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Tacoma, WA – i5 Pho, a new Vietnamese pho restaurant in Tacoma, is the ultimate American Dream. The dream was started by three Vietnamese brothers who shared a passion for authentic, homemade Vietnamese food and a vision to provide the same delicious Pho noodle soup that their mom made for them to all who need a bit of love, warmth, and nourishment.
The brothers of i5 Pho grew up in the care of their widowed mother, who lovingly cook for them elaborate homemade meals while working hard to make a living. Now grown up, the brothers are pursuing the American dream of owning their business and honoring the hard work and sacrifices of their mother.
Their mother's love is the inspiration. And the love is in the broth.
You can taste the deep, flavorful broth for it has been simmered for hours to extract all the nutrients and flavor of herbs, vegetables and meat stock. The same homemade love and care can also be seen in all of their appetizers and rice dishes. "We're doing this so we can take care of our mother. We don't have to, but we choose to. We are excited to be part of the Tacoma community and can't wait to serve you. Great food. Great service. Great company. That is what we're all about," say the founding brothers of i5 Pho.
Come visit us. Our hours are from 10am-10p Weekdays, 10am-2am Weekend. We're located by the Holiday Inn Express off of exit 128 i5 heading North, exit 129 heading i5 South.
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If you take a listen to Gnash's music, you'll start to notice a very discernible pattern of articulate and honest lyricism paired with minimalistic, chill-sounding beats in almost every single one of his tracks. His newest collaboration "Wake Up" with East Coast-based singer-songwriter Chelsea Cutler is an exciting departure from Gnash's more anguished songs such as "I Hate U, I Love U" and "Feelings Fade." Instead of focusing on the now, it's a song with an optimistic-sounding aesthetic that will make you want to progress, regardless of its lyrical content.
The original "Wake Up" was written and sung by a solo Chelsea Cutler and is gorgeous and dreamy in its simplicity, evoking images of sunsets by the beach with its acoustic guitar accompaniment. However, this rework of the track adds in an extra layer of contrasting warmth, with the voices of Gnash and Cutler blending together and backed by accompanying vocals and guitar from Goody Grace.
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Melissa of "The Inspired Room" is sharing her tutorial of her "felt Wreath". It is charming and cam be created in the colors you like. The Inspired Room was voted in the Top 12 Best Home Design Blogs in 2013 at Apartment Therapy! Melissa likes keep things very simple! She is DIY challenged and always on a budget, so if she can figure out a way to decorate her home without a lot of time, stress or money, She is all for it. Over the past six years, this blog has had one mission: to inspire women to create an authentic home they LOVE and for their home to inspire their life.
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Ness Creek Waste Audits
Download PDF Reports: 2017, 2016, 2015
2018 Waste Audit
The waste audit for the 2018 Ness Creek Music Festival was carried our Thursday July 19th to Sunday July 22nd by a crew of hardworking volunteers and two coordinators. Post-festival volunteers then conducted the audit on the days following Ness 2018. Waste consisted of 1/compostables (processed at the Craik Bio-Refinery), 2) recyclable cans and bottles, 3) other recyclables (ie: paper, plastics, non-beverage glass), and 4) landfill waste.
The tables below break down the waste into each category for both 2017 and 2018. Overall numbers were down this year so it could be a combination of less waste as well as people packing out more. In general, our landfill waste has dropped significantly.
Manager Michele Kiss said:
The Ness Creek staff are favourites of ours. The material we receive from the festival has almost no contaminants at all, and is an excellent addition to our composting program. We look forward to working with them next summer.
2018 Results:
The table below breaks down the waste into each category.
Previous results:
In total there were 489 bags of various waste accounted for. Only 104 went to the landfill between Thursday and Sunday (This number does not include the bags of waste that were placed in the dumpsters after 8pm on Sunday July 19, or Monday July 20.). 385 bags of recyclables or compost was diverted from the landfill thanks to the diligent sorting.
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Danny Drinkwater insists Leicester will resolve their poor form and their title-winning dressing room remains united.
The Foxes are four points above the Premier League relegation zone and travel to Stoke on Saturday still looking for their first away league win of the season.
Drinkwater is hoping to shake off a knee injury which forced him out of Tuesday's 1-0 defeat at Bournemouth and after a poor title defence so far the England midfielder believes they will turn things around.
"The league form in general has been a bit up and down and it's something that we are trying to put right and climb the league," he said, with the Foxes 14th, following one win in their last seven league games. "Form comes and it goes, but what we are doing is working hard to put it right.
"The gaffer has a good mentality here of when the game is gone, you just prepare for the next one and that's what we're doing. That's all we can keep doing - if it's not going right, make sure it does go right in the next game.
"We don't want to be where we are in the league. We're working hard as a team, and that's the staff included, to put it right. We know what we've got in the dressing room and we know what we're capable of - everyone saw it last year.
"It's just about trying to stay positive and turning it around as fast as we can. We've shown glimpses in the Champions League and in the game against Manchester City, so we need more performances like that."
Drinkwater missed the three games before Bournemouth through suspension and, after watching Leicester's 4-2 win over Manchester City from the stands, wants them to repeat their performance on Saturday.
He told LCFC TV: "The more games we play like Manchester City the better. The display against Manchester City was top drawer and if we can replicate that against any team, I'm sure we'll be looking at a positive result.
"It'll be huge (to get the three points). It depends how the other team sets up and how fast they start, but that's something we'll be working on in training. Stoke City are not an easy team to break down so it's another test."
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His name was Thomas A. Snow, but every one called him Tommy. He was tall and lanky, and would greet you with a warm smile on his face. He was always eager to help whatever the situation.
He was a member of the Holy Name Society at Blessed Sacrament's Catholic Church, which was just down the block from his home on 85 Street in Glendale.
In his early manhood, he mastered sailing a catamaran and was an avid bike rider into his eighties. He had a youthful playfulness about him with a jolly infectious laugh.
He and his wife Edna would play practical jokes spontaneously. And he was a good husband to Edna who he nursed through her last years.
You might think of him as a big Boy Scout, ever ready with a helping hand. In fact, he once told me, "God gave you two hands, one to help yourself and one to help others."
Tommy passed away this year at the age of 88, and just by being uniquely himself he left a void that no one can fill. I have never known anyone more honest or sincere or having any better quality of goodness in them than Tommy Snow.
If it is true that the pure in heart shall see God, then I know where my friend Tommy is.
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John Willard Marriott born on September 1900, and at age 26 with his new bride Alice, started a new business with the opening of a nine-seat root beer stand (A&W Root Bear) at Washington, D.C. With addition of Mexican food for cooler autumn months, they had converted the root beer stand into a restaurant called 'The Hot Shoppe'. Later they diversified their business into hospitality and with it came the change of name to Marriott Corporation (became Marriott International in 1993) in 1967 and now the company has more than 4,000 properties in over 80 countries.
