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For the ladies:
I found this seller on etsy who makes gorgeous…affordable, accessories, perfect for adding that touch of elegance to your wedding attire. go ther her shop: designbykara. Its hard to scour the ginormous monster that is "etsy" and find the perfect style and designer especially when it comes to wedding jewelry…because there are so many!!
designbykara does a great job making them vintage inspired, and having those awesome big baubles that us brides love without making it look cheap or fake! and I love the subtle color tints in the stones.
And what about the gents? They need to accessorize too!! These are a bit pricier than the ladies jewelry above but I had to share because I thought it was super cool…./nerdy…but cool
I know a lot of us brides used pantone colors and spreads to help us pinpoint our wedding colors and when we nailed it…we were ecstatic!! how many times have you gone to your fiance and said "which pink babe? this one, this one or this one?" I know I did. Well Pantone and Sonia Spencer linked up to make pantone cufflinks!! Thats right…I spotted them on the blog "What Junebug loves" and if I knew sooner before my wedding, I would've gotten those for my husband. At $110 a set, they would make a great grooms gift, or groomsmen gift depending on your budget.
Its a great way to tie in your colors and have the guy sport your color rather than depending on the usual vest/tie color or boutonniere color.
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To preface this review, I'm not a great golfer by any means. I'm a 14-handicap, I hit 50% of my fairways and I'm not playing in any tournaments with any hopes of winning. I love the game, I love my clubs and I don't necessarily care how long I hit the ball. I care about making solid, consistent shots that give me opportunities to score.
My last two drivers were the Nike VR Tour driver and he Nike VR_S. I've enjoyed both of these drivers, especially the VR_S. This driver just seemed to bomb and I hit more fairways with it, so I wasn't really in the market for a new driver. However, this new VR_S Covert was something I couldn't wait to try out.
This isn't your typical in-depth technical review, as it serves more as a comparison to the other drivers.
The switch to a VR_S Covert Tour seemed somewhat daunting. I mean, I'm just a regular dude who likes to golf, so why am I bagging Rory McIlroy's driver?
Let's find out, as I make some comparisons to the 2012 Nike VR_S Driver and 2013 VR_S Covert Performance driver.
Plain and simple, this is the sexiest golf club I have ever laid my eyes on. I believe the Covert Performance leaves something to be desired, but the Covert Tour reminds me of a Porsche. This thing is sleek, sexy, and built for speed.
Here were my first looks at this beautiful baby:
The volume of these driver heads is something to note. My colleague, Alan, said that the VR_S covert looks like a 3 wood. The original VR_S was a 460cc driver. The VR_S Covert Performance is 460cc. The VR_S Covert Tour is 430cc.
Take a look at the pics below for comparisons. The first pic shows the VR_S vs. the Covert Tour. The second pic shows the Covert Tour (left) vs the Covert Performance (right).
I'm not a big sound guy. I think the VR_S sounds great when you hit it pure, but admittedly, the VR_S Covert Tour even sounds better than the VR_S Covert Performance. It's a different sound and maybe that's a good thing. When you hit it pure, it's like a pop that you feel in your ears. It's like you've gone deaf for a second because you hit the ball SUPER FAR AND AWESOME.
By The Numbers
I wanted to get a fair comparison of this VR_S Covert to my original VR_S. I even threw in some results from the VR_S Covert Performance. Here was my process for comparing these drivers:
- warmup
- 5 drives VR_S
- 5 drives Covert Tour
- 5 drives Covert Perf
- 5 drives VR_S
- 5 drives Covert Tour
- 5 drives Covert Perf
These numbers speak for themselves, in my mind.
I couldn't have doctored these numbered if I tried.
That's it. This review is basically over. These drives were pure, sounded great and felt like butter, baby.
Higher clubhead speed, higher ball speed, less spin, more distance. That's about as definitive as you can get.
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We're at Midsummer and what a glorious week it's been hasn't it?
Last night we were at Houghton Hall for a concert and we picniced on the lawn, the evening was just perfect.
What a wonderful setting this would be for a Vintage Party, and what a perfect place to sip homemade elderflower cordial or champagne.
Our Midsummer flower of choice this week was the wild honeysuckle it smells devine especially in the evening.
The roses are marvellous as well right now giving us the perfect excuse to blog a favourite poem, You love the roses - so do I.
And whilst we are on the subject of flowers we've found a delightfully pretty necklace for little girls called the Annabel Necklace of course we blogged about it at Renaissance Children's Notebook.
Not much blogging going on at The Chicken Daily but rest assured that the girls are all fine and enjoying the sunny days, we'll catch up with them again soon....
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Nashville vegetarian food blogger enjoys the city's newest food service
Lesley Eats, a vegetarian blog in Nashville, Tenn., told her readers to rejoice about the news regarding Green BEAN Delivery's newest home in the Music City. After accepting a trial of the service, the blogger shared her experience in a recent post. Read her piece here to see her thoughts and photos.


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Khaosai Galaxy vs. Edgar Monserrat
By Boxing News on December 22, 2018
Galaxy was 29-1, Monserrat was 13-1, and the fight was scheduled for 15 rounds..
On December 23, 1985 at Rajadamnern Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, WBA super flyweight champion Khaosai Galaxy, from Petchaboon, Thailand, fought Edgar Monserrat, from Panama City, Panama. Galaxy was 29-1 going in. Monserrat was 13-1. The fight was scheduled for 15 rounds…
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John McCarthy, Rappahannock County's chief executive for the last 30 years, said this week that rumors of his impending retirement are premature.
"I have never said I wouldn't be here through the term of my contract," said the 53-year-old county administrator, whose current four-year contract doesn't finish until June 30, 2016.
That said, McCarthy has made it clear in introductions at recent public meetings of Debbie Keyser, the assistant county administrator hired in February, that she is an essential part of his eventual exit strategy. He said the experience brought to the position by Keyser, most recently administrator of a significantly larger county government in West Virginia, would likely speed up the process of her appointment as deputy county administrator, probably by July of this year.
