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Doing Good Difference
One of our greatest rewards for being upfront and honest with our customers, and for striving to be the best in the business at serving our customers, is just how well that has been received. Our valued customers have become advocates for us. They continue to return to us, and trust us with their friends and family members. They have put us in a great position, one where we are priviliged to be able to give back to our community. We strive to make connections with organizations that are Doing Good in our communities. We partner with them to make a Difference in the future of our community and our fellow citizens. What we do here at Rochester Motor Cars goes far beyond just selling a car, truck or service and tires. It's the platform that allows us to help make our community a better place to be. We are fortunate to have a staff that rallies around this goal. They truly want to be remembered for more than just being someone working at some car dealership. They truly care about their communties, and want to make a Difference.
Here are some of our Doing Good partners in Rochester MN and the surrounding communities:
Channel One Reginal Food Bank Rochester, MN
Channel One Regional Food Bank and Food Shelf, a certified member of Feeding America, is a non-profit organization that serves the mission to work in partnership with others to help feed people in need. Channel One is a proud member of Hunger Solutions Minnesota, a partner of the United Way of Olmsted County, and a proud founding member of Hunger-Free Minnesota. Today, Channel One Regional Food Bank serves seniors, individuals with physical or mental-health disabilities, working families and individuals, people in times of crisis due to job loss, medical problems or personal disaster, and food shelves, programs and agencies in 14 counties. These counties include Faribault, Waseca, Rice, Goodhue, Wabasha, Steele, Dodge, Olmsted, Freeborn, Mower, Fillmore, Winona, Houston, and La Crosse County in Wisconsin.
Salvation Army Rochester, MN
The Rochester Salvation Army assists residents of Olmsted County with a wide range of programs, including food, housing and health services. Help is provided to anyone in need without discrimination. In addition, Salvation Army officers lead worship services every Sunday.
March of Dimes
Every year in the United States, nearly half a million babies are born too soon, 7,000 of them right here in Minnesota. With your help, we work to improve the health of babies and support families if something does go wrong.
PossAbilities of Southern MN
PossAbilities is a non-profit agency serving children and adults with disabilities through a variety of pivotal programs. We help people find and keep jobs, integrate into community activities and contribute through volunteerism.
Rochester Area Family Y
The Y is a cause-driven organization that is for youth development, for healthy living and for social responsibility. That's because a strong community can only be achieved when we invest in our kids, our health and our neighbors.
Ronald McDonald House Rochester, MN
The Ronald McDonald House is a "home away from home" for families who must travel hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles to seek medical treatment for their children. The House provides shelter and support to families facing difficult days and long nights. Families who stay at the Ronald McDonald House share their stories and gain new insights as they meet children and parents with similar concerns. The House is a place to share hopes and dreams.
Seasons Hospice Rochester, MN
Seasons Hospice is a community based, non-profit organization in Rochester, MN. We provide specialized care to people living with terminal illness while giving support to their loved ones. We have been caring for residents of southeastern Minnesota for fifteen years with our home hospice services and residential hospice facility.
Toys for Tots SE MN
The objectives of Toys for Tots are to help less fortunate children throughout the United States experience the joy of Christmas; to play an active role in the development of one of our nation's most valuable resources – our children; to unite all members of local communities in a common cause for three months each year during the annual toy collection and distribution campaign; and to contribute to better communities in the future.
United Way of Olmstead County
United Way of Olmsted County unites people and resources to improve lives in the community with a focus on education, income, health, and basic needs – the building blocks for a good quality of life. We do this by convening the community to address key issues, collaborating to achieve a measurable impact, and connecting human and financial resources to achieve our mission.
Join the Journey
Pink Ribbon Mentors are volunteer survivors who provide emotional and informational support to patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
Red Cross Emergency Relief
The chapter is headquartered in Rochester, with a branch office in Owatonna and pre-positioned disaster supplies and volunteer resources located throughout the 4-county area. In addition to responding to single-family emergencies, the chapter has responded to several major disasters over the years, including floods in 1978 (Rochester and surrounding areas), 2007 (Rushford and surrounding areas), and 2010 (Owatonna and surrounding areas).
Walk to End Alzheimer's
The Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's® is the world's largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer's care, support and research. Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, this inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to reclaim the future for millions. Together, we can end Alzheimer's disease, the nation's sixth-leading cause of death.
Paws and Claws Humane Society
The Paws & Claws Mission is to:
* Promote and provide humane protection and shelter for abandoned or lost companion animals.
* Seek adoptive homes for companion animals under our protective care.
* Provide public education regarding the societal problem of animal overpopulation.
* Promote the principles of responsible companion animal care.
* Advocate the spaying and neutering of all companion animals.
Boys & Girls Club of Rochester
Our mission is to empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring community members.
Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch Rochester MN
Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch is a Christian Camp located in southern Minnesota serving over 24,000 people per year. Our purpose is to provide an atmosphere and opportunity for adults and children to get to know themselves, others and God better. We strive to do this through our lives, words, and activities by conducting ourselves in a manner pleasing to God. Ironwood Springs has been a non-profit organization since 1976.
Camp Victory Ministries
Camp Victory is a non-denominational Christian camp and retreat center in SE Minnesota. Located on 200 acres of forested, rolling hills and the beautiful Zumbro River. Camp Victory offers a peaceful, natural setting for retreats, conferences, business meetings, summer camp for kids and summer day camp options. - See more at: http://www.campvictory.com/index.php/about-us#sthash.xgwTRwA9.dpuf
Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA)
To present to athletes and coaches, and all whom they influence, the challenge and adventure of receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, serving Him in their relationships and in the fellowship of the church.
Special Olympics Polar Plunge
The Polar Bear Plunge — presented by Minnesota law enforcement as part of the year-round Law Enforcement Torch Run® events to benefit Special Olympics — is a unique opportunity for individuals, organizations and businesses to support Special Olympics athletes by jumping into frigid Minnesota waters. It consists of 16 different events that take place across Minnesota during the coldest months of the year. From January through March, our Plunge crew will be traveling around the state to 16 different communities with one goal in mind: raise funds for Special Olympics Minnesota!
St. Baldricks Foundation
St. Baldrick's head-shaving events began as a challenge between businessmen and have grown from one event in 2000 to over 1,300 events in 2013, raising critical funds for childhood cancer research. Events take place in pubs, restaurants, schools, churches, parks, malls, military bases, firehouses and any other place you can imagine.