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The Premier San Francisco Bay Area Flight School
Founded in 1997, Attitude Aviation has always been the most unique flight school in the Bay Area. Our school is perfect for students looking to receive training, whether it be for the airline industry or for recreational flying. Attitude continues to grow. In 2016 it sold to Sam Rivinius who's determined to create the best flying experience with the best equipment anywhere.
Today we operate a fleet of over 20 planes that fly thousands of hours yearly. To service our planes in a timely way, Attitude has its own maintenance facility that cares for our fleet. The maintenance facility also offers outstanding maintenance to outside airplanes.


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Holiday sales are expected to rise 3 percent in November and December compared to the last two months of 2011, a trade group for the shopping center industry is forecasting.
The expected increase is pegged to an index measuring sales at chain stores open at least a year.
The forecast released Tuesday by The International Council of Shopping Centers also calls for slight increases in sales at shopping centers and in sales at stores selling general merchandise, apparel and accessories, furniture and other items. In that category, sales are expected to rise nearly 3 percent, to $258 billion, compared to the 2011 November/December period, ICSC said.
But an ICSC economist anticipates more uncertainty than usual, thanks to rising gasoline prices, the presidential election and $500 billion worth of automatic federal spending cuts and tax increases slated for Jan. 1.
"Despite the cautiousness displayed in our forecast for the 2012 holiday season due to the uncertainty about the automatic spending cuts, Congress has a real opportunity to resolve the issue quickly and amicably to assuage consumer fears," Michael P. Niemira, vice president of research and chief economist for ICSC, said in a release. That "could propel this season's performance far above ICSC's current expectations."
Retailers expect to add more than 26,000 seasonal jobs this year, a modest increase over last year, ICSC said.
Another outlook released Tuesday, by Moody's Analytics, expects retail sales in the fourth quarter to grow at the slowest pace since 2009.
"The 2012 holiday season will be a mild disappointment for U.S. retailers expecting significant growth in sales," Scott Hoyt, Moody's senior director of consumer economics, said in the report. "The numbers will rise, but less vigorously than they did a year ago. Consumers are still strapped for cash, with a high unemployment rate and a large pool of workers who have left the labor force."
Consumers have to pay more for gasoline and food, leaving less cash for holiday spending, Hoyt said. And he added they're worried about the effects of the anticipated federal tax increases and spending cuts.
But there is a silver lining.
"Pent up demand from the recession means consumers will spend as much as their finances allow," Hoyt said.


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My card begins with a 6" square Bazill Bouquet card stock base. To that I have layered several panels of DP from the Italiana Riviera Paper Collection. I also added a beautiful lattice medallion from the Raindrops on Roses die set adhered with Designer Dries Clear Adhesive. I stamped "On your Special Day" from the Classic Message Cling Stamp Set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Cryogen metallic card stock . I then sponged Memento Sweet Plum around the edges of the sentiment. Again using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and text weight Cyrogen metallic paper, I stamped lots of flowers from the Botanical Rose Cling Stamp set and die cut them with the matching Botanical Wings dies. I sponged Memento Sweet Plum onto the petals, shaped them with my Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit and then stacked them to create various size flowers. Use Designer Dries Clear Adhesive to adhere them to the card front.
Next I stamped the largest Grapevine from the Italiana Grapevines Cling Stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Cryogen metallic card stock. I sponged Colorbox Butter ink into the centers of the leaves and then Memento Bamboo Leaves ink on the rest. I shaped the leaves with my Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit and then using Designer Dries Clear Adhesive tucked them in around the flowers on the card front. Lastly I added Crystal Ice Glitter glue to the flower centers and the vines.
Now a card this lovely needs a beautiful envelope so following this great tutorial on the Heartfelt Creations blog, I created a 3D envelope so my flowers won't get crushed. I used the same collection of papers, stamps and dies to decorate my envelope.
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Exploring New Frontiers in Online Learning
Thinking outside of the box is a hallmark of the STEMx™ network — and Battelle. What could be more out-of-the-box than providing high school credit to students who take colleges courses through the web? That's just what students at Reynoldsburg, Ohio's eSTEM Academy are going to be able to do this year, thanks to Udacity. Reynoldsburg eSTEM is one of 10 schools in the Ohio STEM Learning Network, and a key demonstration site for Ohio and for STEMx. According to Principal Marcy Raymond, eSTEM will enroll 41 students in Udacity's statistics class and 49 students in Udacity's physics class in the fall. This will allow eSTEM to tap into off-site teaching talent and help drive high school students to excel in college-level courses. If all goes well, this may be the wave… Read More


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Epilepsy12 - national reports from 2009-2014
Rounds one and two of Epilepsy12 ran between 2009 and 2014 with paediatric services across the whole of the UK taking part. You can download reports for both rounds, including the full national reports and versions adapted for parents, carers, children and young people.
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This tool displays the results from the National Neonatal Audit Programme on data from 2014-2016 at a hospital, neonatal network (regional) and national level. It allows the neonatal community and the public to view and compare the results of our analysis.


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Extract Skincare facial oil cleansers!! First & foremost the formula is enriched with vitamin e oil, rosehip oil, and sesame seed oil. These will all now be in every custom cleanser, since they carry amazing benefits for every single skin type. You've obviously heard about the benefits of vitamin e, a great anti-aging, anti-oxidant, and moisturizer for the skin. But maybe not know about rosehip seed oil, this stuff is amazing - it's chock full of vitamins, antioxidants and essential fatty acids that correct dark spots and hydrate dry, even itchy skin, and reduces scars and fine lines, thus minimizing the appearance of wrinkles. (NATURALLY! ORGANICALLY! [insert emoji hands raised up in the air]). And you may not know about sesame seed oil, which is a natural anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-oxident, anti-aging, moisturizer, and detoxifier ...aka the Queen of all Oils in ancient India. Good, great, amazing stuff :)
I also created a new logo, nothing fancy - a simple, beautiful calligraphy font, and better packaging as well - every facial oil cleanser now comes in amber glass bottle droppers, making it spill-proof and leak-proof, conveniently sized (you can even take these with you on a carry-on), with amber glass offering the most protection possible from harmful UV lights that can cause damage to the essential oils' amazing healing properties.
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A whole generation of British kids was emotionally scarred by the 1978 animated film "Watership Down", and now the BBC and Netflix is planning a new version that hooks in young viewers with Star Wars star John Boyega.
In their biggest collaboration to date, the UK broadcaster and globally available streaming service will produce a big-budget four-part computer-animated series based on the 1972 children's novel by Richard Adams. The book tells the emotional and surprisingly brutal story of a group of rabbits searching for a new home.
