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I was provided a copy of The Painted Table by Suzanne Field through Litfuse for the purposes of this review. All opinions are mine and mine alone, no other compensation was received.
The Painted Table looked like an interesting book when the opportunity came up for me to review it. it is the story about a family and an heirloom Norwegian table. A story of pain, mental illness, emotional abuse, and healing.
Safee inherits her mother's antique Norwegian table. She remembers when it first came to them in a beautiful natural wood. However, the state the table is in when she first gets it (against her wishes) is anything but of beauty. It has layer upon layer of paint plastered upon it, and is an ebeneezer to the emotional crippling she received as a child. Yet, with the persistence of her husband, she starts the process of restoring the table to it's natural beauty and in the process finds peace and healing over her past.
This book is a hard read. Especially for anyone who has suffered through abuse as a child, or seen the ravages of mental illness close hand. However, this book is well worth the difficulty in reading. Suzanne Field takes the reader on a journey that brought me to tears as memories of my upbringing came to the surface, I so identified with Saffee as she went off to college and learned to have a life of her own that wasn't controlled by her mother. I also identified with her mother's upbringing which is how the book starts. It wasn't ideal either and while the first half of the book seems a bit choppy in moving through time, those parts are desperately needed to see how and why everyone turned out the way they did. By the end of the book, I was a blubbering mess as I realized how similar I was to Saffee in regards to my emotions and how I reacted to things. And as she learned a better way of living, I found myself cheering her on to a life of normalcy and of breaking the patterns set by the generations before her. (I too am breaking patterns that were set for me in previous generations, and it is hard, and this book doesn't sugar coat it at all).
This review, is honestly, very hard for me to write. This book impacted me so profoundly that I am having a very difficult time seperating myself from the review. Just suffice it to say, I think that everyone needs to read this book, especially counselors and pastors. This is a good book to give to someone struggling with the abuse and mental illness that they grew up with or have in their family. It shows a shining example of how with faith and a great support system, we can overcome the pain of the past in story form. Stories teach sometimes better than a lecture can and are less threatening. This book is terrific for that.
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About the book: A beautiful heirloom ingrained with family memory has become a totem of a life Saffee would rather forget—a childhood disrupted by her mother's mental illness.
Saffee does not want the table. By the time she inherits the object of her mother's obsession, the surface is thick with haphazard layers of paint, and heavy with unsettling memories.
After a childhood spent watching her mother slide steadily into insanity, painting and re-painting the ancient table, Saffee has come to fear that seeds of psychosis may lie dormant within her. But as an adult with a family of her own, Saffee must confront her mother's torment if she wants to defend herself against it.
Traversing four generations over the course of a century, The Painted Table is an epic portrait of inherited memory, proclivity, and guilt. It is a sprawling narrative affirmation that a family artifact—like a family member—can bear the marks of one's entire past . . . as well as intimations of one's redemption.
About the author: Suzanne Field, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, has taught English as a Second Language in China, Ukraine, and Hawaii. She has also been a magazine editor and home-school teacher. She and her husband have five children and divide their time between Kansas and Hawaii where she is a tutor and mentor.


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Texas Libel Cases
Feazell v. WFAA-TV
On April 19, 1991, a state jury in Waco returned a libel verdict of $58 million against WFAA-TV in Dallas in favor of the former district attorney of McLennan County, Vic Feazell.
The suit stemmed from 11 reports broadcast on WFAA in 1985. They were the work of an investigative reporter for the station, Charles Duncan. The reports claimed wrongdoing by Feazell in connection with his duties as the district attorney.
Feazell began having difficulty with state and federal law enforcement agencies when they perceived that he was intruding in the Henry Lee Lucas case. Feazell's office proved that Lucas could not have been involved in three McLennan County murder cases for which Lucas had been indicted. He also cast doubt on the handling of Lucas by a special task force set up under the Texas Department of Public Safety.
At that point the Department of Public Safety began investigating Feazell and managed to get the Federal Bureau of Investigation involved.
WFAA was reporting the activities of the Texas Department of Public Safety and ran stories that said Feazell was involved in taking money from defendants and lawyers so that clients could get lesser punishment for DWI charges.
At the behest of the United States attorney's office, a federal grand jury indicted Feazell. He was brought to trial in Austin and was found not guilty in 1987.
Feazell then sued WFAA for libel. The trial was held in Waco in the spring of 1991. The jury found for Feazell and returned a verdict for $58 million in damages.
He and WFAA agreed to settle the case. The amount was not disclosed.
The award in the Feazell case was the record amount ever given a plaintiff in a libel case in the United States.
MMAR v. Dow Jones
MMAR was a Houston company that dealt in mortgage-backed securities. On October 21, 1993, The Wall Street Journal ran an article questioning the firm's business practices. A year later MMAR sued Dow Jones, contending that The Wall Street Journal article had caused the collapse of the company.
At a trial in federal court in Houston in 1997, a jury found for MMAR and returned a verdict for $22.7 million in compensatory damages and $200 million in punitive damages. This is the record award in a libel case in the United States.
After the trial, the judge threw out the $200 million punitive-damage part of the award on the grounds that evidence didn't support the malice standard necessary for punitive damages.
In 1998, a former MMAR employee revealed to the Dow Jones lawyers that tapes existed that would support the defense. The tapes had not been made available to the defense at the time of the trial.
In August 1999 the trial judge threw out the remaining $22.7 million in compensatory damages. MMAR decided not to pursue the case any further.
Sylvester Turner v. KTRK Television
Another case that originated in Houston drew national attention.
In 1991, Sylvester Turner, a Texas state representative, was involved in a close race for mayor of Houston. Just before the election, Wayne Dolcefino of KTRK-TV reported a story involving Turner and a man who had faked his death for insurance money. Turner lost the election and sued.
At the trial in state court in October 1996, a jury returned a verdict for Turner or $5.55 million -- $4.5 million in punitive damages against the station, $500,000 in punitive damages against Dolcefino and $550,000 in actual or compensatory damages against the station.
The trial judge reduced the punitive damages against the station to $2.2 million on the grounds that state law limits punitive damages to four times the amount of compensatory damages.
On appeal, a three-judge panel of the 14th District Court of Appeals ruled that the broadcasts were essentially true and threw out the entire award. (987 S.W.2d 100) Turner appealed to the Supreme Court of Texas.
On December 21, 2000, the Supreme Court of Texas affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeals but for different reasons.
The Supreme Court said that Dolcefino reported largely true statements but misled viewers. It said that because Turner was a public figure, he had to show clear and convincing evidence of actual malice.
Turner v. KTRK Television, Inc. and Wayne Dolcefino, 38 S.W.2d 103 (2000)
Veggie Libel Law
In 1996 Oprah Winfrey and a guest on her television program were discussing the beef supply in the United States in the context of mad cow disease that had broken out in England. Cattlemen in Texas took offense and sued in federal court.
They were relying on a veggie libel law passed by the Texas legislature in 1995. The law said that anyone who made false disparaging remarks against perishable foods could be sued for damages. The party bringing the suit would have to prove damages.
The Winfrey trial took place in federal court in Amarillo in 1998. During the trial, the judge dismissed the part of the suit dealing with the veggie law on the grounds that the statutory requirements for the case had not been met. The judge let stand the cattlemen's claim that they had been defamed.
The jury sided with Winfrey. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdict two years later.
The veggie libel law is still on the books in Texas.
Other Texas Cases
Of course, current libel cases will be decided based on recent precedents. Nevertheless, several older Texas cases deal with issues that remain significant today. They are worth examining.
Raymundo Davila v. The Caller Times
In 1956, the Caller-Times in Corpus Christi used an Associated Press story that said a Texas Ranger had killed Raymundo Davila of Laredo. Davila, the article said, was stopped six miles east of Freer by the Ranger. Davila fired on the Ranger and the Ranger shot and killed him.
