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*What: Latino2, a celebration and exploration of all things Latino in the age of digital/social engagement. Brought to you by Latinos in Social Media (LatISM).
*When: April 30-May 2, 2010 in Los Angeles (Venue TBD)
*Want to help? Come to the pre-conference Tweetup: Saturday February 6, 8PM at Seven Restaurant & Bar, 555 W. 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90014, 213.223.0777, http://sevenrestaurantbar.com
*For more info: go to latism.org, latino2.com, or follow the conversation on Twitter (#latism, #latino2)
For those of you who know me — or at least follow my movements on Twitter — it should come as no surprise that I recently experienced a cultural reawakening, and that a new focus for me in 2010 is the emerging world of Latino communications. It all began last summer, when I was asked by the National Hispanic Corporate Council (NHCC) to give a keynote at its annual conference. The topic was the corporate adoption of social media, something I often speak about in public and private settings. But, of course, the context for this talk was the Latino market. I was less prepared for that, and I soon realized I had some homework to do. I immediately began by searching for people and groups steeped in both social technology and Latino marketing. The timing was right. Earlier that summer, a group called LatISM — Latinos in Social Media — took off on the Web like a rocket, and by the Fall they had organized a number of events on the East Coast. After the NHCC talk, I flew to speak at a LatISM in DC, connected with co-founders Ana Roca Castro, Kety Esquivel, and Louis Pagan, and we soon got to talking about bringing LatISM to the West Coast. Today — along with my West Coast colleagues David Vallejo, Antonio Altamirano and Laura Gomez — I am proud to announce that LatISM in fact is coming to California, for a weekend conference running April 30 through May 2nd in Los Angeles (venue TBD).
We are now in the pre-production phase, and we are reaching out to people interested in speaking, sponsoring, or otherwise supporting the event. If you have attended earlier LatISM conferences, you will see the same commitment to the LatISM mission: to bring together Latinos — and people close to Latino communities — to share insights and best practices in digital/social communications. But there are several things that will make the "LatISM West" event different:
The scale: The western region of the U.S. is by far the largest general domestic market for Latinos, and L.A. is one of the major hubs as well as home to many of the leading innovators in social technology. For that reason alone we are designing the event to be a bit larger. We've already identified several locations that would be appropriate. But we are also gathering the requisite people power and sponsor support for the effort.
The scope: We are also designing the event to leverage some of the unique assets of the Southern California market: the rich clusters of talent in entertainment and media. We will also stretch up North, tapping leaders and thinkers from Silicon Valley, Sacramento and other parts of the state where many interesting projects in government, public policy and commerce are happening today. And we will also look to leaders from neighboring states — Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, others — to bring greater representation as well as a real Western feel to this event.
The season: Finally, there's something special about the timing of this event. If I have learned anything about Latino communications in the past few months — the short amount of time that frames my personal "reawakening" — it's that Latinos are quickly organizing themselves online, and the speed at which this is happening is remarkable. The folks at LatISM had a hunch last year that the time was right for an organization devoted to supporting — not dictating — this type of self-organization. And it's all happening at a time when it matters more than ever that Latinos stand up and be counted — the months preceding the 2010 Census, a project that could have a significant impact on national priorities. But even without the census, Latinos have reason to stand up, be counted, and participate in the new conversations on Latino communications. The approach we are taking is the broaden the umbrella wide enough to allow for even livelier conversations. If you are "Latino too" — by origin or affinity (i.e., engaging with Latinos really matters to you) — come to Latino2. But don't wait for April 30 to make yourself heard. If you can, come to our Tweetup (see details above) and take part in shaping the event from the start.


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JOHN MORAN, Co-Director of the Springs Eternal Project, spent 23 years as a photographer, writer and editor for The Gainesville Sun. Moran's photography has appeared in numerous books and magazines including National Geographic, Life, Time, Newsweek, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine and on the cover of the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida. Moran has been named Photographer of the Year for the Southeastern U.S. by the National Press Photographers Association. His photograph of alligators at dusk at Paynes Prairie State Park was selected as the top-placing American photograph in the United Nations Earth Summit photo contest. Moran left the world of daily journalism in 2003 to concentrate full time on photographing the best of vanishing natural Florida. Moran's Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer, a 20-year collection of photos and essays, was published in 2004. Journal of Light debuted in 2005 as a major traveling exhibit of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Mr. Moran will speak on Our Water, Our Future, a frank discussion of Florida's imperiled waters and what it will take to insure their long term wellbeing.
To learn more about John Moran or the Springs Eternal Project, visit www.springseternalproject.org.

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ColorGATE profiles the new Designjet Z6100 at the HP LFP Academy 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Press release from the issuing companyMay 2007, Rome, professionals from the world of large-format printers gathered at the HP LFP Academy. And sponsor ColorGATE showed that its solutions for universal large-format production, proofing, photo & fine art make the new HP flagship, the Designjet Z6100, even more efficient. With a printing speed 2 to 4 times faster than the previous model, the HP Designjet 5500. Optimum output quality without banding despite the high printing speed. A color space that is virtually unparalleled, although the water-based inks are still pigmented for long color accuracy, light and wipe resistance. The Z6100 sets new standards in many areas. But ColorGATE software, or more specifically PRODUCTIONSERVER with the PROFILER Module for utmost production efficiency with the new HP Z series, tops it all off: Fully automatic ICC profiling in less than 20 minutes to obtain optimum color reproduction and consistency! The ColorGATE driver for the spectral photometer permanently integrated in the HP system makes it possible. Also ideal for perfect film production or proof applications where ColorGATE uses the integrated measuring tool for DeviceLink optimization or automatic media wedge evaluation. ColorGATE profiling solutions provide the same high degree of convenience in the interactive mode. The PROFILER modules' online help as well as the option of profiling directly from the software with the help of the assistant now make any user even quicker and more flexible. ColorGATE will present the complete solution at FESPA 2007 in hall 1.2 stand A540.
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Mustafa Kamal joins Facebook, Twitter
The dissident MQM leader will also make important announcements through his social media handles.
Kamal said he would respond to all his followers on Twitter and Facebook as he was unable to reply his supporters through cellphone or emails.
Read here: Mustafa Kamal tears apart MQM chief, forms new political party
Here's the statement he has issued to make his social media debut public.
Kamal had shaken the political atmosphere in Pakistan after his surprising entry and announcing dissociation from the MQM.
Read more: Dr Sagheer Ahmed joins Mustafa Kamal in 'crusade against MQM'
The ex-mayor levelled serious allegations on the MQM chief and overall modus operandi of the party in city.


