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Style Number: 394414
Size medium has a 26" front body length and a 22½" back body length.
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St. Moritz Elite Chef's Knife
The Messermeister St. Moritz Chef's knife has been my favorite for many years! It's hard to beat the combination of this knife's bolsterless edge, comfortable balance, and sturdiness.
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The Messermeister San Moritz Elite 8″ Chef's Knife, also known as a Cook's Knife or French Knife, is the most versatile knife in the kitchen and thus the most used blade style by professional chefs. The broad bladed knife has a spine which gradually tapers to the cambered, cutting edge and creates a pointed tip. This knife also has a bolster in front of the handle which gradually tapers to the tip. Because of this geometry, this is the one knife that should be well balanced with weight distributed equally between the handle and the blade.
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Buzzer Reaction
Miami Heat
Los Angeles Clippers
MVP: LeBron James was out in full force tonight. His quick decisions accounted for Miami's flawless ball movement: 33 assists to 41 goals, in total. The reigning MVP contributed directly to 12 of those while pouring in 31 points and grabbing eight rebounds.
LVP: The Clippers are razor-thin in terms of wing depth, so with J.J. Redick missing, they looked to Jared Dudley for floor spacing. He was noticeably out of rhythm, going 1-for-5 on the night and missing all three of his attempts beyond the arc. Down the stretch, Doc Rivers opted to stay with Matt Barnes.
That was … high flying. LeBron and Dwyane Wade were dunking all over the competition — Birdman even soared for some lobs. For L.A., Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan were up to their usual Lob City antics. The game was so exhilarating, in fact, that Griffin's 43 points, 15 rebounds and six assists are basically a footnote.
— Seerat Sohi
Tweet(s) of the Night
Blake Griffin defending LeBron James. Enjoy.
— Kevin Arnovitz (@kevinarnovitz) February 6, 2014
— Dan Devine (@YourManDevine) February 6, 2014
Also, Machine is one of the best nicknames in tertiary rotation player history.
— netw3rk (@netw3rk) February 6, 2014
J.J. Redick would be useful here. Also, Chris Paul.
— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) February 6, 2014
Game of the Year.
— Myles Brown (@mdotbrown) February 6, 2014
The Depth Charge
|Byron Mullens, C
|Ryan Hollins, C
|Antawn Jamison, PF
|Hedo Turkoglu, PF
No shot chart tonight (!), so enjoy this video of Hedo Turkoglu breaking his own ankles:
ClipperBlog Live's Best Moment
Nate Duncan of Basketball Insiders joins Andrew to discuss positive takeaways from tonight's loss, Blake Griffin aggressively looking for his shot, and which teams the Clippers best match up with in the postseason.
Check Your Messages
Morals without the Victory
The Los Angeles Clippers don't subscribe to the idea of moral victories, at least not vocally, but the vibe around the team after the 116-112 loss to Miami Heat was comparatively rosy for a team that lost on its home floor and didn't have one of the four best records in the Western Conference for the first time in well over a month. The Clippers weren't happy about the turnovers and the defense, but they'd wanted a tempo game against Miami and they'd accomplished that. They wanted to keep the ball moving against Miami's pressure in the half court, and they nailed that task as well.
– Kevin Arnovitz, for TrueHoop
The Unguardable Blake Griffin
You used to be able to single-team Blake Griffin in the post and you'd be all right on the defensive end. Eventually, Griffin's game progressed to where you needed to double-team him in the low post.
Now, though, look at what happens to teams who double Griffin in the post. The Mavs go for hard doubles in a mid-January game, and Griffin finishes with 23 points and eight assists during a game in which the Clippers' offense couldn't have run any smoother. Then, Blake starts making other teams pay for their double teaming.
Wednesday, Miami was so committed to doubling Griffin that it even sent second defenders onto him when he was LeBron James's assignment. That's a step beyond dominant. It's unstoppable, unguardable. LeBron doesn't need help unless he's guarding someone of that upper-echelon stature. And after finishing with 43 points, 15 rebounds, and six assists in an eventual loss, it seems like that's exactly what the Heat think Griffin is: unguardable.
– Fred Katz
The Depth Deficit
With Paul already sidelined and Redick a late scratch, the Clippers' bench was depleted. Rather than rely on certain reserves to surprise him (Antawn Jamison, Hedo Turkoglu or Sasha Vujacic … nope) Doc Rivers opted to play the starters heavy minutes, essentially going with a seven-man rotation. Crawford played 46 minutes, Griffin logged 42 and every other starter topped 40 except for Collison, who turned in a not-too-shabby 38. And all minutes are not created equal. These were minutes spent chasing around the likes of James and Miami's other speedsters.
The starters performed beyond admirably, but the fatigue showed. It can at least partially explain how the Clippers were outshot by nearly 10 percent from the field and how LAC committed 20 turnovers, many of them careless. Although the Clippers only committed two fourth-quarter turnovers and utilized offensive boards and second-chance points to roar back in the fourth quarter, their earlier turnovers could not be taken back after putting them in such a deep hole. Miami, who won by four, beat the Clippers in points off turnovers by a margin of seven, 25-18. It's no secret that turning the ball over is extra costly against a team like the Heat, who lead the league with 19.6 points off turnovers per game.
– Aaron Fischman
What Is Basketball, Even?
Wow. That was a visceral delight. Really, I don't want to do this game the injustice of trying to define it with real analysis— or real words, even. Mid-season basketball can be a monotonous affair, especially when the Eastern Conference looks more like the Big East. Tonight, Blake Griffin and LeBron James broke that monotony.
But high entertainment is commonplace from these two. From LeBron, we expect much more. He's the engine that makes the Heat go. Did anyone else notice a striking resemblance between Blake Griffin and LeBron James tonight?
– Seerat Sohi
Getting 43
This season, and especially since Chris Paul went down with his shoulder injury, we've grown accustomed to Blake Griffin's expanded offensive repertoire, namely his steadier mid-range game and improved free-throw percentage. It's not uncommon for Griffin to take 4-5 18-foot jump-shots in a game now, and, more notably, such an occurrence is no longer something that makes a Clipper fan cringe. Progress is progress.
Against Miami tonight, Blake scored 22 points in the first half for the second game in a row, en route to a personal season high 43. You'd think given such a high number, and what with the team's starting backcourt missing and the offensive load falling to Griffin and a freewheeling Jordan Crawford, Blake might've taken any and every shot available, including a boatload of those mid-range jumpers opponents happily concede.
Instead, tonight, Griffin got six buckets off conventional post moves, six buckets off offensive rebound put-backs, two on transition alley-oops, a handful of free throws, one 18-footer when Chris Bosh sagged into the lane, and the 3-pointer with 18 seconds left. Blake would have likely scored more in the paint, except on at least three occasions, he beat Bosh off the dribble only to meet Chris Andersen or Greg Oden immediately.
And that's the rub, I suppose: Bosh couldn't handle Blake one-on-one, and Miami sent double-teams his way all night – it didn't matter. The Heat dispatched their cooler, LeBron, a guy as tall and burly as Griffin and a savvy defender, and that didn't matter either. Blake got what he wanted, where he wanted it, for 42 minutes. Against the champs, carrying a wounded team, it just wasn't quite enough.
– Luke Laubhan
Deja Vu
Tell me if this sounds at all familiar.