Nicholas Hoult from "Mad Max: Fury Road" and Boyega, rocketed to fame by his role in "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" will voice the rabbits Fiver and Bigwig. "X-Men" star James McAvoy joins Ben Kingsley, Olivia Colman and Gemma Arterton in the cast.
The series will delve deeper into the novel than the 1978 film adaptation, which as recently as last month was causing controversy among parents when it was screened on British TV.
"Watership Down" is the latest international series backed by Netflix, which is producing big-name movies and locally produced shows in the UK, Germany and France to appeal to a global audience.


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When a bus or taxi is waiting for passengers, the passenger doors are left open. This is a very good idea if the weather isn't too hot or too cold. It's an obvious signal that the vehicle is available to accept passengers, and an open door keeps the vehicle ventilated. At night, this also turns on the interior light of the waiting taxi, so the driver can read his newspaper.
The taxi driver who took me back to my hotel stopped in the middle of the road, got out, and went into a restaurant to ask for directions. Nobody honked or complained. Traffic just rerouted around the stopped vehicle.
The taxi driver asked me what my culture was. I didn't know how to answer. He then said that his was Manchester United.
The taxi driver was very patient in trying to find my hotel (it was on a tiny side street). We ended up calling the front desk to ask for directions, and it took him far longer than his usual fare. He put a lot of effort into making me a happy customer, and he probably missed out on several other customers. When I asked him the charge, I could tell he felt guilty, but he nonetheless tried overcharging me for the distance traveled. I refused, and paid him even more than that. He was very helpful and friendly to a weird fat foreigner who couldn't pronounce words correctly, just like everyone else I dealt with in Albania.


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Category: cyclocross
The Buddy Capers
Buddy went to his first cyclocross race of the season in Rochester, in that lovely Olmstead designed park. Buddy is fond of children, the smaller the better, although I suspect he likes the babies in strollers primarily for the stuffed toys wedged in the stroller with them. He is gentle, though, as he roots out the toys and tugs them from their dark corners. Some babies think this is funny and gurgle with delight as they see their stuffed alligators or teddy bears making their way in Buddy's careful mouth to the light of day; others become upset as they see their toys changing hands. They are probably future Republicans.
Buddy had satisfying exchanges with three sets of children that weekend. The first was a tiny infant being carried by its mother in a front-harness baby holder. I had Buddy in his own backpack, on my back. In case you haven't seen it, Buddy sits in the pack with his head and one leg visible, looking like, as someone observed, "a cabby with his arm hanging out." When the infant saw Buddy on my back, his neutral expression creased into a slow, serene, appreciative smile. Really, it was just like having a Buddhist monk smile at us.
The second was a group of three siblings. They asked (as most children do these days) if they could pet Buddy, who had trotted right up to them. He nestled himself into the center of the three as they crowded around, gently patting and exclaiming about how soft he was.
"I like how his mouth does this," said the littlest boy and made a small moue.
"I wish we could have a dog. We might get one," said the middle child, a small boy, with an Arab name.
"We won't get one," said his older sister, who had early adolescent pimples and braces but who seemed full of joy. She hadn't said it to be mean, I could tell. There are disappointments in life, she seemed to know already, and there was no point in pretending otherwise. I really liked those kids.
The third encounter was a little four-or-five-year-old who marched up, and asked to pet Buddy.
"Sure," I said. "He likes people who are little."
As soon as I said that, I knew it was wrong and the child set me straight at once.
"I'm not little," he said without rancor.
"I know," I said. "I'm sorry, I don't know why I said that."
Facts restored, he proceeded to pet Buddy. "What's his name?"
"Buddy," I said.
He paused, his face wrinkled in puzzlement. "What's his nickname?"
I cracked up. Because, really, he had a point.
"Little potato," I said, and now the boy cracked up.
An hour or so later, Buddy and I were near the finish line and I heard a shrill, piping
voice behind us, getting louder, "His nickname is little potato."
I looked around. The not-little kid was ushering a group of friends over.
"His nickname is little potato," he informed them again, bending down to pet Buddy proprietarily.
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Our cyclocross season began last weekend with Rochester. A Category 1 race on Saturday and a Category 2 on Sunday. From my non-racer perspective, a C1 race means that the officials are Very Attentive about UCI rules. Must be wearing pit pass. Must have right size tires. Must not feed. The first two rules are yadda-yadda. The last is more of a problem. The "No Feeding" rule states that the racers can carry water with them, but cannot be handed water. However, many 'cross bikes don't have water bottle cages on them and skinsuits don't have pockets. Cyclocross is a cold weather sport (theoretically) and the race lasts an hour, so the whole hydration thing isn't supposed to be an issue. But it is becoming one, due to climate change.
On Saturday, when the Elite Women raced, the heat index was 97 degrees Fahrenheit. After their hour of racing, the women crossed the line for the final time and fell over. Literally. One racer was taken to the hospital for heat stroke. The race organization, seeing the sprawl of bodies, brought over bottles of water and ice. Now it was the Elite Men's turn to race (they race after the women) and Rochester, a race organization that Gets Things Done, set up a hose to spray the men as they raced by and had people waiting at the finish line, handing out bottles of cold water to the men as they finished. Great! You say.
Not so great, I say. The race organization should have known that the very high heat combined with no water combined with strenuous activity would lead to problems. Why did they wait to see the triage that was the women's race before instituting adjustments? Why, in a nutshell, were the women the guinea pigs?
The Rochester race organization is superlative and they put on a great race. They would deny this implication of neglect. And I would believe them. Because this casual judgment that women are less valuable than men is insidious. It is certainly not limited to cyclocross racing.
But you have to start somewhere and call it out when you see it. So let's start here. Women work just as hard as men during the race. Elite athletes are elite athletes. Enough with the casual neglect that speaks of a blind spot.
Let's start giving women athletes the same respect, attention, and care that men athletes get.
Alrighty then. NBX
The big news is that I didn't freeze my butt off. It was nearly balmy, and for those of you who remember NBX in past years as the coldest, most miserable race of the entire season, this sunny, dry, warm weather was just, well, odd. Didn't seem like cyclocross, somehow.
So the weather was nice and the hotel was its usual, with the exception of a little Peyton Place sort of thing that will not get discussed any further here. Richie and I shopped at Dave's for our dinner to bring back to our room—a little ritual of ours; the calm before the storm and we relish this little time. Richie decided to race (darn) so that meant up and out to the course really early, 7:30 am.
I sit in the car, I read a book for review, I walk the dog, I find the coffee truck. I pit for him. I'm the only one. I cheer dutifully. Pit 1. Pit 2. Cheer, cheer.