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Well, I did promise that I'd post the winning entry from the ghost story competition that M. R. James was asked to judge for The Spectator. And here it is. A note was attached saying, 'The Chinese gentleman who told me this tale and vouched for its truth held a diplomatic position in England for many years'. If you remember, James was a little concerned that the lady who sent it received it from a third party and did not invent it from her own imagination.
By Winifred Galbraith
Winner of the ghost story competition,
The Spectator ~ 27th of December 1930.
You won't believe this story; you'll say it is all moonshine.
I should say so myself, if I did not know it were true. But whenever I think it must have been a dream, I see again that look of deep peace on Lao Ming's face, and then I feel glad that the old man sleeps with his fathers in the distant Shensi hills and not in the crowded rabbit-warrens of the Shanghai cemeteries.
I met Lao Ming in 1927 when I left the interior because of the communists. He told me he had been born and bred in Shensi and had held high official positions under the Manchus, but, since the Revolution, he had drifted to Shanghai and lived - goodness knows how - in one room in the native city. During that dreary winter some of my most pleasant hours were spent in that dirty little room. We both loved to talk about Shensi and I found that his dearest wish was to return there to die, although such a journey really seemed impossible for a man of his age. He was a classical scholar, deeply learned in the magics of (corrupt) Buddhism and, one day, he introduced me to a friend who, he said, was a wizard of great skill and repute. As I listened to their talk, I used to feel as if I had fallen out of the twentieth century into the company of two medieval magicians. This charm eaten at night would bring a much-desired son; rats' ears ground to powder and applied on an enchanted paper would relieve a swelling tumour; and once they spoke of spells for the dead, but there I showed my scepticism too plainly and they stopped. Strange talk within sight of the Shanghai Bund!
When I was able to return inland and went to say "Goodbye" to Lao Ming, I found he was very ill. His magician friend was with him and followed me out.
"I'm afraid he'll never see the Shensi hills now," I said.
I caught a strange look on the man's face and I did a silly thing.
"Look here," I said, "If I give you fifty dollars, will you promise to bury Lao Ming in Shensi?"
The magician bowed.
"It shall be done," he said. And I actually counted out fifty dollars and pushed them into his hand. I did feel wild with myself afterwards, I can tell you, as I was awfully short of money at the time and knew they would only waste it on good feast at the funeral.
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It was a fine, clear night. My coolies had consented to go an extra stage after dark, as we all wanted to get home before the festival. They trotted along with bent knees, crooning a little song, and I walked behind, not too tired to enjoy the beauty of the moon, as it lit up the rice fields in the valleys and the dark clumps of trees on the hill sides. Suddenly the foremost coolie gave a blood-curdling yell, dropped his burdens and fled, screaming over the fields. The others followed. I could see no cause for alarm. A little string of people advanced towards us on the narrow path. It was rather unusual to see men out so late, but I thought they were probably a band of villagers who had been delayed at the market. Then I saw the first man held a bowl before him in both hands, but the others carried nothing and walked rather stiffly, without moving their heads. I called out a greeting as I stepped off the path to let them pass, but no one replied. The second in line was a woman with a little baby tied on her back, the third was a man in a ragged soldier's uniform with a great gaping wound all down one side of his bare leg. And then - I looked straight into the face of my friend Lao Ming. With a scream I could not suppress, I turned and ran like the coolies across the wet fields. The magician had kept his word and Lao Ming would rest in his beloved Shensi.
When we were safely round the fire that night, the coolies told me more about this curious procession. It was a death march. Some men have power to prevent the decomposition of the body and to make the dead move at their command. When a man dies far from his native land, his relatives find out such a wizard and pay him to lead the corpse home. He waits till he has collected a number of such commissions and then sets out on his long march. He walks by night, carrying a rice-bowl of water in his hands and followed step by step by his charges. At dawn he plans to reach an inn where he engages a room, puts the bowl down on the floor and the bodies at once fall over and lie there till nightfall, when their weary pilgrimage begins again. Over hills and rivers for hundreds of miles they walk till they reach their goal. Then the water must be spilt on the ground and the bowl broken to fragments. So can their bodies decay and their souls rest in peace.
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It is incredible, isn't it? I did one more thing about it. I wrote to our agent at the place where Lao Ming's family graves were said to be and asked him if there had been a recent burial. He made enquiries and found that there was a newly-dug grave but there seemed to be some mystery, for no one would tell him anything nor could he hear that anyone had recently died.


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This from the Lord Mayor of Perth, Mrs Lisa Scaffidi: "I want to congratulate Jacqueline for being the type of author/person we need to celebrate in our City. She takes walking tours monthly & anyone who's interested can attend. I recommend buying the book too. Jacqueline is currently working on the sequel."


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This is an activity about the way the moon interacts with sunlight. Learners consider a ball, wrapped in aluminum foil, and experiment with a flashlight to make it appear bright. The children compare the foil-wrapped ball to a Moon globe and... (View More) discover that the Moon reflects very little of the light the falls on it, but still appears bright. The children construct their own globe of the Moon to take home with them by gluing a map template onto a tennis-ball. This activity is most effective when conducted in a dark area, such as outdoors at night or in a darkened room. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
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This is a collection of outreach resources about the Sun that are meant to be used in informal education settings. This toolkit was originally designed for NASA Night Sky Network member clubs and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Astronomy... (View More) from the Ground Up network of museum and science center educators. The toolkit includes background information about the Sun, magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, and space weather, activity suggestions, and detailed activity scripts. The themes of this toolkit address both the constant nature of the Sun as a reliable source of energy and the dynamic nature of the Sun due to its changing magnetic fields. The activities and related materials in this collection include The Sun in a Different Light - Observing the Sun, Explore the Sun cards, Magnetic Connection, the Space Weather PowerPoint, Protection from Ultraviolet, and Where Does the Energy Come From cards. These activities can be done separately or as a group as part of an informal education event. Institutions that are not part of the Night Sky Network will need to acquire the various materials required for each activity. (View Less)
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Dr Oz: Skim Milk VS Whole Milk
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Happy Mother's Day to All
I would like to wish everyone a Happy Mother's Day! Here are a few pictures of my excellent presents. Gary & the kids gave me this beautiful Black Hills Gold Harley Davidson necklace (any ideas on what another one of my hobbies is?) and my mom gave me this awesome new vase for my fireplace. It is so cool! It has different shapes and patterns on it. It looks great!
My day was perfect! I slept late, ate my favorite pancakes for breakfast then my wonderful family took me to eat at the Olive Garden. It was fabulous! To end the perfect day we stopped at Krispy Kreme on the way home. I am so stuffed! I probably blew my points today, but I figured it wouldn't hurt me to splurge on my special day. In the restaurant it was so nice to see all the mom's with huge smiles on their faces and their families giving hugs and the kids giving kisses and making sure that "mom" didn't need anything. It was a beautiful sight! Now I am off to la la land to end the day with sweet dreams! Have a great one!


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This is an email I wrote home last week. There is some overlap with previous posts. Apologies.
This email, which will recount things I have done/experienced since my last email, will be in bullet format because I am in a bullet-y kind of mood. Okay. Here we go.
-I have started drinking mate. Upside: it tastes good and makes my heart beat really fast. Downside: I burnt my lips and they turned black and green. Really, small price to pay for a drink that has 30% more caffeine than coffee, am I right? Or am I right?
-I took a tango class! It was at the community center in my barrio. First, they teach you how to walk, which I was really good at (not to brag), and then they quickly progress into like, dancing and spinning and kicking and stuff. I lasted an hour and 15 minutes and then took off when the class was sufficiently over my cabeza.
- Emily came and visited. Here are things we did: 1) went boot/shoe/elastic-waisted-genie-pant shopping, 2) listened to Uruguayan music, 3) ate Freddo ice cream (word to the wise: don't order mint, it tastes like Listerine/booze), 4) went to my gym and got in a minor altercation with the mean lady behind the desk, 5) bought bufandas, 6) ate steak, 7) drank coke out of glass bottles, 8) took a tango class (see above), 9) attended "French night" at some French bar for like 5 seconds , 10) ate surprisingly tasty Thai food, 11) watched The Office, 12) took the colectivo, 13) did laundry, 14) attended "after work drinks" at Opera Bay.
This last point deserves a bit of explanation. "After work drinks" in Buenos Aires is actually code for "go clubbing on Wednesday." Opera Bay is a big boliche (club) in Puerto Madero, the exterior of which is roughly modeled after the Sydney Opera House, with 4 different dance floors each playing a different type of music -- sounds awesome, right? Yes. So, on Wednesdays, for "after work drinks," you have to be either wearing a suit or female to be let in -- no exceptions. The plus side of Opera Bay is that on one of the dance floors they play fun 80s music -- Thriller! -- but the downside is that you have to wade through a sea of potential date rapists to be able to dance to it. I am not making light of date rape here, I just don't know how else to classify the legions of mulleted, suit-wearing, leering Argentine businessman that attend these events. It's not that they're just creepy and aggressive -- it's that they don't take NO for an answer. The slogan "NO SIGNIFICA NO" apparently never reached Argentina, I've learned. If a girl is walking by, these men grab whatever body part is within reach for them -- arm, butt, stomach, shoulder, back -- and if she says "no me toques," (don't touch me) they interpret that as "please, continue to touch me, rat-tailed stranger who I have never talked to." The last straw for me was when a dude threw his sweater over my head. It's like... why? Just... why? ANYWAY, despite the overabundance of creepiness, we still managed to dance and have a blast. Thank goodness for my sharp little elbows!
- I went to a concert the other night -- it was a Brazilian band called +2, I think. The reason I say "I think" is because each one of their CD's is attributed to a different artist. Let me explain -- in the band there are 3 dudes, Moreno, Kassin, and Domenico, and the band has put out 3 CDs, one by Domenico+2, one by Kassin+2, and one by Moreno+2, each titled something different. Confused? Me too. I guess it doesn't matter what the band is called, but they were great. The music is sort of a combo of traditional bossa nova/samba and experimental, almost electronic music. One of the guys, Moreno, is the son of Caetano Veloso, the famous Brazilian musician, who is also coming to Buenos this summer, incidentally. The concert was fun and got me more enthused about going to Sao Paulo at the end of the summer. Basically, good music and the prospect of eating large quantities of mandioca frita are my main motivating factors.
- Ariella and I attended experimental theater! See my blog. Sorry, don't feel like re-explaining "theater of the blind." If you're too lazy to go to the blog, just use your imagination. Theater + blind.
- I met former President Menem and the President of the Supreme Court of Argentina. Also see blog.
- OH, way more exciting than Menem -- I hung out with Men in Trees/Dumb and Dumberer again but he has since left the country. Coincidentally, I started watching Men in Trees on the WB Channel down here -- EXCELLENT show. I recommend it highly.
Hmmm I can't think of too many other things to report on. Same ol, same ol. I went to some parties, went to work, ate tartas, drank mate, burnt my lips. The usual. Well, email me back soon and let me know you care, (you). <-- very personal message.


