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Pen & Paper – The Bloggers Friend
One of my pet hates is writers block. There is nothing worst than sitting down at your computer to write a post only to find your mind is blank and you have no idea what to write about. I try and be as efficient as I can with the time I spend working online therefore I take steps to avoid writers block.
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The best way to avoid writers block is to stay in touch with your topic. Read magazines related to the topic your blog covers, participate in forums which are related to it and subscribe to newsbreaking blogs in your niche. Bottom line, the more time you spend reading about your blogs topic, the less likely you are to struggle to think of things to write about on your own blog.
I have spoke about the benefits of using newsreaders and forums before but today I want to talk about a lesser known blogging tool, the ever reliable pen. In todays world we sometimes put technology ahead of efficiency. There are many great scripts available which let you save your blog drafts and ideas online but for me it's more efficient to jot down ideas on a piece of paper.
If you travel a lot then a small notepad which can fit in your pocket or bag would be great for noting down any ideas you have for blog posts when you are out and about. Whenever I go away for the weekend or on holiday I have a notebook in my backpack however when I'm at home through the week I just keep a piece of A4 paper next to my laptop at all times. If I get a few ideas for posts but only have time to write one post I will write down something to remind me about it (usually the name of the post or general idea). I also find it handy when it's late and I'm too tired to write a post or when I get an idea just before I leave the house.
I do still save drafts in my WordPress admin panel to remind me to write posts but I think it's much better to have something tangible in front of you. The more you blog, the more you try and tweak your blogging routine so that it's efficient and productive.
I'm sure many of you already keep a pen and paper close by but for those who don't, I recommend trying it out as it's a good habit to develop 🙂
What Does Your Blog Need?
I wrote an eBook explaining what your blog needs:
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6 Things Your Blog Needs Today
Success finds bloggers who cover all bases.
If you need nothing and feel your blog needs nothing, you succeed and live your wildest dreams.
Successful bloggers know adding the right elements to blogs and beginning blogs the right way accelerates your success. Plus it feels good to begin blogging intelligently.
What does your blog need?
1: Domain and Hosting
Invest in a domain and hosting.
Accelerate your blogging success.
Domain names make you stand out.
Observe how Pat Flynn invested in Smart Passive Income.
Of course you know immediately; the blogger covers smart passive income. Passive income seekers know the resource because Pat bought a domain name.
He also invested in hosting to ensure he owned his blog.
Take this step to control:
- branding
- income potential
- blog voice
Own your site. You need to own your blog to be in control of your blogging campaign.
2: Premium Theme
Invest money in a premium theme.
Stand out from the crowd.
Circulating money on a premium, eye-catching, clear theme emits a professional, impressive, powerful message.
This was from one of my many trips to Thailand.
Readers see you are a serious, successful or success-seeking, blogger. Of course you gain trust and grow your readership quickly by investing money in a premium theme.
Why do you need a premium theme? Would you trust a blogger who uses a cheap-looking, heavy, non-professional theme? If someone cannot afford to invest $60 in a premium theme you better not trust their advice, their insight and their sharing. Why? Serious, skilled bloggers never allow $60 to dictate their life's direction and failing, struggling, unskilled bloggers make the foolish decision to not chase their dreams over $60.
3: Content
Content drives blogs.
Your blog needs content to:
- prove you know your stuff
- spread your presence online
- inspire readers to follow you
- inspire readers to trust you
Visit Blogging From Paradise.
Look around for a few minutes. Read 3 of my recent posts. Do you see why content drives the blogging engine?
Imagine if you saw only 1 blog post. Every blogger begins somewhere but publishing helpful content from a generous, success-focused energy distances you from most bloggers in your niche.
Imagine seeing 1 to 5 blog posts on a blog. Good introduction no doubt.
Imagine seeing 50 to 100 blog posts on a blog. Massive impact.
Focus less on post numbers and more on being generous with time and talents. Content just shows off what you know.
As folks see you know your stuff thru your volume of helpful posts you begin to:
- increase traffic
- boost your blogging profits
- expand your presence
- increase brand awareness
- help more folks
- make a big impact in your niche
Content makes everything grow.
Publish content on the regular to become a successful blogger.
Focus on Your Dreams
Concentrate on your dreams from a relaxed, chill energy.
You need dreams to feel the calm, detached confidence of bloggers who invest in:
- a domain and hosting
- a premium theme
- creating helpful content
See your blogging wins now. You succeed now. Own it.
Feel good about your blogging career. You are rocking it out.
Succeed, being the blogger who covers all blogging needs.
Bonus Need
Invest in a blogging course.
Your blog – and you – need a blogging blueprint to follow in order to succeed from a calm, confident, orderly, relaxed energy.
Blog like a success.
Learn from the best to become a successful blogger.
Courses just give you a structure for learning in the proper format.
Imagine sitting down in a classroom to learn disciplines from a professor.
You do the same thing through a blogging course.
How Can You Turn Criticism into Blogging Profits?
I wrote an entire eBook on lessons I learned from critics:
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6 Life Lessons I Learned from Nasty Critics
As you see greater blogging success, you get criticized.
No blogger avoids criticism.
Learning how to convert nasty criticism into blogging profits helps you be a highly successful blogger.
Picture This
Imagine someone tossing big rocks at you.
Fools step in front of the rocks, injuring themselves.
Idiots catch the rocks and throw said rocks back at folks, wasting precious time and energy on rock tossing morons.
Wise humans avoid the rocks, allowing the stones to reach terra firma, and build a castle from all the granite-type rocks tossed their way.
Highly successful, happy bloggers are like wise humans; building something meaningful and profitable from inevitable criticism, versus taking criticism personally (stepping in front of rocks) or fighting critics (throwing rocks back at rock throwers).
I wrote 2 eBooks on the topic.
In addition to the prior eBook I also wrote:
How to Turn Harsh Blogging Criticism into Sweet Blogging Profits: 11 Tips
Observe the product page.
I profit through an:
- eBook version
- audio book version
- paperback version
- mass market paperback version
of the topic.
I make money through 4 income streams based on teaching folks how to profit through blogging criticism.
How can you convert criticism into coin?
Follow these tips.
Breathe Deeply and Relax
Most humans:
- fight criticism
- feel the sting of criticism
- feel embarrassed about being criticized
- fight critics
- go into a shell after being criticized
Breathe deep. Relax.
Feel energies and emotions in reaction to being criticized.
Release said energies.
Be calm, confident and poised.
Establish the proper energy for profiting through criticism.
Gain Clarity
Criticism is a projection of individual; we see ourselves in others.
100% of the time, critics speak 100% of themselves, not you, through their criticism.
Knowing this, you do not take criticism personally. Ditto for gaining clarity in all you do, blogging-wise.
I reacted with anger, annoyance, embarrassment and shame on reading my first few 1 star audio book reviews. Turns out, those fear-based feelings needed to be addressed and released for me to generate more income through audio books.
Increased profits flow to bloggers who feel clear on income channels.
Being criticized forces you to face, embrace and release fears concerning income channels, said clearing resulting in clarity and greater sales.
If you react negatively to criticism, the reaction suggests you have fears to feel and clear regarding the criticism. Clearing these negative energies allows more profits to flow through the income streams because fear strangles income while clarity increases income.
Convert Criticism into Tangible Products
Turn hate into create.
Convert criticism into tangible profits.
Note my 2 eBooks, my audio book and paperback.
Create an online course to help your readers process criticism.
Strike while the iron feels hot; create immediately after receiving criticism to allow your prolific ideas to flow.
Add a price tag.
See Problems and Profit in Projection
I create:
- blog posts
- guest posts
- videos
- podcasts
based on critical projections bandied about by critics.
