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Does your little girl wear her tutu to bed? Have all your bath towels been redeployed as superhero capes? Kids love costumes! Anne Weil has dozens of great ideas to share. Whether you're planning a special Halloween costume, or fueling your child's creativity with items for imaginative play, The Costume Box will teach you easy techniques to make dozens of beautiful costumes. This class includes detailed instructions and pattern templates. You'll make capes that transform your child into a princess or superhero; wings for a dragon or fairy; no-sew skirts, crowns and sparkly wands; or a sword and armor. Create more than 50 costume designs with Anne's techniques!
In The Costume Box, Anne Weil will teach you basic techniques that you and your children can use to create hundreds of different costume ideas.
This no-sew skirt works up in minutes. Colorful tulle can make a skirt for a witch, fairy and Snow Queen, or rip up sheets for a Zombie Ballerina. Anne talks about how color choices make the difference between an ordinary skirt and one that wows.
If you can tie a square knot and slipknot, you can make this headpiece with tulle and ribbons. Learn wire-twisting techniques, match the crown colors to your skirt and add embellishments.
Three different wands will enchant your young magician, including a pearly sphere, a tulle puff and a regal scepter. Anne teaches how to wrap ribbon or embroidery floss for a colorful finish.
Allow your child to fly with easy-to-make wings, decorated with ribbon, beads, tulle and faux fur for dozens of different looks.
Anne demonstrates three ways to decorate and attach straps to your costume wings, so they'll stay on securely for hours of play.
Delicate wire and jewels decorate the forehead. Use your wire-twisting skills and glue gun to create a custom-fit headpiece for a princess.
Easy sewing on posterboard creates a regal crown that matches other costume pieces.
Three layers of corrugated cardboard makes a sword study enough for energetic pretending. Decorate the hilt with satin ribbon and flashy jewels.
More sewn paperboard from your recycle bin makes a scabbard for your trusty sword, or a utility belt for carrying whatever needs to be brought along, from a light saber or pirate's booty to a fairy's stash of pixie dust.
You don't need a pattern - just a ruler, pencil and piece of string - to create this costume piece from paperboard and fabric. Embellishments let your child pretend to be a robot, muscular superhero, space villain or gorilla.
With a little measuring and sewing, turn ordinary sneakers into sparkly golden boots. This lesson gives you useful tips to take any outgrown costume piece and make a new pattern with plenty of grow room.
Basic sewing skills are all you need to make this spectacular lined cape. In Part 1, Anne shows you how to select fabric and trim, then measure, draw and cut out the pieces. No pattern required!
Finish your cape with easy machine sewing, and your child is outfitted for adventure. An optional hood gives your cape an air of mystery.
"Anne's enthusiasm is totally infectious! I love that these projects foster your child's imagination as well as your own. I love the discussion of color theory and experimentation in the design process. As for approach and technique, I like that the projects don't require patterns and you don't really need a sewing machine, and the emphasis on adaptability (especially being able to alter a piece to suit a boy). Anne's instructions are clear and easy to follow, and I really like the way her personality comes through. ... in this Craftsy class you can almost forget you aren't in the same room with your teacher. Highly recommended!"
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It is a mighty goal — to end veteran homelessness by 2016. Sounds a bit lofty even. But the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been putting its money where its PR is.
Hawes honored for mental health work
Staff writer Jennifer Berry Hawes has been awarded the National Alliance on Mental Illnesses' NAMI S.C. Reporter of the Year 2013 award for her work covering the challenges facing people with mental illnesses.
She will speak at the Charleston area chapter's Nov. 11 meeting.
The VA, including its growing medical center in downtown Charleston, has been hiring throngs of new staff and funding comprehensive new programs to combat homelessness and its life-consuming triumvirate with mental illness and substance abuse.
Do you need help?
Veterans struggling with mental health issues can call the Veterans Crisis Line at 1-800-273-8255 or go to VeteransCrisisLine.net.
Those with housing problems can call the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' toll-free National Call Center for Homeless Veterans at 1-877-424-3838 (1-877-4AID-VET). The VA also has launched a new hotline — 1-855-VA-WOMEN — to answer questions about resources available to women veterans.
For instance, the VA's fiscal 2014 budget includes $1.4 billion (up $41 million from 2013) to end veteran homelessness, and $7 billion (up $469 million from 2013) to expand mental health care.
By the numbers
Increase in U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs mental health care budget since 2009.
The VA's total mental health workforce nationwide.
1.3 million
Veterans nationwide who received specialized mental health care from the VA in fiscal 2012.
Veterans who received specialized mental health care from the VA in fiscal 2006.
Homeless veterans nationwide suffering from mental illness.
Homeless veterans nationwide suffering from substance abuse.
Year the VA aims to eliminate veteran homelessness.
That makes the VA a rarity among today's public mental health systems.
The influx of resources comes as state and local mental health agencies have weathered shrinking budgets and staffs compared to a decade ago, despite soaring needs.
With roughly 21,000 mental health staff, the VA has become the nation's largest single mental health provider.
Its mental health services have grown substantially since President Barack Obama and the VA secretary set the goal of eliminating veteran homelessness, followed last year by the president signing an executive order mandating better mental health care for veterans.
Two demons set critical traps that can cause homelessness.
Of homeless veterans assessed for critical housing needs at the local Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, more than half suffered mental health problems. Two-thirds grappled with substance abuse.
One in three suffered both.
To address that reality, the local VA medical center has more than doubled its mental health staff over the past several years. Veterans now can get more help with everything from severe mental illness to homelessness to primary care — all under one roof in downtown Charleston's medical hub.
"You can't do that anywhere else," said Dr. Hugh Myrick, associate chief of staff for its mental health service line.