24 years old, about 6-foot-8, 6-foot-9. Roughly 250 pounds. Stronger and faster than just about everyone. Phenomenal basketball IQ. Highly skilled, but often criticized for what he can't do instead of appreciated for what he does.
That's Blake Griffin.
And at one point, that was LeBron James, too.
The parallels between Griffin and James have never been clearer than they were during the Miami Heat's 116-112 victory over the shorthanded Los Angeles Clippers.
Maybe we just had to see Griffin and James next to each other, sizing each other up, going at each other throughout multiple points in the game, trading dunks and jumpers and perfect cross-court skip passes.
Or perhaps it's because Griffin, without Chris Paul or J.J. Redick, was playing the role of a one-man offensive wrecking crew; a role James occupied for many years during his time in Cleveland.
Then again, it could have been the raw numbers that triggered the comparison. Griffin's 43 point, 15 rebound and 6 assist line is the type that sends off alarms in your brain and makes you start the search for other players who are capable of doing such things. But LeBron, surprisingly, has never had a game like this.
All the similarities and comparisons beg the question: what would Griffin look like if he came up like LeBron did?
– D.J. Foster, at ProBasketballTalk.com


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Patriarch Kirill (MP) Honors Communist Party Chief
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate, awarded longtime Russian Communist Party head Gennady Zyuganov an award for "glory and honor" on June 27, the day after his 70th birthday.
Zyuganov is well-known for promoting a revisionist history of the Soviet Union, which pretends that life was better under that regime. Such propaganda ignores the reality of the millions of people who were terrorized and/or killed during Soviet times.


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Anuradha (Anu) Agarwal, TWG & PEG Leaders
Dr. Anuradha (Anu) Agarwal is Co-Chair of the IPSR Photonics Sensors Technology Working Group (TWG).
As a Principal Research Scientist in the Microphotonics Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she is developing integrated Si-CMOS compatible linear and non-linear materials for photonic devices, both at near infrared (NIR) wavelengths for telecommunications; and in the mid-infrared (MIR) regime, for hyperspectral imaging and chem-bio sensing, where most chemical and biological toxins have their fingerprints.
Her recent focus has been on chalcogenide glasses (ChGs) because they can be compositionally tuned, have a large refractive index, high Kerr nonlinearity and wide infrared transparency, making them superior for linear and nonlinear optics and sensing.
Her major technical contributions in the area of silicon microphotonics include: polysilicon waveguides, erbium-doped silicon LEDs, on-chip fiber-to-waveguide couplers, ultra-low-loss chalcogenide waveguides, MIR imaging and sensing.
Dr. Agarwal received her doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University, where she investigated the spatial extent of point defect interactions in silicon. She has been at MIT's Microphotonics Center since 1994, except for a short (2001-2004) stint at Clarendon Photonics, where she was part of a team of engineers developing a novel optical filter. She has authored more than 100 journal and refereed conference publications, and has six awarded patents and five pending patents. Her work on MIR materials and devices is creating a planar, integrated, Si-CMOS-compatible microphotonics platform that will enable on-chip imaging and sensing applications.
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Advanced Machine Learning Specialization
Deep Dive Into The Modern AI Techniques. You will teach computer to see, draw, read, talk, play games and solve industry problems.
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Skills you will gain
About this Specialization
Applied Learning Project
You will master your skills by solving a wide variety of real-world problems like image captioning and automatic game playing throughout the course projects. You will gain the hands-on experience of applying advanced machine learning techniques that provide the foundation to the current state-of-the art in AI.
Designed for those already in the industry.
Designed for those already in the industry.
There are 7 Courses in this Specialization
Introduction to Deep Learning
The goal of this course is to give learners basic understanding of modern neural networks and their applications in computer vision and natural language understanding. The course starts with a recap of linear models and discussion of stochastic optimization methods that are crucial for training deep neural networks. Learners will study all popular building blocks of neural networks including fully connected layers, convolutional and recurrent layers.
How to Win a Data Science Competition: Learn from Top Kagglers
If you want to break into competitive data science, then this course is for you! Participating in predictive modelling competitions can help you gain practical experience, improve and harness your data modelling skills in various domains such as credit, insurance, marketing, natural language processing, sales' forecasting and computer vision to name a few. At the same time you get to do it in a competitive context against thousands of participants where each one tries to build the most predictive algorithm. Pushing each other to the limit can result in better performance and smaller prediction errors. Being able to achieve high ranks consistently can help you accelerate your career in data science.
Bayesian Methods for Machine Learning
People apply Bayesian methods in many areas: from game development to drug discovery. They give superpowers to many machine learning algorithms: handling missing data, extracting much more information from small datasets. Bayesian methods also allow us to estimate uncertainty in predictions, which is a desirable feature for fields like medicine.
Practical Reinforcement Learning
Welcome to the Reinforcement Learning course.
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National Research University Higher School of Economics
National Research University - Higher School of Economics (HSE) is one of the top research universities in Russia. Established in 1992 to promote new research and teaching in economics and related disciplines, it now offers programs at all levels of university education across an extraordinary range of fields of study including business, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, political science, international relations, law, Asian studies, media and communicamathematics, engineering, and more.
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Use modern deep neural networks for various machine learning problems with complex inputs;
Participate in data science competitions and use the most popular and effective machine learning tools;
Adopt the best practices of data exploration, preprocessing and feature engineering;
Perform Bayesian inference, understand Bayesian Neural Networks and Variational Autoencoders;
Use reinforcement learning methods to build agents for games and other environments;
Solve computer vision problems with a combination of deep models and classical computer vision algorithms;
Outline state-of-the-art techniques for natural language tasks, such as sentiment analysis, semantic slot filling, summarization, topics detection, and many others;
Build goal-oriented dialogue agents and train them to hold a human-like conversation;
Understand limitations of standard machine learning methods and design new algorithms for new tasks.
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When the unbearably hot summer arrives, everyone is looking desperately for a cooling device to use. Due to their efficiency and compact design, tower fans have become very popular among people who are looking for a cooling device.
If you want to buy a tower fan for yourself, no matter if you intend to use it in your office or at home, there are 3 things you must take in consideration first, and in the following lines we will be discussing about them.
It comes without saying that the most important thing you have to consider when you go shopping for something is the amount of money you are willing to spend on it.
This means you will lose a lot less time looking for the right tower fan for you, because you will only be comparing models that are in your price range.
For example, a great option for those who are looking for cheap but efficient tower fans is the Holmes HT38RB-U that costs only $40, and for those who are willing to pay more money for extra features and a unique design, the best choice is the Dyson AM07 that comes at the price of $335.
After setting your budget for the tower fan, the next thing you have to take in consideration is the size of the space you intend to use the device in.
If you intend to use the tower fan in a large space, you will definitely need to buy one that offers a high power of air circulation in order for it to be efficient at cooling the air in that space. Also, if the space is large, you should look for a model that has the ability to oscillate for the air to be distributed fast and evenly.
In case you intend to use the tower fan in a medium or small space, you can make the decision based on the dimensions of the unit itself.
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Here's a fun tangle for you to start the week by CZT® Kate Ahrens of Wayzata MN, and Widgets is her first on the site.
In a way Widgets starts out like Bubbles and it's also very similar to Germie from Maria Browning's Time to Tangle With Colors.
This is a great pattern for you to let your imagination loose and come up with cool variations. I used several of Kate's in my example here. Widgets is a simple tangle to fill up a section with a variety of forms or only using the basic form Kate shows in her steps. Shading adds a great dimension to Widgets too.