"Then there will be two of us," said McCarthy, who is aware, if not painfully, that he's already the county's highest-paid employee ($155,400 annually in this year's budget) — and that the deputy administrator position is likely to carry an annual salary of about $80,000. (The assistant administrator post was budgeted at about $50,000.)
In any case, McCarthy was apparently introduced at a private dinner last week for Frank Bossio, Culpeper County's retiring administrator, as the "Rappahannock County administrator, who is also retiring this year."
He rolls his eyes.
"It was a dinner for Frank, so I didn't seem right to start off by speaking about my own stuff," McCarthy said Tuesday, "so I just didn't say anything."


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200 E. Broadway Ave.
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County: Isabella
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Percent Developed: 100%
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Appearing on Foxnews earlier today discussing the unemployment numbers, Diana Furchtgott-Roth told Shannon Bream that contrary to what the White House wants us to believe that the president can't create jobs. The president can actually reduce unemployment by just making a couple of phone calls.
For those who don't know, and I had to look it up, here is Ms. Furchtgott – Roth's Bio via the Hudson Institute
Diana Furchtgott-Roth is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, where she directs the Center for Employment Policy. Her areas of expertise include employment, taxation, education, pensions, and immigration. Prior to joining Hudson, Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor. From 2001 to 2002 she served as chief of staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush.
Ms. Furchtgott-Roth served as Deputy Executive Director of the Domestic Policy Council and Associate Director of the Office of Policy Planning in the White House under President George H.W. Bush from 1991 to 1993, and she was an economist on the staff of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1986 to 1987.
As you see Ms. Furchtgott – Roth's does know her stuff.
She tells us that the unemployment numbers we received on Friday doesn't tell us the whole story. First off the labor force participation rate also declined from 64.1% to 63.9%. Which means that many of the unemployed just gave up looking for jobs. Apparently if you want a job and have been driving yourself crazy looking for one but couldn't and you decided to just give up, you are no longer considered unemployed. She says that America currently has the lowest rate of Americans participating in the labor force since 1984. In other words the unemployment rate may well be up in the high double digits.
She says there are a number of things that can be done, at no cost at all, to turn things around. Obama can just pick up the phone and call some of his cabinet secretaries:
He can call EPA administrator Lisa Jackson and ask her to hold off on Ozone rules and clean air rules until unemployment is down to say 7%. He can call Interior Secretory Ken Salazar and ask him to allow more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico because there has been a moratorium since the BP oil spill. He can call national labor relations board acting general counsel Lafe Solomon and ask him to lay off Boeing who are trying to create jobs in South Carolina. Each cabinet secretary has a number of things that they can do that wouldn't cost a dime to accomplish.
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Words by Sean Moeller, Illustration by Johnnie Cluney, Recording engineered by Mike Gentry
Most of the time, getting through a day can feel like suffering through a day, where you're getting barked at, you're on someone else's clock and there's that crowded subway train ride home, to a meager refrigerator and a dinky apartment that never greets you at the door. You're just getting acted upon, but then there's something like the sun-kissed, casual abyss that Brooklyn-based, Ivy League-bred band Plume Giant (made up of multi-instrumentalists Nolan Green, Eliza Bagg and Oliver Hill) sings about. It sounds lovely and it sounds like it could pop into any kind of bleak day and partially rescue it from the sharp teeth of mundane existence.
It's incredible how quickly some things can feel like they're turning, like they're getting somewhere a little more palatable. The situation that arises in, "Out To Sea," a new song that the band is debuting a recorded version of in this session, seems like it deals with an unplanned happiness, or a relationship that could be headed in a good direction. It feels like two people have gone out for a dinner - nothing too fancy, nothing too meaningless - and found themselves suddenly, curiously interested. There were no expectations. It was just one of those nights that surprised the hell out of everyone and everything felt like it was changing, rapidly. They're going out dancing on a "school night," but as Nolan Green sings, "You're a working girl/That don't matter now cause summer's on our side."
There are no strings and no setups, just this random interest to see where any of this is going to lead. The people are cautious about getting too excited, but the hell if it doesn't feel right. It feels like something that might have some resiliency and it all came about on a dead-end night just as most of them begin.


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After drooling over all the healthy Thanksgiving recipes I found over the weekend, I was antsy to get in the kitchen. One dish that I didn't mention in the post was a vegan and gluten-free tofu stuffing recipe that Blossom Restaurant NYC posted on their Facebook page. Although I've never been a big stuffing person, the recipe sounded like the perfect Thanksgiving day vegetarian main dish, so I wanted to give it a shot.
I'm so glad I did, because it's unlike any traditional stuffing I've ever tasted. It's packed with an amazing blend of flavors you don't normally find in Thanksgiving fare – miso and tahini, for instance. But then it also has the fresh herbs (thyme, rosemary and parsley) which really make it wonderful for Thanksgiving. Not only is it delicious on its own, but it tastes amazing stuffed inside a roasted squash.
I'm already excited to make it again as a main course for Thanksgiving next week! <– BTW, I still can't believe Thanksgiving is next week!Print
Tofu Walnut Stuffing
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 5-6 1x
I tweaked the original recipe a bit by cutting all the ingredients in half (I didn't want too much stuffing on my hands this week since I'm making it again next week) and used coconut oil, but otherwise the ingredients and prep are exactly as Blossom NYC created it.
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 1 Tablespoon fresh minced garlic
- 1 Tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 block fresh firm of super firm tofu
- 1/4 cup white miso
- 1/8 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 1/2 oz tomato paste
- 1 Tablespoon tahini
- 1 Tbsp chopped fresh thyme
- 1/2 Tbsp chopped fresh rosemary
- 1/2 Tbsp chopped parsley or more if desired
- 1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped raw walnuts
- Use a food processor (affiliate link) to chop the herbs and the onions, separately.
- Saute onion and garlic in the coconut oil.
- Squeeze excess water out of the tofu.
- Crumble tofu into the pan and saute the mixture UNTIL DRY. Use super firm tofu (this is IMPORTANT!) and then use a potato masher to make it the consistency of bread crumbs.
- Remove mixture from the heat.
