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Spice Girls of the Old World
By: Kathleen George for STYROFOAMâ"¢ Brand Foam
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These aren't your modern day Spice Girls, these ladies hail all the way from the Old World. This creative and easy project makes a great decoration idea for the kitchen. Or makes a nice gift to give to your friend who loves cooking and spends a lot of time in the kitchen. These girls are sure to bring a smile to everyone's face.
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- Balls: 2 1/2" and 5"
- Doll curls
- Black beads, two 3mm to 4mm
- Thread
- Powdered blush
- Stocking - White
- small amount of Fiberfil
- Acrylic craft paint: black, rose
- Fabric: 1/4 yd. small cotton print (dress); 1/8 yd. each of two coordinating prints (apron and scarf)
- Ribbon, 1/2" x 30"
- Buttons, three 3/8"
- Accessories: Silk flowers, bay leaves, cinnamon sticks, mini basket, mini clothes pins
- Serrated knife
- Scissors
- Wooden spoon
- Utility knife with sharp blade
- Fabric glue
- Thick white craft glue or low temperature glue gun and glue sticks
Cut small slice from top and bottom of 5" ball and small slice from bottom of 2 1/2" ball. Place 2 1/2" ball on 5" square of white stocking; pull stocking tightly to back of head, gathering edges and tying off. Glue flat sides of two balls together, forming head and body. Position head slightly toward the back of 5" ball to emphasize chubbiness.
To form bust area and waistline, use handle of a wooden spoon to create an indentation around 5" ball, starting about 1" from neck in the front and ending about 2-1/2" from neck in the back. Enlarge indentation slightly by cutting away a small amount of foam with the utility knife. Smooth edges of the indentation with the bowl of the wooden spoon.
Cut the following pieces from dress fabric: four 2" x 6"; one 2 1/2" x 6"; one 6" square; and two 3 1/4" x 2". Glue 6" square to bottom of ball; glue 2" x 6" pieces around back and sides of ball, overlapping edges. Glue 2 1/2" x 6" strip to the front. Cover any gaps with small scraps of fabric. Glue two 3 1/4" x 2" pieces in half, forming two 3 1/4" x 1" sleeves.
Cut two, 2" x 2" squares from white stocking for hands. Place small amount of fiberfill in center of each square, draw up edges and tie securely. Glue hand onto end of each sleeve. Glue arms to body in desired position.
Cut 8" x 2 3/4" piece of coordinating fabric for apron. Run a gathering stitch along the top and pull slightly; glue ribbon to top of apron, covering gathering stitch. Round edges, if desired. When dry, tie apron around the waist.
Cut small pieces of hair and glue to front and lower back of head (head scarf will cover sides and top). Glue on eyes. Paint on eyebrows and small, rosebud mouth; blush cheeks.
Using Pattern A, cut scarf from coordinating fabric. Tie around head. Glue three buttons to front of dress.
Accessorize doll with basket filled with silk flowers, cinnamon sticks or bay leaves. Add mini clothes pins where desired.
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Nov 24, 2013
I was unable to download the pattern for this project. Please e-mail the pattern to me or let me know wherer to find Spice Girls of the Old World. Thank you for all the wonderful patterns. Read more at http://www.favecrafts.com/Kitchen-Decor/Old-World-Spice-Girls#BlbGQxWwuCiteZbT.99
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I was unable to download the pattern for this project. Please e-mail the pattern to me or let me know wherer to find Spice Girls of the Old World. Thank you for all the wonderful patterns.
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I was unable to download the pattern for this project. Please e-mail the pattern to me or let me know wherer to find Spice Girls of the Old World. Thank you for all the wonderful patterns.
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Meier & Frank Building
Meier & Frank Building
Portland Historic Landmark[1]
Meier & Frank Building (from Alder St.) in 2012
|621 SW 5th Avenue
Portland, Oregon
|45°31′09″N 122°40′41″W / 45.519217°N 122.677920°WCoordinates: 45°31′09″N 122°40′41″W / 45.519217°N 122.677920°W
|1909 Dinwiddie Construction Company
|Doyle & Patterson, et al.
|Architectural style
|Early Commercial
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|Added to NRHP
|July 8, 1982
The Meier & Frank Building is a fifteen-story, glazed terra cotta building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, across from the northeast corner of Pioneer Courthouse Square. The building is the former flagship store and headquarters building for the Meier & Frank department store chain and has now seen its lower floors remodeled into an updated Macy's department store. Upper floors of the building have been renovated into a luxury hotel known as The Nines.
The building site is a full block, bounded by SW Fifth and Sixth Avenues and Morrison and Alder Streets. The present building was constructed in stages, starting in 1909 with major expansions occurring in 1915 and 1932. It replaces an earlier Meier and Frank store built in 1898.