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Anyone take any form of martial arts? If so what / how long and if not what would you take?,
I do ju jitsu and sombo. I just started this year. :)
Krav Maga.
Judo 4 years. Going to the Canadian National Championships in July 😺
Oh ok then. Krisi, may I ask the name of the organization?
I did Korean Martial arts and made it to blackbelt at about 10 :) did it for some time
I use to do Judo- 4 years, Karate 4 years, Wing chun - 6 years, now I do kickboxing for 2 years. Would like to be Krav Maga interested.
Shotokan karate for 7 years then stopped and started cycling. Thinking of taking up kenpo now that my boys are are into it. That way they can have legit fights with their old man!
Capoeira 9 years, jiu jitsu 3 years , muay thai 5 years and boxing 4 yeas
Ive done tong so doo
Kenpo great style mix of Japanese and Chinese took for 3 years
Did tae kwon do for about 5 years focused more on sparring than forms and stances


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Archive for January, 2011
January Goals
And so we meet on the last day of January! Starting this month, I decided to give myself a list of goals to accomplish. My goal is to create a list like this each month of 2011 and try to accomplish some mini-goals. 2011 is all about goals, I guess! Fitting, since my 2011 resolution is to fail! 🙂
Here is January's list which I kept posted to my bedroom mirror:
Overall, I think I did pretty well in accomplishing these goals. Having this list in my face each day was a definite motivating factor.
1. Lose 2 pounds
I received a scale for Christmas (nothing says holly jolly like a quantitative measure of your body weight!) and have weighed myself sporadically throughout the month. I haven't owned a scale in years and was surprised by how much weight fluctuates. You could really drive yourself crazy with this thing!
My weight at the start of the month was 180 pounds. Now I am going to go weight myself. Caveat: I am wearing lightweight pajamas and have a bowl of cereal and two clementines in my stomach. It is very important that you know this information.
Ok, the verdict is in: 177 pounds! Truly this accomplishment can be entirely credited to nursing, as well as my son the personal trainer (aka "squat nazi").
2. Write in blog every day
Aside from one day, I did accomplish this goal! And that day I didn't post was followed by a day that I posted twice so pat on the ol' back for me!
I am not sure where I want to take this blog. I do have dreams of becoming independently wealthy off of it, but I'm not sure that will happen when it receives only 36 page views on a day like yesterday. Wamp Waaaaaammmppppp.
A lot of the time, I did not want to write an entry, but I did because of this goal. Afterward, I felt great. Kind of like not wanting to work out but then feeling wonderful after you finally do, y'know? I am not going to set a goal like this for February so we'll see how that affects the number of times I write. See you in March! Haha.
3. Get Etsy shop up and running
I don't know if you know this about me, but I like to crochet square and rectangular-shaped objects. Scarves, purses, blankets — you name it! If it's a square or a rectangular, I will crochet it! One of my favourite things to crochet are dishcloths using 100% cotton yarn. I can finish one of these up in 30 minutes or so and it's a great way to keep my hands busy while watching television (instead of eating large quantities of potato chips!).
I decided to start an Etsy shop because I was beginning to swim underneath all of the dishcloths I was producing. Of course, I have not sold any, but I only have two items in my shop. I invite you to take a look at my handiwork!
I hope to put more of these cloths up soon, perhaps in quantities of 5 or 10. Oh yeah, baby, I am dreaming big! The sky's the limit when it comes to crocheted, cotton dish cloths!
4. Take multivitamin and fish oil every day
I know that keeping this list of goals substantially influenced this achievement. Since having Henry, my routine had been out of sorts and I no longer automatically took my vitamin and fish oil after eating breakfast and before going to work. I felt bad since Henry benefits from the vitamin and fish oil (apparently fish oil is going to make him a genius! Score!), so I am really glad I've re-introduced this habit into my modge podge of a routine. You're welcome, Henry.
5. Establish regular exercise routine
Oh yes, I established a regular exercise routine and even wrote it down! However, I have not been very good at completing it on a regular basis. Oops! I have been doing more sit-ups and try to do some low-impact aerobics while watching television, but that's about as far as my cardiovascular endeavors have taken me. With this goal, it's safe to say I did not achieve it. Boo-urns.
6. Maintain budget spreadsheet
This goal was easy to accomplish because I hardly spent any money. This "housebound with baby" thing is good for something! I use a spreadsheet using Google Documents and recommend it. If I were to go on vacation for a week or even spend a day out of the house, I'm able to access my spreadsheet from any location which makes the likelihood of me maintaining it much greater.
So there you have it! The monthly goal rundown. Tomorrow I will post my list for February. I imagine that at least one of February's goals will involve consumption of heart-shaped chocolates.
Today I attended a baby shower for one of Henry's future girlfriends. Even though I brought my camera, I think I only took one picture. Sometimes when we are out and about, I am just too exhausted to take pictures on top of watching Henry AND trying to enjoy myself 😉 But my niece emailed me a bunch of adorable baby pictures and this one was my favourite so I had to share.
Apparently this photographer created all sorts of fascinating baby pictures of her baby with cleverly arranged household items. If you Google Image "Adele Enersen", you will find lots more. That is, if you are into adorable pictures of babies (AND WHO ISN'T?).
It has been one long day. I am hungry and tired. If I were a baby, I'd be crying my eyes out. Unfortunately, there is no one to cradle me in their arms and give me milk. I must fend for myself! Babies: 1. Moms: 0.
Good night!
Monthly Spending
Last night, while parked in what I thought was a legal street parking zone, I got a ticket! $40 flushed down the drain in an instant! That really put a damper on my evening, although the reason I was out on a Friday night was for a party, a party which included good times, delicious food, and sangria. $40 for a fun night out isn't that bad, I guess <– Optimism!
As we approach the end of January, I am beginning to look at my list of goals (blog about that on Monday!) and look at my budget to see where my "miscellaneous" spending was, uh, spent. Aside from mortgage payments, this is how I spent my income in January:
– Postage – $13.05
– Snow shoveling – $20.00
– Insulation – $75.00 (We decided to use the $500 our inlaws gave us from their lottery winnings to cover most of this, and I used $100 I received for Christmas and never added to my budget)
– Parking downtown Toronto – $15.00
– Parking ticket 😦 – $40.00
Truth be told, I did spend some money at Starbucks, Walmart and Bulk Barn but I used gift cards that I received for Christmas. The most exciting thing I purchased this month was my coupon sorter for $4.95! Indeed, it's been a very frugal month. February will probably be less so, as Henry and I (hopefully!) venture out more frequently. I would like to spend more money on good coffee, good food, and Crazy Sexy Diet.
I just realized that this entry has no pictures, so in honour of Caturday, I leave you with this!
Photographic Evidence
Today is a big day.
Since November 3rd, 2010, I have worn nothing but yoga pants. Even before that, I wore a bevy of expandable maternity pants.
But today, my friends, I wear actual jeans. Jeans like other 29 year old women wear. Jeans that make me look like I belong in society. Jeans that actually fit. Jeans that make me feel alive!
Thumbs up to pants that fit!
Do you ever see a stranger wearing a really awesome hat or cute skirt and you think "I should compliment him/her" but then you don't because he/she is a stranger and you are too introverted? This doesn't happen to me a lot, but often enough that I wish I were more extroverted. Who would be mean or weird to someone complimenting their awesome hat?
Today while waiting for a blood test, I was in the midst of entertaining Henry (I carry a bag of tricks with me now!) when a woman approached me and said that I was a very sweet and loving mother and that Henry was lucky to have me. I thanked her for saying that and she went away but I don't think I will ever forget her. That is the nicest thing that anyone has ever said to me! Especially since it came at a time when I am incredibly sleep deprived and wondering if I will ever see 3+ hours of sleep again (according to my friends with older babies — not anytime soon!). It's amazing what a few kind words from a stranger can do. They can turn around a person's whole day and then some.
Aside from the blood test (ouch!), it's been a good day. Hubby's off for the next five days, so we celebrated by going out for brunch. Our favourite breakfast place is packed on weekends, but practically empty during the week. Yet another benefit to not working!
Eggs Florentine with wild mushrooms, roasted potatoes, salad, and fruit. I am currently doing that motion where you touch your fingertips to your mouth and go "mwah!".
Can you believe this is the last weekend of January? To that I say HURRAH. This year, I am not anxious for time to go by quickly at all, but January is pretty much good for nothing except to foster depressive thoughts and make one want to move to Boca Raton. February isn't much better, really. There is Groundhog's Day which I get more excited about than what is warranted. Will he see his shadow? Won't he? Oooooooooooooh, the suspense. There's Valentine's Day which has never been a big deal for me and Husband (I miss my elementary school days when you decorated a little depository for valentines out of brown paper bags and got to eat cupcakes decorated in pink icing! Man, that is when Valentine's Day really meant something, y'know?). Aside from these two festivities, February is just a continuation of dastardly January. Towards the end of February and beginning of March, you get Farch — that icky, end of Winter blah-ness where everything is grey and slushy.
So, in conclusion, I am not a fan of January, February or March. I am really living in the wrong country!
Green Monster again?!
Today I made yet another Green Monster. I am on a huge GM kick right now, and I swear it is making my complexion clear and my skin bright. At least I like to think so!
Today's creation included:
1 cup of 1% cow's milk
1/2 banana
4 large frozen strawberries
2 large handfuls of spinach
1 tablespoon of ground flax seed
I had this as part of my lunch with leftover roasted root vegetables and a Tropically-flavoured Larabar. How come it's so easy to eat healthfully during the day but not so easy at night? Something to think about…
I think Henry is getting bored of all these Green Monsters.
"GM again, Mama? How completely unoriginal!"
Speaking of Henry (something I do so well!), he is at that stage when he will just stare at the same object for an awfully long time. Here he is staring at a toy that plays music when you pull a little handle. He actually figured out how to pull this handle all by himself, thereby convincing me is a Harvard-bound genius.
Please send all emails exulting his cuteness to…
I am on my own for dinner tonight and I'm not sure what to have! We are seriously low on groceries, so I think I will have that old, pantry standby: pasta with tomato sauce. We have the last dregs of broccoli and mushroom I can add to the sauce and maybe I will be fancy and add some Havarti cheese on top of my serving. Exotic, I know.
After thinking about it WAY too much, I think I am going to purchase Crazy Sexy Diet. I've watched a few of Kris Carr's "vlogs" on youtube and read in her blog today that the book is currently sold out on Amazon and elsewhere, so that must mean something, right? For $22.00 Canadian, I think it's worth it. My daily Green Monsters have been so enjoyable lately, and I want to learn more recipes for green smoothies. I am also entertaining the thought of getting a juicer. Perhaps in honour of Mr. Lalanne? Maybe!
I am hesitant to get a juicer, though, because:
1. I will go through veggies like whoa. That isn't frugal! However, it is fit. Conundrum!
2. I don't want to clean it every day. Cleaning my blender is bad enough!
Ah, the ongoing problems of the bourgeoisie, eh?
What is this going to do for ME?
My friend, Lynn, left a comment on my blog either yesterday or the day before (my days all meld into one lately!) mentioning how the late Jack Lalanne posed this question before eating anything: "What is this going to do for me?". This is a very good question to ask but kind of a difficult one to answer. We all know that the carrots, the banana, and the small handful of almonds will do lots of good things for you, but what about a cup of coffee or a little bit of chocolate? From a nutritional standpoint, not much. But to my sanity? A whole freaking lot! Still, it's a great question to ask, and one that prevented me from eating a ginger molasses cookie last night, instead opting for some yogurt and fresh pineapple. Score!
I've never actually had coffee that looks like this, but some day I will. Some day…
In further news about why this healthy living thing is worth it, my pants fit. You read that right. MY PANTS? THEY FIT! I tried on my size 12 jeans for the third time since I gave birth, and not only did they fit, they felt comfortable and I could actually bend my legs. I am very excited because I am attending a baby shower this Sunday and will be able to wear pants that are not of the yoga variety. Hurrah for being social acceptable!
Last night, after the little one finally fell asleep (8:45 pm seems to be the magic time), I started reading Freedom by Jonathen Franzen which I received for Christmas. I finished Portia de Rossi's Unbearable Lightness yesterday and was ready to sink my teeth into some fiction. One chapter in and I am already in love. In fact, it took some will power to write in this blog rather than get comfy on the couch with the book. I know a book is excellent when I get angry that I wasn't the one to write it!
While baby sleeps, I am going to cut up some sweet potato, white potato, and parsnips to roast in some oil, salt, and pepper for tonight's dinner. Roasted root vegetables are so simple and so delicious. Perfect comfort food on a cold January night.


