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Tuesday, 31 December 2013
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Thursday, 21 November 2013
Adventures: Poland - Krakow Day 1
Tartan Scarf - Primark
Fluffy Cropped Jumper - Topshop
Daisy Print Dress - Topshop
This is the outfit I wore for our first day in Krakow - as you can see it was an absolutely beautiful day. Our hostel was just off the main square so we started our morning with a look around the market before catching the bus to Auschwitz. I feel a bit weird including an outfit within this post, which you'll understand if you read below.
Our main reason for going to Krakow was to visit Auschwitz. I have always had an interest in World War history and have previously visited another concentration camp. I was rather nervous about going to Auschwitz as I didn't know what to expect, and I couldn't have been more sickened - but not in the way you'd expect. The whole concentration camp is a tourist hot spot (which I did sort of expect) but not in the way I witnessed it. I was so emotional walking round the larger of the two concentration camps, especially when it came to seeing the mass graves and gas chambers. The only picture I took there was the window below with the Poppy as I thought it had a very profound message especially considering the time of year we visited. The smaller concentration camp at Auschwitz had been turned into a museum which had some absolutely heart wrenching stories inside, and some completely sickening ones too. However I witnessed an American couple taking a picture under the 'Work Will Make You Free' sign and heard a large tour group talking loudly inside one of the gas chambers. I initially wasn't sure if I even wanted to go into the chambers and as soon as I did it made me feel sick to be in a room where tens of thousands of people had died a horrendous death. I just cannot get my head around why people had so little respect for what had happened on those grounds.
Later that day we went for dinner at a Communist restaurant that had been family run since 1880. It had some very delicious pierogi (Polish dumplings) and the ceiling was painted like clouds which looked so cute. We had an early night ready for the next days adventures.
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Monday, 18 November 2013
Floral Trapeze Playsuit
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Adventures Poland: Warsaw - Day 3
Velvet Scrunchie - Topshop
Floral Dress - Vintage
Chain Belt - Primark
Chelsea Boots - Topshop
I've been so excited to share this outfit post because look how amazing this cafe is! We strolled past it the previous day and decided we had to go and get tea and cake there before leaving Warsaw. It was like walking into a cartoon or illustration and I simply couldn't stop looking around and discovering new things. I love the attention to detail and took so many pictures while we were there. The cats were obviously my favourite part, however the fruit tea and cheesecake I ordered were super yummy too. This was our last day in Warsaw however we caught a plane later that day to Krakow to carry on our adventure.
The dress I am wearing I bought from a vintage store while in Warsaw, I saw it and immediately fell in love with - it ticks all my dress boxes. This necklace is my 'travel necklace', every time I go to a new city I buy a new charm for it. So far I have charms from LA, Amsterdam, Budapest, Manchester, Warsaw and Krakow. It has so many memories attached to it and while none of the charms cost more than £5 it is one of my most treasured possessions.
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Sunday, 10 November 2013
Home Ware Inspiration
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As you might know I recently moved from Hampshire to Manchester for my new job. Currently I am staying with the ever so lovely Sarah, however in a few weeks I will be moving to my own flat (just across the road as it happens). One of my favourite things about moving house is that you get a chance to decorate and choose a theme for your new room. For a long time I have been saving images to a folder as inspiration and spent lots of time today looking for things online. I want a really bohemian, hippy den vibe to my new room with lots of dream catchers, fairy lights and cushions. Have a little look below at what I have found...
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- Two 4" x 6" photos, untrimmed
- Ribbon: 3/8" wide, 18"
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- Recycle deep color purple wastepaper. The large handmade sheet on this page was made using a printed purple flyer that came in the mail.
- After blending and forming the sheet, lay the support grid from the paper making set on top of the new, wet sheet for texture. Let air dry.
- Carefully peel new sheet off screen. Gently tear along two sides to make sheet 8 1/4" x 10 3/4". Attach to 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock.
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- Attach ribbon to text block, layer on cardstock mat. Attach to page 1/2" from top and 1" in from side.
- Apply photo corners to pictures. Layer on to page as shown.
- Add calendar page and little flower tag embellishments. Attach 3d flower stickers as a finishing touch.
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"His commitment to his country and fellow Marines will never be forgotten, and serves as a reminder that freedom does not come free."
Texas Insider Report: SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Gov. Rick Perry today presented the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor to the family of Cpl. Roy Cisneros, a fallen U.S. Marine who was killed during the Vietnam War. The governor was joined by Sen. Leticia Van de Putte and others for the ceremony.
"Cpl. Cisneros' story of courage and sacrifice inspires us all, and it is my great honor to present the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor to his family," Gov. Perry said. "His commitment to his country and fellow Marines will never be forgotten, and serves as a reminder that freedom does not come free."
Cpl. Cisneros was killed in the line of duty during a reconnaissance mission in Vietnam in September 1968. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, the second highest honor for valor that can be bestowed on a Marine, and was also awarded the Military Merit Medal and Gallantry Cross with Palm from the Republic of Vietnam. In 2009, the elementary school he attended was renamed the Roy Cisneros Elementary School in his honor by the Edgewood Independent School District.
"The sacrifice Roy Cisneros made for his fellow soldiers merits this honor bestowed by the Texas Legislature," Sen. Van de Putte said. "This brave and courageous young man from a humble San Antonio family is a hero and an example for all Americans."
The Texas Legislative Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of the Texas Military Forces.
To view the governor's full remarks, please visit http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/16545/.


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Guest Post: Why I Am Freaking Out
Why I'm Freaking Out
Insofar as this burgeoning Millennial Depression goes, I've noticed there are two sorts of people: Ones such as myself, obsessively following every blog and every chart and chasing after every little Bloomberg article like a starving hunter in an African veldt chasing down every little rodent with a spear, and others who vaguely know that there's a crisis going on but who are pretty much buying the stock markets' rise and the mainstream media's line that Green shoots are sprouting, and everything will soon be back to normal. Obsessives like me and presumably you who are reading this are more or less outraged that these pathetic cud-chewers are placidly eating up this green shoots nonsense. We see our charts, we read our Bloomberg, we see one and one thing only: THE END IS HERE!!! REPENT NOW YE SINNERS!!! IT'S A SHORT SQUEEZE, YOU IDIOTS!!! SAVE YOURSELVES FROM DAMNATION!!!
We obsessives are a high-strung bunch.
Now, the economy isn't like the weather: If the weatherman says it'll be sunny tomorrow, the weather don't grow cloudy to spite him. The weather don't care what the weatherman say. But in macroeconomics, if enough people say that things are going to suck canal water, well then, things will suck canal water-hell, they'll suck turpentine. Macroeconomics is the ultimate example of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, only magnified: If some observers say it'll get better, it'll get a lot better. If enough observers say it's going to get worse, it'll get a LOT worse. A relatively small group of influential market participants-the MSM and some key people, not even necessarily powerful people-can literally create self-fulfilling prophecies.
So if we discard the old, clearly failed model of perfectly rational markets and economic actors, and instead think of macroeconomics in these more realistic terms-more-or-less rational models and charts and numbers, plus a really big slug of basic human psychology-a healthy bit of denial is actually not a bad thing. The very act of believing things will get better actually makes things get better. So when I torque down and try to coolly analyse what's going on, macroeconomically speaking, I am actually okay with all this talk about green shoots and light at the end of the tunnel. I figure, Happy talk leads to calm people, leads to happy markets, leads to renewed confidence, leads to . . . you get the picture.
But I'm still freaking out. Why?
It's because of what's behind the mask.
In every economic crisis or mushrooming recession, the MSM and the leadership classes always talk up how great things really are, and how great things are going to get in just a little while, putting on a brave face and putting out optimistic talk-and that's fine: That sort of mild deception is not only acceptable, it is in fact necessary. Putting on the happy mask is not the issue.
The issue is, what's behind the happy mask. In other words, what are the people in power actually doing, and do they have any sense that they know what they're doing, or where they're going? Or are they making it up as they go along? Are they on a path-even if it's the wrong path, or one I don't agree with-or are they lost in a wilderness and just going around in circles?
That's my problem. That's why I'm freaking out.
Sixteen months into this Millennial Depression, and less than a business quarter into Obama's administration, it is inescapably clear that Team Obama hasn't the slightest idea what it's doing. To pretend otherwise is self-deception. The louts and Constitutional traitors of the Bush administration didn't much know what they were doing either-but they were flat stupid. Team Obama doesn't have that excuse.