The project was the first major commission for prolific Portland architect, A. E. Doyle. Although the original commission was an annex to the original building, Doyle took a trip to Chicago with the company's co-founder Sigmund Frank to survey department stores. Frank was very impressed with what he saw, and plans for the building changed into a full-block fully modern department store. Frank's death in 1910 ended those plans and resulted in the building's construction in piecemeal segments over several decades, which led to anomalous differences in which elevators and which stairways reached which floors. However, A.E. Doyle first used glazed terra-cotta in this building, resulting in later use of it in many other Portland structures by his and other firms.
The building hosted the corporate headquarters of the Meier & Frank chain. After the acquisition of Meier and Frank by May Department Stores in 1966, the chain became a division which was based out of the former corporate offices.
The interior of the building has been modernized over the years with few interior historic elements remaining. However, several notable exceptions to this were the Georgian Room restaurant and seasonal Santaland, both on the 10th floor (highest retail floor in the building). The historic Georgian Room had remained virtually unchanged for at least the last 50 years. Santaland, which closed after the 2005 Christmas season, was an annual holiday favorite for generations of Portland families.[2] Santaland operated a "kiddie"-sized overhead monorail around the ceiling of Santaland; first installed in 1959,[3] it last operated during the 2005 holiday season.[2] There was also a holiday model railroad layout and Santa Clauses.[1]. Pneumatic tubes were used throughout the store to convey messages and money from upper to lower floors and back again. The remnants of this system could still be found in some stairwells and back areas.
The Meier & Frank Building featured the first escalator installation in Portland, and housed the company's own radio station. KFEC signed on the air October 19, 1922. The studio was on the 5th floor and was also used as the library and reading room for employees. The transmitter towers were atop the building. KFEC operated until March 22, 1929 when it was sold and moved to Yakima, Washington which still operates today as KIT.
Until August 1962, the building at 223 feet (68 m) was the second tallest in Portland after the Public Service Building.[4] The building has two primary lower levels and a third service level beneath these. The first lower level was used for retail space until the mid-1980s. The levels beneath that were used for storage and various seasonal needs. The bank of hand-controlled elevators originally operated by store employees was closed to the public with the construction of new automatic elevators, but were still used to transport merchandise into the 1990s out of public view.
At its peak, the store housed everything from a pharmacy to a pet store. Actor Clark Gable worked in the store's tie department in 1922. Several delis and food vendors operated out of various levels. As demand for these services declined, the store changed focus. During the 1980s the store began to concentrate more on soft lines such as clothing, as well as small goods such as housewares. Several floors were modified to serve as corporate offices. Other floors were simply shut down and turned over to cold storage. The store was able to operate in this configuration until finally doomed by the development of the nearby Pioneer Place mall and increased competition from stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom.
The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[5]
In 2005, the May Company was acquired by Federated Department Stores, corporate parent of Macy's and other chains. The Meier & Frank stores were renamed Macy's in September 2006. That same year, construction began on a project to turn the top nine floors of the building into a 330-room luxury hotel called The Nines, a Starwood Luxury Collection Hotel.[6] The former Meier & Frank store in the lower floors of the building was set to be turned into a Macy's and remained open until December 30, 2006, before being closed for remodeling. The new Macy's at Meier and Frank Square reopened on October 26, 2007. The hotel opened in late summer, 2008.
Other historic buildings[edit]
Meier and Frank also owned and operated two other buildings in the downtown area, namely, the Delivery Depot and Warehouse, both of which are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Both structures have been transformed into other uses.
On August 18, 2010, Vestas Wind Systems, a Danish wind turbine manufacturer, announced that it will lease the historic Meier & Frank Delivery Depot in the Pearl District. After renovations completed in 2012, the 172,000-square-foot (16,000 m2) space now houses the company's U.S. headquarters.[7]
See also[edit]
- ^ Portland Historic Landmarks Commission (July 2010), Historic Landmarks -- Portland, Oregon (XLS), retrieved November 7, 2013.
- ^ a b "Holiday tradition rides off forever". Portland Tribune. November 25, 2005. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
- ^ Chuang, Angie (December 25, 2004). "Santaland monorail may have made last round on 10th floor". The Oregonian, p. D1.
- ^ "Hilton Hotel Now Tops Portland Skyline". The Oregonian. August 15, 1962. p. 1.
- ^ "Oregon National Register List" (PDF). State of Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Retrieved 2007-02-03.
- ^ "Sage Hospitality Closes on Purchase of Top Floors in Meier & Frank Building". Portland Development Commission. April 12, 2006. Archived from the original on October 11, 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-27.
- ^ Siemers, Erik (August 18, 2010). "Vestas keeps HQ in Portland, moving to the Pearl".
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Erica Bauermeister is the author of The School of Essential Ingredients (Jan 2009), a novel of eight students and their cooking teacher, set in a restaurant kitchen. Her non-fiction work includes 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide and Let's Hear It For the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. She received a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Washington and has taught at both the U.W. and Antioch. Her love of slow food and slow living was inspired during the two years she spent living with her husband and two children in northern Italy. She currently lives in Seattle with her family.