As it turned out, the dead man wasn't Raymundo Davila but his brother, Jesus Davila. Raymundo Davila sued the Caller-Times.
The question before the Court of Civil Appeals in San Antonio was whether the publication was privileged. The court ruled that it was not.
The case may be found at 311 S.W. 2d 945 (1958)
El Paso Times v. Richard C. Trexler
The El Paso Times ran an editorial concerning the participation of a teacher at the University of Texas at El Paso, Richard C. Trexler, in an anti-Vietnam war demonstration.
The Times editorial said that although it did not agree with Trexler's views, it did uphold and agree with his right to express those views, including the right to be involved in a peaceful anti-war demonstration.
Later the newspaper ran a letter from a reader that said among other things: "There was a time when rats paid the penalty for treason against our Republic."
The trial court ruled that Trexler was a public figure and a jury ruled against him. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed and remanded the case.
The Supreme Court of Texas ruled that the evidence did not support actual malice as defined in New York Times v. Sullivan: "with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." The judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals was reversed and the judgment of the trial court was affirmed.
This case is at 447 S.W. 2d 403 (1969)
John E. Foster v. Laredo Newspapers, Inc.
In 1973, the Laredo Times ran a story concerning a subdivision that had a flooding problem. The Times said that a surveyor, John E. Foster, had platted the subdivision. The story was incorrect in that the surveyor had not done the work.
The trial court granted summary judgment and the court of appeals affirmed – both on the grounds that the surveyor was a public official or public figure.
In 1976 the Supreme Court of Texas ruled that a jury must decide the issues in the case.
The case is 541 SW2d 809 (1976)
Denton Publishing Company v. D.B. Boyd
In 1967, a reporter for the Denton Record-Chronicle attended a meeting of the city council and reported the next day on various actions by the council.
The story said that a developer, D.B. Boyd, had failed to pave streets because he had declared bankruptcy.
The newspaper was informed that Boyd had not declared bankruptcy, and it ran a correction. Boyd won a trial and the newspaper appealed.
The Supreme Court of Texas ruled that the newspaper account was not privileged. The opinion of the court said that the story did not say that the statements about the developer being bankrupt were made by someone at the city council meeting. Instead, it was the reporter who said, "The developer…declared bankruptcy…"
"The problem arises," the opinion said, "because the article as published is subject to interpretation that, as a matter of background information, Boyd was in fact bankrupt instead of reporting that it was stated as the City Council meeting that he was bankrupt. The publication would be within the privilege provided by statute as long as it purported to be, and was, only a fair, true and impartial report of what was stated at the meeting, regardless of whether the facts under discussion at such meeting were in fact true, unless the report was made with malice."
Cited as 460 S.W.2d 881 (1970)

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Ideally, we'd all love to hold on to all of our teeth and have them be bright, white and healthy. On occasion, however, it's necessary to have a tooth extracted by a professional to maintain our overall oral health. Your dentist will take every precaution and measure to avoid a tooth extraction for the sake of just removing a tooth, but there are certain circumstances in which having a tooth pulled is the best and only option.
When Does a Tooth Need to Be Extracted?
It goes without saying that you should consult with a professional dentist before having a tooth extracted. However, there are a few telltale signs that it's time for a tooth to go.
If a tooth is impacted or your mouth is overcrowded, you may need to have one or more teeth removed. If your teeth are pushing each other around in your mouth, that's a sure sign of overcrowding and makes you a likely candidate for a tooth extraction.
Another sign that a tooth needs to be pulled is if it has extensive damage. The damage can be a result of either decay or trauma that results in a break or crack. If the tooth is too damaged for repair, it may be time for a removal.
A more serious sign that it's time for a tooth extraction is when the tooth is infected. Infections happen when a decaying tooth is not treated and becomes infected. If the tooth is not removed, the infection can spread to the rest of your mouth, and that can lead to other health problems. In-fact, infected teeth that need to be extracted are one of the most common dental emergencies that we see in our office.
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Even though it sounds serious and painful, tooth extractions are a very routine dental procedure. The first step is for the dentist to take x-rays to see exactly where the tooth is, how it's shaped and the depth and direction of the roots.
Depending on the type of extraction you need, the dentist may need to cut open your gum to expose the tooth or cut the tooth into sections so it can be removed. Don't worry – you'll be completely numb and won't feel any pain!
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Flathead Lake levels and Kerr Dam outflows
by James Conner for the Flathead Lakers
Flathead Lake's outlet channel is narrow and shallow. At low lake levels, the rate of outflow is less than the 15,000 cfs capacity of Kerr Dam's turbines. When Flathead Lake reaches 2885.80, the discharge from the lake matches the dam's turbine capacity. As the lake rises higher, the channel's capacity increases, as displayed by the graph below and the Excel table (click here to download table).
If the inflows to Flathead Lake are greater than the outflows, the lake rises. During the spring runoff (usually May through June), the inflows to the lake can be much greater than the outflows, even when Kerr Dam is wide open and not holding back any water.
That last happened in 1964, when the great flood in early June pushed the lake to 2894 for a week. During that flood, the Flathead River peaked at 176,000 cfs, and would have peaked at more than 220,000 cfs had not the South Fork's flows been stored in Hungry Horse Reservoir.
The lake will rise one foot in one day with net inflows of 64,000 cfs. Smaller net inflows fill the lake more slowly.
Links to Streamflow, Snowpack, and Flood Information
Northwest River Forecast Center Trend Forecast for Flathead Lake & Kerr Dam
Northwest River Forecast Center River Conditions Summary for the Flathead River and its 3 forks
Northwest River Forecast Center Peak Flow Forecasts – Flathead River at Columbia Falls
USGS Montana Flood Frequency & Basin Characteristic Data
National Weather Service Hydrologic Outlook – Flathead River at Columbia Falls Stage Height
Noisy Basin Snowtel Site: Information & reports All Snotel Sites
Flathead Watershed Sourcebook: Floods, Flooding Effects on Flathead Lake, Analyzing Flooding
Graphs of flood/high water years (flows of N Fork + M Fork Flathead River): 1947, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1964, 1974, 1975, 1991, 1997, mean daily stream flow April-July
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The stigma of startup growth being geographically contained to the east and west coasts has given the Midwest a somewhat stagnant business vibe over the past few years. PricewaterhouseCoopers Moneytree's recent survey data seems to validate these attitudes to some degree––showing California attracting 53% of all venture capital dollars in 2012 alone. But is it all doom and gloom for Midwesterners looking to get their ideas off the ground here in the country's heartland?
A group of accelerator programs aimed at relocating some of that growth doesn't think so. gener8tor is one such program, which has dropped its roots right here in Madison, Wisconsin. With 13 companies already finding success under their wing such as EatStreet––a brilliant online delivery and takeout aggregator for Madison restaurants––it's clear that this sort of support can have a big impact on the business environment in cities such as ours.
Gener8tor is currently in the midst of launching its next batch of businesses to the area drawing on organizations from all over the country. Speaking to the connection he seeks to forge between the academic and business communities here, co-founder Jon Eckhardt added, "gener8tor is tightly integrated into the entrepreneurship communities in the mid-west and the coasts, especially as a result of our work with nearby academic institutions. This, combined with our innovative training platform, lets us link the capabilities of the mid-west with resources nationally."
The future of local entrepreneurship
Looking towards what lies ahead for the program, the news only gets better. With the current 13 companies already pulling in over $5 million in capital, they are currently sifting through over 250 applications from companies around the nation looking to throw their hat in the ring here in the Midwest as well.