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Wedding is an important day of your life and you need a good photographer who can document it all and not miss a bit. Weddings in Hertfordshire is deemed incomplete without the services of professional wedding photographers. Professional wedding photographers Hertfordshire use their experience and talent to capture the atmosphere of weddings. These professionals do not get distracted by chatting with guests.
One of the reason why marriage occasions need professional wedding photographers Hertfordshire is that these professionals have a good wealth of experience. You wouldn't want a close friend of yours to perform the duties of a doctor. With these professionals, most couples in Hertfordshire would benefit from their experience and knowledge. These professionals will make sure couples stick to their wedding timeline and will always ensure they look at their best at all times. As a couple and about to wed, if you hire a skilled wedding photographer, he will be added as a good friend on the most important day of your life because he will plan the wedding together with you.
Your wedding photos will be a cherished documentation of that special day in your life.
Wouldn't you love to entrust your important memories on someone who knows how to use a professional camera very well rather than asking an amateur to take pictures of you with their phones? Marriages in Hertfordshire can never be the same without the services of wedding photographers Hertfordshire. This is because the family of these couples and upcoming generations will always look back at those wedding pictures; there will be valuable heirlooms.
One of the most popular comments among couples is how it is great to see beautiful moments of their wedding day that they have overlooked because they were so carried away and busy on that very day. Professional wedding photographers Hertfordshire, know the right moments to take such as shots of the groom getting ready, a teary-eyed mother during the wedding, and Uncle Winston, dancing and enjoying the wedding day with you just as all your friends would do!
Professional wedding photographers Hertfordshire have access to the products that are not easily available for most customers.
Most of these professionals include quality albums that would last a very long time in their wedding packages; they are produced with custom leather as a cover and the images are printed right on the page. This is not an album you can easily produce all by yourself; it is an heirloom piece that will be cherished by every member of your family. What every couple need is to have good quality physical prints, canvases or albums from their wedding day around their homes as a reminder of that special day.
You are going to have only one special wedding in your lifetime.
This is more reason why you need to put in all the necessary effort to make it a memorable one. You need to make that you choose the right wedding photographer in Hertfordshire for your wedding day. Always keep in mind that professional wedding photographers offer the best photos. If you hire a professional wedding photographer, once the day is gone, the dust settled, you will have a quality wedding album in your hands and you will see the reason why it is vital to hire a professional. For more details on wedding photography that will portray that special day of yours, you need to check out these wedding photographers Hertfordshire.

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I had two of my sister in laws round for Afternoon Tea.
I made a variety of sandwiches - I don't know what it is but sandwiches always taste better to me with the crusts cut off!
I found these cute mini Easter Eggs in Home Sense and that set off the colour theme for the tea party!
Of course we had scones.....
Scones and I do not play well together.
I just cannot get the hang of them.
I dipped some strawberries in white chocolate.
I also dipped some marshmallows in milk chocolate.
It was far too hot to make a huge variety of cakes.
It was far too hot to make a huge variety of cakes.
But best of all......
I found these cute butterfly shaped sugar cubes in John Lewis. They are part of a range by Belle de Sucre (http://www.belledesucre.com/) and they are so cute.
I also got some handbag shaped sugar, because let's face it, we all need handbag shaped sugar cubes in our lives!


