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Dpreview launches redesigned and improved on-site search (beta)
We've just launched a redesigned and improved on-site search feature. The search system, currently in beta, is designed to give more relevant results from all of dpreview's editorial and forums content. We've also redesigned the way results are presented, to make it easier to get to the information you wanted. We're looking for user feedback during the beta process to help fine-tune the system and how the results are provided, so there's a 'Feedback' link at the top of every results page, to let you report back to us.
The rejuvenated search system is powered by Amazon's CloudSearch system, and should be more predictable and consistent than our previous search system was. Have a play around with it and let us know what you think.
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I am not able to search challenge also.. I already given my feedback to DPR but not sure any plan to take any action on any feedback.
The content of DPR articles cannot be copied and pasted without including the black background which uses up lots of ink. Various website updates have not corrected this oft suggestion of mine so DPRs intent must to be to copy write this user hostile feature.
Hi Bod,
You could have tried copying the text from the website to a Notepad first and then using it wherever it's needed. After all it's free information here so some effort to copy it from here shouldn't be a big ask I believe.
We have a Print view mode with the link at the end of each page for you to print the article.
The new "improved" search engine is terrible. It offers way fewer options to drill down to the actual data you need. The results are less accurate and forces one to spend way more time sifting through useless chaff. Perhaps, this is what dpr wants.
It does appear to be designed to try and point you to the pages that dpr wants you to visit. Good job there. DPR use to be far and away the best manged forum that of which I had the pleasure to be a member. Since the acquisition by Amazon, I have watched the dpr devolve further & further as the site focused on bell & whistles as opposed to content. Your users are not toddlers looking to be spoon fed. We can get that from the manufactures' websites.
Please bring back the old engine, at least as an advanced options. While you are at it add an option to limit searches to our own posts. Now that would be handy.
I'm using Firefox v.12, and everything works OK - thanks! This is big improvement.
For practicality, I'd suggest the redesign of the top line like this:
... Lenses Printers Forums Photos Challenges Search
Rolldown under Photos should contain Galleries-relevant links as before, and rolldown under Challenges should have Challenge-related group, previously located under Photos. Search would open the new search page.
It would be practical and visually more pleasing.
As to the page background... I don't mind reading off the black. I just zoom-in a bit and it's perfectly readable. But a choice of backgrounds would be a treat, especially for people who find it a problem.
The most practical solution would be an elegant, thin white->grey->black slider option somewhere, say, below the username blue field, or a set of "skins" - whatever is easier to do.
Picture-viewing should, IMO, stay with the black background, although many think that "Kodak grey" (60% black) allows the best viewing...
In a perfect world, a simple click at the far right corner will turn black background with white letters into a white background with black letters and viceversa without compromissing the page size. Very much like any site will flip from, lets say, Japanese to English or Dutch. And while at it, it will be so nice to include in the Photo Challenge section a search for challenges past by simply typing a word, lets say 'red', and you get a list of title Challenges past with this word in it. :D please?
I use FireFox and for a long time now I cannot click into the "search" field. Won't let me in. My java is up to date. I also cannot sign into these news comment section ( using IE for this right now), nor can I vote in challenges. Try to fix these items for Firefox users?
Some feedback.
First of all, I really like the site in general, very good features overall.
I like the underlining of the results text. Is it possible to color the results text to say Blue? The blue subject text shows up very nice. I find it easier/quicker to see, I'm over 50 you know.
I did a seach on "D3200", selected the specific forum and applied filter criteria, found decent results.
Thanks for trying to make it even better.
I'm sorry but I disagree, I'm not sure why your eyes are troubling you, it could be something else. Because black background is very comfortable to my eyes vs the bright white which is very harsh.
I think when you staring at text on a white backround, the text is mostly about 15% of the page, but you are also staring at 85% of the bright white backround, which it's very harsh. Try to stare at your laptop outside at night and you will know what I mean. I think part of what makes Dpreview so popular is the black background.
Please, if you redesign the page, change the black background of the page, after 2 minutes of reading the text on your page, I have already really serious problems with my eyes, I need to stop to read...
This is the reason why I still less and less visit your page, because I have fears that I will read something a little bit longer and my eyes are are in pain...
White text on the black background is hell!
i agree with you, but last time we polled our readers (July 2011) we got 61% wanting us to leave it as it is, 20% wanting black on white. Pretty decisive.
If you're using a Mac, you can hit control+option+command+8 and the screen will invert. It helps me a lot when editing. There's almost certainly a way of doing that on a PC too, but I don't remember how.
Simon, give a choice, as a user preference -- that's what adaptive web design does, and it solves the problem, besides making various opinions each happy. You can default to the traditional black; and could offer some alternative choices -- perhaps even a color picker as that's a widget for free these days in Javascript. For examples with not entirely free choice, look at the background and font color alternatives on e-book readers, as there typically are intermediate schemes such as parchment color with dark brown text, for truly easy-on-eyes reading..
although phenomenally more complicated for a site like DPR than your comment suggests, this is actually obvious enough that it's already in the plan. Just don't hold your breath :-)
This was waste of resources... And people who did the programing know it.
I hope DPReview has put in a request for resources for a complete site overhaul to bringbit into sync with the rest of the internet.
It is embarrising that the only effective way to search this site is to go on Google and type: dpreview "thing you want to find"
Like a lot of search engines it seems to have problems distinguishing short search terms that aren't actual words. For example, searching for Canon 40D (no quotes) gives all sorts of irrelevant results that happen to contain the number 40 and the letter "D". Using quotes returns more useful results, but still pulls in lots of other "canon" stuff. Since most cameras have short, arbitrary combinations of letters and numbers as names, this can be a problem.
First impressions:
A search for "Time Lapse" vs "Iimelapse" gives different results.
Also, these searches give me in excess of 16000 results which is not very useful and I don't see anyway of further filtering the results.
I do not know the search engine you are using, but this is the main flaw with full text search engines against large databases like DPreview - you get HUGE numbers of results and no way of filtering.
I've seen results from a search engine called Exalead, which built a keyword summary "on the fly" from the initial search results. In other words, it reported that in the result, "X" items contained the keyword YYYYYY and "Z" results contained the keyword BBBBBB. Each of these keywords was a link allowing you to drill down deeper and deeper. Pretty cool way of finding stuff.
