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RAILING the candidates through the key primary states as a political correspondent many years ago, I decided that, California aside, I liked Wisconsin best. I respected its political creativity, especially under the La Follettes, who prefigured the New Deal. I grew fond of its rich, bucolic landscapes — the red barns, the black-and-white cows and the fields of lime-green grass interrupted by bands of chocolate-brown earth.
I also learned to admire Wisconsin's people. They are a well-educated lot, modest, public spirited, committed to preserving the environment and intensely proud of their ethnic heritage. The gravestones in the Catholic churchyard at Independence, near Eau Claire, could be in Warsaw: Woychik, Kowalski, Klimek and Jaszewski.
The Danish-Americans of Racine still eat the buttery kringles turned out by local bakeries, which put the "Danish" pastry New Yorkers eat to shame. The Swiss and the Dutch make superb cheeses (and Green Bay Packers fans wear blocks of foam rubber cheese on their heads). The Germans wolf down sausages of a hundred different varieties.
What Midwestern heart could resist? Certainly not mine, and over the years my wife, Betsey, a devout Southerner, has come to share my enthusiasm. So when a hole opened in our schedule, we decided to take a breather and drive across Wisconsin from Minneapolis to Milwaukee. On the Interstate, the run takes eight hours, but we opted for byways, wandering unhurriedly for four days in search of pleasures recalled and anticipated.
As we drove along the Wisconsin shore of the young but already broad Mississippi River southeast of Minneapolis, admiring the willows in their gauzy early-spring foliage, it started to snow. Big, wet flakes. In April. Steam rose from the marshes, and the shivering ducks acted as if they had been cruelly misled by the weatherman.
That's the way life goes in the Upper Midwest. When we stopped for dinner at the Harbor View Cafe in Pepin, the bartender, Durk Stark, made us a pair of mean martinis and told us it had been 91 degrees earlier in the week. "What can you do?" he said. Later we discovered that his wife was the town's Lutheran pastor, which must make for a nice balance in their household.
The restaurant is an unanticipated boon in the back of beyond, with a terrific wine list (five Ridge zinfandels, for example, and several Calera pinot noirs). The vegetable cooking is of a very high order (we had delectably lemony kale), and the blackboard menu offers pheasant raised just up the road, plus dishes you don't often see at your corner bistro, like Norwegian meatballs, made of pork and veal, in a sour-cream sauce flavored with cardamom.
Dairy farms occupy the rolling hills above the riverside bluffs. Along back roads identified by letters rather than numbers (E, Q, HH) stand notably well-kept frame houses, silvery silos — the cathedrals of the countryside — and churches that look too big for their surroundings. It is so perfect it might be a model train set, but it doesn't snow on model trains.
"It sure does turn the jets down," Betsey murmured happily.
Each village has its cafe, often identified by a Leinenkugel's beer sign, but none quite matches the Norske Nook in Osseo, a cheerful village east of Pepin. Like all the others, it provides serviceable food and drink and a venue for the exchange of gossip. But only Norske Nook has three dozen kinds of pie baked from scratch every day. We devoured the juicy, densely filled blueberry, and impotently admired a neighbor's nine-inch-high chocolate mousse. Big enough to feed a moose.
Heading south, we crossed rivers named the Chippewa, the Kickapoo, the Buffalo and the Pigeon. Sparta, we learned, has a Butterfest every June. Signs bid us "Velkommen til Westby," another Norwegian settlement, farther on. In superlush Vernon County, we spotted several Amish farmers doing their spring plowing behind fine teams of horses. And we flew through Gotham (unincorporated), which has a population of 608, none named Bruce Wayne.
Finally we came to leafy Spring Green and Taliesin, the extraordinary house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for himself on his family's ancestral farm — a hilltop-hugging thing of horizontal beauty, built of stucco and local limestone that glow at twilight with all the honeyed intensity of 18th-century houses in the Cotswolds. It feels as if it sprang from the soil eons ago.
Open to the public only since 1993, it is built around a hearth made of limestone slabs. A cantilevered walkway, designed for bird-watching, runs off to one side. Craig Jacobsen, a staff member who showed us around, noted a telling detail: In another room overlooking the tranquil valley below, where a lesser man might have put a picture window, Wright installed a series of tall, narrow panes that divide the view like the panels of a Japanese screen.
South and east of Taliesin lie easygoing Dodgeville, home of Lands' End, the big catalog merchant, as well as the state's oldest continuously used courthouse, a perfectly preserved Greek Revival structure dating from 1859; Pendarvis, a restored community of log-and-stone cottages built by immigrant miners in the 1830's and named after a village in their native Cornwall; and Mount Horeb, home of a cheeky mustard museum whose official sweatshirts, mugs and fight song celebrate "Poupon U."
This area, southwestern Wisconsin, is more importantly the heartland of Wisconsin cheesemaking.
In the little city of Monroe, we popped into Roth Käse to watch a white-clad crew making 18-pound wheels of Grand Cru Gruyčre, the only American cheese permitted by Swiss law to use that name, and I tasted the only American Limburger, the granddaddy of all stinky cheeses, made by Myron Olson at the Chalet Cheese Co-op. I tasted it — Limburger on rye (whew!), with onion and sweet mustard — served on a piece of paper, at the bar behind Baumgartner's cheese shop, a Monroe fixture since 1931.
Our trip was focused on the country, not the city, so we stayed in beautiful lake-girded Madison only long enough to have dinner at L'Étoile, the outstanding restaurant of Odessa Piper, the Midwest's Alice Waters. She served us regional, seasonal things like puffs made with Wisconsin's own prize-winning Pleasant Ridge Reserve cheese, shoulder of local lamb with sorrel, and rhubarb crisp.