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Sale for the VOD132-Series and VOD116 starts early November
VOD 122 ROBERT RICH Premonitions 1980-85 4Lp
Although almost a decade younger than his cohorts, Rich's association with the West Coast scene of space-music pioneers such as Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny, and Michael Stearns also makes him one of the few of that generation to have interfaced creatively with the new wave of experimental electronic composers.
A northern California native, Rich began building his own analog synthesizers in the late '70s before attending Stanford University, where he completed a degree in psychology. While at Stanford, Rich's involvement in the university's prestigious Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics expanded his interest in digital synthesis; and his Bay Area location brought him in contact with a wide range of non-traditional and non-Western musical ideas.
Rich's innovation of the all-night "sleep concerts" during this period derived from his interests in psychophysiology and sleep research, and helped solidify an aesthetic focus on psychoacoustics, perceptible in early recordings such as Sunyata, Trances and Drones.
Rich's mid-period works such as Rainforest and Propagation combined that interest with more recognizable electro-acoustic elements (Rich plays a wide range of instruments, from synths and effects racks to lap steel guitar, hand drums and flute), but the influence of digital sound manipulation also moved increasingly to the fore.
Inspired by the more textural works of artists like SPK and Throbbing Gristle, Rich's interest in the edgier side of electronic composition has also earned him a reputation among fans of gothic, industrial, and dark ambient, made most obvious by his collaboration in 1995 with Brian Williams of Lustmord.
In addition to his more ambient-leaning works, Rich released albums with the experimental pop band Amoeba, and more recently with Meridiem. He has been influential in spreading interest in harmonic tuning systems (just intonation), works closely with music software and hardware companies in product development, creates sound design for film and television, and teaches a university course on audio mastering.
This 4Lp-Box set focuses on Rich's early stage of composition and performance, from 1979-85. Most of this music is previously unreleased, or came out on limited cassettes from the U.K. Auricle Label or Swedish Psychout Productions, which later became Multimood, and released his Lp Numena in 1986.
LP1B Collage for Low Tones 18:33
Ghosts 8:38
LP2B Nocturne 25:40
LP4A Guitar Drone 8-15 14:42
CCRMA Voices 7:19
LP4B Inner Landcapes Introduction 9:07
Manna 17:15
notes to the tracks
Selene & Ether 27:05
Recorded in summer of 1980 with Paia modular, newly acquired Prophet 5 and homebuilt Radio Shack analog delay, recorded direct to cassette at home. Unreleased until now. This was my first recording that ever got radio airplay, from "Music From The Hearts of Space" on KPFA in Berkeley, CA. I think that was around my 17th birthday. A note to myself inside the cassette case reads, "The sound first dwells in darker figures that sometimes inhabit dreams, then slowly lifts, collecting energy from harmony. The last is a sea of time, the atmospheric pillow." An almost Vangelis-like grandiose middle section was a rare departure for me. Until I got the Prophet 5 I could never attempt a sound like that.A little story about this synthesizer: I was still 15 years old when I made friends with a college DJ named Rick Huber, who also worked at synth company Sequential Circuits. I wanted to start a band making noisy improvisations, so Rick introduced me to his co-worker Rick Davies. (We remained life-long friends, and made some rather embarrassing musical experiments with co-conspirator Jon Spencer.) Sequential's Prophet 5 was the first polyphonic synthesizer with digital memory, and it was very expensive in 1978. Unfortunately the first version of the Prophet was quite fragile and broke constantly, almost impossible to calibrate, and plagued by catastrophic component failures. Sequential offered an upgrade to their early customers, offering to exchange (for a fee) any Rev.1 Prophet 5 for an improved Rev.2. Then they sold the fragile Rev.1's to their employees (the only people who could keep them running) with a promise not to re-sell. The company never wanted to see them again. My friends at Sequential purchased a handful of these lemons, and kindly snuck one into my hands. Selene and Ether was one of the very first things I recorded with it.
Collage for Low Tones 18:35 1980
Recorded summer of 1980 direct to cassette, an improvisation with analog delay and Paia modular. I had completely forgotten about this recording until I started going through archives for this release.
I built the analog delay from a circuit board sold through Radio Shack, called the "Electronic Reverb" kit. Nineteen years later (1999) I began to get back into analog modular synths after meeting Paul Schreiber, who had recently started a new modular company called Synthesis Technology. As Paul and I became friends, I learned that he once worked for Tandy Corporation, designing kits for Radio Shack. Paul had in fact designed the analog delay kit that I used so heavily during these early years. The instructions suggested modifications to allow feedback into self-oscillation, and a switch to slow down the clock, creating a very grungy echo. These modifications turned the delay into a crazy oscillator, one of my main instruments for creating noisy pieces like this one.
Ghosts 8:42 1980
Inside the cassette box where I found this recording, my notes say: "Ghosts is a sound collage consisting of many layers of randomly tuned sinusoidal frequencies, whose amplitudes were also randomly chosen. The sound was inspired by multiple resonances of the wind through a certain cave in the Sierra foothills." I think I was being a bit coy, as it sounds to me like an improvisation with Prophet 5 and Paia modular synth using resonant filters imparting different pitches from a pink noise source.
Clouds 26:15 1983
I remember being quite happy with this drone improvisation when I recorded it, but I never officially released it because some other pieces around that time felt more like a breakthrough. Apparently I made cassette copies for a few people to hear, as I have seen pictures of handmade tapes with this on them, called simply "Modal Improvisation." This performance employs a resonant all-pass filter using a Curtis chip that I built onto a blank circuit board, responsible for the shimmering stepped tones of the low drone.
Nocturne 25:40 1983
I remember working for several weeks to prepare the elements for Nocturne. I did not have a multitrack recorder at the time, but I had two cassette decks and a reel-to-reel. I assembled extra layers onto cassette, in order to mix to 1/4" reel while performing live instruments. I remember this piece being much harder to create than others at the time, and it felt less satisfying to me when finished. The original tape is 40 minutes long, and I wanted it to feel completely calm and stable, yet slowly changing around the steady drone, a sort of infinite music, acting in a certain way upon the mind only when played for very long durations. Alas, in the thirty years since attempting this sort of trancelike effect in very slow music, my attention span has gotten shorter, and I am rather surprised to look back at my youthfully obsessive attention to microscopic details.Live in Monterey CA September 15, 1983 25:30
These are the beginning and ending sections of a two hour ambient concert performed at an art exhibit opening by painter Todd Friedlander. Most of the performance consisted of nature recordings combined with very quiet drones. The closing section was an interpretation of the piece "Nocturne" that I had recorded the previous month, but that piece sounded different each time I played it.
Live at Stanford University CA, March 13 1984 25:27
This "concert" actually took place in my dorm room at the co-op house where I lived during my third and fourth years at university. I recorded most of Trances and Drones here (when I probably should have been studying.) My roommate Miguel Helft patiently tolerated my pile of electronics that cluttered the room. A few friends asked me if they could listen to me play, so I made this casual home concert for three or four people, and recorded it to my new Revox B77. The 90 minute recording turned out better than expected.
Early in my efforts to release my own music, I made friends with an ardent listener in Köping, Sweden named Hans Fahlberg. After he discovered my first release Sunyata, Hans began writing me letters with funny cartoon illustrations of laughing heads prancing around naked on tiny legs. After I released Trances and Drones, Hans wrote me asking if I had any unreleased music, as he wanted to start a cassette label. This would be his first release. I didn't feel that my earliest experiments were suitable, so I sent him edits of the two live recordings that appear here. These became Robert Rich Live, catalog 001 on Psychout Productions. Hans soon changed his label name to Multimood Records and released my first LP Numena, and many excellent albums by artists including Peter Frohmader, Roedelius, O Yuki Conjugate, Paul Schütze, Jeff Greinke, and others.
In the late 80s, the Freeman brothers in the U.K. replicated small quantities of Live and Inner Landscapes for their Auricle label. Among my early releases, Live was the only one that I did not remaster for CD, because I felt that it would not hold up to digital scrutiny. This vinyl version is the first official reprinting since those cassettes.
3A Guitar Drone 8-15 14:46 1983
I don't actually remember playing this. I discovered it while digging through the archives. I found several pieces from the summer of 1983, all untitled and described as "guitar drone" or "guitar rhythm." Most of them sound similar to each other. It appears I was aiming for a certain relationship between the echoed strumming and the cloudy loops made from brushing guitar strings lightly. I recorded two of those attempts to reel-reel tape, so I presume those were more "serious" or premeditated, while this version only shows up on a cassette master, like a practice version or an afterthought. Among the different attempts, this may be the most interesting, although perhaps not the highest fidelity.
CCRMA Voices 7:22 1984
This is one of the few computer compositions that I finished while taking the computer music course at Stanford's CCRMA, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. It uses Bill Schottstaedt's PLA language to create a simple two-operator FM voice, with random pitch, duration and inflections within the range of a human voice.
Inner Landcapes Introduction 9:12 1985
This comes from a live concert performed in Berkeley, CA, later released as the 90 minute live cassette Inner Landscapes. In the late 1990s, Mike Griffin at Hypnos approached me about remastering some of my early work for CD. Inner Landscapes and Sunyata seemed worthy candidates at the time. I had to remove some material from Inner Landscapes to get it to fit onto CD. Except for this sequencer improvisation at the start, the remainder of that concert was deep and very slow; so I decided to cut this piece and keep the CD consistently deep and atmospheric. This intro remained an orphan until now.
Manna 17:15 1980
Here's another piece that I forgot about. It comes from the burst of recordings I made as soon as I got the Prophet 5 in 1980. This uses a patch technique called "random arpeggio" where each voice fades in and out at different rates by its own modulations, sounding a bit like tape loops. The bleepy tones come from the Paia modular, with tape echo adding its telltale warble.


