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Still just walking. Ds and I played in an amazing concert on the weekend - wonderful music in a 150 piece concert band. What a great feeling! I love making music with my kids Started listing yarn in my Etsy shop today - will share the link when I have a little bit more in there. So far I have sold about 12 skeins of yarn (from my dining room, not from Etsy) without really trying...... I am afraid that I won't sell any more now that I am trying!
Observation of the day: sometimes 13 year old girls are simply possessed.
I'm still feeling crummy about stuff. I probably need to have a talk with DH about feeling appreciated and all that, but I feel like he gets defensive and the things that seem like such a big deal to me are things he just blows off. I don't know. It's nothing too terrible; I'm just feeling down in general.
It probably doesn't help that DD is going through a weird (hormonal? ) seven-year-old moodiness thing. I don't know what's gotten into her lately, but she is acting rebellious and nasty and making our interactions rather unpleasant. The other day while her brother was at drum class I took her out for hot chocolate and talked to her. She said she knows she's been grumpy lately but doesn't know why, and she'll let me know if there's anything besides "give me everything I want" (her first suggestion) that might help. This morning was an absolute nightmare and I sent her off to school without even eating anything, which makes me feel awful. This afternoon was also bad, so I sent her to bed around 7:30. Usually the kids go to bed at 9, so I'm hoping the extra sleep helps. This afternoon when I announced this plan she told me she would just scream all night long, but thankfully it didn't come to that. I'm running out of logical consequences here.
I did run, though, so that's a victory! Actually, my race in Newport was this weekend, with my dad and DH's aunt. Saturday night we met up with DH's aunt and uncle for a lovely double date at a great Italian restaurant. We drank wine and had three hours of conversation and food and marvelous dessert. These are people I only see once a year at the family parties, so I was a bit nervous about getting together with just them, but we had a fantastic time.
Sunday morning my dad and I woke up at 4:15. I had a granola bar and we drove to Newport, met DH's aunt, and got on a school bus to shuttle us across the bridge to the starting line. This was the inaugural run, but they did a decent job. There wasn't much to entertain us before the start, so we spent a lot of time standing around. It was lucky the weather was okay (fifties, even at 5:30 in the morning) because there was no shelter. Just a little tent where they were giving out water and coffee, and a blaring radio. We waited in line for twenty minutes or so for the port-o-potties, so that killed some time. Is there always a yahoo or two who don't realize there's a line? Seriously.
The run was good; it was just under four miles and the bridge part was pretty cool, although the uphill was about a mile long. Eek. I kept spotting toward one of the arches up over the bridge, thinking "okay, when I get to THAT arch, then we'll be at the top." Nope. That hill just kept going and going. Then there was a nice downhill, though, and an easy run into Newport. I'd definitely do it again.
Today I ran six miles, and will probably run again tomorrow, taking advantage of the nice weather.
I also bought a turkey and a ridiculous amount of other ingredients for Thanksgiving next week. And I made a calendar with a different Christmas-related activity to accomplish for the first 24 days of December. Then I raked leaves for four hours, managing to uncover about a fifth of our yard. Have I mentioned that I feel as though I'm drowning here? I wonder why.
Lala ~ drowning, indeed! My 7 year old has been acting similarly. Not fun, at all. Was your run over the bridge that goes from Jamestown to Newport? I love Jamestown!
Shanti ~ I don't think you'll have any trouble at all selling that gorgeous, gorgeous yarn!
DD2 is sick, sick, sick. Fever, achy, headache. Looks like I'll be staying home with her tomorrow. Trainer ride, here I come!
Quick check-in to post my race report. Sorry, no personals, but DH just got home and I really ought to get dinner started, but I just got my official results and am anxious to report that I beat my last time!! by 40 seconds. Ok, so it's not that great of an improvement, but I said that I'd be happy if I beat my last time even if it was only by a second, so I'm trying not to let my hyper-competitive/self-critical side get me down. I only had 6 weeks between races and I was out of commission with bronchitis for 2 of those.
DH and I had planned to get to bed early, but of course that didn't pan out and we ended up getting into bed around 12:30. Luckily the race was a block away from our place, so we got up at 6:45 and had some oatmeal with brown sugar and sliced banana (this was a GOOD CHOICE, as opposed to last pre-race meal which consisted of a few sips of tea and half a Gatorade gel pack, IIRC. Oatmeal with banana just might be my pre-race meal from now on.) We left the house exactly 6 minutes before the race began, which was annoying because I'd hoped to take 10 minutes to do a mile loop around the neighborhood before lining up. Oh well, we trotted over and pushed up closer to the starting line than last time, and luckily there were far fewer runners so we didn't waste any time bobbing or weaving to get around people, just stuck to the edge of the road where the path was totally clear. Weather was AMAZING and gorgeous, 60 and blue skies. After a cloudy, rainy Saturday I couldn't have asked for better conditions Sunday morning. I started off pushing Ela in the jogger and handed her off half way. The IT band (?) hip thing started to bother me a bit around the 3rd mile, so I took it easy and slowed down a bit for the 4th and 5th mile. I could have pushed it harder and gotten a better time, but I kept reminding myself that an injury would be more upsetting than a poor time, and I didn't want to screw up my chances for a good half-marathon training.
Over all, this race just FELT much more solid than my first. This time I held back because I CHOSE to, not because I was out of steam had nothing left in the tank.
Official time was 55:38. I'm half tempted to sign up for another 10k on Dec 10th, we're moving at the end of this month and the $80 combined entry fee might not be in our budget. Other than that, the half-marathon is Jan 15th and DH and I are definitely in the midst of training for that.
Mama to Conejita 2/2/10 and Little Stinker 6/28/13. Expecting a surprise in late March!
kitteh, that's a real improvement, and an enviable time, IMO!
LaLaLaLa, I know those 7yo tantrums. Dd turns 8 next month. This year has been a wild ride.
Shanti, open your heart to the possibility of greater success than you imagined, and go with it. Also, don't be afraid to use all your IRL social networks to sell your stuff. Successful small businesses aren't ashamed to rely on relationships, and people will love to buy from you.
Yes, it is cooler, appreciably, here. It's mid-70s now, highs expected upper 80s, but strangely the forecast says 50% chance of T-storms. Which would be weird and awesome. I think I am taking a day or two off. I ran errands on my bike yesterday and I might make it to the pool or beach today, but I'm making no promises. I did clean the kitchen and go for groceries before dh even got himself ready for work today, and tomorrow I have school conferences. Kids reports were both fine, nothing extraordinary but nothing bad, and I'm calling it a victory, based on the transition involved.
