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On Sunday, February 24th, Wheeler's Black Label Ice Cream will be holding an Oscar party at the Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn. The event hosts will be dishing up several flavors of Wheeler's Vegan Frozen Desserts, and Hannah Kaminsky, author of My Sweet Vegan, will be serving a selection of baked goods to accompany the ice cream selection. DJ JT from Philadelphia will round out the bash, which is open to the vegan ice cream loving public. The event details are as follows …
New York Oscar Party
- Where: The Ad Hoc Art Gallery, 49 Bogart St, Unit 1G, Buzzer #22 / Brooklyn, NY
- When: Sunday, February 24th, at 1:30pm.
- How do I get there? Taken from the Ad Hoc Art Gallery's website: "[We are located] next to The Archive coffee shop and Brooklyn's Natural grocery. We are one short block from the Bogart St. exit of the Morgan Ave. stop on the "L" train. Our front is painted red, you can't miss it."
If you get lost, you can get in touch by calling Wheeler, at 617-216-9087, or the folks at Ad Hoc at 718-366-2466.
Wheeler's staff is continuing the party on Monday at their home base in Boston. Since their new ice cream lounge is still being built out, they are having an "Under Construction" theme party, inviting guests to dress up like those builders, construction workers, and architects … jeans, work boots, and perhaps a neon vest or hard hat will earn you an extra scoop of vegan ice cream. Dress-up is optional, but may be rewarded. The Boston event will feature Wheeler's vegan ice cream and some baked goodies from The Concious Kitchen's Emilie and BabyCakes NYC founder Erin McKenna. The event details are as follows …
Boston Under Construction Party
- Where: The future location of the nation's very first vegan-centric ice cream shoppe, Wheeler's Frozen Desserts, at 334B Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA, at the intersection of Mass Ave & St. Botolph Street.
- When: Monday, February 25th, from 7:30pm to 9:30pm.
- How do I get there? By the T, take a Green E line train to Symphony, and walk down Mass Ave away from the Christian Science Center. To drive, you'll want to mapquest the address to find the best route.
For more information on events, visit Wheeler's Frozen Desserts Blog. For more information on Wheeler's products, visit The Ice Cream Project.


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Roberto Martínez Bachrich: I feel lucid in front of a short story
While his short stories are shrouded with the quick intensity that drags the reader toward the final effect, Roberto Martínez Bachrich's modesty captivates. Wary of interviews, or false stage lights, he only feels comfortable when talking about the writer's work. For him, literature is what others do; his own work is merely "an irresponsibility."
But since every mania has its cure and and each writer his editor, the new imprint Lugar Común presented last night Las guerras íntimas, the most recent collection of short stories by the author born in Valencia in 1977.
A relationship that unravels, two vengeful nephews, a man with an aversion toward tables, a pair of reckless youths, the feline perversity of a woman who uses her lovers, the journey of a family of Italian immigrants or the ghost of a decapitated nurse, these are some of the anecdotes about small daily passions that parade through the book.
(Re)writing. Martínez Bachrich finds the best of his literary experience in the constant editing of his texts, even to the point of paroxysm. For example, the first version of Las guerras íntimas was finished in 2001 and it was a collection of 16 short stories. But, in the process of correcting it, only the title and five stories remained. Between 2002 and 2007 he created a dozen more and after the task of rewriting he was left with the list of 10 stories that have just been published: "My first short story collections were published very quickly and I try not to repeat those errors any more."
The most evident trait of his prose is a return to the classical forms of the short story, which once represented the vanguard of the style of Julio Cortázar's Historias de cronopios y famas (1962).
With cohesion as a premise, not a single phrase in his stories is extraneous. "Surprise is a pillar of the classic short story and in these texts I'm working on the idea of attaining it, thinking of the knock out Cortázar discusses," he points out before emphasizing the real weight of the symbol in the short story: "The image can be a point of departure, but the arrival passes through the necessity of a story that's autonomous and well-rounded, that works."
Other short story collections by the same author are Desencuentros (1998) and Vulgar (2000). Nearly a decade ago he published the poetry collection Las noches de cobalto, but he prefers not to talk about that genre, though he hasn't abandoned it: "I feel lucid in front of a short story because I can defend it and I understand where it comes from, which doesn't happen to me with the poem."
Now, as he enjoys or in his case, rather, flees from the brief flashes of celebrity that touch those who present a book in Venezuela, he is also finishing the last details of his biography of Antonia Palacios entitled Tiempo hendido, which won the tenth edition of the Concurso Transgenérico de la Fundación para la Cultura Urbana last year.
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Two hilarious accounts of a trip on the narrowboat "ALICE" from Marple to Froghall Junction undertaken by two totally bewildered, bemused beginners. The first account is The Daily Log written by Cap'n Jack 'Titanic' Turnbull; the second, in verse, by his crew member and cook, David 'Beans Again' Brindley.
THE BOAT Played by 'ALICE', a 29 foot steel narrow boat complete with all usual facilities, plus a pot bellied stove. She had a mind of her own and a strong tendancy to pull to starboard like a broken shopping trolley.
CAPTAIN / CHIEF ENGINEER / BILGE RAT / SCRIBE / CRIBBAGE ACE Played by Jack 'Where's my Pipe' Turnbull. Captain because he was the only one with a hat. Scribe because he was the only one with a pen and Cribbage Ace because they were his cards. One-time trained killer with HM Forces, now coerced into this voyage by:-
ENSIGN / SHIP'S COOK / ELSAN TECHNICIAN / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Played by David 'I thought the gap was wider than that and anyway it was only a little bump' Brindley. One-time Music Hall Artiste, now a proud Grandfather and Vodka Taster for Shirley Avenue and Cheshire.
The Daily Log
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Great Canal Journeys of our Time
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All This and Froghall Too
The Return Journey
The Reviews
'THERE'S FROGHALL UP THE CALDON' © David Brindley & Jack Turnbull has been reproduced on the Marple Website with permission from the authors and for the amusement of the online waterways community everywhere. This hilarious tome should have pride of place on the coffee table of every narrowboat. If you would like your very own copy get in touch with David at firstname.lastname@example.com or through the Marple Website at firstname.lastname@example.com
David Brindley is also a Marple photographer of ill repute, who has his very own Gallery displayed on this Website.
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Joe, a local cartoonist, had the distinction of being the best "drawrer" in his class at school. Inspired by this he enrolled at the Ancoats Art College where he soon became very disillusioned owing to the fact that his tutor, a certain Mr Lowry, insisted that Joe depict on canvas his environment. Since he was no good at drawing cobbles, chimleys and thin people Joe chucked it all up and went to live in Paris.