- Combine miso, vinegar, tomato paste and tahini in a bowl, stir through tofu and onion mixture, and mix well.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Add herbs and walnuts last.
- Serve with whipped sweet potatoes, fresh cranberry sauce and mushroom gravy, or in baked squash!
You can serve it up like traditional stuffing if you'd like.
As you can tell, I went the baked squash route. I simply cut an acorn squash in half, scraped out the seeds, rubbed a little coconut oil on the inside of the cavity and baked (cut side up) for an hour at 400°. Once the squash finished roasting, I filled it with warm stuffing and dug in!
When making this dish as a main entrée for Thanksgiving, you could probably fill 5-6 small/medium roasted acorn squash halves with the stuffing recipe I posted. If you have more than 5 people and you're serving this as the main, I would double the recipe.
All the vegan + gluten free guests coming to your Thanksgiving feast will LOVE you if you make this. Trust me! 🙂
Speaking of Thanksgiving, is anyone else running a Turkey Trot? I really want to do the local Turkey Trot 10K here in Richmond. I asked Isaac if he would do it with me and he said Thanksgiving is supposed to be the laziest day of the year. I guess that means no. If he doesn't do the Turkey Trot with me, maybe I can get him to do the Arthritis Foundation Jingle Bell 5K run/walk on December 1. Holiday races are so much fun and I haven't done one in a few years so I'm excited to do at least one this year!


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Tonight the little devils at the San Francisco Police Department were spotted at an Elvis Costello concert hanging out in front talking secretively in the dark at the Masonic auditorium. For those who may not know, the Masonic Auditorium is a Freemason secret society building built in 1958 where they rent out to various well known performers.
Officers are missing in action here in San Francisco nowhere to be found hiding from the public not wanting to deal with society's ills here on the over populated streets. Once in a while we see a police car but for the most part, they're hiding behind their SFPD website.
I've denoted how the police in San Francisco don't want to do real police work they'd prefer to get citizens tangled up ridiculous disputes. See Is There A Place in Hell for Yelp and the SFPD? They'd also prefer to get O/T watching over film crews and accompanying Obama and other political leaders in order to stay away from dealing with the public's social ill problems. I often see the SFPD enjoying their large gathering patio lunches on Polk Street, everything's peachy keen with their easy privileged lifestyles avoiding real work.
Putting on a show, yelling at people to move out of the way, the SFPD is a police force headed for eternal hell with these activities.
These arrogant snobby officers believe they're above it all living like gods while leaving citizens to fend for themselves of the insane maniacs wandering about threatening people who defecate on the sidewalks. Meanwhile they're busy being the Yelp police for a crazy Egyptian woman from Australia in a power struggle with a notary public business. Anything but having to do real police work, they're just a bunch of privileged bums out to cause problems for good citizens. Security should be able to handle the Elvis Costello concert unless there's a crime there. In this case, police are being paid OT to attend this event above and beyond security.
Citizens aren't getting they're taxpayer's money worth with the SFPD. They're in hiding as an evil secret society with a chip on their shoulders.
See also:
TOURIST ALERT: San Francisco - Tourists Murdered, SFPD Absent, Mayor Ed Lee Loony Tunes - March 26, 2016
Is There A Place in Hell for Yelp and the SFPD? - March 17, 2016


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Land Grabbing
Agrarian conflicts and struggles for access to land and natural resources are not new phenomena. However, a global process is currently underway whereby powerful foreign private and public investors conclude agreements with states to take possession or control of large surfaces of land, which has an influence on current and future food sovereignty in the host countries. This process is most commonly referred to as land grabbing.
Several factors contribute to the new rush on land: the increased demand for agrofuels; high food prices, leading states that are dependent on food imports to acquire cheap farmland in poorer countries; and the search for stable investment opportunities in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Investors are typically corporations, financial investors and the governments of rich countries. While precise details are hard to come by, it is estimated that at least 70 million hectares of agricultural land have been transferred in the last few years.
The lack of adequate and secure access to land and natural resources for the rural and urban poor is one of the key causes of hunger and poverty in the world. Land grabbing further exacerbates the highly unequal distribution of land ownership, thereby impacting the enjoyment of the human rights of the local population, particularly their right to adequate food.
FIAN, together with small-scale food producers' organizations, calls for a stop to and a rolling back of land grabbing and supports the Global Alliance Against Land Grabbing, created by those people most affected. In addition, FIAN promotes the effective implementation of the FAO Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests as an internationally accepted standard of governance of land and natural resources, in order to combat poverty and hunger, and as one instrument to fight against land grabbing.
Read more about FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Land Tenure and Natural Resources
Latest news
Case Report 2019 / Land Grabbing for Palm Oil in Sierra Leone
Analysis of the SOCFIN Case from a Human Rights Perspective
Land and justice for peasant families in Marina kue, Curuguaty
Dozens of families denounce Paraguay's failure to resolve the land conflict
World Bank Program Forcing Local Communities Off Their Land
The current World Bank's land titling program in northeastern Brazil is a license for land grabbing.
Zambia: UN report points to adverse effects of large-scale agricultural investment
Previously voiced by FIAN International, UN Right to Food Rapporteur confirms large-scale agricultural investments in the country lead to the displacement and worsening of nutrition of communities.
2017, a year of countering mainstreamed narratives
Last year's global political scenario led FIAN International to raise important questions on the future of human rights and bring the root causes of right to food violations under the spotlight, as presented in its 2017 Annual Report.
Mission investigates involvement of European money in land grabbing
After documenting dire human rights violations and environmental destruction in Brazil, which is flanked by land grabbing and speculation, an international delegation comes to Europe to investigate links.
Support increases for MATOPIBA communities
The Brazilian Public Prosecutor's Office calls to suspend a law that only benefits big business and recommends the World Bank to correct the negative effects of its tenure-related financed programs.