Let's do a quick recap-roll tape:
*The banks: The stress test was so obviously so much window-dressing that it's rather questionable what utility the whole process actually served. I mean, c'mon: The banks negotiated the results of the test (!). This is a far cry from Roosevelt's bank holiday in March '33-a far cry? Hell, it's a whole other musical genre. But even if the stress tests had been on the up-and-up, it is clear that Team Obama will not do what has to be done-nationalise the banks, fire management, liquidate the stock-holders, write off the bad assets, get the bond holders to take haircuts (or quasi-decapitations, as the case may be) and turn the banks around and send them on their way, FDIC-style. Why they won't do this is besides the point, though capture by Wall Street-akin to state capture of East European governments by the native oligarchy-seems to be the general consensus. Regardless, the banks are zombies-and they will remain zombies indefinitely. Zombie banks can undercut solvent competitive banks, strangling financial competition and ironically curtailing market liquidity, because the zombies know they will always be propped up by Uncle Sam (sorry for the mixed metaphors, but you get the idea). This is exactly what happened-and is still happening-in Japan. Zombie banks will take the government's largesse, lend out no money, squeeze out their non-zombie competition, and wind up turning the entire financial industry zombie-and Team Obama has no idea how to stop this, aside from shoveling even more liquidity in their direction. Or maybe they DO know what has to be done-put an FDIC receivership bullet in the brains of these zombies-but lack the political courage to do so.Either way, the result is the same: Zombies everywhere, killing everything, ironically curtailing liquidity even as they are propped up in the name of improving liquidity.
The charitable conclusion here is, this shows Team Obama doesn't have the foresight to envision the obvious traps of allowing zombie banks to exist. Hence they don't have an overall plan for the banking sector-if they did, they'd realize the perniciousness of zombie banks and therefore put a stop to them by setting up a real stress test and putting the banks that failed it-no matter their size-into receivership. The uncharitable conclusion is that Team Obama are captured lackeys of Wall Street.
*Industry: Team Obama's capitulation to entrenched interests in the automobile industry-that is, the United Auto Workers Union-is a very, very bad sign. The government's involvement, instead of being good for Chrysler and GM in their respective bankruptcy processes and shielding upstream suppliers from the harm of a drawn-out bankruptcy, will actually mean that the business decisions of these two companies will effectively be beholden to political considerations from here on out. After all, the reason these companies were nationalised was in order to save the UAW's bacon. (BTW, to compare what's going on at GM and Chrysler today to Chrysler in 1980 is apples and Agent Orange: In 1980, the US government guaranteed Chrysler's bonds. In 2009, the US government is guaranteeing CHRYSLER-and GM too.) Moreover, Team Obama hasn't presented any rationale for the de facto nationalization of Chrysler and GM-so what's to stop any other industry (or union) from asking to be nationalised? I'm not one of these fools who says that any state-run enterprise is Communist or Socialist-I would prefer bankruptcy for an insolvent business, but on principle I have no
problem with a government takeover of a business or industry, so long as there is a clear, compelling, non-trivial, non-political reason, and so long as there is a clear horizon for the exit of the government, if the interference was for exigent or unique reasons. But the arbitrary de facto nationalization of Chrysler and GM through this sham (and probably illegal) pre-pack bankruptcy has no rationale, no raison d'etre, aside from propping up some union (which is receiving a shockingly sweet and possibly illegal deal in the Chrysler case, a deal presumably to be repeated in the imminent GM bankruptcy)-the way it's being done makes no rational business sense, but makes terrific POLITICAL sense. These are the twin problems with Team Obama and their auto industry meddling: It's not that they are meddling in the private sector, it's that they're giving priority to political considerations over financial or macroeconomic considerations, and they're meddling without a clear and compelling rationale, opening the door for every private business to seek state subsidy so long as they have the political muscle to get the sweet taxpayer-financed deal out of Team Obama.
This shows Team Obama's lack of an overall plan, coupled with a lack of faith in capitalism and bankruptcy, a lack of faith that the laws and system in place will actually do what they're supposed to do. When an administration doesn't have faith in the law, it starts to break it. If you don't believe me, ask the Bushies.
*The military: No one is noticing this, and I know I'm odd man out on this subject, but weapons procurements and excessively large military expenditures-above and beyond the two wars being fought-are continuing apace, and no one is saying a thing. This is a disaster. Military weapons are, by definition, expenses-they're a waste of money, at best a very inefficient redistribution of income from taxpayers to workers on the factory floors of the weapons' manufacturers. Now, I'm no pinko-Commie-Hippie-Vegan freak-I have a gun, I ate raw baby seal with some Inuit friends in Alaska one time (delicious), and I sure as hell don't go around wearing that stupid little semaphore sign which is really just the footprint of the American chicken. However, the exorbitant military spending going on is a tremendous drain on the economy. It doesn't seem so because the economy has been so used to it, and because in the good times it wasn't such a pressing issue. Keep in mind, the Millennial Depression is the first truly serious economic downturn since the end of the Cold War. But even during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union presented an obvious and equal military challenge, there were cutbacks in '81 and after '73, as well as in the Fifties, when the economy got rocky. Now-with no serious or imminent enemy except low-tech terrorists-we have a massive military industry, above and beyond the endless, pointless occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The military would be the obvious place to start cutting-is Team Obama cutting? . . .
Team Obama's failure to cut non-occupation military expenditures shows a lack of political will, even though from a rational point of view, cutting weapons procurements and the excessive military in order to redirect those monies to more productive, more clearly stimulative programs is obvious and indeed necessary, if the rationale for the recently passed stimulus package is to be believed. Yet Team Obama does not have the will to do so.
*The deficit: Here we come to the big kahuna, the ultimate issue. Team Obama delivered on its promise to stimulate-boy did they deliver! What a doozy of a stimulus package! And the financing of that stimulus? Deficit. The Constitutional traitor Dick Cheney declared that deficits don't matter, and Team Obama is drinking from the same Kool Aid. The budget deficit is being financed by the emission of Treasury bills, notes and bonds. This year, I believe $2.3 trillion worth of Treasury paper will be sold. Question: What happens when there are no buyers for those Treasuries? Don't tell me it can't happen-that's what they told me last year about Lehman going under, and then they said the same about AIG. In the Millennial Depression, anything can happen. Simple math makes it obvious that those Treasuries won't find foreign
buyers like before-not when the petro-states are selling less oil and at cheaper prices than a year ago, not when China and Japan are exporting a fraction of what they did before. The Fed is willing and able to buy those Treasuries, effectively printing money-and Team Obama is a-okay with that. No budget cuts, just print money. Is anyone else realizing that the dollar will eventually crash if this isn't stopped? Or am I whistling Dixie in a hurricane?
This shows that Team Obama is either willfully irresponsible in its cavalier attitude towards the currency, or else hasn't seriously thought through what a crash of Treasuries and a run on the dollar could actually mean for the United States. I can tell you what will happen: In a nutshell, it would mean out-and-out chaos: Fighting in the streets over food. It's happened before, elsewhere and in the U.S. immediately after the Civil War. No reason to believe it can't happen in America today.
This is a quick recap, light on detail, maybe a bit on the hyperbolic side, yes-but you who are reading this, an obsessive like me, know all the details already. You can fill in those blanks, and the picture they paint is unmistakably clear: Team Obama is lost, with no guiding principles or overall plan, making it up as they go along.
I didn't even go into abortions like the P-PIP or the collapsing balance sheets of the state and local governments (which the Federal Government is doing nothing to alleviate) or the looming pension fund blow-up, not to mention credit-card asset blow-ups (happening even now as I rant), CMBS blow ups (which are about to hit like Katrina), and on and on and on. I don't have to mention any of this: All these details only add to the picture-Team Obama gives a great speech with a huge happy mask firmly in place.
But behind the mask, there is nothing. No plan, no vision for the endgame or the way out of this Millennial Depression, no idea what to do except put out every little fire that pops up in front of them while the general conflagration goes on all around. Team Obama doesn't even believe that they should do nothing, on the assumption that time alone will heal the banks and the economy-if they really believed that time itself would be the cure for our current ills, they wouldn't have passed such an aggressive stimulus package, or be playing with legal fire in the Chrysler and GM bankruptcies, or playing with financial Armageddon with the shockingly massive Treasury paper sale.