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the insanity principle workshops
taught by artist linda carmella sibio
january 13, 2018 at copper mountain mesa community center
Photo by Sarah Lyon, from Linda Carmella Sibio's "Origins" performance at "The Palm Talks" at HDTS 2017
We are proud to present "The Insanity Principle Workshops" taught by painter and performance artist Linda Carmella Sibio every second Saturday through April 2018 in Joshua Tree. The workshops include a variety of multilayered psychological techniques, developed by Sibio, tapping into memory, play, and personal narrative as a source for art making.
Classes are two hours long and are scheduled on the second Saturday of every month, with an upcoming class on Saturday, January 13th from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. "The Insanity Principle Workshops" will be held at Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center located at 65336 Winters Road in Joshua Tree, CA 92252.
Classes are two hours long and are scheduled on the second Saturday of every month, with an upcoming class on Saturday, January 13th from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. "The Insanity Principle Workshops" will be held at Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center located at 65336 Winters Road in Joshua Tree, CA 92252.
Here is a description of January's class from Sibio: "In the January workshop we will explore rhythm and the voice through extensions and units. We will explore an "alternative choir" filled with sound and movement. We will review schizophrenic thinking and structured chaos which is the basis of all that I teach. True to our interdisciplinary outlook we will explore drawing and performance using the bi-polar model. The class will end in total chaos with the exploration of psychological fragmentation and how to get it in the mind, body and emotions. I will be the person wearing my favorite cat skirt! Hope to see all of you there!"
"These classes were initially developed when I worked with disabled individuals on Skid Row in Los Angeles," says Sibio. "That project led me to realize that these tools, that explore personal experience thorough a variety of methods, are an empowering way for every genre of artist to harness inner creativity while digesting the insanity in their lives...The fragmented thinking of the schizophrenic is a window into the placement of our culture. We are living in a deconstructed world, no longer thinking linear thoughts. Our perceptions are continually interrupted by television, the internet, video surveillance, and the media – we no longer have a single thought; we think in multilayered complex patterns. For our culture to go forward, the darkness of the dismembered body needs to come into the light. We need to fragment to become whole again."
A $30 minimum donation per class is requested (all proceeds go to the artist). For questions and to reserve a spot, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call the artist at 760-808-5326. Find more updates on our Instagram page and Facebook event!
Workshop Description
The workshops explore the philosophy of chaotic thinking, multiple storylines, and insanity principle insights into how emotions work in the body. The class includes fragmentation, interrupters, and the psychological model as methods of making art. Participants should wear clothing that will allow them to move freely and do unusual things. They should bring a healthy snack as the schedule includes a short break. Attendees are also encouraged to bring high-quality drawing paper, Charkole, kneaded erasers, a #2B pencil, as well as any objects they may want to work with such as musical instruments, found objects, and/or costumes.
Linda Carmella Sibio
Linda Carmella Sibio's practice investigates the fringe of society, exploring how it affects culture. Madness has been a dominant theme in her work, having been influenced by her own diagnosis as schizophrenic and her mother's incarceration in mental hospitals in West Virginia during Sibio's childhood. Sibio's philosophy reflects a combination of personal experience and intellectual pursuits. She has been influenced by Duchamp's "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even," Foucault's Madness and Civilization, Artaud's The Theatre and its Double, and Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus. Her work addresses strong social themes such as homelessness, mental illness, and the underbelly of society. Sibio is interested in the raw power of human emotional contact.
Sibio has received over 20 grants and awards including a Lannan Foundation Grant and a Rockefeller MAP Fund Award. Most recent grants received are the Wynn Newhouse Award and the Tree of Life Award. Her work has been seen at Brussels Contemporary Art Fair, Walker Art Center, Franklin Furnace, VSA Arts at the United Nations Headquarters, VSA Arts at the Kennedy Center, Armory NYC, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Track 16, REDCAT Studio, and Scope Los Angeles at the Standard Hotel. Sibio has received media coverage in ArtNet, Art Week, CBS 'Eye on the Desert', Clinical Psychiatry News, Coachella Valley News, Colliding Worlds, Creator's Project, Desert Post Weekly, Drama-Logue Magazine, High Performance, LA Reader, LA Style, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, MinnPost (Max About Town), New York Times, Palm Springs Life, Schizophrenia Bulletin, The High Desert Star, and The Sun Runner. She is represented by Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York.


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Can Too Much Running Shorten Your Lifespan?
(HealthDay News) — There may a point of diminishing health returns with running, according to research findings presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, held from March 29–31 in Washington, D.C.
A number of studies have suggested that a "moderate" running regimen – a total of two to three hours per week, according to one expert – appears best for longevity, refuting the typical "more is better" mantra for physical activity. The researchers behind the newest study on the issue say people who get either no exercise or high-mileage runners both tend to have shorter lifespans than moderate runners.
Martin Matsumura, MD, co-director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, PA, and colleagues evaluated data from more than 3,800 men and women runners, average age 46. They were involved in the Masters Running Study, a web-based study of training and health information on runners aged ≥35. Nearly 70% reported running >20 miles a week. The runners supplied information on their use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and naproxen/Aleve, as well as aspirin, and their known heart risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, family history of heart disease, and smoking history.
None of these factors explained the shorter lives of high-mileage runners, the researchers said. Use of NSAIDs was actually more common in runners who ran <20 miles weekly, Matsumura's team noted. "The study negates the theory that excessive use of NSAIDs may be causing this loss of longevity among high-mileage runners," Matsumura said.


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Submitting your video to the U19 Film Showcase is easy!
Read below to find out how:
Film screening takes place on on May 4th, 2017
as part of the Youth Week Gala
at Rossland Summit School, in Rossland, BC
The Submission Deadline is April 24th, 2017
Entrants should be 19 years of age or younger. Hence the name "U19″
To submit your film:
- Upload your completed film to YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox or other online location*.
- Complete the Film Submission Form.
If you need assistance or have questions, please email email@example.com – or use our Contact page.
* If you would prefer not to upload your film onto the web, you can burn your video on a DVD or put in on a memory stick and mail it to us. You must still complete the online Film Submission Form.
Send hard-copy submissions to:
Rossland Council for Arts and Culture
U19 Film Festival
Box 405
Rossland, BC
Upload Your Movie to YouTube
Also learn how to share a youtube video web address by following the link.
Upload Your Movie to Vimeo
How to Use a Thumb Drive
*Tip – Make sure the drive you use is big enough for the file size of your movie.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) --Rudi Cuffari said his wallet dropped out of his pocket onto the streets of Center City Philadelphia while he was celebrating the Eagles Super Bowl victory.
"We were dancing in the middle of the street," said Cuffari. "We parked and hopped out of the UHaul; we were in and out a couple of times."
That night was cause for celebration, but the next day... not so much.
"When I woke up, I went to look for my wallet, and it just wasn't there," said Cuffari. "I started calling everyone."
Thirteen days later, Cuffari got a package in the mail. No note. No sender's address.
"Oh my God - his wallet- they mailed it back to us," said Ariel Rivera. I immediately posted it on Facebook. I just wanted to thank the person that mailed it back to us. It even had the money that was in there with the wallet!"
Everything, including his social security card and cash, was intact.
Cuffari admits he lost a lot of sleep over his missing wallet, his primary concern being identity theft.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" said Rivera. "Nobody really knows how much this stuff meant to him. Some stuff he could never replace."
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YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T.: Where to go to escape the snow and ice of Brampton, Ont.? Yellowknife, of course.
I'm back visiting the mad men and women of Ice Pilots, NWT, the most successful Canadian debut ever on History Television. The series opened last year to 459,000 viewers. It is currently scheduled to take off for a second season January 5, although–MAYDAY!–that is the date of the World Junior Hockey Championships final. If this is another Canada/USA rematch, Ice Pilots will be flying straight into a buzz saw.
This likely would not deter "Buffalo" Joe McBryan, the cantankerous bush pilot behind Buffalo Air. His fleet of vintage DC3s, DC4 and other propeller aircraft–some dating back to WWII–are a big part of the fascination with this series.
Along with a few journalists and a full load of regular passengers, I had an opportunity to fly the friendly skies over Great Slave Lake Sunday night in a DC3. McBryan, who began Buffalo Air with one plane in 1970, lifts that baby into the air and drops it down again like the runway was a giant pillow.
He and son Mikey and daughter Kathy, along with other family members and pilots (including fan fave Scotty Blue) made the trek to Osh Kosh, Wisc., last summer in one of their three air worthy DC3s. The gang were treated like rock stars at the annual air show, which was celebrating the 75th anniversary of the aircraft, which dates back to 1935.
Most of the other DC3s at the airshow are museum pieces or hobby birds. The Buffalo Air machine is an everyday passenger plane. Visiting propheads were astounded.
The bird the McBryans flew the other night saw service in WWII, and was apparently in on the 11th wave into Normandy. McBryan's hanger full of vintage aircraft (as well as a few cool Mercs from the '40s) draws admiring visitors to Yellowknife year long. Some come with stats and serial numbers, identifying the plans and telling the hosts more about the history of these aircraft than they already knew. According to McBryan, one of his DC4s flew monkeys out of Africa that were used in the testing of insulin in the '40s.
The visit to Osh Kosh will be one of the later episodes this season. Executive producer David Gullison says the episode is a hoot, with McBryan loading his family into the DC3 to head to the air show like most families would load into a station wagon or van for a family vacation.
The good news for fans of this series is that a third season has already been ordered and is in production, WJHC's be damned.
Ice Pilots ready for Season Two takeoff
YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T.: Where to go to escape the snow and ice of Brampton, Ont.? Yellowknife, of course.