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|Feb 10, 2015
Benzodiazepines, the ring of power
|(Nanowerk News) If anything characterizes the efforts of the research community in the research and development of new drugs is that this requires multiple approaches from different disciplines of knowledge without which it would be possible to obtain new medicines.
|From chemical point of view, one of the strategies that best result has given the scientific community is the application of the concept privileged structure, also referred to as privileged rings. This term refers to the structural properties of certain cyclic compounds, whose components are at least one element other than carbon; this makes them heterocyclic rings.
|The way to the bottom: the value of the structure
|Privileged structures have played a decisive role in the field of drug discovery. With its ability to modulate diverse biological targets, such heterocyclic rings have been able to provide a considerable number of drugs to treat diseases differ widely, partly because their use is generally associated with a low incidence of adverse effects. In addition, the privileged rings facilitate the rapid rational advances within drug discovery programs, an increasingly complex, competitive and expensive process.
|Benzodiazepines are the archetypal privileged structures; its introduction in clinical practice revolutionized the therapy of psychiatric disorders, particularly the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and epilepsy. With over 30 benzodiazepines in clinical use, no other privileged ring has contributed to the therapeutic arsenal, resulting in numerous commercial drugs in widespread use among which are some well-known as Valium®, Orfidal® , Lexatin® or Trankimazin®. However, the the real exceptionality of benzodiazepine ring lies in the diversity of its therapeutic applications, highlighting not only its effects in psychiatric diseases, but also its use as muscle and adjuvant relaxing in dental anaesthesia or endoscopic.
|Exploring new therapeutic avenues
|The structural manipulation of the benzodiazepine ring in the laboratory enabled to eliminate its central nervous system activity; thus opening the field to the development of new drugs to treat completely different diseases, including cancer, inflammation, malaria, circulatory disorders or autoimmune diseases.
|Now a study developed by researchers at CiQUS and the Faculty of Pharmacy of the USC describes a conceptually novel synthetic approach that provides benzodiazepine collections representative of previously unexplored diversity spaces, particularly skeletal, functional and stereochemical diversity. The project, leaded by Professor Eddy Sotelo, developed an efficient, fast and environmentally-friendly synthetic strategy, fitting some of the key Green Chemistry principles; thus documenting the reconciliation of molecular complexity and experimental simplicity.
|The new method, published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry ("Integrated Ugi-Based Assembly of Functionally, Skeletally, and Stereochemically Diverse 1,4-Benzodiazepin-2-ones"), has provided more than 80 representative molecules, whose structural distinctiveness has been validated during its pharmacological evaluation. In addition to compounds with excellent anxiolytic action, and after the required structural manipulation to eliminate central nervous system effects, researchers identified some new hit structures acting on validated therapeutic targets for diseases such as diabetes, asthma or tuberculosis.
|The results of this project, which also involved researchers from the universities of Vigo and Valencia, represent a milestone of Professor Sotelos group, which focuses on the development of multicomponent synthetic strategies to accelerate the generation and optimization of drug candidates, especially those aimed at diseases such as glaucoma, Parkinson's disease, asthma or cancer.
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This is what my wife sent me in my e-mail today… (its me and my dad)
Little does she know, we were texting plans to each other on ways we could bless our wives during this holiday season! We couldn't talk lest they overhear us! Really!
that's awesome.
It was quality time if you were texting each other.
works for me!!
My wife would have beaned me w/my phone! That's cool your dad does tech well, wish mine did.
I would leave a witty and sage comment but I am laughing too hard. LOL. Too funny.
It reminds me of the time the 3 of us (you, your wife, and myself) were eating at the red robin.
This is sooooooooo funny! Rather paradoxical – I can't decide whether to praise or scold you!!!
I did NOT take these on my phone! After I uploaded my camera pics I found these.


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Thursday, Jun 13th 7:00p to 8:00p
Women of Sinai
Women of Sinai is the community of those identifying as women who are members of Temple Sinai. We are inspired by "Neshamot": the Hebrew word for "spirits or souls" and reflects our spirited, multifaceted, multi-generational approach to women's programming at Temple Sinai. Under the guidance of our clergy, each program includes social gathering, learning and community building, while nurturing our sense of spirituality.
Brotherhood is a social group for those identifying as male who are members of Temple Sinai. Programs vary from traditional Sunday morning Brotherhood breakfasts, and educational events, to outings to sporting events and scotch and craft beer tastings. Brotherhood members attend most events free or at significantly reduced rates and will be guaranteed a spot to participate in all events.
50s and 60s
This group of both married couples and singles, ages 50 and above, gathers periodically for fellowship, educational programming and fun events. Now that the kids are grown, join us for some fun.
Interested in doing Jewish stuff? Want to help shape the next generation of Jewish life? Looking to connect with a bunch of other people who want to do the same? Just curious?
ATID is a community of 20 and early 30-somethings from diverse backgrounds and perspectives who are looking to do Jewish in Atlanta.
Atidaynu Leadership Development
The Atidaynu program was developed several years ago with the mission of identifying future leaders within our congregation, and taking them through a journey of learning the various functions and specific culture of Temple Sinai.
College Outreach
College Outreach allows Sinai to maintain contact with our members who are college students. Gifts and communications from the congregation are sent to students during Jewish holiday times.
We request all college students to complete the form below which provides us with your information at school. Returning College Outreach students need to resign up for College Outreach every year so we can make sure to have the correct contact information.
Congregational Trips
Temple Sinai has offered congregational trips to Israel, Spain, Europe and Cuba. The trips are reasonably priced and well attended. Our participants always come back with a greater sense of connection to our community. Upcoming trips include a Israel, India, Morocco and a Civil Rights trip to Alabama.
Retirees and Seniors
Temple Sinai provides an educational and leisure time program for senior adults. Whether it's a play, concert, museum outing, speaker, or trip out of town, you are guaranteed an enjoyable time with Sinai's very active senior and retiree programming.
Military Affairs
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I explained how to grant remote access to the registry in tips 0277 (Oct. 1997) and 0840 (Nov. 1998).