'It's over with'
That triumvirate of mental illness, drug abuse and homelessness ruled many of Marvin T. Williams' 58 years of life. Williams found himself in its clutches following his Army service during Vietnam's closing days. He returned home to face what he expected to be a long and promising life. Instead, he wound up homeless in Brooklyn, N.Y. In time he returned to his hometown of Walterboro and met his nemesis, crack cocaine.
Depression's dark waves would roll in, melding with his drug use, drowning him.
"It was just a sense of hopelessness. You don't care about anybody else, and nobody else cares about you," he recalled.
He wound up at Crisis Ministries, where a VA worker showed up and explained all that the local medical center could offer.
Since then, Williams has received PTSD treatment for a horrific car wreck he witnessed involving his family members and a logging truck. He gets help with the nightmares and the images of the bodies he loaded up from the Hanoi airport back in his Army days. He gets care for his depression. He completed substance-abuse treatment. He has people to talk to, including a counselor he adores and fellow veterans who have been clean longer, struggled harder, and whose advice he trusts. "I have gotten good services from the VA," he said. "I wouldn't go anywhere else."
Clean for four years, enjoying life as a grandfather, he lives in rental housing and gets care for diabetes.
"Thank God it's over with," Williams said. "I've put it behind me."
Bonds of trust
Unlike some hospitals, the local VA's hallways fill with the shouts of grizzled old guys greeting long-time buddies and young comrades new to the veterans' fold.
It's not a fancy place, but there is an undeniable camaraderie inside its doors. Combat photographer Stacy Pearsall's black and white portraits of veterans hang thick down a main corridor, adding grit and elegance to the unique connectedness shared here.
"Most veterans have that bond," Williams said. "Even if you don't like each other, you are still the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. It's unique."
Yet veterans with mental health problems have not always sought help here. Many struggled to overcome stigma surrounding mental illness, despite the traumas of mind and body that many have suffered.
Nobody who ever wore a military uniform wants to look "weak." Or worry how that image might play out career-wise.
Perhaps that perception is changing.
Over the past two years, the local VA has served nearly 2,000 more veterans with mental health problems — up from about 12,000 to 14,000.
Or maybe the boost is due to improved access to care.
With new resources, the VA has built a tier of programs to ensure veterans' access to mental health care, housing and substance abuse treatment.
Those services are all available today all under one roof, the bustling Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center.
Veterans don't have to go to a separate mental health clinic or psychiatrist's office, where the purpose of their visits are more obvious. At the VA, they enter the same doors as a someone with heart trouble or bad eyesight en route to care.
"There's less stigma associated," said Dr. Elizabeth Call, who manages the medical center's program that offers primary and mental health care to homeless veterans.
And it's designed to be easy.
Homeless veterans can arrive at a walk-in clinic without so much as an appointment or VA benefits in place.
If they can show basic eligibility, they are supposed to be able to access care quickly, from admission to one of its inpatient psychiatric beds to enrollment in substance-abuse treatment to housing to simply finding a quiet place to talk with a peer counselor.
And if veterans have other medical needs, the rest of the hospital is down the hall or up an elevator. "We're all just 10 steps away," Call said.
The goal: Don't let them leave without addressing their problems.
Help made easy
The emphasis is partly why Call, board certified in psychiatry and internal medicine, switched from MUSC, where funding was a problem, to the VA, where it hasn't been. She now heads the new Homeless Veterans Patient Aligned Team, which launched in July.
Already, nearly 100 men and women have come through it.
"It has grown much quicker than we thought," Call said.
Many of those clients arrive at walk-in clinics held on weekday mornings.
That's what Gerald Montgomery did on Oct. 2.
An articulate and friendly 48-year-old, he had been sleeping on the streets after losing his job. When he walked into the VA with nothing but his Social Security number, he was able to verify his eligibility immediately.
Then he was sent down a hall to the homeless veterans project. That night, the VA set him up in transitional housing.
By Oct. 3 he had a place to live and a plan for treatment.
"There were so many opportunities in one spot," Montgomery said. "I figured I would have to wait a few months, there are so many homeless veterans out there."
Last year the local VA assessed 545 veterans like Montgomery and moved 447 into transitional housing. On average, 78 percent of them wound up in stable, permanent housing such as renting an apartment or house or reconnecting with family, said Erin Smith, supervisor of a program that helps veterans find transitional housing.
That long-term solution to homelessness remains the ultimate goal.
"This is not a place people stay forever," Myrick said of the medical center. Plus, when he leaves the hospital each day, Myrick passes construction crews at work on its new $9.9 million PTSD/Mental Health Research Building. The expansion will give the medical center its first research laboratory facilities and expand space for research involving multiple mental health areas.
The building should open next year.
Driving force
What is driving this emphasis on homeless and mentally ill veterans?
Statistics played a big role, namely a few that rolled around Washington, D.C., creating very large waves:
A study found that 22 veterans commit suicide each day. A count in January 2012 found 62,619 homeless veterans — a drop from previous years.
More than 2 million military men and women have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan since September 2001. At least one in five suffers from PTSD, stress disorders or major depression upon returning to the U.S., according to the RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research.
Then there are the growing ranks of female veterans. They are the fastest-growing subset of homeless veterans.
And one in five suffers PTSD related to "military sexual trauma," which includes sexual harassment and rape, according to VA statistics.
In response, Obama issued an executive order in 2012 to improve access to mental health care for veterans, service members and their families.
It required, among other things, the VA hire 1,600 mental health professionals nationwide.
Already, the local hospital's mental health staff has grown from 160 to at least 260 out of 2,000 total employees.
Next challenge: Spreading the news. It's tough to reach folks living on the streets, mired in untreated mental illnesses or drug addiction.
At a recent summit of Lowcountry mental health workers, Myrick stood before his audience and highlighted the VA's offerings.
When they broke into small groups, Dr. Julian Libet, associate director of the local mental health service line, asked his table: How much do you know about the VA's mental health programs?