"I've been an art teacher for lets say, quite some time. While working with the kids I am always drawing and painting while demonstrating the things that they are doing. Mostly my art was done in the summertime and during breaks. In 2009 I decided that this had to change and joined an online trading site for ATC's, artist trading cards. The small size allowed me to work on, and complete art during the school year. It was on the site that I first learned about Zentangle®. The rest as they say is history! I was fortunate to be able to become a CZT during Seminar 9. The pattern for 'Widgets' came about from a pile of hardware pieces that were laying on my drafting table while making altered keys. I have found that it makes a good filler. I tested it out, while teaching my students to tangle at school, and they where the ones who helped me name it Widgets."
Here are Kate's illustrated step-by-step instructions for drawing Widgets together with "a couple of ATC's and a tile that I have used it on."
Kate's beautiful completed Zentangle and ATC featuring Widgets.
Check out the tag katea for more of Kate's patterns on TanglePatterns.com.
UPDATE: Kate has added a post showing other ways to have fun with Widgets, here on her blog.
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11 January 2012
By Kari Williamson
The biofuel trial has seen an Airbus A321 engine being powered by a 50:50 blend of regular fuel and biofuel over a 6 month period, counting 1187 flights between Frankfurt and Hamburg, Germany.
The last flight using the biofuel will be between Frankfurt and Washington on 12 January, according to Reuters.
"Lufthansa will only continue the practical trial if we are able to secure the volume of sustainable, certified raw materials required in order to maintain routine operations," Project Manager at Lufthansa, Joachim Buse, says.
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Now Available: Innovators Under 35 2014 See The 2014 List »
35 Innovators Under 35
Some members of our latest list of young innovators from around the world have developed consumer Web services you might have used, such as Spotify or Dropbox. Others are making more fundamental breakthroughs that have yet to be commercialized, such as more efficient engines or improvements in optical communications. And a few are blazing trails in fields that didn't exist before, like pop-up fabrication of tiny machines, or cameras that can see around corners. But all 35 of them have something significant in common: their work is likely to be influential for a very long time. We hope that these stories about them surprise and inspire you. —The Editors
2012 TR35 Winners
Rana el Kaliouby
Teaching devices to tell a frown from a smile
Saikat Guha
Letting advertisers send targeted pitches to your mobile phone without ever seeing your personal information
Chris Harrison
Liberating us from the touch screen by turning skin and objects into input devices
John Hering
Securing our smartphones from spyware and rogue apps, with a little help from the crowds
Drew Houston
Hiding all the complexities of remote file storage behind a small blue box
Ren Ng
By tracking the direction of light, a camera takes pictures that can be refocused on different objects in a scene
Hossein Rahnama
Mobile apps that tell you what you need to know before you have to ask
Leila Takayama
Applying the tools of social science to make robots easier to live and work with
Eben Upton
His ultracheap computer is perfect for tinkering
Andreas Velten
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On Bank Holiday Monday there will be a variety of walks organised by the Friends of Abingdon. Register at the Market Place from 10am.
Morning Walks leaving at 10:30 am:
The Boundary Walk. About 4 miles and takes about 2 hours.
The flora and fauna of the Ock Valley. 3½ miles and takes about 2 hours.
The Ramblers lead a longer 8 mile walk via Radley Lakes, Radley and Lodge Hill.
The Lost Abbey tour takes about 1½ hours.
The St Helen's tour will take approximately 1 hour.
Afternoon Walks leaving at 2:00 pm:
The Wilts and Berks Canal Heritage Tour. About 3 miles.
The Radley Lakes walk, where you can enjoy tea and cakes and walk round the lake before returning. This is about 5 miles.
The Lost Abbey tour takes about 1½ hours.
An exhibition of portraits and stories of African Quaker Peacemakers, "This Light That Pushes Me", will be open from Monday May 30th (Bank Holiday) to Saturday June 4th 2016, from 10am to 4pm in St Nicolas Church,
Abingdon Quakers also invite you to either or both of two talks BY African Quaker Peacemakers.
The 2nd World Bun Throwing Championship takes place on 30th May at the Abingdon Cricket Club. Posters say that registration begins at 12 noon on the day, and banners say the event starts at 2pm. There will be a REAL Bun-Throwing on 11th June at 7pm to celebrate the queen's 90th birthday. The world champion will join town councillors in throwing buns on that occasion.
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If you look closely during 7-on-7 summer football scrimmages, you'll see defenses on the field. As much as these fast-paced passing camps are designed to improve offenses, coaches say the setup also gives them a great defensive test.
That was the case Thursday afternoon at Johnson High, where 10 teams converged for a Fellowship of Christian Athletes passing camp. It was a competitive, spirited affair, with tempers even flaring up a few times on the hot summer day, which was made a little less blistering by some clouds and light rain.
In an era of spread offenses and creative passing attacks, the practice for defenses is crucial.
"Defensively you get to see a lot of the exotic looks," Johnson coach Jason Roquemore said. "And you get a lot of good work in the back half."
Chestatee, East Hall, Flowery Branch, Gainesville, North Hall, Riverside Military, Banks County, Gilmer and North Paulding joined Johnson at the camp, which also featured workouts for linemen.
Offenses find the end zone often in 7-on-7, but working on checks and changes at the line of scrimmage is more important to defenses than keeping pretend points off the board.
"Teams are going to score," East Hall assistant coach Morris Bingham said. "But as long as we're getting better and communicating on the defensive side, that's what we want to see."
The reps become even more crucial for programs like North Hall, which lost 21 starters and had plenty of freshmen playing varsity on Thursday. The trial-by-fire of the passing camps can accelerate the learning curve.
"This is a big learning process for us," said first-year Trojans head coach David Bishop. "We get more out of this defensively than offensively. It's about learning our spots, how to play with each other and how to push each other."
The camps also help coaches figure out who they can count on.
"We've got to create some depth," Bishop said.
As the summer rolls on, it's less than a month until teams can begin official fall practices with conditioning on July 25. The regular season begins Aug. 29.
Chestatee senior linebacker Kris Pierce said defenses get to adjust to how to handle their pass coverage and read routes. It's also major preparation for the fall.
"It helps us out, especially in the summer, giving us an outlook of what we will face in the fall, teams like Flowery Branch and East Hall that we scrimmaged," Pierce said.
Flowery Branch senior linebacker Cole Ford emphasized how 7-on-7 camps give teams a chance to know how to prepare for different types of offensive attacks, from the Wing-T to the spread.
With offensive successes such an expected part of the day, the rare exploits of the defenses become some of the most celebrated occurrences.
"It feels good because it's really hard not to let the team score," Ford said. "It's geared to the offense."
Pierce has one suggestion to make it more rewarding for the defense.
"I wish we could return interceptions for touchdowns," Pierce said.
Gainesville head coach Bruce Miller said the 7-on-7 settings do a great deal to help teams' defensive backs and linebackers, putting things in place and leaving less to introduce in the fall.
"It helps you tremendously," Miller said. "You've already got all your coverages and seen about every kind of route you can imagine."
Almost to a man, the coaches said one of the most important aspects of the passing camps is having fun with the sport. But coaches certainly take it as a chance to move closer to their goals for the fall, as well.
"It's a great time to improve some things, polish some things and strengthen your strengths," Roquemore said.