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I was born in Pasadena, California in 1959, a time when that part of the country was both one of the loveliest and smoggiest places you could imagine. I remember the beautiful arching branches of the oak tree in our front yard, the center of the patio that formed a private entrance to our lives; I remember leaning over a water faucet to run water across my eyes after a day spent playing outside. It's never too early to learn that there are always two sides to life.
And two sides to the country -- when I was nine, we moved to the east coast, with all its history and old, atmospheric houses; then when I was 15 we moved back to (northern) California. College was in Los Angeles again -- not because of Los Angeles, but because I fell in love with Occidental College and its campus (must have been the trees).
I have always wanted to write, but when I read Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" in college, I finally knew what I wanted to write books that took what many considered to be unimportant bits of life and gave them beauty, shone light upon their meaning. The only other thing I knew for certain back in college, however, was that I wasn't grown up enough yet to write them.
So I moved to Seattle, got married, and got a PhD. at the University of Washington. Frustrated by the lack of women authors in the curriculum, I wrote 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide with Holly Smith and Jesse Larsen and Let's Hear It For the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14 with Holly Smith. In the process I read, literally, thousands of books, good and bad, which is probably one of the best educations a writer can have. I still wrote, but thankfully that material wasn't published. I taught writing and literature. I had children.
Having children probably had the most dramatic effect upon how I write of anything in my life. As the care-taker of children, there was no time for plot lines that couldn't be interrupted a million times in the course of creation. I learned to multi-task, and when the children's demands were too many, we created something called the mental hopper." This is where all the suggestions went -- "can we have ice cream tonight?" "can we go to Canada this summer?" "can I have sex when I am 14?" The mental hopper was where things got sorted out, when I had time to think about them. What's interesting about the mental hopper is that when something goes in there, I can usually figure out a way to make it happen (except sex at 14).
And that is how I write now. All those first details and amorphous ideas for a book, the voices of the characters, the fact that one of them loves garlic and another one flips through the pages of used books looking for clues to the past owner's life, all those ideas go in the mental hopper and slowly but surely they form connections with each other. Stories start to take shape. It's a very organic process, and it suits me. So when people say being a mother is death for writers, I disagree. Yes, in a logistical sense, children can make writing difficult. In fact, I don't think it is at all coincidental that my first book of fiction will be published after both my children are in college. But I think differently, I create the work I do, because I have had children.
It's been almost thirty years since I first read Tillie Olsen. My children are now mostly grown. I've been married for twenty-five years to the same man; I've lived in Italy; I've stood by friends as they faced death. I've grown up a bit, and my mind has turned back, happily and naturally, in the direction of fiction.
So look for the next book, just published by Putnam in January of 2009. The School of Essential Ingredients is about a group of cooking students and their teacher, in a school held in the kitchen of Lillian's restaurant. It's about food and people and relationships about taking those "unimportant" bits of life and making them beautiful.
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I have always loved books and reading, and I wanted to be a writer from the time I was small. I read constantly and studied literature in college, and then graduate school. I taught literature, I wrote reader's guides to books (which meant I read thousands of books to select a far smaller number). All of that taught me a great deal about the beautiful machines that are books their parts, the connections between them, the stroke of magic or imagination that brings them alive.
I think the reason I waited until I was 43 to start writing fiction, however, was that I knew from the time I was in college the kind of book I wanted to write and that I wasn't mature enough to write it yet. I wanted to write books about the small, "unimportant" things in life the ways we interact with each other as parents and friends and lovers and spouses, those subtle moments of miscommunication ...
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Northern Ireland's Daniel Quigley made a successful challenge for the ISKA World Cruiserweight Kickboxing title when he stopped the reigning Champion Waine Turner in the fifth round.
The young contender gave the Champion no quarter he dropped Turner twice in the first round with an endless barrage of punches and kicks. Turner was sent to the canvas twice in the following rounds he bravely tried to survive the onslaught but Quigley would not be denied after another knock down in the fifth round the referee stepped in to save Turner from further punishment and award a TKO victory to Quigley. The sold out event was promoted by Paddy Toland at the Clanree Hotel, Donegal, Ireland. On the same card Jay McVeigh (P T's Gym Donegal) stopped David Welsh (Bodyshots, Belfast) in the fifth round to take the ISKA Irish Super-lightweight title.
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The Kindle Fire endpoint enables Amazon to seamlessly deliver every relevant piece of content to own personal event horizon at a reasonable price.
This is huge. This is significant. Take notice.
In a few years, we'll forget that Amazon once made a small fortune moving atoms instead of electrons. We'll forget there was a time you couldn't seamlessly access your content.
Blue rays? DVDs? Netflix? MP3 players? All dead.