Most gave their knowledge three out of five stars — if that.
"It indicates we have work to do getting the word out," Libet said.
Otherwise, despite the resources, despite the new programs, homeless and mentally ill veterans will remain lost among us.
Marvin T. Williams, a veteran, attended the 14th Annual Stand Down Against Homelessness. The VA aims to eliminate veteran homelessness by 2015.×
Michael Delich sits in his favorite restuarant, Pappy's, drinking coffee most days in between visits to the VA hospital and his Alcoholics Anonymous meetings saying it keeps him out of trouble. Delich, a veteran, was laid off a couple of years ago and spent that time homeless living in an abandoned home in Goose Creek. Delich is now receiving medical attention for his PTSD and has found temporary housing.×
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In celebration of National Delurking Week,
I ask you to please leave a comment if you are a lurker here and I promise to visit each
and every one of your blogs-
just let me know
where I can find you!
I can honestly say..I am not a lurker! =) I always comment if I have time to visit.ReplyDelete
I've lurked a few times:) Seen you comment on Happi's blog and others too. Noticed you have 3 boys, well I have 3 girls:)ReplyDelete
I had someone delurk themself yesterday. It's so cool to see who has been reading and you had no idea!
BTW, I think you have a strong personality. One that inspires people! (just coming from Nicole's blog)
Lurker, I am not!
But I DID want to comment that Grey's outfit in this post is the same one I have for Asher.....and it's my favorite! Doesn't it make them look like little men? ;)
Kelly- I love this outfit! I got it last year when Gray was still a little baby- the shirt & vest together on clearance at Target for $2.64!ReplyDelete
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I comment sometimes, love your blog:o)ReplyDelete
as a new mom and babywearer of a 5-week-old boy, i have stopped by your blog a few times. there's always lots of great info!ReplyDelete
Hello! I comment when I get the chance.ReplyDelete
I'm not a lurker, but thought I'd say hello! Thanks for your comment on my birthday post!ReplyDelete
I think you know who I am by now. At least I hope you do. I love your blog, and usually comment every time I visit!ReplyDelete
You know I'm here!ReplyDelete
I lurk often and post very occasionally. :-)ReplyDelete
::skulks in:: I'm a lurker. :) Pleased to meet you. I found your site when I was searching for "baby wearing" and was looking for advice on how to hitch up a moby wrap (which I still haven't found anywhere. Gah) and became hooked on your tales. :)ReplyDelete
lil liberal:
(sorry, sorry hijack coming!)
Have you tried www.thebabywearer.com? It is full of tutorials for lots of baby carriers and the forums are full of very friendly, knowledgable baby wearers who can help you figure your wrap out.
Good luck and happy babywearing!
I also came upon your site when looking up some babywearing info for my sister and her new little baby boy. Then coincidentally I came across your site through Allie's blog and now find myself lurking in the backgrounds...
Love your writing!
You know what I am!!!ReplyDelete
Okay...I'm a lurker. I found your blog several months ago when I was searching for information about an Epilepsy diet. My son (adopted at 10 months old) has epilepsy as a result of Shaken Baby Syndrome. Searching for info is how I found you, but I visit often because I am a big fan of attachment parenting and I really enjoy your writing. BTW, your boys are adorable and I am glad that the diet worked for your son.ReplyDelete
Not really a lurker, but thought I'd say "Hello!"ReplyDelete
LLUUURRKKIINNNGG!!! Of course you know that!ReplyDelete
Too funny...loved the photos.ReplyDelete
I've been a fan of yours for quite some time! I am a NINO leader and babywearing advocate. My websites are theergolady.com and sobebabies.com and this comment should link you to my blogs, which are many. You could start with the baby carrier blog, which I really need to update. I am forever blogging in my head but don't always get a chanc to really type out my thoughts!ReplyDelete
Hey Stephanie! I lurk here most everyday, but don't always comment. :-) I'm not sure how I found your blog, but I've been reading you for a long while now.ReplyDelete
I am not really a lurker. I comment every day. Just thought I'd say hi anyway! :)ReplyDelete
Hi! I *may* have commented once or twice, can't remember, but am a frequent visitor! You give me new inspiration to wear my baby every day. I'll be honest - I didn't take to it well at first, and have had to try many different carriers (I have a sling, a CHEAP soft-structure, and a MOBY which I loved when he was smaller. I just upgraded to an ERGO because I have very bad shoulders and liked that the weight was on my hips. I've worn him more in the past week than I have in the past few months. YAY!) Anyway - I just started a new blog (tried last year, but couldn't keep up with sharing a computer with hubby), and I have you listed as one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing your life with so many readers! -TiffanyReplyDelete
I have lurked.
Not a lurker! I'm really glad I've found your blog.ReplyDelete
I love it when people delurk! :)ReplyDelete
Hello again, Stephanie...
You know that I'm your big fan...
But I'm sorry if sometimes I couldn't have much time to leave a comment :)..
Love your blog a lot!
Happy belated birthday, dear... :)
I think I was here once before a while ago. I came across you again but am not exactly sure how. Anyway, I will be back to get that recipe for Quinoa you posted the other day sounds yummy. I too wear my baby girl though not as often as I would like, I wore her a lot when she was younger (under 6 months~she is now almost 10m) Anyway great site I will be back again!ReplyDelete
I am also a daily lurker! Thanks for sharing your life through your blog...I really appreciate your positive outlook. :) (and love your name) ;)ReplyDelete
Everyonce in a while I lurk and sometimes I comment.
I can't remember how I found you but I'm glad I have!