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EDEN PRAIRIE, MN (April 3, 2014) — Once again identified as a leader in the local community, C.H. Robinson received the Community Impact Award in the Workplace Giving Campaign category from Minnesota Business magazine. The honor recognizes a successful volunteer or employee-giving campaign benefiting any non-profit or other worthy organization.
This is the second year in a row that Minnesota Business has recognized C.H. Robinson in the Workplace Giving Campaign category in recognition ofvarious employee volunteer campaigns that the company facilitates. This year, C.H. Robinson was presented the award for the company's 14 years of support and dedication to the MinnDakotas chapter of JDRF, the leading global organization focused on type 1 diabetes (T1D) research.
"We are so appreciative of the many years of support that C.H. Robinson has given our chapter of JDRF," said Ross Marcus, Development Manager at JDRF MinnDakotas. "They continue to participate as one of our largest corporate teams during our annual Walk to Cure Diabetes at the Mall of America."
Each year, C.H. Robinson's employees gather at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN to participate in the annual Walk to Cure Diabetes. The passion of C.H. Robinson's employees has been the engine of growth behind this event. What began as a small group of employees who participated in the Walk in 2001, has now grown to 645 Team Robinson walkers who participated in this year's walk.
"We are proud of the work our employees do to make C.H. Robinson a great company," said Angie Freeman, vice president of human resources at C.H. Robinson. "Awards like this are a reminder that giving back is embedded in our company culture and that the same ingenuity and hard work that help us succeed as a company, also help make our communities better places to live and work."
The Mall of America is JDRF's single largest fundraising site in the U.S., raising the most money and attracting the most participants. Since 2001, C.H. Robinson and its employees have raised over $548,000 for the MinnDakota's chapter of JDRF. The funds go toward improving the lives of people affected by diabetes by funding the research to treat, cure, and prevent T1D.
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JDRF is the leading global organization focused on type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Driven by passionate, grassroots volunteers connected to children, adolescents, and adults with this disease, JDRF is now the largest charitable supporter of T1D research. The goal of JDRF research is to improve the lives of all people affected by T1D by accelerating progress on the most promising opportunities for curing, better treating, and preventing T1D. JDRF collaborate with a wide spectrum of partners who share this goal.
Since its founding in 1970, JDRF has awarded more than $1.6 billion to diabetes research. Past JDRF efforts have helped to significantly advance the care of people with this disease, and have expanded the critical scientific understanding of T1D. JDRF will not rest until T1D is fully conquered. More than 80 percent of JDRF's expenditures directly support research and research-related education. For more information, please visit www.jdrf.org.
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Founded in 1905, C.H. Robinson is a global provider of multimodal logistics services, fresh produce sourcing, and information services to 46,000 customers through a network of 285 offices and over 11,500 employees around the world. The company works with 63,000 transportation providers worldwide. C.H. Robinson is a Fortune 500 company and had annual revenues of $12.8 billion in 2013.
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The following alumni and students were asked: In your oppinion, what should social responsibility mean to businesses today? Should businesses be run with a conscience towards social good? What does that mean?
Norm Lezin '48
Many business leaders, otherwise kind to their children and their dogs, are flinty when it comes to participating financially (read shareholder funds) in the communities where they operate, or elsewhere. They think that if the business is profitable, and if their employees are well paid as a consequence, that the giving of money is a decision that each employee must make, but not the business leader on behalf of the shareholders. I think there is some merit to that, but I disagree only in the sense that I think the volunteer part of our society is extremely important. It's the way you get things done. It's tough for interesting or unusual groups to reach individuals, so it's up to business to support these groups. A strong community is going to be a better place for our employees.
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This is a super easy crockpot recipe that is perfect for Meatless Monday meals. It is very mild so if you want a "kick" either use hot enchilada sauce or add a little hot sauce as it cooks.
A healthy snack or breakfast!!
This is a creamy, luxurious soup for a chilly fall day. Great topped with croutons.
A quick comfort food that isn't so bad for you...
I had this at a Native American Gathering of the Clans and decided to try my hand at replicating it. I think I did it justice and hope you will enjoy it!
My boyfriend got creative the other night and mixed and matched and this is what he came up with... it was sweet and sour chicken with a kick served over some noodles... would taste great on a bed of brown rice too!
These are a chewy, yet crunchy, bar cookie that my mom always made at Christmas time.
There are so many recipes out there for molton chocolate cakes but this was my grandmother's recipe and my favorite version. It is gooey and delicious. Serve it warm with a scoop of whipped topping or vanilla ice cream. Make sure to take a bit of the chocolate sauce from the bottom of the pan and drizzle it over the top!
This is one of my favorite ways to have lamb - a rich and hearty stew, filled with savory herbs. One of my best friend's mother loves this and every time I make a batch I bring a bowl over to her.
This is a veggie loaded strogonoff
This is a "special occasion" soup... light, creamy, yummy!! It can be lightened up with light cream, but I put it in as written with the heavy.
The other day I was planning on making the creamy enchilada recipe that I've made a number of times from SP's recipes, got in line with all my ingredients and realized I forgot the burrito wraps! I was not getting out of line so I decided to work with what I had and what was at home and make a cassarole... My BF LOVED it! This is the first time we haven't had leftovers to be thrown out!
This is a very light and easy tomato sauce for spaghetti that tastes unbelievable! I have written out the directions exactly as my friend's mother gave them to me. If you are trying to cut down on sodium, use low salt juice. Campbell's brand juice thickens best and has a richer flavor than store brands but if you can't find large cans of Campbells they will work but will probably need some tomato paste to thicken a bit.
a mostly vegetarian Mulligatawny soup
A friend had given me a container of coconut curry sauce and it was fantastic... then I thought to myself, I can make this!! So here is my attempt!
This is an awesomely delicious soup, loaded with vitamins and flavor! sure to be a favorite!
A delicious soup for the fall.
A light salad for when you have everything else but the lettuce!
My sister described this as an interesting combination, but it is absolutely delicious!
I've taken and lightened up a delicious favorite!! Makes enough for a party with leftovers for the next day! It is oh so creamy and delicious!
This makes a delicious bean and rice soup-like dish. I like putting a small dollop of sour cream on top but a little shredded cheddar would taste good too! I've even eaten this for breakfast with a small scoop of cottage cheese!
I threw this together after a party where I wound up with 2 platters of leftover raw vegetables. It can be adapted to whatever veggies you have available. It's low fat and low calorie but loaded with flavor and nutrition!
a light cream soup
A hot and yummy treat - excellent for that chilly Halloween night
This is one of my favorite dinners to make because it takes all of 30 minutes from start to stop and yet it tastes like it's taken all day! I've made it with pork also and is just as good that way! This is especially good for late summer/early fall when you are trying to figure out just what to do with all that zucchini in the garden!
an easy, creamy soup for a cold night
a healthy alternative to split pea soup
thick and creamy chowder good for a cold night
Recipes I've Rated:
- Apple-Bacon Brussels Sprouts
- Buffalo Chicken Dip
- Pumpkin Flan
- Hot & Sweet Ginger Garlic Chicken
- 2-Ingredient Pumpkin Muffins
- Turkey Bacon Breakfast Rolls
- Avocado Cream
- Gazpacho (Chilled Vegetable Soup)
- Protein Mocha Coffee
- Tropical Dream Chia Pudding
- Garden Potato Salad
- Greek Orzo Pasta Salad
- Fantastic Hummus Guacamole Dip
- Whole Wheat Pasta with Sesame Peanut Sauce
- Thai Chicken Coconut Soup
- One-Skillet Mexican Beef & Rice Casserole
- Cheesy Broccoli Bites
- Nancy's Easy Tzatziki (Greek Yogurt Sauce to Die For!)