The next morning, I strolled around the first farmers' market of the year. Even so early in the season, the stands deployed around the state capitol gave evidence of the excellence of Wisconsin produce — sheep's milk ricotta from Whitehall, preserves and pickles from a half-dozen farm wives, and cool-weather vegetables (parsnips, winter spinach and ramps, or wild leeks) from Harmony Valley Farm, a top-notch organic operation near Viroqua.
"By high summer and early fall, you will see a real cornucopia there," Ms. Piper said.
From Madison, we headed north across prairies where grasses once stood eight feet tall and 400 kinds of wildflowers once flourished. Our first destination was sleepy Baraboo, formerly the home of the five Ringling Brothers and now the home of the Circus World Museum. It stages summer performances under its own Big Top and displays fine collections of costumes, grandly gilded wagons (used every July in a parade in Milwaukee) and more than 8,000 posters old and new — sheets of "richly colored, shamelessly boastful paper" to snare the suckers.
Not far away, near the aptly named river town of Portage, is the site of one of the more significant obscure events in American history, commemorated today only by a small red-marble marker in the parking lot of a Dairy Queen on Route 51.
There, in 1673, Europeans for the first time discovered an inland link between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. Aided by Indian guides, Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet paddled up the Fox River from Green Bay, an arm of the Great Lakes, which are of course linked to the Atlantic by the St. Lawrence River. Then they carried (portaged) their birch-bark canoes 1.28 miles across marshy prairie before launching them into the Wisconsin River. Two days later they reached Prairie du Chien and entered the Mississippi.
A half hour farther east we came upon dramatic evidence of an even earlier era in Wisconsin's history — eskers (serpentine ridges), kames (conical hills) and kettles (surface depressions) formed during the Ice Age. The excellent Henry S. Reuss Ice Age Visitor Center, near Dundee, vividly explains the awesome force of the great American glaciers.
Horicon Marsh, part of the Ice Age Reserve, is a bird lover's paradise. The largest freshwater cattail marsh in the country, it provides a stopover for enormous flocks of migrating Canada geese every spring and fall. One year, by dumb luck, Betsey and I arrived just in time to witness the unforgettable spectacle of thousands of big honkers arriving in a single day. They came in wave after wave of V-formations, like the bombers in "Twelve O'Clock High."
We saw just a few geese this time, but plenty of other birds, including teals, coots, mallards, canvasbacks, blue herons, a wild turkey and, bobbing comically along at the edge of a woods, a long-billed woodcock.
That night we treated ourselves to the sophisticated urban pleasure of dinner at Sanford in Milwaukee, another esteemed Wisconsin restaurant. Sanford D'Amato has the rare gift of cooking brilliantly and authentically in many styles. Betsey's Chinese lacquered duck tasted very Chinese, my Indian spiced lamb tasted very Indian; both tasted utterly delicious.
A short cab ride the next night took us into another world, a restaurant on the south side of town called the Three Brothers, which occupies a Schlitz tavern, vintage 1897. There a handsome, indomitable 79-year-old Serbian-American named Branko Radicevic presides in a blue beret. He has worn it since 1943, when, as a young Yugoslav resistance fighter, he rescued a beret-wearing British airman who had bailed out when his plane was hit on the way back from a raid on the Ploesti oil fields. The burek — a spinach- and cheese-filled pie made of countless sheets of buttery phyllo pastry — is incomparable.
Between meals, we admired the first American building designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, a remarkable addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum. After crossing a pedestrian bridge suspended from a single angled pylon, the visitor enters a vast, elliptical hall of white marble, a truly noble space whose sunscreen opens like the wings of a giant bird. A modern masterpiece, I thought; how fitting for the home state of Frank Lloyd Wright!
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Where to Stay
The Hilton Madison Monona Terrace, 9 East Wilson Street, Madison, Wis.; (608) 255-5100, fax (608) 251-4550; Web site www.hiltonmadison.com. A new hotel with stunning views over Lake Monona from half its 240 rooms. Summer rates: $135 to $209.
The 65-room Hotel Metro, 411 East Mason Street, Milwaukee; (414) 272-1937 or (877) 638-7620, fax (414) 223-1158; www.hotelmetro.com. Small, centrally located, crisply decorated in Art Deco style, and superior to the (not very good) larger hotels in the city. Summer rates from $189.
The 236-room American Club, 444 Highland Drive, Kohler, Wis.; (800) 344-2838, fax (920) 457-0299; www.americanclub.com. Oak-paneled faux-Tudor, with every facility, including good restaurants, this is one of the finest resorts in the Midwest. Summer rates: $235 to $410.
Spring Valley Inn, Highways 14 and C, Spring Green, Wis.; (608) 588-7828, fax (608) 588-2821; www.springvalleyinn.com. Wright disciples at Taliesin, just a few miles away, designed this welcoming motel-style inn with 35 rooms. Summer rates: $80 to $95.
Where to Eat
Harbor View Cafe, First and Main Streets, Pepin, Wis.; (715) 442-3893. The Mississippi flows past the windows. Great bread and good bistro dishes draw customers from Minneapolis. No credit cards and eccentric hours (call first). Closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
Norske Nook, 207 West Seventh Street, Osseo, Wis.; (715) 597-3069. Noted across the state for its delectable pies and chirpy waitresses in Norwegian dress. Open daily.
Baumgartner's, 1023 16th Avenue, Monroe, Wis.; (608) 325-6157. An old tavern behind a cheese shop serving local cheeses on chewy rye bread, with Huber's superlative Bock beer (since 1845), brewed just around the corner. Open daily.
L'Étoile, 25 North Pinckney Street, Madison, Wis.; (608) 251-0500. Odessa Piper's food, based on prime local products, mostly organic, could hold its own anywhere; the wine list is no less exciting. Closed Sunday.
Sanford, 1547 North Jackson Street, Milwaukee; (414) 276-9608. Sandy D'Amato has turned his family's old grocery store into a sophisticated, pale-hued dining room with an international menu and superb service.