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First up is a real classic Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Weirdly this book is called Twinkle, Twinkle but doesn't have the rhyme in the book. It doesn't really bother us though! It's pretty much a perfect example of this type of book in my opinion - and it's not called a playbook for nothing. It has tactile numbers on each double page and two rhymes, one classic (like Two Little Dicky Birds) and one made up by the author to compliment the rhyme. It also has a raised wavy line along the bottom to follow (in the case of Two Little Dicky Birds you follow the birds flying along). This is great because by helping your child to follow the line you're helping them to develop the fine motor skills needed for writing etc.
The Wheels on the Bus is another great playbook. All the rhymes included are action rhymes and show the actions you can do on each page. It includes the rhyme Dingle Dangle Scarecrow which is one of our favourites! The extra bits are meaningful as well. The touch and feel to follow the bus round and round. The hat that flaps up on the scarecrow. The peapod that flaps up to say 'Pop'.
Another rhyme book I want to mention, although you can now only get it second hand because it's out of print is Hey Diddle Diddle. It's full of bouncing rhymes for babies including Pat a Cake, Little Miss Muffet and Incy Wincy Spider. It's much more simple than the two above but because of that it's very easy to use with a much younger baby. I find myself acting out the rhymes on the page rather than doing the actions with my baby as suggested since it's much easier. So for Hickory Dickory Dock I run my fingers up the clock and then mimic a clock ticking with my hand. For Pat a Cake I just pat the page. But for This Little Piggy I do use Rosie's toes or fingers!


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optimistic tenant on 06/30/2010
After our neighbor (who most probably made the previous post) left and his apartment was cleaned(you'd be surprised what he left behind)we are not having bed bugs anymore. His apartment was fumigated and this seems to have fixed it. We have not heard other people complaining anymore so things are looking up.
AK 74 on 05/28/2010
Bedbug infestation is out of control at this building. The tenants are keep moving out every month. Stay away.
Anonymous on 03/18/2010
Initial suggestion was that I treat the problem myself with spray cans provided by the manager, I strongly disagreed and insisted on a licensed,qualified exterminator.
My place was treated by Abell Feb 18 then again March 18. The problem seems to be under control...a few sightings in the past week which is somewhat expected because of the egg cycle. Will be keeping an eye out for the next few months and updating accordingly.
Anonymous on 02/11/2010
Bed bugs everywhere. Without treating the entire building the bedbugs will never go away. All the hallways are carpeted in thick (circa 1970s) carpet which is vacuumed weekly, which will do nothing for the problem. The halls need to be gutted and tiled and each suite needs to be fumigated.
The building is poorly maintained in most respects. I've lived in the building for over 5 years and it is only within the past month or 2 that the bedbugs have appeared in my suite...based on the 2009 re
ports, this would indicate to me that the bugs are just moving from suite to suite.
J on 08/10/2009
I lived in this building for a year August 2008 until june 2009 our suite had many bed bugs and the scars have still not gone away. The management only sprayed a select few suites on each floor. Did not give proper 24 hr notice to enter my suite and required that we wash everything in our suite made of fabric. They did not reimberse us for the money spent wich was almost 100.00 after i demanded the money be repaid they told us it was unnessary to wash everything but to just dry it for 10 min....
Pest on 07/21/2009
Bedbugs are still here. Strongly recommended NOT moving into this building.
Building Manager on 06/01/2009
Bedbugs are not a problem in our building.Not anymore. Yes we had an apartment infested and we have treated all the suites around. We hired one of the most reliable pest control company in Vancouver, Vancouver Bed Bug Control Inc.who is specialized in bedbugs.In this moment all our suites are clean and we have the guarantee that will stay like that in the future.For confirmation fell free to contact www.vancouverbedbugcontrol.ca , or call 6046874824.
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Bedbug on 05/06/2009
There are bedbugs in this building. The problem is the management is cheap and they would only spray few suites at a time, letting the pests escape to another suites. My suite was sprayed in March, but I still get bites nightly. Stay away.
CBC on 03/14/2009
This building is infested with bed bugs, cockroaches and fleas.
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Rihanna is NRJ Awards Amazing
Rihanna looks stunning on the red carpet at the 2010 NRJ Awards held at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France on Saturday (January 23).
The 21-year-old beauty from Barbados, who wore a gorgeous lace Jean Paul Gaultier gown, performed "Russian Roulette" at the event! She finished off her look with Nina Ricci shoes.
Last night, RiRi rocked the house at the Hope For Haiti Now telethon, performing "Stranded" with Jay-Z and Bono!
10+ pictures inside of Rihanna at the NRJ Awards…
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The frescoes by Giotto on the Life of St Francis are presently in good shape for being nearly 800 years old.
At present there is an Exhibition with a virtual presentation showing how the frescoes would have been seen as if newly painted all those years ago. It is in Assisi.
The exhibition is entitled I Colori di Giotto (The Colours of Giotto)
It coincides with the 800th Anniversary of the Confirmation of the Rule of St Francis by Pope Innocent III and is part of the celebration proceedings.
Here is The Confirmation of the Rule as it is and how it would have been about 800 years ago
Giotto di Bondone 1267 -1337
Legend of St Francis: 7. Confirmation of the Rule
Fresco, 270 x 230 cm
Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
(Upper: As it is at present; Two Lower: as they would have been when new)
At the exhibition there is also a 3D virtual presentation on the frescoes of which the following are frames which amongst other things demonstrate the perspective employed in the composition.
More about the 3D Grapics and animation can be seen in the following Youtube video link~