- Warm Spinach Salad with Mushrooms
- Honey Roasted Ham
- Moroccan lamb and chick pea stew
- White Chicken Chili
- Zesty Orange-Cranberry Sauce (Relish)
- Spicy Chili-Garlic Paste
- Slow Cooker Rice
- Mexican Lasagna
- Mexican Chicken and Rice Casserole
- Dill Dip
- Greek Turkey Burger
- Coach Nicole's Yummy Hummus
- Garlic-Herb Potato Packs
- Sausage Lentil Throw-together
- Garlic Brown Sugar Chicken
- Skillet Lasagna
- Slow Cooker Kentucky Burgoo
- Slow Cooker Creamy Italian Chicken
- Curry Chicken Salad Sandwiches
- Herb-Crusted Salmon Fillets
- Slow Cooker Moroccan Beef Stew
- Irene's Meatball's
- 15-Minute Asian Beef Soup
- Slow Cooked Sausage Stew
- Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup
- Mocha Cottage Cheese
- Lamb Shank Soup
- Japanese Chicken Wings
- Cherry Berry Oatmeal Cookies
- Wild Rice Stuffed Acorn Squash
- Nathan's Two-Thumbs-Up Ratatouille
- Roasted Beet Salad
- Yummy Garlic Wings
- Easy Pork Won Tons
- Chicken Croquettes
- Cauliflower Soup
- Taco Soup
- Reuben Soup
- Slow Cooker Curried Apple Parsnip Soup
- Kitchen Basics: Chicken Noodle Soup
- Un-Chained Recipe Contest Rueben Sandwich
- Southwestern Eggrolls
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- Salmon and corn chowder
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Learn how to do low cable bent bar squat and curl holding the bar high. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life.
The constant cable tension in this combo bicep and leg exercise serves a dual purpose, providing excellent resistance for both your curls and your squats.
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Attach a bent cable curl bar to the low setting on a cable machine (just above the floor). Stand upright facing the machine with the bar held in both hands down at your sides. Your hands should be shoulder-width apart and your palms facing away from you. Keeping your upper arms close to your body, bend your elbows to bring your hands up to just under your chin at the top of a curl. Your palms will now be facing you.
1. From the starting position, keep your elbows bent and the bar held steady below your chin as you sit back and down into a squat. Keep your weight in your heels as you press your hips back behind you, making sure your back remains flat and your chest raised. Your shoulders should not come ahead of your knees.
2. From the bottom of your squat, push through your legs and rise back up to standing, keeping your elbows bent and the curl bar close to you.
3. From the standing position, perform a bicep curl, straightening your elbows and lowering your hands in front of you, until your arms extend nearly straight down and the bar is in front of your upper thighs.
4. Reverse the motion and bend your elbows again and curl the bar back up. Keep your elbows and upper arm in at your torso as you do this.
5. As soon as your arms are back at starting position, descend into your next squat. Continue alternating squats with bicep curls for the recommended number of reps.
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Constellation, a Google Premier Partner agency wanted to deliver automotive leads to their dealership clients at a lower cost. They believed this could be achieved by showing more relevant ads with more information about the vehicles for sale.
They also wanted to reduce wasted ad spend for their clients by turning ads off more quickly after a vehicle was sold.
Keeping PPC ads in sync with dealership inventory would be prohibitively expensive if done manually so they looked for a technology-based solution.
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The same level of customization would have required 50 hours of manual work per account per month but could be automated with Optmyzr.
Despite most of the account being automated, they could still optimize using their proprietary best practices, effectively combining the best aspects of automation and human insight.
Since we create very granular campaigns, the software has saved us over 4 hours per new campaign set up and allows us the ability to create campaigns, ad groups, ads, and keywords at scale. However, the real time saver has been the ability to keep pricing, color, and trim levels up to date for our automotive clients. This alone saves us just over 50 hours per month! The software has had a huge impact on both the creation and optimizations of our campaigns.
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Wooly Wooly
I finally had some time to stitch up a Wooly Wooly bag from Among Brendas Quilts. It was fun and easy to sew together. I used this great knitting needle fabric I picked up ages ago and highlited it with a bright yellow Candy Dots from Blank. This bag uses Quilter's Vinyl, a great product from C & T. I look forward to carrying my knitting samples in this cute bag.
Seeing Dots
This started as a demo on the Olfa Circle Cutter and turned into a quilt. I will be using it in our booth at Creative Festival in April. I used 10" squares from Riley Blake and a variety of greys for backgrounds; also 10" squares.
My name is Betty Gormick and I live in Ontario with my husband and son. I work with Gordon Fabrics, a supplier of quilting and fashion fabrics, and H. A Kidd, the largest supplier of sewing, quilting and knitting notions and yarns in Canada. Join me as I travel all over Ontario and the Maritimes, visiting great quilting, knitting and sewing stores, introducing new products and meeting great people.


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Shirley Bird Memorial
On April 25th, the Woman's Club of Allwood observed Arbor Day at the Allwood Branch of the Clifton Public Library.
As befitting a tribute as there could be, a memorial to Shirley Bird, long-time Clifton resident and Woman's Club of Allwood member since 1952, was held.
It was a beautiful event, that would have tickled pink our beautiful English war bride, Shirley. Serving as WCA President for club year's 1971-1973, Shirley held numerous posts and chaired many committees over the years. Most recently, she was the Conservation & Garden Chair.
Past President Dorothy Gondola stepped up to beautifully oversee the program. Mayor James Anzaldi spoke and Shirley's family officially planted a glorious rhododendron - pink, of course!
Afterwards a luncheon was hosted by The Gondola's - more pink, but more importantly, fabulous. Thank you to all who joined us.
Please enjoy some pictures of Shirley's presence at the WCA below. Most notably, a feature in the Herald News, circa 1969, in which Shirley, along with Past President Carol Mullane, presented Joseph Demarco, President of the Board of Trustees of the Allwood Branch of the Clifton Library with a special gift from the Woman's Club.
As members of the Woman's Club of Allwood, we have alot to share with you about who we are and what we do. Read the latest here. Enjoy!
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Volunteering overseas exposes you to people, lifestyles, history and daily life different to anything you would find at home, and as such, encourages you to grow and develop further as a person but there are other aspects to consider as well.
Following on from part 1, here are the rest of my thoughts (or at least another 5 of them) on volunteering overseas.
6. Be creative, be focussed
What do you want to get out of your time? It's good to arrive with a plan in mind of what will make your time spent volunteering internationally successful for you. This may or may not happen in reality (see points 8, 9 and 10), but the project manager in me says if you don't have a plan, you can't work the plan. Do you want to work on your novel in your spare time? Eat all the food? Travel in your weekends? Learn to salsa dance/lithograph/hot air balloon/cook like a whiz? Knowing the skills or experiences you want to leave with will help your focus, especially given your time overseas will go very very quickly. Joining local classes also helps you integrate, and be less of a tourist and more of a local.