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Oh gosh it's been a while!! I have been so busy offline that I've been neglecting my blog!! Please don't look at the dust and spider webs! Okay, so I have a layout to share for Scrap Your Crap - Christmas with a twist challenge. We have to use Christmas papers and embellies but on a completely non-christmas layout. Thankfully this photo that was taken at Dreamworld was in red and green, so picking paper was easy!! I also used one of my flowers from the Babes Flower Swap, and ripped apart a Christmas wreath and layered the two. The inspiration for this layout comes from Page Maps.
Incase you arn't sure - Sophia is sitting with the Wiggles dog Wags and Captain Feathersword. Sophia ran straight over to Wags and dived in for a hug! Wags picked her up and the photo was snapped.
Here's a closeup of the bling, title and oh so pretty flower made by my Sassy Sister Kelly (along with a ton of other goodies that I really should post!!) I have so much stuff to catch you all up on - trips to Dreamworld, Whale watching, park play, renovating, a new car - oh the list goes on and on, and I haven't had time to fill you all in!


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A visit to the Sculpture Garden at Birtley House, Birtley Road, Bramley, GU5 0LB has been arranged for Wednesday 18 May at 2.30pm. The Garden forms part of the 48 acre grounds of Birtley House, a care home set in beautiful surroundings. There are 170 exhibits in the Garden, many of which are for sale. In addition to the sculpture there are other features of the Garden which will be of interest to Friends. Afternoon tea is included in the visit .
The visit is limited to 20 Friends and booking will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Friends are asked to make their own way to the car park at Birtley House where Friends will meet. Please advise Lynn Spankie (01483 715 188) if you require or can offer transport.
Wednesday 18 May 2016, 2.30pm£12.50
This event has now closed.
The Lightbox is a Registered Charity and Limited Company. Registered Charity Number 1073543.


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The distributor took over our client's timetable and gave him a car with a driver that took him everywhere, showed him around, took him to do shopping for the wife and even paid for the presents.
After a week of spending many hours and lots of money together they developed a close relationship through the experiences they had together. When they finally hugged and kissed each other goodbye, just before leaving, the distributor said: "you will give me exclusivity in China, right?"
Few are the people who would have the guts to say no at this stage after being spoiled so extravagantly and cause their host to lose face.
Many foreigners fall into this trap and find it very hard to leave this distributor because every time they come he treats them like kings. He doesn't give them a free minute in China so they don't have a chance to meet other distributors or agents.
Normally when they wanted to meet us, they had to sneak out of the hotel very late at night or very early in the morning because there was always someone watching them.
The distributor indeed sold their product very well for 2 years but then the sales declined. Clients normally don't know what is happening and the distributor often asks them to increase the marketing budget so he can "open" the market for them. In fact what happened is that the distributor sells everything he can to his captive market and instead of looking for other channels to sell more; he prefers to find more products to sell to his existing channels. In fact the marketing budget he demands is being used to find new companies who could provide new products for his portfolio while he has no intention of investing in marketing to other markets.
One solution for this trap is to stay away from that kind of distributor. A better solution, however, is to have many such channels of not only distributors but also agents, system integrators, design offices, etc. The most important thing is not to give exclusivity to any of those channels. The other important thing is to recruit someone very professional and experienced to manage all of those channels and make sure they don't fight each other and ruin your business while doing so.
It is important to remember that no one can be big enough to cover the whole China market and therefore you need to find strong partners in each province, city or region and make sure they don't interfere with other provinces.