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Humble, TX (PRWEB) April 27, 2015
Sitting or standing for long periods of time can cause the legs to ache and feel tired, and for those whose occupation requires them to be sitting while they are working, such as receptionists and taxi cab drivers, or to be on their feet for most of the day, such as teachers and hairdressers, the discomfort can be more severe and longer lasting. These people suffer from a condition known as tired, achy leg syndrome. Dr. Madaiah Revana of Northeast Houston Vein Center is offering tips on how to treat this condition.
Some of the causes of achy leg syndrome include:
Peripheral Arterial Disease
Varicose Veins
Restless Leg Syndrome
Chronic Venous Insufficiency
Imbalanced Diet
Lack of Exercise
All of these lead to poor circulation in the legs. Through the veins, blood is returned to the heart as it circulates throughout the body. Because the heart is at a much higher position in the body, blood in the legs has to "pump" against gravity in order to reach it. Contractions in the leg muscles squeeze the veins and push the blood upward.
To keep the blood flowing up, and not back down, the veins contain one-way valves that only come into play when walking or being active. During long periods of inactivity, standing or sitting in the same position for a long time, the legs do not contract hard or frequent enough to force the blood upwards. When the one-way valves become damaged, they allow blood to leak backwards. As a result, the blood pools and gathers into the veins, causing them to have tension and heaviness, making them feel tired and achy.
Symptoms of the condition can include uncomfortable feelings in the legs towards the end of the day. Discomfort can turn into cramping in the leg, cold feet or a feeling of tension that leads to heaviness and pain and/or tiredness. Swelling in the ankles and itchiness and discoloration of the skin may appear. Rest usually eases the symptoms, but it does not eliminate them completely.
Most people who suffer from achy legs are instructed to wear compression stockings. Although these are helpful, they do not treat the underlying cause of symptoms. When compression stockings and leg elevation are not enough, there are alternatives that rid the problems for good.
At Northeast Houston Vein Center, Dr. Revana treats chronic venous insufficiency that causes achy legs using a newer technique called endovenous thermal ablation. This minimally invasive procedure uses high-frequency radio waves to create intense local heat in the affected vein. This treatment closes off the diseased vein and enables the blood to re-route itself to the other health veins. With minimal bleeding and bruising, this results in less pain and a faster return to normal activities, unlike vein stripping.
For more information about Dr. Revana and achy leg syndrome treatment, call 281-446-4638 or visit http://www.nehoustonveincenter.com.
About Northeast Houston Vein Center:
The experienced physicians at Northeast Houston Vein Center offer comprehensive vein treatment in the Houston area. They provide the latest techniques and state-of-the-art equipment in the diagnosis and treatment of venous disease. Since its establishment in 1978, the medical professionals at Northeast Houston Vein Center have been dedicated to going above and beyond for their patients. Treatment options are minimally invasive and the outpatient procedures will allow patients to resume normal activities the same day. At Northeast Houston Vein Center, patients can imagine a life free of venous disease. For more information, visit their website at http://nehoustonveincenter.com/.
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Foods allowed during the Atkins Diet's induction phase include fish, poultry, shellfish and red meat. Eggs, butter, cheese and a wide variety of vegetables are also part of the induction-phase menu.
The induction phase is the first stage of the Atkins Diet. It is intended to increase the dieter's metabolism by teaching the body to burn fat instead of carbohydrates. This phase of the diet mandates a very low-carbohydrate diet that is high in protein and fat. Dieters follow this phase for a minimum of two weeks, and should remain in this phase until 15 pounds away from goal weight.
What carbohydrates a dieter in the induction phase does consume come from the Atkins Diet's list of foundation vegetables. These vegetables should account for 12 to 15 grams of carbohydrates out of the 20 grams allowable per day in the induction phase. Foundation vegetables include leafy greens, such as arugula and spinach, cruciferous vegetables, such as cauliflower and broccoli, aromatics, such as onions, and vegetables high in healthy oils, such as avocados and olives.
Herbs, spices and condiments are permitted during the induction phase, so long as they are low in carbohydrates and do not contain added sugar. Fresh herbs and spices, such as basil, cilantro, oregano and parsley, are permitted, as are vinegars, Parmesan cheese and sugar-free mayonnaise.


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Blake Harrison:
Rich, titled, and charming… And in need of a wife by Wednesday so he turns to Sam Elliot who isn't the business man he expected. Instead, Blake is faced with Samantha Elliot, engaging and spunky with a voice men call 900 numbers to hear.
Samantha Elliot:
Owner of
, her matchmaking firm, and not on the marital menu... That is until Blake offers her ten million dollars for a one-year contract. All she needs to do is keep her attraction to her husband to herself and avoid his bed. But Blake's toe-curling kisses and charm prove too difficult to combat. Now she needs to protect her heart so she can walk away when their mercenary life together is over. Alliance
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Do you have critique partners or beta readers?
Critique Partners. Hands down. I think it's more important for a story to flow, for the reader to care about my characters, then I worry about a beta read. In the end, I have a line editor for all the tiny details.
What was one of the most surprising things you learned while writing your books?
I'm shocked at how my stories change. How the characters take on a life of their own and act out of turn. Only a writer understands this concept. When I try to explain this to a reader, they usually shake their head and say… 'but you wrote it, how could you not know what was going to happen next?'
Do you hear from your readers? What kinds of questions do they ask?
I have started hearing from readers on a fairly consistent basis in the last few months. Which is awesome by the way. They usually tell me about the latest book of mine that they've read, or ask me when my next book is going to come out. Occasionally I'll have someone tell me about a plot idea they'd like to see turned into a book.
Plotter or Pantser? Why?
Pantser… but I'm really trying hard to be a plotter. Tends to make the writing process faster and easier.
Do you listen to music while writing? If so what?
Listening to music is distracting to me. I can't write with noise in the background… even my kids.
What are your favorite TV shows?
I love Modern Family. When I need a little paranormal hit, I watch Supernatural. I liked Buffy and miss Gilmore Girls.
What songs are most played on your Ipod?
I listen to a lot of groups from the 80's. On my Pandora radio station, I'm all into Nickleback right now.
What group did you hang out with in high school?
I was a Drama Club geek and Choir geek. My most memorable roles on stage were Annie Sullivan in the Miracle Worker and Marty in Grease.
Morning Person? Or Night Person? How do you know?
I hate mornings… nuff said.
What would we find under your bed?
Say your publisher has offered to fly you anywhere in the world to do research on an upcoming book, where would you most likely want to go?
Do you have a Website or Blog?
Both… and twitter… and facebook… you can find me everywhere.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/catherinebybee
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Catherine-Bybee-Romance-Author/
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2905789.Catherine_Bybee
Catherine's Blog: http://catherinebybee.blogspot.com/
Catherine's Website: http://www.catherinebybee.com/
Thanks again for having me here today. I hope everyone enjoys Wife by Wednesday. I hope to have Married by Monday out by spring of next year.
Read my full review HERE. It was just posted December 1st at Coffee Time Romance and More.
Catherine Bybee is known for her time travel / paranormal romance books. Wife by Wednesday is her first straight contemporary with more in the loop coming. This is Indie Published with 4.5 and 5 star reviews already coming in.
Award Winning Author for Silent Vows Paranormal Category of the More than Magic 2011 contest
Amazon Bestseller in Time Travel/Historical/Fantasy-Ghost (All MacCoinnich Time Travel Books) + Anthology's (Soul Mate)
ARe- Bestseller (Soul Mate - Kilt Worthy)
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The Benefits of Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is used as a treatment for many different health issues. It also provides immediately-noticeable benefits.
There's no better end to a stressful week than a good aromatherapy massage session at the Grand Velas Spa.
Aromatherapy is a technique that promotes health and wellbeing through the olfactory sense and its effect on various parts of the body and psyche. Plant properties are used to satisfy the needs of the mind, body and spirit. Since the times of the ancient Egyptians aromatherapy was used as part of the daily ritual; as a means of relaxation and to heal the skin.
An aromatic massage heals through the sense of touch and smell. It is perfect for muscular discomfort as it provides immediate relief. By specifically working on the muscle fibers, the muscle relaxes and recovers from the pain of sudden movements or prolonged postures, obliterating points of stress.
Your skin will also be improved, by the removal of dead cells and elimination of pollution and contamination. Aromatherapy provides relaxation through the use of oils with proven calming effects, as well as benefiting your immune system and promoting better vascular and lymphatic circulation.
Some of the visible benefits to be gained through aromatherapy arediminished premenstrual syndrome, menopausal symptoms, digestive problems, stress, hypertension, insomnia, muscle and joint stiffness, lethargy and low energy levels.
It is recommended that you do a skin test before applying large amounts of scented oils, by applying diluted oil behind the wrist and covering it for about 12 hours. If irritation occurs, try another scented oil, making sure that it is all natural.
Have you ever tried aromatherapy? What is your favorite essence? Do you notice that it makes you feel better?