7. Learn the language
This one is essential. If you can't communicate with the locals apart from mimed gestures, your time overseas will be harder than it needs to be. Learning the local language (or at least words on it) changes the dynamic from visitor to local very quickly. Most people are incredibly generous with non-local speakers – forgiving botched tenses and mispronounced words. At the end of the day, it's what you are trying to say that matters, not your perfect grammar. Unless of course you try to say something like "she is coming back with her husband", and actually say "she is coming back for your husband", which I mention as someone with no experience doing that at all.
8. It is still work
Volunteering is still a job like anything else. You will have people in your workplace that you love, and those you would prefer to avoid. There is bureaucracy everywhere. Things will not run the way you think they should, or in the timeframe you think (see point 10), and your good ideas may not gain any type of traction (see point 9).
Volunteering overseas sounds fun when you are stuck in your car in rush hour in the same street every evening at home. Countries overseas have rush hour too, and you might trade places for a seat on a crowded bus in traffic, blasting latin pop, and literally stuck to your seatmate with sweat. Your work may not be set hours, or set days. You may work from cafes, home of an office. You may not see other volunteers on a daily basis, you might see them every day and wish you didn't. The key thing is to be resilient, and to remain flexible. A sense of humour is a good thing too.
9. You don't know everything
Just because something works this way at home, doesn't mean it will (or should) work that way in another country. Before I left for Mexico, I read that you may work for 2 years making changes in your organisation, and after leaving, if you returned 2 months later, you may find everything has gone to the way it was before you arrived. Just because you have some answers and ways things could be improved doesn't mean they will be. You need to know when you arrive that organisational or process change is hard to implement, and takes time to embed. Quite some time.
10. Time works differently
Time is a hugely subjective thing when living in different countries. Just ask anyone who makes dinner plans with people from Spain!
In Mexico, I have got used to flexi-time. That is, when you have something scheduled for say, 7.30pm, people will arrive from 7.40 to 8.15pm and that is actually normal. Times, I have found, are more of a suggestion than a rule. That is of course unless you are getting public transport. Then you should get there to board on time, but don't expect to leave on time, or arrive on time.
When volunteering overseas time has this bizarre way of telescoping in so you feel every day is the same as the previous, and then time snaps back again, and all of a sudden you are 7 months into your time commitment and wondering how you got there. Set goals for what you want to have accomplished – both personally and professionally each week/month. Hold yourself accountable, as time will keep marching along regardless, and you are there only once. Use your time well.
So, those are my thoughts on volunteering overseas, refined during my time here. I hope they will be of help to anyone thinking of making the move to volunteer. It's definitely one of the most-challenging, most-rewarding things I have done, and I have learnt so much – both about myself, other people and cultures, and different areas of the world.


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A new DNA test can detect prostate cancer early, which is the best way to prevent deaths from the disease.
More than 25,000 American men will die from prostate cancer this year. But prostate cancer can be treated successfully if the disease is caught early. A blood test that can detect whether a man is at high risk for developing prostate cancer is on the horizon. The study was published in the February 28, 2008, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
How does this new test work and is it better than the PSA, which is the standard test for prostate cancer?
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent: It's based on genetics. Scientists have designed a DNA test that can identify five gene markers for hereditary prostate cancer, and if a man carries those markers and a family history of the disease, it raises his risk more than nine times compared with men who don't carry those markers. That means this test can be used on young men to let them know whether they should take steps to prevent a possible case of prostate cancer later in life. If you have these markers, this doesn't mean you have cancer. It just means you are more likely to develop it. The PSA is a test that actually detects problems already developing in the prostate. Many men who have high PSA scores already have cancer of the prostate or are on the verge of it being diagnosed.
This DNA test could be used by any man at any age to give him an idea if he's at risk for developing prostate cancer. Men send a saliva sample to the lab and they send back the results. It's very simple.
When will we be seeing it in our doctor's office?
When CNN spoke to Proactive Genomics co-founder Dr. Jianfeng Xu on September 22, 2008, the test was still not available, and the researchers were having meetings to determine when it could be released. They hope to eventually sell it to drug stores and pharmacies so men can take it in their homes. You can check out the test on their Web site at http://www.proactivegenomics.com.
Proactive Genomics was founded by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine with the idea they could design tests that can prevent common diseases like prostate cancer.
CNN spoke to Xu, professor of public health and cancer biology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in January 2008. Here's what he said:
Xu: This is a marker test that will let men know if they are at high risk for developing prostate cancer disease. It is not to tell them they have cancer, but that they may develop it later in life. We recommend that all men take the test. The test is especially important for men who have a family history of the disease. It can give a man an advantage to know he's at risk and he can start taking steps to avoid prostate cancer. It's a DNA test, so a blood sample or saliva sample will work.
Men give a saliva sample. They send it to our lab and we send back the results. This is not meant to scare men, but to let them know where they stand when it comes to prostate cancer and work towards preventing it. Prevention is the key to surviving prostate cancer. Men should not be dying from it, but they are, because they don't go to the doctor until it's too late, until the prostate cancer is spread.
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MARTIN Laursen has backed Villa's move to bring in Dutch international Wilfred Bouma - and then warned the former PSV Eindhoven player he will be challenging for his place when he returns to fitness.
The Danish international flies out to Colorado to see renowned surgeon Richard Steadman on September 13.
He fears he will need a second knee operation which will almost certainly rule him out for the season - but he is adamant that any prospect of a longer absence is not true.
Laursen said: "I have seen Bouma play a couple of times and I remember that he is very strong physically, and he has a very good left foot.
"I wish him well. To play for a team like PSV and also the Dutch national team, who are a very good side indeed, then he must be a very good player.
"When we meet I will tell him that I want his place and that it will be tough for him to keep it! But I hope he has a better start to his Villa career than I did."
Laursen believes surgery is inevitable but says he will be come back strong.
He said: "It is very frustrating because I know I have so much to give but I have to remain positive. It is hard to see football matches when you cannot be involved, but I have to be realistic.
"The knee needs help. My feeling is that I will need an operation but I have to see what Dr Steadman thinks. I can't see how I won't need an op because of the pain in the knee. I feel there is something wrong inside it.
"I have seen the stories and it won't be career-ending. But when someone been first class to me says something like that it shows that they have at least thought about that possibility.
"It is a bad injury, for sure, but I am going to the best surgeon and if he is happy with me, then I'm sure I will come back. I am tough mentally and I am willing to work hard. I can't think about it being the end because I honestly don't think that it is.
"It is a big injury and it is very important that I do my rehabilitation well - but I will play again for sure."
Laursen says he is in the most capable hands to make a return.
He said: "I'm not sure exactly where I first heard about Mr Steadman. But I know that Brian Laudrup and Alessandro del Pierro at Juventus have been there. Lothar Matthaus, Ronaldo, even Alan Shearer - all the big names have seen him. I also spoke to an American physiotherapist at AC Milan who spoke favourably about his methods. I just know he is the right one for me. And I am willing to wait."


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Ltd. Jacquard Mustang Red Cowboy Wild Rags
This mustang red bandana by Wyoming Traders is 100% silk.It is printed on a jacquard weave, and designed by Clark Kelley Price.
These Western bandanas made from silk are nice for cowboys and cowgirls to wear..........they keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer because of the wicking action that keeps you dry. Silk bandanas also get softer the more you wear them. Cowboys also like these wild rags because of the bright sheen, you don't get that with cotton.
Measurement 34.5 inches x 34.5 inches,
12 weight.
Jacquard Weave
rolled hem
100% silk
Colors are delicious apple red, white, gray, black, tan, browns and the riders shirt is pink.