Team Obama does not have a clue what it is doing. Behind the happy mask of green shoots and hope we can believe in, there is nothing: Just a plastic, reassuring, empty smile.
That's why I'm freaking out. Am I the only one?


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Van Hollen Names Third DCCC Vice Chair – Albio Sires to Head Member Participation and Outreach
The DCCC today named its third Vice Chair for the 2010 election cycle – Congressman Albio Sires (D-NJ) will serve as Vice Chair for Member Participation and Outreach. DCCC Member Participation and Outreach encourages and coordinates the political activities of Democratic Members and outreach to our allies as the Committee works to protect the 83 Democrats sitting in Republican districts and target the six Republicans remaining in Democratic districts.
DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen said, "I am pleased to announce the selection of Congressman Albio Sires as Vice Chair for Member Participation and Outreach. Congressman Sires is a strategic thinker who has the respect and relationships within our Caucus and with our allies to encourage the active political participation of our Members throughout the cycle."
Vice Chair Albio Sires said, "I'm looking forward to expanding my work at the DCCC in this challenging new leadership role. It's critical for our Members to take an active role in helping our threatened incumbents and candidates with the resources and relationships they will need to win their tough races."


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Every year all the awards prognosticators engage in some intense mental calculations and figure out who will win all the Emmy awards before they are announced on Sunday. (They also usually say who should win the Emmy because the world seems to think that whoever wins the prize isn't really the best anyway.)
But what about the sure-fire losers? There should be some good contention in all of the categories, but there is always one nominee who has as much chance of winning as Kanye West at a humility contest. Make sure not to bet on any of these people in an Emmy pool (if such a thing exists).
Outstanding drama series
And the loser is: Downton Abbey
Sorry, Brits, but with perpetual winner Mad Men, last year's upset Homeland, and critical darlings Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones in the mix, you have a better shot of Lady Edith getting married than of this taking the trophy.
Outstanding comedy series
And the loser is: Girls
Lena Dunham's show is amazing, but she is a very divisive figure. If the Academy wants to go arty, it will award Louie before this show. Also, Modern Family is still on the air. I rest my case.
Outstanding reality-competition program
And the loser is: Everyone that is not The Amazing Race
God, this winning streak is getting old.
Outstanding variety series
And the loser is: Real Time with Bill Maher
It's not the Daily Show or Colbert Report. In my eyes, it's even better. Too bad I don't vote.
Outstanding miniseries or movie
And the loser is: Political Animals
How did this mediocre US "limited series" and Hillary Clinton roman à clef even get nominated? Also, if you're not on HBO in the Mini/Movie category you might as well just stay at the bar drinking the free (it's free, right? I hope it's free) champagne.
Outstanding lead actor in a drama series
And the loser is: Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
It would be easy to pick Jon Hamm as the inevitable loser, because Mad Men has never won a single acting Emmy, but there is no way anyone is going to award someone for a show this bad, even a movie star(ish) like Daniels.
Outstanding lead actress in a drama series
And the loser Is: Connie Britton, Nashville
This is a hard one, because I can make a case for Robin Wright, Elizabeth Moss, Kerry Washington, and Michelle Dockery to lose because Claire Danes has this locked up.
Outstanding lead actor in a Comedy Series
And the loser is: Jason Bateman, Arrested Development
If Arrested Development hadn't been such a critical dud or if Jim Parsons or Louie CK or Alec Baldwin's final season on 30 Rock weren't in the same category, his outlook would be a bit brighter.
Outstanding lead actress in a Comedy Series
And the loser is: Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
She and Lena Dunham are the only two in the category who haven't won an Emmy, but at least she always organizes the hilarious skit the nominated actresses do every year. I think she won't get the trophy because everyone's afraid what will happen if she actually wins.
Outstanding lead actor in a Miniseries or Movie
And the loser is: Toby Jones, The Girl
Remember when he was so great as Truman Capote in Notorious and then Philip Seymour Hoffman won the Oscar as Capote the same year? Well, that's going to happen again with his turn as Alfred Hitchcock. At least Anthony Hopkins' Hitchcock was in theaters.
Outstanding lead actress in a miniseries or movie
And the loser is: Laura Linney, The Big C
The final season of The Big C wasn't even a mini or movie (and neither was American Horror Story for that matter) just a really short season to end a series. Consider her out of the running on a technicality. Also, this will probably be the consolation prize for Top of the Lake's Elizabeth Moss because she still hasn't won for Mad Men.
Outstanding supporting actor in a drama series
And the loser is: Bobby Canavale, Boardwalk Empire
Oh, this poor lunk of meat. He's always so good in everything and he's not quite a star. Never quite a star. And even if the two guys from Breaking Bad split the vote and somehow the academy doesn't make up for snubbing Mandy Patinkin last year, past winner Peter Dinklage will still win before him.
Outstanding supporting actress in a drama series
And the Loser Is: Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
No one beats Maggie Smith.
Outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series
And the loser is: Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live
The SNL nominee never wins. That's a rule, like don't wear white after Labor Day and don't eat egg salad on the bus (trust me). Anyway, with three people from Modern Family on the card – none with a golden mantlepiece yet – odds are one of them will win.
Outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series
And the loser is: Merritt Wever, Nurse Jackie
The perpetual winner of every critic's Should Win will never actually win. That's kinda sad. I'm saying Jane Krakowski should win but probably won't too. Same with Anna Chlumsky. OK, someone who is not on Modern Family should win, but that's probably true of most categories.
Outstanding supporting actor in a miniseries or movie
And the loser is: John Benjamin Hickey, The Big C
Can I pick them all to be losers? There's not one person here who could clearly win. Peter Mullan deserves it for Top of the Lake but it was so small and Zachy Quinto (I call him Zachy) and James Cromwell were evil on American Horror Story but the Emmys hate genre series. It will probably go to Scott Bakula for his otherwise bland turn in Behind the Candelabra because no one realized it was him in Behind the Candelabra and that is why Hollywood gives people heavy pieces of brass junk, for being completely unrecognizable.
Outstanding supporting actress in a miniseries or movie
And the loser is: Alfre Woodard, Steel Magnolias
Can you imagine what would happen if Lifetime won an Emmy? Well, Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum won for hosting Project Runway, but reality doesn't count. Anyone can do reality! No one wants Lifetime to win a scripted Emmy. TV would sort of implode on itself in a fit of Amy Fisher made-for-TV-movie reruns and vitamin commercials.


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Nene 'I'm Rich' Leakes Talks Being The Last Original Housewife In 'POSE' Magazine
- EJ Flemmon , Design & Trend Contributor
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...I'm rich b***
It is safe to say that Nene Leakes has capitalized greatly off reality television giving the boot to that old cliche of "15 minutes of fame."
When she first signed on the hit Bravo show RHOA in 2008, she probably wasn't expecting to be the longest running housewife of the show...you know, someone who literally fit the title. Phaedra counts right?
With appearances on Fox's 'Glee' and 'The New Normal' along with a clothing line to flatter women of a curvier build and a pending talk show, she's giving us a little Gangsta Boo's tagline, 'Where them dollars at?' by keeping the checks coming.
In Pose Magazine, she opens up about Cynthia Bailey and their status, being on RHOA, a clothing line with HSN and more. Check out some highlights via NecoleBitchie.
The definition of being 'real':
I do think that being real comes off as being harsh. I always have to think before I say things because I'm a straight shooter. I don't think I'm being mean. I think it's the delivery that makes it mean. Sometimes I shoot and move on. I don't know any other way to do it, but I am learning that sometimes everything doesn't need to be said. But, if you ask me to be real, I'm going to be real and you may not like it. Be sure you want to ask me, because I'm just going to tell you. Some people have a really sweet tone. They say things and it comes off really sweet. I do know it's all in the delivery. There are people who say that they're real, but they mean real loud or real ghetto or real crazy. What I need to do is try to be a little phony now and then. [laughing] My husband is always on my case. 'You don't have to say that,' or 'You don't have to be that real about it.' Like, okay, maybe he's right. I'm going to do much better from now on. I am really working on it.
Her friends:
I love my girlfriends and love being with them, going out in our neighborhood for a drink, where we don't have to wear make up or going to lunch with them.