I guess I'm a lurker. I have commented once or twice. I found your blog through 5 minutes for mom. I love it. Although my baby is too big to be worn (3), I enjoy reading your stories. Everybody's blogs are more interesting and entertaining than my own!ReplyDelete
Not a lurker but wanted to say hi :)ReplyDelete
I can't say I'm a lurker, as I've just found your blog! But here's a "hi, come on bye and see me!" I can't figure out baby wearing, and I'm on my 7th baby. I'd love to do it and buy sling after sling, but my kids don't like it.
I'll be back to read more on your site!
God bless!
Officially de-lurking now. A regular reader from the Land Down Under!ReplyDelete


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|15th August 2008, 06:41 PM
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LOOK and LEARN
Pt 3 Intermediate/advanced
LOOK and LEARN
Working on a new move, it�s all too easy to fall prey to the dreaded paralysis by analysis� syndrome. In so many instances the key to success lies in very simply, where you look. Peter explains.
Cast your mind back to your school days and the end of term prize-giving. The award for most improved woodworker goes to the young, shy and very surprised Timmy Smith who unfortunately is sat right at the back of the hall. The poor kid, starts to make the long journey up to the podium. Pathologically self-conscious, he starts to think about how he�s walking. Within a few steps he�s moving his arms and legs with all the co-ordination of an octopus after a bottle of tequila and collapses at the head master�s feet.
Now I�m not a medical expert but as far as I can make out, the head contains the brainy bit. It�s good at things like adding sums, writing poems and taking in the view. But what it seems spectacularly bad at is instructing the rest of the body to perform co-ordinated physical tasks.
Doctors have informed that our muscles and limbs don�t actually have brain or a memory and yet our bodies seems much better at doing things when we just give them a task and let them get on with it. We jump higher when we have a bar to jump over. We run faster when we�re being chased.
Windsurfing is pretty technical. Often a lot of things need to happen in a very short space of time and so it�s all too easy to catch �Timmy Smith Syndrome� and over-think.
The most radical change in my approach to teaching the carve gybe, is whereas once I started at the feet and worked up, getting people to concentrate on pressuring the edge; I now start with the head and work down, happy in the knowledge that if the eyes and head start moving in the right direction, there�s a good chance everything else will follow.
Faced with a daunting challenge, the head can drop both physically and metaphorically. Every beginner in any balance sport you care to mention, skiing, surfing, windsurfing � automatically breaks at the waist and sticks their bum out when threatened. They somehow feel safer with their heads nearer the ground � and yet the best way to balance is to stand upright with the hips between the feet. It�s a classic case of the brain having no idea how to operate the controls.
Here are a selection of skills and moves where a change in outlook can make an immediate and dramatic difference.
Speed through the chop
Try running across a stony beach in bare feet. If you look down and try to plan every step, you make slow and painful process. If you lift your head and sprint, somehow your brain seems to process the ground ahead and you automatically put your feet in the right places (although it�s not a guarantee).
It�s the same sailing through chop. If you�re up to 30 knots you may be hitting three bits of chop every second. If you stare at the bit of water just in front of the board and try to react to every one � well you can�t and end up looking like a perpetual motion machine.
Instead, lift your head and take in the wider picture. Try to spot the rogue chops, which need to be avoided or absorbed but other than that just trust in the board�s rockerline (a squillion hours of R & D have gone into that rockerline) and let it ride.
Just lift your head and let it ride!
Quicker waterstarts � lick the mastfoot.
So you can waterstart - but how quick and instinctive is it especially if there are predators about? Given a crisis, many stare at the back of the board and try to heave themselves over the tail - it just doesn�t work.
Instead, eyeball the mastbase, and as you rise up, try to put your nose on it. It helps for two reasons.
1. Especially in light wind waterstarts, you have to end up forward on the board. Where you look is where you tend to end up.
2. The only way to get the head near the mastfoot, is to throw the rig upright, which is the way to generate more power.
Throw your head towards the mastfoot and you�ll automatically throw the rig upright and gain more power.
Gybes � turn a blind eye to the probem areas.
Although the definitive gybe troubleshooting manual could make War and Peace look like a pamphlet, a simple turn of the head can give you your first planing gybe � honestly.
Many start they gybes like a youthful Robby Naish, dropping onto the rail and slicing through the ocean like a knife through warm butter. But as they reach downwind, they start thinking about the traditional problem area � the rig and foot change. And that�s where they look, either down at their feet, or the mast. At that point they lose their shape, their commitment, the board levels out and it� all over.
So try this. On entry, look through the window of the sail at the centre of the turning circle. Then, and this is the key bit, as you turn through the wind and open the sail out to initiate the rig change, turn your head to look at your back hand � i.e. towards the exit of the turn. That alone will get your hips moving through to the new side, will help you stay on the inside of the arc and keep the rail depressed.
Throughout the gybe keep looking to where you want to end up � not where you are. By turning the head to face the back hand and the exit of the gybe, you get everything moving to the inside where you can control the forces of the turn.
Tacks and the ballerina.
It�s a similar story with small board tacks � well all tacks for that matter. People get half way round, scent victory, stop and make a lunge for the new side of the boom hoping that the rig will save them.
There�s a simple mantra with tacks � �feet then rig!� That is to say, get the feet round first before throwing the rig forward and powering up on the new tack. If you do it the other way round (rig then feet) the mast blocks your path to the new side and you�ve nowhere to go but in.
Use like the head like the pirouetting ice-skater, who turns their head to where they want to end up, focuses on a certain point and then lets the body catch up (it also stops them getting dizzy).
As you start the tack, look at the front of the board so you can see where you are relative to the wind and waves. Then as you start to step around the mast, you�re your head over the back shoulder and look for the front of the board again. The feet will follow naturally and speedily and it stops you grabbing the boom prematurely.
As a way to help you complete the tack, keep looking for the front of the board
The forward loop. What you can�t see, you can be afraid of.
The forward loop � technically the easiest move in windsurfing (FAR easier than a small board tack) and yet the hardest to go for.