Also heard back from dh's hr about my and kids' return. Sounds like they'll be reasonable about helping us make it happen, but now I have to try and get some idea what to ask for and what to expect. Will be looking into the online thing, both the public charter and the tuition-based private one (cost would be a quarter what is paid now for tuition, uniforms and transport). Need to investigate housing options for dh here that would enable us to camp out with him a couple months if that works out, and go back to the negotiating table on the farm. On the positive side, I don't think they have had a second showing with anyone, so if closing dates move out as we go along, that's OK. And of course the beast of living separately for a while. Not everyone understands me on this one, so there's some judgment to deal with.
Then would also need to start thinking outside the box about my writing career, and making a little money without being tied to a single place. Thinking about a content-writer thing. I have a friend who does it and likes it, but I think it pays poorly. Of course, so does doing nothing.
My floors are clean, laundry is caught up, dishwasher empty, groceries put away, bathrooms scrubbed yesterday. All my friends are off to bed. Looks like it is time to write.
Lalala -- that sounds about like what Erin did at 7. And on the other side of it I think she really is feeling torn inside and just feels safe with you to let it out. Ride it out. Feed lots of protein. Lots of sleep. Exercise. Add in additional "dates" or whatever with one parent doing something fun. and be there. Repeat at next emotional crisis.
For your sanity: I think it is totally reasonable to set boundaries -- I know you are feeling miserable, but you may not yell at me. You may go be by yourself if you want to yell at me.
Geo: I have comments on the testing and stuff but it needs to wait on work.
Everyone else .... busy busy week/day/year.
I was explaining to ds1 that he wouldn't get paid as much to babysit as a college student that could drive kids places and his comment was that if the family hired the college student he wouldn't make anything at all. It is still over minimum wage and the little ones like him so everyone is happy.
La4, I hope things brighten up for you soon.
I'll be back after Thanksgiving for school conference talk. We have done some testing, have some results, dd3 needs some follow up vision wise (convergence insufficiency?) If the pace continues to be as slow as molasses... I don't know. It is hard when people are pleasant enough and seem to hear you and then suggest dates in 2012 (I'll assume 1012 was a typo) or making more phone calls and looking into things. I assume I am being given a brush off.
If behavior is supposed to improve with being 9, someone forgot to tell DD.
I've been in front of my computer for almost 4 hours now with two tiny tasks. The upshot is that I'm now locked out of gmail for spamming (trying to send emails to advisees informing them of an advising lunch) and I still owe all my students their data for the projects, now due in 6 days.
As for 9 year old girls, mine is pretty awesome. Never went through any phase (maybe she was little b**chier at 7?), but I can already see all the phases coming down the pike with DD2
That photo needs to be framed!
Mama to Conejita 2/2/10 and Little Stinker 6/28/13. Expecting a surprise in late March!
Congrats, kitteh! Imagine how insanely fast you would be without the stroller and the IT band issues... are you planning on doing the half stroller-less?
Real, that is terrific! She's so adorable!
mommajb, my kids take turns doing the super-sweet when the other sibling is freaking out bit, too.
Geo, sparkle, Lax4- and wishing all of you smooth, productive, calmer days tomorrow.
I have two younger girls. Stop freaking me out. I see hints of what may be to come in my newly-6-year-old, though...
RR- I did my first bootcamp since June today. I think I'll be a little sore tomorrow- my planks and step-ups have suffered from the lack of practice. On the running side, I was second to finish when we ran lines- behind only one guy who is well over a foot taller than me. I'm being stupidly competitive, but I was proud.
"Guess what? It's a magical world. And when I sing, my songs are in it."
Madly in love with my 7 and 4 year old daughters
Just a quick hello, and oh, boy, what a sweet photo, Real! Love the expression on your face, too.
Sparkle I don't know how you're doing it! I look at GRE questions with my students sometimes and I feel so stupid!
La4, sending hugs, mama.
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Awesome photo Real!
Sparkle, GRE questions are like a game. The trick is figuring out the key to the game. Which questions are you having trouble with? Maybe I can help a little.
Had what I thought was a great 6 miler yesterday, midday. But it must have been too soon after lunch or something because I felt horribly nauseated for the rest of the day. Oh well. Trying to get into the rhythm of just...you know, running. Without a training plan. It's not my best thing, being without a plan, but I have no races on the horizon. I am not going to Disney.
More to say, but...I don't know. Maybe on the yahoogroup again. I am feeling invisible in the extreme, to my dh. Things have just been..so not good lately. Sigh.
Teaching is going well, though. I don't like the commute but I do like being in the classroom again, a lot. I know the teacher I'm substituting for is extending her leave by at least a week which is good for me. I'm hoping things work out so I can get something more permanent next year.
"Now bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible." (William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar)
Nic. And Good for you on the job! I'm not surprised to hear you are tearing it up, though!
Real - I agree, definitely a picture to be framed!!! How fun!
Girls - I am keeping my mouth shut about what happens at the 7-10+ age. I think a lot of it depends on the kid, though. I know that my 10 year old is definitely having hormonal swings! She was in very distraught, disconsolate tears the other day because her sisters were reading the Phineas and Ferb magazine before she did. I get wanting to be the first to read it, but that much angst about it?! Really?
NRR: Worked 9am-2pm, came home for a few hours, and then went back to work 9pm-midnight! Oh, and I got my schedule for next week. I have one 6am-10am shift the day before Thanksgiving, and then am working Black Friday from 3:30am-10am! I don't understand why the kickoff to the holiday season has to happen in the middle of the night! I don't think there is anything that can't be done during normal store hours! I'm going to have to cut my Thanksgiving Day plans short in order to be able to sleep a little before I work a long shift in the middle of the night!!!! I just think it's ridiculous.
RR: maybe today?
Not perfect, Just amazing!
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Real ~ LOVE the picture! Your DD looks so thrilled to be beating her Mama .
Nic ~ so sorry your DH isn't treating you the way you deserve . But it's wonderful that you're enjoying the teaching gig so much. I do hope it turns into something more permenant.
bec ~ those hours are NUTS! I remember well the Black Friday to Christmas craziness from my years working at the Gap.