Critics may or may not see errors in their ways.
This was from my 2 month trip to Oman.
I just stress how criticizing promotes their failure, strangles success and prolongs misery and suffering, based on my content.
If critics wake up and read, these folks become likely readers, fans, customers and clients, because if I solved their problems for free I can solve their problems for pay.
Profit through the Discipline of Detached Observation
Observing feelings from a detached, calm, confident energy versus reacting to feelings is a skill most millionaires cultivate.
What better way can you develop this skill than by reading and processing criticism without reacting to your emotions?
Wealthy bloggers observe knee jerk reactions in their being, feel energies, release, and proceed to profit. You see immense patience, persistence, poise and profiting. But the blogger just watches, feels and releases, versus reacting.
Move Up the Energetic Ladder into More Prospering, Higher Circles by Ignoring Critics
Critics vibe from a fear-based, lower, poverty conscious energy.
Ignore these folks to rocket higher in blogging circles, toward a loving, prosperity conscious, profitable energy.
I made blogging friends in high places by completely ignoring lower energy folks, some of whom criticized me and my blog.
Starve lower energies.
Make room for higher energies.
Profit, free yourself and see increasing blogging success.
What Do You Sell and How Do You Sell It?
One easy way to make money blogging is to get clear on calling folks to buy your stuff and hire you.
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Invest in my blogging course.
Visit my blog for blogging ebooks and blogging audiobooks.
Advertise on my blog.
Paypal me.
See how easy?
I clearly call you to invest.
You invest.
Simply put, knowing what you sell and how you sell it increases your blogging profits because people respond to your energy.
Prior lines? Each feels clear and comfortable to me. I know what I offer. Of course I know how I offer it. How, meaning, how I feel offering.
Imagine feeling light, airy, calm, confident and detached as you call readers to buy or hire. Money feelings. Good.
But imagine feeling heavy, resistant, uncomfortable, awkward or embarrassed calling readers to buy or hire.
Your greatest pro blogging success occurs by shifting from heavy to light during money calls.
Or feeling light, airy, detached and clear on calls because you freely share what you sell and sell with clarity results in big blogging profits.
Audio Books
I note a spike in audio book sales and reviews. Of course I barely touched my audio books over 3 years. I generate almost completely passive income; the audio books sell themselves.
After seeing royalty payments recently I pondered the passive blogging income; I barely actively sell 'em so the what and how seems non-existent. But detaching just lets what and how unfold gracefully and beautifully, resulting in virtually complete passive income.
This was from my trip to Bali.
Getting almost 100% clear on what and how results in ever increasing, passive profits.
Blogging is energy.
Blogging Energy
Imagine feeling clear on receiving money from someone. You just accept it.
A friend buys lunch. You cheerily accept.
Your energy dictates you clearly accept and enjoy the money or purchase.
Ditto for blogging income streams. Emit the same clear, relaxed, accepting, receiving energy. Money flows to you thru clear streams. Of course my audiobooks sell passively; I am clear on that channel.
Boosting your blogging profits requires you freely offer what you sell and sell from a clear, confident, abundant, knowing, detached energy.
Example; note how I include 1 or more calls to action for all blog posts and videos. I offer what I sell freely. My readers never need guess. Clarity. No hiding or awkwardness or discomfort. I am clear. I sell.
How do I sell? Of course, from a calm, clear, confident, knowing I am successful energy. Naturally, I sell and profit because my energy around what and how feels clear to me.
Next Level Profits
Profit like top bloggers in your niche.
Get clear on receiving money.
Visualize yourself owning ample money. Feel rich.
I enjoy counting money in mind so it feels real to me. Swiftly, I make money through iTunes, Bitcoin and Quora, as has been the case recently.
Bitcoin and Quora are neither directly related to blogging but so goes money; it cares not channels, it justs finds bloggers clear on receiving money. Plus my blogging related profits increase too.
Picturing your wealth serves you because what feels real in mind flows into your experience.
Money and worldly success find you through profitable ideas, people and circumstances.
Execute the ideas from a chill, relaxed energy. Profit.
Freely offer what you offer. Promote yourself through every blog post and video. Tell us what you sell; we want to buy it. Sell with clarity. Know success and profits are yours; promote with clarity, detachment and a knowing that you already have profits because mind owns profits.
Blogging Is Not That Hard for Mind Scientists
Every day, my email inbox delights me.
My visualization sessions yield fascinating, profitable opportunities.
As within, so without.
Blogging is not that hard at all for bloggers who visualize success, who feel rich, who count their blogging wins and who keep things positive.
Success follows success-focused bloggers.
Profits follow rich-feeling, riches-seeing bloggers.
As within, so without.
Get clear on selling and receiving money.
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Hello, I'm Dakota, chief piglet of this site. I started this blog out of my love for food, fun, and exploration! Before blogs, the iphone and social media were even invented, I'd often snap a picture of my food before eating. A lot of my eating companions found this strange but to me, this behavior seemed completely normal. Why wouldn't you take a picture of your plate? It's beautiful! I greatly appreciate food and truly enjoy eating. Just look at my reaction upon spotting wedding cake!
In addition to eating, I also love bellying up to the banquet of life. Belly Adventures is not just a food blog. It's a spirit of living. It's about actively listening to your gut – that voice inside you that grumbles when you haven't had enough – whether that's enough love, enough fun, enough focus towards the pursuit of your dreams or something else – and also that voice that tells you when your plate is too full. A belly is the only compass you'll ever need to navigate through life.
To be a belly adventurer you must listen to your belly and have the courage to satisfy your deepest cravings. Taste and appreciate all of life's flavors. Fuel your dreams. Nourish yourself. You're important. It isn't always easy. I'm still learning and I have yet to eat a perfectly balanced meal. Sometimes I lack Mineral Motivation while getting plenty Vitamin Fun. I stumble and fall a lot but I also fall to the floor laughing.
I hope my articles on food, travel, and life will be a delightful Scooby Snack to your day. Belly up. There's a lot to digest here.
Nom & Happiness,
P.S. I'd love to stay in touch and get to know you better. Feel free to connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus.

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August has flown by for us down here. It seems like the weeks are going by faster and faster, and we are getting busier and busier. We shot the cover for the next issue of The One, which comes out in October. The main prop this time was an excellent old car. I wish I knew enough about cars to tell you what it is...but I don't...so you can just look at the pictures and take your best guess. We also took the magazine to two summer wedding fairs, and will be attending the winter one as well.
Annnd, it happened. I turned twenty-five. Ick. And it was on a Monday. Boo. But Nate threw me an excellent little birthday party. I had mentioned a while back that I wanted a spongebob and star trek birthday...and he totally delivered. You're never too old for spongebob.
And Cap't Picard, you're always welcome at my birthday parties.
We didn't get to celebrate for long though. Little Beanie ween managed to give us quite a scare and we spent most of my birthday evening in the ER vet clinic getting her leg/back checked out. Fortunately it was just a sprain or something and not her back. And it slowed her down for a grand total of about 19 seconds before she was back harassing her older sister...ugh, the crazy beast needs to take a chill pill.
Next month Nate and I are heading to Nashville for our first vacation (just the two of us) since our honeymoon. CAN NOT WAIT! It'll be my first time to the city, but I already know I'm going to love it. And yes, we will be making a trip to Financial Peace Plaza. Hopefully Dave Ramsey will be doing the show live that week. Feel free to let me know if you've got any must see/dos! We're starting to get our plans figured out.
Might as well start out with super cute pics of a dachshund...
Beanie ween taking a Sunday nap.
Nicki Bursae and I taking advantage of the photobooth at the wedding fair.
The car's proud parents.