Gener8tor's strategy seems to be paying off just as they hoped. John Philosophos of Great Oaks Venture Capital reiterated the benefits of academic and business interconnection saying, "Critical resources, including top flight developers from the UW Computer Science program and College of Engineering, mentorship from the State's broad based economy and forward thinking corporations are all being mobilized to support innovation in the State. Accordingly, we have made Wisconsin one of our national areas of focus."
Success means more than just a good idea
With all of this good news in tow, it's important to remember what goes on behind the scenes to make these headlines happen in the first place. Having a good idea comes first, but without the means to craft an effective financial plan; you've already stacked the odds against yourself.
Outsourcing financial work to a third party is often times the most beneficial solution to startups facing a whole host of challenges financial or otherwise. Without employees to dedicate toward those tasks, it can be easy to make unguided and potentially devastating decisions with your money, which can leave your books in a dismal state.
Whether you're involved with a local accelerator program or not, entrepreneurs planning to develop their ideas within the Madison area have the resources available to them to make the right financial decisions.
We offer a wide range of financial assistance and guidance to entrepreneurs trying to get a foothold in our local economy, if you think you could benefit from our services, don't hesitate to contact us.
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text: As I'm sure you know by now, blogging hasn't been at the top of my to-do list. It hasn't been for awhile, but one of my New Year's resolutions is to do something about that. With a new baby (who isn't so new any more omg what), being a stay at home mom, running my own business, and trying to run a blog while Michael works an average of 12 hours a day things have been hectic to say the least. Now that we've moved in with my parents to save money for Arizona, things are much less stressful. It is a dream come true to be able to do even the littlest things like hand Coco to my mom when I need to go to the bathroom. I foresee much more productive time in my future. It's no secret that I hate being alone, and just being able to sit in the same room as someone while I edit photos is a huge relief to me. So much of having a baby feels suffocating, and I don't mean that to sound overly negative or dramatic but something about just knowing that you can't leave the house at night, even if you wanted to, gives one a cabin fever of sorts. Needless to say, there is such a feeling of relief to always have my mom around. Anyways, being that CJ is almost eight months now, here are our six and seven months family pictures. December's were taken quite late, but I know I'll be so happy to have them, regardless of how late we shot them.


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It's an all-too-familiar pattern, yet this time it's occurring within a government agency rather than a publicly traded company: executives getting handsome rewards while their businesses flounder.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the secondary mortgage companies, have required about $170 billion in taxpayer assistance and are now wards of the government. In the quarter that ended in September, they posted a combined loss of about $10 billion. Yet Fannie and Freddie — and really, U.S. taxpayers — are on track to pay their top executives more than $95 million since 2009.
As CNNMoney reported:
Fannie CEO Michael Williams and Freddie CEO Charles Halderman, each received about $5.5 million in pay for last year, and they could receive more when their final deferred compensation for 2010 is set. All the executives receive a significant portion of their pay in the year or years after they earn it.
They're on track to each get about $6 million this year.
Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Home Finance Agency, which oversees the mortgage companies, has defended the bonuses, saying the executives involved were brought in to clean up the mortgage giants after they'd been taken over by the government and weren't involved in any of the practices that led to the bailouts. The individuals responsible for the failures left without severance, he told members of Congress who are working to curb the pay packages.
It's worth noting that many of the lawmakers now decrying the bonuses were happy to lap up lobbying dollars showered on Congress by Fannie and Freddie back in the day while they turned a blind eye to tighter regulations. They had more to do with Fannie and Freddie's failures than the current executives.
The current executives have stepped into an ugly mess, and, the theory goes, deserve a reward for being willing to clean it up. It's much the same argument that bankrupt companies make in paying bonuses to retain executives that can lead them back to profitability. Without some sort of incentives, the executives will simply quit. Of course, they are anyway. Halderman has said he intends to leave Freddie sometime next year.
The bigger problem, though, remains. Fannie and Freddie need to be unraveled, and their functions either turned over to the private sector or moved, transparently, onto the government's balance sheet. That still requires someone to do the unraveling of complicated mortgage transactions.
Yet for bailout-weary taxpayers, the bonuses are another slap in the face. After all, now that the private sector has retreated from the secondary mortgage market, Fannie and Freddie have no competition, and the executives are government employees. Taxpayers are underwater while the executives are being rewarded for not causing them to sink farther. Do they deserve a reward for losing only $10 billion?
For Fannie and Freddie, it may be progress, but for taxpayers, it's more of the same. Individuals reap rewards while we shoulder the risk and get stuck paying the bill.


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To be fair, Chock/Bates have always been able to get level 4s on steps and patterns (hello 2015 Worlds) but that hasn't stopped people from saying her edges aren't on par with some of her peers and with Evan. Maybe they're talking about overall edge quality. Maybe this is one of those things people talk about regarding how ice dance judging and level calling doesn't appropriately judge ice dance anyway when we had the discussion about how the new -5/+5 GOE range took power away from the callers and some people argued it was a good thing as some see it as sort of a ridiculous way to judge ice dance anyway. However, maybe the fact Chock is able to get level 4 also shows FSU narratives or "established facts" like "Chock/Gilles has bad edges" or "they're weaker than their partners" are hard to kill once they've been spread long enough even when some facts indicate those narratives may not be entirely true like if say Gilles/Chock manage to hit higher levels on their partners in the elements where each partner are individually called now.


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This low-profile but character-filled Dublin-area links played host to the 1991 Walker Cup, where Phil Mickelson and the Yanks prevailed, despite strong efforts from Padraig Harrington and Paul McGinley. Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer and Ian Woosnam are among those who captured Irish Opens here. Arnold Palmer once tabbed the 15th as one of golf's best par-3s. Deep pot bunkers and low dunes that offer little protection from the wind make Portmarnock Ireland's sternest, yet fairest championship test.


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HC disposes of pleas on Kejriwal protest at LG office
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court on Friday disposed of four petitions related to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's sit-in protest at the Lt. Governor's office in June, saying the strike has ended.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar said the protest had got over and disposed of the pleas.
The court said: "You (petitioners) want us to decide an academic question in a PIL. The strike is over, so the cause of action for all these matters is over."
One of the petitions was filed by Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta.
Kejriwal with his deputy Manish Sisodia and ministers Satyendar Jain and Gopal Rai camped in Raj Niwas, the official accommodation-cum-office of Lt. Governor Anil Baijal from June 11 to 19.
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Peter Lawrenson was recognised as a leading authority in three separate areas of electrical power engineering. He demonstrated that long-held views about the nature of singly excited machines were incorrect, making radical improvements in the performance of reluctance machines and stimulating worldwide activity in their application. In the mathematical solution of electromagnetic fields, he made several important contributions which are now used by researchers and designers in connection with many types of electrical apparatus. After early identification of the great potential of stepping motors for digital control systems, he made major contributions to the establishment of fundamental theory and design capability. Additionally, his mathematical and experimental modelling of superconducting AC generators was of importance in the assessment of their future role. His more recent work demonstrated remarkable levels of performance attainable from the integration of an elemental electrical machine with solid-state power electronics, by which means a single machine can be made to give any desired operating characteristic solely by adjustments at the logic or software level.Professor Peter Lawrenson FREng FRS died on 27 October 2017.
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Watson is the Onward to Opportunity-Veterans Career Transition Program Joint Base San Antonio Coordinator for the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University. Prior to coming on board at the IVMF, he served 21 years, three months, and 13 days of active duty in the United States Army. Throughout his service, he served as a Wire and Cable Construction Maintainer, a Recruiter, and a Human Intelligence Collector. He served with the 35th Signal Brigade Airborne, the Great Lakes Recruiting Battalion, the 82nd Airborne Division, and the Southwestern Army Reserve Intelligence Support Command. He participated in Operation URGENT RESPONSE in Port-Au-Prince Haiti, and Operation NEW DAWN in Iraq. During his career he received 1 Meritorious Service Medal, 1 Humanitarian Service Medal, and 7 Achievement medals for his outstanding leadership and team building abilities as well as his attention to detail.