RE: 7-year-old daughters ~ yeah, mine screamed at me at least 3 times this morning because 1) I told her she couldn't go on the computer before school, 2) I asked her to get dressed, and 3) I was trying to help her study for her geography test. Gee, I'm so mean .
NRR (because there is no running to report) ~ DD2 still has a fever, so she's home with me again today. We're baking again, and cleaning, and watching My Little Pony episodes . I hope she feels better soon. Mama needs to get out of the house!
I don't like wearing clean underwear.
I don't like you telling me to brush my teeth before school.
I would rather you shave my head than that I would ever have to brush my hair again.
My lunch in boring. Everyone else gets to eat candy everyday for lunch.
A shower? I went swimming!
They may not call me mean. In the bigger, more serious picture I am trying to teach them positive communication skills. NVC calls for 'I' statements rather than combative, blame placing you phrasing. If they can own their feelings they might be able to identify positive solutions by the time they are 28 years old. Re-reading this it sounds like I know the right way but I just can't make myself do it either.
Nic, it is great to hear how you are enjoying the teaching.
Real, I :heart that photo! It could be the next dingo shirt and she would be famous.
mommajb you are brilliant. once again.
I'm with kerc and JayGee.
How do you talk to your kids about using 'I' statements? Do you spell it out... "When you are angry tell me what you are thinking by starting your statements with 'I'"? Or do you model it, or rephrase their statements instead? "I hear you say 'you're mean,' but I suspect you are trying to say 'I don't like wearing clean underwear."
I'm curious what this looks like in the field. Waiting for the mommajb response.
I did dredge up from some depths of memory in my email to DD's teacher to put everything in "I" statements. She did seem to hear my comments (as evidenced by the comments on DD's homework), so there might be something to it all.
Off to a defense.
How do you talk to your kids about using 'I' statements? Do you spell it out... "When you are angry tell me what you are thinking by starting your statements with 'I'"? Or do you model it, or rephrase their statements instead? "I hear you say 'you're mean,' but I suspect you are trying to say 'I don't like wearing clean underwear."
When I remember to do it.....
it looks like
Erin: "grrr. (clenched fists and teeth barred)."
Me: "I can tell you are really unhappy because I asked you to put on pants before reading this morning"
but I hadn't thought to have the heart to heart, new rule -- no more you are so mean. I think it's time for a family conversation in a "sunny window" time because I adore that concept. What I really love about it all is that it means "I" am responsible for what happens to me and "I" am not a victim. Talk about esteem building. Once again before the wise mamas here. Mommajb you rock.
Ex: DS: "I hate driving DD1 to climbing, you always make me drive there..!!"
Dh: "Dont tell me what you dont like/dont want, tell me what you do like/want. How you say things is important. When you say what you want/like, you are half-way to a solution"
Ds: "I like and want to stay at home or at after-care while you drive DD ..."
DS is a big complainer, frequently blaming others for his miserable life , so we do this with him regularly, and it is amazing how it takes the piss and vinegar out of what he is saying and turns it into a problem to solve. When he sees that (that he can solve it) he clms down, or is less hostile.
This kind of talk happens in tandem with talking about feeling vs. name calling. You are not allowed to call anyone a name, you must tell them how their actions make you feel (but if this leads to complaining, then we go to the step above )
It's true, words matter!
Brilliant approach Sparkle. I'll be using it today. Likely during today's review of homework.
Real - beautiful photo of you both!!
Mommajb, Sparkle - Brilliant!! Gives me a lot to think about! I will definitely be starting to implement these ideas!
RR: So, I did get to the gym! Yeah, me! I did shoulders/arms strength, and then ran for 30 minutes on the treadmill. 2.5 miles. I was actually going at a slightly faster pace than I have been when running outside, so that was good. I would love to gain back some speed (like bringing me down to an 11:00 minute pace, rather than the over 13:00 pace I currently run outside!).
Not perfect, Just amazing!
I'm going to implement these with my almost 3 year old. She's so verbal, but so quick to yell and by that point I can't understand what she is saying to me. I feel like I've lost all my patience with her, so this will help me reign us both back in.
I love you ladies. :)
Jen - Mama to V (b. 2-18-09) and AJ (b. 10-9-11) Wife to DH
I need to implement these strategies with ALL my kids. Thank you Mommajen and wise mamas!
DrJ I got the dress today in the mail...it's gorgeous. It might be too long on me, have to try it on. Thank you so much! What a incredibly lovely color.
So...I made a bunch of homemade stuff today (after gasping in horror at some of the ingredients on boxes of stuff at Costco): granola, chewy granola bars, chocolate pudding. Dh who really pretty much has something negative to say about EVERYTHING I cook, said the chocolate pudding was too...chocolatey. Like, um...really? How is such a thing even possible?! My kids were in heaven and frankly, so am I. I ate his.
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I'm taking out a single duplex outlet and putting in a dual duplex. The outlet daisy chains the 12 gauge wire to another outlet that feeds the TV and computer (no other way around this, at least they are downstream, if that matters.) I've been using an Oyaide SWO-XXX outlet, just daisy chaining the wire through, but want to "do things right", in an audio sense, and join the incoming ac wire and outgoing (to final outlet) wire with two pigtails (to run to each of the duplex outlets I'm putting in), rather than passing ac through one outlet to the other (jumper), and then out to final outlet (in other words, star wiring.) Just doing a pass-through (ac into Oyaide, then jumper out to another Oyaide or cryo Hubbell, then out to final AC outlet wire) would be easiest, but audio police say this is a no-no. So for a secure connection, I can either have four wires in one large wire nut (cleaned, then maybe with Mapleshade silclear added), or solder them together (may not be code, right?) Wondering if there is some sort of good clamping mechanism that can tightly hold four 12 gauge AC wires together, better than wire nuts (and easier than soldering.)
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Jamie Sims became a charity shop manager because he wanted a job where he could make a difference. He said: "I wanted to feel at the end of the day when I went home that I had done something worthwhile. My job is to raise as much money as I can every day for Oxfam. It's as simple as that. If I can go home at night and say I raised £1,500 and that's enough to buy 2,500 health checks. I can say I have done something good today"
Last year his 2,000 square foot store in Keswick in the Lake district generated £362,000 for Oxfam. Sims, who moved to the charity after a career in the army and retail senior management, manages a volunteer team of around 60. He accepts managing volunteers who are giving up their time for free is a "totally different science" from managing paid staff. He says: "I run a business based on people's generosity of their time and I am aware of that everyday. You don't have the same leverage that you have with paid staff – I can't say 'this is part of your job and contract'. In my job you have to be a good people person and very diplomatic – you have to maintain a high level of friendliness with volunteers all the time, no matter what kind of mood you are in."