The super cute cover couple, Marcos and Anna.
The cover was shot by Bellezza Photography
Trying to get a shot inside the car.
My chocolate birthday cake made by Karina. :) Thanks lady!! Yummy.
Nate threw me the spongebob/star trek bday I always wanted.
Complete with brie, champagne, and spongebob plates.
Bean scared at the ER, Nate being super bored.
And then taking it easy once home.
On the water out in Ingelside to celebrate the Texas A&M graduation.
The crew, minus the graduation girl. Oops.
Graduation girl. Congrats Ashley!
The grad announcements I designed for her. :)
Karina and Chase at the Hooks game. We went to celebrate Karina's new and fabulous JOB! Woooo for employment! And for good friends.


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Stop Unconstitutional Double Taxation
Senators scrutinize FATCA (http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2012/07/31/deserves-own-post-fatca/)
Some senators are starting to see the bigger picture: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/washington-expert-applauds-senators-scrutiny-of-fatca-hails-first-nail-in-coffin-of-bad-law-164446156.html
ACA has picked up on this:
Letter from Paul, Lee, DeMint, Chambliss:
Also interesting is the US Treasury Department Statement attached to the letter, which resembles quite a bit the statement released with reference to Switzerland, including the points I think might be very positive: B.3. "…FATCA partner would not be required to: a. Terminate the account of a recalcitrant account holder; b. Impose passthrough payment witholding on payments to recalcitrant account holders; c. Impose passthrough payment witholding on payments to other FFIs…"
ACA Press Release on the Senators' position:
FATCA Fallout — Swiss banks step up efforts to identify, quarantine or avoid US citizens
Another story of an honest, hard working US Person and their family being mistreated because of FATCA:
From: http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/06/21/swiss-banks-step-up-efforts-to-identify-quarantine-or-avoid-us-citizens/
By Amy Webster
I have been living in Switzerland since 1984 and am married to a Swiss national. We own a house together in Morges and are currently building a chalet in the Valais. For this new construction we obtained a loan from the Zurich-based zweiplus bank, where my husband had invested some funds. The construction is underway and we recently asked the bank for additional funds. Although we are good clients and the loan itself would not raise a problem, the harsh news came that under no circumstance could we obtain a greater loan; in fact the entire mortgage is questioned, for the sole reason that I am a dual Swiss-US national.
We also learned that this bank considers my husband a dual national as well, which is understandably infuriating. Although they have known since the beginning that I am a US national, some recent political decision (internal or external to the bank) is making them revisit every banking relationship they have with US citizens — with immediate effect. I now understand this is a result of banks preparing for the FATCA law.
We have been asked to remove all our assets from the bank (and forced to sell all our stock at great financial loss given the current economy, because we cannot obtain additional funds) and to find another bank to refinance our mortgage, under the grounds that zweiplus is no longer allowed to deal with US citizens (or better said, no longer wishes to); they will in fact cease any business relations with any US citizen or anyone with close family ties to one (so my own children might run into similar problems in the future).
They referred us to banks who still deal with US citizens (there appears to be a short list), among them the leading Swiss bank UBS where my husband is, luckily, also an established client.
My husband was in touch with UBS today to negotiate refinancing our mortgage and possibly reinvesting our assets. He was told he has been considered a US citizen for many years and is handled by their special department in charge of such customers (increasingly considered persona non grata). They are willing to refinance our mortgage (at a great financial cost for us, as the breach of the mortgage contract has financial repercussions for both parties involved) and accept our investments (they make it sound like they are doing us a favor) but have told my husband that US citizens may no longer be allowed to even own property in Switzerland! I could not believe my ears when I heard this.
We already own a house in Morges and I have in fact been a house owner in Switzerland since 1992! My current mortgage for our Morges house is with the BCV (Banque Cantonale Vaudoise) and they have not informed me of any such change. To this the UBS man replied: "Don't worry, this will be coming soon" — meaning that all banks will soon be coming down on all their US customers (and relatives, I may add).
The backdrop of all these interactions with Swiss bankers has always been: "We are very sorry, this is not our own doing, but a direct result of the US FATCA regulations imposed on Swiss banks. We are very sorry to lose you as customers but have no choice but to follow the rules".
I would like to add that the reason UBS is actually willing to help us – to a certain extent at least – is probably due to the fact that they handle my husband's business and his family's estate. I cannot imagine how they would treat me if it were not for my husband, and I hate to observe the stress and anxiety this is creating for him.
The UBS banker even told him that it was thanks to his sister being co–owner of the building their father recently donated to them, that they are maintaining the mortgage on that estate. Had he been sole owner they would breach the contract because he is considered a dual national (which he is not!) because of his marriage to me. He was even told the only solution would be to divorce!
Needless to say this is not only infuriating but downright humiliating. My husband is putting pressure on me as the source of our problems, and I am therefore experiencing first hand how these unfair regulations imposed on Swiss banks by the US government are having adverse effects on the lives and wellbeing of US citizens living in this country, to the point of putting pressure on dual marriages.
I am seriously considering giving up my US citizenship which I had always been so proud of and which I so carefully looked after. I have duly filed a US income tax return every year, as my father rightly taught me, and to this day had never felt shame at being a US citizen. I am not so sure anymore and fear what is ahead for us honest citizens who are now being treated as second-class ones.
I understand the political motivation of the current administration to chase tax evaders and punish banks that contributed to such transactions, but I cry out in outrage at the fact that regulations intended to resolve such situations have in fact impacted simple and honest, hard working citizens like my husband and myself, and in a very negative fashion. I wish to use every means in my power to protest against such rules.
Please everybody, post comments at Genevalunch and/or wherever to support Amy.
Stop Unconstitutional Double Taxation
Jefferson's response:
This article does not fully address the issues faced by US persons living outside of the US, and reads a bit like an infomercial for the author's services.
The US has long overstepped its bounds through extraterritorial legislation that violates the constitutional protections afforded by foreign countries, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the U.S. Constitution.
US Persons are being forced to forfeit their rights to privacy and due process under the 4th and 5th Amendments, being subject to "excessive fines" in violation of the 8th, and are being legislated against without the proportional representation in the House of Representatives afforded by Article 1, Section 2 USCONST.
Recent bills such as the "Ex-Patriot Bill", provisions in the highway bill for passport confiscation and the blockage of payments to and credit cards issued by foreign banks that refuse to adhere to FATCA abominable acts…
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Revocation of US Passport Used to Collect Taxes: Tax Amendments to Surface Transport Bill
This ACA position paper just came out yesterday http://www.aca.ch/pospaperpassportandtaxes.pdf against passport revokation provisions in the US Surface Transport Bill
Stop Unconstitutional Double Taxation
Here is a recent article published in The Sun (NY) comparing the30% tax on capital gains of renunciants of US citizenship to Nazi Reichfluchtsteuer:
"…The Reichsfluchsteuer, or Reich flight tax, that the Nazis imposed on Jews trying to flee in the 1930s was 25%; Mr. Schumer and his Senate colleague Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, want 30%. Give Mr. Schumer some credit for creativity, Mr. Norquist; the New Yorker did not just plagiarize and translate, he also raised the rate…"
"…Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own" and "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property." What meaning does a right to leave have if the government is going to help itself to 30% of the migrant's property on the way out?…"


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In my mind Memorial Day is the kickoff to summer, that being said over the weekend I compiled a list of things that I want to do before summer ends. What's on your summer bucket list?