Devices are no longer relevant, they're cheap, disposable, like kodak cameras. Cheap little windows into the Amazon content cloud.
Do you see this massive pivot? Do you see how they've leveraged all of their assets to redefine what the consumer shopping experience can be at a global scale?
It's impressive, how Amazon continues to support their legacy products and customers while massively increasing domain expertise, acquiring new assets, and driving innovation on technology platforms to optimize and "lift up" the entire company.
Contrast this with Netflix, who literrally discontinues relationships with their customers by splitting them in two, claiming reduced complexity improves quality of service.
Every media outlet/channel is in a game of hearts for the consumer last mile. When I watch the card Amazon played in Kindle Fire, it's obvious they're shooting the moon and I'm not sure anyone can stop it. They've won this hand, only a few are strong enough to even stay in the game.
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With Larry Brooks at the New York Post reporting that the Rangers are scheduled to take physicals Sunday morning, then be on the ice by early afternoon if the necessary CBA paperwork is completed, Steve Zipay at Newsday feels there's a chance Michael Del Zotto might not be signed in time for the start of training camp.
Here's Del Zotto…
"We started talking Tuesday and are still going. I said that we'd like to get it done sooner than later, and hopefully I don't miss any of training camp. We missed four months here. It's just a matter of getting a fair deal for both sides . . . I really want to be here. That hasn't changed."
Brooks also has this from Glen Sather on the negotiations…
"Michael has until [tomorrow] morning to figure this out, and I sure hope he does so he doesn't have to miss any time," Sather told The Post last night. "We've made Michael a very good and very fair offer.
"Sitting out is not going to help him in any way. We want him here. He knows that. We've done what we can. It's up to him."
Brooks adds that the Rangers are believed to have offered Del Zotto a two-year contract worth north of $2.4 million per season. While the defenseman is believed to be seeking approximately $3 million per season for two years.
…at this point I'm done with the blame game in this contact squabble. All I know is that with training camp only seven days long, even missing one day could be detrimental to Del Zotto's timing and conditioning. And that's not good for him or the team.
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Top Gun II (NES)
This writes itself. All the old faces are back: Maverick, Iceman, the other lesser known guys, etc. While on a routine air-to-air hunt for the terroritst organization of your choice, Mav and a newly reformed Ice return to base/aircraft carrier to find that everyone is either dead or strangely feasting on the brains of fallen comerades. Its up to Mav and the team to find the Necronomicon, bring Goose back, and face him in hand-to-hand combat for both the fate of the earth and Goose's wife.
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A box office smash drama about why they decided to make Street Fighter: The Movie. You get Ben Kingsly as the ailing, neurotic director that finally finds the perfect script after years of perpetual mediocrity. Go ahead and cast Kurt Russell as the actor that was passed up for what should have been an easy choice for Guile. Jean Claude Van Dam as Kurt Russell's love interest. And Get Spike Jonze to actually direct it that way it has that certain "movie within a movie" flair and so the college kids will thinks its a think piece. Done
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It hasn't been easy, but Mexico are just two matches away from qualifying for the 2014 World Cup.
With the United States' dramatic win over Panama on Tuesday night, El Tri were able to finish fourth in qualification, despite a 2-1 loss to Costa Rica. That ensured Mexico would be facing off against New Zealand in a two-legged playoff, with the winner getting a spot in Brazil.
This is a far cry from where Mexico were following that 2-1 loss to Honduras in the Estadio Azteca. They were a mess on the pitch, and the supporters were revolting off the pitch. That defeat ultimately cost Jose Manuel de la Torre his job, and Victor Manuel Vucetich was left to pick up the pieces. He had little to no time to fix what was wrong with the team and also had to guide El Tri though to qualification.
Vucetich can't begin planning for the World Cup because if they lose that playoff, he's probably going to be out of a job, and the next World Cup cycle is still over a year away. Instead, he must continue with a lot of the players that have gotten Mexico into the position they're in.
The manager is between a rock and a hard place. However, should he secure qualification, he'll have much more freedom with his squad.
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In Castletownbere the funding will be used to enable the surfacing and the restoration of the car park, the creation of a new slipway at pontoon pier, and other works such as cladding, lighting, and the restoration of the shelter.
It will also fund the provision of cattle pen at Dursey Island's slipway to assist with the transport of cattle, while plans for a safety rail at the cable car stand and new door on a waiting house there will also be realised.
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If I had known that Andy Tennant, the director of this film, had previously directed "It Takes Two" (the movie featuring the Olsen twins), I would have taken a couple of fondue forks and attempted to dunk my eyeballs in hot oil.
Nevertheless, I should have suspected something was amiss given this film's casting. Drew Barrymore as a modern Cinderella? I was waiting for that scene where Drew jumped on Prince Henry's (Dougray Scott) desk, pulled her shirt over her head, and invited the young prince to do a few lines of blow off her bare breasts. I'd bet that faster than you could say "abdication of the throne," the Prince would have been riding that peasant girl like nobody's business no matter what the evil stepmother (Anjelica Huston) had to say about it.