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Ion Condos is a new condo project by Cityzen Development Group and Fernbrook Homes currently in preconstruction at Keele St & Wilson Ave in Toronto. The project is scheduled for completion in 2015. Available condos start at $189,900. The project has a total of 200 units.
1 overnight guest suiteYoga studioTheatreGymOutdoor terrace with natural gas BBQ'sSecurity card accessIndividual hydro metering
* This exclusive offer is only from Mila Tcherkhovskaia, Sales Representative and Andrei Baiborodin, Sales Representative. Not offered by RE/MAX PREMIER Inc. brokerage, not intended to solicit buyers under contract & properties already listed for sale. Call for disclaimer & limitations. Certain conditions apply.
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Jim Mergard, a 16-year veteran of chip maker AMD, has left his position at Samsung for a job at Apple. Mergard was formerly a vice president and chief engineer at AMD before he left for Samsung, and he is known for his work on both desktop processors as well as systems on chips, or SoCs, like those found in iOS devices. Processor design is of great importance for both Apple and Samsung, as the The Wall Street Journal reports:
Chip design seems to be increasingly important to both companies. Samsung, while better known for memory technology, has vowed to become a more formidable contender in developing microprocessors and related products. Apple also has been staffing up for several years with chip designers to help differentiate its mobile devices. Both use technology from ARM Holdings in their mobile processors.
While it's true that the iPhone 4, 4S, and all three generations of iPad run ARM hardware, with the iPhone 5, Apple introduced the A6, a completely custom processor. If Apple continues to design its own chips, and there's no reason to believe that it won't, acquiring veteran talent such as Mergard, is a crucial. The hiring comes at an interesting point in Apple and Samsung's relationship. The two companies are already rivals, they are suing each other back and forth, and at the same time, Apple depends on Samsung to produce the chips for their iOS devices. Luring such an important and high profile person away from Samsung will undoubtedly intensify the rivalry, which only seems to increase with each new product either company produces.
Source: The Wall Street Journal


text: We are pleased to announce two new lines of October Afternoon paper and embellishments have arrived - Cherry Hill and Ducks in a Row. Both lines are full of color and detail that are sure to please. You'll love the coordinating stickers and Wild Cards. The Wild Cards have a vintage flair with nine different designs.


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A multiple James Beard Award–winning chef proposes a revolutionary change for growing and consuming food.
Moving beyond the organic farming and farm-to-table movements, Blue Hill executive chef Barber argues for the importance of the whole farm: an integrated, biodynamic system that sustains the richness and diversity of land and sea. American agriculture—with its large farm holdings, monoculture and unwieldy machinery—often leads to farmers' lack of intimacy with the land. "It's that lack of intimacy," writes the author, "that leads to ignorance, and eventually to loss." What is lost is taste and nutritional quality. Visiting small American and European farms, Barber learned the importance of nurturing soil that contains "a thriving, complex community of organisms." A carrot grown in earth that contains diverse phytonutrients tastes entirely different from one subject to insecticides and fungicides. Even farms that do not use chemical controls—the so-called "industrial organic" farms—may grow plants in nutrient-poor sandy soil, enriched by organic fertilizer. Barber interweaves food history, conversations with experts in food preparation, production and nutrition, and colorful anecdotes from his travels to farms, restaurants and markets. He tracked down Spaniard Eduardo Sousa, who raises geese for foie gras by allowing them to graze freely on acorns, getting fatter as they do naturally to prepare for migration. Rather than force-feeding, giving geese what they want, Sousa believes, results in exceptional foie gras. "When we allow nature to work, which means when we farm in a way that promotes all of its frustrating inefficiencies—when we grow nature," Barber writes, what we harvest is both abundant and flavorful. The same principles that apply to soil are relevant to the sea, as well; agriculture and aquaculture are not separate entities. Barber's menu for 2050 features baby oat tea; blue wheat brioche; pigs' blood sausage; trout in phytoplankton sauce; and beer ice cream.
In this bold and impassioned analysis, Barber insists that chefs have the power to transform American cuisine to achieve a sustainable and nutritious future.


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Renting vs Leasing a Car in France
Attention séjour families! If you rent a car in France, you need to know this: Many credit card companies will provide collision insurance free of charge - for 30 days only. Before day 31, you'll need to turn in the car, close out the account and rent a new car. It's a real pain in the neck. That's why I prefer to lease a car instead. Here's the lowdown:
Long-term Rental Cars
Renting a car online is fairly straightforward. It's the insurance issue that makes it complicated and costly. Buying insurance from the rental agency can run anywhere from $10 – $35 per day. And when you need a car for 2-3 months, the costs add up fast.
- It's worth calling your credit card companies – they will often provide some coverage free of charge. But be sure to read the fine print carefully for rules and exclusions. For example, the American Express Premium Plan will provide collision insurance free of charge – for 30 days. But before day 31, you'll need to turn in the car, close out your account and then rent another car.
- Before you leave the lot, make sure you know if you can leave the country. If you get into an accident in Spain, when you weren't supposed to leave France, you'll be responsible for the damages.
- And make sure you know how to drive a stick!
Short-term Lease Cars
A great alternative to the cost and hassle of renting a car is to lease a new car (also called Purchase/Re-purchase or Lease/Buy-back). There are regional companies (for example, Renault and Peugeot) who make the process fairly simple for foreigners and the benefits are huge:
- Less hassle and no hidden fees. Unless you really love standing in line at the rental car company and trying to figure out which "extra options" (hidden fees) you need and which ones you don't. With leasing, the process is simple and the price is all-inclusive.
- Better insurance, no deductible. With lease /buy back plans, the insurance is included in the price and there is no deductible. Most leasing companies also provide free 24hour roadside assistance.
- It will probably be cheaper. If you need a car for 17-30 days, you might be able to find a cheaper rental– if your credit card covers some of the insurance costs and you only have one driver. But if you need a car for a month or longer, it will most likely be cheaper to lease. In either case, the longer you keep the car, the more reasons number 1-2 matter.
- Pick-up and drop-off flexibility. Pick-up in one French city, drop-off in another. No extra fees.
- You can return the car with no gas in the tank. (although to be fair, you will also receive the car with next to no gas in it.)
- You get a brand new car!
Here's how the whole thing works: Europeans must pay a hefty Value Added Tax on new cars – Americans do not. So the leasing company lets Americans take temporary possession of the car – thereby making it cheaper and easier to sell a few months later (to a European or to a rental car company). Since it's in their best interest to make sure nothing happens to the car, they offer great insurance coverage.
Leasing companies to use
Each of these companies have US-based customer service reps available to answer questions. You could do the process online, but talking to someone is helpful if you aren't that familiar with the process.
- Peugeot via AutoEurope – easily my top choice. They have what I'm looking for in a car lease company: a good track record and excellent customer service.
- Renault via EuroDrive – apparently a very good option. I've read many positive reviews about this company and people apparently have had very good experiences.
- Honorable mention: Europe by Car –Rick Steves recommends this company, so it must be pretty good. Europe by Car offers leases from both Renault and Citroen.
Driving in France
- Choose a small car – Europe isn't set up for a giant Costco-sized SUV. If your car is too big, you'll never be able to park it. Get a car that's just big enough to hold your luggage.
- Manual vs. automatic – In some cases an automatic may not be available. If an automatic is available, you'll likely pay a higher price for it. Learn how to drive a stick!
- Gasoline vs diesel – Diesel is far more common in Europe than in the US. You'll find diesel at most petrol stations, and it's usually a little less expensive.
- Required items - The following are required in all cars driving in France: 1) hazard warning triangle and a 2) neon vest (to be kept inside the car, not in the trunk). Ask the leasing/rental company if these are included in your car.
- International drivers permit – Although technically not always required, it's a good idea to have one. It's super easy to get – just go to any AAA office, have your picture taken and fill out an application. There's no test or anything – it's basically a translation of your license into several languages. (You don't have to be a AAA member.)
- Drive with cash – Most Autoroutes in France (blue signs) are toll roads (péage), so get cash before leaving the airport. Your American-style credit card will not work in unbanned tollbooths. You will also likely pay to park in bigger towns and cities. Paying by cash is usually possible, or by EMV credit card.


