see a physical therapist and is doing really well now.
Muscle relaxers make me sleep too :( Boo.
- November 7, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- Tiffany said...
That looks amazing! I will have to try that next week while my husband is out of town (he does not like the smell of peanut butter).
I have a question...how big is the Little Dipper? I have a small 1 qt crockpot. Would that work?
- November 7, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- Joanna said...
this is the perfect break-up fondue. even though i'm not planning any break-up (mainly because i have no boyfriend), i'll probably end up eating this anyways.
- November 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- Crockpot Lady said...
Jaden, I think fluff would work really well. Maybe 1/4 cup?
Tiffany, a LD holds about 2 cups. Your mini 1qt would work fine, just keep an eye on it because the stuff will melt and cook faster.
I will definitely see a physical therapist if I'm not 100% in a few days. I promise. :-)
- November 7, 2008 at 9:50 AM
- AmyK said...
Oh... my gosh.
I HAVE to make this. I love using my Little Dipper, and hubby LOVES peanut butter. Heck, so do I! Maybe I can get him to eat this with me!
Eh, even if he doesn't, I think I could eat it all.. if I haaaad to, that is... ;)
- November 7, 2008 at 10:20 AM
- Molly said...
That sounds like the perfect afternoon...that, and the addition of trashy magazines like "People" and "US Weekly..."
Glad you are on the mend!
- November 7, 2008 at 11:12 AM
I might try this with Almond butter or other nut butters.
- November 7, 2008 at 11:23 AM
I love all your recipes too! You could try accupuncture also - it doesn't hurt. When I threw out my back I could barely walk, I wore what clothes I could reach from the bed to shuffle to my appt. By that evening I was able to walk and sit, where sitting was impossible prior to that.
- November 7, 2008 at 12:10 PM
- Shannon said...
Mmmmmmmmm......Peanut Butter! It doesn't get a whole lot better than this!
- November 7, 2008 at 12:42 PM
- April said...
Just stumbled across your blog - LOVE IT! I, too, have a (probably unhealthy) close relationship with my crock pot.
I sure hope you continue to write after your 365 days. I made your fagioli recipe last night, and I was made to promise that I would include it into our regular rotation of meals. I'm excited to try some more of your recipes!
- November 7, 2008 at 12:57 PM
- Sandy said...
If I was on a deserted island and got to have one food, it would be peanut butter. It's sweet, yet salty...healthy, but a treat.
I will definitely make this.
Sorry to hear about your back. But peanut butter fondue in bed with a heating pad and Oprah???
Not a bad payoff. :)
Sandy Cooper
- November 7, 2008 at 1:19 PM
- Heidi said...
This sounds like the PERFECT recipe for me! YUM! Did you use organic peanut butter? Just wondering if the Skippy stuff would be too sweet. :) Perfect for the kids after school snack next week!
- November 7, 2008 at 1:59 PM
- Michele said...
OK, this post sent me straight to Target to buy me a Little Dipper.
- November 7, 2008 at 2:15 PM
- katherine said...
This recipe makes me wish I had a good excuse to stay in bed all day. But I don't envy your sore back. I hope you are 100% soon.
- November 7, 2008 at 2:41 PM
- Princess S said...
You have inspired me...I only cooked a roast today but I going to get wild and try some of these yummy creations you have posted!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
- November 7, 2008 at 6:07 PM
- Jenny said...
I checked your blog this morning and had just enough time to whip together the peanut butter fondue.
It heated while the boys and I did our chores.
We brought it to a Play-day for our homeschool group. I served the fondue with apple slices (from our own apple tree), marshmallows, cinnamon and regular graham crackers.
Several friends in attendance are gluten free so we just made sure that the fondue was spooned onto plates and not dipped into. Everyone loved it!
Personally, however, I would use 1/2 c. cream and 6 marshmallows for your recipe, Steph.
Oh, and I used a small crock (1.5 qt. I think) so I doubled the recipe and it cooked well. I think I could have even tripled the recipe and it would have fit.
Thanks for all the great ideas!
- November 7, 2008 at 8:48 PM
- Professional Mommy said...
Your blog is all over the place! I visit so many blogs and they all have you on their blog list! Well, I've visited a few times but I'm subscribing. Can't wait to learn more than the 2 recipes I have for my crockpot-chili and roast, lol.
- November 7, 2008 at 8:52 PM
- curdiemer said...
In a week I'm actually co-hosting a 70s fondue party for the 7th grade girls at my church.
I think I will snag this one for the party. Thank you!!
- November 7, 2008 at 9:36 PM
- Elizabeth said...