Motivating and engaging volunteers is a crucial skill for a charity shop manager, according to Anne Webb, head of people and communications for the trading division of Oxfam. Often managers will have to support up to 60 volunteers and organise a weekly rota of four hour shifts which can change at the last minute. She says: "It's a continuous piece of work. Shop managers have to recruit, retain and develop their volunteer team." Managers are recruited from a variety of backgrounds. Some come from a traditional high street retail chains like Next or Marks and Spencer, others are former shop volunteers, HR professionals or accountants. "We also have some people who are coming up to retirement who think running a charity shop is easy and slow. But it's nothing like that at all – it's a very demanding job." It is an advantage if a manager has some core retail skills such as understanding the market and how to access it. "If you understand how visual merchandising can entice people into a shop is helpful as is the ability to plan and organise. It's useful if you understand your market," according to Webb. Being entrepreneurial also
has advantages, says Sims. His idea to install a donated piano in his shop and invite local pianists to play while people shopped has generated more than £1,000 in donations. "We would have got about £200 if we'd sold the piano in the shop. I think it helps if you have an entrepreneurial flair. If you watch Dragons Den once in a while and take some interest in The Apprentice it gives you ideas."
Oxfam has a clear career path for the managers of its 700 UK shops who start on a minimum salary of between £15,840 to £19,489 depending on store turnover. There are currently 100 applications for every vacancy – double the rate of recent years. Staff turnover has slowed slightly to around 15%. The charity has created a two year manager development programme for those with ambition to become area managers responsible for between 20 to 25 shops. More than 50% of its regional managers come up through this Aspire programme. The next step on the career ladder would be operational manager looking after up to 200 shops.
Professional development for charity shop managers and the creation of a defined career path is one of the issues currently being looked at by the membership organisation the Charity Retail Association. Its chief executive Warren Alexander says: "Oxfam's [Aspire] programme is unusual but I wouldn't expect it to be the only programme of its kind for much longer. There are lots of conversations going on at the moment about how charities can build a career structure across the whole [charity retail] sector. The sector today requires high level managers and they want people whom they have grown themselves and can retain."
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This recipe is made in two stages. The squash and the assembly.
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KITTANNING — Residents of the 60th Legislative District are invited to a town hall meeting from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Kittanning Township Fire House, 13126 Route 422, Kittanning. The event is being hosted by Rep. Jeff Pyle, R-Ford City.
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Rhino plasty
Rhinoplasty or nose surgery is beneficial for individuals who have facial disproportion caused by the nose. If the nose is too large, small, crooked or wide, the aesthetics of the entire face may be thrown off. By reshaping bone and cartilage, Dr. Ortegon can help to achieve symmetry among your facial features. Rhinoplasty may even even help improve breathing for those with structural irregularities.
Who's a Good Candidate For Rhinoplasty?
Those who are plagued by self-image problems related to the nose may want to consider this procedure. Though there is no one standard ideal nose, anyone can have better nasal proportion.
What Can Rhinoplasty Help Treat?
Rhinoplasty can address the lack of proportion in the following areas of the nose, to achieve better overall facial balance:
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If you are considering rhinoplasty in San Antonio, you should have reasonable expectations about the outcome. During a consultation with Dr. Ortegon, you can discuss any concerns you have about your nose and determine if rhinoplasty can help.
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The nose surgery can last between one and three hours, and is typically performed under local anesthesia with intravenous sedation.
Your rhinoplasty may be performed as an open surgery in which the incision is made across the columella, the area under the nasal tip and between the nostrils, or as a closed procedure in which all incisions are made inside the nose. Once Dr. Ortegon has gained access to the region of the nose that will be treated, they will begin to reshape the bone and cartilage.
Depending on what is needed to bring the nose into balance, the bone and cartilage may be reduced, augmented, or refined. In some cases the nose will need to be fractured. Cartilage may be grafted from other areas of your body, the ear for example, or the septum.
To finish the procedure, absorbable sutures are placed within the nose. Nasal packing is used to control bleeding and a special splint may also be put in place to support the nose during recovery.
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Most patients are able to return to their normal routine in one to two weeks following nose surgery. Don't be alarmed if the swelling in your nose does not diminish quickly, as it takes some time to subside.
It may also take some time for you to adjust to your new appearance, especially if you are an older patient. With patience and a bit of caution against activities with potential for nose impact, most patients are able to appreciate their new nose within three to six months.
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ROCK HILL, S.C. - Six South Carolina National Guard units are deploying to Kosovo this weekend.
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Ajaswagandhadi Lehyam is also called as ashwagandhadi Lehyam or Aswagandhadi Lehyam. It is a herbal jam. In the market there are many variants of this lehyams are available. Few of them are veg and few are having non vegetarian ingredients.
How to know whether the Aswagandhadi lehyam is veg or non veg?
If the name of the product is 'Ajaswagandhadi lehyam' then definitely it contains non vegetarian ingredient. In Sanskrit, Aja means goat.
Even if it is labelled as Aswagandhadi lehyam, look for ingredient list. If any term such as Aja, Chaga, Mamsa, Ajamamsa, Chagamamsa etc is there, then it contains non vegetarian ingredient.
There is also a vegetarian version of Ashwagandhadi lehyam.
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Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) – A powerful immuno-modulator and aphrodisiac.
Mucuna pruriens (Atmagupta) – A powerful aphrodisiac and also useful in neurological conditions.
Syzigium aromaticum (clove, lavanga), Mesua ferrea (Nagakesara), Orchis latifolia (Salaimisri), Elettaria cardamomum (ela, small cardamom) , Cinnamomum zeylanicum (Cinnamon, twak) – useful in improving digestive and respiratory health.
Glycyrrhiza glabra (yashtimadhu) – licorice aphrodisiac, Myristica fragrans (Jati), aphrodisiac, Ajamamsam. (Mutton).
Dose – Dose depends on age, digestive capacity, etc. Usually one table spoon in the morning, after food is advised.
Side effects – A few complain about slight increase in sleep and indigestion.