How producers want the cast to appear on reality television:
Well, that's definitely what the producers want. They want viewers to believe we are all friends because we're on a show together. Now, Cynthia and I did form a real friendship over the years we were on the show together. I don't think the viewers know that I never knew her until she signed up to do the show. I never met her. I never knew anything about her. I never met Kandi Burress, Porsha, or Lisa Wu Hartwell until she stepped on the show and we signed these contracts. When you guys are getting to know us, we're getting to know each other. We are going out, having drinks, and getting to know each other. Sometimes you meet people and you like them. Then as you get to know them, you think, 'You know, I actually thought I liked her...but I don't.' We're shooting season seven right now so the viewers get to see how it plays out.
On doing the show for years:
I feel I have definitely grown since season one. I also think about the years that have passed. When we started, my youngest son was in the third grade. Now he's in the 10th grade. My oldest son was in the twelve grade and now he's 24 years old with a daughter.
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Nov. 3, 2009
2009 Big Ten Tournament Schedule Tournament Central Homepage
Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 5-8
Ralph Young Field East Lansing, Mich.
Thursday, Nov. 5 First Round
Game 1 -- #2 seed Ohio State vs. #7 seed Penn State, 1:15 p.m.
Game 2 -- #4 seed Iowa vs. #5 seed Michigan, 11 a.m.
Game 3 -- #3 seed Indiana vs. #6 seed Northwestern, 3:30 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 6 Semifinals
Game 4 -- #1 seed Michigan State vs. Game 2 winner, 12:15 p.m. (Live on Big Ten Network)
Game 5 -- Game 1 winner vs. Game 3 winner, 2 p.m. (Live on Big Ten Network)
Sunday, Nov. 8 Championship Game
Game 6 -- Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, Noon (Live on Big Ten Network)
No. 5-seeded University of Michigan field hockey team (7-13, 2-4 Big Ten) begins the postseason against No. 4-seeded Iowa on Thursday (Nov. 5) in the first round of play at the Big Ten Tournament in East Lansing, Mich. Game time is set for 11 a.m. at Michigan State's Ralph Young Field. With a win over the Hawkeyes, U-M will face top-seeded MSU on Friday (Nov. 6) at 12:15 p.m. live on the Big Ten Network. The champion of the tournament receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Scouting the Hawkeyes -- Michigan opens the 2009 Big Ten Tournament by taking on the three-time defending tournament champion Hawkeyes. Last saeson was the first time in five seasons that Iowa and Michigan did not meet in the playoff. U-M beat Iowa in the title game in 2004 and in the first round of 2005. The Hawkeyes returned the favor in the next two seasons, knocking off U-M in the 2006 first round and defeating the Maize and Blue in the 2007 championship tilt. The first and only other Big Ten Tournament meeting between Iowa and Michigan came in the 1999 title game, which the Wolverines won.
The Wolverines fell to 14-38 all-time against Iowa after a 3-2 home loss to the Hawkeyes on Sept. 25. U-M held a 2-0 lead at halftime as a result of goals by Meredith Way and Bryn Bain. Iowa tied the game with a pair of goals just 1:09 apart early in the second half. The Hawkeyes finished the comeback with 5:04 remaining in regulation time. Iowa finished the 2009 season with an 8-9 overall record and 3-3 mark in Big Ten play.
Trophy Hunters -- The Wolverines are seeking their fifth Big Ten Tournament championship. U-M captured back-to-back titles in 1999, 2000, and once again in 2004 and 2005. Michigan is one of three schools (Penn State, Iowa) that has won a league-best four tournament crowns.
Awards Week -- The Big Ten will announce its award winners for the 2009 season on Wednesday (Nov. 4) at its annual awards banquet. At least one Wolverine has been picked for the All-Big Ten first team each year since 1995. Last year, Michigan had one player on the All-Big Ten first team (Stephanie Hoyer) and three on the second team (Meredith Way, Sarah Wilhite, Kelly Fitzpatrick).
NCAA Stats | Big Ten Stats | U-M Stats (Through 10/31/09)
|Meredith Way
|Alicia Mayer
|Paige Pickett
|Christi Barwick
Way Cool -- Junior Meredith Way's (Newmanstown, Pa./Warwick) 17 goals and 38 points this year are the most by a Michigan player since 2004 when Jessica Blake had 19 goals and 47 points. Way's 17 tallies are tied for 10th on U-M's single-season list. One more goal would create a three-way tie for eighth place, while two more markers would force a three-way tie for sixth place. She needs two points to tie for 10th place on the single-season points list. Way led the Wolverines in goals (12) and points (29) during the 2008 season as well.
From Sept. 20 through Oct. 18, Way rattled off a career-best, nine-game point streak during which she posted 12 goals and three assists for 27 of her 38 points on the year.
Way's 38 points rank fourth in the Big Ten behind Northwestern's Chelsea Armstrong (56), Ohio State's Berta Queralt (44) and Michigan State's Floor Rijpma (39). Her 16 goals are third to Armstrong (22) and Rijpma (18).
Mayer Sets Career Highs -- Junior Alicia Mayer (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove) scored her seventh goal of the season vs. Indiana on Oct. 31, establishing a career high for goals and points (16). Mayer had six goals and three assists for 15 points as a sophomore. Mayer finished the regular season second on Michigan's goal and point charts.
Pickett's Return -- After missing six games due to injury from Oct. 2-18, fifth-year senior goalie Paige Pickett (Dallas, Texas/Episcopal School of Dallas) took her place back in the U-M cage for the final four games of the regular season. Pickett boasts a career-high save percentage of .724 this season despite a 3-11 record. Her 2.12 goals-against average is her second-best rating at U-M; she had a 1.66 GAA in 2007. Two of Pickett's three wins this year are by shutout.
'A' is for Adams -- Redshirt sophomore Katie Adams (Hudson, Ohio/Hudson) leads the Wolverines with eight assists. She is tied for sixth in the Big Ten in assists. Adams' eight points and eight assists are each career highs after registering a 2-1-5 line as a freshman in 2008.
Rank and File -- Ten of Michigan's 20 opponents this season were ranked among the NFHCA's top 20. U-M posted its only win against a ranked opponent by topping No. 17 Northwestern, 3-1, on Oct. 2. The win over the Wildcats ended a nine-game losing streak to ranked teams, dating back to Oct. 26, 2008.
Aug. 29 -- No. 4 North Carolina - L, 2-1
Aug. 30 -- No. 2 Wake Forest - L, 2-1
Sept. 6 -- No. 1 Maryland - L, 4-1
Sept. 12 -- No. 5 Connecticut - L, 5-1
Sept. 19 -- No. 7 Syracuse - L, 2-1 OT
Sept. 20 -- No. 16 Louisville - L, 3-2 OT
Oct. 2 -- No. 17 Northwestern - W, 3-1
Oct. 17 -- No. 19 Ohio State - L, 4-3
Oct. 25 -- No. 8 Michigan State - L, 2-1
Oct. 31 -- No. 18 Indiana - L, 2-4
Coming Up Just Short -- Ten of Michigan's 13 losses this season have been by one goal, including eight of its final nine defeats. Six of the one-goal losses were to ranked teams.
Overtime Blues -- Michigan has come up on the wrong end of sudden-victory overtime three times this season and seven straight times dating back to the start of the 2008 season. Most recently, the Wolverines clawed back from 1-0 and 2-1 deficits vs. New Hampshire on Oct. 11 only to lose 3-2 in double overtime. In 2007, the Wolverines had a near flawless record in extra time at 7-1.
Four-Game Winning Streak -- Michigan's four-game winning streak from Sept. 27-Oct. 10 was its best since an 11-game spree during the middle of the 2007 season. U-M defeated Penn State, No. 17 Northwestern, Saint Louis and Harvard during its only winning streak this season.
Co-captains -- Senior Jenner Johnson (Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest) and redshirt junior Paige Laytos (Lititz, Pa./Warwick) make up Michigan's leadership duo. Johnson is U-M's anchor on the back line after starting 19 of 20 games for the Wolverines as a junior. Laytos redshirted the 2008 season due to a knee injury that limited her to just three games. She has started 45 out of a possible 46 games in her career, accumulating eight goals and 10 assists from her midfield position.
Introducing the Newcomers (Coaches Edition) -- The entirely overhauled Wolverine coaching staff has plenty of previous experience in Ann Arbor. Head coach Marcia Pankratz previously led the Maize and Blue for nine seasons from 1996-2004. She is the winningest coach in U-M field hockey history (147-55, .728 winning percentage). Pankratz led Michigan to the 2001 NCAA title and six NCAA Tournament berths in all.