And is anybody else sick of these fairy tale updates where the woman is completely rewritten to be a perfectly '90s vision of feminist equality? Drew reads books, thinks for herself, can throw an apple as well as any man and still looks good in a dress. Cut to real life and only the latter applies (Quick: What woman has had the greatest influence on President Clinton's presidency?). The only thing missing was Drew dropping a new transmission into a '66 Mustang, but I guess the filmmakers had to include at least a passing acknowledgment of historical accuracy.
Actually, Tennant's casting stumble has given me a whole series of ideas for new adaptations of The Brothers Grimm stories. How about Sleeping Beauty? Drew takes too much heroin and only a handsome L.A. pharmacologist can wake her up. How about Snow White? Drew and seven dwarfs -- can you say midget cocaine orgy? Finally, how about Drew as the miller's daughter in Rumpelstilzchen? The miller, wanting to get his daughter's career in show business back, tells the head of a major studio that Drew can spin her troubled past into a golden acting career. Whoops -- somebody already bought that one.
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Just an hour from Orlando lays the magical ocean-side city of Cocoa Beach. Featuring six miles of stunning and pristine sandy beaches, this area is not only ideal for beachcombing strolls but offers some of the best surfing on the East Coast. Visitors flock to partake in the area's activities, which includes parasailing and warm water deep-sea fishing. Cocoa Beach also offers perfectly framed views of the Kennedy Space Center, making it a picturesque location to watch a space launch firsthand. The Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science highlights the areas Spanish and Native American histories, which date to the 15th century. The Cocoa Beach Pier is a historic landmark and stretches more than 840 feet into the vast Atlantic Ocean. The pier is lined with cafes, restaurants, gift shops and charming boutiques. The local Porcher House, which dates to 1916, is an excellent specimen of Greek revival architecture and is listed with the National Register of Historic Places. Many Cocoa Beach hotels offer private in-room balconies, affording guests stunning ocean-side Atlantic sunrises.
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U.S. Senate candidate Det Bowers has a new ad out in the GOP Senate race versus incumbent Lindsey Graham titled "Y'all, think."
The television spot begins with brief clips from other candidates' ads which Bowers says highlights what he calls their negative tone.
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"I respect Senator Graham for his service. But I disagree with him on a number of issues. South Carolina deserves a Senator who will repeal Obamacare, cut spending, and secure the borders. I'm a businessman, and I sacrificed a successful law practice to serve as a minister. As your Senator, I will not be bought."
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A Brief History of Buddhist Geeks
Buddhist Geeks is born out of a conversation between two friends and Naropa University students, Vincent Horn and Ryan Oelke, at a coffee shop in Boulder, Colorado. They see an opportunity to combine their geeky skills together with their passion for Buddhist practice.
The Buddhist Geeks Podcast launches and becomes an instant hit among tech-savvy Buddhists looking for a fresh perspective on what it means to be a modern-day practitioner.
The Podcast passes 1 million unique downloads.
The Podcast continues to grow, and is now being downloaded over 100,000 times / month.
In an attempt to take Buddhist Geeks to another level, Vincent creates the micropatronage system, inviting the Buddhist Geeks to help him raise enough money to work full-time on the project, plus develop the Conference. The success of the micropatronage drive makes it abundantly clear that Buddhist Geeks is something closer to a movement or community. Vincent quits his full-time job to work exclusively on Buddhist Geeks.
Buddhist Geeks leaves the purely digital world with its first in-person event, the Buddhist Geeks Conference–a kind of TED Conference for 21st century practitioners. The first event, held in Los Angeles, is received extremely well with nearly 200 people in attendance, and ends up being featured in several publications including Fast Company, Tricycle, and the Los Angeles Times.
Buddhist Geeks Kickstarts it's next Conference, becoming one of the first organizations to successfully crowdfund a live conference.
Buddhist Geeks brings on it's first outside team member, Kelly "Sosan" Bearer, to rock out the Conference. Kelly brings her experience of event production–having produced over 50 conference and retreats–and her background in Zen to the Buddhist Geeks mix.
Vincent Horn and Rohan Gunatillake are featured in Wired UK's cover story: Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world.
The Buddhist Geeks Conference is held again, returning to its original home of Boulder, Colorado, with nearly 300 people attending this year's event. The Geeks can't escape Niwot's Curse.
Vincent and Emily Horn co-design a new format for doing intensive practice, in virtual space, called the Life Retreat. The first Life Retreat fills up in 11 days and Emily joins the team to continue developing the Life Retreat as a Buddhist Geeks project.
The Buddhist Geeks bring on a small amount of investment, so they can take things to another level, again. They are supported by investor & mentor Jerry Colonna, who is sometimes called The Yoda of Silicon Alley. Jerry begins schooling the geeks on cash flow budgets and business as contemplative practice.