Use of Ajashwagandhadi lehyam – fights fatigue, powerful aphrodisiac, improves muscle strength, suitable to be taken as Ayurvedic body building supplement. useful to relieve tiredness, quickens the recovery from tiredness after gym and exercise, restores and keeps optimum energy levels throughout the day.
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Thanks, Super G. I wish I could send a photo, but I don't have my own website.
I'm not sure if my dog had the same but when she was a year or so, she did get something similar to what you are describing. I believe I caught the ulcerations before they were infected to the point where pus was present...but nonetheless they seemed inflamed and infected to a degree.
I choose to clean the clean the wounds with a towel and warm soapy water to get the skin rid of any caked residue and then applied bacitracin to the affected areas. I'm sure any topical antibiotic similar to bacitracin would have sufficed. I paid attention to the areas numerous times throughout the day and cleaned/reapplied as needed. If my memory serves, I believe on one of these wounds I trimmed her fur in order to keep any discharge from scabbing over with her fur entangled in it...plus it was easier to keep clean.
The ulcerations were located on her hips in the area where, when laying down would be in contact with the ground...and being subjected to more of her weight...a pressure point of sorts. I also decided to put large towels and blankets in the areas where she chose to lie down on hard surfaces hoping this would cushion the pressure point point and allowing more blood flow to these vulnerable areas. Interesting that both are dogs dealt with this at a year in age??
The wounds healed and she has not had to deal with this since....
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Lercanidipine is a prescription drug available from your pharmacy store only with the prescription of a qualified medical practitioner.
Lercanidipine is an anti hypertensive drug belong to calcium channel blocker.
Lercanidipine is used in the treatment of hypertension.
Do not use lercanidipine in you are suffering from liver or kidney disease and within one month of heart attack.
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Pregnant woman: Lercanidipine belongs to FDA pregnancy category C. This means that lercanidipine may harm an unborn baby if used during pregnancy but potential benefit may warrant use of the drug in pregnant woman despite potential risks. Always inform your doctor if you are pregnant or are planning for conception.
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I got the truck running again with a new distibutor but it seems I have two problems. The truck still runs rough I have had the timing all over the place and it only produces better or worse but still bad running. Comp cams told me to time it between 10 and 15 degrees advanced. I have had it everywhere from 0 to 20 and it might run better or worse but never good. Also in the last day or two I have developed a wierd sound that sounds like sombody hitting the valve cover or exhaust pipe with a wood hammer or something it is a very odd sound that goes away after about 30 seconds of startup and whenever the engine is warm it doesen't make the sound at all,even on start up,only when its first started and cool. Also if I remove the oil filler cap with the engine running I have small puffs of what appears to be exaust gas puffing out. I have not had the valve covers off yet,it has been rainy here and I don't have a garage to get into right now. does anyone have any Idea what this could be? Any help is greatly appreciated I am in the middle of about ten disasters rigt now and this truck trouble is the last thing I need!lol Thanks in advance ......Jesse
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You want muscular arms. You're not alone, and a lot of effort has been dedicated to helping you and others set a course to achieving your goals. Like all other things fitness related, it requires dedication, perseverance, and discipline — you're not going to sprout massive biceps and triceps overnight. And it's definitely not going to be easy.
But if you've been living with flabby arms, or are simply sick of being shoulder-checked in the elevator, there are a number of steps you can take to add some girth, put on some muscle, and get in shape.
First and foremost, you'll want to fix your eating and sleeping habits. You're not going to build any muscle at all without a bedrock foundation of healthy habits. So, start eating the correct foods — those chock-full of muscle-building nutrients — and getting to bed on time. Next? You'll want to plan a workout regimen.
Truth be told, it only takes a few relatively simple lifts — and as mentioned, a bit of perseverance — to achieve arms just like those of your favorite celebrities and fitness buffs. While you should be aiming for full-body workouts over the course of a week, if you want to really target your arms and transform them from being wispy and weak, these are the lifts and exercises that will help you get there.


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Offshore Paper Usage — Mixed Emotions on the Rise
Welcome to this special (fictional) edition of the game show "Jeopardy," where the contestants are printers, paper manufacturers, paper merchants and industry experts.
The category is "Global Competition and World Markets." The question: "Is offshore paper usage affecting domestic demand?"
But wait. This is a special bonus round. There's an economic crisis in Asia. The high hopes of European paper suppliers to sell their grades in Asian markets have backfired. Tons of paper, including coated free sheet, are headed for American shores.
So contestants, get ready. Here's your chance to score big with a special bonus-round question: "What are we to do with all this paper?"
"We'll take it!" says one printing contestant, grinning from ear to ear.
BUZZZZ. Game ends. Please stay tuned tomorrow to find out what happens…as the world paper market turns.
But buyer beware! Don't burn your bridges with domestic mills and merchants. What happens if tomorrow's paper supply is low and demand is high? Allocation policies could take hold, and severing ties with existing suppliers could prove costly.
And such is the nature of the game.
As brothers in business, paper suppliers and buyers are intricately interdependent. Both need each other to survive. Both are also trying to make a profit in their respective businesses. And those profits generally come from the other's pocket.
However, rules of the supply-and-demand game are apt to change when an economic situation arises, like the one taking place in Asia. No wonder our "Jeopardy" contestants have such mixed opinions.
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Industry experts argue about the effects of the crisis. Some argue there's no crisis at all.
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Smart? I'll say it did. For one thing, I lived in Notting Hill, the epicentre of hipness and urban grit. Granted, the house had a garden with a herbaceous border and there was a parade of shops next door. Oh, and foxes raided the wheely bins. And my neighbours drove a Range Rover. But this was Britpackland; even the local supermarket was owned by Tom Conran, dammit.
He was right, though, Gavin - it is possible to live in Notting Hill and be suburban, for the good reason that Notting Hill is a suburb. The idea may cause consternation in W11, but it is true. So are Primrose Hill and Knightsbridge. So is Clerkenwell, even the loft apartments in St John's Street. As the contributors to a new book, London Suburbs, point out, London has been suburbanising itself since the time of Chaucer. By the 17th century, the city was already famous for it: the Spanish ambassador, describing London to the Queen of Spain in 1657, predicted that "there would be no City left shortly, for it will all have run out the gates to the suburbs."
Suburbs may conjure up images of Ruislip and Pinner but the first of them were Hoxton and Aldgate, just outside the walls of the City of London. Suburbia is a place, adjacent to a city, from which people commute to that city. The early burghers of Hoxton may have commuted on horseback, those of Pinner by the Metropolitan Line - but both were creatures of the suburbs.