"WinRegRead - Sets a READ ACE on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\Winreg for any group or userid specified on the command line. Setting this ACE allows access to the registry for users/groups outside of the default Administrators and Backup Operators. This will allow someone other than those two groups to do remote performance monitoring on the server. Published in February 2001 Windows 2000 Security Administrator (Premier Issue) in Reader to Reader section. http://www.secadministrator.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=16529 \[Version: 1.00.00, Date: 11/18/00\]"
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Have you ever tried to choose clothes for family or yourself in a foreign country?
Or learn the time in your native city when you are miles away on another continent? Especially, when you've agreed an international phone call, your partner suggests their time and you have no idea what time it will be at your place?
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Fox News' Judge Jeanine Pirro has a white hot emotional unhinged meltdown about sanctuary cities
Judge Jeanine Pirro went off on mayors of cities claiming sanctuary for undocumented immigrants the Donald Trump administration wants to deport.
"This man, [Bill] de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, does not deserve to be the mayor," Pirro told Bill O'Reilly Thursday evening.
De Blasio announced that crimes such as driving while under the influence might not result in an arrest if it doesn't harm anyone. She associated it to "forcible touching." She also added identity theft, welfare fraud and other crimes. All of those who commit crimes are still subject to prosecution under state and federal laws.
"That's not only protecting illegals, who are criminals, it is putting Americans in danger of an illegal," she continued. "If you're an American, we're going to endanger your life by keeping this illegal here."
She went on to say that it's even more dangerous to be a drunk driver in New York City because there are hoards of people walking around that could be hit by a car.
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We're now a few months in to the G3 project, and here's the story so far:
- We've conducted and documented a number of in-depth interviews with members in our target groups of urban design, urban anthropology, history and environmental management.
- The interviews have been analysed, common themes and tasks identified, scenarios developed and then 'translated' into the language of GIS so that they can be implemented as teaching tools. We're now looking at identifying data for each scenario.
- We've designed the end-to-end architecture of our scenario creation tool – this wasn't as easy as a simple web site design, given that we want to build something extensible – i.e. that can grow as more scenarios are identified.
- We've set up our webserver, migrated a massive amount of existing reference code across, and started looking at the design of our scenarios from the end user perspective. We plan to use a step-by-step approach to allow our students to move through the learning process at their own page. The tool will validate that they understand the concepts as they go through.
- We've talked to a number of people involved in GIS teaching to identify how they approach introducing people from other disciplines to GIS.
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[Photo: Peter Lundström.]We are starting to put together our 09/10 Product Guide (yes, already) and want your kit-related questions to answer in the mag.
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Language basics – overview
In this session I will answer these questions:
- What do you need for a file to be a valid PHP script?
- How do you print content to the browser?
- How do I store a value and then reuse it later?
- How do I do some basic math in PHP?
What do you need for a file to be a valid PHP script?
Let's learn by writing some PHP. Type this into a new document:
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<?php echo 'Hi there'; ?>
Save it as basics2.php in the root of your web site. Open the file in your browser. The address will vary depending on your setup but is likely to be either http://localhost/basics2.php or http://localhost:8888/basics2.php if you are running MAMP or Universal Server. You should see the message:Hi there
This is a very simple piece of PHP, but it demonstrates three important things about the structure of PHP files:
- PHP files should be saved with the extension .php.
- PHP files should start with an opening tag of '<?php' and end with the closing tag '?>'
- there are exceptions but for now we'll keep it simple.
- Each PHP statement must finish with a semicolon. Usually each statement is one line, but not always. We will focus on single-line statements for this tutorial.
To keep our sample code readable I will omit the opening and closing php tags.
How do you print content to the browser?
In our code above line 2 uses the PHP command echo. Echo simply writes data (in this case, the words 'Hi there') to the browser.
Echo can do much more than this, and there are many other ways to write to the browser, but one thing at a time!
How do I store a value and then reuse it later?
Let's change our file. Edit basics2.php and replace the script with this:
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$aPerson = 'Jay'; echo 'Hi ' . $aPerson;
Here line 1 is an assignment: we create a variable called 'aPerson' and give it the value 'Jay.' The variable 'aPerson' is now available to use elsewhere in our script.
On line 2 we echo 'Hi ' to the browser, then we echo the contents of 'aPerson.' Using the name of the variable with the $ in front tells PHP to lookup the contents of the variable.
To illustrate the way variables work a little further, change basics2.php to read:
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$aPerson = 'Jay'; $prefix = "Screamin'"; $lastName = 'Hawkins'; echo 'Hi ' . $prefix . ' ' . $aPerson . ' ' . $lastName;
Refresh your browser. Some things to note here:
On line 2, Screamin' is surrounded by double quotes. The reason for the double quotes is that they allow us to ignore the single quote. There are many ways of dealing with unusual characters and we won't go into them here and now, but this is a simple example of an approach to a common situation.
How do I do some basic math in PHP?
Create a new PHP document:
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echo '<pre>'; $myNumber = 7; echo $myNumber . "\n"; echo $myNumber + 1 . "\n"; echo $myNumber . "\n";
Line 1 is there to help make the output readable, so let's ignore that and skip to line 2. We assign the value 7 to the variable $myNumber. On line 3 we echo the value. Them on line 4 we echo the value but with 1 added to it. Then we echo the value again and note that it hasn't changed: line 4 hasn't changed $myNumber!
So what is going on here? Well line 4 is a calculation, no doubt about it. But nowhere has it changed $myNumber. To do that we'd do something like this:
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echo '<pre>'; $myNumber = 7; echo $myNumber . "\n"; $myNumber = $myNumber +1; echo $myNumber;
On line 4 we perform a calculation where we add 1 to the value of $myNumber, and then we store the result as $myNumber: in other words we overwrite its value. It is this $myNumber = that is important here.
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Look Back in Anger is considered one of the most important plays in the modern British theater. It was the first well-known example of "Kitchen Sink drama," a style of theater that explored the emotion and drama beneath the surface of ordinary domestic life. Jimmy Porter, the play's main character, became the model for the "Angry Young Man," a nickname given to an entire generation of artists and working class young men in post-World War II British society.