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I'm ashamed of myself...
Hey guys, My name is Taisei, 15 years old aiming for amateur/pro
I can't help but to be really depressed about today.
Today I did my second sparring, and the coach told me I did much better than last time although I had this obvious sensation that I was throwing arm punches. To correct it, I started hitting the heavybag for 6 R, and suddenly my coach told me and said,
"Hey come here Taisei."
"Yes sir?"
"I can't help but to realize you're throwing your punch not fully extended. I don't think what you're doing is tiring you at all."
**** I was tired. Did 2 R of sparring, I changed my style and went in and threw punches like hell until I gased out at the end and after that I constantly throwed one-twos during the 2 R of pad works with you. It is partially my fault of not having the efficient stamina but I couldn't help but to say "I guess."
"Take off your gloves, and shadow box without any steps. One-two,one-two. Concentrate on speed and form."
So I did it, and I was freaking tired from all the work I did, 2 R of intense (personally it felt intense, maybe it wasn't lol) and 2 R of constant one-twos without rest, 6 R of heavy bag and now he telling me to shadow box my ass off without making a "tired" face, and in times stop breathing and do it.
This practice was so hard that I think I finished my workout in like an hour and a half, actually my coach told me to wrap up y workout with it. I should've said, "No coach please let me stay." But I couldn't I was too tired.
Anyways, what I'm trying to say is, I'm really frustrated at myself for not having the results I want. I really want that "perfect form" and that stamina to last at least 2 R.
I have my first sparring "competition" next month, if today I did a workout that's basically the "beginning", I can only imagine what kind of workout I would be doing for the next month.
Can anyone please give me some advice? I think my coach was right about sticking to the basics, I should have respected him and now I really do. My body kind of rocks during one-twos, I'm throwing arm punches(but I'm trying to throw good shots), I'm freaking slow, I don't extend my arms (I try to), everything isn't going well these days.
I'm really worried if I can do good in the competition, with my low stamina and poor techniques I don't think I could get a good result.
I apologize for the long story, but if anyone could give me some tips in advance that would be awesome
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Sounds, to me like your not ready for bouts yet. Your trainer should not be making you box if you can barely shadowbox after two rounds of boxing. What I'd do is carry on with training working on your technique in the mirror etc, also you'll know your ready to box when your doing good in sparring, it feels right and you'll have more confidence going into your fight. Don't feel ashamed we all start somewhere I love when I haven't boxed in a while and I feel like crap on the first day then as the weeks go on you start to feel better physically and mentally. Stick with it, it will all get easier in the long run
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well man it could also b a bit of exhaustion...if i remember right you've been training pretty darn hard on a consistant basis...that can lead to overtraining wich basicly depletes ur body of say "gas" without refilling up...a few days of complete rest and relaxation then back in the gym refocused could do ya some good..it happens to the best of us during boxing...one week or two everything feels gr8 then the next its just crap...relax..dont worry we all have the bad days of training..it will get back to better with some rest
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Thanks man. Thing is I can shadow box normally after sparring/pad works but when you're exhausted and you have to stop your breath and not make a tired face, that adds some real difficulties lol. thanks man, I'll try my best!
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i don't know if i'm overtraining, am i?
i go for a 4~7km run before my gymwork, i'm not a morning person so if i run at morning i tend to get sleepy during school. should i be running in the morning even if it does make me tired?
Today I did
Shadow Box w/out wraps 2R
Jump rope 3R (put sprints in between but not today)
Shadow Box 5R
Sparring 2 R
Pad work 2R
HeavyBag 6R
Shadow box without breathing and not making a tired face, constantly throwing one-two's for a full 3 minute round for 4R
I usually do
Shadow Box w/out wraps 2R
Jump rope 3R (put sprints in between)
Shadow Box 5R
Sparring/Mass Boxing 2 R
Pad work 2R
HeavyBag 5~10R
Speed bag 2~3R
Weight Lift
P90X Ab ripper X 3~4 times a week
i dont feel like overtraining, i got a day off yesterday because of school work. but thanks a bunch, i'll try to treat my body well
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Yo man don't overthink this stuff. I know you want perfect form and so do I but sometimes if you get your mind going a little to much you can kind of mind-fuk yourself. Relax and dont get all worked up about a mistake or something. Just go in there and work and dont let some little bump slow you down.
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TS it seems to me you're trying to rush things and I also have the feeling your coach is also doing the same as well. Just as you cannot build the roof of a house without first laying a foundation, you cannot expect to have the necessary stamina wihout first building a base. You should be doing roadwork on an almost daily basis, then you'll find that everything else becomes much easier and you can work at much levels. Do simple claisthenics like push ups, sit ups, knee bends, pull ups and the likes every other day, eventually you'll build the strength to do them every day(note: NEVER go to failure, that'll set back your gains).