1. Have a bonfire at the beach (Seriously cannot believe I have never done this!
2. Go on a spontaneous adventure
3. Try kayaking for the first time
4. Go camping
5. Watch a movie outside
6. Play bocce ball
7. Enjoy as many sunsets as possible
8. Visit a random garage sales
9. Take a workout class on the beach
10. Host a Sunday brunch
11. Watch a storm roll in
12. Pack a picnic and head for a park I've never been to
13. Standup paddleboard
14. Hit up a baseball game
15. Go pick fruit and make jam
16. Give back and volunteer
17. Discover nice new patio spot
18. Get lost in the woods
19. Go for a hot air balloon ride
20. Fall asleep under the stars
21. Take a boat out onto the lake
22. Hit the trails for a bike ride
23. Go to the zoo
24. Attend a baseball game
25. Get food from a food truck
26. Hit up a carnival and ride the ferris wheel
27. Enjoy an outdoor concert


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Thursday, April 16, 2015
EwE - Tuscan Kale Salad
For Eating with Ellie today, Kayte chose Tuscan Kale Salad from p41 of Weeknight Wonders.
I have never cooked with kale before, and I have to say, I wasn't a big fan - it tasted a lot like grass, even with the lovely raisins and toasted pinenuts. (For some background, I am not a green salad girl.)
To make it more palatable, I served it with yesterday's WWDH spaghetti, making it just another green leaf in the spaghetti.
To see what the others thought of this dish, visit the LYL section of the EwE website.
8 comments:
- Sarah said...
Ah! That is too bad. I think it tastes better if you massage it a little more. It still tastes like a green leaf, though, of course. So maybe kale is not your best salad choice. No worries, there are plenty more leaves in the garden, eh!
- April 16, 2015 at 10:20 AM
- Kari said...
I like cooked kale, but generally more through stir fry cooking and with some seasoning...it's hard to know if I'd like this or not but it sounds appealing with the sultanas!
- April 16, 2015 at 4:49 PM
- Peggy said...
I too am not a kale fan so i subbed some other greens. But this was an easy and flavorful salad!
- April 16, 2015 at 10:11 PM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
I have to be in the mood for kale which I must admit isn't that often! :P
- April 16, 2015 at 10:48 PM
- Johanna GGG said...
I am not much of a green salad girl - have tried kale salad at home and not quite got it but have had a few when I have been at cafes that I have really loved and I think the trick is to get a really good dressing - don't quite understand the whole massaging thing. I keep hoping one of these days I will make one at home that I love as I do love to cook with kale
- April 16, 2015 at 11:22 PM
- Chaya said...
I do like kale but you are not alone, in our group, in not liking kale. That said, I had spinach in the house and used it, in place of the kale.
Try it some time with other greens and you may like it better.
- April 17, 2015 at 2:29 AM
- Beth said...
I do like green salads, but I like kale a lot more when it's cooked in any way. Raw kale is not one of my favourites.
- April 17, 2015 at 3:43 AM
- Kayte said...
Well you are a good sport for playing along! I had never had it or cooked with it before either, and it turns out we really loved it. I had heard that one needs to massage the kale with the dressing to tenderize it so I did that for about a minute and it turned out really good. That said, we are salad lovers here, so the chances of us liking it were good going into the whole deal. :-) Thanks for giving it a try!
- April 30, 2015 at 11:58 PM


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(director/writer: Bill Forsyth; cinematographer:
Michael Coulter; editor: John Gow; music: Colin Tully;
cast: Robert Buchanan (Ronnie Monroe),
Tom Mannion (The Doctor), Billy
Greenlees (Wal), Gordon John Sinclair (Andy),
John Hughes (Vic), Eddie Burt (Eddie the
Driver), Alex Mackenzie
(The Tramp), Douglas Sannachan (Simmy),
Danny Benson (Cop), Derek Miller (Bobby), Eric
Joseph (The Wee Man), Alan Love
(Alex), Margaret Adams (Gang Girl),
Kim Masterton (Gang
Girl), Richard Demarco
(Himself), Gerry Clark (Watchman), James Ramsey (Alan),
Janette Rankin (Mary), Drew Burns (Pete); Runtime: 87;
MPAA Rating: PG; producer: Bill Forsyth;
2Entertain Video-PAL DVD format; 1980-UK)
"A witty, gentle, breezy, low-brow, low-key comedy about a bungling motley crew of bored unemployed loveable Glasgow youths resorting to robbery to help out their dire economic situation."
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
The debut feature film of Scotch filmmaker Bill Forsyth ("Local Hero"/Gregory's Girl"/"Being Human") is a witty, gentle, breezy, low-brow, low-key comedy about a bungling motley crew of bored unemployed loveable Glasgow youths resorting to robbery to help out their dire economic situation. The street-smart caper comedy film is well-acted by the nonprofessional members of the Glasgow Youth Theatre.
(Robert Buchanan), Wal (Billy
Greenlees), Andy (Gordon John
Sinclair) and Vic (John Hughes)
are unemployed and miserable, so much so the Glasgow
lads contemplate suicide. Their dim-witted but gung-ho
leader Ronnie discovers there's a warehouse in
their neighborhood that stocks stainless steel sinks
and he schemes to steal 90 or so sinks through his
inventive but simplistic non-violent plan and will
divide the sinks up among the eight or so gang
members. To keep the nightwatchman (Gerry
Clark) off their backs, Vic and Wal disguise
themselves as flirty women, to get a truck to haul
away the stolen goods chemistry student Bobby (Derek
Miller) drugs the bakery driver (Eddie
Burt) he works for with his homemade potion
and others are recruited in secrecy to carry out the
sinks. After the successful heist, problems
arise on how to unload the hot goods.
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An Article
In Issue Number 7 (Spring '96)
J. Douglas Kenyon
the not-too-distant future, Atlantis-seeking archeologists may have to
trade in their sun hats and scuba gear for snow goggles and parkas.
If a rapidly growing body of opinion proves correct, instead of the bottom
of the ocean, the next great arena of exploration for the fabled lost
continent could be the frozen wastelands at the bottom of the Earth. And
before scoffing too vigorously, backers of North Atlantic, Aegean and
other candidates would be well advised to give the new arguments for Atlantis
in Antarctica a fair hearing. Already enlisted in the ranks of those
who take the notion very seriously are such luminaries as John Anthony
West and Graham Hancock. Founded on a scientific theory developed by the
late Dr. Charles Hapgood in close interaction with no less a personage
than Albert Einstein, the idea appears robust enough to withstand the
most virulent of attacks expected from the guardians of scientific orthodoxy.
At any rate, it will not take a wholesale melting of the icecap to settle
the question. A few properly directed satellite pictures and the appropriate
seismic surveys could quickly make it clear if, indeed, advanced civilization
has ever flourished on the lands beneath the ice. Leading the charge
of those betting that such evidence will soon be forthcoming are Canadian
researchers Rand and Rose Flem-Ath, the authors of When
the Sky Fell, just out in a new U.S. edition (St. Martin's
Press, New York). Previously published in Canada, the book contains the
couple's painstaking synthesis of Hapgood's theory of earth crust displacement
and their own ground-breaking discoveries. The result has already won
many converts. Graham Hancock believes the Flem-Aths have provided the
first truly satisfactory answer to the question of just what happened
to Plato's giant lost continent. Since devoting a chapter in his best-selling
Fingerprints of the Gods to the work of the Flem-Aths, Hancock continues
to opine in media appearances about the importance of their Antarctic
theories. John Anthony West provides an afterword to the new edition of
When the Sky Fell (Colin Wilson writes the introduction). Flem-Ath himself
discussed his ideas on the February NBC Special, The Mysterious Origins
of Man. To get to the bottom of all the excitement, if not the planet,
Atlantis Rising recently cornered Rand Flem-Ath at his home on Vancouver
Island in British Columbia. The author has not forgotten how his
own interest in Atlantis began. In the summer of 1966, while waiting for
an interview for a librarian's position in Victoria, British Columbia,
he was working on a screenplay involving marooned aliens hibernating in
ice on Earth for 10,000 years. Suddenly, on the radio, came pop singer
Donovan's hit Hail Atlantis. Hey, that's a good idea. he thought. I wanted
ice, so I thought, Now where can I have ice and an island continent? and
I thought of Antarctica. Later, researching the idea, he read everything
he could find on Atlantis, including Plato's famous account in Criteas
and Timeaus where Egyptian priests described Atlantis, its features, location,
history and demise to the Greek lawgiver Solon. At first the story didn't
work for Flem-Ath, but that changed later when he made a startling discovery,
unmistakable similarities between two obscure but remarkable maps.