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I don't want my ex-wife back, but I'd give almost anything to have my time with my kids back. All those nights and weekends where I've had zero access to them other than a phone call ("Hey, honey how was your day?" "Good." "Um… Anything cool happen at school?" "No.") I wouldn't consider remarrying her, and I'm sure she has even less interest in that than me, but I'd consider almost anything…
Okay, but I'm daydreaming here. And I saw for a moment, in the dream, my ex-wife coming up to me with a beautiful smile on her face. "I'm really sorry about the divorce," she said. "Yeah, me too." And then she (no she didn't) said, "And I miss you. Would you want to come home?" In the dream, I was intoxicated with joy. I was willing to do almost anything to make it happen. If she'd said, "But there's one condition, you have to scrub the toilets every night until I'm happy with them" I might have considered… But again, these are just demonic fantasies.
I would not remarry or rejoin my ex-wife. I would love more access to my kids. And I would've stayed in a troubled marriage until I was fatter and deader than I was when we split up. I would've stuffed my sadness and disconnected feelings in the name of staying married, for the kids. Yikes! That's not good.
But something in the dream was about forgiveness. Something in the dream was a redemption. That all this pain and suffering that we've all been through was forgiven. I was forgiven. She was forgiven. And I was coming home.
I've sort of blamed my ex-wife for the divorce in the past. When I was in a divorce recovery class, I classified myself as the dumpee and her as the dumper. And for that, I've grown familiar with my tendency to hold her up as the reason we got divorced. That's not accurate at all. It never is. Even when there is a clear dumper and dumpee, there are a lot more factors that go into the loss of love in a marriage. And I'm sure, we were no exception.
In fact, I had begun to get pretty vocal about the things that I was unhappy about in the marriage, towards the end of our last year together. I was learning to talk about what I didn't like, as opposed to just keeping quiet in some sort of sadistic Buddhist practice of suffering in the contemplation of my own suffering. I was beginning to give voice to my dissatisfaction. I was learning, for the first time, to get angry. (Anger was something we didn't do in my family of origin. Dad had more than enough anger for all of us combined.)
And my anger and voicing of my own frustrations were not helping things get closer between us. However, I saw a tipping point in my mind, if I could just get to the heart of the fight about our marriage. If we could just dig in and let it out. If our counselor could give us the tools to express, honestly, what we were feeling.
And what if that IS what happened? (I'm having an ah-ha moment as I'm writing.) What if the clarity of our communication was what lead us to actually getting a divorce, rather than staying together in some painful compromise? I hadn't really thought that idea through when I began writing this.
So, I got clearer about what things were hurting me in the divorce. And my then-wife was doing the same. We learned that a complaint was a fine form of communication. We learned that listening and truly trying to hear what the person is saying, rather than thinking of our defense, was the best way to get clarity between us.
When we parted, we agreed to disagree in the ultimate relationship in our lives. Our divorce was based on clear communication of what we thought we needed and what we thought the other person was incapable of giving us.
We met for one last time with our therapist. We needed closure with him and between us. It was decided that we were going to divorce. We wanted to say one last time, with his support and love, what we thought the fundamental issue was that was causing us to seek release. He was not trying to fix us. He was helping us communicate better, and that's how we ended.
I went first: This is a moment in our relationship where have an opportunity to strip back down to the basics. What we want in our lives and our relationship together. I feel like we've been given a warning flare and this is a new beginning. I'm committed to doing whatever it takes to rebuild with a new foundation.
She said: We are two very different people. Things you keep doing are triggering me and I don't feel like anything is getting better. I do not see a future where you are different. And I think I'm done.
And when I thought back on that exchange over the 4+ years, I've had this feeling that she did me wrong. I see now that she didn't. She spoke her truth. And she had the courage to speak honestly about her desire for a different future.
While I could hold on to this event as her decision to leave the marriage, that's not what it was. We didn't agree on next steps. We didn't see the future in the same optimistic light. I wanted to rebuild. But I was also saying very clearly, that things have got to change. A dramatic change was taking place, and I wanted to capitalize on this moment and make the leap to the next chapter of our relationship as married partners.
She saw the world through her eyes and didn't want to go on trying to be different or trying to work it out. (In the final two years we spent a lot of time and money in therapy, trying to "work it out.") And it wasn't going to work out, in her mind. Or she wasn't willing to change in the ways I was asking her to change. Either she couldn't, or she didn't want to, both are acceptable truths.
We spoke our final piece. We blessed our therapist for working with us and giving us such a safe place to explore our individual realities and how we were trying to find the "fit" between us.
It worked for a long time. I experienced the bliss of love and parenthood with a best friend. That is a truth. And as we grew into our parenting roles, we had different ideas about how that should look. And I fess up, I was unhappy. I was asking for a massive change. And in the end, we disagreed on what we wanted as a couple. As parents, we have never disagreed. And today, we're still pretty tight on issues that involve our kids. And I'm happy to release her from any blame I might have been carrying.
We discovered our truths. We learned to communicate them. And we agreed to come apart as a couple but stay close as parents. And that's our life together, without blame.
Always Love,
John McElhenney – life coach austin texas
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As a certified life coach, I've been helping men and women find fulfilling relationships. If you'd like to chat for 30-minutes about your dating/relationship challenges, I always give the first 30-session away for free. LEARN ABOUT COACHING WITH JOHN. There are no obligations to continue. But I get excited every time I talk to someone new. I can offer new perspectives and experiences from my post-divorce dating journey. Most of all, I can offer hope.
Post Note: I think this is a continuation of what I wrote this morning: Stop Thinking: The Lost Art of Deep Listening
back to Positive Divorce
related posts:
- Upward and Onward After Splitting Up
- The Next 100 Coffee Filters: Don't Be Hasty About Your Divorce
- Continuing Forgiveness As a Single Parent
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Trace Beverages Alkaline Spring Water is the official water of the finish line. Enjoy a refreshing beverage after your race!
Biofreeze is great for pre, during or post-workout. Take time to recover & address signs of pain head-on! See more at biofreeze.ca
Results & Live Feed
After your race, visit the Results Tent at the Street Festival or check online at bmovanmarathon.ca/time for your official finish time.
Timing mats will be located at the following points:
- Marathon: Start Line, 13KM, 21.1KM, Finish Line
- Half Marathon: Start Line, 5.5KM, 10.5KM, Finish Line
Finish Line
Please note:
- The Runner's Compound is available to Runners, Staff & Media only
- Keep moving forward once you cross the Finish Line and meet your friends at the Street Festival
- Spectators may watch on W Pender (before the Finish Line, between Georgia & Bute)
- Once you pickup your finisher food, you may proceed to Gear Check or exit the compound
- You may not re-enter the compound once you exit and enter the Street Festival
Street Festival
Stretching from Burrard to Bute, West Hastings St turns into a family-friendly Street Festival on race day. The Street Festival builds on the spirit of celebration that Vancouverites experienced during the Olympics. Over 40,000 attendees and 90,000+ spectators are expected to take in the atmosphere.
Meet up with your friends and family after the race and find vendors, food trucks, and more.
The post-race Street Festival runs until 3:30pm. For more details, visit bmovanmarathon.ca/festival.
Cheer Challenge
To compete to win, spectators may submit photos on social media @bmovanmarathon #bmovm #runvan or email firstname.lastname@example.com on race day.
For contest details, visit bmovanmarathon.ca/cheer.
And follow on social @bmovanmarathon.
Age Category Awards
under 19; 20-24; 25-29; 30-34; 35-39; 40-44; 45-49; 50-54; 55-59; 60-64; 65-69; 70-74; 75-79; 80-84; 85-89; 90-94; 95-99; 100 and above.