Assistant coach Kristi Gannon Fisher was a two-time All-American as a back for Michigan from 2000-03. She earned All-Big Ten first team accolades all four years. She went on to become a member of the U.S. National Team from 2004-06. Fisher was a volunteer assistant for U-M during the 2006-07.
Assistant coach Ryan Langford is brand new to Ann Arbor. He has 10 years of previous assistant coaching experience at James Madison (2007-08), Temple (2005-07), Appalachian State (2000-05) and Southwest Missouri State (1999-2000). Langford spent seven years on the USA Field Hockey national team (1994-99, 2001-03).
Michigan field hockey is now on Twitter. Sign up and follow the Wolverines (Michigan_fhock) with up-to-the-minute news and information throughout the season and beyond. Twitter is a free casual, online social network that is designed to connect businesses, organizations and individuals. Each Twitter post (or "tweet") can be received on a user's cell phone via text or on the web.
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Sometime later, I joined the other couchsurfers in the main house. By this time, Ediite, Gerard and Sheena had arrived for the weekend along with a French backpacker (Nic) and several members of Ediite's extended family.
They were heating up the sauna and collecting birch twigs and mint sprigs. Ediite tied them together in to bundles and left them soaking in a big bucket inside the sauna. As a family, we got to have first go in the sauna. It was the kids first real sauna, not counting the time they'd been thrown out of the one in Kidderminster's Glades leisure centre for being underage
The sauna smelled of pine and heat. The evening dusk filtered in, making it dim inside. The kids ran in and out as they needed to. Pouring hot, herb-scented water on the baking stones added an intensity to the heat, that drew out the sweat and opened the pores. Soon, we were all dripping.
I'm not an afficionado of birch-twig flaying, but the coolish water and gentle massage provided by a slap with a bundle of leafy sticks is actually quite pleasant during a hot sauna. The kids thought it was hilarious.
Afterwards, we put the kids to bed in house number three, which was older and smaller, with cute little beds. It looked a bit like Snow White's Dwarves should sleep there. The grown-ups talked long into the night. We were loathe to say goodbye to our new friends, knowing we would be long gone in the morning before they awoke. I hope our paths cross again soon.


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Chapter 5
"Her wit
Values itself so highly, that to her
All matter else seems weak."
--Much Ado About Nothing.
Gwendolen's reception in the neighborhood fulfilled her uncle's expectations.
From Brackenshaw Castle to the Firs at Winchester, where Mr. Quallon the
banker kept a generous house, she was welcomed with manifest admiration, and
even those ladies who did not quite like her, felt a comfort in having a new,
striking girl to invite; for hostesses who entertain much must make up their
parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal
liking. Then, in order to have Gwendolen as a guest, it was not necessary to ask
any one who was disagreeable, for Mrs. Davilow always made a quiet,
picturesque figure as a chaperon, and Mr. Gascoigne was everywhere in request
for his own sake.
Among the houses where Gwendolen was not quite liked, and yet invited, was
Quetcham Hall. One of her first invitations was to a large dinner-party there,
which made a sort of general introduction for her to the society of the
neighborhood; for in a select party of thirty and of well-composed proportions as
to age, few visitable families could be entirely left out. No youthful figure there
was comparable to Gwendolen's as she passed through the long suite of rooms
adorned with light and flowers, and, visible at first as a slim figure floating along
in white drapery, approached through one wide doorway after another into fuller
illumination and definiteness. She had never had that sort of promenade before,
and she felt exultingly that it befitted her: any one looking at her for the first time
might have supposed that long galleries and lackeys had always been a matter
of course in her life; while her cousin Anna, who was really more familiar with
these things, felt almost as much embarrassed as a rabbit suddenly deposited in
that well-lit-space.
"Who is that with Gascoigne?" said the archdeacon, neglecting a discussion of
military manoeuvres on which, as a clergyman, he was naturally appealed to.
And his son, on the other side of the room--a hopeful young scholar, who had
already suggested some "not less elegant than ingenious," emendations of
Greek texts--said nearly at the same time, "By George! who is that girl with the
awfully well-set head and jolly figure?"
But to a mind of general benevolence, wishing everybody to look well, it was
rather exasperating to see how Gwendolen eclipsed others: how even the
handsome Miss Lawe, explained to be the daughter of Lady Lawe, looked
suddenly broad, heavy and inanimate; and how Miss Arrowpoint, unfortunately


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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 184.108.40.206
Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & andy langton & goodroi
The Survivors of BigDaddy :-)
Good morning Folks
It seems the following 3 remaining sets of "old" DCs refuse to be converted to BigDaddy!
Enjoy the look of the old infrastructure while its still there ;-)
[edited by: tedster at 7:40 am (utc) on Mar. 21, 2006]
That datacentre is definitely different to some others, but it's nothing like what I saw.
"That DC is showing DMOZ title and description for us in a site: search. Very odd."
Very odd indeed ;-)
This is the datacenter that this morning shows 96 more pages with current cache's and out of supplemental. A lot of our other supplemental pages returned with old cache's here as well.
Another site which was in supplemental hell now has just the home page indexed, no supplementals.
No rubbish from our site on this one however I do notice quite spammy results for some keyword searches.
also seeing the dmoz description on those datacenters you mentioned that are showing improved supplemental issues for us."
As to improved supplemental issues, it sounds godt.
But I wish GoogleGuy or Matt Cutts tell us something about the "DMOZ" things.
I think MC or GG has previously stated that they sometimes pull the DMOZ description as a test. Dont know if there is anything that significant in it.
On 126.96.36.199 there are some other intresting things going on.
For some sites that have had problems if you do an allinurl:www.domain.com search then you would probably get sites that have your url in there url above you and then your site would appear in the serps - possibly with an internal page being listed first (and sometimes second)
In this DC all the sites I have tested have the homepage as the first result for that site in an allinurl search - and often (not always) the first result in the serps.
Hard to explain without examples :(
A keyword search that returns 20 results in BigDaddy (as it should) returns 46 000 on that one... but I can only see and access the first 16 results.
The 16 results do not include 16 of the 20 results seen in BD, but do include 12 results that are totally bizarre... not quite matching the search query.
It is all freshly cached stuff. I see supplemental results for pages that were not in the index before, but with cache dates within the last week.
For many of the "way out" searches that I do, these results are waaaay different to anything that I have seen before. I see a lot of supplemental results. It is just very odd.
This is newly spidered stuff. For a forum moved domain in January, and 301'd to the new domain, Google only lists 6 pages from the old domain, and already has 15 000 from the new (of 40 000 total that exist?).
It looks like Google has thrown away some of their oldest "Supplemental Results" pages, but for searches that I expected to drop to zero results, they now return some other pages that I would not expect to see returned.
<edit> I see why I get some pages returned that I don't expect. It looks like when I search for green widgets the search is performed more like green OR widgets than green AND widgets.
This was a blank hard drive that has only been filled with new crawl data spidered in the last month or so, maybe two months.
I would not go that far.
It is still possible to bring up old supplementals by doing certain searches. (I can find May 2005 supplementals)
That is the dc that yesterday just had homepage listed for us and no supplementals and then today 90 pages or so came back.
I would be curious if the same thing happens to you in the next few days. If it is the same as ours you will see some pages come back supplemental and some come back with current live cache's.
We had a huge crawl yesterday so I have my fingers crossed that the next time it updates we see a big improvement.
Same tihng happened to mine. I just realized that even though I am only showing 195 pages none are supplemental. The rest of the DC shows 26,000 pages and 99% are still supps but these new results, even though its about 1% of 1% of my total url's, shows zero supplemental and I did have a very deep crawl last week which did stop as of 3 days ago.
OK, now I look hard I can see some crawl data that is from late-July, or August, or early-September, like the cache used for some PDF files for example (they were updated in October).
Biggest change I see at the moment, is that the searches lean a little towards green OR widgets rather than green AND widgets.
Treatment of punctuation within a search query has changed, like when looking for an email address: the @ is now ignored.
[edited by: g1smd at 5:42 pm (utc) on Mar. 27, 2006]
On DC 184.108.40.206, it shows my home page only. That is it. Also has the DMOZ description.
On 220.127.116.11, I'm out of supplemental hell, have cache dates from last week, still have the DMOZ description. My home page is back to being listed second. RobinK, do you see that at all on yours?