A 1665 map by Jesuit scholar Athenasius Kircher, copied from much older
sources, seemed to have placed Atlantis in the north Atlantic but strangely,
had put north at the bottom of the page apparently forcing study upside
down. The 1513 Piri Ri'is map, also copied from much more ancient sources,
demonstrated that an ice age civilization had sufficient geographic knowledge
to accurately map Antarctica's coast as it existed beneath an ice cap
many millennia old (as pointed out by Charles Hapgood in Maps of the Ancient
Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age). What seemed
obvious to Flem-Ath was that both maps depicted the same land mass.
Suddenly Antarctic Atlantis stopped being a science fiction story. The
revelation had dawned that it might be something that could have been
real. Further study of Plato yielded even more clues. I noticed that the
description is from Atlantis, he recalls. Soon, armed with a U.S. Navy
map of the world, as seen from the South Pole, he discovered a new way
of understanding Plato's story and a new way of looking at Kircher's map.
Viewed from this southern perspective, all of the world's oceans appear
as parts of one great ocean, or, as what is described in Plato as the
real ocean and the lands beyond as a whole opposite continent. Sitting
in the middle of that great ocean, at the very navel of the world is Antarctica.
Suddenly, it was possible to understand Kircher's map, as drawn, with
north at the top, Africa and Madagascar to the left and the tip of South
America on the right. The term Atlantic Ocean, Flem-Ath soon realized,
had meant something quite different in Plato's time than it has since
the age of exploration. To the ancients, it included all of the world's
oceans. The idea becomes clearer, when one remembers from Greek mythology
that Atlas (a name closely related to Atlantis and Atlantic) held the
entire world on his shoulders. The whole opposite continent, which
surrounded the real ocean in Plato's account, consisted of South America,
North America, Africa, Europe and Asia fused together in the Atlantean
world view as though they were one continuous land mass. And in fact,
these five continents were at the time (9,600 B.C.) one landmass in the
geographic sense. Flem-Ath would render Plato's account to read:
Long ago the World Ocean was navigated beyond the Straits of Gibraltar
by sailors from an island larger than North Africa and the Middle East
combined. After leaving Antarctica you would encounter the Antarctic archipelago
(islands currently under ice) and from them you would reach the World
Continent which encircles the World Ocean. The Mediterranean Sea is very
small compared to the World Ocean and could even be called a bay. But
beyond the Mediterranean Sea is a World Ocean which is encircled by one
continuous landmass. A common mistake in most readings of Plato,
Flem-Ath believes, is the inappropriate attempt to interpret the ancient
account in the light of modern concepts. Another example, is the familiar
reference to the Pillars of Hercules, beyond which, Atlantis was said
to reside. While it is true that the term sometimes referred to the Straits
of Gibralter, another, equally valid interpretation is that it meant the
limits of the known world. For Flem-Ath, the world as seen from
Antarctica matched perfectly the ancient Egyptian's account of the world
as seen from Atlantis. The ancient geography was in fact far more advanced
than our own, which made sense if Atlantis was, as Plato argued, an advanced
civilization. Platonic theories notwithstanding, the most difficult
challenge, explaining how Atlantis might have become Antarctica, remained.
How could land, now covered with thousands of feet of ice, have once supported
any kind of human habitation, to say nothing of a great civilization on
the scale described by Plato? For the Flem-Aths, the answer, it turned
out, had already been worked out, thoroughly, convincingly and published
in the Yale Scientific Journal in the mid 1950s. In his theory of
earth crust displacement, Professor Charles Hapgood had, citing vast climatalogical,
paleontological, and anthropological evidence, argued that the entire
outer shell of the Earth, over its inner layers periodically shifts, bringing
about major climatic changes. The climatic zones (polar, temperate and
tropical) remain the same because the sun still shines from the same angle
in the sky, but as the outer shell shifts, it moves through those zones.
From the perspective of Earth's population, it seems as though the sky
is falling. In reality the earth's crust is shifting to another location.
Some lands move toward the tropics. Others shift, with the same movement,
toward the poles. While yet others escape great changes in latitude. The
consequences of such a movement is, of course, catastrophic. Throughout
the world, massive earthquakes shake the land and enormous tidal waves
batter the continental shelves. As old ice caps forsake the polar zones,
they melt, raising sea levels higher and higher. Everywhere, and by whatever
means, people seek higher ground to avoid an ocean in upheaval.
The Flem-Aths corresponded with Hapgood from 1977 until his death in the
early '80s and though he differed with them about the location of Atlantis
(his candidate was the Rocks of Saint Peter and Saint Paul) he praised
their scientific efforts to buttress his theory. In the summer of 1995,
Flem-Ath was allowed to read Hapgood's voluminous correspondence (170
pages) with Albert Einstein and to discover a much more direct collaboration
between the two than has been previously supposed. Upon first hearing
of the research, in correspondence from Hapgood, Einstein responded very
impressive...have the impression that your hypothesis is correct. Subsequently
Einstein raised numerous questions which Hapgood answered with such thoroughness
that Einstein was eventually persuaded to write a glowing foreword for
Hapgood's book Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of
Earth Science (1958 by Pantheon Books, New York). Earth crust displacement
is not mutually exclusive with the now widely accepted theory of continental
drift. According to Flem-Ath they share one assumption, that the outer
crust is mobile in relation to the interior, but in plate tectonics the
movement is extremely slow. Earth crust displacement suggests that over
long periods of time, approximately 41,000 years, certain forces build
toward a breaking point. Among the factors at work: a massive buildup
of ice at the poles, distorting the weight of the crust; the tilt of the
Earth's axis which changes by over three degrees every 41,000 years (not
to be confused with the wobble which causes the precession of equinoxes);
and the proximity of the Earth to the Sun which also varies over thousands
of years. One of the common mistakes, says Flem-Ath, is to think
of the continents and the oceans as being separate, but really, the fact
that there's water on certain parts of the plates is irrelevant. What
we have in plate tectonics are a series of plates which are moving very
gradually in relationship to each other. But what we have in earth crust
displacement is all of the plates are considered as one single unit as
part of the outer shell of the earth which changes place relative to the
interior of the earth. The theory, says Flem-Ath, offers elegant
explanations for such phenomena as the rapid extinction of the Mammoths
in Siberia, the near universal presence of cataclysmic myths among primitive
people, and many geographic and geological anomalies left unexplained
by any other theory. Most of the evidence usually cited to support the
idea of ice ages serves earth crust displacement even better. Under the
latter, some parts of the planet are always in an ice age when others
are not. As lands change latitudes, they move either into or out of an
ice age. The same change that put western Antarctica in the ice box also
quick-froze Siberia but thawed out much of North America. While
many establishment geologists insist that the Antarctic ice cap is much
older that the 11,600 years indicated by Plato, Flem-Ath points out that
the core sampling on which most of the dating is based is taken from Greater
Antarctica which was indeed under ice, even during the time of Atlantis.