Osborne wrote the play in only a few weeks in May of 1955. The play was first rejected by many of the agents and theater companies that Osborne approached about producing it. George Divine, the creative producer for the struggling Royal Court Theater, decided to gamble on the play and staged its first production. The play opened on May 8, 1956. It received mixed reviews from English theater critics, yet it won a rave review from the Times. This established the play's notoriety and helped it eventually build an audience.
The two iconic motifs of the play are the aforementioned concepts of the Angry Young Man and the Kitchen Sink drama. The Angry Young Man motif came to be associated with a group of young writers and artists -- John Osborne and Kingsley Amis being foremost amongst them -- that the cultural public believed to personify an anger, boredom, and frustration with British cultural life that many working class families felt during this time.
The idea of the Kitchen Sink drama was also a revelation for British theater. The stylings of most British theater before Look Back in Anger favored Victorian dramas and comedies or stagings of classical plays. In a general sense, the Victorian plays dealt mostly with polite themes from the late 19th and early 20th century upper ruling class. In contrast, Osborne's play depicted the raw emotions and living conditions of the working class. This style of theater was given the name "Kitchen Sink" because of its focus on the interior domestic and emotional lives of ordinary people. In the case of Look Back in Anger, the kitchen is literally a part of the set.
The cultural backdrop to the play is the rise and fall of the British empire. The beginning of the twentieth century saw the peak of power and influence of British colonialism. By the 1950's, two World Wars, which devastated the British economy, and the rise of the United States as the new world military and political power meant that the British empire had entered a steep decline. Jimmy Porter is representative of an entire culture that remained nostalgic for this past glory. He idealizes the worthy causes of the past even while he mocks those who cannot understand why the times have changed as much as they have.
Look Back in Anger is a play that appeared in a time of crucial transition from Britain's Victorian past into the modern twentieth century. Jimmy's rage and anger is his expression of pent-up emotion and his need for life in a world that has become listless and uninteresting. That anger became a symbol of the rebellion against the political and social malaise of British culture. His anger is destructive to those around him and the psychological violence of the play received a great deal of criticism. Critics today agree, however, that the play is central to an understanding of British life in the twentieth century and, thus, a crucial piece of literature in the British canon.


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I Am Where I Am Now
This morning I woke up and saw quails eating blueberries from a bush, and there are lots of real trees here - ones that have leaves and branches and not weird sausages or man eating flowers hanging from them. And it's cold!! I had to bust out the pea coat last night. It was in the 30s!!! It must be the altitude because it wasn't cold yesterday in the city we flew into or on the 4 hour drive up here.
On the way in I saw a coyote going across the road and I about lost my mind of course, because I have never seen a coyote and there one was, just going across the road. It had a black tip on the end of its tail.
Since the Internet here is as slow as 1994 and I'm using an air card, I'm going to go celebrate the New Year now. I had lots of apples and honey yesterday, so this year should be sweet. I wish the same for you all too.
Happy Rosh Hashanah!!
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- Chiada said...
Let me see... bears, high altitude, heat in the city you flew into, 4 hour trip from the airport city to the destination...
i'm going with Yosemite as your vacation destination, and you flew into San Jose? Or maybe Fresno.
Am I close?
I love Yosemite. I've only been 3 times, though. Twice in the winter with lots of snow. Just a couple of nights ago I was telling Hub-E about the time I went with a class of 8th graders (I was a sign language translator for a deaf student) and how we went into some Indian caves. I almost couldn't get out, it was such a tight squeeze. Those dang boobs and butt were getting in the way.
Anyways! Don't know if that's where you are or not, but I hope you're having fun. Happy travels!
- just another paper product said...
Have a wonderful vacation! I hope you see lots more critters. :) (Aren't coyotes beautiful? I love them, especially when they "sing")
- Architect Critic said...
Ah. I see. I had one of my best water-skiing days on the namesake lake in that county. It was early morning and the water was very cold but as smooth as ice. The air was warm, so as soon as I was out of the water the chill went away. It was so smooth that I stayed behind the boat until my muscles simply couldn't stand any more. I was so weak I couldn't even get back into the boat. But it was a great time, and I didn't even get my hair wet.
I used to live in one of the little towns about halfway between where you are and the airport before I moved to a college town 20-ish miles west-southwest of that airport.
It's beautiful up there. Enjoy the trees and the spectacular weather we are having. If you have the time and inclination, check out the fair this weekend. I'm sure it will remind you of Millpond.
- MP said...
Happy New Year. I just heard about that apple/honey deal. I'm going to try that next year. (I think Christians would be allowed)
Sounds lovely up in the mountains! Here in the middle of American it's supposed to get to 40 tomorrow then back up to 90 next week.
I'm guessing Yosemite or Denali national parks.
Hope you are having a grand time and see lots of wild life...animals I mean.
- Leonesse said...
Have a wonderful vacation. I don't know what those are, but hear they are nice.
Also, since you have so many interesting trees and such in FL, do you also have odd animals we may not have heard of?
We have Nutria's, which many people haven't heard of. Large water rats. Ugh.
- Almost American said...
Seems to be the week for posts about bears! Only a Crook had a comment about bears in her neck of the woods, and I posted about my local bears yesterday too. I hope you get to see one - from a decent distance of course! Getting to see a coyote is neat though. We have them here too. The first one I saw I thought was a fox - couldn't believe it was actually a coyote even though the neighbors had complained that they thought one had killed their cat.
- gulfsidebo said...
i had a run-in with a coyote while jogging when i lived in colorado. we were having a one-one staring contest which seemed to last forever. luckily, back up arrived (another runner) and the challenger ran off.
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Correction: An earlier version of this post referred to "oil sands" in Louisiana. This version has been updated.
On Friday, the State Department quietly released a notification that the Keystone XL pipeline decision is being delayed yet again. The president of the Laborers' International Union of North America, Terry O'Sullivan, called the delay "another gutless move" by the administration. We could also dismiss the announcement as just more of the usual dithering from this White House. I don't think the delay is gutless or dithering, but a more sinister, cynical ploy by this administration to manipulate two groups into continuing to support vulnerable Democrats in an attempt to keep the Senate in 2014.