You shouldn't be feeling ashamed. When I first started boxing, I was in the same predicament but through time, consistency and hard work I got better and better. Apply the same to yourself and you'll see the results. Good luck.
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Carol Ayala and Nathan Brown, both of Amarillo, were married Friday, July 28, at Canterbury Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.
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Tobey Maguire Helps Natalie Portman Go Vegan
"I was like, 'Um, could you make two of those?' And I'd make a cute face, and they'd roll their eyes and give me another falafel."
—Natalie Portman, on how easy Brothers co-star Tobey Maguire, who brought his own vegan chef to the set, made it for the newly vegan starlet to eat humanely.
Jake Gyllenhaal hasn't issued a statement yet, but I'm willing to bet he chowed down with his co-stars on some vegan vittles too. Could you resist food from a personal vegan chef?
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Natalie looks gorgeous in this picture. Maybe it's the new vegan diet. But she has always been a very loving and caring person towards animals. Tobey is just awesome and I hope both Natalie and Tobey has rubbed off on Jake.
I worked on a film with Tobey this summer and was consistently impressed with his compassion and his dedication to veganism. The prop department even had to find vegan tuna for a scene! He's the best.
I could resist food from a personal vegan chef but probably wouldn't!
that's fantastic!vegan food is by far the tastiest
Wow! The new nude angel ad is so offensive to so many religious peopleI think it takes the focus off the real issues and creates a completely unrelated controversy that people will be focusing on rather than the issues the ad is meant to promote. It serves no real purpose or value to the cause. I don't see this ad attracting any new interest in fact I believe it is so offensive to so many people that the near mention of Peta will forever simply serve to remind people of the disrespectful and offensive images they promote and most people would rather just forget and not think of Peta at all which in the end doesn't serve but rather deflects its primary focus and that's a shame.
LOL Natalie is so cute! I had no idea Tobey has his own vegan chef. Lucky! I doubt Jake had any though. Years a go in an interview he said he watched a pig get killed on a friends farm and enjoyed watching it! How disturbing and gross can he be?!


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Been betting a lot of games lately -- half or 1 unit each. Most everything at -110. So I'm now at 405 units wagered (over 10 days) and I've hit 54.2% for a +15.95 unit profit (219.5 to 185.5 to 9). Not bad. 54% is all it takes. I don't believe anyone claiming to hit 60%+ over a long period. Not unless you get wacky lines.Anyway, I also decided to track how many games I won by a half point. That would be 14. Combine those 14 with the 9 pushed and I figured that if I had merely a half point worse line on every game I'd be 51.38% and I'd be losing against -110. Consistently getting half point better (or worse) can easily be the difference between a winner and a loser. It may not seem big since the push or half point win only happens around 5% of the time, but those games are where you ultimately win or lose in the long run.
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called The Dark Side of Diversifying, about how over-diversifying your career can make you feel scattered and at loose ends. As I mentioned, I work on a TON of projects: I write for magazines and corporate clients, write and market books, teach e-courses, do phone mentoring, run the Renegade Writer blog and classes, and write adoption profiles for adoptive families. And that's just the work side of things; I also run a local moms' group with over 100 members and am the founder of Creative Professionals for Animal Welfare, which has about 250 volunteers.
So I decided to simplify.
Due to some business reasons I won't get into here, it was about to become much harder for me to run the Renegade Writer e-courses. In addition, updating the e-course page, promoting the classes, and collecting money add to my already full plate a bunch of administrative and marketing tasks that I had to accomplish for each instructor and each session. It was a difficult decision, but I made the choice to stop running classes other than my own. All of the instructors were very understanding (thank you!). (And don't worry, the instructors are still teaching their classes — just not through the Renegade Writer. Go here for info on how to contact the instructors about their next sessions.)
Then, this week, I had a great session with my life coach Kristin Taliaferro. I told her that I didn't feel like I "had it all together" lately. I was scattered and anxious, and felt pulled in a dozen directions at once. Kristin asked me what I would like to get rid of.
I had been thinking lately that I should give up Creative Professionals for Animal Welfare; I just don't have the passion for it that I had before our son was born 19 months ago. I was doing the bare minimum to keep the service going, and wasn't making the effort to build the volunteer list and reach out to animal welfare organizations that could use our services. It was hard on the ego, but I decided to find someone who would like to take over the reins and really make the service great.
Then there was the moms' group I run. Like creativePAW, the meetup group doesn't take a lot of time, but it's just another thing bouncing around my brain. I have some members who are much more active than I am in terms of hosting meetups, attending meetups, coming up with ideas for new gatherings, and participating in the discussion board. I decided that I would remain a member but step down as organizer. It was worth running the group for the last year and a half — I made a lot of friends with kids Traver's age — but I would be much happier if someone else were making the decisions. It looks like I have someone I really like interested in taking over, which I'm excited about.