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My wife is running a bus trip to North and South Carolina (from Pennsylvania) for a local gardening group (Hardy Plant Society). The ladies on the trip (and the odd man or two) enjoy good food at night. They are not particularly price-sensitive and they like to be able to walk from their hotel if possible. Average age north of 70. This will be at the end of March.
In Columbia, they are staying at the Hampton Inn on Gervais St.
In Charleston, at the Best Western King Charles Inn, Meeting St.
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Lucky me! I was in Port Townsend at Fort Worden again last week, this time for Journalfest .
This rainbow greeted us wednesday late afternoon and everyone took it as a positive omen of wonderous adventures to come!
I love being yards from the water...
downtown PT from a pier
First class on Thursday was with Traci Bautista - my book is upside down int his photo, long story
so here's another pic back in my dorm room, right side up! Diet Coke on the window sill to keep it cold...cause it was just a wee bit chilly, especially for this desert rat.
Traci demo-ing
the view from Traci's classroom...
Next day was class with Anahata Katkin, Papaya Design
Anahata demo-ing her technique
class room pic...
and if you read her blog, you'll recognize this man ... anahata's hunka, hunka burnin' love
Set out one day after class to snap a pic of a deer..had to drive around three blocks to find this doe:) that's just one of the delights of Port Townsend. there are deer everwhere. One evening I had to stop for a buck in the middle of the road. Then I saw he was standing there looking at his doe and their baby, on the other side of the fence. They are so close that if you have your car window down, you can smell the musk. For the life of me, I don't understand how and why people hunt and kill these beautiful, serene creatures.
and also took this very "typical" PT pic
My last class on saturday was with Roxanne Padgett
I only partook in lunch at the Fort Worden cafeteria this time so I had a chance to dine at dinner with Michele Unger a few times at the Noodle House next to the Rose Theater in downtown Port Townsend. In fact, some how or other I managed to enjoy asian food every night I was in PT!
Here's me and Michele
Journalfest was about a quarter of the size of Artfest and was a chance to reconnect with some of my California Art Girl friends... here's Maria with her beautiful new Stephanie Lee journal
and Roberta having the time of her life at after class journaling time in The Commons and thinking, "boy, what I wouldnt give for some decent Mexican food right about now!"
and Karla, after exclaiming over and over in class, "I am an artist!" showing off her great pages from Anahata's class ..we had alot of fun in dorm 225 after classes and until the wee hours of the night and next morning...
Saturday morning before class I had breakfast downtown and found this...
Left on Sunday to spend the day in Seattle...
The GPS shows me in the Fry!
This woman, an apparent Burning Man refugee , ran out barefooted on the deck of the ferry to be one with the icy cold wind. Some pre-teen boys were watching her and their commentary was hysterical...one even saying that he couldn't look cause her underwear was showing. I guess you would have had to have been there...but it was pretty amusing. (pic taken from i-phone form inside, where it was cozy warm).
After sleeping on this torture rack for four nights at Fort Worden I was very happy
to pass out in this on Sunday night at the Mayflower...zzzzzzzzzz
after visiting somewhere I haven't been in years...Archie McPhee
new, larger location and they continue to offer the odd and unusual like these acupuncture mannequins.
Obligatory trip to the market. Jennifer told me about an antique store on a side street...which i found, but only about 20 minutes before it closed. Next time, next time:)
Gotta love what you find in cities....
Went to Daiso ...the Japanese $1.50 store - LOL and Uwajimaya, the Japanese super-store...WOW! Both are in seatle's international district
Many, Many thanks to Tracy and Teesha Moore who started the Artfest retreats over 10 years ago. They are kindness and light, creative genuises and genuinely good peeps.
I have to admit, I didn't want to leave my fellow art tribe members...it was that much fun!
Have Creative Adventures Everywhere!


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He jokingly admitted he hates women beating him in races.
But record-breaking jockey Frankie Dettori admitted even he was impressed by radio DJ Sara Cox when he gave her a riding lesson on the eve of the biggest day of the flat racing calendar.
Europe's finest flat horses go head to head in six races with a combined prize fund totalling £4.2million on QIPCO British Champions Day on Saturday.
Dettori achieved the unthinkable on the last day of the season at Ascot 20 years ago, winning EVERY race on the card.
The 1996 landmark - dubbed the 'Magnificent 7 - saw bookies lose millions, has never been matched since and pundits doubt it ever will.
To mark the 20-year anniversary, the legendary jockey treated TV and radio star Sara to a lesson at the British Racing School.
The Radio 2 DJ has ridden in two charity races at Goodwood previously and has grown up with horses.
But, when asked how nervous she was before the lesson, she admitted being "seven out of 10".
However, Sara - who will DJ with Sigala after the racing on QIPCO Champions Day on Saturday - was praised by Dettori afterwards.
He told her: "You have beautiful balance. Your body's posture was spot on, especially as you don't ride that often."
As the lesson started the only advice he offered the horse fanatic was "just hold on", but as they rode side by side he encouraged her to "kick on" and shouted: "Come on Sara!"
After finishing the gallop ahead of the Italian-born maestro, she joked: "How do I make him stop?!" before adding: "I've beaten Frankie Dettori! I'm leabing radio to become a professional jockey."
The lesson - filmed by Great British Racing - came before Dettori was injured in an incident at Leicester on Tuesday.
He suffered a knee injury when his mount squirmed underneath the stalls and he withdrew from the rest of the card.
But it was precautionary and Dettori is now set to star at Champions Day with high profile rides including Galileo Gold, one of the favourites in the £1million Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.
Dettori said: "Champions Day is our biggest day, there's going to be thousands of people, we have probably the best races of the year, all on the same day.
"There's a lot of pressure on but that's why I work hard to get to that point and it's exciting, it's nerve-wracking but it's also fun as well."