- Country Of Origin: China
- Wyoming Traders Limited Editions Rags are not numbered. The "print" may be signed but are mass produced for Wyoming Traders.
- We do the best we can to provide you with accurate pictures and descriptions....but...because All computer screens are different, the colors may vary from screen to screen.
- Rag Weight Guide (Shows the difference between 8,10, 12,weight and higher)


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Student Commencement Speech Janet Hostetler
May 30, 1997
Good morning and thank you, Keri. Before I begin, I would like to ask for a moment of silence for Amy Spear, a member of the class of 1997 who is no longer with us, but lives on in our hearts and memories.
Thank you. I would like to welcome all of you here today, faculty, family, friends and of course the one, the only, Wellesley graduating class of 1997.
Last year as I was finishing up my semester in Argentina, I put together a little yearbook for the 20 Americans who had studied with me. I did this in my last week there, while writing final papers, saying goodbye to new, but dear, friends and places and packing everything I had brought and all that I had acquired back into my two suitcases.
The yearbook wasn't fancy; I didn't have time to even put in pictures. I just collected people's addresses, favorite quotes, their superlatives as voted by the others, and what they wanted to be when they grew up. I remember distinctly what one woman wrote as her desired occupation: happy. She wanted to be happy when she grew up.
Once again we're packing up a lot of memories along with our belongings and preparing to go far away - mentally if not physically. Many of us, here and now, are also thinking that question: "What do I want to be when I grow up?"
I guess you could say that we're along the way to being grown up, although I plan at least a few more decades of growing before I'm officially there. But now is probably a good time to think about what we want to be when we grow up. And happy doesn't sound like too bad of a goal, does it?
So let's talk about happiness, or rather how we can go toward that goal. I think we can all agree that to be happy we should live a positive life. That makes sense. So, how then, can we make sure that we live positively?
One way is to surround ourselves with positive things and positive experiences. Read good books, see good movies, have beautiful artwork hanging on our walls. We should eat delicious food, buy ourselves fresh flowers to greet us when we get home and attend all kinds of concerts frequently.
What are your happy memories from Wellesley? What will you choose to remember? Stop and think about what made your time worthwhile. Walking around Lake Waban with friends in the autumn as the leaves turned colors. Traying at midnight after the first real snowfall, Flower Sunday with little and big sisters, all night discussions about the meaning of life with friends. These are my memories of Wellesley.
It is important to remember why we are living on this earth. What are our priorities: our family and friends or getting that extra bonus by working 100 hours a week? Which really and truly makes us happier? We only have one life, so let's treat ourselves well, with massages and bubble baths. Never pass a playground without stopping to swing. Throw away our watches and maybe even try living without a planner for a day.
Find the little things, like sunrises and sunsets, or tequila shots and pet rocks, that make a day worth living. And always, always, always have a reason to get out of bed in the morning - whether it's the brownies you baked the night before or the realization that Thursday means "ER" is on at 10:00.
That way of positive living doesn't sound too bad, does it?
But I'd like to introduce another way of living positively. This previous way is inward-looking. The goal is to bring positive or happy things of the world into our lives.
A second manner of positive living is more outward-focused. The goal is to direct our own positivity (if I can take the liberty of inventing a word) on the world. To perhaps even seek out the negative things in this world and work to make them positive.
This lifestyle might not appear so much fun, at first. We no longer can claim that it is for "positive" reasons that we don't read the bad news in the newspaper. To the contrary, we must open our eyes and ears to what is happening in all corners of this world that is our global community. Sure it does no good to numb ourselves to all the horrors of the world by repeated contact. But we cannot solve problems without knowing they are there.
In this life, maybe instead of going to a concert, you will perform for others. Maybe instead of buying cut flowers, you will plant flowers in a vacant lot for others to enjoy. Maybe you will teach, heal, counsel, or write policy that changes the world.
Building a house with Habitat for Humanity may come before that weekend at the spa. But look at what you've made at the end of a day! The beautiful artwork that a schoolteacher hangs on her wall may come from a yet undiscovered talent. But when it is given to you in appreciation of your love, there is no art so beautiful in the world! The hours at the rape crisis center are not always conducive to watching sunsets. When you take responsibility for the world, bubble baths sometimes have to wait.
But once again, I ask you to think about why we are here on earth and what is really important in life. What is the most positive way you can lead your life? As I said before, the key to a positive life is to always, always, and always have a reason to get up in the morning. I know of no better reason than that you are needed and that the world will be a better place for your having lived.
I cannot tell you what to do in your life. You must find your own causes, based on your own convictions. Each of us must use our own talent and our own strengths to give what we can. But each of us must give.
We, who have had the opportunity to study at a college with such distinguished academics and endless opportunities, should not dare waste our biggest resources: ourselves. Believe it or not, the motto of Wellesley College is not "ite ad viam murum et accumulate pecuniam," or: go to Wall Street and make money. It is "Non Ministrari, Sed Ministrare" - not to be served, but to serve. If a motto is defined as "a word or saying that expresses one's aims, ideals, or guiding rule," it makes a lot of sense then, that as Wellesley graduates our aim, ideal and guiding rule should be to serve.
Hanging on my wall is an advertisement for the United Way campaign that sometimes helps me get out of bed in the morning. It reads:
how do you want to be remembered?
for the car you drove?
as the guy who slid into second with his spikes up?
the woman in the power suit who everyone feared?
the one with the most toys?
or someone who cared?
someone who did good?
someone who, on the day they're gone
people will say today there's a hole in the world
Congratulations Class of 1997. I wish you all the happiness in the world.


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Nero Assoluto Z Antik
Origin: Zimbabwe
Surface: polished / structured
Colour: black
Type of stone: hard stone
The well-known classic black stone from Africa has many friends in Germany. It is fine grained, uniformly black and it can be implemented and combined in great variety.
Photos of raw panels
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Beckets Property is a specialist residential lettings and property management company serving private and portfolio landlords throughout North and East London, metropolitian Essex, South East London and North West Kent.
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Urgent global action urged to stop hunger in Sahel
Urgent global action urged to stop hunger in Sahel
The window of opportunity to save people from hunger in Africa's Sahel region is narrowing by the day.
That's the assessment of the heads of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), who concluded a four-day mission to Niger on Monday.
In a joint statement, the two agency chiefs are appealing to the international community to act on behalf of millions of vulnerable people.
WFP chief Ertharin Cousin says the food crisis in Niger has been compounded by the conflict in Mali.
"You have refugees coming into Niger. We've seen about, 35,000 refugees from Mali into Niger, so the food crisis is even more complicated this year than it was in 2005 and 2010. So this is one where the international community cannot, must not, ignore."
WFP has scaled up its food operations in Niger, while UNHCR is helping 160,000 people who have fled fighting in Mali to neighbouring countries, including Niger.


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The D.C. Eight
Washington artists Joe White and Renee Butler spend winters in the pearlescent rooms of a Miami Beach apartment overlooking the sea. The art they make, in that city and here, takes on the palette and luminosity of their second home. Her "X Boxes," minimalist works that incorporate broken glass from a storm-shattered window, and his painting "Warm Green Railing" (pictured), a "portrait" of a Deco-era architectural element, hang now in an impressive group show at Addison/Ripley Fine Art in Georgetown.