By appearing to have not made a decision, President Obama keeps the money pouring in from those on the fringe left — like billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer — who want the Democrats to swear allegiance to their global warming agenda. And at the same time, the delay — not outright denial — deceptively makes voters in key states like Louisiana believe there is still some hope that the pipeline will come to life. In Louisiana, voters think that if they reelect Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who touts her ability to influence the president on such things, the pipeline will become a reality.
One side or the other is being played for a fool. But given what we know about the weakness of the president's second-term agenda, and the fact that he could have approved the pipeline already if he wanted to, one would have to bet Keystone XL has no chance of being approved after the 2014 elections. There is nothing new about government officials manipulating announcements of planned projects and the like to suit their political objectives. But Obama's manipulation has reached a peak. Neither side that he is playing will win. Somehow, the delusional environmentalists think that if there is no pipeline, there will be less oil. But the oil will not stay locked up in Mother Earth — it will be extracted and either travel by freight to the United States or it will go to China. And Louisiana voters who are placing their faith in Landrieu are equally delusional. She voted with Obama 97 percent of the time in 2013, and she knows she has some explaining to do. You can bet that if she is reelected in November, it will be her last term. By that point, she will not care about her constituents who are working in the oil industry in Louisiana. She would rather be a celebrity in Washington, getting cozy with the left-wing beautiful people who dominate the Democratic Party.
That said, the White House strategy will no doubt work, at least partially. Global warming money will keep coming, and maybe the Louisiana voters will be fooled into giving Landrieu another term. The question is whether or not it will be enough for the Democrats to hold the Senate for the last two years of Obama's time in office. Approval of Keystone XL, the jobs it would create for hard-working Americans and the positive impact it would have on America's energy independence will have to wait until after 2016.
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America has been attacked by an unknown assailant; Nuclear, Chemical and Biological warfare. Besides that there are earthquakes, storms, and the weather is turning very cold. Much of American infrastructure is gone, no cell service, no internet, no electricity. How would you survive? The police are missing, the army is nowhere to be found. What would you do?
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The author has crafted a multi-volume answer to these questions and so much more. Her hero, Laura Balous is an ordinary woman who cares about her family, her neighbors and friends. When disaster seems imminent she goes door to door trying to stimulate community and find out who may need help. She does not want to lead the others, she just wants to survive with her husband and hopes her nieces will make their way home.
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Blues again recall goaltender Allenby NHL.com Staff
The St. Louis Blues on Tuesday recalled goaltender Jake Allen from their American Hockey League team, the Peoria Rivermen.
The Blues again need an extra goalie after Jaroslav Halak sustained an injury in pregame warm-ups prior to Monday's game against the Los Angeles Kings.
Halak had missed the past three games due to a groin strain that landed him on injured reserve. Halak had been expected to start Monday's game.
"[Halak's injury] just happened so quick ... it was after the warm-ups," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said after the 4-1 loss to the Kings. "I think everybody was in a little bit of shock. It is what it is. He had three really good days of practice and then I don't know, somewhere in the warm-up, he pulled it again. It isn't good for us right now ... it's not good for the team right now. We're just going to have to learn to battle through it."
Allen, a 2008 second-round pick, had been called up when Halak previously was injured and served as Brian Elliott's backup. In 31 AHL games this season, Allen is 12-16-2 with a 2.94 goals-against average, .903 save percentage and two shutouts.


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SOLD - Dr Hubert Hadethauer Mercer - The 1913 35 J Raceabout.
This limited edition fully working 1:8th scale scratch built model was built in 1991 by Dr Hubert Hadethauer to his own exacting standards with the emphasis on producing the perfect miniature.
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This model numbering 14/25 combines over 3000 parts all scratch built from raw materials. To meet the high quality standards SAPOR constructed about 1700
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This example is finished in the classic yellow livery applied in three coats on a primer coat. Note the moulded sheet steel frame, the cast tinplate motor casing, cylinder blocks and manifold the tempered half-elliptical leaf springs, the valves controlled by sealed camshafts, a resistent clutch, moulded steel coachwork and mudguards, gear casing, brass gear work with sealed bearings, the brass brake-and gear-shift-levers, the wood-spoke-wheels with brass rims and rubber tyres, the steering column with gear work, wooden steering wheel and brass front axle. Each time you view this model you will find something you had never seen before.


text: What do you think the WhiteStar dashboard should look like? The old EV1 had EL digital displays: Nissan Altra: Honda EVplus: Honda FCX: The Ford RangerEV has simple, old style, analog gauge needles. The Tesla Roadster also has analog guages for Motor RPM and Vehicle Speed. The Tesla Roadster also has a "VDS" LCD display off to the side for additional information. (Doesn't this seem a little low and out of the way to be looked at safely while driving?) ACpropulsion has a simple monochrome LCD for their dashboard instrumentation:


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How did you get into doing pop ups?
I love socialising over a nice dinner, the supper clubs scene in London is fantastic! It's so diverse and gives you the opportunity to try different cuisines and meet lots of people from every corner of the world!
Tell us about your current or most recent pop up.
In March we will have our first collaboration with another pop-up called Love Club Supper run by Cordelia Peel who is a doctor-chef with Burmese origins. It's going to be memorable!
What has been your biggest challenge? Biggest reward?
Biggest challenge is always the logistics, we do lots of corporate events and weddings for up 200 people and the organization of everything can sometime cause sleep deprivation. This is well treated with high dosage of caffeine :)
When people come to us and say: 'you made our evening special, we loved it, thanks' - that's the biggest reward.
How long have you been doing pop ups?
We started in 2011 for pure fun and in the last three years we turned the fun into a business.
What were you doing before? Why did you switch to pop ups?
I was working as an economist and my business partner as environmental engineer.
We're passionate about food, wine, people so there's no better job for us. Every event is different, there's no chance to get bored!
Will you continue doing pop ups in the future? Why or why not?
Oh yeah, the more the merrier!
What has been the most unexpected or disastrous experience?
A dozen of ducks for a wedding got delivered to the wrong venue. I had to do two hours drive to go to pick them up and take them back to our kitchen. Luckily, all went well and the diners were very pleased with the tasty duck...phew!