The new beta may be able to find lots of items quickly and perhaps even more accurately, but if a search returns tens of thousands of hits, it's not very useful.
Constructive feedback? Rather than re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic why not focus development efforts in more practical areas? The user interface is not as intuitive as it could be. What once worked years ago and through "feature-creep" this site has become somewhat daunting for a new user to navigate. Stabilize... the back end appears to crash and have to reset on a somewhat regular basis.
Just an honest non-emotional opinion.
we're working on both these areas (stability is a lot better now, a fundamental redesign of the UI is an enormous task, but it is one we're tracking towards). A lot of the stability issues came from 'under the hood' work needed before we can start work on the UI.
If you really want to improve your web site, why not render it with black type on a white background (or similar variation) to tat it can be read without strain. Your emphasis on graphics trumps visual comfort. I routinely use "Readability" to avoid eyestrain at dpr.
i agree with you, but last time we polled our readers (July 2011) we got 61% wanting us to leave it as it is, 20% wanting black on white. Pretty decisive.
Poll results depend on how question was framed. Next time you poll, perhaps you could ask for preferences among several choices. For example, white type on black, black type on white, white type on gray. Alternatively, if feasible, actually demonstrate several options and let readers decide.
Among other photography sites, one uses white on black, another uses 12-14pt white on medium gray, another gives readers the option of black/white or white/black.
Take a look at your own web site at panels where the designer departs from 9 pt white/black and uses, for example, 11/12 pt blue/black. Type size also matters.
Perhaps you'll find this web site useful:
Thanks for allowing me this extended comment.
It ROCKS!, I just tried it and it gave me even more than expected. RIGHT ON!!!
I too hate the new search -- the old one lacked a lot of parameters but I always managed to pinpoint exactly what I was searching for -- no longer.
It seems that the more effort put into improving (I use the term loosely) DPR forum the less intuitive it gets.
It's like Coca Cola trying to replace original Coke with a funny tasting raspberry version.
the old search didn't even index half our content, so I'm assuming you were lucky before :-)
Where is it? I cannot find a link to the beta site
I agree, all these changes do little for me. Just get more reviews out, and also get the website uptime up. The connection problem is getting worse with more frequent problem accessing the DPReview site . Thanks.
The site never goes down for me, and I check multiple times per day.
Also with the way most of you guys are, you'd just complain MORE if they did more reviews. The score would be too high based on the list of Cons, or they wouldn't review the exact obscure camera you were waiting for.
Hi, it seems to me the results of SEARCH are not sort by date. If so, I think it should be corrected. Indeed, I tried to search "Adobe Bridge". Results were sorted as follows: Jul 18, 2005 / Nov 16, 2007 / Dec 14, 2006......I expected the sort results in decrease order of date, first the recent. Thank you. Best Regards, Eugene CH
Thanks guys but how about a decent mobile web interface, if you see how it appears on a smartphone you might simply disable it!
i just had a quick zoom around it, think it's a big improvment, looks good, thanks.
I searched for Barny.
It gave back 106 results.
The first two entries were FUJI Orbs.
what would you expect a search for 'Barny' to produce?
Simply based on the number of letters, I'd expect at least a 17% reduction in search relevance.
I was waiting for the search engine to suggest: Barney
As what a good search engine would try to do...
But it's all good...
Google we are not
I'm not a fan; it returns results that don't contain the search criteria and the results can't be filtered as extensively as before (that I could find anyway).
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By Steven Zeitchik
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Juno" star Michael Cera's documentary comedy "Paper Heart" will have its big unveiling at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah next month, screening as a world premiere in a key Saturday slot.
Well, the term "world premiere" might be a misnomer. A bootlegged copy of the movie has been making the rounds within the industry, allowing even prospective buyers to vet the film ahead of its Sundance showing.
"Heart" is hardly the only title to draw reports of leaked copies. The Kevin Spacey drama "Shrink," Cherien Dabis' immigration saga "Amreeka" and the Robin Williams starrer "World's Greatest Dad" are among the movies for which screeners might precede screenings.
Sundance DVDs and tapes have long been the open secret of the indie world. This year, though, there's more noise about them, with some sellers saying that bootlegs are being traded faster than tapes at a Grateful Dead concert.
A hot market can sometimes ignite the black market, as buyers, eager to gain an edge, spare no effort in landing screeners. But a chillier finished-film market like the current one also can drive interest, with distributors scoping out films to determine how to deploy their more limited resources after they land on the ground.
Sales agents say that though the interest is flattering, there are plenty of dangers to this shadow economy.
"There are films where it could virtually kill the market for a movie," said movie dealmaker John Sloss, head of Cinetic Media. "From our perspective, this is war, and you're at your peril if you don't treat it that way."
Sellers say that part of the problem is that films aren't completed, leading buyers to make potentially erroneous decisions. Continued...

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What kind of bow does Ted nugent use? Or endorse? What model?
What kind of bow does Ted nugent use? Or endorse? What model?
I know its a Martin bow but I don't know the model. I've also seen Rytera Logos on the limbs. I Know they're the same company.
He shoots many and does not promote any of them. But he usually shoots Martin
he shoots the rytera alien x and a firecat with the m pro single cam most of the time. have seen him use a oneida on many episodes as well
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Chris Clough (born 9 March 1951 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England) is an English director and producer of television.
Clough studied English literature at Leeds University. He went there because they had a television studio available for the students. He used the material he created there to apply for jobs and he got a job as a researcher at Granada Television. He then started directing. In 1982 he went freelance and in that decade he directed episodes of TV-series such as Brookside and EastEnders.
While working on EastEnders, Clough got to know one of the assistant directors, Gary Downie, who had also worked on Doctor Who. He got an interview with Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner and he later directed six serials of the series — Terror of the Vervoids, The Ultimate Foe, Delta and the Bannermen, Dragonfire, The Happiness Patrol and Silver Nemesis.