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If anyone is interested:
Chloe Ediths in Whiskey color arrived on Net-A-Porter!
Oh, I'm sorry- they are already sold out.
Sorry for irritating you :shame:
Yesterday, I tried to order, but too much traffic and the transaction would never go through. Frustrating, because they had some, but I couldn't order. I had to leave, and when I got back, sold out.
when I ordered my rouge first from Barneys manhasset several weeks ago my SA said they were getting 5 ediths in and they only had one on the waiting list so I'm #2. Try calling there if you want to get on the wait list.
it's not sold out, just added one to my basket for fun, it's still available!!
total is $1303 us dollar.
I had read about this on Bag Snob and I forgot to post about it :shame: Is whiskey the only color available?


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UFC Fight Night 28 will serve as a special night for light heavyweight Glover Teixeira. In addition to the event hosting his first UFC headliner, the card is a homecoming for the well-rounded Brazilian in addition to being an opportunity to cement a future shot at the divisional strap.
"I've never fought in Minas Gerais, my home state. This time I'm going to be fighting in my home state, and I'm very excited," said Teixeira in an interview with MMAJunkie of the added bonus of fighting in Brazil. "My family is going to be there for the first time. The trip is a little long, but that's part of the job."
However, Teixeira knows he is headed there to do a job, not go sightseeing. The typically soft-spoken scrapper is 4-0 in the Octagon and will be seeking his twentieth straight win when he squares off with Ryan Bader. With that sort of momentum, the polished finisher knows he's on the cusp of contending for the championship and is ready to fulfill what he believes is his destiny.
"I'm ready to fight for the title tomorrow. I'm ready to get the title," exclaimed Teixeira. "If Alexander Gustafsson gets hurt – and I hope he doesn't, I don't want that for anybody – but I'm always there. If I don't get hurt in the Ryan Bader fight, I'll fight Jon Jones."
The bout between Jones-Gustafsson is set to take place two weeks after Teixeira's tilt, showing exactly motivated the latter is when it comes to the upcoming effort. UFC Fight Night 28 is scheduled for September 4 and airs on FOX Sports 1.


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The Elegant Guesthouse
This is an actual tour booked by Wilmari Pronk. It is a variation of the Classic Namibia Safari. If you like the sound of it you can book this exact trip using the enquiry form below or use the itinerary as a starting point and make any changes you want.
My clients have booked this amazing 13 day self-drive. They will stay a minimum of 2 nights at each destination - sometimes longer - to make the most of each place. They are going to visit Erindi private game reserve instead of Etosha.


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because this just made me cry! The Wonder Years is one of my favorite shows, ever. EVER! I love it, I grew up watching it, and it brings back a lot of memories. I just stumbled upon this clip, the finale to the series and it really struck a little chord in my heart. Is anyone else a big fan like me? I am awaiting a boxset sometime soon, I hope.
Friday, September 11, 2009
I must be super emotional...
Labels: nostalgia, The Wonder Years
3 comments:
I used to love this show! This part made me cry, too.ReplyDelete
Oh...my gosh! I actually JUST was thinking about this show too! i loveeed it! wow :( i wish time could stand still sometimes, that show (& shows like it) meant so much to me.ReplyDelete
& ps: uh oh...if you're getting more emotional than usual...thats a sign of something... ;)
Watching that made me want to watch Boy Meets World, too.ReplyDelete
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Bodies Liquified, Dumped In City Sewers, Dumped On Food Crops
By Natural News
A new recycling technology has added new meaning to the phrase "you are what you eat."
Bio-cremation liquefies the dead, then dumps their liquid remains into city sewers where solid and liquid waste are collected as sewage sludge and reclaimed wastewater to be dumped on food crops and much more. Those crops, in turn, are fed back to humans as part of the mainstream food supply.
In a shocking true story that's part The Matrix and part Soylent Green, a company based in Smith Falls, Ontario has devised a bio-cremation system that it calls an "eco-friendly alternative to flame-based cremation or casket burials," reports Canada's CBC News. The company is called Hilton's Aquagreen Dispositions and touts its approach to dissolving dead bodies as "eco-friendly alkaline hydrolysis."
According to CBC News, dead bodies are liquefied with a "process that blends water with an alkali solution…" The company's website describes the body liquefaction process as follows:
Bio Cremation creates a highly controlled and sophisticated environment that uniquely combines water, alkali, heat and pressure. This process biochemically hydrolyzes the human body, leaving only bone fragments. During a typical Bio Cremation cycle, the body is reduced, bone fragments are rinsed and the remaining by-product is a sterile (but not benign) fluid.
There's no mention of handling the mercury and other toxic heavy metals that would survive such a process, of course. Those metals would obviously end up in the city's sewer system.
"The company came under fire in 2016 when it was revealed the liquid byproduct is then drained into the town's sewage system," reports CBC News.
Cities across North America — including Toronto — collect sewage into so-called "biosolids" or "biosludge," which is trucked out of the city's sewage treatment center and dumped on food crops in rural areas.
In effect, the practice of "bio-cremation" means that dead humans would be liquefied and fed to plants which are then eaten by other humans. This process is almost militantly called recycling by proponents of biosludge and bio-cremation operations. It's all pushed under the agenda of "green living."
On the other hand, the current practice of pumping dead bodies full of toxic chemical preservatives and burying them in cemeteries inside overpriced wooden caskets also seems insane. It makes us wonder: Why hasn't modern civilization come up with a dignified, eco-friendly way to honor the dead without either contaminating the soil or eating their remains?
It turns out the real answer is as old as human life itself: Bury your loved ones without injecting them with toxic chemicals first, and let nature reclaim the molecules with the help of soil microbes. It requires no electricity, no pressure chamber, no added heat, no artificial chemicals, no overpriced casket and no makeup for the body. Oh yeah, it's also the way people have handled dead bodies for nearly the entire history of human civilization.
Read The Full Story About Recycling Humans and Sewage.


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Urban Outfitters Blazer, Uniqlo Tank and Socks, H&M Shorts, Vintage Shoes
Working hard on my fashion art and design!
So it's been a while since summer has ended but my body and mind has still been in "summer mode," until recently. I'm sure many of you can relate! But now it is time to get serious and earn those A's! Ya Hear?!
Work hard for what you aspire and don't give up!
I'll be cheering you on!
I aspire to be a well respected and successful stylist and work between the US and Japan!
what about you?!
(Good Luck in Japanese!)


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