When I�m teaching the loop � and most other fast moves for that matter - I�m aware that people can only focus on one thing. (Actually most people, for the first few attempts, claim someone pushed the flush button in their brain the moment they took off � they remembered nothing.)
Assuming they�re at least hitting the wave with a little speed and getting airborne, all I tell them to do is to turn and look at the back of the boom. It achieves two things.
1. It makes you sheet in � and it�s sudden powering of the rig rather than any fancy gymnastics, that spins you round.
2. It affords you a really quite pleasant and unthreatening view of the sky. The popular alternative is to stare forwards over the nose at the yawning ocean 10 feet below � which is exactly where you�ll end up � head first.
Look back and sheet in � it�s all you�ve got to do!
So that�s it � the key to life, windsurfing and everything � look where you�re going!
Peter Hart
|21st October 2008, 08:05 AM
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 33
I really liked the way you put together the learn to loop video. I am sorry the weather did not cooperate, but it was entertaining and inspiring anyway.
How about a learn to vulcan video in the same spirit?
|6th November 2008, 08:46 PM
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 21
Hi Peter !
I know this question may be off this topic, but I wish you could help me.
I am trying to learn the slam jibe.
I 've read about this move, and saw your tutorials ( lets go wave sailing and serious abour waves vol 1 ) but there seem to be two diff approaches. One is to sheet in in the beginning of the move, and the other is to slightly sheet out ... That would be my first question, wich one is the right one ?
Second, when I initiate the jibe, I try to loose some speed by heading upwind and sheet out a little bit, then I place my back foot behind the back strap and on the inside rail, and through my body backwards and to the inside of the turn ... but the rail, in stead of sinking smoothly, makes the board to jump/bounce and that prevents me from doing the carve I am suppouse to.
Thanks in advance !
|2nd December 2008, 04:51 AM
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class act
Hi Peter, mike from nh here/usa just like to say i think you've been a great help to our sport of windsurfing. your videos with a touch of humor are really great/ we all should laugh and learn as we go, and you provide some real world helpful tips. keep up the great work my friend i think you move the sport along in a positive direction.
|27th December 2008, 07:43 AM
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Now that is a lot of brass air fittings
there is just about every
of air fitting that you could want. Wholesale prices too. I guess these could be
used as small water pipe fitting also. I
used some of the parts to make my babington wvo burner.
|12th March 2009, 04:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
Posts: 13
Learn to Loop
Many thanks for the encouragement. In a way the bad weather in Fuerte made it a more inrteresting program but ending up taking up 2 more years of my life!
The Vulcan! Well you've probably discovered that technically it's lot harder than the loop. I might have to dedicate a DVD to it as so many have asked about it and it is teh gateway to the whole freestyle arena.
Have you watched SHOWING OFF? It was made back in 2000. We've learned a lot about the move since then but it's still quite informative.
|12th March 2009, 04:50 PM
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If it's not fun, what is the point! Hope the ice is melting over there and you're ready for a cracking season
All the best
|12th March 2009, 05:03 PM
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Posts: 13
Thanks for the message.
For part one of your q, the answer depends a little on how powered you are. Generally you head up and sheet OUT to wash of all speed, get the nose up (and make ground upwind) and then sheet IN as you 'slam' in the tail.
For part 2 of the q, the answer is more straight forward. You have to decide whether you're doing a tight radius carve or a slam. In the carve, you stay planing (don't head up) and carve the board hard with a lot of back foot pressure at the same time sheeting in hard.
In the slam it's very different. Wash off all the speed, tilt the rig to windward (like an big board flare gybe), then sheet in, sink the tail BUT KEEP IT FLAT. It's the rig force that's turning you.
Also I wouldn't put the back foot behind the straps to start with. It's a good way to 'pop' the board for aerial gybes and willy skippers but tends to make the board go nuts skip all over the place.
You're doing a kind of hybrid. If you whack the board on its edge at slow speeds with a lot of back foot, it will just stall.
Hope this helps
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2 cup fresh pear slices
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Place all ingredients in a blender and pulse several seconds. Place in a glass and serve.
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This stuff definitely works when used to clear up my blocked sinuses (made worse by living with a smoker!!). I tried it because I read about its use in hospitals to clear uo blocked lungs and mucus generally, and it might protect against the effects of smoke. So I thought it might work on my nasal passages too. I get an unblocked nose and my sense of smell and taste back again. So basically it works for me for that particular problem. Takes a couple of days. I don't like taking anything all the time so I have breaks - and then take it when needed. It can deplete zinc and copper so taking a multivitamin makes sense.Goes Well With:B2, Vitamin C
I use this product for it's liver detox benefits. Great product, bad taste, but who cares?
Good quality product at a good price, quickly delivered and I recommend this company as I have always had good products from them and received orders asap. It tastes horrible as it should - I put it in capsules and enjoy the benefits of this excellent supplement without having to taste it - smells like bad eggs. I find that NAC is very good for my lung problems, clears up too much thick mucus and seems to protect me from colds, flu and lung infections. Also good to take if you have to take paracetamol as it protects the liver from damage.