In the 1990s, Clough directed several episodes of The Bill and he also started producing the show in the latter half of the decade. He then went on to produce several other series, including Ballykissangel, Black Cab, and The Ghost Squad. He produced the E4 Teen Drama Skins, running from 2007-2013, and Channel 4 drama Sirens in 2011. In 2014, he was the producer of The Missing.
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Birth Place: Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan
Birth Date: 1981-11-21
Height: 155cms
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So I have a standard halogen headlight on car pre facelift E46 saloon.
Been wanting to put HID's on car for years now, think I should do it soon. So been looking around the internet, and questions lead to more questions.
Wanting more light on the road considering my options are as follows:
Some replacement angel headlights with projectors and add some H7 HID kits to them.
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Drop into the standard headlights with some CA Automotive units.
Buy an BMW OE entire system to replace headlights as found on ebay.
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Fit projectors into the standard headlights as found from ebay seller " jam_performance_parts"
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Barrington girls win indoor track division title
Shenelle Teixeira won the 55 meter hurdles and Barrington girls swept the top three places in the 600 meter race as the Eagles rolled to victory in the division championships at the Providence Career and Technical Academy facility on Saturday.
Abby Livingston won the 600 meter race, followed closely by teammates Mary Kate Coogan and Megan Verner-Crist in second and third places, respectively. As a team, the Eagles (82.5 points) outscored South Kingstown (76 points), Pilgrim (61), North Kingstown (53), Coventry (44), Woonsocket (30), Toll Gate (29.5) and East Providence (8), to capture the BAYHA Division title.
Barrington scored points in a number of the events, including the 1,500, where Julianna Portelli finished third and Alice Burgess finished fourth. Portelli also placed second in the 1,000 meter race, while her teammate Bella Gagliano finished sixth in that event. In the 3,000 Barrington's Lindsey Kloc finished sixth.
Teixeira ran well for the Eagles, winning the 55 meter hurdles and clearing 4 feet, 6 inches in the high jump, which was strong enough for a fourth place finish. Barrington's Sara Uri tied for sixth in the high jump with a leap of 4 feet, 4 inches. Madison Smith finished a few spots behind Teixeira in the 55 meter hurdles, taking fourth place.
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- Avondale Libraries membership: Borrowing rights for up to five items, on-campus access to databases and off-campus access to ATLASerials for Alum, a database of major religion and theology journals. Membership free but subject to annual renewal. Worth $100 a year.
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People saving in company pension schemes are losing thousands of pounds each year because they are only getting half the tax relief they are due.
Pensions tax relief is one of the most generous giveaways going, which is why Alistair Darling is reining it in for people earning more than £150,000 from 2011.
But around a quarter of a million higher rate taxpayers are missing out on tax relief of 20 per cent of pension contributions because they think their employer is already claiming it for them.
The figures, calculated by Standard Life, the pension provider, show that up to 250,000 higher rate taxpayers, adding up to one in two high earners in risky money purchase pension schemes, are not reclaiming thousands of pounds of tax rebates that are due.
Employees in final salary schemes or occupational money purchase schemes, which have boards of trustees, receive their higher rate tax relief automatically. But people in group stakeholder schemes or group personal pensions (GPPs), the most common type of money purchase schemes around, have to claim back their higher rate tax themselves.
It costs someone in an occupational scheme £600 to get £1,000 in their pension scheme. Those in group stakeholder pensions or GPPs on the other hand have to pay in £800 to get a £1,000 credit in their pot, and then have to claim back the other £200 from HMRC, usually a year later, and in many cases not at all. Those in group stakeholder pensions and GPPs who are not reclaiming their higher rate relief are paying a third more for the same pension.
The easy way to figure out what sort of scheme you are in is to see if there is a board of trustees mentioned on your yearly pension statement. If there is, you are in an occupational scheme and should be getting your higher rate relief. If there isn't, it is down to you to make sure you do.
These types of pension are treated differently because of a legal technicality relating to the way the plans are set up. Even though group stakeholder plans and GPPs are offered through the workplace, they are treated by HM Revenue & Customs as individual personal pensions. As a result, HMRC requires the individual to file a tax return in person or get their tax code changed as if they were paying into a personal pension they had taken out themselves.
Andrew Tully, senior pensions policy manager at Standard Life says: "Lots of people don't know that the obligation is on the individual to keep claiming back their higher rate tax. HM Revenue & Customs often don't send requests for tax returns to employees where they have no other income as they think they are not going to get any more tax out of you. But you could be entitled to tax out of them."
Experts add that many people start off working for an employer as a basic rate taxpayer and only become a 40 per cent taxpayer years later as a result of annual pay rises and promotions. It can be common in these situations for people not to realise they are entitled to cash back from HMRC.
Joel Adams, chief executive of Chartwell Financial, an independent financial adviser, says: "It will say somewhere in the small print of your pension documentation that the onus is on you to claim back higher-rate tax relief. But many company schemes do not communicate this message very well and so people often don't realise what they are missing out on."
For example, someone earning £70,000 a year and paying 10 per cent of salary into their pension could be missing out on a tax rebate of £1,400 a year if they are not claiming their higher rate tax relief. And when you do claim, the money is paid as cash outside the pension, allowing you to spend it as you wish.
"People really need to understand that the onus to be responsible for their own pension saving is being placed squarely on their shoulders, and that extends to making sure you are getting all the tax relief you are due," says Tom McPhail, head of pensions policy at Hargreaves Lansdown.
Higher rate tax relief is also being missed on charitable gifts, according to the Charities Aid Foundation. Research it carried out earlier this year found that half of all higher rate taxpayers making charitable donations, whether regular or on a one-off basis, were unaware they were entitled to 20 per cent tax relief on sums paid. A 40 per cent taxpayer paying £80 a month to a charity is entitled to £240 cash back from HMRC each year.
Getting your higher rate tax back is relatively straightforward. You will get the tax back if you complete a tax return, but Adams adds that for people who do not have complex finances the more straightforward way is to get your local tax office to change your tax code. He says: "Getting your tax code changed is straightforward. You have to simply write to your local tax office notifying them of your situation. They will then continue to adjust your tax levy to account for your pension contribution. But if you get a pay rise, and your pension contribution goes up as a result, you need to let them know. Otherwise they will continue to give you relief based on your previous pension contributions."