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Things Fall Apart...
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
– "The Second Coming" William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
How can I describe The Change to those that have come afterward? How could I describe it to anyone who lived in the glories of humanity's civilized and technological past? Would either of them believe the two worlds that I'm talking about were one in the same?
To start, I guess I should say that the Mayans got it right… not about the exact date perhaps, the world didn't end on December 21st 2012… it ended just less than three months earlier on September 22nd 2012. Many people, perhaps ignorant of the exact date that the Mayan's had predicted, blamed them anyhow… but at that point, the Mayans had been dead for over 1,100 years, and they didn't really care what anyone thought of them anymore. The more religious Christians blamed The Change on the "Second Coming" of Jesus Christ, with all of the survivors "left behind" by God for their sinfulness… And who could deny them? While I have heard no reports of anyone bodily taken up to heaven, exact records of that time are almost non-existent, and over 90% of the world's population died in the next 3 years… To claim that War, Pestilence, Famine, and Death walked the land would be absolute truth, even if those four "Horsemen" held no physical embodiment. To say that the survivors of that time lived in a Biblical "Purgatory" would also not be a stretch for anyone's imagination who can remember those years. But this too is only a part of the truth…
Just like The Change cannot be blamed upon the Mayan's, The Change cannot be blamed entirely upon God either, even if one were of such a blasphemous inclination. No, the truth was that we did it to ourselves. Just like the two-legged cockroaches that humanity can sometimes resemble, we too survived the Apocalypse… and eventually we clawed our way back to some small semblance of civilization. Once we have achieved that small measure of peace and security, the more philosophical and intellectual amongst us began to wonder… "What in God's name really happened?"
That was when, eventually to our own horror, we discovered that we had brought our own doom upon us. Deep beneath the earth near Geneva Switzerland, mankind struggled during the years before The Change to unlock the secrets of the Universe… I speak of something called the Large Hadron Collider, a wondrous device if you were a high-energy particle physicist, designed to uncover the elusive Higgs-Boson particle… what some would even call the "God Particle" that existed at the time of the universe's creation, when all other physical laws sprang into being… Great care was taken to make sure that the LHC and all of the experiments conducted there were perfectly safe, and would never cause any harm… but while scientists could predict with great certainty how all of their devices and safeguards would work when used for the purposes for which they were designed… none of those scientists designed their equipment to compensate for mankind's own hatred for one another. In September of 2012 a special summit of all of the world's most powerful nations, under the aupices of the United Nations was called in Geneva Switzerland… all of the leaders of their respective nations were in attendance. What better target for a terrorist's hatred? Worse still, after many years of trying the unthinkable had happened. Unbeknownst to the world's many nations, a terrorist group had finally managed to get their hands on a Nuclear Bomb… and while great care was always taken search for such errant nuclear devices, the experiments conducted near the LHC were of sufficient intensity that the masked the presence of the bomb from everyone who was supposed to be searching for it. What should have happened is that the bomb went off, and a great part of Geneva Switzerland would have been wiped off the map, along with all of the world's leaders, but if things had happened that way I would be telling a much different story. At the exact time of the detonation, scientists at the LHC were finally isolating a near perfect example of the ever-elusive Higgs-Boson particle… and somehow the energy of the nuclear explosion interacted with the that particle or the equipment of the LHC itself and in a matter of microseconds the energy of a nuclear detonation that should have wiped Geneva off the map, was channeled elsewhere, opening a gate between our world and that other place… a gate that should have remained closed, but once open it allowed free access to our universe… and that is when the world as we knew it Changed.
Welcome to your new campaign!
This is your new campaign homepage. The first thing you should do is invite your players. Click on the 'Manage Members' link in the right sidebar and send them an invite to join the campaign.
After that, take a look at your wiki. There is some more helpful info there.


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A convenient modification for players like random battles and commanders of company units. Modification displays the boot screen before the battle detailed information about the main directions of battles. In addition, on maps signed by the main name of a place taken among the players. If you have a complaint or during a clan battle tell me to go, for example, in the pants, you now will know exactly where it is. This detailed description really helps the entry-level gamer World of Tanks. You can decide where to spend the battle at the stage of loading the game, just by analyzing the setup rivals and if possible their actions based on the prompts tactical minimap.
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Yesterday I posted a story called The Fairy's Kiss. I included the full story as it was printed because it was all on one page and I could fit it easily into my small A4 size scanner. I also thought the visual impact of the whole story was as attractive as its component parts and therefore worth including.
Today's (unplanned) post is a direct response to a comment I received about the Fairy's Kiss. In many of my posts I've included pictures around a concept or theme, but unlike yesterday have not included the whole story.
I'm sorry I don't know the name of the person who left the comment earlier but this post is especially for you - hope you like it!
This story appeared in 'Once Upon a Time' children's magazine.
Issue #149 published 18th December 1971.


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We celebrated my sisters 29th birthday this weekend.
I set up a table near our fire pit and we enjoyed dining out by the woods,
roasting marshmallows, and playing croquet.
This proves that it doesn't have to be fancy to be fun!
I love making smores kits.
It is so much easier to assemble them when everything is ready to go!
The side tables are painted stumps that I topped with wine barrel tops.
Citronella candles are a must when dining outdoors in the pacific northwest.
The cafe lights were a nice addition and I also added some white twinkle lights to some tree trunks.


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Snooki shows off super fit post-baby body
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Snooki gave birth only four months ago to her second baby, but she's already looking fit and fantastic!
Nicole "Snooki" LaValle took to Instagram on Saturday to show off her flat stomach and toned arms.
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Decked out only in a colorful sports bra and black leggings, the former Jersey Shore star showed the results of her hard work with her personal trainer Anthony Michael.
"Almost 4 months postpartum and so happy with my results," Snooki captioned the impressive photo. "I still have loose skin and stretch marks on my belly, but it's all worth it for my beautiful babies. Staying fit during pregnancy was the best thing I could ever do. Now it's time to build that muscle for summer 15! Big thanks to my trainer for kicking my body back into shape."
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The 27-year-old reality star gave birth to her second child, Giovanna, in September 2014, and has a two-year-old son Lorenzo. She's had both children with Jionni LaValle, whom she got engaged to in 2012. The two finally tied the knot in November, just a month after giving birth to Giovanna.
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Choosing your honors pathway
English majors enrolled in the Commonwealth Honors College can choose from 2 honors pathways, or tracks. One of these is the Departmental Honors track, and the other is the Multidisciplinary Honors track. Departmental Honors is usually the best option for students who want to pursue advanced scholarship in their major, pursue graduate studies, or seek a career related to their major. The Departmental Honors track requires 2 honors-designated courses within the major and culminates in one of two options: the writing of an independently-designed honors thesis under the supervision of a chairperson from the English Department, OR the completion of a substantial creative writing project through enrollment in English 499 C/D, "Foundations and Departures in Creative Writing."
CHC English majors should begin deciding which track they would like to pursue during spring registration in their sophomore year. To this end, they should meet with the Honors Program Director, Janis Greve, to explore which track best serves them.
This timing is important (particularly if a student plans to go abroad) so that the student can choose courses that might support their thesis/project work and can develop relationships with faculty who may eventually oversee that work.
To make an appointment with the Honors Program Director, visit South College E345 or email Janis Greve at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Pursuing Departmental Honors
In order to be eligible to pursue Departmental Honors, students must be enrolled in the Commonwealth Honors College (CHC). All students interested in Departmental Honors should make an appointment to speak with the Honors Program Director, ideally after they have completed at least one honors course. Entrance into departmental honors requires a cumulative average of 3.4, and no grades below a B+ in English courses.
To graduate with honors, students admitted to CHC first complete a General Education component, consisting of 4 or 5 courses, and then an Advanced Scholarship component. For their advanced scholarship, students choose from 2 options. Each option includes two additional honors courses plus a capstone thesis of 6 or more credits, usually conducted in the senior year. Departmental Honors (DH) is an Advanced Scholarship track of CHC. Students may complete DH as part of the full CHC curriculum, or they may complete DH alone if they enter CHC as juniors or seniors and choose to complete only the Advanced Scholarship part of the curriculum.
The specific requirements for the English Department Honors track are as follows:
- one honors course in the English Department at the 200-level or above
- one honors course in the English Department at the 300-level or above. (The Department strongly recommends that students take their Junior-Year Writing courses as Honors courses, where possible.)
And either of two options:
- The two-semester independent honors thesis or project, worth 6 credits. Students writing a literary-critical thesis or creative project sign up for 499Y (usually in the fall) and 499T (usually in the spring.) The honors thesis counts as 2 of the student's 3 upper-level electives.
- English 499C/D, "Foundations and Departures in Creative Writing," a two-semester capstone course, worth 6 credits. English 499C/D also counts as 2 of a student's 3 upper-level electives, and students writing a creative thesis sign up for 499Y (fall) and 499P (spring). Note that admission to this course is via permission of the instructor and requires a sampling of the student's creative writing. Students interested in the course are encouraged to pursue the Creative Writing Specialization to help them develop their craft and put together a strong portfolio.
Graduating with honors
Students may earn several types of honors at UMass:
- Latin Honors (appears on transcript): As of May 2009, all graduating seniors are eligible for Latin honors on their transcripts, provided they have taken 54 graded credits at UMass. Latin honors are based on the top GPA percentiles of graduating seniors within a school or college. Every fall, these percentiles and their corresponding Latin honors are posted on the registrar's website. Read more about Latin Honors.
- CHC Honors Distinctions (appears on transcript and diploma): All Commonweath Honors College students are eligible for CHC Honors distinctions (in addition to Latin honors). The four levels of distinction are: CHC Scholar CHC Scholar with Distinction; CHC Scholar with Great Distinction; CHC Scholar with Greatest Distinction. To see the requirements for each level of distinction, students should visit the CHC website: www.honors.umass.edu.
- Departmental Honors (appears on transcript): Departmental Honors (appears on transcript): are awarded to students who enter Commonwealth Honors College and complete the Departmental Honors requirements with grades of B+ or better. The honors thesis or project and its manuscript must be formatted to Commonwealth Honors College standards. This distinction appears on the transcript as "Departmental Honors."
- Multidisciplinary Honors (appears on transcript): is awarded to students who concentrate their upper-level honors courses outside their major(s) or between two or more disciplines. Multidisciplinary Honors require a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.400 and earned grades of B or higher earned in four honors courses, including one at or above the 300-level, plus the honors thesis or project and its manuscript formatted to Commonwealth Honors College standards. This distinction appears on the transcript as "Multidisciplinary Honors."
For further information, see the Honors Program Director, Janis Greve, in E345 South College or call 545-5464. You can also email her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Information about Commonwealth Honors College is available at www.honors.umass.edu.