The suggestion here is that a movement of about 30 degrees or about 2,000
miles occurred within a relatively short span of time. Before such a movement,
the Palmer peninsula of Lesser Antarctica (the part closest to South America
whose sovereignty is presently disputed by Chile, Argentina and Great
Britain) would have projected an area the size of western Europe beyond
the Antarctic circle into temperate latitudes reaching as far as Mediterranean-like
climes. In the meantime Greater Antarctica would have remained under ice
in the Antarctic circle. An area such as that described by Plato,
says Flem-Ath would be the size of Pennsylvania, with a city comparable
to modern-day London. Not a bad target for satellite photography. Concentric
circles or other large geometric features should be easily discernible
through the ice. Flem-Ath believes that in most areas, Plato should
be taken at his word, though he does suspect that there may have been
some fabrications in the story. The war between the Atlanteans and the
Greeks, for example, he believes may have been cooked up to please the
local audience. In regard to the scale of Atlantean achievement, however,
he takes Plato quite seriously and is very impressed. The engineering
feats described, says Flem-Ath, would have required incredible skill,
moreso than even what we have today. As for the notion that Plato's numbers
should be scaled down by a factor of ten, a frequent argument used to
support claims that Atlantis was really the Minoan civilization in the
Aegean, he doesn't buy it. A factor of 10 error might be understandable
when you are using Arabic numbers, with a difference between 100 and 1000
of one decimal place, but in Egyptian numbering, the difference between
the two numbers is unmistakable. For him the argument is similar to the
one for a North Atlantic location, in which a modern concept has been
inappropriate-ly superimposed upon an ancient one. So far Flem-Ath's
ideas have been largely ignored by the scientific establishment, but he
believes that at least Hapgood's arguments may be getting close to some
kind of acceptance. Quite often new ideas take about 50 years to be absorbed,
he says, and we're getting close to the time. If, in fact, satellite
photography and seismic surveys produce the indications that Flem-Ath
expects, what next? The ice in the region that we are talking about is
relatively shallow, he says, less than half a kilometer and once we've
pinpointed the area, it should be relatively easy to sink a shaft and
find something. That something could be among the finest and most
dramatic artifacts ever discovered, quick-frozen and stored undisturbed
for almost 12,000 years. A prospect hot enough to melt the hearts
of even the most hardened skeptics? We shall see.
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- (transitive) To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
- And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. —Dryden.
- He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. —John ix. 6.
- (transitive) To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.
- Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his [Aaron's] head and anoint him. —Exod. xxix. 7.
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We got a coconut wood soap dish as a gift a few months ago, and we really like the look. After a couple of weeks, though, we noticed it started to crack (due to moisture, we're guessing) straight down the middle. We're wondering if this is typical of coconut wood, and if anyone else has one at home. This one (pictured above) is nearly identical to the one we have, and is available online from Health Classics.
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WASHINGTON — The recession continued to batter families this year, with the number of stay-at-home mothers declining and a sharp rise in the number of children living with their grandparents, according to a new Census Bureau report.
The number of children living in their grandparents' home increased by 8 percent compared with 2009, the second such rise in two years, and an indication that the recession is rearranging how people live.
Over all, 6.5 percent of children in the United States lived with their grandparents, a 20-year high and double the rate in 1970, said Andrew Cherlin, a professor of sociology and public policy at Johns Hopkins University, who analyzed the data.
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The recession may also have been a factor in reducing the number of stay-at-home mothers, which dropped slightly to 23 percent in 2010, down one percentage point from 2007, when the economic downturn began.
The report also highlighted increases in the marriage age for men and women, a long-term trend that began in the 1950s. This year, the median age for men to marry for the first time was 28, up from 26 in 2000. The age for women was 26, up from 25 a decade ago.
Americans were marrying at their youngest in the 1950s, when half of all women were married by their early 20s, Mr. Cherlin said. But the age has been rising since then, and it is now the highest since the government began to track the data in the 1890s, he said.
In all, 54 percent of adults were married in 2010, down from 57 percent in 2000, the report said. At the same time, the number of one-person households rose to 27 percent over the past decade, up from 25 percent in 2000. That is more than double the number of one-person households in 1960, the report said.
The report also noted an increase in the average size of households headed by Americans without a high school degree. There are a number of possible reasons, Mr. Cherlin said, including an increase in the overall number of immigrants, who tend to be less educated and have larger families, or doubling up within households.
An article last Saturday about a Census Bureau report that for the first time measured the percentage of unmarried mothers who were not living alone misstated, in some copies, the name of a university in Baltimore where Andrew Cherlin is a demographer. He is at Johns Hopkins, not John Hopkins.


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Wanted to see 40 year old Chipper Jones get in the game, 19 year MLB career, all with the Braves, unheard of these days.
Wanted to see the 19 & 20 year old phenoms get in the game - Bryce Harper & Mike Trout. Chipper Jones has been in the Majors as long as Bryce Harper has been alive.
Wanted to see R.A. Dickey throw that incredible knuckle ball, (neat NPR piece on him), guy does not have a UCL (a ligament in this throwing arm) - lost 90% of his MLB signing bonus from the Texas Rangers because he was "damaged goods".
Wanted to see Jose Altuve, 5'5" 2B for Houston Astros get in the game. Altuve was my son's teammate on the Greeneville Astros & Tri-City ValleyCats in 2009. It was great to see him on the roster.
Jose and Dan in the dugout right after Dan's MILB pitching debut in Greeneville TN in the Appalachian League.
The National League won 8-0. However, I missed the one at-bat that I really wanted to see - Altuve - the power went out for one second which caused my AT&T U-verse box to reboot which took longer than the at-bat.
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This week it's time for that big, important talk about journalistic ethics. One of tonight's guests is Scott Burgess, former auto critic for The Detroit News. Although he hasn't given a reason for his resignation, it appears it may have had to do with a negative review he wrote about the Chrysler 200, which was subsequently softened at the request of an advertiser. We'll be asking Scott what happened and whether he might go back to the paper now that they have reversed their changes. Also, can you get an unbiased review these days — especially from the buff books? Should journalists accept trips from automakers to drive their new cars? John McElroy will even talk about the time GM threatened to sue him for a report he did. John is also joined in studio by the Autoextremist, Peter De Lorenzo, as well as fellow journalist Sharon Terlep who covers the auto industry for The Wall Street Journal.
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Anarres - The mostly desert planet on which the main character, Shevek, and his Utopian society live.
Urras - The Earth-like planet from which the Anarresti's ancestors came.
Port of Anarres - The place where Shevek boards a ship to Urras.
A-Io - It is the home of Ieu Eun University, where Shevek works and teaches.
Nio Esseia - The capital of A-Io, this is a huge city full of commerce, government buildings, and culture.
Ieu Eun University - The institution that brings Shevek to Urras.
Abbeney - Shevek lives there with his partner, Takver, and their children prior to leaving for Anarres.
Ne Thera Mountains - This is the mountain range Shevek goes hiking in with Bedap.
Dormitory - This place is an important part of Anarresti life because it helps children adjust to communal living and keeps them from becoming attached to their families...
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Such has become the logical disconnect in our culture that when a minor league baseball team recently tried to help the families of a slain police officer - liberal activists became apoplectic. The Staten Island Yankees recently held an event honoring Wenjian Liu, an NYPD officer who was slain by a black gunman after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The event was sponsored by Blue Lives Matter NYC, which is a charity for the families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, and it was meant to be an opportunity to raise money for the education of the children of the officers who were killed… but it turned into an exhibition of just how hateful and disgusting liberal activists can be.
Not insensitive at all, Staten Island Yankees! pic.twitter.com/rlFZQ5mw9Z
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Kirsten Savali, a cultural critic for the Root, an online magazine on African-American culture, said that with this event the baseball team "unapologetically spits" in the face of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"The Staten Island Yankees wanted to send a statement today, and they did: Black lives don't matter to them or the Yankees organization," Savali wrote. "On today of all days, they made it clear that not only is baseball 'America's Favorite Pastime,' but it goes hand in hand with the continued dehumanization of black Americans."
Similarly, Judd Legum, the editor in chief of the liberal blog Think Progress, argued that Blue Lives Matter is insensitive in that it draws attention away from victims of police violence.
Or the terms Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter are simply statements meant to remind folks that EVERYONE'S life matters. Yes, black lives matter, but so do white lives and blue lives and polka-dot lives.
How can we move forward as a society when these are the debates liberals want to have and men like Michael Brown have become their heroes? It's nonsensical. We can't discuss serious issues because liberals use demagoguery, straw-men, ad hominems and worse. They don't actually want a serious conversation… they want us to shut up and fall in line.Facebook, Google Plus, & Twitter. You can also get Freedom Outpost delivered to your Amazon Kindle device here.


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Now for some intriguing news! We are currently looking to expand! Up to this point, my gallery, A&A Photographic Arts, has always provided artistic consulting and full access to my artwork worldwide via the Internet and locally in Dallas, Texas.
This will not change. My art is still actively displayed at the Addison and Richardson locations of Café Brazil around the DFW metroplex. Sales of my signed works have recently only become stronger and those unique collections will still be actively monitored and changed frequently as sales continue to mount and fresh art is made.
We are currently looking at the addition of artistic consulting, including my personally signed works throughout the Tampa Bay area in Florida. This is a wide area of the Suncoast from New Port Richey all the way to Sarasota and beyond.
I'm looking forward to meeting and working with the great artistic minds of both art collectors and artists in these areas. This tropical location is perfect for the artistically minded and art lover alike and is well known for their support of the arts.
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All summer I have been waiting to get into my room and get started but they sent out an email saying, "Hey, we won't let you in until the Thursday before preplan. You can also come in Friday for half the day but no AC. Good luck!" Ugh... So I really had one and a half days to get it ready before all the meetings and planning began. Here are some pictures of what I walked into:
Anyone who knows me knows I like to switch it up all the time. So of course most of what was left up from last year is going, going, gone! I mostly just worked on one wall today, as you can tell, lol. Usually my room looks like a bag of Skittles threw up, so as long as there is color everywhere I feel good about it :o) This is a photo of my guided reading table (far left, hard to see) and the tall bookshelf will essentially be my desk. You can see the reading area with my focus strip, reading strategy posters, and CAFE board.
Again the reading area and the table on the right will be used for my Word Work for the Daily 3. I'm only doing Daily 3, not 5, since intermediate is a little different in how we work this was just easier for all of us: Read to Self, Word Work, and Writing Connection.
Across from the Word Work table is another bookshelf with all my nonfiction and author study books. The bulletin board above that bookshelf is used for our Prefix/Suffix note cards we create throughout the year.
I will be back in there tomorrow (fan in tow!) and hopefully keep working my way around the room. Now back to cutting, gluing, creating, and the OLYMPICS!
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Finally in the Classroom!
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text: Ban online casinostreaming 11 Posted 8 January, 2018 Hello this is a general email i am sending to organisations to try and combat issues with the online gambling industry and any feedback or response would be appreciated and like wise any good feedback i receive i will pass onto the UK gambling commission and the secretary of state department for media and culture in the UK and the relevant media organisation i am currently talking to. As a problem gambler myself for many years I have seen the online gambling industry grow and grow into the monster it is today. The biggest issue there is for any problem gambler is the self exclusion process needs to be fully changed, You can self exclude yourself from all land based bookmakers regardless of what company they are so you are unable to bet in a Ladbrooks or a william hill etc but online it is all individual company's. If the online industry and UK gambling commission could come up with a system that lets you have the option to self exclude or even a cool off period for say 12 months from ALL online gambling company's in one simple process this would be a massive step forward. So there would be a data base which all online company's operating in the UK would have to check before allowing a new account to be set up on there site. The process now just doesn't work as what you do when you realise you have lost all that money again ! is self exclude from the individual site/company but a week later your back on the internet looking for new company's you can sign up to and yet again lose more money and the process goes on and on ! until you are broke. When you sign up to a casino there is never any process to check if you have or have had a gambling problem, they dont even want your ID until you want to withdraw any winnings ! then you have to sometimes wait up to 5 days to be verified and yes guess what all that money you were going to withdraw has been pumped back into the casino, Some casinos to be fair are now offering a immediate withdrawal process with a lock option so you cant lose your winnings and put it back into the casino when your waiting for it to be processed. But this should be standard practice to all online casinos. From reading the recent BBC report regarding online gambling issues i do agree that the company's or staff have no idea how to pick up on problem gambling, I had a account at video slots (1 of many over the years and this comment is not exclusive to video slots there all as bad) where my set monthly limit was £200 a month i had spent all of that and then changed it to £3300 I only had to wait 7 days and then pumped £3000 into the casino and lost the lot with no questions asked surely this would alert some people that this person is not acting normally and has a problem. I know in the media the FOBT (fixed odds betting terminals) get a bad name but trust me they are nothing compared to the damage online gambling and in my case online slots gambling can have on individuals, I picked up on the media reporting that a FOBT roulette spin can cost £100 every 20 seconds that is nothing to online roulette you can bet on some sites £10,000 a spin yes £10,000 a spin !!! on the FOBT machines playing slots the general max stake is £2 with a maximum pay out of £500, online slots there are slot games which accepts up to £500 a spin !! It is in a completely different league with the potential to lose thousand and thousand of pounds in a matter of minutes. Which takes me onto my final point which no one has picked up in the media yet (hopefully i can change this) is the rise of the casino affiliate marketing boom, Online casino streamers using you tube and twitch, They are affiliates for the casinos and spend hours streaming and posting gambling content online with links in there adverts getting there vulnerable watchers to sign up to the casinos they are promoting. Posting there big wins online making people think its actually possible to win ! In my opnion this has to be looked into as it is predatory behavior and needs to be fully regulated or in my opinion stopped completely. They make there money by getting people to sign up to these casinos and then make more money when they lose it is such immoral behavior. Below is the list of the main online casino affiliate streamers that people in the UK get persuaded into signing up to through their links. Not to mention the irresponsible promoting of gambling for hours after hours every day and night ! . (on you tube and twitch) . Nickslots . Jimbo casino . Rocknrolla casino channel . The bandits slots channel . Craigs slots . Lets give it a spin . Grapes gambling channel . Stop and step . Shirox 1980 . Casino daddy . Hypalinx . dazza G . David Labowsky casino streamer . Roshtein gambling channel There are many more but these are all the main ones that people watch in the UK it is getting really bad. Thank you for taking the time to read this message Regards Ban online casino streaming Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The Roundel Group follows the league and consists of a series of recreational karting meetings at Allsports every other Sunday throughout the remainder of the year. These races are for fun rather than points and are attended on an "as available" basis. The League or Roundel events are both great places to gain experience, become familiar with karting and have fun in a friendly atmosphere.
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Wedding welcome bags are the very first way you'll greet your out of town guests when they arrive to celebrate your wedding with you and your fiancé. No matter how near or far they traveled to make it to your wedding, they'll latch on to that welcome bag, appreciating and enjoying every single thing inside. So make your wedding welcome bags have a boost of personality and are more unique and different than any other welcome bags your guests have ever received with these seven tips.
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While you should fill your welcome bag with practical items (Advil, mini bottles of water, etc.) you can also stuff them with some funny gifts and candy too.
3. Make Them Personalized
Split the bags into categories and make ones for the younger crowd, your friends, and even older family members.
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5. Include a Take Home Gift
While most people leave the welcome bags in their hotel room, add a souvenir in there (whether from your wedding or a local treat) that they can take home with them.
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Aim High, Florissant, Colorado, USA, 72.65 Acres
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- Street Address : TBD Secluded Canyon Hts
- Postal / Zip Code : 80816
- State / Province : Colorado
- County : Teller
- Closest City : Florissant
- Lot Size Acres : 72.65 Acres
- Dwelling : No
- (Assessor) Parcel Number : 05052000320
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So, what's the difference in a P-12 library media center and a P-12 learning commons? I'm glad you asked!
Perhaps the best word to describe the difference is "moving." The traditional P-12 library media center is certainly a place filled with resources, technology, personnel, and learning, but it is often based upon the concepts of consistency and standardization. It tends to be a controlled environment with limited activity beyond student research and traditional procedures. The learning commons concept is much more eclectic and versatile. There is constant activity with options for students that transcend the normal realm of "library-ness."
While there is some overlap in the two approaches to media center design and function, the learning commons concept transforms the facility into a sort of functioning laboratory. The commons becomes more fluid and accommodates the needs of students and teachers in an exciting yet practical manner. If we were to visit a learning commons, we might see any number of the following events taking place:
• Furniture is ALL on wheels so the spaces can be transformed at will
• Coffee and hot chocolate are readily available to all students in the commons area
• The digital book club is meeting in one corner
• The media specialist is demonstrating how to design a web page using Weebly on the projector
• A small group is laboring over the airplane they are creating in the maker space area
• One student is quietly reading Catching Fire on the couch
• Science students are working with the 3D printer
• An English teacher is spending his planning time in the commons and helping a student with MLA formatting
• Parent volunteers are assisting students as they design their maker fair projects
And all of this is going on at the same time! Activity abounds, and students are free to create the kind of space they need based on the task of the moment. The beauty of this scenario is that it could completely change at any second. Furniture can be relocated so that small and large groups can collaborate and explore environments as they embark in participatory learning.
This sort of morphing from a traditional place to a more fluid area of exploration doesn't just happen by relabeling or renaming a space. It requires detailed planning and a very innovative and courageous leader!! Partnerships should be formed among media personnel, administration, parents, teachers, and students so that everyone has input into the plan for the transition. If possible, apply for grants to assist with the funding of the project. Make visits to schools or public libraries where the learning commons approach has been successfully implemented. As one media specialist from Fulton did, video the trips and use that as a selling point to faculty and staff as you plan for this adventure. Attend conferences where you can hear from presenters who went through the process and can give sage advice. This is a change that will turn your facility and program into the most popular and sought out place in the school building – and offer kids the kind of environment they need for collaboration and participatory learning!!
Some examples of schools where the learning commons concept has been implemented are linked below:
Centennial High School (Fulton County): https://youtu.be/m4Fo71h3DAM and https://youtu.be/-bUxr50hkbU
Brookwood (Gwinnett County): https://animoto.com/play/xVsIcLEaPcNzQVSiekLPDg
Woodstock Middle School (Cherokee County): http://www.cherokee.k12.ga.us/Schools/woodstock-ms/media_center/default.aspx
Photo: iPad at the library by Gretchen Caserotti, available under a Creative Commons Attribution License at https://www.flickr.com/photos/hams-caserotti/6181611284/in/photostream/


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A report has found the government's entrepreneur visa scheme is excluding some of the best international talent from the UK.
The report, published this week by Migreat.com, a website that provides entrepreneurs on how to get a visa, suggests that the scheme is "complex" and "bureaucratic".
The Tier 1 Entrepreneur Visa is designed to enable foreign entrepreneurs to come to the UK to start, extend or take over a business. It was launched in 2008 to promote Britain as a hub for the world's most talented and brightest entrepreneurs, and has since gone through several rule changes.
Migreat.com's report claims the scheme is still perceived as being difficult to obtain in comparison to similar initiatives in other countries, largely due to the growing administrative rigidity in the UK that has caused some talented entrepreneurs to fail the application.
Those that do want to apply for the scheme typically have to seek professional advice and assistance in order to qualify, the report also says.
Migreat's director of strategic partnerships, Josephine Goube, said: "The UK Government was a bold pioneer when it created a specific visa to ease the immigration of Entrepreneurs back in 2008.
"Unfortunately, in our research we found that in reality, the visa filters out exceptional international talents such as Seedcamp winners and entrepreneurs that raised more than £1 million start-up capital."
Business Secretary Vince Cable called the report "timely" and said the UK must do more to convince the world it is open for business.
"It's important that we get this route right to ensure that the next migrant business success stories, like Caffe Nero or Last.fm, don't slip through the UK's fingers," he said.
The report recommends four improvements that could be made to the scheme "easily, and at low cost":
Returning passports more expediently to avoid the risk of applicants missing business opportunities;
Increasing flexibility in the format of documents from Venture Capitalists and banks to reduce red tape;
Tailoring rules on timing of the funding process to match the reality of young entrepreneurs and pre-revenue start-ups;
Involving third parties, such as private and institutional investors, in the genuine entrepreneur test that is currently processed by caseworkers unfamiliar with entrepreneurial ventures.
Last December, the government said it was offering foreign start-ups £12,000 to the UK in a bid to attract some of the world's best entrepreneurial talent to the country.


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, Chief of the Ḵh̲urrami-sect; the name is the arabicised form of the Iranian Pāpak. He was, it is said, the son of an itinerant oilmerchant, and was engaged in a very humble occupation when Ḏj̲āwīd̲h̲ān b. Sahl, chief of the Ḵh̲urramīs noticed his gifts. On the death of the latter he claimed that his spirit had entered him and began to stir up the population of the district of al-Bad̲h̲d̲h̲ in Arrān (201=816-817). In 204 (819-820) Yaḥyā b. Muʿād̲h̲ attacked him without success. Afterwards in th…
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Cite this pageHuart, Cl., "Bābek", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936), Edited by M. Th. Houtsma, T.W. Arnold, R. Basset, R. Hartmann. Consulted online on 25 May 2019 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-871X_ei1_SIM_1085>
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The Los Angeles Department of City Planning will hold an Open House and Public Hearing on the Preliminary Exposition Corridor Transit Neighborhood Plan (Expo TNP) and its associated environmental clearance. The Expo TNP is a Specific Plan, which establishes new zoning and development standards and review processes for select properties within the Plan Area.
The Plan Area includes all properties located approximately within a half-mile of the following Exposition Line Light Rail Transit stations: Culver City, Palms, Westwood, Sepulveda, and Bundy. The Expo TNP regulates allowable land uses; building intensity/floor area ratio (FAR) and height; open space requirements; and building form and design.
DATE: Tuesday, May 23
LOCATION: IMAN Foundation, 3376 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles 90034
TIME: 6:00 p.m. -8:00pm Open House
6:30 p.m. Public Hearing
Planning staff will be available to answer questions about the draft Plan. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., a Public Hearing will be conducted by a Hearing Officer, who will take public testimony and accept written correspondence on the draft Plan. The Plan ultimately requires approval by the City Council.
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Welcome to the Atlas of Public Management, the successor to the Atlas of Public Policy and Management. The structure of the Atlas and the migration strategy from the original to the new Atlas is described in About and What's New.
All of the information available on the site is open access, including The Atlas Blog. However, if you use the information or data for subsequent circulation or publication, please cite the Atlas as the source, in the following format: Atlas of Public Management, available at http://atlas101.ca/pm.
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