Living in a garret, he tried to emulate Vincent Van Gogh but, besides not being able to draw cobbles etc, he couldn't draw sunflowers either! Almost staving to death, he headed back for home and got a job as Acting Deputy Assistant Cartoonist on a popular magazine of the time - 'THE RAGBONE, COAL AND HAND CART OPERATIVES WEEKLY.'
Joe has moved on to better things since then and is now Chief Cartoonist for the - 'WASTE RECYCLING FOSSIL FUEL AND MANUALLY OPERATED VEHICLE WEEKLY.' He currently lives, draws and drinks in Downtown Marple.


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Courses will be offered for $300 for the half day, while references as listed are free. Over the course of the next year a new multinational inter-agency Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Handbook will be created that will be offered in both hardcopy and online form, and constantly updated going forward.
A workshop on collection requirements, evaluation, and open source solutions is available in the Washington DC, and at very modest cost (travel plus donation to the non-profit) elsewhere.
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Contributed by the Manufacturing Engineering Division of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF MICRO- AND NANO-MANUFACTURING. Manuscript received June 5, 2015; final manuscript received October 21, 2015; published online November 19, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Sangkee Min.
Nanosecond laser machining of titanium has gained increased interest in recent years for a number of potential applications where part functionalities depend on features or surface structures with microscale dimensions. In particular, titanium is one of the materials of choice to sustain the demand for advanced and miniaturized components in the biomedical and aerospace sectors for instance. This is due to its inherent properties of high strength-to-weight ratio, corrosion resistance, and biocompatibility. However, in the nanosecond laser processing regime, the resolidification and deposition of material expelled from the generated craters can be detrimental to the achieved machined quality at such small scale. Thus, this paper focuses on the investigation of the laser–material interaction process in this pulse length regime as a function of both the delivered laser beam energy and the pulse duration in order to optimize machining quality and throughput. To achieve this, a simple theoretical model for simulating single pulse processing was developed and validated first. The model was then used to relate (1) the temperature evolution inside commercially pure titanium targets with (2) the morphology of the obtained craters. Using a single fiber laser system with a wavelength of 1064 nm, this analysis was conducted for pulse durations comprised between 25 ns and 220 ns and a range of fluence values from 14 J cm−2 and 56 J cm−2. One of the main conclusions from the study is that the generation of relatively clean single craters could be best achieved with a pulse length in the range of 85–140 ns when the delivered fluence leads to the maximum crater temperature being above but still relatively close to the vaporization threshold of the cpTi substrate. In addition, the lowest surface roughness in the case of laser milling operations could be obtained when the delivered single pulses did not lead to the vaporization threshold being reached.
Theoretical temperature variations for a 140 ns pulse at varying fluence values. The horizontal lines represent the melt and vaporization temperatures.
SEM images of single pulse craters machined at 140 ns. Scale bars: 20 μm.
Illustration of the method used to evaluate the diameter of craters
Comparison between predicted and measured (a) depths and (b) diameters of single craters formed at various fluence values for a pulse duration of 140 ns
Temporal temperature variations around 14 J cm−2 for different pulse durations. The horizontal lines show the melt and vaporization temperatures. The SEM images display the corresponding craters formed for 25 ns, 85 ns, and 140 ns pulses. Scale bars: 20 μm.
Spatial temperature evolutions on the top surface of Ti for a fluence of 14 J cm−2 and for pulse durations of 140 ns and 25 ns
SEM micrographs of single craters machined in the cpTi specimens at varying fluence values for pulse durations of 25 ns, 85 ns, 140 ns, and 220 ns. Scale bars: 20 μm.
Measured crater (a) depth and (b) diameter for different pulse durations and fluence values
Surface roughness and machining efficiency during laser milling at various fluence values for pulse durations of (a) 140 ns and (b) 220 ns. The text boxes shown below the data points give the maximum temperature reached with a single pulse.
Temporal temperature evolution at a fixed crater location during laser milling operations at a fluence of 14 J cm−2 for the pulse durations of (a) 140 ns and (b) 220 ns. The horizontal line shows the melt temperature of cpTi.
Maximum surface temperatures and the associated SEM micrographs of craters irradiated with three different fluence values. The horizontal lines show the melt and vaporization temperatures. Scale bars: 20 μm.
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23 March 2012
The new lab aims to improve efficiency in the oil and gas industry
Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) formally launched its FMC Technologies Subsea Opto-Electronics laboratory with two lectures by a leading expert on solutions for the oil and gas industry.
In a presentation to students on Tuesday, March 27 specialist consultant to FMC Technologies Dr Danny McStay will discuss Heritage to Hydrocarbons: The Role of Applied Opto-electronics, followed by a second open evening lecture for industry professionals and invited guests.
The growing global demand for oil and gas is driving producers to increase the overall efficiency of the production process and to operate in more extreme conditions with minimal environmental impact. Opto-electronic technologies are seen as one of the key technologies in enabling the industry to meet these challenges.
Dr McStay described how optoelectronic technologies have developed over the last decade for applications ranging from heritage to pharmaceuticals, as well as giving examples of how they have been adapted to meet oil and gas industry requirements.
Dr McStay is one of the architects of the groundbreaking five-year collaboration research agreement between FMC Technologies and GCU, where new technology is now being developed as part of potential multi-million pound research programmes to enable safer and more efficient oil recovery from deeper water and harsher environments than ever before.
Professor Brian Stewart, who is leading the collaboration from GCU, said, "We are delighted to welcome Danny McStay from FMC Technologies who will be giving a plenary lecture on the application of optoelectronics related to the subsea oil and gas industry.
"We are also very excited at the formal launch of the FMC Technologies lab at GCU. This is the start of an exciting period of new research initiatives and new strategic opportunities for both FMC Technologies and GCU through our joint research collaboration agreement."
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19 May How To Create Structured and Efficient Meetings Using Your Intranet.
While the digital transformation hasn't altered the quantity of meetings, there are definitely some steps you can take in order transform the quality of your meeting.
Meetings, if not done correctly can take up most of your days' time and we all know how dreadful that experience can be, especially in the business world where 'time is of essence.'
Follow the four P's below to integrate your corporate intranet into planning your next meeting.
Purpose (What will be discussed)
Ask for clarification. Why is this meeting happening in the first place and whether or not it is important to the team or the project(s) at hand? Find out who will be contributing and what is expected of them and if your help is needed in any way to help move forward.
But where does tech play a role in this, you ask? By incorporating an open space for your team on the intranet, everyone included in the meeting can see what is being discussed. Individuals can excuse themselves if they don't feel it's a priority or replace themselves with another associate from the team who would have more knowledge on the matter at hand. This step helps to assure that the purpose has been clearly established and made accessible to everyone attending.