Winners will be recognized and first place finishers will receive free entry into the following year's race! Chip time, not gun time, will determine age group awards.
Age Category Winners will be posted post-race online at bmovanmarathon.ca/time.
Race Photos
You will be able to search for your photos below shortly after the race.
Race Store
Commemorate your run with an iTab medal insert or upgrade your race experience with the Prestige Club. To view add-on options, visit bmovanmarathon.ca/shop.
- Massages are available as part of the Prestige Club
- iTab medal inserts personalize your medal by engraving your name and finisher time. These will be mailed to you a few weeks after the race


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Taming of Stubborn Curly Hair
Everyone who has straight hair seems pretty evident that curls are the gift of nature. Then why do the curly-haired women complain about the unruly character of the locks and dream to straighten them up?
The appearance of hair depends on the form of the hair follicle. People with curly hair, it reminds a coma. The hair grown out of this follicle is curled as well that's why it has a more porous structure.
Keratin cuticle of hair covering it from the outside distributed unevenly bristles all the time and unprotected against the dust, smog, rain and snow. It's also the reason why they don't shine almost. They are dry and split a lot along the hair. But the roots of the curls are inclined to the greasiness.
One more problem of this hair is the much talked-about "dandelion effect": short walk under the rain or at the damp weather (after a hard styling!) – and you get a mop of hair!
How to tame the unruling hair…
Healthy washing
The main task of the hair shampooing is to cover the porous cells of the hair to keep the moisture inside of it. That's why the locks are in need of the special hair cosmetics. The more natural components are in the product, the better. You need the cosmetic product that soothe the structure of the curly hair and stabilizers that takes off the dielectric stress providing the obedient locks.
Orientate both on the hair type when choosing the washing products: dry hair, normal, oily or combined hair; and its structure: soft, coarse, thin or thick one. Trichologist or a master in a salon can help you to distinguish these characteristics.
The shampoo for dry hair requiring softening and moistening should include the extracts of coconut oil, jojoba or licorice, cornflower, white lotus and winterbloom in its content. And fragile, thin and split hair needs strengthening and protection: nettle, sage and vitamins.
Forget about volume shampoos forever! Their aim is to lift up the hair scales causing its fragility disobedience. In our case we need softness and flexibility.
Massage the head skin with almond oil before shampooing. That will activate the blood circulation and improve the nourishing of the hair bulb, smooth out the unruly locks and bring them healthy gloss. Shampoo your hair 1 time per 2-3 days diluting it with water a bit.
Soft character
Balsam is the basic nourishing remedy. It patches the hair providing additional nourishing. And the conditioner use will help avoid the 'dandelion effect', ease the styling process and grant you the beguiling silkiness. Pick out the products that contain silicon fractions as this component can pacify even African head of hair.
If you want your hair curl less, then brush them just after applying the balm and wash them well under the running water after that. Put the towel onto the shoulders and let your hair dry off not wiping them!
One of the best helpers is a special regenerative cream for curly hair that doesn't require after-washing. Apply it onto the clean wet hair, spread it along the hair length as if you sleek hair (but very carefully!). You'll see soon how quickly it makes hair soft and gentle.
Apply hair nourishing masks 1 time a week. The mask gives a shield along the hair.
Hair comb
Competent drying is a half of success. To stir clear off the laurels of Angela Davis, stay away from the hairdryer as often as it's possible as a hot air overdries the damaged and dry hair.
Of course, there are situations when you can't do it without this helping tool but in this case you should dry only the tips with the assistance of diffuser. But don't dry the hair roots, on no account.
Now brushing! This should be a very gentle procedure! First of all get rid of all your hairbrushs (metal in particular) and purchase a comb. The best one is that is antistatic covered. Don't tug your locks and don't start combing them from the roots down. One wrong move and your comb will be in captivity. Begin from the tips and up gradually.
Giving shape
To style curly hair trendy and accurately at the same time is practically impossible. The simplest way is to put onto the wet locks some mousse or gel and give it time to dry off. You will get a-la "back from the beach" hairdo. Lots of stylists recommend plaiting hair and arranging it around the head. Talking about the "express" hairdos, it's high time to recall for the ponytail. Curly hair gathered in the bun looks pretty sexy.
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My old HP external CD-RW drive with its early-version (3-something-or-other) Easy CD Creator software worked fine in W98, but XP would have no part of it. And while that drive had never failed me, it was slower than a D8 Cat in a drag race. It was time for a change.
Earlier, thinking ahead, I had equipped my computer with a D-Link 5-Port USB 2.0 PCI Adapter. I needed more than my computer's two 1.1 USB terminals for some upcoming equipment, and the PCI Adapter seemed to make more sense than simply buying a powered hub. The PCI Adapter provides extra ports, each one of which can transfer data up to 480 Mbps for USB 2.0 hardware, and is backward compatible with USB 1.1.
I chose the Plextor Plexwriter 24/10/40U USB 2.0 External CD-RW drive over the 40/12/40U, feeling that 24/10/40 would be more than adequate for my needs, while suitable media for it would be easier to track down — at the present time. The unit has BURN-Proof technology, eliminating buffer underruns, and is compatible with Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP and even Macintosh (no Mac software included). Some other features: 140ms average random access time, 4MB Buffer, Digital Audio Extraction at up to 40X max, Flash ROM for easy upgrade over the Internet, and much more, including one full year warranty and unlimited toll-free technical support.
The 24/10/40U comes with two software programs: SimpliCD, and Roxio — your choice. I opted for the Roxio (Easy CD Creator, version 5.0), which works flawlessly in my Windows XP Pro. Be advised, if you use the Roxio, go to Plextor's web site and download their firmware update, which brings the software up to version 5.3. This makes the software even more compatible with XP, as well as giving you the ability to use a DVD recordable drive for storing up to 4.7 GB of data. While prowling around on Plextor's web site, you may notice that they also market USB 2.0 PCI Adapters — two different versions, made by Adaptec, I believe.
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We are a group of people who love building quality software. We think software works best when developers can see the big picture. For us, it isn't just knowing what someone wants to create that is important, we also want to understand why they want to create it.
We're big on cloud innovation and work with our customers to deliver awesome software. We're thoughtful about the projects we take on and lean towards high social impact – we think it's important everyone is proud of the work they do. Ownership is in our DNA and you'll be trusted to work autonomously, we find projects thrive when developers have ownership and trust.
We'll check in with you on what projects you prefer and for how long. There's a variety from long term projects spanning over multiple years, to short term projects for 6 months. We always revisit what works best – and there will never be a situation where you get dropped into a project every other week (unless that's what you want).
The nice thing about being a consultant is you'll have the ability to shape and evolve projects that work for you and the customer. As a SixPivot consultant our customers will trust you and your advice, CTO'S and CIO's will listen to your suggestions and take them on board.
Mentoring will be a great part of your job and you'll get to help your peers at SixPivot, as well as the development teams and managers from our customers. On many projects, our customers haven't had the chance to work with a breadth of technology, and you'll be part of guiding them toward best software development practices.
You'll get to own the project and solve the problem. We want you to have your own ideas, roll them out and execute with little red tape in your way. We generally target greenfield projects – we think they're the most rewarding. You're really going to like working with us if you enjoy driving change in your team and introducing new concepts.
A little about the tech side of things:
Don't get tied up in the details. If you're missing a piece we should still talk. We think great developers can adjust to different tech stacks relatively easily. We're interested in getting to know devs who have worked on a range of different projects and technologies.
We are happily competitive with remuneration and believe in paying our team above market rates. We'll have transparent conversations with you on salary and negotations will be in line with your skills and experience.