Bought this as i was a regular big drinker, so as i decided to do go sober for macmillan i thought id give my liver a helping hand. Smells funky but mixed with water taste good sort of a citrus taste. Only been on it for a week so not noticed any changes yet.Goes Well With:Water
This is now an essential item in my cupboard. I drink far too much alcohol. I know it's harmful and addictive and it doesn't help my training at all. I heard this was good to aid liver detox and gave it a try a year or so ago. Now I use it everytime I have more than 2 drinks in 2hrs. 1 mini scoop after 2-4 drinks, 1 mini scoop after the session. If it's a big afternoon session like a wedding, I'll take 1 mini scoop somewhere in the middle. NAC dissolves easily in warm water and slowly in cold water. It adds an acidic, lemon juicey flavour. So I liek to add it to drinks that are far too sweet for my taste, where it helps to balance them out. A favourite is 2 mini scoop NAC in one can of the flavoured red bull drinks, diluted 2:1 or more with fizzy water. That makes what would be an unpleasantly sweet drink into something more like the lime/blueberry/tropical fruit drink it is imitating. NAC doesn't alter how you get affected by alcohol. NAC does NOT allow you to drink and drive, or be any more competent, sensible or charming while under the influence. It does (for me at least) markedly reduce a hangover, if you also drink plenty of water. Nothing makes you hangover proof, but the difference with NAC is so great, for me it's the difference between being at least half-useful the following day, or writing it off. Please drink responsibly! If you choose not to, I recommend that you try NAC. Goes Well With:Milk thistle + ALCAR + red bull + lots of water
over all good but doesnt taste good tastes like acid doesnt mix well and need to wait about 5-10min for it to soak in to the water. But it does the job i feel abit better and faster recovery
This is something that will do you good, best to read up on the benefits as there are many. I'll use it with effervescent vitamin c to help with the taste as it is very sharp on the tongue.Goes Well With:Vit c
N Acetyl L Cysteine is very good quality, with excellent mixability. I already ordered 7 bags of 100g and I will order more soon.
Among other beneficial effects n-acetyl l-cysteine is also potent in exerting his antioxidant activity.Goes Well With:Resveratrol, green tea extract, alpa-lipoic acid, vit C rosehip, Selenium...
There was no scoop with it and that was disappointing other than that it it a good product.
Yeah the smell is bad and taste is not good either but mixing it in strong tea makes it OK. I use it whenever under stress and if I feel like I might get sick, I take several doses a day. Seems to work as I had several times I felt I might get sick, took a lot of cystine and was OK the next day.Goes Well With:other antioxydants
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Excellent service as I received in two days, Excellent communication as I received two e-mail up-dates and a tracking number Excellent product as it only has NAC and nothing else Measuring spoon is very handy It does not taste good but it is not suppose too. As I didn't want anything other than NAC it does not matter to me others can mix it with orange juice Goes Well With:Whey isolet
There is some disagreement over the liver damage/protection properties of NAC in the reviews here. NAC is the preferred treatment for paracetamol overdose and will protect your liver, except from when you have consumed alcohol and is still intoxicated. The research I have come across concludes that NAC will contribute to liver damage when you are in the state mentioned. But a great product by any means.
I used to wake up sore and tired every morning. Now I take a teaspoon of N Acetyl L Cysteine stuff at night and I wake up feeling fresh (not sore or tired anymore). This stuff is amazing.Goes Well With:Water
I like this N Acetyl L Cysteine very much, but the taste is so poor I can hardly drink it. Goes Well With:Orange juice
This N Acetyl L Cysteine is very good for the recovery. It works!
Product arrive quickly the taste I am not sure of as I mix it in with my protein shake, but I mixes well and blends in well with what product you mix it with.
It's hard to say if N Acetyl L Cysteine has been effective as it is purely used as an antioxidant. Be prepared for a very acidic taste, I use it with dispersible Vitamin C tablets for extra effect and improved taste.
Sorry Terence Hughes! I meant Stephen Stannard RE: strange reference to liver damage as opposed to treating damaged livers.
I'm only writing this to call out Terence Hughes who wrote something in his review about NAC "being known to" cause liver dysfunction according to medical papers he has read. From what I have seen, one of NACs key medical uses is TREATING liver failure. Always check these things for yourself with your doc.
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"I agree with all the reviews here, and find it excellent value for money and effectiveness. However, again after having read many medical papers, I supplement this with Silymarin (Milk Thistle) at a rate of 1ml liquid form in a little water 3 times a day, since NAC is known to cause Liver dysfunction in some people and Silymarin guards against that."
"Forget about vitamin c, NAC is THE most important antioxidant you can supplement with. It is used routinely in hospitals to treat liver poisoning because it is so good at detoxifying the liver, which is great if you have had a heavy night on the booze, or you are using oral AAS / PH's. It also is a potent brain antioxidant, and been shown to neutralise the neurotoxin salsolinol found in stuff like chocolate which has been linked to Alzheimers. It tastes fine and mixes easily."
"An excellent product, NAC supplementation increases glutathione, an important antioxidant and has benefits for the immune system.\n\nComes as a pungent smelling heavy crystalline powder, you won't notice much physically when supplementing with NAC, but can rest assured that it is working to keep you healthy in the background."


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By all accounts, 49 was not kind to Demi Moore.
The actress, who will mark her 50th birthday on Nov. 11, is wrapping a challenging year: Her 6-year marriage to Ashton Kutcher, 34, ended last November in the wake of the actor's public cheating scandal; she was hospitalized last January; and since then she has endured intense scrutiny of her well-being.
Multiple sources close to her circle say some friends are worried Moore hasn't fully recovered. Her thinness is still raising concerns, a source tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story: "Her friends aren't convinced she's all better."
Now, with her milestone birthday fast approaching, she must cope with her ex's very public new romance with actress Mila Kunis, 29.
One source close to her says she is "jealous and frustrated" by the romance.
Another insider says the actress is taking Kutcher's cheating the hardest.
"What was humiliating was having her husband cheat on her in such a public way," the insider says. "But once that happened, she has not looked back."
But another source maintains she's doing well: "As hard as it has been, despite the depression of going through a divorce, she came through it."