Product (What the outcome should be)
Growing up, you probably thought the most frustrating task was to remember to make your bed in the morning, but then you started attending work meetings and came to terms with appreciating the smaller frustrations of life.
Ask yourself, how many meetings have you been to where nothing follows through as planned? Why was there someone writing down minutes when the critical path was completely off. Your team feels like this was a complete waste of their time since there were no tangible results at the end.
The fix? Your intranet. Use the open space to establish what the expected results should be prior to the meeting (although this can be tweaked during the meeting as well). Clearly indicate the outcome expected from the meeting and how you intend to measure these results. For a more efficient process, create a survey and send it out to participants in order to understand what results they are expecting to come out of the meeting. It helps to ensure that everyone is on the same page.
This open space allows all the data and knowledge and the process to be captured in one place. So in case someone decides to leave the company tomorrow, you won't have to worry a bit. It's all archived and ready to pull out!
Process (How do you plan to achieve the goal)
By following through with the actions mentioned above, you now have prepared everyone to arrive with a clear purpose and understanding of what needs to be accomplished. This allows the discussions to stay on track and not trail off, which ultimately saves ample amount of time.
Once at the meeting, use the intranet to add a document within the open space to create a critical path with participants. Each participant, under their name, can have a list of tasks to accomplish with a deadline. All the information is now shared with the group and everyone is clear about when each task needs to be completed to move forward. Transparency in this matter is key. With Readyportal users can add PDF versions which open up on the same platform (open space) instead of a new window or tab. This allows the reader to comment without the struggle of going back and forth between windows or tabs.
People (Who's involved)
Since people (attendees and stakeholders) are far more fundamental to the meeting, having an open space on your intranet will help narrow down on who the significant people are and who shouldn't miss out on the next meeting. If your intranet doesn't have user profiles, it is best to incorporate one sooner than later. This helps create efficiency when identifying experts in the organization who can assist with upcoming meetings.
With Readyportal, you have access to granular permissions as well. In case the meeting is sensitive, the beauty of having a closed forum discussion can also exist.
Follow the steps above and say goodbye to inefficient meetings!


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Jan. 20 - Amateur video out of Syria shows gunfire on the streets of Homs as protests continue. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Amateur video out of Syria shows gunfire on the streets of Homs. The video, which could not be independently verified by Reuters shows armed men running along the street. Homs has been one of the epicenters of the Syrian crackdown on anti-government protesters. An armed insurgency has been growing in Syria in recent months contesting President Bashar al Assad's grip on several parts of the country. The United Nations says more than 5,000 people have been killed since the uprising began last March. The government says it is fighting foreign-backed militants who it says have killed 2,000 members of the security forces. More footage shows demonstrations in Homs. The video comes as an Arab League monitoring mission is coming to an end. Their mandate was to determine if an Arab peace plan has been implemented. Some have criticized the monitors for failing to halt violence. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said five civilians had been killed in gunfire around the country Friday. Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters.


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Essays on the rise of the horror film and on how moviemakers package and promote fright
In large part due to its emphasis on gore, screaming teenage girls, and otherworldly elements, horror films have received little critical attention from mainstream movie magazines and film-studies journals.
In Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear, essayists focus primarily on how film technology, marketing, and distribution effectively create the aesthetics and reception of horror films.
Previously unpublished, these essays cover several styles of horror film-including the silent German Expressionist masterpiece Nosferatu, the jittery mock-documentary The Blair Witch Project, and the gracefully shot The Exorcist. Essayists question how lighting, editing techniques, sound, and camera and film equipment affect how viewers perceive a horror movie. Some essays focus on groundbreaking films, such as Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Most concentrate on a specific technique and how it is used in a variety of horror movies. Contributors explore how the evolution of editing in horror films and more realistic special effects have changed how these movies are made. Marketing and distribution are also explored to ascertain how the genre has become part of the American mainstream.
Using a variety of critical approaches and concentrating on aspects of horror film that have been overlooked, Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear is a valuable, original addition to the growing body of work on the genre.
Steffen Hantke, a professor of English at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, is the author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary American Literature: The Works of Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy.
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The climate of Carinthia is soft, sometimes reminiscent of the Mediterranean. On the lake you can come almost all year round.
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The most famous Carinthian lake – this Worther see, Millstatter see, Ossiacher see, Klopeiner see, Faaker see. Stay at any of these lakes will give a calm atmosphere in the picturesque nature.
On the lakes of Carinthia tourists are provided with various opportunities for outdoor activities – here you can practice horse riding, volleyball, soccer, Golf and tennis and Cycling in the surrounding area. On some lakes, for example, Klopeiner see you can go Snorkelling and surfing. The lake is a lot of fish, so tourists can enjoy a rich catch.
Rest on the lakes of Carinthia chooses both young people and families with children. The entertainment spend time in the local bars, discos, casinos and restaurants, while families with children enjoy visiting all sorts of events – a laser show, children's events, festivals and concerts.
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Carinthia is famous not only for its unique nature and ancient monuments. This province has preserved lots of ancient fortresses, palaces and churches, among which we should note, first of all, the castle of Portia in the river Drau, with a fortress Landskron on lake Ossiachersee, the Dominican monastery in Friesach the beginning of the 14th century, as well as the historic Benedictine Abbey of Millstatt, Ossiach and Saint-Paul-im-Lavanttal.
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We Illinoisans derive some pride in knowing Ray Bradbury's classic tales were influenced and informed by his environs growing up in Waukegan, Illinois. One of the first books that lit my fire for wanting to write fiction was Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Today Ray Bradbury would have been 94, and I encourage those of you reading this to pick up his stories again. Really read them. No, really. Read them in the context of what's happening in the world around you today. Like C.S. Lewis' stories The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters, Bradbury's legacy is his relevance, which withstands the test of time.
I was fortunate enough to cross paths with Ray Bradbury at San Diego Comic-Con for many years. In this photo, he was still bipedal, walking with his walker in 2001. He was always dressed to the nines, a sweet, pleasant smile planted on his face, always animated with the fans.
By the following #SDCC, he was in a wheelchair with a blanket over his lap, but still smiling and very engaged with his fans. He was positively lovely. One of our foremost pop culture expert friends is John Hitchcock, an author in his own right and owner of Parts Unknown Comic Book Shop in Greensboro, NC. I recall him telling me one of his favorite moments in geekdom was witnessing history unfold in a small room San Diego Comic-Con panel Ray did with Forrest J. Ackerman around that time. Miraculously, before that panel, the two had never met before.
When people ask me, "What is so great about Comic-Con, anyhow?" I think not of the crowds, the money we lose exhibiting there, or the sheer exhaustion of the five-day show. I think of improbable, magical moments like this one: Me, a small-town girl from Illinois farmlands, touching greatness for one brief moment in time.


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After another person discovers that I have written a book, I usually know what the next question will be. That is; "How long did it take you to write your book?" When I answer, that it took nearly twenty years, there inevitably comes the question "Why?"
The easy answer I usually give is that, "I didn't know how it would turn out!" Perhaps too glib and short an answer but it usually saves a lot of words, an excellent skill for a budding author to develop.
I began the book about five years after I lost my job as an airline pilot during the turmoil of the early years of airline deregulation when a corporate raider took control of our airline, drove the company into bankruptcy and used that as a pretext to tear up our labor contracts. There was a great deal of loose talk at the time that it was a wonder that someone had not assassinated this person who was regarded at the time as "the most hated man in the industry." The obvious answer to this question is that you want your airline pilots to be "rational" people and that "rational people" don't set out to kill their boss!
I contemplated these questions sometime after I decided to return to aviation when my new career as a securities broker went down in flames with the stock market Crash of '87. Faced with the prospect of starting all over at the bottom of the flying business, it occurred to me, what would I do if I were in the mountains on my elk hunting stand and this individual happened to coincidently walk out in front of me? Would impulse overcome rationality?
Not knowing the answer, I wrote the first few chapters of the book and set out to find a writers agent. At that time self-publishing was virtually unheard of and unsurprisingly, my first thirty or so author queries were met with total rejection, at least from the agents who had the courtesy to respond. Some expressed shock that I would even consider writing a novel on this subject. I guess they hadn't heard of murder mysteries.
As we all know, getting past rejection is easier said than done and I devoted my energies to finding another airline job. I caught on with two charter outfits that promptly went bankrupt themselves before I landed a job with an airfreight outfit and settled into a steady routine that lasted for nearly twelve years. I had thought that I would be able to complete the book during that time, since being back in the flying business had presented me with much in potential material and possible story scenarios, but my progress was much too slow.
Mandatory retirement from the airlines was followed by a job flying corporate jets and another excuse for the lack of writing discipline. The answer finally came from what we all know too well; to be successful as an author, YOU MUST WRITE! Perhaps it is trite, but it is something we have to tell ourselves every day. I had come up with the final plot for the book when I was still flying airfreight but it remained for me to set goals: a total page count, a chapter outline and a word goal for each chapter. Once organized, it was "only" a matter of fleshing out the story. I say that tongue-in-cheek because it still took two more years to finish, even once I had adopted a more disciplined approach.
I was even able to add a denouement to bring the story into the present time and the first edition was published just before the deregulation of the securities and banking industries led to the nearly total meltdown of our economy.
Of course, finishing the book is only half the story; getting published is entirely another matter. Frankly, it is a rarity these days for a first time, unpublished author to land a contract with a major publisher, unless one is a celebrity or a politician. From bitter experience, I know that bulk mailing query letters to literary agents is a waste of postage, ink and stationary. Queries must be specifically targeted to the preferred genre of the agent. One agent replied in her rejection note that what I needed was not an agent, but a publicist. I hired a nationally prominent publicity firm and it was not long before I realized that I could exhaust my retirement funds with very little to show for it. By this time it was obvious that I would have to self-publish and with the guidance of a good friend and mentor, it became clear that the best way to promote sales is through the internet. I am about to enter my third month of online promotion with a virtual tour organized by Dorothy Thompson of Pump Up Your Book Promotion and the internet exposure has grown exponentially.
In the end, I believe your success as a writer is a direct result of your determination and your confidence in the quality of your writing. You must be brutally honest when you ask your self and your readers whether you actually have a good book!
I have been fortunate to have lived a life of rich and rewarding experiences that have provided me with enough writing material to last for the rest of my life. If your life has not yet yielded the "big story," start with the small ones, especially the one you lived today.
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A fellow mummy blogger recently raised the prickly question of whether being told you've put on weight is a good or a bad thing in Lebanon. In my decidedly bump-shaped past 12 months I've certainly had my fair share of comments about weight gain, weight loss and a surprising number of stages in between. Yet with all people have to say about it, it is not easy to detect the general attitude towards weight, as Beautiful Feet says.
Clearly, a more ample figure is the norm here. By that I don't mean that the Lebanese are bigger in general than, say the English or the Americans. But what is held up to be acceptable is bigger. Whatever the average weight of your woman-on-the-street in the UK, models on billboards or in magazines are invariably thin. Adverts in Lebanon usually show an altogether more realistic kind of weight – though I won't comment on the realism of specific features since by all accounts and visible evidence plastic surgery is far more common here than in Europe.
On the one hand I have been chided for not being fatter, as if I was letting myself waste away, which I assure you is pretty nigh impossible given the scrumptious Lebanese cuisine and my love of food in general.
On the other hand, I've heard people being told in no uncertain terms that they are fatter than they used to be and ought to lose weight. A Lebanese friend got me in her kitchen and lined me up next to her daughter-in-law to quiz us on our height and weight and pointed out – in the sweetest, most genuine manner you can imagine – that said daughter-in-law ought to return to the size she was on her wedding day. Fortunately they have one of those Ruth and Naomi kind of in-law relationships or there could have been sparks.
Once I began gaining pregnancy weight, people seemed happier about my figure. It was nice to put people at ease – I must be normal now I was procreating and fleshing out. They made many a gesture to map the changes in my face and body to demonstrate exactly what it was they saw an improvement in. They even congratulated me for piling on the pounds at times when the scales showed no difference, as if they wanted to find something nice to say even if there was no real change.
Yet a gynaecologist I visited patted me on the bulging stomach and congratulated my husband on not marrying a "grosse patate". It all seems quite random. And that made me think of what a wise Lebanese friend told me regarding relationships this weekend. She said, "We say a lot but it doesn't mean a great deal; you say just a word and it really matters. In the end, it boils down to the same thing."
And she's right. People here comment on your weight like they comment on the weather or the likelihood of war – both small talk topics. It's no big deal. Tomorrow they might have changed their mind. In any case they don't expect you to take it to heart.
Beautiful Feet asks if people would really comment on weight gain to your face if they thought it was a bad thing. And I think that's the difference – if we notice a "bad thing" about a person it means we expect them to do something about it. Telling people that we think something about them is "bad" would mean insulting them. It's not our business – ever. But that isn't the case in the Levant. It's like the English complaining about the rain. We don't actually expect it to have an effect on the weather; we accept that the clouds will do as they please, just like people tend to.
While in the West we nurture a growing number of new social taboos, the Lebanese maintain the traditional ones but are free with their opinions on everything else. All it really means is that they have opinions (don't we all?) and that they cared enough to notice.
One thing is sure – you don't need to go around worrying about what people are thinking here. They come right out and tell you. It takes some getting used to, but saves the nervous energy spent on all that guesswork.


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I met Derek 13 years ago at UFV. He was on the men's volleyball team and I was on the women's team. Him and Marco hit it off as friends, and everyone who knew Derek loved him. He is just seriously one of the most darn loveable people I've ever met. He's like a 7 year old boy in a grown man's body. He has this passionate love of life, and when you talk to him, he genuinely listens and remembers and wants to know more about you and your life. He's so positive, and anyone who spends 5 minutes talking to the guy, walks away happier. The memories me and Marco have with Derek are ones we will cherish forever, they're ones we bring up often and often wish we could go back and relive them! From drinking out of a mixing bowl at a party, to being a groomsman in Marco's wedding party, to so many Sunpeaks trips and pool parties!
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The volleyball crew is a tight knit family, and us girls team was always a bit "protective" of the guys, always very curious about who their girlfriends were, and we always worried they'd never be good enough. Then we met Christina. And we fell in love with her just as much as we all loved Derek. She's STUNNING, and has this big, gorgeous, warmhearted, loveable, bold personality. She's quick to smile and laugh, not afraid to speak her mind and opinions and has a zest for life that rivals Derek's. Put them together and they're magic. Seriously, the cuddling, kissing, hugging and laughing….it's just magic.
I was so excited for their engagement session, not only cause I got to hang out with these two, but Jessica came along to practice her second shooting skills!! We had a BLAST!! We all hopped in one vehicle and explored Chilliwack Lake Road at sunset. The weather was AMAZING, and we all spent the majority of the time catching up, laughing and sneaking in photos of these two and their candid moments.
Derek and Christina, I can't THANK YOU enough for asking me to be a part of your wedding. I love you guys so incredibly much and I can't WAIT to celebrate in September!!!
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On My Mind || Pumpkins and other shiny thingsOctober 17, 2013
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I need those chairs, too. Go buy them so they won't temp me. I don't even know where I would put them.ReplyDelete
The white pumpkin with the gold polka dots is my favorite. We are getting our pumpkins this weekend, that is always a funny day!ReplyDelete
Those chairs are so pretty, the gold detailing is just fantastic. And I love painting pumpkins but for some strange reason I also love carving them! Since I was a kid I loved cleaning them out and baking the seeds. I still need to do this as a matter of fact!ReplyDelete
I can't wait to paint pumpkin again this year! I love the idea of putting sequins on them like the photo!ReplyDelete
I love that shelf and you are right, can never be a good sign to have to ask for the price:) I passed up a very similar one in an antique place recently and now i am regretting it big time!ReplyDelete
I love pumpkins, but HATE carving them!! I'm so excited that painting them is so on trend!! :)ReplyDelete
A pom pom pumpkin! Ha! That might have just become my weekend's obsession. The chairs... whoa...don't even get me started on those babies.ReplyDelete
Good morning...I may need to try no-carve pumpkins this year...with no kids at home, it isn't worth the mess of carving them. I love the "arm candy" - I saw that exact bracelet in Paris.ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful day, Albertina! xoxo
That stack of bracelets is awesome–I'd love to rock them!ReplyDelete
That chair! I want a whole set of them!ReplyDelete
hahaha those "price available upon request" are never a good sign!! But how stunning is it?!!ReplyDelete
We had that etagere in black at my last design job and it was so fun to accessorize. I must say though, I like the brass better ;)ReplyDelete
I am definitely going to start decorating some pumpkins for inside our house. I can't put pumpkins outside until a few days before Halloween bc our squirrels will eat them. Grrrr. And I looove that bracelet. So cute. xoxoReplyDelete
I also have many shiny things on my mind lately ...!ReplyDelete
Love the chair and the curve brass etagere ♥ Absolutely gorgeous! And yes, when the price is on demand it's not a good at all unfortunately...
Shiny gold things have been on my mind. I love the pumpkin, I also looove those chairs! Beautiful picks! I have a shiny diy coming up, that I can't wait to share.ReplyDelete


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WOULD you pay someone £500 to potty train your child?
If you've just waded through the aftermath of yet another "accident", I'm guessing you might be tempted. A specialist makes a living out of it, so of course those with money enough to offload all the unappealing bits of childcare are going to divvy up.
This week a mother who posted an online ad offering £50 an hour for someone to get her three-year-old daughter out of nappies by Christmas has got all the online critics trying to shoot her down in flames.
True, she admitted she didn't have time to do it herself and the daughter doesn't like authority which makes you wonder if she has time for much else for her daughter and how on earth she's going to cope when she's a teenager.
But at least she does some of the childcare herself. What about those with full-time nannies, nurseries, mothers' helps who hardly see their children let alone teach them anything. I don't see much criticism of them, so let's not be so hypocritical.
Frankly, I remember that I'd have cheerfully paid someone to teach Senior Son how to tie his shoelaces. It took him weeks - months - to grasp it and I had visions of him in a lifetime of Velcro.
The rich have always bought in help. Posh mothers used even to send their children away for the first year or so to be breast-fed by wet nurses. A brief spell at home in a nursery at the top of the house and then away to school. Children? What children?
But even the rest of us are gradually off loading our responsibilities. We have state funded nurseries and child care. Schools often give children their breakfast, entertain them after school and in the holidays. Teachers are expected not only to teach children traditional subjects but also all about sex, good manners, how to use a knife and fork and how to swim.
Now more and more five year olds are arriving at school still in nappies, parents clearly expect teachers to do the potty training as well.
At least some mothers are prepared to pay to get the job done. Better than not doing it all. So maybe it's time to give them a break.
And if you potty trained your children all by yourself – just think how much money you saved.
MEANWHILE in a pilot scheme, mothers have been given £200 of shopping vouchers if they breast feed their babies.
Rewarded for doing their best for their own children?
At this rate, the NHS will soon be paying them £500 for getting their children out of nappies.
I'M recovering from being loved to bits…
Americans are renowned for being friendly but Washington DC must be the random conversation capital of the US. A week there was like being overwhelmed by a load of excitable Labrador puppies.
New Yorkers don't have the time. Texans don't have a clue ("England? That's in east Texas, right?" a checkout girl once asked me.) But in DC, there's nothing stopping them when they hear an English accent.
From scarily trendy black teenagers in a burger bar to grand ladies in a posh cocktail lounge, everyone wanted to talk. In stores, coffee shops, boats even in a swimming pool, strangers struck up conversation and were our instant best friends. They offered a welcome, help, a game of football, advice on everything from tourist spots to happy hour bars. The lady in the swimming pool even invited me to lunch, "So I can hear you talk about England…"
Fellow passengers on trains, trolley cars or boats just launched into discussions. Most popular topics were Meghan Markle and Brexit, about which they were surprisingly knowledgeable, but this is a political city. A surprising number apologised for Trump.