Flexibility and balance are important to us, we trust our people to work from home or your preferred location. That might look like starting late or finishing early to do the school pickups or ducking out to make appointments. It's not about being in an office, what's more important is the outcome and what you contribute to building high quality software. If working from home doesn't suit you best, we also have an office in South Brisbane as well as a co-working space in Melbourne that you can work from.
We'll make sure you have the right tools with our device allowance, and you'll be able to choose what hardware works for you.
We offer additional leave, up to 5-6 weeks in total (we'll bring this up when we're finalising your package). And we have an extra holiday bonus, 2 days each year over the Christmas and New Year period.
There's also a fully paid one-night getaway at the end of the year for you and your partner, it's a social get together for the team.
And of course, we offer a team of technical brilliance. You'll be part of a team where your technical knowledge will not only grow, but you'll also learn how a product goes commercial and the overall business processes around it. If you've ever wanted to build your own product and learn how to go to market, we'll encourage and foster that growth. We want you to be part of something bigger.
If we sound interesting, we're always open to a chat – we'll never pass on the opportunity to get to know more people. We know that timing can really influence change, and if it's your time to move on, and you think SixPivot could be a good fit. Please say hello.
In the spirit of transparency our interview process has four stages; an initial chat, cultural interview, a take home technical puzzle and a technical interview. If you don't pass the technical component the first time, you might be eligible for our mentoring program.
We operate a little bit differently with job offers and work without time constraints. We have job offers with people who are starting with us in 6 and 12 months time. Whatever the case may be, when you have a job offer from SixPivot, it will always be standing.
Getting a conversation started with us is easy. Shoot across an online profile or resume, what you have on your website/StackOverflow/LinkedIn will do the trick. We want our conversations to be organic and ensure saying hello is accessible for everyone, even if they're busy. We like getting to know people and look forward to more people getting to know us.
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Paula Deen is not a racist. She's an anachronism. From a time that's since gone. She's a relic of the South. I've met these people before. Listen to her infra. What planet is she on and from? Will Paula Deen seek absolution in an interview with Oprah? OWN wouldn't mind the publicity, and Oprah has played this role before (by becky). The scary thing from a PR point of view is that Paula Deen has no filter. Many others subscribe to her views, but are smart enough not to put it out to a national audience. Who would have thought that the battle between the racially insensitive and the racially hypersensitive would play out in a national debate about a matronly TV cooking show host? And remember: She's not alone.
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Your child develops spatial reasoning by putting together pieces of this puzzle to form a car.
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My Liners : …(c) Nik'B
- I just wanna know you better, so that I can hate you
- Op-amp and transistor are smart devices and know very well how to fool input source.
- If you understand the concept you will need less mathematics, but if you don't, stick on Mathematics you will still get same results.
- "Academic Criminals" ..New Noun: Perhaps we need it, to refer to
- My favorites always suffer..
- Don't estimate world's limit by your visible limit only.
- If you don't Learn it Now, Time will teach you and it has only one way to teach.
- There is always trade off between 'Time Management and Quality of Work'
- I hate the way I hate you
- You make a 'Hypothesis' but you *WANT* it to be rejected, instead some day, some facts/figures/results prove it.
- If you have to write a program for your own life, How would you do it?
- Even if my believe is right, that does not make it true **(Not exactly mine)
- Easiest way to get rid of the feeling of regret of your mistakes is to blame others and prove it. Not a genuine idea but works for MOST of the people.
- "God is an Abstraction"
- "Love me or Kill me, But Don't LEAVE me".
- Things should be simple, but not SO simple that it looses its 'Meaning'
- Being 'Home Sick' is better than Being 'Sick' at Home
- Imperfection is your Identity. Don't lose it, Do maintain it
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When you pick up a bottle of Pusser's, you're holding more than just a bottle of rum – you're holding a piece of history.
In 1979, Charles Tobias obtained the rights to the original recipe of the Royal Navy's secret rum blend from the Admiralty Board. Originally only available to Royal Navy Sailors, this recipe now lives on inside every bottle of Pusser's Rum. As a symbol of his gratitude, Tobias pledged to support the Royal Navy, and throughout the years, the brand has upheld his promise by contributing a portion of every rum bottle sold to the Royal Naval Sailor's Fund. Since the inception of The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity (R.N.R.M.C), Pusser's has been responsible for over €250,000 worth of contributions that have directly benefited members of the charity.
Our support does not end there – each year, Pusser's provides cases of rum to the Royal Naval Association to assist with charitable and fund raising efforts. In addition, Pusser's supports numerous charities worldwide, including the Star & Garter Home in London, the Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth, the United States Navy Memorial Foundation, and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, Habitat for Humanity, and Island Dolphin Care, among others. Pusser's is also proud to offer an extensive discount for ex-military and present military personnel through Nauticalia.
Our philanthropic efforts reach far beyond donations, discounts, and charitable giving. Many members of the Pusser's family are dedicated to supporting numerous causes, from animal welfare to environmental protection. Each year, company Vice-President Jamie Jackson dedicates three weeks of his personal time to River Runners, an offshoot of the Wounded Warriors Project that provides paddling programs for veterans (and their families) who have been wounded while serving.
Pusser's is the only authentic Royal Navy rum blended in accordance to the Admiralty's standards. As the only brand providing the original rum served aboard the Royal Navy ships, we're proud to continue our legacy as avid supporters of the Navy's sailors. We hope you'll join us.
Truth, honor, integrity – In service, and in your glass.
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Whether you are actively looking for a new job, have no immediate plans to change jobs, or are simply poking your head out to see what is out there, building your network is vital to your career advancement.
The professional climate can change as quickly as an autumn day in the Northwest and the more people you have in your network, the easier it will be to "weather the storm." Below are 10 important steps you can take to ensure you will not be left in the cold the next time you find yourself looking for a new career opportunity.
- Always network – Successful Networking is a skill that should be developed over time and constantly. It is not something you should do only when you need something.
- Have an elevator pitch – Develop a 30 to 60 second script that best describes you, your current situation, and what you are looking for.
- Broadcast your message – If you are actively looking for a job, deliver your "elevator pitch" to everyone you meet or already know. They might not be able to help you directly, but their network of people may lead you toward the next step in your career. Try spreading your message through social networks and email as well.
- Maintain your relationships – It is easy to invite people to join your network on LinkedIn but it is a lot more challenging to maintain contact with them. Make time in your schedule to stay in touch. If you only connect with your contacts when you need something, they are less likely to help you when you need it most.
- Build your network – Keep building your network. Join a LinkedIn user group, contact an EdgeLink recruiter, or seek out a recommendation or introduction from one of your existing contacts.
- Be generous –Giving without the expectation of receiving something in return is an excellent way to build your network—and it feels good! Find what is important to members of your network and assist them when it is at all possible.
- Show your face – Sometimes you will not feel like it, but afterward, will usually be glad you did… Force yourself to get out and go to networking events. There are tons of local user groups, MeetUps and groups on LinkedIn that sponsor monthly networking events.
- Meet other connectors – It is not necessarily how many people you know, but rather knowing the right people that can help you get connected. Focus on developing quality relationships, especially people who know lots of other professionals.
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This recipe makes me smile whenever I make it. You may wonder what's so funny about linguine with garlic and olive oil? Nothing really, it just reminds me of a friend.
This friend does not cook. At all. I don't think she's ever used her oven. I was at her house one day and I was hungry. Nobody else wanted anything, so I started poking around in her fridge and cupboards (with permission).
I found some dried pasta, bouillon cubes, some olive oil, and a can of parmesan cheese. So, I made the "shelf stable" version of this recipe. They all looked at me as if I had walked on water or parted the seas!
It is, of course, much better if you have higher quality ingredients at hand. Here at home, I used fresh linguine, homemade chicken broth, and freshly grated parmesan cheese, along with high quality olive oil.
You can do it that way, the shelf stable way, or somewhere in-between. I won't judge.