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Tracks all file and Registry changes made by any program installation, including surreptitious malware installation. Can completely uninstall any monitored program. Warns about known malware-hosting sites.
Program warns that 100 percent cleanup of "clutter" may destabilize the system. Users may have trouble responding correctly to occasional "allow/block" queries.
Bottom Line
PC Armor records the changes made by every program that installs on your system. The only time it needs attention is when a program tries to install a driver or some other action that could interfere with its monitoring. And it can completely reverse the installation of any monitored program.
The PC Armor Database
For every program that installs on your system, PC Armor keeps a detailed database of file and Registry changes. If the installer launches another process, the new process's actions are included. If the installed program makes additional changes, they're also included. The default view summarizes important elements of the installation: It installed a Browser Helper Object, it configured files to run automatically, it changed the system's DNS settings, and so on. You can also shift to a detailed viewa tree-structured list that shows every file and database change, including deletions.
Most of the time PC Armor just runs quietly in the background, gathering its data. It retains program information indefinitely, so after a while you'll have a very long list. To help navigate the list, you can sort it by program name or date. A simple search by name is available, as well as an advanced search mode using a variety of criteria.
PC Armor doesn't monitor every single program. Things like Internet Explorer or Microsoft Excel that were already present on your system don't get tracked. Also, any installer that was present before PC Armor itself was installed is considered "preexisting;" you won't see it in the results unless you choose to show preexisting programs. But PC Armor will track anything you download or copy to the system. It tracks Windows updates, too, but again, it doesn't list them by default.
Just knowing exactly what a given program installed is fantastically useful to technicians and researchers like me. For most users, though, the program's big value comes from its ability to uninstall any program whose installation it has observed. If a standard Windows uninstall routine is present, it runs that process first and then runs its own "scrubber" routine. If not, it skips straight to the scrubber.
After uninstalling a program, PC Armor can go further and clean up non-executable extra files associated with the program, but this feature has some pitfalls. If you're removing a malicious program, getting rid of all traces makes sense. But if you remove the extra files for an application, you'll wipe out every file created by that application. You don't want to delete all your documents just because you uninstalled the word processor that created them! PC Armor also warns that after it removes extra files, some programs may not function correctly, but I didn't observe this in testing. For safety's sake, skip cleaning up the clutter. You can review what was left behind in PC Armor's database, and you can still choose to clean it up at a later time, once you're sure it's safe to do so.Next: Phishing Protection and Bonus Features


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Jaden Smith: I Want to Break All the Craziest World Records "of Life"
The teen actor-rapper-philosopher talks to writer Zach Baron about pyramids, Galileo, and growing up Smith
Jaden Smith has a game he likes to play whenever he's in public, or whenever he's stating something that will eventually become public—such as right now—and the game goes like this. It starts with him saying something Jaden-like. For example:
"Me and my sister started this initiative called Mystery School. It dates back to like ancient Egypt, ancient Greece—like Plato, Pythagoras, all these students had mystery schools. And what they learned in there was sacred. They would learn the math and sciences of that generation, and then they would build the cities and give that energy and that knowledge to the other people. And a lot of stuff they would keep really, really to themselves. Like, you couldn't say the word dodecahedron, which is just a shape, outside of one of the mystery schools or they would, like, kill you or whatever. Because it was such a sacred shape."
The next part of the game is: He waits. He watches you react. He's 17 and has already been famous so long that there are red-carpet photos of him he doesn't remember posing for. There are paparazzi photos of him and his sister, Willow, in strollers. There are photos of him right here at the Calabasas Commons, the strip mall near his house that he favors because of the Pain Quotidien and the Barnes & Noble and the movie theater and the juice spot. Every day, basically: a flip-book of Jaden Smith slowly aging, as told by strangers' cameras. With his long California-drought-colored T-shirt and red-and-black leggings and his fine Smith-family features, he looks like a mischievous sorcerer's apprentice, which he sort of is. He's got the ease of a kid to whom the world has belonged for as long as he's known the world.
"Me and Willow are scientists," he explains, "so everything for us is a scientific test upon humanity. And luckily we're put in a position where we can affect large groups of human beings at one time." Fame is their lab, is what he's saying, and we are the subjects. He'll get on Twitter and tweet something like "The Biggest Flex Anyone Will Ever Have Is Dying." Or the T Magazine interview they did last year, the one that left everyone convinced they were drunk on prana energy: "That experiment—it went really, really well," he tells me. "We got to see how people reacted. And they actually ended up reacting exactly as we predicted beforehand that they would react."
He gives a sly smile. "It's fun, bro. That's what a lot of people don't realize. It's fun. It's so much fun. It's the best thing. People think you're crazy—I feel like it's an honor, actually, for people to think I'm crazy. Because they thought Galileo was crazy, too, you know what I'm saying? I don't think I'm as revolutionary as Galileo, but I don't think I'm not as revolutionary as Galileo."
It's the middle of a heat wave in Los Angeles, and we're sitting outside Le Pain Quotidien. He orders oatmeal. I guess this is another way of emphasizing that he's still only 17. The oatmeal arrives and he spoons it into his mouth and then he starts pointing at his mouth and frantically waving his arms. "Extremely hot," he says eventually.
It's 95 degrees outside and you're eating oatmeal.
"Definitely. Definitely. Yeah. That wasn't the best idea."
He puts the spoon aside. "Let's walk," he says. We walk past a Sephora and a Starbucks and a cell-phone store, past the usual dazed couples and harried moms that come to strip malls at noon on a weekday. "One day this will be the Calabasas Walk of Fame," Jaden says. "Everybody that lives around here, which is pretty much everybody that's in the news, they all come here." The Kardashian-Jenners live around here. Kanye and Kim. Drake. You might count his parents, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, too, if you're talking about people in the news. We walk past the Barnes & Noble and the Citibank and the sushi joint and a bunch of potted trees. The bland anonymous psychic terrain of a teenage space wizard.
He's the most driven young rich kid you might ever meet. He's 17 and curious. He's not passive. He doesn't sleep in. All he wants to do is make things. He's in Baz Luhrmann's new Netflix show, The Get Down, about New York in the late '70s—he plays a Basquiat-like graffiti writer—so he's learning about the era. DJ'ing, breakdancing, disco, voguing, graffiti. He's got a radio show on Beats 1. He's studying Photoshop, to be a better clothing designer. He just put LED lights in his bedroom so that it looks like space. He's working on his third album. He's making things, constantly. "Like, the clothes I'm wearing right now, done it on my own. I built my own bed, I built my own closet, um, I built two closets, I built four beds, I built, um, one pyramid—"
Wait, did you just say you built a pyramid?
"One pyramid, yeah."
Where is the pyramid?
"It's at my parents' house. Half of a pyramid. The tip is missing, but the whole structural thing is built, and it sits at 12.5 feet tall. I'll Instagram a picture of it once this comes out, so people know what I'm talking about."
Why 12.5?
"Because it's supposed to be 14 feet tall or 16 feet tall, but the tip of the Giza pyramid is actually cut off. There's no tip. It's missing. So I was like, 'I want to have a missing tip on here, too.' Because I copied the exact 57.1 degrees that the Giza pyramid is. Obviously I don't have two miniature pyramids next to it. But I have a little pyramid in my actual room, too. One that's just like three feet tall."
How did your parents react to you building a pyramid in their backyard? Were they just like, "Go for it"?
"Yeah. Yeah. They always told us to, like, be and do whatever we want."
Mystery School is real, as it happens. It's how he and Willow refer to their home school. That's where he learned how to build a pyramid. They help set their own curriculum. "And that's what I really encourage kids to do, is learn the things that you want to learn, because then not only will school become fun, but it will make your dreams come true." Their hope is to inspire other kids to make their dreams come true, too. We can acknowledge here the unacknowledged privilege of that desire without condemning the desire itself. Things are possible for Jaden Smith in a way they're not possible for 99.999 percent of the population, yes. But he's out here doing bizarre and fascinating things with the opportunity. "I rarely go to parties. My whole life is just dedicated on learning and breaking, like, the craziest records of life, and being like one of the craziest human beings to ever exist. That's me."
That's him! He's young and a little crazy and obsessed with learning. "No summer break, no weekends. We learn every single day."
Do you ever think about college?
"I'll go to college. I want to set up offices at MIT just so I can learn and bring in new technologies into the world. Definitely sit in on lectures in college. I've done that already. Like, go sit in that, you know, USC, UCLA, MIT, you know, anything I can get my hands on."
His goal in life is simple: "I just want to teach people how to be comfortable. Stop being so scared." Wear a dress maybe, like he has. Study something no one told you to study. Tweet the first thing that comes into your head.
"I'll go to open schools, eventually, when I'm like 25 or something. Multiple schools. At the same time, around the world. So, like, two in the United States, two in Europe, two in China, India, Russia, Africa, all at the same time."
Like your Mystery School, but for more people?
Ask him what he wants to be when he grows up and he'll look at you almost with pity. As if age just takes the imagination out of you with a two-by-four. "There's no end of the process," he explains. "Life is a process. At the end of the process, hopefully I'll be dead, you know. Hopefully I just won't be alive anymore. But I won't. Because that's when the process will end. It's an ongoing journey that you'll never reach the end of. I'll never read every single book, or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it."
Do you think about where you'll be ten years from now?
"Yeah. Gone."
What does that mean, "Gone"?
"No one will know where I am in ten years. They'll see me pop up, but they'll be like, 'Where'd you come from?' No one will know. No one will know where I'm at. No one will know who I'm with. No one will know what I'm doing. I've been planning that since I was like 13."
It'll go like this, he says: "It'll be kind of like Banksy. But in a different way. More of a social impact. Helping people. But through art installations. It'll be like, 'This just happened that helped a bunch of people over here. We don't know who did it, but these symbols and things were left around, so we can only guess that it's Jaden and the squad.' You know what I'm saying? So I'm just dedicating my whole life to helping the world."
That's what he's like: big heart, big talker, big ideas. Remember: It's all one big experiment anyway. So this is how he says good-bye:
"Let me think. What do I want to say right now? Love yourself. And watch."
Watch Jaden?
"No. Don't watch Jaden."
Love yourself and watch what, then?
"I'm gonna say it one more time. Love yourself. And watch."
All right.
"Don't watch Jaden."
I'm gonna be in the car, being like, "What the fuck did that mean?"
"Yeah. Yeah. I want you to. I want you to be."
And then he walks away.
Zach Baron is GQ's staff writer