Yay! It's lunch time! Eat the world's spiciest taco (but good.) Then to the pit for Elite Women's race. Libby got a mechanical early on and decided to call it a day. Britt soldiered on. Everyone did well Saturday. On Sunday, Dan came into the pit on the first or second lap. After the world's longest pit change (because his pit bike wasn't operational and we had to put a wheel on his racing bike—will not be discussed here) Dan got back on and in full Russian Frownie Face, back into the race. I wasn't optimistic about Dan's mental competitiveness at that point, but hallelujah, he tried really hard. Of course any moaning he was planning on doing after the race was truncated by Sam's mishap. With one lap to go and Sam in fourth place!!—he and the metal barrier had words, with the result being that Sam, with a puncture wound a half-inch deep, went to the hospital. Thankfully, his best friend's mother lived a scant five minutes away, and even, better, worked at the hospital. This allowed Richie and I to drive Sam's car to her house and his father to get on the plane, as intended, to Serbia.
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Anthony Clark won on Sunday and I couldn't be happier. He deserved that win, and the Verge series title. I don't know anyone who works as hard and as humbly as he does. And it doesn't hurt that the photo of him crossing the finish line is just about the best winning-a-race photo I have ever seen.
Alrighty then. Supercross Cup
The Good, The Bad, and The Pitiful
The Bad.
Apparently Richie and I are slow learners. I don't know how many times it's going to take us finally realize that there are other people in the world trying to get somewhere on a Friday afternoon, especially in the major metropolitan areas we seem to travel on a regular basis. In any event, we didn't learn it this time, either. Stuck in traffic. But only for an hour or so and at this point in 'cross season, a four hour trip that was supposed to be a three hour trip isn't much at all; it's when the trips ease their way into eight-nine hours that we start to whine. All three of us.
The Good.
Excellent food trucks! Wafles. Waffles! Latte. Wafles .Coffee! Waffles, wafles, waffles. And the sunset.
The Pit-iful.
What on earth was going on with the pits?
Let me enumerate:
- The pit entrance is. . .where? Hint. As race goes right, you go straight, then take a sharp right (avoid the spectators in the pit lane, they are just as lost as you are) swerve around the tree, then straight ahead. I think.
- Trees without hay bales standing like bouncers on all four corners of the pit. Ouch.
- Tree roots. If by some slim chance of fate, your rider had found the entrance to the pit and has entered, s/he then makes the bike switch and, adrenaline pumping, takes off like a shot, only to encounter serious root-age while still in the pit. Unless said rider has a firm grip on handlebars, it is likely the bike will go careening away, nullifying the whole point of pitting.
- Really, really fast entrances. Imagine, for a moment, that you are racing downhill on pavement. Whoosh. You are going really fast. Then imagine that you must navigate your way to the pit while going really fast. Then picture hopping an asphalt curb at a challenging angle all the while going—yes—really, really fast. That was the entrance to Pit Two on Saturday.
- Curbs on both entrance and exits. See 4 above.
- So you've found the entrance to the pit (probably you had to go around a lap longer than you wanted to accomplish this) you've gotten in! Congratulations! You switch bikes! Yay! Whoops, you slide out on the pile of oak leaves that are strewn picturesquely in the lane. Oh well, two out of three.
- On Saturday, Pit One and Pit Two were in the first third of the race. Woe betide you if you need a pit after you've passed Pit Two, because there's two-thirds more race to get through.
And on Sunday, the pits were, just to put a little more spice into things, backwards. But by now, we, the pit people, had no expectations of pit-sanity and so we just shrugged our shoulders and good-naturedly helped each other out, as we do.
Alrighty then, Highland Park
Week 6 of being on the road and all that denotes
There comes a time in the 'cross calendar when the weather stops being perfect and turns cold. Or, god forbid, rainy and cold. This past weekend at Highland Park was cold. Not the numbing cold of NBX (that wind off the water in the shady pit…) but in the low 30's at 9:00 am when Richie likes to arrive at the venue for his 12:00 start. Brrrr.
I set up the tent-thingie near the lake, but quickly realized that we really wanted sun, not shade, and so I angled the new camp chairs outside of the tent, in the sun. I bought the chairs last week, thinking that as long as we have a tent-thingie now, we may as well have a few chairs to sit on too. Where this dissipation will end, I cannot say. Will a Hibachi be next?
Highland Park is a racer's race. The spread-out course seems designed, not for spectators, but for the racers. The loudspeaker pretty much only reached the finish line area and nowhere else. These are not complaints. It was nice to just work in the pits, sit in the sun in between, and tend to the needs of our racers. I needed a low- key weekend. Because at this point, I have to admit I am weary. All the driving and packing and unpacking and trying to get work done in between grinds down the sparkle, so low-key was a respite. And another respite was that my order from The Feed arrived just before we left for Highland Park.
The Feed is a company that sells energy food for athletes. You go to their website, select what you want from a billion choices and then they box it up and send it to you. They are, hallelujah, a sponsor and so every month during the season everyone on the RS team gets a coupon.
I avoid wheat, so when I get my coupon, I activate the gluten-free filter on the website and go to town. Epic bars are my all-time favorite so far. For me it's not about energy before the race, it's about lunch. When I'm working in the pits, I often don't have time to go find food, but with Epic bars, that's not a problem. I pull one out of my back pocket (where I have tucked it for just such an occasion, and it also warms up nicely—oh don't give me that look) and tear in. Epic bars are essentially pemmican—dried meat and nuts and berries—which may sound like Little House On The Prairie-subsistence-food-awful, but I'm here to tell you that pemmican is really good and I don't feel a bit sorry for the early explorers anymore.
Having The Feed food makes things so much simpler on the road. So much so that when my first order (for September) was miscued and didn't arrive until the middle of October, I felt very put out and had to remind myself that this is a gift and be grateful, you ninny. But that's how much I depend on it.
Yes, week 6 is a grind, but with the right food and the right company (oh, and a little whiskey, thanks to the lovely foresight of Dan Chabanov) it ends up just fine.
Alrighty then, Charm City
'Cross done right.
Richie and I live in the country. Not the suburban-we-have-a-big-yard-with-some-woods-behind country, but real country. Our town encompasses a little over 37 square miles, with a population of 780. Doing the math, that makes 21 people per square mile. By contrast Amherst, a nice medium-sized town, has 1400 people per square mile. All this is to say that we mostly have no idea what day it is or when there is a holiday or anything. We work for ourselves and at home. Calendars are not really part of our lives, except for 'cross racing season and even then we just block out the days we're gone and I use that info to set things up with my neighbors, who take care of the birds.
Charm City race is on Columbus Day weekend—a three-day holiday that completely eluded us. Until that is, we started driving. We figured, oh about seven hours of driving, and so we decided to start about 11:00 or so on Friday. (I can see you rolling your eyes…yes, I can.) We're not prompt, so we actually left at about noon. Perfect timing, as we found out, to hit New York City right at 5:00. I was okay with the New York thing, thinking we were stupid to leave so late, but when the traffic snarl extended past New York and through New Jersey, pokey, pokey, pokey, it finally dawned on me that something else was going on—and that something was a holiday weekend. So, it took us eleven hours instead of the planned seven. And then we had to drive home on Sunday. (But that took only nine.)
Even with the god-awful drive, though, Charm City charmed me. Yes, it's true the team did really well, and that helps with the bonhomie—BrittLee was on the podium both days and Dan and Sam either in the top ten or close. A racing team thrives on these kinds of results—it is like pouring oil on the machinery. But I saw something else happen, something important, that these excellent results were the place-markers of. I saw a determination in those kids that I've never seen before. I saw them grab confidence and never let it go. I saw them believe in what they were capable of—and act on that belief. It made my heart swell with pride.
It reminded me of a conversation I had with Joe Pugliese when he was at our house photographing Richie for Bicycling magazine this summer. Joe has photographed bazillions of famous and successful people, people like Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey, so during lunch I asked him if he noticed any particular quality these people had in common. He said, "confidence, they have a lot of confidence." We went on to speculate whether they have confidence because they are successful or their confidence made them successful. Either way, we decided, the confidence was fundamental. And that's what I saw happen this weekend: the kids seized confidence.
But the charm of Charm City was more than successful results. Charm City has a vibe—perhaps it's the MAC series—that made it a real pleasure to attend. It lacked the feeling of hype, of frantic-pushy commercialism, of bigger, bigger, bigger, that I have felt at other races. In addition, the course was laid out so that we pit-people could see plenty of it, and let me just say that is a big perk when you spend most of your day in the pit. There were gobs of relaxed families and dogs (Buddy appreciated that) soaking up the perfect weather, and really good ethnic truck food. The little kids' racecourse was set up in the infield, so it was easy to observe as I trudged to and fro from the pits. Watching tiny tots haul their bikes over the six-inch barrier, determined and inspired (and hilarious) makes you realize what these race days really should be, and are here—a celebration. And parking. Was not a problem. At all.
Charm-ing City.
photo by Erik Annis
Alrighty then, Providence
While biggish with crowds and busy with vendors and billed as the crescendo of "holy week"–the self-congratulatory label given to the racing week bookended by Gloucester and Providence–Providence is also a very expensive race for participants. You pay to park in club row. You pay more to park in the UCI section. You pay lots to race. But not to worry, there's a race for nearly everyone ("Caucasians with Webbed Feet") which is why the elite men's race doesn't start until 5:05 pm. By 6:10, when this final race of the day ends, the other race is on to try to pack up before it is pitch dark.
I do hope that whoever is raking in all this money is using it for good and not just exploiting the popularity of 'cross to line their own pockets. At the vendors' row and conspicuous at the Builder's Ball was the presence of the East Coast Greenway Alliance, and I'm all for getting them some funds. Having been hit by cars twice, Richie being hit twice, and a friend killed, I am a big proponent of safe places to ride bikes.
Late morning Saturday, we pulled into the venue, where we informed the person guarding club row that we had paid for two spaces. "Oh," said the person, "there aren't any left." They shrugged. "But you can try." It was then, with sinking heart, that I realized this was a replay of last week's event at Gloucester when we were shuffled around for 40 minutes because our paid spaces in club row were non-existent.
Ever since the fairly recent advent of charging race-goers to pay for parking if they don't want to be stuck in the North Forty has become standard procedure, there has been a quick slide down that slippery slope. Just because you can charge for parking doesn't mean you have unlimited parking to sell. Obviously what is happening is that these spaces are being oversold.
How to prevent this? Here's a suggestion.
Measure out how much actual space you have to sell for parking. How many linear feet is it? I think using one of the line-thingies that you wheel along would work well. Or even a pedometer—an average person's stride is two and one-half feet.
Divide this number by the average largest length of the vehicles you expect to occupy those spaces. Add eight or so feet to accommodate maneuverability. This is the number of spaces you have to sell.
When you send out the information wherein people start to reserve parking spaces, include on that form a space where the name of the club/team is indicated and how many spaces they want. Make a spreadsheet with this same information on it.
On the weekend of the race, give a copy of the spreadsheet to the person(s) responsible for policing the paid parking areas. Have this person stop each car and ask for the team name. Check off the team name and one parking space on the spreadsheet. If the club has bought more than one space, there will still be a blank space showing until that next team car comes and claims it. If a third car comes along and says they are from that team, the person will look at their spreadsheet and see that both spaces the team has paid for have been claimed. Ergo, no space for car three and so it must go to Siberia to park.
Yes, organizing an event like a big bike race is complicated, but surely the paid parking can become just one more integer added to the equation and not the random hope-for-the-best scenario it seems to be now.
Alrighty Then, a prologue
Alrighty then is the overarching title I've given to blog posts wherein I write about what it's like to run a cyclocross team with my husband, Richard Sachs. Full disclosure. Unlike Richie, (by the way, you can only call him "Richie" if you've slept with him. My rule.) I've never raced cyclocross. I had a brief, some might say non-existent fling with road racing when I raced, um, I think once or maybe twice, with the Trek women's team nearly twenty years ago.
At my first race, I lined up with all the other Type A's and had an inkling of what racing was about when no one wanted to swap recipes or tell anecdotes while we were waiting for the gun. They're taking this seriously I thought, and I felt at once intimidated and out of place. When lots of people are gathered together, I consider that a social occasion. Not so on the starting line of a race apparently.
And we're off! Man, they go hard right at the beginning. What about just easing into it? After all, we've got a long way to go. Nope, anaerobic oxygen debt right off the bat. As my heart pounded and my muscles burned, I became uncomfortably aware that other people's bikes were really close to me. Hope they hold their line I thought, but without much confidence. And why didn't I have confidence that no one would crash me? Because I don't know these people, and I don't know if they can handle their bikes. And why don't I know them? Because no one wanted to chat and share stories with me when we had the chance, lining up. So there I was, gasping in a pack of really mean looking women, who were looking neither to right or left, but straight ahead with a killer set to their faces that showed full readiness to do battle.
I don't like battles. At least not obvious ones. And now, much to my dismay, I seemed to be in the middle of one. And what were we all risking life and limb and putting up with a great deal of physical suffering to battle for? This question floated into my naturally curious mind as I struggled to hold my place in the peloton.
The answer came as an epiphany. We are doing this so that one of us can cross a line first.
And now, astute reader, you have no doubt figured out my problem. Because a real competitor would call it "winning." And "winning" puts a whole different spin on the activity, something that "crossing a line first" doesn't quite do. Winning is about testing oneself overtly against others in a chosen field. It is throwing all the cards out on the table, in broad daylight, to succeed or fail, for all to see. And at that epiphanic moment, I knew I was not a competitor. At least not with other people.
Motivations duly clarified, I dropped to the back of the peloton where I had some breathing room and found a few other like-minded "racers." We chatted companionably as we rode the "race." And just for fun sprinted each other up the final hill climb (I "won.")
So all this is to say that my perspective on cyclocross is not the racer perspective. I am the observer, the strategist, the big-picture person. And that's what I'll be writing about in the coming weeks.
Last Dance of the Season
This weekend, the NBX Grand Prix of Cyclocross, is the last cyclocross race of the regular season for Richie and me.
The kids—that's what I call them (probably not to their joy) have worked hard, achieving proud results. Dan C. got a UCI fifth place and was on the podium numerous times in local races. Dan T. has won himself many second places in hard-fought UCI races. He's bummed that he hasn't stood on the top podium this season (yet) but that's only because he's a competitor with a capital C. The rest of us are in awe. BrittLee has regularly finished in the top ten of her elite women's races, often scrambling to best a place or two just before the end.
Richie and I like to put team memories and sponsor loyalty above race results, but that doesn't mean we don't want the kids to kick ass. I once read an interview with the founder of Bikram yoga (a controversial person to be sure, but I appreciated this sentiment) and he said that he loves watching the students push themselves beyond what they think they can do, because then he sees it—that moment when they fall in love with themselves.
A person should not try to take away someone's right to fail, and when its converse, the right to succeed, is initiated, well…you suffer, your body wants to stop, your mind doesn't let it, and at the end of the race, you have done better than you ever thought possible. How is it that I can be so strong, you ask yourself? How is it that I can suffer so much to achieve my goal? I must be wonderful.
And you are.


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Kimpton invented the concept of the boutique hotel more than three decades ago. And they show no signs of slowing down. Whether it's an adaptive reuse or bold new construction, there's a good chance Kimpton is coming to your town.
The company has come a long way since Bill Kimpton opened the first boutique hotel in San Francisco. Now known as Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Group by InterContinental Hotels, it's no stranger to awards and accolades. There's good reason for that.
Kimpton has mastered the boutique experience with high-profile properties such as Kimpton Hotel Palomar in Beverly Hills, the Sir Francis Drake in San Francisco and the Kimpton Muse in Midtown Manhattan.
Every Kimpton property is Green Key certified for its eco-conscious operating practices.
There's a complimentary nightly wine reception for guests to enjoy.
And another big selling point: Every Kimpton boutique hotel is pet friendly. In fact, guests are invited to bring their pets, with no additional fee or deposit required. Basically, their motto is that if your pet fits through the door, it is welcome to come on down.
Some properties even have dedicated Directors of Pet Relations.
About.com spoke with Ron Vlasic, VP of Operations, about the brand's growth strategy and distinctive new properties.
Q: The Kimpton properties in major cities are pretty well known. Tell us about some of your hidden gems.
A: The Taconic in Manchester, Vermont is one. It has 79 rooms set against the backdrop of the Taconic Mountains. I now oversee it. It's phenomenal out there, a very pretty little place.
Manchester is kind of a one stop light town. There are some high-end outlets there but not in the sense of a traditional outlet mall. I'll tell you one funny thing. The "Most Interesting Man in the World" lives down the street. People do a double take when they see him.
Q: You're expanding a lot in the Midwest, right?
A: Yes. Chicago is an obvious center of business. We have five hotels there.
A few years ago we had the opportunity to take over the Minneapolis Athletic Club. We didn't have much experience. But we developed it into the Grand Hotel. What we discovered is that there's a natural travel conduit from Chicago to Minneapolis and back. It took off for us. It inspired us to look at other cities.
Q: Tell us about The Schofield in Cleveland.
A: We opened the Schofield in 2016. The city loved it. It was the newest hotel project in a long time.
When we go to a city we don't know, we try to extract what the city's all about. We want to hit the right touch points. Basically, the property was an old turn-of-the century building. It's gorgeous red sandstone. It was a shop with some residences upstairs. During the 60's someone put an ugly façade on it. Then it was boarded up. We looked at it. We saw that it had good bones. It was on a corner that could be very prominent. We peeled away all the bad sheet metal to reveal this beautiful building.
It was an adaptive reuse that really brought the local culture alive. It has 150 rooms. For the restaurant, our partner on the property had a friend who wanted to do the restaurant. We allowed him to come in and bring it all together.
We also did something a little high end. The top four floors are residential. In Cleveland, nobody lives downtown. We wanted to attract professionals working downtown who don't necessarily want to live in the suburbs.
It's been a successful venture. Now, we're looking at other projects in Cleveland.
Q: You've also opened The Journeyman in Milwaukee.
A: The Kimpton Journeyman is a newbuild in the historic Third Ward of Milwaukee. It's a beautiful corner lot. We approached it from the standpoint of character of the neighborhood.
There is a group that protects the historic character of the neighborhood. We invited them to be a part of it. We told them our plans, our approach.
The story of The Journeyman comes from Milwaukee's roots as a blue-collar city. A journeyman of course was a person entering the trades. We wanted to pay homage to that person.
We have 180 rooms; it's a good-sized hotel. The rooftop has a beautiful view of all of downtown and the ballpark. You can see the lake. Summerfest is three blocks away.
We have Heather Turhune as executive chef at Tre Rivali.
She opened Sable restaurant for us in Chicago. We turned over the rooftop to her and she came up with great concept. Tre Rivali is her interpretation of hearty Italian,
Q: There's an interesting story behind The Kimpton Gray in Chicago. Tell us about it.
A: It's two blocks away from the Kimpton Hotel Allegro, the largest in the group.
A gentleman owned the old New York Life Building in Chicago's financial district. It was virtually empty, only about ten percent occupied. He called me and we had our development guys come out.
It was like a scene from "Mad Men." The last time it had been designed or decorated was in the 1960s. But we realized that it had such potential. There were these enormous windows overlooking LaSalle and Madison.
It took us about three years to complete the adaptive reuse. We used the footprint of the original structure. We worked with state and even federal agencies. They wanted to make sure that a lot of the unique elements of the building were kept alive. We're proud that the architectural details of the building are still intact.
Q: What are some of the features of the hotel?
A: We have 293 rooms. In the lobby level, we did a great bar called Volume 39. All the old offices had beautiful law books in bookcases. We incorporated them. The bartenders are in white. It's a really great atmosphere.
As far as dining, it would have been easy to put in a steakhouse. But we came up with Baleo. It's our rooftop venue that features South American food and drink with an Argentinian flair.
Q: Will you continue on this adaptive reuse track?
A: We're trying to invest in second tier cities. That's a strategy that's working for us. You have someone from St. Louis who goes to New York and stays at our great boutique hotel, The Muse. There's an interest in bringing that same experience back home.
Prices in New York and L.A. are ridiculous. In places like Indianapolis or St. Louis, you can find wonderful buildings from the turn of the century.
A great example is The Kimpton Cardinal Hotel in Winston-Salem. It's the old RJ Reynolds headquarters and the precursor to the Empire State Building. This beautiful art deco building was sitting vacant.
Q: What about newbuilds?
A: In Palm Springs we have a newbuild in the works. A developer picked up parcel where the mall was on the main street downtown. He tore it all down.
Palm Springs is kind of a funny market. It's known as a retirement community, but now it's hip because of the modernist architecture. It presented a good opportunity for us.
San Francisco is ungodly expensive, but we have a project in Sacramento.
In Seattle we have a new hotel in the Belleview area. It has such promise, there's a great movement of people living up there.
We'd love to do something in Portland, but it's been difficult to find the right project.
Q: What other destinations are on your radar?
A: In Philadelphia, we're working on a project in the old navy yards. During the war they built all the big ships up there, but it's been abandoned. It's a little far from downtown, but the location inspired us. Sometimes you have to take that leap of faith.
Q: What about cities outside of the U.S.?
A: We're trying to stretch beyond the U.S. We're focusing on Europe. We have a project in Amsterdam that's an adaptive reuse. It's a unique experience to bring something like this to life.
We have two projects in London and one in Toronto. We also have
Cayman Islands, Kimpton Seafire Resort.
Q: Any destinations still on your wish list?
A: South America is on our radar. And Asia we've been working on quite a bit. My counterpart in San Francisco has been heading to Shanghai and a couple of other cities to explore some options.
Q: You mentioned that you really pay attention to the needs and interests of your guests. What are some examples of that?
A: We spend a lot of time internally on these issues. For example, over 50 percent of our clientele is female. We want to make sure all of our properties are safe and well-lit. That's a big criticism of some of the W properties. The corridors are too dark. So, we'll do a mock hallway to test things out.
Also, I always try to convey the importance of signing up for our Kimpton Karma rewards program. It gives guests the opportunity to email us. We truly extract that information. Sometimes guests come up with cool ideas and we run with them.
For example, some of our guests told us it would be nice if they had bikes to tool around in. So we put bikes in all our hotels.
Another guest, an IBM executive, was staying at the Allegro. He told us the rocks glasses in the room were nice. But he didn't like using rocks glasses to drink wine. So, we started putting wine glasses in the room. It made him feel like a million bucks to know he had brought about some change.
We really do try to pay attention to what guests want.


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This video is so clever. (Click on "serious eats")
This video is so clever. (Click on "serious eats")
I loved this video because it was very entertaining. I especially enjoyed the use of the Blackberry to film the items in the store and how perfectly well the lyrics went with what was on the screen. It was humorous and emoted the feel of a typical Trader Joe's store–a easygoing, friendly environment.
I am not sure if it should be aired as a real commercial because while it is right-on about all aspects of the store, some of those aspects are not complimentary.
What makes this an "unofficial" commercial? Is that the same as a joke commercial? It wasn't quite funny enough to be a "skit" but not quite flattering enough to be an effective ad.
Great blog, btw. I can't wait to peruse it some more 🙂
What makes it an unofficial commercial? Well, Trader Joe's didn't create it; some clever dude with a Blackberry and some video skills did. Also it's much longer than a regular commercial would be.
But it's fun and that is also that counts.


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I have always been a lover of "loot", I am never one to turn down a gift for any reason. Sure, I will do the polite "aw you didn't have to" but I will be very glad you did. I am equally excited about giving gifts and often leave gift buying for the last minute to avoid having to wait to see someone's reaction to a gift I bought which I felt was perfect for them. Sometimes I make it the other person's challenge by giving them the gift early and informing them that they cannot open it until the big day arrives. On the same level I tend to wait till after a party to open my gift, a little challenge to myself, something fun to have once all the guests have left and the party is over.
Such it was with the "brownie baking pan" that Nicola, from Wots for Lunch, gave me for my housewarming. She didn't make it easy, telling me she saw it at home and thought it was something I would definitely want. She did say if she got it wrong I could exchange it but I knew it would be so right. In the time that I have known Nicola, every gift she has given me has been thoughtful and just right.
As some may know I had a #FoodieWarming. My housewarmings are going in stages, my flat is smallish and I wasn't sure what my limit was. As usual I totally over catered for the event (except on the tortilla's side, I didn't make enough) and was left with plenty food at the end of the night. What could be frozen was and what couldn't, was used (salsa makes great omlettes). I wasn't sure what to do with all the left over sour cream but when I saw Nicola's gift I knew that somewhere in the world wide web there must be a recipe for Sour Cream brownies and I was so right.
Sour cream brownies
(recipe adapted from TLC - how stuff works)
What you need:
1/2 cup butter softned
1 cup caramel sugar (you can use light brown sugar too)
1 egg
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup NoMu cocoa ( I mention brand because their cocoa is very potent, other brands use 1/2 cup)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
2 cups cake flour
1/2 cup milk
1 bar dark chocolate (I had a bar of Lindt Dark Chocolate Mousse - it was either that or Madagasse)
What to do:
Preheat oven to 180°C. Butter a 33X22cm pan or brownie pan.
Cream butter and sugar in large bowl until blended.
Add egg, sour cream and vanilla; beat until light.
Add cocoa, baking soda and salt; beat until smooth.
Alternate flour and milk well mixed.
Stir in chocolate.
Spread batter evenly in prepared pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until center springs back when touched. Cool in pan on wire rack.
Cut into which ever shape you like or if you lucky like me the pan has already done that for you.
Serve with a cold glass of milk.


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Dominick A. DellaSala: The Importance of Fire in Resilient Ecosystems
Recent increases in acres burned of forests are mainly due to a changing climate — Scientists have known for sometime that fire activity tracks regional weather patterns, which in turn, are governed by global climatic forces such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO — a recurring long-lived El Niño-like pattern of Pacific climate variability– see chart 1). For instance, the very active fire seasons of the 1910–1930s, occurred during prolonged drought cycles determined by the PDO that resulted in much larger areas burning historically than today (Powell et al. 1994; Interagency Federal Wildland Fire Policy Review Working Group 2001; Egan 2010) (chart 1). In fact, compared to the historic warm PDO phase of the early 1900s, most of the West is actually experiencing a fire deficit (Littell et al. 2009, Parks et al. 2012). However, with warming temperatures, early spring snowmelt, and longer fire seasons over the past few decades more acres are burning each year (Westerling et al. 2006; Littell et al. 2009) (chart 1).
Source: Dominick A. DellaSala: The Importance of Fire in Resilient Ecosystems
So if wildfires are important to forests then why have forests of mammoth trees survived – like Cathedral forest and the giant redwoods? Have they just gotten lucky. Maybe it's just the pines and other types which are more unlucky. The sad fact is most fires are actually started by human beings, aren't they? That isn't natural.


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Nancy makes her home in South Bend, Indiana, where she surrounds herself with her husband, various dogs and cats, 2 grown children living in the Michiana area, many extended family members, and friends who are like family. Active in local and regional community efforts, she serves on the Board of Directors of Women Business Owners of Michiana, serves in various capacities with the Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative at Saint Mary's College, and is a graduate of Leadership South Bend/Mishawaka Class #43.
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We take the time to learn your organization's history, culture and goals to gain a deep understanding of how your group works and how that relates to your business goals.
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Growth can be seen as daunting, often resulting in uncertainty. Nancy's follow through, organizational skills, and strong understanding of our mission helped us effectively implement tools that have allowed us to clearly identify roles and expectations. She was able to sort through a myriad of ideas, proposals, and hesitations. Nancy incorporated everyone's passion and expertise into attainable action steps.
Nancy has a depth of knowledge and experience across an array of business sectors. Her strengths are in assessing group dynamics, team building, decision making, and consensus building. I highly recommend Nancy as a strategic facilitator. Her leadership and vision lead to highly effective results. My staff and I continue to see positive results from her expertise."
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57years ago a child was born to a life she considered free and fair after being enslaved centuries Long in an encapsulated case devoid of access to simple basic amenities even in the presence and abundance of resources tapped, untapped and most yet unknown. All she filled her mind with was wishes, clouding her thoughts with beautiful mental picture so crystal as diamond and brought to life by all the finest color she could ever imagine. But like the Saying goes,, If wishes were horses we will all ride. Her incubation period was nothing to write home about,filled with agonizing moments that brings a still tear to her face. No one could comprehend what exactly she went through during her dark days no matter how much of her history was read on papers and history books. She was never for the accolades because they only last but for awhile. Chills was always flowing down her spine and her adrenaline responding to ever mental action in and out without preference to limiting factors,secreting hormones yet to be identified and responding with an almost Blank-Action to every stimuli. Her New birth to independence never came through without loads of rules, regulations, norms and values sometimes expressed with high precision of contradiction,swinging on an imbalanced pendulum acted upon by little or unknown external force of gravity. Overtime she tries to gain her balance, a quest that seems futile due to an ever-increasing complexity grounded in retrogression and cemented with chimers designed by rhetoric and hurt would not give her a break to explore the dividends that come with this long awaited birth. And now, just when she thought she has found her feet on the ground and of course leave her footprint Upon the sands of time so posterity can say of her that she vehemently stoop to conquer!!! Here comes a different world rearing its seemingly beautiful head and piercing through all spheres of her world so fast that bubbles breaks each time this new world gains a new ground thereby spreading its tentacles, and just like a wild fire engulfs everything that comes its way. This new world obviously couldn't function without the full participation of the people in this new Independent world of hers resulting in a rise of "divided attention". Her world could barely focus on the things "basic" needed to permenetize her status nor build a better, stronger and more stable growth-phase. So here come a massive decline having been unable to resist the enticing pleasureable pebbles thrown at them. This New World was named SOCIAL MEDIA. It came with a new kind of book called FACEBOOK and compounded everyone especially student to read them, a world we had to Follow unknown people on TWITTER and ignoring the real known people we see around, a world we had to weigh our life status on a scale It called INSTAGRAM,a World that once said we had 2GO via a BBM transport to get our PALMCHAT, making us create our links only in LINKDIN, a World everyone wants to be a BADOO by getting familiar on WECHAT, gathering views on SNAPCHAT and trying to get to the SKYPE level. IMO became their tourist centre with visitors slogan reading WHATSAPP, just to stay updated. This new world kept People stuck up on an enclosed YOUTUBE, where time spent are with no return of investment. The quest and demand to have a spot in this new world rendered the vision behind her gained independence almost blind.
So while we raise our banners in celebration of the freedom bought by the lives of our hereos past, let us have posterity in mind and give justice to their course.


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Gail and I purchased our house a few years ago. One of the features which attracted us to the house was the added benefit of Roller Shutters fitted to various windows. We found the Roller Shutters had both security and weather benefits and enjoyed their use.
After a couple of years, the Roller Shutters started to break down and we found that obtaining parts or service was impossible to find. We researched the products and services of manufacturing companies and found without question the services provided by OZSHUT Roller Shutters are by far the best on the market.
This proven track record as well as a superior product has influenced our decision to replace the existing Roller Shutters with the OZSHUT system.
We had fun designing the new Roller Shutters with no pressure from the representative and listened carefully to the recommendations which actually made sense considering the system that was already in place. We were happy with the service and finished product which was installed within the timeframe quoted to us.
We are now reaping the benefits of workable Roller Shutters that enhance the presentation of the house to us and the public. So, without question we thoroughly recommend OZSHUT Roller Shutters to everyone.
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Bring your dreams of flight to reality!
Powered Paragliding is the most modern and accessible form of powered aviation available today! These foot-launched aircraft can fit into a suitcase, assemble in minutes and launch a pilot from a local field, beach or small airstrip to thousands of feet into a vast ocean of air. Once there…… you can remain for hours ……..just "riding the sky!"
Personalized human flight has been a dream for many their whole life. Unfortunately, for many, the dreams of flight as children grow into to the realities of being an adult……..along with the cost and time that aviation can consume. It leaves too many on the ground looking up.
Morningside's Powered Paragliding program can bring those dreams to reality for most anyone. With the proper instruction, techniques and equipment….its not as expensive, hard or as risky as you might think. With a total $$ investment for gear and training that is a fraction of the cost of any other form of powered flying…… combined with a commitment of as little as a 7-12 days……you can see why PPG is fast becoming many aviation enthusiasts holy grail. Is it time for you to live your dreams?
Kitty Hawk Kites and Morningside have long been leaders in teaching the world to fly. We've been making those dreams come true since 1974. Our facilities and instructors have safely introduced thousands upon thousands of pilots and enthusiasts to Hang Gliding and Paragliding since the sports beginnings. We are also one of a very few full time Paramotor training schools in the US. We operate primarily from our historic flight park in Charlestown, New Hampshire. We train 7 days a week from MAY through OCT with classes booking weekly.
Our school uses the most tested and standardized methods for safely teaching and progressing students through their first unforgettable flights! Many of our students arrive to us with little if any aviation knowledge. Our experienced and professional instructors are USPPA certified. We specialize in a systematic approach that starts at the beginning and helps make learning fun! We build only on successes and we won't move you faster than you feel comfortable. Our instructors care deeply about helping create lifelong pilots with safe attitudes and skills.
Our complete training program graduates students who are prepared to fly solo. You will have trained with the most current equipment using the most up to date techniques. We aim for you to take away from the program; the knowledge, skills and strategies for safe solo flying.
Our complete facility offers full training courses, retail sales, motor repair and support.
Please check out our Training Page for info on our training packages.