The trouble with suburbs is that they have a way of becoming urban, requiring the building of yet more of them in pursuit of the great British dream: what PG Wodehouse's Psmith - a reluctant inhabitant of East Dulwich - referred to as "the parcelling out of the countryside as gardens". Psmith had things the wrong way round, of course. Suburbs are not formed by an incursion of the countryside into the city but by its opposite. Roughly speaking, country folk move to inner cities and city dwellers - country folk themselves a generation or two before - move to the suburbs. You can't have suburbs without urbs; to use the Latin, no rus in urbe without the urbe. The process is endlessly self-defeating, like a dog chasing its tail.
John Nash built Park Village East - the prettiest of all suburbs - in the 1820s; 75 years later, half of it was torn down to make way for railway tracks needed to feed the newer, bigger suburbs beyond Regent's Park. In 1954, the Elaine of John Betjeman's poem, Middlesex, walked to the outskirts of Ruislip in search of the "few surviving hedges/[which] Keep alive our lost Elysium - rural Middlesex again". Ten years later, Middlesex was abolished, its last hedges rooted up to provide semis for a million more Elaines.
Given this melancholy trend, it is curious how quickly London's suburbs became things of comedy. You can count suburban tragedies on the fingers of one hand: Brief Encounter was set in a notional suburb, though Trevor Howard was escaping from it as fast as British Rail could carry him. By contrast, Chaucer kicked off the suburban sitcom as a genre around 1380 with his description of the aspirational Guildsmen and their wives, all fur coats, brass daggers and keepinge up with ye Joneses. Six hundred years later, they were to find their apogee in that Queen Regnant of Suburbia, The Good Life's Margot Leadbetter.
The amusing thing about Margot, as with all suburban comic figures since Chaucer, were her pretensions. One hero of London's suburbs, a Regency architect called Richard Elsam, designed a stately home for Vauxhall Road that was actually a nest of jejune clerks' semis disguised as a Palladian mansion. Margot would have loved it. Tending her Surbiton garden, she wore an Hermes headscarf and green Hunter wellies; asked to pour brandy on a cut, she dithered between Hine VSOP and Remy Martin. Like suburbia itself, Margot was neither fish, flesh, fowl nor good red herring: an urban matron dressed as a countrywoman, a middle-middle-class housewife with pretensions to the gentry. The Good Life, needless to say, had a cult following in Surbiton.
For one of the stranger things about London's suburbs is that they exist both everywhere and nowhere. No one in their right minds would describe Notting Hill as suburbia, yet it is; only a madman would deny that Surbiton was suburban, yet people who live there do, hotly. As a rule of thumb, a suburb is definable as somewhere where other people live. Musing on the universal truth of this, I ring friends who live in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Their house has the word "Suburb" in its postal address; they drive a Volvo estate; they paint their half of the drainpipe which divides their semi- from its Siamese twin, but not the other half. Do they live in suburbia? The question is met with offended silence, then peeved denial. Hampstead Garden Suburb used to be a suburb, they say, but it isn't any more. So where does suburbia begin? Where it always does, comes the answer - a couple of miles away, past Alexandra Park, over the hill, somewhere else.
And that, really, is what makes suburbs so funny. They are the demographic equivalent of masturbation and farting - they are a fact of life, but nobody wants to own up to it. Why? Looked at objectively, there is nothing particularly shameful in JM Richards' analysis of suburban values in his 1947 classic, The Castles on the Ground: "Ewbank'd inside and Atco'd out, the English suburban residence and the garden which is an integral part of it stand trim and lovingly cared for in the mild sunshine it is each individual Englishman's idea of his home, except for the cosmopolitan rich, a minority of freaks and intellectuals and the very poor".
It all sounds rather charming, in fact. Yet the curtain-twitching, Sunday- car-washing ridiculousness of life in the suburbs transmits itself to generation after generation of new suburban dwellers, even to new Britons - witness Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia or the deeply suburban Bhangara Muffins in the television comedy Goodness Gracious Me.
What makes the whole thing more perverse is that suburbs aren't really like that anyway. Cynthia Payne plied her trade from a semi-detached whorehouse in Streatham, complete with net curtains and a privet hedge. (Not inaptly, Madame Sin's clientele was composed of middle-aged men who liked to be spanked, and where better than in a house that looked as though it had been built for the Ovalteenies?) The suspects in the Stephen Lawrence case live in a neat quadrant of Lewisham semis. Yet still we mock, although, if London Suburbs is to be believed, maybe at our peril. HG Wells' prediction that Londoners of the year 2000 would have "the whole of England and Wales south of Nottingham and east of Exeter as [their] suburb" is coming true, even if he got his dates wrong. Watch Margot Leadbetter, and weep
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Miranda Sawyer, writer "I'd always dismissed the first 18 to 20 years of my life as boring, essentially because I was from suburbia. Then I thought, that's ridiculous - you can't dismiss your childhood; and a third of the country lives in suburbs. So I went back and had a look for my book. I started off with the cliches - I went to a couple of wife-swapping parties. It was like being at a wedding, and everyone got a bit fruity towards the end. Suburbia is the idea that you take the best bits of the city - with free parking and no Big Issue sellers - and mix it with the country. It's a good idea if you are under 12 or over 35.
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Gillian Wearing, artist "Me and my friend in the Birmingham suburbs went from being skinheads to being punks. We started off at 15 and then went through every fashion till we went to London. You could see the old people were getting uptight, but this was the Seventies. It was nice to see that you could stand out. We could be fashionable, because we didn't have anything else going for us. I've definitely always wanted to live closer to the city. But when I came back from New York for the first time, I thought London looked like a suburb."
JG Ballard, writer "I think suburbia is enormously undervalued. I consider it to be really the centre of life in England - in the Western world - the most creative zone and the only urban area with its eye fixed firmly on the future. All the most important innovative trends that have emerged since the Second World War, such as car ownership, television, the leisure society, wife-swapping and alienation, first flourished in suburbia. It's no coincidence that the Rolling Stones and the Beatles both emerged from the suburbs.I consider the city to be an outdated structure."