On the same DC, when I do the allinurl:, it shows many other sites linking to me, etc., but the only pages from my site are listed 25th and 26th, right before "In order to show you...repeat the search." Those two pages have been 404'd for about 6 months.
I see the same thing, just home page with dmoz listing on 99 and on 104 dmoz listing with pages out of supplemental.
Our home page is listed first on 104 as well, it used to always be listed 2nd.
I see the same thing on the 22.214.171.124 as I do on 188.8.131.52


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BBC Good Food interviewed me for a feature on Raw Foods in their Feb 2011 issue. Very cool, take a peek!
BBC Good Food interviewed me for a feature on Raw Foods in their Feb 2011 issue. Very cool, take a peek!
Last week's dinner at the Test Kitchen was a chance for me to introduce my latest Raw Food 3.0, inspired by molecular gastronomy without the chemicals, vegan and raw. My 6 courses were presented to a main stream foodie audience in a fine dining atmosphere. And it RAWked!
Truffle Flan
black sesame tuile / calamata / pomegranate / golden & goji berries
I dehydrated the olives, then ground them into powder to intensify the flavor. The berries were soaked in a palm sugar syrup. And the Tuffle Flan's smooth, light texture comes from Irish Sea Moss. The green are shards of perrilla, aka shiso or sesame leaf.
Smoked Anaheim Chili
cacao mole / avocado / chipotle cucumber / kalahari salt / omega chips
Anaheim chilis were stuffed with a cold-smoked cashew cheeze. Using a vaporizer, apple and cedar chips fed smoke into a bag filled with cashews. Avocado marble was made using a cryovac, which sucks out all the air in a plastic bag to preserve and seal. Cucumbers were compressed in the cryovac with chipotle oil. The cryovac pressed the liquid oil flavor into the cucumbers.
Lapsang Souschong Wild Mushroom
fresh corn polenta / hemp maqui berry / kale chip / english pea dust
Mixed wild mushrooms were infused with a smoked black tea for a rich, earthy flavor and used to top a fresh corn polenta. English peas were freeze dried, then crushed into dust. And my mayonnaise was made with hemp oil for nutty flavor and maqui berry for beautiful purple full of antioxidants.
lemon mousseline / cilantro gelee / red earth acai / yuzu garden
Fauxlafel was seasoned with fresh dill and made with carrot pulp from juicing 150 pounds of organic carrots. Luckily, I didn't have to juice all those carrots myself, and instead just picked up the pulp from Beverly Juice Club. It sat on a mousseline kream of lemon and cashews. Cilantro was juiced and mixed with Irish Sea Moss to create a bright green, intensely flavored gelee. Micro greens and baby orchids were tossed in yuzu juice.
Molten Cookie Dough
lucuma yacon gelato / tart cherry / persimmon gastrique
Cacao cookie dough tartlet was filled with liquid, warm cacao sauce. Served with lucuma gelato sweetened with yacon syrup, flavored with fresh vanilla beans. Topped with freeze fried cherries and dried persimmon slice. Served on a sauce of persimmon and tart vinegar.
Pumpkin Gelee
strawberry leather / candied rosemary & cacao nibs / sweet corn / mango shards
Pumpkin was blended with fresh vanilla and Irish Sea Moss, then placed on a crust of dates and cashews. Strawberries and mangos were each blended and dehydrated into leathers. Rosemary and cacao nibs were candied with palm sugar, then dehydrated. Corn was freeze dried for a sweet, light, crisp texture.
It was so much fun to get to feed everyone my new style of Gastrawnomique cuisine in such a beautiful setting with amazing staff. It was a packed house both nights. Celebrities who came to dine included Frances Fisher, John Salley, Jarad Butler, and Diane Warren.
In the kitchen were some of the most amazing chefs assisting me and making sure my dinners were successful both nights including Bravo Top Chef Alex Reznik and Next Food Network Stars Doreen Fang and DAS. I'll post up more behind the scenes and kitchen photos next….
Generous sponsors included Excalibur Dehydrators, Earth Circle Organic, Big Tree Farms, Sunfood, Gold Mine Natural Foods, and Sambazon.
These photos were all taken by Maria Loewenstein, except for the Lapsang Souschong Wild Mushroom which was taken by Rogelio Marhx.
Today was Day 3 of food prep at the Test Kitchen. My GastRAWnomique molecular gastronomy inspired dinner is just days away. Chris Ochs and Josh from SunFood personally delivered a ton of superfoods. Diane Paylor and I were elbow deep in cacao. And Top Chef Alex Reznik was cold smoking my cashews for me.
To cold smoke, Alex uses a smoking gun packed with chips to push smoke into a sealed container of raw cashews. The cashews absorb the aroma of the smoke, but stay raw. Pretty cool. No pun intended.
Restaurant Mo-Chica's Ricardo Zarate and I making Cheddar Kale Chips.
Richi helping me set up 8 Excalibur Dehydrators. These are my favorite dehydrators, and they come with Paraflexx reusable non-stick sheets. Thanks for sending them over to me Excalibur! So much love from the community, sponsors have been super generous and include: Excalibur, Sambazon, Earth Circle Organics, Sunfood, Gold Mine Natural Food, Frontier Natural Products Co-Op, Big Tree Farms.
Chef Seth Greenburg at the Huntley Hotel Penthouse Restaurant invited me into his kitchen where he shared with me some of his favorite molecular gastronomy techniques.
Chef Seth and I compressed melons and cucumbers, and put chemicals into water and fruit puree to create popular spheres or 'caviar'. We even made 'noodles'. See what could be done using chemicals got my creative juices flowing thinking about ways to create similar effects without chemicals, and instead 100% natural and raw.
Test Kitchen brings together the best Chefs in LA, and has become much like a think tank where Chefs share their creativity, ideas, and time. Great energy in this space! Chef Christian Page, a locavore sourcing his ingredients locally and seasonally, is to the left of the photo, and is about to open Daily Dose Restaurant in downtown LA in mid Dec.
A super easy salad to make, this is my go to when traveling. Made by massaging avocado into torn leaves of kale and then adding a squeeze of lemon to soften the leaves, and then tossing in sprouts.
Full of vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll, and antioxidants to combat travel stress (including time zone changes, sitting on airplanes, and living in hotel rooms) while boosting my immune system. I carried this yummy creation onto my last flight from NJ to LA, and took it with me to Las Vegas for my raw food debut at ACAM's medical conference at the Paris Hotel last week, where they served up 5 of my raw food vegan recipes to over 500 doctors!
Kale, Avocado, Sprouts
Makes 2 servings
Into large mixing bowl, place kale and massage with avocado. Squeeze lemon juice, and massage. Add sprouts and salt, if using. Massage and toss to mix well.
Will keep for several hours at room temperature. Store in fridge for a day or 2.
Top Chef Alex Reznik (from Bravo's popular cooking show) invited me, a raw vegan chef, into the Top Chef kitchen to assist with a celebrity chef dinner made along side Top Chef Betty Fraser and Top Chef CJ Jacobson. This event was at the Test Kitchen here in Los Angeles, where I'll be hosting a Raw Vegan Fine Dining experience on November 17 + 18, 2010 called Ani Phyo's Gastrawnomique. I'll be presenting molecular gastronomy inspired techniques, without the chemicals. All natural, of course! Please rsvp asap if you can join us for this ground breaking event.
Top Chef Betty Fraser was on Bravo's hit show season 2. She has a cute restaurant in Hollywood called Grub.
Top Chef CJ Jacobson was on season 3, and Top Chef Alex Reznik season 7. TV may make these chefs seem mean, but they're all super cool in real life. TV=drama.
Michelin-starred Chef Ricardo Zarate had to show me how to deep fry super thinly sliced leeks so they stay green in color. The night before, Chef Alex put me on deep fryer duty (me, a raw chef…it was my first time using a deep fryer!). I found out later the oil was too hot, so my leeks turned brown. But Chef Alex didn't say anything about my burnt leeks garnishing his dishes because he didn't want to hurt my feelings. What a sweetheart!
Chef Alex and I plating the dish he called Cow. It was made up of beef, bone marrow, liver, and tongue.
You can see the burnt leeks…oops! This dish was inspired by Chef Alex's Russian heritage. At least he was using every part of the cow. Definitely tested my boundaries, but I grew tons….and Kanga my dog loved the way I smelled when I got home.
There was even a bit of vegan raw on the plate….me laying down a strand of cucumber with beautiful beet puree.