Some people make pension contributions for years without realising they are entitled to higher rate tax relief. The good news is that you can claim up to six years of relief back by making a backdated claim. You are entitled to make a claim going back up to 5 years and 10 months after the end of the year to which the claim relates. However, there is a proposal to reduce this period for some backdated claims to four years.
To make a claim simply write to your local tax office explaining why you believe you are entitled to a backdated rebate. They may ask for more information before sending you your money, but it is worth persisting. A cheque from the Revenue will be a welcome relief.
Recouping tax relief is just one of the many tips on how to save for your future contained in John Greenwood's book The Financial Times Guide to Pensions and Wealth in Retirement (FT Prentice Hall), published on Tuesday 19 November, and available for pre-order with a 30 per cent discount at www.pearson-books.com/ftpensions
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Flexible working and wellbeing: the role of global mobility
With the decision made to leave the EU, Dr Sue Shortland explains the key points HR must consider to ensure that their company's policy supports flexible working and employee wellbeing.
Personal flexibilityWhile flexible working is often viewed as an organisational concept, it is important to remember that flexibility is also associated with personal traits. These refer to individual characteristics that help to bring about strategic organisational objectives. Thus, for example, personal flexibility is associated with:
- Ability to manage complexity and uncertainty
- Adaptability
- Tolerance of ambiguity
- Openness
- Empathy
- Being non-judgmental
- Having an interest in others
- Being willing to acquire new behaviours and skills
Sustainable organisational performanceAs we approach the UK's departure from the EU, the emphasis will be not only upon boosting performance in the short-term but also upon ensuring that this will be sustainable post-Brexit. Once again, global mobility professionals have an important strategic contribution to make in relation to improving mobility outcomes. This will require a focus on:
- Balanced short-term and long-term objectives
- Agility to adapt to challenges and opportunities
- Action to improve engagement via flexible working and fostering assignee flexibility
- Treating relocated employees as a core asset
- Helping line managers to understand the role of flexible approaches to the deployment of individuals in enhancing organisational performance
- Implementing HR and mobility policies to enhance commitment, loyalty and engagement
Work intensification, wellbeing and work-life balanceIn addition to implementing flexible approaches to the deployment of personnel, identifying the skills and behaviours required in different locations and advising on policy implications, global mobility professionals should be aware of the unintended consequences of flexible working and individual flexibility.While flexible working can lead to job satisfaction and organisational commitment, it may require employees to trade significant additional effort for flexibility. For example, employees who undertake international roles through commuting or frequent business travel may experience stress and exhaustion through their frequent flyer lifestyle. Those who undertake international roles virtually can experience personal autonomy but this can lead to employees creating their own work intensification, for instance by extending their working day to operate across global time zones.It is therefore critical that the neutrality of the concept of flexible working, flexibility and their contribution to high performance working be questioned. As well as creating positive performance outcomes, organisational and individual flexibility can lead to work intensification and poor work-life balance. As Brexit approaches – and global mobility professionals are called upon to contribute to strategic decisions on the means of raising return on investment and organisational performance outcomes – a balanced view on how flexible approaches to mobility can contribute will be critical to organisational success.
The first components in Relocate Global's new online mobility toolkit, which provides information, practical advice and support for HR, global mobility managers and global teams operating overseas, are now available to download.
- Relocation policy design and review principles factsheet
- Family support guiding principles factsheet
- Group move planning and communications factsheet
- Gender diversity: the business case factsheet
- Managing mobile careers and career pathing factsheet
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Monday, July 13, 2015
Living In The Now
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Advocare Update: Week One.
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Finding Our Health
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Finding My Christmas Spirit
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Girl Meets Chopsticks
I've had my struggles with chopsticks in the past. I just tossed it up to never having to use them before. Only once have I ate Sushi in public, and it was comical. I got lessons in how to use them but needless to say, I failed. My fingers just couldn't make them work.
My solution, get more take out Sushi and practice eating them in my own home with no one watching. So I did. Several times. I had a 50/50 success rate. There are loads of YouTube tutorials on how to eat with chopsticks. I watched most of them. I looked at drawings on the correct way to use them. Still, I sucked.
The boy and I have a list of date night ideas saved on Evernote. Sushi was on it. So this weekend we went to Grand Ave in St Paul which was a date idea. Then got Sushi. Two date ideas at once, total over achievers, i know! So what do I do, have a freak out over the chopsticks. Mainly because I suck at using them, no matter how I long I've tried, and the boy, he's a pro. After I repeatedly spazzed out over lettuce falling all over the place, he orders me silverware. And I feel like I've failed. However I am the only one who really cares.
I eventually calmed down. Tried the chopsticks a few more times. There is only so much of your food falling all over the place before you throw your hands up. So I used my fingers and ate the rest of the food. I was as happy as a clam. Not sure if it's because I didn't resort to giving up entirely and using silverware or because I came to the realization that I was fighting a battle against two pieces of wood.
Either way, we ended up enjoying our food. One with chopsticks, one with fingers. That's compromise :)
Above, is deep fried oysters. On Tuesday I talked about how we eat healthy during the week and fail miserably on the weekend? This is what I'm talking about. So delicious! Tasted like super juicy breaded mushrooms!
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Handling Halloween and the Leftovers
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Life: Unexpected
Droopy Ears, Sad Face..
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
August 2014 Stitch Fix
1.) Renee C Mackin Floral Print Cut-Out Back Tank
I loved this top. Now that may hair is shorter, the cute cut out on the back is actually visible. The print is something I would not have normally picked out, but I really liked it when I put it on. The back is longer then the front.
Verdict: Return
Boyfriend said it looked like a "mom shirt". Needless to say I became paranoid and sent it back.
2) 41Hawthorn Montgomery Chevron Cross-Front Top
I am not a big fan of chevron print on anything. The chevrons didn't go up and down so I actually was okay with this top. The fit was perfect (and stretchy). It can easily be dressed up or down.
Verdict: Keep!
It is a really good transitional piece to go into fall with.
3) Pomelo Alan French Terry Asymmetrical Zip Cardigan
I have been eyeballing this cardigan on Pinterest for a while now. So when I saw it was going to be in my fix, I was pretty pumped. I loved it! However, I would not recommend wearing it zipped.
Verdict: Return
I decided bright orange isn't practical for this time of year. I did tell my stylist to include it again in another fix, just in a darker color.
4) 19 Cooper Cathleen Split-Neck Tulip-Sleeve Blouse
This top just wasn't me. It fit great, but the style wouldn't work for my lifestyle.
Verdict: Return
5) Bay to Baubles Tazo Triangle Charm Lariat Necklace
I was uberly excited to get a necklace that was simple. I wore it in most of the photos above. It just dangled a little bit too long and wound up sitting inside my shirt.
Verdict: return
So that's this months fix.
If you to try it yourself, here's my referral link!
Speaking of links,
Today I am linking up with Becky@Olivesnwine
for Treat Yourself Tuesday!
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
The Minnesota Yard
Speaking of the pups...
On each side of the garage is a dachshund.
I did not put them there.
It was fate, let me tell ya.
God knows he needs to be a little blunt with me on where I should live..
I can almost squeal at the fact I have a front stoop.
Not only and I planning on decorating it for the fall,
but there is no long FedEx battles!!!!
My #1 pet peeve at my apartment.
Yes, it's a recycling bin.
But after almost 6 years of no recycling.
I am happy to finally be doing my part.
We honestly go through as much recycling as we do garbage..
Sad to think about how much I've put in the landfill over the years at my apartment.
There is an empty lot next to us....
...and across from us :)
The pups are still have a deck to sun on.
A fire pit!
We were so excited to have on the backyard.
We are talking near giddy..
Truth: We've only used it once.
I have this slight obsession with the super tall pine trees in rows.
My back yard has them.
I LOVE looking out my window and seeing this pines.
I cannot wait until winter when they are heavy with snow..
Yes, I just said I cannot wait until winter.
Today I'm linking up with Amanda@RunningWithSpoons
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The Past and Future of Sustainability
By Bill Baue | SustainAbility | June 18, 2007
Sustainability is an ancient concept, best articulated in the Gayaneshakgowa, or the Great Law of Peace of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy: "In our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." This concept was reawakened two decades ago through the publication of Our Common Future, popularly known as the "Brundtland Report." This report, named after Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, chair of the UN's World Commission on Environment and Development that authored it, coined the term "sustainable development," which introduced a slight twist on sustainability.
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs," the report famously states in its oft-cited quote. The next sentences may be equally important, though less known: "Far from requiring the cessation of economic growth, it recognizes that the problems of poverty and underdevelopment cannot be solved unless we have a new era of growth in which countries of the global South play a large role and reap large benefits."
"Economic growth always brings risk of environmental damage, as it puts increased pressure on environmental resources," the report continues. "But policy makers guided by the concept of sustainable development will necessarily work to assure that growing economies remain firmly attached to their ecological roots and that these roots are protected and nurtured so that they may support growth over the long term."
The report thus strung a tightrope between environmental stewardship and economic growth (a debatable linkage), and entrusted policymakers to walk the line (a questionable assumption.) Indeed, some questioned whether economic growth of the type guided by "developed" country policymakers might be antithetical to environmental balance nominally advocated by the Brundtland Report.
"[T]op-down management, misguided by an unrealistic vision of development as the generalization of Northern over-consumption to the rapidly multiplying masses of the South has led to many external failures, both economic and ecological," said Herman Daly, considered the father of ecological economics, in his retirement speech from the World Bank Environmental Department in early 1994.
The Brundtland Report, which inspired the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro that resulted in the Climate Change Convention and in turn the Kyoto Protocol, acknowledged that many "of the development paths of the industrialized nations are clearly unsustainable." However, it held fast to its embrace of development toward industrialized nation living standards as part of the solution, not part of the problem.
|"The principles of sustainability, involving the prioritization of intergenerational equity—in addition to what you might call interspecies equity—seem to me to operate at a higher, almost civilizational level, than sustainable development."
The notion of sustainable development established by the Brundtland Report helped popularize the concept of sustainability, though the two ideas differ (despite the fact they are often used interchangeably.)
"Most people outside the field of sustainable development have never heard of Our Common Future, but it helped create the field—and push the related concepts into the political mainstream," said John Elkington, chief entrepreneur of SustainAbility, the UK-based think tank and consultancy he founded about the same time as the launch of Our Common Future. "I don't consider the terms sustainable development and sustainability synonymous."
"The principles of sustainability, involving the prioritization of intergenerational equity—in addition to what you might call interspecies equity—seem to me to operate at a higher, almost civilizational level, than sustainable development," Mr. Elkington told SocialFunds.com.
In other words, sustainability takes a longer, broader, and more interconnected view than sustainable development.
Over the past 20 years, the Brundtland Report has helped fuel many advancements. These include wider use of the language of sustainability, better understanding of the underlying science of sustainability, technological improvement (such as cleantech), and uptake of the sustainability agenda by financial markets. However, true sustainable development has been achieved "to a very limited extent indeed" since the publication of the Brundtland Report, according to Mr. Elkington.
"Demographic trends have been moving against us—and, as the development of countries like Russia, India, and China demonstrates, our economic models haven't changed that much over the past 20 years," Mr. Elkington said.
Going forward, Ms. Brundtland has the opportunity to effect perhaps greater change, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed her as a Special Envoy on Climate Change last month.
"Climate change is the most dramatic example of a sustainability challenge—in terms of civilizational resilience and survival—that currently faces us, so it is absolutely appropriate that she play that role," Mr. Elkington said. "But the nature of the challenge is very different to producing a report, and Norway is a peculiar country in world affairs, so not at all clear that her skills as Prime Minister are directly transferable—even were that the intention. We must wait and see!"
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding, SustainAbility published Raising Our Game: Can We Sustain Globalization?, projecting the future of sustainability over the next 20 years. The report proposes four potential scenarios (based on a card game metaphor) for how the future will unfold depending on how business attends to social and environmental sustainability. Each scenario corresponds to a card suit (Clubs, Diamonds, Spades, and Hearts) on a matrix with environmental wins and losses on the horizontal axis and social wins and losses on the vertical axis.
"[The Hearts scenario] is the future that the Brundtland Commission pointed us toward," the report states, as it balances environmental sustainability with social development. It projects a scenario where a pandemic slows global transportation, forcing simultaneous attending to human health and curbing environmental impacts. The crisis inspires creative destruction and innovation that ultimately leads to true sustainability.
The report acknowledges that the "concept of sustainable development has stood the test of time since it was first injected into the political mainstream in 1987 by the Brundtland Commission," though the marriage between sustainability and development has always contained tension.
The beauty of the SustainAbility report is that the Spades and Clubs scenarios play out the potential consequences of over-weighting environmental sustainability at the cost of social stability, or over-weighting development in ways that compromise environmental viability. In other words, the report illustrates the pitfalls of unbalanced sustainable development.
"In the Clubs world, social equity is traded for a degree of environmental quality—albeit enjoyed by a sub-set of the global population," the report states. "Think of the evolution of a new sustainable energy platform where billions are priced out of the emerging green market."
"By contrast, in the Spades world social equity broadly trumps environmental sustainability, whatever we may intend," the report continues. "Current forms of development and consumerist lifestyles spread, but at a growing cost to the environment."
The SustainAbility team, led by founder John Elkington, excels at distilling complex trends, listing various series of discrete elements. Defining globalization, they list four drivers (open markets, technology and connectivity, developing country prominence, and the growth of multinationals), as well as seven attributes (capital revolutionaries, maquila planet, growing divides, multiculturalism's discontents, climate insecurity, governance vacuums, and "blessed unrest," the concept recently coined by Paul Hawken to describe the movement forwarded by environmental and social justice organizations.)
Continuing the numbers game, SustainAbility posits six dimensions encompassed in the four future scenarios, encapsulated in the acronym G.A.M.B.L.E. (growth, acceleration, mainstreaming, barriers, leadership, and equity.) SustainAbility's party line on economic growth is a bit hard to nail down. On one page, the report notes that "economic growth has major sustainability consequences."
On another, it maintains that "[c]urrent economic growth is unprecedented—and the potential opportunities are huge," no doubt causing some readers to cringe at the notion of sustainable development as a cash cow and others to welcome a business case for sustainability. However, SustainAbility distinguishes between capitalizing on the opportunities presented by sustainability, and actually achieving sustainability.
"Many companies have set in place programs to address the environmental impacts of their business, but few have made the necessary investments to ensure that their business models and operations are environmentally sustainable," the report states.
Discussing the Hearts scenario, the report predicts that "[e]conomic growth will continue but will need to be contained within a 'one planet' agenda." It later fleshes out this explanation: "if we are to have any chance of bringing our global economy back onto anything like sustainable lines, concepts like WWF's 'One Planet Business' will be critically important."
Advancing this line of reasoning, SustainAbility tempers its stance on economic growth, coming down more on the side of caution.
"The modern environmental movement was powerfully shaped by its limits-to-growth roots," the report states. "Current evidence of planetary 'overshoot,' with our needs outrunning the capacity of the planet to provide, confirms the dangers we face in globalizing a flawed, unsustainable economic model. Even our current resource use already exceeds the regenerative capacity of the planet by 25 percent."
"You could even argue that today's economic model is an economic tumour on the planet," the report continues. "Of our four scenarios, only Hearts is built around increasingly sustainable economic and business models, but both the Clubs and Spades worlds would need to see energetic experimentation on—and investment in—new technologies and business strategies."
The report ends with seven recommendations, or "new rules" of the game for businesses in the age of sustainability. For example, SustainAbility urges 21st Century leaders to "think around corners" (or plan for the unexpected), find true South (recognizing that the Northern orientation of so-called developed countries is waning with the rise of South-South trade), and to lobby—for sustainability. Exemplifying this last rule is the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), whereby ten major companies are pushing Congress to set a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions.
While the Brundtland Report was instrumental in injecting environmental and social consciousness into the political mainstream, it fell short of achieving substantive advances toward true sustainable development. Hopefully, the SustainAbility report will inspire leaders to shoot for the Hearts scenario.
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Alternatives to Srs is not a subject you hear a lot about. That's because the keepers of the Gate to Transsexual surgery erroneously assume that all Transsexuals will opt for Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS). The fact of the matter is there are a sizable contingent that will never go through those doors. This doesn't mean that they are any less Transsexual or that their internal pain is any less real. In fact their pain may last a lifetime, long after others have had their relief for this condition.
The reasons for not having surgery or delaying it could be: Job Security, children, Grand Children, health, relationships, fears, and age. Though, some have received surgery well into their 70's.
Its not everyone who's lucky enough to transition on the job. If you're in a Goverment Job, Health care or a Fortune 500 company then you're lucky. If not, can you really afford to leave before you retire if you've been on the job for 30 years? If you have family responsibilities its not likely.
If you have health problems such as heart, lung or circulation disease or cancer, you would have a harder time getting surgery or hormones.
You're afraid of traumatizing young children or grandchildren. You fear persecution or lossing loved ones or a spouse. These are all legitimate concerns but what do you do in the meantime while you resolve these problems.
Meanwhile you are hurting inside being eaten up by a brain and emotions that don't match, you have anxiety, distress and confusion. Remember, its not only pre-ops who have thoughts of suicide. Non-ops have them as well.
There really are alternatives to SRS and most of them can be done without really major problems. First of course you should see a Gender Professional. This person can be the guide to understanding yourself and helping to remove any clouds in your mind. If medications or hormones are needed they can write a referral for you. If you decide later to get an Orchiectomy or SRS they can write the letters you need for you. Finally they can help you find a way to help you explain to a partner how serious your condition can be. Perhaps they can monitor that meeting for you.
Cross-living of some kind or length of time is essential. I'm not just talking crossdressing here. You need to live the role itself whether its for one day a week at home or seven. Of course this means telling the wife and any older children. Again, ask your therapist for help here because your sanity may be at stake. An Orchiectomy can provide some relief. Your local uroligist/surgeon can do this for you with a letter from your therapist. Removing the source of Testosterone can be benificial.