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Top 3 Identity Theft ScamsGift-card Scams: A too-good-to-be-true gift-card offer is tough to pass up, especially with tons of people to buy for and shopping on a budget. An email offer that asks you to enter your banking information to claim it is a sure sign it's fake. Trusted brands and retailers don't ask for that kind of information. Coupon Scams: Following in the too-good-to-be-true vein, many online scammers use emails and website pop-ups claiming deals to top gifts and tech gadgets at a discounted price. Clicking on the links to these coupons will typically take you to a site asking for personal information. Thieves take the information entered to make purchases in your name, and steal your identity. Other ways to spot a fake coupon:
Ways to spot a fake:Look for poor grammar and spelling: Oftentimes you can spot a fake email or coupon just by the amount of misspellings and over-the-top guarantees. Plus, if a link takes you to a site with tons of pop-ups, that's another dead giveaway it's not a legit offer. Look for safe payment systems: Apple Pay, Android Pay and Amazon Payments are all great examples of ways to safely pay online. Plus, if you are banking online, or doing anything involving a payment on the web, be sure the site has the lock icon in the link followed by http://. This indicates it is secure and that your data is private. Look for secure Wi-Fi networks: Never purchase something over public Wi-Fi. It doesn't have the same kind of security measures in place that a home connection would, which means it's much easier for hackers to access your phone or computer and steal personal information. Buying online can be quick and painless as long as you are taking steps to keep your information safe. Installing Anti-Virus software and Anti-Phishing software on your home computer is another great way to fight hackers and scammers. Plus, you can fight back. If you believe you have been a victim on identity theft, immediately report it here.
Where is Hardison when I need him?!Thanks guys, my account was hacked but should be fine now--The diet posts were not mine. — BETH RIESGRAF (@BethRiesgraf) October 17, 2015What's the point of hacking a social media account? Aren't there bitcoin to steal, hacker types? Why bust into someone's Facebook or Twitter to spread spam or distribute drivel? Hackers might also delete contacts or add them in bulk. If you're lucky, the unwanted posts and activity isn't profane in nature. This is especially a relief if your mom is in your contacts list. One study says two in three American adults have had a social media account hacked.
Antivirus software is important because it protects your computer system from malicious activity and harmful threats. Several companies provide antivirus software and you should base your decision on which characteristics are most important to you.
Antivirus software packages vary in terms of what they are capable of doing to protect your computer. Some of these characteristics include:
Another important element to pay attention to while shopping for your antivirus software is the price. When buying from companies that specialize in antivirus software, most packages range between $20 to $80 depending on their capabilities and available discounts.
Some Internet providers or device manufacturers include antivirus technology in your services. If this is the case, ask what protection is included in your plan. If you are worried about the safety of your computer, you can add on the protection from external antivirus plans.
There are many different antivirus providers to choose from. You can easily do some research to find the best for you. Among the frontrunners are usually McAfee, Norton, BullGuard and Trend Micro.
If you are a Windows or Mac user, look into the services available to you through your provider as well. These options can be cheaper and possibly already included on your devices.
Make a list of which antivirus features are most important to you so you know what to look for in a possible provider. Determine the price point you would like to limit your search to. Use your favorite search engine to look up different possibilities.
You can also find some antivirus software in local electronic stores. Most stores that sell computers and tablets will also have a limited selection of antivirus software. Ask store representatives for their advice given your needs.
Most antivirus software comes in a box with all the equipment and instructions you might need for set up. You can set it up yourself or call in a professional to help you with activation.
You keep a lot of information online, and you invest a lot in your Internet-connected devices. That's why it's important to stay protected.
There are a lot of options for computer security. Which one is the best? That depends on your needs and your budget. But it's safe to say that the best computer security isn't just one product — it's a combination of software programs, personal precautions and good online habits.
Get the best computer security when you combine anti-virus programs, strong passwords and smart online practices. No matter what you do online, you can do it more safely when you practice these tips:
Installing anti-virus software is one of the easiest and most effective things you can do to get the best computer security. And it's one of the most important elements of online protection.
Anti-virus software programs do most of the work, so you don't have to. They scan for vulnerabilities in your system, detect threats from viruses or malware, and prevent those threats from damaging your computer or accessing your information.
The one thing you do have to do? Regularly update your anti-virus software. The best online security options change frequently to stay ahead of online threats. Pay attention to automatic updates, and check your antivirus provider's website for major changes.
Another important practice for the best computer security? Passwords. Creating a password only takes a few seconds, and it could save you from tons of potential online threats.
Think of all the information you keep online: Credit and debit card numbers. Addresses. Email contacts. Even your Social Security number. That's information that could be dangerous in the wrong hands. To keep yourself and your identity safe, protect your accounts and devices with strong passwords.
Passwords should be easy for you to remember, but hard for anyone else to guess. Use a unique password for each account. Combine uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. And don't forget to change your passwords regularly.
To protect yourself, your information and your devices in the long term, adopt safe online habits. Follow these tips for the best online security: