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"Unthinkable" is the latest BOOM! Studios series to enter the world of live-action development. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has ordered a put pilot based on the comic by Mark Sable and Julian Totino Tedesco.
Howard Gordon, a "Homeland" executive producer and the former showrunner for "24," is developing the series with Ben Queen, who wrote "Cars 2" and co-created the Fox series "Drive" with Tim Minear. THR describes the proposed series' plot as, "the story of the unlikely pairing of a by-the-book FBI agent and a washed up screenwriter who team up to stop a plot to attack the United States that the screenwriter and others concocted in a government sponsored think tank years earlier."
The comic, a five-issue miniseries, centered on horror writer Alan Ripley. "It's not just the fate of the world that's at stake for Ripley," Sable told CBR News in 2009. "These are his ideas, and whether or not he intended them to be used that way, he feels morally responsible for what he's unleashed."
A "put pilot" means the network will pay steep penalties if they don't air the completed project, and is generally considered a virtual guarantee that the series will be picked up. BOOM! Studios founder and CEO Ross RIchie will serve as an executive producer.
A film adaptation of BOOM! series "2 Guns" has made $85.5 million in worldwide box office since its early August debut. Another BOOM! property, "Day Men," is currently in development as a feature film at Universal.


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With the Selects busy down in South America at the Americas Pacific Challenge we thought it would be a good time to remind readers of the high performance player pathway. To get more clarity on the situation we asked Director of Performance Alex Magleby to explain what a young player would in theory progress through before playing on the Eagles.
According to Magleby it begins by playing on the Regional Competitive Team in one of the RCTs. From there a player would progress to the High School All-Americans, Junior All-Americans, the Eagles Selects or the College All-Americans, and then the Eagles. That said, Magleby stressed that it's not as linear as it appears. "It's not perfect. Some players aren't available for the competitions that lead into the RCT. That's why National Tracking Camps now go down to the High School level."
Take the jump to read more.
It's a similar system for women although without a Selects team.
In essence if you are a 16 year old player and you want to potentially be put on the radar for the Junior All-Americans you need to play at an RCT or show up at a National Tracking Camp. In many ways that makes sense. With limited resources U.S.A. Rugby and Magleby in particular doesn't have the time to go over individual film. Having players in a concentrated place and playing against tough competition helps gather data on that player and put them in the system.
Additionally, having a player find their way into an RCT or National Tracking camp see them matched up against others striving for the some thing, something that Magleby says is important. "We can measure a lot of things but at the end of the day it's performing in competition."
Of course the pathway is fluid. A player may not blossom until they are at an older age. A player may not even pick up the game until college. Still, the idea is that there is a clear pathway if you want to play for the Eagles in a World Cup or on the Sevens Series. This is the pathway we've seen for players like Ben Cima and Hanco Germishuys. Both played at the HSAA, JAA, and now the Selects, level and both looks like future Eagles stars (although they each have caps from the ARC). With the pathway now clear and tournaments like the APC giving players chances the odds are better that more Cima's and Germishuys's emerge.

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Lunch menu
(sample menu)
Served daily 12pm to 4pm
Two courses - £9.95
Three courses - £11.95
Two courses - £9.95
Three courses - £11.95
Soup of the day
Bruschetta à la greque
Vegetarian keftedes
Trio of dips served with hot chargrilled pita
Main Courses
Chicken sis kebab
Falafels served with tahini
Large Greek salad with mixed leaves, feta cheese, cucumbers, olives, tomatoes and onions and our special house dressing.
Salt and pepper haddock
Briam - selection of vegetables roasted in the oven with tomatoes, herbs and white wine.
Choice of ice-creams
Chocolate fudge cake
Wine List
(All wines are subject to change)
Red house wine
Merlot by the glass 175ml £4.20
¼ litre 250 ml £5.65
White house wine
Pinot grigiot by the glass 175 ml £4.20
¼ litre 250 ml £5.65
Pinot blush
by the glass 175ml £4.20
¼ litre 250ml £5.65
All the above wines by bottle £16.95
Wines by the bottle
Red wine
Othello - £23.95
full bodied, robust, dry wine from the Keo vineyards of Cyprus
Nemea - £24.95
Greek medium bodied wine with the aromas of cherries, boysenberries and spice
Naoussa - £24.95
spicy and full bodied wine from Greece with overtones of dark chocolate, raspberries and violets
Makedonikos - £23.95
Lively, fruity and bursting with the freshness of grapes from Greece
Monte pulciano d'abruzzo - £ 15.95
fresh, full bodied Italian wine with hints of wild berries
White wine
Aphrodite - £23.95
Dry Crisp wine from the keo vineyards of Cyprus
Makedonikos – £23.95
Crystal clear dry white wine from Tsantali with aromas of white flowers and lavender
Thisbe - £23.95
medium dry Cyprus wine from the vineyards of Keo. Subtle hints of grapefruit and apples
St Panteleimon - £16.95
medium sweet Cyprus wine from the vineyards of Keo. Floral bouquet with hints of citrus
Retsina - £ 19.95
very dry, typical rich aroma of halkidiki pines. Soft and cool with spicy aftertones
Chablis – £26.95
Dry, white wiTh ample ripe stone fruit taste with honeyed richness and floral undertones from Greece.
Trebbiano D'abruzzo – £ 15.95
dry and fruity Italian white wine
Pouilly Fume - £29.95
Reserved, refined and refreshing with mineral notes intermingling with a citrus core and leafy undertones
by the glass £ 6.75 or by the bottle £ 20.95
Please ask your server for champagnes and prosecco available
Frosoulla's Sunday Mixed Meze
6 Mains
2 Sides
you choose!
£14.95pp 12.30 - 5.30pm
Sample Menu
Olive Tapenade
Salmon & Dill Fishcakes with Ouzo Cream
Salt & Pepper Chicken Wings
Greek Salad
Hand Cut Chips
Acropolis – £5.95
no.12 ouzo, grenadine, lemonade, ice.
Athenian Rose – £6.45
vodka, Zivana, crystal rose syrup, cranberry juice.
Brandy Alexander – £6.25
Cyprus brandy, Tia Maria, cream, ice.
Brandy Sour – £6.25
Cyprus brandy, lemon, angostura bitters, lemonade, ice.
Cosmopolitan – £5.95
Vodka, Cointreau, cranberry juice, a squeeze of lime.
Elderflower G & T - £6.45
Gin, elderflower cordial, tonic water, mint leaves, strawberries.
French Martini – £6.45
Vodka, Chambord raspberry liqueur, pineapple juice, a touch of lime, ice.
Hades Heaven – £6.45
Zivana, gin, lemonade, lime, ice.
Helen of Troy – £6.75
Grand Marnier, Cyprus brandy, rum, cream, ice.
Homer's House – £6.45
Cyprus brandy, amaretto, lemonade, ice.
Mojito - £6.25
Bacardi rum, brown sugar, mint leaves, soda water.
White Aphrodite – £6.75
coconut, cream, Cyprus brandy, lemonade, ice.
Zivana Sunrise – £6.85
Zivana, orange juice, vodka, grenadine.
Pikilia Hellenic (For two sharing) - £9.95
Trio of Houmous, taramasalata and tzatziki dip
Keftedes and dolmades smothered in our house roasted tomato and mavrodaphne wine sauce. Served with hot pitta bread.
Dolmades - £4.95
Succulent Californian vine leaves stuffed with lamb mince, tomatoes and herbs and smothered in our house, roasted tomato and mavrodaphne wine sauce.
Keftedes - £4.95
Crispy deep fried, seasoned meatballs with herbs and breadcrumbs. Smothered in our house, roasted tomato and wine sauce.
Halloumia Kai Lountza - £5.65
Cyprus goat and sheep milk cheese and Smoked Cyprus Ham, marinated in olive oil, herbs and lemon and chargrilled. Served with hot pitta.
Salt & pepper calamari - £5.65
Tender rings of deep fried calamari in a light crispy salt and pepper batter. Served with fresh lemon wedges
Salt and pepper White bait / sprats - £5.65
Delicious little fish from the sardine family. Coated in a crispy salt and pepper batter and served with fresh lemon wedges.
Greek Salad(V) - £4.95
Mixed leaves tomatoes, cucumbers, olives and fetta cheese. Drizzled with our special house Greek salad dressing & served with hot pitta bread.
Houmous (V) - £4.75
Chickpea, olive oil, lemon dip.
Tzatziki (V) - £4.75
Creamy Greek yoghurt ,garlic, mint and cucumber dip.
Taramasalata - £4.75
Cod roe, lemon, olive oil dip
Tahini (V) - £4.75
Sesame paste, olive oil, lemon and garlic dip
All dips are served with hot pitta bread off the charcoal grill.
Falafels (V) - £4.95
Crispy deep fried pates of Chick peas ,onions herbs & spices
Served with tahini dip
Soup of the day - £3.95
Just ask your server for today's soup
Brueschetta a la Greque £5.45
Beetroot, Walnut, Red Onion and Feta Salad £5.45
(minimum 2 persons)
Frosoulla's special mezedes is a selection of dishes prepared by Frosoulla herself and available on a weekly basis. There will be a selection of starters hot and cold and a selection of main course dishes presented in our traditional mezedes style. There is also a dessert selection included in the mezedes. £25pp
Special Mezedes - £25.00pp
(minimum 2 persons)
Mezedes is a selection of our favourite dishes served in the restaurant. It comprises of starters & main courses with sweet included or coffee.
Meat Mezedes - £21.95pp
1st course - Houmous, tzatziki , taramasalata. Served with hot pitta.
2nd course- Moussaka, dolmades, keftedes and falafels with tahini dressing.
3rd course- Kleftiko, chicken sis kebab, sis kofte, rice, roast potatoes and Greek salad.
4th course- Creamy Greek Yoghurt with nuts and wild Cyprus honey or choose from ice cream or Coffee.
Main Courses
*All of our meat comes staright from the Sandyford meat market in Glasgow and is butchered in-house, assuring the best quality and freshness for our customers*
Kleftiko - £16.95
This has been prepared the same way for over 45 years by Maria Kyriacou and it is our house special.
Large piece of tender, slow cooked lamb with oregano and herbs. So tender, it falls straight off the bone.
Stifado - £12.55
TTender pieces of beef, slow cooked in Mavrodaphne red wine, onions and Xinomavro red-wine vinegar with cinnamon and spices. Hearty and filling.
Tavva - £12.55
Tender pieces of beef, slow cooked in tomatoes, coconut cream, greek yogurt, cumin and nutmeg.
Moussaka - £11.95
LLayers of sautéed aubergines or courgettes (seasonal) & potatoes with lamb mince, herbs and topped with a creamy Greek cheese and béchamel sauce and bake din the oven.
Afelia - £12.35
Cypriot dish of pan-fried pork, marinated in Sweet Greek wine with coriander, lemon and nutmeg.
Dolmades - £11.95
Steamed, young vine leaves, stuffed with herb- seasoned lamb mince, rice and smothered in our roast tomato and mavrodaphne red wine sauce.
Keftedes - £11.95
Classic- Greek crispy, deep-fried meatballs with herbs, potatoes and breadcrumbs and smothered in our roast tomato & mavrodaphne, Greek wine sauce.
Pasticchio - £11.95
Cypriot version of moussaka with layers of rigatoni makaronia with lamb mince, fresh-mint, black cracked pepper and topped in a creamy béchamel and Graveria-cheese sauce.
Seafood saganaki - £17.95
Large bowl of mussels, prawns, cod, salmon and calamari in a roast tomato, ouzo and white wine & dill bisque and topped with feta cheese. If you love fish, this is for you.
Salt and pepper Calamari - £11.85
Tender rings of calamari in a light, crispy, salt and black cracked pepper tempura batter & drizzled with lemon butter.
Chicken Yachni - £12.35
Cypriot, rustic dish with pieces of chicken, slow cooked in a clay dish with tomatoes, vegetables, bay lead and white wine.
Frosoulla's mint and dill salmon-cakes - £11.65
Served with a rich ouzo cream and rocket.
All dishes served with your choice of rice chips or roast potatoes.
Vegetarian selection
These dishes are subject to change to provide variety for our vegetarian and vegan customers
Kanalonni me spinaki(V) £10.95
Kanalonni tubes stuffed with creamy fetta cheese and spinach filling and topped with tomato and béchamel cheese sauce
Melenzania (V) - £10.95
Layers of sautéed aubergines, potatoes, and breadcrumbs and topped with our roasted tomato and greek Othello red wine sauce and baked in the oven.
Fasolaki me yiaourti (V) - £10.95
White canelinni bean and chick- pea tomato cassoulet with red wine, herbs and topped with a dollop of creamy greek yoghurt.
Vegetarian dolmades(V) - £10.95
Young steamed vineleaves stuffed with rice, herbs and vegetables and smothered in our roasted tomato and greek ayoritikos wine sauce.
Vegetarian Moussaka (V) - £10.95
Layers of sautéed potatoes , vegetables , cinnamon and topped in a creamy béchamel and greek cheese sauce and baked in the oven.
Falafels (V) - £10.95
Crispy deepfried patties of chickpeas, beans, onions and herbs and spices .
All of the above dishes are served with a choice of rice, chips or roast potatoes.
Chargrill Menu
The following dishes are prepared in our kitchen on our special charcoal grill to give that smokey barbecue taste.
Lamb sis kebab - £14.25
Large skewer with tender pieces of lamb, peppers and onions marinated in house herbs, olive oil and lemon.
Chicken Sis kebab - £13.45
Large skewer with tender pieces of chicken breast , peppers and onions and marinated in house herbs, olive oil and lemon.
Lamb Kebab - £12.95
Large skewer of tender lamb pieces , marinated in house herbs, olive oil and lemon.
Chicken Kebab - £11.95
Large skewer of tender pieces of chicken breast, marinated in house herbs , olive oil and lemon.
Mixed kebab - £14.25
Large skewer of tender chicken and lamb pieces, marinated in house herbs, olive oil and lemon .
Adana Kebab - £12.95
Middle-eastern lamb kofte patties served on hot pitta bread and smothered with our house roasted tomato and greek makedonikos red wine sauce and topped with a dollop of creamy tzatziki.
Sheftalia - £11.95
Succulent pork, fennel and cumin sausages.
All the above kebabs can be served on our traditional Cypriot flat. Topped with creamy tzatziki, greek salsa and served with large, hand-cut, chunky, herb Mediterranean fries.
Char-grill house speciality £1.50 supp*
Choice of sauces available for steaks, just ask your server…
Side orders
Hand-cut Mediterranean chunky herb-fries £2.20
Rice £1.95
Flat Bread £1.50
Pitta Bread £0.75
Feta Cheese £2.95
Halloumi Cheese £2.95
Kalamata Olives £2.95
Dessert menu
Trio of Greek yoghurts - £ 5.30
Kolios Greek Yoghurt with individual toppings of raspberry coulis, toasted almonds, amaretto liquere &crushed amaretti biscuits . honey and pistacchios.
Kataifi - £ 3.95
Shredded, angel hair filo pastry stuffed with nuts and drizzled with honey syrup, served with ice cream
Paklava - £ 5.20
Crispy filo pastry layered with nuts and drizzled with honey syrup. Served with cream or ice cream.
Greek mix - £ 4.40
Half-portion of kataifi & paklava served with cream and ice cream.
Ginger fudge sundae - £ 5.25
Vanilla ice cream, ginger fudge cake pieces, butterscotch sauce and a drizzle of metaxa brandy topped off with whipped cream.
Honey apple pie - £ 4.20
Delicious honey- topped apples in a shortcrust pastry, served with ice cream or creamy kolios greek yoghurt.
Pandora sundae - £ 4.60
Vanilla ice cream, maraschino cherries, raspberry coulis and white chocolate flakes and topped with whipped cream.
Desert Rose sundae - £ 5.25
Vanilla ice cream, Turkish delight pieces, pisatchios and rose petal syrup. Topped with coconut and whipped cream.
Ice cream - £ 3.60
Choice of choc mint chip, strawberry, chocolate, or vanilla. Or mix up the flavours.
Poached Pears Frosoulla - £5.65
Pears poached in vanilla and cinnamon and served with ice cream and pistachios.
Sticky toffee pudding - £4.60
Served with ice cream and cream
Berry Mess - £ 5.25
Crushed meringues with mixed fresh berries in a raspberry coulis and ice cream. Topped with fresh cream and served in a glass.
Tangy, crisp and refreshing lemon dessert with lemon coulis, vodka, ice cream and meringue, served in a martini glass with fresh cream.
Kids Menu
Soup of the day - £1.95
Chicken souvlakia with chips - £4.50
Fish gougons with chips - £4.50
Burger with chips - £4.50
Any of the above dishes can be served with a greek salad.
Kids ice cream choice of flavours - £1.95
Pre-theatre menu
(sample menu)
5.00 pm/6.30 pm
Tuesday to Thursdays
4.30 pm/6.00 pm
2 courses £13.95/ 3 courses £15.95
Menus Change Monthly
Homemade pate with warm pita and chutney
Greek Salad
Soup of the day
Bruschetta a la greque
Main Courses
Pasta lefkariti- penne pasta with tomatoes, olives, chilli flakes, onions, fetta and olive oil.
Salt and pepper calamari
Chicken sis kebab
Vegetarian dolmades
ice cream flavours
apple pie with cream and ice cream


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Bacopa Monnieri is very common in the world of natural nootropics. Due to it being proven to help with overall brain health such as boosting memory and cognitive ability. It is a well-known ingredient and one to look out for when looking for some form of nootropic supplement.
But what exactly is Bacopa?
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How Does Bacopa Monnieri Work?
The Bacopa Plant contains bacosides which are compounds. These help to repair neurons that are damaged in the brain, as well as helping new nerves to grow. The end result of this is that it helps to improve the communication throughout the brain and thus improving cognitive functions.
There have been a number of studies done to show the effectiveness of Bacopa Monnieri. Many of these were done over a period of 12 weeks and saw the participants seeing a significant improvement on their memory and the ability to focus. It is a herb that does take time to work and does require daily useage. Most people will use and start to see results within 8-12 weeks. Many people do therefore combine it with other ingredients to form a nootropic stack, in order to see faster results.
Bacopa Benefits
Reported benefits from using a daily dose of Bacopa include;
- Protecting Neurons in the brain to help improve memory retention
- Help improve the ability to learn new things and store what has been learnt
- Known to act as an antidepressant and reduce stress levels
- Is also an Antioxidant to help improve overall brain health and function
- Anti Inflammatory, allowing more blood to travel to the brain which helps with overall health
- Has been known to help with epilepsy and used on children with ADHD.
Bacopa Monnieri Dosage
The minimum dosage of Bacopa is 300mg daily, less than this and people are probably not going to see any results. The average dosage is around 500mg and you should never exceed more than 1000mg on a daily basis.
Is Bacopa Monnieri Safe?
Bacopa Monnieri is safe and people shouldn't see side effects for the short term of using. The most common complaint people experience is stomach pain if taken without food. It can also increase bowel movements, cause headaches, dry mouth and fatigue.
Pregnant women and those that are breast feeding should not use as there has been no studies done on it. Bacopa can slow down the heart rate, if you already have a slow heart beat then you might not want to use it. If you have a blockage in your intestines then also do not use as Bacopa might cause congestion. Bacopa in small cases has caused increased secretions in the stomach and intestines. If you have ulcers then this could worsen them.
If currently on Anti depressants then may want to low the amount of Bacopa used or avoid it completely.
If you have any lung, thyroid or urinary tract conditions then it could worsen them or be avoided. Naturally if you do have any health issues or concerns, you should ALWAYS consult your doctor first.
Bacopa Pros and Cons
Like anything you should weigh up the pros and cons to adding Bacopa Monnieri into your regime.
Pros To using Bacopa Monnieri
- Not Addictive
- Helps Improve Memory Retention
- Boost Cognitive Function
- Helps Enhance Communication In The Brain
- Increased Focus & Attention
- Improves Ability To Learn
- Helps With Anxiety and Depression
- Regulates Dopamine and Serotonin
Cons To using Bacopa Monnieri
- Upset stomach if taken without food
- Takes time to work – minimum use 8-12 weeks
- The powder has a bitter/unpleasant taste
Stacking Bacopa with other Nootropic Ingredients
Many people do consider stacking this ingredient with other natural herbs that have been proven to help with brain function. You can see some great results with it on its own, however it really becomes a powerful nootropic when stacked.
More often than not if you see a nootropic stack, it will have Bacopa in it. As it does help with anxiety and stress, you will often see it with other anxiolytic nootropics. Some like to combine it with Adrafinil or Piracetam to help with cognitive improvements. It is also recommended by some to combine with with a good choline source, as this can help reduce side effects such as headaches.
Using Nootropic Supplements
Whether you are considering just using Bacopa Monnieri or thinking about stacking it, you might want to look into some form of Nootropic Supplement. These products have become more popular over the past 5 years. Many of these do contain well-known ingredients, as well as being studied to show they do actually work.
It can often be a time saver to use one of these supplements, instead of creating your own stack and having to consume lots of different herbs.
You might also be reading this article because you want to research ingredients found in a specific Nootropic Supplement. If that is the case then Bacopa is a very good ingredient. It is well respected within the nootropics world, as long as the correct dosage is provided.
What Are The Best Nootropic Supplements
As I said there are a lot of Nootropic pills, not all of them are as effective as each other though. Some companies are using it to make a quick buck and potentially put people at risk, providing low quality and in some cases dangerous products.
Based on my research into individual ingredients used as well as the actual companies. I have comprised a list of the best nootropic supplements on the market. I do hope this helps, as in my personal opinion these are the top products offering the best results.
Click here to see which Nootropics I think are the best..
Barry is an enthusiast of all things bodybuilding and fitness. Spending many years researching a wide variety of subjects to do with bodybuilding. Barry has spent a lot of time researching different ingredients and their benefits as well as learning all about nutrition.


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Monday, August 25, 2014
Harvest Monday: August 25, 2014
Monday, August 18, 2014
Small Batch Pancakes with Blackberry Vanilla Syrup
Posted by ~TastyTravels~ at 4:00 PM 1 comments
Canning: Blackberry Vanilla Syrup
Blackberry Vanilla Syrup
Makes: 5-6 pints
8 c. blackberry puree
5 c. sugar
2 Tbsp. pectin
2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice (or juice of 1 lemon)
zest of 1 lemon
2 whole vanilla beans, scraped
1) Wash berries in a colander. Place berries in a large pot and over low heat and using a potato masher, mash berries until they release their juices.
2) Turn off heat and run berries through a food mill several times until the maximum amount of juices and pulp are extracted. I believe I used about 5 or 6 pints of berries for the 8 cups of puree. Measure out your 8 cups of blackberry puree and return the puree to a large pot.
3) Add about 1/3 cup of your premeasured 5 cups of sugar to the pectin and stir well. Add the pectin/sugar combination to the pot and stir to mix. Add remaining sugar, lemon juice, zest and scraped vanilla beans to the pot. Add the vanilla bean pods (just remember to remove them prior to canning) to the pot.
4) Cook syrup over medium heat until it comes to a boil. Stir well. Boil rapidly for about 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
5) Skim off foam from the syrup. Pour syrup into hot sterilized jars and leave 1/2 inch headspace. Process jars in hot water bath for 10 minutes.
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Labels: blackberries, canning, condiments, recipes
Harvest Monday: August 18, 2014
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Starting the Fall Garden
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Labels: broccoli, cauliflower, fall garden, gardening, lettuce, spinach, swiss chard
Monday, August 11, 2014
Meatless Mondays: Thai Quinoa Salad with Citrus Thai Basil Vinaigrette
3) Once quinoa has cooled, place in a large mixing bowl. Add the other ingredients and toss well. Add about 1/2 of the dressing and toss to coat. Place salad in the refrigerator to allow the flavors to meld. Add more dressing if needed.
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Labels: basil, meatless mondays, quinoa, salad, Thai
Harvest Monday: August 11th, 2014
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Ultimate Green Beans with Bacon
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Labels: green beans, recipes, side dish
Skinny Lemon Chicken with Thyme
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Japanese Black Trifle Tomato
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Saturday, August 9, 2014
Peach Picking
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Labels: peaches
Beaverton Farmer's Market: August 9th, 2014
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Labels: beaverton, farmer's market, noodles, peppers, Thai
Monday, August 4, 2014
Harvest Monday: August 4, 2014
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Labels: basil, eggplant, gardening, green beans, harvest, peppers, plums, tomatoes
Friday, August 1, 2014
Canning - Seedless Marionberry Jam
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About Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2019
Arguably the biggest event of the American Thanksgiving holiday each year is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. This year (2019) will mark the 10th edition of the parade, and, for only the seventh time in its history, a change in route.
The parade will start off at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 28 from 77th Street and Central Park West, then move down to Columbus Circle, turning onto Central Park South, and blazing a new path via 6th Avenue/Avenue of the Americas to 34th Street. From there it will turn west, ending up in front of Macy's Herald Square at 7th Avenue.
Organizers have announced a veritable bevy of stars who will be appearing in 89th Annual Parade: Carrie Underwood and her costars from the live production of Sound of Music will be performing, and the Robertson family from A&E's hit reality series Duck Dynasty will be a very popular attraction.
Other notable performers will include: Kristin Chenoweth, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots teaming up with the cast of Sesame Street, Goo Goo Dolls, Cirque du Soleil, and country duo Florida Georgia Line. And as usual there will be performers from several of the hit shows currently starring on Broadway, and the Radio City Hall Rockettes.
Balloons have always been a big part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and this year is no exception. Floats featuring the minions from Despicable Me, and a spectacle from Sea World, are just two of the 30 floats in this year's parade.
The first edition of the parade was held in 1924. The traditional motto for the parade is "A Holiday Treat for Children Everywhere", and this year's Parade will certainly be a treat for the child in everyone. Of course, as is traditional, Santa Claus and his reindeer-drawn sleigh will bring up the rear of the parade, a sight which for many years has signaled the official start to the Christmas season.


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Posted on July 28, 2012 at 7:30am
On Sunday, July 15 at 3:00 p.m., Blue Ridge Books will host authors Kathryn Magendie (Family Graces), Kimberly Brock (The River Witch), Erika Marks (Little Gale Gumbo), and the musical act, Grits & Soul.
Kathryn Magendie's Family Graces is the last in her trilogy that includes Tender Graces and Secret Graces. Her trilogy traces the journey of Virginia Kate Carey as she deals with the ghosts of her…
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 3:01pm
Blue Ridge Books will be celebrating five years on Main Street Waynesville.
I will be there with two other authors - books, food, drink, fun, laughing.
July 15 at 3:00 PM.
Hope to see you there!
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:30am
. . . and I hope you are writing, or reading, something wonderful.
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Good. :D Now to go plaster it on all of my other nings ... lol.
Thank you. :D Do you think posting both is distracting or overkill?
Ohhh ... lol ... ok.
Oh, I just uploaded another VidFolio, one focusing on my children's illustration. Check it out and let me know what you think. :D
Cool. So ... you can't use the ones the publisher made?
Do you do your own videos?
Your page looks ok ... lol. You should start out with your photos or a video, though. Grab their attention right off the bat. Glad you like my video :D.


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The Chief Executive Officer of Burniton Music, Livingstone Etse Satekla, popularly known as Stonebwoy, has made it clear that, his biggest fear is not being able to do the best before his time, and that has nothing to do with Shatta Wale.
A few months ago, the Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Stonebwoy threw a jab at someone on his Snapchat which was deleted a few minutes later. Stonebwoy wrote, he will never be spending his money buying cars for friends like one guy with a 'big mouth'.
Stonebwoy in his post didn't mention any name but due to the rivalry between him and Shatta Wale, it was obvious he was referring to Shatta Wale.
Stonebwoy in an interview with Ibrahim Ben-Barko on Joy News was asked what his biggest fear is, and he said "my fear is not to do the best of me before time is up, because you know we wear watches but we don't control the time, God controls the time so now that he has given me this at this moment, and he has brought me this far, one of my biggest fear is not to be able to do the best of me, by feeling complacent, so I try as much as I can to eradicate all forms of I reached, to keep pressing on till you get there".
My biggest fear is not Shatta Wale – Stonebwoy
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About Reading EggsReading Eggs provides a comprehensive range of online reading lessons and e - books that teach children aged 3 – 13 the literacy skills they need for lifetime reading success. There are 2 programs within Reading Eggs, Reading Eggs for 3 – 7 year olds and Reading Eggspress for 7 – 13 year olds.
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Reading EggsFull of educationally sound, fun and interactive activities, Reading Eggs focuses on the most fundamental skill needed in school – reading. Children from 3 – 7 years or older children struggling with reading will enjoy the huge variety of reading lessons, activities and games that make up the Reading Eggs program. In addition to the 120 reading lessons in Reading Eggs there is the Reading Eggs World which caters for children who already know the basics of reading but who still have much to learn about reading, writing, spelling, and comprehension. In the Reading Eggs World, children have their own house to decorate, a big shop and an avatar that can walk and travel to many new destinations on Reggie's bus. Children are able to choose their own adventure from a wide range of activities and places to go, including the following content:
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By Lisa Baertlein
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp (MCD) is getting back to basics after a string of disappointing quarterly results in its home market of the United States, which accounts for 30 percent of overall revenue.
The fast-food giant has reported roughly two years of turbulent sales at established U.S. restaurants due to sluggish economic growth, stiffer competition and internal missteps that have complicated menus and slowed service.
Adding to the pressure, higher costs for beef, chicken and labor are squeezing profits because customers are cutting back on visits as McDonald's raises prices to offset the additional expenses.
Chief Executive Don Thompson said on Tuesday that McDonald's is launching a "reset initiative" in the United States that would include tweaking staffing to improve speed during peak hours and putting more focus on affordability and core menu items, such as the Big Mac, Egg McMuffin and french fries. These core items account for 40 percent of sales.
The CEO, who took the helm at the Golden Arches in July 2012, urged investors to be patient.
"This is not about a silver bullet. It is important to underscore that it will take time for consumers to notice the changes and reward us with increased visits," Thompson said on a conference call with analysts.
Sales at U.S. restaurants open at least 13 months fell a steeper than expected 1.7 percent in the first quarter. McDonald's prices were up 3 percent during the quarter and traffic fell, suggesting push-back from diners.
The lackluster results from McDonald's landed a few days after Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (CMG), the popular burrito chain it spun off in 2006, said its first-quarter same-restaurant sales jumped 13.4 percent.
Chipotle caters to a wealthier consumer than McDonald's and it serves on-trend food, including dishes made with organic produce and antibiotic-free meats. It is planning to begin raising prices at the end of this quarter to offset higher costs.
This year promises to remain challenging for McDonald's as it grapples with record-high beef prices, labor cost increases, image-denting protests from its minimum-wage workers and aggressive competition from rivals that include Burger King Worldwide Inc (BKW.N), Wendy's Co (WEN.O) and Yum Brands' (YUM) Taco Bell as well as privately held chains such as In-N-Out Burger and Five Guys Burgers and Fries.
McDonald's said first-quarter net income fell 5 percent to $1.2 billion, or $1.21 per share, missing Wall Street's estimate by 3 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
First-quarter commodity costs in the United States were up roughly 3 percent, primarily due to higher protein costs.
"We expect similar pressure in second quarter then easing throughout the second half of the year," Chief Financial Officer Pete Bensen said.
Wall Street analysts agreed that a U.S. turnaround will be slow in coming.
"We continue to view McDonald's domestic business as hampered by a menu with far too many items on it, which is slowing average service times," Janney Capital Markets analyst Mark Kalinowski said in a research note.
Elsewhere, McDonald's fared better.
Same-restaurant sales in Europe, its top market, which contributes around 40 percent of overall sales, were up 1.4 percent, slightly better than analysts' forecast for a 1.2 percent gain.
In the Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region, same-restaurant sales rose 0.8 percent, compared with analyst projections for a 0.5 percent increase.
(Additional reporting by Phil Wahba in New York; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn, Sofina Mirza-Reid and Peter Galloway)


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Starting at the cafe at 9.30 am and of one hour duration.
Route is usually along Lower wall Road, turn right towards Giggers Green, then towards Aldington, up Forge hill to the junction by the Walnut tree Pub. Turn right back towards Port Lympne Zoo and back down into Hythe again.


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The iSTATION S3 is a HD-capable PMP. It supports most audio and video including DivX, Xvi and H.264, and contains an HDMI output. Battery life is said to be 20 hours of music and 8 hours of video.
There are three versions - 8Gb, 16Gb and 32Gb. No release date or price yet.
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I like to know what I am getting into before starting anything — and parenting was no different! I read so many parenting books before Aiden was born. These are the best parenting books to read during pregnancy.
Affiliate links are included, which means if you make a purchase I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. I only write about products I love.
Here are some of the best parenting books to read during pregnancy:
- Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp — If you are not a reader and don't really think you need any books, please get this one. It might save your life, it definitely saved mine! This book describes the 5 s's and will help you calm your baby and get him/her to sleep.
- Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman — This book has lots of practical advice on how to raise a well-behaved child and not a brat. It is more like a story and it's funny.
- Babywise by Gary Ezzo and Robert Buckman — We decided to go the feed/sleep schedule route and it has worked really well for our family. We use the feed, wake, sleep method from this book.
- Work, Pump, Repeat by Jessica Shortall — If you are a working mama and will be pumping at work I definitely recommend this book! It has lots of practical advice and useful tips.
- The Sh!t No One Tells You by Dawn Dais — This book is hilarious. I read it AFTER I had Aiden and it was even funnier. This is a great read for those nights you are up feeding baby.
- The New Basics: A-Z Baby & Child Care for the Modern Parent by Michel Cohen — This book is by a New York City Pediatrician from France. He writes about just about anything you can think of related to taking care of a baby or toddler. He is candid and funny.
- What to Eat When You're Pregnant by Dr. Nicole Avena — I like this one because instead of telling you what NOT to eat, it gives you ideas for what you SHOULD eat. Each week has its own food highlighted plus a few recipes and the reasons why the particular food is good for baby's development during that week.
What are your favorite parenting books to read during pregnancy?
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H.R.2058 - Post-Deployment Health Assessment Act of 2009111th Congress (2009-2010)
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Post-Deployment Health Assessment Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to issue guidance for the provision of an in-person mental health screening for each member of the Armed Forces deployed in connection with a contingency operation, in order to identify post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), suicidal tendencies, and other behavioral health issues for which additional care and treatment may be necessary. Excludes from such screenings members not subjected or exposed to combat stress during their deployment.
Requires the Secretary to share screening results with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in order to ensure continuity of mental health care and treatment for such members during their transition from health care and treatment provided by the Department of Defense (DOD) to health care and treatment provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


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SpeechCycle, a provider of customer interaction solutions, announced today that it was has partnered with Novauris Technologies, a provider of speech recognition technology, to offer fast speech recognition from large sets of data in SpeechCycle's LevelOne Agents speech products.
Leveraging Robust Voice Tech
This partnership will allow SpeechCycle's products to leverage Novauris NovaSearch core automatic speech recognition technology that enables spoken access to information from extremely large databases. The enhanced speech recognition capabilities will give fast name and address speech recognition capabilities to service providers on lists as large as populations of countries. In addition, names and addresses can be spoken in a single query with the system automatically parsing the data into relevant commands.
The chief benefit of this technology is caller identification. Pre-identification allows for more efficient call routing, case lookups, and preparation by agents for handling calls. Improving these factors should reduce call handling and hold times while boosting the customer experience. Though customers have been able to key in identification numbers for year, this spoken route could lead to a better experience. How many customers carry around their customer numbers with them? How many simply wait for an operator instead, equalling increased live agent costs for simple rout identification and call routing?
Speaking Well on the Partnership
Robert Pieraccini, SpeechCycle's CTO commented on the partnership's benefits:
"This partnership with Novauris demonstrates SpeechCycle's continued focus on the advancement of speech technology to improve the customer service experience. By integrating Novauris' NovaSearch® technology into our product offering all customer service inquiries requiring caller identification can be seamlessly automated, even in absence of other more traditional identification methods. Our goal is to create solutions that reduce call center costs while providing an optimal customer experience."
John Bridle, CTO and Co-founder of Novauris, was also optimistic about the rewards of the partnership:
"We have long known SpeechCycle to be on the cutting edge of customer interaction solutions, but only since working with then have we fully appreciated their exceptionally high level of competence. This partnership provides an ideal opportunity for Novauris to bring some of its unique strengths to major service providers. We are proud to have helped make LevelOne Agents what we believe to be the most complete customer care solution available."
Novauris is notable for having powered speech recognition for London and Tokyo smartphone applications. The company also recently demoed an experimental "flexible phrase translator" for real time language translations. If the company's partnership with SpeechCycle led to (extremely speculative) something like mobile customer self service app powered by voice or real time foreign language translations for agents–it would revolutionize the industry. Of course, those kinds of applications are still a ways off.
What do you think about the partnership between SpeechCycle and Novauris? How will the enhanced speech recognition change contact centers? Share your thoughts below.


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Hexagon, a leading global provider of information technology solutions, has acquired Alpharetta-based mobile app platform provider Catavolt. With this recent acquisition, Alpharetta continues to solidify its status as the "Technology City of the South."
Catavolt's team of highly skilled cloud and mobile technologies experts will further Hexagon's SMART X strategy for developing information network systems with connectivity and efficiency at their core. Catavolt offers an end-to-end platform for mobile application development and delivery, secure cloud orchestration, and real-time edge computing.
Catavolt's cutting-edge technology accelerates response times by analyzing streaming data in real time at the source before transferring data to the cloud. This process is crucial in critical scenarios such as smart traffic systems.
"When we started Catavolt, Alpharetta was the clear choice because of the enterprise-grade talent that is available here," said George Mashini, CEO of Catavolt. "That proved to be a big advantage for us as we grew the business and served large Fortune 500 clients with global applications. We look forward to continuing our growth under Hexagon and in Alpharetta."
"Technology has always been at the heart of Alpharetta, and it's great to see global companies look towards the city for talent and innovations to technology," said Mayor Belle Isle. "This acquisition shows the 'Technology City of South' is becoming a global technology contributor."
Hexagon will use Catavolt's expertise in advancing its digital transformation platform, HxGN SMART Convergence, which coordinates connectivity (IoT), intelligence (AI), and visualization (VR/AR/MR) technologies according to industry-specific needs and user-specific workflows.
Catavolt's patented, cloud technology is fully open and runs on any cloud platform.
Catavolt has been fully consolidated as of May 9, 2017.
Hexagon is a leading global provider of information technology solutions that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial landscapes. Hexagon's solutions integrate sensors, software, domain knowledge, and customer workflows into intelligent information ecosystems that deliver actionable information. They are used in a broad range of vital industries. Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 18,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.1bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.
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Syria Plunges Into Internet Blackout
Internet access in Syria has once again been cut off, and while Syrian officials claim the outage was caused by a cut cable, network analysts are skeptical.
According to Thursday data from CloudFlare, "all traffic from Syria to the Internet stopped" between 10:26 and 10:29 UTC yesterday. The company said it received no requests from Syrian IP addresses on Thursday, which signifies "a more complete blackout than we've seen when other countries have been cut from the Internet." When Egypt went dark, for example, CloudFare still saw a few requests trickle out. In Syria, nothing.
As noted by the Jerusalem Post, Syria's minister of information blamed the outage on a "fault" in the main communications and Internet cable, which he said was perpetrated by "terrorists."
CloudFare, however, doesn't believe it. "Syria has 4 physical cables that connect it to the rest of the Internet," the company wrote in a blog post. "Three are undersea cables that land in the city of Tartous, Syria. The fourth is an over-land cable through Turkey. In order for a whole-country outage, all four of these cables would have had to been cut simultaneously. That is unlikely to have happened."
Internet monitoring firm Renesys also saw Syria drop off the Internet map yesterday. The company spotted a few Syrian networks that are still connected to the Web, but speculated that they probably don't originate in Syria.
"These are five networks that use Syrian-registered IP space, but the originator of the routes [that are still live] is actually Tata Communications," Renesys wrote in its own blog post. "These are potentially offshore, rather than domestic, and perhaps not subject to whatever killswitch was thrown today within Syria."
Overall, Internet access in Syria has been "pretty stable" until yesterday's outage, Renesys said. There was a 10-minute, country-wide outage on Nov. 25, but "by the time that one was confirmed, the outage was over." Renesys said it would be "reaching" to suggest that the government was conducting an Internet cutoff test run, "but that's a possibility," the firm concluded.
CloudFare took note of the websites that Syrians were surfing before Internet access was cut. The last four sites on CloudFare that received requests from Syria seconds before the outage were: photo-sharing blog fotoobook.com, Syrian news site aliqtisadi.com, Muslim-oriented social network madinah.com, and a porn site.
"In other words, traffic from Syrians accessing the Internet in the moments before they were cut off from the rest of the world looks remarkably similar to traffic from any part of the world," CloudFare said.
CloudFare put together a video (below) that shows the shutdown as it happened.
When Internet access in Egypt was cut off in Jan. 2011, Google and Twitter worked together to launch Speak2Tweet, a tweet by phone service that let those without Internet access call a number and leave a voicemail, which would be transcribed into a tweet with the #Egypt hashtag.
In an early morning Google+ post, Google urged those in Syria to take advantage of the service. While some people have also lost access to mobile phones and landlines, those who can get to a phone can leave "a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+90 212 339 1447 or +30 21 1 198 2716 or +39 06 62207294 or +1 650 419 4196), and the service will tweet the message," Google said.
"No Internet connection is required, and people can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet," the company said.
Syria is no stranger to Internet outages and blockades of popular websites like Facebook and YouTube. Internet access was cut off in in June 2011 amidst protests, and again the following month.Update: Renesys reported on Dec. 1 that Internet access had been restored. "Internet service [is] being provided post-restoration by Telecom Italia, Tata Communications, Turk Telecom, and PCCW," the firm said. Renesys said that service was restored "just as quickly and neatly as the outage: like a switch being thrown." Still, the data does not yet support claims that the government or the opposition threw the switch, Renesys said. "The only way we're going to know for sure will be to wait for a resolution to the conflict, at which point we will hear from the people who know for sure: the network engineers in Syria."
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Directed by: Don Coscarelli, Craig Mitchell
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Description: One of his earlier pieces, Don Coscarelli (of Phantasm Phame) has a knack for seeing the world through the eyes and heart of a young boy. He offers a Peter Pan-esque adventure to men from the boomers to present day, with each generation being introduced to a more innocent time.
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Tales of a Historic Career: Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh was a patient photographer. He took his time in order to make his subjects comfortable, easing them out of their shells to capture their true personalities. Ann Shumard, senior curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, describes Karsh's photographs as both revealing and respectful.
"Yousuf Karsh: American Portraits" is the National Portrait Gallery's first exhibition dedicated solely to the work of this renowned photographer. In celebration of a gift to the Portrait Gallery from his wife, Estrellita Karsh, of more than one hundred portraits, fifty of his works have been displayed in two installations, the second of which is now on view through November 2, 2014.
Walking between the rows of photographs, Estrellita Karsh shared recollections and accounts of her husband's encounters with many of his famous subjects. She tells stories of her experience standing next to Michael DeBakey during open heart surgery and recounts the story of her husband deftly removing a cigar from Winston Churchill's mouth before taking the infamous "Roaring Lion" photograph.
The exhibition opens with a black-and-white photograph of Estrellita taken on the night of her fortieth birthday. She is dressed in a caftan that was a gift to her late husband from the king of Morocco. "He said, 'before we go out, let me just take a photo,'" she remembered of that night. Their New York apartment also served as a studio, so it only took a few minutes to create this evocative portrait.
(Karsh said Churchill looked as though he would devour him after he took Churchill's cigar. Estrellita mentioned that this photograph was filed under "R" for "Roaring Lion" instead of "C" for Churchill in her husband's files. This image will appear on England's five-pound note in 2016.)
The portrait of Churchill was taken quickly, out of necessity. However, when given the time, Karsh would make the most of it. When Karsh traveled to the office of labor leader John L. Lewis, Lewis stood up to leave after one photograph was taken. Karsh insisted that he had scheduled forty-five minutes and would need every one. Lewis made a few more attempts to exit, but eventually settled in for the remainder of his sitting.
One of the most recognized photographers during the heyday of journalistic portraiture at Life magazine and other venues, Karsh had an indelible influence on photographic style and other photographers. He served as a mentor for many, and Estrellita noted that "if a kid came to him with two Polaroids to ask him about photography, he would drop everything to talk to them." After Karsh's death, Estrellita received letters from countless strangers expressing their gratitude and describing her husband's impact on their lives.
One man told Estrellita that he fell in love with photography at the age of fifteen after seeing Karsh's work and wanted to leave school to pursue it as a career. When he and his mother happened to meet Karsh in an airport, his mother marched up to the photographer and said, "You are responsible for what is happening to my son. So, what are you going to do about it?" Karsh delayed his flight to speak to his young fan, whom he referred to as a colleague. He told the boy that he had the eyes and mind of a fifteen-year-old and that if he stopped going to school now, his perspective would remain that of a teenager. He urged him to stay in school, to study art or photography, but most important to become a well-rounded person. When the man said that day had changed his life, Estrellita was not surprised.
Karsh's photographs are humble, approachable, and memorable. Hearing the stories behind his photographic sessions reveals another layer of respect—one that was mutual. When Estrellita paused before the portrait of Helen Keller, she said her husband had been incredibly moved by her and referred to her as the most sublime woman he had ever photographed. Karsh and Keller had both overcome incredible difficulty in their lives, but each maintained a strong optimistic view on life. Neither let their hardships prevent them from looking forward.
When they met, Keller placed her fingertips on Karsh's face and "photographed" him as she traced his features with her hands. Karsh told her that one of the first things he tried to read when he was learning English was Keller's article in the Reader's Digest titled "How to Appreciate the Beauties of Sunset" and vowed to think only of her in terms of sunrise from then on. She replied "How I wish that all men would take sunrise as their slogan and leave the shadows of sunset behind them."
Another session filled with mutual admiration was that with Michael Collins, "Buzz" Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong—the astronauts of Apollo11. Karsh photographed the men after they returned from the first- ever lunar landing. He and Estrellita spent time in the Astronaut Library in Houston, getting to know the men and their families. The astronauts were about to embark on an international goodwill tour, and Armstrong asked Karsh to tell him what London and Paris were like because he "had never been anywhere." "But Neil," Karsh responded, "you just went to the moon!"
—Evanne Allen, National Portrait Gallery


text: Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before more » they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie. The girls move to Elspeths flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried. Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeths elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including -- perhaps -- their aunt.


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I do like the TC pretty well, except for performance in snow. The original tires don't give very good traction. And, unfortunately, I learned after a short time having it, and picking up a screw on the road that the original tires don't have any road hazard warranty. So, had to buy a tire. One pleasant surprise was that the spare is a fullsize one the same as the others, so I put that on, and bought a used one for the spare. I also need better organization. I did put a shelving unit on one side, and I found a ladder rack for inside on the ceiling. Best regards.
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The Most Bizarre "Beauty" Trend You'll See This Decade: Bagel Heads
First of all, I don't even feel comfortable calling this a "beauty" trend because it literally makes me avert my eyes and dry heave. Let's just call it a WTFF (what the f*cking f*ck) trend. It deserves the extra F.
So this WTFF trend popular amongst
crazy folk hipsters in Japan involves getting a saline injection in the forehead (yes, that means needles) to create a big bubble, then pressing a thumb down into that bubble to create a bagel-like ring. (Click on the baked good below to be directed to images and video–I don't want to put any weak stomachs at risk.)
Let's take a moment because you need to digest this information and I need to make sure I'm not going to throw up on my computer.
Okay, so this WTFF procedure is not permanent–the effect only lasts a day, but keep in mind it takes TWO HOURS to do and the bagel headers feel the liquid dripping into their skulls the entire time. I can't even…
Is this what self-expression is coming to? I mean, genital piercings, face tattoos, girls shaving the sides of their heads, fang teeth, and Crocs are one thing, but injecting saline into your head for two hours so you can look like an alien is quite another. You guys, they are putting needles in their heads and they're NOT EVEN GETTING BOTOX. On top on that, they're stretching their foreheads, thus actually creating saggy skin in the long run. It's
sheer schmear insanity!
And I'm never going to be able to eat a bagel again.
*Thank you to my beauty guru bud Emily Foley for bringing this to my attention.
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Omg, I saw the same thing and was equally disgusted! Not to mention the pierced lace-up corset – grody


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Sediment deposition and erosion in South San Francisco Bay from 1956 to 2005 was studied by comparing bathymetric surveys made in 1956, 1983, and 2005. From 1956 to 1983, the region was erosional. In contrast, from 1983 to 2005, the region was depositional. Analysis of subregions defined by depth, morphology and location revealed similarities in behavior during both the erosional and depositional periods. During the entire period of the study, there was net erosion in the shallows (<1 m depth) on the eastern shore of the bay north of the Dumbarton Bridge and net deposition in the region south of Dumbarton Bridge. The rates, however, reflected the sediment regime of each time period. Erosional areas were less erosional during the period with net deposition and depositional zones were more depositional. The cause for the increase in deposition from 1983 to 2005 is unknown, but could be related to an increase in sediment supply from Central Bay. The patterns of deposition and erosion and the change in rates are consistent with an increase in sediment supply from the north, as would occur if the supply from Central Bay increased from 1956-1983 to 1983-2005. Additional research is needed to fully understand why South San Francisco Bay became depositional from 1983 to 2005 and to determine the implications of this change to the planned salt pond restoration in the region.
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Forty Thieves is a very old and popular solitaire game that is known under many names, such as Napoleon at St. Helena and Roosevelt at San Juan. Its characteristics form the basis of as many as 100 or more other solitaire games. While it may not be the oldest game of its type, it seems to combine the standard solitaire elements in the best way and has come to be one of the most popular and important two-deck solitaires.Minimum requirements:For Pocket PCWindows Mobile 2003 Second Edition or greater590K free memoryFor SmartphoneWindows Mobile 5.0 or greaterQVGA screen570K free memoryMain features:Supports portrait and landscape orientation. Square screens are also supportedThree card skins with sharp and clear graphicsFive game types:Cadran (all cards in the waste are visible)ClassicJosephine (groups of cards can be moved if they are in sequence down in suit)Little 40 (same as Josephine, except that the tableau piles can be built down regardless of suit)San Juan (at the beginning of the game the Aces are dealt to the foundations)Current game state saved for each game typePlay modes:Pocket PC version: drag&drop, tapping or keyboardSmartphone version: 5-way navigation pad or keypadUnlimited undoShow Next Move featureCard movement animationSupports timed gameAdjustable game field color (Pocket PC version only) and card backAdvanced Pile View optionBest times table for each game typeStatistics for each game typeGame rules for each game type


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Create an Activity that extends from **AbstractPrimerWelcomeActivity** if your app only wants to show welcome screens for new users.

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SOME older people are bemused watching the Pokémon Go mania. The game has disrupted the activities of younger people, getting them out of their homes and into the streets in search of the game's characters.
While the augmented reality technology used in the game is amazing, it's equally fascinating to see the behavioural response. This should lead to an examination of how best to apply this kind of thinking to the workplace to activate a younger workforce.
According to PwC, millennials will make up more than 50% of the workforce by 2020, so the teens and others with their faces hovering over their mobile devices will be employees and managers. What will be the game changer in the work environment is how that workforce is motivated and managed.
A step in the right direction in speaking to a generation that has grown up with console gaming is to introduce a game-styled environment into the workplace. Gamification, applying gaming practices to a nongaming environment, has several benefits.


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Benefit: You get a +4 dodge bonus to Armor Class against attacks of opportunity caused when you move out of or within a threatened area. A condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) also makes you lose dodge bonuses.
Dodge bonuses stack with each other, unlike most types of bonuses.
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Water kefir is my favorite popsicle base. It's so easy to use because it's already made! (Learn how to make water kefir here.) Fruit pops made with pieces of sliced fruit are incredibly quick and easy to make and so pretty!
Choose a few of your favorite fruits, wash and slice them. Add them to popsicle molds. (Buy popsicle molds here.) I used all organic strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, watermelon and kiwi.
Fill each mold with water kefir. Put in the popsicle stick and freeze for at least 4 hours. Run popsicle mold under warm water briefly to loosen from popsicle.
Take pictures of your creation!! It is hot so I had to take my pictures really fast! I still had some melting going on.
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There is the story in Al-Anon that goes something likes this:
A woman complains that her man is always drunk on Friday nights, and she is always irate on Friday nights.
She is always mad on Friday.
He is always drunk on Friday.
Both have the power to choose, of course, but only one can influence your response, and that is you.
But it is most difficult. It is even more difficult when your ex and his family have decided that you are Enemy #1 and have drawn you into an inexplicable legal war.
It is not unlike Trump and his sordid relationship with America, where he is set up to avoid his responsibilities and gets out of taking responsibility for fucking people over. He is one spit-shined turd. His grievances keep coming and coming, as do his followers. If your heart sinks at the thought of this man becoming president, then imagine being married to him. What if you divorced a litigious man? What if your marriage was like being in a court of law, where what the judge dictated was law and you were always breaking the law? And sometimes, the law was completely unknown!
An then, what if you divorced this litigious, my-way-or-the-highway person, and you suddenly had your own personal little Trump? Someone to kick your ass legally for no apparent reason, someone to fuck you up the ass when you need it the least, someone to pretend he is the best motherfucker since sliced bread? Someone who struts like he is a gift to the very air around him.
So recently, when my personal Trump was "drunk on a Friday" where the kids were concerned, I held my ground. I did not dissolve into tears in front of him, but I did expose my vulnerability of wanting to be included in my children's lives. That was my one mistake. Otherwise, I held strong.
It was completely appropriate for me to be "mad on a Friday". There was every reason for me to be angry, and my anger fueled me into rightful action. It is never a black-and-white proposition. But the catch is when one hopes they will change, or orients one's behavior towards getting them to change in some way. They won't, they can't, they choose not to. The raging disappointment, the powerlessness, and the pain of having loved a fucktard comes crashing around you. The pain of having enabled a fucktard to BE more fucktard-y is unreal. In fact, because you are so much smarter than any fucktard, he probably got his ideas from you and then turned them into pure shit. The thought of being smeared with toxic fucktard slime is unbearable sometimes. Ugh! Ewwww! Get it off of me!
Those are the times to polish your crown, call all the power of your cunt, including your anger, and get 'er done. Call on your friends. Call your therapist. Go to yoga. Call on your knowledge. Call on your sweet men, the ones who are completely safe. But don't hope he will change.


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Knox College men's basketball has struck it big. Or, more specifically, the Prairie Fire have struck a big.
David Jones, long the top recruiting priority for Knox, informed Prairie Fire head coach Rob Purlee this week that he will attend Knox in the fall and play for his program. Jones will figure into the Knox rotation.
A highly athletic 6-foot-6 post, Jones had planned to play at Division I Air Force after attending the academy's prep school last year, but he decided to go a different direction.
"Going to Air Force was a great experience but I just wanted a normal college experience,†Jones said. "I remember Knox being a great place and thought I would reapply.â€
Jones was one of the top players in the Denver area as a high school senior two years ago out of Colorado Academy, earning spots on various all-state and all-metro teams. Jones, who averaged 14 points and 10 rebounds as a senior and shined defensively, was also selected as a McDonald's All-American game nominee in 2009. He finished as Colorado Academy's single-season and all-time leader in blocks and rebounds.


text: A Time Line: Your Diet Survival Guide\\nTo help you on your weight loss journey, we?ve plotted out your body?s likely highs and lows along with devised strategies on how to make each step easier.\\nAt the start of any plan, you'll be hungry enough to eat your own shoe, because your body is making more of the hunger hormone ghrelin than it did pre-diet. \\"As you wait for your body to adjust, subdue hunger by eating protein and whole grains—they suppress ghrelin best,\\" says David Cummings, M.D., of the University of Washington at Seattle.\\nBye-bye, water weight! Normally, your body burns the carbohydrates you eat as fuel. However, when you eat less, you also tend to slash your carb intake. In turn, your body must raid its glycogen stores for energy. Molecules of H2O are attached to glycogen, so burning it rids you of liquid pounds. Water loss can be permanent if you stick with your eating plan long-term.\\nHappy hour, pizza night and brunch could derail your new diet. Ask pals who support your healthy lifestyle to join you for food-free fun this Saturday or Sunday. Visit a museum, go on a hike or head to a spa for facials or manicures.\\nYou'll drop a healthy average of 1/2 to 2 pounds weekly from now on. To keep shedding at that rate, stoke your body's fat-fighting fire by hitting the weights. Muscle burns more calories than fat, so building biceps may help you torch flab, says Gary Foster, Ph.D., director at the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia. Try the [SELF Challenge](/challenge) strength plan.\\nThe hunger of week 1 has probably subsided, but your brain may still be trained to encourage emotional eating, Foster says. If you usually soothe stress with chips, the feeling and the food are coupled in your mind. The good news: Each time you resist, you weaken the psychological pairing. Use a [food diary](/mylogs/food/daily) to spot triggers and replace junk with nonfood soothers (exercise, TV comedies).\\nYou can likely cinch your belt a bit tighter, and your ticker is reaping benefits, as well. If you're overweight, losing just 5 percent of your weight (8 pounds for a 160-pound woman) can reduce your risk for heart disease. Call your hospital to ask about free cholesterol tests. Get one now and compare it to your previous lipid levels. A better score can provide you with motivational mojo to keep losing.\\nSome women retain water right before their period starts. \\"If you were expecting to be at a certain weight by the end of the month, but you weigh a few pounds more because your period is due, it can be disheartening,\\" says Bonnie Taub-Dix, R.D., of New York City. Don't let PMS bloat throw you—it's temporary.\\nQuitting is fairly common at this point, as your plan's novelty wears thin. One stick-with-it strategy: Focus on the benefits of your new bod. After eight weeks, many dieters feel more confident. And some report a boon in the bedroom, says Martin Binks, Ph.D., research director at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center in Durham, North Carolina. Buy something new to wear (and slip out of) for extra time between the sheets.\\nIf you've reached your goal (great job!), the slippery slope to weight regain starts here (eek!), and tension is often the cause. To keep from reaching for the Rocky Road after a rough day, establish a new coping strategy. Bookmark a funny blog, go for a jog, load your iPod with soothing songs and keep supportive friends on speed dial.\\nWeight loss can halt here partly because metabolism slows. As you shrink, there is less of you to provide energy for, so you burn fewer calories. These stalls can last weeks, so rather than get frustrated, reflect on goals you have reached and try new workouts to keep your metabolism going. Do pilates? Try boot camp. Runner? Try Spinning.\\nYour final challenge is to stay lean for good. Try eating the same way on Sunday as you do during the week. Dieters who eat similar meals on weekends, weekdays and vacations are 50 percent more likely to avoid gains, compared with those who let loose on special occasions.\\nAfter you've reached your goal, mark the accomplishment. Book a tropical vacation, ask a friend to snap shots of the new you, take a day off for fun or splurge on a piece of jewelry you've been lusting after: You've earned it!


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WACA offers a variety of NRMCA Trainings & Certifications. Classes are based on an "as needed" basis. For more information on how to schedule a class, please contact the Association office at 206-878-1622.
The class offerings are the following:NRMCA Pervious Concrete TechnicianNRMCA Concrete Delivery Professional (CDP)NRMCA Concrete Sales Professional (CSP)
A Pervious Concrete Technician is a person who demonstrated knowledge by successful completion of a written exam about proper procedures to place, compact, finish, edge, joint, cure and protect pervious concrete pavements, but who lacks the requisite field experience to qualify as a pervious concrete Installer or Craftsman.
The Technician level is intended for contractor and non contractor personnel in learning the proper techniques of installing pervious concrete. It is assumed that contractor personnel who are certified as technicians will be supervised by an individual with a higher level of certification and they will upgrade to the higher levels when they achieve the work experience criteria for Installer and Craftsman levels to qualify to install pervious without supervision. This level is also intended for any non-contractor persons such as ready mixed concrete personnel, testing labs, inspectors, admixture personnel, specifiers and engineers that need to understand the pervious concrete system. This certification level is also recommended for individuals who are knowledgeable about pervious concrete who intend to participate in training programs for local sponsoring groups.
For more information on this class and program summary, please visit the NRMCA website HERE.
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WACA offers the opportunity to take the next step in professional development through the National Ready Mix Concrete Association's (NRMCA) Concrete Delivery Professional (CDP) program.
This practical, easy to use program is designed to be a self study program and applies to seasoned professionals as well as younger less experienced drivers. CDP is also designed to support existing internal company driver training as well as reinforce company policy and procedures when instances occur.The WACA / CDP program enhances your existing professional experience, demonstrates your commitment to personal growth, personal achievement as well as demonstrates a higher level of driver and company commitment to overall quality to Customers Specifiers, Regulators, and the Motoring public. As a company team; the program will improve communications and understanding between drivers and quality control, dispatchers, customers and sales.This Self Study program reviews 5 key subject areas that drivers user every day on every delivery:
Topics will be facilitated by qualified WACA personnel in each subject area with a practical review and discussion session for each topic. Following the completion of all 5 subject areas, the certification exam process will be scheduled. The certification process involves 2 steps:
The Pre Trip exam will be administered by representatives of the Washington State Patrol and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division. This provides you professional access to important law enforcement and safety professionals. We learn more about their role in our profession and they learn more about your role and professional development as a Concrete Delivery Professional.
Depending on the pace of self study and internal company presentations, the program takes approx. 12 weeks to complete. Once prepared, the Association will conduct a local review session for drivers designed to help prepare for testing and administer the tests. Testing is in 2 elements; a written test, and a vehicle inspection and walk through.To help facilitate anticipated testing and to allow each company the flexibility to schedule their own in-house sessions, the Association will conduct quarterly review and testing sessions. Quarterly dates are subject to participation.All modules are contained in one 3 ring binder designed especially for industry drivers. Cost of the Driver binders are $150 each ($195 for non members) and may be ordered through the Association offices. Additional exam or administration fees may apply.RECOGNITIONDrivers successfully completing both parts of the program will receive:Certification of Achievement endorsed by NRMCA
BENEFITS TO YOU:Drivers are one of the keys to a successful bottom line for company performance, service and reputation.
By completing the program and earning the CCSP designation, individuals earn greater recognition as effective, highly qualified sales specialist. Certification also offers improved opportunities for career and financial growth and a broader range of career opportunities within the industry.
TEST PROCEDURESThe one-hour written examination is "closed book" and consists of 55 multiple choice questions. There are five (5) to ten (10) questions on each of the ASTM Standards. To pass the written examination, both of the following conditions must be met: (a) at least 60% correct for each of the required standards; and (b) a minimum score of 70% overall.The performance examination is also "closed book" and requires actual demonstration of six of the required ASTM Standards plus a verbal description of Sampling, ASTM C 172. The examinee is judged on his/her ability to correctly perform or describe all of the required procedures for each standard.GENERAL BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE
Module I: Product Knowledge (Concrete 101): Focuses on Concrete fundamentals, component materials, Proportioning of Mix designs, Batching / Mixing / Delivery, Handling, and Placing and Finishing, and Basic Concrete Troubleshooting.
Module II: Customer Knowledge: a better understanding of your customers needs and the role you play. Focuses on:Homebuilder residential building process, Commercial and Governmental Construction industry Overview, Construction documents and reading blueprints, Principles of estimating, Project planning and scheduling,Module III: General Business Knowledge: Focuses on: Basic Accounting, Financial management and Cost Analysis, Fundamentals of pricing principles, Construction Finance and legal IssuesModule IV: Professional Selling Skills: Focuses on: Overview of the selling and butting process, finding potential buyers, creating a Sales Plan, Presentation Skills, Discovering Needs, overcoming objections and Closing the sale.
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