Italian Supper Club's first collaboration with Cordelia Peel, chef and founder of the Love Club Supper, is coming up March 18 and 19! You don't want to miss out!
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Dear Heather,
Older Americans Month, Senior Hunger and SNAP
When we think about the $36 billion dollars in proposed cuts to SNAP, its easy to lose sight of the actual people that would be affectedlow-income families, children, and seniors.
Heres one seniors storyin her own wordsthat shows us why we need to take action to protect programs like SNAP.
I am a disabled senior on a small fixed income. After paying my rent and bills, I have very little left over. Usually, I only eat once a day. I don't own a car, so I can't take advantage of food banks or places that provide food assistance because I have no way to get it home. The food stamp program has been a huge help to me. Every little bit helps! Sylvia
This is why we are fighting to make sure the Farm Bill strengthens and protects our nation's anti-hunger safety net.
Help us ensure we are able to protect older Americans like Sylvia. Send a letter to Congress today!
Last week, the House of Representatives voted to cut SNAP (food stamps) by $36 billion. If that cut is made law:
- Every SNAP recipient will see a reduction in monthly benefits;
- Two million people currently on SNAP will lose SNAP benefits entirely;
- 280,000 children will lose free school breakfast and lunch.
Help us raise awareness and deliver our message - cutting hunger-relief programs like SNAP and TEFAP is not only wrong, it's short sighted given the impact of hunger on health care, education, and the workforce.
You can help spread the word by submitting a letter to the editor of your local publication. Below, you will find a sample LTE you can use as a guide - but you'll want to personalize your letter as you see fit. The more personal the story, the more likely you are to get your LTE published.
If your letter is published, email us a copy email@example.com, post a link to it on our Facebook Wall, or tweet us a link at @FeedingAmerica (Hashtag: #ChampionLTE).
To the Editor:
For those of you who weren't aware, the House of Represntatives recently voted on a package that tries to prevent automatic budget cuts by gutting programs that support low-income Americans. Specifically, they cut $36 billion from SNAP, or food stamps, alone.
I realize we need to balance the budget, but is this really the way to do it? Cutting programs that put food on the table for people in our community that are hungry is not just short-sighted, but it is also just plain wrong.
We talk a lot about values in this country, but our elected officials' votes don't always seem to back up their words. Congress seems to have this reverse Robin Hood mentality these days - rob from the poor to protect the rich. If anything, we need to strengthen our nation's hunger saftey net, not cut the strings to it.
I urge you to call your Representative and tell them this is unacceptable.
Our nation was built on a strong sense of communitya sense that we all share responsibility in strengthening our neighborhoods so that everyone has the opportunity to survive and thrive. That starts by making sure every man, woman, and child in our nation has enough food on their plate. Yet we see Congress make decisions that abandon our struggling neighbors during their time of need. We believe this is the wrong way to balance our nations budget.
As a Hunger Champion, we know you agree. Please submit an LTE to help us raise awareness today. As always, thank you for your time and support.
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There's this phenomenon on Facebook called Throwback Thursday where people post pictures of themselves from times past. In the fitness world people show "before" pics of themselves. Last night, I had some low moments and found myself feeling not too good about my current emotional state. When I find myself feeling down, I look for a way out, a way through. As I drove home from yoga, in the rain no less, an idea filtered into my head: instead of a Throwback Thursday picture, I'd make a Throwback Thursday video—and thus my downward dog adventures were born!!!
I first started doing hatha yoga in the summer of 1996 with my friend Sharon. We'd get together for some semi-private classes (there were about 7 of us) at a friend's house. Our teacher, Craig Balcom, had the patience of a saint to put up with us! The antics we, well I, pulled in yoga that summer are legendary! But it's safe to say they'll remain secret!! Most of the women have moved away and Sharon has passed on.
I'm digressing again!! Such a habit of mine!
Back in 1996 I couldn't even imagine doing downward facing dog! My body was too big (I weighed a lot more than I do now). I wasn't strong enough. There was NO WAY I was even going to try it!
I'm not sure exactly when I first tried doing downward dog. I think it might have been when one of my instructors taught me how to do it against a wall. In the first sequence of the video, you'll see me demonstrating the "against the wall variation". I found even this to be difficult as my instructor (I don't remember which one) would be picky about the position of my back. If I could have angled my back up I would have been just fine! But NOOOO!!!! I was ordered to do it correctly!! Imagine the horror!!!
At some point I could enter the pose from from tabletop position, with my knees on the ground. This you'll see in the second portion of the video. I felt so HAPPY the day I could enter the pose from this position! I still didn't care for staying in the pose though. That took too much effort!
One day, I don't remember exactly when, I progressed to being able to enter the pose with my body almost flat on the ground. I felt elated!!! SOOO HAPPY!!! Still I didn't care to stay in the pose—it felt toooooo taxing!!!!!
It's different these days though. As I lost more weight I began to really appreciate down dog. While in the pose I can see the excess skin on my arms, and this makes me smile, makes me happy, The loose skin is a sign of progress that I'm working toward my goal. There are days where I'll just stop in the middle of whatever I'm doing and go into down dog and look at the puckered up wrinkled loose skin on my upper arms—it's a cool look actually. And I'll stay in down dog for a few minutes just because! It makes me feel good as I can sense the growing strength in my body and in my mind!
Watching myself in this video, it would be easy for me to focus on my abdomen, but I actually notice my back more. I see a flat back. And that to me is a miracle. I used to have sooooo much back fat. It looked like I had "back boobs"!! I'm so grateful now to have a flatter back. That's why I love locust pose so much in Bikram Yoga—it helps me to keep working on my back, and these days I can FEEL my back muscles in ways I've never felt them before. That's a miracle. That's a testament to my hard work. That keeps me going because I know I'll feel in other places as I keep working toward my goal—to have a happier healthier body that allows me to truly live without self-imposed or worldly-imposed limitations!
(apologies for the lighting. It was raining outside and I made the video in the early morning light inside my apartment.)
Pic is of me doing Downward-Facing Dog February 2014
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