It was in many ways delightful. Such friendliness, so many smiles, so many glimpses into other people's lives, such a welcome…
On the other hand, when I finally got on the plane home amid a crowd of Brits, we nodded and smiled, then adjusted our trays, our screens, our head phones and lapsed into utter silence for the entire seven-hour flight.
Maybe I'm too British, but after all that smiling chat, to be honest, the silence was wonderfully restful…
WHILE in Washington we went to see A Christmas Carol in Ford's Theatre, where President Abraham Lincoln was shot – the box is draped in flags in perpetual memory.
The production was very jolly – a rather corpulent black Scrooge was a surprise but a great success, as was a random steam engine introduced for no obvious reason except to add to the fun. Dickens, as always, triumphed.
A sign at the entrance prohibited the carrying of hand guns into the theatre.
If only John Wilkes Booth had paid attention…
I'M sure velvet evening shoes are just the thing among the upper classes, but when Prince William wore his to the premiere of the latest Star Wars film he just looked as though he'd absent-mindedly wandered out in his slippers.
FULL marks to the steward on the Virgin East Coast trains from Edinburgh on Wednesday evening when a woman in a long fur coat helped herself to half a dozen miniatures from the drinks trolley – twice.
"That's just RUDE, madame," he said, much to the approval of everyone else in the carriage.
Fur coat and no manners. Obviously her parents were too busy to teach her.


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The biggest surprise I experienced is probably that one of my players, who also happens to be a co-worker has misogynistic tendencies. He plays a barbarian, who really likes tavern RP. In our second session ever, he proceeded to hit on the owner of their inn very drunkenly and clumsily. That's fine. He then started spouting stuff like 'A no always means yes, everyone knows that' and similar lines like that when the female owner of the inn did not reciprocate. A chill ran down my spine. Since then, I have steered clear of scenes like that, and if there's ever a repetition, I have to make sure that I don't care for unpleasant surprises like that. It made me uncomfortable. It's a 50-50 split of men and women in my game, I don't need crap like that in my game.
As player, I had one session that was really surprising. In a unfortunately short-lived Pathfinder campaign, the group stayed in hiding at the headquarters of the church, and there they found splendid looking armor. This armor started speaking to my magus Thera. It wanted her to wear it (in a solo session I had with the GM). Sadly, that was the last time we played, we never managed to get together after that. The one time I have a character who is the recipient of something special, pfft!


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I've mentioned in a few posts that I love trying new recipes on my #weightlossjourney. I'm hosting a brunch and jewelry party tomorrow and I wanted some WW friendly items for myself and a few of the guests who are also on their own journey to a #betterme. Of course, Google, is my friend and I came across the below recipe. I'm going to try it out and I'll come back to let you know how it goes.
Author: Martha - Simple Nourished Living
Prep time: 15 min. Cook time: 25 min. Total time: 40 min.
Individual ham, cheese and veggie frittatas baked in muffin cups make an easy, healthy breakfast, lunch, supper or snack item.
- cooking spray
- 1 pound frozen has brown potatoes, thawed
- 4 large eggs, beaten
- 1 TBSP fat-free milk
- salt & pepper to tast
- 2 oz. cooked lean ham, finely chopped
- 2 TBSP finely chopped sweet red bell pepper
- 2 TBSP finely chopped green bell pepper
- 2 TBSP finely chopped green onion
- 1/2 cup low-fat shredded cheddar cheese
1. Position an oven rack in the centre of your oven and preheat oven to 350 F. Generously coat 8 muffin cups with cooking spray.
2. Press the defrosted hash browns into the bottom and up the sides of each muffin cup to form a crust.
3. Bake for 15-20 min
4. Meanwhile, make the filling: In a medium bowl, beat the eggs and milk together. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in the ham, peppers, onion and cheese until well blended.
5. Remove the potatoes from the oven and press them down firmly with a spoon so that they are like a mini pie crust lining the bottom and sides of the muffin cups.
6. Divide the mixture evenly, pouring it into the centre of each muffin cup.
7. Return to the oven and bake until the potatoes are crisp and golden and the egg mixture is set; approx 15-18 min.
8. Remove from the oven and let sit about 5 min before serving.
Nutritional estimates per serving (1 frittata): 3 WW PointsPlus value (according to Weight Watchers Weekly)
Friday, July 18, 2014
Good Food Matters, Ham Cheese and Veggie Frittatas
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Janie Glade - owner of Old New Blue and wedding/event specialist
Date of Wedding: October 24, 1998
Location: Temple Sinai, New Orleans
Honeymoon: Sedona, AZ
Children: 4
Event Planner since 1981
Education: BA from Loyola University New Orleans
How did you and Louie meet? Louie saw me in Audubon Park setting up for Katherine's 6th birthday party. He sent his son, David, who was 2 at the time and was a true balloon junkie, over to ask me for a balloon. I gave David the balloon, and a bottle of bubbles, and Louie came over to talk to me as David and I sat on the ground the blew the bubbles. The rest is history!
Favorite things about being married? Louie has treated me like a queen since the day we met and twenty one years later he still spoils me! Last year for my birthday he invited 10 of my closest friends to a five course dinner at The Pelican Club complete with cocktail pairings for each course. At the end of the meal, he presented me with a ruby and diamond ring and a chocolate doberge cake! After dinner we went dancing and back to our room at the Royal Sonesta which he had filled with roses, petals on the bed, a bottle of champagne and another small cake just for two. Fabulous!
What is the best marriage advice you received before getting married? You must be comfortable with who you are before you can really share yourself with someone else forever.
Best piece of advice to give someone now that you're married? You can either be right or you can be married!
Tell us a fun fact about your wedding. We let our band leader choose our first song, turns out it was the song - "Unchained Melody" - we both spent a lot of time making fun of! Now it's our official song and we dance and giggle every time we hear it!
What is your favorite date night with Louie? We love adventure so anything new, different, or curious!
When you're not planning weddings, what are you doing? Road tripping!
Favorite TV show? Dancing with the Stars
Name your guilty pleasure. Strawberry ice cream
Favorite restaurant: Clancy's
Favorite place in the world: Lying in Louie's arms while he reads to me
A place you would like to visit: Thailand! Cambodia!
Name 3 things always in your purse - besides the essentials: red lipstick, butterscotch lifesavers, and my inhaler!


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2013 Casper Chrome Virtual Car Show Winner
Casper has voted, and now a winner has been crowned! Randy Stephenson's 1969 Chevy Chevelle SS is the winner of the 2013 Casper Chrome Virtual Car Show!
Randy and his ride were awarded at Z's Classics at 2049 E. Yellowstone on Saturday April 20th, 2013. Much-needed funds were raised to support the great work of "Pop In The Shop" – a program designed to mentor Casper's fatherless young men ages 7-17 in the automotive field.