Impressive because the lineup reads like a Who's Who of D.C.'s established, blue-chip artists: White and Butler plus Andrea Way, W.C. Richardson, Robin Rose, Joan Belmar, Maggie Michael, the late Tom Green ... all masters of, among other things, the abstract. The eight have distinctive styles yet work within rigorous, self-imposed, almost Zen-like parameters, which explains their selection by curator Carol Brown Goldberg, herself a painter of visually complex systems.
"Sigil," the show's title, derives from a term for "signature" works, yet it also refers to magic wrought by angels and demons. Certainly these artists, with their earned wisdom, pure motives and good spirit, operate on the side of the angels.
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Our practice is 100 percent devoted to medical malpractice cases. This focus separates us from many of the firms in the state, for whom med mal is only a small part of a more general practice. Our focus is one of the reasons why clients reach out to us from places like Raleigh, Greensboro, Charlotte and smaller communities across the state.
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Website creation is accessible to everyone
Making a website these days is easy. No need to use those funny codes and brackets. When we first started, that was such a relief to us because codes are intimidating. Mel and I can do one code and that is this one – <center>– to center our pictures within the posts. Pretty good start, right?
Good thing we have WordPress! WordPress is called CMS or "Content Management Systems" type of website platform. It is easy to use and great for non-techy people like us.
The basic steps
- Choose a domain name – create original or buy one
- Check domain availability
- Register domain name
- Choose a hosting platform
- Choose a WordPress Theme
- Add Menu
- Create Pages – add to Menu
- Create Categories
- Write Content
- Monetize your website – bonus free video #1!
- Build a website for free – bonus free video #2
1.Choose a Domain name
The next step is pretty fun – choosing a Domain name. Our domain name is liberation2035.com. We spent about 2-3 days playing with word combinations before we decided on it.
Mel and I both agreed – really wanted to have a name that was catchy and brandable. We liked Liberation because it means to set free and 2035 is my retirement year.
Since we are writing about how creating an online business can provide me the freedom to drop the 9-5 daily grind and help us reach our early retirement goals, liberation2035.com really reflected the personality of our niche.
2. Check Domain availability
After we decided on liberation2035.com, we used Knowem to look up Domain name availability. We liked Knowem for its ease of use. In the event we planned to optimize our online business through something like Facebook, Knowem also shows if the domain name is available for social media sites.
We've also used Jaaxy.com to brainstorm for new domain names and check its availability. Jaaxy is primarily a keyword research tool but it also has a robust domain availability search tool as well.
After we used Jaaxy to look up domain availability, Jaaxy linked us to Wealthy Affiliate where we can register and pay for our domain name. For a $1.33 per month, we got some really valuable benefits from Wealthy Affiliate domain site ~
- Privacy
- Personal email
- Hosting
- Backups
- Support
- Training
- FREE SSL! (2017 feature for all paid domains)
Note: As a Wealthy Affiliate Premium paying member the domain prices are very reasonable. Along with getting access to reasonable domain prices, we have access to all the WordPress training available and affiliate programs.
Important: Don't skip checking for your domain name availability. It's just so important to ensure that you are not using a domain name that is owned by another person or company. That wouldn't be cool.
Should I buy a Domain name?
We like playing around with word combinations so and we don't like to spend money on buying someone else's name. But for those who don't want to brainstorm for a domain name, there are a lot of sites you can buy registered domain names.
Sometimes buying a registered domain name is a good choice but you will probably end up paying a premium price. I'm not an expert on the pricing and neither is Mel, but when I researched pricing, it seemed that the desirability of the name reflected the pricing.
Domain names can be reasonably price and some can start in the hundreds and range up to millions of dollars. If your are interested, Namebio.com is a good source to research registered domain names and compare prices.
3. Register your Domain name
Unless you are buying an existing/registered domain name, registering your individual domain name is important. Basically, registering a domain name means you own the name. It's yours as long as you pay the annual registration cost.
WordPress.com and most hosting platforms have a domain name search and registration feature built-in.
4. Choosing a Hosting Platform
Again, we won't go in too much about hosting platforms in this post. Here is a must read review about hosting~
Website Hosting Review ~ A Comparison Between WA Hosting and Bluehost.
This review has very useful information to help you decide which hosting company has ~
- excellent security
- most efficient
- minimal downtime
- useful training
- stellar support
After you choose a hosting company, you will install WordPress ~
5. Choose a WordPress Theme
Choosing a WordPress theme was both fun and difficult. There are so many to choose from and we had to play around with a lot to find one which felt right.
If you would like to know some additional suggestions about 3 simple themes, read my post ~
How to Start an Online Business ~ 8 Starter Steps.
We eventually chose the Rara theme. We chose this theme for its simplicity and minimal qualities.
- We prefer my web site to be clean and uncluttered.
- We are not planning to do a lot of flashy ads or photo galleries.
- We have an option to add an ecommerce store in the future.
Go ahead and play with all the themes. Choose the one that fits your niche and the personality of your website. With over 2,500 themes available, you will find the best fitting theme.
Steps to download a theme in WordPress
- Go to Appearance
- Go to Themes
- Review theme choices
- Add New
- Activate
Note: You do not have to settle on one theme. If you decide to change to another, your existing content will transfer nicely.
6. Adding Menus
Once you have chosen a theme, you will need to create Menus.
Menus are what you see on the top of your website's page.
A website will have ~
- Primary Menu
- Secondary Menu
- Sidebar Menu
- Footer Menu
Here are the steps to create a Menu
- Go to Appearance
- Click Menus
- Select a Menu to Edit – Main Menu(Primary)
- Click create new menu
- Give menu a name (i.e. Top Menu Bar)
- Save menu
7. Create Pages & Add to Menu
- Pages are the places where contents are written. Number of pages together creates a Menu.
- Pages are fixed in nature. It means that the contents of a page are fixed until you change it.
- Therefore a page should contain such content which are not likely to be changed in a short period of time.
Here are the steps to create a page and add it to a menu
- Click Pages
- Click Add New
- Name your Page
- Click Publish
- Go to Appearance
- Go to Menus
- Select Menu to Edit
- Check the Pages to Add
- Click Add to Menu
- Save Menu
8. Create Categories
Categories help organize your posts
Tip: The more you create new blog posts, the more credibility you will have with you readers. It just shows that you are active on your website and content is dynamic.
How to create Categories
- Go to Dashboard—Appearance– Posts-Categories
2. Add new categories-Name it Blogroll-Click Add new category
3. Click – All Posts-Add New-Name Your Post-
4. Go to right side bar-Click Blogroll
Tip: Every Post you write for the blogroll will now be organized under the Blogroll category.
9. Start Writing Your Content
Stuck on how to create great content? Read my post, How To Be A Good Content Writer ~ No English Degree Required. This post will help you to write meaningful and relevant content.
10. Monetize your website – Free bonus video #1!
This video will show you the process of making money online.
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Here is another free video to help you build a website for free right now! Take a look at the video and get started today!
Congratulations! You have a website!
You did it! You have officially built your first website and you are in business! Like my website, yours will be a work in progress. It will grow with your business, become more refined and will be a very dynamic experience.
I know I will want to add more menus or even change themes. But for now, I'm excited to have a foundational website powered by WordPress.
I hope that you have found useful information on How to Make a Website with WordPress ~ The basic steps.
Thanks again for reading my post and visiting liberation2035.com Feel free to leave a comment or any WordPress tips. I'm a forever student and I love to learn something new everyday!
Cindy & Mel