Some doctors may reccomend you take supplemental hormones such as low doses of Estogen. An Orchiectomy is the removal of the testes. This does not necessarily mean you will loose all erections though. Join a support group if you can, or start one. At most places you can dress at the meeting place.
The above steps can't replace SRS but they can provide you some relief. Cross-living by itself can give you some joy.
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That grand old Caz feels able to speculate so openly that the independent future of the oil giant is in doubt says a lot about where we are. The investment bank, even under its American owners, sells itself as byword for discretion.
Lucas imagines a scenario in which Exxon boss Rex Tillerson meets his board next February to plot a deal. The writer, who clearly wishes he were in movies, has Tillerson followed down the hall by the "icy stare" of predecessor Lee Raymond as he ponders whether to make a move ...
To do some speculating of our own, what's Ian Hannam's role in all of this? The premier dealmaker at Cazenove has been quiet of late and must be itching for some action.
He won't have been aware that the note from Lucas was coming — those investment banking Chinese walls are never breached, my lawyer assures me — but he won't be unhappy that it has emerged.
It puts the story on the table and allows him to do what he does best — work behind the scenes to drum up fees for the bank. Hannam is the man who oversaw the flotation of the mining giants that now dominate the FTSE, as well as the merger of NTL and Virgin Mobile, and he tried to orchestrate a takeover of Dow Chemical. He won't want to miss out on the charges that a BP deal would throw off — £400 million or £500 million, perhaps.
It's easy to imagine that he has begun putting out feelers among his contacts suggesting that the time for BP to seek a partner is upon it.
Intriguingly, Cazenove goes out of its way to explain why other possible bidders — Shell, Gazprom, PetroChina — don't make as much sense as Exxon. Almost as if it was playing matchmaker.
Caz reckons that the market is dramatically overestimating the liabilities BP will face from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — it's cheap, in other words.
"We must emphasise," says the note, "that this is our idea and it is only an idea."
Sure. But it's not a casual thought, a mere daydream. It is a recognition that the City thinks that what is an environmental disaster for America, and a corporate calamity for Britain's once-biggest company, is an opportunity for bankers.
There's not just oil in the water, there's also blood. The City is sniffing it with interest.
Business own-goal by England? Put your shirt on it
In the past five World Cups, England (under four different managers) have failed to qualify once, been knocked out in the second round twice and reached the quarter-finals twice.
All of these results were deemed an underperformance, a failure to meet potential, rather than the par-for-the-course outcomes that statistical analysis would suggest.
An outrageous thought occurs: perhaps the players just aren't that good. Some of them do well in the Champions League, it is true. Then again, they are surrounded by foreigners in those games.
The moaning of the endlessly frustrated England fan is usually accompanied by complaints about how much the players are paid by their clubs, presumably on the grounds that they'd be better for the national team if they got less
from Chelsea (eh?).
The thing is, there's lots of money in football and the bulk of it should obviously go to the men
in boots.
Old-timers who reminisce about players sharing the bus to the game with fans are advocating a return to the days when star turns were grievously ripped off. The trouble with the England team, in business terms, is that the entire product is rubbish.
There's not a lot Wayne Rooney can do about that on his own. If it helps to pretend that he isn't trying, you may scream abuse at him. He may scream back.
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"Obama administration wins against Wall Street," rang one headline after the reform of US financial regulation was pushed through Congress on Friday.
Most of the coverage seemed to agree: the President's shake-up was historic and tough. The banks had got their come-uppance for the recklessness that almost caused the world economy to collapse. Obama had, as he likes to say, kicked ass. The reality seems far less exciting.
None of the things that would caused genuine unease on Wall Street, the President's biggest fundraisers as always, are even close to becoming law. The big banks don't have to break themselves up — they will remain too big to fail — and the suggested ban on the trading of derivatives seems to have been lost.
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Regulatory costs will rise, but there is nothing to stop the banks grabbing this money back by increasing charges, so you should assume that is what they will do.
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Has the coalition Government got a plan B?
If it has, it is being kept mightily quiet — something that is beginning to unnerve even those City economists who are entirely supportive of the deficit reduction policy and the 25% cut in public spending.
Suppose the worst fears of the unions and others on the Left turn out to be well founded and the cuts send the economy into a dramatic tail spin. Suppose American growth slows, eurozone difficulties expand hitting UK exports and unemployment spirals.
There's major social unrest, strikes and the coalition itself is unravelling.
What then?
In other times they could have attempted to engineer a short-term jump in growth by deregulating the City (tried that one) or slashing interest rates (already much too low for comfort).
Politically, Osborne and co don't want to suggest there is an alternative route to their plan A, lest their opponents' resolve increases and
the unions see a chance to expand membership by appearing feisty.
But practically, is there one? Beyond encouraging the Bank of England to keep rates low and perhaps restart quantitative easing, it's hard to see what they would do beyond ditching the cuts they keep insisting are vital and calling another general election.
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man AILD live I'm jelly. cant wait for Awakened on September.
Irres has been too busy being a WH vet
Dude AILD was the best band there and they played before motorhead,slayer and slipknot. Third time I've seen them live and im thoroughly convinced they are the best metal band to see live. The professionalism, the show they put on, dude they sound exactly the same live as they do on record. Got a broken nose from the slayer wall of death though.....jesus christ slayer can get you rowdy and I don't even really care for them.
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Slayer and Anthrax are still alive? These are bands from when I was in middle school.
Dude how old are you? lol on mic you sound around my age which is 20.
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old (38), worse than my voice(or better rather, I still look like I'm in my late 20's)
remember my first run through competitive gaming was with Unreal Tournament when I was in my 20's, this is round 2 after a 7 year break from online living/gaming
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Yah this game will most likely be expensive as hell, but I'm sure it will be all worth it as long as the guitars work better than they did in the first game. Pluse I love how you can play all the tracks from the first game if you all ready own it. Great idea : )
it seems like such a cool idea to be able to make my own platforming levels and share them with other players.
After the riveting ending to Episode Two, how could I not be looking forward to this game. Here's hopeing Valve can get it out before I'm an old man :D
The latest game from the tiwsted mind of Tim Schaffer the creator of such classic games like Psychonauts, Grim Fandango, Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacal, and many more. I know that this is going to be a one of a kind game with a unique world, well writen story, and characters you can care about.