We're allergic to peanuts and dairy, so I modified and made with Sunbutter (made with sunflower seeds) and soy milk. Also, we were out of apples, due to the tub of caramel dip I bought on impulse. We dipped bananas and celery sticks. Yum!
While it was cooking, the kids busied themselves making marshmallow snowmen and slicing the bananas.
I'm off to the store for more apples!
- November 8, 2008 at 8:44 AM
The kids woofed this down - even the fussy eaters who were visiting. Dairy and soy allergies at our house so substituted rice milk for the cream. Worked fine.
- November 8, 2008 at 11:05 AM
- Jody said...
Ohhhhhhh! this was so good. I served it with store bought gingersnaps, a hard cookie. Yummm. Jody
- November 8, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Steph, I saw in your picture that you used fat free half and half. It sounds like it worked OK, no weird breaking apart or anything? I tried to make a sauce recently with fat free half and half and it got all clumpy and gross. It didn't do that for you?
- November 10, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- Crockpot Lady said...
Hi Beth,
no it didn't. But it could have been that way because I didn't cook this very long, or let it get too awful hot.
I'm sorry that has happened---I hate it when that happens.
- November 10, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- Laney said...
Great recipe, I made at work today and it was a hit - served with apple slices and chocolate animal crackers. Instead of cream or half & half, I used French Vanilla coffee creamer and skipped the vanilla extract. This recipe is a keeper!
- November 11, 2008 at 4:07 PM
- Wendy said...
This looks awesome! I am curious though it is showing up under gluten free recipes? I am just asking because I forwarded this site to a friend eating gluten free and I didn't think this could be correct.
- November 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM
- Crockpot Lady said...
hi Wendy, yup, this is naturally gluten free. Gluten is found in wheat, barley, and rye.
- November 11, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Ah Steph, another recipe i'm thrilled with! Only problem...it's 9:30 pm and I still have a buzz from the fondue, lol. I also used fat free half & half and had no problems with it. I also used Brown SugarTwin and it still came out great (but doesn't explain the fondue buzz). We used celery, apples and mini pretzels as dippers and my (super picky) son tried a bite of celery (just a bite, but i'll take what i can get).
Thanks again,
- November 14, 2008 at 8:32 PM
- Amy said...
I forgot to come back here and say THANK YOU for this awesome recipe! I made it the day after you posted it, since I had all the ingredients on hand. I used chocolate marshmallows instead of regular, which turned out wonderfully. All three of my sisters came over that night, and we literally stood around my kitchen island dipping tart apple slices into this dip and talking. :)
- November 24, 2008 at 9:11 PM
- Amy said...
Me again- forgot to mention that I used skim milk rather than cream and it worked just fine. :)
- November 24, 2008 at 9:12 PM
- sunflowerramos said...
We got a little dipper for Christmas too! I love all of your crockpot and little dipper ideas that I am making the pb fondue for snacks for the week.
- December 27, 2008 at 10:06 PM
- Banded Angel said...
I'm not sure what the consistency was when you made it, but mine turned out pretty thick. What leftovers I had and put in the refrigerator...I can eat it as fudge too! LOL Maybe I added too much peanut butter...but that's okay, I LOVE this both ways. I also added a handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips, though I don't think it really changed the taste all that much.
- June 11, 2009 at 6:28 AM
- Proud Momma said...
This was awesome!
I made it for the dessert portion of my fondue party. Also did chocolate but this got eaten up first.
I didn't have any cream so used evaporated milk. Sooooo delicious!
My dippers were bananas, apples, pretzels,
- August 10, 2009 at 4:07 AM
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The film is based on a novel by Lionel Shriver. I haven't read it, but from the extensive Wikipedia text on it, I gather that it sticks to the same myth. An evil child and two naive parents.
Kevin is portrayed as a little demon already in infancy, out to get his mother. How could he, and why would he?
At the end of the film, the mother asks Kevin why he did his monstrous deed, killing his father, his young sister, and a number of high school students. He has no answer. That's not surprising, since the parents should be asking themselves.
When a child becomes a demon, the explanation can almost always be found in its childhood, especially the first few years. That's the time when the parents rule the child's cosmos. So, if we want to know why a child commits devilish deeds, we need to scrutinize the parents. They're probably not going to confess any guilt in the matter, so there's no point in just asking them about it.
The film would have been so much more interesting and believable, if it examined more closely how the parents really treated their son. There are tiny clues, now and then, about the mother being cold and distanced to the boy – but it's only presented as if the boy is to blame, because of his cruelty towards her, already when he's an infant.
But she must have been the one initially triggering her son.
When the story refuses to go there, it commits the same treason to children that the adult world keeps repeating and repeating, anytime the new generations aren't fulfilling the dreams of the older ones in every detail. Utter nonsense. The adult world has total power over the children, so it's preposterous that it admits no blame for how they turn out.