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December 9, 2012
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Cook Time 25 minutes
3 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 clove garlic, minced
1 large onion, finely diced
30 ounces Eden Cannellini (White Kidney) Beans, 2 cans, do not drain
2 cups water
1 medium carrot, finely diced
1 stalk celery, finely diced
1/2 tsp Eden Sea Salt
2 tsp fresh rosemaryor 1/2 tsp. dried rosemary
1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 Tbsp lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1 clove garlic, finely minced
2 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/2 tsp Italian seasoning blend
8 slices organic whole grain sourdough bread
To make the soup, heat oil in a large soup pot and sauté the garlic and onion for 3 to 5 minutes. Add the beans, water, carrots, celery, sea salt, rosemary and black pepper. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium low and simmer for 20 minutes until the vegetables are tender. Turn off the flame and add the lemon juice. Puree the soup, in small batches, in a blender. Place back in the pot and place on a low flame until the croutons are done.
To make the croutons, heat the oil in a skillet and sauté the garlic for 1 minute. Add the bread cubes and herbs. Cook the cubes, stirring and tossing frequently until crispy and slightly golden.
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Kelly Rowland and fiancé Tim Weatherspoon enjoyed quite the Costa Rican vacation recently – but was it for their wedding?
The couple arrived in the country together last Thursday and were joined by some notable guests.
According to immigration documents first obtained by La Nación, Rowland's Destiny's Child bandmates, Beyoncé Knowles and Michelle Williams, were in attendance as well as Beyoncé's sister Solange and their mother, Tina.
One apparent absence: Jay Z, who was allegedly attacked by Solange after the Met Gala. There was no official record of him entering or leaving the country.
Though the couple have yet to confirm their nuptials, they are known for doing things simply – and spontaneously!
"He asked me first on Skype," Rowland said in December of the proposal. "And I was like, 'We're so far away from each other.' But it was so late – I remember we were both just kinda like, honestly, just staring at each other. And he asked me, and it was just that simple to say yes. I was like, 'I got my best friend to ride through life with.' He really is my best friend."
After departing from Costa Rica with Weatherspoon on Sunday, Rowland was spotted at the 2014 American Ballet Theatre Opening Night Spring Gala in New York City on Monday night.


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Background Introduction Contents of the Screening
Parks Canada is responsible for managing the land and the resources within National Parks. That responsibility includes the management and protection of natural and cultural resources, and the promotion of the philosophy of environmental stewardship. Environmental stewardship is not only the special awareness of the importance and benefit of natural and cultural resources; it is also the incorporation of such awareness into day to day activities and practices, such that impacts to these resources are minimized.
National Parks are special places. Development projects within National Park boundaries will require special attention. Individuals carrying out such projects will require a heightened awareness of environmental stewardship.
For each project, the Environmental Assessment Process will be applied to the required level, to identify concerns, and, when necessary provide mitigating measures and provide sufficient information to allow Parks Canada to make a determination about the significance of the projects' environmental impacts.
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) (1992) sets out responsibilities and procedures for the environmental assessment of projects involving the federal government. The Parks Canada policy document, "Guiding Principles and Operational Policies " (1994) reinforces this responsibility by stating that " Parks Canada will be exemplary in the implementation of federal legislation pertaining to environmental assessment and review in national parks ". The CEAA ensures that the environmental effects of projects are considered as early as possible in a projects planning process.
The level of detail required in the impact assessment varies with the significance of the impacts associated with the proposed project. An screening is the assessment level used for most projects.
The purpose of the Screening, as outlined under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act is to perform a systematic assessment
The screening will address the environmental implications of the proposal on park ecosystems, and include detailed information as described below. The Screening must provide information necessary to allow Parks Canada to determine the significance of the projects impact on park ecosystems, the impact of park ecosystems on the project, and to assess the need to minimize these predicted impacts. The screening will follow the format presented below.
The project description should include detailed maps, design plans and photographs.
Describe the environmental components, their interrelationships and sensitivity to disturbance, at the proposed project location. This description will serve to identify and quantify the current site in its existing condition prior to any development.
This description will include the following:
Note: An Urban-Wildland Interface Fire Assessment that provides information concerning values at risk with respect to facility development in a forested environment within the Rocky Mountain District, is available from the National Park Warden Services in each park.
The proponent will provide a thorough description of the impacts to valued ecosystem components as a result of the proposed project, both during the construction phase, as well as the longer term operational phase. These impacts will be quantified where possible. Off-site impacts, as a result of project development (i.e. increased demands upon other systems) will also be identified and quantified where possible.
The identification and assessment of impacts will focus upon the following:
3.1.1 Wildlife - change in species composition and distribution, habitat change/fragmentation, displacement, corridor impairment, endangered and special species.
3.1.2 Vegetation - change in species composition or community structure, introduction of non-native species, effects on rare, endangered or special resource species.
3.1.3 Landform - physical changes, erosion potential, changes in soil structure and organic matter content, features of special interest.
3.1.4 Aquatics/Hydrological Resources - changes to fisheries ( species composition and distribution, habitat change, changes to aquatic vegetation, time boundaries for spawning/incubation, etc. ), changes to hydrologic factors (surficial and sub-surficial flow patterns, chemistry, etc.), changes to riparian features.
Identify the potential for long and short term additions of pollutants (man-made and natural) to soil, water and atmospheric environments, and the impacts from such additions.
Identify the projects likely effects to :
3.3.1 Aesthetics - long and short term sensory effects to park visitors/users and residents.
3.3.2 Public Facilities and Services - access, roads, trails, utilities, parking and recreational activities.
3.3.3 Public Safety - concern will focus on risk identification and assessment of project proposal, and the management of such risk, as it affects park visitors and residents.
3.3.4 Cultural Heritage - known or potential values will be examined.
3.3.5 Socio-Economic Impacts - lifestyles, property values, employment, concern by special interest groups and quality of life.
Topic headings could include the following:
Note: If no impacts are anticipated, simply state " no impacts " under the appropriate headings.
All projects will affect their surroundings. Describe the influence of project development on surrounding facilities and resources. Discuss the environmental implications of these influences.