A simple, weeknight dinner you can make even if your cupboards are nearly bare! It can be fancy (fresh pasta), or simple and basic (shelf stable ingredients). Great for those, what the heck do I eat for dinner nights. A lot of flavor without a lot of effort.
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2T olive oil
- 2 quarts water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 lb. linguine or spaghetti
- 1/3 cup chicken stock
- freshly ground black pepper
- freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- Add the oil to a small frying pan. Put the garlic in the pan and cook over medium heat. until it turns slightly golden. Don't burn it! Stir it every once in a while, then turn off the heat and set it aside.
- Bring the water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Add the salt.
- If you are using dried pasta, add it, then stir it (to keep it from sticking).
- Cook for 5-8 minutes until it's al dente (soft, but not mushy).
- If you have fresh pasta, add it, stir, and watch carefully. The pasta is cooked when the water returns to a boil (a minute or two).
- Drain the pasta and put it back in the pot.
- Add the chicken broth and turn the heat back on to medium. Let the pasta/broth mixture simmer for a few minutes until most of the broth is absorbed.
- Take the garlic/oil mixture you set aside and add that to the pasta pot. Using a spoon and a fork, toss the whole thing together, like a salad.
- Remove to a plate and serve, topped with black pepper and grated cheese.
Substitutions and Variations for Linguine with Garlic and Olive Oil
- Make it more substantial with some cooked chicken or cooked shrimp
- Top it with some red pepper flakes
- Add a bit of lemon zest
- Use some anchovies (if you like them)
- Top with freshly toasted breadcrumbs
More Pasta Recipes
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Summer Pasta with Green Olives and Feta Cheese
Spaghetti with Spinach and Lemon Cream Sauce


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Having lived in China for the last two years and then travelling around New Zealand for 6 weeks I am now back in South Africa. Lots of people have asked if I am back for good and to be honest I can't say for sure. I have experienced so many new things living overseas for the last two years that I can't help but want to carry on and experience more.
However, for the foreseeable future I'm back in Cape Town and I'm going to continue blogging with this my third in a series of country blogs. So if you enjoyed Rory in China and Rory in New Zealand you are bound to enjoy this, Rory in South Africa. As I explore my new found interest in photography you can expect more pictures then words in my posts.
All that is left is for you to sign up (link at the bottom of the site) so as to not miss any future posts and if you have anything you want to say about anything just leave a comment and I'll be sure to read it.
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Thank you for the like on my blog adn glad to see someone else is showcasing this amazing part of the world. Your photos are lovely. Regards, Karen.
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Florida's Lopez-Cantera: Boycotting the BDS Movement Sends a Crucial Message
"Carlos Lopez-Cantera doesn't sound like a Jewish name," Florida's lieutenant governor recently joked when he addressed the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. But he wants people to know that he's proud of his Cuban-Jewish heritage.
"My father came from Cuba but he married a nice Jewish girl in Miami, and I followed suit and married a nice Jewish girl in Miami as well," Lopez-Cantera told the group. "We keep a Jewish household and are raising our daughters Jewish."
Lopez-Cantera is one of the leading candidates in the crowded Florida Republican primary battle for Marco Rubio's Senate seat. He says his background gives him a "unique perspective" on what he characterized as the "two biggest foreign policy failures this year," Cuba and Iran. Like Rubio, he has opposed the Obama administration's efforts to end the Cuban embargo without demanding accountability from the Castro regime for its human rights abuses. He has also sharply criticized the Iran deal, as he discussed in an interview with Opportunity Lives in September.
Maintaining America's strong relationship with Israel is another high priority for Lopez-Cantera, which is why he was glad to see the Florida legislature pass a bill that bars state agencies from doing business with companies that support the "Boycott, Divest, and Sanction" (BDS) movement against Israel.
The BDS campaign is an effort by anti-Israel organizers to encourage boycotts of Israeli companies, divestment of financial stakes in Israeli companies or companies that do business with Israel and the imposition of other sanctions on Israel. Critics of the BDS movement say these efforts not only economically punish Israel, but also stoke anti-Jewish hatred.
The new Florida law, Senate Bill 86, not only bars the state of Florida from contracting with companies that boycott Israel, but it also prohibits state pension funds from being invested in these companies. Florida's chief financial officer, Jeff Atwater, supervises the state's pension funds and contractual relationships, and is empowered by the law to review the list of companies currently doing business with Florida or in which Florida's pension funds are invested.
Lopez-Cantera says he wasn't aware of any particular issue with a specific company that moved the legislature to act. But, as he explained to Opportunity Lives, the bill was more about sending a critically important message, especially as supporters of Israel have seen the BDS movement expanding and becoming more organized over the past few years.
"This [law] is more about the movement and a message as far as where Florida stands," Lopez-Cantera said. "We stand firmly with Israel."
Israel isn't just an important foreign policy ally, but also a vital trading partner for the state of Florida, with $250 million in bilateral trade each year.
Lopez-Cantera, who travelled with the Republican Lieutenant Governors' Association to Israel on Saturday, has found his faith earning more media attention with such issues in the news.
Some of the coverage has been a little odd, however. A Roll Call article published almost a year ago bizarrely claimed that "there is no evidence that [Lopez-Cantera] is a practicing Jew." Roll Call reported that "sources" had told them that Lopez-Cantera's two daughters attended Hebrew Day School and his wife was on the board for the Hebrew Loan Association of South Florida, but apparently never bothered to contact the Lieutenant Governor or his office for comment.
When asked about the Roll Call article, Lopez-Cantera, who had not read it, laughed when he heard the claims questioning his Jewishness. If they wanted evidence, he said, "they can look at my wedding photos where we were married by a rabbi."
"I didn't know there was a litmus test" for who should count as a Jew, he continued, calling the story "ridiculous."
Florida is not alone in refusing to do business with pro-BDS companies. Last month, Illinois became the first state to identify specific companies in which state assets would no longer be invested because of their support of the BDS movement. Several other states have also passed resolutions and launched efforts to discourage or outright ban investments in companies that are boycotting Israel.


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Legislation that would have required more frequent evaluations of educators was killed by a state Senate committee Wednesday under strong opposition from teachers' unions.
The bill, by Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello), would have required permanent teachers with 10 years experience to undergo performance reviews every three years instead of five. It would also have required school districts to consider parent input in instructor evaluations and set up four rating levels for teachers. Many districts, such as L.A. Unified, have two rating levels – meets standards or doesn't.
"California public school students – our children – were the losers today," Calderon said in a statement. "Those defending the status quo won the day and while I am disappointed, I am hopeful that at some point the Legislature will show the leadership necessary to guarantee our children have the best teachers possible."
In a statement, the California Teachers Assn. called the measure a "poorly conceived" bill that would not have improved the evaluation process or provided useful feedback to educators.
The bill was supported by L.A. Unified and such educational policy and lobbying groups as Parent Revolution, EdVoice and StudentsFirst. But it failed to win the five votes needed for passage in the Senate Education Committee. Calderon said the measure would be reconsidered May 1.
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Tchoukball on fire – Episode 24 is on-line, listen to Thomas Langescheid and Joachim Fromm talking about Tchoukball in Germany, as well as the organization of the 2o14 European Tchoukball Championship.
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brittanylK necesitaba un nuevo diseño de Gráficos e Ilustraciones y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
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Eroica - California attracts vintage and new (Novo) new bike riders from all over California, US and World. This ride takes place in 8 countries every year.
Eroica - California is the only ride with an ocean view so that is being requested to be played up in the poster design. You can use your imagination to add as much detail as you can.