Also, it's bad drama, simply because Kevin's behavior remains unexplained, as if coming from a whim of the gods or some kind of mental malfunction nobody could do anything about.
Well, the old deus ex machina, the surprise divine intervention of which all humans were innocent, has a new form. Now it's explained as a medical condition or a genetic malfunction. But experience tells us that even such things need triggers to burst out into action.
I would love to see another version of We Need to Talk About Kevin, where we see it from his viewpoint, through the years of growing up. How did his mother treat him, really? That story remains to be told. All through the 112 minutes of the movie I waited in vain for it. That was the real horror of it.


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I am looking for recommendations for machines. I want a sit down machine for doing detailed thread painting but would like a long arm for larger pieces. What do you use and what do you like? This will be a big investment and I want to get it right.
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there was quite a discussion a year or so ago about machines. you may be able to still follow that thread if you look some of the older responses.
i don't know if they deleted it or not.
it is always good to have feedback from people who have used a machine for awhile.
but i am still of the opinion that there is no substitute for test sewing for yourself. i would start the same way you did here. make a list.
but make a list of ALL the features you want for the machine. and a list of all the methods you want to be able to do on it. then make a sample kito take along to the various dealers. your kit should contain a sample to sew on for all of the methods you want that machine to do. include the threads yo want to be able to use. and your preferred stabilizers.
and then spend the time to go to each dealer and try several machines. they will be able to get you started with features - and then you will need to narrow it down to the model by sewing on it. a good dealer will let you work with the machines as long as you need.
make sure you thread the machine (using your thread - not theirs. and take along the metallic threads you plan to use, any threads for the bobbin you plan to use, monofilament, and your piecing and quilting and thread painting threads. and run them all through the machine.)
make sure you change presser feet, tension, needles, presser foot tension, and wind the bobbin.
if you are gonna be using special fabric - take samples to sew on.
it sounds like you are gonna be getting 2 machines. a long arm for quilting and a regular machine for piecing and thread painting.
remember, recommendations are good; especially from people who have used a certain model for a few years. but it is absolutely not a substitute for test sewing yourself. once you have sewn on a machine for an hour, and tried sewing on all your samples, you will KNOW what you prefer and what works for you. ckquilter
That is all great advice. As I have done more research I realized my terminology is wrong. I am looking at a mid arm machine. I am an art quilter and although I want to work on larger pieces, do not want to do bed sized quilts. My quilts are painted and I sometimes work on heavy canvas so it needs to be heavy duty. I want one machine that is a sit down model. I am really drawn to the Handi quilt Sweet sixteen and will probably test that one first. The orientation of the machine similar to a long arm set up makes so much sense to me. The price is better than most and the reviews are very positive. Does anyone have any other recomedations of machines that I should try?
i use a regular sewing machine for everything. so i don't have first hand experience with mid arms.
however, my weekly sit and sew group meets at a shop where they sell the hq. i have a number of friends who have bought machines there.so far all i have heard is positive comments. the shop also uses their long arm to quilt professionally for others. and while i am only there one day a week, i don't remember their ever having the machine down for service. and it has been set up for some years now, with almost daily use.
i did ask yesterday, their mid arm does ONLY straight stitch. no zigzag. so it is gonna be hard to thread paint with. and will take a lot longer than a zigzag machine. if you are just quilting on it, then most of the time a straight stitch would be sufficient. but if you want to thread paint, like you originally mentioned, you are gonna want a different/ another machine.
good luck. hope you get a great machine. ckquilter
I use a Brother Nouvelle 1500 for my thread painting and free motion work. It's a heavy duty quilting machine. This machine just go, go, go goes. I've done free motion on denim, heavy knits and jeans (even through the seam, although slow enough not to break the needle). I don't know if this is a mid arm machine, but it is deeper than my regular Brother machines.
I bought this machine to work with pleathers and only found that it was so easy to drop the feed dogs, that I switched from an older Singer I was using for that purpose to this. But I do agree with other commenters. Take several swatches of your typical fabric and thread and go test several machines out to see what feels most comfortable.
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The Lady Bisons have completed the first round of the Wachovia-Great Smokies Women's Intercollegiate Classic in Cullowhee, N.C.
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The low scorer for the Lady Bisons on the first day was Ashlee Catlin who shot an 82 ad tied for 83rd.
Marie Fillers is not far behind in a tie for 89th with an 83.
Rounding out the field are for the Lady Bisons are Brie Rowdon with a 90, a tie for 107th; Callie Rice with a 91, a tie for 111th; and Britteny Beard with a 92, tied for 113th.
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