List in sequence, impacts identified in the Environmental Impacts section, i.e.
4.1.1 Wildlife - state mitigation(s).The proponent will identify measures which will be used to avoid or minimize environmental impacts. Impact mitigation will focus upon design elements, alternative construction techniques and long-term operational practices.
Describe how the impacts of this project contribute to changes within the area over time.
Assuming mitigations of impacts as recommended, describe the environmental changes that will result from project implementation.
Indicate requirements for supervision to ensure implementation of environmental protection measures during construction.
Determine whether a follow-up program is required after project completion.
Identify knowledge deficiencies and describe how they will be overcome.
Note: Public RecordAll environmental assessment documents, once completed and approved, become a public record, available to anyone making an enquiry through the public registry system. Interim documents need to be clearly marked as "Draft" copies.
Note: FormatAll environmental assessment submissions will include five hard copies of the completed final document and an equivalent computer disk in either Wordperfect (V 5.x for Windows) or Microsoft Word (V. 6.0).


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While the nation moved through an economically challenging election year, Hollywood kept things interesting by focusing on everything from engagements and divorces to babies and bikinis.
Here, in descending order of popularity, were the biggest PEOPLE.com news stories of 2012.
10. Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds Get Married in Surprise CeremonyBlake Lively and Ryan Reynolds's surprise wedding ceremony was one of Hollywood's best kept secrets! After less than a year together – and buying a home in Bedford, N.Y. – the couple exchanged vows at Boone Hall Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., just outside of Charleston, in September. Just a month later, Lively showed off a stunning engagement ring on a red carpet in New York.
9. Angelina Jolie's Engagement Ring Up Close!Just days after Brad Pitt popped the question to Angelina Jolie, the Oscar-winning actress debuted her engagement ring at a private event at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Created by jeweler Robert Procop and designed by Pitt, the stunning sparkler took over a year to produce. Jolie, 37, and Pitt, 48 – together since 2005 – have yet to announce any formal wedding plans.
8. Beyonce 'Enormously Pregnant in Sky-High Heels,' Says SourceWith rumors swirling that Beyoncé gave birth over New Year's Eve weekend, a source confirmed to PEOPLE the singer was in fact still pregnant. On New Year's Eve, the source spotted the mom-to-be dining at Buttermilk Channel in Brooklyn, where she and husband Jay-Z feasted on fried chicken and oysters. "She looked amazing. She wore sky-high heels. It was really impressive for an enormously pregnant woman," the source said. A week later, the happy couple welcomed daughter Blue Ivy into the world on Jan. 7, 2012.
7. Jessica Simpson, Daughter Maxwell Do First Photo ShootIntroducing baby Maxwell! Weeks after welcoming her first child on May 1, Jessica Simpson proudly posed with daughter Maxwell Drew on the cover of PEOPLE. "We stare at her all the time," Simpson said at the time. "We can't get enough!"
6. Elizabeth Smart Is EngagedAfter being kidnapped from her home in 2002 at age 14, Elizabeth Smart finally got her happy ending. Her father Ed Smart confirmed his daughter's engagement in January, saying, "We're looking forward to her moving on to this next stage and leading a very happy life." Then, after planning a destination wedding in just days, Smart and fiancé Matthew Gilmour exchanged vows in Hawaii in February.
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5. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Are DivorcingAfter five years of marriage, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes announced their divorce in June. "Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children. Please allow them their privacy," Cruise's rep told PEOPLE at the time. Despite the split and their distance (Holmes and Suri remained in New York, while Cruise kept busy filming in London), the parents to 6-year-old Suri remained focused on their daughter.
4. Robert Pattinson Leaves Home He Shares With Kristen StewartAfter Kristen Stewart publicly apologized for a tryst with married Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, her Twilight costar and boyfriend Robert Pattinson left the Los Angeles home the couple shared in late July. "I'm not sure they'll be able to recover from this," a source said of the couple at the time. But come October, the Breaking Dawn costars would be spotted reuniting in Los Angeles.
3. Rosie O'Donnell's Fiancée Diagnosed with Rare DiseaseAlthough she's best known for cracking jokes, 2012 was no laughing matter for Rosie O'Donnell. Her fiancée Michelle Rounds was diagnosed with desmoid tumors, a rare disease that affects three out of every million people. In June, the funny woman revealed she suffered a heart attack – crediting her survival to quick Internet research and a Bayer aspirin she had seen recommended in advertisements. After a difficult year of health problems, O'Donnell and Rounds decided to tie the knot in secret before Rounds underwent surgery for her desmoid tumors on June 9. "They got married but they haven't had the wedding celebration," O'Donnell's rep Cindi Berger told PEOPLE exclusively.
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8.8.8 is nice, but missing the target for 8888 as RTM build number is not.
i dont really get how they "miss" a build numberlike that. arent those numbers "coerced" anyway? it seems inprobable that there are exactly 8888 builds (or 9200 builds) in the windows branch.. i mean did someone queue a new build by accident and fudge the 8888 build [and therefore had to queue 312 more builds]?
then again, getting the final build to exactly 8888 might not be a huge priority
@aL_: it was not an 'accidental' build, but an 'accidental' or 'unexpected' bug, so they have to pump the 'perfect' build number again in order to fix that bug, that was a real show stopper.
Thanks for the aspConf shoutout. We have all the sessions filmed in Channel 9 studio online of course, bue are still getting videos from remote presenters, getting them edited, etc. We have 30 online now, more going up every day.
Also thanks to the other conference organizers (Eric Hexter and Javier Lozano) and our volunteer staff.
@jongalloway: Thanks Jon for the clarification
Codealike is now available for VS 2012. You can download form http://bit.ly/HARoV1
@Hernan: a better link, because I hate clicking random links that start downloading things
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