The illustration should feature two riders, Lucciano and Wes (pictured below) on their own bicycles that are in motion and riding along the scenic coast of California HWY One from Cambria south to Cayucos. Lucciano and Wes should each be on their own bike. Details with vintage clothing and googles hats and shoes are needed. Lucciano should be in the front and Wes should be slightly behind Lucciano. We would like to see riders in the distance behind the two main guys being featured with two of the riders possibly on a tandem bike. We like to create a scene that shows the lifestyle of the Central California region. Green hills, ocean, sunshine. This region has oak trees, pine trees and an occasional palm tree. We'd like to see a surfer in the distance of the ocean.
The build to size is: 24" x 36" Vector is preferred but with a cartoon style characters. Coloring for bikes and clothing should be vintage tones. We want to capture a fun spirit with the riders as this is a very endurance race.
The logo Eroica California needs to be prominent and we need to leave a white bar for sponsor logos at the bottom that will be in two or three horizontal lines.
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THE BEAUTY OF FATIGUE AND THE THRILL OF THE CONQUEST Eroica - California Logo A RIDE TO THE OCEAN April 14 - 15, 2018 Paso Robles, California


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My Cat Likes Earwax!
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Does your cat eat earwax from people? Fascinating, isn't it? Actually it's perfectly normal behaviour…for your cat anyway.
Here's why…
You see, cats don't have as many taste buds as we humans do i.e. around 10,000 against their 500. You'll notice that your cat tends to sniff her food before she eats it. That's because she goes by the nutritional value rather than the taste which she picks by her sensitive sense of smell.
Cats still have the four basic taste types of sour, bitter, salt and sweet like we do – their response to sweet being the weakest. It is also our sense of smell which determines why different foods 'taste' different (although have you noticed that some foods smell better than they taste?) Anyway, back to your cat – it's reasonable to assume that cats use a similar determination of smell and taste in deciding the palatability of their food.
It follows then that cats rarely reject food simply on the basis of its taste. Using their sense of smell, the cats subconsciously realise that earwax is good stuff – by the scent of the fatty acids, the cholesterol, and also the dead skin cells (mostly protein). Cats are specifically keen on the scent of animal proteins, hence why they like meat – and why they hungrily devour earwax.
The ratio of smell receptors to taste receptors is virtually reversed in cats and humans. Therefore if something smells good but tastes like old socks then we won't eat it. However, cats will eat almost anything if it sure smells good!
So, with our increased sensitivity to taste, we will generally reject eating earwax because of its sour, bitter taste (I'm told!) and hopefully for the sheer yuckiness of it. On the contrary the sour and bitter flavour of the earwax is barely noticeable to our not so fussy cats in this regard, in comparison to its wholesome, nutritious odour.
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Live Painting Performance in Barcelona Football Club Stadium
l did the Sumi-e live painting at the special stand of #Rakutenand #JNTO in Camp Nou, FC Barcelona stadium before the match against Valencia.
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New opening flagship store Muji Passeig de Gracia Barcelona, I was asked to paint the building of the new shop of ' The Union and Phoenix' for their tote bag. I did the painting thinking with the minimal concept of the brand. #Muji #Japaneseart
Last month June 2018,Japanese TV program called 'Sekai no murano doerai san' , the title means something like ' 'Remarkable person around the world' in the picture that was one the painting I gave to the program, the Lion is the logo of the show. After the program I have received many messages of support … Read more MY WORKS ON FUJI TV
The last month I was invited by the Japanese Embassy in Portugal, to the Japanese Matsuri in Lisbon with other artist, I did the collaboration with Keita Kanazashi a taiko player for the first time, we did a performance of calligraphy and sumi-e togueter, I painted a dragon we met in Bilbao few years ago and we were talking to do the collaboration. Then … Read more PICTURES OF JAPAN MATSURI IN LISBON
Japan- Spain 150 Years Anniversary of Comertial Relationship
This is one of my lastest works, a commission for Japanese Embassy in Spain. They asked me for a work to commemorate the union of the two countries. This year marks the 150th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Spain. On November 12, 1868, when the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and … Read more Japan- Spain 150 Years Anniversary of Comertial Relationship
Why tiger and a Yuzu? One day Mr. Ishida one of the best Chefs restaurants in Japan made to Ferran Adrià an onigiri ( rice ball ) with Yuzu ( a type of Japanese citric ) with the shape of a tiger, because he was born the year of the tiger, and he loved it…that is … Read more THE TIGER OF YUZU


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Our St Patrick's Day grasshopper cocktail is guaranteed to put a spring in your step!
Posted on 15 March, 2018
Shake together equal quantities of Crème de menthe, Crème de cacao and fresh cream in a cocktail shaker with lots of ice.
Strain and pour into chilled cocktail glasses. As an extra touch, wet the rim of the glasses and dip in cocoa powder if desired.
Enjoy at home after dinner or serve at special events as part of your cocktail list.


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A former TVNZ editor and gay activist has been charged with dealing ecstasy, speed and LSD.
Anne Elizabeth Speir, 55, appeared at the Auckland District Court on Thursday facing charges of possession of ecstasy, LSD, amphetamines and cannabis for supply. She was also charged with producing ecstasy.
It is alleged a large amount of cash - believed to be more than $16,000 - was found at her Housing New Zealand-owned home when it was raided by police in May. Speir was bailed to reappear on July 5.
Substances seized during the raid have been sent to Environmental Science and Research for analysis.
She worked on classic TV shows such as A Week Of It during two decades in television with TVNZ and produced Takataapui, a gay lifestyle series for Maori Television in 2004.
Speir was supported in court by two friends. She said that she was concerned about how her elderly father would take the news.
Speir is being represented by barrister Ron Mansfield. "It's very early days," said Mansfield.
"It's all sub-judice so I can't say anything about the case."
Speir will face a jury trial if she pleads not guilty.
Speir, originally from Tauranga, was the first female professional lifeguard on Mt Maunganui beach in the 1970s and began her television career working for South Pacific Television at the end of that decade.
She spoke about her experiences in an interview with Pride NZ last year.
"We were pretty radical then, we did a lot of pro-abortion protesting."
She also told how she believed she faced discrimination from TVNZ in 1979, claiming that she was passed over for promotion. "I was kept on the lowest grade available, because of being a dyke," she claimed.
She is a former chairwoman of the Hero Trust, which organised gay pride parades in Auckland from 1992 to 2001.
Plans for a new pride parade in Auckland were revealed this week.
Speir said she had found it hard to find work in television in recent years because employers favoured young people.
When the Herald on Sunday revealed Ali Mau's relationship with Karleen Edmonds in 2010, Speir said: "Over a quarter of a century ago Marilyn Waring was outed on the front page of Truth newspaper. Clearly nothing has changed, and that deeply saddens me.
"If [Alison] is in a relationship with a woman does she, and that woman too, need to be outed like this?"


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Jost Running Giveaway!!!!
As the holiday season gets underway…time for races gets trickier. For me anyway. My weekends are completely packed. I am going to be involved in the opening of a local running store. YES! That's right. I'm going to be working in a running store. And the name of the store is Rail Trail Run Shop. To say I'm excited is an understatement. Then the same weekend, I have both of my nieces's birthdays to get to on the same day. After that, each weekend only gets crazier. I want to do a December race, BUT, unless a race director wants to go around my schedule, it probably won't happen.
Woah, wait. I know a race director that allows you to go around your own schedule….. JOST Running! AND, you get to choose your distance - 5k, 10k, 13.1, or 26.2. Oh and you get a great medal as well! Oh, okay! I guess I can do a December race. On my time! Woohoo!
I just need to decide which "race" I want to do. And guess what? One of you gets to choose too! The ladies at Jost Running have offered my readers a chance to win a virtual race with Jost Running. Yay!
The 5k and 10k dates are below...
Or you could do the Half or Full Marathon and get this medal…
Enter below for your chance! I'll announce my winner on December 2nd. A little late….but if you want to do the 5k, you will still have time!