I can't wait to play this game because it's basically a cooler, more realistic and styalish Prince of Persia game. Oh and the First Person Free Running just looks stuning. Mostlikly will be my favorite game of the year.
I like open world games that allow you to do what ever you want, and Fallout 3 looks like it'll fullfill that and so much more. Also the dark humor this series is known for sould make it all the better.
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Irish Open 2015: Graeme McDowell determined to tame the beast at Royal County Down
Graeme McDowell labelled the Royal County Down golf course 'a beast' just moments after his opening round at this year's Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.
The Portrush native, who has a way with words, also described it as 'borderline evil' in the difficult weather conditions.
And then he declared that it was as challenging as an Open Championship and the toughest test he had encountered for a few years.
For all that, you knew the 35-year-old relished the experience.
And the large galleries supporting him enjoyed watching him do so.
McDowell is a fighter. When the going gets tough, American based G-Mac is renowned on both sides of the Atlantic for getting going and, even though he finished his round yesterday with three bogeys, the 2010 US Open champion was content to end with a one over par 72 ahead of round two today.
He had been on course to tame 'the beast' in the morning when he moved to two under par and a share of the lead, following three birdies in a row around the turn, until a tricky closing stretch at seven, eight and nine put him in blue numbers rather than red.
He made the point, though, that despite the late disappointment he was very much in contention to win his first Irish Open, stressing that patience is going to be the key if the rain, hail, shine and blustery winds of opening day continue through the next three.
"The conditions were very, very tough out there. It was disappointing to finish with three bogeys but, all in all, for me it was a good return," said McDowell, who was cheered on by the locals at every hole.
"There is no point being tied for the lead on Thursday. I need to be up there on Sunday.
"I hit some really good shots, I hit some average ones as well but I was generally happy with the way I hit the ball and I'm looking forward to getting back at it on Friday.
"Hitting three bogeys to finish never makes lunch taste good, but the thing that was sharp all day was my pace putting. When you balance it all out anything around level par would have been decent on the day and I'll take one over.
"This golf course is a beast. And today it was all about hanging tough.
"I think you have to hang around over the next couple of days because the weather is going to play a massive part and you have to make sure you are in touch.
"There is a lot to do this weekend. There is going to be a lot of bogeys made and you have to make sure you are making fewer than the rest and at the same time make as many birdies as possible.
"I feel comfortable on this golf course. There are a few holes that give me the heebie jeebies, like number seven and the second shot to eight is very difficult, but I just have to keep executing game plans and shape my shots a lot better and keep hanging in there."
Earlier in the week McDowell had talked about the dangerous par three seventh hole and the potential 'carnage' it could bring.
Yesterday he used his impressive vocabulary to go at it again, after hitting a bogey four.
"Number seven is 145 yards of sheer terror," said McDowell, who was playing alongside European Ryder Cup team mates Miguel Angel Jimenez and Lee Westwood.
"I'm not sure I've played a tougher par three.
"It is a very, very difficult hole and that is reflected in the scoring. You have three top 50 players in the world standing on a 145 yard par three and not being able to sniff the green."
On the course and conditions as a whole, he said: "It's been a while since I've played something this tough. This is as tough as it's been in a few years in regards to strong winds.
"This westerly wind plays across you all day and it doesn't give you much. It is borderline evil in these conditions."
Royal Portrush, which staged the Irish Open in 2012, is scheduled to host The Open in the next few years. McDowell believes Royal County Down could do the same.
He said: "This is raw, this is Britain and Ireland. It is fun to come back and play this type of golf.
"This is proper Open Championship. You could put the grandstands up right now and have an Open Championship here. It is set up, it is ready to go, it is tough and it will really require some good golf to win here."
That's what McDowell intends to deliver today when he is out in the afternoon and over the weekend when, if Rory McIlroy were to miss the cut, he will have even bigger crowds following him than turned out yesterday.
England's Westwood and Spaniard Jimenez will also feel they have a genuine chance of lifting the trophy.
The ever popular Jimenez enjoyed the encouragement of the fans at Royal County Down on his way to a one over 72, which included three birdies, while Westwood, despite a quickfire start, which had him at two under after five, finished three over.
They may not be leading the pack but, as McDowell said, at this stage it is all about staying in the tournament rather than blowing yourself out of it.
Further Reading
Irish Open: Catch me if you can is reborn Padraig Harrington's cry
Irish Open: Darren Clarke says course was great, he just made too many errors
Irish Open: Tee-off times in the second round of the European Tour's Irish Open
Irish Open: World No 1 Rory McIlroy well below par as his homecoming turns into a nightmare
Irish Open: Pals are expecting Rory McIlory to roar back
Irish Open: Patience pays off but Rickie Fowler wanted more
Irish Open: Graeme McDowell determined to tame the beast at Royal County Down
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FEATURE FILM, COMMERICAL & THEATRE WORKSHOPS WITH RICHARD REED, ELLYN MARSHALL, LIZ ORTIZ-MACKES and LAWRENCE EVANS
REGISTER IN ADVANCE FOR OUR AUDITION WORKSHOPS: These Casting Directors cast for film, tv, commercials and theatre. Richard Reed from Beth Melsky Casting; Liz Ortiz-Mackes from Casting Solutions; Ellyn Marshall from Orpheus Group Casting; and Lawrence Evans, a casting consultant who cast for theatre for the NY International Fringe Festival, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, The Negro Ensemble Company, New Federal Theatre, Black Spectrum Theatre and the Billie Holiday Theatre to name a few.
May 19, 2011 from 7PM - 9PM. This is not a panel workshop. Actors will meet one on one with the Casting Directors in a separate studio and do cold readings from sides provided at the workshop and/or prepared monologues, receive feedback and career advice. Class size is limited to 14.
Individual Workshop: $35
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Musical Theatre Workshop
Students are taught by theatre professionals and will learn Broadway, Gospel and Classical style songs, how to sing in an ensemble as well as solo, work on scenes and choreography that will lead to a performance. The Workshop is conducted by Van Dirk Fisher.