Gina Bellman, actress "I grew up in wide open spaces in New Zealand, barefoot and climbing trees. When I was 11, we moved into semi-detached hell in Edgware, north London. It was a double-whammy for me - not only was I coming to my teen years, but I'd given up all that land. We were the last stop on the Northern Line, and there was always that feeling of being at the end of somewhere. There was one bus that I used to catch into town as a child, and I remember the physical feeling of relief when I had crossed the Finchley Road. Even now, when I go to visit my parents, I have the same response, after 20 years of crossing that border."
Greg Williams, writer "If you grow up in suburbia there are a couple of ways you can react. Firstly, you can conform and live a not unpleasant life in which you end up marrying the girl you sat next to at school. Alternatively, you can react against that narrowness of experience. My overwhelming memory of suburban London is of an aching sense of existing at the margins of what's exciting about the world. The only way of living there is to be able to cope with the fact that someone, somewhere else, is always having more fun than you. Make that everyone, everywhere else."
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Phil Redmond, creator of `Brookside' "One of my greatest memories was living on that legendary last street before the countryside, on a post- war council estate in Huyton, just outside Liverpool. One day we would go left into the city, and the next day right, out into the country. Teenage high jinks, around the shopping precincts, was classed as vandalism, but in the cornfields, they were called high spirits. But as soon as you get to the age where you start thinking about getting married and settling down, you want to get back to suburbia. It's part of the natural process. If you grew up in a terraced house, you want to move to a semi-detached with a garden, and so on. Urbanisation is for 16-24 year-olds."
Michael Bracewell, writer "The narrator of my new novel, whenever he thinks of the suburbs, thinks of seeing an aerial view of mortality. You are seeing the whole of human life spread out like a grid at its most undisguised. I have always felt that if you want to find the really extraordinary characters, you will find them in suburbia. Quentin Crisp was born in Sutton in 1908 and the idea of him travelling up to London in the Twenties, wearing make-up, is incredibly parallel to my own experience in the late Seventies. The half-dozen punks in Sutton would congregate on Sutton station, and I was gobbing with the best of them. It seemed we had all turned into Quentin Crisps."
`England Is Mine' is published by Flamingo
Claire Rayner, writer and counsellor "Suburbia wasn't my original choice for a place to live. My husband always said, if there was a flat under the the statue of Eros, I'd live in it. He wanted to live in the countryside. So Harrow was a compromise. It's a neighbourhood - we go shopping on Saturday mornings, and it's part of the pattern of our lives. Suburbia is geographical - it's not a state of mind. You make it what you want. What I make of it is my garden, the different smell when you get out of the train, the fact that I can sometimes see the sky and the stench of a fox first thing in the morning."
Piers Gough, architect "I now live in the East End of London, in what the Victorians used to call the suburbs. To be honest, I would find it really hard to enjoy an evening knowing I have got to get on a train and go home. Being able to hop on a bus and go places seems to be much more the thing. But when I go and visit people in the suburbs, and the birds are tweeting and the gardens are looking gorgeous, a certain amount of remorse comes over me."
Laurence Marks, writer (with Maurice Gran) of `Birds of a Feather' "I used to live in Southgate, in north London and the truth is I have always lived in suburbia. I left it in my head in about 1968, when I started going out with somebody who introduced me to her family - they opened up a window to a world that was just so urban. Birds of a Feather was the epitome of suburbia. We wrote it from a room in my house and - as most people left the suburbs every day - what we were left with, by and large, was small-minded, middle-class, middle-brow, unadventurous people. When I came back to live in London, I wanted to be able to walk to the cinema, the theatre, art galleries. So I moved to Mayfair." Interviews by Rachelle Thackray
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see yall in a few days. leaving in the morning for NC for the gen gun opener and will be catching the tail end of the rut. Hope to come back with a nice buck and a good story for yall.
Good luck brother! I'm heading out this Saturday hoping to take care of a couple does. Supposed to be a major cold front moving in, temps in the single digits. Hoping to see some action. Good luck to you
Hellbilly Good Luck & Be Safe
Good Luck and hopefully you'll come back with some pic's to share. :thumbup:
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Got back this afternoon. story may be a 2 part cuz I need to start from the beginning. OK here goes. 3 years ago I found out one of my good friends has been wanting to hunt,but never said anything. I took him to NC with me for a 3 day hunt. Well it took him 2 days to connect on his first deer a very nice fat doe. I had only one day for myself. Turns out a bad storm moved in so nothing was moving and I went home with nothing,but did help him get his first.Last season did the same thing except I connected on a buck first.Last day I sent him down to hunt alone while I cut up fire wood for my step dad. We heard him shoot twice figured he had a deer. He never came up until dark. asked him how big it was and he said he missed both shots and didn't have any more ammo. He thought because last time it was easy at less than 20yds that he didn't need more than 2,but this time it was 50yds with open sites and he didn't put his glasses on. Now this year. First day was mainly to see what was coming in and made a plan for the next 2 days. On Friday a spike came in and he took it. at 40yds with a scope now and glasses. He had a bit of buck fever and was shaking and gut shot it. He couldn't track the blood for crap,so I tracked it down and by the time we got it out of a bottom and cleaned, quartered and in cooler there was no time for a eve hunt. Last day for me again. Figured Id pop a nice doe early and have the rest of the day to hang out with step dad. Well Im sure most of yall know about the storm that has been moving thru if not in it. Well it hit us then and I was in the blind from dawn to dusk very cold and never seen the first deer. Glad he got his first buck. Also did the same with another friend before I took larry and also came home empty due to helping matt get a deer and having a ice storm kill my last day to get one for myself. Question, Larry has not made any attempts to hunt even given several chances,but justs waits for this trip. Should I cut him loose? or tell him its time to poop or get off the pot cuz Im not gonna carry him again and cut myself? He can hunt with me in Fla. and go with me to another of my friends to a lease in Ga. but don't. what should I do?
tough one HB, in our camp everyone holds their own weight or isn't invited back.
sounds like you've done well for your friend but at this point I think it's time for him to go solo.
I agree time to cut him loose
I would agree. I have friends who swear they want to hunt but i dont hear from them until opening day. I have kids to take hunting. This year im down with a hurt leg and cant pull a deer alone guess what no ones calling to help take me hunting. I am always willing to teach a fella how to hunt but it aint rocket science they have to walk on their feet sooner or later.
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A reunion of people who attended Barton County Country School District 71, south of Great Bend, is planned for 7 p.m. on Saturday June 20, at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 21st and Jackson in Great Bend. Contact Arleen Whittaker at 620-793-8544 if you can or can not attend as soon as possible.
The Pawnee Heights Class of 1990 invites all alumni of Rozel-Burdett-Pawnee Heights High School to the annual alumni banquet to be held Saturday, May 23, at the Pawnee Heights High School Gym in Rozel. Registration will begin at 6 p.m. and the covered dish dinner is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. Table service and drinks will be provided.
The Walt Vincent Iwo lima Reunion and Dinner will be held on May 2, at the Arden H. McKee American Legion Post #128, 108 East Garfield in Sterling. The door will open at 4 p.m. for conversation, refreshments, and viewing of war/military memorabilia. All veterans are invited and encouraged to bring personal memorabilia. Colors will be presented at 6 p.m. followed by dinner. The meal will cost $12 per person, at the door. Menu will be tossed salad, choice of baked smothered steak or fried chicken, potato, green beans, bread, and dessert, coffee, or tea. Food substitution ...
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I didn't waste much time this year getting into the holiday spirit. Luckily for me, I not only feel the nostalgia that naturally comes with celebrating Christmas, but I also I get to experience all the traditions of the Hanukkah holiday. I grew up in a small rural town in Virginia where everyone I knew celebrated Christmas. I can honestly say that during my childhood years, I never walked into a home during the month of December where a Christmas Tree wasn't standing over a pile of presents and a Nativity Scene didn't grace an evergreen adorned mantle. I knew no different. Don't get me wrong, of course I had heard of Hanukkah and knew the basics of the holiday but I had never actually witnessed the traditions for myself.
Thanks to Eric, my Jewish hubby, my December decorations have expanded to include silver Menorahs, Stars of David, and blue lights. I look forward to cracking into gold-wrapped chocolate Hanukkah Gelt, spinning the dreidel and crossing my fingers that it lands on gimel so I can "take them all (pennies) ," and reciting the Hanukkah blessings as the Menorah candles are lit: "Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melech…as you can see…I'm still working on this one…"
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Since leaving the U.S. national team program in 2006, Milbrett has played in Sweden and more recently for the W-League's Vancouver Whitecaps.
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Fiesta Bowl is a famous college football game that is played in the United States every year usually held at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. It is now sponsored by Frito-Lay and anmed with their Tostitos brand.
In this year's Fiesta Bowl, looks like Oklahoma State got the chance to be included and make it on the national-championship conversation when they won over Stanford with a score of 41-38 last Monday night. Looks like all the Cowboys need right now is a little help that they will get from Alabama.
Even though they missed a field goal at the far end of the regulation, the Oklahoma State still got a big kick after its own overtime and this made the No. 3 Oklahoma State to open the door of having another opportunity to make it into the national championship. Their win over No. 4 Stanford is just a matter of a split chance but they still made it.
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The lovely Whitney Port in her element as she smiled for the cameras backstage before the Whitney Eve show in Sydney, Australia this afternoon (August 25).
The 27-year-old designer looked gorgeous, as always, in a nude silk blouse, multi-colored shorts, while accessorizing with a wrap cardigan as she awaited the start of the runway show during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival.
Making some silly faces, Whitney Port made her way out of a nail salon in Brentwood, California after getting a manicure and pedicure on Thursday (August 16).
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With her first season as a judge on "Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model" having just gotten underway last month, Whitney Port garnered herself a little mid-season exposure by covering the September 2012 issue of Company magazine.
Showing off her gorgeous golden hair, Whitney Port headed over to the Chateau Marmont for the Vans Women's Classics Stylist Dinner in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday (July 25).
Holding a dollar bill in one hand and her massive clutch in the other, the former "Hills" star gave cameras a huge smile as she made her way out of the popular celebrity hangout donning a leg-bearing button up dress and a black and white leather jacket which she polished off with a pair of strappy back heels.
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Kicking off the weekend in an enviable way, Whitney Port was all about a little fun in the sun while vacationing in Miami, Florida on Friday (June 22).
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race day, course inspection, foul weather, tuned tered. I didn't know we would have to move to
skis, podiums, teamwork, and the single-minded another part of the country in order to be near a
pursuit of excellence. It's what we do. ski academy and close to an international airport.
It is memories both simple and profound that have I learned.
stuck. Perhaps my favorite memory is of Seppi at Perhaps the greatest life's lessons I learned from
his first ski race in Kelly Canyon, Idaho. He was ski racing is that fate is unpredictable and what
probably 8 and he wanted to compete like his big you do with what you are given is still the ultimate
sister. Seppi is a perfectionist and self-aware since test of mettle. Courage, determination, bravery,
birth and he didn't want to race in a snowsuit. He spirit, nerve, pluck, guts, grit. Those are all syn-wanted a race suit. Small race suits were hard onyms for mettle, and I know it when I see it. This
to come by 15 years ago, and they were prohibi- month, my kids are both back in the groove train-tively expensive if you could find one. So I went ing for another ski season. As crazy as it sounds,
to a ski swap and bought a beat-up men's race I can't wait to be there for them.
suit. It was black with hot pink sidewalls. I tailored Carrie Stiegler
the suit down to a kid's size six, which meant that Presque Isle, Wisc.
most of the child-size suit fit on the black fabric,
except for the right arm which flowed over onto Thanks, Bode
the pink fabric. When the miniature version was What Bode didn't tell you was how even before
finished, the suit was all black with a flaming pink his awesome showing at the 2010 Olympics how
right arm. Six-year-old boys still think their moth- he made a commitment to ski with disabled veter-ers are wonderful no matter what we do. Seppi ans at the 2010 National Disabled Veterans Win-wore it with pride. I liked it because I could identify ter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Colorado in March
my own child from the gaggle. The pink arm func- 2010. He was selfless and dedicated to our nationed like a bullfighter's cape in Pamplona. I al- tion's heroes. So much so that he and other Olym-ways knew when Seppi was charging the course. pians and Paralympians stood for three hours that
Those were the days — so simple, so fun. evening signing autographs for our injured men
However, while the fun continued, the simple and women of the United States Military. He and
part became seriously complex. I never stopped Casey Puckett skied two sessions with our men
to consider that the kids would soon be traveling and women, even tethering and guiding the vet-around the world competing year-round in for- erans. Neither wanted any recognition and pretty
eign countries and requiring boatloads of money. much left the press behind to be with our veter-I didn't comprehend that ski racers miss more ans... little known among ski world but greatly ap-school than they attend — or that the entire dis- preciated by our injured men and women!
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