As the winner of the 2013 Casper Chrome Virtual Car Show, Randy Stephenson won a photo session of his ride by the pros at Beartooth Photography, a custom Grand Champion jacket, and $250 worth of fuel. Congratulations Randy!


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Summer Savings with Mazuma Mobile Recycling
Getting on the summer bandwagon and having a thorough de-clutter might not be your idea of a balmy UK season well spent. Nonetheless, there are tons of little bits and bobs you could be doing to make a bit of extra cash for the holiday fund!
Don't sell your mobile on eBay! We want to give your old mobile phones the Mazuma treatment! But there's probably still at least a little in the way of sellable goods in your possession. You might not be ready to part with that pristine Wayne Gretzky hockey card just yet, but the eBay odds are good that someone somewhere will be willing to pay a few pounds for things like DVDs, jewellery, books, CDs etc. You may only sell things for a relatively low price, but sell enough and the pile of precious cash adds up!
Sell Your Mobile to Us
You knew it was coming! Here in the Mazuma office we're all thrifty experts (everybody's had to start somewhere, right?) when it comes to things like making ends meet at university, struggling through your first job on minimum wage (and still trying to save money for a cheap beach vacation!) and trying really, REALLY hard to stay in the black when money is most definitely NOT growing on trees! That's really why we all believe in Mazuma – we've all recycled our mobiles too!
Make sure you check our regularly updated blog for more frugal hints and tips.


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How do you count words? Ashley Wagner discusses the question as part of our video on the number of words in the English language.
Definición de hacerse camote en Español:
hacerse camote
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México coloquial Confundirse [una persona] hasta el punto de equivocarse en lo que dice o hace.
explícamelo otra vez, porque ya me hice camote
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A lot of people get compliment and complement confused: they're pronounced in the same way and have very similar spellings but they have completely different meanings.
Should you capitalize the word "Internet"?Read more
The question of whether the word internet should be capitalized is so passionately debated and rife with controversy that it has its own Wikipedia article.
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Digital Transformation in the Indian Retail, Education, Media & Entertainment Sectors, 2017
Frost & Sullivan (F&S) determines digital enterprise transformation as a set of activities that will reform business processes, empower stakeholders and provide new revenue models using digital technologies (such as Social Media, Mobility, Big Data and Analytics, Cloud technologies, IoT & Automation, and Cyber Security) and by embracing new digital avenues. In the National Digital enterprise readiness Index- survey, F&S has extensively covered the adoption of these digital technologies in transforming the business and creating new opportunities for growth. Retail industry is the early adopter with respect to adopting digital technologies, whereas the education industry is primarily in the watch-and-learn phase or in initial stages of implementation of IoT and other technologies. Social media tools have been the most commonly embraced platforms for collaboration, customer interaction and internal marketing. Enterprise social networks are leveraged to enable formal and informal interactions within and outside an enterprise, thereby ensuring uniform and transparent communication. Enterprises are embracing BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Devices, part of enterprise mobility) to enable the use of personal devices and the concept of work anytime-anywhere to improve employee efficiency and effectiveness. In the customer-first world, mobile has been at the center stage and the business models are coined to collect data and give a customer a uniform Omni-channel experience. Analytics enables unleashing the power of internal and external data gathered from various mediums through data discovery and visualization and advanced analytics. Proactive measures are required for securing access, networks, data, applications, and the perimeter. This is the key to achieving the smarter workplaces of the future. Security is the most important decision making factor when organizations select a cloud provider, followed by reliability. There is more confidence in the cloud today, which is indicated by the growing use of cloud services for customer-facing solutions such as customer experience management and digital marketing. Over the next few years, enterprise mobility will be the top solution to be moved the cloud. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a platform in which all objects that are identified through unique identifiers, communicate with one another to transfer data over a network without any human intervention in a business environment. IoT is taking off in Retail, Education, and TTL, with consumer products ranging from connected home services to wearable devices. About 35% have deployed next-gen solutions and over 30% of respondents said that they have customized services addressing customers, distributors, and suppliers. In India, CIOs are adopting digital technologies at various levels based on the immediate need of organizations and revenue goals. There is a lack of holistic approach which is essential for long-term benefits. The study gives a perspective both about the demand and the supply side of the market to identify the maturity of the solutions available and also the levels of DT activities across various industries in the country. The study analyses the challenges and drivers of digital transformation (DT) in India and also analyzes the levels of DT activities in major industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, BFSI, retail, and other sectors.
1. Executive Summary
2. The Digital Transformation Journey
- Mega Trends Abetting Digital Technologies
- Digital Transformation Trends Enabling the Mega Trends
- Impact of Trends on Verticals
- Impact of Trends on Verticals (continued)
- Digital Transformation Journey
- Impact of Digital Technologies
- Top Technologies' Penetration across Verticals
- Uptake of Technology across Verticals
- Digital Transformation Case Studies
- Digital Technologies Penetration across the Globe
3. Digital Transformation—Indian Perspective
4. Retail and Other Verticals (Media, Entertainment, Education)
5. Case Studies (Demand Side)
6. The Way Forward for the IT/ITES Sector
7. The Frost & Sullivan Story
Features of this research
- Digital Transformation of Industries
- IT Services and Applications, Industry Research, Global
- Information & Communication Technology, Industry Research, Global
- IT Services and Applications, South Asia, Middle East & North Africa
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Promise Ring with Diamonds in Sterling Silver
DescriptionGive her your heart with this petite diamond promise ring. Created in sterling silver, the polished shoulders are exquisitely crafted to form a heart shaped frame around the central trio of diamonds. It is the promise of a future shared.
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I have been patient with myself thus far, not fixating on weight loss or muscle tone (bah! what a farce that concept is, postpartum!), but more on hormonal balance and milk supply. I can feel now that some of the extra weight is coming off, my bones are starting to shrink back down to where they once were many moons ago, and it's easier for me to find the energy to be active with the girls sleeping through the night (mostly).
Rich is still home, we have found a family rhythm and routine, and I feel really good about fitting some me-time back into my days.
OK, so I started by making my Pinterest 'workout motivation' board full of yogis, runners and athletic-looking slamming beach bods to get me going. It's helpful to see where you want to be, right? I bought some new hiking shoes when home in Ottawa, so I'm set for the trails. I've been trying to hike every other day (or thereabouts) with Skylar, Abby and mama friends in my little neighbourhood. It's nice to share a hike with someone, and our voices are supposed to help warn off any bears, so it's nice to feel like I won't be bear-attacked while pursuing my cardio health goals. We get our heart rates up, take in the vibrant green mountain landscape around us, chat about domestica and, in Abby's case, sing made-up songs about the forest animals.