A few days prior to the Top Chef Test Kitchen event at Test Kitchen LA, I got to meet celebrity Top Chef Marcel Vigneron, who was on season 2 showing off his molecular gastronomy skills. What a cutie pie.
Test Kitchen is chock full of celebrity chefs. Here I am with Chef Walter Manzke.
I'm stoked for my raw vegan dinner on November 17 + 18th, 2010. So far, Top Chef Alex Reznik and Next Food Network Star Doreen Fang have confirmed they'll be assisting me in my un-cook kitchen creating vegan raw foods for their first time. This will be a star studded event with a Green Carpet on the first night, and we're going to have so much fun! Hope you'll join us for 6-courses of raw food presented in a brand new way ($55 fixe prix). Make sure to rsvp for Ani Phyo's Gastrawnomique soon because it's filling up fast, and space is limited.
I was invited to the VitaMix headquarters in Cleveland, OH to shoot a 60-minute DVD that will be included in their latest VitaMix Turbo Blend Variable Speed blender. This was a huge honor for me, as you all know how much I love my VitaMix. My family had an early model in our kitchen from the 70s, so I've used the VitaMix my entire life.
The production was shot in a big stadium kitchen where the production crew and VitaMix employees including chefs, food scientists, marketing, and product development filled the stands. I think we shot about 14 or 16 segments in just 2 days! The owner of VitaMix is vegan, so all the recipes are free of dairy and animal products.
Bob Stefanov, the director, was a joy to work with. We had loads of fun and made sure to laugh a lot.
The wonderful team at VitaMix. I am so eager to watch the videos, haven't seen them yet, and friends were telling me they watched it at the VitaMix booth at Expo West last weekend up on a big screen TV. We're planning a big launch at Expo West, so make sure to look for me at the VitaMix booth in March in Anaheim, CA.
The new TurboBlend Variable Speed will be available at natural food stores including Whole Foods Markets. So excited to help launch this new product with VitaMix!!
It was Kanga's 8th 'birthday' and also our anniversary on Labor Day. Each year, I make my darling pooch a heart shaped cake (you may have seen the photo from last year's birthday on page 301 of Ani's Raw Food Essentials). This year, the cake was made with sunflower seeds and a few Medjool dates. Kanga was so eager to eat it, she got green birthday candle wax on the tip of her nose….so cute!
In a blink of an eye, the cake was gone! And, I wonder if you can guess who's in the background with her 'magic' tatoos….hint….London and the UK.
For our birthday ladies' luncheon, I made Jicama Rice, Mexican style by processing Jicama, then adding chopped red bell peppers, onion, corn kernels, cilantro, and a pinch of sea salt. Recipe below…. It was a lunch of British guests, one of whom is a celiac. That means she needs to avoid wheat gluten. I love that about the raw food diet, it's free of wheat, gluten, refined sugar, dairy, and guilt!
I had made myself a beet, parsley, lemon, and cucumber juice earlier that morning, then mixed in the beet pulp with a sunflower pate. I used this pate to stuff poblano peppers, then dehydrated them for a few hours to soften. For a sauce, I blended a simple tahini with lemon juice, salt, splash of water.
This was the dessert my lovely friend Kate Magic made us for dessert! It was made with figs, cacao, coconut, and lucuma…and it was incredible! But this was one course poor Kanga didn't get to try (dogs and cacao don't mix well…chocolate).
Jicama Mexican Rice
makes 4 servings
Place jicama in food processor, process into small bits. Be careful not to over process. Scoop into mixing bowl. Add remaining ingredients, toss to mix well.
Kanga's Birthday Cake
1 serving
Place sunflower seeds in food processor. Process into small pieces. Add pitted dates, and process. Sunflower will stick together and bind into a cake 'dough'. Form dough into heart, and serve.
Note: Sweets should be served in moderation to dogs, as to humans as well.
If serving to humans or to mix up variations to this recipe, try adding in sea salt, vanilla, cacao / carob, and or goji berries.
I was invited onto FOX in San Diego for a 6-minute segment on the benefits of the raw food diet and to talk about the Sambazon Warrior Up Campaign. I made host Raoul Martinez a few smoothies including a Banana Butter Breeze with Cacao. I planned to make him a Tomato Tarragon Bisque, but ran out of time.
Weekend anchor Susan Lennon loves my Acai smoothies. She had a glow that shows how well she takes care of your health.
Preparing smoothies ahead of time was a good idea! Thanks for Kaia Lai and Kato for helping me shop, prep, and set up this beautiful shot.
Raoul initially seemed a bit scared of my smoothies, but once he tasted them, he was a believer! He finished off the cacao banana smoothie, and said he was really impressed.
I was invited to Rockefeller Center for a guest appearance on LX New York with hosts Janice Huff and Jane Hanson. I talk about 4 key ingredients in the raw food diet, and made 3 recipes using 'secret' ingredients: Marinara Pasta, Strawberry Tartlets, and Chocolate Pudding "slash" Frosting.
(this video's audio is totally out of synch, and I'm trying to get my hands on a better copy of the segment, which I'll upload later)


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Just outside the sprawling town of Las Cruces—the second most populated city in New Mexico—Mesilla is home to a few thousand residents and a few hundred years of history. While Spanish explorers first came across the area in the late 16th century, it wasn't until 1849 that the village was settled and the jagged Organ Mountains became the backdrop to adobe buildings. Here, visitors can pass by the two bell towers of the San Albino Church and wander through the boutique shops—including the Billy the Kid Gift Shop at the site of his trail—before retreating to a gazebo with snacks in hand. Art galleries marked by Southwestern landscapes and a theater that features rough-and-tumble Westerns exhibit the pride this town has in its history.
The Digs
Mirroring the facade of a Spanish hacienda, the Meson de Mesilla is a boutique hotel that overlooks the Organ Mountains in the heart of the Southern Rio Grande Valley. Just six blocks from the historic Old Mesilla Plaza, the property was recently voted as Las Cruces' most romantic lodging destination. Veranda queen rooms are painted a warm, golden hue and feature flat-screen TVs and Wi-Fi. Stretch out on the room's connecting open space and, on the weekends, venture to the rooftop bar for drinks and views of the town and desert. Spend the morning alternating between the pool and its surrounding lounge chairs before tasting local grapes during a wine tour of the area. At dinner, take a seat at the romantic on-site restaurant, where you can choose from a menu that includes a green chile burger and pan-fried sea bass.
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• Visit the Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science
• Explore the Branigan Cultural Center
• Peruse the Las Cruces Museum of Art
• Marvel at the White Sands Missile Range Museum
• Tee Off at New Mexico State University Golf Course
"Under bright blue skies, we strolled the terra-cotta brick streets around Old Mesilla's small, pretty square, which is on the National Register of Historic Places."-- The New York Times
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The Nestlé Healthy Kids Global Programme extends to Nigeria to help teachers educate schoolchildren about nutrition.
The worldwide initiative – launched in the country last month – aims to improve the nutrition, health and wellness of children aged 6-12 years old by promoting nutrition education, a balanced diet, greater physical activity and a healthy lifestyle.
As part of the official launch of the Programme, Nestlé Nigeria led a workshop for teachers to illustrate how they can play a central role in raising awareness to schoolchildren.
The workshop has now equipped teachers with useful insights and learning tools to promote nutrition, health and wellness to their students, which will start at the beginning of the school term this October.
Iquo Ukoh, Consumer Maximisation Manager for Nestlé Nigeria, said: "The project aims at looking at the future of a child where they will learn and use that information to improve the health status of his/her family in adulthood."
She also addressed the teachers to stress that the Nestlé Healthy Kids Programme is more than a short-term educational tool and continued: "Go beyond teaching them to pass their exams. Teach them to use the knowledge acquired to make an impact on their own lives and that of their communities."
Supported by the Centre for Health, Population and Nutrition (CHEPON) in Nigeria, the initiative was also backed by the Nigerian Lagos State Government.
Khadijat Gbolahan-Daodu, Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Government Universal Education Board, believes that the Programme will provide an effective platform to improve diets and nutrition-related behaviour.
"Indeed, school health programmes such as the Nestlé Healthy Kids initiative can help children and adolescents attain full educational potential and good health by providing them with the skills, social support and environmental reinforcement they need in order to adopt long-term healthy eating behaviours."
The launch was also attended by Prince Folusho Onagoruwa, Sports and Exercise Science lecturer at the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode, in the Nigerian state of Ogun.