Three Brothers, 2414 South St. Clair Street, Milwaukee; (414) 481-7530. No airs whatever in this old corner tap with Formica-topped tables that features succulent roast goose and lamb in addition to burek, the spectacular, multilayered Serbian pie. Closed Monday; dinner only.
O & H Danish Bakery, 1841 Douglas Avenue, Racine, Wis.; (800) 227-6665. Great Danish pastry.
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wis.; (608) 588-7900; www.taliesin.org. Guided tours every day from May 1 through October. House tour, $45 except Tuesday and Thursday when admission is $35 ($30 for seniors and students over 12). Other tours available.
Roth Käse, 657 Second Street, Monroe, Wis.; (608) 328-3355; www.rothkase.com. Cheesemaking can be watched most mornings except Sunday.
Mount Horeb Mustard Museum, 100 West Main Street, Mount Horeb, Wis.; (800) 438-6878; www.mustardweb.com. Open daily except major holidays. Free.
Circus World Museum, 550 Water Street, Baraboo, Wis.; (608) 356-8341; Web site www.circusworldmuseum.com. Open daily. Live shows run mid-May to Labor Day; admission is $14.95; $7.95 for ages 5 to 11 (show included). Sept 3 to Nov. 2, admission is $8 and $4; Nov. 3 to May 10, $5 and $2.50.
Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 North Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee; (414) 224-3200; www.mam.org. Closed Monday. Admission is $6.


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The province offers a high quality of life. Here, you can balance your work, family and other responsibilities. Nova Scotia also has the technology and communication services, schools and other opportunities that you would expect to find in your new home.
Immigrants to Nova Scotia can get many free services to help them settle and feel at home.
If you are coming to Nova Scotia and plan to work in a regulated occupation, you should contact the provincial regulatory body responsible for that job. Experts can help you throughout the process.
Nova Scotia welcomes you to a safe and secure environment with freedom and opportunities for a great future.
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- Contact Nova Scotia Start if you are getting ready to move to Nova Scotia, or have just arrived here. This should be the first place you go to get help with finding a good job and settling in the province. You can get services in English and French.
Other free services to help you:
- Visit the Nova Scotia Immigration website to learn about settling, working and living in Nova Scotia.
- Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia is a community organization that welcomes immigrants.
- The YMCA Centre for Immigrant Programs help immigrants settle into their new homes and learn about their new language, culture, climate and community.
- Halifax Public Libraries have one-on-one and small group volunteer programs where adults can improve their English communication skills with help from community volunteers.
- The Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) has an English for Academic Purposes program to prepare students for college or university.
- The Valley Community Learning Association offers English classes in some communities in the Annapolis Valley.
- Nova Scotia Interpreting Services offers interpretation services to hospitals, government departments and other organizations. It trains and assesses interpreters to provide services in person and over the phone.
- Working in Nova Scotia has information about foreign qualification recognition and regulated occupations.
Resources for Francophone immigrants
- Le Conseil de développement économique de la Nouvelle-Écosse (CDÉNÉ) (in French only) offers many services for French-speaking immigrants.
- L'Université Sainte-Anne offers programs in business administration, education, humanities, pure sciences, and many other professional programs.
- The Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse (FANE) (in French only) provides settlement and integration services to French-speaking immigrants in Nova Scotia.
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Yesterday at naptime, I went through the sensory protocol with her just like her therapist did the day before. She was more cooperative than usual and even though she didn't fall asleep, she didn't throw a fit when I put her in bed so I considered it a success. For a few minutes anyway. Then I heard her crying and yelling, "MOMMY!!" over and over again so finally I went in to see what was going on. Here's what I found:
Instead of going to sleep like she was supposed to, she climbed out of her bed to fetch a little pink bolster pillow full of tiny styrofoam beads that was sitting on the foot of our bed. If you look closely, you can see that the tubing from her feeding pump is stretched as far as it can go since it's still connected to her stomach. Evidently, the cheap-o little pillow had a weak seam in between the tags and it sprung a leak. To a curious toddler, a little hole that your fingers can get into MUST become a large enough hole that your whole hand can fit in, so Raya took care of that. Then all the tiny styrofoam beads came spewing out of the pillow and all over everything around her. Thanks to static electricity, we will be finding tiny styrofoam beads for years to come. While I stood there trying to decide where to begin the vacuuming in order to minimize the spread of the styrofoam spill, I of course took several pictures. She looked like she had just broken out of a snowglobe. :)
She kept getting them in her mouth (which is why she's sticking her tongue out in the picture above) and that was a good reminder of how much progress she's made. If she'd gotten those tiny things in her mouth a year or 18 months ago, she would have gagged and thrown up. :)
|This is her best attempt at a sad face. She was trying really hard to cry and mean it. :)
|This is what the inside of the vacuum looked like after the cleanup.
This was one tricky mess to clean up! It seemed like the more I tried to clean it, the more it spread. After a solid 30 minutes of vacuuming, shaking things out, brushing them off of both of us, vacuuming more, etc., I gave up and declared the mess clean enough. We will be finding them stuck to everything for years to come but quite honestly, I would clean up that mess ANY DAY as opposed to some of the other messes that girl has made. This one didn't involve any smelly substances pouring out of her stomach or intestine or any other orifices. :)


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With the weather cooperating yet again Tuesday night kickball was packed with games as we try and make up for the delays.
The night started off well for New Kicks On The Block in their match with Kickin' Ain't Easy. New Kicks started the game by scoring in their first two innings and backed that up with outstanding defense. However, Kickin' Ain't Easy showed that they could play some defense of their own as they blanked them over the next three innings. With the game winding down, Kickin' Ain't Easy was able to score some runs of their own to make it a 3-2 game. Sadly for them that would be as close as they would come and they fell 5-2.
TQL made their first appearances of the season and capped off the night with a down to the wire match against Got The Runs. It was a low scoring game throughout with TQL managing a narrow lead the whole way. However, in the sixth inning Got The Runs would make their move scoring two runs to tie the game. With their final at bats of the game, TQL could either be happy with a tie or overjoyed with a win. They would leave the fields overjoyed as Got The Runs threw the ball at someone who had just made it to third base. The resulting ricochet allowed them to score the winning run, a 3-2 victory.


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Why Garden Organically
By: John Ross, Rivenrock Rocks, http://www.rivenrock.com
There are many people who garden organically for many different reasons. Chief among these are the various philosophical reasons such as a desire to live in harmony with the Earth. Living within one's means so to speak, and attaining a balance in the garden.
I garden organically because of these reasons, and also because to me it seems easier ultimately. I grew up learning both organic and conventional methods, and have gradually switched over to wholly organic because when the soil is properly prepared and fed, it will in turn feed the plants in a way that will reduce insect and disease problems, and reduce weeding and watering chores. Every hour I spend mulching and composting probably saves me a couple hours of weeding and other work.
A properly compost amended soil will have good air and water penetration as well as good water retention. The high air flow within the soil will reduce rot and disease problems. But the high water retention will result in reduced watering chores as well as ensuring a steady supply of water to the plant when it needs more moisture.
How does compost perform this seemingly 'too good to be true' task? It all is due to the unique properties of compost, that is it's high surface area. In short, water clings to the surface of soil particles such as clay and sand.
Clay particles are very thin wafer-like particles that stack like cards on a table. This is why clay soils are so hard to get wet, the water likes to roll off the surface, and has a hard time overcoming the soil chemical and physical resistance and sink into the soil. But once it becomes wet, it's high surface area causes it to be resistant to drying, in addition it's tight packing features cause the airflow between the particles to be nearly non-existent resulting in reduced drying by airflow. There is one benefit to the high water holding capacity of clay though, it means that the nutrients in the soil which are water soluble are not going to be taken away by water easily and transported beyond the reach of the roots.
A sand soil is very difficult to keep wet due to the fact that sand particles tend to be of a rounded or jagged shape, and they do not fit tightly together, this results in a smaller surface area that does not hold much moisture, also the loose soil texture causes massive amounts of air to flow between the particles, this airflow can wick much moisture from the soil particles. Sandy soils have the additional ability to loose moisture through them during periods of high irrigation and rainfall. This moisture going quickly through the soil and into the groundwater can take with it many of the soluble nutrients that were in the soil either naturally or by being added.
So there you have the major types of soil, sandy and clayey. Most soils are some extreme of one or the other, or a mixture to one degree or another of both. Now the big question is, how does compost make such a large change in either type of soil? Well, imagine a tiny piece of compost, residue of some type of animal or plant that has rotted to a great degree, this high carbon state of being results in a very porous material, it may have many many holes all through it, this feature gives it a very very high ration ot surface area to which water will cling, this means that compost can hold many times it's own weight in water. Picture if you will, a sponge as the compost, oh yes, you can pour much water into a semi moist sponge, it's open and cellulose structure makes it capable of absorbing much water.
Think if you will of the flat platelets of clay particles, laying flat on a table top. When water is poured over them it runs off the surface. Now if you took the sponge, tore it into many smaller pieces and lifted the clay particles and put pieces of the sponges between them you will have a surface physically lifted up and made more 'fluffy' and able to readily accept water. This lifting action will result in greater airflow and quicker water acceptance. Using this method the compost will ensure less water runoff and wastage, quicker water acceptance and greater airflow and reduced rot. The good benefits of clay are retained though, the soils will not tend to run water through it too fast to be absorbed, and digging compost in a shovel depth or two will not cause the water to run beyond the root area overly quickly taking vital nutrients.
The sandy soil is likewise helped by compost. Picture sandy soil as marbles in a bag, when water is poured into the bag it will quickly run through the marbles. The compost if pictured as a torn up sponge placed between marbles makes it easy to see how it would trap much water. The high surface area of the compost dug into the sand will trap much more of the soil moisture than would be trapped by the sand alone. Also the overly high airflow rates of the sandy soil is reduced by the compost wedging itself between the sandy particles. Water is retained by the compost along with many of the water soluble nutrients.
Now compost can do all these things and more, it can help to reduce weeding chores due to the fact that it loosens soil so well. When you pull on a small weed it will come out easier because the soil is loosened by the compost.
When you walk on the soil it will be a little less likely to pack down tightly because of the springy action of the sponge like compost.
The compost will cause a reduction in the amount of soil erosion. Clay soils will accept more moisture and reduce erosive run off. Sandy soils will be held a bit tighter together and cause a reduction in wind erosion.
So with all these benefits it is easy to see why an hour of composting saves several hours of other types of work


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Welcome to the world of Joue, where design is 'play' and the focus is toward work/life balance and the pursuit of happiness.
Beautiful Things in Small Batches
Joue Design is a lifestyle brand and boutique design house offering small-batch home accessories for discerning customers. Co-founders Alison Kent and Cindy Yu have taken an integrated approach to design, blending art, textiles and their unique style to create high-quality, limited edition products that are handcrafted with love, designed and made in Canada.
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We're recognizing a growing shift in consumer buying patterns - away from mass-market offerings that are found in many design shops across the globe. Consumers are intelligent, have excellent taste and are demanding specialty, high-quality goods created in very small quantities to preserve the artistry that has become lost in the drive toward mainstream accessibility in design. To put it another way, good design doesn't have to be mass-produced.
Joue is here to think differently. Design is not about fitting into the latest trends. It's for us to stand out and lead, taking interpretations from low-end (combing through thrift shops) to merging with high-end (fresh off the runways of Paris Fashion Week).
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Starting with our inaugural collections of luxury throw pillows, Joue's products are meticulously designed and manufactured by local artisans using only the best fabrics and materials. Joue is proud to partner with these gifted tradespeople throughout the production process, preserving the artistry that is often lost in mainstream design.
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Joue Design home accessories are handcrafted with love, designed and made in Vancouver, Canada. Look for the following trademarks in every Joue product:
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Alison has been living and breathing design for over 25 years. Originally studying fashion design, she quickly found herself drawn to architecture and interior design. Completing a major in architecture at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Alison also studied at Emily Carr University of Art & Design and the Royal Architecture Syllabus for Architecture.
In 2003, Alison started her own boutique design firm, Studio West Designs; today, she has added the roles of director of special projects at Azurean Architecture and editor of Twigs + Twills blog focusing on all things design, to her repertoire. When not working, this busy gal enjoys life in Vancouver where she lives with her hubby and four kids.
Cindy has been involved in communications design for public and private companies in Vancouver for nearly 20 years. She earned a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia and has studied communications design at Emily Carr University of Art & Design and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Cindy currently heads up mergers and acquisitions communication for a global software company while living up to her reputation as a serial entrepreneur. In addition to her role at Joue Design, Cindy is the owner of Handsome & The Duck, an online vintage decor company, and the founder of The Vancouverite, a lifestyle blog focused on fashion, cuisine, travel and shopping. She lives in Vancouver with her boyfriend and two kids.


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Rolling Meadows Quilt
This quilt came as a kit. I saw it on Craftsy and loved it immediately. I'd never bought a kit for a quilt; I enjoy choosing colours and materials. This one, however, I couldn't stop thinking about. A few months later, it came up on their sale page, so I got it. I still love… Continue reading Rolling Meadows Quilt


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the green cowgirl (green juice)
*Purchase only organic veggies when possible and be sure to wash thoroughly before use.
2 cucumbers (peel first if not organic)
3-4 stalks of celery
4-5 stalks of kale
4-5 leaves of romaine lettuce
Small handful of cilantro
Small handful of parsley
1 lemon or lime (remove rind but leave as much of the white pith as possible. Did you know the pith contains bioflavonoids, which also have cancer-fighting properties? Yeehaw!)
1" (or smaller) piece of ginger root
Makes 2-3 servings. If you are new to green juicing you may want to add a low glycemic fruit such as a pear or apple to make the taste more drinkable at first. It's best to drink fresh juice as soon as possible, but if you're saving some for later, be sure to store in airtight container (such as a Ball canning jar) in refrigerator. Drink within 24 hours.


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I often write to say what I need to hear, a grasping after slippery truths. Thankfully, I'm rarely the only one saying them. I have been strengthened by many writers and songwriters, and I'm grateful to call some of them my friends. Some of my friends are neither, and yet often have the words I need.
Andrew Peterson is my favorite songwriter. He would probably say that Rich Mullins should be my favorite, but I can't help what rings the bells inside of me. I didn't pick him from a list of options - I just realized one day what he was. Andrew's songs have voiced struggles I felt were peculiarly mine, and truths that I longed for in quiet desperation. Time and again, they have caused a sudden catch and release deep inside my chest, as if my soul had been holding its breath without my knowing it.
After writing (and needing to read) my recent essay about having a healthy perspective on our shortcomings (Bloodied Heroes), I can't resist sharing this new Peterson song, "Be Kind To Yourself," on the same topic.
Andrew said, "I wrote this for my daughter, and the day I sang it for her I realized it was for me, too."
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MacLean's Passion
A Highland Pride Novel
Sharon Cullen
This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device, and with iTunes on your computer. Books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device.
USA Today bestselling author Sharon Cullen's Highland Pride series continues as Scotland's most reckless smuggler meets his match in a beautiful spitfire who arouses a renewed sense of duty, camaraderie, and passion.
Colin MacLean has always felt like a black sheep—especially after his brothers are slain before his eyes in the Battle of Culloden. A smuggler by trade, Colin makes for an embarrassing chieftain. He can't even save his friends from their British pursuers without getting himself captured. But before he is martyred by the hangman's noose, Colin escapes with his cellmate, a brave lad he's come to admire. It's only in the depths of the Highlands that Colin discovers the lad is a lass—and a bonnie one at that.
Raised by her older brothers, Maggie Sinclair can drink a pint in no time flat and wield a dagger with the best of 'em. Still, men have always excluded her and women have always shunned her. Colin makes her feel different. His wild spirit and rugged good looks have Maggie reconsidering her less than ladylike ways. For the first time, she's tempted to put on a gown, just to see how Colin would react. She can only imagine what might happen next: a kiss . . . a touch . . . and perhaps enough sultry heat to melt a cold Highland night.
Praise for the novels of Sharon Cullen
"This Regency romance has it all—danger, blackmail, passion, love, and characters that draw you in and leave you wanting more."—Fresh Fiction, on Sebastian's Lady Spy
"Heart-wrenching and full of real emotion, proving that love is always the answer, His Saving Grace is the best book I've read this year!"—USA Today bestselling author Bronwen Evans
"A sizzling, smart relationship that evolves beautifully to capture readers' hearts as well as their imaginations."—RT Book Reviews, on Pleasing the Pirate
"Loving the Earl is charming and fast-paced. It's filled with passion, intrigue, a resourceful heroine you'll love, and a delicious hero you'll fall in love with."—New York Times bestselling author Jacquie D'Alessandro
"The Notorious Lady Anne has everything I look for in a romance. Cullen's debut is a sexy, fun, and thrilling read."—Bestselling author Shana Galen
Includes a special message from the editor, as well as an excerpt from another Loveswept title.
Customer Reviews
Another spectacular Highland Romance!
This is the second book I've read by this author and I am even more determined now to read every one she's written…before and after this one. Her stories are that good! I've read stories before about the battle at Culloden in Scotland, but never before have I understood so much about what led up to it or the aftermath. The English were determined to not only rule Scotland and its people, but to take over every dwelling and piece of land in that gorgeous country and do it in the cruelest ways possible. No wonder so many fought and died at Culloden…they were fighting for everything they held dear and that gave meaning to their lives. The chance meeting between Colin and Maggie while imprisoned by the English, their escape, their fight to reclaim Colin's inheritance and their romance made for a breathtaking story. A complimentary copy of this book was received from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.
Great adventure, hard to put down
Maggie is an impulsive young woman. She fought at Culloden, survived prison, and fell in love on her way to freedom. Colin had enjoyed his freedom before Culloden took his brothers and left him to be his clan's leader. He did not expect to find Maggie in his heart as he fled prison toward an uncertain future. They shared danger, humor, and love as they traveled together. I thoroughly enjoyed their journey and highly recommend this book.
I received this story through Netgalley for an honest review.
Passionate Highlanders
This is such a passionate book! Not just the hotness which is right up there at the top but because of the characters passion for Scotland and their commitment to country and family. Maggie & Colin are this incredibly special couple that also seem the least likely to become a couple but fit with such utter perfection that you can't picture either of them with anyone else. Their devotion to their families, their need to do right by everyone shows a true depth of character that you don't find in a lot of Highlander romances. There is action, intrigue and love throughout this book. We are also set to be ready for the next in the series and I can't wait!
- $3.99
- Category: Historical
- Published: Jun 28, 2016
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Seller: Penguin Random House LLC
- Print Length: 295 Pages
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This lovely little zippered case will keep all of your little things safe and sound. Made from recycled leather, you can keep anything from makeup and bobbypins, to pencils and pens, to jewelry that more often than not, ends up on your floor. Keep everything together in this cutie pie pouch that comes in so many fun colours!
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A third teenager has been charged with the murder of a man believed to have been stabbed to death as he walked home.
Idris Hassan Daud, 19, of Wembley, north London, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court tomorrow in connection with the murder of David Headlam, 18.
T-shai Ennis, 18, of Slough, and another 17-year-old boy, of Wembley, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are also charged with his murder.
The pair appeared at Westminster Magistrate's Court yesterday and were remanded in custody ahead of a hearing at the Old Bailey on Tuesday.
Police were called to Drayton Road, Harlesden, north west London, in the early hours of Sunday and found Mr Headlan with stab wounds.
He died shortly afterwards in a central London hospital.
Police believe Mr Headlam was returning to his home in Harlesden from a friend's house when he was chased by two men wearing hoodies before he was stabbed.
A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as haemorrhaging due to stab wounds to the thigh.
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Students: it's possible that Mrs. Sparhawk took grades on the D.O.L. (grammar assignment) today. Please ask her if she did. If so, it's now possible to download a D.O.L. makeup sheet right here on Clipboards. Just click on the "Assignments" button at the top and download one of the D.O.L. makeup assignments. (Or you can just get one from the makeup work center at school.)
Parents: our next vocabulary test will be given on Friday, March 23, 2012. That is also the last day of the quarter, so if a student knows that he/she will be absent on March 23, please have him/her plan to take the test in advance. Also, because the last day of 3rd quarter is so near, this Friday, March 16, 2012 will be the last day to turn in make-up work or extra credit for 3rd hour. Students will be given a progress report today or tomorrow (last updated on Thursday last week) to show them if any work is missing. Mrs. Spwahawk will staple this into their agendas, so parents can see it too.
Students: we also copied this week's assignments into our agendas today, so parents can plan ahead with us. If you were absent today, please take a moment and copy your assignments from the agenda board. Thanks!
Do you remember the word cluster graphic organizer that we used last week? (It's in the Tuesday box if you need one, or you can click on the link I've provided there.) We used our dictionaries to define our "Word Cluster" terms today. We will be tested over these words on Friday, March 23, 2012, so even if you were absent today, you'll still need to copy down definitions for those terms. Set an appointment to come in at lunch or after school to use a dictionary with your "Word Cluster" graphic organizer please. Students may use dictionary.com to define their words; just make sure the definition you choose works for the word in its context.


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Cheese Fondue (Tyler Florence)
Recipe by Scoutie
I know that Fondue orginated from the Swiss, but this recipe was listed under Scandanavian at the other site when I used "scandanavian" as a search word. Either way, it sounds delish! I think I will add one more clove of garlic since we are such garlic fiends. From Food Network, Tyler Florence. Posted for ZWT 2010.
Top Review by alligirl
Scoutie, DH and I thought your version of fondue was great! :-) I reduced it by half, for 2 of us, and there was a bit leftover. I used both the swiss and gruyere, for creamy, string-y goodness! Loved the hint of kirsch and mustard; I've never used dry mustard in a fondue before, so that was different! Served with crusty french bread and granny smith and fuji apples, I'll put this one in my keeper file! Thanks for sharing, Scoutie. Made for ZWT.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 226.79 g imported swiss cheese, shredded
- 226.79 g gruyere cheese, shredded
- 29.58 ml cornstarch
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
- 236.59 ml dry white wine
- 14.79 ml lemon juice
- 14.79 ml cherry brandy, such as kirsch
- 2.46 ml dry mustard
- 0.25 ml nutmeg
- assorted dippers
Directions See How It's Made
- In a small bowl, coat the cheeses with cornstarch and set aside.
- Rub the inside of the ceramic fondue pot with the garlic, then discard.
- Over medium heat, add the wine and lemon juice and bring to a gentle simmer.
- Gradually stir the cheese into the simmering liquid. Melting the cheese gradually encourages a smooth fondue. Once smooth, stir in cherry brandy, mustard and nutmeg.
- Arrange an assortment of bite-sized dipping foods around fondue pot.
- Serve with chunks of French and pumpernickel breads.
- Some other suggestions are Granny Smith apples and blanched vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and asparagus.
- Spear with fondue forks or wooden skewers, dip, swirl and enjoy!


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A few years has passed in the world of Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha since the time of "Sex and the City" the movie. When MTV caught up with the actresses behind the fabulous foursome at ShoWest in Las Vegas, they gave some insight as to what the ladies have been up to leading up to "Sex and the City 2."
"This time around, Carrie has been married for a couple of years. She is about to publish her fourth book. She is content," Sarah Jessica Parker teased. "She and her husband, John, have found a nice and modest apartment, and they are living their lives, and she is seeing her friends as much as time allows."
If that seems a big vague, don't worry, SJP said it was intentional. "I'm trying to set very low standards," she joked.
As for Charlotte, SJP said she is still married to Harry and is "still comfortable with the name Goldenblatt."
Kristin Davis added a little bit more information to that domesticated image. "I have two children now. [Lily] is two years older than last time. [Charlotte's] been baking," she said.
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Inventors succeed continuously, but some more inventors fail, many with excellent ideas which can be successful. So having the mistakes inventors commonly make will help you avoid those mistakes, and help you turn your idea towards a big winner.
1. Inadequate distribution plan
Distribution is how you will get your products while watching folks who might purchase it. You can utilize distributors to retailers, or use telemarketers to promote to direct to retailers, or maybe even maybe you have own sales team that sells to catalogs. In most cases you must sell with a many types of distribution outlets to obtain your product started. Distribution channels tend to be the difficult part with marketing a program just because a) they have got many hundreds products they will buy and b) they just do not always realize why a product's benefits are unique and important. Waiting until late availability to set up distribution is an important mistake, and the most inventors don't even consider building a distribution plan till they may be equipped to sell a service.
2. No assistance from industry insiders
What trade exhibitions must you attend? Which are the key names of buyers? Which stores are most exposed to an innovative item from an inventor? What companies could an inventor partner with to sell the product? Almost all these questions generally is a mystery into an inventor, they also might not be mysterious with an industry insider. They will certainly recognize the information without delay. They will likely also know typical pricing, distribution channel discounts, packaging and insurance requirements. Inventors can certainly make many costly mistakes once they don't find a person with extensive industry experience to enable them to.
3. Money too quickly
Things never go smoothly by having an invention: there are plenty of starts, then restarts, many efforts that will not be worth it, and they sometimes unexpected product changes must be present. These adjustments all be expensive. Inventors need be careful to save their particular because they really want to buy. Unfortunately inventors are sometimes enamored with their product and tend to be sure it is going to succeed. Therefore they do not watch their spending as they are confident that success meets your needs going to start. When changes are important, many times inventors have exhaust your money.
4. Targeting too large the market
You ought to build a specific quantity of market momentum to become successful. Since inventors typically have limited resources, many of them possess a tough time penetrating a huge market. By way of example, a business once you get your kitchen product probably will do best by targeting kitchen stores, smaller stores which will not care about the company size. If ever the inventors follow Wal-Mart, or the malls, they may need lot's more resources to offer their product, and they also have to go through many hoops to convince the fundamental retailers they already have the capability to supply them.
5. Vague product benefits
Something new typically merely has 2 to 3 seconds to capture potential buyers' interest to make sure they plan to learn more information. That could be all. You must make a clear and interesting statement, in only 5 to 7 words, otherwise your benefit will be vague. Inventor's big obstacle we have found not the end-users rather the folks in distribution, retailers, manufacturers reps, distributors, that happen to be much tougher and have got to think your product will sell instantly. Your service can have trouble out there, however great it can be, without this clear statement.
6. Short-changed sales effort
Inventors work quite challenging getting patents and prototypes and perfecting their product. But often they wait until this product ready before doing even think about sell the product or service. Which is very late. You should start making sales contacts immediately, meeting sales reps together with other inventors who have already succeeded available, even meeting regional managers of massive retailers. You would like to make these contacts early, and once you may have product, you may get immediate sales. Neighborhood retailer do this, you certainly will start without sales momentum plus the market might lose faith in your product even before you start.
7. Failure to plan to your transitional period
Most inventors beging with economic crisis sales period, where inventors prove their product will sell, typically through a few of the key contacts the inventor made while developing your handmade jewelry, chances are they enjoy a period where linked with emotions . industry to folks that are not for their initial support group. This can be a quite difficult some time and sales don't just happen. Inventors ought to create a specific plan - targeting key accounts and trade exhibitions making a concerted effort to land sales challenging difficult period.
8. Poor parcels
Companies spend months developing packaging, conveying their products' benefits quickly, and honing the packaging copy that can help consumers buy. Inventors often consider packaging for being an afterthought, as a substitute for with the knowledge that over 30% success can be frequently connected with the package itself. Should you be paying for patents, prototypes, trade events and initial runs, you ought to also select packaging and hire specialist help to no less than evaluate the packaging design and replica.
9. High manufacturing cost
Your merchandise must not will be more expensive to manufacturer than 20 to 25% of your person price. Without having a whole lot, do not money. You need to make cash month-to-month for you to get the resources you'll want to expand. The price of promoting, product returns, sales commissions, trade events likewise administrative costs like defective products insurance will take your entire profits if you don't have your manufacturing costs during the right range.
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My first fanfiction try at anything other than Danny Phantom, so be merciful if I totally screw it up, ok! And now... (wait for it) the DISCLAIMER!
Disclaimer: I don...
Hey, where'd the disclaimer go?!
Kid Flash: Sorry, I don't like the disclaimer. I think it should be something more like..
Me:Kid Flash, don't even think about it!
Kid Flash:Teen Titans belongs and has always belonged to me and...
Me:Put up the disclaimer I wrote or I swear I will cut you out of all of my fanfics!
Kid Flash: Aww, that's not fair!
Me: Life's not fair. Now GIVE ME BACK MY DISCLAIMER!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans. I will someday, but for now, I don't.
Me: There, was that so hard... Kid Flash! PUT DOWN MY CHAPTER NOW! OR I'll GET RID OF MY CARTOON CRUSH ON YOU!
Kid Flash: Ah, so you have a crush on me?
Me: *mutters under breath* Great, now he'll have an even bigger head.
I walked into the darkness, away from See-More, away from the Hive Five, away from everything I had ever known. I felt tears pop up in my catlike, pink eyes, and immediately wiped my eyes furiously. I knew my knees were shaking, but I didn't care. I knew Kid Flash was watching me, so I steeled myself, making sure I didn't show weakness.
I knew what I had done and what I was doing, but I could barely believe it. I stopped, and sat down, back against the wall behind me and knees pulled up into my chest.
I had just, more or less, quit the Hive Five. Maybe even quit evil.
All for that hero boy, Kid Flash. I had caught Kid Flash, he had escaped, and I had tried to track him down again. Madame Rouge, one of the leaders of the Brotherhood of Evil, had accused me of being weak, so I had decided to try and prove her wrong by catching him before she did. She had found him first and then, from how beat-down he looked, given him one heck of a fight.
I had had See-More track him, and lead me to Kid Flash. I had trapped him, weak and unprotected, in an electrical containment field. I had listened to his whimpers and moans until Madame Rouge showed up, and I even attempted to give him to her.
She had struck me, and tried to take the remote controlling the field. It was at that point when I finally reached the end of my patience. I broke the remote, and attacked Madame Rouge. Even she had been unable to avoid me hexes. Apparently, she had finally been impressed by that, and told me she'd keep in touch.
All for Kid Flash. He had told me a rushed, "Thanks!" before darting off, strength returned along with his super speed. See-More had tried to comfort me by offering to go steal stuff, I didn't even remember what, but I had declined and ended up where I was now.
Gripping the rose he had left for me, I sat deciding what to do. See-More, through kind of nice to me, would doubtless tell the others eventually. The world of evil was no longer appealing, and the hero world would definitely be hesitant with me. That left either seclusion (no thanks) or the life of a citizen (yawn).
"What am I going to do not" I whispered to myself, fingering the petals. That boy had turned my world upside down. He had, as cliche as it sounded, made me see the the error of my ways. He had been the first guy, hero or not, who liked me for me, not as some weapon or threat. And he had treated me like and actual.. human being. Evil now seemed... well... evil to me.
I had to figure something out. And I was not leaving this spot until I did. I heard footsteps, normal speed, and glanced up far enough to see the yellow-and-red boots of Kid Flash.
At the sight of him, I knew I couldn't keep it together anymore. I buried my head in my knees, and for the first time in so many years, I cried. Really cried. My body shook with my sobs, and I blocked out everything else until he came over.
I sensed him sit down next to me, and readied myself for some sarcastic comment that was sure to come. But it didn't. He just sat next to me, watching and listening to me cry. I felt a hand come around my shoulders, and I looker up, teary eyes causing Kid Flash to blur slightly. He looked at me with solemn, bright blue eyes, and pulled me into a hug. I froze for a second but then buried my head in his shoulder, sobbing and crying like I was seven years old again.
"Jinx, it's going to be okay. I'll help you." he said in an understanding voice. I forced myself to stop crying, and jerked out of the hug to wipe my eyes furiously. I looked him in the eyes, and demanded, "How can you help me? I'm a criminal! NO hero will ever help me!" He looked a little startled for a moment, then reached hesitantly for my face. I didn't know why, but I let him. He wiped gently at the moisture at my face, and spoke softly. "I'm a hero, and I helped you. You helped me, Jinx. So I'll help you."
He stood, and offered his hand to help me up. I stared at it for a moment, then looked at his face, at the caring blue eyes, at the soft smile on his lips. Then I put my grey, dainty hand in his red gloved, muscular one, and stood.
He smiled, and I smiled back. I was about to ask him what we were going to do now, but before I could I heard a French-accented, satiny voice that made my blood run cold and made Kid Flash's carefree face turn stony.
"Well, will you look at this. Kid Flash stayed for a bit more fighting. And you, Jinx. I did not expect your betrayal to be this thorough." I whipped around, and prepared a hex for the person who, right now, I hated more that anyone. "Madame Rouge."


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Amid City Restrictions, Weed Shops Thrive in South L.A.
Forget the so-called green mile along Pico Boulevard in Mid-City, or South Robertson's pot-shop row.
The new hot spot for marijuana dispensaries appears to be South Los Angeles.
This is according to a recent brief on the number of weed shops in the City of Los Angeles. The UCLA Medical Marijuana Research team, led by Bridget Freisthler, found that more than three times the legal number of shops were up and running in L.A. last year.
That's a total of 418, the team says. In 2013, city voters passed Proposition D, which grants immunity from prosecution to only the 135 or so shops that existed before a 2007 city moratorium went into effect.
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While no new shops are supposed to be opening in the city, UCLA found that South L.A., Leimert Park, West Adams, San Pedro, the Fairfax area, Palms on the Westside, Westchester and Boyle Heights all experienced a greater than 250 percent increase in the number of weed sellers last year.
The brief says that dispensaries have been moving "from the San Fernando Valley and East L.A. to the South L.A. and San Pedro areas."
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Freisthler says it's possible that gangs in South L.A. are facilitating dispensaries, while in San Pedro a growth in the weed-shop business could be the result of such businesses being shut out of Long Beach, she said.
At one point after Proposition D passed, there were 1,140 dispensaries registered for tax purposes in the city. Authorities pounced, and last year City Attorney Mike Feuer said that "more than 400 medical marijuana businesses have been shut down since I took office."
If UCLA's numbers are correct, Feuer is more than right on that claim. But it looks like there are hundreds still to go.
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