I've been doing yoga every other day, either a good hour-long video or sometimes just a half an hour one to loosen up my back muscles, which are usually sore from carrying babies around all day. It's nice to get re-aligned and stretch, but more than that it is nice to find that really awesome Zen zone of concentration it takes to hold my muscles in a difficult balance. I finish a session so much more calm and rejuvenated, the benefits are always worth the level of difficulty I find in maintaining Warrior 2 for very long.
I'm trying to put an emphasis on eating whole foods and limiting how much processed foods I eat, but other than that, I am not being very restrictive. Feeding two babies still takes a lot of energy, and so I take it where I can get it. I also just love to eat, so it works out well!
So that's were I'm at, and maybe putting this all out there will be some kind of accountability to keeping me on track with my health goals. It's been a couple weeks and I've already noticed a difference in how my clothes fit, how much energy I have, and how much motivation I have to get through a hike or yoga session at the end of a long day when it means I can finally plop down and read or watch TV! Weight-wise I have about 10 pounds to be at my pre-pregnancy weight, but I don't count on being there until I am done breastfeeding, which is a ways away (I hope!).
If you're in town or free and want to join me in scaring off the bears on an evening hike, you're more than welcome to join in! I really dislike doing yoga with people though, so don't invite yourself over. I can gladly swap videos with you, though.
Maybe come spring, when I am all fierce and ripped from my guaranteed winter of fitness and heightened activity level (hopefully!), I'll start running again and tackle a good road race.
|One of my fave yoga motivation pics from my Pinterest board


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Sun, 26 January 2014
We speak with local author Mary Logue about her new book Killer Librarian. She is a poet, editor, teacher and writer who has written the Claire Watkins mystery series, four volumes of poetry and a young adult novel.
We also talk with Nicholas Soutter about his debut science fiction novel The Water Thief, which was awarded the Kirkus Star. The book was written as a response to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and posits a future owned by corporations.
Direct download: WriteOnRadio_2014-01-21.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 3:40pm CDT
Sun, 26 January 2014
We talk with Wisconsin author Michael Schumacher about his new book November's Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913. He has written twelve books, including Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Wreck of the Carl D.
We also speak with St. Paul author Diane Hammond about her new novel Friday's Harbor, a sequel of sorts to her critically acclaimed and best-selling novel Hannah's Dream. She is also the author of three other novels and she was the publicist for the aquarium that housed Keiko the Killer Whale.
Direct download: WriteOnRadio_2014-01-14.mp3
Category:Podcast -- posted at: 3:33pm CDT
Sun, 26 January 2014
We speak with Kate DiCamillo about her new book Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. She has just been named the next National Ambassador of Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress. Her novel The Tale of Despereaux won the Newbery Medal and Because of Winn-Dixie was a Newbery Honor Book. Flora & Ulysses is #5 on the NYT Bestsellers List and was longlisted for the National Book Award.
We also speak with Kent Nerburn about his new book The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo. He is a two-time Minnesota Book Award-winner, for Neither Dog Nor Wolf and The Wolf at Twilight and he has written many books about Native American culture and spirituality, including Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy.
Direct download: WriteOnRadio_2014-01-07.mp3
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Thu, 9 January 2014
We speak with Karen Hering about her new book Writing to Wake the Soul, offering a contemplative practice of writing that engages memory and imagination, story and poetry, images and the timeless wisdom of world religions and mythology.
We also speak with Will Alexander about his novel for young readers Goblin Secrets, which won the National Book Award. He is also the author of Ghoulish Song, which, like Goblin Secrets, is set in the magical city of Zombay.
Direct download: WriteOnRadio_2013-12-31.mp3
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(Reuters) - Shares of Micron Technology Inc (MU.O) gained 7 percent on Tuesday and were the most traded stock on Wall Street, a day after the chipmaker said it would buy back up to $10 billion of its shares.
The buyback, announced during company's analyst day, helped add nearly $5 billion to Micron's market capitalization.
"Micron executed one of its best investor days we can remember by cementing the case of the structural change in the memory/storage industry," Rosenblatt Securities analyst Hans Mosesmann wrote.
At least seven analysts raised their price targets on the stock after the memory chipmaker announced its biggest ever buyback, worth about 16 percent of the company's market value of about $64 billion.
The move follows the company's newly announced plans to return at least 50 percent of free cash flow to stockholders starting next year.
Separately, the company announced a deal with Intel Corp (INTC.O) to produce and ship the world's highest-density 3D NAND flash memory chip.
"Micron laid out the case that its business is strong and getting stronger as the demand for memory continues to expand, particularly as we enter a new age of AI," Barclays analyst Blayne Curtis wrote in a client note.
At a median price target of $73.00, analysts expect nearly 23 percent upside to Micron which was last up 7.1 percent at $59.40 in late morning trading in New York.
Reporting by Sonam Rai and Munsif Vengattil in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber


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ECCO Profit & Loss statement @March 2015
Eumundi is a bustling market town (two days per week) and a relaxed hinterland town on the other five days. It has a profitable market car park managed by ECCO, previously managed by Sunshine Coast Council.
Residents and local business have been calling for more transparency from ECCO and the common question is "Where does all the money go?"
Photo: Volunteer organisations from across the Sunshine Coast man the boom gates to receive a percentage of parking $ to fund their own projects.
ECCO (Eumundi Combined Community Organisation) manages the market carparks from which it derives it's main income stream. It is overseen by a board of directors with representatives from ECC (Eumundi Chamber of Commerce), EDCA (Eumundi & District Community Association) and EHA (Eumundi Historical Association - who operate now as landlord to The Original Eumundi Markets)
Photo: ECCO RV toilet/shower amenties. Approximate total cost of project $300k
A Profit and Loss Statement (March 2015) has been released by ECCO and is shown below.
According to ECCO's website "In 2008 the operation of the market car parks came back to Eumundi - at the determination of Council - via a 10 year agreement between Council and the specifically established Eumundi Combined Community Organisation Limited (ECCO), established as a not for profit company limited by guarantee.
With revenues generated from the operation of the markets carpark, ECCO's three constitutional objectives are to support:
(a) Projects that benefit the town of Eumundi and its surrounding areas, including projects that enhance community spirit and enjoyment; community amenities; community wellbeing and business and markets sustainability.
(b) To promote and encourage tourism and business opportunities that enhance Eumundi and its surrounding areas.
(c) To operate communal activities, including the community market car park, community bus, RV facility and the Green community magazine for the general benefit of Eumundi and its community."
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5 Definitions of Dean
The meaning of the word dean, the definition of Dean:
n. - A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
n. - The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
n. - The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
n. - A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
n. - The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
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