So how do I feel after all that simplifying? Much lighter, though I'm still looking for someone to take over creativePAW, and then there will be all the tasks associated with the transfer. But once it's all done, I expect that I'll feel more together and less scattered. When you have a million tasks and they're all of roughly equal urgency and importance, whittling down your list of to-dos makes deciding which task to tackle much easier.
Now I'm on a roll and am looking for even more tasks and projects to eliminate. It's difficult because my ego is all tied up in certain projects! But I'm motivated to keep going.
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Worker Advocate: Obama Labor Board's Case Against Boeing "An Assault on Right to Work Laws"
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Washington, DC (April 21, 2011) – In response to the National Labor Relations Board's complaint against Boeing that, if successful, would eliminate over 1,000 jobs in South Carolina, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix released the following statement:
"The National Labor Relations Board's complaint is just the latest giveaway to Big Labor by an Obama Administration that has already erased union financial disclosure requirements and kept workers in the dark about the right to refrain from union membership. Once again the Board is putting union boss priorities ahead of the rights and well-being of individual employees.
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Jane Hutcherson, 75, of Amarillo died Thursday, March 28, 2002.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. today in Lifeway Fellowship Baptist Church with Dr. Randy Davis, pastor, officiating. Arrangements are by Memorial Park Funeral Home, 6969 E. Interstate 40.
Mrs. Hutcherson was born May 26, 1926, to Thomas and Emma Muncy in Amarillo. She belonged to Lifeway Fellowship Baptist Church. In 1944 she married J.R. Hutcherson. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1991.
Survivors include a son, Aubie Hutcherson and wife, Rita, of Amarillo; two daughters, Laura Potter and husband, Don, and Sandy Shook-Taylor and husband, Chris, all of Amarillo; a brother, Bob Muncy of Odessa; 11 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice of Amarillo; or Olivia's Angels of Amarillo.
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Vice President Dick Cheney should be able to continue in his job unimpeded by his latest heart problems, doctors say, shrugging off any suggestion that he should curtail travel or his intense workload.
Cheney was released from the hospital today, a day after undergoing a surgical procedure to repair a damaged artery.
The vice president walked out of George Washington University Hospital, shook hands with his doctors and was driven away. "Good," he said in response to a reporter's shouted question about how he felt.
But Cheney also was given some tough news after he had an angioplasty to unclog a coronary artery Monday. Even if he sticks to his no-beef diet and rigorous workout regimen, there is a fair chance he will be back in the hospital facing the same trouble soon, his physicians said.
"Well, it's possible for the narrowing to come back, and I think I quoted around 40 percent," Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who performed the surgery at George Washington University, told a crowded news conference. "There are studies that may show, you know, a little bit higher than that. If the narrowing is going to come back, usually it comes back within the first six months."
An Amarillo cardiologist agreed.
"After this intervention that he just had performed yesterday, there is anywhere from a 20 to 40 percent chance of reoccurrence of that particular blockage of that vessel," said Dr. B. Ronald Fortner, a cardiologist with the Amarillo Heart Group.
"We see a great deal of this. (Cheney) did exactly the right thing when he had the first symptoms by having it looked into. I think his cardiologist did a very good job of handling the situation," Fortner said.
In the future, the procedure done Monday can be redone, or they might even try radiation stents, he said.
Radiation stents are small doses of radiation inside the coronary vessel that retards growth of the blockage and helps to prevent further build up.
Cheney, who has had four heart attacks, underwent the angioplasty after he experienced a series of subtle pains in his chest. Doctors said their best evidence indicated that Cheney, 60, had not suffered another heart attack.
The artery, which had been opened during surgery at the same hospital in November, had partially reclosed, Reiner said. The culprit was scar tissue building up in the same channel doctors had opened previously.
In this latest incident, Cheney checked himself into George Washington University Hospital, about six blocks west of the White House, after feeling chest pain briefly on two occasions Monday. He also had felt chest discomfort Saturday after stepping off an exercise machine, and on Sunday, after taking a walk.
He said the episodes were "much milder and very brief" compared with the chest pains he experienced in November. "The symptoms were subtle" this time, Reiner said.
On Monday, doctors inserted a flexible tube into the narrowed artery carrying a collapsed balloon. Once the balloon was in place, it was inflated, reopening the artery.
During the November procedure, doctors had implanted a wire scaffolding-like device called a stent to prop open the same artery, which had been found to be 90 percent closed.
Reiner said that following such stent procedures, there always was a chance of the artery becoming blocked again.
Cheney has had four heart attacks, the first when he was 37. In 1988, he had quadruple bypass surgery to clear clogged arteries.
His latest troubles could not have been prevented, doctors said.
"The vice president has been exceedingly diligent at adhering to what we've wanted him to do, including very, very regular exercise and really a very strict adherence to a diet, which is hard for people to do, and he's been very good at it," Reiner said.
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