He explained to teachers how regular physical exercise can help the process of digestion, blood flow, emission of waste products, the development of brain power, coordination of various parts of the body, and encouraging fair play in sport.
Another 22 workshops in selected schools will take place in the coming months to further extend the Programme in Nigeria.
The Healthy Kids Global Programme – which was launched in April 2009 – will be extended to all countries where Nestlé has direct operations. By the end of 2011, it is expected to reach to a total of 80 programmes worldwide.
Well-established programmes already include Nestlé Brazil's 'Nutrir', Nestlé Russia's 'Good Nutrition' and Nestlé France's 'EPODE' (Ensemble, Prévenons l'Obésité Des Enfants – Together Let's Prevent Childhood Obesity).
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Honolulu residents have one last opportunity to dispose of illegal fireworks Saturday and Sunday at four Oahu fire stations through an amnesty program.
The Honolulu Fire Department's program, supported by the Honolulu Police Department, allows Oahu residents to turn in any illegal fireworks without any repercussions.
This weekend from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., fireworks can be dropped off at the following fire stations: Hawaii Kai, Kakaako, Kalihi and McCully/ Moiliili.
Some 2,205 pounds of fireworks was collected this past weekend, making it a total of 6,400 pounds since June, police said.


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text: Hotel Mon Caprice is located in Bucharest, 4.3 miles from the historic city centre and 6.2 miles from University Square and the Train Station, offering air-conditioned rooms and free WiFi access. Each room here will provide you with cable TV and a minibar. Featuring a shower, private bathroom also comes with free toiletries. Some rooms also feature a balcony. At Mon Caprice Hotel you will find a 24-hour front desk and a bar. Other facilities offered at the property include luggage storage. The property offers free parking. A bus stops just 66 feet from the hotel. The next restaurant and a market are both within 1,641 feet of the hotel.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A trio of great horned owlets are in a new home in the Ellicott Wildlife Rehabilitation Center after Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers removed them from a nest near a busy intersection in the Mountain Shadows neighborhood.
A representative with Colorado Parks and Wildlife told KRDO NewsChannel 13 that officials were concerned for the safety of the owlets due to the urban nature of their location. Officials said the birds were approaching the age they would jump out of the nest as they were attempting to learn how to fly.
The adult owls were not relocated.
The birds had caused quite a stir in the neighborhood, prompting police to issue warnings to people who were stopping to observe the owls.
Police said some people had walked into the road without looking to try and get a better look at the birds. The crowd also caused traffic problems in the area.
"We moved the birds to a rehabilitation facility for the benefit of the owls and to prevent people from getting injured by the adult owls or oncoming traffic," said District Wildlife Manager Steve Cooley.
The Ellicott Wildlife Rehabilitation Center will raise them with a segregate for a few weeks until they can be released.
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CARY, N.C. - After playing to a scoreless tie
through 110 minutes, the University of Akron men's soccer team was
defeated by Virginia in penalty kicks, 3-2, Sunday afternoon in the
NCAA national championship game at WakeMed Stadium before 5,679
The top-seeded Zips (23-1-1) suffered the loss despite posting their fifth straight shutout of the NCAA Tournament, spanning 490 consecutive minutes. Akron, which defeated No. 5 North Carolina on 5-4 penalty kicks in the semifinal match Friday night, could not do so again Sunday in a match-up of the top two defensive teams in the country.
Virginia led 3-1 after three rounds of penalty kicks after Akron's Zarek Valentin and Kofi Sarkodie failed to convert. UVA's Jonathan Villanueva and Greg Monaco each had a chance to clinch the title, but Zips true freshman goalkeeper David Meves made a pair of brilliant saves to extend the shootout. In between, fellow Akron freshman Scott Caldwell found the net to close the gap to one, but Blair Gavin's final attempt sailed high.
The second-seeded Cavaliers (19-3-3) claimed their sixth College Cup championship and first since they won four straight national titles from 1991-94.
"It's tough to lose that way," said UA head coach Caleb Porter. "I'd like to credit Virginia for playing very well and putting up a good fight. They played us as tough as any team this year. As you get closer to winning a national championship, second place hurts more. You get so close you can taste it."
"What makes this one even more tough is that we didn't give up a
goal in the entire NCAA Tournament, and yet we don't take home any
hardware. I told the guys that they have nothing to hang their
heads on. They raised the bar in my opinion. The way they played
the game, I can hold my head high knowing we did everything we
UA suffered the loss despite out-shooting UVA, 12-10, and recording more corner kicks, 6-4. Moreover, the Zips were on the ball for much of the contest yet unable to capitalize.
"I thought we had chances today, but two incredible goalkeepers kept making plays," Porter said. "The defenders also made good plays and in the end it was a tie. You have to have a winner and in our sport penalty kicks is how they determine that. I've been a part of a team that has won that way as well, and I can tell you it's better than losing. But it doesn't feel quite as good as actually winning the game."
For the Zips, the result put an end to the greatest season in program history. The Zips matched the NCAA single-season record for most consecutive wins (23) while setting school records for wins (23), shots (412), shutouts (19), fewest goals allowed (7) and lowest goals-against-average (0.27).
Moreover, of those milestones three of them rank highly among the greatest in NCAA history. UA posted the second-most shutouts in single-season Division I history while it's goals-against-average and shutout percentage (.760) are third best all-time.
"What I'll remember more than anything this year is the way we played this game and how we approached going against the best teams in the country," Porter said. "We didn't hope to win, but expected to win. We didn't hang on potential results, but dictated the game.
"I thought we did that again today and we've done that all year long, so I'm proud of my guys. We will continue to follow the same formula. I've always felt that if you do that in the end it's going to be fair. We are going to keep chasing the national championship."
Anthony Ampaipitakwong had the Zips' best scoring opportunity of the first half in the 14th minute when he turned the corner and fired low towards the right post but Restrepo dove to his left to make the stop. It was the second of two shots on goal for UA in the opening period as Ben Zemanski recorded the other with a blast from 30 yards a few minutes earlier.
When they weren't on the ball, the Zips' swarming defense was
relentless to get it back as Akron held the Cavaliers without a
single shot for nearly 35 minutes (from 36:29 to 70:54) amid the
intermittent rain that fell throughout the contest.
UA was clearly the aggressor in the second half but Virginia's defense was organized and physical in the final third. Freshman Ben Speas sparked another scoring opportunity in the 54th minute when he lost his man near the right touchline and crossed the ball into the box. Sophomore Teal Bunbury leaped up to meet it but his header went wide.
Zips Notebook: While the game ended in a tie, the NCAA's policy - exclusive for national championship games - requires that a winner be declared for all purposes, including record ... Sunday was the Zips' second appearance in the NCAA championship game. UA was defeated by Duke, 1-0, in 1986 ... Ampaipitakwong was limited to 49 minutes because of a leg injury. He left early in the second half and did not return ... For an extended period of time in the second half, the Zips had six true freshmen on the field at the same time ... UA ended the season with six shutouts in its last seven games ... The Zips allowed just one goal during the postseason (including the MAC Tournament), spanning 680:47.
2009 NCAA College Cup All-Tournament Team
Zach Loyd, D, UNC
Corben Bone, MF, Wake Forest
Zarek Valentin, D, Akron
Teal Bunbury, F, Akron
Ben Speas, MF, Akron
Blair Gavin, MF, Akron
Diego Restrepo, GK, Virginia
Jonathan Villanueva, MF, Virginia
Brian Ownby, F, Virginia
Mike Volk, D, Virginia
Tony Tchani, MF, Virginia


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Personally I think the mutiplayer is great so far!!!! I love how it differs from other styles of online gameplay and how its like going against another kratos or sometimes 8 kratoses. Some of ideas I thought of were; If you pick a God then the God gives you that specific weapon that's only for the God you chose. As to say Zeus gives you a hammer, Ares gives you a sword, Hades gives you dual swords, and Poseidon gives you a spear. But you also can to unlock better and more types of the weapon given. (also it doesn't have to be the weapons that I said). My second idea was that there should be a 1 vs. 1 mode, I know that Santa Monica Studios probability already thought of this, but I just wanted to say it. It would be awesome to fight head up with your rivals. Also being able to join in parties with your friends would be great! This game has a potential to be amazing !! Good luck and Thanks for the Beta! Ill see if I can come up with more ideas to share! iKidwonder signing off!


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